other-music Archives – Ambientblog

Jon Hassell * J. Peter Schwalm

By Peter van Cooten | June 16, 2018 - 12:33 |June 16, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

Trumpet legend Jon Hassell shows us how the tension between the North and the South can be relieved through ‘Vertical Listening’. *** J. Peter Schwalm faces the deepest personal fears imaginable, and translates it into a striking new album. →

DreamScenes – June 2018

By Peter van Cooten | June 10, 2018 - 20:00 |June 10, 2018 ambient music, DreamScenes, other-music

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Not home
So don’t try to call
Don’t come to see me
I’m not here
Anymore →

From The Mouth Of The Sun * Skodvin/Rauelsson

By Peter van Cooten | May 26, 2018 - 11:39 |May 26, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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‘Sleep Stations’ is a short EP continuation of From The Mouth of The Sun‘s ‘Hymn Binding’ release in 2017. Erik K. Skodvin and Rauelsson team up to create a spellbinding movie soundtrack for “Darling” →

The Eternal Chord * Matthias Urban

By Peter van Cooten | May 18, 2018 - 11:14 |May 18, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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The Eternal Chord explores the possibilities of ‘the emperor of instruments’: the church organ. On a smaller scale Matthias Urban explores cymbals to create cleansing soundbaths. →

DreamScenes – May 2018

By Peter van Cooten | May 13, 2018 - 20:00 |May 13, 2018 ambient music, DreamScenes, other-music

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stay afloat
in darker waters
winds will change
don’t drown tonight →

Clarice Jensen * Joana Gama & Lúis Fernandes * Pitch & Splitter Orchestra

By Peter van Cooten | May 7, 2018 - 19:57 |May 8, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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Post-classical music from Clarice Jensen (for cello and electronics) and Joana Gama & Luís Fernandes (for piano, electronics and orchestra).

The Pitch & Splitter Orchestra demonstrate how a ‘frozen orchestra’ might sound. →

Christina Vantzou * Gray Acres

By Peter van Cooten | May 4, 2018 - 20:37 |May 4, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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Number 4 in the continuing series of Christina Vantzou‘s solo (or better: collaboration) albums, and more ‘beauty in stillness’ by Gray Acres (Andrew and Michael Tasselmeyer) →

Pjusk * Nadia Struiwigh * Sonae

By Peter van Cooten | April 19, 2018 - 19:57 |April 19, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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Short three-track collaboration EP from Pjusk, and new albums by Nadia Struiwigh and Sonae exploring the uncharted terrain between abstract electronica and techno. →

Frank Bretschneider * Rapoon

By Peter van Cooten | April 12, 2018 - 21:08 |April 13, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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‘Funky’ electronic music from Frank Bretschneider (on ‘Lunik’), and impending airstrike doom as predicted by Robin ‘Rapoon’ Storey →

DreamScenes – April 2018

By Peter van Cooten | April 8, 2018 - 20:00 |April 29, 2018 ambient music, DreamScenes, other-music

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It’s cauld – it’s dark – through the dread waste
Yon starn, sae red, and sma,
Presses its weak, encumberd, beam,
To perish in the sna’.

Och! Och! it’s mirk – the furious storm,
Howls round the hill sae high;
And black, and awfu’, on the earth,
Sits down the laiden sky.
[Robert Couper, 1804] →

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