Archive for January, 2010
“Mister Vapor manage to surprise & captivate us once more with this new album. Songs Of The Deep Woods contains two long experimental droney tracks, and a shorter, more melodic and rythmical interlude. As the title suggests, these recordings are mysterious & spooky like a walk in a forest as the day is falling…Limited edition of 30 hand-numbered copies packaged in special paper cover.”
If you want to order a copy please write to tgbts(at)free.fr
More information:
http://eg0cide.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/eg0_cd05-mister-vapor-songs-of-the-deep-woods/
“I’m not familiar with any music of Mister Vapor (aka Thomas Park, who’s also known as ambient musician Mystified), but the fact that Altus (aka Mike Carss) has decided to remix two of his tracks makes it even more interesting.
Well, “Falling Out of Orbit” contains two lengthy tracks of 26 minutes each. The free form music is a beautiful match of lighter string pads and darker dronescapes, which evolves in a slow but consistent pace. It’s well-rendered, expansive cosmic music with a mysterious edge, which takes a deep dive into the vast unknown, nicely depicted on the cd-cover. This flow is sonic food for cosmic immersion.
The album is available as free mp3 download from the Just Not Normal netlabel, and in Flac-format from the Altus website.”
http://www.sonicimmersion.org
http://www.archive.org/details/JNN072-MisterVaporAltus-FallingOutofOrbit
“In The Velvet Ether” by Mister Vapor made the Top 20 for albums played on Misha’s show, “Ambient Aether / Space Continuum” in December of 2010. Here are the charts:
1. Igneous Flame - Electra - LuminaSounds
2. Eucalyptus Dream - Process of Illumination - Moon Cycle Records
3. Jonn Serrie - Hidden World Beyond - Valley Entertainment
4. Robert Carty - Starlight Volume 2 - Deep Sky Music
5. H.U.V.A. Network - Distances - Ultimae Records
6. 33 Tetragammon - Resonating Earth
7. Deborah Martin - Between Worlds - Spotted Peccary Music
8. Ron Boots - Derby! - Groove Unlimited
9. Mister Vapor - In The Velvet Ether - Essentia Mundi
10. Wave World - Structures - Quantum Records
11. Deuter - Eternity - New Earth Records
12. Paul Avgerinos - Love - Round Sky Music
13. The Tunnel Singer (Lee Ellen Shoemaker) - Dreams Without Words - Tunnel Singer Records
14. Adam Rafferty - A Christmas Guitar Celebration - Crescent Ridge Publising
15. Cody Michaels - Winter Suite - Self Released
16. Stanton Lanier - December Peace - Music to Light the World
17. Anne Trenning - Watching For Rain - Shadetree Records
18. Peter Kater - Piano Christmas - Point of Light Records
19. Joyce Tumea - Holiday Treasures - Dusty Dreams Productions
20. Ann Licater - Amazing Grace (single) - Cul de Sac Mystic Productions - Retso Music
“Departing Certainty”, from mystified’s Hypnos Secret Sounds release, “Primal Mystification”, was played on WWSP-FM’s “Ambient Ether / Space Continuum” show, hosted by Misha.
The playlist, for 1/10/2010:
5:00 AM
Oophoi - whispering fireflies at the edge of the night - whispering fireflies at the edge of the night [Umbra ] Artist
Seren Ffordd - Storm Movement - Stellar Nurseries [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Mystified - departing certainty - primal mystification [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Viridian Sun - travel at absolute zero - Infinite In All Directions [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
6:00 AM
33 Tetragammon and Human Metronome - Triumphant Discovery - Resonating Earth [ ]
Eucalyptus Dream - Cadiz - Process of Illumination [Moon Cycle Records PRD1960] 2009
Synth.nl - Megaterpa - OceanoGraphy [Groove Unlimited ]
6:30 AM
Remy - Lunascape - EoD [AKH Records ]
H.U.V.A. Network - Time Circles - Distances [Ultimae Records ] 2004
“And if you think we’ve heard the best collaboration works yet, then let this one surprise your ears. Mister Vapor (aka the extremely prolific Mystified) joined up with Altus (one of the ambient great netlabelartists). Well fitting in some of the other ‘deep sea dives’ of this months JNN releases this album takes you deeper. Where the wonderful string-drones of Altus meet with the dark-drones of Mister Vapor this is a clash of experimentalism that cannot be missed. We are proud to host this for your ears.”– Mark Stolk, Just Not Normal netlabel
http://www.archive.org/details/JNN072-MisterVaporAltus-FallingOutofOrbit
“The unbelievably prolific Thomas Park returns to us once again with a rather lovely full-length offering (as Mystified) on Hypnos Secret Sounds–’Primal Mystification’. Mr. Park’s more free-form (or perhaps it is more appropriate to refer to it as “formless”? I refrain from using the genre terms “ambient“ or “drone” as they have been over-referenced for decades) work often touches on something powerfully inexplicable and nebulous–magickal. This particular release would be no exception.
