2019: the air is full of phantoms (sampler)

by theadelaidean

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Tony Brook I think I have mentioned it before, but I’m not a big fan of straight drone. This, however, has enough variation to maintain my interest, and it’s only a sampler. Well done Mr Williams, your music is almost as good as your writing talent. 😉

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The holiday season can be stressful. Sometimes you just need an hour or two to centre yourself. If that's you, here are two samplers of ambient music, on me. (The other is "humbug".)

The sources on these tracks are listed below. Taken from all the albums I released this year, mixed together to create two very different soundscapes, these excerpts capture my abiding interest in ravelled drones and pulses of deep sound, against a backdrop that hisses with the years. (Many of these tracks feature recordings first made in 1983. For me they have layered like wine.)

This mix is designed to help you find a quiet space among the fuss and bother of a typical holiday.

This year has been one of reconnecting with my musical roots. What started as a passing fancy soon blossomed into ten albums, with more to come. I'm proud to share my work with you, rough edges and all.

I hope 2019 was as fulfilling a year for you as it was for me. May 2020 bring you joys unimagined.

(There is an option to pay for this album, thereby helping me justify this mad passion, but only if you want to.)

Best wishes,
Sean Williams aka "the_adelaidean"

Featured on "the air is filled with phantoms"

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“Slow Release” - exclusive to this release

0:30
Spiral Symphony “Extension and Compression of a Spiral Spring”

4:45
Invisible Music “Invisible Music 1”

10:00
Moth “Comet”

15:30
The Drone at the End of the World “The Drone at the End of the World” - coming in 2020

19:30
Invisible Music “Invisible Music 2”

23:00
and_scape “Going Home the Long Way Around” - with Xander Monteath

26:15
XTRMQRTT [2019] “Drone #3” - with Extreme Quartet

30:30
Slow Pianos “Iteration 14”

35:45
Mach Ruhe “Track One” - coming in 2020

38:00
un_sound_tracks “Music for Stretched Voices”

40:00
Pianogenesis “Phase Three” - coming in 2020

44:15
Invisible Music “Invisible Music 3”

49:00
Moth “Atlas”

50:45
and_scape “Bridge of Bubbles”

53:00
Spiral Symphony “Spiral Symphony”

57:15
“Slow Release” - exclusive to this release

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released December 12, 2019

See individual albums for credits. Thanks to everyone who contributed. This year wouldn't have been possible without you.

Mix titles taken from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with one small alteration.

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theadelaidean Adelaide, Australia

Original and collaborative ambient soundscapes.

My albums with Projekt Records and Aerozine 50 are very much in the drone/lofi vein, without the weird surprises you might find here.

By day I'm a writer and educator at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. ... more

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