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That Remote and Awful Twilight

earthrid — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:30:51 +0000

The second release by Abominations of Yondo is available at last, on CDR and as a free download.

That Remote and Awful Twilight has among its influences the penultimate chapter of ‘The Time Machine’ by H.G. Wells. However, the listener is of course free to associate other scenarios, memories or febrile imaginings with the assembled sounds.

The moment of ‘Escape Velocity’ owes a stylistic debt to the work of the master synthesist and producer Isao Tomita, to whom the track is dedicated. The album as a whole is dedicated to all people who feel obliged to space-time.

Abominations of Yondo is a collaboration between Cousin Silas (releases on numerous netlabels including Earthrid) and Kevin Busby (of Carya Amara, Audio Space Research etc.). The first album, Abominations of Yondo, was released in 2007. We’re confident that anyone who enjoyed that album will excuse the wait once they have heard That Remote and Awful Twilight…

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Necropolis Line now a free download

earthrid — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:26:24 +0000

In addition to the CD release from 2006, which is still available from Earthrid, Necropolis Line by Cousin Silas is now also available as a free download.

21 excursions take you from Tetney Marsh to Quarry 9b, from Humberstone to the Mountains of Madness…

Necropolis Line by Cousin Silas

A new label launches with music by Cousin Silas

earthrid — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:53:27 +0000

A new netlabel, We Are All Ghosts, has just launched. Its first release is The Path Between the Trees by the prolific electronic musician and Earthrid collaborator Cousin Silas. It’s a free download which reflects Cousin Silas’s increasingly wide musical reach, from gentle ambience to dark moods and beyond to guitar melodies! Get the album via the We Are All Ghosts Web site.

Cumbria Remixed

earthrid — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:17:14 +0000

As explained at shaunblezard.net:-

“Cumbria Remixed was an exciting sound project using digital technologies to investigate and remix the soundscape of Cumbria. It created a lively dialogue between old and new, young and old through field recordings of Cumbrian environments, and local people’s tales, tunes, stories and songs”.

As previously mentioned, Carya Amara’s contribution, The Sound Around Me, was a remix of some sentence fragments uttered by Cumbrian musician and organiser of the project, Shaun Blezard. This track and 21 others have now been collected into a release which you can download for free from the Internet Archive.

Download Cumbria Remixed in MP3 format or see the download page for other formats.

New site

earthrid — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:20:25 +0000

Earthrid.com no longer redirects to earthrid.wordpress.com, but is back on a self-contained site (which is how it started off in 2001).

If you have any links or bookmarks which point to earthrid.wordpress.com, please update them.

60×60 Dance

earthrid — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:49:08 +0000

On the 2nd of this month Vox Novus staged 60×60 Dance in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Thanks to them for including ‘Breakthrough’ by Carya Amara and to choreographer Rachel Brady.

More about the event can be found at the Vox Novus site.

Proposed GM Wheat Trial, UK

earthrid — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:57:28 +0000

“a deliberate release of a genetically modified organism (GMO) for research and development purposes”

“risky, unnecessary and a waste of public money” says Soil Association.

“We invite any person to make representations relating to any risks of damage being caused to the environment by the release” says DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).

Deadline to email your comments to DEFRA: tomorrow, Friday 19th August.

Cover art for The Late Carya Amara

earthrid — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:16:33 +0000

Here’s some more cover art for the CDR edition of the new Earthrid release The Late Carya Amara. A couple of short reviews have also arrived…

In addition to the CDR release, The Late Carya Amara can be downloaded for free in a variety of formats, including high-quality MP3 and lossless FLAC.

“Full of lovely synths, electronics, pulses and drones” – Test Transmission

“It’s a damn haunting radiophonic nightmare! With beats!” – Iceland Bob

The Late Carya Amara

earthrid — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:28:26 +0000

It’s been a decade since Carya Amara started Earthrid with the visceral electronic album Vestigial Digital. It was followed by two retrospectives of music dating back as far as 1980, Extinction Frequency and Tales of the Unattractive. Since then there have been collaborative projects (released on Earthrid) and related musical ventures but no solo Carya Amara… but now here at last is The Late Carya Amara.

Anyone (and there were quite a few) who was perplexed by the diverse approaches of previous releases is unlikely to find this one any easier to decode – but the receptive listener, maybe armed with a good pair headphones, will find this to be an immersive (if sometimes chilly) experience. Released in summer in the UK, the album’s snowy themes are definitely unseasonal… but did you really want to wait any longer for The Late Carya Amara?

Download The Late Carya Amara now for free or add the CD-R to your collection.

Thumbs up

earthrid — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:47:17 +0000

Earthrid is now on Facebook for people who “like” that sort of thing.