NeoKitsch

Ruth Walters plays Adagio from J.S. Bach’s Sonata No.1 in G Minor for solo violin at the NeoKitsch studio. 

NeoKitsch has four ambient tracks published on Humtoo’s minimalist drone collection. You can listen to the tracks by clicking on the image below.

Ben By Night: (Neokitsch) is an ambient piece which is tranquil, reflective and enlightening. It is a location specific piece, as the music resonates through the chimes of Big Ben, so this track is a perfect choice for those wishing to describe a London night scene.

 The Ocean : (Neokitsch) is a mysterious and haunting piece with threatening rumbles contrasted with high pitched chimes. It weaves through light and dark moods, describing the uncertain depths of the otherworldly ocean. 

 Schumann Fish: (Neokitsch) uses a mixture of subtle ambient music with sound recordings. The name comes from the piece being inspired by a particular passage in one of the Schumann Lieder, although this piece however, has an aquatic texture. 

 Frost: (Neokitsch) is very dark, with a distant, reverberant female voice accompanied by the low crackles and rumbles of the vintage analogue Moog Rogue synthesizer. 

NeoKitsch has Avant Garde lounge music published in Humtoo’s collection of smooth, percussive, electronic grooves mix tape. Check out “Last Orders” by NeoKitsch and other great music by clicking on the image below.

“Last Orders” is a quirky twist on the smooth groove/lounge music idiom, which uses unusual vocal echoes, and kitchen utensils for its percussion.

Things That Go Bump

“Things That Go Bump” is a collection of outrageous, weird and damn right silly musical experimentations. This time, the NeoKitsch studio brought together the combination of modern classical music styles, with avant garde film and electronic music. The Trumpet, Viola, Violin, Haken Continuum Fingerboard, Etherwave Theremin, Moog Synthesizers and Bass Guitar are just a fraction of the live instruments used to record this collection. 

All tracks were recorded live in the NeoKitsch Studio.

You can check out what some of these very recordings looked like on the NeoKitsch YouTube channel. Here is one of the videos showing Danny Hahn and David Way at work:

And here is another video demonstrating some of the unusual, one of a kind instruments in the NeoKitsch studio:

Filmmakers and Content Creators will find that these unusual tracks will really make a stamp on their work.  

Click on the banner below to listen to all 20 Avant Garde tracks:

Check out the new NeoKitsch album:

From Edward Lear – 1846

There was an Old Man of the West,
Who wore a pale plum-coloured vest;
When they said, “Does it fit?”
He replied, “Not a bit!”
That uneasy Old Man of the West.

Musical version in the style of ‘The Residents‘.

Twenty minimalist drones and ambient musical pieces by NeoKitsch have been published by the online music library Humtoo. 

The album is entitled ‘Neo-Drones’.

Danny talks to us about the album, his approach in the performance and recording,

and his intentions for its usage.

“This mix tape came naturally to me, as ambient genres of music are often requested for NeoKitsch. The instruments and performance style bring about a hypnotic, meditative aura. Most of the pieces, although thoroughly minimal, use a technique where all the twelve notes of the chromatic scale are used mainly in relation to one and other, rather than sticking to a key, and it avoids melodic and traditional harmonic structures. This approach, I find, encourages the listener to appreciate textures and mood above all else, as each note is of equal importance. As NeoKitsch produces music for visual mediums, this album is designed to enrich the screen with deep textures, as well as keeping a distance, in order not to dominate the image.

Some of the instruments used were the Moog Etherwave Theremin, Violin, Viola, Folktek Folkchord, Micro Garden, Electron Monomachine, Lap Steel Guitar, Moog Voyager, Bass Guitar, Omnichord and the Haken Continuum Fingerboard.

All tracks are live improvisations recorded at the NeoKitsch studio using a ProTools HD system, with vintage and modern mics and preamps, including the Nuemann U87 and AKG C414.

Neo-Drones is an eclectic mix of atmospheres, which will be appropriate for any soundtrack seeking ambient sounds with the ‘less is more’ approach.”  

Danny Hahn

NeoKitsch

Click on the link below to listen to the album: