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    Ian Hawgood & Stijn Hüwels – Voices

    The follow-up to 2019's 'No Voices', 'Voices' is a longform piece by Ian Hawgood and Stijn Hüwels based around vocals pitched and adjusted on reel delays with evolving guitar lines. Written and produced by Ian Hawgood and Stijn Hüwels Cover art by Stijn Hüwels Mastered by Ian Hawgood Releases March 4, 2021
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    Wil Bolton – Cumulus Sketches

    Cumulus Sketches is immediately expansive, with spread-out, immersive melodies and an oriental atmosphere. In general, the music is tranquil, restorative, and healthy, and the tracks are given time to properly develop, feeling more like fully-grown pieces and less like the sketches of its title. The blurred effect of reverb only adds to the dream, making Cumulus Sketches the perfect soundtrack for cloud gazing.
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    Andrew Tasselmyer – Impulses

    Written and recorded by Andrew Tasselmyer Cover art by Stijn Hüwels Mastered by Ian Hawgood
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    James Murray & Mike Lazarev – Suññatā

    Following last year's reworking of ‘Living Treasure’ James Murray and Mike Lazarev present a collection of post-classical compositions woven into delicate ambient textures. Suññatā is the experience of encountering the non-self, of a sound and its reflection meeting in empty space, found here in the remarkable combined resonance of emotive piano and uniquely reactive sound design.
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    Pleq & Hakobune – Adrift (Remastered / Remixed)

    This reissue of 'Adrift' by Pleq and Hakobune is a newly packaged edition of the 2012 NKR release now on Home Normal. The newest edition has been completely remastered by Ian Hawgood and run down from the original masters to reel-to-reel for a wholly new, more open and nuanced experience. It features remixes by Olan Mill, offthesky, and Polar M, as well as gorgeous new cover art by Giulio Aldinucci.
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    Anthéne – Collide

    The focus on melodic and harmonic development is strong and distinguishes anthéne from many a modern ambient musician, but developments are still allowed space and room, so the music never feels cluttered or rushed. Instead, Collide feels sparse and clean, gleaming with icicle-like tones.
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    Silent Vigils – Wake

    After the deep monochromatic textures of 'Fieldem' and the gradually evolving impressions of hope in 'Lost Rites’ we now conclude the Silent Vigils trilogy of albums for Home Normal with ‘Wake’, an exceptional celebration of new life and boundless spirit. With Małgorzata Łapsa-Malawska once again providing her singular visual counterpoint, Stijn Hüwels and James Murray's three vigils arrive now at their perfectly formed conclusion, offering an uplifting and timely salve for these troubled times.
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    Chronovalve – Light

    'Light' is the long-awaited follow-up to Chronovalve's Home Normal debut 'Trace of Light'. Released in 2013, the album was met with critical acclaim and 'Light' continues this work with positivity of spirit and open-hearted ambient refrains. 'Even in the most ordinary moments of life, one can get a feeling that there is an inspiration, a light trying to reach through to us. A person, a place, a sound or a song might unexpectedly open us to that light. These songs are inspired by, and explore that experience…that hope… that possibility...' - Mike Engebretson (Chronovalve)
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    Martina Claussen – Verwoben

    acked with movement and dynamics, Verwoben swerves between the apparent, abstract and engagingly abstruse via pensive electronics, contemporary rumblings and harsher sections all swirling around the home base of Martina’s voice, that always lends the album a warmth even as the sound moves further and further out into more shadowy and desolate spaces.
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    Keith Berry – Viable Systems 3

    London-based composer Keith Berry delivers the third instalment in his well-received ‘Viable Systems’ series. Like its two predecessors, ‘Viable Systems 3’ weaves synthetic textures and shimmering, nebulous ambient elements into minimalist pieces that evoke tranquility and excitement.
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    The Cray Twins – In The Company Of Architects

    For In the Company of Architects, their second album, The Cray Twins’ Paul Baran and Gordon Kennedy has assembled a virtual collective of musicians and sound artists, collaborating with only selective access to the contributions of others, and to the whole. The core duo of The Cray Twins take on the role of directors, composers and assemblers, in the process amplifying not only the performance of the collective, but also natural and artificial interferences, incorporating accidental sound sources encountered when arranging the album.
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    Erik Levander – Inåt

    The album title 'Inåt', translating 'Inwards', refers to the introspectiveness of the compositions, drawing inspiration from personal struggles in everyday life. The track titles and music cycles point to another layer of context with the ongoing pattern in politics, and of people turning inward, being somewhat inescapable. A more synth heavy release than 2018's 'Couesnon', Inåt still features a vibrant blend of digital, analog and acoustic sounds. The clarinet is present at times, but also traces of other acoustic sources, all put through their paces with everything from guitar pedals to digital processing utilised, as Erik twists them into some wonderful tones, trails and timbres.
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    9t Antiope – Grimace

    9T Antiope duo band consists of Iranian musicians Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo. The band formed in 2014 and the main focus of the band is an experimental land, using layers of acoustic instruments, electronics and combining them with vocals and lyrics, in order to narrate tiny bits or huge landscapes of the chaotic worlds they vision, along with their inhabitants. They present their fourth solo releases and for the second time on eilean rec.
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    Seasons (pre-din) – Distortion Of The Cell

    The latest addition to the mysterious Mancunian’s catalogue is a varied release that takes in several stylistic approaches while remaining a coherent listen. Roughly half the album is focused on a meld of post-punk and dingy club influenced beats propelling the atmospherics that range from warm and engaging to full throttle and abrasive. The beatless interludes and final stretch take in some more restrained ambience as well as some searing efforts in that cross section between drone and the warmer end of the noise spectrum. There's a thematic and musical twisting of the lines that hints at a corruption at source and of self, and if you're in a good mood an eventual dissolution in the soaring static.
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    Rune Clausen – Tones Jul

    Tones Jul follows up the moods from “Mannen Faller”, a tribute to the long gone Norwegian forests, its animals and people living there in both fear and joy. Rune's Forwind debut is a darker and more anguished piece of work. Rune’s first solo album under his own name, is musically and thematically influenced by Norwegian folk music, ambient, ambient black metal, the rough and dark fates of 19th century people.
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    Ben Rath – Any Given Moment

    Slow Heart Music focuses on Ben’s acoustic guitar playing whilst work under his own name is typically more Experimental and drone based. In ‘Any Given Moment’ we have an album that shows glimpses of plaintive guitar combined with Ambient drones to represent fleeting moments, memories and nostalgia. The combination is both restful and tinged with warmth, perfect for the Spring and the Summer months ahead.
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    Hipnotic Earth – Suspended In Silence

    Hipnotic Earth is an electro-acoustic ambient soundscape project birthed from a deep need for quiet, slow motion music; from a carnal urge toward silence. California, USA based artist Cosmos Rennert’s project began dramatically when in 2015 the scheduled release of his debut album ‘Essence’ was missed when his home in the hot springs of Harbin, Northern California burned down in a sudden wildfire which swept the community. His home, studio, possessions, work place and the tiny town in which he lived succumbed to the flames. He is now deeply grateful to be able to continue recording and we’re pleased to present, a record which sees a departure from Cosmos’ usual style of sleepy drones.
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    Jens Pauly – Vihne

    Floating through empty streets late at night. No other people around, no distraction from a dialogue happening inside of you - looking for something, looking for nothing, looking for anything relevant. Jens Pauly's second album ‘Vihne’ is the soundtrack to a search between flickering lights and a cloudy sky, between emptiness and being alive. It asks the essential questions within us, in a tranquil state neither here nor there. Each track marks a microcosm of its own, a small journey through worlds engulfed in memories.
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    Arovane & Mike Lazarev – Aeon

    "In December of 2017, Uwe and I started working on a project developing a particular musical language in exchange of thematic ideas. In my London studio, I would record minimal piano pieces, often late at night, sometimes with the windows open, to capture every sound resonating from the instrument. Uwe would deconstruct these compositions even further, extracting the brush of my fingers, the fall of the hammers, the breath of the strings. We both aspired to delve into this instrument and play with all of the sounds living within, as heard from the inside. Many ideas would come from Uwe in the form of a sketch, an aural vocabulary, or a sonic brochure, which I would interpret through a pair of closely placed microphones. There are even fewer melodies and even more spacial pianism on here than in my previous solo reductionist works, which Uwe so masterfully extracted with his experienced ear. In this incredible partnership, we have discovered a new dimension within the piano, which we are honoured to share with you" - Mike Lazarev
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    Michael Cutting – Luft

    LUFT is the second solo release of Salford-based tape musician Michael Cutting. Continuing his experiments with reel-to-reel recorders, LUFT revels in the imperfections of degrading tape, faltering machines and roughly spliced loops to conjure an intimate yet visceral sonic landscape peppered with tape flutter, crackles and unsteady self-replications. At the centre is the dusty wheezing of a 19th Century organ, with the clicking of its rusty bellows providing much of the music’s rhythmic impetus while its piercing reeds underpin a gently microtonal harmonic language. Complemented at different times by an e-bowed violin, fender rhodes, clarinet, trumpet, sine tone generator and voice, the album’s seven tracks evoke a quiet, imagined journey, a journey both personal and geographical.
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    Ecovillage – Hold My Hand

    Emil Holmstrom and Peter Wikstrom have been working on different music projects together since 2001, but in 2006 after a 3 months journey around south asia they found some otherworldly inspiration to create The Ecovillage project.  Ecovillage have released albums on Darla Records, Quince Records, Parallax Sounds, Constellation Tatsu and Nature Bliss.
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    Otto Solange – шон

    "I’ve decided in 2019 to release some of the pieces of works recorded from 2013 to 2015 to let an imprint from this period and give a life to an other side of my sound works, more unknown by people who follow my other sounds projects. I've travelled a lot at this time and also, this period was precisely at the middle of a great change in my life. My son was born at the end of 2015 and a big part of these works have been recorded for him, with probably some memories from my previous journeys around the world." "All have been composed and recorded at home with a set of many electronic hardwares and no laptop (samplers, effects and loops). Using some various samples from my music collection library as a collage process and some other sounds have been recorded from a part of my solo instruments and electronics machines."
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    Seabuckthorn – Crossing

    Seabuckthorn is the solo work of Andy Cartwright since 2009. Exploring various approaches on guitars, with fingerpicking, bowing and slides, often with layered accompaniments Crossing, his 8th solo album, is focusing on ambient spaces created by bowed resonator guitar. It was recorded in his home studio in the French Alps with the expectancy of becoming a father.
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    Offthesky – Illuminate

    lluminate was composed during the fall of 2017 in Denver, Poland, Latvia, and Kentucky. The songs were later polished and finalized in Denver during the winter/spring of 2019. Offthesky is experimental sound artist Michael Jason Corder from Denver, Colorado who has put out around 70 releases over the past 15 years.
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    Ciro Berenguer – El Mar De Junio

    Ciro Berenguer is a guitarist and composer from Argentina who has lived for many years in Barcelona, Spain. He likes both traditional and nontraditional ways of playing the guitar: processing the sound through many electronic devices or playing just the guitar alone. Two facets of his playing expressed in a handful of albums and collaborations, from standard guitar music to a more experimental and improvised way of making sounds, enjoying both approaches.
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    Andrew Tasselmyer – Surface Textures

    Surface Textures is the fourth solo album by Andrew Tasselmyer and was created with field recordings captured in Japan, China, Europe, and the USA from August 2017 to May 2018. The album is a soundtrack to specific, ordinary experiences that somehow became permanently lodged in my memory of those places. It is an album focused on painting a picture of unnoticed corners of the world, and a reminder that sometimes, the greatest satisfaction is found by looking past the immediate and into the peripheral textures of a place.
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    James Murray – Embrace Storms

    James Murray’s new solo work takes the form of two carefully constructed long-form sound collages; twin formations gradually unfolding in continuous, ever-evolving streams of delicately controlled chaos. In Your Head seeks to absorb turbulence opened-eyed while the anticyclonic In Your Heart trusts itself to the winds of change. Calm music for chaotic times. Embrace Storms is the first multi-format split release between Slowcraft and KrysaliSound, two collaborative independent labels based in London and Milan dedicated to presenting beautiful limited editions of minimal, understated and unclassifiable musical works.
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    Lorenzo Masotto – Frames

    Frames is Lorenzo Masotto’s fifth album and will be released on June 11, 2019 on Lady Blunt Records. It consists of 10 tracks composed and performed by the artist. The tracks Reverbs and Yaki Point are enriched by the voice of Stefania Avolio. In the tracks Orion and Nighthawks appears the violin of Laura Masotto, whilst the cello by Leonardo Sapere is also to be found in the piece called Orion. The cover was designed by Alessandro Lugoboni, with artwork by artist Christophe Piallat.
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    Laura Masotto – Fireflies

    Fireflies is Laura Masotto’s debut album and will be released on April 3, 2019 on Lady Blunt Records. It consists of 11 tracks composed and played by the artist. The tracks were conceived by creating sound overlaps with the aid of a looper, which forms harmonies that accompany the melody of the main violin. Strings and Mahir were inspired by Arabic tunings, while the violin, viola and cello in The Forest are tuned to 432 Hz, mer- ging with the sounds of nature recorded for an art project in collaboration with Elena Crisanti.
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    Paper Relics – The Road Home

    For this special limited edition release, we have decided to do a deluxe edition as well as our standard 'white label vinyl effect' run. This version is modelled around the classic gatefold vinyl LP, with printed front, rear and inner sleeves along with an inner sleeve which houses a printed vinyl-effect CDr.
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    Anthéne – Asymmetry

    nthéne is Toronto, Canada based artist Brad Deschamps who has been recording Ambient music since 2011, after also forming part of the duo North Atlantic Drift for which he’d performed alongside artists such as Benoit Pioulard and Bing and Ruth. Solo releases have emerged on leading labels such as Hibernate, Sound In Silence and most recently Home Normal, who released ‘weightless’ only last month which label boss Ian Hawgood describes on the website as ‘warm analog sleep echoes’. Brad also runs the magnificent Polar Seas Recording label, which has released material from artists such as Mikael Lind, Celer and Andrew Tasselmyer.
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    Ilm – Gaya

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    Ian Hawgood – Impermanence

    Each heavyweight custom double sleeve is individually rubber-stamped and numbered by hand in a limited first edition of one hundred and fifty copies for the world. Every package includes a concealed handwritten download code, glass-mastered CD and insert with original artwork by Stijn Hüwels and an individually numbered, handwritten dedication from the artist himself. ... Impermanence is a love letter to transience, fragility and the analogue machines Ian Hawgood persuades to articulate the poignantly brittle beauty of decay. After many years of in-demand mastering, label curation and collaborative focus Hawgood now offers us a definitive portrait of the technical expertise and personal integrity demanded by exemplary modern tape-based practice.
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    Richard Luke – Glass Island

    Glasgow-based composer and producer Richard Luke’s LP Glass Island explores the tensions of living on an island in the wake of referendums on leaving the EU and Scottish independence. The songs, explains Luke, have “confidence and strength, but also a fragility and drama that makes them almost wistful and nostalgic.”
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    øjeRum – Nattesne

    øjeRum is Copenhagen based musician and collage artist Paw Grabowski. Since 2014 he has put out releases on various labels such as A Giant Fern, Cabin Floor Esoterica, Eilean Rec., Phinery, Scissor Tail Editions and Vaald. øjeRum is all about the attempt to capture and convey emotions, moods and memories. two years and a half after his first release on eilean rec. we’re glad to host øjeRum for a second time on the map with the wonderful work: Nattesne
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    Aries Mond – Cut Off (CD)

    Glass Mastered CD / hand numbered Mastered by Taylor Deupree Selective UV varnish outer sleeve After his first works based on field recording, Aries Mond has started to work with music instruments in 2012, mainly focused on piano. His first album has been released on eilean rec. in 2018 and Cut Off is his second album. Aries Mond also composes music for contemporary theatre. He lives in southern of France, in the Pyrénées.
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    Fallen – When The Light Went Out

    Limited edition CD / Digipak 4 panel / Hand-numbered / Edition of 50 Lorenzo Bracaloni records ambient music under the name Fallen and folk and psychedelia as The Child of A Creek. He was born in the Italian province of Livorno in Italy’s famed Tuscany Region. It is a part of the world with centuries of history, and not surprisingly, its share of ghost stories.
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    Bill Seaman – The Topologies of Blue

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    Ian Nyquist – Cuan

    an Nyquist is a composer from Dublin, Ireland. With a background of field recording and sound art, his music is informed by artefacts of created and collected sound. Ian's album for Eilean Rec.,"Cuan", his first physical release, pays an intimate homage to places and people of familiarity. Each track for him has a specific place within the Dublin Bay area where he lives. "Cuan" is the Irish word for Bay or Harbour. Artwork by Tekla McInerney Mastered by Mathias Van Eecloo Inside Photography by Mathias Van Eecloo Design by Rémi Verdier
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    Kenji Kihara – Dawn

    Kenji Kihara is a musician based in Hayama, in Japan, a place surrounded by nature near to the sea and mountains.  His electronic and ambient works are truly inspired by the sound of nature. All sounds by Kenji Kihara, mixed and recorded between 2016 and 2017 at Hayama in Japan. Artwork by Matthias Heiderich Mastered by Mathias Van Eecloo Inside Photography by Mathias Van Eecloo Design by Rémi Verdier
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    Adrian Lane – I Have Promises to Keep

    All tracks composed by Adrian Lane... Adrian Lane – upright piano, prepared piano, piano samples Bryan Styles – piano percussion on tracks 1, 3, 5, 9, 13
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    Cédric D. Lavoie – 88

    "88 was composed on the piano with bowed and plucked upright basses, some discrete percussion and sound effects," says Lavoie. “​I also thought about hiring string players to play on some of the tracks, but eventually decided to take on the challenge of playing everything on the upright bass, to achieve a darker and perhaps more unusual string section.” “Everything started on the piano. I also explored recording techniques emphasising the sound resulting from the mechanics of the piano and my fingers on the keyboard. These sounds are rarely acoustically audible, but add an intimate and intriguing aspect to the recording.”
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    Covarino / Incorvaia – Chiodi

    Building on the concept of their first two albums – Perugia (Preserved Sound, 2016) and Granada (Whitelabrecs, 2017) – to play live without overdubs or editing, Covarino/Incorvaia’s new album Chiodi features a minimal set up, occasional noises and silence.
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    Richard Youngs – Arrow

    Arrow is a piano album – the sound of Hebden Bridge on a Saturday afternoon, embellished with wisps of Glasgow. Recorded especially for Preserved Sound in Hebden Bridge, "Arrow" is sound of Richard Youngs alone at the piano, embellished with light drums and an old organ. This collection of solo improvisations is all about capturing the moment – that piano and that afternoon in Hebden Bridge. ​“I sat down at the piano and just played,” says Richard. “No preconceptions, nothing worked out. I wasn't trying to achieve anything other than to enjoy playing the piano.There was also an organ in the room, so there are touches of that. I then took these back to Glasgow and knocked it into shape – a few overdubs, nothing drastic.”
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    Federico Durand – Pequeñas Melodías

    Pequeñas Melodias is the result of a dialog between the artists Albarrán Cabrera and Federico Durand initiated by IIKKI, between December 2017 and August 2018.
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    Gri + Mosconi – Between Ocean and Sky

    Each heavyweight custom double sleeve is individually rubber-stamped and numbered by hand in a limited first edition of one hundred and fifty copies for the world. Every package includes a concealed handwritten download code, glass-mastered CD and insert with original artwork by Roberto Galati and an individually numbered, handwritten dedication from the artists themselves.
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    Neotropic – The Absolute Elsewhere

    Each heavyweight custom double sleeve is individually rubber-stamped and numbered by hand in a limited first edition of one hundred and fifty copies for the world. Includes a concealed handwritten download code, glass-mastered CD and insert with original artwork by Riz Maslen and an individually numbered, handwritten dedication from the artist herself.
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    Banabila & Machinefabriek – Entropia

    Michel Banabila and Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek) have been collaborating since 2012. Although they both reside in Rotterdam, they (besides coming together for coffee) prefer to use the old file-swap-way of working. With each album, sounds and song drafts are frantically sent back and forth, in a short but super intense timespan of a week or two. This spontaneity is clearly audible throughout their music, with each album having its own distinct character. After the tight, post fourth world of 'Macrocosms', their fifth album 'Entropia' veers into much rougher terrain, adding distorted field recordings, bursting noise, nasty jump cuts and an overal sense of chaotic abstraction to the mix. 'Entropia' is definitely one of their more challenging efforts, an adventurous yet coherent sonic journey.
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    Various Artists (Eilean 92)

    A Home For Ghosts (James Edward Armstrong + Neil Carter) Amuleto (Francesco Dillon + Riccardo Dillon Wanke) Aries Mond Benjamin Finger Ben Mc Elroy Cyril Secq + Sylvain Chauveau Dramavinile Emmanuel Witzthum Foresteppe Hannah Zhalih Mickunas Ian Hawgood Lake Mary Leigh Toro Ljerke (Kleefstra Brothers, Hilde Marie Holsen, Sytze Pruiksma, Alexander Rishaug, Michael Francis Duch) Srúti (Omrr + Pie Are Squared) The Prairie Lines Xu
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    Cyril Secq + Sylvain Chauveau – Minimal Guitar

    Cyril Secq learnt guitar lonely, attracted by the "noise/experimental" range of use, then he went to other instruments (piano, harmonium, rhodes, analog synthetiser, sound objects). He started the Astrïd band in 1997, with Yvan Ros. From the begining of the 2000’s, he started to produce and record albums and has played with different artists (Mathias Delplanque, Floating roots orchestra, Charles-Eric Charrier «oldman», That Summer, Sylvain Chauveau, Thousand and Bramier, Orla Wren). Sylvain Chauveau, member of ensemble 0 and Arca, has made solo records on labels such as FatCat, Sub Rosa, Type, Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier, Brocoli, Flau, Nature Bliss, Creative Sources: minimal, quiet compositions for acoustic instruments, electronics, and voice. He performs worldwide and creates sound installations for exhibitions. He also makes soundtracks for feature films and dance shows.
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    A Home For Ghosts – .​.​. Of A Star, Never Setting

    A Home For Ghosts is the collaboration between Neil Carter (Carter) and James Edward Armstrong (Slow Clinic). ‘’ The duo combine percussive and abstract textures with unconventional guitar playing techniques, prepared instrumentation and drones to achieve a vast and expansive soundscape.’’ "… Of A Star, Never Setting" is their third releases.
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    Leigh Toro – The Eternal Navigation

    Leigh Toro has been producing music for the past twenty years as both Flotel and more recently as one half of Bamboo Stilts with Orla Wren. He returns to Eilean for a second time with ’The Eternal Navigation’ an album that took shape in an attic studio looming high above the River Derwent. The initial inspiration for the album began with a series of field recordings made on trips to Lindisfarne and other sites along the Northumberland coastline during the Perseid Meteor Showers of 2016.
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    Dramavinile – Silfra

    Since 2016, dramavinile (Vincenzo Nava) attempts to match and combine lo-fi, electroacoustic, field recordings and abstract ambient. His fourth releases since 2016, "Silfra", is the name of a fissure between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates in Thingvellir National Park. The rift was formed in 1789 by the earthquakes accompanying the divergent movement of the two tectonic plates. The water is filtered through porous underground lava for 30-100 years before reaching the spring that feeds into Silfra. The water is therefore extremely pure by the time it reaches the north end of Thingvellir lake and it allows for underwater visibility of over 100 meters in Silfra. The glacial meltwater remains very cold in Silfra, but as fresh water is constantly filling the fissure, the water never freezes and remains 2°C – 4°C year round. Silfra is said to have the clearest water in the world.
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – Pianette

    'Pianette' consists of a collection of solo piano compositions inspired by dreams and the bucolic fantasy of mechanical toys, the dolls, the essence of the circus and the puppets. "Pianette is one again a milestone in the music genre" Gezeitenstrom Musik "Bruno Sanfilippo has made my favourite work of his with ‘Pianette’. It’s unashamedly new-classical in its composition, eerie with its tense production and melodic dissonance and oh so subtle in how it uses the piano to create mechanical life. The piano is easily one of the most expressive instruments on Earth, so playing these two ideas off against each other has created an inspired album of muted greatness" by Simon Smith · Higher Plain Music
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    Enofa – Arboretum

    This is the hand made “standard” CD version of Arboretum in an edition of 50 copies. These come in hand stamped and altered black digipaks, each with a factory pressed disc. Each copy comes with a dried leaf, and is banded with a vintage arboreal obi strip. For Enofa, nature, and the inspiration derived from walking among the trees in the park and nature preserve near his home, plays a large part in the overall tone of this one long beautiful track. Like the Arboreta, which are regularly crafted to contain a range of contrasting shapes and colours, which gives them a very unique look and atmosphere, this wondrous soundscape of sorts, incorporating field recordings, moody guitars and synth, and electronic treatments perfectly reflects the calming and mysterious feel of the long and languid glorious English days of the moment. Wind chimes…the crackle of leaves underfoot….the light, swirling wind in the treetops…the sun breaking through the clouds…put this album on and you will find yourself strolling there as well!
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    Gimu – A Vida Que Deixei…

    Vinyl style CDR, information sheet and a gloss photo print, all in a fold over cardboard sleeve with artwork on the front... Gimu returns to Assembly Field with his third release for the label. Eight experimental tracks using grainy drones with splashes of melody, scratchy field recordings and manipulated vocals and beats here and there. 'A Vida Que Deixei De Ver Nos Seus Olhos' = 'The Life I Can No Longer See In Your Eyes'.
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    LTO – Déjà Rêvé

    Based in Bristol, LTO first made waves as part of mysterious electronic collective Old Apparatus. As a solo producer, LTO has since attracted attention with his praised debut LP "The Number From Which All Things Come" and subsequent ambient/modern classical-focussed "Storybook“ LP. With "Déjà Rêvé“, he expands on that classical sensibility, creating a highly expressive and nuanced release for Denovali Records.
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    Elektro Guzzi – Polybrass

    A trio of guitar, bass and drums, Elektro Guzzi overcome the boundary between analogue versus digital, performing techno live with the drive of a machine and the sonic detail of an instrument – without any computers or loopers.
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – Intro (Remastered & Expanded)

    Bruno Sanfilippo relaunch and revives his acclaimed album InTRO (2006) as a special remastered & expanded edition on CD and Digital. Available worldwide via ad21 as of September 20th. The album (65:28) contains its seven original soundscapes plus two unreleased; InTROpolar (7:10) and InTROsense (6:11), taken from recording sessions in May 2006. These nine records were recently analog remastered from the original master by Ian Hawgood. The cover art was redesigned using the original photography of Helyn Davenport. ‘In his nine compositions of imaginary 'InTROspective' Sanfilippo explores the interest in the unfettered possibilities of dreams. Its impact is strongly imaginative and cinematic, featuring deep piano interludes, great synthesizer pads, field recordings, soft soaring sound textures and transparent soundscapes’
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    Various Artists – Dialog Tapes II

    "3 years after the first Dialog Tapes project, in which artists from both labels were linked to each other in order to make a collaborative track, Eilean Rec. & Dauw label come back with the second volume. In its essence, Dialog Tapes is an ambitious attempt to connect a musical field through its own creative forces. Its about connectivity and making new unexpected musical ties between individual actors." The final result is presented as ‘Dialog Tapes II’ and offers 2 exciting albums including the following artists: Autistici, Benoît Pioulard, Dudal, Emmanuel Witzthum, Humble Bee, Josh Mason, Machinefabriek, Monolyth & Cobalt, Offthesky, Ojerum, Olan Mill, Omar El Abd (Omrr), R Bennny, Steve Pacheco, Stijn Hüwels, Toàn, Yadayn .
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    Ouvala – Multiperspectivity

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    Aaron Martin – Touch Dissolves

    • Glass Mastered CD • Handcrafted, hand numbered • Digisleeve : 400 gsm black graphic card dyed in the mass • 2 stickers Aaron Martin began his musical life at age 11, switching between guitar and drums. At the age of 17, he decided to change paths and learn how to play cello, which he went on to study in college. While earning his music degree, he began to experiment with recording. After creating several self-released collections of music, and graduating from college, he recorded Almond, which caught the attention of the Australian label Preservation, and became his debut release. He has gone on to record two more albums for Preservation, River Water and Chautauqua, as well as one album for Experimedia called Worried about the Fire and most recently Comet’s Coma for Eilean Records, and A Room Now Empty on Preserved Sound. He has also collaborated with a variety of other musicians, including Machinefabriek, Part Timer, Dawn Smithson (as Winter’s Day), Dag Rosenqvist (as From the Mouth of the Sun), and Christoph Berg with releases on Type, Dronarivm, Facture, and Under the Spire Recordings. Aaron Martin lives and records in Topeka, Kansas.
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    Zhalih – Inrushes

    Hannah Zhalih Mickunas is an artist living in Portand, Oregon USA. Inrushes is a compilation of improvisational works she recorded and produced between 2013-2017.
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    Lake Mary – Koda

    Lake Mary is Chaz Prymek, a US fingerstyle guitarist, soundscape artist and composer who dwells in the lakes and rivers of the Rocky Mountains. Drawing inspiration from the environment around him and the places in between life and death. He comes back on eilean rec. for the second time, 3 years after, at the same month, for the same color, for the same season.
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    The Prairie Lines – Today Leap And Stop Time

    South Londoner Bill Bawden has been releasing delicate ambient music since 2005 under various guises, most notably albums and EPs on Serein, 12Rec, Resting Bell, Audio Gourmet and Rural Colours under the name Herzog. In the other side, since 2015, he records under the moniker The Prairie Lines, and presents his second complete LP : Today Leap And Stop Time.
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    Foresteppe – Mæta

    The music of Egor Klochikhin is inspired by the place where he grew up and now lives - Berdsk, in Siberia, or more specifically by his surrounding nature - the Siberian forest-steppe. He works with some various instruments as acoustic guitar, piano, metallophone, whistle, melodica, mandolin and percussion, as well with field recordings recorded and looped into some dreamy, lo-fi and out-of-time sound collages.
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    Ben Rath – Anything Is Possible

    Anything Is Possible is a brilliant collection of eight new tracks, with a total duration of about 45 minutes. Using a lush sound palette with layers of grainy, drenched in reverb, synths, whistling drones, distorted warm guitars and loops of hypnotic samples, Rath creates an intimate album, full of shimmering ambient textures and wistful soundscapes, with an orchestral feel to it. Carefully mastered by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave), Anything Is Possible is a wonderful album, highly recommended for devotees of Fennesz, Eluvium, Benoît Pioulard and Tim Hecker.
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    David Newlyn – Collected Fictions

    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 280 gsm green-grey cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 170 gsm off-grey cardboard. Collected Fictions is made up of eight new tracks, with a total duration of something more than 32 minutes. Minimal piano chords, haunting melodic guitars, hazy synths, lo-fi drum patterns, rusted electronics and field recording tapes, all gracefully blending into a superb mixture of soothing ambient and slow moving electronica. Beautifully mastered by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave), Collected Fictions is a sublime album, highly recommended for devotees of The Gentleman Losers, Benoît Pioulard and Wil Bolton.
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    Ian Hawgood – Light

    Ian Hawgood is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, instrument builder and sound engineer. He is the curator of the Home Normal, Tokyo Droning, Nomadic Kids Republic, Koen Music, and Folk Reels labels. He is well-known for supporting the early net-label scene and his sound design work has featured in installations and galleries around the world. His work as a mastering engineer features heavily across the ambient, experimental and post-classical scenes, and he currently writes music for theatre and film. His solo works have featured on a number of labels over the past ten plus years, and among his many collaborations he is perhaps best known as the sound architect behind the Black Elk quartet, as well as his work with Bvdub, Danny Norbury, and Maps and Diagrams. After spending much of his adult life living in Japan, he currently resides in Warsaw, Poland. Since 2012 he has been working on creating music from old disused reel to reel recorders, his childhood piano, and an array of vintage synths he has been collecting for the better part of twenty years now. ‘光’ is his first fully developed solo album in 6 years, alongside his latest work with James Murray under their ‘Slow Reels’ guise.
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    Xu – Whisper My World

    Xu is the solo project from Nicola Fornasari an italian musician and composer born in 1977. He’s also part of the following bands: La Petite Vague, Xu(e), Twyxu, Zero Wait enSemble. He presents his fifth album under the moniker Xu, and for the second time on Eilean Rec. His works have been released on Audio Gourmet, Cathedral Transmissions, Eilean, Flaming Pines, Many Feet Under, Twice Removed and more.
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    Ben McElroy – The Word Cricket Made Her Happy

    Ben McElroy is an ambient/drone/folk music maker living in Nottingham, U.K. Ben’s sound is typically based around acoustic instruments such as guitar, strings and voice with a little additional computer based processing and his work is influenced by artists as diverse as Pauline Oliveros, Sharron Kraus and Ralph Vaughn Williams. Since 2016 he has recorded two full length Lp’s, on Whitelabrecs and Unknown Tone. He presents on Eilean Rec. his third one.
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    Amuleto – Acre

    Amuleto is Francesco Dillon (cello, prepared cello, feedbacks, other strings, objects) and Riccardo Wanke (guitars, keyboards, electronics, synths, harmonium). The duo takes its name from Roberto Bolaño’s novel and seeks to trace invisible links among distant geographical and cultural spaces, words and sounds. Good part of the inspiration comes from literature, sounds, images coming from various sides of the world. Amuleto's music emerges as a combination between contemporary, experimental and electronic music with influences of folk and classical traditions and improvisation. Amuleto’s first release “11h15 local weather forecast” (Die Schachtel, 2010) has received positive reviews from international specialized press (BlowUp, The Wire, Vital Weekly). In 2015, the duo published an extended project (over 2h of music, 2CD, postcards, texts and photos) entitled “No para siempre en la tierra sólo un poco aquí” . The record has been selected as the best releases of the year by the Italian magazines Solar Ipse and Blow Up and reissued in 2017.
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    Federico Dal Pozzo – Untitled_VNZ

    “Untitled_VNZ” is an acousmatic concert dedicated to Venice and its sound. A sound that vibrates of water, stone, re, metal , all of which in a continuous movement of sensorial and mnemonic evolution. Time becomes water that collects re exes of our hearing and later absorbing to design a story of echo in new notions of forms. An orchestrated composition from the city's topology, a city that makes one think of music papers in a continuously played music: the scores come together like sea waves, the pentagram bars are canals with its numerous “legato” of bridges, of high churches windows, and let's not forget the violins on the edge on the gondolas. Its Music is bigger than the orchestra, and there is no hand big enough to ip the score sheet.
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    Fallen – Glimpses

