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This is a Music of Love.

Mike Tamburo plays metal. He weaves, blends, layers and creates a dense sonic tapestry of slow building, powerful, emotionally charged, deep sustained tones, drones, harmonies and primitive melodies. Performed live without overdubs on gongs, bells, bilas, gong oblongs, crotales, plates and trigons.

Best experienced on good speakers or headphones.

Credits:
Produced by Mike Tamburo & Matthew Azevedo
Recorded by Matthew Azevedo & Chaimes Parker at Big Nice Studio, Lincoln RI
Mixed and Mastered by Matthew Azevedo at Azevedo Audio, Providence RI

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A more than three years long journey. Like growing, a lot of learning new languages, new instruments, tools and technics never explored before was needed, and above all, patience to wait for the ideas to unfold and bloom expontanially.
 
Thank my wife and my son for all the love, all the support and for all the time I was away to work on this.

Titled the track Losing Today with Brian Young in mind - an artist whose work I admire very much - www.flickr.com/photos/stillespace/

 Thank you so much for listening.
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Composed, produced and performed by João Pedro Nogueira
Mixed and mastered by Vitor Neves
Cover artwork by øjeRum

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Cinematic C&N (Country & Northern) goes Pacific as West Norway chapel grooves encounter Polynesian-influenced steel and slide featuring the amazing Geir Sundstøl on pedal steel.

On the guitarist and composer Trond Kallevåg Hansen’s inspired and inspiring Hubro debut, edgily ambient and cinematic atmospherics meet front-porch picking from a super-sensitive folk and jazz inspired ensemble given serious twang by the legendary Geir Sundstøl on slide and pedal steel. Perfectly formed ear-worm melodies are stretched and bent into new improvised shapes as electric and acoustic instruments weave decorously in and out of each other’s orbits, accompanied by startling solo preludes or intersecting excerpts of experimental field recordings or found sound.

The spacious music wears its influences on its sleeve - there’s Ry Cooder in there, Ennio Morricone, too, and an echo of Geir Sundstøl’s own recent solo masterwork, ‘Brødlos’, whose recording venue of Studio Intim (Sundstøl’s home-studio in Oslo) ‘Bedehus & Hawaii' shared - but there’s no straining for effect.

Everything seems to fall quite naturally into place, sounding intimately poised and at home with itself. Whatever the musical references, and however long you might take to enumerate the...  more
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Ivar Myrset Asheim: drums and percussion
Alexander Hoholm: double bass
Geir Sundstøl: guitar, pedal steel, marxophone, optigan and xylophone
Adrian Løseth Waade: violin
Trond Kallevåg Hansen: guitar, electronics and field recordings

All songs composed by Trond Kallevåg Hansen
Recorded by Geir Sundstøl at Studio Intim, Oslo
Mixed by Trond Kallevåg Hansen
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

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Dragon’s Eye Recordings is pleased to present 'Going Home 帰郷' by Ai Yamamoto. Yamamoto's first release for the label explores her journey back to her hometown of Shizumu, Kashiba city in Nara, Japan. Quiet spaces, forests, rice fields, seasonal insect sounds, family and friends shape the composition.

On 'Going Home 帰郷' Yamamoto combines her old samples and transforms them with new approaches toward ambient. The piece begins with soft textures and combinations of long, gauzy melodies. These surfaces shift to simple piano tones bolstered underneath by subtle noise, then move to abstract guitar textures. The piece finishes with a field recording of crickets from Shizumi Nara, paired with a gentle refrain.

In Yamamoto’s words, “'Going Home 帰郷' brings you a pair of big wings to fly and takes you on a journey of Nostalgia where you feel warm and comfortable. Everyone looks back and thinks about their hometown where they grew up, and sentiment or emotions are all mixed––from bitter to sweet––but you still feel home with smiles. This is a music diary and a journey of ‘where you are from to where you are now.'"

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The loop repeats itself forever - always in motion, but going nowhere. Doomed to start over eternally.

The photo stops what can not stop - a stillness that never existed but has now become a way of remembering the motion of moments.

