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Today's Artist is the electronic/ambient music project of Scott Morgan, from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The name Loscil is taken from the "looping oscillator" function (loscil) in Csound in case you wondered, Scott Morgan was also the drummer for the Vancouver indie band Destroyer, but then studying communications and music at Simon Fraser University opened Morgan to the possibilities of experimental and electronic music and the rest as they say,is history...... N'Joy

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As Loscil, composer/producer Scott Morgan creates ambient music that drifts between the intuitive and the intellectual with deceptively easy grace. Since his 2001 debut album, Triple Point, a set of evocative tracks revolving around thermodynamics, he's shaped his masterful atmospheres and delicate, almost subliminal melodies with conceptual frameworks. The history and striking geography of southwestern British Columbia -- especially his hometown of Vancouver -- inspired some of his finest albums, including 2004's First Narrows (his first work to blend live instrumentation with electronics), 2012's Sketches from New Brighton, and 2014's Sea Island. While Morgan expanded his focus with 2016's ecologically minded Monument Builders and the meditations on creativity of 2019's Equivalents, the vast yet intimate feel of his music remained.

Born and raised in Vancouver, Morgan moved from the city's eastern suburbs to Courtenay on Vancouver Island as a boy. In his teens and twenties, he grew bored of the island's stillness, and channeled his restlessness into the bands he played with, which later included a stint as the drummer for Destroyer. However, studying communications and music at Simon Fraser University opened Morgan to the possibilities of experimental and electronic music. As he trained to be a sound designer and director, he learned about the fundamentals of computer music as well as the work of 20th century experimental composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Submers
Morgan's education shaped the music he was making on his own. Taking the term "loscil" (a combination of "loop" and "oscillate") from the audio programming language Csound, he began performing his minimalist dub/techno/ambient-inspired tracks at a friend's independent theater. He made a demo album, A New Demonstration of Thermodynamic Tendencies, named after and inspired by a physics textbook Morgan found at a used book store. After a friend suggested he send the demo to Kranky, the label signed him and, following a few tweaks, released it as Loscil's debut album. Arriving in October 2001, Triple Point introduced the conceptual basis of Morgan's music and his abstract yet vivid style. Following a European tour with Stars of the Lid, Morgan started work on Loscil's second album. This time, he looked to underwater craft for his music's emotional and thematic coherence and used heavily processed samples of classical music to convey its aqueous depth. Submers, which appeared in November 2002, included a touching requiem for the crew of ill-fated Russian nuclear vessel Kursk.

Destroyer's Rubies
For his next album, Morgan used a much wider range of sound sources. Along with samples, found sounds, and computer-generated tones, he also incorporated live instrumentation into the work. Inspired by Vancouver's Lion's Gate Bridge, May 2004's First Narrows featured Fender Rhodes courtesy of Zumpano's Jason Zumpano, along with contributions from Destroyer guitarist Tim Loewen and cellist Nyla Rany. At this point, Morgan was still Destroyer's drummer, and his remix of the band's 2006 album Destroyer's Rubies, "Loscil's Rubies," appeared on its vinyl release. That May, Morgan also issued Plume, which reunited him with Zumpano and featured xylophonist Josh August Lindstrom alongside guitarists Krista Michelle Marshall and Stephen Wood.

Endless Falls
Loscil returned in 2009 with Strathcona Variations, an EP for Ghostly International that ranged from minimalism to orchestral heights. With March 2010's somber Endless Falls, Morgan took another step forward; the album's final track showcased the vocals of his Destroyer bandmate Dan Bejar. The Italian label Glacial Movements issued Coast/Range/Arc, a piece inspired by the Coast Mountains, as a limited-edition release in June 2011. Morgan's next pair of albums showcased different sides of his hometown. Appearing in September 2012, Sketches from New Brighton took its name from an oceanside park in Vancouver that was considered to be the city's birthplace. The album spawned the following year's Intervalo, a reworking of several Sketches from New Brighton tracks with pianist Kelly Wyse. In November 2014, Morgan and Wyse reunited for Sea Island, which drew inspiration from the isle that is home to Vancouver's international airport. That year, Loscil also appeared on a split EP with Fieldhead.

