Sahara Red / The Colours of the Sun (Shorter) / Le Cheval Blanc (Slower) / Karen in the Dunes (Shorter) / Soft Geometry (Shorter) / Sahara Red (Quieter)
https://auguststars.bandcamp.com/album/sahara-red
Showing posts with label Make Mine Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Make Mine Music. Show all posts
Saturday, 9 December 2017
Sunday, 29 May 2016
August Stars and Still Crescent physical releases available.
I stumbled across a box of unsold August Stars and Still Crescent CDs. If you would like a physical copy, these are now available to buy via Bandcamp.
August Stars: original 2006 CDr release of Music for Twilight (MMM019) (25 copies available) and promotional copies of Invisible in the Dusk (MMM028) (5 copies) are available here: https://auguststars.bandcamp.com/merch
Still Crescent: original five-track sophomore CDr release on Make Mine Music of Along the Fringe of Starlit Frost (MMM044) (20 copies available) is here: https://stillcrescent.bandcamp.com/album/along-the-fringe-of-starlit-frost
Sunday, 12 October 2014
August Stars - A Landscape with Lights
A Landscape with Lights
1. A Landscape with Lights
2. Luminescence Persisting
Written by Sebastien Wright
Download here: A Landscape with Lights (Bandcamp)
Sunday, 22 December 2013
August Stars - Under Lowering Skies
1. Arkhangelsk (Part 1)
2. Neukölln
3. Atmospheric Twinkling
4. Transmission Tower
5. Night Falls on Erlangen's Twin
6. Space Between Pylons
7. Sheffield Under a Lowering Sky
8. Arkhangelsk (Part 2)
9. The Stenographer
Recorded September - December 2005
Released 22nd December 2013
Saturday, 24 December 2011
August Stars News, 24th December 2011
Firstly, MMM070 Vox Pop a compilation and final Make Mine Music release. It features 13 unreleased tracks by several of the label's artists including the August Stars track "Almost in Separate Stars". The compilation is currently streaming on the Make Mine Music bandcamp page (see link below) and will be officially released in mid-January 2012. The CDr version can be pre-ordered from Norman Records: http://www.normanrecords.com/cd/130840-various-vox-pop
More details:
I've begun to upload some oddities as I find them to my soundcloud page, the latest is a quiet version of "Flaemmchen" http://soundcloud.com/august-stars
A reminder that my Make Mine Music back catalogue is available digitally on my bandcamp pages.
Lastly, I still have a few physical copies of Invisible in the Dusk left. They're are £4 (including postage to the UK) and can be brought from me directly - sebastienstars (at) gmail.com.
Details here: http://starrystillness.blogspot.com/2011/11/august-stars-invisible-in-dusk-release.html
Season's Greetings!
Sunday, 20 November 2011
August Stars News, 21st November 2011
Firstly the new August Stars EP Invisible in the Dusk is released today. The EP contains eight tracks and runs for nearly an hour. I often feel rather odd using the term "EP" to refer to these releases given that they are usually longer than most albums; but equally they don't feel like albums either, although by definition they are; I suppose Long Form EP is perhaps the most appropriate term. Anyway I digress. There will also be a free companion download available from the August Stars bandcamp page. Details below.
August Stars Invisible in the Dusk (MMM028)
Secondly, I've made my Make Mine Music discography available for download via bandcamp. Details below.
As the CDR copies are limited to 25, all copies will be available from me directly. If you'd like one please contact me here: sebastienstars (at) gmail.com. They're £4 each including postage to the UK. If you live outside of the UK there will be a shipping charge, but I'll only charge what I pay.
The digital download is £2 and available here: http://auguststars.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-in-the-dusk
More information about the release here: http://starrystillness.blogspot.com/2011/11/august-stars-invisible-in-dusk-release.html
August Stars In and Out of the Grey or Silvery Dissolution
A companion digital download to Invisible in the Dusk featuring omitted tracks, demos, alternative versions and three tracks salvaged from the abandoned Drawn Away EP. It is available free here: http://auguststars.bandcamp.com/album/in-and-out-of-a-grey-or-silvery-dissolution
August Stars Music for Twilight (MMM019)
Pay what you like. Available here: http://auguststars.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-twilight
August Stars Midwinter (MMM030)
Pay what you like. Available here: http://auguststars.bandcamp.com/album/midwinter
Still Crescent The Railway Terminus, The October Twilight, The Circulatory System EP (MMM043)
Pay what you like. Available here: http://stillcrescent.bandcamp.com/album/the-railway-terminus-the-october-twilight-the-circulatory-system
Still Crescent Along the Fringe of Starlit Frost EP (MMM044)
Pay what you like. Available here: http://stillcrescent.bandcamp.com/album/along-the-fringe-of-starlit-frost
Lastly, I'd like to say it has been a privilege to have been part of Make Mine Music for the last six years. I'd like to thank everyone at the label for their support. I'd also like to thank everyone who has supported me by buying, selling, reviewing etc. etc. my recordings.
