Happy Otter Sad Otter. The Sea and mountains. Cambridge and Copenhagen. Sunshine. Cats and birds. People that drive too close behind you. The warm and the windy. Wire and Wool. Tea and fresh coffee. The squint you get from trying to recognise the person smiling at you through their car window screen but the reflection stops me from recognising them so do I wave or look away? The morning after the night before. Dehydration and chilled refreshment. Cornwall and Devon. Love. Peace and loud guitars.
Organic electronic melodic music that shimmers with light and dark textures from the UK and Sweden.
Antony Ryan (Isan) and Simon Scott (Ex Slowdive) blend together a mixture of electronic musical elements that stun, comfort and confuse in equal measures.
Simon also runs Kesh¬Recordings, has a debut album "Navigare" coming out on Miasmah Recordings in October and plays guitar for The Sight Below. Antony also records as 50% of isan who record for Morr Music, likes tea and lives in Sweden.
"A number of small things" various cd has been released on MORR MUSIC featuring the first Seavault recordings "Mercy Seat" and "I could be happy".
www.boomkat.com gave it "Album of the week" and mentions something nice about seavault = laptop textures.
2009= OUT NOW: the release of 'cornfields' on Morr Music..."Not Given Lightly" VA. The cover calls us Seafault....which is not entirely correct!
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
After the success of the first in our series of concerts, we are now pleased to announce the second installment. EM #2 will act as a showcase for the Miasmah label, who have been rapidly gaining fans and critical acclaim since their debut CD release in 2006. Held in the beautiful location of the Theaterkapelle in Friedrichshain, expect an evening of darkly-lit atmospheres and Lynchian soundscapes!
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9PM September 5th, 2009
Elevator Music #2 - A Miasmah label showcase starring:
Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, has played his beautiful blend of droning guitars and simple instruments internationally, but suprisingly this will be his debut solo show in Berlin.
At Theaterkapelle (Boxhagner Str. 99, Fhain / U-bahn Samariterstr.)
Brought to you by Elevator Music & schall + raum.
04.09.09 / 7PM / Liondialer (Greg Haines & Danny Saul) @ Staalplaat
06.09.09 / 8PM / Danny Saul + VERY SPECIAL GUEST @ Loophole
16.09.09 / 8PM / Greg Haines solo @ Maria am Ostbahnhof
Svarte Greiner (Deaf Center/Miasmah/Type) explores deep into a dark, mysterious and disturbing universe. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Earth, Volcano the Bear, David Darling & Deathprod, the music is draped in Lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics. "The music of Svarte Greiner is practically perfect. It's like that sound in our heads we've been imagining for ages but had never actually heard." - Type Records.
The Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri/Miasmah/Immune) draws as much on modern genre progenitors like Brian Eno, Robin Guthrie and My Bloody Valentine as it does from the more historic traditions in neo-classicism from Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen. His album Glider has appeared on Thom Yorke's radar in making the Radiohead's lynchpin's top ten playlist.
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott (former Slowdive) is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
New Slowdive Blog Spot interview:_ I recently met online a very nice guy who goes by the name of Ramon Torres who as ked me five questions for his blog:
**look out for track I recently finished with Machinefabriek and Gareth Davis called "Soundlines" which will see a lovely 3 inch cd release on the spendid machinefabriek label very soon:
***If you are going to Sonar in Barcalona on 18th June come and see The Sight Below who I am playing guitar with!
¬¬¬"Navigare" out August 09 on Miasmah Recordings *****
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