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22nd May 2013

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Bing Satellites news and releases

Live in Salford & Manchester

The very first solo Bing Satellites concert out now on CD and download

Released 8 May 2013

An album capturing the very first solo Bing Satellites concert.

Tracks 1-3 recorded during rehearsals at MCos, Manchester, 4th May 2013

Tracks 4-6 recorded during my debut live performance at Buried Bones @ The New Oxford - part of Sounds From The Other City 2013, a festival of new music in Salford, UK.
Many thanks to Buried Bones for inviting me.
www.buriedbones.co.uk
thenewoxford.com
soundsfromtheothercity.com

All the music on this album is completely improvised.
I start with a note or two and see where the music takes me.

The music was performed on laptop and midi keyboard (using Reason and Ableton Live) and guitar (mainly played with an ebow).

The cover art is derived from a satellite image showing the locations of these recording.

If you are interesting in booking me to play a concert, you can contact me via www.bingsatellites.com/contact

The Lovely Moon - Moonlight Drift

Relaxing ambient music available on CD / download

Released by BFW recordings 17 April 2013

The fifth album of relaxing ambient music from my side project The Lovely Moon.

18 months in the making, the album is available on CD or download.

Centuries

My second CD release - out now

Released 27 March 2013

My second CD release is an album of chilled ambience.

Recorded at my home studio from April 2012 to February 2013, the album features music played on baritone guitar, piano and synths plus a ton of electronic jiggery pokery.

The album is available on CD. The CD is housed in a beautiful, natural card package and includes a digital download of the album plus a postcard thrown in for good measure.

There will be more CDs on the way soon. The stay up to date with these and other releases, join my mailing list (enter your details on the left of this page) or subscribe to my RSS news feed.

Blue

peaceful ambient album - out now, free/name-your-price download

Released 6 March 2013

The second album in the colour series, following on from Red, released in May 2012.

The music on this album is a selection of improvised recordings, mostly ambient in nature but with hints of darkness and psychedelia.

Five of the songs on this album were recorded in the same week I recorded Landscape and Drift, a week when I was suffering with flu. I have not recollection of recording most of this material but when I had recovered, I checked my computer and discovered a surprising amount of music recorded during that time.

I added a couple of other unreleased recordings which fit well, plus an improvised ambient session performed and broadcast live on my radio show Mostly Ambient on radio.electro-music.com
I perform live sets on that show every couple of months. However, the show airs every week 8-10pm UK time on Wednesday. A podcast follows shortly after the show.
More details at www.bingsatellites/radio

And yes, it is likely I will do more colour albums in the future.

the ambient visitor - twelve

New deep and mysterious ambient album out now!

Released by the ambient visitor 20 February 2013

The latest release from my ambient side project, the ambient visitor.

A continuous, 58 minute long piece.

The music is generative:
each note is played in a long loop, the length of each loop if different for each note, so although the music may seem to vary only slightly, it never quite repeats itself.

The single track on this album (and albums to follow) is named after Apollo near-Earth asteroids, objects whose orbits cross that of Earth.

There are many hundreds of known Apollo asteroids, though only a few dozen have been named officially, so I may run out of names from this list as quicly as I did with TNOs.

I have also been working on surround sound mixes of previous albums. These will become available over the next few months.

Cousin Silas - Silas & Friends vol 1

A new ambient album featuring collaborations with Bing Satellites and others

Over the last few years, I've had the great fortune to meet some talented and lovely musicians, either in person or online.

In fact, there is quite a community of ambient musicians from across the globe with a lot of respect for each others work, helped in part by online ambient radio station stillstream.com

As the name suggests, this is the first of these collaboration albums. I look forward to hearing vcolume 2!

The Dream

Experimental ambient electronica EP

Released by BFW recordings 31 January 2013

The new experimental ambient EP from Bing Satellites.

A heady mix of ambient dub and glitchy electronics along with lush strings and atmospheres.

The songs on this EP, unusually for me, all came to life through different processes:

Watch the video for Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking is built around the rhythms of a loop of sound put through a resonator. The sound I recorded when I stuck a microphone out of my window. At that moment, a couple of neighbours were putting out their rubbish. That is what you can hear at the start and throughout the track.

The Dream is an editing version of a jam I did having fun with a new synth sound (the wobbly log drum type sound).

Of Better Times is made entirely of layered and looped samples - each sample a different length.

Slider was recorded just after I completed the Forever EP and played and sequenced in the same way.

Awakening is a mixture of all of the above - everything but the kitchen sink!

Recent news

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Daniel Land & The Modern Painters - Sleeping With The Past EP - New collection featuring remixes by Bing Satellites, Wil Bolton, Spc Eco, Jap Jap, piper_ben

Bing Satellites - New Year's Eve 2012 concert live - Live ambient set performed and broadcast on radio.electro-music.com

various artists - Doomsday and Brimstone - 7 hours of brand new electronic and ambient music in aid of electro-music.com and www.stillstream.com - all for $1 or more!

Bing Satellites interviewed by muruch.com

Bing Satellites - Mostly Ambient Radio Sessions - live 5th December 2012
2 hour live ambient / electronic set performed and broadcast on radio.electro-music.com
Some of the best music I have ever recorded!

the ambient visitor - eleven - Deep and mysterious longform ambient music

Bing Satellites - Mostly Ambient Radio Sessions - live 17th October 2012
2 hour live ambient / electronic set performed and broadcast on radio.electro-music.com

Bing Satellites - Visions & Memories
- Ambient album on CD / download

Found - a new horror film featuring the music of Bing Satellites

 

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