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  • Some lovely Vinyl arrived at Little Universe Music.....

    We have some Vinyl in limited quantities by Pink Floyd, John Martyn and many others. Visit Discogs to view availability. #Vinyl

  • Szun Waves’ New Hymn To Freedom reviews...

    These six pieces reveal the occasional trio’s telepathic sense of harmony, and and strike that broad sweet spot between James Holden’s rural exotica and Sun Ra’s tropical vibrations" 8/10 Uncut “It’s an album to lose yourself in… Psychedelic nebulas of sound - ambient expanses scribbled with plaintive sax melodies and carried along by drumbeats that pad and thrash, as Abbott’s synths wobble and fizz and shimmer and fly like streamers” Gramophone "A spellbinding testimonial to the hypnotic potential of improvised music This is a record that seems torn between electronica, free improvisation, ambient mood music or forward-gazing modern jazz, and sounds all the fresher for this indecisiveness… The result is that rarest of things: an improvised album that sounds so perfect, you’d think it was all planned" 8.5/10 The Line Of Best Fit “Szun Waves’ jazz is as grounded by the earth’s elements as it is afloat in space” Pitchfork “If you dug James Holden’s The Animal Spirits, this trio - led by fellow synth wrangler Luke Abbott - forge a similar path to psych-jazz valhalla” Uncut "This glorious second album from Szun Waves shares the same musical DNA as the crystalline and melodic jazz that hailed from the German ECM label in the 70s. Some stunning modern music." London in Stereo “The band create immersive freeform soundscapes and spacious dance-inflected grooves to hypnotic effect” Jazzwise “You can hear traces of each and every contributor's DNA within the musical makeup of 'Constellation': loose, improvisational jazz drums, deep, swirling atmospherics, soaring saxophones and searing synths all bathed in a warm analogue glow. Watch this space” 8/10 DJ “That really has such a magic” Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music “Shimmering melodies and confounding rhythms that astonish with deep-seeded emotion and sonic depth” XLR8R “A glorious kaleidoscope of interwoven melodies and textures” Track Of The Day, The 405

  • Krystian Shek's "al-Qāhirah" is a longform slice of far-flung ethnotronica that speaks

    Krystian Shek released a number of superb and still underrated albums on Namlook’s FAX imprint over the years; his first Carpe Sonum offering, 2014’s Sometimes Not, was a bracing return to form, and al-Qāhirah is the follow-up, and it’s a dandy, a longform slice of far-flung ethnotronica that speaks within dub’s mother tongue but jettisons the lockstep rhythmic underpinning. In so doing, Shek’s augured quite a brilliant thing: digidub that is all languid pools of sound, froth, reverberation, and echo, plunging the listener into a vast abyssal chamber whose sounds mimic the detritus found in long-abandoned sensory deprivation tanks. Yet the whole experience is becalming, welcoming, and thoroughly non-isolationist: throughout the fifteen-minute excursion of the title track, we are treated to a rainbow coalition of thrillingly sculpted shimmers lighting up a desert night sky like some man-made aurora borealis. Shek’s skill lies in his ability to showcase works of ‘ambience’ that are leagues removed from Eno’s hoary old definition—this is a music of flares and fanfare, bursting with light, drunk on the absinthe of nature. #KrystianShek #alQāhirah #Ethnotronica

  • Autumn of Communion | Reservoir Of Video Souls | CD

    Pre order for August/September release... Autumn Of Communion return with a new album titled Reservoir Of Video Souls shortly after the release of their massive "Streams" CD Box set. Setting out with a fresh sonic trajectory where organically formed musical passages forge and mutate effortlessly with sequenced synth jams and experimental polyrhythmic grooves taking their expansive range of influences and idiosyncratic trademarks to new astronomical spheres. New label from TXT founder Lee Norris Lee Norris, of "Autumn Of Communion", "Norken" and "Metamatics" to name a couple has a new label "Fantasy Enhancing" in the pipeline which will be up and running soon with a new website. First releases are by; Autumn of Communion, Ambidextrous, Ishqamatics and Confluent Phase More news to follow and we will be stocking these at Little Universe Music upon release. #LeeNorris #FantasyEnhancing #AutumnOfCommunion

  • Canopy Of Stars | Waves | Out Now..

