I am delighted to announce that I have a new album, Mutable, coming out at the end of March 2018. It is something I’ve been working on over the past three years, and I need a little help from you to get it finished and out there!

The album features 5 tracks of hypnotic ambient music, plus a very special remix by the legendary Arovane. I’m very excited to present it to you, especially as this will be my first full vinyl release.

I am currently running a pre-order fund-raising campaign on Indiegogo to help cover some of the initial up-front costs. Please take a moment to check it out:

Support my campaign

There’s a wealth of options available to choose from:

• Digital download
• Beautifully designed gatefold vinyl
• CD with booklet
• Prints of the album artwork
• Original paintings by Adrianna Snochowska
• Special support edition – get your name on the album liner notes

And all options are discounted 10-15% for the duration of the fundraiser, so now is a great time to save.

Order Now

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Three years after the release of Adrift, I am proud to announce a new ambient LP. It is inspired by a strange disconnected dream during a long cross-country journey through Poland in the depths of winter in 2014. Mutable reflects the rhythms of that journey and the ethereal dreamscape in which I was enveloped.

Each track on Mutable pulsates and wraps around itself, gradually evolving its soundscape and encasing the listener in a deep and rewarding world. There is careful exploration of polyrhythmic variations within juxtaposed morphing drones bubbling out from stacks of synthesizers. The pieces are densely layered with fine detail, often only revealed on repeated listens, and are subtly backed by field recordings from locations around Poland.

Chwiać opens the album with scintillating polyrhythms and pulsating bass tones; continuously folding in on itself teasing elements in and out of our awareness. Zmienny evolves gently over its 11 minutes, voices skittering in the background whilst synths, horns and strings grow, waver, and vacillate. Rozwijać is a lovingly constructed soundscape full of warmth and gentle tones which lull the listener to serenity as the album closes.

Each piece on the album is accompanied by a unique painting created by Polish artist Adrianna Snochowska. The paintings are 50 x 35 cm mixed media (texture & oil paint) on canvas. Adrianna spent many hours listening to the draft mixes whilst creating these paintings and moulded the texture effects to the sounds on each track.

Additionally, long-time producer Arovane has provided a remix of Chwiać which is included on the release. The remix picks up on Chwiać’s pulsing polyrhythms and wraps them in layers of gritty distortion and subtle melodic nuances, underpinned by driving beats.

The album is available now at all major music services, and you can also order gatefold vinyl, CD, and prints through Bandcamp.

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Recently Warren from Invisible Agent asked if I would do another Agent Cast and it occurred to me that I actually probably still had some recordings from the lengthy mix sets I played monthly at Swagger in Phnom Penh when I was still living in Cambodia.

And lo and behold I did, and there’s ammunition for another two podcasts there too!

Clocking in at 4 hours and 42 minutes, this mix could see you through a long flight, most of your work day, or play as a backdrop to an entire relaxing evening with friends. It includes a wide array of artists including Windy & Carl, Sunken Foal, Frank Bretschneider, Múm, Ulf Lohmann, Shuttle358, Hrvatski and many many more.

All told there are 54 tracks gently blended together for your listening pleasure.

I hope you enjoy it and if you find something you like make sure to check out the original artist and support them by buying an album!

Also, make sure to check out other podcasts in this long running series over on the Invisible Agent website.

And if you like the artwork used for this Agent Cast cover, check out the original piece over on Saatchi Art. Prints are available.

Tracklist

1. Windy & Carl – Glowing/colorful
2. Chihei Hatakeyama – In Dreams
3. Stars of the Lid – Tippy’s Demise
4. Múm & Sjon – Charlie Tango No.2 / Apparat Organ Quartet & TF31IRA
5. Ulf Lohmann – Untitled 09
6. Seaworthy – Installation 2
7. Sunken Foal – Sailing Architraves
8. Detroit Escalator Co. – Terminal (dtw)
9. The Black Dog – The Crete That Crete Made
10. The Third Eye Foundation – I’ve Lost That Loving Feline
11. Red Snapper – They’re Hanging Me Tonight
12. Tricky – Black steel
13. transient – railroad flying machine
14. The Orb – Terminus
15. Shuttle358 – Duh
16. Frank Bretschneider – Day.Dream
17. Xela – Under the Glow of Streetlights
18. Nyquist – smuek
19. Two Lone Swordsmen – Its Not The Worst (Lali Puna Remix)
20. T-Woc – Time has come
21. Global Goon – Metal Buffalo
22. Wagon Christ – Boney L
23. Sunken Foal – Cash for Gold
24. Joseph Nothing – Piazza Of Tomorrow
25. T-Woc – east from vibro
26. The Roots – Double Trouble
27. Kaly Live Dub – Dirah!
28. The Orb – Valley
29. Nathan Fake – You Are Here
30. Static – sometimes i’m sad for a few seconds
31. Toaster – I Think Everyone Has Gone
32. Charles Webster – Be No One
33. Vessel – Lache
34. Front End Synthetics – The Alpha Incident: Lips
35. Transient – On The Edge of Time
36. The Last Sound – Nomen Luni
37. Múm – The ballad of the broken birdie records (ilo remix)
38. ruxpin – headspin
39. novel23 – siberian lily
40. The Orb – Batter C Bunny S Munching Orbular Marrow Mix [Thomas Fehlmann]
41. Secede – Crave & Fall
42. Ulf Lohmann – Untitled 03
43. Ten and Tracer – carealot
44. Aphex Twin – We Are The Music Makers
45. Xela – Japanese Whispers
46. Nathan Fake – The Sky Was Pink
47. Tim Hecker – Currents of Electrostasy
48. Simon Scott – The Old Jug And Drum
49. Stephan Mathieu – Mémoire
50. Rapoon – Omaneska
51. Hrvatski – Gemini (Revision)
52. Shuttle358 – Slowly In…
53. Seaworthy – Breathe Deep
54. Specials, The – Ghost Town

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I’m very happy to announce that my 2009 EP has been re-released on all major music services by Invisible Agent Records.

