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A Toneshift Review: 'a stunning blend of emotive tonal striations'

1/22/2019

Lauver Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog

'This short recording has been expertly produced with a refined, sleek finish... One cannot help imagine a ballet set to this work in the way it sort of evaporates and moves so fluently.'
-Toneshift

A lovely write-up on 'Celestial Bodies', an EP by PITP artist Lauver. Please follow the link below to read the full review.

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New PITP Exclusive: 'Under the Morning Mist | In This Perfect Dream' by Gallery Six

1/22/2019

Gallery Six Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog

Gallery Six - Under the Morning Mist | In This Perfect Dream
PITP MMXIX Digital Series [PURCHASE]
01/25/2019

Past Inside the Present is pleased to present two exclusive, previously unreleased tracks by Gallery Six, 'Under the Morning Mist & In This Perfect Dream'.

"In this decade, I visited many places in order to record organic sounds such as, rare bird voices and sounds of waves (I live in the basin area far from sea). There is a river near my house and I often visit there to record, or merely walk. When I recorded in the early morning hours at that riverside for ‘Under the Morning Mist’, the body of water was beautifully wrapped with a dense mist. A gorgeous backdrop and inspiration for this arrangement.

A park located in the city where I reside, was the inspiration for the arrangement, 'In This Perfect Dream'. The captured sounds of trees, leaves, and the winds.. All beautiful sounds around me that we typically take for granted. I got lost in time, it felt like a perfect dream, hence the title of this arrangement."

-Hidekazu Imashige

Past Inside the Present
This is PITP07 | MMXIX Digital Series
All tracks are written, mixed and mastered by
Hidekazu Imashige
Layout by PITP

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New PITP Exclusive: 'Celestial Bodies' by Lauver

1/18/2019

Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog Celestial Bodies Lauver

Lauver - Celestial Bodies
PITP MMXIX Digital Series [PURCHASE]
01/18/2019

Past Inside the Present is pleased to present ‘Celestial Bodies’ by Lauver. ‘Celestial Bodies’ was created with periodic bursts of energy in December of 2018. The songs were named after they were completed and the themes and emotion of the songs brought forth the inspiration. These arrangements are calming and mysterious, while exploring the vastness of space and time. Une bande son à l'infini.

Past Inside the Present
This is PITP06 | MMXIX Digital Series
Written, Produced & Mastered by Joel David Lauver at Burning Bridge Recordings, Chattanooga TN
Photography by Joel David Lauver
Layout by PITP

New Album: 'Passageways' LP | DD by Forest Management

1/18/2019

Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog Forest Management Passageways

Forest Management - Passageways
Format: LP | Digital [PRE-ORDER HERE]
Release Date: 03/22/2019
Label: Whited Sepulchre Records

Passageways is John Daniel's most personal work to date. An ode to his childhood home - a secluded apartment complex in Cleveland that his parents managed - "Passageways" refer to the various connecting hallways running between rooms as much as it refers to the way the passing of time overtakes our perception of spaces that seemed to be endless corridors into discovery and imagination. Passageways is full of submerged melodies, gentle pulls of surging tonal shifts that arc, shimmer and fade into the dark purple hue of the album's shifting overtones. The album rides the line of decaying drones that recall the best of Basinski or Belong's October Language.

John Daniel is a fixture in Chicago, IL's thriving experimental underground. Releasing records across a variety of formats on stalwart labels such as No Rent, Constellation Tatsu, Unifactor, Polar Seas Recordings, Perfect Wave, etc. Daniel's work has been regarded highly by the likes of Pitchfork's The Out Door, FACT Magazine, Consequence of Sound and was recently featured by Ryley Walker as notable Chicago artist in MOJO magazine along with Circuit des Yeux, Natural Information Society and ONO.

'On Time Out of Time' LP | DD by William Basinski

1/16/2019

Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog William Basinski On Time Out of Time LP

William Basinski - On Time Out of Time
Format: LP | Digital [PRE-ORDER HERE]
Release Date: 03/08/2019

On Time Out of Time is a suite of works originally commissioned for the 2017 installations ‘ER=EPR’ and 'Orbihedron' by artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand (in collaboration with Jean-Marc Chomaz and LIGO) for the exhibition, ‘Limits of Knowing’ at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin by curator, Isabel de Sena.