    Black / silver cdr in folded card sleeve with grey paper folded and printed insert. Black 'obi' style strip with silver hand written artist label. Comes in a stamped, sealed envelope and plastic film outer sleeve... I composed and recorded “glimpses” at night (for the most part) feeling really calm and serene whilst recording the pieces because of the absolute silence, because of the cold outside the windows, because of the rain outdoors. “glimpses” tries to explore human emotions and feelings, acting like a cold heartless person, or like an empathetic one, or feeling very angry or totally at peace with the rest of the world. “glimpses” is having coffee at night, “glimpses” is crying gently while thinking of a dear childhood memory, “glimpses” is listening to your loved one’s breath while sleeping in the bed near to you. All this happened while I was recording in silence, while my heart was quietly beating...
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    Blackfilm – Zero One Seven

    On "Zero One Seven", Blackfilm merges tracks spanning across drum and bass, dub and electronic. The sounds on the album are built from the ideas on the original Blackfilm "S/T“ and "Along the Corridors“ and progress to a sound built on new ground mixing modern production techniques and influences while at times referencing the Blackfilm sound we know from his previous releases. The album maintains a consistent focus on atmospherics, beats and heavy bass ranging from darker dub and drum and bass influences to vocal tracks and complex ambient soundscapes. Production wise, the familiar Blackfilm style incorporating the use of synthetic sounds mixed with samples enables the album to create an intriguing, shifting atmosphere as the album progresses. A dystopian journey through haunting vocals, hypnotic drum patterns and complex sound design.
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    Ensemble Economique – Radiate Through You

    The latest long-player of devotional noir by Humboldt County romantic Brian Pyle aka Ensemble Economique was originally titled Music Saves Lives, in response to the misguided backlash directed at underground artists in the wake of the tragic Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. Since Pyle’s career threads through a decade and a half of Northern California’s independent experimental music community, the blow struck a uniquely deep and personal chord. As a way to process, he began recording at his coastal home studio in Manila, California, channeling inner states of mind, seeking something “more personal and intimate, the idea of love, and shining through.” Radiate Through You delivers on its title, exuding a nuanced catharsis, alternately tempestuous and transcendent, forlorn but undefeated. Vaulted heavens of interwoven electronics ebb into hushed dirges of skeletal percussion and candlelit guitar. Roiling noise seethes, swells, and subsides as an ashen string arrangement rises in the mix, keening a somber, circular elegy, as if overtaken by memory on a long walk alone. Two key guest appearances lend the album even more dynamism and drama: the first by Barcelona synthesist Alexander Molero on the questing, celestial opener, “Music Is Life,” the second by New Zealand psychic sisters Purple Pilgrims on the devastating finale, “Blue Hour.” Both showcase impressive shades of Pyle’s finesse as producer and muse, sparking his collaborators to new heights. Whether taken as expressionist memorial, therapeutic song cycle, or something more ambiguous, Radiate Through You stands as a pensive, passionate statement by an enduring light of the West Coast canon, drawn from “a deep, special place of giant emotions, feelings.”
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    Alaskan Tapes – You Were Always An Island

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    Fallen – ást (Deluxe Version)

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    Fallen – ást

    Limited edition hand worked, black digipak version in an edition of just 40 copies...
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    Gianluca Favaron – Variations (Fragments of Evanescent Memories)

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    Fabio Orsi | Alessandra Guttagliere | Giardino forico n°1 – Napoli

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    Compilation of experimental music from Vietnam

    “Emergence” is an introductory compilation of experimental music from active Vietnamese artists, foreign artists who are based in Vietnam and those who collaborate with Vietnamese artists. This compilation features ten tracks of both established and emerging artists from all backgrounds.
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    Kate Carr – I Ended Out Moving To Brixton

    A soundscape reveals a lot about a place, through its presences, its silences, its rhythms and its pauses. A soundscape is forever being made by us all. It stitches us together in ways both subtle and sometimes overwhelming. I think in both its openness and fragility the soundscape can reveal something about the process of community making, and its sensitivity to change offers both opportunities and risks. Kate Carr, Brixton, London.
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    Benjamin Finger – For Those About To Love

    Norway’s Benjamin Finger plunges the listener into a pulsing, sparkling disorienting world in For Those About To Love. Part collage, part dream; by turns joyful, sombre, heartfelt and playful this album is a layered and diverse journey into the mysteries of the heart.
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    Compilation of Iranian experimental music

    Faced with the task of writing about artists from Iran it is tempting to oversimplify and go with the easiest way to address them -- the way most western media has always treated art coming not just from Iran but from middle east in general. This approach places artists exclusively within the political context presented by the mainstream media, and only shows you the day-to-day politics of governments in the region. This biased approach means artists' works are only interpreted in relation to a reduced conception of the political context. By seeing things this way you only have a handful of artists addressing certain issues with enough exaggeration to be newsworthy.
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    Michael Vallera – All Perfect Days

    On All Perfect Days, Michael Vallera’s second LP for Denovali, he continues to distill his singular, cinematic approach to sound. Acting as both performer and producer, Vallera constructs a lush, deeply emotional album that jettisons the overt rhythms and explicit drum programming that characterized much of his earlier work. Instead, in its tightly focused reliance on little more than guitar and amplifier feedback, supplemented by piano and synthesizer, the album explores a sparse but rich palette that evokes the ambient works of Harold Budd—although filtered through Vallera’s own sharp-edged sensibility. Recorded with Greg Norman at Electrical Audio and mastered by Daniel Rejmer, All Perfect Days adds to the mounting evidence that Michael Vallera is among the most assured and compelling artists to emerge from Chicago in recent years. Michael Vallera is a musician and photographer who lives and works in Chicago. Prolific as both a solo artist and collaborator, he has released albums under his own name and as COIN (Opal Tapes), with percussionist Steven Hess as Cleared (Immune Recordings), and with Joseph Clayton Mills as Maar (Umor Rex, Entr’acte). He sings and plays guitar in the experimental rock group Luggage (Don Giovanni Records). An MFA graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
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    Sankt Otten – Zwischen Demut und Disco

    The duo Sankt Otten from Osnabrueck (Germany), founded in 1999 and consisting of Stephan Otten and Oliver Klemm, releases music on Denovali since 2009. After Männerfreundschaften und Metaphysik (2016), a collaboration record with experimental guitarist „N“, Sankt Otten finally release their first new album since Engtanz Depression (2015). Their new record starts with Das endgültige Scheitern der Melancholie (en.: the final failure of melancholy), which seems to be unfamiliar due to its euphoric mood, but also shows that Sankt Otten consequently develop their music in a sovereign way. The title track Zwischen Demut und Disco (en.: Between humility and disco) then particularly brings to the fore the duo’s admiration of analog synthesizers - timeless instrumental music without nostalgic flashbacks to the past. Warm electronica, human being and machine hand in hand, infused by an almost danceable beat who induces head-nodding.
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    Cameron Day – The Castle and The Garden

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    Moss Covered Technology – And His Many Seas

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    Prairie – After the Flash Flood

    Prairie is the project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Marc Jacobs, hailing from Brussels with roots in The Netherlands. He previously released an EP (I'm so in love I almost forgot I survived a Disaster - 2013) and an LP (Like a Pack of Hounds - 2015) on the Berlin imprint Shitkatapult. On stage, Prairie plays with two or three musicians and together they re-create a free association of musical ideas and atmospheres. Prairie has played in selected venues and festivals across Europe and toured with Apparat in 2016.
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    Nadia Struiwigh – WHRRu

    "WHRRu" combines the warm electronics and dynamic sound of Nadia's previous works with a new film-composing orientated cinematic sound and approach. The result is a ten tracks album with electronic listening music for quiet nights and long journeys. Nadia says: '"WHHRu" is written with emotions and memories from my childhood. The use of acoustic instruments and synthesizers gave me the opportunity to settle a past/ future concept for all the chapters. Going back to those moments helped me to close a book and to find a safe place within myself. My own story has just started.'
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    Birds Of Passage – The Death of Our Invention

    Masterworks of minimalism and glacial beauty. With Birds of Passage, New Zealand based Alicia Merz presents us with an endearing invitation into her fragile world, a captivating journey through the landscapes of her emotional euphoria and agony, a further commitment to musical experimentation. The cold minimalist-drones, distorted field recordings, and sparse instrumentation, illustrate an icy, desolate and dark world. With allusions to dark-pop and classic broken-folk, the reverb drenched instrumentation, metaphorical fairytale lyrics, and anti-climactic compositions remind us that Alicia Merz is a singer songwriter for people who don't like singer songwriters. After four years of silence, Merz returns with the fourth full length 'The Death of Our Invention'.
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    Terminal Sound System – The Endless Sea

    From Rebirth and a four track recorder in the year 1999 to broken tape machines, untuned guitars/synths and extreme signal processing an eternity later, Terminal Sound System has remained the primary musical outlet for musician/producer Skye Klein. It is about stories. There is a narrative, albeit disjointed. Tends to come in threes, like dramatic characters; introduction, exploration, disintegration. It’s about stories, creating a world with sound and words and exploring that until it (inevitably) folds back on itself and starts to self-reference, decay, but also sprout appendages, potentialities.
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    Barry Kernachan – Layers

    Layers is a collection of piano pieces by Barry Kernachan. The improvised nature in which Kernachan composes has delivered a relaxed and free-flowing album without control or restraint. “Playing the piano for me is a form of meditation. A piece just starts with a single note or simple melody. I try not to control anything and just let the idea flow,” says Kernachan. “This, for me, is an important part of composing – my ideas are born in this way rather than being predetermined.”
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    Gray Acres – Gray Acres

    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm dark gray cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 180 gsm gray cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. The self-titled debut album of Gray Acres consists of seven wonderful tracks, containing many of the ambient elements of their Hotel Neon sound but with a sometimes softer and even more dreamy feel. Utilizing multiple layered emotional textures of immersive drones, walls of effected guitar swells, subtle piano and field recordings, Gray Acres create an impressive album that captivates the listener with its beautifully evocative soundscapes. The album was mastered by Ian Hawgood, giving more range and depth to its sounds.
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    Yndi Halda – A Sun​-​Coloured Shaker

    This is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 285 gsm light yellow-cream cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 180 gsm ochre-brown cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. yndi halda see A Sun-Coloured Shaker as the passing of night that follows Under Summer’s day. The dawn after the album’s dusk has faded. They wanted to express the realisation that something as simple and everyday as sunrise can be so truly life-giving. That the natural rhythm of nightfall and daybreak is a foundation of reality and being.
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    A Lily – Ten Drones On Cassette

    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. The physical disc includes the edited versions of all tracks. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm pale brown cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 160 gsm moss green cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon which includes as bonus the full versions of the tracks, each one between 37 to 50 minutes, and a Sound In Silence card. Ten Drones On Cassette, A Lily’s third full-length album and first since 2011, consists of ten new compositions with a total duration of something more than 50 minutes. As the album title suggests, the concept of the album is based on the idea of recording a collection of ten cinematic ambient and minimalist drone tracks, each one on a different cassette. Each track is named after and inspired by a specific person and takes up about a complete side of a cassette. The project was firstly self-released by A Lily in spring 2017 in just ten cassettes, each limited to one copy and including a different track. Ten Drones On Cassette was recorded using various instruments, including guitar, voice, organ, clarinet, brass and many others, and treated with a multitude of effects and acoustic processing, resulting in a sublime collection of dreamy soundscapes and hypnotic textures.
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    Sweeney – Middle Ages

    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 300 gsm cream recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist, lyrics and information printed on a 110 gsm light yellow fabric paper. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Middle Ages is a brilliant collection of ten more song-based tracks than his usual Panoptique Electrical sound, with a total duration of about 37 minutes. With the help of his collaborators Jed Palmer and Zoë Barry who provide cello, accordion, string arrangements, guitars and bass, Sweeney creates a peaceful and emotional album full of beautiful textures and sonic landscapes. Centered on his distinctive voice and melodic piano lines, Middle Ages magnificently merges songwriting, modern classical and ambient sounds with minimal beats and field recordings. Mastered by Antony Ryan (ISAN) in Denmark, Middle Ages is a beautifully breathtaking album, highly recommended for devotees of Anohni, Scott Walker and David Sylvian.
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    Panoptique Electrical – Quiet Ecology

    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 360 gsm dark green cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 160 gsm cream recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Quiet Ecology is a sonic memorial to these spaces and a musical act of quiet preservation. It’s a relaxing collection of six quiet compositions, with a total duration of something more than 45 minutes, which sets out to slow things down. Centered on gentle piano melodies and a background full of atmospheric textures and swelling cello drones, Quiet Ecology balances between modern classical and ambient soundscapes, in the vein of both ambient pioneers like Brian Eno and Harold Budd and artists like Max Richter and A Winged Victory For The Sullen.
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    Yellow6 – About The Journey

    This is a limited edition of 100 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 250 gsm dark grey cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and two insert sheets containing tracklist and information printed on a 190 gsm saffron yellow cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. About The Journey is made up of six new tracks with a total duration of about 75 minutes. All tracks, recorded in the first half of 2017, were inspired by the concept of the album which is about the journey of life. Knowing perfectly how to create his wonderful cinematic soundscapes, Yellow6 offers a beautiful chilled out collection of sounds where loops of ambient textures and layers of nostalgic guitar melodies are filled with a background constructed by minimal beats and droning feedback. The result is one of the finest Yellow6 works to date which appeals to all fans of atmospheric music of artists like Labradford, Brian McBride, Windy & Carl, Low and Roy Montgomery.
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    con_cetta – Origine

    This is a limited edition of 150 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm pale brown cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 160 gsm moss green cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Origine, con_cetta’s third full-length album and first solo release in nine years, consists of eight new compositions with a total duration of something more than 30 minutes. Meticulously built up from simple abstract piano melodies, harmonious ambient drones, washes of electronic treatments and heavily processed guitars, field recordings and manipulated found sounds, Origine is a mesmerizing and enchanting album full of emotional and evocative sonic vignettes, rich in tone and texture.
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    Nanook of the North

    Nanook of the North are Stefan Wesołowski and Piotr Kaliński (also known as Hatti Vatti) - two acclaimed Polish musicians whose simpatico merging of compositional roles are blended as seamlessly as their use of acoustic and electronic sounds. Recording sessions broadly found Stefan playing violin and piano parts with additional synth touches and Piotr taking care of electronics, more synths and the final mix. Upon being invited by the Sopot Film Festival next to their hometown of Gdansk to perform an improvised score to a film screening, the duo chose Robert J. Flaherty’s classic 1922 silent movie of the same name - ‘Nanook of the North’. Keen to maintain and nurture the initial ambient essence of the film, the duo travelled to Iceland where they recorded the album in Reykjavík and later mixed it in Greenland.
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    Orson Hentschel – Facades

    nly six months after his sophomore album, which has showcased a "tense repetition of short phrases, often building big, dramatic pieces starting with a single stuck-in-the-machine sound" (Decoder) and an "analogue cyber trip-hop of an impressive depth of focus as an acoustic furniture for an apocalypse lounge" (Groove), Hentschel returns with a two-piece EP showcasing yet another aspect of his musical spectrum. While the first two albums featured only instrumental tracks, "Facades" are the first two pieces in which Orson Hentschel works with text as a main musical element for his composition, although he approaches vocals from a rather particular perspective.
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    Waelder – Non Places

    Wælder are moving between ambient, industrial and pop. Their rhythms and soundscapes of voices, obscure samples and distorted field-recordings build spaces of barren material and soft ground, which teem and crawl - strange and harmonious. To present their music live, Wælder are mixing analogue and digital effects with guitar, synthesizers, vocals and loops. Rhythms and atmospheres blur, dissolve and re-assemble. Their live shows are often framed by visuals, generated in collaboration with various visual artists.
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    Alapastel – Hidden for the Eyes

    Each heavyweight custom double sleeve is individually rubber-stamped and numbered by hand in a limited first edition of one hundred and fifty copies for the world. Every package includes a concealed handwritten download code, glass-mastered CD and insert with original artwork by Silvia Bobeková and an individually numbered, handwritten dedication from the artist himself. Hidden for the Eyes is the exquisite debut album from Slovakian composer Lukáš Bulko recording as Alapastel. This treasure trove of neo-classical grandeur, electro-acoustic production and subtle folk undertones was eight years in the making and clearly signals the arrival of a unique and original new talent. Lukáš speaks with spirited and assured musical voice in an ambitious, pastoral and otherworldly collection, enhanced by the vocal talents of Alex Lukáčová and Marián Hrdina and the sensitive mix and mastering of Adam Dekan.
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    Aries Mond – Come On Let’s Wait

    southern France. He started to compose with environmental sound recordings in 2002. He toured with different solo projects, playing "acousmatic" concerts. He often collaborated with contemporary theatre. From 2013, he started to focus on instrumental music, with a particular interest for piano, and to share tracks under Aries Mond pseudonym. His first release, "Come On Let's Wait" came from his land, where, Indian Summer 2016 turned into an endless Autumn lasting the whole Winter of 2017. Before time definitively stops, he decided to record a few piano takes again.
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    Emmanuel Witzthum – Songs Of Love And Loss

    Emmanuel Witzthum - violist, composer, multidisciplinary artist, and lecturer. Studied at the Manhattan School of Music, NYC with Michael Tree of the Guarneri Quartet. Performed with numerous orchestras such as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in NYC, the Berlin Staatskapelle, ensemble Intercontemporain and others. As electronic musician and composer participated at the year long cursus at IRCAM, Paris and was guest composer of the DAAD artists program in Berlin. Performed at the ZKM, the 104 Paris, the Matadero Madrid, the Jewish Museum Berlin amongst others and recorded for Deutsche Grammofon under Pierre Boulez with ensemble Intercontemporain. Seven years after his first album released on the wonderful label Cotton Goods, he presents on eilean rec. his second opus. 4 tracks, 4 Haikus like 4 seasons. In parallel, Since 2010, he has recorded with Craig Tattersall (Humble Bee) under the project E & I, three releases and one Ep.
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    Benjamin Finger – Scale of Blindness

    Benjamin Finger is a composer, electronic music producer, DJ, photographer and film-maker based in Oslo, Norway. Since his 2009 debut solo album “Woods of Broccoli”, he has produced a prolific output of films and music with a healthy disregard for genres. His works have been released on How is Annie Records (NO), Time Released Sound (US), Digitalis Recordings (US), Watery Starve Press (US), Eilean Records (FR), Shimmering Mood Records (NL) Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records (UK), Oak Editions (IT), Sellout! Music (NO), and Flaming Pines (UK).
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    Śruti – Heard, Unspoken

    Śruti is the collaboration between Egyptian experimental musicians Omar El Abd (Omrr) & Mohammed Ashraf (Pie Are Squared). "Heard, Unspoken" is their debut album, created over the past two years between Cairo, Egypt & Ravenna, Italy.
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    Benjamin Louis Brody – Far Away Music

    Far Away Music sees Benjamin Louis Brody reimagine his previous compositions to create what he calls “music inside of music”. “When I started this project, I asked myself whether I could give my music depth perception, similar to a painting or drawing – the classic illusion of train track perspective that gives a painting a certain sense of distance,” says Brody. “With Far Away Music, I set out to do that with sound.” “The music and sounds you hear could only have been created through computer technology. By manipulating the speed and texture its allowed me to change the perspective of the original content,” says Brody. “Far Away Music represents how I experience my work in a more personal way – it’s vast and subconscious.”
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    Rime Trails – Sacred Groves

    Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 50 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. White editions handmade wallets with envelopes, small and large sizes. Photo's, transparent bag. "Music for springtime in eight parts. Recorded between April and September, 2016, using various instruments, synthesizers, and a microphone that is now retired. A big thanks goes out to the many birds who were kind enough to lend their voices throughout, wherever they might be now."
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    Dravier – Cathedrale

    The Limited 25 Series Edition CD: Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 25 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Different colored handmade wallets with envelopes. Photo's, transparent bag. "Inspired by an out of body experience in the gothic cathedrals of Paris, "Cathédrale" floats through pointed arches, past flying buttress and out over the Seine, soon lost within the clouds. Deep thoughts forever drifting through the fabric of time."
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    VA – Meditations 4

    Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 50 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Brown kraft wallets with black envelopes. Photo's, transparent bag. Artists: Faunethic, MATJAMI & VictorYibril, Macheteoxidado, Sage Taylor, Toothlessbobby, Elsa Hasselgärde, The Laborer, Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet, Sačquiel Måtaton, Gipsi, Laura Beatriz Rosenkranz, Maiya Hershey, Olan Mill
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    Autumna – Lutalica

    The Limited 25 Series Edition CD: Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 25 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Different (Kraft) handmade wallets with envelopes. Photo's, transparent bag. Lutalica - or wanderer: one who travels aimlessly, a traveller. We are all travellers, constantly moving in and out of focus of one another’s lives, knowingly and unknowingly sharing experiences. It’s these experiences that shape us, sculpt segments of our personalities and give us bearing. Most people know what they want, only few truly know what they need.
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    Glimlicht – Expressionistic Chrome

    A very special edition of "Expressionistic Chrome" by Glimlicht, every copy is a unique one, hand made, special artwork by Glimlicht himself, only 50 copies available. High quality, professionally duplicated CDr's. Organic Kraft Covers are hand numbered. "Expressionistic Chrome" consists entirely of tapeloops made out of casettes that I collected over the years. I usually got all the tape out and started cutting and pasting them, hoping to find that one special loop that carries serenity and contemplation. In this search I found loops that suggested slow static movements, like ships slowly crumbling through seas of static. They fitted perfectly with my experiences of seeing certain paintings at that time, that's how the concept of this album was born. I took certain paintings as examples and created the sounds based on what I was seeing and hearing in the frame.
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    Gipsi – Sleepy Follow

    Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 30 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Off white handmade wallets with envelopes. Photo's, transparent bag. "After the death of someone very close to me, I was, at times, so emotionally disorientated that some days I could barely take it. As music is my only creative output, I decided to make an album honoring this person: inescapably mournful but, ultimately, sanguine. Sleepy Follow is me channeling both memories and nightmares. There's an oppressive repetitiveness to grief that lulls you into a sort of trance-like submission; that's pretty much how these pieces were born. Every vibration of a guitar string and every reverb-drenched pad is entwined with the prosaic tedium of loss".
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    McClure & Soberanes – Future Harbour

    Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 40 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Different Black & Kraft brown handmade wallets with envelopes. Photo's, transparent bag. “Future Harbour” is the second collaborative album by Darren McClure and Jose Soberanes. It follows their 2015 release “Shelter”, issued on the Eter label. This new project combines modular electronics, processed field recordings and experiments in granular synthesis. The sound palette ranges from tactile and brittle textures to warmer ambient passages, all held together with a compositional process that favoured contrasting styles and techniques.
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    VA – Meditations 5

    Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 50 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Different colours kraft wallets with envelopes. Photo's, transparent bag. Artists: Bålsam, Invented State of Mind (ISM), Be, Murkok, Metta, Snufmumriko, Mandla Jamela, Ando Laj, Holy Family, Rhucle
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    Sacquiel Mataton – His Meridian Is At Once…

    The new Limited 25 Series Edition CD: Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 25 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Brown kraft wallets with envelopes. Photo's, transparent bag. The following pieces are about the old American West, Blood Meridian, There Will Be Blood. The heat, the desert, empty towns, lost lives, hearts, minds and souls. Travelling across the old country to make a living, for adventure and to just stay alive. Ye carry war of a madman's making onto a foreign land. Ye'll wake more than the dogs.
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    Orla Wren – Soil Steps

    Following swiftly on from 2013’s ‘Book Of The Folded Forest’ (Home Normal) and 'The Blizzard That Birthed Her' (Facture) the new Orla Wren album ‘Soil Steps’ finds the ever itinerant tui divesting himself from his usual cadre of musical collaborators and travelling, solo, into the Spanish wilderness with a tent and a portable recorder. Recorded during months of wandering isolation in the Iberian fastness, a process only concluded when our hapless traveller contrived to break an ankle (high in the Sierra Nevada and minus any painkillers, a logical point at which to call time), ‘Soil Steps’ shifts focus from the enveloping ruminations of ‘Folded Forest’ to the more Spartan and spacious tones of the field recording discipline. Orla Wren devotees will not be disappointed, as tui refines and reduces his atomistic approach to composition in order to reveal its luminous essence. Inspired by and taken almost entirely from the natural sounds emanating from his chosen environment; recordings of insects, snakes, street musicians, the movement of warm wind through bamboo on a dry river bed and broken only by Eva Puyuelo’s occasional narration of tui's words (suggestive that a handful of thoughts could last all day). Creating, in the studio environment, a rich tapestry from the collected sounds, thoughts and feelings of the journey, tui conjures a music that is not at all lonely yet is profoundly alone.
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    Guiseppe Cordaro – 45°12′N 72°54′E

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    Made by hand... Hand made book-bound covers (1260 g/qm FSC certified), lined inside with luxury Italian paper from Florence, sealed with washi tape, glass mastered CD (not CDR), antique glass slide (circa. 1910-1955), 5 x embryology prints, insert from antique embryology book, dried lavender, dried herbs, scent. All rests inside stitched glassine bags. Individually numbered / tagged / sealed. Made with love... Arising out of a womb-like, silent void comes Guiseppe Cordaro’s 45°12′N 72°54′E, blinking into life and exploring the cyclical lineage of a new birth, a recent ending, and the never-ending flow of life’s river. Water both sustains life and erodes it. Like the crumbling and disfigured coastlines, she either laps against the throat or chokes it, providing nourishment or eating away at the body, either satiating a deep thirst and keeping organisms alive or discovering a grisly penchant for murder in death by way of drowning. Barriers barely hold back Cordaro’s roiling waves of modular synth, a thrusting, unstoppable power rolling around in the pit of the music, capable of collapsing sounds, but also capable of reshaping their architecture.
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    James A. McDermid – Tonal Glints

    "This album is dedicated to my sister, Harriet, who died in August 2016. Throughout the 2 years she was ill - leading up to her death - I had started writing music as a way to privately articulate what I was feeling. After she'd passed away, there was the question around what to do with the many tracks I had written; they had, in all honesty, been written for her. For me to perhaps leave them sitting on a hard-drive seemed a disappointing end to what amounted to, in my mind, a tribute to her. About 6 months later, I was fortunate enough to be offered a 25 track album release (titled Ghost Folk) though Canadian label, Polar Seas Recordings, in April 2017. Her death is the worst thing that's ever happened to me; once the original shock dissipated, a wall of grief fell on me and, as a result, I found it an almost impossible task seeing my world in quite the same way as I once had. The wear and tear of life became suffocating, so I continued with the idea of channeling what I was feeling, into music; however, coming to terms with Harriet's death, rather than her illness, started to cloud and confuse what I was doing. In the end, it was Sophie Calle's book Exquisite Pain - a book arguably about grief in its various forms - that provided me with the clarity I needed. Calle's writing - in particular the people in it trying to come to terms with their own similar tragedies - helped shape and direct my own thoughts; Exquisite Pain acted as a conduit for what I was both feeling and trying to convey. Tonal Glints is the end result." - James A. McDermid
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    Ljerke (CD / DVD)

    Limited Edition x 2 discs (disc + dvd) - digisleeve / sealed and numbered... Ljerke is a multidisciplinary live project which took form in the Frisian landscape as as source of inspiration. The project includes some music artists from Netherlands (Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra, Sytze Pruiksma) and Norway (Alexander Rishaug, Hilde Marie Holsen, Michael Duch) completed with the video artists Marco Douma (NL) and Haraldur Karlsson from Iceland. A new project of live impro music, poetry and film, in the same context of former projects as Seeljocht (Piiptsjilling) and Skeylja (The Alvaret Ensemble). It’s their first album studio.
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    Zuydervelt / Belorukov / Aquarius – The Red Soul

    Comes in a matt finish digipack... After making several films without music, director Jessica Gorter went for a different approach for her recent film ‘The Red Soul’. Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek) was brought in to make the soundtrack for the documentary. They quickly agreed that the score needed to be very subtle, and not cliché-driven or overdramatic. An old bakelite record with a speech from Stalin and a few old LPs with Soviet songs became the starting point for the music. Fragments of these were sampled, transformed and combined with the saxophone of Ilia Belorukov and percussion by René Aquarius (of Dead Neanderthals). The result is a series of textural and tonal collages that evokes a sense of decay as well as (false) nostalgia, perfectly fitting the theme of the film. On the soundtrack album, the various parts of the score are assembled to be heard as one seamless piece - as a story in itself. The Red Soul was selected for the prestigious IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) International and Dutch Competitions.
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    Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek – Seeker

    In 2012, choreographer Iván Pérez asked me to work on a score for a dance piece of his, Hide And Seek. And to do this in collaboration with the great Aaron Martin. I don't think he knew at that point that Aaron and I had been working together previously (on Cello Drowning, an EP released on Type in 2007). Living in the US, Aaron started recording parts and sending them to Iván and me. Then I would use his recordings to build the score with; processing them, editing them, adding sounds, etcetera. The tracks on the Seeker album are basically (the refined versions of) the first sketches we made, trying out how our sounds would blend, and what directinos and atmospheres could be used in the dance performance. After this, these tracks were morphed into one long collage, tailored to the choreography. This final score is added to the album as a digital bonus.
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    Machinefabriek – Becoming

    Becoming is the fourth dance piece by Dutch/Spanish choreographer Iván Pérez to feature an original soundtrack by Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek). After ‘Hide & Seek’, ‘Attention the doors are closing’, and ‘Exhausting Space’, the duo sharpened their collaboration with a new piece by having the music performed live on stage for the first time. The choreography and music were created simultaneously, rehearsing together, and developing a movement and sound ‘vocabulary’ for the piece. The end result is structured, but still leaves a lot of room for improvisation in order to keep a natural flow. Each performance is different, with the musician and the dancers (Wei Yun Chen, Majon van der Schot, and Christopher Tandy) having a real-time dialogue.
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    Rutger Zuydervelt – Astroneer Volume II

    Astroneer is a sci-fi exploration and adventure game from developer System Era. In the game, the music plays continuously and is reactive to the player’s actions. This album presents the musical themes as edited tracks. It's the second volume of Astroneer music.
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    Aaron Martin – A Room Now Empty

    Aaron Martin’s album "A Room Now Empty" sees him returning to the memory-based recordings of previous albums such as "Almond", "River Water" and "Chautauqua", where layered meanings in the music and titles don’t allow a single clear-cut reading of the music. “A Room Now Empty is similar to the concept of Day Has Ended where Christoph Berg and I created music to encompass the passing of a day, but stretched out for the passing of a lifetime or at least a portion of a lifetime,” says Aaron. Using cello, electric guitar, bass, roll up piano, banjo, concertina, acoustic guitar, voice, ukulele, singing bowls and lap steel, "A Room Now Empty" keeps the same intimacy and directness of Aaron’s previous albums, with a slightly more processed sound creating distance within the music.
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    Ian Hawgood & Giulio Aldinucci – Consequence Shadows

    'Consequence Shadows' marks the first collaboration between Ian Hawgood and Giulio Aldinucci after years of development. Initially getting to know each other when Giulio released 'Tarsia' on Ian's Nomadic Kids Republic label back in 2011, the two have become firm friends and have continued to work on music together steadily since. 'Consequence Shadows' was initially termed 'snow sketches' as they shared files back and forth between Giulio's home in Italy and Ian's homes in Japan, the UK, and now Poland in this time. This working name for each piece (each noted as parts 1 to 5 in their correspondence) has lent heavily to the overall feel, highlighting the imbued sense of fragility in the subtle melodies as they evolve through the field-recorded white noise frequencies throughout. Whilst 'Consequence Shadows' will no doubt be (rightly) marked as an ambient work, the pieces stretch genre definitions as they converse with submerged beats, freckled frequencies, guitar echoes, direct vocal studies, and sustained piano chords, among many other directions. The closing piece is the nearly twenty minute beautifully epic reworking of 'Other Ashes' by Belgian artist Stijn Hüwels.
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    Ian Hawgood & Danny Norbury – Faintly Recollected

    Glass mastered CD in reverse board 4 panel card package... This release falls under the ambient genre, even with the primary inclusion of the cello, which is of course a mainstay in classical and modern composition – one of its most prominent arteries, in fact. The very nature of the long form piece promotes deep solitude and rest, a quiet evening in with only the music and the ghostly company of these two treasured artists. It not only deserves but needs to be played in its entirety. It’s continuity encourages a one-sitting–listen, and only then is its beauty truly revealed.
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    Dalot & Sound Awakener – Little Things

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    Various Artists (Eilean 58)

    Deluxe end of year edition : metal box / Inside : glossy color A3 recto-verso poster : 42 cm-20,6 cm / 5 stickers / black foam / sealed & hand numbered... Artists involved in alphabetical order : 9t Antiope / Ben Rath / Bill Seaman / Cicely Irvine / Daniel Mc Kenzie / Danny Clay / Francesco Giannico / Giulio Aldinucci / Jacek Doroszenko / Josco / Josh Mason / Jura Laiva / Monolyth & Cobalt / Monty Adkins / Nathan Mc Laughlin / Sonmi451 / Sound Meccano / Spheruleus / Stijn Hüwels / Tatsuro Kojima / Toàn
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    Sonmi451 – Panta Rei

    Sonmi451 is Bernard Zwijzen, creating his own blend of atmospheric ambient music from the city of Hasselt Belgium. His music is perhaps best described as a hybrid between subtle, shimmering electronica and delicate soundscapes. Every Sonmi451 track is a sort of mini-universe where field-recordings and lovingly crafted samples are combined with carefully chosen atmospheric ambiences. Sonmi451 likes to explore the inner aspects of sound and stillness, the cracks and loopholes that exist between sounds. "This album is dedicated to the rivers and streams, crossing the exquisite mountain-landscape of the Alps and Dolomites in the beautiful region of Southern Tirol." Bernard Zwijzen
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    Jacek Doroszenko – Wide Grey

    Jacek Doroszenko is an audio-visual artist, treating sound phenomena as a legitimate material of visual art and highlighting listening as a practice. The artist engages with the contemporary soundscape to select and rephrase the notion of noise as redundant element. The first artist’s release on Eilean Records contains a suite of compositions produced during Artist-in-Residence programs in Norway and Greece. Using field recording as the basis for further musical compositions, artist reveals the power of audible juxtaposition and natural potential of a certain place. Ostensibly unnecessary sound events are treated here as the key components, revealing massive landscape of possible progressions.
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    Ben Rath – Black Heart Music

