Saturday, December 06, 2014

Carl Sagan’s Ghost « At the End of It All »

Carl Sagan’s Ghost is an ambient music project of the American composer Daniel J. Davis. With a name like this it is obvious that I need to show it to you!

At the End of It All is an album from 2009.
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At the End of It All was released on 4th of December in 2008 on the netlabel Soft Phase under a Creative Commons license.

The music is a very quiet electronic ambient album. It has a drone in most of its tracks with very subdued melodies and - at least to me - an early eighties feeling. Some of the tracks seem like Vangelis making space drone. Most critics gave this album rave reviews. It deserves a whole lot of the appreciation but unless you’re in a somewhat meditative or relaxed mood it may not carry you through its entire length. Beyond that it is just wonderful.
Direct download of the FLAC version of the complete album from the Internet Archive:
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At the End of It All by Carl Sagan’s Ghost is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at https://archive.org/details/sfp10flac.

Thursday, December 04, 2014

Xenofish « Datastasis »

Xenofish is the German producer Christian Becker. Datastasis is his fourth album.
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Released on 17th of July in 2014 through Ektoplazm under a Creative Commons license, Xenofish has created an album that takes a playful attempt at psychedelic drum & bass that digresses into any genre neighbouring with electronic psy music that Christian Becker felt likely intrigued to explore. The result is surprisingly concise and plays like charm. The worst I can say about this album is that in the end the album as a whole makes a better impression than each single track on its own. But then again, this weakness is also its force.
  • Free streaming and download in WAV, FLAC or MP3 from Ektoplazm CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  • Free streaming and download in WAV, FLAC, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis from the Internet Archive CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Direct download of the FLAC version of the complete album from the Internet Archive:
DOWNLOAD

Creative Commons License
Datastasis by Xenofish is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/xenofish-datastasis.