These works utilize, among other things, exclusive source recordings from the interferometers of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) capturing the sounds of the merging of two distant massive black holes, 1.3 billion years ago.

The CD and Digital formats feature two tracks: The 40-minute title track, “On Time Out of Time,” as well as “4(E+D)4(ER+EPR)”, a live track recorded during the aforementioned installation. The vinyl LP format features two exclusive mixes of the title track: “On Time Out of Time” on the a-side; and “On Time Out of Time (The Lovers)” on the b-side, made especially for the vinyl format.

Self-Titled Album by 扎克

1/14/2019

扎克 - Self-Titled
PITP08 MMXIX Cassette Series
ORDER NOW | Release: 02/1/2019
One-time cassette pressing, strictly limited to 100 units.

Past Inside the Present is pleased to present 扎克’s debut self-titled album digitally & as a one-time cassette pressing. 扎克’s arrangements bring forth an atmosphere of slow moving cascades that are quiet and delicate; gracefully drifting from one movement to the next. These meditative, subtle arrangements intentionally set out to provoke an affinity for self-awareness and reflection.

Past Inside the Present
This is PITP08 | MMXIX Cassette Series
Written & Produced by 扎克
Layout by PITP

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'Fade to Grey' 2xLP by 36

1/12/2019

Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog / 36 Fade to Grey A Strangely Isolated Place

36 - Fade to Grey
Limited Edition 2xLP | Translucent Yellow
A Strangely Isolated Place
ASIPV013
01/28/2019

Make sure to set a calendar reminder to visit A Strangely Isolated Place's Bandcamp page on 1/28! The first 36 long play of 2019 titled, ‘Fade to Grey’ will be released in limited quantities on a translucent yellow 2xLP.

2019 is off to an amazing start! Congrats ASIP and 36!

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'Perfect Hour | Sheridan' by Forest Management

1/11/2019

Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog Perfect Hour Sheridan Forest Management

Forest Management - Perfect Hour | Sheridan
PITP MMXIX Digital Series
01/11/2019

Past Inside the Present is pleased to present two exclusive, previously unreleased tracks by Forest Management.

'Perfect Hour' and 'Sheridan' are two arrangements from Forest Management’s ‘21st Century Man’ sessions that draw a fine line between ominous and heavenly attributes. Raw and vast, these songs conjure the ebb and flow of melancholy and peace.

This is PITP05 | MMXIX Digital Series
Written & Produced by John Daniel
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri
at Black Knoll Studio, New York
Photography by John Daniel

An Ambiance Glitters Review: Forest Management

1/10/2019

Forest Management John Daniel Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog

'Fade in. Fade out. Artistic wonder. Field notes. Such are emotional whirlwinds you can expect to hear throughout Forest Management (John Daniel’s) latest lovely work .'
-Ambiance Glitters

A lovely write-up on 'Perfect Hour | Sheridan' by PITP artist Forest Management. Please follow the link below to read the full review.

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'Heartache, Heartache, and Heartache' by Celer

1/10/2019

Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog / Celer Heartache

Celer - Heartache, Heartache, and Heartache
Streaming Digital [Single]
Mellotron Records
1/11/2019

We pleased to report that our friend, Will Long AKA Celer just released a brand new single titled, 'Heartache, Heartache, and Heartache'. This is a streaming single put out by Mellotron Records. A beautiful and warm composition.

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Upcoming Releases on Home Normal

1/9/2019

Our friends at Home Normal have 4 releases in the pipeline for 2019 already! Please take a moment to listen and pre-order!
Home Normal is a small 東京 founded record label.

Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog / Home Normal Label

Norihito Suda + Stijn Hüwels
"山水 / Sansui"

Release Date: 4/15/2019
Format: Digital + CD

Tomoyoshi Date + Stijn Hüwels
"hochu-ekki-tou"

Release Date: 3/15/2019
Format: Digital + CD

Alters Alters
"Fragments"

Release Date: 2/22/2019
Format: Digital + CD

anthéne
"weightless"

Release Date: 2/22/2019
Format: Digital + CD

'The Red Bridge Over the Valley' by Gallery Six

1/8/2019

Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog / Gallery Six The Red Bridge Over the Valley

'The Red Bridge Over the Valley' is the second release in 2019 for Gallery Six. Hidekazu Imashige is certainly off to a strong start for this year and this latest effort is a stunning example of gorgeous soundscapes and ambient bliss.

