sleepy electronzzz station news

5 july 2006

More Oophoi tracks from "Night Currents" were added to the ambient stream playlist.

I added a single track from Harold Budd and Richard Maxwell "The Oak of the Golden Dreams."

...and yet more tracks from Oophoi "Mare Imbrium"

I also added tracks from Atom Heart's microsound CD "Schnittstelle"

26 february 2006

I have a lot of older wonderful classic ambient music to add to the playlist, but Steve Roach is so awesome and a supporter of this station, that I had to add his new one "Immersion: One".  It's a single 75+ minute track.  Nice.

21 january 2006

I also found a CD from 1997 from kendall turner overdrive "displaced links" from which I extracted a few noisy tracks for the ambient stream.

14 january 2006

Also I added some tracks from Lammergeyer "Borders and Barrens" CD on DataObscura.

Seldom is the key word for ambient with vocals but Haco and Sakamoto Hiromichi "Ash in the Rainbow" certainly falls under that umbrella.  It's from 2003 evidently.

...and some almost haunted sounds from Library Tapes "alone in the bright lights of a shattered life".

...and finally some DSP ambient from sinebag "près de la lisière"

2005

...and a more traditional but absolutely stunning from Kelvin L Smith called "Reclining Music" was used as a source of a few tracks for the ambient stream.

17 december 2005

Another noise-ish CD was used for several tracks: Kiyoshi Mizutani's "Waterscape."

Along more traditional ambient lines, I finally added some tracks from Pete Namlook and Bill Laswell's "Outland 2" CD.

...and I discovered another really good ethno-ambient disc by Omenya entitled "Ancient Rites."  Very much in a really good Steve Roach vein.

The KLF's "Chill Out" CD is certainly a classic disc and is frequently played on the stream.

As my first new rip this week I chose a new CD by Amir Baghiri called "Exosphere."

I added Rapoon's "I Am a Foreigner" to the ambient stream this morning.

I hope to be adding even more new music over the next few days and weeks.

First to be added is the compilation CD called "Fluidities"  which consists of remixes of songs by many other artists on this stream that are designed to be overlaid on one another to create unique new mixes.

is another Alio Die collaboration this time with Ziet called "Sunja."

I have a lot of Michael Stearn's music on the stream and I added another one today called "The Storm."  Very nice.

Another beautiful package from Hypnos by Chad Hoefler called Twilight in the Offing...

Unfortunately the main station computer's original hard drive went down with Katrina.  Fortunately the station computer's music files had been backed up fairly recently.  However, some of the newer entries below may not be on the reconstructed playlist.

Thanks for listening.  Support the artists you hear on this stream by buying their music.

8 september 2005
Sad news.  The ambient stream is down for an indefinite period due to damage to the transmission facility in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.  The area of the transmission facility has been flooded and there is no power or water.  I will update this page when further information is available.

You can email me at the following: feedback2004(at)zzzone.net

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Austere remixed some Stephen Philips' material to produce "Faded" from which I have added some stuff to the playlist.

More along the classical synth lines, I added a few tracks from Paul Ellis' "The Sacred Ordinary" CD.

And I've been meaning to add some tracks from Alio Die's "Khen introduce silence" CD and I finally did today.

13 august 2005
I added selections from a new CD on Dark Duck by Bolander "Through The Tube."

Again on Dark Duck I added some music from Stephen Philips' "Desert Landscapes (remastered)."

A few songs were also added from Ben Cox's "On Water" CD on lotuspike.

It's been a busy day here at the station.  I decided to keep adding to the playlist and found some tracks by Beyond Sensory Experience on their "Pursuit of Pleasure" dark ambient CD from this year.  The CD is on the Cold Meat label.

As a major Tor Lundvall fan I am pleased to add selections from his "Last Light" CD to the ambient stream.  Yummy, dreamy piano and synth. zzz!

...and one more thing!  I finally added some selections from Alio Die & Saffron Wood's "The Sleep of Seeds" to the ambient stream.  See cover art FRONT and BACK.