    "The first full-length Canopy of Stars glass mastered CD is now available in a limited edition of 100 copies. Music inspired by the sights and sounds of the coast, a fascination with the universe stretching back to my childhood and all of the ambient music that I love." - Canopy Of Stars #CanopyOfStars #Ambient #Space

  • 3 new titles from Glacial Movements...

    Tropic of Coldness | Framed Waves A duo formed by David and Giovanni, who met by chance, or maybe not, in Brussels, Belgium, during the autumn of 2011. David is a guitarist, synth and sample player, already active on the Brussels scene with his electro / experimental project “Drawing Virtual Gardens” with several releases on Time Released Sound, Flaming Pines, Shimmering Moods and Krysalisound. Giovanni played guitar, voice and samples for the North-East Italian band “Fuji Apple Worship”, involved in a melting pot of drones, field recordings and minimal sound sculptures. Since its beginning in November 2011, Tropic of Coldness focused on drones / ambient / electroacoustics originated from improvised session, with layers of processed guitars and synths, surrounded and filtrated by field recordings in a sort of acoustic archaeology. The sound research permeates every single note and the harmonic pattern is oriented towards both instrumental and compositional exploration, in a combination of ambient and electronic elements. The imaginary recalled refers to a concrete reality made present from time to time by field recordings or track titles created with the intention to establish ideally an immediate connection between listener and physical space. Tropic of Coldness have performed live in Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna as well as touring in other cities of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. PAUL SCHÜTZE | THE SKY TORN APART Paul Schütze has worked for over thirty years as an artist in the fields of, photography, video, sound and installation. He was a founding member of Australian experimental band Laughing Hands and of Phantom City: an international collective of musicians working both live and virtually from points across the globe. He has performed with sound & film works in over a dozen countries and released over thirty albums of original music. His works have been exhibited in numerous international galleries and museums (V&A, The Hayward, Reina Sofia, IVAM, British Museum). His photographic work is held in both public and private collections including The British Museum, Pallant House and the Speed Museum. He has collaborated with major international artists including James Turrell, Josiah McElheny & Isaac Julien and musicians including Bill Laswell, Lol Coxhill, Toshinori Kondo, Raoul Björkenheim, Clive Bell, Dirk Wachtaeler, Max Eastley, Jah Wobble, Robert Hamson and David Toop. Paul runs the online sensory archive Dressing The Air and in 2014 introduced olfactory elements into his artwork. In 2016 He launched fragrance house Paul Schütze Perfume with partner Chris Rickwood. NORTHAUNT | ISTID III Northaunt is the ambient project of Norwegian Hærleif Langås, and has since the late nineties released 4 albums where the signature sound is a mix of field recording from nature, soundscapes and ambient, inspired by norse nature and landscapes and our role as a part of nature. The composing of ISTID came as a reaction to our modern lifes, our world and how it sometimes seem confusing, stressful and noisy. Put of by all this and inspired by books about earths history, iceages and the forces that formed the landscapes we have today, Hærleif started making ISTID, Iceage in Norwegian, to imagine a world of silence before man. This is the 3rd album in the series and we can now imagine man is about to start his lonely quest for meaning in the desolation. The frozen winds of the north lash and temper the soul. Their constant breath drags the listener towards the more organic part of “Istid III”. Dark ambient made in Norway, third chapter of the Northaunt trilogy, hinged between the horizons of a remote Ice Age. Imperceptible the continuum between Part I and Part II. Some will-o'-the-wisps indicate the way to go. Mystic tolls, indecipherable background noises. Strategic field recordings. A female voice in the distance seals the apex of the loss even inside the body. The dull shades fade. Part III is the watershed track of the album, full of nostalgia. A slow flowing in a placid forest of sounds. Section of a moment. The hypnosis induced by Part IV breaks on a handful of words pronounced this time by a man. A net change of pace during the ten minutes of Part V. The atmosphere of meditation is favored by shy keyboard notes. The subterranean tensions lose their vigor. Glows radiate the darkness of the night. Deep and desolate. The embers that burns the last farewell to our day. Once it was fire on Earth. #TropicofColdness #PaulSchütze #Northaunt

