Night Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/night/ New and independent music Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:53:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Night Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/night/ 32 32 88787050 WTD’s Summer Mix: Part II – Night https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2012/08/05/wtds-summer-mix-part-ii-night/ Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:58:00 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=553 The second part of our summer mixtape. The idea behind the mix was to capture the cyclical nature of the ideological endless summer; Part I took you from early morning to late afternoon and Part II (hopefully) picks up the baton and carries on into the night. It’s a rather eclectic mix with the four of us here each picking a few songs. The first few songs see you through early evening before an electronic-driven party atmosphere arrives. Catch a […]

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]]> The second part of our summer mixtape. The idea behind the mix was to capture the cyclical nature of the ideological endless summer; Part I took you from early morning to late afternoon and Part II (hopefully) picks up the baton and carries on into the night. It’s a rather eclectic mix with the four of us here each picking a few songs. The first few songs see you through early evening before an electronic-driven party atmosphere arrives. Catch a lift home with Ryan Gosling through the neon-drenched city and sit outside and watch the stars pass. See through the dead of night with Jason Molina before sunrise with Trouble Books. Hopefully you can then loop both mixes so the ‘day’ starts again. I’ve written a little bit more about the idea here.

Hope this works out.

Part II // Night – Tracklisting:-

26. Gospel – The National
27. Asa – Bry Webb
28. Ponytail – Talons’
29. Late July – Small Houses
30. Seeds of Night – The Cave Singers
31. Swamp Dragon – Spirit Tramp
32. Voyage – Kodak To Graph
33. Brooklyn Sunset – AFTA-1
34. Late Nitez – MedicineHat
35. Lost In Tokyo (Jacques Greene Remix) – Koreless
36. Sun (Midland Re-Edit) – Caribou
37. Higher Ground – TNGHT
38. Nostromo – Fortune Howl
39. Salt of Love – Groundislava
40. Cotton Flower – Future Islands
41. Fineshrine – Purity Ring
42. A Real Hero – College (Feat. Electric Youth)
43. Seventeen – Youth Lagoon
44. Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl – Broken Social Scene
45. Catharsis – The Wandering Lake
46. North – Arrange
47. Singing Sailors – Sad Souls
48. O’ River – The Horse Thieves
49. Long Desert Train – Jason Molina
50. Lurk Underneath – Trouble Books

2012 Summer Mix – Night from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

Again, please support the artists on this mix. Our intention is to share our favourite music with others so hopefully you like what you hear and buy some records.

We tried to do something a bit different with this mix and we’d love your opinion on the idea/track listing. Does it work at all or fall flat on it’s face? Do you have any good themes for a future mixtape? Let us know on Twitter, Facebook or the clunky Tumblr message system. We would love to hear from you.

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]]> 553 Darwin Raymond – Night https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2012/05/01/darwin-raymond/ Tue, 01 May 2012 21:19:00 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=623 ’Night’ by Darwin Raymond is part of the Feedback Loop Label. The album is based on the events leading to and succeeding his wife’s death and, as Leonardo Rosado explains on the accompanying bio – explores how a single moment of extreme sadness or joy is surrounded by blurry but nonetheless memorable situations and actions and how the present is affected by memories of the past. Raymond pays homage to his own personal moment of pain but never allows the […]

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]]> ’Night’ by Darwin Raymond is part of the Feedback Loop Label. The album is based on the events leading to and succeeding his wife’s death and, as Leonardo Rosado explains on the accompanying bio – explores how a single moment of extreme sadness or joy is surrounded by blurry but nonetheless memorable situations and actions and how the present is affected by memories of the past. Raymond pays homage to his own personal moment of pain but never allows the hint of optimism or redemption to disappear. Each track had one or more overlayed immediately afer recording in an effort to capture the feelings of each distinct time.

For me at least, ambient music is much more enjoyable with some sort of context in which to hear it. Much like a soundtrack for a film, you find yourself imagining what Raymond went through when he was making the album and suddenly the music makes sense. For example on ‘Riverside’ the fuzzy drone that outcompetes the other sounds is almost like the buzz of silence after something violent and shocking. The period of stillness where everything seems to have a slight hum, a residual vibration after a disturbance. The event is somehow still present despite time moving on. Reading the aims of the album which Raymond outlines on his website I would say this is exactly the kind of thing he was aiming for. A superb, haunting work which deserves some thought beyond casual listening.

Night is available from Bandcamp to stream or you can download the album here.

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