CD release: Mystified - Primal Mystification

[mgriffin]

Artist: Mystified
Title: Primal Mystification
Label: Hypnos Secret Sounds (Ltd CDR)



2009. Mystified is a pseudonym for Thomas Park, an ambient/electronic musician
who lives in the midwestern USA. He's been prolific under the Mystified name as
well as the Mister Vapor project, but this is his first release with Hypnos Secret
Sounds. Most recently, Mystified has collaborated with Nunc Stans on a release
One Thousand Dreams on the Dataobscura label, and he has previously
collaborated with Robin Storey (Rapoon) and Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions).

One of the things we enjoy at Hypnos is helping expose listeners to artists they
may not have heard before, and that includes even artists whose work has been
released widely on a variety of labels. The work of Mystified, while elsewhere
working with more pronounced electronic rhythms, here emphasizes deep,
slow-moving textures. Primal Mystification includes subtle and restrained
percussive elements but is definitely geared toward the listener who loves deep,
thick drone work.

Mystified himself says of this recording:
"Primal Mystification emerged from drone sounds, similar to the way we humans
emerged from the primordial ooze. Oscillating ambient bell washes were created
using field recordings and mystical effect processes, and then simple rhythmic
and melodic phrases evolved from the primal material. Sometimes there is a
change or development in the rhythmic material, and always there are changes
in the drones, behind, as they shift and flow. Primal Mystification is a musical
union of form and formlessness."

Hypnos Secret Sounds brings you Primal Mystification, our first release by Mystified.

Track listing, with mp3 sample clips:
01 > massive turning > 14:58 > mp3 http://www.hypnos.com/audio/hss-myst-pm-01.mp3
02 > departing certainty > 13:26 >  mp3 http://www.hypnos.com/audio/hss-myst-pm-02.mp3
03 > not knowing where > 10:30 >  mp3 http://www.hypnos.com/audio/hss-myst-pm-03.mp3
04 > back to the primal > 11:22 >  mp3 http://www.hypnos.com/audio/hss-myst-pm-04.mp3

Purchase for $9.99 on Hypnos Online Store here:
http://www.hypnos.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=hss30

[mystified]

Special thanks to Mike and all of the Hypnos crew, and also for APK for introducing me to this forum.

[Austere]

We loves us Mystified, have for years. This is wonderful - can't wait to get it!

Cheers, A

--
Thanks for Listening.

[mystified]

Some people I work with received copies of this. It provoked interesting reactions.

I think this was discussed in another thread, but to re-state-- I have trouble explaining my music to people. No one at the library had heard of "ambient" at all. That surprised me a little, but I guess it should not have, since the library files Eno's music under "Jazz" (and Tangerine Dream and all blues, too).

So I usually tried to say that the music is like a soundtrack to a movie, with world ambient flavor.

"Primal Mystification" is really one of the few things I have done that I think I could share with peers in this way. It is not as minimal as many of my efforts. I think the first 2 tracks will especially appeal. I also love tracks 3 and 4 but admit they are darker and edgier and might not flip the wig of the middle-aged librarian.

Incidentally, the physical copies came out really nice with "Primal Mystification". The water image is just dark enough to print nicely, and everything looks just right. I am very happy about that.

[mystified]

Today my boss at the library told me "Primal Mystification" sounds like the background music from a Pink Floyd album.

Luckily, he is a fan of Pink Floyd.

[mystified]

Bill Fox played “Massive Turning”, from mystified’s Hypnos Secret Sounds release, “Primal Mystification”, on his well-regarded radio show, “Galactic Travels”. Galactic Travels plays on 88.1 WDIY Pennsylvania and on various broadcasts throughout the state and digitally online. A piece from Steve Brand's HSS release was also played.

Show #664 December 24, 2009.

