Presenting ... "Lullabies for Strange Children (waag_rel044)" by Kevin Lyons

I do what I do to encourage others bring their beauty into this world. Witnessing Kevin Lyons' growth as an artist and a maker of beautiful music has been a real pleasure for me. I really do marvel at the music he creates - it holds it's own within weareallghosts and further afield - it never ceases to amaze me. I am very proud of the music he has released on waag and am proud to call him a friend.

It is with this sense of pride that I present his fourth album - "Lullabies for Strange Children" - for your listening pleasure. It is an album bursting with new ideas and fresh expression ... an album that features the kind of engaging sound-pictures in each of its twelve tracks that I simply cannot get enough of. It shifts from dark, eerie ambience to moments of futuristic expressionism with ease ... filling my ears with that most wonderfully oxymoronic of all musical joys ... familiar yet utterly new soundscapes.

I really do hope you will enjoy this album as much as I have.

An MP3 version of this album is available for free on Archive or a lossless version available on Bandcamp for 'pay what you want' which does include £0 ... and remember, paying supporters on Bandcamp also get unlimited mobile access to the album using the free Bandcamp listening app.

If you do decide to download this album for free then all we ask in return is that you tell your friends, tweet a link or post it on Facebook, write a review and spread the word.

- Thomas

Credits
Released 17 February 2014
Music by Kevin Lyons
Design & Logistics by Thomas Mathie



https://archive.org/details/waag_rel044

Presenting ... "Abstraction (waag_rel043)" by Scott Lawlor & Earlyguard

I am proud to present "Abstraction (waag_rel043)" ... 45 minutes of longform ambient joy.

I have a lot of love for the music of both Scott Lawlor and Earlyguard, so you can imagine I was very quick to respond in the positive when I was approached about releasing a collaboration that they had in the works ... I didn't think it would be as good as "Abstraction" is.

This is music for both the head and the heart, a late-night hit of somatic bliss that, in equal measure, inspires and comforts.

I hope you will enjoy this piece as much as I have.

An MP3 version of this album is available for free on Archive or a lossless version available on Bandcamp for 'pay what you want' which does include £0 ... and remember, paying supporters on Bandcamp also get unlimited mobile access to the album using the free Bandcamp listening app.

If you do decide to download this album for free then all we ask in return is that you tell your friends, tweet a link or post it on Facebook, write a review and spread the word.

- Thomas


Credits
Released 10 February 2014
Music by Scott Lawlor & Earlyguard
Design by Earlyguard
Logistics by Thomas Mathie




https://archive.org/details/waag_rel043

Presenting ... "Space Time Mantra (waag_rel042)" by Ade Hodges & Cousin Silas

"Space Time Mantra (waag_rel042)" is a wonderful series of darker ambient soundscapes from Ade Hodges and Cousin Silas ... a collaborative collection of sci-fi music that could easily act as the soundtrack to our favourite stories by the likes of Lovecraft and Ballard.

Both expansive & dystopian, these sounds present the future of our dreams as being more akin to the stuff of our nightmares ... they give the listener an all too brief insight into the eerie unsettling liminal state just beyond our reckoning, just beyond our remembering, where we span two worlds and stare into the deepest recesses of the unknown.

I found them utterly fascinating and could not wait to share them with you. I am delighted with progress being made by Ade Hodges ... he really is coming into his own ... and similarly delighted with apparent boundless imagination of Cousin Silas. This is a release I am proud to add to the waag canon.

An MP3 version of this album is available for free on Archive or a lossless version available on Bandcamp for 'pay what you want' which does include £0 ... and remember, paying supporters on Bandcamp also get unlimited mobile access to the album using the free Bandcamp listening app.

If you do decide to download this album for free then all we ask in return is that you tell your friends, tweet a link or post it on Facebook, write a review and spread the word.

- Thomas

Credits
Released 03 February 2014
Music by Ade Hodges & Cousin Silas
Art provided by Ade Hodges
Design & Logistics by Thomas Mathie



https://archive.org/details/waag_rel042