Reflection « The Art of Magic »

Reflection is the dark prog-psy project of Gibb Tartaris, a music teacher from Canberra, the Australian federal capital.

The Art of Magic is the autobiographical tale of a “mathemagician” on a journey to discover frequencies and wavelengths infused with a perfect balance of mathematical and magical harmonies. In essence, this album attempts to use the power of mathematics to trick people the way a magician would.

1. Magicians World 9:49
2. Mathemagic 9:20
3. Mental Tricks 8:11
4. Mind Games 8:43
5. The Pledge (Part 1) 8:51
6. The Turn (Part 2) 8:46
7. The Prestige (Part 3) 9:13

The EP The Art of Magic was released on 1^st of August in 2014 by Glitchy.Tonic.Records under a Creative Commons license. While released for free, you may want to support the artist and buy the album from Bandpage.

Musically it’s a somewhat subdued progressive psytrance with nice sound effects - I guess being subdued with sound effects is what all the sites call the zenonesque bit of progressive trance. I personally prefer my psy with a bit more oomph because at an average of eight minutes a track appears to have never gone off the ground but still, it’s nice and maybe never going boom is a paradox worthy of Zenon of Elea.

• Free streaming and download in WAV, FLAC or MP3 from Ektoplazm 
• Free streaming and download in WAV, FLAC, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis from the Internet Archive 
  
  

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The Art of Magic ℗ 2014 Reflection ℅ Gibb Tartaris

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Logical Disorder « Spoilt Puppets and Emotional Imbalances EP »

Logical Disorder is the performance of Javier Barrero from Barcelona, Cataluña. His music is somewhere to be found between IDM, industrial, ambient and other things…

1. Fire 1 6:46
2. Why Cannot I Exhale? 4:06
3. Xmas Is Dead 4:13
4. Darling, You'd Better Call the Mechanic 5:56
5. Fire 2 6:42
6. Non Responding Lights 4:36
7. Paper Team 6:53
8. Fire 7 5:32

Spoilt Puppets and Emotional Imbalances EP was released 24^th November 2006 by the Spanish netlabel Nulogic. Javier later made it available via his Bandcamp page.

• Free streaming and download in MP3 from Nulogic
• Free streaming and download in MP3 or Ogg Vorbis from the Internet Archive
• Free streaming and download in FLAC, MP3, ALAC, AAC or Ogg Vorbis from Bandcamp

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Spoilt Puppets and Emotional Imbalances EP ℗ 2006 Logical Disorder ℅ Javier Barrero

mend « The State We're In »

Ten years after their debut album, mend finally returned with some new material.




The State We're In was released 30 December 2012. While Todd claims it on mend's official SoundCloud page to be an EP, it is in my mind just a maxi-single consisting of an a-side, a b-side, and two remixes of the a-side.

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The State We're In ℗ 2012 mend ℅ Corey Hennis, Todd Mahoney, and Chet Slater

mend « In Spite of It All »

Sometimes it so happens that an artist has released some stuff years and years ago, sufficiently long enough that said music has gone out of print ages ago. One option is to try to find a new publisher, a new label to reissue the music. Or the artist makes the music available for free.

That's what Idahoan synth pop band mend did in 2008 when they re-licensed their music under a Creative Commons license.





In Spite of It All was the first album, originally released via Altered Music in June 2002. It was reissued via Jamendo and Bandcamp 22 October 2008.

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• Free streaming and download in MP3 from Jamendo
• Free streaming and download in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis from the Internet Archive

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In Spite of It All ℗ 2002 mendmusic ℅ Corey Hennis, Todd Mahoney, and Chet Slater

Stellardrone « Echoes »

For my first post in this blog I have chosen the music of my pal Edgaras Žakevičius from Lithuania. Edgaras is a self-taught musician who has been publishing space ambient music under the moniker Stellardrone since 2009.

1. Endeavour 5:36
2. Satellite 3:21
3. Galaxies 5:30
4. Aurora 7:38
5. Nightscape 8:39
6. Gravitation 7:54
7. Penumbra 6:57
8. Stardome 5:23
9. Tranquility 6:06
10. Mars 2:40

Echoes is the 5th album by Stellardrone which was released on 4 January 2012 by Energostatic Records. Today it is available for free via Archive.org in MP3 or Ogg Vorbis, while is can be purchased for download for one US dollar via Bandcamp. But both versions can be shared, at least according to the Creative Commons licensed mentioned on both sites.

• Free streaming and download in MP3 from Energostatic
• Free streaming and download in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis from the Internet Archive
• Free streaming and download in MP3 from Jamendo
• Free streaming and purchase for download in FLAC and other formats from Bandcamp

Echoes is an excellent entry in the space ambient music genre, definitely among the best.

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Echoes ℗ 2012 Stellardrone ℅ Edgaras Žakevičius