[EL011] EugeneKha – Twice The Live
[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
All material by EugeneKha Copyright © 2011 released under a Creative Commons license for free non-commercial use under certain conditions CC BY-NC-ND
[EL010] PYXL8R – Live In Princeton
[EL010] PYXL8R – Live In Princeton
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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.
[EL009] Tange – Live Sets Volume One
[EL009] Tange – 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
[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.
Visit: Emerald Adrift at Soundcloud
All material by Emerald Adrift Copyright © 2011 released under a Creative Commons license for free non-commercial use under certain conditions CC BY-NC-ND
[EL007] Mystified – Live 2011
[EL007] 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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[EL006] Blue Hell – Prayer Machine
[EL006] Blue Hell – Prayer Machine
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Ethereal Live is proud to announce the sixth release in the series with our good friend and longtime collaborator, Blue Hell. Many in the Nord G2 community know Blue Hell as one of the world’s masters of the instrument, both aesthically and technically. He is also the adminstrator of the official Nord G2 forum at electro-music.com. Apart from his talented enigmatic musicial works, he is also a gifted computer programmer. This is likely why the Nord modular G2 works so flawlessly in his hands.
Blue Hell has been making experimental, ambient, electronic, and electro-acoustic music for several decades and is an avid live performer, mostly through streaming internet performances. He uses the Nord G2 digital modular gear to create generative soundscapes that he then lightly interacts with by often adding other instruments or changing the parameters of the generative noodles in real time. For this performance, Blue Hell used three Nord G2 machines, all interacting with each other and modulating over time in conjunction with his own sounds and settings.
This set was recorded live by Shane Morris via the internet on December 21st, 2009 at electro-music.com/radio. This recording is exactly what the streaming audience heard with no changes or additions to the audio except for normalization of the recording.
Encompassing ambient, drone, experimental, and minimal styles, “Prayer Machine” floats over the listener like a cool autumn breeze. “Prayer Machine” will put the listener into a trance within just moments of hitting play, but not too deeply so that most of your cognitive functions are still intact. This is a beautifully contemplative album for relaxing, meditating, reading, sleeping, or just about any activity. Characterized by it’s soft and smooth sounds that bounce around the aural spectrum, this live set shows true mastery of subtle dynamics and tonality not always seen in long-form ambient or electronic music. Clocking in at 1:48:35, this is truly an immersive long-form release to loose yourself in.
Ethereal Live is proud to release [EL006] Blue Hell – Prayer Machine as a free download.Unfortunately, this set is only available in 128k mp3, as that was how it was streamed and recorded. However, despite this limitation, I think you will find the audio quality to be quite good and well worthy of listening.
All material by Blue Hell Copyright © 2009-2011 released under a Creative Commons license for free non-commercial use under certain conditions CC BY-NC-ND
[EL005] Shane Morris and Kevin Haller – Live at City Skies 2011
[EL005] Shane Morris and Kevin Haller – Live at City Skies 2011
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Ethereal Live is happy to release this live set of music from first-time duo Shane Morris and Kevin Haller. Shane Morris, owner of Ethereal Live, and Kevin Haller, aka “Burning Artist(s) Sale”, spent the weekend of April 29th and 30th making music for the 4th annual City Skies festival in Decatur, Ga., at Kavarna. As a guest at Kevin’s home, the two musicians took turns playing in each others musical projects over the weekend. On Friday the 29th, Shane joined Kevin and fellow percussionist, Klimchak, for a wonderful set of improvised music as “Burning Artist(s) Sale”. The next day, Saturday the 30th, Kevin joined Shane for a set of dark ambient meets electronic experimentalism, which is the release we have here today.
Recorded live by host and sound engineer of City Skies, Jim Combs, these four tracks take listeners on a genre-bending trek of ambient, electronica, drone, minimalism, and space music sounds, with a touch of experimentalism thrown in for good measure. “Live at City Skies 2011″ is a swirl of textures and harmonies that often beacon through darker atmospheres that are continually undermined by subtle poly-rhythmic electronic grooves that undulate around the listeners field. It is also of interest to note that this performance was entirely improvised with no discussion of the music or its’ direction beforehand. Augmenting this performance at City Skies 2011 was visual artist Michael O’Bannon who was also improvising incredible computer-generated visuals and lighting with the music to a stunning degree.
For this live set, Shane used an Asus laptop using Absynth and Reaktor, Roland Sp-303 sampler, Alesis QSR synthesizer, m-audio controllers, and Soundcraft mixer. Kevin utilized a small kit consisting of a Mac laptop running Garageband with numerous vst’s, Korg Kaos pad, and m-audio controller.
Originally a long form continuous set that measured 45 minutes, “Live at City Skies 2011″ has been edited into four tracks and mastered for an equalized listening experience that highlight the concert event. No additional music, mixing, or effects were applied to this album. Apart from the tracks being separated and mastered, this album is exactly what the audience at Kavarna heard the evening of April 30th, 2011
All music performed and improvised by Shane Morris and Kevin Haller. Recorded by Jim Combs. Mastered by Shane Morris. Album art by Shane Morris. Photography by Paul Vnuk Jr.
