UNCUT

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1 Psalm 147 2 Psalm 19 3 Psalm 47 4 Psalm 90 5 Psalm 33 6 Elli, Elli + Psalm 42 7 Psalm 104 8 O You Who Sleep + Psalm 96 9 Psalm 111 Produced by: James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg Recorded at: Earthwave Studio, Shelbyville, Kent

Computer Music

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Forest Kingdom 3’s breadth of control over the wind and pipe instruments is among the finest we’ve experienced, with the ability to control the Blow and Vibrato intensity, the Vibrato speed and the Release and Holes volume allowing for the reproducti

BBC Music Magazine

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The Thread is the first studio album by the multi-cultural Band of Burns, who debuted with a live recording from a sold-out show at London’s Union Chapel in January 2018. The balms of reverence for ‘the charms of nature’, the enduring power of one pe

UNCUT

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“TONIGHT,” Roger Eno announces, settling in behind his piano for this historic show, “Brian and I are playing to the gods.” His comment is understandable: the stage onto which they’ve walked was originally built in AD 161 on the slopes of Athens’ Acr

Computer Music

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In what you could call a case of ‘the dog wagging the synth’s mod wheel’, we came up with the name of our cover feature – 60 Years Of The Synth – well before checking the actual facts. But luckily, we then discovered that, yes the first synth proper,

Future Music

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A great way to overcome the ‘16-bar loop problem’ is to create a rough song template before you even begin creating any sounds. Do this by creating empty MIDI clips across your DAW’s arranger for each major track element, sketching out a map of how y

Electronic Musician

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$259 bestservice.com + Sublime, magical brilliance + Over 20,000 individual samples, and 700 top tier presets + Performance Patches an inviting way in + Level of flute and pipe control - Aimed at niche composers We’ve long been admirers of the fantas

Computer Music

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We went to the Grand Canyon once, many years ago now. We basically stood gawping at it for 30 minutes, although were not really gazing at its wondrous awe, nor struggling with taking in the sheer majesty and beauty, not even falling to our knees in s

UNCUT

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Our roadtrip through the cosmic pastoral landscape begins with this nocturnal tune from the New York band SUSS, who evoke an empty desert on “Drift”, from last year’s album Promise. Pat Irwin’s soaring guitar parts mingle with what sounds like cicada

Computer Music

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Ashley Thorpe (aka Breezewax) is a producer and musician who has created electronic music for over a decade. He typically uses a mix of samples, field recordings, synthesis and live instrumentation in his work, which covers a variety of styles includ

Computer Music

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Ashley Thorpe (aka Breezewax) is a producer and musician who has created electronic music for over a decade. He typically uses a mix of samples, field recordings, synthesis and live instrumentation in his work, which covers a variety of styles includ

Computer Music

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An array of menacing sustained sounds await in this classic sample pack from issue 241. Whether you’re setting the scene with some dark atmospherics, mangling them to create evolving pads, or turning them into something entirely different, these dark

Prog

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Sirens BLACK SAND It’s been 14 years since Heather Findlay and Angela Gordon released Offerings, their debut album as Odin Dragonfly (an anagram of their surnames). Being out in the world touring together is the touchstone for this dreamy, gossamer-l

Electronic Musician

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Forest Kingdom 3’s breadth of control over the wind and pipe instruments is among the finest we’ve experienced, with the ability to control the Blow and Vibrato intensity, the Vibrato speed and the Release and Holes volume allowing for the reproducti

Rhythm

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This is actionable with both hands but for these articles I will only use the right hand for the low tone. Check out the ‘O’ outline on the palm in Fig 8 below. The objective is to place this directly over the hole, palm down, and leave it there. You

BBC Music Magazine

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Your concert on 11 February marks the centenary of Xenakis’s birth. How have you chosen which works to play? Greg Caffrey, artistic director: I had a look at what was already in our repertoire by him, and what was in there was determined by the instr

