UK duo Elliot Morgan and Nick Woolfson make some of the most stunningly ric… Read Full Bio ↴UK duo Elliot Morgan and Nick Woolfson make some of the most stunningly rich, dynamic, bass-heavy downtempo instrumentals on the planet. They are pioneers of ambient dub, an exotic style first championed by defunct UK label Beyond Records and then picked up and continued to this day by North American label Waveform Recirds. Although dub in its original form is the tripped-out instrumental flipside of reggae, there is quite often no overtly Jamaican flavour to Morgan and Woolfson's work. The dub element is more in the recording techniques (looping, delay, phasers etc) and lovingly produced basslines that rumble, slide, and snake their away around the room with enormous presence. Neither is the duo's take on dub the minimalist approach of modern purists. They concoct soulful, exotic and tuneful widescreen panoramas, wound together with muscular rhythms and big, crisp drum loops that sometimes have a tribal or ethnic edge. Rhythmic downtempo from the psychedelic trance scene owes quite lot to these guys: listen and learn.
Very rarely do/have the duo performed live, but should they ever be in the limelight, they have an arsenal of over 10 albums and several EP's worth of content to showcase, each with their own unique vibe and sound design.
The debut Kin (1996) immediately marks the pair as artists with extraordinary melodic gifts. Listen to Triangle as just one example of their ability to build and layer multiple lines with the kind of finesse summoned by Berlin's old-school ambient trance pioneers. Explorations of tones and melody seem to be at the centre of everything that Sounds From The Ground creates. This is not listening electronica that alienates - it seduces, humanises, liberates. What's more, despite rarely being over the 100 bpm tempo mark, it makes you want to dance.
Terra Firma (2000) shows the duo expanding their horizons - not that they were ever narrow to start with - and succeeding in everything they try their hand at. Marshmello is a piece of 21st century jetset lounge that wouldn't sound out of place in a James Bond film, while the electric piano groove and brass flourishes of The Cut suggest a nod to nujazz. The creeping grooves of Bodega Bay, Drugstore and Rye explore a kind of brooding emotional twilight that's neither happy nor sad and yet utterly compelling.
The female vocals of Natural Selection (2003) marked an unexpected and not particularly interesting attempt at a pop-orientated collection. Fortunately the duo's fourth album Luminal (2004) followed a year later and is a solid return to form. This time the dark side looms larger than on any other SFTG album, but depressing it is not. Tumbledown ropes in pedal steel player BJ Cole whose liquid guitar lines lift the crunching, snails-pace groove into a strange and beautiful realm. Move On proves that lyrics on ambient dub tracks are just fine, playing a filtered female vocal against shimmering keys and a slow techy groove and suggesting that (gasp!) trip hop is alive and well in 2004. As before, nearly every track on Luminal is a mini-epic and that's particularly true of the album's closer. The slowly unfolding London Fields is one of the best sunrise anthems Orbital never made, with ghostly looped chords that morph ever so gradually into a 120 beats-per-minute broken beat blissfest.
SFTG went on to release High Rising (2006) on Waveform Records. High Rising sees the duo experiment with more ambient longform tracks, creating an album with subtle grooves and a summer cityscape vibe. Notable collaborations in this album include renowned world-fusion & electronica artist Gaudi, and fantastic vocals from the likes of Juno Reactor vocalist Taz Alexander.
2008 saw another Waveform records release, Brightwhitelight focusing more on dub-centric sounds. The duo come through with classic bass oriented groovy downtempo. Shortly proceeding Brightwhitelight, SFTG released Thru the Ages (2009), a "from the vaults" compilation of unreleased works dating back as far as the Kin era.
The Maze (2010) followed; a Waveform Records release which has the duo reaching their hands into more psychedelic & acid soundscapes, layering them onto classic dub grooves. One further Waveform Records release follows, with the likes of Widerworld (2012) which has the duo stretch towards more varied styles including rhythmic experimentation and even the introduction of live acoustics on Fields Of Green And Yellow - Widerworld really showcases the diversity of styles that SFTG can fit into an album. Widerworld would be the duo's last release with Waveform Records as the owner, Forest, would go on to start further projects in Maui.
