Ambient

Eight years after his last album Seltsam erscheint unsere Lage [Our Situation Seems Strange], Michael Rodach is now releasing his sixth solo album with a title just as poetic. A picture that shimmers, that tells of rising up and rounding off, of departure and completion. On the one hand time seems to be a wellrounded matter that lacks nothing and where nothing is missed, but on the other hand also seems cyclic in the sense that it always lets us return to the beginning. Exactly this slight discrepancy suits Rodach well. “I like this certain vagueness; it creates space for the illogical, for the antithetic,” he says. “Of course I don’t know if time is round, but I’ve always liked the round dials on clocks for example. They perfectly express the circle that closes again and again and doesn’t represent an end, but rather goes into the next round over and over. When we celebrate our birthdays, we count how often we have circled the sun with our planet.” Often we associate time with impermanence, talk about how it passes, elapses, trickles away and how intangible it is. Especially farewells let us realize that. In the past years Michael Rodach experienced the decease of his parents; an experience that deeply influenced his understanding of time. “When the long and throughout pleasant life of my parents ended, all of us involved felt the phenomenon of time; the time that still remains and the time that had passed. It was an almost peaceful understanding of something coming to an end. Regarding their lives we realized: that was a well-rounded success. If it goes into the next round in this case, nobody can say.” On his solo albums Michael Rodach was always a multi-instrumentalist, sound explorer, tinkerer, developed his own samples, listened deeply into everything and was a fascinated discoverer of everything that creates sound. Especially the numerous audio dramas, for which he developed and composed sound and music, show this love for adventure. It suits him to immerse himself in a subject matter, to dive into depth for finding new sounds and atmospheres. With his new album, he now returns to his starting point in a very extraordinary way. Like none of his albums before Die Zeit ist rund is a guitar album and explores the countless tone qualities and facets of this “marvelously imperfect instrument,” as Rodach describes it. “That is what makes it perfect to me. I love the guitar. Already in the process of tuning, I turn the machine head and over a gearwheel and a shaft I change the tension on the string, which then oscillates faster or slower over a certain timeframe. Playing the guitar also means that I need to move my hands or fingers from one point on the guitar to another within a certain timeframe. If I swing my arms around now, they will make nothing but circles, because they’re obviously attached at the shoulders. The same principle applies to the hands and fingers. That means that I produce nothing but circular shapes with my fingers and hands while playing guitar. Since we’re talking about music here, these circular motions are also closely linked to time. In particularly wide-awake, conscious moments, when everything flows together with everything, …then time is round.” Rodach perceives it as great fortune to have grown up in a world, in which he had access to music from all kinds of genres. In Hitchcock movies he was fascinated by the fabulous music of Bernhard Hermann, later Nino Rota and Brian Eno enthralled him. On the other hand the blues of John Lee Hooker was kind of a staple food for him. Thus, all kinds of musical styles were inspiration to him and in no way disturbed each other, but rather got along well for the most part. “Now, after many years I notice that when I compose, without the intention to do so, I often mix elements of the blues with musical styles that would not necessarily be associated with the blues. In this sense, Die Zeit ist rund almost became a blues album. ‘Musical storytelling’ is a trait of the blues to me and very often the basis of my compositions,” Rodach says, not lastly because most of his compositions were written for audio dramas and theatre pieces: so for stories essentially. Storytelling counters impermanence. Loss is always also a loss of history and stories. Who was present? Whom can we ask? Who can report what happened? As long as stories are told, memories stays alive. Rodach enchants this storytelling, joins the volatile, brittle with the iridescent and whatever he touches and whatever touches him turns into sound. A very well-rounded affair. Record Label: Traumton Style: Electronic / Ambient

