Entia Non - Inter Alia (U-Cover, 2007)

1 Dwell (6:51)
2 Skillion Resistance (6:06)
3 Existential Consent (7:47)
4 Anew (8:55)
5 Episteme (5:44)
6 Gossamer Crescent (5:45)
7 Woven Other (6:33)
8 Firmamental Swarf (5:24)
9 Reticent Feedback (6:52)

James McDougall crée avec tout ce qui lui tombe sous la main, mais essentiellement avec des field recordings et des manipulations électroniques une ambient sublime et profonde...

Autralian James McDougall aka Entia Non comes already with a second release on U-cover. After the just released 'Zero comma zero' on the U-cover minidisc label now he bring a nine track full lenght. Again he creates excellent ambient music by using samples, records, cds, tapes, shortwave radio, contact microphones, field recordings, vsti's plugs, toy instruments, a bass guitar, etc.... Entia Non delivers a high standard ambient release full of emotive and personal tracks. Don't miss this one!
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Koen Daigaku - Phosphorescence (U-Cover, 2008)

1 Untitled 1 (4:05)
2 Untitled 2 (3:30)
3 Untitled 3 (4:56)
4 Untitled 4 (4:30)
5 Untitled 5 (4:03)
6 Untitled 6 (3:31)
7 Untitled 7 (3:40)
8 Untitled 8 (3:29)
9 Untitled 9 (3:23)
10 Untitled 10 (2:54)
11 Phosphorescence Remix By Ontayso (11:11)

Shimizu Kei, sous le pseudonyme de Koen Daigaku, crée des drones sombres, spacieux et tout en profondeur à partir de samples de musique classique....

Koen Daigaku is Shimizu Kei from Japan and he creates a deep ambient sound that reminds us to the darkest moments of Gas. Rumbling basssounds under distorted and rework loops of classical music. Minimal experimental soundscapes from Tokyo's sub-culture including an epic remix by U-cover's home-act Ontayso.
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Entia Non - Zero Comma Zero (U-Cover, 2007)

1 Uncommodious (6:06)
2 Buried Under Tomes (5:55)
3 Plein Air (6:59)
4 From The Out Set (5:41)

Superbe disque d'ambient où l'australien James McDougall utilise tout ce qui lui tombe sous la main, samplers, toy instruments, field recordings, etc etc...

Entia Non is James McDougall from Australia who creates superb ambient music. Zero comma zero is his debut on U-cover. His approach is to utilise literally anything he can get his hands on: samples, records, cds, tapes, shortwave radio, contact microphones, field recordings, vsti's plugs, toy instruments, a bass guitar, etc.... His intentions are to explore possibilities, to seek what us interesting in sound and to be free of any limitations. All resolting in a very high skilled, emotional balanced and very interesting ambient. Entia Non deserves to be discovered by all who love the work of Brian Eno, FSOL, Dead beat, loscil, Marsen Jules, Ontayso, Murcof, Shuttle 358, Biosphere, Robert Henke, to name a few of his influences and musical admirations. Entia Non is here to stay! Supertip!
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aus - Crowding (U-Cover, 2005)

***désolé, la piste 2 manque / sorry, track 2 is missing***

1 Through You (5:29)
2 Motion Parallax (5:55)
3 Fukuso (5:35)
4 Here She Comes (4:45)
5 Landed (6:53)
6 Idle Talk (7:05)
7 Eric's Idle Talk (3:47)
8 Ausspiel (6:17)

Second album de aus, dans la même veine que le précédent...

aus second Cdr release from the 21 year old Yasuhiko Fukuzono from Tokyo, Japan on U-cover. Again he shows his skills and unique approch to todays IDM music. aus keeps a very natural feel to his music and these 8 tracks sounds very complimentory to his last years debut release on U-cover CDr limited.
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aus - Kangaroo Note (U-Cover, 2004)

1 Lethargic (6:10)
2 Von Rechts Nach Links (4:50)
3 Midnight Wedding (4:42)
4 UR (5:06)
5 Where The Green Ants Dream (8:25)
6 Hero Of The Paper Boy (6:21)
7 E738 (5:54)
8 What's Eating You? (5:16)
9 Ballet Mechanic (4:35)
10 Middle March (5:55)
11 Sora (6:34)

Premier album du japonais Yasuhiko Fukuzono où il développe des paysages sonores nostalgiques...