Simultaneously, SFTG also made headway with three EP's: In The Cool Of The Shade EP (2009), Spectral EP (2010), and Tonic Radio EP (2011). These EP's highlight the duos more subtle approach to the ambient dub style; a fantastic mix of straight dub tracks and ambient soundscapes.
The span of 2012 to 2017 saw 4 new albums and an EP on Upstream Records as well as a couple of remasters.
Ready, Steady, Slow (2012) sees the duo absorbed into smooth sultry chillout and atmospheric production, creating a beatless album filled with fantastic ambient landscapes. Followed by Tribes (2013), where the duo experiment with modern bass sounds and more punchy sounding beats. Tribes is a great example of modern, clean production from the duo. Alchemy (2015) sees the duo take a step back in time with the production, showcasing their technical prowess with analogue equipment reigning from the Kin era. Finally, Native Soul (2017) sees an interesting mix of the previous 3 albums' styles amalgamated into one place, taking the clean cut bass & drum sounds, analogue synths, and ambient atmospheres into one classic SFTG package.
This era also saw the remastering of Mosaic & Luminal, 2 keystone SFTG classics. Rhythm And Reason EP (2016) is a fantastic little set of diverse styles, incorporating energetic modern electronic sounds, analogue drum beats, and subtle ambient melodies.
2019 starts the next era for Sounds from the Ground, celebrating 25 years of their existence, the duo greet us with their forthcoming album Binary on the 25th March.
Very rarely do/have the duo performed live, but should they ever be in the limelight, they have an arsenal of over 10 albums and several EP's worth of content to showcase, each with their own unique vibe and sound design.
The debut Kin (1996) immediately marks the pair as artists with extraordinary melodic gifts. Listen to Triangle as just one example of their ability to build and layer multiple lines with the kind of finesse summoned by Berlin's old-school ambient trance pioneers. Explorations of tones and melody seem to be at the centre of everything that Sounds From The Ground creates. This is not listening electronica that alienates - it seduces, humanises, liberates. What's more, despite rarely being over the 100 bpm tempo mark, it makes you want to dance.
Terra Firma (2000) shows the duo expanding their horizons - not that they were ever narrow to start with - and succeeding in everything they try their hand at. Marshmello is a piece of 21st century jetset lounge that wouldn't sound out of place in a James Bond film, while the electric piano groove and brass flourishes of The Cut suggest a nod to nujazz. The creeping grooves of Bodega Bay, Drugstore and Rye explore a kind of brooding emotional twilight that's neither happy nor sad and yet utterly compelling.
The female vocals of Natural Selection (2003) marked an unexpected and not particularly interesting attempt at a pop-orientated collection. Fortunately the duo's fourth album Luminal (2004) followed a year later and is a solid return to form. This time the dark side looms larger than on any other SFTG album, but depressing it is not. Tumbledown ropes in pedal steel player BJ Cole whose liquid guitar lines lift the crunching, snails-pace groove into a strange and beautiful realm. Move On proves that lyrics on ambient dub tracks are just fine, playing a filtered female vocal against shimmering keys and a slow techy groove and suggesting that (gasp!) trip hop is alive and well in 2004. As before, nearly every track on Luminal is a mini-epic and that's particularly true of the album's closer. The slowly unfolding London Fields is one of the best sunrise anthems Orbital never made, with ghostly looped chords that morph ever so gradually into a 120 beats-per-minute broken beat blissfest.
SFTG went on to release High Rising (2006) on Waveform Records. High Rising sees the duo experiment with more ambient longform tracks, creating an album with subtle grooves and a summer cityscape vibe. Notable collaborations in this album include renowned world-fusion & electronica artist Gaudi, and fantastic vocals from the likes of Juno Reactor vocalist Taz Alexander.
2008 saw another Waveform records release, Brightwhitelight focusing more on dub-centric sounds. The duo come through with classic bass oriented groovy downtempo. Shortly proceeding Brightwhitelight, SFTG released Thru the Ages (2009), a "from the vaults" compilation of unreleased works dating back as far as the Kin era.
