psychedelic, ambient, and electronic


1. Bon Bon Incident
2. Fold
3. Cake Eater
4. Portrait of a Wife
5. Rotary Dial
6. Crack Open the Barrel
7. Shambal Trundles to the Osmium Pits
8. Still Life with Shotgun
9. Buddha Wore a Pistol
10. Glancing Bow
11. House of Strength and Love


Älläï is the idea of looking yonder, up, over there, or on the bright side. It is the vast, yawning abstraction that engulfs you from any one of those places.

It's also the name of a plastic penguin that our imaginary flute player had as a child. That penguin meant everything. Please consider this whilst you listen.

Bob Murry Shelton
Guitar, myriad effects, a modular synth named "THE FURNACE", Supercollider, sneezings, and brief mutterings

Christian Michael Newman
Voice, extensive mutterings, caffeination, palmas on "Shambal...", pink fuzz on "Crack..."

James Anthony Hogard
Electric bass

Matthew Riley Walsh, Attorney at Law
Electric piano on "Portrait..."

Music composed by Bob
Lyrics to Fold by Christian
Lyrics to House of Strength and Love by Bob & Christian
Edited and arranged by Bob & Christian
Cover art by Christian

Thanks to Daniel García for inspiration.

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a splendid experimental ambience from Iran


1. A Cosmic Birth

Birth of a sad beautiful star

2. A Symphony of A Murder

Imagine theater with a murder scene

3. Missing Something That Does Not Exist

We have always missed something we are not aware of what it is.
It is just a weird feeling we deal with, and it's so melancholic.

4. Gray

A song which is like a nostalgia, like an old man remembering good old times

5. Awareness

The very moment of realization of who we really are

6. A Cosmic Death

Death of a beautiful sad star

7. The Passage of Suicide

Fading into nothingness

This album is an expression of decaying feelings which we always deal with as a human being. Feelings like loneliness, emptiness, or suicidal feelings. Let us express it with music, which is a door to freedom and salvation. And remember you are not alone.

I dedicate this album to my amazing mother and my lovely beautiful girlfriend Nafisa, who has always supported me along the way and motivated me in my down times, and also my dear friend Shaheen for collaborating with me on two tracks (1+6), as well as my true friend Komeil Monfared for his amazing art on the album cover.

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The EyE  

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an organic ambience


1. Forst

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Ausland  

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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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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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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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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

try headphones

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(note: since all the 12 parts are meant to constitute one unified piece, the album zip contains a single-file continuous mix, along with a track list)




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Cover artwork by AnnCath Herrmann

affaire difficile  

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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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Snowsleep  

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a stringed ambient miniature


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

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Copyright (c) 2019 by Mehdi Mahmoudabadi
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Mehdi Mahmoudabadi  

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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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