    Ben Rath is an amateur musician currently based in Manchester, UK. He makes experimental, ambient music using original recordings of guitar, keyboard and piano, as well as samples and field recordings. He has been recording and releasing music through a variety of labels since 2014 and has also released a short EP of improvised acoustic guitar tracks under the name Slow Heart Music.
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    Rod Modell – Dawn, Dusk and Darkness

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    CD plus Deluxe limited edition book size 30cm x 24cm, 72 pages, soft-touch hardcover with varnished details... 2017 will mark a homecoming for one of our most beloved artists! Ten years after "Plays Michael Mantra" (his last work for Silentes), 13 / Silentes will be releasing the first book of photography by ROD MODELL. A collection of over 100 personal photographs made during a 10 week stay in Barcelona during April-June 2016. A CD of Barcelona field-recordings and emotional atmospheric sounds by Rod Modell (that were influenced by the images) will also be included. These unique images and musical textures emphasize the darker, nocturnal side of Barcelona, and capture fleeting seconds that occurred between the moments that others noticed. A collection of mysterious images that reveal deeper layers with each subsequent viewing.
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    Zbeen – Tonal Whiplash

    After a 3 years hiatus, Zbeen (Entr'acte, Ripples) comes back with a cohesive album filled with unpredictable dynamics and the duo's distinctive dense complexity. Zbeen is Gianluca Favaron and Ennio Mazzon.
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    Gigi Masin – Il Silenzio Dei Tuoi Passi

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    Limited CD album from Gigi Masin packaged with a deluxe 68 page deluxe photographic hardback book...
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    Underthesnow – Popsongs

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    Popsongs' is the new project by Underthesnow. A collection of thoughts and sounds about pop. The cd is attached to a 40 pages 8" booklet that includes eleven collages by Stefano Gentile, two exclusive drawings by Massimo Giacon, an exclusive card designed by Lapo Belmestieri and writings (in Italian and English language) by Vittore Baroni, Manuel Gentile, Paolo Cesaretti and Marco Pandin.
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    Alec Cheer – S/T

    Nice looking full colour CD housed in a cardboard gatefold sleeve that has a full colour matt finish...
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    Gianluca Favaron | Anacleto Vitolo – Zolfo

    "Zolfo" is born by the collaboration between Gianluca Favaron and Anacleto Vitolo. Both involved in many projects and music collaborations - Favaron with Corrado Altieri, Deison and in groups like Lasik Surgery, Maribor, Zbeen and Under The Snow; Vitolo with Doublebass player Francesco Galatro, Viola player Michela Coppola, Domenico Stellavatecascio (Internos) and many other. The album was composed, recorded, and mixed between January and May 2016 and is a mix of several music elements and techniques, such as tape loops, cymbals, microphonic works and live electronic processing. The result is a combination of musique concrète, noise and drone music.
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    Vetropaco – S/T

    "Vetropaco" is a brainchild of Gianluca Favaron and Andrea Bellucci (a.k.a. Red Sector A). Favaron's de-compositions join Bellucci's rhythms structures creating a work where aseptic sounds are combined with patterns borrowed from Techno, with Breakcore and IDM digressions. "Vetropaco" represents a further step forward in the musical research of the two artists, and is aimed at fans of innovative electronic sounds.
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    Deison | Mingle – Innersurface

    After crossing wastelands lost in oblivion (Everything Collapse[d], Aagoo, 2014), and being skeptically moved by listening to pulsations of a weak life (Weak Life, Aagoo, 2015), Cristiano Deison and Andrea Gastaldello (aka Mingle) are arriving at their final destination, Innersuface, the last stop on their journey. They suddenly fall into a hole and are trapped in a slimy pit overflowing with mud and industrial liquids. Everything is dense and oppressive. Their physical movement stops, the chaos in their head remains, they look around and everything is irreversibly changed. And while looking at the road they have just walked along, they glimpse the edge of a forest brimming with life, with its appearance unchanged over time...will it stay like this forever? Created, recorded and mixed between December 2015 and April 2016, at Mingle's Tower Home Studio and Deison's 1st Floor Studio, Innersurface continues the perfect blend of Deison and Mingle sounds: drones, field recordings and processed loops superimposed with disturbed rhythms, distorted beats and electronic processing. As always, the electronics are dirty and extremely evocative, sounds that we have become accustomed to.
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    Vetropaco – Subvoid

    On "Vetropaco"'s second album, we see once again Gianluca Favaron (Zbeen, Ab'SHE, etc.) and Andrea Bellucci (Red Sector A, Nerva, Dio<X>ide, etc.) joining their forces. The target of this new work is to further expand the concepts and themes touched upon in the first album, making this collaboration as homogeneous as possible. In "Subvoid", Favaron's sounds act like the main binding force on all the tracks and appear to be more in the foreground compared to the previous album. The project is enriched by new solutions where digital and analogue sounds melt together, searching for a form of expression that is both pleasant and engaging, and never taken for granted. Rhythm tracks take shape from Favaron's palette, whose sounds are bended and elaborated exactly to form a unique blend with Bellucci's textures, where they get lost and come to light again.
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    Qod – Absequence

    "Absequence" is the debut album of a new project called "qod", which showcases the collaboration between Moreno Padoan (MP, Artcore Machine, Otur Boyd) and Andrea Bellucci (Red Sector A, Subterranean Source, Vetropaco, Nerva, Dioide). In "Absequence", Padoan's devastating Rhythmic-Noise meets, merges and blends with Bellucci's polished IDM-Techno Ambient, giving life to nine tracks of pure electronic delirium. The album's target is to explore the possibilities offered by the meeting of two well-defined characters, who search for a communal code of expression, largely represented by intricate rhythmic textures and very refined and elaborate sounds. An extremely dangerous experience!
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    Lorenzo Masotto – White Materials

    Handmade edition featuring a lovely four panel sleeve, glass master cd and download code... White Materials is Masotto's fourth album and it's a work that almost completely dissociates from the kind of writing used previously. For this reason, according to the stylistic choices of compositions and sound combinations found in "White Materials", the artist decided to produce the album completely by himself, so that you can listen to it without reference to labels or music genres. The album is composed, recorded, mixed and mastered in his home studio.
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    Visionary Hours – Beyond the White

    Hand-assembled, limited edition, pressed CD… "Beyond the White" is an album of collaborations with artists including Bruno Sanfilippo, Richard Youngs, Western Skies Motel, Adrian Lane, Trigg & Gusset, Isnaj Dui and 3+ among others. “I wanted to collaborate with different artists, but still keep some kind of control over the pieces,” says Visionary Hours. “In some cases, I sent the same acoustic guitar piece out to more than one artist, with the idea that two artists would unwittingly collaborate with each other on that particular piece – a blind collaboration, if you like.”
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    Trigg & Gusset – Legacy of the Witty

    Hand-assembled, limited edition, pressed CD... “The starting point for Legacy of the Witty was to create slow dark repetitive music with a certain amount of improvisation,” says Erik van Geer (clarinet, saxophone). “So Legacy for the Witty is a trip down the chambers of dark jazz. Somewhere in this darkness, light can be found and the end of the tunnel – although it’s possible that the end of the tunnel might never be reached...
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    Leo Takami – Tree of Life

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    Entitled, “Tree Of Life”, these 10 patient, languid tracks take their time in evolving…peaceful and innocent in tone…soft and sensitive in nature…almost not there at times…these gentle sounds are made for those most relaxing moments of the day, when you can lie back, empty your mind, and wind down to these seemingly slowed moments in time. Available in one hand made version, in a limited edition of 100 copies. Each of the factory pressed CD’s comes housed in a double pocketed package made from folded sheets of vintage grasscloth wallpaper. The front of each folder has attached to it a hand stamped square of wood veneer, each one unique. The disc in it’s cotton sleeve is folded inside an illustrated page from a vintage book on the timber industry. There is also a beautifully stamped and sewn strand of 7 vintage kanji language learning cards. Imagery of Japanese landscapes and flora and old musical lesson cards are also contained within. And finally…strung from the front of each folder is an antique wooden Hanko signature seal. And it all comes in a forest green, hand stamped envelope.
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    Tatiana Alamartine – Searching

    Digipack CD Album with 2 Bonus Tracks included... The first of a new series named Acoustic Collection at VoxxoV Records. The creation of the album Searching began in the Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini in Bologna, Italy, during a six month residence in 2014. The rest was done in two months in Lyon. Tatiana Alamartine worked with a famous Bosendörfer piano, a rare and prestigious Viennese instrument. This piano is unique and has a powerful and melodious tone. The pianist Rainer Keuschnig will even say that "Bösendorfer is authentically Viennese, because it presents all the various aspects of the Viennese personality which expresses itself in the eye which smiles or cries". This famous piano was the one used by numerous famous composers, including, Franz Liszt and Charlemagne Palestine for his album Strumming Music. Tatiana's album follows the tradition of solo piano albums with wintry tones while also having a colored and warm composition at the same time. Classical music lovers who liked Vora by Rauelsson or Winter Musik by Nils Frahm will surely be delighted with Searching by Tatiana Alamartine. The themes’ diversity makes this album complex yet approchable. In many ways, this album sounds like a collection of compositions mixing improvisations and interludes, a brilliant achievement of a three years musical ressearch diary.
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    Norman Westberg – The Chance To

    Comes housed in LCR's a lovely hand-printed letterpress packaging with CD wrap and digital collage cover by K. Craig... Many listeners to Westberg’s solo recordings have noted the depth and subtlety of his compositions and these four tracks are no exception.They have a rare ability to echo both the clarity of minimalism and the maximal intensity of the best overdriven rock bands. Opening track ‘Andrea F’ is a case in point, moving from clashing overtones to an almost-choral central section before introducing pitched bass tones that move the track into a new realm. There are moments elsewhere that have an unsettling quality, but the patience and care taken with the sounds ensures the album as a whole retains a warm humanity rather than moving into alienating territories. Fundamentally, there is always a lightness of touch to Westberg’s compositions.
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    DR – Field Recording Meets Sound

    DR is the project of German sound artist Dominic Razlaff.
 The idea of his third official album was to create sounds which support the field recordings recorded in 2017 in his town (Braunschweig, Germany). To create the sounds/textures he used Novation’s Xio Synthesizer and a ukulele with granular synthesis. The result is an emotional album of 15 tracks, a special soundtrack for the winter arriving.
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    Bill Seaman – The Epiphanies

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    The Epiphanies sees Bill Seaman in fine fettle, driving along phosphorescent-lit roads marked by the heavy dew of mystery and slow-to-develop intrigue. Delayed secrets are now only coming to light. The setting sun is the glorious backdrop as The Epiphanies coasts along a deserted road, its dark road-trip music glinting like the lightless, metallic chrome of the car’s body. A pack of coyotes come out to play, and further down the road some lusty, post-jazz musings at a local bar hint at dark dislocations. Nothing is right – the neon sign is too bright and things are a little off-kilter. Reality slips slowly away, like water through the fingers, drained as if from the last bottle of whiskey, until it can’t be grasped at any longer. The sick, cloying perfume of cigarette smoke hangs in the air like a tired apparition. The lingering, too-wide smile of a cute bartender with a string of strange tattoos along her back and an old episode of Tiny Toon Adventures (circa 1990) rather than the latest game from the NHL graces the television’s pulpit, adding to the subtle sense of dislocation, and the music only gets darker, its dying light duelling with the fading sunset. The headlights are a lonely splash of colour at two in the morning, and as the music enters the long hours a velvet-smooth carpet of asphalt spreads out before the listener, the unfolding ambient textures helping to shape a smooth, virgin-pure road. Dark wet trees and swaying branches are illuminated as the car drives through an eerie, sleeping town, with nothing but a slumping, somnambulant piano strolling up and down the dark, leaf-strewn sidewalk. Distant notes seem to croon into the space, somehow filtering in through the dead radio that needed replacing months ago, luring you into its monochromatic musical world. You are the first visitor. You are also the last. There isn’t any other traffic…
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    Ghost and Tape – Vár

    Heine Christensen (the man behind the ‘ghost and tape’ moniker) and I have been friends for a number of years now, and I’ve been a fan ever since I discovered his first self-titled release for Akira Kosemura’s superb Schole label quite randomly in a record store in Tokyo while admiring the artwork. I ended up buying this based on the art alone, and immediately went back the next day to buy the only other album I could find by him, ‘Home’. The music of ghost and tape is deeply intricate, and so careful is he in the work he does, this marks only his fourth studio album since his debut back in 2010. I’ve always admired people who take their time with their music for they appreciate the finer details and seem to understand music as a timeless quantity. This is a sadly rare quality now as things come and go, but in line with Home Normal’s ethos is a belief that truly lasting music must in its very nature have a certain timelessness that transcends whatever maybe ‘in’ at a particular moment in time.
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    Steven Kemner – Gradation Movements

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    You can’t predict the weather. Sometimes, life throws something at you. When it does – not if but when - hopes and expectations lie like shattered spokes. Is it fate, destiny, or circumstance? No one knows, but paths can change when there’s a sudden shift in the weather, and something that once seemed so sure and stable starts to become the opposite: uncertain and unfair. Promises peter out as a drop of rain appears. You have to stop and change course. A natural disaster plunges normality into desolation, and the same is true of our longed-for futures which so often disappear into the ether. Disappointment ensures: inclement weather. You can’t prepare for it; the hurricane warning arrived too late. Steven Kemner recently went through such a change: “I needed to move away from everything that I loved to a place I had no desire to go. This change complicated music, life and a sense of belonging”. - Steven Kemner Like the changing of the weather, ironclad clouds can appear from out of nowhere, eclipsing the sun with blackened totality, and the deep, roiling textures within the music of Gradation Movements are full of rain and turmoil, of leaving and moving on. The slow swells and hard-fought movements are indicative of clouded spells which obdurately block out the blue hope of the sky like a cruel shield. Coated in sleek silver, the notes shadow the steps of the people below. Rainy season stalks the soul; it doesn’t seem to matter where the notes walk, because the cloud always follows, indiscriminate with its downpours of rain and its trident spears of lightning. Rainfall is needed in order to grow, and that includes us. The rainy spells can make us stronger, helping us to rise up in troubling times…but too much of it, and we drown. The cirrus patterns and the cycling of the wind may be hard to understand – we may never understand – but they still have a purpose. The purpose may seem obscure, but it’s there. There’s a strong energy at work within them, and troubled times often reveal things that, in hindsight, we later come to appreciate. When sunlight fails, the music’s tones lie hidden in a shroud of slow mist. The clouds don’t always disperse. You can’t predict the future - you just have to roll with it until you finally come to terms with the strange weather.
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – Lost & Found

    Lost & Found is the latest album from Sanfilippo. The artist takes four songs that were once buried and lost in other collections, curating them together to create a new sound and feel. This reimagination allows the listener to discover each piece, as if for the first time. The songs have the power to pull memories from us, of either real or imagined experience and the ethereal sounds are, at once, familiar and an exploration. This transformation invites the listener to experience Lost & Found as an act of losing and finding something again.
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    Max Ananyev – The Way to the Ocean

    "I wanted the music to immediately immerse the listener in a new state, but without relying on all the usual techniques composers often make use of in the ambient acoustic genre,” says Max. “In the measured style of my playing, I’ve tried to put across the core idea of the ambient genre – a change in the listener’s state, the transition from thought to contemplation and the perception of time.” "Max Ananyev keeps things to the essentials on the subdued intimate moods of “The Way to the Ocean”. Arrangements possess a meditative quality to them ... The usage of silence further adds to the appeal of the album..." – Beach Sloth
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    Adrian Lane – Playing With Ghosts

    On his album "Playing With Ghosts", Adrian Lane uses 100-year-old cylinder recordings as the starting point for new compositions – chopping them up, reordering them and playing along to build up a series of completely new compositions. “I’ve always liked the idea of collage and often include this in my visual art,” says Adrian. “So I wanted to do something that incorporated this approach in my music.”
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    Ales Tsurko – Microscale

    Created in real-time from random Wikipedia articles, "microscale" is a web-based, generative album. Each Wikipedia article functioning as a step sequencer – where the letters are the sequencer steps and the track titles are regular expressions that switch the steps on and off. The web version is generated in real-time and is also hackable – this means that the regular expressions, samples, tempo and other parameters can be edited or replaced – enabling "microscale" to be used as an instrument and sequencer for the listener’s own music.
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    Mess_Montage – The Death of Optimus Prime

    Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 30 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Different covers available: White, silver/grey, dark silver/grey wallets with envelopes in a transparent bag...
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    DR – Hovering

    Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 30 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Different covers available: Brown kraft wallets with envelopes & Off white wallets with envelopes. Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper, transparent bag.
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    Jurko Haltuu – And In My Tears…

    Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 30 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Different covers available: Brown kraft wallets with envelopes & Off white wallets with envelopes. Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper, transparent bag...
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    Bionulor – Furniture Music

    Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 30 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Different metallic wallets with envelopes. Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper, transparent bag...
    “Furniture Music” is – after “Erik” (2012) and “Vexations” EP. (2014) – the third one from the series of Bionulor’s records dedicated to the person and work of Erik Satie.  This particular one is inspired by Satie’s idea of „musique d'ameublement” , but also – to some extent – by the way John Cage had interpreted the piece “Vexations” during the first public performance. Bionulor, as always, invites you to deeply immerse yourself in sound... but this time also to use “Furniture Music” while cleaning, washing up, reading, taking a nap or even sunbathing...
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    James Osland – Departures (CD)

    Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 30 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Brown kraft wallets with envelopes. Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper, transparent bag... Departures was recorded in areas of Europe, South-East Asia and Australasia over a period of two years. The album seeks to explore our relationship with sound, memory and place. Thank you to everyone that helped make this album possible. All tracks composed and mixed by James Osland.
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    Post Global Trio – Minus Seven (CD)

    Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 30 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Brown kraft wallets with envelopes. Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper, transparent bag...
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    James Murray – Heavenly Waters

    Each cover of the Printed Edition has been professionally printed with artwork derived from a vintage star map of the constellation Eridanus. Constructed around the same hand-inked custom double sleeve design as the Stamped Edition, this is a heavyweight package containing glass-mastered CD and a professionally printed insert. James Murray's tenth solo album carefully charts all nine Heavenly Waters constellations. This delicately nuanced celestial meditation is many years in the making and confirms Murray’s unwavering commitment to original, emotionally weighted, concept rich music of equal parts subtle melody and inventive, meticulous sound design.
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    Five Layers

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    Ogawa / Shepherds of Cats / Pietrushka

    Recorded during the improvised session that took place in May 2016 at OPT www.opt-art.net Wroclaw, Poland...
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    omrr – Devils for my Darling

    4-panel digipack, gloss finish... Omrr is the stage name of Omar El Abd (born 22 September 1983), a self-taught musician, guitarist and sound artist based in Cairo, Egypt. omrr’s sound is based on glitch, noise, micro-sounds, sampling and field recording. He uses a variety of instruments and software to create free form, dynamic and dense sonic landscapes.
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    Cicely Irvine – Excavation

    Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered... Cicely Irvine (b. 1990) is a musician and sound artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is making music and sound design for film, radio and performance art. The release on Eilean rec is her very first and a collection of music made between 2007 and 2017.
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    Norihito Suda – Light Snowfall (2 x CD)

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    Two tone / 4 panel hand made letter-pressed Somerset cotton covers, 2 x glass mastered CDs, 32 page deluxe perfect bound photographic book printed on luxury uncoated paper, white sage scent. All of the above rests inside individually hand numbered / hand-made Japanese soft letter-pressed envelopes made from 100% recycled cotton. Understated beauty... The album leaves a lingering kiss of compassion on the lips in what is a hopeful and open sound. Norihito Suda has ushered out a beautiful ambient work which is all the more stunning for its quiet composure and calm. - James Catchpole (Fluid Radio)
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    Galatimosconi – Penombra

    Limited Edition handmade sleeve with cover album in polaroid format inside eco packaging... When the environment becomes hostile, men must struggle with nature for their survival; but, in the dim light, sheltered from everything, always watching with deference and wonder.
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    Jason van Wyk – Opacity

    Presented in our locally produced 4 panel recycled card package in an edition of 500. Alongside the alluring dusty-starred photography of Gregory Euclide, in 'Opacity' Jason has created an album that is timeless and bold; a freeing work of piano-focused tenderness, and huge luminous pads. We can’t wait to share this with you. - Ian Hawgood
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    Memory Drawings – The Nearest Exit (2 x CD)

    Limited edition 2 x CD edition with bonus 10 track remix album... The Nearest Exit is the third album from Anglo/American collective Memory Drawings. Led by the hammered dulcimer of Minneapolis-based Joel Hanson, the band also features Richard Adams (Hood / The Declining Winter), Sarah Kemp (Brave Timbers), Chris Cole (Movietone / Manyfingers) and Gareth S Brown (Hood). Accompanying The Nearest Exit is a 10-track remix album which functions as a companion piece to the original instrumentals. The band looked far and wide for collaborators and have had their work interpreted by the likes of former The Boats duo The Humblebee, Tape Loop Orchestra, Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots, Bristol’s Manyfingers, ambient-music pioneer Robert Rich, and London-based kraut-pop groups Astronauts and The Leaf Library.
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    Kryshe – March Of The Mysterious

    Four panel, gatefold CD Digipak with clear plastic tray. Printed on the reverse side of the card for that nice textured finish... March Of The Mysterious is a new album by German artist, Kryshe (Christian Grothe). The album stems from music made to accompany a showing of the 1915 silent film, Alice In Wonderland. Straddling the worlds of modern classical, avant-jazz and ambient music, multi-instrumentalist Kryshe plays piano, brass, guitar and percussion with a hefty dose of electronic processing to produce music every bit as enchanting as Lewis Carroll's tale. Live performance is an important aspect of Kryshe's music. Since his last album (Insights for Unperceived Records) followed a more traditional, studio-based approach, Christian was keen to bring some of his techniques from live performances into the studio for March Of The Mysterious. Blurring the lines between composition and improvisation, spontaneity and deliberation, the resultant music feels measured but alive.
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    Morgen Wurde – Assassinous Act

    Weather patterns around the world are shifting…and although it’s fortunately cooler than usual here in California this summer, tempers are still on the rise, tensions ride high, and criminal intent is always in the air! Our latest release reflects these sentiments…and for TRS072 we are bringing back an artist that we released last year. We are very pleased to re-welcome Morgen Wurde, aka Wolfgang Röttger, and his latest release, Assassinous Act! We had told Wolfgang earlier in the year that we would be doing a “crime release” of sorts in the near future, and he promptly and enthusiastically agreed to compose a fictitious soundtrack for us to this non existent crime that is reflected in the packaging for TRS072. He has done a fantastic job to that effect! Dark and ominous at times…mysterious and reflective at others…the thirteen tracks here take us through the conception of the crime, to the actual acting out of it and beyond, to a final redemption and reckoning of sorts. With his "accomplices", Maria Estrella Aggabao and Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, he has indeed provided us with a fitting soundscape to this release!
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    Astrïd & Rachel Grimes – Through the Sparkle

    After years of mail and email back and forth over the ocean, from Nantes to Kentucky, astrïd invited Rachel to come for a residency to make music together and play shows in France. They gathered for a few days, here and there, in 2012 and 2013 to write songs in Cyril and Vanina's home studio in the countryside. The compositions found on Through the Sparkle glow with a unique, connected energy and a pure, instinctive musical understanding. Considered contributions from all sides allow the pieces to unfurl naturally. Each note and phrase feels like it simply couldn’t be placed anywhere else in the album.
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    Ludmila – 1 Day 1 Track

    Each highly limited collectable Whitelabrecs release is built around a set format as follows: 50 x vinyl-effect CDrs with card vinyl-style sleeves, rubber stamped titling, a polaroid print of the cover artwork housed inside a plastic case to keep it looking mint. Ink, font style and sleeve colours will vary for each release, chosen by the artist. In ‘1 Day 1 Track’, Jori set about recording one track every day for a week in which he describes it as the ‘best holidays ever’. Each track on the album is a cropped section of a recording session that lasted from between 10 and 20 minutes, a process repeated each day. In one very peaceful week, Jori recalls playing free from thought, with the takes being improvised without the aid of a computer. Often when artists embark on the creative process, rules and pressure are applied and a lack of quality time devoted to one’s craft can breed frustration. By taking time out during his holidays for just a short period each day, the music flowed and a beautifully cohesive album was born.
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    Steve Pacheco – The 4th

    Each highly limited collectable Whitelabrecs release is built around a set format as follows: 50 x vinyl-effect CDrs with card vinyl-style sleeves, rubber stamped titling, a polaroid print of the cover artwork housed inside a plastic case to keep it looking mint. Ink, font style and sleeve colours will vary for each release, chosen by the artist. The 4th is an album themed around cherished memories, loss and letting go as each track is deeply connected to memories he experienced during his time in Sante Fe. The first three tracks are set in Santa Fe whereas the final piece ‘Completion’ is a reference to Steve’s return to Los Angeles for a new job opportunity. The title of the album is a reference to the Chakra system, with the fourth of these being the heart. Whilst the deeply personal events and circumstances that inspired the work within this album may not translate to you the listener, it is intended that the material will inspire memories and feelings dear to you as the warm textures will envelope you.
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    Sea Trials – ST

    Each highly limited collectable Whitelabrecs release is built around a set format as follows: 50 x vinyl-effect CDrs with card vinyl-style sleeves, rubber stamped titling, a polaroid print of the cover artwork housed inside a plastic case to keep it looking mint. Ink, font style and sleeve colours will vary for each release, chosen by the artist. The self-titled Sea Trials album is the debut from Irish born, Hungary based artist Ian McCarthy who has previously released in the Techno field under monikers Romart and Wilhelm on labels such as Flux Recordings, Nice Try Records and I Had An Accident Records. Sea Trials was spawned in 2015 as the foundations for Ian’s idea began with him creating a pool of material to draw from as he planned a number of recordings and we’re pleased to present his eponymous debut album to serve as the perfect introduction to this sound. The 9 tracks were created from source material recorded to old or damaged cassette tapes which were treated by either being left outside exposed to the elements, by being burnt or submerged in salt-water for long periods. Inevitably, the deterioration of sound and medium became a crucial part of the process and became the concept: decay and rebirth.
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    Guenter Schlienz – Peace

    Over several years, Guenter Schlienz has graced labels such as Constellation Tatsu, Sacred Phrases, S.I.N.K. CDs, SicSic, Preservation so we are very excited here at Rural Colours to be added to that list with his latest work Peace. After noticing that several friends had begun to end emails marked 'Peace', Guenter Schlienz, ever full of questions, started to ponder on the meaning of the word in this context. Around the same time he started to read Henry Miller's book 'The Collossus of Maroussi' and was intrigued by a couple of paragraphs devoted to exactly this question: what is "the meaning of peace". He came to the conclusion that there is much more to "peace" than just the absence of war. The albums track titles are words by Henry Miller, and the work is Guenter's humble attempt to gather sounds and atmospheres around those lines. Using modular synths combined with tape loops, analog and digital delays, vintage electronic organ and guitar, Schlienz works within a romantically inward looking framework, creating music that comes from deep within. His compositions reflect themes of tenderness, alienation and homecoming and feature a range of guest musicians including Masako Kamikawa (piano on 'Reverberation of the Pandemonium') and Niko Lazarakopoulos (guitar on 'Faint Whispers') and even an anonymous busker from the streets of Stuttgart on 'Who Put the Demons There?'
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    Monty Adkins – A Year at Usher’s Hill

    Monty Adkins is experimental sound artist based in remote countryside of the north of England. His work is deeply influenced by the visual arts and psychogeography resulting in collaborations with a number of painters and digital artists. Inhabiting a post-acousmatic sensibility, Monty’s work draws together elements from ambient, acousmatic and microsound music producing a soundworld characterised by slow shifting organic textures derived from processed instrumental sounds. His work can be found on various labels including Audiobulb, Cronica, Signature, and empreintes DIGITALes.
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    Giannico / Aldinucci – Reframing

    Electroacoustic musician, videoartist and web designer, Francesco Giannico founded in 2010 AIPS and in 2013 Oak edition with Alessio Ballerini. His musical approach is better described as a cinematic journey which pushes the boundaries of digital media. He collaborated with many artists like: Kim Cascone, Ben Chatwin, Fabio Orsi, Alessio Ballerini. Giulio Aldinucci has been active for years as a composer in the field of experimental electroacoustic music and in the research on soundscape. He wrote music for theatre, video art, documentaries and short movies. With Attilio Novellino he launched the project Postcards from Italy. Giannico & Aldinucci’s works have been released on some labels such as Time Released Sound, Unknown Tone Records, Dronarivm and Home Normal. After their first release on Dronarivm in July 2016, they present their second album together.
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    Josco & Spheruleus – Folded Distance

    "Folded Distance is a record about travel, but it is also about staying where you are and staying where you feel you belong. One of us moved around a lot and the other stayed relatively still; although we were geographically separated, we could communicate instantly across the incredible land mass between us - the more we set about weaving Josco's drones and the exotic sounds of Asia with the sleepy rustic fields of Lincolnshire and Spheruleus' instruments, the more the concept of 'folding distance' became apparent to us, and the more it became realised by us. We settled on a mutual appreciation of maps and had the idea that folding the pages of a map or atlas would bring the two points of the two locations closer. We were dealing with enormous distances, that 200 years ago would have felt impenetrably foreign and unreachable. Through technology and discussion, we were able to bring the sounds and the atmospheres of these two places and our own roles within these places together. Field recordings and track titles are taken from Thailand, Turkey, Austria, UK, Ireland and Morocco. Over the five year recording period, both of us grew and changed. The record is about that five year period, ourselves, the changes we went through, the places we were and how they were at that time and our communication and vision for the album during this time." - Josco & Spheruleus - May, 2017
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    Toàn – Histós Lusis

    Toàn is a French electronic musician based in Britain. As a beatmaker, he has produced several albums mixing jazz and hip hop influences under the pseudonym of Qiwu Selftet. Toàn is now focuses on freer musical forms, close to ambient and modern classical. Without using any synths, Histós Lusis is entirely composed by samples found on old records, live instruments and field recordings.
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    Taylor Deupree – Somi

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    Gareth Dickson – Orwell Court

    Gareth Dickson is ghostlike. From the dark outskirts of Glasgow he has sent three studio studio albums in to the world - Collected Recordings (2009), The Dance (2010) and Quite A Way Away (2012). These albums have bewitched a growing inner circle, including some of the most innovative musicians around today - Juana Molina and Vashti Bunyan to name just two. Gareth has been the only constant member of Vashti’s touring outfit over the past ten years and latterly they have stripped down to a duet on their worldwide travels. Vashti indeed makes a spectral apparition on the first track of Gareth’s new album Orwell Court. Gareth Dickson’s music is both beautiful and dark. A quiet Scottish melancholy underpinned by a grace and ethereal purity paired with a unique impression where the delicacy of Nick Drake mixes with the openness and space Brian Eno. Gareth’s music is often stripped down to the spare elements of voice and acoustic guitar, but a complex and mysterious music hides beneath the surface, demanding but generous and surprising. Clearly picking up where his previous albums left off, Gareth throws in a few surprises. Gleaned from his time spent touring and experimenting between albums the addition of a drum kit, some keyboards and guest vocalists enrich the palette. But fear not, these elements, while previously unheard of in his music, are approached with the subtlety that his listeners expect. They are a texture that adds dimension throughout the album. The hush is still there in its most genuine form.
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    Vitiello / Berg – Between You And The Shapes You Take

    Between You And The Shapes You Take is the second collaborative album by Richmond based musician/sound artists Stephen Vitiello and Molly Berg. As with the duo’s previous release, The Gorilla Variations (12k2013, 2009), tracks are created out of improvisations and sculpted through editing. Molly Berg’s clarinet and vocalizations tend to cover the CD’s lyrical content while Vitiello’s guitar and processing covers a good deal of the textures. Two of the tracks on the CD feature violin by the multi-talented Hahn Rowe, once a member of the group Hugo Largo. There’s an immediate air of melancholy and longing to a number of the tracks. An initial demo recording for the album was remarked on by a listener who said “I’ve fallen face first into a machine that erases the memories of an ended relationship as if it were a sound instead of a real life that fell in love with the girl again in the end.” A strange amount of truth exists in that statement and the entirety of it was momentarily considered as the album title. Instead, Between You And The Shapes You Take is a borrowed quote from Wallace Stevens’ poem The Blue Guitar.
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    Illuha – Interstices

    Start with a room, a cleanish one, not too rustic, not too slick, and then fill it with tools, fill it with anything that can be used to make other things. Put the room in the forest, but not too deeply in, let’s have the city on the distant horizon. Then, let’s have two craftsman, artists, explorers. Tell them a bit about where the room is, but not exactly. Make them find it, together. When they finally do they will embark on their creations, but it won’t be the immerse-and-shut-yourself-off-from-the-world type of creation. To them, creation involves talking, travelling, experiencing, not just working. They are Illuha and this hints at how they operate. They are true musicians and artisans with a slew of talents that become all twisted and morphed when combined. On their 2011 debut, Shizuku, their room was a century-old church in Washington state and their tools; whatever instruments they could haul over from Japan and the pianos they were lucky enough to find inside. As creators they have an obsessive attention to detail but also know that the strength of creation doesn’t always lie merely in the act itself. Illuha knows the power of communication.
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    Illuha – Akari

    Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011’s debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013’s Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices captured the duo creating their exceptionally detailed music together live during a Japaneses tour. Akari, in turn, is the first studio album where Illuha recorded and mixed together, throughout the entire process. The beautiful st-robo studio in Tokyo put a collection of amazing equipment at their fingertips, from vintage mics and outboard gear to a vast collection of instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Their writing sessions were numerous and long with details meticulously obsessed over for nearly a year. The result is the most bewildering music Illuha have created to date. An album swimming with the most delicately tactile sounds and instrumentation that draws the listener in with hushed, motionless attention.
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    Solo Andata – In The Lens

    In the Lens, Solo Andata’s fourth full-length album, was born from recordings found in the interstices of decades-old hard drives, lost email threads from disused accounts, and forgotten samples recorded on cassette dictaphones. These fragments were combined and re-worked with newer elements to create an album very much in the spirit of the band’s debut Fyris Swan (Hefty Records, 2006), an album touched by both folk and jazz and swathed in a dusty, narcotic haze. Solo Andata’s Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco have always pushed aside the digital studio in favor of a more haphazard and hands-on workshop vibe to their productions. They prefer near-broken acoustic instruments, cheap microphones and, as can be witnessed by their live performances, tend to turn anything they can get their hands on into a beautiful sound-making object.
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    Federico Durand – A Través Del Espejo

    It’s no accident that Federico’s music has a dusty air of nostalgia surrounding it. It has always been a very personal affair. Songs inspired family, local life and the world around him are woven by hand with a selection of very physical instruments. He works like a craftsman, piecing together fragments of sound from cassette recorders, small instruments and loopers and creates music that’s as softspoken as he is. No pretenses, no disguises, just the most honest and down-to-earth music that can be made. Broken melodies spinning from tape reels, the sounds of bells and small found objects being played with care... The music is as beautiful as it is introspective, like a small window of antique glass looking right into Federico’s soul.
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    Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer Twine

    The instrumentation on Twine is simple - electric piano, bells, stringed instruments... With careful and deliberate physical manipulations the sounds is subtlely abstracted, as can be heard on “Buoy,” where the tape machine mechanics themselves join in the recording to create a piece suggestive of the abandoned dock the two photographed in Iceland a couple of years earlier as it quietly knocked against the cold winter shore. Imagery like this abounds through the tracks. Slow, haunting melodies under a layer of warm tape hiss and accidental physical sounds give the listener plenty of room for imagination, reflection and the stirring up of lost memories. The intimacy of the tape loops combined with the lonliness of the sounds gives Twine a complexity beyond its simple form. Deupree and Fischer have created a intensely focused new work that draws upon all of their creative interactions since their 2010 debut.
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    Odd Nosdam – LIF

    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 300 gsm white recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 160 gsm dusty purple cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Confusion. Longing. Confidence. Loneliness. Fear. Love. These are but a few of the emotional states absorbed when encountering LIF, the new ambient and minimal album from the Bay Area's Odd Nosdam. As an artist that's presented sonic portraits coalesced in the legacy he's carried with the co-founding of Anticon, LIF finds connectivity to new roads and ethos within the body of electronic. A bridge to universal emotions and boldness, displayed in a state of duality with the tenderness and delicacy of a dandelion and the power and magnetism of solar winds.
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    Crisopa – Transhumante

    This is a limited edition of 150 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 360 gsm olive cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 190 gsm saffron yellow cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Crisopa is the solo electronic project of Santiago Lizón, based in Madrid, Spain. Since 2005 and bringing together influences as diverse as idm, shoegaze, post-rock and classical, he has released three albums and three EPs on labels such as n5MD, Plataforma-LTW, Persona-Isla, Add-Sensor and Escala.
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    Liam J Hennessy – Held

    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 300 gsm white recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 160 gsm light blue cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Liam J Hennessy is a composer, based in London, UK, crafting his own brand of wonderfully intricate, melodic songs using a unique blend of natural and electronic sounds. From 2010 until 2014 he recorded under the alias of Drops, having released a 7” vinyl and an EP on Heat Death Records and a self-released split EP together with Umber. Since 2014 he has focused on writing music for film and television shows and throughout 2016 he worked on a new project, based on the idea of writing and recording one song every month.
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    Moshimoss & Stabilo – FIIElI

    Moshimoss is the solo project of Kosuke Anamizu, based in Yamanashi, Japan. Focused on delicate ambient soundscapes, he has released two critically acclaimed albums on Dynamophone Records and Nothings66. Apart from Moshimoss, he has also released music under his real name and the aliases of Preghost and Shewasasea on many other labels such as n5MD, Mule Electronic and Traum Schallplatten. Stabilo is the solo project of Yasutica Horibe, based in Hiroshima, Japan. He is also member of the post-rock/shoegaze band Speaker Gain Teardrop with whom he has released seven albums so far. Stabilo was born in 2002 when he started making music using mainly a laptop that was difficult to be expressed by his band. To date he has released his music on labels such as U-Cover, Novel Sounds, Mimi Records and others and has many self-produced releases either solo or collaborating with other artists, including FJORDNE, Gallery Six, Kazuya Matsumoto, Moskitoo, FourColor and many more.
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    Anthéne – Orchid

    This is a limited edition of 150 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 360 gsm dark green cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 190 gsm olive cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Anthéne is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Brad Deschamps, based in Toronto, Canada. To date he has released three albums, two EPs and one split release with M. Mucci, on labels such as Cathedral Transmissions, Assembly Field and his own Polar Seas Recordings. Apart from Anthéne, Deschamps is also known as one half of the ambient/post-rock duo North Atlantic Drift with whom he has also released five albums and three EPs.
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    FJORDNE & stabilo – Andrew

    This is a limited edition of 150 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 240 gsm grey cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 190 gsm blue-grey cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Andrew consists of four tracks, two from each artist, that showcase an approach of modern classical and cinematic ambient. Textures of echoed piano and swirling drones perfectly blend with jazz elements, subtle electronic glitches and field recordings, creating warm soundscapes full of nostalgic mood.
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    Brave Timbers – Secret Hopes

    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 360 gsm olive cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 190 gsm mocha brown cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Secret Hopes is a wonderful collection of exclusive new tracks in conjunction with reworked versions of tracks from the highly acclaimed Hope album which was released earlier this year. The new tracks were recorded during the Hope sessions, a really creatively intense and productive period for Brave Timbers, and were intended for this album but missed the cut late in the day. The reworked tracks came as a result of following an invitation from national Australian Radio ABC to do a couple of session tracks for a radio show. This invitation gave the duo the impetus to look again at a number of tracks trying something quite different, so they not only recorded two tracks for this radio session but finally reworked about half of the tracks of Hope album which they present on Secret Hopes.
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    Amp – Switched On And Live

    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm azure cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 190 gsm blue-grey cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.
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    Leigh Toro – Layers of Ash

    Leigh Toro has been producing music for the past twenty years. Back in the day he recorded under the guise of Flotel and released works on the excellent Expanding Records. More recently he has been recording under his own name and has had albums out on Eilean Records and Handstitched. We are excited here at Rural Colours to bring you his latest work Layers of Ash, an album of frayed granular resonances. Layers of Ash started life as a series of short improvisations which were then woven together to create more developed pieces. Leigh tells us that he is currently producing longer form pieces of music that explore the textural qualities of digital distortion, bit reduction and resonance. He enjoys exploring the balance between the harsh noise and more subtle delicate sounds and how that balance can evolve over a longer period than he has worked on before.
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    Pleq – Re​:​composition

    "The conception of 'Re:composition' as an album was easy. It consists of 11 remixes of my music which had been previously released on various labels including mAtter, Basses Frequences and Infraction Records between 2010-2016. All the artists who provided a remix for 'Re:composition' had previously released music on the label Dronarivm. By bringing together a creative group aligned to Dronarivm it is my hope that the record will fulfil the expectations of music lovers of ambient and drone". - Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq)
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    Pausal – Avifaunal

    Taken as a whole, the resulting album is a diverse affair but could be said to have more in common with their heavier work to date (such as "Forms", 2012) combined with an appreciation of texture (previously evident on "Sky Margin", 2013) than the ambient material they are perhaps better known for ("Lapses", 2010 and "Along The Mantic Spring", 2014). From the crackling drone fog of "Murmuration I" and darkly psychedelic "Murmuration II" - through to the urgent percussive metallics on "Scatter" and serene synth-scapes of "Soar"; there is a wide ranging sound world here for the listener to experience and just as the title of the record suggests, they are encouraged to allow mind to take flight...
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    Olan Mill – Cavade Morlem

    “Writing and recording ‘Cavade Morlem’ was one of the smoothest experiences I’ve had producing an album. The tracks were originally created to be played at a handful of concerts throughout the end of last year. The shows were performed using processed guitar, violin and some pre-recorded samples of voice and organ. I was joined by Mike Jessop on violin for many of the songs and his contributions are sampled at various points on the record. I spent the beginning of the year reworking recordings from the live sets and trying to piece together something coherent. The resulting album is a far calmer experience than the original performances and I hope listeners find a state of mindfulness while experiencing the work”. - Alex Smalley
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    Jason van Wyk – Attachment (Re-Release)

    Pre-Order: Ships 01.09.17 Presented in our locally produced 4 panel recycled card package in an edition of 500. This album was originally released in March 2016 in a 130 CD(r) limited edition on Eilean Records. This edition has been completely remastered to focus on the original recordings, and to accompany Jason Van Wyk's follow-up 'Opacity'. - Ian Hawgood
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    Ian Hawgood & Wil Bolton – Transparencies

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    Altars Altars – Small Hours

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    James Murray – Killing Ghosts

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    This comes in our 4 panel reverse board card package in an edition of 500. In the spring of 2014 my wife and I stayed at a remote log cabin in the Black Mountains. Anne was taken ill from the moment we arrived and barely left the bed all week. I’d packed a laptop, small midi keyboard and portable hard disc recorder, and resolved that if we weren’t to have a break together I’d at least salvage something from the trip. I’d spent a lot of time around then thinking about how haunted we are by our lost loved and not-so-loved ones. About how these ghosts can be more than just absences, that they can actually exist in some real sense as shadows cast by our fears and regrets. The horse-whisperer who owns the cabin told us when we arrived of the local belief that up in those mountains the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest. From the first nightfall to the very end of our stay I felt like the atmosphere in that place was charged, agitated somehow, like everything was on the verge of cracking.  
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    Tobias Hellkvist – Kaskelot: Reissue + Remixes

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    One of Tobias’ little known releases appeared on our little sub-label Tokyo Droning back in 2011. ‘Kaskelot’ was a four-track E.P. that was incredibly popular in Japan, and coming housed in locally-sourced packaging, it was one of the highlights of this six-release label that was re-opened just after the Tōhoku earthquake. Being incredibly limited as a Japan-exclusive, the album has long been sold out. We are so happy that we will be releasing the updated edition of a personal favourite release of ours, and one that has continued the fine work Tobias had published for Home Normal with his revered ‘Evolutions’ in 2010, and his follow-up ‘Everything Is Connected’ in 2012. We had discussed a reissue of sorts for many years, and over a number of emails back and forth (and a good old chat in London when Tobias performed at The Vortex for us in March 2013), we came up with a list of remixers to expand on the original pieces which have since been remastered. - Ian Hawgood
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    Ian Hawgood – Love Retained

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    This release marks my first and last solo release on the label I founded with my friend Ben many moons ago, and also marks me fully stepping down from the label after returning for a bit in 2016. This album has been designed by Christian Roth who has been a dear friend for so long, and along with another great friend in Jeremy Bible, they helped the aesthetic of the label right in those early days. I am so happy and proud of what we have achieved between us, and thank you all for listening and supporting our work. - Ian Hawgood
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    Mere – Mere III

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    Mere – Mere II

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    Giulio Aldinucci – Goccia

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    Various Artists – Rough Imaginary

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    On April 15th 2016, we hosted a rare live event at London Fields Brewery with ISAN, Paco Sala, A New Line (Related), and R. Elizabeth. Prior to the concert, the artists came together to create a wonderful collection of rare unreleased and live works that flowed beautifully together and inspired us to create this album in celebration of the coming together of such great artists and friends on a truly wonderful night. We are incredibly proud to present this collective work, 'Rough Imaginary'. - Ian Hawgood
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    Narcisi & Fidanza – The Accordion Sessions

    Deluxe digipak version of this release in an edition of only 100 copies... TRS's latest offering is from Francesco Maria Narcisi & Giacomo Fidanza, and is entitled “The Accordion Sessions”. Giacomo has provided the beautifully dense and drone filled accordion ambiances, and Francesco has worked his magic manipulating and processing these sounds, with added field recordings, into a glorious and at times even industrially fueled, expansive wall of aural bliss and intensity. Melodic, and yet fiercely relentless and driving at times. TRS071 is both a fitting soundtrack to these seemingly overpowering days we live in now, and an avant homage to this favorite instrument of more peacefully innocent and nostalgic times.
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    The Greatest Hoax – Expiration Compositions

    Four panel CD Digipak with clear tray, sleeve printed on the reverse for natural matt finish. Performing as The Greatest Hoax, Washington, D.C.-based composer Taylor Jordan debuts a new conceptual album of contemporary classical music. Produced by Rafael Anton Irisarri, Expiration Compositions, his sophomore album presents a brooding yet hopeful take on a soundtrack to a peaceful death. Jordan displays an innately human fear of death through nine sequential tracks grounded in somber piano and ambient textures. Each composition adds nuanced layers of emotional complexity with the addition of a string quartet led by cellist Mark Bridges of Kranky Records. Expiration Compositions melds a fascination with how life ends with brave imaginations of that very process. The result is an album that disconnects the listener from daily life while guiding them gently through that which most frightens them.
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    Bill Seaman – Erasures and Displacements (2 x CD)

    Disc 1 : 01 - A Visual Record Of Scratches Reflecting On Time 02 - A Structured Removal, The Balance Of The Pulse 03 - Collections Of Relational Introspections 04 - Altered Instruments, The Removal Of Time 05 - Entering The Library Of Collapsed Moments 06 - The Somber Space Of A Word 07 - Watching From Within The Library Of Melancholy Gestures Disc 2 : 01 - A Circulated Compendium Of Machinic Thoughts 02 - The Lie Of The Perfect Empty Set 03 - Slow Motioning Through Scattered Reflections 04 - The Reflections Inherent To A Chosen Room 05 - The Machinic Exhale 06 - The Sea's Enfolded Signatures 07 - The Illusive Space Of A Thought
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    James Murray – Floods Returned

    I've always cared more about what's left unsaid, the less certain truths lightened through nuance not statement. It's unsurprising then that scattered throughout layers of the original twenty-one tracks are half-remembered melodies and fragments of what might have been. I knew the final released mixes could only be versions, as definitive as possible but ever fertile for reweighting, rebalancing and reimagining. Simply to recombine a few elements on many of these productions is to invite another composition to spontaneously unfurl, often equally faithful to the spirit of my intent as the original. Artists are all circling their private collection of hopes, fears, dreams and disappointments, looking at this strange assemblage from every angle, pushing and pulling to see what falls out. It's through this focused, sustained introspection that we occasionally get a glimpse of something beyond ourselves, enough perhaps to convert into something worthwhile to say aloud. I'll continue to look inward in my work in hopes of finding this gold of the soul, but here, now, I invite you back to one of the richest veins I've struck to date; to the waters that submerge, the patient, extended hand and the aching foothills of regret. Floods Returned. - James Murray
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    Dale Cooper Quartet – Astrild Astrild

    The Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones are returning with their 4th album called "Astrild Astrild". Like all of the previous albums, the band recorded the seven pieces at home in Britanny during several sessions between 2013 and 2016. The characteristics of this full-length are classic drone soundscapes mixed with deep tone saxophone parts that became the band's trademark since the release of their debut album in 2006. Slowly paced, the new tracks are following the Quartet's basic structure and classical sound. Apart from that the new full length conceals more live takes including guitars, bass and Rhodes keys and even piano sounds are haunting for the first time at the end of 'Ocho Acenteur'. With these new elements the songs of "Astrild Astrild" are pushed further into a large tunnel of deafening rhythmic parts and field ambiant textures.
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    Orson Hentschel – Electric Stutter

    Describing Orson Hentschel only as a composer of contemporary music does not do him justice. In his self-conception as an audio-visual artist he creates his own live show, combining lights, visuals and fog to a stunning atmosphere, which cannot be eluded. Supported by live-drummer Lukas Baumgart, Hentschel delivers a sound, whose energy is physically palpable and electrifies the audience. A live-show generating an intense experience, going to the limit and erasing any sense of time. Orson Hentschel moves perceptions not merely through sheer volume, but with driving repetitions and extensive tension.
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    Bleach For The Stars – The Time For Silver Flowers

    Glass mastered and manufactured CD, comes in a 4 panel CD Card Wallet, shrink-wrapped. Additionally included is a printed card with the poem "The time for silver flowers" by Bleach For The Stars... Bleach For The Stars is the dark ambient, drone & industrial project of Benjamin Power, hailing from the UK. His music is best described as an intense, raw and powerfully emotional journey into the dark regions of his mind. Ben uses his art to deal with his past and his life's experiences. Without going into his personal details it is clear to the listener that Ben has had his fair share of tragedy and bleak moments in life. This results in extremely profound musical pieces that create a mencing feeling but also make you appreciate them as something very pure and unreserved. Seldomly has music been such a direct and stark statement as with this album. "The time for silver flowers" is a therapeutic and dramatic expression by an artist who is truly fascinating.
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    Machinefabriek – Assemblage

    Assemblage is a collection of short film soundtracks, and pieces that appeared on compilation albums and out-of-print CDRs.
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    Machinefabriek – Crumble

    Machinefabriek’s new album, ‘Crumble’, is full of dramatic turns, immersive drones, glitchy electronics and intimate gestures. The long form piece was made by having violin player Anne Bakker and vocalist Edita Karkoschka improvise on an electronic track, and using these recordings (and added electronics and field recordings) to sculpt the 34 minute ‘Crumble’. Rutger Zuydervelt started doing music as Machinefabriek in 2004, and has released a slew of albums since. Besides operating solo (from his homebase Rotterdam or live on stages worldwide), he’s a keen collaborator, working with (electronic, jazz or classical) musicians, film makers as well as choreographers. Rutger didn’t study music, but graduated as a graphic designer.
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    Rutger Zuydervelt – Astroneer

    Astroneer is a sci-fi exploration and adventure game from developer System Era. In the game, the music plays continuously and is reactive to the player’s actions. This album presents the musical themes as edited tracks.
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    Various Artists – White Label

    The Green Kingdom - Ben McElroy - Maps and Diagrams - Andrew Lang - Nocturne - Floor Overhead - Felix Gebhard - The Restless Fields - Frank Baker - Ondrej Zajac - Offthesky - Philippe Lamy - David Kolhne - Wil Bolton - La Petite Vague - Net - Spheruleus - Darkroom - José Soberanes - Dave Kirby - Jazzdefector First compilation album on White Label features a top drawer of Ambient and Experimental music featuring well known artists in the scene such as Offthesky, Maps and Diagrams, The Green Kingdom, Wil Bolton and Darkroom as well as contributors to our discography and other friends. The album is presented as a small-scale fine-art vinyl LP imitation package, with a printed outer photographic/graphic sleeve, white card inner sleeve and a printed vinyl-effect CDr. There's not a rubber stamp or white label in sight, as we wanted to present something truly special and hopefully, the start of a series.
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    Notilus – ST

    Notilus is the new project of five established French musicians combining cinematic soundscapes, energetic jazz and atmospheric live electronics. With a decent amount of performances at several French festivals the quintet presents its s/t debut album via Denovali in spring 2017. The cleverly compiled repertoire varies from positively trombone and sax driven jazz parts with a deep sense for sophisticated melodies to calmer, melancholic soundscapes back to beat driven, dynamic, buzzy sound cascades. Sometimes the albums delivers a feeling of a soundtrack for a 70s crime movie - sometimes it sounds like an intergalactic, retro-futuristic trip - always with an ironic and positive view on the own creative work
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    Left Alone​​ – Home Find Me

    Limited edition of 67 handnumbered copies only... Side project of Sadness, Left alone... is one of those entities that delivers pure and raw emotions, great feelings of solitude, melancholy and beauty. A desolate contemplation of the world and nature. 60 minutes of massive black metal soundscapes and piano interludes that will take your soul deep into the further and will not let it go back. - DV
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    Hüwels / Clay – An Unintended Space

    Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered... Stijn Hüwels is a Belgian musician with a profound fascination for minimalism, mainly using processed guitar, loops and field recordings. He has been released on Dauw, Home Normal and more and he's also curating Slaapwel Records. Danny Clay is a composer and sound artist from Ohio, now based in San Francisco, drawing upon elements of musical games, open forms, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and the everything in between. He has recorded works for IIKKI, Parlour Tapes+, Pinna Records, Unknown Tone Records, and more.
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    Nick Webb – Music For Severn Sirens

    An atmospheric ambient album featuring 8 distinct tracks from Nick Webb... The title track is based on recordings of the "Severnside Sirens". These are warning sirens based along the coast from Avonmouth towards Clevedon in North Somerset. There are 12 siren stacks which would be used in the event of a chemical leak or fire on Avonmouth docks. The sirens are tested once a month and create a live "Steve Reich" style phase track. You hear the different sound sources coming in and out of phase as the sound travels from the various sirens.
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    Phil Maguire – This This

    Limited edition (50 copies only) professionally duplicated CD in case with wraparound sleeve printed on brown sugar paper. Each copy contains a unique genuine Victorian photographic portrait... "This This" is an extraordinary collection of sounds made with a Raspberry Pi (the credit card sized bit of circuitry which is used to teach kids about coding). Maguire manages to create a world of microscopic sounds, clicks, whirrs and fields of electrical noise that are compellingly alien, and yet capture something of the excitement of those early forays into "glitch" music of the mid '90s. It's a whole new delicate beauty..
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    Paskine – The Shapes of Collapses

    The Shapes of Collapses is Paskine’s sophomore album. His debut album Nimod was released in 2014 by VoxxoV Records. His new album is composed of ten tracks (and two bonus tracks) mirroring the different shapes of collapses and explosions. It is a die-hard work striving to reach sound abstraction as close as possible, and it sometimes achieves this goal. As a result, the melodies, the rhythmics, and the other repetitive elements constantly evolve until they collapse and drown in their own sonorous and abrasive streams. It only comes to mutation and the evolution of sounds. Consequently, this album can be equated with a repetition of cycles freely inspired by natural disasters such as the melting of ice caps, volcanic eruptions, meteorological anomalies and so on. The sound elements are all exclusively electronic. The Shapes of Collapses is the result of several years of work and research. The latter were accomplished especially thanks to the gmem CNCM in Marseilles, who offered their invaluable help during a research residency in 2015 and 2016.
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    Gaetan Gromer – Noise Level

    Noise Level is an attempt of sound illustration of this idea and, like in the short story, the library holds a central place. All compositions are built from real sounds recorded in ordinary libraries. After transformation, these heterogeneous sounds blend into a new environment, where a coffee machine might as well be a melodic instrument and the sounds of book handling, a percussion set. The creative gesture then represents a link between the concrete manifestations of reality and the imaginaries…
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    Damian Valles – Strand

    Strand is a work of brilliance, blurring the boundaries between exceptionally bleak drone and haunted minimal industrial, with mind-numbing static electricity buzzing behind your eyes, motorik rhythms made from detritus tumbling around in empty oil drums, and deep low-end generator thrum vibrating under the sound of hanging scythes clanking like wind chimes, these are the sparse & ominous sounds of the heavy woes carried through life, the ones nobody sees but everybody endures, when you catch a glimpse of Death in your reflection, Valles’ music helps you dismiss it and just focus on the insanity at hand.' - Justin Snow
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    Machinefabriek – Mort Aux Vaches

    I was (and still am) pretty excited that I could release a cd on Staalplaat's legendary 'Mort Aux Vaches' series in 2008. Normally, the recordings are made live in the studio of the Dutch VPRO Radio, but lacking live experience (and the nerves) at that moment, they were so kind to let me record this at home...
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    Sadness – Rose / Lavender

    Limited edition of 57 handnumbered copies only: Includes 2 inserts with lyrics on back and card with quote
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    Aube Grise – Hanterieur

    Handmade release. Limited edition of 44 handnumbered copies only: Includes card with quote and notes d'intention... Aube Grise is the musical moniker of Anna M, photographer and graphic designer. This new ep consists of 2 songs for and from the wasted memories. Dedicated to Katerina Golubeva.
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    Sadness – Somewhere Along Our Memory​.

    Limited edition of 63 handnumbered copies only... We are very proud to release the mastered version of this beautiful album, for the first time on Cd with a previously unreleased song & an alternative artwork (first edition released on tape by Depressive Illusions). Over an hour of contemplative black metal along with post-rock soundscapes. A beautiful violence, raw and pure emotions pouring bliss and sadness in your heart, filling your soul with love, hate and a sickened intensity. - DV
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    Misery – Asthenia

    Limited edition of 42 handnumbered copies only... ASTHENIA n. [gr. astheneia, weakness, fr. a- priv. + sthenos, strength]. 1. The lack or loss of strength or energy ; weakness ; debility. 2. PSYCHIATRY. Lack of dynamic force in the personality. Kinds of asthenia include myalgic asthenia and neurocirculatory asthenia. See also adynamia. asthenic, adj.
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    Bionulor – Stary Pisarz

    Limited edition of 99 numbered and signed copies. The album wholly inspired by the works, person and biography of William S. Burroughs. Oriental beats, oneiric sounds, hallucinatory drones, atmospheres of the Moroccan medinas... And all of this based on reminiscence of the writer...
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    Bionulor – Theatre Music For Skazana

    Limited edition of 99 numbered and signed copies... Bionulor's soundtrack for the authorial monodrama by Sylwia Oksiuta “SKAZAna”, raising the subject of a girl sexually abused by her stepfather (2012). Dark spaces, anxious drones, tranquil final – giving hope and respite...
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    Bionulor – Theatre Music For Coriolanus

    Limited edition of 99 numbered and signed copies... Bionulor's soundtrack for “Coriolanus” by William Shakespeare premiered at Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw, Poland (2011). Claustrophobic atmosphere of political intrigues, feel of danger, distant echoes of war, melancholy of love...
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    Hotel Neon – Context

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    Pre-Order: Release Date 01.05.17 Two tone / 4 panel hand made letter-pressed Somerset cotton covers, glass mastered CD, set of ten prints by Nieves Mingueza pressed on luxury 250g gesso card, antique (1890-1940) photograph that has been hand distressed to hold a secret message; hold to the light and all will be revealed! A set of hand numbered vintage negative prints; one black & white photo and one film slide. All of the above rests inside stitched / sealed glassine bags with patchouli scent. In the spirit of honoring the power of contextual cues and lenses on the musical translation process between artist and listener, Hotel Neon set about the task of creating an album as open to context as possible. This is a theme we had previously explored with other projects (i.e. “Forms” by The Sound Of Rescue), but never with so much awareness and personal experience driving the endeavor. “Context” is an intentionally minimal experience and although the intensity of the tracks ebbs and flows, it is equally at home in the background and foreground. This is an album ready to be enjoyed and appreciated in any circumstance or setting, and we await the interpretations. - HN
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    Aldinucci / M. Gri – Segmenti

    Limited edition: elegant handmade sleeve with cover album in polaroid format inside the eco packaging… Segmenti is the first album born in 2016 by the artistic collaboration between Giulio Aldinucci and Francis M. Gri. A strong emotional work recorded in a difficult year that has definitely influenced the creative process of the five songs. Earthquakes, terrorist attacks, social fractures, walls, hatred, fear, are tragic events that have certainly shaped the sound of this album. An hypnotic and pulsating sound that combines two different styles naturally balanced in “Segmenti”. Ambient textures and field recordings, piano and guitar are the instruments that the two musicians have used to give rise to an unrelenting flow of kaleidoscopic sound suggestions.
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    Federico Mosconi – Colonne Di Fumo

    Limited edition: elegant handmade sleeve with cover album in polaroid format inside the eco packaging... 8 undefined and changing soundscapes as the figures drawn by the smoke, columns of sound to create illusory structures, expanded spaces, eclipsed images to re-emerges transfigured. Sporadic noises of objects and nature seem to suggest the listener a reading key, but it is a moment, not enough to create a sharp image. Only Imagination takes shape, and if the viewer will surrender to the flow it will be part.
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    Delirium Cutlet Impaste

    Music by BBBlood / Posset / Stuart Chalmers... Limited edition of 50 CD-Rs, housed in a full-colour 300gsm ‘greeting card’ sleeve, featuring a collaborative collage produced by BBBlood, Posset, Stuart Chalmers and Crow Versus Crow, in a hand-stamped, numbered and sticker-sealed envelope. This record reflects an open-armed engagement with a shifting, tumultuous, uncertain contemporary world. It is a raw, joyful expression of the creative process in, and in spite of, the environment from which it is born.
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    Scott Sherk – Alentejo

    "The Alentejo of Portugal is a sparsely populated area of gentle savannah with cork oak and ancient olive trees.  It has been inhabited since Metholithic times, and is rich in prehistoric stone sites.  Sitting quietly beneath an oak tree one imagines that not much has changed over time. We were lucky to be residents of The Obras Foundation. It is a special place beautifully situated on a hillside overlooking pastures, tangled gorges, orchards, and a distant castle.  There is little sound—except the wind.  It is a place to clear your head and regain the ability to listen to the world around, as well as the landscape within. I walked through the dry, dusty fields, mesmerized by their stillness, except for the wind.  When the wind came, it swept across the fields in waves that the dry grass made visible.  I was excited by the tangible experience of the space around me.  I could see it, feel it and hear it. As I was making recordings, Pat Badt was painting notes of color.  Taken by the intensity of the light and the endless sky, she painted many, many paper sketches of color and form...
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    Sound Meccano – Salty Wind / Inner Fire

    Sound Meccano is an alias of Rostislav Rekuta, a seasoned sound designer and field recordist from Riga, Latvia, who's been making electronic, electroacoustic and ambient music since 1999, most often - in collaborations with various local musicians. While this name might not yet ring a loud bell worldwide and the number of records released till now has been sparse, it was definitely not because of lack of quality or work put into the music. In fact, it's the opposite, and hopefully the recent string of releases might change that. Continuing the collaboration with the fellow ambient guitarist Jura Laiva (whose alias is a pun on his first name and words in Latvian, and which loosely translates as Sea Boat), first documented on 2 recent EPs on Crónica and Flaming Pines, Sound Meccano presents the first full-length album of this configuration.
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    Tatsuro Kojima – a -> b

    Tatsuro Kojima is a Japanese self-taught music artist born in 1977, working with field recordings, synthesizer and electronics. His sounds are closely connected to his visual approaches collaborating with artists and labels around the world. He has released two albums on Audiobulb records and he's also active in web design, graphic design, and mobile app development.
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    Andrew Tasselmyer – Resonant Moments

    Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Different colored wallets with envelopes.  Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper, transparent bag... Looking back on the past year – the most fulfilling of my life – I find particular truth in Benjamin’s eloquent description of the power of resonant memories to transcend time and context. My reflection doesn’t reveal frozen, sequential timestamps; rather, these experiences live, breathe, and resonate even more today than they did when they occurred. Time collapses. - AT Similarly, this album is my necessary attempt to distill individual sights, sounds, and feelings from December 2015 – October 2016 into a tangible collection. Field recordings capturing particularly Resonant Moments across the US, Canada, China, India, and the Caribbean were injected into the most honest reflections I could compose.
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    Rime Trails – Solstice

    Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 40 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Brown kraft wallets with envelopes. Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper... Rime Trails’ “Solstice” album is a fitting tribute to this yearly phenomenon of the seasons, where embracing becomes the paramount objective. There is much to savor in this new album!
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    Gallery Six – Vibrancy

    Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 40 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Brown kraft wallets with envelopes. Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper... Let's say, I hold a pen, she pours a cup of coffee. If we look down at them, they are squirming, they are all overflowing, and slightly vibrating.
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    Snufmumriko – At First Light

    Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 40 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Brown kraft wallets with envelopes. Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper, transparent bag... One of the themes of this album is, I would say, dawn, new beginnings, taking the first steps on a new journey and so on, and many of the sounds used on it were recorded early in the morning. Several feature water, be it rain or a gently burbling forest stream. The recorded sounds were then processed in various ways to create soundscapes which hopefully have something of the life and organic feel of nature in them. A commentator online once described my Snufmumriko music as ”soundscape cloth woven from field recordings” or something along those lines, and i think that’s an apt description. There’s also an almost spiritual dimension to these tracks, and I was often in a very introspective mood as I created them. - SM
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    øjeRum – Naar Vi Vaagner

    Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 60 copies.  Handmade artwork, each hand numbered. Different color wallets with envelopes.  Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper, transparent bag... The next level of øjeRum sound comes into full bloom on Hvid Hvile Sort Ro and Naar Vi Vaagner, still rooted in the same melancholic minimalist hypnotic repetition, but here it takes on a more dynamic styling, a more nuanced character, a more profound close listening experience, neatly connecting the dots within the correlated set of William Basinski, Brian Eno, Greg Gorlen, Tim Hecker and Skittish Arm, as øjeRum applies his fragmented folk modus operandi to his long form ambient noir outlet, yielding two striking collected works that are more immediately engrossing than his more involved epics He Remembers There Were Gardens (his alternate soundtrack to the film La Jette) and Syrenen while remaining just as potent and immersed. Highest possible recommendation. - PSI LAB
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    David Kolhne – Granular Canvas

    Each highly limited collectable Whitelabrecs release is built around a set format as follows: 50 x vinyl-effect CDrs with card vinyl-style sleeves, rubber stamped titling and a polaroid print of the cover artwork. Typically, Kolhne’s work is structured from soft and hard synth recordings along with recordings of his custom-built instruments, transformed into carefully assembled environments of micro sound. ‘Granular Canvas’ is no different as it sets off on a journey through some 54 minutes of carefully formulated Ambient paintings. However, they are not so much pictures or paintings as they are colour washes, as deep strokes of blue, grey and green dominate the palette. Such tones evoke a sort of sea-spray shade and as you listen, you will be struck by a suggestion of pressure yet somehow, a sense of relaxation. The sounds have the power to both immerse and sooth as you take your own thoughts and ideas to them each listen, day or night, rain or shine. Kolhne works completely free from concept however, particularly within Granular Canvas as he strips away all narrative in favour of allowing the sounds, noises and tones a voice in which to tell a story. A blank canvas, if you will.
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    Net – HS

    Each highly limited collectable Whitelabrecs release is built around a set format as follows: 50 x vinyl-effect CDrs with card vinyl-style sleeves, rubber stamped titling and a polaroid print of the cover. HS is an album full of gentle granular textures that weighs in generously at 55 minutes and is pristinely mastered by Fraser McGowan, who suggested that Edward approached Whitelabrecs as a home for the project. HS is a sort of spiritual successor to RS which was released in 2012, with both records being dedications to Edward’s maternal grandparents. In fact, opening track ‘Ptarmigan’ includes a sample of his grandmother singing back in the 1940s. Aside from this, HS is free from a set concept as the net traps and envelopes many of Edward’s unrelated experiences and ideas during the album’s creation: 'Plaza' was inspired by the overwhelming metropolis of the planet Trantor in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. 'Werel' is an attempt to capture the beauty, stillness and vast, textured summer evening skies of the Rauhaniemi beach in Tampere. In the summer of 2014, several days before the birth of their son, Edward and his wife Annika chanced upon a nestling bird helpless on the pavement in an old red-brick industrial area of Tampere. Unsure from where it had fallen, they took it in and kept it fed overnight. The next day, they located the nest in the wall and returned the chick safely. This bird is the fellow that can be heard chirping in 'Nestling'.
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    José Silva – Modulated Tones No​.​1

    Each highly limited collectable Whitelabrecs release is built around a set format as follows: 50 x vinyl-effect CDrs with card vinyl-style sleeves, rubber stamped titling, a polaroid print of the cover artwork housed inside a plastic case to keep it looking mint. Ink, font style and sleeve colours will vary for each release, chosen by the artist. The cinematic starting point gave birth to the album’s photographic concept as José found himself regularly surveying his VSCO feed of images. Modulated Tones No.1: Music For Framed Works is a soundtrack for surveying a photographic collection to provide a space for a slow introspective processing of the shots, as thoughts or memories flicker in your mind. This will be a personal experience from one listener to the next and is the ideal environment for this album to be consumed.
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    Selffish – He She Them Us

    CD edition of He She Them Us. Housed in a 4 page Digipak with clear tray and sleeve printed on reverse for a tactile matt finish. He She Them Us is an album of precise, purposeful electronica that recalls and expands upon the output of labels like Mille Plateaux, April Records, raster-noton and City Centre Offices in the early 2000s. The music is not purely electronic though, atop the bursts of static and staccato beats are many layers of field recordings and live instrumentation. The field recordings represent an important anchor point for Andrejs whose work on He She Them Us began at a very turbulent time in his life. Finding solace in the stillness and beauty of the countryside around his home city of Riga, he would record the sounds of these places and return with them to his home studio: "Each time I went to visit a secluded corner of nature outside my hometown, I usually felt a strong desire to produce music. Especially when hearing the sounds again at home”. The music could be seen as a further distillation of these moments of reflection spent outside, an attempt to recreate some fleeting moment. The live instrumentation throughout brings another dimension to the work. Andrejs himself plays grand piano and electric piano, we also hear double bass, bowed strings, saxophone and guitar. These elements bring a warm, humane quality to the music and each instrument is played with absolute finesse. One feels that great care has been taken to allow breathing space for every new moment that unfolds. No matter if it’s a piano note or a field recording, each is savoured and treated with the same respect. Every sound has a purpose without ever seeming contrived. Obviously, Andrejs is a composer and producer to whom the finer details matter a great deal.
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    The Cray Twins – The Pier

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    The Cray Twins are fascinated by how audio systems, electronic and acoustic, are like human systems, and have set out to find the borders areas on this album, regions where things are no longer the same, where sound or the perception of it changes or breaks down. It’s a collabora- tion irregularity, in order to find the edge.