The loop, having a beginning and an end, begs the composer to think about the end at the beginning and the beginning at the end. This heightened awareness of time as repeating makes the loop a wholly unique composition.

Here you will find a musical composition intended to be looped for as long as you like and a photograph that accompanies the loop on the app.

These tracks are specially formulated to play as a single loop. 1000 samples of the front were crossfaded with 1000 samples at the end to assure a true infinite loop. This series will be continued on the THESIS RECURRING APP built for iPhone. Look for it in the App Store and get all the new updates. Android version coming soon!

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Named after a semi-mythological plant described in 16th century travellers’ tales, 'The Borametz Tree' is the first album from C Joynes and the Furlong Bray, a project lead by guitarist C Joynes, which features members of experimental folk ensemble Dead Rat Orchestra, plus electroacoustic composer Cam Deas and fellow guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Nick Jonah Davis.


Recorded by Cam Deas
Mastered by Peter Fletcher at Black Bay Studio

Cover image 'The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary' by Maisie O'Brien

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Julianna Barwick’s Circumstance Synthesis observes the shape of a day from a celestial vantage. Five floating suites trace morning through night, decorating space with a spectrum of layered vocals and synths that pool together and drift apart like clouds in the clearest blue.

Commissioned by Sister City, a new neighbor to Commend in the Lower East Side of NYC, Circumstance Synthesis originated as an environmentally responsive soundtrack. At this score’s performative core, generative music technology identified activity in the New York City sky through a camera perched on Sister City’s hotel’s rooftop, triggering musical progressions created by Barwick.

Barwick intentionally created unique chord structures and bass, synth, and vocal lines for each progression that would work holistically with one another. Barwick then anticipated different airborne activity, and actors, and designated each a leitmotif – an airplane, bright sun, clouds, birds. The generative score powered by Microsoft AI resounded live through Sister City’s lobby space, and its documentation now finds a home on the ground as the second installment of There, Commend’s new off site archival series.

Circumstance Synthesis is not only a response to the changing energies of the day, but also a provisional reminder to to take a moment, breathe, and admire the more subtle evolutions within and above our busy schedules. A sprightly vocal bouquet for “morning,” as you embark on your day’s journey. The warming gleam of peak sun on your face at “noon,” followed by a reservoir of relaxed shade in the “afternoon.” The rousing majesty of of an “evening” stroll and the soft, ruminative movements of “night.” Across its arc we feel the freshness of a rustling breeze, warmth of daylight, golden bath of sunset and the inky depths of its enveloping accompaniment.

Circumstance Synthesis encourages us to seek presence in our daily routine, attuned to the comings and goings in our environment but uplifted by higher purpose: a reminder to look up and listen beyond.

All songs written and recorded by Julianna Barwick.
Mastered by Aucah Audio (Brooklyn, NY).
Artwork by Will Work For Good.
Created for Sister City, powered by Microsoft AI.

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The form of an object, in part, finds definition in its points and intersections. Linear movements meet at a crossroad only to alter trajectory and build upon each course change. Slowly but surely, one becomes two, two becomes three; what once began as a simple dash across nothingness assumes a robust purpose and reveals meaningful multi-dimensional features.

Forms, as a series of musical collections, opts for measured themes unique to each edition. Meditative, with carefully constructed folds, the compilation is sewn together with the intent to capture, and make tangible, concepts in motion.

For the latest edition to our compilation series we invited some artists whose efforts constitute our past and some artists that represent our future to help us celebrate our fifth anniversary as a record imprint. Starting with our very first release in November 2014 we have sought to pay tribute to the music that gives us pause and to create artifacts that cement that beauty. Each song herein marks a waypoint in our paradoxical lineage, bound together by the urgent need to grow fast yet age slow. We thank them all, today, tomorrow, and hereafter.

*EXCLUSIVE TO BANDCAMP FOR 1 MONTH
The "Five Years" compilation will be available from all digital outlets starting Friday 24 January 2020
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All songs written & produced by their respective artist(s)
"Old Leopard Paws" features Alex Hamburger on flute, and additional production by Danae Greenfield.
"Alex the Spacecat" features Yoh on flute.
Mastered by Kaye Loggins from Greenpoint, New York
Cover Art by Cristian Iacob (www.instagram.com/c.icb)
Design by Nicholas Concklin
Executive Produced by John Moses & Nicholas Concklin

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This is the final eilean rec. release which close the map and the project with all the music artists involved since the beginning, during these last 5 years.

