here's some photos i've taken recently, most were from our holiday in the highlands, but some are local pics too.
Find more photos like this on The Ambient Workshop
Solipsism
Friday, 25 July 2008
Thursday, 24 July 2008
The Ambient Workshop
Hi,
Just to let you know about a new network that's been set up to promote ambient music and it's many offshoots. It's called The Ambient Workshop and it's free to join. You can upload as many tracks as you like and benefit from excellent playback. There's also a video and photography upload section allowing you to really express yourselves.
I don't know how successful it will be, it's a completely new venture for me, but it looks promising. There's already an excellent selection of music on there from many different artists, so come along and have a look and if you like what you see, then just click to join. It's really that simple.
http://ambientworkshop.ning.com
The network isn't exclusively for musician. There's opportunities for anyone to express their art, be that writing, painting, film, music, drawing...whatever.
cheers
craig
Just to let you know about a new network that's been set up to promote ambient music and it's many offshoots. It's called The Ambient Workshop and it's free to join. You can upload as many tracks as you like and benefit from excellent playback. There's also a video and photography upload section allowing you to really express yourselves.
I don't know how successful it will be, it's a completely new venture for me, but it looks promising. There's already an excellent selection of music on there from many different artists, so come along and have a look and if you like what you see, then just click to join. It's really that simple.
http://ambientworkshop.ning.com
The network isn't exclusively for musician. There's opportunities for anyone to express their art, be that writing, painting, film, music, drawing...whatever.
cheers
craig
Friday, 18 July 2008
The Chillage Idiots - Dublin XFM
Big thanks to Mick and Paul Chillage for featuring a track from my Alien Genome Project album and also for featuring a track from Engine7's fantastic Me, But Perfect album out now on Herb Recordings.
You can download the full show which features some great electronica below.
The Chillage idiots XFM Dublin
get the latest show here >>>>>
http://www.xfmdublin.com/blog/wp-content/the-chillage-15-07-08.mp3
Tracklisting: 15/07/2008
The Future Sound of London: "I've Become What You Were" (Insider Mix) [The Pulse Eps]
Jumpin' And Pumpin'
Thomas P. Heckmann: "Genocide" [The Lost Tales Vol. II] Fax
Spooky: "No Return" (Dorset Echo) [Open] Spooky
808 State: "In Yolk" [Quadrastate] Rephlex
Fanu And Bill Laswell: "Fourth Voice" [Lodge] Ohm Resistance
Esbjörn Svensson Trio: "Years Of Yearning" [Strange Place For Snow] Act Music
Engine7: "Me, But Perfect" [Me, But Perfect] Herb
Gate Zero: "Counter Balance" [Green Planet] http://www. stadtgruenlabel. net
Ciaran Byrne: "Moving Sungold" [Nine Lives Causeway] Psychonavigation
Reln: "Never To Return" [unreleased] http://www. myspace. com/reln
Phasen: "That Rainy Feeling I Get" [The Crisis Is Over] Distant Noise Records
Jay Riordan: "Signs" [unreleased] http://www. myspace. com/jayriordan
Sen: "Voyager" [unreleased] http://www. myspace. com/1138thx
Jack Dangers: "Burbidge Chain" [Music For Planetarium] Brianwashed
ch.pm: "Mystic Structure" [The Alien Genome Project]
http://www. myspace. com/solipsism
Christopher Bissonnette: "Comfortable Expectations" [Periphery] Kranky
B12: "Metropolis" [Electro-Soma] Warp
Solipsism
You can download the full show which features some great electronica below.
The Chillage idiots XFM Dublin
get the latest show here >>>>>
http://www.xfmdublin.com/blog/wp-content/the-chillage-15-07-08.mp3
Tracklisting: 15/07/2008
The Future Sound of London: "I've Become What You Were" (Insider Mix) [The Pulse Eps]
Jumpin' And Pumpin'
Thomas P. Heckmann: "Genocide" [The Lost Tales Vol. II] Fax
Spooky: "No Return" (Dorset Echo) [Open] Spooky
808 State: "In Yolk" [Quadrastate] Rephlex
Fanu And Bill Laswell: "Fourth Voice" [Lodge] Ohm Resistance
Esbjörn Svensson Trio: "Years Of Yearning" [Strange Place For Snow] Act Music
Engine7: "Me, But Perfect" [Me, But Perfect] Herb
Gate Zero: "Counter Balance" [Green Planet] http://www. stadtgruenlabel. net
Ciaran Byrne: "Moving Sungold" [Nine Lives Causeway] Psychonavigation
Reln: "Never To Return" [unreleased] http://www. myspace. com/reln
Phasen: "That Rainy Feeling I Get" [The Crisis Is Over] Distant Noise Records
Jay Riordan: "Signs" [unreleased] http://www. myspace. com/jayriordan
Sen: "Voyager" [unreleased] http://www. myspace. com/1138thx
Jack Dangers: "Burbidge Chain" [Music For Planetarium] Brianwashed
ch.pm: "Mystic Structure" [The Alien Genome Project]
http://www. myspace. com/solipsism
Christopher Bissonnette: "Comfortable Expectations" [Periphery] Kranky
B12: "Metropolis" [Electro-Soma] Warp
Solipsism
Monday, 14 July 2008
Shoosh Split EP Out Now At Bleep
Friday, 4 July 2008
Alien Genome Project Review
Music Miscellany
I'm old enough to remember Erich Von Daniken and his potty theories about how earth's civilizations were brought about through alien contact. There was quite a hoo-ha about it all when I was a kid, and his books flew off the shelves. I've just glanced at Wikipedia and was surprised to learn that he's still with us, and only the same age as Leonard Cohen! Bizarre. Panspermia is the hypothesis that the seeds of life exist all over the universe, and that life on earth is nothing unique, nor even originally from here. Nice theory, but it hasn't a whiff of evidence to support it (nor to discount it – it's one of those hypotheses which are simply acts of faith). Exogenesis is something else entirely – the theory that life originated elsewhere and came to earth during the asteroid bombardment of the Pre-Cambrian era, before the planet had an adequate atmospheric shield. Anyway I digress. The reason I brought the topic up at all was that the panspermia theory is the inspiration behind Alien Genome Project, a self-released album by Craig Murphy (whose band Shoosh are featured on the Phantom Channel compilation) under the moniker ch.pm.
