A collage of texture, atmosphere, field recordings, live instruments and vocals, the Amalaise sound can be described as a complex melding of the spacier side of Cocteau Twins with the experimental nature of Grouper or cindyTalk.

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Track Listing:
1. Black Letters
2. Like A Barn Dead Horse
3. Body Ladder
4. Piscine
5. What The Living Do
6. Ancient Astronauts
7. Twinning Pools
8. Crystallization

Body Ladder [excerpt]
body_clip.mp3
Piscine [excerpt]
piscine_clip.mp3
What The Living Do [excerpt]
living_do.mp3
Ancient Astronauts [excerpt]
ancient.mp3
Twinning Pools [full track]
twinning_clip.mp3

We’ve never lost money on a release, though admittedly we’ve come close. This was especially true when we were doing hard copy releases. We don’t do that much anymore, unless we take them out for live shows. Mostly our music is available for digital download. We also have a variety of collectable, handmade editions that we did in the early days. Those are mostly gone now, and we’re always pleased when we see one of them on eBay fetching hundreds of dollars.

We didn’t have much of a business plan for Slobor when we started. We don’t have much of a business plan now. We make music and release it. We’ve found cheaper and cheaper ways to do these releases. We do our own design, our own graphics, our own packaging, our own Web development, our own mastering, our own engineering and our own promotion… Pretty much everything we do, we do ourselves. This the model that we took from labels like Dischord Records in Washington D.C., and bands like Fugazi, as well as labels like Chicago’s Touch and Go (by way of East Lansing, MI), or Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records. Punk rock taught us how to be DIY.

When we started the label it was out of necessity. We couldn’t get labels to take an interest in our work and our vision, so we joined forces. Both Jason and I have worked with many labels since then and even some before, but the right emphasis wasn’t put on the music or the art of making and presenting music, so we saw no real option: We had to do it ourselves.

We have a rich following, which always surprises me, not because I don’t think the work is good enough; I know it is, because we put our all into it. It’s surprising because our music is obscure, non-mainstream (or even close) listening music that rewards attentive listening. As global culture requires more and more instant gratification, our music couldn’t be further from that realm. It’s slow, and slowly evolving, like a fine wine, in that patience is rewarded.

The world is changing. Music business is changing. Expectations for the distribution, sale and experience of music is changing. We don’t know where it’s going and we don’t know how we’ll be getting our music to ears tomorrow, or in another ten years, but we will be. Our vision is as clear now as it was then: Create, distribute and promote music, artists and works of art that move us and might otherwise be neglected.

- Matt Borghi

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Sadayatana_Live.mp3
Set list:
Blue Star- 19’38″ -  ElevenEleven- 24’07″ -  The Fifth World- 15’19″

Work on their debut studio album will be completed early fall with a release towards winter 2011.

(s)END running time: 53 minutes:
Track listing:
warmAndfading.light – 13’03″
withNo_return – 8′ 14″
piercedAether – 1′ 03″
asFragile.as – 5′ 39″
(s)END – 8′ 35″
(a)SEND – 16′ 16″

Previews
- warmAndfading.light [2 minute excerpt]
1_edit.mp3
- (s)END [full track]
5_full.mp3

This weekend STAR’S END RADIO will feature cuts from Peter G. Brown’s Ten Years of Dust.  You will also hear excerpts from Jason.Sloan’s live Star’s End donor concert last weekend at the WXPN World Café studios.

STAR’S END is (with the exception of “Music from the Hearts of Space”) the longest running radio program of ambient music in the world.

Chuck Van Zyl – Host of Star’s End Radio

Slo.Bor Media is very proud to announce the release of Peter G. Brown’s debut solo album Ten Years of Dust.

Ten Years of Dust reminds us that good music composition transports you – it changes your world. Like any great art, it can take you from where you’re at to someplace else. It can evoke feelings and places, other cultures, other worlds and maybe other universes. Subtly reminiscent of Budd and Eno’s The Pearl, Ten Years of Dust blends delicately layered piano with guitar, strings and electronics to create a sound world perfect for late night listening.

Peter’s ability to unify synthetic and organic timbres is unlike any recording that we can recall. Ten Years of Dust has moved beyond the territory that Tangerine Dream had broached and Radiohead attempted with Kid A, but neither of these masterful collectives were able to move beyond. Peter’s done it and then some. The freshness of this recording is quite rare these days and long overdue.

Peter G. Brown: Ten Years of Dust is a download only release and is now available in all good digital retailers, ie: iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, etc.

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Track Listing
1. Last Pilgrimage
2. Beacon
3. Arrival
4. The Gwynns Falls
5. Northernmost
6. Cross in the Mountains
7. Archipelago
8. Between Name, Between Face
9. Yet To Come
10. Empty Graves
11. Overland Route
12. Ten Years of Dust
13. For James Whittaker
14 Youth

Total Running Time: 57′ 40″

Beacon [full track preview]

beacon.mp3

Yet To Come [full track preview]
yet_to_come.mp3

thirty.sevenDAYS was released on December 27, 2010. It’s now available through all good digital music outlets including the iTunes Store, eMusic, Amazon, Rhapsody and many other services. In addition to these retailers, thirty.sevenDAYS will also be available for purchase directly though the store at jasonsloan.com.

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thirty.sevenDAYS e.p. [digital only release]
60 second track previews below – low bitRate

01. if.hopeWere.Breath – 5’36″ 1.mp3
02. thirtySeven.days – 6’23″ 2.mp3
03. denialAnd.distance – 7’50″ 3.mp3
04. aloneWith_theAfter – 12’28″ 4.mp3