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Label: Thrill Jockey
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 101 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Electronic

Golden Retriever is the duo of Matt Carlson (modular synthesizer) and Jonathan Sielaff (bass clarinet), two musicians who blur the line between sounds created electronically and acoustically. The pair formed Golden Retriever in 2008 and began to develop a language informed by the practices of free improvisation as well as the tradition of American experimental electronic composers like Alvin Curran & David Behrman. Golden Retriever creates music that is creatively challenging and structurally complex while remaining inviting and emotionally dynamic rather than adopting a confrontational stance toward the listener.

Seer, their second release for Thrill Jockey, was recorded and assembled over the course of two years at the artists’ studio “Worksound” in Portland, OR. The relaxed timetable gave Carlson and Sielaff an opportunity to write based around new instruments and techniques and to spend considerable time meticulously editing the work. This extends the process employed on their Thrill Jockey debut Occupied with the Unspoken, composing and arranging using editing as a compositional tool.

The opening track “Petrichor” shows Carlson using an 11-limit just intonation system and can, if listened to at a significant volume, create otoacoustic emissions: the generation of new resonance within the inner-ear as a rectification of two perfectly toned and opposing frequencies. The use of this phenomenon as musical material was pioneered by Maryanne Amacher in her sound installations of the 70s and 80s. The song “Sharp Stones” finds Sielaff weaving complex melodic phrases over Carlson’s bed of synth-processed piano sounds, toying with the gestures of modal free jazz. Their ability to move between abstract sound exploration and traditionally engaging musical structures is demonstrated perfectly on “Flight Song,” which features a mantra-like bass clarinet melody beholden to shimmering synthesizer patterns. Golden Retriever’s compositions are inviting and relentlessly listenable, embracing both emotional depth and wild abandon without betraying the hidden framework of complexity within.

Tracklist:
1 Petrichor
2 Sharp Stones
3 Archipelago
4 Flight Song
5 Superposition

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Artist: Jan St. Werner
Title Of Album:Transcendental Animal Numbers
Year Of Release: 12 nov 2013
Label: Thrill Jockey / Thrill 356
Genre: Experimental, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:40:09
Total Size: 95 mb

Transcendental Animal Numbers is the second entry in Jan St. Werner’s Fiepblatter Catalogue. The work is comprised of carefully edited sounds derived from computer algorithms. There are no intentional references to traditional ideas of tuning, meter or spectrum. Rather, there are unexpected shifts of sonic scales, sudden frequency modulations andextreme panoramic shifts that produce an unconventional chunk of condensed acoustic information. Still the resulting compositions are arranged seamlessly and unpredictably as if they were field recordings of animals in the wilderness. The work is a representation of an acoustic organism where no sound is derived from any living creature or acoustic source, instead it is artificiality incorporating the irrational and unpredictable into a logical mathematical system to create a black box in which sound can scatter. Werner likens Transcendental Animal Numbers to Schrödinger’s “cat in a box” experiment that proves that quantum physics is the unpredictability of one particle simultaneously existing in various states.

Tracklist:
1. Transcendental Animal Music (20:00)
2. Parrodisia (20:08)

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Artist: Stygian Stride
Title Of Album: Stygian Stride
Year Of Release: 18 march 2013
Label: Thrill Jockey – THRILL 327
Genre: Ambient, Abstract
Quality: MP3 | Flac (tracks)
Bitrate: 320 kbps | Lossless
Total Time: 00:34:56
Total Size: 79 mb | 199 mb

Tracklist:
A1 – Celestial Stems
A2 – Hindsight
A3 – Drift
B1 – Taiga
B2 – Athanor Ascension
B3 – Fade Into Bolivian

Stygian Stride is Jimy SeiTang, a New York based musician in the NNCK axis who, as a member of Psychic Ills and most currently with Rhyton, was brought up in the midst of the groundswell of avant-garde and improvised psychedelic music in New York City over the past decade. On this, his debut solo release, SeiTang has moved away from rock music completely, instead turning his attention to gauzy electronic music reminiscent of Gas and the classic era of Mille Plateaux and Chain Reaction, with nods to Manuel Göttsching and Tangerine Dream.