Morgan's 2015 works included the For Greta EP, a benefit release for a friend's daughter who was battling bone cancer, and the interactive smartphone EP Adrift, which incorporates the elements of each track differently each time it plays. A warped VHS copy of Koyaanisqatsi, as well as the writing of philosopher John Gray and the photography of Edward Burtynsky, shaped Morgan's vision for November 2016's pensive full-length Monument Builders. The next year, collaborations with Seabuckthorn and Lost Trail arrived. In 2018, Morgan self-released Bannockburn, an extended version of one of the tracks from Adrift. In August 2019, he issued Equivalents, an album inspired by a series of moody, early 20th century photographs of clouds by renowned photographer and artist Alfred Stieglitz.

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Intervalo is the result of a collaboration between Seattle pianist Kelly Wyse and Vancouver's loscil. Culminating from two live performances in 2012, first at Seattle's Substrata Festival and later at Decibel Festival, these recordings were made in Seattle to capture the collaboration. This collection features reworked versions of familiar loscil compositions such as Endless Falls and Hastings Sunrise along side unique versions of rarer compositions such as Rye Fields and City Hospital.

<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/hHKB5"> Loscil - 4 EP,s City Hospital + New Brighton Field Study + Intervalo + Fury and Hecla + Sine Studies 1</a> ( flac 313mb)


01 City Hospital 18:53
New Brighton Field Study
02 Slow Moving Grain Cars 1:46
03 Waves on Rocks 2:28
04 Beneath the Second Narrows 2:08
05 Prairie Trains Arrive 2:28
06 Grain Elevator 1:55
Intervalo: Adaptations for Piano & Laptop
07 Endless Falls 6:56
08 Hastings Sunrise 6:55
09 Rye Fields 5:29
10 City Hospital 15:58
i. Awoke on a Ship
ii. The Coal Barge
iii. Staring Out of the Window at Twilight
iv. The Death of Åse
11 Endless Falls (Reprise for Solo Piano) 3:39
Loscil - Sine Studies 1
12 Elements 3:28
13 Unit Circle 4:04

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The 13-minute "Aether" is a majestic Ambient-Drone piece, presenting a perpetual chain in motion, a fire that - as if by magic - burns into the void, hissing and flaring, retreating and contracting, until it covers the expanding universe with it's cosmic sheen, a sheen which imposes itself in a terrifying and paralyzing beam that both pulverizes and purifies. Aesthetically and formally perfect, "Aether" is the masterpiece of the album.
This universal flow reasserts itself through a faint heartbeat and a wall of symphonic/ choral swirls in the 14-minute "Hespiredes", painting a landscape of mythical hibernation, of frozen titans traversing the vast trajectories of hostile and yet majestic space, of giant cemeteries haunted by dead echoes whose intensity gives the illusion of life.
The 24-minute psalm "Hypnos" (as if a less spectacular version of Alio Die's Deconsecrated and Pure) not only marks a shift from the external to the internal, from outer space to inner space, it also marks a shift in terms of quality. This time, the technique of magnifying the ambient stream and transforming it to grainy tidal wave of drone sounds banal. Even existentially, the gradual return - as the track unfolds - to a cosmic path sounds dull, devoid of sparkle. This concerto of celestial voices is a mirage, a beautiful grave that wants to entice you, a dog chasing it's own tail and turning in circles around itself. The 17-minute "Moirai" struggles to find a new destination for the vessel, temporarily mooring to a sirens island that lures you into submission with it's velvet melodies and sweet echoes, a smokescreen of distorted memories that deceptively appear appealing. But where do we go from here?
To the void. The 9-minute epilogue "Thanatos" returns to the Harold Budd-ian desolate graveyard of Abandoned Cities, only instead of vanishing into nothingness it reincarnates as energy in a vibrant universe, propagating a vicious circle equivalent only to the torture of Sysyphus. The soul is trapped, unable to escape, reliving the same journey again and again in agonizing perpetuity. Ultimately the most unusual Loscil release of Scott Morgan's universe,a real 'glacial movement' output with the most strange journey.




