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The DiN label, established in 1999, reaches something of a milestone with
“Nevermore” (DiN69) as it represents the 100th release on the esteemed
British electronic music label. This equates to this, the 69th album on
the main DiN imprint as well as 26 digital only releases on the DiNDDL
sub-label and 5 Tone Science albums.
It seems only fitting then that this release comes from DiN label boss Ian Boddy. Performed live at DiN HQ the performance was videoed and streamed on March 27th 2021 as part of the three day Soundquest Festival. This was organised by ambient luminary Steve Roach and had an audience watching and listening of 1000+ music fans across the globe coming together in these strange days of a global pandemic. This surely inspired Boddy to conjure up a mesmerising tour de force of a live show that shows all his skills and experience built up over a life time of performing.
Boddy’s set up was centred around his large Serge modular system supplemented by three cases of Eurorack. Eschewing the presence of a laptop this allowed him to sculpt and evolve a series of engaging electronic soundscapes. Ranging from the spacey and eerie to beautifully pastoral with his Ondes Martenot style French Connection keyboard featured at several points with its hauntingly beautiful tones. Novation & Moog keyboards fill out Boddy’s arsenal of instruments and the video shows him in constant motion playing, tweaking and sculpting the hour long set. In the two rhythmic excursions “From Here To There” and “Nevermore” one can literally hear Boddy build the complex, intertwining patterns brick by brick before launching out with some inspired solo playing that can only really happen in a live performance.
Released in a limited edition digipak with beautiful artwork by Wendy Carroll this is music that not only celebrates the work of one of the UK’s leading exponents of electronic music but also the label he has curated with such love and care for the last 22 years.
It seems only fitting then that this release comes from DiN label boss Ian Boddy. Performed live at DiN HQ the performance was videoed and streamed on March 27th 2021 as part of the three day Soundquest Festival. This was organised by ambient luminary Steve Roach and had an audience watching and listening of 1000+ music fans across the globe coming together in these strange days of a global pandemic. This surely inspired Boddy to conjure up a mesmerising tour de force of a live show that shows all his skills and experience built up over a life time of performing.
Boddy’s set up was centred around his large Serge modular system supplemented by three cases of Eurorack. Eschewing the presence of a laptop this allowed him to sculpt and evolve a series of engaging electronic soundscapes. Ranging from the spacey and eerie to beautifully pastoral with his Ondes Martenot style French Connection keyboard featured at several points with its hauntingly beautiful tones. Novation & Moog keyboards fill out Boddy’s arsenal of instruments and the video shows him in constant motion playing, tweaking and sculpting the hour long set. In the two rhythmic excursions “From Here To There” and “Nevermore” one can literally hear Boddy build the complex, intertwining patterns brick by brick before launching out with some inspired solo playing that can only really happen in a live performance.
Released in a limited edition digipak with beautiful artwork by Wendy Carroll this is music that not only celebrates the work of one of the UK’s leading exponents of electronic music but also the label he has curated with such love and care for the last 22 years.
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releases October 15, 2021
Performed live by Ian Boddy in the DiN Studio & recorded / videod in February 2021.
Streamed live on March 27th as part of the three day SoundQuest Festival 2021.
Multi-track mix, video edit & mastering by Ian Boddy.
Instruments:
Serge Modular
Eurorack Modular
Analogue Systems French Connection
Make Noise 0-Coast
Moog Matriarch
Novation Summit
Folktek Resonant Garden
Moog MF-104M Analog Delay
Thanks to:
All the SoundQuest team for making this amazing event happen:
Steve Roach, Serena Gabriel, Eric Freeman & Mavromedia.
soundquestfest.live
Performed live by Ian Boddy in the DiN Studio & recorded / videod in February 2021.
Streamed live on March 27th as part of the three day SoundQuest Festival 2021.
Multi-track mix, video edit & mastering by Ian Boddy.
Instruments:
Serge Modular
Eurorack Modular
Analogue Systems French Connection
Make Noise 0-Coast
Moog Matriarch
Novation Summit
Folktek Resonant Garden
Moog MF-104M Analog Delay
Thanks to:
All the SoundQuest team for making this amazing event happen:
Steve Roach, Serena Gabriel, Eric Freeman & Mavromedia.
soundquestfest.live
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BWMAT201918 | released June 8, 2019 | Materiaal Series, Part 018 | Recorded live on the 14 April 2019 broadcast of STAR’S END Ambient Radio on WXPN 88.5FM in Philadelphia , USA
“In tones edged in platinum the collaboration between Bernhard Wöstheinrich & Ombient rings of a far-ranging sonic intelligence – which is felt in its unrestrained directness of expression. By overcoming the limitations of contemporary music this duo better expresses their un-conforming ideas of the cosmos and infinite space” – Chuck van Zyl
“In tones edged in platinum the collaboration between Bernhard Wöstheinrich & Ombient rings of a far-ranging sonic intelligence – which is felt in its unrestrained directness of expression. By overcoming the limitations of contemporary music this duo better expresses their un-conforming ideas of the cosmos and infinite space” – Chuck van Zyl
Bernhard Wöstheinrich elicits meaning from abstraction in electronic music and painting. He has studied graphic design and
has created an eclectic body of work in both graphics and music.
Bernhard speaks in his own musical voice; the musical arc of his work often moves from the curiously beautiful to the beautifully curious.
Bernhard speaks in his own musical voice; the musical arc of his work often moves from the curiously beautiful to the beautifully curious.
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released June 8, 2019
Bernhard Wöstheinrich – Keyboards and virtual synthesizers, Live-Sequencing
Ombient / Mike Hunter - Maxikorg, Minimoog, Meris Polymoon
Audio recorded by Roycee Martin & Jeff Towne
Editing and mastering: Markus Reuter
Cover drawing: Christine Kriegerowski
Video by Chuck van Zyl
Special thanks to Chuck van Zyl and the whole crew that was around at the studio of WXPN in Philadelphia & George “G$” Bley
www.starsend.org
www.ombient.com
Bernhard Wöstheinrich – Keyboards and virtual synthesizers, Live-Sequencing
Ombient / Mike Hunter - Maxikorg, Minimoog, Meris Polymoon
Audio recorded by Roycee Martin & Jeff Towne
Editing and mastering: Markus Reuter
Cover drawing: Christine Kriegerowski
Video by Chuck van Zyl
Special thanks to Chuck van Zyl and the whole crew that was around at the studio of WXPN in Philadelphia & George “G$” Bley
www.starsend.org
www.ombient.com
all rights reserved
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ambient electronic
big beat
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