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Some great articles and reviews on Auditory Canvas – Fabric of Life….

2010-05-11T09:24:12Z

Fabric of Life Review @createdigitalmusic.com

Create Digital Music posted a great article on the Fabric of Life album, the release strategy I used for it, and other related, and pertinent points, you can view the article here:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/05/04/listen-auditory-canvas-dreamlike-album-made-with-crowdsourced-funding/#more-10854

Fabric of Life review by Thomas Raukamp

Thomas Raukamp posted a very flattering review of the Fabric of Life album which you can read here:

http://thomasraukamp.posterous.com/a-dense-grid

Fabric of Life review @ UBLF Chilldown Period

UBLF Chilldown Period also posted a very thoughtful review on the album:

http://ublf-coast-to-coast.blogspot.com/2010/04/auditory-canvas-fabric-of-life.html

Great Scott (Glitch.fm) review of Fabric of Life

Scott, founder of Glitch.fm sent me an awesome quick review of the album too:

“Brilliantly beautiful textures and melodies filled with delicious granular details and good rhythms when only absolutely appropriate. Think BT’s “This Binary Universe” meets Guy Sigsworth’s compositions (and a little Enigma here and there)! If anyone involved in the film industry is reading this – AC deserves a job scoring films with work like this. Top favorites are Spring Rain, Fabrique, and Chrysalis though it’s all good. ” – Great Scott (Muti Music // Glitch.FM // Scarcity Records).

If you haven’t checked out glitch.fm yet I highly recommend you do, some pretty cool audio treats from many different DJs and artists. http://glitch.fm

Thanks to everyone for their time and effort on the articles and reviews, I sincerely appreciate it.

IG88 – IG88

2010-06-08T01:17:21Z

Release Date: May 31st 2010

Catalog Number: SRR-075

IG88′s self titled EP is his debut release on Summer Rain. Beautiful, haunting melodies, occasional vocals, and glitched, elaborate beats bind to culminate in a blissful collection of tracks that inspire and soothe.

Auditory Canvas – Fabric of Life

2010-06-08T01:12:31Z

Release Date: 17th April 2010

Catalog Number: SRR-076

After a good few successful EPs, Auditory Canvas has finally released hist first album – Fabric of Life.

In his own words:

“This album has been years in the making. While there have been a good few successful EP releases over the last few years from me, putting a complete album together has been a different story.
I didn’t want to just throw 10 songs together and call it an album, I wanted to make it a cohesive, auditory journey. After what maybe seems too long, I have finally managed to achieve that goal, the end result is my first album ‘Fabric of Life’.”

Ghosts of Paraguay – Awakening Osiris EP out now….

2010-04-13T16:39:44Z

We just released a great new EP by Ghosts of paraguay, now available in all good online stores, including our own.

Click the pic to get more details and listen to the EP.

Ghosts of Paraguay – Awakening Osiris EP

2010-06-13T10:35:48Z

Release Date: 12th April 2010

Catalog Number: SRR-074

Put a pinch of Burial, a cup of Bluetech, and a dash of Amon Tobin into an audio melting pot, and you’d get something that sounds like Ghost of Paraguay’s unique and enchanting tracks. Have a listen and see where the occasional haunting vocals over intricate melodies and glitched out beats take you.

Click the cover art to buy the EP

New website….

2010-04-13T15:12:35Z

If this isn’t your first time here, you may notice the site has had a bit of a facelift. We’ll be adding finishing touches such as music players to each release page, and buy links for each release, as well as a new store and other features over the next week, so check back every now and then to see what’s going on.

Feel free to get in touch via the Contact page with any feedback or comments, we’d love to hear from you.

2 new releases today

2010-04-09T08:21:45Z

We have 2 new releases today, our first releases of 2010!

Zirio des Ziris – Jeune Fille de Lune EP

Click the pic to listen:

Jeune Fille de Lune EP combines Zirio’s french electronica expressions with musical interpretations of his work from other electronic artist in the form of remixes from The Blonde Ninja, and Gery Montet. The EP also contains an additional track, Seule dans ses étoiles, which gives us a brief insight into the versatility and variation of his work.

Lorga – Machinery’s Handbook EP

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Machinery’s Handbook melds intricate melody and sharp percussion that entwine and culminate to produce intriguing landscapes and auditory imagery that captivates and inspires. A powerful introduction to Lorga’s musical imagination.

Lorga – Machinerys Handbook EP

2010-04-14T10:38:10Z

Release Date: 24th January 2010

Catalog Number: SRR-072

Click the cover art to buy

Zirio des Ziris – Jeune Fille de Lune EP

2010-04-14T10:43:25Z

Release Date: 24th January 2010

Catalog Number: SRR-073

Click the cover art to buy

monome community compilation album released to help Haiti

2010-04-09T08:21:55Z

Summer Rain recently got together with the monome community (monome.org) to help release a compilation album containing 27 tracks, with a pay what you want price, with all sales being donated to MSF.org to assist in aid to Haiti.

You can download the album by clicking the flier below.

The HAITI2010 album by the monome Community is now available to the public with 100% of the sale proceeds being donated to Médecins Sans Frontières (msf.org)

The monome user base is a collection of people from across the world (Pin drop map here: http://tinyurl.com/yh53lwf), brought together via the innovative, open source music production hardware that is the monome (monome.org),

They pride themselves on a tight-knit, proactive, and helpful community (post.monome.org), where collaborations and projects are frequently happening, the outputs of which range from new software patches to share, to Creative Commons track and album collaborations.

When the community came up with the idea of a compilation album to generate charity donations in light of the terrible disaster in Haiti, einpuls started gathering tracks for the album and the monome community answered swiftly with more than 25 tracks being submitted in just a couple of days.

The community teamed up with Summer Rain Recordings (summerrainrecordings.net) to compile the compilation, with the end result being a 27 track album, each track contributed for free.

The minimum price for the compilation has been set to $1 with no upper limit. Every penny helps, so please donate what you can.

Click here to download the press release: summerrainrecordings.net/monome press release