WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW, VOLUME 3

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 3

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WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 3 is the new addition in my ongoing series of web compilation that ponders over the meaning (and the consequences, maybe) of being invisible, featuring stellar, inspiring music from ANDREW HEATH, RIM, OVERTONE, SCOTT SNEE, TALKINGMAKESNOSENSE, MURKOK, VALANCE DRAKES, GALLERY SIX, JACK HERTZ, BEN RATH, JOHN GILMORE and Maestro FRANCISCO LOPEZ. My deepest and most sincere thanks goes to all of them for accepting to participate.

Since WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW is a no-profit sound project, also VOLUME 3 is free for you to download and share. You can listen and grab the whole album (and the previous two) also on Archive.

Please follow and support all the wonderful musicians that have made this project possible. Enjoy the album and spread the word. Thank you.

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 4 will be released sometime in the near future, but I'm sorry to say that there is no date set yet: unfortunately things have the strange peculiarity of not going the way one would like, both in the short and in the long term. I guess I'm not telling you anything new. Anyway, you can keep in touch with this project and the musicians involved so far by following its page on this famous social network.

"They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality” (Edgar Rice Burroughs).

Always be elusive. 

S.

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WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW, VOLUME 2

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 2

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WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 2 picks up where VOLUME 1 left off, bringing you again high quality dynamics, subtle electronics, hazy and vast soundscapes, some bright light and some deep darkness too. In two words: beautiful music.

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 2 is free for you to download and share and features MIND OVER MIDI, LUGSHAR, SIJ, JACOB NEWMAN, OFF LAND, ANDREW JAMES ANDERSON, DANIEL J. DAVIS, SENTEM, EISENLAGER, GRETEL, ØYSTEIN JØRGENSEN, HER BLUE LIES, ENDLESS MELANCHOLY and UJJAYA. You can listen and download the whole album also on Archive.

Dear Listeners,

I can't say more words to express how thankful I am for your appreciation.

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 3 will be hopefully released towards the middle of 2016. Keep in touch with this project and the wonderful musicians involved so far by following its page on this famous social network.

"I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable" (David Foster Wallace, 1993).

Always be elusive. 

S.

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WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW, VOLUME 1

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 1

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WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW is a project I wanted to bring to life for quite some time.

This compilation features the works of several composers and sound-artists that I deeply admire and it is sonically focused on ambient, electronic, experimental and drone music. Most of these instrumental soundscapes have been created especially for this album, while a few others have been carefully chosen on purpose by their creators, so as to adhere to the general mood. I'm very pleased with the overall result and with the sonic flow that naturally surrounds the listener, leading the experience from one track to another until the very end.

The title of the album is pretty self-explanatory and I think it doesn't need to be further examined. Suffice to say that it could be easily everything the mind suggest in relation to the sound itself or simply just an invitation: a "let's meet in this twilight place" letter, sent to everyone who will choose to listen and dive into these two hours of beautiful, haunting music.

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 1 is released today, is free for you to download and share and features CARL SAGAN'S GHOST, KASHYA, PHILLIP WILKERSON, AKITO MISAKI, LATTICE, POSTDROME, EUS, MISLEADING STRUCTURES, A DEATH CINEMATIC, EIGENGRAU, SLEEP ORCHESTRA, HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY, WARM SPEAKERS, ON MOUNTAINS and I AM ESPER.

You can listen and download the whole album also on Archive.

Please follow and support all the wonderful musicians that have made this project possible. Enjoy the album and spread the word. Thank you.

There's also a new COLONY track in it, called "My Last Cup Of Cofee On The Way To Basel". I've never been to Basel. But I think I'll definitely go, should this be necessary sometime in the future. Only cats have many lives, while we have only one. And I agree that "the end is important in all things".

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 2 will be hopefully released this November. Keep in touch with the project and the musicians involved by following its page on this famous social network.

"Mystery has its own mysteries and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity" (Jean Cocteau - The Infernal Machine, 1932).

Always be elusive. 

S.

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CHARMING SEPULCHER

CHARMING SEPULCHER

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The year of the mayan armageddon has simply been a year of pauses. A lot of work and turmoil that - except a couple of nice things that I will not tell you - ultimately went nowhere. A pause after the other after another.

CHARMING SEPULCHER is a web compilation and also the first release from HAVE FAITH IN SOUND webzine, which is directed by Kevin Carnaille. Kevin has contacted 33 musicians (Saaad, Pleq, Tsone, Huron, Olkin Donder, John 3:16, Listening Mirror, Sàdon, uuuuuu, Akito Misaki among many, many others) and asked each one of them to contribute a track for this project. The compilation is divided in three parts and the music goes from drone to noise and concrète and from ambient to various kinds of experimental electronica.

