[GBX 015 LP] The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies LP (Album) 2011

Advisory Circle, The – As The Crow Flies
Label: Ghost Box – GBX015 LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 08 Jul 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Leftfield, Musique Concrète, Experimental, Ambient

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Belbury Music – 2011
Phonographic Copyright (p) – State51 Conspiracy, The – 2011
Copyright (c) – Ghost Box – 2011
Composed By, Mastered By – Jon Brooks
Cover [Design] – Julian House
Liner Notes – Ronald Hutton
Realised at New YattSounds.
"The Patchwork Explains" is dedicated to the memory of Trish Keenan.
Orders from the official web store come with a downloadable zip file including the full album in VBR MP3 or FLAC format (with the two extra tracks available on CD) plus the artwork in pdf.
Durations are taken from files.

Tracklist:
A1 Logotone I - Decisions 0:15
A2 Now Ends The Beginning 3:28
A3 Here! In The Wychwoods 3:10
A4 The Patchwork Explains 2:54
A5 Everyday Hazards 2:50
A6 Ceridwen 1:16
A7 As The Crow Flies 4:27
A8 Innocence Elsewhere 1:31
A9 Logotone II - The New Traffic Signs 0:06
B1 Modern Through Movement 2:39
B2 Learning Owl Reappears 3:54
B3 Further Starry Wisdom 2:35
B4 We Cleanse This Space 2:37
B5 Beyond The Wychelm 4:35
B6 Logotone III - Eyes Inside You 0:09
B7 Route Along 18 Corners 2:52
B8 Wheel Of The Year 5:03

http://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/as-the-crow-flies-3/

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/423756-the-advisory-circle-as-the-crow-flies

The Advisory Circle's 2008 album Other Channels is one of the best things Ghost Box have ever released, and having kept himself busy since then with various releases on his own Cafe Kaput label, Jon Brooks is now back in AC mode to drop the eagerly awaited follow-up, As The Crow Flies - and what a fiendishly good record it is. As ever with this project, the primary inspiration is the sinister undertones of public information films and wyrd 70s TV broadcasting in general, but As The Crow Flies charts less obviously sample-based territory than its predecessor; this outing is a little less about those hauntological ambiences and paternal monologues (though they're still very much attendant), more about composition and songcraft, with elaborate synthesizer arrangements and elegant folky inflections aplenty. An agreeable psychedelic whimsy characterises the record, but it's not all library music twee; you never know when there's going to be a handbrake-turn into darkness, dissoluton and abstraction: see 'Modern Through Movement', which is proto-techno by way of Berlin school kosmische, and especially 'We Cleanse This Space', a truly eerie, inspired concoction of reverbed children's choir and limpid afro-dub percussion. Hell, closing number 'Lonely Signalman' is nothing short of vocodered pop. This is perhaps As The Crow Flies' greatest achievement: that it manages to adhere to the very specific rules and requirements of the Ghost Box universe while also representing a hefty artistic leap forward for its maker. Terrific stuff.

The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies (Clips) by Ghost Box

[OSI 007] The Boats - The Ballad Of The Eagle CD (Album) 2011

Boats, The – The Ballad Of The Eagle
Label: Our Small Ideas – OSI007
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: 2011
Genre: Classical, Electronic
Style: Modern Classical, Ambient

Banjo – Joseph Borreson
Cello, Saw – Danny Norbury
Electronics, Performer [Acoustics], Tape, Effects – Boats, The
Voice – Yasuhiko Fukuzono
This is for the ones we love.
OSI007 A Boats Achievements Book
There are now over 220 Boats titles covering a wide range of subjects and listening ages.
Comes in a handmade and hand-stamped cardboard envelope, and inside the CD in a slipcase.

Tracklist:
1 Invisible Orchestras 3:27
2 Dusty Rooms 3:42
3 If I May Trespass On Your Patience 2:18
4 Omissions For You To Fill In 5:13
5 I Can't Read Your Morse Code Heartbeat 4:04
6 I'm Not A Pessimist, I'm Sad 2:21
7 Chance Meetings At Train Stations 5:04
8 Great Intentions 5:13
9 The Days We Didn't Spend 3:37

http://www.discogs.com/Boats-The-Ballad-Of-The-Eagle/release/3227160
http://boomkat.com/cds/462134-the-boats-the-ballad-of-the-eagle

