Resonant Drift - The Call

Resonant Drift - The Call
STYLE
Smooth beatless ambience (mostly). The Call is a silky soft album of delicate pads and airy textures where subtle synthetic melodies and understated phrases unfold in graceful, ponderous restraint. Ambient but not quite minimal, there is plenty going on among the shifting undulations, tonal flushes and the rise and fall of the drones - ethnic rhythm elements: shakers, rattles and padding drums - sequencer patterns that burble effortlessly or distantly, afar off in the atmospheric distance of the music - environmental sounds: the twitter of birds, insect-like chirrs and susurration. A number of tracks drift with a tranquil fragility as if immersed in radiant cobwebs of sound, gossamer sheets wafting in the undertow of unseen celestial currents - luminous, tranquil, calm. Plaintive strains well up here and there vaguely suggestive of the cries of sea creatures, breath-like movements heave as if heard from within, chime lattices clank in cycles, barely discernable low booms and static motes punctuate and pierce.


MOOD
The mood of this album shifts gently from track to track - there are heavenly passages of ethereal light and weightlessness, earthy sections where the faint, ephemeral clatters and granular disturbances of field recordings spot the sound surface, some shadowy expanses of woofy texture or spacey gloom. The dominant character of the album for me is one of an uplifting sense of warm floatation - this pleasant recurrent feel often has the listener blissfully entranced, bathed in the glow of a quiet sunshine.

ARTWORK
The Call comes as a jewel case presentation with a three panel insert. Artwork throughout consists of controlled depth of field photographs where the soft focus forms of the artists are frequently present in middle distance. The front cover is divided into three broad bars - rock textures, hazy vistas, the comfortable presence of the Resonant Drift duo partially blurred into their environment. The rear cover holds a tracklist with time for each; website details and a credit to Steve Roach. The insert when unfolded has an outdoor side given mostly over to more location based imagery and an indoor side: here a large studio shot enlivened with motion blur forms a spreading panorama with a smaller monochrome studio still to the top right. Each artist has a paragraph of thanks at the extreme left whilst brief recording details are placed at the right.

OVERALL
Resonant Drift here release their fourth album and follow-up to the 2006 release Flow Mingled Down. The Resonant Drift project was formed in 2004 by Bill Olien - the debut album was self titled with Version 2.0 coming soon after in 2005. It wasn't until 2008 that the second member arrived in the form of multi-instrumentalist Gary Johnson. The current CD features twelve tracks of shorter ambient recordings - from two minutes fifty to seven minutes fifty two seconds. Citing as their influences such ambient masters as Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Jonn Serrie, Paul Ellis, Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno - you get an idea of what to expect from this album. Indeed Steve Roach is credited with 'mastering and sonic enhancement' - the touch of the Timeroom evident in the impressive depth and quality of The Call.

WHO WILL LIKE THIS ALBUM
If you enjoy ambient music that uplifts and warms the soul this is an album for you. That said - The Call is not all soft clouds and warm light, there is abundant variety and contrasting shade too. This album is certainly worth sampling via the band's Myspace page.

AQUADORSA - Cloudlands -

Glacial Movements Records proudly presents:

AQUADORSA
- Cloudlands -

TRACKLIST + INFO NOTES:

1. A Pillow of Clouds (5.22)
2. Daylight Fading Into Evening Silence (5.05) 3. The Pond Reflected Her Smile (9.13) 4. Zero Gravity (10.59) 5. Syhan (12.11) 6. Alone in the Rising Fog (18.31) 7. Night of Trembling Stars (06.05)


All sound material has been recorded and mixed by Enrico Coniglio at Tripi h. Studio (Venice-Italy) and Oophoi in The Kiva, winter 2008.

A Glacial Movements Records release, May 2009.All right reserved.

