Thomas Nugent's visuals paired with Souns 'Untouched' for Alliance Française
Tim Rolls x Souns Collab
Tim Rolls x Souns NFT Collab surfacing
Memory ./03 (acquired by Scott Belsky)
statement and dialog about the process here
new LA FE EP on XPQ?
the well recieved brand new 12 inch from the LA FE project with Daniel Rincon, on berlin-based xpq? records. previews can be heard on soundcloud
track premiere and some words from if-only-uk here
boomkat write-up and record available here
bandcamp link here / rubadub here / other digital retailers also carry.
Souns live @ VMF
Souns live @ Vancouver Mural Festival. Big Thanks to Public Disco, who did an incredible job at putting this together (deep in the pandemic). WKNDRS did the live painting. To jump straight to when the Souns set starts at 28:38 - click here
3 new souns albums
3 releases of some older ambient works, to share some life, fall into and drift with .. and to also clear the pallet and make room for new works. newly made available in the fall of 2020, with the work itself spanning the last decade and half.
Hwuy’xwet Pune’luxutth (Opening Penelakut)
watch the full film now on youtube. many thanks to jason mannings and the people of penelakut island and all others who contributed to this project. a GOFUNDME for future trailbuilding is also up and running now.
more music for film & screen
Things have been more publicly quiet, compared to recent years, as more behind-the-scenes work of composing for screen has been developing and getting more prioritized focus.
So far in 2020: music for a Patagonia commercial has been completed, 10 pieces for Destination BC (videos and commercials) have been created, music in The New Coorporation, and a small handful of songs have been confirmed for a numbered of yet-to-be announced short and feature length films, and relationships with high-calibre budding and establised filmmakers continue to be cultivated.
Watch a playlist of music-for-screen projects that exist of youtube here.
Slowtempo A/V Streams
some live DJ streams have started to happen via TWICTH a small handful have happened so far, more will be announcing via the twitch page (in the about section) and via facebook. archives remain up for 2 weeks on twitch and also get posted to soundcloud. still keeping it intentionally hyper-casual at this point, to give space to feel out what feels most natural and what's actaully needed (in the now over-saturated world of live streams). vasho pekar joins with live visual experimentation and manipulation. the music is presently remaining in the 'slowtempo' sphere and the mic is active.
Remix + Instrumental for TSIMKA
Brand New Studio in East Vancouver
After of year of floating hiatus, the main studio creative workspace has landed back in the heart of east vancouver, after over 8 years of being in roberts creek on the sunshine coast. more connection to community, more space, and finally room for a proper piano and isolation booth for recording. initate.
There is grander news about this space as well, that will eventually be revealed. The much larger main area is shaping to be hq and the main launch pad for all future things LOW INDIGO. stay tuned..
'tetrahedron' short film
the talented Jason Mannings put together a little video diary piece of recent wilderness wanderings on the sunshine coast, with souns as the soundtrack.
'The Last Honey Hunter' released
'The Last Hunter', a very rich and moving and feature-length documentary film from Felt Soul Media and National Geographic, is now available for free viewing online. This award winning, and academy awards qualifying, beautiful piece of work includes two Michael Red original songs along with works from Loscil and Lusine.
new score for Arc'teryx short film
new content with a new score credit. great subject and story, and a quality production overall.
CRYSTAL CREEK 2019 ~ THANK YOUs
very fair to say year one was a success. further allignments coming for what's next. for now..
MASSIVE thanks to ..biyaals for the beautiful and potent welcoming and all energy surrounding ..dee and erin and the whole kitchen crew, johua, floyd and sophia, for serving up nice things and a nice price ..keegan and lacie for holding down the door & info booth, together with some help from sindy. ..jumbo and che on security and love vibes ..kerri and hannah for aaaall the extras and filling in the gaps ..mimi, sara, kevin, aleks, malisha, spark, heather, daniel, karen, ray, paul and the rest of the volunteers (thanks so much). zam zam for help organizing ..pascal for warmly leading harm reduction (thanks to staysee for some support in the lead up) ..kellei and kristaps on first aid, and anna and any others that supported ..simon and adam ‘siadic’ on sound and calmly handling some curveballs, with much appreciated support from jesse ..jacob ‘frumlater’ on sails, power, all things infrastructure and handy. essential. could not have happened without. ..bracken for the beautiful logo design ..eli & tangible for the surprise AV installation ..eugene on guidance, together with key energy and considerations from edna, magda, jamie, sindy, dee, kerri, jen, zam zam, jason, sophia, bracken, dionne, karen. other channels thru other channels. see you, feel you, thank you ..all the amazing workshop facilitators. joe, jen, velcrow, nova, mieka. incredible work, thank you. ..all the artists who helped soundtrack the trees and water and everyone’s experience. TOP top shelf world class vibes and sounds, tucked away in a tiny special pocket of earth. countless highlights and peak emotion. commodity, frumlater, hushhush, sinerise, tusk, surround, matsya, ra/sol, spark, vasho, hotsprings, rhi, zam zam, teeqwa, sj sugar, mandai, ray black, which nancy, eli muro, self evident, joe nice, lvt, brontron, siadic, handsome tiger, prince sho, seffrika, team lounge, binhex, hasselhoff. ..crystal creek and ALL great goodness surrounding and interwoven. ever thanks and recognition. ..dhyana, who helps oversee crystal creek and graciously gave us use for the weekend ..EVERYONE who lent and extra hand or gave extra energy and helped things along :) thanks! ..and to anyone that may have been missed. THANK YOU!
to the future. to hope. to togetherness. full spectrum
CRYSTAL CREEK 2019
AUGUST 30 - SEPT 1 // SUNSHINE COAST // tickets and info here// favebook event here.
Boiler Room Recording
LA FE - Con Qué EP
"Trance-atlantic psychedelia from Michael Red (Souns/ Chambers) and Daniel Rincon (NAP/ Ambien Baby). Cavernous dubs of dembow-infused polyrhythms and tripped-out electronics. Made between the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver, British Columbia, Summer 2018."
track premiere via RANSOM-NOTE.
Boiler Room @ Bass Coast
Very please announced! Stay tuned.
Souns 'Sun Inside The Sun' Remix EP
Souns Remix EP on Subtempo featuring remixs from Loscil, Synkro, Phaeleh is out now on all platforms. Read some kind words and reviews curtosy of self-titled , exclaim , adsr and sora.
'labrador (part 1 & 2)' for piano day 2019
a simple free-spirited sketch, that was deemed a finished tune to preserve/promote a certain unpolished rawness. it made nils frahm’s official piano day playlist for 2019 and landed on a nice compilation from subtempo.