Sadayatana « For the Sake of Ghosts »

The following release is not an album released by some label but one of John Tocher's Sadayatana podcasts for the net radio station StillStream. As such it is not meant to be burned on CD-R - all the less as several of the used tracks are not of lossless origin and the total length of the podcast is about three hours.

You can listen to the entire podcast, the whole three hours. The tracklist below features streams of all unmixed tracks.

The following list has a set of two data for each track's duration, once the duration of the track in the podcast, the second one (in parentheses) is the length of the original track.

1. Javier Piñango - SETI 0:20 (5:58)
2. emptywhale - The Boy Who Could Hear Colours 6:08 (7:32)
3. Failure - Untitled 5:52 (24:00)
4. Vlad Shegal - Hearing Things 8:11 (23:03)
5. Failure - Untitled (Reprise) 1:22
6. Luís Antero - Paper Mill 1 8:25 (12:35)
7. The Ambient Visitor - Asclepius 17:18 (21:31)
8. I.M.M.U.R.E. - Somnia 32:43 (43:25)
9. CDRX - Travel by Night 26:04 (79:24)
10. emptywhale - Bembridge Harbour 10:01 (5:27)
11. Alan Morse Davies - Phonautograph 1860 2:11 (24:39)
12. emptywhale - Looking Glass 7:06 (7:12)
13. Ice Guild Kaiser - Rain 39:15 (56:18)
14. CDRX and Kecap Tuyul - Wind Spirits 11:34 (55:02)
15. Vilmos Jäger - Kaka toven es Galya rabok 2:33 (2:35)

For the Sake of Ghosts was originally podcast on 15^th June 2013.

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

Direct download of the MP3 version of the complete album from the Internet Archive:
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See also: MusicBrainz

For the Sake of Ghosts ℗ 2013 John Tocher

mR « Inner EP »

Droning has quite a negative connotation that bodes ill for anything tagged with it. I have always felt uneasy with this style of music, especially because there is a close link to ambient and space music. There are different styles within this theme - I can count at least three different forms that can be distinguished by the sounds that are used. Let's call them tribal drone, industrial drone and space drone. Tribal drone used traditional instruments (like the bagpipe, didgeridoo or tambura) to create the drones, while industrial and space drone used artificial sounds to create drone but let's call the space drones cleaner and somewhat more uplifting while industrial drones are dirtier, noisier. Of course, this is overly simplifying the drone. Most of the time drone bores me soon enough, so I prefer my drone to be rather part of something greater.
This here is an example of space drone and it's shortness is an advantage in my eyes…

1. Inner Light 8:00
2. Inner Steps 9:50

Inner EP was released by Italian netlabel Type Konnection on 5^th June 2013. It is provided in high quality sound at 48 kHz in 24bit encoding.

• Free streaming and download in WAVE, FLAC or Ogg Vorbis from the Internet Archive

Direct download of the FLAC version of the complete album from the Internet Archive:
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See also: Discogs | Last.fm | MusicBrainz

Inner EP ℗ 2013 mR

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.

Direct download of the MP3 version of the complete album from the Internet Archive:
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See also: Discogs | Last.fm | MusicBrainz | RateYourMusic

Echoes ℗ 2012 Stellardrone ℅ Edgaras Žakevičius