Colony contributes a track called "Just A Little Blackout". This track will feature - albeit in a different form - in the forthcoming fourth album called MUSIC FOR EMPTY ROOMS, which is taking almost three years in the making but will be hopefully ready in a few months. You can listen to this track here.

Things have slowed down dangerously in the last period, but CHARMING SEPULCHER gave me the chance to break the rules that some contingencies and personal issues were imposing on me, to exit the aforementioned pause state and catch the last train just before everything passed the point of no return, that is the point where every taken decision is always too late and therefore is meaningless, futile and pathetic. For this reason, I have to thank Kevin Carnaille twice, because he asked Colony to contribute a track and also gave me the opportunity to work on the definitive shape of the whole compilation, namely the overall sound engineering and tracklisting. As always, Davide Saggioro crucially helped me in managing sound physics, odd frequencies, huge blasting audio spectrums and so on. You can find more information about him and his studio here.

It was a challenging task. It moved me deeply.
I hope you will like this compilation as much as I liked working on it. 

In CHARMING SEPULCHER part II, there's also a track from an american musician called ELLIE ARROWAY, whose first album is being arranged and produced by Colony and should be fully completed in the next months too. You can listen to this track here.

Here are some additional information in this Q&A with Kevin.

Q: what criteria did you follow in choosing the 33 musicians? 

A: I didn't have followed "special criterias" in choosing all these musicians. I just wanted to share eclectic sounds! The experience of Have Faith In Sound (and Indie Rock Mag too) helped me to find easily who I wanted to see on Charming Sepulcher. I discovered many good musicians that we are not used to see, I hoped it was a good way helping them to be more " visible " and being mixed with other musicians that, maybe, they could never know. But, of course, I've chosen them because I thought they could correspond with the theme "Charming Sepulcher", in a certain way.
 
Q: what Charming Sepulcher should mean in its whole?  

A: My vision of this concept is quite simple. The name had been chosen to symbolise a fascination for dark/sad music. I wanted to propose an ambiguous topic without giving more details, just to see how musicians would translate it. Finally,  we (with you haha) had noticed that 3 visions of the concept emerged. That's why Charming Sepulcher has been cut into 3 parts, to keep some homogeneity into each ones. It was a way to show that the same feeling can be conveyed in many ways. Moreover, you will see that the last part is much less dark than the others. It was an assumed choice, which was to nuance the deep darkness previously developed, as a glimmer of hope.

Q: what plan do you have for the future of Have Faith In Sound? 

A: First of all, I would like to extend the team. Finding some curious people attracted by this kind of universe. I can also say that the tastes of the blog will gradually evolve, because I must admit it's not very open-minded yet, even if I use to listen many different things everyday. And finally, I think it will not be the last compilation I plan to release. For now, that's all I can say!

CHARMING SEPULCHER is free for you to download and share.

"There are two kinds of pauses: the pause which comes before something happens and the pause which comes afterward. There is never a pause which means nothing. When you have a pause, you must always be conscious that something will be done or that something has been done. [...] The pause must always be the result of something, or it should be just before something. Without the feeling of the whole, pause has no significance" (Michael Chekhov, 1936). 

Merci Kevin pour la précieuse opportunité que vous m'avez donnée. 

Always be elusive.

S.





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HELPING HAND

Check out A COMPILATION FOR JAPAN.

"JAPAN STILL NEEDS HELP. Massive earthquakes, a devastating tsunami, and critical nuclear accidents. 15,000 people died, 11,000 are missing, 190,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The cost to rebuild Japan will exceed $309 billion.

But it's not too late to help.

We called musicians for help. The result: A COMPILATION FOR JAPAN. 100% of its proceeds will be donated to CIVIC FORCE JAPAN, the country's leading NGO in disaster response & relief, currently working hard to make things better in the country.

This compilation is PAY AS YOU WISH with a 7,99euros minimum for the whole album and 0.99euros per track. You can directly donate on the CIVIC FORCE JAPAN website too. Any kind of help matters!

While Western media isn't covering it as much anymore, the situation in Japan is still critical. People are still without shelters and jobs, business is slow, the agricultural industry is suffering due to rumors of contmination of products, tourists have vanished, many artists are refusing to come perform, and even Japanese people have deserted bars and clubs. It's definitely a bad situation.
But don't forget that YOU CAN STILL HELP!

A big thanx to all the artists who participated by donating songs".

...well, you know what to do.

Many, many thanks to Oliver of MENTAL GROOVE RECORDS for asking Colony to contribute with a new track, called "We Carry The Fire With Us".

You can find the preview here.

Don't be elusive, this time.

S.