The album consists of drones, cosmic synth chords, and disembodied, distorted vocal samples. It has echoes of Kosmische Musik acts like (early) Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze as well as their spiritual descendants such as Pete Namlook. But there are equally nods to Stars of the Lid, Brian Eno's Apollo and Murcof's Cosmos projects. The eight tracks unfold slowly. Some are short and fragile; others, like the title track, have a suitably cosmic grandeur. "Hybrid", the closing section, has a slowed down echoing voice that has the rhythm of whale song, and sounds like the last, fading sounds of a dying civilization. It's quite a spooky end to a seriously trippy suite of music. Only it isn't quite the end. There is also a bonus 36 minute mix of the album entitled "Alien Genome Project (Full Blown)". The album is available from Musiczeit at the address below.
Tracks
Part One:
1 Source Of Light 1:33
2 Junk Code 7:20
3 Transference 5:19
Part Two:
4 Replicate 1:36
5 Mystic Structure 6:33
Part Three:
6 Source of Light (Reprise) 1:52
7 Alien Genome Project 10:18
8 Hybrid 6:29
Bonus Track:
9 Alien Genome Project (Full Blown) 36:07
Websites
http://www.musiczeit.com/directory.php?artist=439&title=ch.pm
www.myspace.com/solipsism
Solipsism
I'm old enough to remember Erich Von Daniken and his potty theories about how earth's civilizations were brought about through alien contact. There was quite a hoo-ha about it all when I was a kid, and his books flew off the shelves. I've just glanced at Wikipedia and was surprised to learn that he's still with us, and only the same age as Leonard Cohen! Bizarre. Panspermia is the hypothesis that the seeds of life exist all over the universe, and that life on earth is nothing unique, nor even originally from here. Nice theory, but it hasn't a whiff of evidence to support it (nor to discount it – it's one of those hypotheses which are simply acts of faith). Exogenesis is something else entirely – the theory that life originated elsewhere and came to earth during the asteroid bombardment of the Pre-Cambrian era, before the planet had an adequate atmospheric shield. Anyway I digress. The reason I brought the topic up at all was that the panspermia theory is the inspiration behind Alien Genome Project, a self-released album by Craig Murphy (whose band Shoosh are featured on the Phantom Channel compilation) under the moniker ch.pm.
The album consists of drones, cosmic synth chords, and disembodied, distorted vocal samples. It has echoes of Kosmische Musik acts like (early) Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze as well as their spiritual descendants such as Pete Namlook. But there are equally nods to Stars of the Lid, Brian Eno's Apollo and Murcof's Cosmos projects. The eight tracks unfold slowly. Some are short and fragile; others, like the title track, have a suitably cosmic grandeur. "Hybrid", the closing section, has a slowed down echoing voice that has the rhythm of whale song, and sounds like the last, fading sounds of a dying civilization. It's quite a spooky end to a seriously trippy suite of music. Only it isn't quite the end. There is also a bonus 36 minute mix of the album entitled "Alien Genome Project (Full Blown)". The album is available from Musiczeit at the address below.
Tracks
Part One:
1 Source Of Light 1:33
2 Junk Code 7:20
3 Transference 5:19
Part Two:
4 Replicate 1:36
5 Mystic Structure 6:33
Part Three:
6 Source of Light (Reprise) 1:52
7 Alien Genome Project 10:18
8 Hybrid 6:29
Bonus Track:
9 Alien Genome Project (Full Blown) 36:07
Websites
http://www.musiczeit.com/directory.php?artist=439&title=ch.pm
www.myspace.com/solipsism
Solipsism
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