promanev
Unique and soul nourishing. Otherworldly yet puts me in touch with nature. Like a crystal with many faces, reflections created by this music in my brain are never the same but equally beautiful.
Favorite track: Airglow ft. Enigmada.
Max Unmen
Pure, powerful and crispy soundscapes with a nice and warm trail of memories from the days of Hyphae and Crystal Consciousness. Well done, Evan!
Favorite track: Fluxliner.
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Cassette + Digital Album
Real-time recording of Harmonic Residents on mastering grade tape. With a runtime of 36 minutes, this limited edition release features a sky blue pad-printed cassette with full color J-card artwork by Marty Millar. Each order is signed and includes stickers. This is the first Skytree release on cassette, but will not be the last...
Harmonic Residents grew in parallel with 2022's all-ambient album Forest Family and went well beyond in depth. With new tools in a rebuilt studio, the detail in this project crystallized over several years - a culmination of hardware sessions and lessons, mix-downs and experiments.
Initial sketches were created without a desktop or laptop, and beats were layered by hand on an MPC. Physical instruments - penny whistle, piano and guitar - formed the melodic backbones. Weird and novel approaches to modular synthesis, radio, tape manipulation and field recordings drove the sound design foundations.
Harmonic Residents is familiar but fresh, deeper into the woods, a little off the beaten path into a neighboring land...perhaps well into an old growth forest, and from there into a crystal cave. It explores a similar bearing as 2011's Crystal Consciousness, but much farther down the trail...
My sincere gratitude goes to my brilliant collaborators Marty Millar for his otherworldly yet deeply familiar artwork, Adam Coleman (aka Enigmada) for his beautiful work on Airglow, Brandon Abley for his pro concert flute work on Drumlin Fields, Bobby West (aka Erothyme) for all of the heady listening notes and mix tips, Matt Humble for all the media juggling and decade-long support, and Shawn Rybacki for sharing creative space every day. And of course, thank you to all who listen and support.
- Evan / Skytree
P.S. Downloads also include ultra HD wallpapers of the release artwork. :)
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released September 15, 2023
Composed, mixed and mastered by ET Snyder (Skytree) in Boulder, Colorado: linktr.ee/skytree
Released in partnership with Timewheel: timewheel.net
One of the most stunningly cinematic and deep ambient records in my collection. A true work of passion by my friend Julien with enormous heart and personality, including brilliant videos. Skytree
Very much true to its name, this record journeys across a range of landscapes with the artist as the unifying whole. Perfect for folks that also love Tycho, BoC, Lone and lofi/synthwave. Skytree
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Beyond excited to support this album on a vinyl release! Dersu the Trapper has always been my favorite Bluetech track, and makes me feel a way no other piece of music does! Max Klein
Delightfully manic dance music from British producer Patrick Tipler where worked-up rhythms collide with high-intensity synths. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 4, 2021