Zenapolæ · Netlabel for Ambient, Dark Ambient, Avantgarde, Scenic and Experimental Atmospheric Music. Free mp3 download under a Creative Commons licence.

Release date: 15.01.2020

an organic ambience

1. Forst

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Ausland

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zen201 - DR: Calm

Release date: 01.01.2020

dark ambient drones

1. 2901_17
2. Auto-Makeup
3. G Chord
4. 0304_17
5. Calm

A recent interview with DR can be found at Rusted Tone Recordings

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zen200 - The Cherry Blues Project: Mientras todo está Sucediendo ("Meanwhile, Everything is Happening")

Release date: 13.12.2019

ambient tributes

1. Imagine
2. A Day in the Life
3. Heroes (Part 1)
4. Time
5. Freedom
6. Heart of Gold
7. What a Wonderful World
8. Heroes (Part 2)
9. Wish You Were Here
10. All Things Must Pass
11. Blowin' in the Wind

You can live inside or outside a box. But, meanwhile, everything is happening...

This album was created from an inner and personal perspective, regarding our daily actions and the events that take place around us. While everything is happening, we wake up in the morning, have a cup of coffee, listen to some music, or simply stay in silence. This helps us understand that we are a small part of an universal whole; that nothing ever stops and everything happens for a reason, and with no explanation whatsoever.

This also poses two questions: "Where are we?" and "What do we do to make life better?". The album has a quote: "You can live inside or outside a box. But, meanwhile, everything is happening...". This phrase does not mean that we are in a special place, because that is not important. What's relevant is to be aware of our existence and to not forget that every moment is brief and ephemeral.

The titles of the songs are tributes and were specially chosen because the original songs are classics and emblematic. We think that the original artists tried to change the world and make it a better place to live in. In some way, the songs were revolutionary: They speak of love, bravery, freedom and social rights.

John Lennon, George Harrison, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd or David Bowie. They are some of the artists who created the songs from where we got the inspiration for our tracks. We consider these artists to be commited to their music and their art, but we also believe that they shared a message of change and hope.

And meanwhile, while we try to change the world, everything is happening...

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zen199 - ALTERS: Baby Doll

Release date: 30.11.2019

instrumental ambient compositions, psychedelic noises, electronics, and a love song

1. Ouverture
2. Baby Doll Theme
3. Cotton Picker
4. Archie
5. Cry Baby Doll, Cry
6. Silva
7. "Welcome Home", Said Archie
8. Flaming Pig Blues Bar
9. Rockin' Chair, Stop Swingin'
10. Old Stairs
11. Sober Archie
12. Silva's Madness
13. The Poems of Nature
14. Full Moon
15. Coda
16. The Baby Doll Song

Original soundtrack composed for the play “Baby Doll” by Tennessee Williams, directed by Barbara Wisniewska and performed at the Studio Theatre in Warsaw.

Music by ALTERS:

Pawel Zalewski: guitars, synths, electronics, piano, vocals
Piotr Zalewski: guitars, bass, synths, electronics, piano, vocals
Robert Pludra: drums, glockenspiel, electronics

With a guest appearance of:
Karolina Kozak
Margarita Slepakova
Michal Zurawski

Title song lyrics: Margarita Slepakova

Recorded and mixed by ALTERS
2018

Order physical copy here:
alters.bandcamp.com/

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Cover photo by Bartek Warszecha
Inside photo by Kinga Karpati
Graphic design: Kaja Kusztra

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zen198 - affaire difficile: Innermost Outlandish Ego

Release date: 07.11.2019

a sonic absurdity around DT, and his friends, in 12 parts

1. Air Force ONE
2. TWO Coups
3. THREE Screens
4. FOUR Walls
5. FIVE Ideas For The Next Napalm-Opera
6. SIXTH Sense
7. SEVEN Ties In Tar
8. EIGHT Years In Office
9. NINE Heel Spurs
10. TEN Commandments
11. The Commander’s ELEVENTH Commandment: Cable Beauty
12. Five To TWELVE

based on the 12-cycle poem Innermost Outlandish Ego by frank ruf

arnd klotz - reaktor synthesis
thomas häring - electric battery
feat.
frank ruf - lyrics & voice
daniel domig - second voice on Egos 3, 7, 11
aidan hunter - second voice on Ego 5

all tracks arranged from live session recordings 2018/19

guest voices (in order of appearance):
Rudolph Giuliani, Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, George W Bush, (Albert Schweitzer), Andrzej Duda, Vladimir Putin, John Bolton, Mateusz Morawiecki, Xi Jinping, Jair Bolsonaro, Theresa May, Kim Jong Un, (an unknown preacher), Mohandas K. Gandhi, Bhimrao Ambedkar

an annotated lyric sheet is available at www.affaire-difficile.com/ego

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Cover artwork by AnnCath Herrmann

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zen197 - Snowsleep: Alcheria

Release date: 26.10.2019

thrilling ambience

1. Return to Serenity
2. Smithereens
3. Lonesome Molecules
4. Like Leaves on Water
5. Dark Heritage
6. Empty Staircases
6. Remembrance

Experimental ambient with own created samples and soundscapes

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered at Snowsleep's homestudio (March - June 2019)
Kirill Salinski - keyboards and guitar, programing, mixing, mastering

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zen196 - Mehdi Mahmoudabadi: Dreamy, Haunting and Slow EP

Release date: 07.10.2019

a stringed ambient miniature

1. Dreamy, Haunting and Slow
2. Scattered Screams
3. Something to Look At

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zen195 - Nothingness: Misty Mountain

Release date: 16.09.2019

a deep, dark ambience. only for true dark individuals.

1. Through The Fog
2. The Tower
3. Misty Mountain

First studio album by this isolated creation from eastern Serbia landscape. Hypnotic dark ambient sounds strongly inspired by mysterious Old Mountain. The band Nothingness comes from the darkest abyss of the mind. The Misty Mountain album is dedicated to Stara Planina (Old Mountain). Hypnotic atmosphere makes an all together telepathic creation of thoughts and emotions. A dark and abandoned soundscape, which would draw many dark ambient fan into is grisp. Focusing the worlds beyond the veil, either deep in history, or a matter of footsteps away, hidden in a dark realm.

Music by Nikola Antic (Dr.Occulta)

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zen194 - Hamunkansu: Phase Start

Release date: 03.09.2019

another strong dark ambience from Iran

1. Flag
2. Interposition
3. Need To Change
4. Phase Start
5. Strange End

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Cover photography by Maria Hampe

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zen193 - Boards of Britain: Unumpentium

Release date: 14.08.2019

tranceful electronic beats

1. Elektronskal 117
2. Last Place
3. Ambient 5 Instruspectum Vlm (Astral Ambient Mix)
4. Elektronskal 87
5. Elektronskal 81
6. Ambient 5 Instruspectum Vlm (Rhome Edit Mix)

Essentially written as part of a musical series called Music For Electronic Minds, each track in this album attempted to carry along intently a specific mood. Water-based music, forest-based music, macro-life music, like Boards of Canada’s resonance – simple ideas that took all those far out, less inviting, explorations into far more personal and focused pieces. Although Unumpentium was meant for the New Age market, it ventures far outside the genre.

Drum machines, saxophones, electric pads, and all sorts of assorted mallet percussion find ways to make their presence felt in what really is supposed to be a set of percolating “floating” synthesizer music. Not entirely perfect – but what is? – it does have so much to offer as another important piece in this whole structure of electronic noise with ambient music we’re uncovering (with our Western ears) piecemeal.