I'm extremely thrilled to announce that a small piece of Altus has been pressed to vinyl, all thanks to A Strangely Isolated Place.
If you're not familiar with this label, I invite you to take the time to explore their offerings.
Listener-favourite Sodium Glow from Black Trees Among Amber Skies has been chosen to be part of this massive 3 x LP collection of ambient cuts, titled Full Circle.
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Below is the press release:
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We’re very excited to share with you our ten-year anniversary compilation titled, Full Circle. This has been well over a year in the making and was due to be released on the exact anniversary of August 26th, (the date of the first blog post in 2008), but due to our need to get a perfect press, it has been delayed a little until now.
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The music presented in this compilation is probably the closest distillation of what has inspired A Strangely Isolated Place over the past ten years. The ASIP website and its many versions; blog posts; guest mixes; even some of the older archived (now hidden) posts, were revisited to find the perfect tracks to put forward.
There were, however, a few limitations in mind: (1) It had to be a track previously written about or featured in some capacity on ASIP from 2008-2018. (2) The track has previously not been released on vinyl. (3) The artist isn’t currently a part of the ASIP label family.
The end result isn’t a compilation of rarities, b-sides or label exclusives that you may have expected at a typical ten-year milestone. Instead, it’s a compilation of music that has helped define ASIP as many people know it today. From drone and space ambient; to shoegaze-inspired guitars; nostalgic electronica and melodic synthesizer music, Full Circle presents many of the elements that have been captured over the past ten years on A Strangely Isolated Place.
To help celebrate the occasion, all profits from this compilation will go to a charity called The Harmony Project. We felt that investing in and helping the next generation of potential musicians would be a fitting tribute to the overall concept of the release.
Pressed into the grooves of this record is some of the finest music to grace my ears that I felt passionate enough to feature on ASIP in the past, and now once more on vinyl - Ryan Griffin. In more ways than one, we’ve come full circle.
Full Circle track list:
A1. Rhian Sheehan / Quietly Returning
A2. Ous Mal / Marraskuu
A3. ASPIDISTRAFLY / Sea Of Glass
A4. Winterlight / Awake And Sleeping
B1. Altus / Sodium Glow
B2. Ourson / 237
C1. Stellardrone / Billions And Billions
C2. LJ Kruzer / Ter4
C3. Horizon Fire / Piney Hills Blaze
C4. Need A Name / Road To Berlin
D1. Freescha / Moving D2. Alla Farmer / Elektrik Sunrize
D3. Anders Ilar / Rain In All Familiar Places
E1. :papercutz / Where Beasts Die (Kiyoko remix)
E2. Solar Fields / Going In
F1. Ulrich Schnauss / Shine (Mint remix)
F2. bvdub / Don’t Say You Know
Artwork by Mario Morales
Additional layout and gatefold design by Nick Brzostowski
All tracks re-mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri
Release date: November 5th 2018.
Format: 3xLP and digital download.
(Silver and Transparent vinyl editions).