What made SeiTang such an integral part of the improv based bands he’s worked with, his ability to listen and communicate, reacting in time to his bandmates’ aesthetic and musical choices, is the same thing that makes Stygian Stride a successful endeavor. When writing and recording the album, he was reacting similarly to the different facets the machines’ unique temperaments, learning the particular personalities of each piece of equipment and facilitating the creation of something greater than the sum of its parts.

While melodic and rhythmic repetitiveness are the backbone of Stygian Stride’s music, each piece subtly evolves at its own pace and in its own way. “Hindsight” is pushed forward by a steady, muted kick, and washes of synth that coalesce into a ghostly melody. “Drift” features multi-layered rhythmic textures that shift in and out of phase, anchored by a a heavy drone, and “Taiga” features a similarly phased synthesizer arpeggio. The album is bookended by two beatless tracks. While “Celestial Stems” opens the album with gentle, hypnotic sequencer patterns, closer “Fade Into Bolivian” is one long, slow-moving foreboding organ melody over a deep, anxious drone.

Rather than composing and recording on a laptop, SeiTang sought out and collected vintage, analog equipment and conceived the album without MIDI synching. It was recorded by Jason Meagher at Black Dirt Studios (D. Charles Speer, Jack Rose, Expo ’70, Blues Control), and mastered by CGB ay Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. Stygian Stride shows a side of SeiTang’s artistry coming to light that has up to this point laid dormant, just under the surface. This album is the beginning of an exploration of the intersection of the mind- expanding and the mechanized.

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Label: Thrill Jockey
Catalog#: THRILL 323
Release date: 22-01-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 151 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
1 Sand (11:23)
2 Identical Ship (3:04)
3 Circular C (10:19)
4 Tilt (7:29)
5 Propeller (20:28)
6 Liana (8:47)
7 Living Lens (4:56)

*Excerpts from the album. Now available from Experimedia.net.* *Red Limited Vinyl Edition w/ Exclusive Limited Bonus (cd). Download coupon included.* Mountains’ music is defined by slow builds, and subtle transformations, textures and melodic lines that evolve in a variety of ways to create grand soundscapes and acutely detailed compositions. For Centralia, the duo of Koen Holtkamp and Brendon Anderegg wrote and recorded in a way that mirrors the pace of their music. While the current trend in experimental music is towards hyper-prolificity, Mountains have taken their time on Centralia, resulting in an album that is as precise as it is boundless. Holtkamp and Anderegg approached the album layer by layer, throughout much of the record combining purely-acoustic recordings with purely-electronic sounds rather than using electronics to manipulate acoustic source material. Guitar, cello, organs, electric piano, and more are seamlessly combined with modular electronics, synthesizers and other sound sources. The result is a fully engrossing listen, always shifting focus between acoustic instruments, processed instruments and electronic sound.

Most of Centralia was recorded by Holtkamp and Anderegg at Telescope Recording in Brooklyn, with the exception of the side-long “Propeller” and “Liana,” which are recordings of live shows later augmented with additional instrumentation. The duo recorded, edited, and mixed everything themselves, creating a sonic and aesthetic continuity only achievable through such fastidious and insular methods. Be it the gently melodic acoustic guitar and keyboard of “Tilt” or the steady, subtle pulsating haze of “Living Lens,” the album is as sonically rich as it is compositionally diverse.

Centralia is the most fully realized Mountains album, it encompasses everything Mountains represents, from the analog electronic sound of Air Museum, to the gentle warmth and improvised grandeur of Choral. Mountains are utterly singular in their ability to combine such varied and complex sources into such delicately detailed songs of perceived simple pastoral ambience.

Bonus (cd) features an unedited live set recorded February 16, 2012 at The Bottletree in Birmingham, Alabama. The recording documents a single evening in the middle of a lengthy Mountains US tour. It combines very early live versions of a some tracks that appear in expanded and somewhat different form on Centralia, as well as some more improvised and site-specific moments. Each individual cover features a unique design hand-stamped by the band. Limited to 350 copies worldwide.

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