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News from the Conning Tower: next year’s compilation
We announced on Twitter this week that in 2021 we would do another 'various artists' charity compilation, and we announced that although it was an open call, there would be strict entry criteria. We also said that participants might have to purchase a film. So, enough with the mystery, let's put some flesh on those …
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News from the Conning Tower: new release round-up
Blimey Charlie, it's been busy. Several new releases to catch-up on, so straight to business, if you please. Flavigula: JēmarazJēmaraz is an album incorporating ambient krautrock soundscapes, samples and live instrumentation that will delight fans of progressive and art rock. Each composition on Jēmaraz creates colourful, heady landscapes that are simultaneously dark and light, disorienting …
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HOZRO BY IYARI IS ONE OF THE RECOMENDACIONES DE LA SEMANA ON DEPNAFUZZ
Review from Forestpunk of Cloud Diameter 2 – Cosmic Jazz For The Age Of Spiritual Machines
Getachew Mekuria + John Coltrane + Count Zero = Cloud Diameters 2
“The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.”
RAY KURZWEIL, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
“By the end of this decade, we will have full-immersion visual-auditory environments, populated by realistic looking virtual humans. By the 2030s, virtual reality will be totally realistic and compelling and we will spend most of our time in virtual environments. By the 2040s, even people of biological origin are likely to have the vast majority of their thinking process taking place in nonbiological substrates. We will all become virtual humans.”
RAY KURZWEIL, attributed, The Age of Virtual Reality
“The Infinity Room,” Yayoi Kusama, The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Parallax Error,” the opening invocation from Cloud Diameter 2, creeps in with the warm, breathy sound of a tenor sax jamming along with a modular…
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News from the Conning Tower: Sub the Sub
Having given it some thought, and after doing some sums, we've decided to enable a new feature which will be of interest to our regular customers: the Submarine Broadcasting Company Supporter's Club. It's a Bandcamp subscription service. You pay £5 a month and you get access to the digital versions of everything we do, plus …
News from the Conning Tower: Sommer
Our second (and final) release for July is Sommer by DR (Dominic Razlaff from Germany). Sommer is a collection of ambient drones combined with field recordings and found sounds, ideal for drifting away to on these long and languid summer days. Sommer is available as digital download, exclusively on Bandcamp.
News from the Conning Tower: Micrographia
So we have a brand new release tomorrow (10th July) and it's a split release from two artists new to the submarine, qualchan and Dogs versus Shadows. The split has been named Micrographia after the book (as per Wikipedia: Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon …
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News from the Conning Tower: coming attractions
Hello you. How's things? It's all a bit weird at the moment, isn't it. One of the benefits of operating from a submarine is that isolation is all part of the gig. So as far as new releases go, it's full-steam ahead. But without the steam, obvs. Two new releases that have snuck under the …
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‘Happiness’, from Incentive
Our first release of 2020 is an imprint of Incentive's brilliant Happiness album on cassette. It's urgent, dense, claustrophobic, playful, ominous, melodic, and visceral. It's instrumental, but certainly not ambient. James (Incentive) says: Happiness is an an album comprised of inspired and emotional compositions and production — a deep, complex sonic journey that amalgamates deep mechanical …
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