'The Red Bridge Over the Valley' was released by our friends, Stereoscenic Records [SCENE-27].

Hidekazu Imashige description of his latest effort:

"This “Red Bridge” is located in Taisyakukyo valley (帝釈峡), northern Hiroshima, Japan. It is known as a scenic spot. I love this place and often visit because it has many colors and smells, and they make me feel calm. It has water, mountain, blue sky... What else do you need?

This album was inspired by my experience when I visited there last Spring. I hope you can feel earthy smell, color of water, clear sky of blue of this scenery through this album."

'III: Chroma/Contour' by Billow Observatory

1/4/2019

Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog / Billow Observatory Chroma Contour

III: Chroma/Contour is the third album from Billow Observatory, the collaborative project of producer Jonas Munk (Manual) and Jason Kolb (Auburn Lull). The album's nine tracks eschew the pulse and rhythm that defined the duo's previous effort (II:Plains/Patterns) in favor of sparse melodic possibilities and a more abstract palette of sounds. Chroma/Contour suggests looking both 20 years forward and twenty years back, while forgetting the present altogether.

Much of the album plays out as a study in minimalism: the texture and colour of each sound is being explored in minuscule detail, with enough space in the soundfield to allow each sonic constituent to breathe fully. There's a conceptual dimension to several tracks on the album, with guitars, analog synths and voices being mangled by samplers, computer software and a broken dictaphone into pure abstraction. But simultaneously there's a melodic undercurrent, revealing a deeply emotional aspect of the music.

III: Chroma/Contour is now available for pre-order. Limited edition of 300 on transparent light blue vinyl. Comes shrink-wrapped with obi-strip and includes download card. LP ships out on or around February 8, 2019.

Billow Observatory is a trans-Atlantic duo consisting of Detroit's Jason Kolb (Auburn Lull) and Denmark's Jonas Munk (Manual). They have been working together since 2006.

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'Winter in Memory' by Gallery Six & Bedroom

1/1/2019

Past Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog / Gallery Six

Released on the first day of 2019, Gallery Six & Bedroom offer up a collection of sounds and textures that bring forth depictions of winter titled, 'Winter in Memory'.

Track 1 & 2 are written, mixed, mastered by Hidekazu Imashige.
Track 3 & 4 are written and recorded by Adam London.
Mixed and mastered by Billy Mannino.
Artwork by Adam London.

Limited Edition 12" - 'Ego Death' by 36

1/1/2019

PicturePast Inside the Present - Ambient Music Label and Blog / 36 Ego Death

A decade ago 36 released his debut album, Hypersona. Ego Death is an anniversary release, and to thank all his fans for their kind support over the last 10 years, he decided to make this release pay what you want.

Ego Death is 4 tracks from his recent Audio Diary compilation. All tracks use the same core instruments, but the arrangements take very different paths. 36 revisited the studio files to make final edits/adjustments, which were then elegantly mastered by Stephan Mathieu, at his new studio in Germany.

The digital version includes 4 bonus tracks, which are alternate versions of the main tracks, recorded in a single studio session on 16th November 2018. They are exclusive to the Bandcamp release.

An extremely limited vinyl pressing will be available in April 2019.

News

A Toneshift Review: 'a stunning blend of emotive tonal striations'

New PITP Exclusive: 'Under the Morning Mist | In This Perfect Dream' by Gallery Six

New PITP Exclusive: 'Celestial Bodies' by Lauver

New Album: 'Passageways' LP | DD by Forest Management

'On Time Out of Time' LP | DD by William Basinski

Self-Titled Album by 扎克

'Fade to Grey' 2xLP by 36

'Perfect Hour | Sheridan' by Forest Management

An Ambiance Glitters Review: Forest Management

'Heartache, Heartache, and Heartache' by Celer

Upcoming Releases on Home Normal

'The Red Bridge Over the Valley' by Gallery Six

'III: Chroma/Contour' by Billow Observatory

'Winter in Memory' by Gallery Six & Bedroom

Limited Edition 12" - 'Ego Death' by 36

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