Archive for December, 2009
A review of mystified’s new cd with Hypnos Secret Sounds, “Primal Mystification”, has been drafted by popular freelance writer Byron Kerman:
“Primal mystification alternately conjures thoughts of settling in for the sleep of machines in the sub-rumble of a boiler room; the aurora borealis toying with the audible spectrum; alien conquerors come to claim their stake – our echoing fear; finally cracking the door to the secret spirit realm; the day that machines gain sentience and blink up at their gobsmacked creators; and a group of motherless children beating out a post-apocalyptic drum circle in desperate hope.
Truly, a sonic headphone journey that removes one far from the physical. Perfect for the Hearts of Space radio program, too.”
More on the cd, including ordering and free samples:
http://www.hypnos.com/releases-myst-pm.php
Artist Allan Zane has crafted an excellent music video for a track from mystified’s new Hypnos Secret Sounds release, “Primal Mystification”. The video is for the track, “Not Knowing where”. It is free to watch at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RarOFf4HfHI
Special thanks to Mr. Zane for his efforts, and to Mike Griffin at Hypnos.
Mystified appeared once again on Chuck Van Zyl’s “Stars End” radio broadcast. This broadcast was Part 1 of a 2 part retrospective of 2009. “Stars End” is one of the more popular and venerable American ambient radio shows. Played was a track from Nunc Stans and mystified’s new cd, “One Thousand Dreams”. More here: http://www.dataobscura.com/
Here is where Chuck broadcasts: 88.5 fm WXPN Philadelphia | 99.7 fm WXPH Harrisburg PA| 90.5 fm WKHS Worton/ Baltimore MD | 88.7 fm Middletown / York / Lancaster PA | 104.9 fm Lehigh Valley PA
And here is the playlist from 12/27:
ARTIST - TRACK - ALBUM (label)
1:00am
The Tangent Project - And Then It Rained - Surface (tp)
Jeffrey Koepper - Part I - Quadranteon (air space)
Cosmic Hoffmann - The Longing for the Space - Hypernova (heart + mind)
Pollard/Daniel/Booth - Skaters - Pollard/Daniel/Booth (eemc)
Spaceplayer - Worlds Apart - Earth and Exile
2:00am
FSP/Pollard/Hashtronaut - Time Out of Mind (excerpt) - Time Out of Mind
Redshift - Turning Towards Us - Turning Towards Us (distant sun)
Steve Dinsdale - New Church 1 - New Church (northern echo)
Anomalous Disturbances - Segue to Heaven - Archive Two (disappearing music)
3:00am
Anomalous Disturbances - Inside I - Inside (disappearing music)
David Parsons - City of Spirits - Jyoti (celestial harmonies)
Erik Seifert - Isolde - Core (pleasure sound)
John Christian - Antiquark - Susbarbatus
Ian Boddy/David Wright - Still Motion - Shifting Sands (ad music)
Jeff Greinke - Partial Light - Virga (lotuspike)
4:00am
Nunc Stans/Mystified - That Infinite Night - One Thousand Dreams
3 Seconds of Air - Ghosts Stream the Harmony of Delight - The Fight of Song
Daniel Dorobantu - City in the Field - Knock on the Sky and Listen to the
Sound
Nunc Stans - Where the Figures Were Drawn - Meridian (dataObscura)
Jonsi & Alex - Howl - Riceboy Sleeps (xl)
Cluster - Formatt - Qua (nepenthe music)
5:00am
Marconi Union - Nightworker - Tokyo (bine music)
Richard Barbieri - Decay - Stranger Inside (scope)
Lawrence - A New Day - Until Then Goodbye
Helios - Every Hair on Your Head - Unreleased vol 1 (unseen)
Rhian Sheehan - Parts 3 4 - Standing in Silence (loop)
Arve Henriksen - Sorrow and Its Opposite - Cartography (ecm)
SubtractiveLAD - Something Like a Star - Where the Land Meets the Sky
E Wollo/B Wostheinrich - Solar Wind.White Sea - Arcadia Borealis (DiN)
Richard Bone - Somaia Arafa - The Ghosts of Hanton Village
J Serrie/G Stroutsos - The Enlightened Path - Hidden World Beyond
D Martin/Erik Wollo - Winds of Time - Between Worlds (spotted peccary)
Kevin Keller - Stillness - In Absentia
6:00am
Bill Fox played “Massive Turning”, from mystified’s Hypnos Secret Sounds release, “Primal Mystification”, on his well-regarded radio show, “Galactic Travels”. Galactic Travels plays on 88.1 WDIY Pennsylvania and on various broadcasts throughout the state and digitally online.
Show #664 December 24, 2009.
PLAYLIST:
11:04 pm
ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
Kevin Braheny Starflight 1 * Galaxies (Hearts of Space)
JeffreyKoepper Part II Quadranteon (Air Space)
Arcane Timelapse Tomorrow’s Wasteland (Lawler)
Terje Winther Time Electronic Regions (Bajkal)
Terje Winther And Again Electronic Regions (Bajkal)
Mystified Massive Turning Primal Mystification (Hypnos Secret Sounds)
12:00 am
ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
Steve Brand Golden Cloud Children of Alcyone (Hypnos
Secret Sounds)
Indra One Billion Light Bhuvanshvari (Eagle)
Years
Indra Tiamat Bhuvanshvari (Eagle)
1:00 am
Mister Vapor placed 13th in the Top 20 for new music at Scott Raymond’s “Secret Music” broaadcast, WVKR-FM, for 12/2009.