109 music artists / 82 tracks / 6 hours of sounds.
61 unreleased and new tracks / 21 tracks from back catalogs (16 from eilean rec. + 6 from some other labels)

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• artists involved in alphabetical order •

9t Antiope (Nima Aghiani + Sara Bigdeli Shamloo)
Aaron Martin
A Home For Ghosts (James Edward Armstrong + Neil Carter)
Amuleto (Francesco Dillon + Riccardo Dillon Wanke)
Andrew Tasselmyer
Aries Mond
Arovane & Mike Lazarev
Autistici & Justin Varis
Bamboo Stilts (Orla Wren & Leigh Toro)
Banabila & Machinefabriek
Benjamin Finger (with Lynn Fister)
Ben Mc Elroy
Ben Rath
Bill Seaman (with John Supko & James Chu)
Bmrn
Chris Dooks
Cicely Irvine
Ciro Berenguer
Cyril Secq + Sylvain Chauveau
Dag Rosenqvist (with Aaron Martin & Lisen Rylander Löve)
Daniel K. Böhm
Daniel WJ Mackenzie
Danny Clay
Darren Harper
Dramavinile
Ecovillage (Emil Holmström and Peter Wikström)
E and I (The Humble Bee & Emmanuel Witzthum)
Emmanuel Witzthum
Francesco Giannico & Giulio Aldinucci
Florian Von Ameln
Foresteppe
HolyKindOf
Ian Hawgood
Ian Nyquist (with Jack Sheehan)
Ieva
Inga-Lill Farstad
Jacek Doroszenko
James Murray
Jason Van Wyk
Jonathan Kawchuk
Josco
Josh Mason
Kenji Kihara
Knivtid
Lake Mary (with Anna Wilson-Prymek)
Lee Chapman
Leigh Toro
Ljerke (Kleefstra Brothers, Hilde Marie Holsen, Sytze Pruiksma, Alexander Rishaug, Michael Francis Duch)
Masaya Ozaki
Michael Cutting
Miguel Isaza
Monolyth & Cobalt
Monty Adkins
Moss Covered Technology
Nathan Mc Laughlin
Offthesky (with Cody Yantis)
øjeRum
Omrr
Otto Solange
Pascal Savy
Phi Bui
Richard Ginns
Ruhe
Saenïnvey
Seabuckthorn
Sonmi451
Sound Meccano
Speck (Nikita Bondarev)
Spheruleus
Stijn Hüwels
Srúti (Omrr + Pie Are Squared)
Sublamp
Sustainer
Tatsuro Kojima
The Prairie Lines
Toàn
Twigs & Yarn (Lauren McMurray with Adam Hilton)
Twincities (with Matthew Citarella)
Uwe Zahn | Porya Hatami | Darren Mc Clure
Vhr-1.7
Wil Bolton
Xu
Yadayn
Zhalih

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• back catalog / eilean rec. •

Bamboo Stilts - Porthole (from «Beneath The Bark», 2015)
Ciro Berenguer - Luna Creciente (from «El Mar De Junio», 2019)
Florian von Ameln - Komplement (from «Rvvr», 2016)
Francesco Giannico & Giulio Aldinucci - Reframing (from «Reframing», 2017)
HolyKindOf - Ceremonial Magnet (Part I) (from « Stay/Sea », 2014)
Josco & Spheruleus - Kilis (from «Folded Distance», 2017)
Josh Mason & Nathan McLaughlin - Markers & Surveys (I-VI) (excerpt) (from «On The Brink», 2017)
Lee Chapman - Let me In (from «The Common Silence», 2015)
Masaya Ozaki - Patina (from «Fluid And Dreaming Of Stripes», 2015)
Miguel Isaza - El Monte Suspendido (from « Uji », 2014)
Otto Solange - Ever Round, It turns, He Goes To Sleep (from « шон », 2019)
Saenïnvey - Something New (from « The Path », 2016)
The Prairie Lines - Echo Collapse (from «Today Leap And Stop Time», 2018)
Uwe / Zahn / Hatami - V-Modal (from «Veerian», 2016)

