Ambient Animal - Transcend [sama004]

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Welia - Object Permanence [samatape014], Ryvers - Maeander [samatape013], A/B - A/B [samatape012], Ambient Animal - Transcend [sama004], Abandoned Fields - The Time Traveller [sama003], Quixosis - Descomposiciones [samatape011], Cantillate - Machines for emotions [samatape010], Pee.J Anderson - Mibu [samatape009], and 11 more. , and , .

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1.	Ambient Animal - Jackfruit 03:17		buy track
2.	Ambient Animal - Nashira 04:46		buy track
3.	Ambient Animal - Rituals Of Believe 05:51	info	buy track
4.	Ambient Animal - 5 AM In A Wrecked World 03:29		buy track
5.	Ambient Animal - Docking Manoeuvre 03:36		buy track
6.	Ambient Animal - Contemplating Reality 05:44		buy track
7.	Ambient Animal - Leipzig Acid 03:54		buy track
8.	Ambient Animal - Wounds 04:08		buy track

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Ambient Animal is the guise of sama recordings founder and curator Benedikt Guschlbauer. His first outing as a solo artist, “Transcend”, shows off the artist’s long-fermenting musical vision. Gently percussive and seemingly broadcast from a place of altered states, Ambient Animal’s music is electronic ritualism, manifesting an entire dreamworld from sparse keyboards and drum machines built around live jams. Besides the high-end swirls and bubbling sound effects of tracks like ‘Docking Manoeuvre’, everything from shades of spacey Italo-disco (‘Contemplating Reality’) and ambient spinning plates of fog-laden samples (‘Jackfruit’) enters the fray, coalescing around an intimate process of adding final touches to long dormant home recordings.

“Transcend” is an album about a metamorphosis for Ambient Animal. Having spent the last 10 or so years having fun recording improvised live sessions in his home studio and often leaving them unfinished, this is the moment viennese sound tinkerer Benedikt Guschlbauer finally dotted the I’s and crossed the T’s. The vision emerging from these rudimentary analogue mixer recordings is one of an expansive sonic universe.

Unbound by genre, “Transcend” takes its strategic cues from dub, exotica, and techno, brimming with colourful synthesizer pulsations and distant distorted rhythms encased in studio flare. The music sits somewhere between the blissful floors of clubs and temples, operating as a delicate soundtrack for navigating through the ecliptic constellation of Capricornus.

Text by Tristan Bath, August 2020

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released September 21, 2020

All music written, recorded, mixed & performed by Benedikt Guschlbauer
In Vienna, Austria, 2018 – 2020

Percussion on "Rituals Of Believe" by Omar Yagoub
Mastered by Alexandr Vatagin

Drawings by Clara Kukelka - www.instagram.com/studio.prem
Layout & Design by Pia Reschberger - piareschberger.com

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Sama Recordings - founded 2014 in Vienna by Benedikt Guschlbauer - is an independent record label for advanced audio aspects free of aesthetic or genre-based borders and stands for forward thinking music, which enriches body, soul and mind.

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