Into the Light is a sanctuary for soft colors. Peach, vanilla, cinnamon, the whitest of white chocolate; cétieu (Poland’s Tekla Mrozowicka) has already made our end-of-year lists and she is now one of Europe’s leading lights. Her music isn’t tainted in any way, shape or form. Everything is pure, innocent and lovely. Ambient should always be this way; unobtrusive and yet calming the body, mind and spirit, glowing radiantly whilst blanking out the petty dramas of the day. It’s one of the reasons why we listen to and love ambient music; we can escape. It doesn’t fear, it doesn’t hate. All is love.

The ambient tones are crystal clear, and they shimmer like a thousand gemstones as the sun lights upon the surface of a shallow rock pool. Slightly introverted, it lives solely for the pleasure of living, and it enjoys being alive. Everything gels together, but the piano is the true leader. It slowly…

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Inspired by how sound and memory interact, Cities and Memory is a sound program with the aim of “remixing the world, one sound at a time,” existing on the (already quite blurred) line between documentary field recording and sound art.

Its primary manifestation is an online global sound map, on which every location boasts two sounds, the “city” and the “memory.” The “city” sound is the faithful, documentary field recording capturing that place at that time, as it existed and was heard. The “memory” sound is a reimagined, remixed, reinterpreted version of that sound: everything from oral reconstructions, full-on techno tracks built around a field recording, ambient reimaginings, and all the points in between, as summarized in this roundup of creative approaches from…

Αυτή είναι η νέα δισκάρα των Moon Duo με τίτλο “Shadow of the sun” την οποία μπορείτε να απολαύσετε (ολόκληρη) παρακάτω:

Και αυτό είναι ένα ακόμα θεότρελο video clip φτιαγμένο για το “Animal”:

Τους περιμένουμε με ανυπομονησία αλλά και περιέργεια να τους δούμε να συμμετέχουν στο φετινό Ejekt Festival στο Φάληρο και να ανοίγουν για τον Parov Stelar και την μπάντα του.

Performing live in the studio on Friday 3rd April will be Conspirators of Pleasure, aka Poulomi Desai and Simon Underwood. Tune into NTS from 8am to 10am to hear them play.

Conspirators of Pleasure (Poulomi Desai – ex Dead Jalebies and Simon Underwood – founder member of post punk band The Pop Group) are an improvising duo that seek to bend all the rules, question the sacred, create extraordinary soundscape performances and self-regulating sonic systems, using modified and prepared instruments. Part of their unusual musical armoury includes a prepared sitar, sonically twisted stylophones, prepared bass, modified toys, resurrected radios and visually scarred slide projections. Their compositions explore experimental terrains, twisting technology to transform organic sounds into eerie calls that flow from intense waves of abrasive, noisy, chaos invoking industrial nostalgia, to structured pulsating rhythms, to melancholic, microtonal drones.

The duo have worked with a range of musicians and artists including, Noise=Noise…

Segments of the live Dotto performance recorded on Sunday 26th of April 2015 in Exile, Cork Community Printshop, lower Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork.

Group collaborative performance with Danny McCarthy (The Quiet Club), Harry Moore, Katie O’Looney, Mick O’Shea (The Quiet Club), Claire Guerin (Queef) and Laney Mannion (Queef).

The surprising thing about Sleet is how warm it sounds, considering its title.  This is the second winter-themed release from My Home, Sinking, both released in May, when garlands and dances around the maypole are more in fashion.  Instead of capturing the feeling of sleet, it captures the feeling of sleet outside when all is safe and warm inside, a group of friends trading stories in dialogue and lyrical song while softly playing the instruments they have brought to the house.

The lineup has changed slightly since the self-titled debut.  This is still Enrico Coniglio’s baby, but apart from Coniglio, only Katie English (cello) appears on both works.  Their interplay still counts for a uniformity of sound.  But new moments stand out here, especially those in which one or two instruments act in twain: the guitar and vibraphone, joined by light drums on “Chains”; the field recordings, vinyl…