Monday, 14 November 2011
August Stars - Invisible in the Dusk, Release Date.
MMM028 August Stars Invisible in the Dusk
1. Landscape of North East Derbyshire and South Yorkshire
2. Bleak December
3. Masts Against a Lowering Sky
4. Window Frost
5. Swifts in a Darkening Summer Sky
6. Crooked Spire of St Mary and All Saints
7. Sodium-Vapour Midnight
8. Distant Hills (2)
August Stars, one of many projects of musician and sound explorer Sebastien Wright, was one of the first artists to debut material on Make Mine Music. With nods to works of Brian Eno, Zoviet France and pre-Man Machine Kraftwerk, and finding kinship and inspiration in the writings of Derek Jarman, Paul Auster and J.G. Ballard, August Stars' series of long-form EPs explored a rich seam of dark ambient music long before their current vogue.
Taking its title from a line in the Ted Hughes poem "Rain", August Stars' new EP Invisible in the Dusk will be released on Monday 21st November 2011. Unlike previous releases the literary influence ends here, and nostalgia, usually a large component in the music of August Stars, only has a minor role on this EP. The recordings are, like Sebastien's earlier releases, highly autobiographical, capturing November journeys across the desolate Pennines, train rides through rainswept northern towns and the loneliness and social isolation which comes with moving to a new city. Invisible in the Dusk is very much a recording set in winter - occasionally cold, often dark in tone, and texturally oblique.
Invisible in the Dusk will be released in a strictly limited edition of 25 CDR copies with artwork by Daniel Fogarty, and digital download. The EP will be the penultimate release on Make Mine Music, the pioneering and artist-led co-operative label, which will close its doors for the final time at the end of the year after ten years of releasing music by the likes of Library Tapes, July Skies, Epic45 and Piano Magic.
As stated above the EP will be available from Monday 21st November. Physical copies will be £4 each including postage to the UK. Copies sold outside of the UK will be subject to a shipping charge, however I'll only charge what I pay. I should add that the CDR copies are limited to just 25 and will be sold on a first come basis. If you'd like a copy please contact me at sebastienstars (at) gmail.com.
Digital Downloads will be available from the August Stars bandcamp page at £2 each. This will include the complete EP plus an high quality copy of the sleeve, featuring cover art by Daniel Fogarty. I designed the sleeve as a tribute of sorts to the DIY ethic. It is printer friendly and photocopiable.
There will also be a free companion download featuring tracks omitted from Invisible in the Dusk, three tracks salvaged from the abandoned Drawn Away EP, alternative versions and demos. More details about this release here and it will be available from the August Stars bandcamp page.
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
(August Stars News) MMM028 Invisible in the Dusk, Release Date
August Stars Invisible in the Dusk will be released on Monday 29th August 2011 on Make Mine Music. Since I posted news of the release back in February, the track listing has been revised, as well as a change of artwork. The new cover art is by Daniel Fogarty who designed the cover for my Still Crescent EP. More of Daniel's projects can be found on his website. http://www.danielfogarty.co.uk
To accompany the album, a free download will be made available on the day of release. It will feature several outtakes and alternative versions and the tracks left off following the revisions.
Invisible in the Dusk itself will be a highly limited edition CDr and download; physical copies will only be available through Norman Records.
Over the next month there will be more news and information about the release.
N. B. THIS RELEASE HAS BEEN DELAYED UNTIL LATE AUTUMN.
MMM028 August Stars Invisible in the Dusk
1. The Landscape of South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire
2. Bleak December
3. Masts Against a Lowering Sky
4. Window Frost
5. Swifts in a Darkening Summer Sky
6. The Crooked Spire of St. Mary's and All Saints
7. Sodium-Vapour Midnight
8. Distant Hills (2)
Monday, 21 February 2011
Some August Stars News
There will be a new August Stars release on Make Mine Music very soon. Invisible in the Dusk will be an highly limited edition ten track CDr. I will post more information about it later this week, but for now here is the cover art and tracklisting.
