Resting Bell is a niche label that focuses on ambient soundscapes, drones and experimental music. If field recordings, shining drones, ambience, guitar processing, wall of noise and glitches are your thing you’d be happy to mooch off the back catalogue

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A short selection for a gray day.

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Modern day druid Phil Legard AKA Xenis Emputae Travelling Band has released his first 2CDR on Ikuisuus. His 18th release “The Crooked Pool” compiles 80 minutes of “wordless hymns, death dirges and quiet rustic meditations”.

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Those nice folks at Nicepromo has sent undomondo a new split LP by Russian soundscape artist Alexey Devyanin aka Gultskra Artikler and Leeds drone outfit Lanterns. Originally from Novosibirsk, Devyanin mixes drony/noisy winter soundscapes with electronic and folk elements. Aptly termed “Neo-folk cyber-psychedelia”, I’ve been fond of his blent of field recordings and ambient [...]

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Numbered #53, last week’s show begins with a theme of soundscapes, dubstep and noise, while the second part is more jazzed-up, soulful and dubby.

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Let’s get the ball rolling :
Taxi Taxi - Maps and Legends : NY indie rockers Taxi Taxi have presented a solid album with lots of good songs, I even have second thoughts about how it may have deserved a higher spot.
Odd Nosdam - Level level wires (Anticon) : Released on California’s [...]

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Here’s a quick selection of new stuff from some of our favourite netlabels :

Nishi :
Cagey House’s Dave Keifer is back once again with his trademark synths. Exotic and atonal melodies & shifting beats and sometimes downright spooky melodies! Who’d want to be inside that “Law Office“, I know I don’t.!
Rich.vom.Dorf. is of the [...]

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Image from an interview with Guitar Player
Fellow Turkish guitarist and composer Erdem Helvacioglu has released a full length on the prestigious contemporary music label New Albion. His 2003 release “A Walk through the Bazaar” on Locust Music was part of the Met Life Series which focuses on field recordings & soundscapes. One of the [...]

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excerpt from Echolalic Transitions
Six piece Brooklyn avant-classical ensemble appropriately titled Slow Six has a new record out called Nor’easter on the contemporary classical label New Albion.
Nor’easter has 6 long electro-acoustic compositions, with violins, viola, ‘cello, electric guitars, fender rhodes, piano, and software instruments combined to create an immersive instrumental soundscape. Nor’easter is slow, drony and [...]

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The Cardboard Lung - Fleece Sale
The Cardboard Lung - Silver Lino

* UK Netlabel Earth Monkey Productions has two new free download releases for your enjoyment. The first one I recommend is The Cardboard Lung’s Patient Lifted, which consists mostly of bright drones & grained vocals and ambience, and occasionally a subtle rhythm.

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