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Canopy of Stars (Christian Wheeldon, UK ) second full-length CD album and fine follow-up to the atists’ beautiful debut album”Waves”. When Christian was working on these 4 long-form dream sequences presented on this album, the mood seemed right to create calming, deep ambient music that could be listened to in the hour before sleeping and dreaming. ‘Dream Sequence’ is the conclusion for a direction that Canopy of Stars has been working towards over the last couple of years, showcasing the talent to create immersive ambient music with a consistently brilliant flow. Highly recommended if you’re a fan of the more ambient side of the Fax label!

‘Fragility’ is the eight official album recorded by Galati. This new work continues the sonic exploration started in the previous album, ‘Silence (as a din)’, but is more focused on finding the right combination between sounds of guitars and synthesizers; ‘Fragility’ is probably more inclined to melody.The work is strongly inspired by travel experiences Galati lived: «Both in polar regions, in their great expanses of ice, and in the arid and desert spaces, where the sand is wind-swept and the horizons are marked by Hindu Kush and Pamir’s large peaks, objectivity and reason surrender to the irrational», Galati says. «Here, the world seems immersed in a sort of great rarefaction. In the ancient silence of Sarhad-e Broghil, you can observe the mountain tops sunk into a thousand-year old, everlasting dimension». Every now and then, sounds and voices of those places come to the surface, and then they disappear in depth. In ‘Fragility’ there are layers of sounds used to convey the variety of colo

Hoshin is a project from a classical trained musician from Belgium, who took his first steps in composing Ambient/Electronic in 2004. After releasing some tech-house tracks, he made a trip to Myanmar and was blown away by this incredible sonic environment. He carefully prepared himself for a second trip along with a decent recorder, memory cards and lots of batteries, in order to collect first-ear field recordings for possible use in his Ambient works. Back from this second trip in 2009, sounds of Myanmar’s rain, wind, insects, animals and mysterious conversations and atmospheres were masterfully woven in his ambient compositions and soon thereafter the Hoshin project was born. Only years later, the results were exposed by its first release “Path Of Dissolutions” (Cryo Chamber, 2016). Time now to proudly present its follow-up “The Old Way to Clouds” (the sound of moaning cicadas drowned in the morning mist..), a totally brilliant, storytelling set of Ambient Explorations & Grooves and one of Databloem finest release up to date.

Born 1965 in Hamburg, Christian Fiesel has been experimenting with electronic sounds since the mid-1980s. The goal was always the refraction of sounds and structures, as it is usually done in electronic music. Instead of sequencer loops you hear Mellotron choirs moved and carried by cosmic drones and pulsating soundscapes. The goal is not necessarily melodiousness, but rather the conquest of new musical territories, creating an unique, Mellotron driven sound with room for experimentation. “The State Of An Unborn Union” is his second official CD release after the 2016 double album “Hagen’s Delight” and musical testimony about the struggle between darkness and light, about coming into being and passing away, becoming human and dying. The first CD is a veil over lightless water, over which our consciousness is transferred into consciousness. The second a musical interpretation of the process of being and decay. Both CD’s merged and covered by Theo Rabou’s fine design, presenting and exploring new territories for both ear and eye.

Planet Supreme is Karl Ture Rydby from Sweden, making his grand debut on Databloem with a double album full of hazy, dreamy yet detailed Cosmic Ambient Explorations. Listening to the first demo’s, Karl’s music caught us by its delicate, very well balanced sound and production. Therefore it was no surprise to hear of Karl being an active composer at EMS (elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm). Given the amount of potential album tracks and thoughts of creating the most musical value, we decided to extend the initial album “Order of the Star in the East “with a second disc entitled “Holy Mountain”. Similar in mood and atmosphere, yet taking the listener to other places. The finishing touch of magic was added by mastermind Vincent Villuis (Ultimae), lifting the Planet Supreme sound spectrum to even higher lev

Ultimae proudly presents Gneiss, a first solo EP on the label for Danish composer Tore Kofod Hyldahl aka Erot after his participation on Martin Nonstatic‘s Granite Remixes and releases on labels such as Iboga Records, LSD-Liquid Sound Design and Fallen Metropolis.

The emotive and abstract musical tale invites the listener to escape perception, understanding and apprehend the vast of music, of nature, time and space. Grounded yet floating freely, the chiselled rhythms and evanescent pads create the cradle of contrasts in which one can let himself be lulled and carried away on a deep and delicate journey.

Erot welcomes aboard space ambient and downtempo initiates Henrik Laugesen and Vincent Villuis, respectively known as Lauge and AES Dana to fuel the experience with extra cinematic atmospheres and beats.

Compared to the vinyl version, the CD includes extra track Halocline (Morild part 2).