HALLOW GROUND
"»with time, we learned to ask less« is the first duo album by Giuseppe Ielasi and Riccardo D. Wanke after decades of friendship and the occasional artistic collaboration. Working with only electric guitar and electric piano as well as a gentle dose of reverb, these ...
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HG2501 | HALLOW GROUND
"»Reise der Schatten« (»Journey of Shadows«) is the soundtrack to the eponymous debut feature-length animation film by Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer. Composed by Anthony Pateras and released as a stand-alone album through Hallow Ground, the 29 pieces are based on ...
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HG2502 | HALLOW GROUND
"On Katelyn Clark and Mitch Renaud's »Ouroboros,« astronomical and astrological phenomena, concepts and symbols such as the Great Year or the Eternal Return serve as the starting points for sonic explorations and experimentations. Focusing on a uniquely tempered range ...
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HG2406 | HALLOW GROUND
"»Night Keeper« is a collaborative album by New York City-based artist Aaron Landsman and former Swans guitarist Norman Westberg that is based on the former's eponymous play. Westberg recorded it together with performer Jehan O. Young for the Swiss Hallow Ground ...
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HG2407 | HALLOW GROUND
"Miki Yui is a musician, artist, and composer, originally from Tokyo, who has been based in Düsseldorf since 1994. Her whose work has long explored multiple forms of media, while documenting liminal zones of perception. On her latest album, As If, Yui creates a subtly ...
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HG2404 | HALLOW GROUND
""Movement", the New York-based composer's latest offering, is built from notes softly held. In his ongoing investigation of musical duration, perception, and attention, Reinhard deemphasizes progress through an embrace of repetition and negative space, inviting ...
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HG2405/PE-037 | HALLOW GROUND
"FUJI|||||TA returns to Hallow Ground with his second full-length for the label after we had released his international breakthrough album »iki« in early 2020. Active since 2006, the Japanese composer and sound artist has become prolific since the release of »iki,« ...
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HG2403 | HALLOW GROUND
"»Tropic of Capricorn« is the second album by Lawrence English and Werner Dafeldecker. Based on field recordings made by the prolific Room40 owner that were subtly but decisively altered with electroacoustic techniques through the German improv legend, these two ...
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HG2301 | HALLOW GROUND
"»Arches« is the first collaborative album by brothers Simon and Tobias Lanz. It was written for and performed on self-built prototypes of wind instruments that were inspired by the classic pipe organ, but allowed the two composer-performers to go beyond its ...
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HG2306 | HALLOW GROUND
"Martina Berther and Philipp Schlotter are prolific in their respective ways, having been active in pop and jazz music, respectively, as well as playing in bands and exploring the outer fringes of sound art or composing music for film. Their first joint album »Matt« ...
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HG2305 | HALLOW GROUND
"Andrius Arutiunian's debut album »Seven Common Ways of Disappearing« was first conceived as an installation for the Armenia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022. The Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer uses hybrid forms of music, focusing on sonic vernaculars, ...
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HG2304 | HALLOW GROUND
"Picture a Frame the debut album by the Belgian composer Elisabeth Klinck, was born out of strict isolation and is nonetheless a result of a collaborative process that saw her working closely with artist Oscar Claus. Enriching her compositions for violin with electronic ...
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HG2303 | HALLOW GROUND
"Mattias Petersson debuts on the Swiss label Hallow Ground with »Triangular Progressions,« a suite in nine parts written entirely in the SuperCollider environment using additive synthesis. The starting point for the evocative piece is a magic number triangle that ...
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HG2202 | HALLOW GROUND
"Mt. Hadamard National Park" is the Hallow Ground debut by composer, programmer, and instrument designer Matthias Puech. Informed by mathematical and artistic approaches that aim to both contemplate on and control complexity, the eponymous five-part composition explores ...
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HG2302 | HALLOW GROUND
"Steve Fors offers deeply physical music on his Hallow Ground debut »it's nothing, but still.« Having already established himself as a composer of visceral drone and noise pieces in various Chicago- and New York-based underground projects, Fors's first release under ...
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HG2201 | HALLOW GROUND
"Do you remember the last time you were breathing consciously? Either way, you are likely doing it now. On his new album Observation of Breath" for the Swiss-based Hallow Ground label, Lawrence English worked exclusively with an organ for four compositions that are ...
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HG2103 | HALLOW GROUND
"DarkSonicTales is a project by Rolf Gisler and his eponymous album his first for Hallow Ground. Having been granted an artist residency by the label in a 300 year-old farm house in the Swiss countryside in autumn 2019, the Lucerne-based musician and sound artist ...
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HG2104 | HALLOW GROUND
incl. cd "With "The All Most Quiet", Norman Westberg has returned to Hallow Ground with a new solo album. The play on words in the title can be applied to Westberg's own musical work, because whereas SWANS are hard to surpass in terms of brute force, the artist's solo ...
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HG1605 | HALLOW GROUND
"On "Empty Room", David Granström works with slow transformations, cyclical and isometric patterns as well as just intonation as a way to create harmonic stability, allowing his long-form pieces to develop their own unique temporal and spatial qualities. A prolific ...
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HG2102 | HALLOW GROUND
"Mats Erlandsson makes his debut on Hallow Ground with "Minnesmärke", at once a nuanced sonic exploration of the industrial and political history of his native Sweden and a deeply personal album. One of the key figures of the Stockholm drone scene, the prolific ...
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HG2008 | HALLOW GROUND
"Siavash Amini returns to Hallow Ground with 'A Mimesis of Nothingness' his fourth album for the Swiss label. Following up on 'Harmistice' together with fellow Iranian artists 9T Antiope, the six tracks were conceived in close collaboration with another artist and see ...
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HG2006 | HALLOW GROUND
"Frederic D. Oberland and Irena Z. Tomazin's "ARBA, DAK ARBA" was conceived as the soundtrack for the eponymous installation piece by the French artist Fanny Beguely. First presented as part of the group exhibition "Panorama 21 - 'Les Revenants'" at Tourcoing's Le ...
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HG2005 | HALLOW GROUND
"Electric Sewer Age's "Contemplating Nothingness" is a lysergic tapestry culled from the deep end of the collective pop cultural unconscious. The project was originally started anonymously by the late Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson together with Coil affiliate and ...
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HG2001 | HALLOW GROUND
"Viaje is the debut album by Swiss musician Roland Bucher and was produced with an instrument developed and built by the artist himself, the noise table. Viaje presents the culmination of almost a decade of exploring the possibilities that the curious device offers. ...
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HG1905 | HALLOW GROUND
listen on bandcamp***"Remo Seeland's "Hollow Body" is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. "The ...
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HG1903 | HALLOW GROUND