Label: GLACIAL MOVEMENTS
Artist: AQUADORSA
Title: Cloudlands
Cat. number GM006
Barcode: 08033959880029
Format: CD digipack
Photo by Bjarne Riesto

Graphic solution and artwork by Alessandra Clini

PRESS RELEASE:

Aquadorsa is a new musical Italian ambient project formed by Enrico Coniglio and Oophoi.Theyr first work “Cloudlands” is a perfect mix of glithc,classical and orchestral glacial ambient soundscape.Enrico Coniglio is a guitar player and composer and his research has increasingly focused on the relationship between 'music' and 'landscape ', in an attempt to represent the contemporary crisis of the territory, the loss of nature and identity of places, and the unknown on the evolution of post-urban and post-industrial territory. He has collaborated with various artists, including: Nicola Alesini, Joachim Roedelius and Elisa Marzorati.He has produced some releases such as "AREAVIRUS - topofonie vol.1" (2007 Psychonavigation), "dyanMU" (2008 Psychonavigation) and digital releases Sapientumsuperacquis on Touch Radio (Touch records) and Crònicaster (Crònica Electronica).Gianluigi Gasparetti better know as Oophoi started his own music experiments in 1995, trying to explore the shores of deep space-ambient.
His live album "The spirals of time", released in 1997 by Amplexus, has been voted as one of the best ambient albums of all times.Oophoi uses traditional instruments as synths and sampling machines and his music is recorded using analog-only devices in The Kiva.He has released CDs for many International labels such as Amplexus, Hypnos, Nextera, Prikosnovénie and Glacial Movements and he has collaborated with Louisa John Krol,Alio die,Mathias Grassow and Klaus Wiese.

More infos please contact:

www.glacialmovements.com
info@glacialmovements.com

Resonant Drift - The Call

The Call is the new release from the duo of Bill Olien and Gary Johnson, known collectively as Resonant Drift. Combining synthesizers, guitars, percussion, ethnic instruments and field recordings, this deep and organic release explores ambient and atmospheric territory.

The Call boasts expert mastering and sonic enhancements by Steve Roach at his world famous Timeroom studio.

“The Call is a worthy and well executed ambient/space recording for all who love the smooth dwellings of Steve Roach and alike.”
- Bert Strolenberg, Sonic Immersion


Expect a review at Morpheus soon.

Julio De Benedetto

Expect a new interview with ambient/electronic musician Julio De Benedetto at Morpheus very soon.
We reviewed his debut album here: http://www.electronicmusicmall.com/Html/reviews73.htm#benedetto

Maps and Diagrams

Maps and Diagrams *Foel EP rereleased in ditial format.
Reviewed at Morpheus here:
http://www.electronicmusicmall.com/Html/reviews74.htm#foel

Ambient haze and soft focus soundscaping. These four tracks are all beatless zones of rich ambient depth. Very immersive music - these compositions have a great deal of detail. Faint fuzz and light crackle spot the air acting something like aural grunge, a sonic fog - the kind where you are conscious of the individual drops within the cloud mass. Synthetic drones ebb and flow, at times almost forming a melodic heave; tonal motes flicker almost at the edge of perception and distant, muted, subtle phrases slowly drift as if weighed down by time and dust. Percussive disturbances and shiftings periodically arise among other noises; broken static, sonorous clicks, flecks and ringing sounds. estersunnd sees some acoustic guitar sounds sprinkle into the mix - delicate and clear in comparison to the relative blur of the backdrop. The texturing is quite beautiful in places, enhancing the ponderous harmonic forms and building a strongly three dimensional impression.

Aes Dana - new album Leylines

AES DANA - [ Leylines ] - inre034 - Out Now
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French composer Vincent Villuis, aka AES Dana, known for his participation to the H.U.V.A. Network
band and co-manager of Ultimae Records, signs here his 4th ambient downtempo album and presents
10 immersive tracks of luminous darkness.