aus is the 21 year old Yasuhiko Fukuzono from Tokyo, Japan. With these 11 tracks aus shows us his fresh and open mind and gives a personal interpretation to today's IDM style and 21th century ambient music.
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Milieu - Night Currents (U-Cover, 2006)

1 Journey By Heliodrome (7:59)
2 Seashell Breeze (1:35)
3 Path To Tower (4:07)
4 Fortyseven (3:43)
5 Hands Clapping, Time Reversing (7:30)
6 Dromeda Three (1:55)
7 Sad Yellow Father (4:42)
8 Slumber Notes (2:43)
9 Shoreline Drones (4:37)
10 She Is Hallway (4:01)
11 Counting Fives (1:41)
12 Golden Madison (3:42)
13 Waves Of Permanent Blue, Fields Of Endless Green (6:11)
14 Xanadu (24:53)

Voyage sans repos d'une heure vingt dans l'univers émotionnel de Brian Grainger...

Milieu's second album on U-cover's CDr label comes over as a cold blue companion to the winter weather. Reminding us of clear nights, skeletal trees and the comforts of a warm place inside, Brian Grainger's 'Night currents' doesn't let you fall asleep. A dark, restless and even hopeful album over a long 79 minute trip, the tracks take you on an emotional ride, with a sense of experimenting in the sound and mix, with not just a gentle passing by but a strong statement. Sometimes energetic while other times melancholic, Milieu's music sounds worried and full of desire to catch the spare light. Night Currents is Milieu's album of sadness, solitude and hope. Closing with over 24 minutes of fireworks fizzling out in a deep sea of white noise and feedback tones, driven but with a gentle touchdown, 2006 couldn't start in a more perfect way.
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Quosp - Soundscapes I (U-Cover, 2007)

1 Pine (1:48)
2 Ground (3:19)
3 Blue (8:50)
4 Quosp (3:44)
5 Beechwood (7:06)
6 Deep Space (7:29)
7 Sand (2:16)
8 Bistre (12:26)
9 Green (4:17)
10 Aqua (6:34)
11 Night Coast (8:40)
12 Ember (1:26)

Album ambient de Colin Kay, 19 ans, dans la lignée des meilleurs travaux ambient de Brian Grainger...

U-cover records is proud to present the work of the 19 years old Quosp AKA Colin Kay. 'Soundscapes I' is a selection from his MP3 Ep's on Metanoia Media and one track taken (Quosp) from the split MP3 album with Milieu on Rope Swing Cities. On this CDr debut release are four previous unreleased tracks include. This selection of his best ambient tracks made over the period of two years comes close to the best ambient work of Milieu and Brian Eno. 'Soundscapes I' is ambient music on his very best and a prove that real talent finds his way fast. Highly, highly recommended!
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Hakobune - Wandering Toward What Was Unsaid (U-Cover, 2007)

1 The July Skies Followed Us Here (5:10)
2 そして、超越する日差し (4:24)
3 Realization At Dusk (5:37)
4 What It Meant Before (5:03)

The 13th instalment of the very well received Minidisc serie comes from Japanese artist Takahiro Yorifuji aka Hakobune. A beatless beautiful ambient 4 tracker, again only by using guitars and some selected field recordings. Dreamy dronescapes from the highest Japanese handcrafted state of the art. Again comes with our personal highest recommendation.
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Ten And Tracer - An Hour Brighter (U-Cover, 2002)

1 On Your Marks (5:12)
2 Wizard Start (1:36)
3 Cine Fil (6:31)
4 Aurora Reflect (4:16)
5 Next Sun (0:52)
6 Yellows Home (3:21)
7 Lions (2:01)
8 No Magic Martin (4:29)
9 This Is Mixed Medium (0:45)
10 Ever Go Rolling (4:41)
11 Deep Sky Objects (0:33)
12 Signal Red Volunteers (4:27)
13 Ven Mirror (0:49)
14 Fifth Lake And Screams (4:23)
15 Balloon Go (1:25)
16 Next Wind (1:33)
17 Funshine (3:01)
18 1987A (1:14)
19 Circle Alaska Missed (0:55)
20 Glow Days (4:00)
21 Falls (2:32)
22 We Can Ride (1:11)

Electronique construite avec simplicité des mélodies et rythmes marqués dans la lignée de Boards of Canada...

