Duckbay - VA

Duckbay - VA
Genre : Electronic, Ambient


01 Tanaka Munechika - Tuner
02 Aquarelle - At The Seams
03 Ian Hawgood - Heather Withdrawn
04 Pawn - Morning Mist
05 Simon James French - Esther
06 Con_Cetta - Defectivus
07 Segue - 25
08 Sublamp - Owldrive (For Ann)
09 Peregrino - Cecilia
10 Hakobune - Unnoticed Envelope
11 Opitope - Our Music
12 Mimosa_Moize - Frosted Window
13 Jasper Leyland - The High Boundary
14 Tanner Menard - Only You Can Know


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Duckbay is an internet based record label that releases one compilation of minimal, ambient and experimental music each year. as a label that releases only compilations, I hope to set duckbay apart from other record labels by fulfilling a niche. These albums will include music from artists all around the world, selected from an ever expanding network of friends and artists who each have their own unique sound and expression. The real difference compared to other compilations, I think, is the personal touch in with each release as all the artists are selected by one person (Jordan Sauer), which means the final product will have a cohesive sound and vision (which only materializes at the very end!).

Shaula - Non_rem_sleeps

Shaula - Non_rem_sleeps
Genre : Electronic, Ambient

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1 Origin Of Mirage 7:35
2 Parachute 3:15
3 Macula 8:48
4 Ghost Type 5:02
5 Lepido 10:01
6 Opaque 5:00
7 You Sleep Like Lyric Poetry 6:19
8 Rem 4:02

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Somehow welcomes shaula to our site with a full length album. Non_rem_sleeps is a hidden treasure of an album and has a different story with every track. From the outset shaula plays with guitars & sounds that eclipse what the listener is hearing. Ghost type strolls, pressing the listening experience, but always reminding you of someplace, sometime…..

Favourite track for us is Lepido, simply stunning. A fine and surreal guitar track layered over beautiful drones that give a sense of today, tomorrow, even yesterday.

We hope that shaula will return with us for another album soon. But for the moment, keep this safe with you at all times….

Ø (Mika Vainio) - Heijastuva

Ø (Mika Vainio) - Heijastuva
Genre : Electronic, Ambient

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1-Heijastuva
2-Anksiolyytti
3-Ensimminen_Valo
4-Hikari

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Something quite exceptional from Mika Vainio - a 17 minute exploration of guitar feedback manipulation plus three further minimalist electronic compositions. Not that it was ever in question, but 'Heijastuva' shows the real scope of Mika's oeuvre from the outset with a lightshow of tenderly harmonised and deftly sculpted distortion referencing timeless music from Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's experiments in the '70s through to modern day Fennesz or Jim O'Rourke, all with a graciously diffident composure and detached beauty. This track could reduce sentimental types to tears. In more familiar, bleak and isolated terrain 'Ankysiolyytti' is eleven minutes of wonderfully alien soundscapes mapping similar zones to Daphne Oram or Rafael Toral. Cleansing the palette, 'Ensimmäinen Valo' redolent of his amazing 'Kantamoinen' tracks may be short but it's also one of the most affecting pieces here, and 'Hikari' is a sublime exercise in ultra-refined, minimalist electronic composition with a crisp and purified finish

Ghost and tape - Ghost and tape

Ghost and tape - Ghost and tape
Genre : Electronic, Acoustic, Ambient

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1. Onesome
2. Bless The Blind
3. Sister
4. Craddle w/Akira
5. To Scratch
6. Ghostday
7. Pretty Drops
8. Automatic
9. It’s Morning
10. Science of Sundays
11. Loop Charm
12. Lorenzos Day

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Lives in Barcelona Spain, “ghost and tape” is a solo unit by Heine Christensen.
His works were well received in both “Note of seconds-schole compilation vol.2-” and a piece which was included in a multi-media “CLARITY (CD+BOOK)”, and finally Schole Records is about to release his long-awaited debut album.

Like its name, “ghost and tape” creates sound like a mirage of perfect lo-fi oriented. Noise sounds like a mixture of old tapes, and invites us to slumber while tracing the middle of Acoustic/Electronica. The opening song “onesome” goes with guitar arpeggio loop which reminds the classic pop. Then, the exhilarating melody “bless the blind” takes listeners to the first climax with noisiness. In “cradle,” the voice of female vocal cut-ups makes people trip in melting. Akira Kosemura’s keyboard adds more to it. As Heine layered his soft vocal with much of floating feelings in “ghostday,” “ghost and tape” expands his popness with putting in some own twists while making listeners glimpsing the country-flavored honest melody line.