“For those who believe in them, Leylines are invisible lines of forces that connect centers of geomagnetic
power to one another.”
Throughout the album, the artist builds upon the concept of connections that exist between various musical
genres and influences, interlinks between the elements surrounding us, the feelings of life. Sound becomes
organic matter, clay. Tapped, scraped, plucked, stretched, it transforms into rich rhythms, spatial acoustics,
sustained harmonics, hypnotic morphing pads and profound basslines. The outcome is a granular journey
of complex delicacy, fragmented and yet fluid.

Mastered by Magnus Birgersson at Studio Jupiter, Göteborg, Sweden.
Artwork by Vincent Villuis with photograms by Rodolpe Bessey


Genre : Downtempo - Electronica
Format : CD Digipack deluxe + 16 sheets booklet
Reference number : inre034



Tracklisting
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01. Alignments
02. Bam (Album Edit)
03. Oxyd
04. Heights
05. Adonaï
06. Leylines
07. Lysistrata (Album Edit)
08. Signs
09. Inter
10. Blossom

Read interview at Morpheus
http://www.electronicmusicmall.com/Html/interviewaesdana.htm

microphonics

microphonics update May 2009

1. microphonics - concert
2. microphonics releases
3. microphonics 2010 tour

1. microphonics - concert

dirk serries' microphonics (VII) will participate to the first European Live Looping Festival in Belgium, organised by Sjaak Overgauw. This festival will showcase a diversity in looping styles and artists worldwide.

May 30th 2009 - European Live Looping Festival, Arenbergschouwburg (small venue), Antwerpen (Belgium) w/Sjaak Overgauw, Kevin Spears, Luis Angelo, Fabio Anile, Darkroom, Craig Green, Akim Triebsch, Michael Peters and Rick Walker.

European Live Looping Festival

It's fantastic and very idealistic Sjaak Overgauw is organising and promoting this unique mixture of looping artirts in the format of the first Belgian Live Looping festival so be there to support his bravery and efforts. Don't claim nothing is happening...

2. microphonics releases



microphonics VI (180grm coloured vinyl, tonefloat 2009)

A last minute invitation to perform at the whatbar #4 blog event in the hague resulted in an impromptu drone piece extending dirk serries' microphonics concept into more epic and harmonic territory. Significantly less straightforward than the music on his debut album, the twenty-two minutes of microphonics vi are built upon subtle shifts and intricate thematic ideas. Listening back to the recording, captured straight to tape by olivier nijs during the event, tonefloat and dirk serries decided to release the performance in its pure state and as a snapshot of this singular moment in time ­offering a promising glimpse of future volumes in this ongoing series of guitar resonances.
microphonics VI is now available, as a one-sided album. pressed in a limited edition of one hundred copies each on gold, silver and white vinyl.



microphonics I-V(180grm clear and black vinyl, tonefloat 2008)

"while fear falls burning, with its direct and physical approach to performing and composing, already represented a seminally important step in breaking down unnecessary borders between the listener and the artist, microphonics has finally arrived at a state where there is no emotional shield or mask between the artist and his music anymore. with its clear and volatile sound, the album constitutes the acoustic equivalent of open heart surgery. there are no concepts, scenes, layers of distortion or irony to hide behind here, everything is meant just the way it is said. it's not so much that serries has operated so very differently in the past. but the fact that he is openly admitting that this dark, yet tender side of his character is very much who he really is, turns this album into a musical message and, indeed, into his most personal work to date." tokafi.com
microphonics I-V is available in 180grm clear and black vinyl.

Go here to order these microphonics releases : http://www.crazy-diamond.nl/tonefloat/html/store.htm

3. microphonics 2010 tour

dirk serries' microphonics and tonefloat will embark on a 2010 European tour in April and May 2010. We're currently negotiating several dates but don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you want to set up a microphonics concert in your neighboorhood. We're looking forward for small jazz clubs, performance and art centers, living room concerts, chapels and so on. We'll announce the first leg of our tour as soon as possible.