PLAYLIST:

11:04 pm
ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
Kevin Braheny Starflight 1 * Galaxies (Hearts of Space)
JeffreyKoepper Part II Quadranteon (Air Space)
Arcane Timelapse Tomorrow’s Wasteland (Lawler)
Terje Winther Time Electronic Regions (Bajkal)
Terje Winther And Again Electronic Regions (Bajkal)
Mystified Massive Turning Primal Mystification (Hypnos Secret Sounds)

12:00 am
ARTIST TRACK ALBUM (label)
Steve Brand Golden Cloud Children of Alcyone (Hypnos
Secret Sounds)
Indra One Billion Light Bhuvanshvari (Eagle)
Years
Indra Tiamat Bhuvanshvari (Eagle)

1:00 am

[mystified]

There is now a music video for an edit of track 3 from this cd, "Not Knowing Where". The video was created by artist Allan Zane and is free to view at YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RarOFf4HfHI

[mystified]

Byron Kerman, a popular freelance writer from Saint Louis, created a short review of "Primal Mystification":

“Primal mystification alternately conjures thoughts of settling in for the sleep of machines in the sub-rumble of a boiler room; the aurora borealis toying with the audible spectrum; alien conquerors come to claim their stake – our echoing fear; finally cracking the door to the secret spirit realm; the day that machines gain sentience and blink up at their gobsmacked creators; and a group of motherless children beating out a post-apocalyptic drum circle in desperate hope.
Truly, a sonic headphone journey that removes one far from the physical. Perfect for the Hearts of Space radio program, too.”

I don't know personally about the Hearts Of Space thing, though it would be an honor, but the other stuff seems relevant.

[mystified]

Hypnos Releases On WWSP

“Not Knowing Where”, from mystified’s Hypnos Secret Sounds release, “Primal Mystification”, was played on WWSP-FM’s “Ambient Ether / Space Continuum” show, hosted by Misha. 2 other Hypnos tracks, from recent releases, were featured, as well.

5:00 AM

Oophoi - A Flock of butterflies descends in a Zen garden - Dream Five: A Flock of butterflies descends in a Zen garden [Umbra ] 2003 Artist
Seren Ffordd - Out of the Void - Stellar Nurseries [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Mystified - not knowing where - primal mystification [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Viridian Sun - light years from here - Infinite In All Directions [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009

6:00 AM

33 Tetragammon and Human Metronome - Cosmic Hweeldi - Resonating Earth [ ]
Igneous Flame - Geiss 2009 - Electra [LuminaSounds ]
Eucalyptus Dream - Triangular Motion - Process of Illumination [Moon Cycle Records PRD1960] 2009
Synth.nl - Antartico - OceanoGraphy [Groove Unlimited ]

6:30 AM

Remy - Velocity - Exhibition of Dreams [AKH Records ] Label Artist
H.U.V.A. Network - Indigo Room  - Distances [Ultimae Records ] 2004
Ron Boots, Frank Dorittke, Harold van der Heijden - Reattachment of Worldly Affairs - Derby! [Groove Unlimited GR-165]

[Alan Imberg]

I received my copy today. I've listened to it twice. Very good. Well done, sir. Initial favorite is "back to primal". I like the juxtoposition in the mix between the rhythms and the synth textures. I'm going to rip it to the iPod so as to listen to it during my travels. I'll post more thoughts as i digest more.

[mystified]

Thanks, Alan! Glad you like it.

Very glad to hear it.

[mgriffin]

Here's a review of Primal Mystification, originally posted by Mystified a few days ago and accidentally just deleted by me.

     “The unbelievably prolific Thomas Park returns to us once again with a rather lovely full-length offering (as Mystified) on Hypnos Secret Sounds--’Primal Mystification’. Mr. Park’s more free-form (or perhaps it is more appropriate to refer to it as “formless”? I refrain from using the genre terms “ambient“ or “drone” as they have been over-referenced for decades) work often touches on something powerfully inexplicable and nebulous--magickal. This particular release would be no exception.

     The album starts out with a piece entitled ‘Massive Turning’. It’s a bit deceptive if one thinks they have the Mystified sound pegged--as one expects gassy, shimmering atmospheres. It delivers just that…only it is coupled with an organic percussion that is unheard to me in the work of Mystified! An instrument such a tabla would have been too obvious, so what sounds like bongo is appropriate and more enthralling. Layered along with these sounds are also piano chords. ‘Massive Turning’ seems to be literal--a massive turning POINT in the direction stylistically. And it works like a charm.

     Next is ‘Departing Certainly’. And that it certainly is--a departure from the banalities of life into an almost hallucinatory, emotional transcendence. The piece feels like walking in someone else’s shoes of their past , blurred and fading melancholia.