1. Distant Hills (1)
2. Steel Bank
3. Bleak December
4. Hollow Meadows
5. Masts Against a Lowering Sky
6. Window Frost
7. Swifts in a Darkening Summer Sky
8. Crooked Spire of St Marys and All Saints
9. Sodium-Vapour Midnight
10. Distant Hills (2)
Monday, 20 December 2010
Still Crescent EP
Still Crescent
Still Crescent EP
Winter 2010
1. In An October Landscape
2. 47216
3. Tōkyō-to
4. Windowleaf
5. BR Bop
6. Under the Starry Stillness
- Recorded during the summer and autumn of 2007, prior to the first Still Crescent EP, The Railway Terminus, The October Twilight, The Circulatory System.
- Tracks 2 - 6 Mastered by Scott Sinfield (Ringinglow, Blog)
- Artwork by Manchester based artist Daniel Fogarty (danielfogarty.co.uk)
- The Still Crescent EP represents my first experiments using a computer to make music. The music is made from free plug-ins found around the internet, the only 'real' instrument used was a guitar; in fact a lot of the texture on the recordings was the result of an iffy input socket on my soundcard that the guitar was plugged into, one of those happy accidents.
- This will be the final Still Crescent release. For me Still Crescent was about exploring electronic and computer based sounds, I felt content after the release of Along the Fringe of Starlit Frost EP that I had achieved what I wanted out of the project.
- I've since returned to more organic ways of recording, reminiscent of my August Stars project. Any future releases are likely to come out in my own name.
-The two previous EPs came out on Make Mine Music (http://www.makeminemusic.co.uk/) and are available from boomkat (Boomkat Still Crescent Link)
Download options below.
- Bandcamp, the EP can be download for free, as a whole or as individual tracks, in a variety of formats. stillcrescent.bandcamp.com/album/still-crescent-ep
- Or the tracks can be downloaded individually at Last.fm, http://www.last.fm/music/Still+Crescent/Still+Crescent+EP
- Of course donations are most welcome, though not necessary. However if you would like make a contribution please email me at sebastienstars (at) gmail.com as can't seem to get the paypal donations button working.
Some links:
Still Crescent Myspace
Still Crescent LastFM
Daniel Fogarty
Still Crescent EP
Winter 2010
1. In An October Landscape
2. 47216
3. Tōkyō-to
4. Windowleaf
5. BR Bop
6. Under the Starry Stillness
- Recorded during the summer and autumn of 2007, prior to the first Still Crescent EP, The Railway Terminus, The October Twilight, The Circulatory System.
- Tracks 2 - 6 Mastered by Scott Sinfield (Ringinglow, Blog)
- Artwork by Manchester based artist Daniel Fogarty (danielfogarty.co.uk)
- The Still Crescent EP represents my first experiments using a computer to make music. The music is made from free plug-ins found around the internet, the only 'real' instrument used was a guitar; in fact a lot of the texture on the recordings was the result of an iffy input socket on my soundcard that the guitar was plugged into, one of those happy accidents.
- This will be the final Still Crescent release. For me Still Crescent was about exploring electronic and computer based sounds, I felt content after the release of Along the Fringe of Starlit Frost EP that I had achieved what I wanted out of the project.
- I've since returned to more organic ways of recording, reminiscent of my August Stars project. Any future releases are likely to come out in my own name.
-The two previous EPs came out on Make Mine Music (http://www.makeminemusic.co.uk/) and are available from boomkat (Boomkat Still Crescent Link)
Download options below.
- Bandcamp, the EP can be download for free, as a whole or as individual tracks, in a variety of formats. stillcrescent.bandcamp.com/album/still-crescent-ep
- Or the tracks can be downloaded individually at Last.fm, http://www.last.fm/music/Still+Crescent/Still+Crescent+EP
- Of course donations are most welcome, though not necessary. However if you would like make a contribution please email me at sebastienstars (at) gmail.com as can't seem to get the paypal donations button working.
Some links:
Still Crescent Myspace
Still Crescent LastFM
Daniel Fogarty
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