    This is also where the image of the The Pier comes from; the pier as the limit of human extent, our furthest outreach onto the depths, after witch the space opens up to the unknown, the unheard.
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    Ensemble Economique – In Silhouette

    Four panel digipak... "In Silhouette" is unmistakably the product of Brian Pyle, who once again returns as Ensemble Economique. Well over a decade ago, Pyle and his merry band of Starving Weirdos popped onto the scene from out of nowhere. Truth be told, that ‘nowhere’ is Humboldt County, California whose grand mythologies about its marijuana industry dwarfs all others. The Weirdos, not averse to method acting through Humboldt’s prized chemistry, stood an unusual chimera in the world of out-rock and avant-garde practitioners. Electronic-Improv, fuck-all auto-didacticism, and monotone psychedelia. Too feral to be AMM, too electronic to be NNCK, too discordant to be :zoviet*france:. As the Weirdos slowed to halt, Pyle’s restless energy insisted that he go on. Hence Ensemble Economique. Over an impressive catalogue of albums, he steadfastly continues down this rabbithole, polishing and refining his craft into a signature polyglot of expressionist collage.
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    Paco Sala – The Silent Season

    After the release of last autumn's 6 track "Ko Yo" 12'' on Denovali, Paco Sala return with a fifth full length album, their first since 2015.  The Silent Season is the net result of a full tibiofemoral dislocation, a lot of surgery, a lot of really heavy drugs, a seemingly open-ended period of housebound isolation & a subsequent hazy regression to roots and influences. The Silent Season is a fever-dream, embodying the period of physical stasis & marking a shift from the outsider pop structures of previous releases. Here instead the duo employ delirious, morphing synth structures intertwined with semi-lucid samples and haunting vocals. All tracks were recorded in improvised sessions over the course of January 2016, before being shared for finishing touches in Berlin. Tracks are presented inclusive of the players' errors, recording mistakes & creative decisions made without reference to consequence.
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    Rosenqvist / Collings – Hello Darkness

    Four panel digital... After his highly acclaimed 'A Requiem For Edward Snowden' LP, Matthew Collings returns with a collaboration with Swedish sound artist Dag Rosenqvist. 'Hello Darkness' is dark and it is bleak and it’s fragmented. It feels like those days when you want to just annihilate everything, and then stare at a river. It demands your attention. It sounds like it’s breaking from the inside. It’s serious. And not...
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    Baker / Brentnall – Delirious Things

    Limited edition of 175. Housed in a double-panel, hand-screen-printed card sleeve with two card inserts... Delirious Things is an exploration of Aidan Baker's interest in 80s-influenced cold-wave, shoegaze, and synth-pop from such recording artists as Factory Records' Durutti Column, Joy Division, and Section 25 and 4AD's Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil. Combining song-oriented tracks with abstract interludes, the primary instrument on Delirious Things is a 1980s Casio synthesizer, rather than Baker's usual guitar, though the synth is processed through his usual guitar effect pedals, creating heavy, layered washes of droning synth sounds overlaying electronic rhythms and pulsing bass lines. Baker is joined by guest vocalist Claire Brentnall (Shield Patterns) whose voice is reminiscent of Liz Fraser and Kate Bush but still distinctly her own.
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    Christine ​Ott – Tabu

    Limited edition of 175. Housed in a double-panel, lino printed card sleeve with two card inserts... Just a few months after the release of​ ​her highly acclaimed album, Only Silence Remains, Christine ​Ott proposed a new album to Gizeh Records for​ ​its Dark Peak Series of releases. Tabu is an original, live soundtrack, composed in 2012 for the movie ​of the same name​ by F.W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty and a performance that she's playing regularly as a ciné-concert​ ​throughout France and Europe.
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    Nadja – The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun…

    Housed in a 6 panel matte finished digifile sleeve... Nadja return with The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With a Knife - their first release for Gizeh Records. The Canadian/Berlin-based ambient doom duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff continue their ultra-prolific output with a monolithic record which explores the depths of heavy noisescape-related music. Encompassing distorted riffs and hypnotic rhythms the album sonically attempts to continue on from the more structured elements of the duo’s recent Queller album, coupling that approach with Nadja’s more traditional sprawling, dense and challenging sounds. 
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    A-Sun Amissa – You Stood Up For Victory…

    Limited edition of 175. Housed in a double-panel, hand-screen-printed card sleeve with two card inserts...  You Stood Up For Victory, We Stood Up For Less sees A-Sun Amissa moving in a more dense direction, the drones are heavier, the sound thicker and with the added bass-clarinet of Gareth Davis there a new slightly darker jazz element now to the music. The two tracks were conceived initially as two drone guitar pieces, following that, work was done on the composition and atmosphere of the tracks adding the bass-clarinet, viola, vocals, field recordings and piano. The finished works produce an unsettling but hypnotic listen with melodies moving in and out of the mix throughout these two pieces.
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    Christine Ott – Only Silence Remains

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    6 panel digipak... French composer and Ondes Martenot virtuoso, Christine Ott releases her first full-length album since 2009 and her debut record for Gizeh Records. Only Silence Remains is beautifully melodic and filled with mystery, seeing multi-instrumentalist Ott performing on a variety of different instruments throughout the record.
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    Barnacles – One Single Sound

    Gatefold CD with limited edition poster... Bored of working for years on microsounds, crick & crocks, drones and field recordings, Matteo Uggeri launches a new project based on field recordings, drones, crick and crocks, microsounds and ignorant beats. Each of these four tracks is then built using only 1 drone, 1 field recording, 1 sampled drumbeat. Then a lot of effects. Inspired by the letters of Charles Robert Darwin to William Darwin Fox. "I am at work on the second vol. of the Cirripedia, of which creatures I am wonderfully tired: I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. My first vol. is out: the only part worth looking at is on the sexes of Ibla & Scalpellum; I hope by next summer to have done with my tedious work."
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    Paul Beauchamp – Grey Mornings

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    Two years after the release of the critically acclaimed, Pondfire, Paul Beauchamp returns with his second solo album, Grey Mornings. Once again tapping into geographical influence for inspiration, the nine tracks of ambient drones reflect the feelings and emotions experienced during the early hours of grey, foggy mornings in both the Piedmont region of Beauchamp’s birthplace in North Carolina and the Piemonte region of Northern Italy where he now resides. Beauchamp continues his research into experimental ambient but at the same time has deviated into new territory moving away from the minimalism of Pondfire through the use of various acoustic and electric instruments, field recordings and incorporating the studio as a creative device in and of itself together with the engineering aid of Julia Kent during the recording process.
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    Adamennon – Le Nove Ombre del Caos

    The album is released on CD in a gatefold cover including a poster of the original movie release... The new solo record from Adamennon expands the paths of his previous MMXII, bringing the ideas and influences of Goblin, Frizzi and Rizzati to a whole new level. Le Nove Ombre del Caos is a (never shot) horror movie which Adamennon wrote the soundtrack to. The atmosphere is drenched in insanity, terror and a malevolent black veil of craziness. The music is heavy, a doom for the doomed, and it gives new lymph to one of the musical genres who made italian composers famous around the world. Think of an overpowered version of Goblin, with drums triggered and rearranged in the most aggressive manner, screams that comes from the deepest womb and ancient spells.
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    Orphax – 2.20

    With this album Orphax further explores the various possibilities of drone music. For this work, inspired by the work Vice Versa… by Eliane Radigue, he recorded two works using almost the same settings in the virtual modular software Audiomulch, except for changing one small setting. The recorded source material was than used as building blocks in reaper to create two compositions of exactly 20 minutes. These two compositions can be played separate from each other, but the idea is also the create your own mixes with this. This can be playing the compositions at the exact same time, but also in any other way you seem them fit to mix. For this purpose the album comes with download code containing the two compositions and one bonus track which is already one mix you could also duplicate yourself. All music was recorded between June 7th and July 17th, 2016 with AudioMulch and Reaper.
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    Alvear / Bondi / D’Incise / Thut

      The first category refers to white noise which never occurs in its purity since the actual environment always colours a white noise. for this reason I decided to label it ‘a faintly coloured noise‘. the ‚0‘ number reflects the character of an average sonic material without any distinct feature. going from 0 to 1 is a fundamental step in determining further a sound. for me this step reflects the cultural achievement of building tools to produce sound and makes a cut into the sum of all noise. getting on to the next step (2) highlights pitch as the main amount of the sound chosen. these three steps appear in an ever changing structure involving repetitions and change. change occurs as going from one step to another and as turns of the order as well. The score of abc, 1-6‘ unifies the performers’ activities through the applying of a similar structure. the six pages enable six rounds to go through the described steps at individual paces and leave it up to the performers whether to merge the sounds or to let them happen as single sounds. the relational aspect among the three parts become apparent after a certain time of performing / listening. ST
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    Martijn Comes – Interrogation Of The Crystalline Sublime

    2 x CD housed in 6 panel cover... hear atmospheres, sound shapes, gestural narratives, spectral trajectories, stochastic rhythms and phasic space when I encounter an environment rich in sonic phenomena. But in order to be open to this meta-sensory information, I must first get my ears out of the way. I don’t listen with my ears but with an inner sensory apparatus, what Goethe called “organs of perception,” that I have developed over the years. Once opened to this world sound becomes something very different—it’s as if one could previously only see in black and white and suddenly were able to see in color. One becomes a witness to a full range of qualities and events that were previously inaccessible. The drone is not a steady-state sound but a constellation of sound objects that lie hidden beneath a simple surface. The listener can penetrate this surface when they allow time to exist in a space where the past and future collapse into an infinitesimal, yet infinite, moment. -  Kim Cascone / San Francisco, Nov 20 2015
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    Keith Berry – Elixir

    The alchemist Jim Haynes said of his work: “like falling snow, his dreamy work drifts with a poetic chill and tranquil hypnosis through which peripheral elements tease the listener with subtle details. it’s so damn beautiful…” A bit of background on this release: one of the great inspirations for invisible birds was Bernhard Günter and his seminal label trente oiseaux. the releases had an enormous influence and one of the gems was Keith Berry’s The Golden Boat. It was with much pleasure when Mr. Berry wrote asking invisible birds to release his newest work Elixir, and after listening to the wonderful kosmic washes of sound, there was no question than to proceed. The CD features abstract drawings by Matthew Swiezynski, and graphics by the Brooklyn-based design kollektive Mount Analogue (Chi Yun and Matthew Swiezynski).
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    9T Antiope – Isthmus

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    The 9T Antiope duo band founded in 2014, consists of Iranian musicians Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo. The main focus of the band is on experimental music, using layers of acoustic instruments, electronics and combining them with vocals and lyrics, in order to narrate tiny bits or huge landscapes of the chaotic worlds they vision, along with their inhabitants.
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    Monolyth & Cobalt – The Dunen Diaries (2 x CD)

    Monolyth & Cobalt is the solo project from the french music artist Mathias Van Eecloo, born in 1977, a self-taught musician & multi-instrumentalist since 2008. His first album has been edited on Kesh Recordings in 2010. Since, he has been released on Audio gourmet, Twice Removed Records, Time Released Sounds, Unknown Tone Records and some others labels. He’s behind the Clyde Parker Project, a featuring project with 100 artists from 25 countries recorded between 2009 and 2011. Over the years he has collaborated with some artists such as Aaron Martin, Birds Of Passage, Danny Norbury, Christopher Hipgrave, Hannu, Helena Espvall, Isnaj Dui, Mark Ostermeier, Madeleine Cocolas, Offthesky, Orla Wren and more.
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    Mason / McLaughlin – On The Brink

    'Failure, or perhaps more accurately, the possibility of failure, provides one with unique perspective. better to cash out, or to ramp up right to the edge of possibility and chance? on the brink is our first true collaboration – we traveled together with the wind on our faces, holes in our shoes and short that one layer that can provide the necessary comforts we tend to rely upon. raw nerves, biting hunger and a drive to see the unknown corners kept us moving forward. we can offer these markers and surveys as proof of our trip and as evidence of what lies slightly beyond our immediate purview but with a combined effort – within reach.' - Nathan Mc Laughlin & Josh Mason
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    Robert Farrugia – Slow Morning

    The album comes in a 6-Panel CD with pictures by Brian Young and includes a collaborative track with label head Warmth… ‘Slow Morning’ is the new album by maltese artist Robert Farrugia, after his first work for Archives ‘Tines’ and previous releases on Post Global Recordings and Assembly Field. His moving soundscapes and serene piano chords, mainly influenced on the styles of Hammock, Sigur Rós and Brian Eno, are also the essence of the sound that Archives is always looking for. Drone oriented ambient, with neo-classical elements.
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    Zoltan Ban – Meadow

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    Zoltan Ban returns to Archives with a new dub-techno EP entitled ‘Meadow’. He really knows how to manage lush pad sounds and lazy chords in calm pieces with a pure dub sound and warm deep vibes. ‘Meadow’ also includes three reinterpretations by Volunteer (DimbiDeep), Tex Bates (MOSHItaka) and Biodub, well known for his works for AvantRoots and Tiefenrausch.
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    Halftribe – Daydreams In Low Fidelity

    Daydreams In Low Fidelity’ is the new work from talented UK-based artist Halftribe, who brought us ‘Luxia’ last year. A collection of serene ambient pieces and dub infused cuts, with lovely soundscapes and brilliant synth layers. Presented in a beautiful 4-panel CDr with pictures by Brian Young.
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    Orghanon – Retrospectre (Deluxe)

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    Deluxe version: comes in a modified anti-static bag strung with a 100 year old children’s game tag. Each individual package contains a uniquely mysterious, relabeled antique 5″, 78rpm record (not with music from this album on it, but quite seriously spooky when played at incorrect speeds, as we have found out ourselves), a vintage, mounted 1940’s photograph of a “freak” from an antique album of “freak show” ephemera, with original hand typed description of photo under credit sheet on backside. The cotton sleeved, factory pressed disc design is inspired and taken from a scan of one of these strange old records! In essence… a vinyl / CD combo!
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    Orghanon – Retrospectre

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    Orghanon is a project founded by Sergio Calzoni, Italian producer and musician active since the nineties in various musical outfits (Alma Mater, Act Noir, Colloquio). Orghanon’s manifesto is to produce music with a strong cinematographic appeal, making use mainly of electronic equipment with sparse notes of acoustic instruments and electric guitars. Orghanon aims to blend melancholy with silence, depicting stark yet deeply emotional soundtracks for imaginary places. “Retrospectre”is a very personal exploration of childhood memories relived as ambient music soundscapes. Compared to the previous Orghanon’s work, making this album involved a more intimate and spontaneous approach during the writing process, with a more instrumental beat-less feel, and tracks enriched by the contributions of several guest musicians, performing parts of violin, viola, cello, harp and clarinet.
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    Jobin / Perletta – Mirror Neurons

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    Mirror neurons represent a distinctive class of cells that fire both when an animal executes an action and when it observes another individual performing the same action. Discovered by Italian neurophysiologist Giacomo Rizzolatti and his team at the University of Parma while doing a research on the neural representation of motor movements in monkeys, the precise function and influence of these neurons has become one of the most important topic in neuroscience. They have been linked to many behaviours and abilities, from empathy to learning by imitation and language acquisition, as well as implicated in conditions such as autism and other brain disorders. These findings suggest that the mirror neuron system plays a key role in our ability to experience empathy. Initiated by sound artists France Jobin and Fabio Perletta, Mirror Neurons is a media-project investigating the notion of empathy and physical distance. The entire album is the result of extended sound files exchange between Montréal (Canada) and Roseto degli Abruzzi (Italy). Each of the pieces is based on rough sounds and their consequent re-working, listening and reaction, processing and imitation. The ongoing process helped the artists to draw inspiration in terms of stimuli for the act of composing itself in two very distant cities, different climate, time zones and languages.
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    Robert Crouch – Organs

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    The three works comprising ‘Organs’ were selected and edited from a year of recordings developed in collaboration with choreographer and artist Julie Tolentino in 2014. Three separate projects were documented through audio recordings of performances and rehearsals, as well as related field recordings. Each piece recalls a matrix of encounters between a specific body (or bodies) within a unique context, conducting and responding to sounds, both electronic and organic. The interplay of the soft tissue, sinew, bone and blood of the body-organ, pushing against/within/outside the sustained tones and synthetic expressions of the techno-organ. Each organ exists simultaneously alienated from, and an extension of, the other. ‘Somniloquy’ was constructed using a recording of Tolentino “playing” the broken organ in preparation for the performance ‘Process(ion)X’ at the Church of the Epiphany. ‘The eyes of fire’ is based on a recording from Drive Your Cart And Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, a nine hour performance with Julie Tolentino, Stosh Fila, and Robert Crouch at the San Francisco Art Institute, curated by Tania Hammidi. ‘The Propaganda of History’ was developed from a series of recordings made during rehearsal sessions with Tolentino and Mark Steger, with additional field recordings
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    Robert Curgenven – Climata (2xCD)

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    Gatefold 2 x CD… ‘Climata’ is a new work by composer and sound artist Robert Curgenven comprised entirely of site-specific recordings captured in 15 of James Turrell’s Skyspaces, spanning 9 countries. Each of the individual recordings, with their quiet & slowly changing microtonal interventions made in-situ, interrogate and offer a specific document of weather, location and duration framed by the architecture of the Skyspace – a frame that blurs the distinction between interiority and exteriority – while allowing the physicality of the Skyspace to be subtly rendered audible. Turrell’s Skyspaces are a specifically proportioned chamber with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky and outside world. The Skyspaces can be autonomous structures or integrated into existing architecture. The aperture can be round, ovular or square – each with its’ own “piece of sky” beneath an ocean of air. These variously shaped apertures let in and frame not only Turrell’s famous light but also sound and its medium, in this case air.
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    James Murray – Eyes to the Height

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    Deluxe six-panel digipak… Eyes to the Height is British composer James Murray‘s full return to Ultimae Records, a tender and intimate ten chapter story reflecting the fragile beauty of life and loss, memory and function. Delicate rhythms, blurred atmospherics and crystalline melodies gleam and glisten on the many facets of this modern ambient gem. This is a considered, heartfelt collection of sonic poetry from one of electronica’s most unusual voices – entrusted and dedicated to ears and hearts in this world and beyond. James Murray’s seventh solo album follows the recent release of the Ghostwalk EP, featuring remixes by Martin Nonstatic and Kinosura.
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    Federico Dal Pozzo – Untitled TeVeT

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    Elegant handmade sleeve with cover album in polaroid format inside the eco packaging... “Untitled TeVeT ” is an acousmatic composition generates from the freezing sound of the 380kg ice cube development, and it consists of a space-time continuously evolving score based on the interpolation of granular synthesis and extreme resonances. The work is made up of 2 connected and continuous movements which evolves for a total of 59 minutes. The first movement is about the sound of space travellers and extreme resonances of the icecube; the second movement is the sound of the freezing by a 380 kg ice cube and its granular and rezo synyhesis.
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    øjeRum – He Remembers…

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    øjeRum is the audio project of Danish visual artist Paw Grabowski. On ‘He Remembers There Were Gardens’ he uses a slow moving organ to create an alternate soundtrack to Chris Marker’s beautiful slideshow-like time travel film La Jetée. Those familiar with the film with have no difficulty in recalling the flashes of a destroyed world, the status of the museum, and the moment on the platform. Even if you haven’t seen the film, the breathing of Grabowski’s organ will conjure similar images and moments. It fluctuates between the drifts and falls and the throb and hum of a person lost in time and place.
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    Endless Melancholy – Music for Quiet Mornings

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    Endless Melancholy is the solo-project of self-taught musician, Oleksiy Sakevych. “Music For Quiet Mornings” follows a couple of self-released EPs and is an album recorded at home aimed at creating a nice soundtrack to the various quiet moments of your life.
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    Tomonari Nozaki – Triptych

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    Triptych sees Forwind end the year on a high with the hugely well received Credence, Decadence and Concession EP’s merged into a fully actualised spectacle with our final physical release of 2016. Keeping the much deliberated sequencing of the original productions intact, Triptych extends and completes the original vista with a freshly tailored closing piece ‘Coda’ that brings Tomonari’s opus to completion. After the increasing intensity of the first 60 minutes the new composition adds the final waypost to the lush and epic audio landscape as it dissolves into the ether with something that is both splendid and graceful. A fitting finale.  
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    Poppy Nogood – Mood Paintings

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    Improvised as snapshots of hope, ecstasy, turmoil and longing, mo od paintings by New York composer Poppy Nogood is a self-portrait in four parts. Each movement is a space to live in, a world to breathe – a temporal extension of feelings felt at one particular moment and a tale of cyclical rebirth that mirrors the nature of self-reflection. Inspired by the work of William Basinski , Lawrence English , Pauline Oliveros , Sean McCann, Labrador , The Necks , Bing & Ruth and Gustav Mahler , the most essential aspect of mood paintings is its static central structure and dynamic exterior. Mood paintings is Poppy Nogood ’s second album for Preserved Sound, and the follow-up to Music for Mourning.
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    Daniel Mackenzie – Every Time…

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    Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in a limited edition of 150... Daniel W J Mackenzie produces works of noise, drone and conceptual composition under his given name and the more studio focused project Ekca Liena, and is an active performance collaborator in numerous groups. He has appeared internationally, exhibiting sculpture, multi-channel tone work and sound collage, and explores various approaches to performance. He presents on eilean rec. his fifth complete solo release under his real name.
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    Omrr – Music For The Anxious

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    Outside : glossy paper / inside : thick paper card & glossy paper / digisleeve : white paperboard / sealed (like old book) & hand numbered / CDr in a limited edition of 160... Omar El Abd aka omrr (born 22 September 1983) is a self-taught musician, guitarist and sound artist based in Cairo, Egypt. Omrr’s sound is based on glitch, noise, micro-sounds, sampling and field recording. He uses a variety of instruments and software to create dynamic and dense sonic landscapes. Music For The Anxious was created between 2015 and 2016, it’s a year’s projection of intimate encounters, imaginary stories and unnecessary drama. All songs were improvised and created while being recorded.
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    Sustainer – Medicina

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    Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in a limited edition of 130... Alex Alarcón from Barcelona, composes electronic music under the name Sustainer. Recently he recovered his interest in using and processing acoustic instruments, using old recording devices, found sounds recorded over the years, and amplified objects in his work and he’s trying actually to stay in a non-computer environments. Since 2003, his works have been released in multiple formats on labels such as Italic, Thinner, Room40, Tessellate recordings.
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    Moss Covered Technology – Speicherbank

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    Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in a limited edition of 130. After 3 albums on his solo project “Boomruin” (Bmrn), Greig Baird started around 1 year ago a new solo project under the moniker : “Moss Covered Technology”, here his first work.
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures 4

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    “Part of the charm of “Piano Textures 4” is its intimacy and I feel like I am inside the piano at times. It feels like the whole album purposely holds back from going for a full melodic approach though and so some people who are less likely to get lost in mood pieces, may not find what they’re looking for here. Sanfilippo though has created an excellent mood piece for those who do want to get lost in an audio mystery as new layers of piano are unveiled – and if you have your imagination with you – you can wander off anywhere”
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    Bruno Sanfillipo – Urbs

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    The title Urbs derives from the prominent incorporation urban sound environments, recorded by Sanfilippo in urban environments such as train stations, streets, bars and other public areas to explore the boundaries between the textural sounds which surround all of us day to day, and the nature of composed sound art such as music. These “real world” sound textures merge with more traditional electronics such as synthesizers and samplers, leaving no doubt as to the composed and “intentional” nature of these soundscapes. Gentle and evocative, subtly textural and transporting, Urbs is something we genuinely expect to become a long-term favorite among Hypnos releases.
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures 2

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    by Paul Jury · Morpheus Music Delicate piano atmospheres with subtle electronic support. Bruno Sanfilippo presents here a series of very beautiful compositions that feature an ‘Steinway D grand piano’ recorded during the night hours. Smooth electronic washes and drones are laid down in gentle layers forming light, hazy expanses within which the master instrument luxuriates. The piano playing is mostly of an understated, unhurried melodic form calling to mind the purity and tranquil grace of Satie, touched with delightful melancholy and haunting airy wistfulness. Spacial structure is masterful, creating an incredibly enchanting ambience, the arrangements seemingly having the meandering freeness of improvised playing whilst at the same time obviously exhibiting the kind of harmony and refinement that comes only from painstaking crafting and control
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures 1

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    “Simple and elegant, mesmerizing and haunting. I absolutely love turning up the volume, and letting every hypnotic and melancholic note weep gently through the night. For the lovers of Max Richter, Eluvium, Rafael Anton Irisarri, and Zbigniew Preisner. I highly recommended this gem! Headphone Commute”
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – Auralspace

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    This CD is presented in a matt laminate digipak 6 panel with spot varnishing... Bruno Sanfilippo is a classically trained musician and composer. His focus alternates between the exploration of minimalist piano concepts and electro-acoustic music. 71 min. practically continuous flow. The gentle whistles flows effortlessly on a soft carpet of electronics textures, slow spiraling in increases-decreases, creating a recording not to be missed by those who are curious and by those who love to fly far away on the wings of surreal environment.
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    Nmls – On & On

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    The Nmls’ debut album combines elements of refined IDM, glitch, downtempo and ambient. The artists draws from the aesthetics of the electronic music of the ’90, bringing them to a more contemporary framework of IDM-related genres, with rich supply of original melodies. The album features a remix created by a renowned Russian producer Monokle.
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    Abate / Uggeri – Beyond Time (Deluxe)

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    Limited fine art version comes in an edition of only 70 copies. Large sheets of elegant, vintage wallpaper are sized, folded and sewn into a three pocket, 6 panel envelope of sorts. Each of these hand stamped, cut out and manipulated beauties is collaged with and contains details of 80 year old Italian art prints, an iridescent silk panel, lovely photos from a book on Italian fountains through which thread is flowing, vintage pastoral photographic prints, old watchmaking catalogue photos and an envelope of dried leaves. Each of these folded envelopes comes wrapped in a page from a 150 year old book on Roman coins and is contained in a banded outer translucent envelope. Pastoral and evocative to the extreme!
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    Abate / Uggeri – Beyond Time

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    TRS are very pleased to be bringing you their exceedingly pastoral and evocative November release from Italian artists Maurizio Abate and Matteo Uggeri. This collaborative release is an electronically treated, guitar centric affair that incorporates field recordings, voiceovers and a general neofolk ambiance that takes you back beyond simpler times to a simple place from whence we all came. Mysteriously elegant beauty with a particular Italianate feel and a timeless love of the artists’ pasts and history with all its nostalgic appeal and overwhelming memories. TRS067 will leave you dreaming of personal histories of your own!
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    Various – Starseed

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    Matter spreads through space like a cosmic code traversing the universe inside solar windblown motes of space-dust or interwoven into encoded beams of starlight. Explore this cosmic migration through the stars and the origins of life, as the artists on STARSEED evoke the patterns and frequencies of the universe. Every man and woman is a star. Chris Bryant and Don Tyler (together known as Ascendant) have started Synphaera Records out of need for a suitable platform to release their own music; however, soon it became clear to them that more artists could fit into the roster. The ethos: high quality ambient and downtempo electronica with retro characteristics and modern execution. And of course, delivering a strong V/A compilation is an excellent way to present the world their vision. Diving into Starseed is the best way to get to know the label and its sound and style, and for many it will be the start of a love relationship.
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    Max Ananyev – Communication

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    Each piece on Max Ananyev’s album Communication is dedicated to a particular object or phenomenon – the magnetism of water, the energy of different trees, the effect of the moon on the human psyche – all the things we don’t understand, but that we easily feel. For Max, the word “communication” relates to how he perceives the world and his direct contact with the objects in it. Communication uses a range of acoustic instruments and electronic textures to create a sound full of acceleration, deceleration and pauses. At the heart of Max Ananyev’s music is the idea of the variation of dynamics and lack of a stable tempo in composition that mimick the unpredictable processes that occur in nature. “There is so much rhythm and tempo in our daily lives,” says Max, “it sometimes seems to me that our metronomic lifestyles deprives us of a certain freedom and means of expression.” Born and raised in Obluchye, 8,000 kilometers from Moscow on the border with China, Max Ananyev is a Russian composer and sound producer based in St. Petersburg. Communication is his first album on Preserved Sound.
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    Covarino / Incorvaia – Perugia

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    Playing with total freedom from any predefined structure, Covarino/Incorvaia entered a studio in Granada, Spain, with just one rule – to play strictly live, not use any studio trickery such as overdubs or editing, and just see how the music would evolve. The result is an instrumental ambient-rock album that takes influences from artists such as Tortoise and The For Carnation. After a break of 14 years without playing music together, Francesco Covarino (drums) and Alessandro Incorvaia (guitar) met for five days in a rehearsal room in their hometown of Perugia in central Italy during Christmas 2015, where they improvised and recorded demos of what would become their new album – Perugia. Several phone calls later, they went into the studio in April 2016 without having played together in four months. Covarino/Incorvaia get together when they can to play music, mostly as a duo or sometimes with the help of a bass player. Perugia is their debut album.
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    Ten – Yukon Youth

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    The new nine-track album from ten was inspired from a two-week trek across the grand and extraordinary landscapes of Alaska. Leeds-based artist and musician Dominic Deane started recording the album in late 2014 with long time collaborator, producer and engineer Ross Halden of ghost town recordings, with mastering by Tim Hann. After a short hiatus from other projects, the record was finally completed over the summer of 2016 and a third ten album was born. The new ten album takes its title and theme from Jon Krakauser book Into the Wild, a true and tragic story of the late Chris McCandless who in 1992 travelled alone into the Alaskan wild. Deane states that the new album was partly influenced by this story and expresses the new record captures a sonic journey that evolves isolation, beauty and harshness. The new ten album Yukon Youth contains nine tracks (45mins) of moody, dreamy and textural soundscapes that shift unpredictability like the Alaska landscape.
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    K’an – Babel (Deluxe)

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    ONLY 1 LEFT! Limited version in an edition of only 60 copies this time, comes in the form of a fold open triptych resembling a paper arts icon. Each of the three extensively gold inked and appliquéd panels has a uniquely collaged, stamped and hand worked image of the Tower of Babel… incorporating 120 year old industrial/machine shop imagery and cut out engraving bits, vintage sign language cards, appropriate old vocabulary cards and other ephemera relating to the concept of Babel/babble/language. Each triptych is snugly encased in a modified, stiff cardboard mail art centric envelope containing other vintage and handwritten paper ephemera related to the idea of language and discourse.
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    K’an – Babel

    With track titles like “Once Was Spoken”, “Confusion Of Tongues”, and “Inversion Of Mouth I” this music perfectly reflects the album’s overall concept…one that reflects the abstractions and origins of language, and the dualities of Babel/babble. Like conversation itself the ultimate stream of “Babel” is a long and meandering blend of the calm and the languid, of urgency and restraint, and the unintelligible, concise, and interruptive. It is a paean to our inner discourse, our conversational selves, and the language of music itself. Most tracks start out softly and leisurely…then build slowly and lovingly into a sort of post industrial, percussive throb and hum…, the initial tinkling and strumming working itself into a dark dense drone of anticipation and ultimate extreme release. Processed guitars… electronic treatments… all conjoin to make this the most memorable of soundtracks to your own pleasurable or argumentative moments!
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    Drawing Virtual Gardens – Heartbeats…

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    Limited copies available as elegant handmade sleeves with cover album in polaroid format inside the eco packaging... “Heartbeats of a premature image” is the 4th official release of Drawing Virtual Gardens, solo project of David Gutman, member of the dark ambient combo Tropic of Coldness. The sonic material is fully obtained by playing, processing and looping the electric guitar, David Gutman preferred instrument. The field explored is the development of a magmatic and cohesive flow where the sound itself becomes an instrument, complete in its esthetic body and textured on sub harmonic ritmic patterns.
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    Ghost – The First Time…

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    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm green-grey cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 190 gsm saffron yellow cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card... The First Time You Opened Your Eyes showcases (ghost)’s atmospheric side to a fuller extent than in any of his previous releases by presenting an epic ambient journey with duration of something more than 34 minutes. The complex glitchy beats are left behind and only beautifully evocative soundscapes and calming atmospheres remain. The album captivates the listener with its lush instrumentation and warm palette of multiple layered emotional textures of resonant synths and droning feedback as indistinct dreamy vocals emerge somewhere in the distance. An impressive album, highly recommended for devotees of Deaf Center, Brian McBride and Eluvium.
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    Panoptique Electrical – Disappearing Music For Face

