“Slobor media co-owner and accomplished soundsmith Matt Borghi teams up in a long awaited collaborative with Gears of Sand founder, Ben Fleury-Steiner. Both artists have nearly 20 releases between them, but this one possesses a special sublime energy. Indeed, the results speak for themselves: Gorgeous, enveloping drones that reveal a complex array of moods. This is journey music, a mysterious voyage into a harbor of haunting darkness and waking light… http://cdbaby.com/cd/borghifleurysteiner“

Olagra. This is the first release dressed in packaging printed on the new MBMD letterpress. This is the most personal recording I’ve ever done, and because of that’s it’s been three years in the making. I started it in November ’03, and with various folks worked on other parts over the last three years. I’ve finally wrapped it up. This is a different kind of record for me. There’s a lot of psych folk in this record and also a healthy dose of, what I’ve taken to calling, microsymphonies… You can see a little photo gallery of the printing process here…

Update – CD will be re-released by Hypnos Recordings in the future. Stay tuned for more details.

Limited edition of block print sleeve sold out.

The Phantom Light is a work that’s comprised four compositions with titles derived from some of the most remote lighthouses on the northern Great Lakes.

1. Ile Aux Gales
2. Manistee North Pierhead
3. Seul Choix Point
4. North Manitou Island Shoal

The works are inspired by sailor’s tales of being adrift on The Great Lakes during storms, and catastrophic weather. Sailors, looking out on the horizon for a sign of life, a light of hope, aimed their ships towards the safety of these phantom lighthouses hoping to get to a safe harbor. Often times these phantom lighthouses just lead to a rocky shoal and a watery death. These “phantom” lights have been a thing of myth for as long as The Great Lakes freshwater seas have been sailed.

In many ways, The Phantom Light is a sequel to Huronic Minor, as Great Lakes lore, and Matt Borghi’s own experiences on The Great Lakes were the creative impetus for this work.

The Phantom Light was initially being sold in a limited edition of 30, hand-packaged, hand-numbered CDs. For this release we’ve incorporated a single-sheet monoprint tucked inside a poly slip sleeve,
then encased in another sleeve that’s been hand-printed with a photo-transfer linocut block of the Ludington light cover image in a gray PMS 442 monotone. This is an incredibly delicate package that deserves a great deal of care. After the 30 CD run is over, the music will only be available through our digital distributors, including iTunes, MSN, Real Rhapsody, Emusic, and other purveyors of digitally downloadable music. If requested, CD packages can be personalized.

Matt Borghi and aidan baker’s undercurrents is a collaboration that began in the dark months of late 2003. it had been a succesful year, with regard to matt’s personal and musical life. the year had included a
successful tour, a slew of releases, and a general feeling of inspiration. undercurrents touches on a period that was partially documented through the now-defunct monthly download series. this release shows matt mixing his piano playing with aidan bakers top notch ambiences. this release really explores more of space music perspective. piano chords suspended over a dense and cloudy ambience. fans of Harold Budd, Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, and the Budd collaborations, as well VidnaObmana’s Trilogy release will truly enjoy this work.

This record is $12PPD in the US, manually add $3 Bucks
(manually) for Air Mail to Europe and Asia

Ashes consists of a single long-form, low-volume listening track. It’s based on a series of paintings that Matt completed while listening to the rough mixes of the recording that later became Ashes. The aural inspired the visual, and the visual further inspired the completed aural; because of that, the first forty copies of this release are going to come with a hand-numbered, autographed original painting from the series, approximately 4″x 6″ in shape. This work alludes to the style that Matt has been working in with his monthly downloads. If you like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, early Steve Roach, or VidnaObmana you’ll probably enjoy this track as well.This recording is available for free download here: http://www.mattborghi.com/music/downloads/ashes.mp3

This record is $12PPD in the US, manually add $3 Bucks
(manually) for Air Mail to Europe and Asia

This is a collection of several tracks from Huronic Minor, December Impressions, and Elegy For Time, with a special unreleased track, Lavender Mist. These tracks have been re-mastered and spatially enhanced. See the summaries of the other recordings here to get a better idea as to what’s what. This is the best recording to get if you’re unfamiliar with Matt Borghi’s work, and you want to get a feel for what his work is all about.

Update – CD re-release available through Hypnos Recordings here.

Update – CD re-release available through

Hypnos Recordings here.

