Sustain / Release, by subtractiveLAD

Sustain / Release

by subtractiveLAD

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Curt Lankester I never thought I would experience profound ambient music again. I have searched and searched for albums that would approach the early works of Eno / Fripp / Lanois and have always come up short. This album is the closest I have come in that search... Stephen... I am blown away... your most "definitive ambient statement to date"?... how about ONE OF THE most definitive ambient albums EVER. Favorite track: The Mountain and the Sky.

Calhoun Smith I appreciate Curt Lankester's comments. I feel strongly about this record too. Beyond mentions of Eno/Fripp/Lanois, there is something that is its own in subtractiveLAD records. I am also familiar with Life at the End of the World and Where the Land Meets the Sky. Both beautiful records. This one deepens its own game with an even greater variety of expansive, moving spaces. Favorite track: Waking.

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1.	The Condition of Weightlessness 10:19	buy track
2.	Where the Meanings Are 04:34	buy track
3.	The Way Up 06:32	buy track
4.	Dragonfly 03:30	buy track
5.	Beneath You 09:46	buy track
6.	The Mountain and the Sky 16:20	buy track
7.	Of All Things Known 09:26	buy track
8.	The Way Down 06:42	buy track
9.	With New Eyes 07:20	buy track
10.	Waking 07:07	buy track
11.	Into the Green 10:55	buy track
12.	One and the Same 04:39	buy track

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Deeper explorations into sonic vistas of ambient guitar and analogue synthesizers. Intimate motifs give way to submerged landscapes.

Meditative and escapist, this double-length album is subtractiveLAD's most definitive ambient statement to date.

An album of peacefulness and catharsis born of tumultuous times.

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"The dozen settings on Sustain / Release emerge, it seems, of their own accord, as if their Vancouver-based creator has allowed the music to pass through him into the world, and his technical abilities have reached a stage where emotional states can be rendered into physical form with no apparent difficulty whatsoever."

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"...a collection of highly emotional, dream-like and languorous soundscapes..."

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released February 14, 2017

Written and produced by Stephen Hummel

Mastered by Shahin Al Rashid at Medicine Man Mastering
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Stephen Hummel Vancouver, British Columbia

Music has always been a central part of my life. Over the years, as I have developed as an artist, my music has become the primary filter through which I process my experiences and emotions. My creative approach is to use the recording studio as an instrument of expression - to use technology as an extension of physical performance. Improvisation is always a core part of my creative process. ... more

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