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    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm pale brown cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and two inserts with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 190 gsm reddish-brown cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card... Disappearing Music For Face is another outstanding release from Panoptique Electrical that generates many emotional reactions. It’s a collection of eleven brilliant compositions of gentle piano with small touches of minimalist electronic beats, echoing keys and soft swells of heavily reverbed drones. The beauty of this album will truly captivate the audience of both ambient pioneers like Brian Eno and Harold Budd and artists like A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Labradford and mid period Hood recordings.
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    Ben Rath – Forgiveness

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    his is a limited edition of 150 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 240 gsm grey cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 160 gsm light blue cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card... Forgiveness is his sixth full-length album and first for Sound In Silence. The album’s eight tracks were recorded at home, combining over-lapping layers of acoustic guitars and electronics. Borrowing textures and sounds from cinematic post-ambient and drone composition and adding some emotional motifs of soothing post-rock and fragile shoegaze, he creates a wonderful sound collage, full of heartwarming soundscapes and restful harmonies. Forgiveness is a profoundly touching album that will appeal to anyone moved by the music of artists such as Eluvium, Fennesz, Stars Of The Lid, Wil Bolton and Yellow6.
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    Daniel Mackenzie – Glass Permanent

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    Limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm brown cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 190 gsm beige cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card... Glass Permanent, his third full-length album under his real name, consists of six compositions of melancholic and cinematic soundscapes with a total duration of 40 minutes. This is a deeply personal and emotionally restful album with a taste of homemade experimentation, which focuses on the physical and technological manipulation of acoustic instruments such as piano, zither and glockenspiel and sound sources like voice and field recordings. Beautifully arranged, these minimalist compositions easily slip between modern classical and ambient drone, being probably Daniel’s finest work so far. The mastering of Glass Permanent has been done by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave), giving a great depth and warm feel to its sounds.
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    The Declining Winter – Endless Scenery

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    This is a limited edition of 450 (a first edition of 300 which is now sold out and a second edition of 150) handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped white recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and credits. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card... Hushed, drenched in reverb, vocals, loops of nostalgic guitars, largely acoustic ones, piano, melancholic organ lines, droning ambient synths and minimal drum beats, combine with jazz infused percussion, chiming bells, field recordings and samples of echoing hammered dulcimer and gentle violins, played by Joel Hanson and Sarah Kemp (Lanterns Of The Lake, Last Harbour) respectively, both Richard’s bandmates in Memory Drawings, to form a quietly impressive album, full of muffled melodies, great warmth, wistful melancholy and pastoral organic feel. The beautiful atmosphere of Endless Scenery will instantly sound familiar and comforting to all fans of Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis, Disco Inferno, Labradford, Low and of course Hood.
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    Thee Koukouvaya – Witches’ Jelly

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    This is a limited edition of 115 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped black cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and a transparent paper insert... Thee Koukouvaya is the conceptual aural sister city to Vilandredo, Rethymno, on the island of Crete. The group’s architects, based on the East Coast, introduce themselves with the 28-minute Witches’ Jelly, an epic ambient journey built upon three movements packed with glacial drones, layers of modular synthesizer, and generative digital sequences. Both ominous and celebratory, Thee Koukouvaya engineer inhuman otherworldliness steeped in sci-fi paranoia. The result is a deliberately damaged music, generating a sonic liminal space between the organic and the mechanical.  
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    Julien Demoulin – Loose Ends

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    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped green cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and two inserts, with the tracklist and credits, printed on transparent paper... Loose Ends, his first full-length release under his own name, is something more than a proper debut album. It’s a wonderful collection of eleven tracks composed and recorded during the last ten years. These tracks were a good occasion for Julien Demoulin, when he wanted a breather from Silencio, to collaborate with some of his friends, including Bernold Delgoda (Silencio), Christophe Bailleau, Nicolas Saez (Anorak, Finish Yor Meal!), Luis Solis (Bacanal Intruder), Davy Van Den Bremt (Quniunb), Isabelle Casier (Pollyanna) and David Martin, who has also done the mastering of the album. Compared to his previous, more ambient, releases, Loose Ends has a more upbeat vibe with a clear focus on rhythm and melody. A great mixture on the border between dream-pop and electronica, combined with elements of ambient and post-rock and a must-have for fans of Manual, Lights Out Asia, Epic45 and July Skies.
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    Aukai – ST

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    In a lot of ways, Aukai’s self-titled debut is the sound of Markus Sieber bringing his career full circle. Having spent part of the ’90s playing rock music in East Germany, the composer/multi-instrumentalist then shifted his focus to acting, only to have music creep back into his life after a mind-altering move to Mexico. Aukai was born of his desire to create music that could work in tandem with film, video, theater and the visual arts. The compositions on the album also grew out of Sieber’s love affair with the ronrocco, a plucked string instrument from Argentina that Sieber first discovered through the music of film composer Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel, Brokeback Mountain). Aukai may draw initial comparisons to the work of ambient instrumental masters such as Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Goldmund/Helios, but ultimately it is a CD that belongs in a category all its own—a beguiling collection of autumnal acoustic soundscapes dappled with subtle electronic touches.
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    Richard Scott – Several Circles (CD)

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    The album is a vibrant and exceptional portrait of Richard’s voice as a musician, unencumbered by restrictive themes or fixed compositional techniques, instead offering an all-encompassing view of his practices that, through their very intuition, sound cohesive. It’s an entry in to the already auteristic cannon of Cusp Editions that will surely be held in a pride of place.
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    Legiac – The Voynich Manuscript

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    4 panel matte finished digipack... After last year’s sophomore release, The Faex Has Decimated, on Tympanik Audio, the Legiac project is back, but this time on the Russian based Dronarivm label, where the new album feels more at home. This time, the electronic duo of Roel Funcken and Cor Bolten take on a more meditative approach to their mildly glitch-infused, modular explored sounds, weaving in ambient textures, field recordings, and vast soundscapes. Titled after an early 15th century hand-written and illustrated codex, named after Wilfrid Voynich, the mysteries within this cryptic album can only be unlocked upon subsequent rotations, offering it up as a soundtrack to an enigmatic place, existing somewhere within imagination of these two prolific artists. The Voynich Manuscript slowly transforms its listener from a seemingly ordinary habitat, to a day-dream haze, to kaleidoscopic illusion – a sonic environment you thirst to visit once again.
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    Visionary Hours – Footfalls Echo

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    Combining strings, guitar, vocals, flute and clarinet, Visionary Hours creates slowly evolving pieces full of space and gently revealed micro melodies. Using genuine tape delay created through a Revox B77 reel to reel tape recorder played by Richard Formby (Spectrum, Mogwai, Dakota Suite), as well as other tape effects to create warm swathes of sound that underpin the melodies, the result is an album that sits somewhere between the acoustic-ambient and modern-classical genres.
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    Fatih Tuter – Opfermut

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    4 panel digipak CD in limited edition of 200... Istanbul, Turkey born and raised, resides in Heidelberg, Germany, electronic ambient music producer Fatih Tuter returns with his second album on his own label Unknown Tribe. Fatih previously released music on Silent Season, Shoreless Recordings, Baum Records as well as his own label Unknown Tribe. Written and Produced by Fatih Tuter Mastered at Circuit Room by Ismail Genc Artworks by Nivi Jasa Unknown Tribe 2016
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    Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains Vol 1

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    Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains Vol 1 comes to the popular and shiny compact disc format. The sleeve is printed on the reverse (uncoated) side for textured goodness that you'll want to touch again and again. You might even like to encourage your friends to touch it. The more observant among you will have noticed that the cover for the CD edition is slightly different to the vinyl cover. Every format is special. Down in the mouth and wound up after your daily commute? No more! On your next trip by shuttle or train be sure to bring with you this seasons 'must have' record for travel. These carefully selected pieces will calm the mind and soothe the spirit making your journeys as pleasurable as can be. Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains – the only travel companion you need. Not going anywhere? No problem, let the music guide your imagination instead – with Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains, leaving the relative safety of your home is optional. On volume one of this new series, Serein presents the work of some of the finest musical tour guides in the known universe. You may be familiar with some of these names – many have sailed with us before, while others are notable for their esteemed work with other agents. Remember, there's no such thing as economy class when travelling with Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains.
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    Hidden Rivers – Where Moss Grows

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    This CD edition of Where Moss Grows is a four page digipak with clear tray and artwork behind... Away from the concrete towns and cities there is a place Where Moss Grows. A place walled with limestone, of dell and cave, forgotten railways and Hidden Rivers. This music is a document in sound of journeys through this place, the sylvan valley. Treading a path worn by his forebears, Hidden Rivers (Huw Roberts) takes a left into the trees with debut solo album, Where Moss Grows. Better known until now for label curation at Serein and his work with Otto A Totland as Nest, Huw’s growing obsession with synthesizers and drum machines takes his solo work into uncharted territory. With barely an acoustic instrument in sight, Where Moss Grows is a personal and thematic album which confidently reveals his future intent.
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    Ian Martin – Clairvoyant

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    Known for his diverse releases on labels such as Bunker, Panzerkreuz, Further or Shimmering Moods Ian Martin has developed his very unique own brand of electronic music. To categorize his music is difficult which adds an immense appeal to his approch on his releases. Clairvoyant is no exception to this. It is an uplifting and beautiful album based around three of Ian’s favourite synthesizers: Waldorf Microwave I, Ensoniq ESQ-1 and Korg M1. Ian describes this album as an emotional collection of tracks with a lot of fantasy. This description sums it up very well and diametric. is very pleased to be able to present this album. Please join us and dive into the fantasy world Ian has invited us into.
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    Florian von Ameln – Rvvr

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    Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in limited edition of 130... Florian von Ameln is a musician and sound artist from Nuremberg, Germany. He has been released on various labels, mainly in cassette format. He presents on eilean rec. his fifth album.
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    Brambles – Charcoal

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    This is the brand new CD edition of Charcoal featuring artwork from the vinyl reissue. It also includes the bonus track featured on the vinyl release - a reworking of In The Androgynous Dark by Nest. This is undeniably a night-time album, it has that still, peaceful quality to it, the same you get when you walk down a deserted street at night. And despite the slow pace, the music rarely seems melancholic - there's a sense of contentedness which pervades the album from beginning to end. Mark seems very at ease with life and there's a similar spirit to the music, it is deep, thoughtful and optimistic - in the words of Donal Whelan (who mastered the final album), "it's like being wrapped up in a warm blanket". Even the slightly more sinister "Deep Corridor", which plunges you to the depths of the ocean, has that "cosy catastrophe" feel to it. I can't help but think of Blade Runner and Vangelis when I hear it.
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    Paul Baran – The Other

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    The Other is Britain, Student protests, Riots, Neo Liberalism, Fear, Nationalism, Haiti, Chess, Geopolitical sum games, Potlatch, Celebrities, Obama, The Shoah, Love, Reflexive Impotence, The Wheel, Inversion, Tarkovsky, The Zone… At least if you ask Paul Baran himself. To others, it might as well be an equally challenging and diverse collection of electro-acoustic atmospheres, rhythmic experiments, and theoretical manoeuvres, not without a touch of funk. The Other was composed by Baran and recorded together with Werner Dafeldecker, Axel Doerner, Lucio Capece, Sebastian Lexer and many others in Glasgow, and in STEIM studios in Amsterdam, over the last few years.
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    John Atkinson – Asasin In Lege

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    Limited to 200 in four-panel gatefold sleeves and comes with a download code... The soundtrack to the investigative documentary Asasin în Lege by John Atkinson (of the long-running Brooklyn experimental rock ensemble Aa) is the inaugural release from Florabelle, a New York-based label for experimental music and media founded by Ned Milligan. Debuting on Romanian and Moldovan national TV in November 2014, Asasin în Lege (Killers Inc.) investigates the assassination of an influential Russian businessman, tracing a barely-underground war between Kremlin-connected businessmen and bankers fought with brigades of assassins for hire. The soundtrack’s eight instrumental compositions combine field recordings with dense digital textures to establish an atmosphere that is alternately luminous and menacing, giving the sinister proceedings an otherworldly air. The album was mastered by Andrew Weathers (of Full Spectrum Records).
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    Machinefabriek – Colour Tones

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    Delving ever deeper in the science of his art, this is Machinefabriek's take on what might be the most common sensation of all - the colours around us. Originating from the exhibition Colour Tales, held at the WM Gallery in Amsterdam in 2011, these tracks are based on ideas from a series of Intriguingly visual and original short stories on the theme of colours, written by Latvian writer Imants Ziedonis. The result is an album of meticulously crafted drones with depth, details and a sense of adventure. Soundscapes for an audience of careful listeners. Close your eyes. Can you see the colour you are listening to?
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    Paul Baran – Panoptic

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    Partially inspired by the writings of the theorist Jeremy Bentham and the concept of globalization, and assisted by Werner Dafeldecker, Ekkehard Ehlers, Keith Rowe, Andrea Belfi and a list of other fine collaborators, Paul Baran has created "Panoptic" - an attempt to soundtrack the lives of creative people affected by such concepts as underclass, surveillance and the dangers of mass consensus. Baran intends "Panoptic" to be a collection of electro-acoustic atmospheres that underscore these concepts, without resorting to blind polemic. And as for the sound of it all - think electro-acoustic, minimalist, idea based, experimental fusion, conceptual improvisation with contemporary song structures.
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    Broderick / Machinefabriek – Blank Grey Canvas Sky

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    This beautiful collaboration features two of the most prolific talents from the current experimental scene, both with reputations of leviathan proportions. For this release, Machinefabriek, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Peter Broderick, based in Berlin, Germany (although constantly on the road) set out to push each others limits, and to explore new areas within their own creativity. The resulting album is a delicately crafted one, with Machinefabriek and Broderick virtuosically combining instrumental compositions, drone, and heartfelt soundscapes with song structures and vocals. Or as Peter Broderick himself put it: "We tried a lot of different things on this album, pushing ourselves to explore new areas... And for me the result is the collection of music I feel most proud of so far."
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    Jasper TX – Singing Stones

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    Singing Stones is the fifth album proper from Jasper TX. Over almost 60 minutes, we are told a heartfelt story of windswept islands in past times, a small community surrounded by the dark sea. It’s a story of sadness, of being left behind, a story shrouded in darkness and death, but not without a glimpse of light – in hope of a possible reunion.

    This is a personal album, allowing us a glimpse not only of Dag Rosenquist’s unique musical skills, but also his inner life, his beliefs and his compassion. And by echoing our not so distant history, with »Singing Stones« he actually manages to teach us all a little bit about ourselves.
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    Hatami & Arovane – Kaziwa (Deluxe)

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    Limited edition version in an edition of only 75 copies comes in the form of a set of five, corner hinged 6.5” square sheets of black fine art paper….the sheets have been meticulously pastel buffed, punched, stamped, collaged, laser cut/burnt, and come with an attached vintage clock hand to keep track of your own “kaziwa” moments! Each set is backed with a used, antique shooting range target, and comes in a square, similarly modified translucent sleeve.
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    Daniel. T Freeman – The Infinite / Unknowable

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    A 12-track, 68-minute CD of instrumental music with a 48-page, softcover, 210 x 148mm book of 12 poems and 25 black and white photographs printed on 130gsm coated silk-finish paper with a 350gsm cover... Gong choirs, ragged system violins, rusted electronics, liquid heave resonances, apocalyptic poetry, high-contrast photography: ‘The Infinite And The Unknowable’ is a visceral attempt to explore the fathomless mysteries of the divine. Using a mythical Ballardian sea voyage at its core, it evokes such diverse sources as Andrei Tarkovsky, Arvo Pärt, Tim Hecker, ‘A Book of Silence’, John Luther Adams, Terrence Malick, ‘Under the Skin’, Jon Hassell, ‘Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II’, Laurie Spiegel, Ansel Adams, Richard Skelton, the books of Revelation, Job and Daniel, Swans, John Sheppard and Hieronymus Bosch. TIATU was painstakingly constructed over a six year period from hundreds of layers of played and heavily processed electric violin, percussion and electronics and it includes the final re-worked version of the title track originally used in the devastating closing scenes of the Film 4 / BFI / Studio Canal feature film ‘Catch Me Daddy’. The voice of this instrumental music has been extended by the accompanying debut collection of poetry and photography.  
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    Giannico / Aldinucci – Agoraphonia

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    A town square is an open public space commonly found in the heart of a traditional town and used for community gatherings. Based on this basic perspective, it is easy to notice how the soundscape of this living center could represent not only sonically, but also from a cultural point of view, a priceless document. After an open call lasted 6 months to send most interesting audio material concerning the theme of the “square” the samples have been selected and reworked in order to create an ideal symphony of all living squares all over the world. After some months a minor open call was done also to obtain photos about the same theme in order to realize a coherent packaging.
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    Unidentified – 001

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    40 copies, handmade covers, hand numbered: kraft paper envelopes with wallets inside, photo’s, all in a metallic, silver jacket... “The pieces of music that make up this record had been forgotten about, tucked away in the basement of a charity shop in Bideford, North Devon for nearly 30 years. Found amongst a collection of tapes, this cassette was simply labelled ‘001’ . All tracks have been remastered and digitalized, these are the first selection, more to come…. ”
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    Cynthia – Between Two Worlds

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    45 copies, handmade covers, hand numbered: kraft paper envelopes with wallets inside, photo’s, all in a metallic, matte black jacket.
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    Aleks – Frame of Reference (2xCD)

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    A double CD (with digital download codes), highly limited, 105 hand numbered copies worldwide in special hand made covers... Dusty tape sounds, ambient dreamscapes, outsider techno and rainforest hallucinations on this debut album from Aleks. “Deep vibrations and undulating waves of synth drive the melodic pulse of this record, beautifully enhanced by field recordings. Distant beats pull you in, creating a balanced feeling of calmness and energy. Each invites the listener to a session of imaginative introspection. Frame of Reference is a sonic force not be missed, this record will surely enhance your morning commute to work or a late evening under the stars, and everything in between.”
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    Kösmonaut – Master Generator (Deluxe)

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    Limited edition, uniquely hand made version of 100 copies! Each of the appropriately and intensely themed beauties comes packaged in a large, sewn x-ray envelope. As though it were a package sent from the hospital itself, each comes with pockets holding the factory pressed disc in a chemotherapy bag, an additional 3″ mini CDr of five, “Songs For Healing” in its own windowed envelope, a tiny pill envelope containing a broken and heart stamped child shaped tongue depressor, a vintage x-ray, various hand printed explanatory inserts with attached microscopic slide blow ups, all of this hand stamped and modified with the usual over-the-top hand made care that TRS always puts into its packaging for the beautiful music that we release. Important!! To open this package use a sharp blade or a small sharp pair of scissors and gently cut through the three, white surgical taped sides, while NOT cutting through the sewn left side! It will then fold open and all shall be revealed!
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    Tess Said So – Scramble / Fate

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    All music composed and played by Tess Said So Rasa Daukus – piano | Will Larsen – percussion Tess Said So is a piano and percussion duo that provide a sound that falls into the interstices between neo-classic and jazz. Most, though not all, of this is rather down tempo, almost ambient, with a touch here and there of a minimalist feel. It's only due to the use of a drum kit that it has a jazz vibe at all, at least to my ear (listen to tracks 4, 7, or 10). Quite mellow overall, and very well done, I don't hesitate to recommend this.
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    Saenïnvey – The Path

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    Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in limited edition of 130 copies... Yves-Gaël Jacak alias Saenïnvey is a French ambient/drone music artist who lives between France and Vietnam. Almost all of his sounds are released by some instruments from his own making which give this particular texture in his compositions. His music combine a rich acoustic palette and a refined electronic treatment. His works bring us into this permanent balance between electro-acoustic and drone. He presents on Eilean Rec. his first album.
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    Morgen Wurde – Brach Auf (Deluxe)

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    Limited edition of 65 copies comes housed in a vintage 5” reel to reel tape box. Each box has been covered inside and out with darkly evocative anonymous press photograph imagery of forest fires, from the 1940’s. Contained in each box is organic material that has been burnt in place along with the photographs themselves. Each box is then then manipulated and stamped. The factory pressed disc comes in a hand burnt, 5” midnight black envelope also containing a singed insert with the album info, a folded page from a rare Forest Service Handbook, and a pack of very appropriate flower seeds to plant upon the inferno’s passing. Each box then comes in a hand burnt, vintage outer advertising envelope… And as you shall realize, the ashen smell remains…
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    Morgen Wurde – Brach Auf

    “We in California are heading into the early days of summer… forest fire season is nigh upon us and it is just these sorts of forces of nature that bring us our May release. TRS063 is is a haunting and intense reflection on these natural forces from Kiel, Germany based artist, Morgen Wurde (Wolfgang Röttger)…and it is entitled “Brach Auf”. With it’s intense drones and dark swirling synths, liturgical vocals, and overall cinematic electronic feel, this is a soundtrack for watching the fires burn and the embers fly!” – TRS
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    Poppy Nogood – Music for Mourning

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    Influenced by the neo-romantic emotional minimalism of such artists as Max Richter, Bing & Ruth, Terry Riley and Steve Reich, Music for Mourning attempts to capture the emotions and feelings associated with a sense of mourning or loss via fast, schizophrenic juxtapositions of mood. “I like to restrict myself to a key, a series of notes, a repeating motive and improvise around it to see what comes out,” says Poppy Nogood. “I also believe that truth can come out through improvisation – being forced to make decisions in the moment and following natural instincts.” Having started learning classical violin from the age of three, Poppy Nogood is much more interested in understanding how the violin can be used in his own unique way rather than for technical virtuosity. He’s also obsessed with Romantic music and the idea of conveying a narrative of individual struggle through music, and is looking for a sound that is both tragic and beautiful. “Recording is an integral part of my composition process,” he says “I really don’t know where I’m going until I start recording.” Poppy Nogood is an American composer and violinist. Music for Mourning is his first album on Preserved Sound.
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    Dag Rosenqvist – Elephant

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    6 panel digisleeve placed into cardboard slipcase embossed with a transparent foil... Extremely quiet and violently loud, slowly rising only to moments later bear down on the listener with a wall of distorted sounds. This is the essence of ‘elephant’, the new album by Swedish composer and musician Dag Rosenqvist. ‘elephant’ consists of six tracks, all connected to each other in one way or another. Shards of tracks re-appear in other tracks. Structures, sounds, chord progressions and melodies are revisited and rearranged. Repetition as a means of holding on to something that is already lost. ‘elephant’ is an album built on contrasts. It is an album filled with noise and fury, with distant echoes and subtle vibrations. It is a blind force that can both crush you and embrace you with its fragility.
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    Cyril Secq / Orla Wren – Branches

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    Limited edition of 200 in matte finished 6-panel digisleeve... Branches came into being during a long time planned project between Tui (Orla Wren) and Cyril Secq (member of the band Astrïd). Having worked together when Cyril contributed guitar to the Orla Wren’s previous albums the idea then formed to do something further and even more collaborative. At the same time, Cyril had recorded many guitar parts, as a ‘solo’ project, that had never been released. And they were the basis, the bones for Orla to work, completely free. It’s a duet between acoustic strings and processing, field recordings, edits and organic arrangements. This music is steadily ramifies, growing out of itself like a wild tree. The tunes woven together and untwine again as a branches shaken by the wind. It sounds focused, calm and distinct. Although everything has been done in distant places (France and Scotland) the result sounds like two musicians experimenting in the same room, sharing their background and culture.  
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    Delilah Gutman / Drawing Virtual Gardens ‎- Charcoals

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    Charcoals, a interpretation of neoclassical and electroacoustic music by Delilah Gutman and David Gutman (Drawing Virtual Gardens). 65 CDr’s, hand made brown kraft covers, hand numbered, photo’s, envelope with wallet inside. 24bit HD audio
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    Adzuki – Radio Sea

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    “The noise which comes from the radio sometimes sounds like the sound of the sea” 10 tracks of pure meditation and ambient bliss. 65 hand numbered CDr, hand made covers, real photo’s.
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    Sapphirine Phlant – Until The Light Takes Us

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    Comes in a brown kraft wallet, outside kraft paper cover (envelope), real photo’s, hand numbered in a limited edition of 50 CDr... “The material was recorded through 2014 under the influence of Norwegian Black Metal, grim moods and wandering in mirk. Some ideas were also inspired by chtonic investigation of H.P. Lovecraft opuses.”
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    Orphax – Time Waves

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    Orphax is the Amsterdam based musician Sietse van who has been active with music since 1998. Time Waves is his second proper CD release after 34 CD-R, Tape, DVD-R and download releases and various compilation contributions and remixes.
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    Modelbau – Four Squared Wheel

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    Modelbau is one of the many names Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek, Goem, Wieman, Freiband, etc) uses for his music. Moving Furniture Records is proud to release the first proper CD by this project after many tape releases and a couple of CD-R’s.
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    Daniel K. Böhm – Carrier

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    Recorded and mixed by Patrick Murphy. Mastered by Patrick Murphy and Dean Terry. Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in limited edition of 150.
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    Phi Bui – Unnoticed Moments

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    Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in limited edition of 150... Phi Bui is a composer, beatmaker and producer currently residing in San Francisco, CA. His influences stem from musique concrète, ambient, classical, hip-hop, and lo-fi idioms. Sonic pieces were formed using acoustic instruments, đàn bầu, a 4-track, and samples from records and field recordings. Eilean Rec. presents here, his first complete LP.
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    Nguyen / Cinchel: Movement Of An Old Soul (Deluxe)

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    Limited edition version comes in an edition of just 65 copies…that’s all that we could scrape the absurdly hard to find materials together for! Each of these beauties comes in a sort of matchbook folded package. The outer antique, hand stamped stiff board folder material is collaged on both sides with beautiful vintage photos, appropriately paired old word cards, worded sections of 100 year old player piano roll paper, and a 3D winking eye! Sewn into each is a modified antique bank envelope, containing on one side a rare, 60’s metal Thorens music box disc with unique song on each (you’ll need a Thorens player!), and on the other, a hand printed and stamped insert on ancient ledger paper, and a factory pressed disc. Each of these oversized, 5” x 6” “matchbooks” comes sealed in a zip locked, smoked, anti-static envelope.
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    Nguyen / Cinchel: Movement Of An Old Soul

    With TRS062, our newest release, we are again finally able to indulge ourselves in our love of the music box! This full length beauty is a collaborative effort between Hanoi based sound artist, Nhung Nguyen (Sound Awakener), and Chicago’s, Cinchel…aka Jason Shanley. “Movement Of An Old Soul” is the perfect mix of the old timey and tinkly ambiance of electronically treated piano and music box, and perfectly blended, guitar fed, spatially mellifluous drone. Perfect for a late night out under the stars!
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – The Poet

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    Bruno Sanfilippo as “The Poet” paints 11 sonic canvas of exhaustively expressive modern classical minimalism at its most exceedingly exquisite and profoundly poignant. With luminary contributions of kindred souls, Julián Kancepolski (cello) and Pere Bardagí (violin), Bruno’s narrative piano wizardry significantly exhibits in awe-inspiring equilibrium with performing delicacies of his mates. The beauty of magnificently evocative quietudes is in full blossom, immerse yourself into the poet’s tremendously embracing palette of lyrical mastery and sensitive insignias as this might be his magnum opus.
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    Maps and Diagrams – Delta

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    Once again, Maps and Diagrams produces another harmonic long-player; “Delta” this time for VoxxoV Records, with 12 tracks of hazy-flavoured electronics and defined acoustic distinctions. Conjuring-up found sound and aquatic, multi-coloured melodies, Maps and Diagrams takes us on a journey combining darkness and discordance with illumination and tonality.
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    Gavin Prior – All Who Wander

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    Gavin Prior: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Electronics, Field Recordings, Mandocello, Mandolin, MC303. Scott McLaughlin: Cello on Between Breaths. Tuula Voutilainen: Vocals on Schoolhouse Coda. Recorded and mixed by Gavin Prior except cello on Between Breaths recorded by Scott Mc Laughlin and Pangolin Blues which was recorded by Liam Mulvaney in Asylum Studios, Bow Lane Dublin. Mastered by Chris Leary at Melograf Mastering. CD in card case with photography and liner notes by Gavin Prior.
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    Jim Ghedi – Home Is Where I Exist…

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    Glass mastered CD in a high quality 4 panel digifile... All music by Jim Ghedi Produced by Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay Engineered and mixed by Tim Hay and Jim Ghedi Mastered by Christopher Leary at Melograf Mastering Artwork by Liz von Graevenitz Layout and Photography by James Beattie  
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    Toby Hay – Rhayader

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    Glass mastered CD in a high quality 4 panel digifile... Toby Hay – 6 and 12 String Guitar, Piano, Banjo, Electric Bass, Field Recordings Rhydian Lewis – Drums Peter Scott – Double Bass
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    Vektormusik – Time Woke Up In Darkness (Deluxe)

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    Limited edition version in an edition of just 65 copies comes as a collaged and folded double page spread of vector drawings. Each page has then been extensively modified and uniquely “drawn on” with sheets of vintage Letraset lettering. Abstracted numbers, letters and symbols are rubbed, scratched and scraped into patterns on the drawings in red, white and black. Each panel is then folded into 8ths, creating two pockets containing a textual insert printed on antique educational material, an original fragment of Letraset to rub onto the artwork, or wherever you’d like, yourself, and an envelope with a factory pressed disc and a hanging numbered tag, all within a 6 inch square, outer hand stamped translucent envelope.
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    Vektormusik – Time Woke Up In Darkness

    In the depths of this California winter we are pleased to be bringing you this crystalline and minimalistic affair from Danish duo, Vektormusik, entitled “Time Woke Up In Darkness excerpts Vol 2”. Originally composed for a theatrical production by Carte Blanche in Copenhagen, this selection of 10 piano infused, glitch and static centric bits of broken electronic loveliness set the tone perfectly for short rainy days such as these.
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    Ales Tsurko – Transliaciya

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    Influenced by such composers as Sergei Rachmaninov, Valentin Silvestrov, Morton Subotnick, François Bayle and Iannis Xenakis, Ales Tsurko uses composition techniques from contemporary classical music and mixes them with elements from the non-academic and electronic fields of music, as well as post rock and shoegaze music. Ales Tsurko is a self-taught composer from Minsk, Belarus. He is also the founder of the Society for the Development of New Music, the purpose of which is to develop and promote contemporary classical music. This is his first album on Preserved Sound
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    Antonymes – (For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly

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    10 track CD comes in a six panel card sleeve and 8 page insert... Antonymes music emerges from the adjustments and erasures where music expresses nothing but itself, from the relationship between continuity and repetition rather than of contract and interplay, from secrecy, from quietness, from pause, from thought, from emptiness, from time, from far off, from itself, from where it is set and where it is setting off to.
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    Chris Dooks – Accretion Disc

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    Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr limited edition of 120 / Download code. Dr Chris Dooks [b.1971] is a prolific multimedia artist based in both Edinburgh and Ayr in Scotland. Known equally for his lens-based work, music projects and conceptual art, he can be described as an interdisciplinary artist and post-doctoral researcher specialising in practical medical humanities work and philosophical art processes.
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    Twinkle / Endresen – Debris In Lower Earth Orbit (CD)

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    Twinkle3 have teamed up with Sidsel Endresen, Norwegian singer, avant garde pioneer and ECM recording artist. The result is Debris In Lower Earth Orbit, a graceful, yet precarious dance through the weightless slipstream of orbital flotsam and jetsam. The core trio of Richard Scott (analogue synthesizer and electronics), David Ross (Drosscillator, kantele, mbira) and Clive Bell (shakuhachi and other woodwind) conjured 7 distinct sonic landscapes through an intuitive and delicate interplay first honed on their debut for ini.itu ‘Let’s Make A Solar System’. Sidsel’s singular interpretation of this material narrates a melancholy, stream of consciousness style wordplay. It was David Sylvian who brought the trio into contact with Sidsel and driving alone across the lonesome northwest recalls the first instance the album poured into his ears from the car.
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    Eumig – S/T

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    Courier Sound is proud to present the Eumig EP, which is a collection of 7 tracks inspired by the chance finding of a 1965 Eumig ‘Electric R’ camera back in 2014. Mechanical and somewhat utilitarian in nature, this object led artist and musician Nick Dawson to record a series of intense ambient drones, like concentrating on the mechanisms within the camera or staring into the sun though one of its rotating lenses. Each track is a unique improvisation, recorded in a single take, using an Arturia MiniBrute routed through a Boss ME70 effects unit and a Strymon Big Sky reverb unit. The track titles make reference to different parts of the camera. Eumig was mastered by the exceptionally talented Ed Rome at www.slamdoorstudios.co.uk and the image accompanying the release is a rubber stamp of the Eumig camera itself, cut by Martin Salway. The recycled sleeve was then hand printed by Nick.
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    Lorenzo Masotto – Rule and Case

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    Searching for equilibrium between classical harmony and the sound of modern music, Rule and Case is a sequence of chords and effects that arrives at the counterpoint between tonal precision and “atonal” freedom – between acoustic instruments and electronics, between the past and present. “Every piece I write comes from a particular moment of my life, an emotion, a meeting, a walk, a picture or a photo that I’ve seen,” says Lorenzo. Lorenzo Masotto’s journey with music began at the age of nine when he started playing piano. Graduating from Conservatorio di Verona, he consequently started studying composition and jazz. Lorenzo also plays in a prog/post rock band called Le Maschere di Clara, directs a male voice choir, writes music for film and theatre, and teaches piano and composition. “I’ve never only thought about writing in just one music style,” he says, “I love all music, and everything I write increases my confidence and ability to write from a wider perspective.”
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    Parallelism – Angular Geometry

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    A soft whisper beckons you to the horizon. Dusk or dawn, a faint rhythm gently takes your hand and guides you into a fluid realm of pulsating sonic drifts. “Angular Geometry” digs deep to soothe and invigorate the listener with engaging waves and invigorating microbeats into a lush natural soundscape.
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    Valanx – The Towering Pillars

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    Veteran Glasgow based producer Arne Weinberg’s latest Valanx album contains a creeping melancholia that seeps through its every pore. Claustrophobic rhythms of uncertain time signatures intertwine with dark drones as bio-mechanical heaves and strains echo throughout.
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    Submersion – Abrade

