#vulpiano records

[vulpiano]

Vulpiano Records Sampler EP: Vol. 17 (VULP-0227)

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—Tracklisting— 1. Brevyn - Waterwalk - Extended 07:59 2. Lhas Fawn - Taimi 08:26 3. Fabio Keiner - wintersong 4 04:50 4. Nicolas Tourney - Nur 08:28 5. Taker 51 - Aquilae (75 III) 02:08 6. Richey Hackett - Ever An Imperfect Silence 05:52 7. The Gold Miner's Tusk - Days in the Hive Pt. 1 04:42 8. Enrico Falbo - Arunachala 07:25 9. Vladimir Luchansky - Cape Langeron 14:13 10. Kaelin Bougneit - Stained Glass for St. Marien 01:47 11. Lately Kind of Yeah - Shadows in Anxiety​/​An Upward Wellness 19:20

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[moonsandmelodies]

The extended version of my new song “Lunar Wand” is out on Vulpiano today!

[nicolastourney]

SIGHTLINE

Nicolas Tourney - Sightline (VULP-0163)

‘Sightline’ is Nicolas Tourney’s first work on Vulpiano Records. A monumentally beautiful work in drone, not a second wasted in the subtle totality of its being. Words from the artist: Nicolas Tourney is a French experimental musician, sound designer, and owner of the label Snow in Water Records. His electronic works concern perception and act of listening, with the use of various drones, strings and experimental devices. Sightline sounds like a landscape made of ether and a silence sewn on our lips. By using spectral rotation of an audible rendering of the present, of a sound as pure perception of the moment, the “Eye-world” (an open concept) introduces the listener into the kinematic perspective of exile and overflight. Listening makes “l'attente” (waiting) your place in life. Slightline is less about exposing a sound shock than getting into it and, through perception, seeks the withdrawal the senses. Perspectives crossed above visions that are games of scales. Between Drone making (Drone: rise beyond the present and the gravity of the bodies) and Soundscape practice (Soundscape: one word calls for another, a sound seeks to surpass itself in silence), Sightline is like a slow walk, when you listen to a glass surface in its resonance. In the distance, the soundscape stretches to infinity from a constantly redefined vanishing point.

Download or stream on Bandcamp:

https://vulpianorecords.bandcamp.com/album/sightline

Also available on:

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—Tracklisting—

1. Tungstene 03:25 2. Eye Point 02:07 3. Image Plane 02:10 4. Flatness 04:32 5. Rays 01:48 6. Fuse Box 02:33 7. Cone of Vision 02:45 8. Graphical Perspective 02:08 9. Sightline 02:28 10. Planar 02:02 11. Vanishing Points 02:38 12. Ground Axis 03:33 13. Vivid Illusion 02:21 14. 10,000 Feets 02:30 15. Plug-In Capsule Home 03:58 16. Electric Tanpura 03:18 17. Derrière les Ombres 02:36 18. Lost 04:18

[water-shape]

Kariatida - Belle et triste

[aeruda-stan-xiu-xiu]

E pensado mucho en el sentido de calma mediante la tormenta recientemente. El sentido de claridad en momentos de épica confusión y ruido. Encontrar la frecuencia de harmonia con el ruido y caos de afuera no es perderte, si no encontrar tu forma lineal.

[musicmemov2blog]

Ocean Flower | Vulpiano Records

[thekultofo]

Dark music for sunny days!

Dark ambient to death industrial.

Hope you enjoy, if you do, please favorite/comment/share, thx!

Original artwork: Jusepe de Ribera - Man With Skull

Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand - Shadows (Part II) [Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand] R717 - Fall Out [Craneal Fracture Records] Code Neda - Death of a Poet [Midnight Radio Compilation] Bathory Legion ft. J Stillings [Steel Hook Prostheses & Vermiin] - Lucifer [bathorylegion ] D.N.P - Entryway [DNP Darkness] Mike Gewehr - Affordable Housing [Vulpiano Records] Nyodene D - Edenfall [Nyodened] Phantasm Nocturnes - Astro Eunuchs [Do What Thou Wilt Recs] Fractured Transmission - The Wake [DTH X CMP] Taeter - Anal Anthropology [No Rent Records] Luxury Mollusc - Speculum [Darker Days Ahead] Adeptus Mechanicus - The Appearance Of The Grim Reaper [Throne of Bael Records]

Blog https://www.thekultofo.com/mortui-vivos-docent/

[vulpiano]

Lately Kind of Yeah - Motor Grown-up (VULP-0226)

Part of the Lately Kind of Yeah archive series.