Perfectly poised for autumnal gratification, The Boats present their first new material in a while with new album 'The Ballad Of The Eagle'. They're still a trio - Andrew Hargreaves, Craig Tattersall and Danny Norbury - and ever refining their craft to a sort of ritual somnambulant magic. For this outing they're also augmented by two special contributions, Yasuhiko Fukuzono's vocals and Joseph Borreson's Banjo, expanding their palette of electronic and acoustic instrumentation to a (very) small orchestra's worth of rich and supernaturally spatialised tones. Travelling through the album, that comforting sense of deepest blue melancholia is omnipresent, but quite often slips beyond their usual boundaries into out-and-out darkness. This mood sets the tone of opener 'Invisible Orchestras' until a swooning cello resolution and the spirit-raising machine-tooled miniature 'Dusty Rooms'. Here on in we oscillate gently between tape-hiss enigmas 'If I May Trespass On Your Patience', to quietly breathtaking, noirish drone-pop 'Omissions For You To Fill In' with sterling vocal input from Yasuhiko and Danny Norbury's Cello to the album centrepiece 'I Can't Read Your Morse Code Heartbeat', a seductively dark piece of keys and sanguine strings swaddled by electro-acoustic pulse patterns. The second half is signalled by the matter-of-fact bleakness of 'I'm Not A Pessimist, I'm Sad', and one of their most beautiful radiophonic techno pieces 'Chance Meeting At Train Stations', concluding with the warbling, edge-of-disintegration keys, drawn strings and tape hiss in 'The Days We Didn't Spend'.

The Boats - The Ballad Of The Eagle - I Can't Read Your Morse Code Heartbeat (our small ideas) by pdis_inpartmaint
The Boats - The Ballad Of The Eagle - Great Intentions (our small ideas) by pdis_inpartmaint
  The Boats - The Days We Didn't Spend by Fluid Radio

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[KK: 025] Janek Schaefer – Phoenix & Phaedra Holding Patterns CD (Album) 2011

Janek Schaefer – Phoenix & Phaedra Holding Patterns
Label: Spekk – KK: 025
Format: CD, Album
Country: Japan
Released: 05 Aug 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drone, Ambient
Liner Notes – Janek Schaefer
One hour concert composition for hand held radios, FM transmitter, four corner PA, foundsound, and Shruti drone box. Commissioned by A Thing About Machines festival 2009. Recorded at St. John The Baptist Church, Coventry, UK.
Recording dedicated to Janek's newborn son, Phoenix.
Full-color heavy cardboard wallet.

Tracklist:
1 On Air 11:58
2 Cyan Sees Through You 8:05
3 Eyrie Of The Phoenix 2:26
4 Red Plumes 10:52
5 Eyes Close In Heaven 4:48
6 Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World 18:17

http://naturebliss.bandcamp.com/album/phoenix-phaedra-holding-patternsjanek-schaefer
born son Phoenix, and is dedicated to him".with it's lulling and engulfing energies. I wrote the work to celebrate the arrival of my new spatial sonorities, and the Shruti Box, an Indian drone instrument, which plays a central role pure sonic-cinema experience. The composition weaves together foundsound textures, of sight at the back of the concert hall, the spectacle of the performer is removed, leaving a broadcasts to a collection of small hand held radios given out to the audience. Performed out immersive sound system in combination with a short range radio transmitter, which pressure waves. Phoenix and Phaedra is a live concert composition, performed by using an “Close your eyes, we are engulfed by an ethereal tapestry of invisible radio and sound (2004) etc. Schaefer, The British Composer of the Year (Sonic Art 2008), Prix Ars Electronica winner SPEKK is proud to announce the release of British composer and installation artist Janek

Our hour composition for hand held radios. FM transmitter, four corner PA, foundsound, and Shruti drone box, Commissioned by Thing About Machines festival 2009. Recorded at St John the Baptist Church, Coventry, UK.

[ZORN 14] J.D. Emmanuel – Trance-Formations I: Ancient Minimal Meditations (1986) Vinyl 2011

J.D. Emmanuel – Trance-Formations I: Ancient Minimal Meditations
Label: Aguirre Records – ZORN14, North Star Productions – NSP-2004
Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
Country: Belgium
Released: 18 May 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal, Ambient
Composed By, Performer, Recorded By, Photography By – J.D. Emmanuel*
Recorded between 1981-1985.

Tracklist:
A1 Part I: Morning Worship 5:26
A2 Part II: Midday Attunement 12:33
B1 Part III: Evening Devotional 7:12
B2 Part IV: Midnight Meditation 10:27

in stock (aguirrecords)
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/436999-j-d-emmanuel-ancient-minimal-meditations
**Limited edition of 400. 160g vinyl housed in full colour thick card sleeve** A gorgeous, forgotten classic of new age synth introspection from '81-'85 excavated and reissued by Belgium's Aguirre imprint - home to the similarly reclined Lieven Martens. 'Trance-Formations I: Ancient Minimal Meditations' revolves around a conceptual cycle following the course of the day. Inevitably it starts at 'Morning Worship', brewing slow rhythmic patterns which radiate shimmering melodies, before the strolling pulses of 'Midday Attunement' meander under woozy, modulating tones seductively swirling in stereo formation. If that sounds a bit similar to lots of other synth music of the era, it's because it is, but there's an attuned grace and and deliciously squashed vibe individual to his sound here. However, matters become much more engrossing and distinguished on the other side. On 'Evening Devotional' a gurgling mass of tones beautifully bends just in-and-out of focus as melancholy keys gently ascend and descend, enveloping our ears in a molten Sequential Circuits Pro-One goop, and 'Midnight Meditation' sustains a lingering, quietly plangent resonance into the depths of the night. "Somewhere hidden in the deepest part of the Self is that special place where One can go within to the most ancient part of one's Self and connect with the origin of Self. Ancient Minimal Meditations reaches into that special place of creation of the Self and its Oneness with the Creator of All."

