Tag Archives: self-released

Cavern Cult – Approach (Self-Released)

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Label Description: Guitars, bass, synths, beat programming, Kalimba, recording mixing and arrangement: Frank Ehrhardt
Mastering: Alexander Kolb
Synths and additional beat programming on Broken Shadows: Erdem Cakir (magikkarpetkaravan.bandcamp.com)
Additional effect manipulation on Algorhythmic Dreams: Alissa Jäger
Additional guitars and additional beat programming on Of Hope and To Go On and additional mixing: Stefan Harth (gigalurgh.bandcamp.com)
Drawing: Frank Ehrhardt
Design: Marius Schmitt
Videos: Korneli Gorbatchev (kogofilm.de)

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

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Label Description:

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.

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

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Label Description:

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

Rauðvik – Cassini-Huygens (Self-Released)

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Label Description:

A 3-track journey dedicated to the Cassini-Huygens probe

No AI was used in the creation of this work.
 
All sounds designed by rauðvik at Overlook Studios
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by rauðvik at Overlook Studios

Cover photo by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute – photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329 (compressed version of photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA08329.tif), Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1319915

Cover text added by rauðvik

 

Tape Loop Orchestra – (Artefacts (Equations (Replicas))) [Self-Released]

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Label Description:

(Artefacts (Equations (Replicas))) is the third volume of the four part series.

The audio archaeology of the TLO archive continues. Outtakes, experiments and live jams from the past six years have been collaged together to form new works that are free from the conceptual restraints of the more focused album projects. A more intimate, playful and perhaps more emotional side is on display across the series. Collect them all!

Kevin Drumm – Technology (Self-Released)

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Label Description:

Recorded at Dead Macs Mobile Chicago Il.
Sorry, prices are going up, just like everything else.

Big Shout out to Freyja for lending me her computer.

Source material: A couple lousy refurbished modern laptops…
Thank you also to:

Mike Balsamello
Jamar Davis
VOIVOD
Jon Abbey