The Maze (2010) followed; a Waveform Records release which has the duo reaching their hands into more psychedelic & acid soundscapes, layering them onto classic dub grooves. One further Waveform Records release follows, with the likes of Widerworld (2012) which has the duo stretch towards more varied styles including rhythmic experimentation and even the introduction of live acoustics on Fields Of Green And Yellow - Widerworld really showcases the diversity of styles that SFTG can fit into an album. Widerworld would be the duo's last release with Waveform Records as the owner, Forest, would go on to start further projects in Maui.
Simultaneously, SFTG also made headway with three EP's: In The Cool Of The Shade EP (2009), Spectral EP (2010), and Tonic Radio EP (2011). These EP's highlight the duos more subtle approach to the ambient dub style; a fantastic mix of straight dub tracks and ambient soundscapes.
The span of 2012 to 2017 saw 4 new albums and an EP on Upstream Records as well as a couple of remasters.
Ready, Steady, Slow (2012) sees the duo absorbed into smooth sultry chillout and atmospheric production, creating a beatless album filled with fantastic ambient landscapes. Followed by Tribes (2013), where the duo experiment with modern bass sounds and more punchy sounding beats. Tribes is a great example of modern, clean production from the duo. Alchemy (2015) sees the duo take a step back in time with the production, showcasing their technical prowess with analogue equipment reigning from the Kin era. Finally, Native Soul (2017) sees an interesting mix of the previous 3 albums' styles amalgamated into one place, taking the clean cut bass & drum sounds, analogue synths, and ambient atmospheres into one classic SFTG package.
This era also saw the remastering of Mosaic & Luminal, 2 keystone SFTG classics. Rhythm And Reason EP (2016) is a fantastic little set of diverse styles, incorporating energetic modern electronic sounds, analogue drum beats, and subtle ambient melodies.
2019 starts the next era for Sounds from the Ground, celebrating 25 years of their existence, the duo greet us with their forthcoming album Binary on the 25th March.
Pearl
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We have lyrics for 'Pearl' by these artists:
A. B. Skhy My girl My world Twist and twirl Taken your pearl Woah Pearl…
A.R. Kane Sagor fr barnen som r som du (Om en tunnel vid…
Adam Faucett Cloudy cloudy and the mother of pearl Run the tears…
Andrew Combs Dead drunk on the street Passed out in a ball at…
Aubrey Huntsman Pearl, my girl Open up the door You don't have to be…
Austin P. McKenzie You love me like nobody You like me more than…
Babes in Toyland Little Pearl she was this girl Thoughts and notions in…
Bat for Lashes There's a place I must go There's a place I must…
bb sway When When I found it Afraid, I wrapped my little arms…
Bird Pearl's a singer She stands up when she plays the piano In…
Bobby Bazini (La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la..) You laid me down easy La…
Cedar Hill He sees her sittin' by the gate post As his truck…
Chapterhouse Circle of color Beautiful girl Daughter of yellow Mother …
Chapterhouse / Rachel Goswell Circle of color Beautiful girl Daughter of yellow Mother of …
Chiller Twist None…
Chris McClenney You, you're mine My pearl, my shine, oh you You, you're min…
Cirque du Soleil (Kooza) Dond si la vi nouns, son tuan no Ey zi la…
Cream Sound cnd I'm still looking for that pearl I'm still searching for…
Daniel Ash/Love and Rockets This is no ordinary girl Ain't got no jaded feeling Behind t…
Darkel Pearl, into the night you're running away… the preacher is…
Dave Crossland tommy drowned his sorrow nightly tommy drowned his happines…
E.M.M. Hey man I'm making moves and I am so much stronger…
Eigil Berg And her voice was pain Left out cold in the rain Crying…
Empty Country Grandpa Aaron prophesied The year the messengers would arri…
Extol Hear these words My soft voice speaks only truth I will reve…
Faun I saw her once and then no more 't was Edens…
Fish and Scale Dizziness Took over my mind I didn't know Something was hidi…
