Thanksgiver – Botany Bay (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

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A bit of a first here on the Sub.

Our new release is in fact a re-release. ‘Thanksgiver’ by Botany Bay is a beautiful album by Schall und Stille artist Stephan Kleinhert whose albums Biike and The Drunken Fisherman were rightfully well received here.

Thanksgiver is a swampy reverb heavy minimalist elegy that leads with the 20 minute Winter Wolfpack Serenade. To-die-for vocals by Stefanie Mühr and a growing orchestra of bluesy angst. Like ECM meets Daniel Lanois recording Maria Muldaur, it’s simply gorgeous.

This is a stunningly produced work that deserves to find a bigger audience. Originally self released in 2018, SubCastCo is happy to bring this work to our talented & erudite listeners.

At the time of the initial release Stephan had the album pressed to vinyl. We would be super happy if we could encourage our listeners to head over to the Botany Bay BC page and make a purchase. It’s an artistically exceptionally made release with well thought through spot-UV over matt black card with inserts. A perfect clean sounding press for your audiophile pleasure guaranteed.

Hit up Botany Bay here – botanybay.bandcamp.com/album/thanksgiver

So, get on this and tell your friends. It’s absolutely wonderful.

For the Beauty, as the tag line says…..

A(GoB)

credits

released August 16, 2024

Stephan Kleinert
keyboards, bass, electric and acoustic guitars, melodica, windsynth, ocarina, drums, percussion, programming

Stefanie Mühr
vocals

with

Andrei Boulgakov
electric guitars

Mike Compton
oboe

Martin Giese
acoustic guitars

Ernst Nellessen
saxophones, clarinet

Ivan Shevchuk
acoustic guitars

Tobias Stutz
cello

Susanne Wellmann
french horn, flute

Recorded at Suntrap, Bad Honnef
April 2017 – February 2018

Produced by Stephan Kleinert

Artwork by Christiane Kleinert

Design by Yannick Floßdorf

Additional field recording on “Serenade”
by speedygonzo, cc-by

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all rights reserved

Tukahdus – satunnaisia hetkiä (few fictional moments) [Self-Released]

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If we are not listening to music, we can have a certain part of the song looping inside our head, while we are walking somewhere, working or just lazing around. Surroundings will offer us lots of different sounds and noises that will mix with those loops.

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released August 9, 2024

Music, mixing and mastering by tkhds
Cover art collage and design by tkhds

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Confusion – Limbic Psalms (Very Much Recordings)

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experimental, electro-pop, and ambient artist, Confusions (ben turner), explores digital and analog music-making processes.

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released January 5, 2024

All pieces and lyrics composed and performed by Benjamin Turner.

Recorded and engineered by Benjamin Turner.

Additional recording and engineering at Oranjudio Studio, by Joey Gurwin for tracks 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 16, thanks to Music Columbus.

Mixed and produced by Joey Gurwin and Benjamin Turner.

Pre-mastering steps by Joey Gurwin.

Mastering by Benjamin Turner.

Album artwork by Brian Rogers. Variation on a photo by Mitchell Multimedia.

Featured performances and contributions:

01- Noncredible – Caleb Miller: tape saxophone

02 – It’s Not Mine – Noah Fisher: space echo

04 – Ppl B4 – written by Stew Johnson (guitar), Sam Johnson (cello), Benjamin Turner (synthesizer/production).

06 – Another Green Man – Brendan Youngquist: advice
Rachel Scott: advice

07 – It’s Not Mine – Caleb Miller: saxophone

08 – String – Joey Gurwin: midi toms

09 – Dialectics – Brendan Youngquist: advice

14 – Quarry – Niki Weber: soundscape contributions / advice

15 – A Place to Say It’s Real – Eric Stratton: sampled performance

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Rew – It All Belongs (Soft Pedestal)

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Pensive drones and explorative vocals in It All Belongs come from a winding path of contemplation. Questions like ‘What does it feel like to be you?’ and ‘Where am I called?’ are sung hopefully, and sometimes desperately, overtop of resonant and manipulated recordings of meadows, caves, frogs, a thunder boom. With these pieces of nature, and melodies on a spectrum from elation to tension, Rew channels the spirit of her own inquiries into self and reality. Atmospheric sound design and dense layers envelop the listener in unfurling curiosity and meandering reflections on the ups and downs of life. ‘I found that I / could never come back / to where I was before’ note the disorienting changes to psyche and soul that can occur in these phases. Lyrics about a paper door and heavy chain nod to paradoxical experiences of ease and heaviness. Soft vocals and swelling synths share intimacy and expansion, refusing to let go of either.

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released March 15, 2024

recorded and mixed by Rew
vocal recording at Secret Studio LLC
mastered by Keith Hanlon
cover art by Rew

Soft Pedestal
Akron, Ohio
2024
SP-23

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Robert Rich & Luca Formentini (Soundscape)

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We began by clearing an open space to observe our mutual voice, an hour or so of empty form. We then carpeted that space with a continuum of transitioning clouds, where patterns of light and shadow might suggest possibilities of ornament, the placement of furniture in a room. Listening intensely to each other’s inquisitive gestures, shapes evolved from the liquid flow. Architectures emerged from under an ocean. As each shape suggested itself into existence, it requested further adornment. A strange forest of living sounds wove its branches around that scaffolding of hermetic silence.

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released July 5, 2024

Recorded 2023-2024 at Soundscape, Carmel CA USA and Luca’s studio near Lake Garda, Italy.
© 2024 by Robert Rich (BMI) and Luca Formentini (SIAE). Edited, mixed and mastered by Robert Rich.
Luca Formentini: acoustic, electric, fretless and Moog guitars, Monome Norns (unguitar.com)
Robert Rich: Haken Continuum, Prophet X, TEO5, flutes, piano, gliss guitar, landscape recordings (robertrich.com)
Aui Formentini: contrabass on #8.
Paintings by Robert Rich. Design by John Bergin (stombox13.com)

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Cousin Silas – Geohistorical Empathy (The Cousin Silas Emporium)

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A collection of tracks that have one thing in common, they are all related to real places where I have been, experienced or often thought about, and for one reason or another they still call to me.

Whilst none of the tracks are new, they have never before been released on the Emporium label (well, not as I recall!).

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released August 9, 2024

Album cover by Ian Haygreen, used with thanks.