Третье коллекционное издание выйдет 29-го сентября 2017 года в нескольких версиях: на CD, на виниле и в цифровом варианте. Бокс-сет будет включать ремиксированный Тони Висконти альбом LODGER. Parlophone Records с гордостью представляют третье коллекционное издание A NEW CAREER IN ANEW TOWN (1977 – 1982) из серии бокс-сетов охватывающее все творчество Дэвида Боуи с 1969 года. Вслед за получившими признания критиков релизами DAVID BOWIE FIVE YEARS (1969 – 1973) иDAVID BOWIE WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974 – 1976), третье делюкс-издание выйдет 29-го сентября. Бокс-сет будет содержать абсолютно новый ремикс альбома 1979-го года LODGER в исполнении продюсера и аккомпаниатора Боуи Тони Висконти. Коробки из одиннадцати CD дисков и тринадцати виниловых пластинок будут включать весь материал официально изданный Боуи с 1977 по 1982 годы. Среди него так называемая «берлинская трилогия», которую Боуи создавал вместе сВисконти и Брайаном Эно, мини-альбом BAAL EP, который впервые выйдет на CD, и пластинка SCARY MONSTERS (And Super Creeps). Издание, названное в честь одного из треков с первого альбома из так называемой «берлинской трилогии», включает в себя студийные и концертные пластинки: LOW, HEROES, STAGE(оригинальная и версия 2017 года), LODGER,LODGER (Tony Visconti 2017 Mix), SCARY MONSTERS(And Super Creeps) и RE:CALL 3 (актуальные сингловые версии песен, не вошедшие в альбом треки, би-сайды синглов и композиции из саундтреков к фильмам). Кроме того, в бокс-сет войдет HEROES EP – эксклюзивная компиляция, выпущенная в честь сорокалетия песни, которая впервые объединит в себе «немецкий» и «французский» варианты альбома и версии трека, выходившие на синглах. Оригинальная версияSTAGE будет выпущена на желтом виниле, дублируя свое первое ограниченное английское издание, а версия 2017 года этой же пластинки будет содержать два неизданных ранее трека. Эксклюзивным материалом всех версий коллекционных изданий является ремиксированный альбом LODGER (ремикс Тони Висконти 2017). Работа над ремиксом началась с благословения Дэвида еще до его смерти в январе 2016 года. Тони Висконти переработал оригинальные треки на студии Human Studios и сделал ремикс альбома, задействовав современные технологии, чтобы дополнительно подчеркнуть все нюансы альбома. У этой версии альбома будет новое «ремиксированное» оформление, созданное с помощью неопубликованных фото из архива фотографа Даффи, созданных во время фотосессии для дизайна пластинки. Также эксклюзивно во всех версиях издания появится новый сборник Re:Call 3, включающий в себя ремастированные версии синглов, неальбомные синглы, би-сайды и композиции из саундтреков к фильмам. Обложка представляет собой фото, сделанное Кристианом Симонпьетрина Hansa Studios в Берлине во время сессий Heroesв 1977. «Baal» EP впервые выйдет на CD, а песниBeauty And The Beast (extended version) и BreakingGlass (версия австралийского сингла) будут впервые выпущены на CD и в цифровом формате. ТрекBeauty And The Beast ранее издавался только на редком 12-дюймовом виниловом издании в США и на лимитированном 12-дюмовом виниловом издании в Испании. Коллекционное издание будет включать в себя 128 страничную книгу в CD варианте бокс-сета и 84 страничную книгу в виниловой версии бокс-сета. В книгах можно будет увидеть ранее неизданные фото, сделанных такими фотографами как Антон Корбихин, Гельмут Ньютон, Эндрю Кент, Стив Шапиро, Даффи и многими другими, а также обзоры прессы того времени и технические заметки об альбомах, сделанные Тони Висконти. В CD бокс-сет войдут точно воспроизведенные версии оригинальных альбомов, сделанные в виде мини виниловых пластинок, а сами диски будут окрашены в золотой, а не привычный серебряный цвет. На виниловом сете будет представлен тот же контент, что и на CD. Сет будет выпущен именно на тяжелом 180-граммовом виниле. Artist: David Bowie Label: Rhino/Parlophone

Artist: Graham Reynolds Label: Fire Soundtracks / Lakeshore

Artist: BARRECA / LEIMER Label: Palace of Lights

Limited Heavyweight Turquoise Vinyl with Poster and Download. Over the course of their lush, fiercely original sophomore album Althaea, London based duo Trailer Trash Tracys condense a number of disparate styles into music that thrillingly broaches the void between figuration and abstraction. While undeniably beautiful and quite often infectious in parts, this is certainly not pop music by any traditional definition; rather, it appeals to the more intuitive of mind and wild at heart. More than simply becoming a philosophical exercise however, the result is their most ambitious and idiosyncratic body of work to date, one which operates at the very limits of what pop music can be. Their debut, Ester, released in 2012, manifested the band’s approach to making music as a fine balance between chaos and order, laying out a dense and dreamlike ecosystem of Sufi poetry, Solfeggio scales and, floating above it all, Susanne Aztoria’s otherworldly yet emotionally charged vocals. Early singles such as Strangling Good Guys and You Wish You Were Red proved to be outliers - rather than simply making lo-fi dream pop, the band were instead aiming for something far more subconscious and esoteric, extracting the essence of a perfect pop song and recasting it in a different light entirely. “It cemented what we are about musically: diverse, cinematic and with a pop curiosity”, the band muse now. “Making it was a very important process for us – Althaea sounding more mature like it does probably wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for Ester’s mistakes and beauty. Initially conceived as a soundtrack for a film by esteemed cult Filipino director Raya Martin, Althaea, sees the band continue their investigations into the farther flung reaches of pop music, with stunning results. If Ester was adventurous and exploratory in nature, Althaea is its grown up and sophisticated older sister: having embarked on their singular artistic course, with the new album Trailer Trash Tracys consolidate their strikingly unique language and tonal style. Spanning 10 deeply esoteric tracks, Althaea sees the band drift futher afield from traditional song structures to create a new aural lexicon of their own, one as influenced by Filipino carnival music and Latin rhythms as it was by Japanese tropical music from the 80s. The songs demonstrate a characteristic fusion of melody and dissonance, but this time round, they are more amorphous in the way they occupy space, neatly colliding the elegance of modernism with sharply futuristic structures. Much like the ambiguous, seemingly random song titles – Singdrome, Money for Moondogs nothing in Althaea's world is quite what it seems. Songs like Smoked Silver chase each other in an opulent haze of seesawing synths and stuttering beats, stubbornly refusing to resolve themselves, while others, like Betty’s Cavatina, seem to heve been built on structures so intricate and fragile they seem in perpetual danger of collapsing in on themselves at any given moment. Even at their most outwardly pop – the pristine Eden Machine for instance, or the swooning Kalesa, there is a baroque splendour, and heightened sensuality, stemming from Jimmy Lee’s resolutely off-kilter instrumentation and the fact that quite often Aztoria seems to be singing in an alien language entirely of her own creation. The interplay of light and dark, the foreign and the familiar, brings forth an album with manifold pleasures, one which rewards repeated listening and further exploration. And even though with Althaea Trailer Trash Tracys seek to disorient and upend traditional strictures of pop, they have, in their own way, delivered a modern classic anyway. “When people hear the record we want them to be transported to a place that’s romantic, exotic, unfamiliar but real and welcoming”, they muse. “Someone also mentioned that our album could have been the soundtrack for a film like Wong Kar Wai’s Days of Being Wild or Ishamel Bernal. If people feel like this when listening to our music then that’s more than we have ever anticipated”. Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Coloured

