Download Whole Directory: L.W.C.M – Live 2010

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Ethereal Live returns with release number fifteen featuring the improv ensemble Lainhart, Weinstock, Creek, Morris. These four musicians meet in Huguenot, NY on September 11, 2010 to play a short set at the experimental electronic music festival, Electro-Music 2010.

This single long form track of 25 minutes and 42 seconds was performed without any rehearsals or discussions of the music and was completely improvised by the musicians, which mostly had never played together before.

As with any live scenario, not all aspects of audio can be controlled like a studio environment. In this performance, there is a ground hum that could not be eliminated before the beginning of the set. At times the hum can be noticed in the mix. This set was mastered to eliminate the hum as much as possible, without detracting considerably from the overall audio quality of the album. Ethereal Live hopes you will still find this set worthy of listening to despite the imperfections in the recording.

Live 2010 is dedicated to and in memory of our dear friend Richard Lainhart. It is only fitting that we release this set today on Richard’s birthday, which is also Valentine’s day. As one of the musicians in this ensemble, I think I can speak for all when saying it was a deep honor and thrill to share music with Richard, an experience I will always treasure in my life.

Mastering by Thomas Jackson Park and Shane Morris
Photos by Hong Waltzer

Richard Lainhart
Steve Weinstock
Jez Creek
Shane Morris

Special thanks to Caroline Meyers, Howard Moscovitz, Greg Waltzer, Hong Waltzer, and Thomas Jackson Park.

All material by Lainhart, Weinstock, Creek, Morris Copyright © 2012 released under a Creative Commons license for free non-commercial use under certain conditions. CC – BY/NC/ND

Download Whole Directory: Richard Lainhart – Introduction to Analog Synthesis

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Ethereal Live is honored to posthumously release this in depth lecture by Richard Lainhart which covers a discussion of analog synthesis fundamentals and demonstrations of modular electronics. This release marks the first of its’ kind for Ethereal Live, but we feel the information discussed in this lecture is of relevance and interest to most patrons of the the net label.

Introduction to Analog Synthesis was a lecture given at the Pocono Skies festival at the Shawnee Playhouse, PA. USA in the Pocono mountains in the Spring of 2010. This one-off festival featured performances, collaborations, workshops and lectures over the two day festival weekend. Richard presented this lecture Saturday afternoon May 16th, 2010 to a crowd of enthusiastic synthesists and electronic musicians.

With permission from Richards’ wife, Caroline Meyers, Ethereal Live is very proud to release this succinct and informative discussion of analog synthesis suited for new-comers and experienced users alike, by one of the great practitioners and composers of electronic music, Richard Lainhart.

If you enjoy this tutorial on analog synthesis, be sure to check out Richards’ Advanced Synthesis videos.

In Memory of Richard Lainhart
February 14, 1953 – December 30, 2011

All material by Richard Lainhart Copyright © 2012 released under a Creative Commons license for free non-commercial use under certain conditions CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

[EL013] Muied Lumens – Luinexis

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It is our pleasure at Ethereal Live to welcome our friend and lucky number 13, Muied Lumens to the net label. Muied Lumens has been creating and performing electronic and ambient music for two decades in his homeland of Norway and currently in Bristol, UK. Rob Solheim as he is also known, is a multi-instrumentalist wielding synthesizers, guitar, electronics, and wind instruments with equal precision and grace. Notably, Rob uses the incredible Kyma synthesizer to design and compose a lot of the music he creates.

Muied Lumens is an avid live performer and co-hosts with Modulator ESP (Jez Creek) live internet performances at electro-music radio called “Adventures in Sound”. “Adventures in Sound” has been ongoing for over 2 years now weekly. This deeply engrossing longform track is one of those live broadcasts. Recorded live July 20th 2011, “Luinexis” is a tour-de-force of epic and bold sounds that twist and turn throughout the 58 plus minutes of this set. For this performance, Muied Lumens used Kyma and Proteus 2000 synthesizers, and a home-made guitar. “Luinexis” is a beautiful work that saunders through fields of ambient soundscapes, textured feedback, and ripples of experimentalism that will equally please either your introspective or extroverted moods.

Composed, performed, and recorded by Muied Lumens
Produced by Muied Lumens
Artwork by Muied Lumens

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[EL012] adamon – ships

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For our twelfth and final release for the year 2011, we are proud to premiere the very first net label release by adamon. Damon Mar, the man behind the moniker, is a guitarist, synthesist, and electronics instrumentalist that is also a bright engineer with his own synth company called Marsynth. Apart from Damon’s solo work as adamon, he also plays in an experimental duo with David Herpich called Tensor Sensellation, which makes great use of his Marsynth creations.

Ethereal Live is very excited to release “ships”. We were lucky enough to be in the audience when this show took place at the annual Kansas City Electro-Music Festival, which is held each year in July.

“Ships” is an unedited live set, meaning what you hear on this release is exactly as the audience heard it on July 23, 2011. This is actually the original recording from the live set without any additional editing or mastering, which makes this release even that much more incredible.”Ships” is an amazing blending of genres and elements of ambient, noise, experimental, and electronic sounds that is frighteningly original. You will find lots of granular textures, dronescapes, and rhythms and sounds that percolate in and out of the sound field throughout the 43 minute long form set. Damon shows real mastery of subtlety and nuance as this set progresses, modulates, and mutates into many forms. There is lots of ear candy here as well, as adamon has done a great job with spatialization and stereo panning that really knocks this release out of the park.

