Stan Stewart (muz4now) – Ritüel Kaçış (Ritual Escape) [Self-Released]

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I was supposed to be working on another project (an album of folk songs), but this one exploded from my creative center.

Here’s the musical framework for all the tracks on this suite:
muz4now.com/2025/creating-through-limitations-scales-of-creation/
And here’s the backstory:
muz4now.com/2025/escape-may-be-an-option-ritual-escape/

I used no synchronization, quantization, metronome or click-track in the creation of this music. Any “bad timing” is purely my fault. 🤓🎶


A few details:
All instruments (“real” and virtual) played by Stan Stewart.

1. Fluff Your Stuff – all virtual instruments by Fluffy Audio and nearly all from Echoes of the Earth. fluffyaudio.com/shop/echoes-of-the-earth/ — All real and virtual instruments played by me. Be sure to check out the video: v.basspistol.org/w/p/kAKmgmxpe2FoE5BHkU763z
2. This Is Our Only Earth – cool Viking chants produced by an instrument by Cinesamples store.cinesamples.com/products/voices-of-war-men-of-the-north
3. Tribes Survive – most sounds are custom sounds created in Tribal Player. tribeinstruments.com
4. Simply Ample – all virtual instruments from Ample Sound. amplesound.net
5. Eye C Things – the kitchen sink.

Heaven Topology – Describer (Ingrown Records)

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Review from On The Fringes of Sound!
http://www.onthefringesofsound.com/2025/08/heaven-topology-describer.html

CDs available here and from the artist in a super limited quantity!

Please follow and support the artist here:
heaventopology.bandcamp.com
heaventopology.net

Previous release on Ingrown here:
ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/worldpath-yggdrasil

ING062

If you dig this we think you’ll dig:
ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/lately-sprung-up-in-appalachia
ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/i-2
ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/aw-cute
ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/bup-land-anomaly-audio

snw – music at a distance 270 (One Zero Music)

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This is a particularly slow performance. I’d gone into it somewhat sleep-deprived, though by the third and fourth pieces, I was getting energy back from the music, enough energy to leave more space and allow the rests to speak. Thank you to the audience for staying with me.

The hollowbody Univox vibrates quite a lot–there’s a lot of air in there. Consequently, there’s a lot of air in these timbres: French horn, muted trumpet, accordion, glass harmonica timbres. This one’s a step toward a collaboration with silence.

The titles this week are references to the visual art of Louise Blyton. Thank you for listening!

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Signal chain: Univox Coily in Bb F Bb F Bb C tuning > Reuss Effects Understate, Reuss Effects Repeater Fuzz, Balls Effects KWB > Vox Wah > Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe Deluxe > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with FFT pitch shift, tremolo, convolution reverb, AudioThing Reels.

Impulses: Inchindown Oil Tanks ( Matt Gray mattg.co.uk ), silent5 Biamp MR/140 (Flat), St. Paul’s Huddersfield (near), Fort Worden Cistern

Lalén Ríos Luna – Aura Seminalis (Porous Collective)

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It is made manifest only to those who travel through foul and fair, who pass beyond the summit of every holy ascent, who leave behind them every divine light, every voice, every word from heaven, and who plunge into the darkness where . . . there dwells what is beyond all things.


The instruments involved in the making of this one:
Trumpet
Clarinet
Telecaster
Morphagene
Microfreak
Landscape stereo field
Make Noise Wogglebug
Assorted percussion

SPRING – FORTH (Vivarium Sounds)

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Vocals and Guitar: Laura Rintoul
Synth and Engineering : Isobel McKenna

Songs 1,3,5 written by Laura
Songs 2,4 written by Laura and Isobel

Recorded on 4 track and digitised by Isobel and Laura
Mixed and Mastered by Robert Dallas Gray

Photography taken by Isobel at an abandoned house near Kuusamo Lentoasema summer 2012

 

 


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Ernie Francestine – Alternate Place (WarHen Records)

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WH074
Ernie Francestine – Alternate Place

CDs limited to 100 copies

01. If It’s A Flower
02. The Color of Glass
03. The Stone & The Evergreen Pt. II
04. Red Eyes, Blue Skies
05. Blue Skies, Red Eyes
06. Raspberry Rock
07. Alternate Place
08. Tired of the Sun
09. Pre-Crest
10. Crest


All songs written, arranged, performed & recorded by Ernie at his home studio in Pittsburgh PA
Mixed & mastered by Rob Dobson at Hear Garden, Los Angeles CA
Photography by Ernie
Layout by T. Warren Parker

A portion of each sale will be donated to FreeRide, a volunteer run donation driven bike co-op in Pittsburgh. People donate their used bicycles and FreeRide utilizes their network of volunteers to ensure that they are roadworthy and get them out to where they’re needed the most. freeridepgh.org

Universal Affirmation Ensemble – Unconditional Propositions (Katuktu Collective)

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Universal Affirmation Ensemble’s first release “Unconditional Propositions” is a melodic exploration of rhythm, combining repetitive and pattern-based endurance drumming with influences ranging from Do Make Say Think, 1980’s King Crimson, and Balinese Gamelan. Originally created as a vehicle for expanding and elaborating on drum patterns taught to principal member and Vancouver, Canada-based drummer Justin Devries by composer I Wayan Sinti, the project expanded to include interlocking dual guitar work, intricate three-part flute melodies, and idiosyncratic asymmetrical motifs on the drums. Subtle low frequency electronic interventions and field recordings captured on a remote northern island are scattered throughout the album, punctuating the ensemble-driven pieces with atmospheric and low-fidelity interludes.

Devries has played drums for and/or toured with Loving, Ora Cogan, Jo Passed, and many others around Vancouver, and drew on a cast of talented musicians from across Canada to realize this debut, including bowed guitarist C. Diab, flautist Anh Phung, and guitarist Cole Schmidt. The album is dedicated to the three percussionists, musicians, and composers who deeply influenced the album: I Wayan Sinti, I Made Subandi, and Jerry Fuchs.

Justin Devries – Drums, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Flutes (2, 8)
Anh Phung – Flute and Alto Flute (1, 3, 5, 7)
Caton Diab – Flute (4)
Cole Schmidt – Guitar (1)
Sheena Fayowksi – Electronics (4)
David Parry – Tambourine (2)
Griz – Vocals (8)

Composed and arranged by Justin Devries
Engineered and mixed by Jonathan Paul Stewart
Mastered by Harris Newman
Recorded at Risque Disque

Dedicated to I Wayan Sinti, I Made Subandi, and Jerry Fuchs