<a href="https://multiup.org/01e169587c319ffcd0a58fb112128c87">   Bvdub & Loscil - Erebus </a> ( flac 423mb)

01 Aether 13:20
02 Hespiredes 14:24
03 Hypnos 24:19
04 Moirai 16:32
05 Thanatos 8:40

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Loscil's Scott Morgan operates at such a consistently high level that the cohesion between his albums makes them even more immersive. Sea Island feels like an evolution of the sounds and ideas he explored on his previous full-length, 2012's excellent Sketches from New Brighton, and the short-form releases that followed it, the piano-driven Intervalo and his split EP with the British ambient group Fieldhead. Morgan sets an introspective, dark, but not oppressive mood similar to that of Sketches with tracks like the misty "In Threes," and, as always, uses small shifts to achieve seismic results; the way "Holding Pattern" warms up its chilly, flute-like tones and electric piano is almost imperceptible from moment to moment. He explores fragmented melodies in similar fashion, shrinking them to sonar-like beeps on "Angle of Loll" and letting them flow on "Sturgeon Bank." Underscoring the connection Sea Island has to Morgan's recent work, the album features collaborations with Intervalo pianist Kelly Wyse and Fieldhead violinist Elaine Reynolds as well as returning vibraphonist Josh Lindstrom and keyboardist Jason Zumpano. Morgan's pieces allow them to shine as much as he does: album opener "Ahull" showcases Lindstrom's spiraling lines, which recall Cliff Martinez's haunting Solaris score; Reynolds' playing is subsumed into glowing tones on "Catalina 1943"; and Wyse's poignant performance on "En Masse" is a reminder of what made Intervalo so special. Another standout, "Bleeding Ink," uses Ashley Pitre's wordless vocals to add a unique intimacy as well as a respite from the album's more ominous moments. Elsewhere, Morgan employs the last vestiges of his dub techno roots to give Sea Island structure and momentum; "Sea Island Murders" begins with gasps of melody and a subtly pulsing beat that bottoms out midway through the song, like the conclusion of a chase; "Iona" takes the opposite tack, initially floating on bell-like tones before a windswept beat overtakes it. Techniques like these ensure that Sea Island's generous length offers a deep dive into Loscil's world that remains compelling from start to finish.



<a href="https://mir.cr/1CRCG4YI">   Loscil - Sea Island </a> ( flac 275mb)

01 Ahull 6:38
02 In Threes 5:57
03 Bleeding Ink 6:38
04 Sea Island Murders 8:26
05 Iona 8:34
06 Holding Pattern 6:11
07 Catalina 1943 6:34
08 Angle of Loll 5:51
09 Sturgeon Bank 6:00
10 En masse 5:23
11 Angle of List 6:45

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7 years ago Loscil scored an app called Hundreds for the iOS. Recently he reached out and had musicians remix 100 minutes for the song Second Narrow in the app, this is the collection of them on one player. To support Loscil, head to his bandcamp where he has plenty of wonderful releases exclusive to that shop only.




<a href="https://1fichier.com/?qm6yi0yejpmcis5x5jxl">   Loscil - 100 Minutes  </a> ( flac 554mb)

01 Second Narrows (Fieldhead Version) 3:46
02 Second Narrows (Benoît Pioulard Version) 5:38
03 Second Narrows (Strategy Version) 4:38
04 Second Narrows (The Sight Below Version) 9:12
05 Second Narrows (Safety Scissors Version) 4:46
06 Second Narrows (Loscil Trailer Version) 5:17
07 Second Narrows (Kane Ikin Version) 8:16
08 Second Narrows (Ethernet Version) 8:55
09 Second Narrows (Specta Ciera Version) 3:34
10 Second Narrows (Heathered Pearls Version) 4:48
11 Second Narrows (Shigeto Version) 6:18
12 Second Narrows (Connect_icut Version) 6:41
13 Second Narrows (Sun Hammer Version) 4:11
14 Second Narrows (Marcus Fischer Version) 9:58
15 Second Narrows (Chris Herbert Version) 6:30
16 Second Narrows (Pleq Version) 7:23

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