  • Ocoeur | Inner | Pre order for 7th September

    Inner is the 5th full-length from Bordeaux composer Franck Zaragoza's Ocoeur. Inner evolves from 2016's Reversed by arching away from the piano-centric works and focusing a bit more on ambient synth motifs. The piano (Mother, Unseen), strings (Inner, Shelter), and sound design (Passage, Echo) are still ever present, but Zaragoza elongates his sounds out by allowing the synths to swoon, drift, and decay. Each note having its proper and due time to ascend. While there is a transition in the overall feel of Inner from Zaragoza's previous output, it feels like the natural progression in the Ocoeur catalog. #Ocoeur #Ambient #ModernClassical

  • Szun Waves | New Hymn To Freedom | Pre order for 31st August

    Sometimes in improvised music there can be a distance between listener and players, a sense you’re sitting back and admiring their interplay and abstraction – but with Szun Waves’ second album, you’re right in there with them, inside the playing, experiencing the absolute joy the three musicians feel as they circle around each other, exploring the spaces they’ve opened up. The three members already have sparkling pedigrees of their own. Norfolk’s Luke Abbott is well known for his explorations of the zones between pure ambience and the leftmost fringes of club culture. With Portico Quartet and Circle Traps, Jack Wyllie has been in the vanguard of UK fusions of jazz, classical and club music. Australian drummer Laurence Pike has likewise found a unique voice in improvised and experimental music-making, whether in the bands Triosk or PVT, or as a solo artist. The trio’s musical relationship has grown naturally and steadily, and it shows. #SzunWaves #ImprovisedJazz #Electronic

  • Carpe Sonum restocks coming within the next few weeks...

    Restocks from Carpe Sonum, Pete Namlook's "FAX" inspired label coming in by end of June, Early July, including the New Mick Chillage album, "Between the Endless Silence and Aythar's "Astronautica" #CarpeSonum #Aythar #MickChillage

  • Mick Chillage | Between the Endless Silence | Out on 29th June

    The inimitable Mr. Chillage seems to go from strength-to-strength with each and every new release, armed with a diligent, focused work ethic and a surfeit of imagination, which makes his latest Carpe Sonum Novum missive a pleasant, diverse surprise. Perhaps he’s immersed himself in Harold Budd and Tim Story records, as he’s chosen for this release to center his already gorgeously pealing whorls of ambient discourse around the keystrokes of the piano. But wait: lest you roll your eyes and bemoan the entry of yet another electronic musician who fancies himself a ‘classical’ composer, Mick’s tickling of the ivories isn’t mere folly or a gestural jape. Instead, the artist has, intentionally or inadvertently, created a paean to the elegaic minimalistic sides forged by Mssrs. Budd & Eno, couched in the softly irising synthetic thermals he’s arranged over countless works in his formidable catalog. “Between the Endless Silence” isn’t therefore your typical piano-centered blandishment, nor a stuffy bit of experimentation, or even its creator’s desire to abandon his chosen field. Instead, Chillage has done the next to impossible, recontextualizing the delicate filigree of the acoustic grand throughout a wonderfully luxurious fabric of electronica, refracting a veritable font of melodies that linger in the head long after the disc concludes. Had this been issued in the early 80s, it would be considered a well-established classic; we’ll just assume that right now, and brandish it accordingly. Play it late at night or early in the morning; either way, it’s more brilliant than the sun. #MickChillage #Electronic #Ambient

  • Nacht Plank | Nemmit Con | Out Now!!

    Now in stock and shipping this week.Super limited CD of 100 Nemmit Con was made in the autumn and early winter of 2017.The last track Unreadable was finished in the last days of December. Only analog synthesizer's and step sequencers were used on this collection of tracks. #Ambient #IDM #ExperimentalAmbient

  • Found a few copies of these knocking about on my Discogs site for a Fiver!

    Mark Dwane's, The Monuments of Mars. Classic Space Music all performed on Midi Guitar, although you'd never know. Atmosphere in abundance and one of my all time favourite albums. Also below is the back cover of the original CD release, which features NASA footage that at the time caused a bit of controversy. #Electronic #Space

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