The harmony is born between rough texture and noise that covers the whole tracks, a unique electronic sounds, and acoustic instruments to be the supreme relaxing daydream.

Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante The North Green Down

Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante The North Green Down
Genre : Classic, Ambient, Electronic

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01 - the north green down I
02 - leegte
03 - a hymn to haruki murakami
04 - le viti del mondo
05 - the north green down II
06 - the north green down III
07 - a worn out life (with cello)
08 - away from this silence
09 - the north green down IV
10 - they could feel the end of all thing
11 - nobody is ever safe
12 - a loveless moment
13 - no greater pain
14 - the north green down V
15 - the north green down VI
16 - a worn out life
17 - wat we kwijt zijn
18 - the north green down VII

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After collaborating on Dakota Suite's remix project (The Night Just Keeps Coming In) Chris Hooson of Dakota Suite asked Emanuele Errante to collaborate with him on a project composed for the death of his sister-in-law called 'The North Green Down'.
Chris had composed a series of themes around the loss of his sister-in-law and in Emanuele found a partner to create the sounds which would evoke loss, the temporary nature of life and the stillness to get through. 'The North Green Down' also features the marvellous cello of David Darling who creates textures and waves of melancholy unlike anyone else.
Almost 80 minutes of fragile pianos, guitars, cello & subtle electronic elements...cinematic, hypnotic & simply beautiful! "In August 2009, Johanna and I took what we didn't know then would be our last holiday with our sister-in-law, Hannah. We knew that Hannah had cancer and that it was most likely going to take her from us and that moment was something we could feel draw ever closer. We all went to a place loved by our family for many years, Southwold in Suffolk. It was clear that Hannah was in pain. We were walking back from the ocean, for Southwold lies on the sea, through a part of Southwold called 'the north green'. I was overwhelmed by what I could feel being taken from us, every step we took represented a small death. I knew then that I would miss her. 
During that walk with Hannah through the north green I felt there the beginnings of the music you hear on this record as the main 'north green down' theme and knew I had to keep going with this tribute to her. I sent the basic piano and guitar pieces I had recorded at home to Emanuele. I had previously bought his records and felt in him a sympathetic soul who would feel the weight of this music and make it more fitting for the purpose I had in mind, namely a suite of hymnal pieces for Hannah.
Hannah was a beautiful, selfless and nurturing woman. This record is for her."


Federico Monti ::: Sorolls

Federico Monti ::: Sorolls
Genre : Ambient, Electronic, Drone

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1. Perfil 1
2. Perfil 2

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The field recordings for 'Sorolls' were taken on the sea and mountains between March and June of 2010. Sorolls' two pieces were processed with granular synthesis. This release was put together for a deep listening.

VA ::: Forma.3.10

VA ::: Forma.3.10
Genre : Ambient, Electronic

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01. Yuanyuan / Alarmist
02. Seiji Takahashi / Gion
03. Nakagawa Takuma a.k.a. Nobi / Smoke
04. Jun Nishimura / Falcon
05. Caelum / Kyrie
06. Tessei Tojo / Blue Fog
07. Miyauchi Yuri / bdq_
08. eater / Rhythm of Japanese Garden
09. Pawn / Morning Tone
10. Marei Suyama / Pidgin op.1
11. Minus Lex / Minus Lex
12. Junichi Akagawa / Flus
13. Sooner / Barely Confine
14. Serph / Scenery
15. Sabi / Loose Contruulled
16. Geskia! / Viola
17. Taishin Inoue / Voices in Cells
18. Chisato Ohori / Caitokali

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青木孝允、徳井直生、半野喜弘ほか錚々たる顔ぶれが輩出、近年も若き才能Ametsubを世に送り出し、日本を代表するエレクトロニック・ミュージック・レーベルとして活動を続けるPROGRESSIVE FOrM。同レーベルのコンピレーション・シリーズ“Forma.”に、2003年の『Forma.2.03』以来実に7年ぶりの第3弾『Forma.3.10』（PFCD-21 税込2,310円）が登場！8月11日発売. Marei Suyama（NGATARI）、miyauchi yuri、 Sabi、Soonerなど、注目アーティストを多数収録の『Forma.3.10』。フロア・ライク、フォーキー、クラシカルと想起される言葉はあれど、エレクトロニック / クラブ・ミュージックや“○○トロニカ”といった枠に収めることのできない個性的な面々が集結。強いて共通点を挙げるとすれば、美しいサウンドとメロディ、確かな作曲センス。幅広いファン層の心に響くであろう珠玉の書き下ろし楽曲群が詰まった、今を知るにうってつけのインストゥルメンタル・コンピレーションとなっています。