For my ears, Lately Kind of Yeah and evocations of nature come packaged as one, accompanying or even transcending literal lyrical interpretations or impressions one might scoop from track titles. Melodies plod like footsteps on dunes; guitar riffs swirl through crunching distortion like leaves in a windstorm. Looping vocals become the benevolent mantra of waves rolling against the shore, especially notable in the release's centerpiece, "Zones" — let it wash over you.

originally released January 17, 2023

tribute, puzzle-pieced, succinct

exercise, exorcise, excelsior

drums on tracks 7, 9, 10 by Zachary M

Download or stream on Bandcamp:

https://vulpianorecords.bandcamp.com/album/motor-grown-up

Also available on:

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—Tracklisting—

1. Pre-vessel 03:21 2. Vana C 03:01 3. Truman 03:22 4. Zones 06:18 5. Pasticcio 01:29 6. Kid Headache 02:58 7. Lock Knell on Yes 03:20

Licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives

Lately Kind of Yeah: Bandcamp

[afutureinnoise]

How to get Visitors to Your Music/Band's Website

Hello everybody! It's been quite a while since I've posted a direct "music business" blog, but for those musicians out there who are also trying to find success in a more professional way I think you'll find this post very helpful. Recently I've been promoting my own band's latest single and when I started getting some articles written up about it some of my painting, photograph taking, and musician friends started asking me how I was able to get so much attention in such a short amount of time. I decided to make them a guide explaining how I did it. (See Vulpiano Records' latest post for the link to the article) Below is a link to a FREE download of the video presentation I made explaining how to use the following sites to effectively promote my band: YouTube.com, Twitter.com, Tumblr.com, Last.fm, and a few others that you many NEVER have thought would be good to use for promotion. In exchange for this valuable information (some of which was learned by AFIN's own Marilyn Roxie) all I ask is that you send me an email with any comments and/or questions you have about the information. Warning: the guide is FILLED with tons of information to get people to visit your site, basically, it's 53 minutes of info that I hope will help you as much as it's helped me. It's only going to be available here for a limited time so if you have an hour or so to spare please check it out, thanks! (: LINK: Artistic Web Traffic: Attracting Visitors to your Music or Art Site (We were having some issues with Mediafire so we moved it to our own site (: )

[moonsandmelodies]

The Vulpiano anniversary album came out yesterday, which means you can stream my new song “Voltage”! Check it out if you liked Spires.

[vulpiano]

Lately Kind of Yeah - Zozo (VULP-0225)

Part of the Lately Kind of Yeah archive series.

Zozo is a unique work in the LKOY catalog, comprised of songs recorded as part of a weekly exercise. Balanced between crunchy distortion and frosty ambient elements, the flow of Zozo is reminiscent of the transition between a particularly hot autumn and crisp winter. Gentle serenity trades off with barrages of heavy guitar attacks. Various vocal textures are on display; sweet clarity, aggressive screams, and whispers. Guitar artistry is evident throughout, with kaleidoscopic freakout passages punctuated with more spectral instrumentation, perhaps the peak of LKOY’s achievement in instrumentation, which is saying a great deal for this dynamic, disciplined artist who has been part of the Vulpiano family for over a decade.

Words from the artist:

originally released September 20, 2021

Beginning at the end of December 2019, a piece of music was recorded every seven days over the course of seven months. Some recordings were omitted but tracks 1–16 remain chronological. Special thanks to David, Zachary, Ashley, and Marilyn.

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—Tracklisting— 1. December 03:21 2. Hera 02:37 3. Gil 02:29 4. Cult 02:59 5. Addle 02:13 6. Heartman 03:08 7. Law 03:45 8. Unwound 01:43 9. Satyr 02:56 10. Fayth 02:30 11. Taurus 01:10 12. Summary 08:49 13. Conscious INF 00:06 14. Dauterive der Tannam 02:03 15. Zölkerrecht 01:44 16. Place 02:41

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Lately Kind of Yeah: Bandcamp

[vulpiano]

Lately Kind of Yeah - Uncurse (VULP-0224)

Part of the Lately Kind of Yeah archive series.

The LKOY archive series returns on Vulpiano Records for the first time since 2019 with ‘Uncurse,’ an album of acoustic tracks. Lo-fi production and sparse instrumentation set the stage for an enveloping, warm coziness replete with psychedelic washes of soft noise. The pretty vocals, sometimes layered and chanting as in the casting of a spell — or the undoing of one — weave with grace and vulnerability through these gauzy landscapes.

Words from the artist:

Uncurse is an acoustic song collection, recorded between 2011–2017 in Illinois, Kentucky, and Wyoming. For an empty room, the addicted, and hollowed wood.

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—Tracklisting—

Return 03:20

Star 02:23

Sigil 03:29

Veil 03:14

Ghost 03:11

Guardian 03:04

Mask 09:00

Heart 03:42

Soul 02:03

Ena 01:29

Wires 02:03

Answer 03:23

Love 03:34

Exit 02:55

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[vulpiano]

Music Video Making-Of: Brevyn – “Moonbow”

https://vimeo.com/305635092

After an enforced hiatus due to my MacBook dying with no hope of recovery, I was of course delighted to resume video work when I was back up and running again with a new laptop a few months later. I had begun a music video in August 2018 for Brevyn’s “Moonbow” from the Liquid Sunlight EP on Vulpiano Records and finished it in December 2018.

