That Remote and Awful Twilight

 Abominations of Yondo, Television  No Responses »
May 062012
 

That Remote and Awful TwilightThe 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

 Television  No Responses »
Apr 182012
 

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…

A new label launches with music by Cousin Silas

 Television  No Responses »
Apr 062012
 

The Path Between the TreesA 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

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Mar 042012
 

Cumbria RemixedAs 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

 Communication, Earthrid news, Links  No Responses »
Nov 052011
 

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.

Proposed GM Wheat Trial, UK

 Environment  No Responses »
Aug 182011
 

“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

 Carya Amara  No Responses »
Jul 302011
 

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.

The Late Carya Amara booklet pages 1 and 4ff

The Late Carya Amara CD case rear

The Late Carya Amara CD


“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 news  No Responses »
Jul 152011
 

Earthrid 013 cover smallIt’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.

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