"an hour brighter" is a follow-up to a vinyl on u-cover's sublabel inc.us, and a continuation of the themes outlined on earlier mp3-only releases. it only took a right mindset and appropriate weather to understand what this album is all about. with music like this the environment for me often means a lot - the influence is mutual - it allows you to hear the music, tune in, and at the same time the music itself slowly creates the appropriate mood. this album finally "clicked" one early murky morning in late august; it became a perfect soundtrack for the quiet, chilly day with empty streets, devoid of any movement, as if paused in that perfect moment between the seasons - this is when ten and tracer's simplicity in choosing melodies and rhythms, lack of any dazzling gimmicks, its overall quiet ambience at last fell in place. there is a constant presence of extended melodic waves throughout each song, reminding you of similar flow of boards of canada, but this time it is colder, cooler, never achieving rampant melancholy or often overdone warmth of boc. yet another ever-present property is continuous percussion, with steady heavy rhythmic feel, without any of the fuzziness or crackling, splintery feel so common in this genre. combined with elegant melodies, it might remind you of more rhythmic side of arovane. intentional simplicity of this album becomes its strongest quality - slowly growing on its listener to the point where one becomes fully immersed in the music; ten and tracer does not overwhelm - it softly envelops you in its textures, opens up the surroundings. viewed from this perspective, "an hour brighter" becomes an album perfectly fitted for u-cover's ideology of subtle, refined electronica with a human touch.
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Kettel - Volleyed Iron (U-Cover, 2004)

1 A French Composer (4:37)
2 America Video (5:54)
3 Did We Orient? (2:50)
4 Electrician And Adventurer (1:34)
5 Four Eyes At A Gate (2:33)
6 Sorry, But We Don't Hear You (3:59)
7 Teeth, Wait (3:57)
8 Clock.exe (2:37)
9 Ureterp, July (2:12)
10 Hondsvot (1:40)
11 Machine Planet (8:00)
12 Wim Hoffman (8:44)
13 Little Duck, When Is Our Day? (4:11)
14 Tomorrow? (4:32)

Après le dansant et extatique Dreim (Kracfive Records, 2001) et les très réussis albums electronica Cenny Crush (DUB, 2002) et Smiling little cow (Neo Ouija, 2002), et alors qu’un nouvel album (Through friendly waters) vient de sortir sur le label néerlandais Sending Orbs, le prolifique Reimer Eising nous a offert ce que nous considérons être le meilleur album de 2004 sur l’excellent label U-Cover.

Il explore avec ce disque une nouvelle facette de son grand talent en déployant, tout au long des 14 plages qui le composent, une ambient qui instaure imperceptiblement un climat onirique, fantasmatique, puissamment évocateur chez l’auditeur. Qu’on le veuille ou non, on ne peut rester insensible à ce Volleyed Iron : l’oreille sera immanquablement accrochée par ces structures mi-apaisantes et languides, mi-inquiétantes et frissonnantes. Nappes denses et profondes, multiplicité de sons et d’effets jamais gratuits, beauté paisible d’un piano qui surnage et porte le morceau (Sorry, but we don’t hear you, Ureterp, July, le morceau d’ouverture A French composer ou l’envoûtant Little duck, when is your day ? où les notes commencent par s’allier au doux bruit des vagues)... Tout concourt à installer un climat magique, éminemment cinématographique, nocturne par essence. De brefs interludes en longues plages ouatées, fourmillant d’idées derrière leur calme apparent, ce disque glisse tel une marée, en flux et reflux, laissant régulièrement apparaître l’une ou l’autre aspérité évocatrice, ou s’autorisant une excursion glaciale de 7 minutes (Machine planet) d’une densité dévastatrice.

Reimer Eising, dont le talent ne cesse d’impressionner, tant sur disque qu’en live (sa prestation lors de la soirée U-Cover du 20 novembre 2004 aura constitué pour nous un indéniable point d’orgue de l’année), se montre ici orfèvre de profondeur et de subtilité. Conviant ça et là samples vocaux ou bruitages de machines, jouant en permanence sur la corde raide tant l’absence délibérée de rythmes peut représenter une gageure, il se montre capable de ciseler des mélodies sublimement belles (Four eyes at a gate, Wim Hoffman) et nous gratifie ici d’une oeuvre intensément belle, révélant une grande maturité et potentiellement séduisante pour toutes les oreilles.

Se détachant, par sa profondeur d’inspiration et la plénitude du climat qui en émane, de disques d’electronica rythmée même excellents, cet album achève d’installer son auteur parmi les musiciens les plus talentueux de sa génération, dont l’on veillera à suivre les traces pas à pas.

