More mood musick for the space generation.
A collaboration between the ever brilliant Stephen Philips of his own label Dark Duck Records and Portland, Oregon's Austere, based on the Austere release "fade" from 2000.
Philips' use of the final recording, not the original sources, makes this single, long "demix" (a complete reworking, not a remix) even all the more amazing in how different and interesting it is compared to the original. A quiet, slowly evolving single, long piece, it is broken into three parts where it changes "direction" from gentle washes and ambient breezes to more droning, moving sounds.
Stephen has been creating and producing musick for over 27 years (see http://darkduck.net) and we are greatly honoured and pleased to have been able to work with him on this new release. Our thanks and gratitude go out to him for his kindess and support.
This album is best enjoyed as one long, continuous piece of slowly-evolving, gently moving, trance-inducing beauty. Mixed entirely as one piece, it it an even more peaceful and ambient work than the original from which it is derived.
Perfect mood musick for fans of ambient and drone.
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Austere
A Biography
By Bill Binkleman
Wind & Wire magazine
http://www.windandwire.com
Austere is an enigmatic duo who record some of the more interesting ambient music I've heard in my six plus years of reviewing. From the swirling drones (I was gonna say "dark" drones, but...) and eerie melancholy of Monodia to the warmth and beauty amidst minimalism of Fade to the cool glitch beats and samples of one of Austere's side project's The Mystifying Oracle's Quintessence (see my review here:
http://www.windandwire.com/may/quintessence.htm)
Austere are less concerned with following the path and more concerned with breaking new ground. However, they are undoubtedly enigmatic, as one would glean from the above, and shun the spotlights of media and personality. However, in my many communiques with them, I have found few artists in this industry who are more polite, engaging, genuine or friendly. If only some of the more "exposed" artists in ambient music were as humble and humane.
Check them out at http://www.austere.org and read more reviews of their work by yours truly here at http://www.windandwire.com.
There, now you and others know as much about Austere as anyone!
Bill
Check out the artist's website:
http://austere.orgTrack List:
1. faded
2. faded part 2
3. faded part 3
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