ETERNAL RETURN
NEWdOG Records to release “Once Only” debut album by international progressive ensemble ETERNAL RETURN – Release date: 2/23/21
The international progressive ambient ensemble Eternal Return is a five-piece combining various duos/trios that have previously recorded and toured together. Notably, Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree, NoMan, O.R.k.) on bass with his frequent collaborator, Estonian guitarist Robert Jürjendal (Toyah Wilcox, Fripp’s Crafty Guitar School). At the heart of the band is Dogon, the duo of Miguel Noya, (Venezuelan keyboard pioneer, Phantom Limb Recordings) and Paul Godwin, (California-based composer/singer and NEWdOG founder). Dogon have been widely celebrated and aired since the late ‘90s - “the best of progressive ambient”- WIRED Magazine. Holding down this aerial act is Miguel Toro, Venezuelan-born, Berlin-based drummer (Royal Dust.)
Once Only
The debut album was recorded in Berlin last year by Bob Spencer at The Famous Gold Watch Studio (a former munitions factory and Stasi HQ) and mixed at Pete Townsend’s Grand Cru boat studio in London’s St. Katherine’s Docks by Jonathon Hucks. The album is concerned with “nomadism,” inspired by Noya’s status as part of Venezuelan economic and political diaspora. Musically siting seminal progressive ambient-jazz-pop influences such as Talk Talk’s “Spirit of Eden” and David Sylvian’s solo work, the album is something fresh, darkly mysterious and beguiling.
Track Listing:
1. Nomad
2. The Void
3. The Triggering Town
4. A Medium-Sized Village
5. The Bottom of the Pond
6. The Sky
THE POWER OF DISTANCE
NEWdOG Records to release new progressive ambient album on CD and all online delivery systems.
“The Power of Distance” by Robert Jürjendal & Miguel Noya, a unique collaboration
Release Date: November 26th, 2019
Genre: Progressive Ambient/World Fusion
Contact: Paul Godwin paulrgodwin@me.com
“Hay distancias que alejan, hay distancias que acercan”
“There are distances that distance, there are distances that approach”
"On kaugused mis eemaldavad, on kaugused mis lähendavad"
NewDog Records is happy to announce the launch of “The Power of Distance”, the latest collaboration between Estonian guitarist, Robert Jürjendal, and Venezuelan Electronic Music pioneer, Miguel Noya. “The Power of Distance” is an album containing forty-seven minutes of original music and sounds arranged in eight tracks, intended to take listeners into deep inner spaces where they may experience landscapes, moods, and stories of two distant, yet psychically close, countries, Estonia and Venezuela.
This unique collaboration grew from several encounters during the last three years. Robert and Miguel first met in Tallin, Estonia in 2016 during the “All My Relations” tour of NEWdOG recording artist, Dogon (Paul Godwin & Miguel Noya). Dogon invited Robert to be a guest guitar player in their performance at the Kukemuru Ambient Festival in rural Estonia. Sharing progressive ambient roots in the music of Fripp & Eno for example, the connection between these musicians was immediate and the performance was “one of the most successful of that year’s festival,” as stated by festival organizer Kaido Kirikmäe.
In 2018, Dogon (Paul Godwin & Miguel Noya) teamed up with Jürjendal to record original music in an historic schoolhouse-turned-camping-lodge in rural Estonia. The resulting album, “Samliku” (NEWdOG Records) premiered on “Music from the Hearts of Space” internationally in mid-2018. Hearts of Space founder, Stephen Hill said the following about that record: "Superior Progressive Ambient from veterans Godwin and Noya, mightily inspired by Estonian guitar whiz Robert Jürjendal. Spacious, engaging, powerful.”
“The Power of Distance” recording process began as Jürjendal suggested that he and Noya exchange tracks via Internet and complete performances on each other’s compositions. The two share similarities living in powerful landscapes, in Venezuela and Estonia, and cultural synchronicities, including the pressure of extreme external forces on both countries. Such political and psychological pressures notwithstanding, the creation was fluid and productive and the sense of a common muse supported this work.
