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![]() Portland-based Projekt Records, home to Steve Roach, Aurelio Voltaire, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Erik Wøllo, Michael Stearns and many more, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2023. With over 89 million tracks streamed in 2021, the label grows with a weekly schedule of releases with new and classic titles reissues` adding to the 425+ available albums. Founder Sam Rosenthal helped Projekt thrive throughout the decades where so many other labels have perished; to this day Projekt continues to nurture the careers of its highly select roster of artists. Spotify playlists: Projekt darkwave | ambient-electronic Goldmine Magazine feature article on Projekt's 40 years |
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Street Date: January 12 2024
Street Date: December 1 2023
![]() ARC286 - 617026228624 ~ GENRES: Ambient, drone, neoclassical. Sweden's Henrik Meierkord's main instrument is the cello, though he incorporates other stringed instruments and effect pedals to create his modern minimalistic ambience. ZEITREISEN is understated and graceful. The beautiful and mysterious string-fused soundscapes find emotional stimuli and tension within a melancholic soul. Meierkord has 9 solo albums and 13 collaborations including performances on Black Tape For A Blue Girl's THE CLEFT SERPENT (2021) and Aarktica's PAEANS (2023).
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Street Date: November 3 2023
![]() ARC292 - 617026229324 ~ GENRES: Ambient, New Age, Meditation. RIYL: Coyote Oldman, Gary Stroutsos, R. Carlos Nakai, G.S.Sachdev. Venturing into pristine musical terrain, flutist Peter Phippen and synthesist Ivar Lunde, Jr. reveal a magical album of dark secretive nocturnal soundscapes. Engaging mystery and textural sparseness, the six tracks unearth lush emotions entwined with inner stillness and self-discovery. These meditative moments are ideal for stress reduction and creating a positive mindset.
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Street Date: October 20 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() Masterfully joining the two worlds that define Steve Roach's signature styles, the 140-minute 2CD Sanctuary of Desire combines deep ambience and mesmerizing, spiral-like forms in a majestic flow of stately elegance and breathtaking aural drift. Disc one explores a realm of suspended tranquility, sustained reflection and emotional resonance. Disc two soars upon a morphing journey into the mythic imagination by way of multi-dimensional mandala-like tapestries woven from Steve's mastery of analog-based synths and sequencers and hovering atmospherics. A timeless ephemeral and empowered space that soothes, inspires and enlightens.
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Street Date: October 6 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() After many years and many electronic music albums, Norway's Wollo returns home, in a sense, on Cloud of Strings. Created on an assemblage of acoustic guitars, the album sees Wollo explore the instrument he first loved. It is musical spellwork driven by clear, resonant acoustic melody. The twelve moods are an intimate collection showcasing a fresh perspective on Wollo's artistic range and versatility. Erik masterfully manipulates the strings with elevated clouds of dulcet layered sound.
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Street Date: September 22 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() A free-floating, transparent and gently unfolding electronic ambient space. Using synthesizers to a greater extent than on previous releases, Fang organically transforms their tones into undulating harmonic gestures through ambient treatments and processing. The five far-reaching movements proceed at a relaxed pace; drifting atmospheres ebb and expand gradually, encouraging the mind to wander untethered.
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Street Date: September 15 2023
![]() ARC290 - 617026229027 ~ Genre: Ambient, Alternative, Shoegaze. For Fans Of:Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Slowdive, Labradford, M83. Originally released in 2001, Morning One now appears in an expanded edition. Three additional unreleased tracks from that era illuminate a transition from pure guitar ambient to the atmospheric drone pop hybrid sound that became Aarktica's trademark.
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Street Date: September 8 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() Genres: Dark Cold Wave, Downtempo, Alternative Pop, Electronic. Creating beauty and passion out of harrowing despair comes easy for Russians-in-exile VEiiLA. With immaculate electronics, slow rhythms, and female vocals flush with late-night sensuality, the craft an entwining melancholia with devastating existential lyrics. Watch VEiiLA perform their new single live at YouTube. Echoes Radio's September CD of the Month Review Here.
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Track Listing: 1. Can't Forgive Myself 2. I Had A Dream 3. Broken Toy (album version) 4. Another Day 5. Furnace 6. Cool 7. Push The Pedal (album version) 8. Do You Hear Me (album version) 9. Made Of Air 10. Ocean's Breath 11. Common Decency 12. My Blues 13. Sick To The Bone |
Street Date: August 25 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() More than a reissue, it's a restoration! Sam Rosenthal remixes Black Tape For A Blue Girl's 1987 sophomore album revealing the heart of its lush ethereal dreamscape atmospheres.
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Street Date: August 11 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by a resplendent tapestry of apocalyptic folk, gothic, and neoclassical influences, Unto Ashes' first album in 4 years is an enigmatic excursion into existential terror; of bliss and tragedy; of love and beauty; of hope in the face of universal void. The 12 illuminated sound-paintings are both enchanted and enchanting; they venture into a future of non-existence from a garden of withered orchids to interstellar black holes.