The album starts out with a piece entitled ‘Massive Turning’. It’s a bit deceptive if one thinks they have the Mystified sound pegged–as one expects gassy, shimmering atmospheres. It delivers just that…only it is coupled with an organic percussion that is unheard to me in the work of Mystified! An instrument such a tabla would have been too obvious, so what sounds like bongo is appropriate and more enthralling. Layered along with these sounds are also piano chords. ‘Massive Turning’ seems to be literal–a massive turning POINT in the direction stylistically. And it works like a charm.
Next is ‘Departing Certainty’. And that it certainly is–a departure from the banalities of life into an almost hallucinatory, emotional transcendence. The piece feels like walking in someone else’s shoes of their past , blurred and fading melancholia.
‘Not Knowing Where’ is the apex for this gem of a disc. This is the most potent track of all–and the one I am the most familiar with (seeing that I produced the video for it). Every time I hear it I get the sense of being lost BLISSFULLY in the cosmos…but full of wonder. Music for lysergic inner-space travel.
Concluding this release is ‘Back to the Primal’. Despite an almost “electronic feel” at times, it is re-entry music for returning to the mundane tribe/masses perpetuated by consensus reality–the primal of the flesh prison we are born into. Or is it vice-versa? Either way, it is a trip beyond this world (and beyond genre traps) you wish would NEVER end! But until we leave this mortal coil and its restraints of the physical body, it is only possible to touch on these realms with the aide of such ART as that of Mystified…”
–Allan Zane, musician and video artist, January 5, 2010
Samples, information and ordering:
http://www.hypnos.com/releases-myst-pm.php
“Not Knowing Where”, from mystified’s Hypnos Secret Sounds release, “Primal Mystification”, was played on WWSP-FM’s “Ambient Ether / Space Continuum” show, hosted by Misha.
5:00 AM
Oophoi - A Flock of butterflies descends in a Zen garden - Dream Five: A Flock of butterflies descends in a Zen garden [Umbra ] 2003 Artist
Seren Ffordd - Out of the Void - Stellar Nurseries [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Mystified - not knowing where - primal mystification [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Viridian Sun - light years from here - Infinite In All Directions [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
6:00 AM
33 Tetragammon and Human Metronome - Cosmic Hweeldi - Resonating Earth [ ]
Igneous Flame - Geiss 2009 - Electra [LuminaSounds ]
Eucalyptus Dream - Triangular Motion - Process of Illumination [Moon Cycle Records PRD1960] 2009
Synth.nl - Antartico - OceanoGraphy [Groove Unlimited ]
6:30 AM
Remy - Velocity - Exhibition of Dreams [AKH Records ] Label Artist
H.U.V.A. Network - Indigo Room - Distances [Ultimae Records ] 2004
Ron Boots, Frank Dorittke, Harold van der Heijden - Reattachment of Worldly Affairs - Derby! [Groove Unlimited GR-165]
Mystified’s “Frigid Radiance” placed 9th in the Spectral Voyages Radio top 20 for December. Spectral Voyages is on KSRC FM and is hosted by DJ Dave Butler.
Spectral Voyages - KRSC
Report Submittal for 12/2009– Top 20
1. Markus Reuter - Dervish - DiN
2. Mark Dwane - Other Worlds - Trondant
3. David Wright - Deeper - AD Music
4. David Wright - Between Realities - AD Music
5. David Wright & Robert Fox - Beyond Time - AD Music
6. Frank Van Bogaert - Air Machine - ACE Studio
7. Ron Boots - Derby! - Groove Unlimited
8. Forrest Fang - Phantoms - Projekt
9. Mystified - Frigid Radiance - Triple Bath Records
10. Steve Roach - Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (4 CD Box Set) - Projekt
11. Justin Vanderberg - In Waking Moments - Hypnos
12. Sense Project - The Sublime - Hypnos
13. Darren Rogers - The Alternate Realms - Hypnos
14. Darkened Soul - Bathys - Hypnos
15. Bruno Sanfilippo - auralspace
16. Numina - Sanctum Sanctorum - mp3.com
17. Austere - Pulse - Hypnos Records
18. Synth.nl - OceanoGraphy - Groove Unlimited
19. Lord Of The Ants - Quantum Voodoo - AD Music
20. Tony Gerber - Ethereality - Space For Music