Free Download: Chimera by Auditory Canvas

Founder of Summer Rain Recordings, David Holmes - aka Auditory Canvas - grew up in the seventies, surrounded by music (at least until he took his mother's record player apart at the age of 6 to see how it worked). His favourite toys were those that made or recorded sound. One of his most loved being the Stylaphone, which he was given at the age of 4.

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All we need in return is an email address. We won't swamp you with newsletters, just a quick update when we've something important to announce - which means you'll be the first to know about new CNR releases, videos and events.

Enter Calico

All twelve artists / tracks for our debut release, entitled Enter Calico, are now confirmed. We've been truly astounded at the quality of people contributing to this release and thrilled at the diversity and beauty of their work. We're adding photos, biographies and previews of the tracks to our Artists page over the coming days.

The SoundCloud player in this post will update automatically as new previews are added, but we encourage you to follow us on Twitter for news as it happens. All the artists involved in the project are also on Twitter. You can subscribe to our Enter Calico list, or follow them individually by clicking the links at the end of this post.

In other news, twelve animators and film makers are busy working on videos to accompany the tracks for Enter Calico. These will be featured in a very special iPad App release of the album under the direction of Video Production Manager, Ryan Mackfall. More news about the videos will follow in a separate post shortly.

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David McSherry - U∂+
Samarah - Falling Away
alka - sOMn ambulance
tricil - The Emancipation
stretta - Calculus
cloudchair - Echoes and Whispers (liquid weeld mix)
Auditory Canvas - Sea of Memories and Dreams
Thomas L. Raukamp - Août
Subterminal - For afo...
rktic - nordic walking
Futuro Primitivo - Wake Up!
Tapage - Wounds