Well, the APRA/GEMA thing didn’t go away or get smooth as I thought it may have. My releases – Signal Artifacts and phantomshadows – are both unavailable until I can sort that out. Kind of no one to blame, just bureaucracy. I’m trying to get more music up and around. Will update soon. Mood – sad.
Tag: ambient music
Venus Vulture track on NTNS best of- compilation
The Venus Vulture track Distant Rainfall part 2 from the Heavy Skies EP has been included on Stroll, one of the four best of NTNS radio – AprMayJune 2009 compilations, which also includes tracks from Resting Bell and TestTube labelmates, Phillip Wilkerson, Sylvie Walder & entia non and d’incise. Mark of NTNS has been a great supporter, as well a playing tracks on the radio show, he also included a track from Signal Artifacts on the end of year compilation Sun in 2008.
Shifting sands
It seems there’s a shift going on here as my writing year expands faster than my soundscape year. While this has been a good year for Venus Vulture, I notice that the blog has become more focused on my fiction and writing – it has been my best year for writing by far too. And typing this post will push the most recent music post off the blog’s frontpage and make my header “ambient music yada yada” sit atop a bunch of posts about flash-fiction. That’s kind of weird, so I’ll be re-thinking a little. Should I have separate blogs for each? Next year’s secret project will have its own blog, and probably my focus will be on that anyway. Perhaps I’ll just change the header. If I can figure out how to do that – it must be possible since I put it in there in the first place ….
Quiet, then a flurry …
It’s been a busy May, mostly creating in the background with little in the world, and little to report. Some more news is in the works, just need some crosses for the ‘i’s and dots for the … or something like that.
Some Venus Vulture tracks from the Heavy Skies EP were played on the NTNS radio podcast on May 9th. Mark has played some of my music (from Signal Artifacts) and music by other Resting Bell artists on previous podcasts. The whole show is around three hours long and also features music from morsure souffle by d’incise, also from Test Tube
Ambient album release on Test Tube
This is a concept piece comprised of long and short ambient tracks from a half minute to around fourteen minutes – the whole album it 53 minutes long, still a soundscape but with perhaps the most melodic stuff I’ve released so far.
Click here for the Test Tube site and download links.
New Venus Vulture Release on TurkbyTone Rekkids part 1
As the result of some collaboration and encouragement the new Venus Vulture EP Heavy Skies is out now. This includes the track We Heard Distant Rainfall created for the sommeil sleep concert. You can download from bandcamp. Thanks to Craig from TurkbyTone Rekkids and to Tanner Menard, the awesome curator of sommeil.
Download from Bandcamp
Label info TurkbyTone Rekkids
Tanner Menard
Tanner Menard – sommiel: a concert for sleep
Tanner Menard is curating an amazing event – a nine-hour long mix of ambient music to sleep to. The mix will include the Venus Vulture track We Heard Distant Rainfall. See more about the event in the press release at Tanner’s site. “Sleep concerts are all-night events in which the audience is asked to attend the concert with a sleeping bag and pillow and to fall asleep while a slowly unfolding sonic texture evolves over the course of the night and into the morning”. The concert takes place on the night of April 11th, in New Orleans
Venus Vulture track on NTNS year-end compilation
Signal Resolutions 11 August 2008 on lakaFILZ Resting Bell web mix
I don’t know much about this but there’s a very cool tribute to the Resting Bell netlabel including a Venus Vulture track. Listen online here
Playlist:
The Way Up To The Hill (Mensa – Southern Recordings)
Dream Of The Lighthouse Keeper (Astrowind – Der Leuchtturm)
The Clifts (Mensa – Southern Recordings)
Listless is more (Offthesky – Rare Decay)
0Forest At The Edge Of The Endless Fields (Astrowind – Der Leuchtturm)
Signal resolutions – 11 August 2008 (Venus Vulture – Signal Artifacts)
4.0 (Glenn Ryszko – 4.0 subtle distorted guitar drones)
1.0 (Glenn Ryszko – 4.0 subtle distorted guitar drones)
Libau (Astrowind – Der Leuchtturm)
Iside outside corners (Offthesky – Rare Decay)
Signal Artifacts reviews
A couple of archive.org users have reviewed Signal Artifacts – one postive, one not so much – nice to have a balance:
Reviewer: brian’sworld – – December 2, 2008
Subject: hmmm
just not really there for me. not a lot happens – yes, i know its ambient. tonally ok but in terms of interesting development it is lacking. not quite up to his standard nor resting bells.
Reviewer: junbuggy – – November 13, 2008
Subject: high quality
another high quality release and a really rather lovely and interesting addition to the Resting Bell catalogue.
Triple V Publishing 