Sublime Retreat

07/09/2024

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚: Falter Bramnk – Music for Luminous Background

Ten nowy solowy projekt poświęcony szkłu jako materiałowi jest kontynuacją Glassical music (w którym dźwięki pary wodnej zostały uchwycone w szkle). Pierwotnie był to projekt kompozycji napisany dla 6 muzyków z kolektywu Muzzix, który był kilkakrotnie wykonywany publicznie. Później zebrałem wystarczająco dużo materiału, aby pracować nad nowymi kompozycjami tutaj prezentowanymi

Wydawca: Sublime Retreat

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07/09/2024

ARTIST----TRACK--TIME---SUPPORTYann Novak----Traversing the Substrate---room40.bandcamp.com Tungu----It's great to have a spot where you cannot be found--5:27---publiceyesore.bandcamp.com Cody Yantis----Midland--8:30---fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com Uboa----A Puzzle--12:50---theflenser.bandcam...

25/08/2024

25/08/2024

Review of "Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines" by Alfredo Costa Monteiro by Ken Lowerin his wonderful blog Lost In A Sea Of Sound
https://lostseasound.blogspot.com/2024/08/alfredo-costa-monteiro-transient-spaces.html

Are there words for a composition formed around tumultuous sonic energy, crystalline sounds without destination or documentation? Short motifs floating in aural space, their dimensional doorways clamor with forceful motion. Listeners carom through Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines. A Pachinko ball falling with the slightest amount of gravity, defying physics to sometimes move towards it's origin instead of away. Alfredo Costa Monteiro has cohesively composed an aural landscape from broken glass and crumbled concrete. The building material of modern civilization with the associated urban soundscape sometimes heard as sonic memories. Conscious saturates with extrinsic processing but the sounds within are also beautifully patient. Silent moments, long empty space droning with only the crunch of a footstep. Then quiet again until energy explodes in defined slow motion. All the time lost in the labyrinth Alfredo Costa Monteiro has most articulately created.

Reviews and descriptions of cassettes, tapes, records, labels and vinyl. Including pictures and links to help the reader.

20/08/2024

Online exhibition in Anxious magazine with a nice selection of works by Evan Crankshaw, with whom Sublime Retreat has some beautiful collaborations

𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐲: Evan Crankshaw

Evan Crankshaw jest artystą mieszkającym w Stanach Zjednoczonych, w Karolinie Północnej. Wszystkie pokazane tu prace to kolaże wykonane ręcznie, nożyczkami, przy użyciu elementów wyciętych z dużej kolekcji książek i czasopism. Te widoczne tutaj zostały wykonane we współpracy z Sublime Retreat.

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Evan Crankshaw is an artist residing in the United States, in North Carolina. All the works shown here are collages done by hand, with scissors, using components cut from a large collection of books and magazines.

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Zapraszamy na stronę ANXIOUS

09/08/2024

Welcome to Elysian Fields!Elysian Fields is your early Friday morning source for ambient and experimental sounds. The concept for the show is that "All Sound is Music" and there is an infinite world of sounds out there. You're bound to hear something new and interesting on each edition of the show.....

04/08/2024

Album of the Day: Innovative Landscapes Laboratory - Spontaneous Dimensions (Sublime Retreat)

*Featured in Staff Picks - June 2024: https://theatticmag.com/news/2463/staff-picks-_-june-2024.html

This album is about sound exploration, playfulness, surprises and discoveries. It is a product of improvisation using modular synthesizers and an experimental approach to composition.

28/07/2024

THE DEAD MAURIACS "Le Parc, Rapport d’Observations" - Review by Richard Johnson in Adverse Effect

The Dead Mauriacs are a project revolving around Olivier Prieur who appear to have done an excessive amount of releases in the past fifteen years or so, mostly on CDr or lathe-cuts but occasionally as a vinyl or CD album. The three lengthy tracks here operate in that smudged twilight space where haphazard cosmic churn collides with neatly rendered collage work, musique concrete and the kind of drifting tones and textures that thankfully avoid their usual more predictable deployment. Very nicely packaged, plus I think only 100 of these were made. Well worth tracking down. (RJ)

26/07/2024

Innovative Landscape

23/07/2024

REVERSE IMAGE & THOMAS BEY WILLIAM BAILEY – TOKOKAWA (CD by Fourth Dimension) * INNOVATIVE LANDSCAPES LABORATORY – SPONTANEOUS DIMENSIONS (CD by Sublime Retreat) * KAKERLAK – OBDORMITION (CD by DaDa…

17/07/2024

Andrea Silvia Giordano / Fanny Meteier – fTthaH 0.00 Spyros Polychronopoulos and Jannis Anastasakis – Nyfida Pt.4 2.42 Christopher Lock – Unclouded 10.42 Rontronik – Zero…

11/07/2024

"Immersive sound design cascades through fields of cinematic whimsy. Blooping electronics, hollow breaths, sharp cuts, and a host of organic sound sources combine to create a series of playful vignettes. So much to explore here."

Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis

The Capsule Garden returns! Apologies for the extended absence, but life has just gone in all kinds of directions in the last month and, as ever, something had to give. I think it’s settling …

11/07/2024

"Spontaneous Dimensions" by Innovative Landscapes Laboratory has been selected by The Attic for their June Staff Picks !

A moody playlist for your hot summer nights.

21/06/2024

I am so excited to share a new release "Spontaneous Dimensions" by my project Innovative Landscapes Laboratory released today on Sublime Retreat

5 track album

19/05/2024

Marek Nawrot wrote an amazing review for a movie. Well not the usual movie, but for "cinema for the ears" directed by Alfredo Costa Monteiro.

Enjoy the reading and listening, if you haven't yet

https://anxiousmagazine.pl/recenzje/alfredo-costa-monteiro-transient-spaces-as-impermanent-lines-2/

09/04/2024

Vital Weekly review of "Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines" by Alfredo Costa Monteiro

"Quite a mysterious work, of being in various places simultaneously, of dislocation, yet that never gets in the way of the piece’s beauty. You can be in a forest, listening to birds, while also being on a train station platform. Monteiro knows how to pace his music, never going too fast or slow, keeping a delicate balance, making this true cinema for the ears. (FdW)"

MANJA RISTIĆ & MURMER – THE SCAFFOLD (CD by Unfathomless) * GARETH DAVIS & MONIKA BUGAJNY – BECOMING (CD by Moving Furniture Records) * ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO – TRANSIENT SPACES AS IMPERMANENT LINES…

06/04/2024

This venue at CC Convent de Sant Agustí is just awesome !
Premiere of new CD by Alfredo Costa Monteiro released on Sublime Retreat yesterday.
Many thanks to curator Romina for making this happened and audience for coming!

06/04/2024

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚: Alfredo Costa Monteiro – Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines

Transient spaces as impermanent lines został skomponowany jako dźwiękowy dryf bez innego celu niż świadoma wędrówka. Ten brak kierunku, wyrażony poprzez hipotetyczną narrację, kształtuje trasę poprzez różne nastroje dźwiękowe przenoszone przez materialność dźwięku, tworząc w ten sposób zmienne stany emocjonalne bliskie dezorientacji; dokładnie tak, jak w dryfie psychogeograficznym, który implikuje pewną rezygnację z tego, czego można się spodziewać, w zależności od każdej przestrzeni, w której rozwija się ta podstawowa narracja.

Wydawca: Sublime Retreat

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10/03/2024

Spreading a word about a wonderful recent piece from Moan, a project by Rafał Sądej who did a lot of mastering for Sublime Retreat releases.

This is a recording of a live performance by Moan at a special event dedicated to the work of Tomasz Twardawa. One of the integral parts of this exhibition was a Q&A session about Tomasz's creative work, followed by live performances by David Hrapla and Rafal Sadej, who have collaborated with Tomasz in the past, both solo and as part of the Hated Bruit Kollektiv project.

1 track album

06/03/2024

"And I see that certain writers have picked this example as one of the best releases of the past year. I’ll not be one to argue.”

"The Memory Of Things" by Bruno Duplant & Seth Nehil reviewed by Jeph Jerman in The Squid’s Ear.

The Squid's Ear is an online magazine reviewing improvisation, jazz, experimental, electracoustic, and avant music

01/03/2024

I am happy to announce the pre-order of "Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines" by Alfredo Costa Monteiro ! The album will be released on April 5, 2024.

This immersive soundscape is a piece for found sounds, inspired by the found footage technique in experimental cinema, where images, often from anonymous sources are shown as if they were edited in a narrative by those who literally found them.

Like a soundtrack for a non-existent movie, it could be compared to a piece of cinéma pour l'oreille (cinema for the ear), literally applying the French expression donner à voir (something like "allow to see"), but with sound as its means.

If you happen to be in Barcelona, you are kindly invited to the album launch event, which will take place at the Centre Cívic Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona on April 5, 2024.