Flo & Eddie I'm just tryna get inside my vibe and never come…
Folk Implosion Pearl, listen to me now I'm about to bring it down There…
H. Takahashi There is not much worse Could be done to me Than…
iamamiwhoami Deep blue diver, with their hopes in your hands Won't you…
Ida Hedberg Tell me I came here to listen to what you…
In Strict Confidence Today I crossed the border the limits of this world and hi…
Incredible Polo Drastic, new rules, my kick, you lose Forward echoes over th…
J.W. Baz History in every century records an act that lives forevermo…
Jimmy A Lindbergh left Long Island in 1927 Thumbed his nose at gravi…
Judy Small It's been 20 years since Janis it was a bad…
KARDI (카디) 낡은 바다 모래에 닿은 미련이 하나하나 그리울 때 날 거친 바람 멀리 떠난 사랑이 산을…
Katty Perry/Katy Perry She is a pyramid But with him she's just a grain…
Katy Perry (www.Safalbum.Biz) She is a pyramid But with him she's just a grain…
Katy Perry - www.scmusik.blogspot.com She is a pyramid But with him she's just a grain…
Katy Perry vs. Marina And The Diamonds I tried to tell you what I can do But you…
Katy Perry [www.animevsartistas.net63.net] She is a pyramid But with him she's just a grain…
kiarayui "pearl ピアノが鳴り続けた夕方 時計と同じテンポで 私は息をしている心地がしない 今日から君のママよ 胸元輝くパー…
Larissa Lambert You′ve been living in my mind You do When it's 2 am…
Lily Frost Here I am On the edge of success And I'm thinking I…
Lisa Brokop They'd say Pearl go get your boots on, we've got…
Love And Rockets This is no ordinary girl Ain't got no jaded feeling Behind t…
Magenta The more that I give The more that they take The more…
Maritime We begin with singletons, sages, and the onionskin on Those…
Me and Bobby McGee I forgot to bring my pearl So I had to be…
Mediaeval Baebes The dubberment dere of down and dales Of wode and water…
Mediæval Bæbes The dubberment dere of down and dales Of wode and water…
Miku Ito 街の微熱が 動き始める 賑わう chine chic ゲートを抜け 海を見下ろす場所まで あなたとじゃなきゃ 描けなか…
Mr. David (Children's) It's assets over ass it's More than pretty lies Just listen …
Naked Jane I thought about you today It got in the way But it's…
Pariah Pete I been hiding out the life i live i write…
Paula Cole Humility on Bleecker Street Exposed my faults until I'm left…
Paula Cole Band Humility on Bleecker Street Exposed my faults until I'm lef…
Pearl This song simply says tribe called quest En vogue, and Tony…
Portishead I want you now as then Don't tell me You want to…
Quinn Hogan I'm lost at sea, can you come find me? You're…
Rubel Tem o verde do mato Tem o branco do concreto E tem…
Sami Yusuf I spent a thousand sleepless nights In wait of dreams I…
SHAZNA Pearl White Memories いつまでもどこまでも好きだから White Memories そう言った君の言…
SoBi I was lost but you became my reason For these tears…
Starchild Robin took me to Motel End Of The World Where juniper…
Steph Stewart & the Boyfriends Everybodys sitting in the backseat In the backseat and i…
Stevie Wonder Oh, people let me tell you No matter how far I…
Tamar-Kali Here she comes looking pretty Here she comes feeling fine He…
The Folk Implosion Pearl, listen to me now I'm about to bring it down There…
The Herd [Verse 1: Urthboy] Don't worry ma'am your child's going to …
The Mamas & the Papas First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish…
The Mediaeval Baebes The dubberment dere of down and dales Of wode and water…
The Specials You saw a woman in a cafe, lips of crimson,…
The Yellow Monkey 宇宙で最も暗い夜明け前 パールをこぼしに ハイウェイに飛び乗る 何だか不安なんだ ひどく淋しいんだ 闇は孤独を包む貝殻さ…
Throwing Muses Hot hands Move things I write in his wall I have no mind…
Tiarah Do you really wanna know me? Well I'll let you know…
Tina E. Clark You say I owe you nothin' If I could, I'd give…
Tobio Every time that it's workin', same thing different person It…
Tommy Roe Pearl, One summer night with you, Will make up for the pas…
Tree River I'm attached to this distraction But the now is all I…
www.freeultimatedownload.com Wouuuh Black Pearl Black Pearl Fait pas d'blagues ici on bla…
Yura These days my mind be racing Some days I'm impatient Tired o…
★Katy Perry She is a pyramid But with him she's just a grain…
伊藤美来 街の微熱が 動き始める 賑わう chine chic ゲートを抜け 海を見下ろす場所まで あなたとじゃなきゃ 描けなか…
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Lean On Me Life is up and down, ain't it baby? We all have…