     ‘Not Knowing Where’ is the apex for this gem of a disc. This is the most potent track of all--and the one I am the most familiar with (seeing that I produced the video for it). Every time I hear it I get the sense of being lost BLISSFULLY in the cosmos…but full of wonder. Music for lysergic inner-space travel.

     Concluding this release is ‘Back to the Primal’. Despite an almost “electronic feel” at times, it is re-entry music for returning to the mundane tribe/masses perpetuated by consensus reality--the primal of the flesh prison we are born into. Or is it vice-versa? Either way, it is a trip beyond this world (and beyond genre traps) you wish would NEVER end! But until we leave this mortal coil and its restraints of the physical body, it is only possible to touch on these realms with the aide of such ART as that of Mystified…”

--Allan Zane, musician and video artist, January 5, 2010

[mystified]

Hypnos made it on to WWSP-FM's show again this morning. Here is the playlist:

Broadcaster:      WWSP
Show:      Ambient Aether / Space Continuum
Date:      1/10/2010
Host:      Misha
Theme:      New Age Sampler
Notes:      Episode Title: "Bitter Cold". Opening Theme / Voice-over THeme: "Cat-Scan" by, Tangerine Dream from the "I-Box" release on: TDI Music.

  5:00 AM

Oophoi - whispering fireflies at the edge of the night - whispering fireflies at the edge of the night [Umbra ] Artist
Seren Ffordd - Storm Movement - Stellar Nurseries [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Mystified - departing certainty - primal mystification [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Viridian Sun - travel at absolute zero - Infinite In All Directions [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009

  6:00 AM

33 Tetragammon and Human Metronome - Triumphant Discovery - Resonating Earth [ ]
Eucalyptus Dream - Cadiz - Process of Illumination [Moon Cycle Records PRD1960] 2009
Synth.nl - Megaterpa - OceanoGraphy [Groove Unlimited ]

  6:30 AM

Remy - Lunascape - EoD [AKH Records ]
H.U.V.A. Network - Time Circles  - Distances [Ultimae Records ] 2004

[mystified]

Another nice morning for Hypnos on WWSP-FM:

Broadcaster:      WWSP
Show:      Ambient Aether / Space Continuum
Date:      1/17/2010
Host:      Misha
Theme:      New Age Sampler
Notes:      Episode Title: Ice-fisherman's Dream". Opening Theme / Voice-over Theme: "Cat-Scan" by, Tangerine

Dream from the "I-Box" release on: TDI Music.

  5:00 AM


Steve Brand - Light Age - Children Of Alcyone [Hypnos ]
Seren Ffordd - Spiral Dance - Stellar Nurseries [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Mystified - not knowing where - Primal Mystification [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Viridian Sun - parallax drift - Infinite In All Directions [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009

  6:00 AM

33 Tetragammon and Human Metronome - The Final 5 - Resonating Earth [ ]
Igneous Flame - Chromashift - Electra [LuminaSounds ]
Eucalyptus Dream - Gemini Moon - Process of Illumination [Moon Cycle Records PRD1960] 2009
Synth.nl - Atlantico - OceanoGraphy [Groove Unlimited ]

  6:30 AM

Remy - Silent Conversations - EoD [AKH Records ] Label Artist
Ron Boots, Frank Dorittke, Harold van der Heijden - Reattachment of Worldly Affairs - Derby! [Groove Unlimited

GR-165] 2009 Artist
H.U.V.A. Network - Morning Call (Dawn Remix)  - Distances [Ultimae Records ] 2004

[mystified]

A very nice morning on Star's End radio for Hypnos, including a track from "Primal Mystification":

STAR'S END 1-6AM SatNight/SunMorning Playlist for 24 January 2010
88.5fmWXPN Philadelphia|99.7fmWXPH HarrisburgPA|90.5fmWKHS
Worton/BaltimoreMD|
88.7fmMiddletown/York/LancasterPA|104.9fmLehighValleyPA
Host: Chuck van Zyl

ARTIST - TRACK - ALBUM (label)

1:00am
Redshift - Shift to Blue - RW3 (distant sun)
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra - Phaedra (virgin)
The Ministry of Inside Things - Stone Garden - STAR'S END 30th Anniversary
Anthology
Node - Express.Calling at All Stops - Terminus (deviant)

2:00am
Jean Michel Jarre - Parts I II III - Oxygene (dreyfus)
Vangelis - tracks 7 8 9 10 - Blade Runner (atlantic)
Chuck van Zyl - Valhalla - Celestial Mechanics (centaur discs ltd)

3:00am
Arc - Creep.Rise - Rise (DiN/DDL)
Jonn Serrie - Enroute to Delta Pavonis.Nostalgia For Infinity - Thousand Star

4:00am
Robert Rich - Wheel of Earth - Trances/Drones (release)
Robert Davies - The Shifting Moon - Terrestre (dataObscura)
Steve Brand - Golden Cloud - Children of Alcyone (hypnos)
The Winterhouse - Secret Arrangements - Sanctuary (dataObscura)
Matt Borghi - November's Peculiar Calm - Huronic Minor (hypnos)

5:00am
Mystified - Departing Certainty - Primal Mystification (hypnos)
Boddy/Wostheinrich - Shorelines.Ascension - Hemispheres (DiN/DDL)
Broekhuis Keller Schonwalder - Blue and Red - Blue (manikin)

6:00am

http://www.starsend.org

[mystified]

And another nice Hypnos AM on WWSP:

 5:00 AM

Steve Brand - Golden Cloud - Children Of Alcyone [Hypnos ]
Seren Ffordd - Floating, Dreaming - Stellar Nurseries [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Viridian Sun - Magnetars cast no shadow - Infinite In All Directions [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Mystified - massive turning - Primal Mystification [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Lia Scallon - The First Little Angels on Earth - The Sounds of Sirius [Sounds of Sirius ] 2009

  6:00 AM

33 Tetragammon and Human Metronome - Resonating Earth / Solar Eclipse - Resonating Earth [ ]
Eucalyptus Dream - Process of Illumination - Process of Illumination [Moon Cycle Records PRD1960] 2009
Synth.nl - Caracharodon - OceanoGraphy [Groove Unlimited ]

  6:30 AM

Remy - Mirage - EoD [AKH Records ] Label Artist
H.U.V.A. Network - Processing Lights  - Distances [Ultimae Records ] 2004

[mystified]

"Primal Mystification" made the Top 15 for Star's End Radio, January, 2010: (Steve Brand and Matt Borghi, too)

STAR'S END 1-6AM SatNite/SunMorn 88.5FM WXPN Philadelphia, PA
Top 15 For Januray 2010 (alphabetical) Compiled by Chuck van Zyl

ARTIST - ALBUM - LABEL

Anomalous Disturbances - Archive Two - Disappearing Music
Anomalous Disturbances - Inside - Disappearing Music
Arc - Rise - DiN/DDL
Matt Borghi - Huronic Minor - Hypnos
Steve Brand - Children of Alcyone - Hypnos
Broekhuis Keller Schonwalder - Blue - Manikin
John Christian - Susbarbatus - self-released
Robert Davies - Terrestre - dataObscura
Moby - Wait for Me (Deluxe Edition) - Mute
Mystified - Primal Mystification - Hypnos
Redshift - RW3 - Distant Sun
Resonant Drift - The Call - self-released
Markus Reuter/Ian Boddy - Unwound - DiN/DDL
Jonn Serrie - Thousand Star - New World
The Winterhouse - Sanctuary - dataObscura

http://www.starsend.org

Further, "Primal Mystification" and some other Hypnos albums made it on WWSP-FM the morning of 2/7:

Broadcaster:      WWSP
Show:      Ambient Aether / Space Continuum
Date:      2/7/2010
Host:      Misha
Theme:      New Age Sampler
Notes:      Episode Title: "Running Behind". Opening Theme / Voice-over Theme: "Cat-Scan" by, Tangerine Dream"

from the "I-Box" release on:TDI Music.

