First track off Jonas Munk's (Causa Sui) and Nicklas Sørensen's (Papir) new collaborative album, "Always Already Here", out August 16th, 2019!
"Jonas Munk and Nicklas Sørensen team up for a genre-defying record that explores American minimalism, psychedelia, and electronic music – both vintage and contemporary. On a foundation of interlocking guitar and synthesizer patterns, the duo constructs lengthy pieces that are experimental yet welcoming in nature, precisely executed yet with room for soaring improvisation. Always Already Here pays homage to the masters of classical minimalism (Steve Reich, Terry Riley) and the pioneers of electronic music and kosmische (Brian Eno, Manuel Göttsching), still it doesn't sound derivative or retrospective. The type of hypnotic bliss Munk and Sørensen strive for is distinctly timeless."
Extract from Morton Feldman's 'For Bunita Marcus' played by Philip Thomas
The second movement of Morton Feldman's music for the film ‘Sculpture by
Lipton’ , a documentary from 1954 about the work of the sculptor
Seymour Lipton to which Feldman wrote the music. The original score has
not survived, but the piece was transcribed from the soundtrack by
Philip Thomas, who performs it on his 5-CD box set of Feldman's piano
music, which will be released in September 2019.
First track off Jonas Munk's (Causa Sui) and Nicklas Sørensen's (Papir) new collaborative album, "Always Already Here", out August 16th, 2019!
"Jonas Munk and Nicklas Sørensen team up for a genre-defying record that explores American minimalism, psychedelia, and electronic music – both vintage and contemporary. On a foundation of interlocking guitar and synthesizer patterns, the duo constructs lengthy pieces that are experimental yet welcoming in nature, precisely executed yet with room for soaring improvisation. Always Already Here pays homage to the masters of classical minimalism (Steve Reich, Terry Riley) and the pioneers of electronic music and kosmische (Brian Eno, Manuel Göttsching), still it doesn't sound derivative or retrospective. The type of hypnotic bliss Munk and Sørensen strive for is distinctly timeless."
Released on: 2019-08-09 Associated Performer, Programming: Ben Frost Studio Personnel, Engineer: Dave Rowell
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Robert Ames
Composer: Ben Frost
'Place Language' is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.
The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.
Musical artists: Aaron Martin (USA), Anthéne (Canada), Benoît Pioulard (USA), Bethan Kellough (UK), Celer (Japan), Dalot (Greece), Federico Durand (Argentina), Hakobune (Japan), Hammock (USA), Hotel Neon (USA), Ian Hawgood (UK), Kate Carr (UK), Lawrence English (Australia), Lowercase Noises (USA), Marcus Fischer (USA), Melissa Pons (Sweden), Poemme (USA), Porya Hatami (Iran), Richard Skelton aka The Inward Circles (UK), Siavash Amini (Iran), Simon Scott (UK), Sound Awakener (Vietnam), The Green Kingdom (USA), Tobias Hellkvist (Sweden), Warmth (Spain), Wil Bolton (UK), and Yann Novak (USA).
- Due for release in September 2019 on Fluid Audio
Comments
Taken forthcoming 'Life Goes On' EP, released 21st June on Invada Records & Temporary Residence Ltd
Sub Rosa, October 18th 2019
releases August 16, 2019
"Jonas Munk and Nicklas Sørensen team up for a genre-defying record that explores American minimalism, psychedelia, and electronic music – both vintage and contemporary. On a foundation of interlocking guitar and synthesizer patterns, the duo constructs lengthy pieces that are experimental yet welcoming in nature, precisely executed yet with room for soaring improvisation. Always Already Here pays homage to the masters of classical minimalism (Steve Reich, Terry Riley) and the pioneers of electronic music and kosmische (Brian Eno, Manuel Göttsching), still it doesn't sound derivative or retrospective. The type of hypnotic bliss Munk and Sørensen strive for is distinctly timeless."
Releases October 7, 2019
releases September 20, 2019
releases August 22, 2019
Release date: 4 October 2019
Tomeka Reid - cello
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Jason Roebke - bass
Tomas Fujiwara - drums
Release date: 2 October 2019
Release date: 27 September 2019
Release date: 19 September 2019
releases August 23, 2019
releases August 16, 2019
Release 27.09.19
Release 30.08.19
Released on: 2019-08-09
Associated Performer, Programming: Ben Frost
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Dave Rowell
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Robert Ames
Composer: Ben Frost
From the album A Light Below. Available October 11, 2019
From the album Spectre available October 4, 2019
The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.
Musical artists: Aaron Martin (USA), Anthéne (Canada), Benoît Pioulard (USA), Bethan Kellough (UK), Celer (Japan), Dalot (Greece), Federico Durand (Argentina), Hakobune (Japan), Hammock (USA), Hotel Neon (USA), Ian Hawgood (UK), Kate Carr (UK), Lawrence English (Australia), Lowercase Noises (USA), Marcus Fischer (USA), Melissa Pons (Sweden), Poemme (USA), Porya Hatami (Iran), Richard Skelton aka The Inward Circles (UK), Siavash Amini (Iran), Simon Scott (UK), Sound Awakener (Vietnam), The Green Kingdom (USA), Tobias Hellkvist (Sweden), Warmth (Spain), Wil Bolton (UK), and Yann Novak (USA).
- Due for release in September 2019 on Fluid Audio
releases August 23, 2019
Inland Remixes available in 12" and all digital platforms on september 27th
Ropeadope, August 30, 2019
releases September 20, 2019
releases September 13, 2019