Brevyn, also known as dreamfortress on Rate Your Music and moonsandmelodies on their Tumblr music blog, is a talented electronic artist and a resourceful listener, possessing a wealth of knowledge about all manner of music, including library music and new age. After exchanging conversations on RYM and delighting in their 8tracks mixes, Brevyn released Liquid Sunlight on my netlabel (with bonus tracks!). The imagery of the album was so clear – the ocean, colors, times of day – that the ideas necessary for a corresponding music video came to mind readily.

My workflow for creating a music video that uses outside source material is usually like this:

The artist sends me any reference images, videos, symbols, or typography that I should have in mind when creating the video. Brevyn was great about telling me just what they hand in mind throughout the process:

I feel the bluer shot of the ocean could fit more with a tint of another color e.g. a darker orange to fit the orangeish shots..do you think with some of the clips, e.g. ocean-then-moon, you could have them fade into the next? – As i said, the images already go very good together, but I think blending them in that sort of way would make it even better. I was thinking of the kind of subtler distortion they have in some vhs-inspired images / videos.

I create a Google Doc to place all of this reference material in, as well as the resources I locate or create myself and any other feedback the artist gives me on draft versions of the video so that I have everything in one place

In the Google Doc, I write out some keywords associated with what I should be looking for (example: moon, sunset, tide) to keep in mind when I’m searching

I search on Creative Commons repositories such as Vimeo and Pixabay for any images or videos that I would be allowed to utilize in the music video. CC-BY (attribution) or CC0 / public domain are ideal; I am free to use these assets in a video legally and I do not have to write the creator asking for permission. I feel like it is important to gather more clips than you think you’ll need, but don’t five too far down the rabbit hole of clicking around for interesting clips, tempting as it is, or you won’t get around to making the video!

I paste all the links I find in the above in the document and download any that I am thinking about using. I mark in bold the ones that make it in the final video and note the title and author information so I will have the accurate details for crediting appropriately within the video and in the body of the video’s description.

I keep everything together (inspirational images, font, videos I may use and will use) in one folder on the desktop and backed up on an external drive (I recommend LaCie).

Final Cut Pro is my video editor of choice. I personally find it much more intuitive than Adobe Premiere, even though I use Adobe in many other ways (such as organizing all of my photos in Lightroom and the ever-useful Photoshop for creating graphics).

The next part is a bit trickier to describe: how does one actually make the music video? This is where listening through the track several times and picturing the scene unfolding in your mind comes in handy, along with your own personal techniques. It is important not to over-think it and begin to work; you can always adjust everything later. Here, I thought: how can I tell a story about a relationship between the tides, the moon, and the sunset? How should these elements best flow in-and-out? Lay everything down to fill the length of the song, chop clips up, see what works best. I think it is important to be light on effects the first go-around so that you can hear from the artist what they want to see happen next.

After the initial draft, I then went ahead and made adjustments according to comments from the artist and applied color matching and correction where necessary to give the clips from various sources a unified feel. One of the desired changes was to add VHS effects. I managed to find an amazing and heavily customizable free plugin for FCPX that helped me to achieve just that. This moon phases font filtered through the familiar coral / sunset color throughout the piece also helped to set the tone. I created another draft, got further feedback of other areas where the transitions were a bit too abrupt, and worked until the final piece was complete.

When the video is all finished, I upload it to Vimeo and YouTube and also back up all the associated files on a cloud service as well. I can’t stress how important it is for all video editors to always have back-ups in one or two places of everything they’re working on or finished with, as well as any of your files period! Before my laptop died a few months ago, I had done a back-up of everything two weeks before. As a result, I lost almost no important data. Get into the habit now if you don’t already and it will become second-nature.

There are other approaches I use when the video I make includes material I’ve shot myself, footage generated or manipulated with Processing, or footage from Second Life, but I will hopefully cover these processes in a future post. I hope you found this informative – feel free to comment with any questions or thoughts below.

[vulpiano]

Enrico Falbo - Arunachala (VULP-0221)

A Netlabel Day 2022 Release

Despite its electronic undertones, Enrico takes more of an explicitly classical direction with this subtly dark orchestral piece. It evokes the impulsive journey from languishing in the shade beneath the voluminous leaves of a sacred fig tree to keeping apace with the torrent of a stream by horseback on a baking hot day, from anxiety to a disquieting abandon.

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Also available on: Internet Archive | Mediafire

—Tracklisting— 1. Arunachala 07:25

Cover art by Marilyn Roxie

Enrico Falbo: Facebook | Soundcloud

Licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives

[vulpiano]

Vladimir Luchansky - Cape Langeron (VULP-0220)

A Netlabel Day 2022 Release

A beguiling collage of signals, people - their thoughts and lives - drowned in a radio haze, clashing with the fragments of keys. Psychic echoes of an Odessa that can never quite be again.

Words from the artist:

Dedicated to places Of which only memories are left Stray and shattered Without a chance to be revived Without a change to be revisited Mourned forever within a skull Selective and condensed

With love

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—Tracklisting— 1. Cape Langeron 14:13

Vladimir Luchansky: Bandcamp | Facebook

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