Spotify

iTunes

Click here to buy on iTunes.

Google Play

Click here to buy on Google Play Music.

Amazon

Click here to buy on Amazon Music.

Bandcamp

Click here to buy on Bandcamp.

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I recently had the great pleasure to play at Festiwal Ambientalny in Wrocław alongside some great names from the ambient world and am happy to present a recording of the live set, featuring a few interpretations of tracks from Adrift, alongside a new unreleased track and 3 improvised tunes played on an Elektron Analog 4 and Analog Rytm.

Other artists playing at the festival were Julianna Barwick, Pleq, Grzegorz Bojanek, The Sight Below, Christoph Berg, Piotr Cisak & Freeze, Opollo, Greg Haines, Masayoshi Fujita, and Maciek Szymczuk.

It was a wonderful 3 days with some truly excellent performances. Wrocław is a beautiful city and I highly recommend a visit if you can.

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I’m proud to announce that I’m playing Festiwal Ambientalny in Wrocław on December 2nd 2016.

It appears I’ll be teaming up with Grzegorz Bojanek again after playing with him last year in Gorlice, and am very excited to meet many other luminaries from the ambient electronic world including The Sight Below, Pleq, Greg Haines, Cristoph Berg, Julianna Barwick and more!

Really looking forward to it and I’ll be previewing some new work from my next album along with some tracks written just for the live set.

About the Festival

“Festival Ambientalny is an extremely cohesive conception, in its own right very hermetic in terms of style, opposing all superficiality in the creation process as well as in the reception of art. We want to present genres and artists, whose craft cannot be ignored, representing art that requires the beholders full attention, both emotional and intellectual.”

“Our festival draws inspiration from music that you not only have to listen to- but which you have to hear first. It’s art designed more for the soul, than the body, important in the social context because it creates its own meeting place for young creators having full awareness of their artistic, avant-garde origin with members of the audience quite often seeking qualitatively rich elements of cultural identity.”

Get more details at the Festival website:
http://www.ambientalny.pl/

Tickets available here.

Hope to see you there!

Lineup

02.12.2016 (Friday)
Gothic Hall in the Old Monastery, ul. Purkyniego 1, Wrocław, Doors 7.00 p.m.

• Julianna Barwick
• Pleq
• Grzegorz Bojanek
• Ebauche

03.12.2016 (Saturday)
Gothic Hall in the Old Monastery, ul. Purkyniego 1, Wrocław, Doors 7.00 p.m.

• The Sight Below
• Christoph Berg
• Piotr Cisak & Freeze
• Opollo

04.12.2016 (Sunday)
Synagogue under the White Stork, ul. Włodkowica 5a, Wrocław, Doors 6.30 p.m.

• Greg Haines
• Masayoshi Fujita
• Maciek Szymczuk

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I was very happy to see that Warmth, the last track from Adrift, was featured on the latest podcast from Hypnagogue.

Check out the podcast here:

Listen now

Sit back and enjoy 1.5 hours of quality music.

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I’m absolutely delighted to have received a wonderful review of Adrift from Hypnagogue.

The review is filled with some really wonderful words like:

“the density, subtlety, and attention to minute detail really shines”

“electronic washes and crystalline notes that sparkle like sunlight through the trees”

“This is an album I’ve been glad to listen to many times over. It just gets better the more familiar you become with it.”

Head over to Hypnagogue.net to read the full review.

Buy the album on Bandcamp.

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“Irish producer Ebauche’s beautifully serene ambient album Adrift”

I’m proud and delighted to see Adrift featured  on Nialler9’s “Albums of the month” for May. I’m also thrilled to see that Lakker’s latest, Tundra, is included. Definitely check out Tundra if you’re in the need for some intricately composed electronic music which demonstrates the best to offer from Ireland.

Preview the listings on Spotify

Buy these albums

• Ebauche – Adrift
• Lakker – Tundra

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It’s just been confirmed that I’ll be playing a live set at the unique Ambient Festival in Gorlice, Poland on July 10th 2015.

I’m very excited to be playing my first Ebauche live set in quite a while and am planning to play a mixture of pieces: some of my favourites from the recently released Adrift adapted for live play; some experimental drone pieces I’m working on for my next album; and some improvised material specifically for the festival.

There are not many festivals which are solely dedicated to the exposure of ambient music, so I’m absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to play at it.

I hope to see you there!

This festival has been around for a long time – it is now in it’s 17th year!

“Ambient Festival is an annual event that presents ambitious electronic music. The concept of the event is to present what is happening in the contemporary ambient electronic music to wider audience”

The festival is the brainchild of Tadeusz Łuczejko, the art director of Gorlice Gorlickie Centre of Culture.

For detailed information, please visit the Ambient Festival website or check out their Facebook page.

Festival Lineup

Friday 10th July

• 18:00 – Grzegorz Bojanek
• 19:30 – Ebauche
• 21:00 – Harald Grosskopf

Saturday 11th July

• 16:00 – Maciej Szymczuk
• 17:30 – Aquavoice
• 19:00 – Pieter Nooten

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