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• back catalog / other labels •

9t Antiope - Seagulls Feast (single, self-released, 2017)
Chris Dooks - Steady States And Transient Oscillations (from «Non - Linear Responses of Self - Excited Harmoniums», self-released, 2011)
Dag Rosenqvist - Come Silence (from «Elephant», Dronarivm, 2016)
E and I - A Perhaps Song (from «An Inch Of Air», Cotton Goods, 2010)
Nathan Mc Laughlin - The Road is Dark (from «The Refrigerator is Emotional», Senufo Editions, 2012)
Richard Ginns - Point Dunes (from «Sea Change», Slow Flow Recs, 2011)

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credits
All music composed, performed, recorded and mixed by all the music artists involved including :

with Benjamin Finger : Lynn Fister
with Bill Seaman: John Supko (rhythm libraries) / James Chu (Clarinet)
with Dag Rosenqvist: Aaron Martin (Cello) / Lisen Rylander Löve (Saxophone)
with Ian Nyquist : Jack Sheehan
with Lake Marry : Anna Wilson-Prymek
with Offthesky : Cody Yantis
with Twigs & Yarns : Adam Hilton
with Twincities : Matthew Citarella
with Xu : Darren Harper

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Mastered by Mathias Van Eecloo except :

(CD1) track 03: mastered by Orla Wren / track 08: mastered by Taylor Deupree / track 17: mastered by Ian Hawgood
(CD2) track 02: mastered by Miles Whittaker / track 16: mastered by Ian Hawgood / track 17: mastered by Phi Bui
(CD3) track 03: mastered by Ian Hawgood / track 04: mastered by Porya hatami / track 08: mastered by Lasse Marhaug 
(CD4) track 03: mastered by Bernard Zwijzen / track 10: mastered by Erich Steiger / track 13: mastered by Ryan Connor / track 15: mastered by Miguel Isaza
(CD5) track 12: mastered by James Murray / track 14: mastered by Taylor Deupree

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Artwork by Marco Cadioli
Inside photography by Mathias Van Eecloo
Design by Superfluxgrafizm

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"thanks a lot to everyone since these 5 years.
the music artists and the artwork artists, and all the people who have trusted, followed and loved the eilean rec project.
thanks a lot to Rémi for his artistic guidance, to Sarah for her love and support, and to all my close friends."

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© all right reserved to all the music artists and eilean rec.

except track 22 by Jonathan Kawchuk :
© all right reserved to Paper Bag & eilean rec.

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They are mainly songs that have been born out of the ups and downs of spending a lot of life on the road. Sometimes everything just makes sense and you can’t understand how things could be anything but beautiful, yet at other times the bottom falls out, desperation takes hold and all seems lost.

Tracks 1-9 were recorded at Uber Studios in Hull with Rob Burgess. Between Rob, Holly and Will they covered basically all instrumentations. The exact breakdown of some of the more secondary instruments can’t quite be remembered. We consider this a good thing! All songs were primarily mixed at Uber with Rob, Holly and Will before they were sent over to Fairview to be remixed and mastered.

Track 10 was recorded at Fairview Studios in Hull with John Spence and had Holly and Will on vocals and guitar and Dave and Tom on drums and bass respectively.

John Spence at Fairview studios mixed and mastered all tracks.

Holly Blackshaw - Vocals and rhythm guitar throughout
Will Bladen - Vocals, rhythm and lead guitar throughout, slide guitar, bass
Rob Burgess - Drums, slide guitar, keys, bass
Beth Nicholson - Cello, track 1
Dave Tomlinson - Drums, track 10
Tom Skelly - Bass, track 10

All music is by Crooked Weather
Artwork is by Holly Blackshaw
Photo (and faithful roadie) credits go to Ella Blackshaw

This album is dedicated to Bari Razzaki. Most trusted friend, unofficial Crooked Weather member and a bright light to follow at any time. Peace.