From the site: "La Peau des Anges (Vand'oeuvre 9712) - rough translation: "the skin of angels" - is Annick Nozati's second solo recording (the first was 16 years ago) and, to my mind, the most satisfying and distinctive vocal album of 1997. Comparing this to its predecessor of 1981, Nozati says: "It testifies to the constancy of inspiration and to the evolution of expression and style towards an economy of means." La Peau des Anges also reveals another, more intimate level of emotional subtlety, effectively challenging the still widely-held and mistaken belief that collectivity is the essence of improvised music. There are captivating moods here that could only have been expressed by a solo improvisor, working alone and without the expectation of 'intrusion' from another personality. That exquisite, immensely moving sense of our existential aloneness, our vulnerability as individuals (one finds it in the films of Bresson, Bergman and Tarkovsky), is palpably conveyed in the first three pieces where the voice is sparingly accompanied by the solemn, vibrating strings of a Baschet sound sculpture. A contemplative silence punctuates and surrounds the music. Nozati carefully modifies pitch, using reverb to enhance each nuance of expression. 'La Dame en noir dit JE' deftly introduces a second, overdubbed voice (like the alter-ego of the first), deepening the mystery of this cloistered atmosphere.

"By studying the evolution of sound material in its intimacy in everyday life we become able to hear sounds in their infra-structure. We can develop a more precise sound analysis than the one indexed in classical teachings of harmony. We can create steps of pitches and much more complex and rich time-divisions by perceiving these infra-sounds and infinitesimal beats. In just one sound we can hear a tonal root and an infinity of harmonics and all the other elements that come with breath, tension and the meeting of sounds in space."

La Peau des Anges also reveals Nozati the abstract painter and writer; texts are recited rather than sung like song lyrics; paintings reproduced in the booklet display the same kind of concern for textural detail that one finds in the music.

"This research that I carry out in improvised music I continue when painting and writing texts. I try to see and uncover what is beyond mere appearance, what is hidden under the obvious. The small details. We can feel what is vibrating in the dark when we linger over looking, what is vibrating in silence when we linger over listening. We can reveal the sense of this meeting between words and pictures.

"A few years ago I stopped making music for two or three months. I needed to stop what had become a continuous relationship with sound vibration. Painting was a 'fallow' time for my ears, a time to fertilize something else. After this period of painting, I returned to concerts with a fresh sense of hearing. My painting has had an influence on the style of La Peau des Anges and gives it this contemplative aspect. When I am painting I work with little molecules of pigment and light. For me, music and painting are like working in the same domain of sonic and visual vibrations.""

6 august 2005
I added selections from Shades of Orion 3 by Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue.

Also I added selections from M Griffin's "sounds are hidden inside objects."  M Griffin (Mike) is the label owner and site op for Hypnos.com.

I posted site info to the Hyperreal ambient listserv.  Welcome to any visitors from that "esteemed" mailing list!

24 july 2005
I recently acquired a relatively rare box set of ambient music:  Henrik Nordvargr Björkk "Sleep Therapy".  I am adding selections to the ambient stream.

Also I added selections from Aidan Baker's "candescence" CD-R to the playlist for the ambient stream.

I also added some tracks from Philip Sanderson's CD entitled "Seal Pool Sounds."  From the Ear/Rational online store site:  "Seal Pool Sounds is the first CD release of new material from Snatch Tapes founder, Organum Collaborator, and British installation artist, Philip Sanderson.  Seal Pool Sounds picks up where Sanderson's Storm Bugs project left off sometime in 1981. Sanderson's DIY software and electronics conjure whimsical, plaintive electronic tones and rhythms: sounds that recollect the light-hearted, yet melancholy nature of the 20th century zoos. Seal Pool Sounds is a natural extension of his "Reprint" CD on Anomalous Records, and at once evokes LAFMS, Raymond Scott, Marcel Duchamp , and French New Wave film music"

Tom Shaw was nice enough to send me his latest guitar ambient beauty called " Lost In Love."  I added some tracks from it.  Thanks Tom!  I also play songs from "Music for an Art Gallery."  "Lost in Love" is a great blend of symphonic/classical ambient and lo-fi sound samples.

Mardi Gras was wonderful this year.  You can check out my scrapbook picture site at http://www.kreweofsaintanne.org.