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Street Date: July 7 2023
![]() ARC279 - 617026227924 ~ Genres: Rock, Spaghetti Western, Americana, Soundtrack. For fans of: Ennio Morricone, Chris Isaak, Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, James Wilsey. The shadowy twang of electric guitars, the dusty spectral melodies, the driving orchestral timpani, banjo, harmonica & mouth harp ... these are the elements with which Desolation and Radiation orchestrates a mythic western of the future. Italy's Alessandro Mercanzin imagines a visionary dystopia where a solitary figure navigates an inhospitable post-nuclear desert. It's a hypnotic land of cold haunted nights, lonely red vistas and somber personal solitude.
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Street Date: July 7 2023
![]() ARC278 - 617026227825 ~ Genres: Dream Pop, College Rock, Alternative, Ethereal. With the placement of Radio Caroline's "Head Above Water" in HULU's Cruel Summer (Season 2, Episode 6) airing July 3, Projekt releases this remastered edition with two never-before-heard bonus tracks. Formed in 1986 in Champaign-Urbana, IL, Area was an enigmatic dream pop trio quickly hailed as the midwest's answer to England's 4AD Records. They merged the seductive, breathy voice and lyrics of Lynn Canfield with the radiant guitar and delicate synth inventions of Henry Frayne and Steve Jones.
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Street Date: June 23 2023
(4CD/digital) ![]() ![]() ![]() On the 20th anniversary of Roach's breathtaking electronic ambient album, Projekt collects all four parts into a single release. "Five blissful hours on the high frontier between deep listening music & the spirituality of pure sound." - Hearts of Space Radio
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Street Date: June 9 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() The third collaborative work from Italian artists Alio Die and Lorenzo Montana is an electro-acoustic rumination upon the shimmerings of water. The refined electronics perfectly integrate with the sounds of acoustic origin -- the magic is enthralling. The semi-ritual echoes of Dialogue of Water connect within a spectrum of meditation and emotional soundscapes.
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Street Date: April 28 2023
![]() ARC277 - 617026227320 ~ Genres: Ambient, Environmental, Drone. Across almost four hours, Hyperaurea charts a course through ambient sounds - piano, drones, and textures - evoking the timeless, dreamlike nature of life and death on the ice. In February 2017, theAdelaidean travelled on an Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellowship to Casey Research Station, four thousand kilometers south of Perth, Australia. There, he engaged and responded to the intense emotional, physical and spiritual experiences gained in the precious and hostile landscape few people ever visit.
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Street Date: April 7 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() Turning shadows into sonic emotional rivers, Greinke's A Thousand Year Flood skirts the edges where modern classical, electronic and ambient music converge. Working with cellist/violist Heather Bentley, Greinke locates his paired-back minimalism within a setting of spaciousness and sensitivity.
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Street Date: March 10 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() A graceful, nurturing quality expressed in impressionistic, emotion-infused electronic soundscapes. Rest Of Life is Steve Roach's new 130-minute opus to quietude. Steve says, "the heart of this deep listening occurs not only within the experience of the music itself but also within the place that you are after the music fades and you return to the silence, this rest of life."
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Street Date: March 3 2023
![]() ARC270 - 617026227023 ~ Genres: Neo-Classical, Post-Rock, Ambient, Minimalism. RIYL: Joep Beving, Nils Frahm, Harold Budd, Olafur Arnalds, Sigur Ros, Brian Eno, Laraaji. It Flows Between Us is the sound of duality: neo-classical piano-based tracks and compositional ambient pieces juxtapose with occasional post-rock tones that originate within ethereal spaces before venturing into the depths of darkness. The album captures the contemplative, sensitive, and melancholic introspective moods one might expect from a 23-year-old artist living north of the Arctic Circle in Alta, Norway, where (for two months out of the year) the sun never rises above the horizon.
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Street Date: February 17 2023
![]() ARC262 - 6170262262243 ~ Genres: New Age, World Music, Meditation, Relaxation. Flutist Peter Phippen says certain objects hold spiritual energy or supernatural characteristics. Due to these energies they can be haunted. On Ghosts, he performs 11 tracks of haunting and transportive world music. His ancient instruments, traditional flutes from across the aeons, "hold otherworldly powers within."
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Street Date: February 3 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() An evocative soundworld for rhythmic ancient-future travel. A mysterious & shadowy sonic world of slow-pulse night sky dreams & hypnotic invocations. The weave of layers of pulsing percussion, flowing flutes, didgeridoo, and shimmering synthesizer vignettes form the multicultural tapestry of soul-stirring sound.
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Street Date: January 20 2023
![]() ![]() ![]() Norwegian composer Wollo transforms the abstract into nine compositions of thoughtful and seductive ambient electronic music with melodic soaring themes, vast slow-moving drones and rhythmic patterns drifting in cycles of transmutable harmonies. Ranging from the vigorous and earthy to mesmerizing, evocative and wistful late-night Nordic light-scenes.
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