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Despite operating in largely playful electronic arena's, with releases for the likes of Planet Mu, DUB, Kracfive, Neo Ouija and so on, Reimer Eising's Kettel project has always had something strikingly original and composed about it. "Volleyed Iron" finds Reimer piecing together easily his finest release to date, a glowing warm ambient album that falls somewhere between Brian Eno's Appolo, Satie's gentlest piano music, and the romantic soundtrack scores of nameless, unforgettable French films. Piecing together shards of found sounds and field recordings, the organic textures that underlay these pieces almost fall into some kind of electronic music cliché, but the honesty, incredible warmth and sheer beauty of this hour long collection of stories is just too moving to argue with. Open, involving, beautiful electronic music with slivers of violin, piano and broken, dusty old samples, music that comes with a huge recommendation.
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Hakobune - Sense Of Place (U-Cover, 2007)

1 Pastoral 463 (4:22)
2 Lights That Gradually Fade Away (5:00)
3 Ice Blue (5:20)
4 Ethereal Goings (4:21)
5 Natsu No Hi (4:36)
6 Elusive Pasts (4:00)
7 From Mesquite (6:24)
8 The Straight Road (3:34)
9 Waiting Offshore (5:13)
10 Kikan (2:00)

Le japonais Takahiro Yorifuji utilise juste sa guitare et quelques field recordings pour créer des paysages à base de drones sublimes...

Hakobune is Japanese artist Takahiro Yorifuji who creates soundscapes by using guitar drone and a few field recordings. The result is from an extremely beautiful level. Sweet droning ambient that will touch everyones listeners soul. Hakobune keeps his approuch very minimal, based on only his guitar and some effects. Just sublime!
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Milieu - Aurora Borealis (U-Cover, 2005)

1 Lazy Days On Our Hillside (4:23)
2 Parasol (6:57)
3 Seventeen Twelve (0:43)
4 Rooms Within Rooms (4:34)
5 Blue Bath (6:59)
6 Inline Track (3:47)
7 Statuettes (6:37)
8 Trapezoid Sing (5:19)
9 The Last Song We Found (1:25)
10 Slow Lid Close (7:31)
11 Laine (5:26)
12 Narthex (7:13)
13 Numbers Drop (4:17)
14 Universes Inside You (1:23)
15 Autumn Fog Lifts (3:56)
16 Hidden Paths (7:53)

Un album de Brian Grainger, sous son alias de Milieu, tout plein de rythmes. Hypnotique...

Well, not so vast as to not be in the genre ballpark; but where the ambience is full of drift and gentle immersion on the prior records, these two are filled with beats, pushing their limpid soundtracks into the casual downtempo category. The opener on Aurora Borealis, "Lazy Days On Our Hillside" takes the slow tones of Beyond the Sea Lies the Stars and makes it a background motif for a scratchy vinyl recording of a hypnotic auto-suggestion tape. As you relax upon a hillside of warm grass with fluffy clouds overhead, the tones draw you further and further into an ambient headspace. For those who need a little prodding to get into the right mindset, "Lazy Days On Our Hillside" is all the help you need. "Parasol" follows and the beats soon trickle after. Reminding me of Ulrich Schnauss' Far Away Trains Passing By, "Parasol" (and a number of other tracks on the record) dapples beats like they're diaphanous bursts of air that buoy the spirit.

"Seventeen Twelve" is only forty-three seconds of tones and radio signals. Oh, I wanted so much more. Grainger has a few other short tracks that slip out of the mold and venture off into interesting territory. "The Last Song We Found" echoes with round tones, but there's a hint of water bubbling underneath while "Universes Inside You" fuzzs and groans with radio love, as if he's experimenting with using shortwave signals as his tonal foundation.

Of the longer tracks, "Statuettes" is airy guitar, plucked and drenched in Oriental reverb. Sounding like the sounds you'd hear wafting over a room full of Chinese statues, "Statuettes" veers wildly from the Western Downtempo approach for something more eclectic. "Trapezoid Sing," while returning to the model that Grainger has set up for himself, has a delightful evolution of tones as the persistent melody that wafts through the track. The drums kick along, but it's this airy wave that really lifts me by the chin and takes me away. "Laine" layers piano over a muffled field recording in a distant wooden cabin, creating a melancholy elegy to the solitary life high in the mountains.
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