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    Abrade is the re-issue of a very limited tape/cassette release of the same name; self released by Submersion in 2012. Now made available again on high quality glass mastered CD with additional remixes by Mon0, Optical Frameworks and Valanx. Various layers of field recordings are at the core of Submersion’s work and are complimented by chords and sounds drenched in delays and reverbs. His approach on dub and dubtechno is unique and matched by the care and effort he puts into his sound design and recording process. The additional remixes feature a wide variety of styles and broaden the musical spectrum immensely, but retain the natural characteristics and sounds of the original source material and make this album a beautiful selection of music for dub techno and ambient aficionados.
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    Vitaly Beskrovny – Imperfect

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    Seeking perfection in minimalism, Vitaly describes his sound on Imperfect as – piano, mood, simplicity. “The world is imperfect, and people are imperfect – their ideas and actions. Music can also be ‘imperfect’ – but that does not make it unambiguously good or bad. The relative simplicity of melodies, unusual piano sound, piano playing and emotional states – all this can be called imperfection.” Attaching strips of fabric to the piano strings of an upright piano at the Dnepropetrovsk Conservatory, Vitaly asked the sound engineer to be left alone and recorded the pieces in one sitting. Only after recording the piano did Vitaly understand that the album would be called Imperfect. “To some extent, I always try to reach a certain perfection – at work, at home, or within my daily routine. But when I sit down at the piano – everything is different. I rely on feelings, emotions, and give freedom to the fingers. More than anything, with these nine pieces, I’ve tried to achieve a level of honesty with the listener.”
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    Drombeg – Earthworks

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    ‘Earthworks’ is Thom Brookes’ debut album as Drombeg, following his acclaimed EP ‘Notes From The Ocean Floor’ in 2015. A soundtrack for the middle-of-nowhere, the wild landscapes of Brookes’ native Southern Ireland are littered with historic (Tumulus), and geological (Béarra) structures hardened under the relentless elements. Sinuous string melodies, and tender piano phrases reach like sunlight breaking through heavy clouds, blended with electronics and field recordings in careful balance to produce a rich cinematic sound.
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    Siavash Amini – Subsiding

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    Complete with striking cover photography by Alex Kozobolis, “Subsiding” will be available on glass-mastered CD in digipack sleeves (run of 200)... Prominent Iranian artist Siavash Amini continues a triptych of works with ‘Subsiding’, an album of instrumental ambient drone. His most full and detailed sound to date illustrates Amini’s ability to bring together modern classical composition with that of controlled noise, granular synthesis, and atmospheric soundscape. Both monolithic and micro sound sculptures coexist within a perfect balance, a mix which makes for an all encompassing listen across the audio spectrum, funereal yet uplifting.
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    Marta Mist – Scavengers

    For Time Released Sound’s first release of the new year we are very pleased to be bringing you this full length from the very mysterious Leeds based trio, Marta Mist, entitled “Scavengers”. Having been on hiatus for a few years since last releasing on the Hibernate and Heat Death labels, they are back here with two beautiful long tracks that showcase their post rock tinged ambient sound. With violin playing a large part, these two moody, cinematic excursions into the cerebrum are a soundtrack and a treasure hunt for the ears!  
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    Fontaine – Diamond Lake

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    Diamond Lake was inspired by industrial parks, forest floors, insomnia and the landscape paintings of Ronnie Landfield. Limited edition CDr’s, 50 copies worldwide, hand-made covers with photos and hand numbered.
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    Limited Liability Sounds – Surrounding Countryside

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    It was our reading of an American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, or Life in the Woods that inspired and encouraged us to create Surrounding Countryside. In the narrative the author himself reduces his interest in material economy for the sake of spiritual wealth and by his complete immersion in the world of nature he is able to free himself for study and thought. When not busy with his domestic chores, Thoreau committed himself passionately to observing and recording of the flora and fauna near Concord. He seemed to perceive nature as a fruitful source of excitement. I read Walden when I make my first professional field recordings and sound effects. Surrounding Countryside is an emotional experience I passed through on the outskirts of a big city where I spent a couple of hot summer days recording the world around me as it really is like. Limited Liability Sounds latest enthusiastic response to a fast-changing world of music is a cautious attempt to produce ambient music which is more of a reflection than interpretation of the natural world. I hope this latest record of LLS will be a real treat for all sojourners in civilized life.
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    Michel Banabila: Tapu sampler 2016 (2xCD)

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    Limited edition 2CD album in a full colour matte finish 3 panel digipak. Compilation of tracks from independent releases on Tapu since 2005.
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    Olga Wojciechowska – Maps & Mazes

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    TRS057 is a stunning collection of electronically treated modern-classical beauties…somewhat dark and moody at times with it’s elegiac violin and haunting horns…yet always elegant and absorbing… Well…it’s the holiday season again, and the little elves at Time Released Sound have come up with something extra special for our year end release. TRS057 is a stunning collection of tracks from Polish composer/violinist Olga Wojciechowska entitled “Maps And Mazes”. These 11 pieces were originally written for various international theater/dance and film productions, and their overall feel reflects this performative nature. Electronically treated modern-classical beauties…somewhat dark and moody at times, with it’s elegiac violin and haunting horns…yet always elegant and absorbing…it’s an absolute honor to be releasing an album of music of this high caliber! This music will take you on a wondrous journey, and will serve as your map through the mazes of your emotions…
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    Joe Evans – Elemental States

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    As with his previous release on Spectropol (“Septimal” – 2014), with “Elemental States” Evans merges poetic and scientific ideas into compelling music that transcends its extramusical guides. In this case the classical elements are paired with the states of matter and prime numbers, realized with mellow metallic pitch sources and juxtaposed field recordings for the first four tracks, and with synthesis in the fifth. Elemental States is a mostly meditative experience, sonically rich and gently paced, yet full of surprises to the attentive listener.
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    Darren McClure – Apperception

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    Darren McClure is an Irish sound artist living in Matsumoto, Japan. His work focuses on texture, space and atmosphere. Sound sources are both analogue and digital, hardware and software, incorporating found sounds and field recordings to lend an organic, tactile quality to the pieces. His main intent is to create sound to both zone out to and zone into, a balance of widescreen drones and more minimal, abstract ambience. His material has appeared on imprints such as The Land Of, Unknown Tone, Flaming Pines, Symbolic Interaction to name a few. He has also become an in demand collaborator working with artists like Jose Soberanes, Miguel Isaza and Offthesky. He has released solo and collaborative work on a number of labels, across various formats. His music has also been used in conjunction with video work and documentary shorts.
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    Post Global Trio – Clouds

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    Post Global Trio is a project between Toni Dimitrov – electronics, field recordings, contact mic, acoustics, Dimitar Dodovski – electronics, synths and Martin Georgievski – guitar, synths, electronics, piano. Post Global Trio is an experience. An experience that you can feel on the journey through distant lands. Inside or outside thyself. Image of clear and subtle soundscapes and landscapes. Enter into the woods. Leave the city behind the horizon. Forget about it… Now enter more deeply. In thyself. And find yourself. The way you were before you have long forgotten. The project is created as a continuity of communication, collaboration, necessity of developing a certain scene. Sound picture of long-term mutual philosophical meditations.
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    Xu – Panpsychism

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    “Panpsychism” is a collection of slightly edited improvisations recorded using guitars, sine wave generator, fx and looper pedals. It is an exploration of the timbrical possibilities of acoustic or electric guitars, in almost no case played in an orthodox way (bowed, prepared, hammered, etc). Reminiscient of Talvihorros this is a 6 track release which varies from the almost noise – then-classic drone of “Blood-streams of existence” to the sinister sounds of “Rise” which wouldn’t be out of place in a horror film, through to the dual centre pieces of “Hive Mind” and “Hive Mind (Reprise), “Panpsychism” is for the lovers of more darker experimental material.
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    Yamaoka – Silent Film

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    Yamaoka is the solo project of Kenichi Oka and was formerly a duo with Yoshinori Yamazaki (the name being a fusion of their surnames). They have been releasing music since 1996 but since 2007 it has been Kenichi’s project. Originally a techno outfit these days Yamaoka are pursuing electronic music with a strong synth, loop based sounds with grounding in Ambient and an almost beat-less stripped down version of Techno. Kenichi creates unique loop based tracks made in real time, without use of computers. Controlled by the Roland MC50 sequencer, Kenichi adds a human touch and “life” feel to his tracks. Following on from recent releases such as “Time to Time” on Databloem, “A Baoa Q” on Disq An, Kenichi Oka aka Yamaoka continues to further his pursuit of Electronic Synth based ambient and beat less almost Techno over 9 tracks on “Silent Film”. Subtleties and variance appear on this album from the loop based “Room Number” to the more techno based tracks like “David” and “Nakagawa” to the Aphex Twin like “Tartarus”. Something for those with varied electronic tastes.
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    Gypsy Eyes – Nefelibata

    For TRS056 we are very pleased to be bringing you this languidly brooding full length from somewhat mysteriously anonymous, Los Angeles based artist, Gypsy Eyes…and it’s called “Nefelibata.” We’re not quite sure if Gypsy Eyes is a Nefelibata himself…but what we do know, we loved when we first heard his somewhat dark and nocturnal excursion through a spooky forest fire ridden landscape…woodland creatures purring, these crackling and harsh yet melodic and soothing atmospheres bring to mind both immolation and rebirth, and we are all wrapped up in these electronically treated wanderings of the cloud walker…who is not like us…
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    Grace Beneath The Pines – ST

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    The debut eponymous album by Grace Beneath the Pines takes influences from the raw, methodical emotion of such bands as Codeine, The For Carnation and Slint, fused with the lyrical lightness of Low and Piano Magic. Written with three different formations using three different bass players, each adding their own personality, skill, love and passion to the writing process, Grace Beneath the Pines is a musical journey that takes the listener to different places (musically speaking) through an amalgamation of musical styles and rhythms.
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    J Butler – Memory

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    Memory is that most elusive thing, so certain at a distance, but once examined up close full of holes and doubt. Memories fade, change, are re-written, morph and elide. At once ungraspable, unknowable and always out of reach they are also an essential part of each of us, and the basis of life as we know it. In Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks writes: “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” This album with its delicate twists and turns, its unexpected returns and re-workings is J Butler’s meditation on the ways we remember. From the slow unfolding of Float, to the hazy repetitions of the title track and the insistent tug of Ephemera this is an album which you won’t forget.
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    Chandeliers – Artifacts

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    Imaginative music from Chandeliers (19 years old, living in Detroit/USA) trying to capture the deep sadness and nostalgic feeling of abandonment…
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    Light Sleeper – The Goodbye…

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    The Goodbye That Keeps On Giving is about memories, the past and goodbyes. The kind of memories that just don’t seem to fade and learning the importance of saying goodbye, in an attempt to find balance between holding onto memories, living in the present and looking forward to the future.
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    Silk Saw – Imaginary Landscapes

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    Comes in a lovely sleeve with gorgeous illustrations by Grisha and vinyl-like inner sleeve. Limited to 500 copies.... After 9 years of silence, here’s the 11th album from the unclassifiable Brussels-based duo. With their usual tamping drums (just mention the two parts of “The Decision to Exist” or “Same Area”, led by a ferocious 808), a regular bass guitar hammering, some bare minimum poor voices, threatened violins, skinbound flute and oboe here and there, a distorted furious piano everywhere and finally some tiny cautious optimism (the extra-human guitar in “Enough Slaps”). The whole is carefully assembled in order to obtain an accurate picture of life on Earth. “Pain” and “Pleasure” are different aspects of the same mental construction.  
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    Lyken / Dove – Mirror Lands

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    As usual TRS055 will come in two distinct versions. This is the lovely digipak version in an edition of just 100 copies. Both versions come with a factory pressed picture disc... For our 55th release we at TRS are very pleased to be bringing you this soundtrack to the film, “Mirror Lands”, by Mark Lyken and Emma Dove. Working in sound, music and film, these two regular collaborators are Scotland-based artists with a mutual interest in relationships to place and the complex interactions between humans, nature and industry. In their work they are drawn to revealing beauty within the ordinary and the musicality of the environment. This soundtrack is a lovely combination of minimal pastoral piano infused arrangements, industrial and natural field recordings, voice overs, and evocative electronics.
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    The Doubling Riders – Garama

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    This is the beautiful digipak version in an edition of just 150 copies. It comes with an inside pocket and a 4 panel booklet... For TRS054 we are extremely excited to bring you what is our first re-release. This is an absolutely lovely, and criminally under heard beauty from Italian group, The Doubling Riders, entitled “Garama”. Originally released in 1991 on the fantastic, Italian Il Museo Immaginario label, this is a wonderfully evocative album of old school, synth infused ethno-ambiance of the highest caliber. A concept album of sorts, it references the ancient Saharan kingdom of the Garamantes, who lived in what is now central Libya. Eerie, melodic, mysterious…please discover the wonder of Garama for yourself after all these years…  
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    Zander One – Emerald Awaking

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    “Inspired by the thick haze of the Ohio summer, Emerald Awakening explores the sonic realms embodied in the incandescent vapor hanging over the Cuyahoga Valley. As the awakening of spring permeates into every corner of the atmosphere, warm pads begin to take shape and form, backed by the gentle rhythm of the valley coming alive once more. Organic melodies layer the cloudy sky, through sun and storm, with a culmination of the gentle transition to autumn.” This album includes two remixes from Coppice Halifax and Shea McGilvray.
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    Artificial Memory Trace ‎– Amfibion

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    Amfibion takes the listener into a rich, bizarre and disorienting world, a biological melting pot of the uncanny, the bewildering and the awe inspiring. Comprised of treated field recordings of frogs taken during excursions in the Brazilian Amazon from 2007 to 2011, Amfibion is largely based on mating songs, and Artificial Memory Trace treats them in a manner which underlines the humid fecundity of this ecological wonderland. These pieces froth and foam, drip and slide from crashing crescendo to an eerie throb in the blink of an eye. There are croaks, shimmers, pulses and drones, sounds come together suddenly, and end just as abruptly. The sound world of Amfibion is a complex one, a place where life, death and reproduction intermingle like frog calls in the night, without beginning, or end. An unforgettable journey.
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    Arash Akbari – Vanishing Point

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    Iran’s Arash Akbari’s Vanishing Point nestles into inbetween places, revelling in the indistinct, the delicate and the mysterious. Bringing together field recordings taken from northern Iran, guitar and electronics, this is a late night album, an album which soothes, a set of sounds to think to. This is an album which lingers in the margins of consciousness, it conjures images gently, caresses them and ever so slowly lets them fade from view. With last year’s heralded Cracked Echoes on the excellent French label Soft Akbari established himself as an emerging talent within the ambient scene. With Vanishing Points he cements his reputation as one of the genre’s most exciting new talents.
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    Corder Ritger Yantis – Possession

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    Three sonic heavyweights have come together to compose the dark drone beauty Possession. Released in time for Valentine’s Day, this EP has no easy endings, only endless destructive cycles played out in a ruined universe. Inspired from the minds of US-based musicians Jason Corder (offthesky), Cody Yantis and Carl Ritger (Radere), they have birthed a doom drone space centric scape of obsession, madness and despair. From the gripping unfolding of the opening track Ascension, to the mind travel of A Viscous Tear and the majestic denouement of the 20 minute closing piece Wrath to Wraith, Possession will hold you in its chilly grip to the very end.
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    Valiska / Zenjungle – A Changing Light

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    Born out of a collaboration stretching from Vancouver to Athens, A Changing Light centres on change, dislocation and uncertainty. From different time zones, and very different cities Valiska (Krzysztof Sujata) and Zenjungle (Phil Gardelis) have carved out an album which celebrates change, nuance and noise. ”We hope that the listener will be as uncertain about where they will find themselves from track to track as the image that we had in our minds,” the pair explain. From the gorgeously gritty Derive to Gardelis’ blissful sax work on Nightwinds this is a special collaboration.  
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    Specta Ciera – Overwintering

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    Overwintering was inspired by watching animals leave Boston. As the weather turned cold it also became a lot quieter. As Devin Underwood, who releases as Specta Ciera explains: “Birds leaving the area for warmer climates created a sense of abandonment and isolation, the lack of song birds, buzzing and chirping of insects changed the atmosphere of my surroundings entirely. With “Overwintering” I wanted to try and harness those feelings of the deepest, coldest moments of winter as the first snows settle in and slowly with it, the deep freeze develops.”
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    Ross Baker – Two Suns Were Visible…

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    Inspired by vast empty spaces from military training sites to churches, Two Suns Were Visible in the Sky presents a vast panorama filled with joyous signs of life. From the opening sweep of ‘International Debris’ to the melancholic tones of the all too brief ‘Some Early Hour’ and the wistful ‘Farewell, Swifts’ this is album full of emotion. Baker said he was inspired by the emptiness of abandoned spaces because he felt they were so desolate you could almost see the sun rise again before it had set. With ‘Two Suns’ Baker might just have succeeded in bringing some extra light into all our skies.
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    Sara Forslund – Water Became Wild (Deluxe)

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    The limited edition version of “Water Became Wild” comes in an edition of only 63 copies. They are a beautiful hinged and lidded box with a magnetic clasp decorated in a white rose pattern rubber stamp that wrap all the way around. Each box is covered with beautiful photos of Sara taken by Lisa Ljunggren. Inside each box is a 3D diorama of Sara, contained under glass, and made up of actual leaves, moss and branches from the forest in which Sara is portrayed in the photos. Also included in each box is an accordion style hand worked 8 panel fold out insert with all the lyrics of the album, actual pages from Sara’s journals, Sara’s hand typed and signed Swedish poems, bits of her pipe tobacco and actual lipstick smudges… all in all a bit over the top and quite special and personalized!!
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    Tiny Leaves – A Certain Tide

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    Over a misty weekend in winter, composer Joel Pike aka Tiny Leaves, gathered a few of his favourite musicians deep in the Shropshire countryside. Together they laid down A Certain Tide, the anticipated second full length album from Tiny Leaves. The album captures a special moment in time, recorded over a few hidden days. It was here that the tracks were played live for the first time and the resulting recording carries a hopeful, fresh and intimate sound. The album became a whole, threaded through piece by piece, making it play almost as one long song. Pike says “A Certain Tide explores the meeting of the sacred and the ordinary, it speaks of hope in the turbulence, tells of the dance of the beautiful within the simple.” Building on the success of his debut album, he has created a work which feels much bigger in scope, size and feeling. From Pike’s minimal duets to fuller ensembles, A Certain Tide promises to engulf the listener in a deluge of heavenly song.
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    Anne Garner – Be Life

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    The limited edition (of 200) CD comes in a custom handmade heavy card sleeve individually rubber-stamped with Anne’s original artwork and containing a hand-stitched 12-page photographic lyric booklet and glass-mastered full-colour disc. Anne Garner’s fourth album is a beguiling blend of alternative pop, spectral lullabies and tender neo-classical arrangements. This dreamy, eerie and unashamedly beautiful collection of vocal-electronic crossover works represents the patient distillation of raw life experience into something subtle, ethereal and sublime. The album follows Remaking the Pearl, Magic & Madness and the acclaimed Trusting a Twirled World.
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    Hakobune – Vitex Negundo…

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    1. Daisuke Matsusaka – Cease To Effect 08:08 2. DJ Nobu – Saying This Once 07:31 3. Katsunori Sawa – Brief Respite Desertificate rmx 05:05 4. Dalhas Umai – Cease To Effect 07:23 5. Constellation Botsu – Brief Respite 02:09 6. Miclodiet – Cease To Effect 08:31 7. Guilty C. – Brief Respite 04:50 8. Taishin – Saying This Once 07:16 9. Foodman – Cease To Effect 03:48 10. Koba – Brief Respite 08:55
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    thisquietarmy – Anthems for Catharsis (CD)

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    Anthems for Catharsis marks the follow up to thisquietarmy’s last full length studio works “Rebirths”, a representative collection of reworked tracks that have defined his purgative live performances. Between back-to-back tours in Europe & Asia and the release of live drone documents as well as collaborative works with Noveller, Aidan Baker/Hypnodrone Ensemble, André Foisy/Locrian, Syndrome/Amenra, thisquietarmy’s Eric Quach went back to the drawing board in his Montreal studio, at the end of 2014. Within the repetitive genre of ambient and drone, thisquietarmy constantly evolves and tries to incorporate new additional textures and structures into the music – for instance, think of the kraut rock shoegaze of “Resurgence”, or the post rock doom of “Hex Mountains”. However, in other to start fresh and shed skin from exhaustive influences, Quach strips his music down to the black bones. Anthems for Catharsis sounds very focused but also very very dark, not unlike a ritual cleansing or a detoxification. In dismantling his sound, thisquietarmy almost struck a black metal vein, resulting in a dark and brooding ice cold oozing of his signature drones.
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    Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson – So Long

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    A journey through time, perhaps, for a daydreamer floating in a small boat amidst the radiant hues of a midnight sun. That daydreamer in this instance is the Icelandic artist Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, best known for his electro-surrealism in Stilluppsteypa. He has long been an artist of extremes and absurdities — mania fueled performances, wildly scribbled drawings, and Haflerian audio shock-therapy, on one side; and on the other, a profound meditation on austere shape, form, and mood cast through similar media. Sigmarsson will intermingle these sentiments in slippery juxtaposition and assemblage, with beguiling, haunting, and / or charming results. So Long aligns itself firmly within that latter aesthetic of crypto-minimalism which began to germinate some 20 years ago. At that time, Stilluppsteypa was a trio who had recently eschewed their art-punk trappings, drunkenly scheming to corner the market at Documenta with deconstructivist drone and 21th century circuitry. Sigmarsson would find himself in his own studio, crafting sympathetic works to Stilluppsteypa; but these were directed inward as wounded, naked, and vulnerable concoctions reflective of Sigmarsson getting lost in his own little world. So Long quietly simmered in his head over the years; and with the completion of this album, we now have a sublime gesture of polar impressionism flecked with hallucinatory ambience, Vaseline-smeared crackle, and hauntological displacement. This album had originally been planned for release through the impeccably curated Intransitive Recordings, but that publishing house shuddered its doors before this could see the light of day. Sigmarsson self-released a condensed version of the album on the artbook / cassette If You Have Any Questions, Let Me Ask. The Helen Scarsdale Agency is delighted, honored, and humbled to publish this dronescaping threnody in its full radiance and blur.
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    Adrian Lane – Branches Never Remember

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    Evolving as a reaction to the initially recorded melody of each piece, Branches Never Remember adopts the same symbiotic process Lane uses when painting – layering parts up, cutting them up and moving them around, until the finished result is achieved. Indeed, a painter by profession, Lane often works on music and paintings simultaneously. Employing a combination of age-old instruments (alto and baritone bowed psalteries, acoustic guitar, violin, banjo, zither, glockenspiel, piano) but constructing the pieces in a way that could only be achieved with modern technology, Branches Never Remember takes influences from Early music, folk, world and contemporary classical, ambient and electronica. Lane thinks of the pieces as a kind of ‘contented melancholy’, although admits that the addition of frame drum, played by Wil Proctor, changes the mood with an almost heroic feel at times. Branches Never
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    Adverb – JADI

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    JADI by Adverb – a musical story inspired by numerous events and moments that we’ve experienced, and people that have affected us throughout our life time. Every track has an individual character and mood, illustrating a variety of feelings. JADI is an autobiography told with sounds, its a memoir to be continued…
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    Bengalfuel – Rapalyea

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    Bengalfuel have crafted another glorious collection of ambient synthesizer mysteria, ranging from celestial awe to their signature haunted solace. Lush pads avalanche to form a sonic terrain like cinematic future landscapes, embracing calm desolation over busy layering; the tracks are direct yet majestic in stature. Only in the final piece does this quiet world begin to teem with life and does so as if riots have broken out, seemingly everything that was held back is unleashed in a massive fury of factory-powered beats and melodic firestorms: an immense atmosphere capping off a most splendid musical journey, in many respects among Bengalfuel’s very best.
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    Benjamin Finger – Motion Reverse

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    ith the dust only just settling from the release of the delicate ambient textures of “Pleasurably Lost” on Eilean Rec. in april, Benjamin Finger returns with “Motion Reverse” on Shimmering Moods Records. Coming from someone in an apparent state of creative overdrive “Motion Reverse” is a surprisingly singular and coherent body of work that comes off as a bit of a side mission for an artist that has made “Onward!” his very own artistic slogan. “Motion Reverse” escapes the possible limitations implied by such a guiding imperative and sees an artist that, in accordance with the title, perhaps steps back a bit and completes a puzzle envisioned from pieces and patterns scattered around in his previous work. The result is a refreshing and nicely scheduled departure from Finger’s overall artistic journey, I soon and very readily referred to it as “the dirty dub album” and that is indeed how I like to quickly sum it up in my mind tenfolds of listens later. There is a playful hands-on approach at work here, immediately evident on the opening track “Vocal Limited”, where Finger creates melodic and rhythmic patterns by performing a vocal sample through time variations on what appears to be a tape delay. The following two tracks – “Frontal Waves” and “Dubstore Light” – mirrors each other and form a hypnotic, shimmering and pulsating dub-suite on their own that sounds like the classic dub of Basic Channel psychedelically reimagined, with the ghost of early Seefeel chanting in the background. “Childish Tape” is a playful interim with a sample of a child in joyous self discovery before the first half of the album is summed up and dissolved in “Black Hat”. The second half of the album is more neatly organized in melodic pieces, still with a strong foundation in dub. “Sunny Echoes” and “Spacecore Dust” have – titles aside – a nice nocturnal feel to them, both with a lovely reminiscence of stuff we used to find on releases from labels like Skam and Source back in the nineties and the latter admittedly being an Autechre tribute. The album then closes with two tracks – “Bright Exit”, that sounds like a subtly sung phonetic blues about the massive and grand finale of the drone-like massive synth washes of “Dream Logic”. The artwork is done by Benjamin himself and the Super 8 mm stills are from his visual work: «Loops The Loop», which was screened at Smith ́s Row Gallery in the UK and at Cinema Neuf in Norway 2013.
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    Giulio Aldinucci – Spazio Sacro (Deluxe)

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    Limited deluxe version in an edition of just 75 copies comes in the form of a mysterious “shroud” wrapped hardback book cover. In each book is a fold open, sewn 3D collaged landscape made from the pages of an ancient Italian book on the Diocese, 150 year old hand written musical scores, and pictorial engravings. Also included in each is a vintage religious medallion, and a factory pressed picture disc on hub...
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    Giulio Aldinucci – Spazio Sacro

    We are extremely pleased to be bringing you this beautiful new release from Italian soundscape artist, Giulio Aldinucci. Entitled “Spazio Sacro”, it is an absorbing blend of moody electronics and liturgical field recordings, or as the artist himself puts it…” “The seven tracks that compose Spazio Sacro (“sacred space” in English) are characterized by field recordings taken in places that are related to the idea of “sacred” in different ways. The starting point is a reflection on how human rites define new soundscapes (e.g. processions, architecture of churches and cathedrals or ruins of isolated mountain sanctuaries). The audio material has been manipulated and the music has been written in a constant dialogue with my personal memories, especially those from childhood, when in my area (a small village in Tuscany, Italy) religious rites still marked the pace of the community life throughout the year.”
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    The Classical – Diptych (Deluxe)

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    Limited deluxe version, in an edition of just 65 copies comes in the form of a “Time Sensitive” hardcover book… embellished with clock parts/faces/hands on the outside, and collaged inside with antique, blue tinted engravings of Greek and Roman statuary that have been modified with gears, springs and other horological workings, in a pseudo steampunk fashion. Each of the initial 50 copies has wooden edging, vintage wooden instructional musical note blocks corners, and comes with factory pressed disc and hand printed insert in a mounted, midnight black envelope.
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    The Classical – Diptych

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    As the first release on our “sub label”, Time Sensitive Materials, we are very excited to be bringing you this full length album from soon to be notorious San Francisco potents The Classical, entitled “Diptych”. The Classical is vocalist/songwriter Juliet Gordon, and insanely talented, and at times avant jazz drummer Britt Ciampa. Let’s see, hmmmmmmm…the wayward daughter of Nico, having an early Birthday Party hosted in the modern haunted house of Scott Walker? Opaqued window shades by John Barry? With it’s absolutely original sounding jazz tinged swampy post punk martial vibe, and it’s heavy drum sound and beautiful noirish vocals, it may be at times not for the easily challenged, yet is completely accessible to those like us with discriminating tastes! As with TRS projects, the Time Sensitive Material releases will also be coming in two versions. This is the digipak available in a a first pressing of 150 copies.
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – Upon Contact Reworked

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    Upon Contact Reworked  is a collaborative work from Bruno Sanfilippo that features some of the most highly acclaimed artists from the electronic music scene including Francesco Giannico, Olan Mill, Leonardo Rosado, Jorge Haro, Quivion and Hior Chronik in which an original piece written for piano is re-envisioned by each artist.
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    Ieva – Lueurs

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    Handmade Copies – – Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered. Limited edition of 120... Ieva is the solo project by Samuel André (born in 1978), a self-taught French sound & video artist living in Kyoto, Japan. He founded and curated Pollen Rec. Since his last solo release in 2012 and his last collaboration with Hakobune, he presents on Eilean Rec. his new release : ” Lueurs “.  
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    Brinstaar – Infotswetock

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    'I was creating Infotswetock using my guitar and some pedals, you can hear a synth I used in some tracks, it seems to be Polivoks as far as I remember. I had nowhere to play at that time, so I grabbed up my stuff and get it to the work office, and play the music when I had a break (and by the way, I want to say thanks to all colleagues and owners for the great patience they paid to me). I made a creation process in the way of playing with hardware for a while to the moment I got sound I liked, then I get myself deep into sonar meditation. I improvised until I had my mind completely off, then I push the record button and get a condensed and intensive version in a right state of mind. Every track holds a several lines recorded in this way. For 2 years, while I was working on the album, I made hundreds of tracks, then I started to collect the coolest ones of them… then I dreamed a name Infotswetock, and that is how it was born.' - Brinstaar
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    [Bolt ] – 03 (CD)

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    The follow-up to their meanwhile sold out record ( 0 2 ) and a stream of collaborations presents the drone-duo in a grown-up, elaborated heavy darkness soundwise. Where once the distorted-to-the-max walls of sound were all over the place, a more ambient-esk eagerness to experiment comes into play. This progress suits the diversity of the record pretty well. But it’s still highly recommended to play this one at health-risky volume.
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    Fossil Aerosol Mining Project

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    It is “like stowing away on an ageing freight train as it winds its way from the balmy American South to an unnamed permafrost north.” That’s the premise of this album, which recalls everything from William Basinski (in its use of slightly decayed analogue tapes) to Chris Watson’s field recordings, to the KLF’s 1990 ambient trans-American odyssey Chill Out. Fossil Aerosol Mining Project are a shadowy collective who have been around since the early 1980s, long time associates of :zoviet*france, but for all the reminders it invokes and the ostensibly familiar topography it covers, this is an album, an experience like no other, 51 minutes of remote beauty and disquieting bliss. As with their previous work, and hinted at in the cover photography of grassed-over, long demolished industrial complexes, Fossil Aerosol Mining Project are preoccupied with cultural debris, the ghostly outlines and traces of abandonment and obsolesence that abide on the landscape. This is evident on ‘Transparency Of Limestone’, over which the voice of some former human presence – a guide, or instructor to a mining facility reverberate and drift. ‘Systems Clock’, with its ticking motif, like a ghost train clacking along the railroad divides, is similarly unnerving. The centrepiece of the album, however, is the 21 minute ‘Ice Falls/Taking On Water’. It contains the full gamut of 17 Years In Ektachrome motifs – smudgy, near-abstract intimations of small towns submerged to make way for giant dams, endless, barren, scorched plains, the clank of old pulleys and the creak of lovely weather vanes, the desultory trickle of rusty brown water, sepia tints and sonic mirages of an America that once was. It refuses to decay into absolute extinction, lingering in faded photo archives and distant memories, still able to yield the occasional, silver glimmer. Archeological ambient, you might say. All the listener need do is bed down like a hobo in a slow-moving carriage across the thousands of miles of terrain covered here, enjoy the slowly shifting view in all its deceptive permanence and awesome emptiness, as the mercury level drops on the thermometer.
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    Cristal – Homegoing

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    J. Anthony, G. Darden and R. Donne (Labradford, Spokane, ex-Aix Em Klemm) journey through simmering electronic, wide-screen vistas to seismic, swelling and undulating soundscapes. From the shifting-sand textures of “Yoke” (replete with deeply moving, melancholic cello sifting through the ether) and “Streaming Wisdom,” to the ever-so-slightly somber tones of “Dead Bird,” Homegoing is a wondrously thought-provoking, uplifting aural adventure—a technicolor travelogue of things possibly lost, possibly not. File alongside latter-day Biosphere, Deathprod (especially both Helge Sten and Cristal’s attention to the minutest sonic detail), and the later, electronically based Zoviet France releases. Pour a glass of your finest tipple, sit back and be transported to a very special dimension. Cristal’s Homegoing has it all, and more.
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    TimeDog – The Fragile Present

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    TimeDog is a moniker of multi-instrumentalist and experimental composer Pete Burton. His music is an organic and personal journey. Improvisation and long live takes are critical for his sound as a means to translate aspects of the human condition as directly as possible. The variation and diversity in themes and styles found throughout this album is a direct result of this compositional process. His music is largely made in his Glasgow based studio on a variety of hardware analogue and digital synthesizers, guitars, piano and a multitude of percussion instruments with field recordings also woven into some of his pieces. The opener takes the listener into a digital dreamscape, improvised in one take, leading us into the epic ambient excursion of “The Pilgrimage”. The music then darkens in mood with the bowed guitar-driven “Ancient Tales” brooding ominously before a shower of hailstorms marks the begining of “Fear of Change”, a Cage inspired avant-garde bed of chaotic percussion traversing through haunting piano structures (recorded in the piano carrells of a local library). “The Gateway” offers us exactly that, through its guitar-led, poignant melody we find ourselves bathed in the warmth of “Beyond Love”. From there the album leads us through multiple dimensions of sound including the wall of percussion in “Let Them In”, the melancholic looped field recordings of “Conversations”, the counterpoint guitars in “Counters” and the drones of “Soul Mother”. Finally we’re back in the piano room with a delicate and beautiful piece that reminds us that our presence in the present is always fragile.
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    Macheteoxidado – Viento De Las Montañas