December Impressions was conceived, and recorded during the spring of 2001. This is a dark, cold, and steely recording that borders more ontone poem than full LP release. The tracks are named as sequences, representing parts of the same whole, and a cohesive linear listen rather than a variety of separate tracks of the same mood. With this release there was an attempt to represent the cold Michigan winters, or at least the sound of the Michigan landscape during the dark winter m onths. While this recording is truly ambient, and contemplative in nature it’s also quite gritty and cold. This doesn’t have the warm, lush synth pad chordings that many ambient recordings are known for. Comparisons for this recording are difficult becuase there’s not a whole lot out there that sounds like it, but comparisons to Robert Rich, VidnaObmana, Alio Die, and Zoviet France might be appropriate.

Kensington Hill was taken from a textural field recording, and then produced, and convoluted until it re-emerged as a deep listening ambient work. This piece debuted at the University of Michigan’s Immedia Exhibit, an annual feature of digital arts. Falling was recorded “live” using two guitar/ laptop set-ups, one using Audio Mulch on PC, and the other running through Ableton’s LIVE on an Apple Macintosh. This piece

was debuted at the Detroit Contemporary gallery, but has also been submitted to Art-In-General in New York City. Both of these tracks are of an ambient nature, and could be compared to VidnaObmana, or Brian Eno because of their long-form, highly contemplative, and spatially complimentary natures.

Originally part of the 2003 Muslin Bag Set, Meditation Cycles Vol. 1 is the first in a series of releases that are intended for low-volume listening and sound medtiaton. This was created around the same time as Ashes, and
utilizes many of the same timbres. There are three meditation pieces,  each one intended for a different meditational time period. This is currently a stand-alone digital-only release….

This edition was originally created for the Over-Weening show that was put on by Bare Bones Gallery in Lansing, MI, and Aaron Curtner. Phil Smith and Matt Borghi signed on to do sound and a sound installation for this show. The three decided that an added compliment to the show would be a hand-painted sleeve in the style of the paintings at the show and a CD of the ambient collages and found soundscapes that were assembled for the show… Aaron Curtner painted half of the set,
and Matt Borghipainted the other half. The pakcaging is a basic poly
sleeve with a painting that’s signed by all of the artists, and then
folded around the CD. We have only a few left from the show, but we decided that it would be good to make them available in the shop. We’ll keep a running tab of the quantity below, because when they’re gone, they’re gone…

The Intercepted Transmissions was borne out of a long-distance collaboration with the Texas-based duo, Cyber Zen Sound Engine. The work came to be when Matt initially created a CD of ten ambiences, and in an attempt to hear how the work might be interpreted by a variety of different artists he sent them out. A handfull of artists sent back completed tracks, but Cyber Zen Sound Engine created a full-length recording with those tracks, thus creating something that didn’t sound like either of the two artists separately, but instead a collectively different work was created in the form of The Intercepted Transmissions. …Transmissions, as it’s come to be referred, interlaces a variety of influences from IDM-like beats to contemplative ambiences, ala Steve Roach. This recording has been compared to the work of Aphex Twin, DJ Spooky, and John Serrie, as well as Robert Rich, Steve Roach, and Brian Eno. This disc was released in November, 2001.

Moving Through is a one-hundred copy, numbered, limited edition and specially packaged collaborative work from Matt Borghi, Jason Sloan, and Brannan Lane. Jason and Brannan originally collaborated on a track, and then shelved it. Jason sent the track out to Matt for his opinion, and after letting the piece germinate for almost a year, Matt took to the task oflengthening, and completing the track for potential release. Moving Through is a low-volume listening, long-form ambient work that runs at approximately seventy minutes in length. The work is both ethereal and gritty, thus presenting a work that is truly indicative of Jason Sloan, and Brannan Lane’s solo output, but also represents that different kind of more gritty Matt Borghi ambience. This record compares to Zoviet France, VidnaObmana, Robert Rich, and Rapoon.

This would have been Matt Borghi’s first solo release in almost two years, but then his KOSIK collaborator Michael Kirson-Goldapper got his hands on it and worked up all kinds of magic. This record serves as Matt’s first new solo record in a couple years, but also a sort of a first look at the KOSIK project, and what it’s all about. You can’t get more info
on the project at: http://www.kosik.org.

KOSIK releases were released throughout 2003, 2004 and 2005 on excellent labels like: Ghostly International, Simballrec, Pleazant Musik, and Kikapu before the group was dissolved – Download

this recording in its entirety FREE HERE: http://www.archive.org/details/KOSIK_MB_Tiem_Parade

This collection came enclosed in a natural, unbleached 6″ x 9″ muslin bag.Included in this collected are three CDs that comprise the individual monthly downloads from June03 – December03. This collection also came complete with a brand new full length release – Three Meditation
Cycles, in a limited edition set of 40. As well, each package comes with an individually wrapped hand-numbered, and signed painting of 40 from the Pairanetha series.