1. Holosphere - Parallel Universe - Holosphere
2. Ron Boots - Derby! - Groove Unlimited
3. Richard Lainhart - The Beautiful Blue Sky - O Town Music
4. Tempustry - Le Voyage Du Temps - Time Voyage
5. Northern Valentine - The Distance Brings Us Closer - Silber
6. Soporus - 24,110 - Burnt Toast Vinyl
7. Loscil - The Strathcona Variations - Ghostly International
8. Ian Boddy & David Wright - Shifting Sands - AD Music
9. Art Labriola - Silent Night - Art Labriola
10. Synth.nl - OceanoGraphy - Groove Unlimited
11. Duet For Theremin And Lap Steel - Duet - Duet Online
12. The Tangent Project - Surface - Tangent Project
13. Mister Vapor - In The Velvet Ether - Essentia Mundi
14. Cody Michaels - Winter Suite - Cody Michaels
15. Michele de Wilton - Myths & Legends - Michele de Wilton Records
16. Stanton Lanier - December Peace - Music to Light the World
17. Paul Avgerinos - Love - Round Sky Music
18. Richard Lainhart & Hakobune - Luminous Accidents - O Town Music
19. Julianna Barwick - Florine - Barwick
20. Christopher Boscole - O Christmas Tree - Centaur Records
Mystified’s “Poltergeist” EP (Apolcalyptic Radio, 2009) is nicely reviewed in the Heathen Harvest webzine this December. Here is a direct link:
http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20091214171340978
Thomas has 2 artist copies remaining of his blue vinyl 12″ “Pulse Ringer Pieces” (Droehnhaus, 2009). Each is for sale for a PayPal of 20 USD. Interested? Contact Thomas at mystifiedthomas (at) gmail (dot) com. The vinyl has gotten nothing but praise critically. Fans of ambient music and anything atmospheric are bound to love it. Note: These are NOT test pressings, but actual copies of the blue vinyl release.
Mystified appeared once again on Chuck Van Zyl’s “Stars End” radio broadcast. “Stars End” is one of the more popular and venerable American ambient radio shows. Played was a track from Nunc Stans and mystified’s new cd, “One Thousand Dreams”. More here: http://www.dataobscura.com/
Here is where Chuck broadcasts: 88.5 fm WXPN Philadelphia | 99.7 fm WXPH Harrisburg PA| 90.5 fm WKHS Worton/ Baltimore MD | 88.7 fm Middletown / York / Lancaster PA | 104.9 fm Lehigh Valley PA
And here is the playlist from 12/13:
ARTIST - TRACK - ALBUM (label)
1:00am
Anomalous Disturbances - Inside I - Inside (disappearing music)
David Parsons - City of Spirits - Jyoti (celestial harmonies)
Erik Seifert - Isolde - Core (pleasure sound)
John Christian - Antiquark - Susbarbatus
Ian Boddy/David Wright - Still Motion - Shifting Sands (ad music)
Jeff Greinke - Partial Light - Virga (lotuspike)
2:00am
AirSculpture - Stage One - Burn
Kevin Andrew - Three Weeks - Imaginary Friends (ultimae)
Jeffrey Koepper - Part IV - Quadranteon (air space)
Redshift - Redshift 08.Shift to Blue - RW3 (distant sun)
3:00am
The Nightcrawlers - Ombra - Traveling Backwards (manikin)
Tangerine Dream - Part II - Rubycon (virgin)
Klaus Schulze - Floating - Moondawn (manikin)
4:00am
Steve Roach - excerpt - Afterlight (timeroom)
Nunc Stans/Mystified - The Infinite Night - One Thousand Dreams
3 Seconds of Air - Ghosts Stream the Harmony of Delight - The Flight of Song
Daniel Dorobantu - Nostromo - Knock on the Sky and Listen to the Sound
Anomalous Disturbances Seque to Heaven - Archive Two (disappearing music)
5:00am
Richard Bone - The Slumbering Sky - The Ghosts of Hantu Village (quirkworks
Erik Wollo/B Wostheinrich - The Wayfarers.Exploration - Arcadia Borealis
Jonsi & Alex - All the Big Trees.Daniell in the Sea - Risebiy Sleeps (xl)
Stars of the Lid - December Hunting - And Their Refinement of the Decline
6:00am
Thomas Park (mainly known by his project Mystified) continues his sound experimentations under the name Mister Vapor. Light & Vapor is a sequence of five processed field recording episodes evolving one into another and featuring rhythmic inclusions interweaving with noise of the outside world. Feelings of loneliness and uncertainty will capture the listener from the beginning and will not let go till the very end.
http://www.blackdrone.com/BDRL003.html
“Primal Mystification”, a full-length release by mystified, is now available at Hypnos Records, from the Hypnos Secret Sounds sub-label. Free samples, descriptions, and an order link are all here:
http://www.hypnos.com/releases-myst-pm.php
“Primal Mystification” emerged from drone sounds, similar to the way we humans emerged from the primordial ooze. Oscillating ambient bell washes were created using field recordings and mystical effect processes, and then simple rhythmic and melodic phrases evolved from the primal material. Sometimes there is a change or development in the rhythmic material, and always there are changes in the drones, behind, as they shift and flow. “Primal Mystification” is a musical union of form and formlessness.