  5:10 AM

Steve Brand - Outside the Grid of Time - Children Of Alcyone [Hypnos ]
Mystified - massive turning - Primal Mystification [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Seren Ffordd - Out of the Void - Stellar Nurseries [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009

  6:00 AM

33 Tetragammon and Human Metronome - separate self - Resonating Earth
Larry Kucharz - pastel 9914 - Pastels [International Audiochrome ]
Synth.nl - Indico - OceanoGraphy [Groove Unlimited ]
Ron Boots, Frank Dorittke, Harold van der Heijden - Canyon - Derby! [Groove Unlimited GR-165] 2009

  6:30 AM

Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Besucher Im Traum - Offene Ture [Nepenthe Music and Publishing ]
Remy - Velocity - EoD [AKH Records ]
H.U.V.A. Network - Moon Town  - Distances [Ultimae Records ] 2004
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Central plains - Hydroponic Gardens [Ultimae Records ] 2003

[mystified]

Another nice day for Hypnos Records on WWSP-FM:

Broadcaster:      WWSP
Show:      Ambient Aether / Space Continuum
Date:      2/14/2010
Host:      Misha
Theme:      New Age Sampler
Notes:      Episode Title: "Flowers Anyone?". Opening Theme / Voice-over Theme: "Cat-Scan" by, Tangerine Dream"

from the "I-Box" release on:TDI Music.

  5:00 AM

Oophoi / Tau Ceti - Arsia Echoes - Celestial Geometries [Arya AY12] 2000 Artist
Steve Brand - Into the Central Sun - Children Of Alcyone [Hypnos ]
Viridian Sun - Magnetars cast no shadow - Infinite In All Directions [Hypnos] 2009
Mystified - Back to the Primal - Primal Mystification [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Lia Scallon - Diamond Meditation for Women - The Sounds of Sirius [Sounds of Sirius ] 2009

  6:00 AM

Terry Oldfield - From the Heart - Across The Universe [New Earth Records ] 2010 800.570-4074
Larry Kucharz - pastel 0902 - Pastels [International Audiochrome
Synth.nl - Orcinus - OceanoGraphy [Groove Unlimited ]
Ron Boots, Frank Dorittke, Harold van der Heijden - A storm in the Guildhall - Derby! [Groove Unlimited GR-165] 2009

Artist

  6:30 AM

Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Spiegelung - Offene Ture [Nepenthe Music and Publishing ] Label Artist
Psicodreamics - Transylvanic  - The Garden (of good and evil) (reissue, 2007) [Witches on the Radiowaves ] 2000

Label Artist
Remy - Lunascape - EoD [AKH Records ]

[mystified]

More radio play:

Broadcaster:      WWSP
Show:      Ambient Aether / Space Continuum
Date:      2/21/2010
Host:      Misha
Theme:      New Age Sampler
Notes:      Episode Title: "Tidal Forces". Opening Theme / Voice-over Theme: "Cat-Scan" by, Tangerine Dream from the "I-Box" release on: TDI Music.

  5:00 AM


Oophoi / Tau Ceti - Cydonia Plains - Celestial Geometries [Arya AY12] 2000 Artist
Steve Brand - Golden Cloud - Children Of Alcyone [Hypnos ]
Viridian Sun - light years from here - Infinite In All Directions [Hypnos] 2009
Mystified - not knowing where - Primal Mystification [Hypnos Secret Sounds ] 2009
Lia Scallon - Starsong - The Sounds of Sirius [Sounds of Sirius SOS 008] 2010 Label (+61) 419 486 0
Bruno Sanfilippo - A piece of Concert-installation MANDALA - Live in Barcelona (IMF): Piano Improvisation [ad21 Music ] 2007

  6:00 AM

Terry Oldfield - Down to Earth - Across The Universe [New Earth Records ] 2010 800.570-4074
Larry Kucharz - pastel 9515 - Pastels [International Audiochrome ]
Andreas Akwara - Erwachet Satz III - Erwachet [AA Music ] 2010
Synth.nl - Chelonia - OceanoGraphy [Groove Unlimited ]

  6:30 AM      

Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Husche - Offene Turen [Nepenthe Music and Publishing ]
Remy - Silent Conversations - EoD [AKH Records ] 2009
Psicodreamics - Witches on the Radio Waves - The Garden (of good and evil) (reissue, 2007) [Witches on the Radiowaves ] 2000
Ron Boots, Frank Dorittke, Harold van der Heijden - Tainted Bare Skin at the International - Derby! [Groove Unlimited GR-165] 2009
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Artificial Island - Hydroponic Gardens [Ultimae Records ] 2003

[mystified]

There is a free music video for an edit of the fourth track from this cd, "Back To The Primal".

It is a bit political, but you may enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8YxgWSxCWU

Thank you.