Moving Into a New Space The time will come when you will know that All…
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Sometimes, some friends of mine and I would drive about five miles to where I'm from… and (uh) we'd walk up the banks of the river and it's really quite gloomy. Everything's covered in moss; and it's green and dripping. The rocks are always very slippy, but if you know the way you can hang in beside the edge of the cliff
There's trees hanging over the river. And if you climb up all the way you can find a waterfall. It's really cold, but the water runs very clear. So we sometimes go swimming in the pool by the waterfall, and sometimes climb up behind it—up the edge of the cliff, behind the waterfall, where there's branches hanging out over it. It's about 40 or 50 feet high. And the water isn't very deep below, but if you jump in it's a great feeling
And (em) the flow of the waterfall takes you down the river. And you asked me earlier what I'd like; I suppose that's what I'd like right now: I'd like to be there, or else I'd like to be on the Éirinn Isles
There's (em) there's a legend about—about the three islands; they're called Tír na nÓg. I suppose it's the Irish equivalent of your Hy-Brasil. And (um) they say that, years and years ago, Oisin, who was one of the ancient warriors of—of Ireland, he fell in love with a—a spirit woman from that land. She came riding across the sea on a white horse, and her name was Niaṁ Cinn-Óir: Niaṁ of the Go—of the Golden Hair
And (um) she took him back to Tír na nÓg. And he felt like he'd only been there three days, but he'd been there 300 years, because it was the land of youth and no one ever changed. After that time, he became homesick and he asked her could he go home? So she gave him his horse and—but she made him promise that he would never, ever set foot on Irish soil again because something terrible would happen
So he rode back over the sea, and he came back onto Irish soil and he saw three men trying to lift a rock. And he couldn't believe that they couldn't lift it because they they were really weak; but 300 years had passed and the men had become quite debilitated. And he knew he could lift it without any—any problem, so he leaned over to give them a hand. But the girth of the—the saddle broke, and he fell onto Irish soil and—and died without ever seeing Pearl or Niaṁ again
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savvas katir
Can you believe that this masterpiece released twenty two years ago???
One of their best tracks from an excellent debut album!!!
Chip Eggleston
This album will last forever. And ever. And ever. Anyone remember Musical Starstreams? I miss the hell outta that every Sunday night man....
James Nelson
www.musicalstarstreams.com - You can still stream the music and they have shows archived.
Ye Olde Salty Dog
No way! Until now, I had yet to hear anyone mention Star Streams lol I remember that when I lived in the Pacific Northwest, mid to late 90's. I hated it was only for a couple hours on Sunday nights Now there is Soma FM and this. There is a song I have no clue the name, but it reminded me as if God was walking the world just as before creation then He speaks and it's sounds like a man groaning slightly then a clap of thunder LOL I know, sounds odd but that's what this music was to me, Experimental, so its going to be 'Odd'.
Chip Eggleston
@Ye Olde Salty Dog I remember Forest told us to go get Biosphere-Substrata.
All the way in 2020, I still play it today⚛️🕉️☮️💜
Chris Smith
Hell Yes -Loved Musical Starstreams. Those 2 hours on Sunday nights was the highlight of my week. If I remember correctly I 1st discovered it somewhere in the mid 90’s.
Mipo Guilo
One of their best tracks.
arenybakk
A nice chillout track with a little touch of reggae. Love it.
Yocinda Lemonhead
The cliffs of dover. Very haunting and dream like song ..I adore it !
Mike Bailey
@Yocinda Lemonhead - I don't know if they've changed the image used in this upload since you left your comment, but that's definitely not Dover's white cliffs - nowhere near; - this is a picture of waterfalls in Croatia!