Computer Music

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This site has numerous summer deals on at the moment. I always get email alerts from them tempting me to spend money I don’t have on more delicious sound toys, but right now seems like a great time to invest. If you’ve had your eye on any particular

UNCUT

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1 Stay 2 Stay Meditation 3 You And I 4 Colors 5 Stardust Scattering 6 African Proverb 7 Call Me A Fool 8 Fallin’ 9 Smile 10 Within You 11 Two Roads 12 Why The Bright Stars Glow 13 Home Inside 14 Starlight Ethereal Silencees

Prog

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VENUE THE CLUNY, NEWCASTLE DATE 17/12/2019 “Shall we do another one?” asks Kavus Torabi after The Utopia Strong’s gig has formally come to an end. It’s a genuine question rather than a coy come-on. A rowdy crowd at The Cluny leaves him in no doubt of

NPR

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In Circuit des Yeux's Tiny Desk (home) concert — recorded at Chicago's historic May Chapel — Haley Fohr's operatic, four-octave vibrato contains a wondrous terror, but also an illumination of being.

Edge

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No Final Fantasy tribute is complete without a Nobuo Uematsu soundtrack, and since the ex-Square maestro had shifted to freelance work in 2004, he was on hand for the job. While rarely as striking as the music of FFVII, Lost Odyssey’s playlist captur

Future Music

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Known for his role in US post-rock outfit, Labraford, Mark Nelson has been experimenting as Pan American since 1997. His latest release, on long-time home Kranky, is a highly atmospheric and deeply intimate collection of experimental, instrumental so

Total Film

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Sometime art-rocker and rising scoring star Tamar-kali builds on previous high Mudbound (2017) with another show of tense innovation. Keeping her reins tight, she uses chamber settings to generate a contained fever-pitch intensity for Josephine Decke

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1 Field Negus (feat. JoshuaIdehen) 2 Pick Up Your BurningCross (feat. Moor Mother, Angel Bat Dawid) 3 Think Of Home 4 Hustle feat. (KojeyRadical) 5 For The Culture (feat. D Double E) 6 To Never Forget The Source 7InRemembrance Of Those Fall

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1 Drink The Bleach 2 Blunt Instrument 3 Positivity 4 Dusting For Prints 5 Lines Redacted 6 Seven Trumpets 7 Clean Living 8 Morf 9 Hazmat Suits 10 Bots 11 B2BCDA 12 Lines Discontinued Recorded by: Jamie Lockhart Recorded at:

Future Music

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Nagra IV-S “The Nagra is the perfect tape machine. Very high-quality, clean preamps and battery operated! I use it both in the studio and as a mobile setup for location recordings.” EMT 240 Plate Reverb EMT 245 Digital Reverb Korg PS-3100 “Proba

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1 The Merry Golden Tree 2 Rolling In The Dew 3 The Christmas Song 4 Locked In Ice 5 Wondrous Love 6 Barbara Allen 7 Canadee-i-o 8 Sweet Greens And Blues 9 Tell Me True 10 Whitsun Dance 11 Orange In Bloom 12 Crowlink Produced b

Prog

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Instrumental rockers add another string to their bow. One of Outrun The Sunlight’s guitarists produces ambient meditation music as a day job, while their keyboard player provides piano accompaniment for dances and the drummer indulges in genres such

Prog

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Skilful evocation of spy film soundtracks and krautrock’s primitive futurism. Rural Tapes is the solo project of Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen, who according to his biog “has been a vital part of the Norwegian indie scene for 15 years.” He’s also a member o

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1 Robber 2 Atlantic 3 Tried To Tell You 4 Parking Lot 5 Loss 6 Separated 7 Wear 8 Trust 9 Heart 10 Subdivisions 11 Better Now Produced by: Tamara Lindeman and Marcus Paquin Recorded at: Canterbury Studios, Toronto, Canada Pe