[WARP CD 219] Cant – Dreams Come True CD (Album) 2011

Cant  – Dreams Come True
Label: Warp Records – WARPCD219
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: UK
Released: 12 Sep 2011
Genre: Electronic, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Abstract, Experimental
Record Company – Terrible Records – WARPCD219
Drums – Dave Treut (tracks: 9), Thomas Hedlund (tracks: 1, 2, 9)
Instrumentation By – Chris Taylor (7), George Lewis Jr.
Percussion – Guillermo Brown (tracks: 9)
Piano – Aaron Parks (tracks: 9, 10)
Recorded By, Mixed By, Producer – Chris Taylor (7)
Vocals – Chris Taylor (7)

Tracklist:
1 Too Late, Too Far
2 Believe
3 The Edge
4 Bang
5 (Broken Collar)
6 She Found A Way Out
7 Answer
8 Dreams Come True
9 Rises Silent
10 Bericht

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=31230

Chris Taylor, and his masterful production talent, has forged many a great record as a band member and producer with Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles; a producer with Dirty Projectors, Twin Shadow and the Morning Benders. But CANT's Dreams Come True is his first record as the frontman. The offerings of a songwriter we're glad to know exists, and the arrangements of an instrumentalist that's stunned for the better part of a decade, Dreams Come True is an unflinching examination of a future-thinking aesthetic amalgamated with contemporary pop music accessibility. Wonderful.

[PUBINF 001] ADR – Solitary Pursuits Vinyl (Mini-Album) 2011

ADR – Solitary Pursuits
Label: Public Information – PUBINF001
Format: Vinyl, Mini-Album, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: 18 Sep 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: New Age, Abstract, Drone, Ambient

Composed By – Aaron David Ross
Design – Aaron David Ross, Remote Location
Photography By, Artwork – Mike Vallera
Recorded By – Aaron David Ross
Written-By – Aaron David Ross
Recorded at home during winter2010-11, using a Sequential Circuits Pro One, Roland SH-101, Roland Juno, Sequential Circuits Multitrak, 4-track Cassette & Computer. Vox on "Post PC" sampled from "Einzelganger"

Tracklist:
A1 Codex
A2 Jupiter Rising
A3 Sand Timer
A4 Post PC
B1 Sidewinder
B2 Univox
B3 Mercury Retrograde
B4 Solitary Pursuits

http://www.discogs.com/ADR-Solitary-Pursuits/release/3133121    http://boomkat.com/vinyl/451280-adr-solitary-pursuits
Already spoken about in excitable tones, 'Solitary Pursuits' is the opening gambit on a very promising new label - Public Information, "A survey of electronics... noise... psych... industrial... house... dub... wyrd-pop... library... techno... art+design from the last seven decades..." Well, they evidently know the right buttons to push and the people who push them, selecting Aaron David Ross (ADR), a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist best known as half of Fright/Merok's Gatekeeper for their first excellent release. His sound here has a lot of parallels with the Ghost Box label, a similar feel for wide-eyed yet pensive sci-fi wonderment and the sort of evocative vignettes only known to hunters of the choicest library wax. It nods to the kind of music you'd imagine Drexciya would have drawn inspiration from as a kid, and subliminally seduced an entire generation who've grown up in front of the TV/Celluloid fantasy and its sonic associations. There's some heartbreakingly lush moments in here - we urge you to investigate.

ADR- Solitary Pursuits by Public Information

[hbfs 04] Various – Hibernate Sampler Volume 4

Various – Hibernate Sampler Volume 4
Label: hibernate – hbfs04
Format: 13 × File, FLAC, Sampler
Country: UK
Released: 14 Oct 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Modern Classical, Experimental, Ambient

Tracklist:
1 Offthesky* – Whittling You Little Lights 4:27
2 Simon Bainton – Arrival 4:40
3 Szymon Kaliski – When Facing North 3:53
4 Caught In The Wake Forever / Karina ESP / Sheepdog – Sadness & Static (Part One) 8:45
5 Field Rotation – And Tomorrow I Will Sleep 7:46
6 Yellow6 & David Newlyn – Miniature 5 2:19
7 Chris Dooks – Horse Island 6:32
8 Adam A. Williams* – A Year Spent Alone 3:54
9 Talvihorros – Alpha 8:09
10 Ed Hamilton (6) – Behind The Clouds (Part 2) 3:36
11 Part Timer – Undead (Part 4) 4:56
12 Spheruleus – Clouds Swarm 7:56
13 Yann Novak – Presence (Excerpt) 4:00

Free download sampler featuring selected tracks from releases April 2011 to October 2011. There are 25 handmade copies to be given away in return for a donation. If you want a higher bit rate format you can make a donation at the hibernate Bandcamp page where you can pick any format you want including lossless.

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