Miguel and Robert speak about this project and their collaboration:
“After sending each other tracks we organically found freedom to compose and play on this very magical project. We encountered a natural name for it “The Power of Distance”. We can find in “The Power of Distance” the innocence of pure music combining Estonian and Venezuelan energy merged in a very unique artistic result. We hope you enjoy this album as much as we did as we grew closer, despite our physical distance, and united through the metaphysics of the intimate process of creating and playing music together.”
Robert Jürjendal is an Estonian guitarist and composer, studied classical guitar and composition (Anti Marguste) at Tallinn Georg Ots Music School. During 1992-1997 he participated in Robert Fripp Guitar Craft Courses. Robert has composed for classical and contemporary guitar, cembalo, mixed ensembles, choirs; documentaries, art exhibitions and theater, across genres from folk to post-rock to ambient-jazz. With more than 50 albums, his recordings and performances include: Tõnis Mägi, Riho Sibul, Celia Roose, Kaido Kirikmäe, Weekend Guitar Trio, Fragile, UMA, Markus Reuter, Tim Bowness, Jan Bang, Colin Edwin, Arve Henriksen, Jon Durant, Five Seasons, Vox Clamantis, Estonian Philharmonic Choir, Ellerhein Girls Choir etc.
Recent albums: Source Of Joy (Unsung Records 2013), Balm Of Light (iapetus - media 2014) and Simple Past (Strangiato Records 2016). With Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree, Ex-Wise Heads) Another World (Hard World 2018), Five Seasons (Albany Records 2018), With Noya and Godwin Samliku (New Dog Records 2019), with Sandor Szabo Electric Poetry (Greydisc 2019)
Robert Jürjendal is working as a freelancer composer/artist/lecturer, as well as curator of the music program SOOLO at Tallinn Art Hall. Find out more at: http://robertjyrjendal.com/
About Miguel Noya
For over three decades, a leading voice in electronic music synthesis in South America, Miguel Noya has created albums, collaborations and live experiences throughout the world. Having studied Electronic Music at Boston’s Berklee College of Music while simultaneously pursuing work in Computer Sound Synthesis at MIT, Noya went on to create work for the 1990 Venice Biennial and the Venezuelan Pavilion at EXPO Lisboa 1998 and the Amazonian Andean Pavilion at EXPO Aichi Japan 2005. Noya has recorded seven solo albums and as part of the international progressive ambient duo (with Paul Godwin – USA), Dogon, seven more. Recently some of his early work was released as Canciónes Intactas by Phantom Limb Recordings (UK). He has created Live Electronics Performances in Venezuela, USA, México, Spain, Colombia, Sweden, Portugal, Chile and Germany. In 1996 Miguel pioneered the use of Internet in Netloops – perhaps the first real time concert connecting musicians remotely between Caracas and San Francisco as part of the Festival La Otra Música, Caracas. Find out more at: http://miguelnoya.com
Track List
Kirdetuuled 5:42
Curiara “a view above water” 7:36
Kalev & Linda 5:47
From Time to Time 5:24
Saarepiiga 4:36
Transmigración 12:06
Epilogue 4:02
Kalev & Linda reprise 1:43
Total: 46:57
Album Credits:
Robert Jürjendal: Acoustic and electric guitar, guitar-synth, keyboards
Miguel Noya: Keyboard, Piano, Synthesizers and Electronics
Mathieu Spaeter: Electric Guitar on “From Time to Time”
Janis Denis: Vocals on “Kalev & Linda”
Laura Brave: Vocal Samples on “Transmigración”
María Luisa González Anna-Kua samples on “Curiara” (from Ye’kwana tribe)
Mixing: Miguel Noya
Mastering: Adam Noya, Miguel Noya
Art: Thomas Noya
Executive production: Paul Godwin