[EL011] EugeneKha – Twice The Live

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Ethereal Live returns with our eleventh release from our friend EugeneKha. Evgenij V. Kharitonov hails from the Moscow, Russia region of the planet and is well known as a poet, musician, writer, sound and visual artist. Evgenij has been involved with music and art since the 1980′s and is a heavy experimentalist in every field he participates in. We are very happy to welcome Evgenij to Ethereal Live with this wonderful new release, “Twice The Live.”

Listeners will find a little bit of everything in this album. “Twice The Live” covers a lot of territory in the ambient and electronic domains. The album is composed of two gorgeous longform tracks that swirl and mutate from one sub-genre to the next. The album is a continual shifting of ambient and space music, from moments of tranquil cloud surfing, into berlin-school arpeggiations, environmental sounds, and even sections of beat-oriented ambient electronica. Indeed it seems that there is something for everyone in “Twice The Live”.

All tracks music, performed and produced by Evgenij V. Kharitonov (EugeneKha). Cover by Anna Kharitonova, 2011
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Ethereal Live welcomes PYXL8R to the net label for it’s tenth release. Ken Palmer is the man behind the PYXL8R name and is an active musician and graphic artist. Ken creates ambient and electronic music as PYXL8R, and is also a member of the prog rock band Brainstatik.

“Live In Princeton” was performed by PYXL8R and broadcast live from WPRB 103.3 FM in Princeton, NJ on Februray 4th, 2011. All music was created live with keyboards, percussion, voice, and effects only. No sequencers or recorded backing tracks were used in this set. This set featured Ken Palmer on synths and vocalizations and Kyle Palmer on percussion and ipad.

This release is a wonderful blend of dark and mysterious music, with a minimal approach, allowing each sound and tone to come and go as it washes over the listeners. “Live in Princeton” is fine space music that leaves a lot for the mind and ears to soak in. Highly recommended.

Download Whole Directory mp3: Live Sets Volume One

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For our ninth release at Ethereal Live, we welcome Tange to the net label. Tange (aka Gordon MacMillan) of Scotland is a well regarded musician not only in the ambient domain, but also with the traditional music of his homeland, as well as an accomplished multi-instrumentalist on just about anything with strings. Many also know Gordon for his internet radio show “Mysterious Semblance” on stillstream.com over the last five years. In addition to djing music on his show, from time to time Tange will also perform live sets, which brings us to the release today.

“Live Sets Volume One” is a large collection of Tange’s performances from the stillstream.com archives. This is a historical compendium of Gordon’s work over several years that was formerly only available in the stillstream archives. The sets will now be stored here at Ethereal Live on archive.org for a long time to come. These tracks were originally recorded on Mini-Disc and uploaded at various mp3 bit rates. Lovers of live ambient music will certainly appreciate the high caliber of musicianship in these sets, despite the lower than standard bit rate.

As one could imagine with a large collection spanning a number of years, there is quite a bit of variation sonically from track to track throughout the entire thirty track release. One can expect to find “Live Sets Volume One” meandering through many genres and sub-genres including Ambient, Berlin-School, Meditative, Electronic, New Age, Tribal, Light, Drone, Experimental, and Environmental sounds over the course of the album. This is one to put on for days and let it soak in as the total run time is over sixteen hours. Any fan of Tange will certainly want to add this release to their collection.

[EL008] Emerald Adrift – Within the Purple Forbidden

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Ethereal Live welcomes Emerald Adrift to the net label with a beautiful live set of genre-jumping sounds that will be sure to please. Emerald Adrift has numerous Creative Commons releases with Earth Mantra and Just not Normal net labels and has performed live at Different Skies, City Skies, and Electro-Music festivals around the country. A trained classical musician and composer, Emerald Adrift’s musicality is high caliber, focused, and well executed both live and in the studio.

Within the Purple Forbidden is no exception in quality in the quiver of Emerald Adrift’s releases. This set was recorded live at the Kansas City Electro-Music Festival on Friday, July 23, 2010 and is full of surprises. Most notable about this release is Emerald Adrift’s unique ability to transition effortlessly from one genre to another so smoothly. This longform live set glides from spacious piano ambience with jazz and classical influences, to celestial night-sky space music, to experimental terrain that recalls Morton Subotnick and some of the early sounds of electronic music. This is an album to get lost in. A powerful sonic experience that never overly indulges in sounds, leaving just enough space for a wonderfully introspective journey.

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Download Whole Directory 320k mp3: Mystified – Live 2011

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Ethereal Live is happy to release number seven in the series with ambient maestro, Mystified. Also known as Thomas Park and Mister Vapor, Mystified is a prolific artist on the contemporary ambient scene with innumerable releases including collaborations with Rapoon, and an album mastered by Robert Rich. His music can be heard all over the ambient, experimental, and even industrial stations around the globe.

We are very excited to release this rare live performance of Mystified, known largely for his stunning studio compositions. To our knowledge, there is only one other live set ever released by Mystified. This will make the second.

Live 2011 is a dense voyage of dark drones that frequently bump into elements of noise and industrial sounds throughout the set. This is an intense piece of music. The release is one long-form track that clocks in at 24:37 and ventures through a river of caustic opposites that tug back and forth in a continual tension and release of dark ambient edgy drones. Instrumentation for this set used no synthesizers, only some prepared sounds that were heavily processed.

Available at Ethereal Live in 24-bit flac, ogg, and mp3 to Listen or download free under a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

Recorded live in studio by Thomas Park on September 9, 2011. Edited and Mastered by Thomas Park. All music and album art by Mystified/Thomas Park.

Visit Mystified at: http://mystified.bandcamp.com/

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