Artist: Craig Pruess Label: CD Baby

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Artist: Enore Zaffiri Label: Mazagran

Artist: John Avery Label: Klanggalerie

Artist: Ferry Corsten Label: Flashover Recordings

Artist: Svartsinn Label: Cyclic Law

Artist: Howard Givens; Artist: Craig Padilla Label: Spotted Peccary Music

Artist: GALACTIC EXPLORERS Label: Mental Experience

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Record Label: Prophecy Style: Metal

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Rhino выпустит 2 новых музыкальных сопровождения к новым сериям Альбомы выйдут на CD и двойном виниле 8 сентября Долгожданное возвращение революционного сериала «Твин Пикс», созданного Марком Фростом и Дэвидом Линчем, состоялось в эфире телеканалаShowtime. Музыка, прозвучавшая в новых сериях, станет частью двух грядущих саундтреков, которые выйдут на лейбле Rhino Entertainment 8 сентября. Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) и Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Original Soundtrack) будут доступны на CD, а также на двойном виниле. В преддверии выхода новых серий лейбл Rhino чуть ранее переиздал саундтрек к оригинальному сериалу (1990-91) и последующему фильму Fire Walk With Me (1992). Музыка всегда играла центральную роль в работах Линча, и именно она помогла создать неповторимый образ и запоминающийся характер оригинального «Твин Пикса». То же самое можно сказать и о новых сериях. Начиная с пилотного эпизода, треки из звуковой дорожки появляются в сериале постепенно, по мере выхода каждой из 18-ти серий нового сезона. Первый трек дебютного эпизода - Twin Peaks Main Theme - в исполнении обладателя «Грэмми» Анджело Бадаламенти, чья музыка неразрывно связано с сериалом и фильмом. Второй трек Shadow в исполнении Chromatics, электронной группы из Лос-Анджелеса, который также войдет в их следующий альбом Dear Tommy. Коллектив выпустил видео на новую композицию одновременно с выходом первой серии «Твин Пикс». Созданный Дэвидом Линчем и вышедший в эфире телеканала Showtime, новый 18-серийный сериал «Твин Пикс» показывает события, спустя 25 лет после ошеломительного убийства всеобщей любимицы Лоры Палмер. Обладатель «Золотого Глобуса» и номинант на премию «Эмми» Кайл Маклахлен снова снялся в роли специального агента Дейла Купера. Новый «Твин Пикс» полностью написан и спродюсирован Дэвидом Линчем и Марком Фростом совместно с исполнительным продюсером Сабриной Сазерленд. Artist: Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack) Label: UNASSIGNED

The brand new Relax Edition!!! 20 new songs inspire with their unique mixture of warm acoustic sounds and subtle electronic refinements. The hand-picked guest singers Coralie Clement, Jason Caesar, Emma Brammer and Zoe Dee give the Balearic Vibes a special touch. Since the genre-defining debut in 2003, the unmistakable RELAX sound has been a thing of the past for every summer and immediately spreads holiday feeling. The balearic and mediterranean touch is like a red thread through the album. No wonder, because both Ibiza and Majorca have served Piet, Jaspa and Andy as a retreat and a source of inspiration. After dancing for the first time in Ibiza's legendary clubs such as the KU in the late 80s, later in the 90s themselves as DJs in Amnesia and Eden, they played their own chill out sets at special locations like Café Del Mar And the El Divino on Ibiza or the El Cielo Café on Mallorca. On "Pure Shores," Blank & Jones also bowed to one of their musical idols: William Orbit, who had the RELAX version of Desire for his album Odyssey with the words This song reminds me of how we are with friends on the ancient stone streets of Ibiza The way to the sunset on the beach were selected. Exactly for these wonderful moments Blank & Jones make the RELAX albums. The Feel Good Album Of The Summer Record Label: Soundcolours Style: Chillout