(Address: C/ del Comerç, 36, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona)

2 track album

18/02/2024

Many thanks to Ed Pinsent for such insightful reviews of 4 Sublime Retreat records in The Sound Projector - Bruno Duplant's "Le Jour D’Après", "The Memory Of Things" by Bruno Duplant and Seth Nehil, "Standards (of sorts)" by Gareth Davis and Machinefabriek, "Synchronicité" by Bruno Duplant and Rutger Zuyderwelt

17/02/2024 Ed Pinsent Turning Memory Inside-Out Four new times from the art label Sublime Retreat in Wroclaw Poland, operated by Taras Opanasuik. Three of them feature the work of Bruno Duplant, that French minimalist composer who is a regular name in these pages; his arrival through the letterbox s...

17/01/2024

It's always a pleasure to read reviews by Marek Nawrot, here is his wonderful inspection of "Extricate" by Modelbau !

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐣𝐚: Modelbau – Extricate

Modelbau, jak informuje sam zainteresowany jest wyłącznie solowym pojazdem poruszającym się mocno w estetyce lo-fi i jak każda inna jego nazwa stanowi coś odrębnego od poprzedniego, eksplorując odmienne rejony dźwięku. Tutaj, pierwotnie źródłem dźwięku Fransa były dyktafony, walkmany, mini syntezatory, wszystko rejestrowane było na żywo, i ewentualnie publikowane. – Marek "Lokis" Nawrot

Wydawca: Sublime Retreat

05/09/2023

Today is a review harvest day , such a cool review of Aubusson from Frans de Waard at Vital Weekly !

"There is a delicate balance between these acoustic instruments and electronic sounds. The improvisational music element never entirely disappears from the music, and at the same time, the cutting and rearranging give the music a new dimension. Sometimes, parts are repeated or cut up and have a slight stuttery element. The music is melodic and pleasant to hear;"

Vital Weekly, the webcast: we offer a weekly webcast, freely to download. This can be regarded as the audio-supplement to Vital Weekly. Presented as a radioprogramm with excerpts of just some of the releases reviewed. It will remain on the site for a limited period (most likely 2-4 weeks). Download....

05/09/2023

Many thanks to Marek Nawrot for such a nice review of "Aubusson" !

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐣𝐚: Véhicule – Aubusson

„Otwierające akordy, drugiego utworu, zapętlonego 'pianina' niesamowicie dynamicznie osadzone w strukturze a la songu, wywołują drgania membrany, a dalsze swobodne, prawie jazzowe pochody w towarzystwie zawodzącego głosu, prawie rozbijają i tak wrażliwą strukturę utworu – całość ratuje wysokotonowy syntezatorowy pejzaż unoszący wszystko w jonosferę. To jednak wciąż rozgrzewka, im dalej, tym coraz ciekawiej, intrygująco.” – Marek ‘Lokis’ Nawrot

Wydawca: Sublime Retreat

Całość recenzji przeczytacie na stronie ANXIOUS.

31/08/2023

Bill Meyer is a true master at writing about music, it's always a pleasure to read his insightful reviews, and especially nice to see his latest one in Dust. Many thanks to Roof Bolt for careful treatment of Le Parc, rapport d’observations from The Dead Mauriacs !

Le Parc, rapport d'observations by The Dead Mauriacs You’ve heard it before; the point is the journey, not the destination. That is especially the case with an album like Le Parc, rapport...

23/08/2023

Thanks Anxious Musick Magazine for spreading a word about new release from Véhicule

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚: Véhicule – Aubusson

Wydawca: Sublime Retreat

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20/08/2023

Véhicule has composed each track as a musical tapestry, a sound capsule that can evoke imaginary pictures, like a journey through a dreamy landscape. In this way, the titles, with their poetic dimension, can resonate with the music, just as the title next to a painting we see in a museum can bring meaning (or disturbance) to the viewer.

"Aubusson" from Véhicule is out on Sublime Retreat !

9 track album

15/08/2023

Many thanks FSK radio for playing the whole CD "Le Parc..." from The Dead Mauriacs

https://www.fsk-hh.org/blog/2023/08/14/die_ganze_platte_the_dead_mauriacs_le_parc_rapport_dobservationssublime_retreat_di_15082023_1300_uhr

and also "the memory of things" by Bruno Duplant/Seth Nehil recently

https://www.fsk-hh.org/blog/2023/08/12/radio_gagarin_diesmal_live_mit_david_wallraf_playlist_110823

1. francisco meirino & jérome noetinger - 10´56 - klanggalerie 2. david wallraf, live 3. rhys chatham, david fenech - in search of tomorrow - klanggalerie 4. m.b. & nisi quieris - never transformation - klanggalerie 5. evelyn davis, fred frith, phillip greenlief - hidden danger lets me in - clean ...