I invite you all to listen and download Ethereal Live’s fifth venture, “Live at City Skies 2011″ by Shane Morris and Kevin Haller, released on Creative Commons license CC BY/NC/ND for free listening and download.
[EL004] Jack Hertz – Alpha Syntauri
[EL004] Jack Hertz – Alpha Syntauri
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Ethereal Live is happy to announce our fourth installment on the netlabel with our friend Jack Hertz. Jack is a long time electronic and ambient musician from the San Francisco Bay area that has been making music in these genres since the 1980′s. Jack is a prolific recording and performing artist, owner and operator of SynthMe blog, and host of theinternet radio show, “Time Drone”.
We are quite pleased to release Jack’s “Alpha Syntauri” at Ethereal Live. This marks our first planeterium gig to be archived on the netlabel. Even more notable, Jack played this set 20 years ago, but the music does not suffer from the long shelf life of this recording. Jack performed this concert at the Montgomery College Planetarium in Silver Spring, Maryland on May 25, 1991. Alpha Syntauri is quite a blend of sounds, and easily could have just been recorded just yesterday. For this album, Jack used a Yamaha DX7IIFD with E! and Lexicon LXP5 and recorded live directly to DAT.
Listeners should expect to hear elements of ambient soundscapes, space music, drone, and experimental sounds throughout this release. “Alpha Syntauri” tends to modulate between the introspective and meditative to engaging experimental etherealism quite effortlessly, where the listener may not even perceive the changes if not paying full attention. Jack does a superb job of taking the listener on a voyage to our nearest binary star, with lots of interesting and exploratory detours along the way. A must for any space fan.
Jack Hertz “Alpha Centauri” is released under a Creative Commons license to download and listen freely. CC BY/NC/ND
[EL003] SYMATIC STAR – “The Distance”
[EL003] SYMATIC STAR – The Distance
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Ethereal Live is back with our third release from newcomer Symatic Star.This is Symatic Star’s first ever solo effort and Ethereal Live is very excited to share this wonderful music with the world.
The man behind the music of Symatic Star is Simon Walsh, musician/composer from South Western WA, Australia . However, upon listening to “The Distance”, listeners may become convinced that Symatic Star actually comes from another galaxy altogether.
Apart from being a longtime gigging bass player, Simon has deep interests in electronic music and synthesizers.
For this recording, Simon used analogue, digital, and modular synthesizers and various acoustic instruments to create this incredible voyage through the heliosphere and beyond. Both of these lovely sets were recorded live during and after the electro-music.com 2011 Summer Solstice online concert June 18, 2011.
For “The Distance”, listeners should expect to find an incredible musical odyssey rooted in a classic space music sound with a modern twist of electronics, drone, and even a touch of noise. Symatic Star without a doubt takes the listener on a ride with most colorful juxtapositions of sound that modulate between purely harmonic chordal clouds that drift peacefully along, to dark dissonant nebulas that dissolve into single side band radio communications from another dimension. Longform fans will be most pleased with both tracks that clock in at 38:08 and 30:44. Simon displays true mastery over the longform art as sounds develop, evolve, dissipate, and reconstitute themselves throughout these two wonderful sets.
Perfomed, Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Simon Walsh. The stellar artwork on this release is by Sheah Nahshon and Simon Walsh.
Without further ado, I invite you all to listen and download Ethereal Live’s third outing “The Distance” by Symatic Star released on Creative Commons license CC BY/NC/ND for free.
[EL002] M.Peck – Bodies To The Sky
EL002 M.Peck – Bodies To The Sky
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Ethereal Live returns with its second release with ambient electronic stalwart M.Peck and a stunning live album called “Bodies To The Sky”. M.Peck, aka Michael Peck, is well known in the ambient and electronic communities as a solo artist, as one half of the duo Mahoney & Peck, his label Waiting World Records, and for a plethora of live performances around the U.S that include The Gatherings, City Skies, Star’s End, Electro-Music, and many more.
If you have ever seen Michael Peck play live, you know the powerful force of sound this musician can create in a space. Whether it is laptop, synthesizers, Theremin, or guitar, Michael Peck has an energy that cannot be ignored. Ethereal Live has had the pleasure of seeing this musician perform many times and each performance is always an impressive and unique set of twists and turns in sound that never repeat themselves. This live set is no exception.
Originally recorded live on Stillstream.com on January 30, 2010, “Bodies To The Sky” is a sweeping romp through several sub-genres of ethereal music. Listeners will find a grand mixture of light floating ambient drifts that sink into pools of darkness only to spill over into a multi-dimensional plateau of deep space sounds and then do it all over again. “Bodies To The Sky” stores it’s brilliance in its subtleties and fans of all genres of ambient music will find something quite worthy of their time.
Performed, Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by M.Peck at Audio Propulsion Labs in June of 2011. The amazing artwork for this album is by Frank Pacini. Ethereal Live is very proud to release M.Peck “Bodies To The Sky” as a free Creative Commons download for all to enjoy.
