Ambient

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

2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Grey Vinyl

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

2 × Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered

Record Label: Prophecy Style: Metal

2 × Vinyl, LP

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

Artist: Conjure One Label: Nettwerk Music Group

Artist: JUSTIN / ANNELI DRECKER ADAMS Label: Wayward Records

Record Label: Listenable Records Style: Heavy Metal

Artist: Dodsmaskin Label: Malignant

Гитарист, основатель и творческий лидер FATES WARNING Джим Мэтос (Jim Matheos) объявил о выходе дебютного альбома своего нового эмбиент-проекта TUESDAY THE SKY. Релиз лонгплея, получившего название "Drift" состоится 30 июня. Сам Мэтос прокомментировал, что музыка TUESDAY THE SKY является экспериментальной по своей натуре, и продолжает развивать идеи инструментального гитарного эмбиента, которые он ранее уже неоднократно исследовал в своих сольных альбомах. По словам музыканта, его основными музыкальными вдохновителями при создании данного материала стали Brian Eno, BOARDS OF CANADA, SIGUR ROS и EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY. Помимо самого Джима, в записи альбома приняли участие барабанщик GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT Ллойд Ханни (Lloyd Hanney), клавишник OSI и бывший участник DREAM THEATER Кевин Мур (Kevin Moore), а также вокалистка Анна Линн Уильямс (Anna-Lynne Williams) (TRESPASSERS WILLIAM, LOTTE KESTNER). Artist: Tuesday The Sky Label: Insideoutmusic