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    Rain is pouring from dark clouds, and there is a harmonica which sounds trapped at the bottom of a well. The ground is waterlogged and can accept no more. Water floods down the slope, towards a valley. There is in fact a well at the bottom of this valley, and you are going in. The well leads to a tunnel. You’d light a match but you were drenched in the storm. The sound of something distant thrashing echoes toward you. You walk in a direction you hope is opposite to the source, and towards a sound you hear in the wind rushing through the tunnel. This place is unknown, but not hostile. Curiosity is the word. You come into a room that is lit not by fire, but fluorescent fixtures somewhere you cannot see. This is the lobby of a labyrinth. There is a hole in the stone ceiling, all the way up to the sky. Some rain falls through and cascades into a fountain in the center of the waiting room. You are called by a cloaked receptionist and led through a door. You enter a long passage way, a catwalk suspended over an abyss. There is a different kind of light in here. You are going to the other side. You have to crawl on your way across, grab the edges, because of the wind blowing across the path. A soft purple glow comes up from the endless altitude of this cavern. It doesn’t seem like the worst thing to let yourself go, but you keep crawling.
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    Various – Dendrology

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    The next Ology incarnation, this time as Dendrology, took place on 1st November 2014 in the Barn at The Railway, Winchester. We are pleased to announce that the following artists joined us: Robert Curgenven, known for his work with organ, feedback and resonance; Plurals, the Brighton-based drone improv group; the extremely talented improvisational violinist Jennifer Allum; and finally Stereocilia, with a mix of guitar and live looping techniques. All in all another fascinating night of experimental music!
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    Various – Fluviology

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    Recorded at an Ologies gig upstairs at the Railway in Winchester on 23rd July 2014, featuring the ethereal majesty of Delphine Dora and Sophie Cooper plus field recording artist Sebastiane Hegarty and our very own Joe Evans.
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    Aidan Baker – Half Lives (2 x CD)

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    Half Lives is the Gizeh Records follow-up album to Baker’s acclaimed 2013 album Already Drowning. While that album was built around the guest vocals of female singers – including Carla Bozulich, Jessica Bailiff and Geneviéve Castrée (O Paon) – Half Lives comprises two separate but interconnected albums and Baker’s loose concept was that they would bridge the more abstract/experimental and song-oriented natures of his work. Both albums were recorded in August 2014 in Berlin and are the product of initial extended improvisations that were then arranged into coherent pieces – ‘constructed’ rather than ‘composed’. In these senses, parallels can be made with artists such as Bark Psychosis, Low and The For Carnation, for whom experimentation with texture and timbre has never been a reason to abandon the song form. Where these two albums differ is in their sonic pallettes. Mountains Sweat Clouds is based around the electric guitar whereas As I Walked On Dead Earth features primarily acoustic guitar. However, any sense that this might provide an easy separator is quickly erased by Baker’s supreme skills at arranging and layering his material, featuring extensive use of organ, synths, percussion, field recordings and vocals. His curiously dispassionate yet emotional vocal is actually one of the strongest elements to the albums – conceived once the music was complete, it provides the thread along which the pieces flow. Taken together, the two albums that comprise Half Lives are further evidence of Baker’s expressive, shapeshifting sound.
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    Western Skies Motel – Prism

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    Western Skies Motel is the solo project of Danish guitarist René Gonzàlez Schelbeck. Exploring the intimate nature of the classical guitar, the thirteen pieces on Prism unfold around a theme of balancing light and darkness, uncovering an undercurrent of reflections on solitude in the creative process. Relying on a variety of open tunings, mantric repetitions and droning strings, Western Skies Motel seeks to create a timeless space where the guitar becomes the lens in which the nuances reveal themselves. The album also sees Western Skies Motel experimenting with the 3rd bridge technique, pioneered by such experimentalists as Fred Frith and Keith Rowe, to create porous harp like timbres that weave through the album, offering a lightness and transparency to the restricted sonic palette of the collection.
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    Drawing Virtual Gardens – Six Weeks Were… (Deluxe)

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    Deluxe limited version comes in an edition of just 70 copies. It comes in the form of a corner hinged booklet of industrial engravings, hole punched pages from vintage children connect-a -dot books, hand colored children’s books, and other antique paper ephemera…all meant to convey both the feeling of the hospital as a machine itself of sorts, and the childlike essence kept within. Each booklet comes in a hand stamped/worked envelope that is covered with a 120 year old machine shop engraving, under which lies the childlike doll herself! Pictured on the factory pressed disc is an image of the door behind which she was born.
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    Drawing Virtual Gardens – Six Weeks Were Too Long To Wait

    This release is the lovely digipak version, in an edition of 150 copies... We are very pleased to be bringing you this first full length release from Drawing Virtual Gardens, entitled “Six Weeks Were Too Long To Wait”. DVG is American born electronic music artist, David Gutman, who currently lives in Belgium. This set of seven somewhat tense and at times industrial sounding, yet still melodic and tenderly manipulated tracks was inspired mainly by the impending birth of his first daughter. Recorded while waiting for her birth, and mixed and mastered during the extra three weeks she was kept in the hospital (hence the title), it is a paean to patience, hopefulness and longing…and a hymn to finally coming home.
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    Whetham / Canned Fit – Elephant in the Salon

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    Simon is a well-known UK experimental sound artist with releases on labels such as Cronica Electronica, Flaming Pines, Line, Rural Colours, The Helen Scarsdale Agency to name a few, while Canned Fit aka Christine Schörkhuber, a Vienna based sound artist has appeared on digital various artists compilations. This is her first physical appearance. The sound artist Christine Schörkhuber works with a fragile yet powerful setup consisting of self-built electronic analogue interfaces, sonorous everyday commodities and her voice. The performance is trembling between subtle crunchy sounds, song fragments, noise-fields and penetrating drones. Christine Schörkhuber and Simon Whetham met in early 2013 through mutual friend Luis Toto Alvaro where the three of them performed collaboratively in a darkened room in Quillota, Chile. It was there they realised that through very different means, they were producing similar and complementary results. Following the concert they discussed the possibility of collaboration, face-to-face, rather than file sharing. The opportunity arose while Simon was in residence at Villa Waldberta, Feldafing, Germany through February and March 2014. Christine visited for two weeks for the duo to share time and exchange ideas, which led to a number of intensive and extensive recording sessions during which the artists pushed each other to create a work that is uncharacteristic of their solo activities.
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    Soft Ensemble – A Day in the Park…

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    The soft ensemble is a three piece musical project. It all started early 2014 when L.J.Wegrzyn and G. Bojanek made some music together for a release that never happened. The recordings were collecting dust for a couple of months when they joined up with F.Appel and decided to make some additional sessions. The final result is one long piece of music containing mainly tuning forks, field recordings, found sounds and some guitars. The soft ensemble is an open project which means the line-up could change, grow bigger or smaller or… it doesn’t have to change at all. The current line-up already started working on some new recordings.
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    Colbets – and silence

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    Colbets is a Japanese duo of Saitoh Tomohiro from Shreber Harber Mole Flying Wheel who teamed up with guitarist Kari Takemoto to form their ambient minded project Colbets, from Tokyo Japan. Silent music of resounds, time sleeps and warm air. “and silence” is their 5th album following releases from labels such as Twisted Tree Line, Vent and U-cover. Based around Kari Takemoto guitar and Saitoh Tomohiro synthesizer and trumpet, including collaboration with cello James Bryan Parks (aka Holy Kind Of) “and silence” contains five beautiful tracks become a very atmospheric experimental journey. Featuring stunning cover art from Phil Gardelis (aka Zenjungle) This release comes in a printed 2 panel card edition of 50 copies with factory replicated disc.
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    Michiru Aoyama – In a Dream

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    Michiru Aoyama is a 29 year old ambient composer from Kyoto. He studied electronic music in Berlin and the result of that journey led him to ambient music. Fast forward a couple of years and the young producer has managed to showcase an understanding of experimental music that rivals that of already established artists in the genre. His most recent piece, which holds the title “In A Dream” will be a true soundtrack for the ambient aficionado worldwide. The album opener To You, Relax, gently leads the listener into a warm and calm world where the noise of everyday life seems too far to notice and too soft to interrupt. Relaxation seems to be the name of the game and Aoyama sounds like a capable game master. Sparse layers of synths are laid on top of gentle drones and waves of field recordings and the result is a wonderfully serene experience. The music is exactly what it should be and nowhere does it feel like it becomes overly ambitious or eclectic, which does wonders for the consistency of the overall sound. Pure, organic sounding ambient music by Michiru Aoyama for Shimmering Moods Records. Highly limited CD, 100 hand-numbered copies with beautiful artwork in a special package with numbered photos.
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    Gallery Six – Gasansui

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    Amazing floating ambient music on Shimmering Moods Records. Highly limited CD, 100 copies worldwide, with beautiful artwork in a special package... Hidekazu Imashige aka Gallery Six is an artist and composer who lives in Hiroshima, Japan. For his new album “Gasansui” he has crafted a delicate collection of ambient moodscapes which are ideal for relaxation and introspection. Each track is a gorgeous picture come to life where the sound of birds chirping, water dripping or leaves rustling are underpinned by a bed of majestic keys and soothing pads. Green grass or blue water is often subdued or altogether washed out, allowing the music’s form to disappear in mist, as though it is being played from somewhere deep within a painting that threatens to swallow those who look upon it.
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    Elian – Cutting up the Sun

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    The second release on The Long Story Recording Company comes from American experimental electronic musician Elian aka Michael Duane Ferrell who has been making music for over 8 years with the most recent, “Harrowgate” (Home Normal, 2015) getting glowing reviews from the likes of A Closer Listen and Textura – “Heavily synthetic and electronic in character, Harrowgate is many things: multi-dimensional, chilly, severe, mystical, and even, yes, harrowing. Waves of synthetic sounds ebb and flow whilst percussive noises of indeterminate origin punctuate the streaming flow with their alien presence.” “Cutting up the Sun” is his new album. Elian describes his process of constructing tracks as “I try to create music that’s coloured by beauty, but also by abstract, angular and at times noisy elements. That midway position between what could be called ambient music and noise is where I hope to land. I also try to convey the tension that’s involved with creating art – the sense that total failure is a possibility. In other words, that duality between failure and actually pulling something off. Without that particular difficulty as an artist, I don’t know why I’d even bother to create.”  
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    M. Ostermeier – Still

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    Still is M. Ostermeier’s first album in four years. The album features his poignant and at times avant-garde piano style mixed with the spare use of electronics and processed acoustic recordings. Empty space and minimalism figure heavily in Still’s compositions, making for a stark and reflective album.  
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    Ballerini – Beautiful Ground

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    The creation of musical compositions starting from the recorded sounds is an imaginative transformation of the landscape and sound elements that most strongly express the identity of the communities Ballerini came across. This change projects the listener into parallel worlds, transcending the reality we experience in everyday life. Ballerini gives his listeners a work of strong emotional impact and creates sounds a step by step experience alone could produce, showing us a new land emerging from the old land. He mixes the soundscape of Le Marche, synthetic parts of electronic music, Italian ancient keyboard instruments from different periods recorded in the temple of San Francesco in Camerino and at the church of Cossignano, including organs, harpsichords and pianos.
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    Leonardo Rosado – Adrift

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    Every once in a while real and imaginary stories are the stuff that occupy our thoughts. They populate our dreams at every stage of our biography, they evolve backwards to previous iterations or leap forward to uncharted territories. Adrift was composed trying to capture this set of emotions, images and barely coherent scripts to give a glimpse of my own journey through sensations. The use of sound to convey emotions is perhaps the common denominator in all my work and the search for a universal code language is what I mostly want to achieve. Whether I am successful or not depends entirely on you, the listener, so I leave the scripts open to your own interpretations and I hope I succeed in some way at exposing emotions throughout the 7 pieces that together form the album. - LR
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    The Thomas Family – Dub Variations

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    A combination of David’s solo sketches, made using a modular synthesiser, and Daniel’s field recordings, taken in Hong Kong, formed the basis for the sessions that became these Variations... What we have here is a foundation document, an ur text, for this year’s most talked about sub-genre ‘extraction music‘. The album was recorded way before the term became common parlance on every street corner and was released way after. Hearing it is as mysterious and exciting as finding a previously missing explanatory introduction to the Voynich Manuscript. A truly essential purchase.
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    Heezen – Abandoned Memory

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    Mastered Ian Hawgood, ‘Abandoned Memory’ is published on Feutlab, a label created by Raül Fuentes to release his own work. The artwork is a geometric collage made with found photos, printed digitally on bi­fold 300 gr/m2 ecological paper (size: 13.6cm x14.2 cm closed) obtained from algae. All copies are numbered... ‘Abandoned Memory’ (Feutlab, 2015) is the fourth album from Raul Fuentes/Heezen, after ‘Golden Flow’ (Inrecs, 2009) and ‘Omiyage’ (LEA, 2012), both recorded using only field recordings, and ‘Secret Speech’ (12rec, 2006). ‘Abandoned Memory’ was recorded and mixed by Raül between 2009 and 2013, using field recordings, guitar, synthesizers, found objects and sounds, as he did in his debut album, ‘Secret Speech’. Among these found objects there was an old and deteriorated Czech reel­to­reel tape recorder. With it there was a tape reel in pretty bad condition, with home recordings made in the late 60’s. Memories of their former owners, of which it could be guess or imagine that were Spanish emigrants who in the late 60’s were living somewhere in Germany, thing that brings us to the present southern Europe. Some of these recordings and other sounds produced by this artifact: hiss, hum, distortion, etc, have been part of ‘Abandoned Memory’, where in addition, Raül mixes different analog and digital techniques to create impressionist collages about time and ephemeral memories.
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    Fanfare – Primal Intuition

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    Recordings were taken during improvised session as well as during several meetings of Filip and Jarek. Handmade CDR in limited edition of 100... Fanfare is a kind of platform on which a group of artists, closely or loosely linked, publish their notes related to the exploration of the phenomenon of improvisation in sound and image. We deliberately use the word “note” for the things that we present do not purport to be finished works. Rather, they are moments which capture the excitement and often fleeting states of mind. We move in the dark, often grappling with the awareness of how much more work is ahead of us.  
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    Filip Zawada – Snow Is A Sun For The Eskimo

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    Recordings were taken during improvised session. Handmade CDR in limited edition of 50 An Eskimo gets up in the morning and never wipes his eyes off. His dog is blind and that’s why it always follows its own footsteps. In the arctic circle, albinos have black eyes and they never dance because they do not melt. We call those albinos – snowmen. Eskimo changes his pounds into pennies and adopts seven bees who turn out everything he has ever experienced.  
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    Fanfare – Four furry Animals…

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    Handmade CDR in limited edition of 50... Fanfare is a kind of platform on which a group of artists, closely or loosely linked, publish their notes related to the exploration of the phenomenon of improvisation in sound and image. We deliberately use the word “note” for the things that we present do not purport to be finished works. Rather, they are moments which capture the excitement and often fleeting states of mind. We move in the dark, often grappling with the awareness of how much more work is ahead of us.  
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    Danny Clay – Ganymede

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    Matte finished sleeve and glass mastered CD in limited edition 100... “Ganymede” is the latest full length album from Ohio based composer Danny Clay. Having seen past releases on labels such as Eilean Records, Rural Colours, Heat Death and Audio Gourmet, each release has been very different but with each there is a theme where his music takes ordinary objects, sounds and ideas and re-purposes them in new, weird and wonderful ways. With that in mind, “Ganymede” consists of almost exclusively sounds produced by turntables, utilizing found objects, friction sounds, and lathe-cut records of sine-waves, piano, and music box. Many of these sounds have been further amplified by turntable preparations such as plastic cups with needles, combs, etc. and baby monitors.
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    Memory Drawings – There Is No Perfect Place (2 x CD)

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    Comes with bonus remix disc. Packaged in a six-panel cardboard sleeve with insert... There is No Perfect Place is the second full length album from Anglo-American chamber-folk outfit Memory Drawings. Led by the beguiling hammered dulcimer of Morocco-based American Joel Hanson, There Is No Perfect Place features Richard Adams and Sarah Kemp on guitars and violin respectively. The album showcases a wide palette of sounds delving into Talk Talk atmospherics, uplifting ethnic tinged pop, kraut driven experiments alongside Basinski – style piano pieces and glistening examples of the kind of Badalamenti influenced instrumentals that littered their debut album Music For Another Loss (Second Language, 2012). The album was recorded with Leeds based engineer Ross Halden and in Richard Adams home studio in York with guest spots from Florence Fawcett, Gareth S Brown and Canadian multi-instrumentalist Chris Tenz. The first 200 copies of the album comes with a bonus CD containing remixes by Benoit Pioulard, William Ryan Fritch, Pausal, A New Line (Related), Talvihorros and The Sly and Unseen.
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    Olan Mill / Keung Mandelbrot – Seismology

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    Seismology sees the soaring romanticism of Olan Mill combined with the mind-bending noise of Keung Mandelbrot. Between them they have graced labels such as Highpoint Lowlife, Preservation, Facture and Serein and shared a stage with the likes of Svarte Greiner, Kemper Norton, Simon Scott and Isan. In his solo work, Keung Mandelbrot focuses on experiments in guitar manipulation, using effects pedals and samplers to create intense soundscapes that take the listener from immersive drones to twitchy static. Olan Mill is well known for his expansive take on modern classical and incorporates strings, woodwind, piano and vocals alongside his processed guitar. Despite having been friends for years, the pair had never previously collaborated but one weekend they decided to plug in and play. The result is a visceral album that effortlessly combines the styles of these two disparate yet complimentary musicians, moving swiftly from enveloping textural drones to broken fragments of noise and intense rhythmic pulses. Recorded using guitars and numerous effects pedals, many of the tracks are left relatively untouched from the improvised sessions which lends the album a refreshing spontaneity.
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    Ben Fleury-Steiner – While The Red Fish Sleeps

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    Limited edition of 100... This work picks up from where my last work Clearings (Rural Colours) left off but is a much more explicit embrace of the surreal. Rather than just sounds as abstract place constructions alone, I returned more consciously to oceanic sounds recalled from sense impressions and memory fragments. At some point I found myself very interested in something I did a lot in the past–namely allowing for a kind of soundtrack to emerge. I like that the listener is both passive and perhaps curious in a way that might evoke emotions and memories of their own. If I were to choose particular influences I would summarize in this way: What if Tarkovsky and Malick co-directed a remake of The Old Man and the Sea and Nurse with Wound an Alio Die were cast in sonic drag as Santiago. All kidding aside, I feel like this is the most realized of my works to date.  
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    Shield Patterns – Violet EP

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    Violet is a lovingly crafted progression from Contour Lines – the highly acclaimed debut album released in the Summer of 2014. The experimentation found there has been explored further to feature samples made from clicking bones, field recordings, heavy drones and a starker approach to production. On first listen the sound is more minimalistic than that debut album but multiple layers gradually reveal themselves over time. Brentnall’s vocals were singled out for particular praise in early reviews and she has refined her vision further here, with her lyrical concerns focussing on the intimacy of bodies (“drip-feeding” and “mouths”, for example) and her voice arranged into swirling loops like those which introduce and underpin final track ‘Monument’.
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    Shield Patterns – Contour Lines

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    Contour Lines is the debut album from Shield Patterns. Following on from critically lauded lead single Dust Hung Heavy, Contour Lines carries the listener deeper into their world. Each track is laden with the kind of dark atmospherics most groups take years to unearth. Here, the fragility of Claire Brentnall’s early demos remains, but finds itself imbued with a richness of sound that can only come from studious soul searching and a cathartic creative process. The vulnerability of her intensely personal lyrics is tempered with highly processed strings, subby bass-lines, and ambient passages that brood as much as they shimmer. Lines between aesthetic and content are blurred, so that singer and song are intertwined.
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    Sonmi451 – The Limbic System (Deluxe)

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    Deluxe, limited version, in an edition of just 70 copies, comes as sort of “case file”…something that might be found hanging at the foot of a patient’s hospital bed. Each of these files is made from an antique, art deco photo folder, of varying shapes and sizes. Each file contains a photo of a particular patient, with a vintage glass, brain specimen slide hinged and overlaid on it. Each has stapled in it some papers of said patient…vintage medical forms,handwritten sheet music, original mimeographed poetry sheets, notes from books on the study of the brain, sagittal section diagrams of their brain as well, and other ephemera appropriate to the case. The outer files are hand stamped, labelled and notated. Each contains a factory pressed disc in an inner envelope, in a cotton sleeve.
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    Sonmi451 – The Limbic System

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    This release is the beautiful digipak edition of just 150 copies... For our 50th release, we are extremely pleased to bring you this latest beauty from returning artist, Sonmi451, aka Bernard Zwijzen. This melodic and crystalline set of electronically treated ambiance is entitled “The Limbic System”, and brings to mind, so to speak, that part of our brains that regulate the creative process, and that are involved in motivation, emotion, learning, and memory. These are perfectly inspirational sounds for those days spent in the studio creating music or art of one’s own…or in dreaming the day away instead! - TRS
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    Last Harbour – Caul

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    Caul is the new album from Last Harbour. Based in the northern English city of Manchester, Last Harbour play music that has a dark, gothic heart yet a sound that is always beautiful and transcendent. After working with producer Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Spacemen 3, Ghostpoet) on two previous albums, the band took time out after touring to build their own studio in 2013. This new album was recorded in that self-created space over a year between 2013-4 and bears testament to a patient and detailed recording process that allowed time for experimentation and careful arrangement.
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – Inside Life

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    “Inside Life” immerses the listener into magnificently expressive modern classical realms, tranquilly minimal, yet exquisitely nuanced, abundantly poignant and delicately filigree, where stirringly pensive sadness is masterfully counterpointed with hauntingly embracing stillness, while intensely evocative ambient subtleties are deliberately permeated by yearning haze. A truly fabulous bravura performance by Bruno Sanfilippo and his guests!
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – ClarOscuro

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    Barcelona based piano player and electronic musician Bruno Sanfilippo is a classically trained musician and composer who has been exploring the borders of minimal piano concepts and electro-acoustic music for more then 20 years. His CD series “PianoTextures“ sets him in a direct tradition of artists as Harold Budd and Brian Eno, combining slow piano tunes with electronic soundscapes. With “ClarOscuro“ he now makes his step into the genre of modern classical music by presenting his first composition work for piano trio. Most of the nine tracks on the album feature Sanfilippo accompanied by spanish musicians Manuel del Fresno on violincello and Pere Bardagi on Violin, while some of the tracks still let the sensitive piano playing stand on its own. With the fragility and beauty of some Arvo Pärt compositions and a high cinematic touch, “ClarOscuro” brings the perfect soundtrack for an imaginary movie.
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    Chihei Hatakeyama – Mist

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    Mist” is inspired from such beauty of fog like phenomena which reflects the thin light to fine mist. Superimposed on the drone of layer, Hawaii Oahu bird cries, coast of sound waves of Bellingham and rain sound in Takao-san in Hachioji has been used in songs. “Nangoku”in the “Mist” has been published as installation work at Super Deluxe in December 2014 by 24chPA system. This album was produced at the request of the fashion brand “MIKU FUKAMITSU”. It is making accessories by the natural materials and colors in concept.
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    Federico Durand – La estrella dormida

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    Sometimes at dusk, from the train window, I can see the first star in the sky. Its light is a company that stays by my side during the travel until it gets dark. Then, like a magical presence, the stars, with its shining melody, invite me to dream. “La estrella dormida” (The Sleeping Star) is an album to listen to at sunset, during that moment when the sky changes its color and houses and gardens turn pink, silent and musical at the same time. “La estrella dormida” is an album to come back home.” - Federico Durand Federico is a sound artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since his highly acclaimed 1st album on SPEKK (2010), he has been constantly delivering new materials from Home Normal, Own Records and Desire Path label, most of them sold out quickly. He also released album as Melodia (collaboration with Tomoyoshi Date from Optiope) and Every Hidden Color (collaboration with Nicholas Szczepanik). He uses a lot of fieled recordings which he took in his daily life mixing with guitar, cassette, and the overall impression is always warm and organic just as his personality.
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    Chihei Hatakeyama – Winter Storm

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    Chihei Hatakeyama was inspired by his everyday life, world history and season in Japan on this album.  Songs of four was recorded in the winter of 2014. Sound source of four songs were made upped from analog synthesizer ” α juno-2” and electric guitar “Fender Stratocaster”.  Long time drone music was 71 minutes in total...
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    Map 165 – The Fatigue Of Sunlight…

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    Sun blind. A vast white arc of light that covers and exposes. Stone and skin are turned translucent. The soul of the place is exposed, burnt wide open by the screaming light, and we walk out into this. We step, with skin-burning steps, across crackling stone. In the roadside shrine, green water seethes with velvet stillness. Opposite the sun, the bell-clear blue rings out across the dome of the scalded sky. Midday and it can only get hotter; midday and all is stunned into stillness. And running over the white stone, a single line of blood, a droplet fallen and rolling from the wounded day. Its brilliance against the blank plane of limestone disturbs. All balance is gone and one staggering step is taken, an age between steps, an aching journey through the solid white day, under the clanging sky. Time stretches like a rusty coil, shedding iron dust onto the heat-swimming ground.
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    K. Novotny – Gesture & Texture

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    Gesture & Texture by K. Novotny is a meeting of natural field recorded sources, which form the basis of most of the album, with the reprocessing and twisting of those sounds into the whole composition. It’s a kind of a natural-world-meets-technology philosophy where neither one overtakes the other in terms of importance. As the artist says: “It’s a deeply personal record for several reasons, both in the sounds used and the locations that they’re from, and the compositional process itself, which aside from the nature/technology axis also took on a sort of painterly quality in terms of the slow way it was assembled or collaged.”
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    William Ryan Fritch – Revisionist

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    Revisionist’, the latest record from composer William Ryan Fritch (Vieo Abiungo), brings an emphatic close to his incredibly prolific 2014. Just one month after the release of Death Blues ‘Ensemble’—his powerhouse collaboration with drummer and new music ringleader Jon Mueller—Fritch has produced his most focused and dynamic work yet. Energized by the collaboration with Mueller (Volcano Choir), the otherwise self-sufficient multi-instrumentalist surrendered his auterist sensibilities, seeking creative alliances with Benoit Pioulard, D.M. Stith, Origamibiro and Esme Patterson. The results are scintillating. From the elegant minimalism of “Winds” (produced by Pioulard) or the exultant vocals of “Gloaming Light” (performed by D.M. Stith), these inspired partnerships take Fritch’s instrumentation and craft to new destinations, employ new techniques, and further it’s immediacy and appeal.
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    Graveyard Tapes – White Rooms

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    Graveyard Tapes announce ‘White Rooms’, the follow-up to their acclaimed debut. Edinburgh based duo Euan McMeeken (glacis, The Kays Lavelle) and Matthew Collings (Splintered Instruments, Sketches For Albinos) joined the Tribe in 2013 with ‘Our Sound Is Our Wound’. Only the simplest and most elegant of ideas offer this sort of combustive force. McMeeken builds the audio structures and Collings nearly tears them back down again. Of their debut, Textura lauded “McMeeken’s heartfelt singing and piano playing and Collings’ electronic and guitar colourations,” while Incendiary Magazine declared the album “a rare blend of inquisitive dark pop.” The track “Bloodbridge” inspired and was featured in Matty Ross’s enigmatic short film. Where ‘Our Sound Is Our Wound’ confronted heartbreak, solitude and death, White Rooms looks to progress, even repair, restore. Collings assumed the role of primary songwriter, and here the darkly lit, fully curtained spaces of their inaugural record serve not as a wake, but a wake-up call. As McMeeken writes, ‘White Rooms’ accepts “the difficult but essential challenge of finding the incongruent beauty in loss and moving forward as people.” This way the curtains are thrown open, daylight floods in, the colors of the interior come into full view, and we realize that what is left is a blank canvas, ready for our paints.  
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    Masaya Kato – Trace Of Voices

    This is the digipak version in an edition of 150 copies... This is the 49th release from Time Released Sound…a beautiful album of minimalist pastoralism from Japanese composer Masaya Kato, entitled “Trace Of Voices”. It’s piano based ambiances, with its obscure samplings, field recordings, and overall Japanesesque tones, are the perfect accompaniment to these long, relaxing mid winter evenings!  
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    Community Of Light – Night Vision

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    Community of light is a collective of artists & musicians working in the post kraut cosmic drone continuum which was initiated by mr. robert fludd and has come to full fruition in the twenty-first century in various forms. specifically; as pursuers of the Light, which is often called Darkness, and a sound we call silence (with a method called night vision). One critic of note has said of the community : community of light reconceives a music that has for a long time been gathered from the invisible and most ancient of all communities, which has been in existence since the creation of the cosmos, and will be with us through the end of time. their music is highly influenced by krautrock, psychedelic, ambient, british folk, electronic and experimental and avant-garde music.
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    Hakobune – Vitex Negundo

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    Three gentle guitar improvisations… meditations, enriched with Ambient loopsets and delicate sound layers from tape. Takahiro Yorifuji sets up the right mood to calm down. It’s all that easy, the main thing is, the casette player’s working fine, the fingers will find the right notes all by themselves. Enjoy laid back listening.
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    Ghostwriter / Michael Paine – Morrow (Deluxe)

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    The limited edition version, in an edition of only 80 copies, will come in the form of a uniquely hand distressed and antiqued hardcover booklet, various interior pages collaged with vintage photos and advertisements of the time, 1930’s wallpaper samples, a mounted, hand stamped and colored round jigsaw puzzle pastoral landscape, and a typewriter addressed, stamped and soiled CD envelope, w/other goodies! All this comes in a handworked, 7” square translucent envelope. This is the latest release from Ghostwriter, aka Mark Brend, whose first well received album came out on the Second Language label. He is joined this time around by an assortment of talented friends, that together have made something uniquely and evocatively English, in “Morrow”! This pastorally infused, folktronica tinged, and somewhat eccentric paean to early mid century England, with its seaside holidays and early suburban aesthetic, its country houses and their gloomy, wallpapered interiors and its war weary yet seemingly hopeful demeanors, will be released in two distinct versions.
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    Ghostwriter / Michael Paine – Morrow

    Early December brings a full length release from Ghostwriter & Michael Paine, entitled “Morrow”. This is the latest release from Ghostwriter, aka Mark Brend, whose first well received album came out on the Second Language label. He is joined this time around by an assortment of talented friends, that together have made something uniquely and evocatively English, in “Morrow”!
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    The Child of A Creek – Quiet Swamps

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    Quiet Swamps is a 10song experimental/folk/ambient/shoegaze record I’ve recently sung, written, composed, performed and recorded with acoustic guitars, electric guitars, piano, electric piano, organ, acoustic and electric processed loops, synthetizers, field recordings and percussions. Mixed and mastered in a recording studio near home, Quiet Swamps is my 6th record in the “folk” field and I could say it’s a new step for my musical journey, which runs and explores different roads and different directions if compared to what I’ve done with music up to 2013 (prev stuff is more folk oriented). Mid tempos, open atmospheres, evocative moods and crooked melodies.
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    Ormonde – Cartographer/Explorer (CD)

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    Ormonde are Anna-Lynne Williams (Trespassers William/Lotte Kestner) and Robert Gomez, and Cartographer/Explorer is the Seattle band’s second album, following on from 2012’s Machine which garnered keen praise on both sides of the Atlantic for its delicate acoustic songwriting. Individually, the two members of Ormonde have impressive CVs: Williams toured with Damien Rice, Feist, Broken Social Scene and Explosions in the Sky during her time in Trespassers William (Nettwerk Records) and also co-wrote and sang Hold Tight London on Chemical Brothers’ Push the Button album. Gomez is a respected producer/multi-instrumentalist who has worked with John Grant, Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe and was previously signed to Bella Union. Ormonde however, is where the two locate their shared vision, and it’s a spellbinding place to spend some time.
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    Thibault Jehanne – Eskifjörður

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    Eskifjörður is an Icelandic town settled along the East fjords, still between two lively environments. The film relates without images, these spaces became entities. First, it’s the awakening of the earth, living, breathing : an entity sometimes hostile, extends into the landscape to overwhelming the rest. Men are discreet. To remain, they go from the land to the sea, and from the sea to the land, but also to die. The sea is nourishing, bountiful and generous, but it keeps with it these souls and reject these bodies, buried.
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    Toy Bizarre ‎– kdi dctb 071

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    Ghosts echoes, specific filter and binaural tools build by Bernard A following instructions by PEK (ItCAN). Original DSM (Das Synthetische Mischgewebe) recordings given by Guido Hübner 1997 or (1998?) Limited edition of 100.
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    Phoenix York – Godspeed Phuong

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    Godspeed Phuong consists of 8 pieces created in the seclusion of his studio located in the eastern townships of Quebec, Canada. The songs range from moody atmospherics, not far from post-rock at times to a space set between ambient and proto-orchestral, they reflect more the urban angst or a satellite in perdition than the countryside settings in which the songs were crafted. The primary instrumentation here is a guitar, a modular synth, a sampler and an array of found sounds. The music itself could be called ambient “with an edge”.
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    Francesco Giannico – Metrophony

    TRS047 is an atmospheric and underground metro centric release from Italian sound artist, Francesco Giannico, entitled “Metrophony”. On August 6, 2013, Giannico recorded the entire route of the “B” line of the subway in the city of Rome, that connects the “Rebibbia” station with the “Laurentina” station, and the “B1” line that connects the ‘Bologna’ station with the ‘Conca D ‘Oro’ station… Audio samples collected were manipulated and transformed electronically, and enriched with synth and/or musical instruments such as guitars, piano, violins. The result is “Metrophony” which is also an art installation.
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    Francesco Giannico – Metrophony (Deluxe)

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    For the deluxe limited version, in an edition of just 75 copies, we decided to change mediums and worked in the neighboring Berkeley silkscreening workshop called the Grease Diner. The set of hand silkscreened 6” square prints are renditions of the dark and moody photographs taken by Giannico himself in the subway. Each of these 12 unique prints is printed on a different sort of paper… ancient ledger papers, music sheets, rice papers, antique vellum, cardboard etc. They come in a vintage, hand stamped, 7” 45rpm sleeve from a 60 year old vinyl binder. Each outer envelope is then tied up with a string, from which hangs a used ticket from the Rome metro system. Also included within the set of prints is a scrap of paper detritus from the stations and trains, and a factory pressed CD in a hand stamped cotton sleeve.
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    Steve Roden – Flower & Water

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    Flower & Water began with an offer to work with the first Dragon’s Eye release – a flexi-disc with a recording of George Winston playing a blues piano composition called “Medley: Bread Baker’s Stomp” – as source material. Since I am not a true remixer, I decided to modify the track via physical manipulation. Most of the material began with cutting up some of the flexi’s and taping back together in ‘wrong’ ways. I then played (or tried to play) the broken records that had been taped back together, and also putting objects onto the surface of the record while being played with a cheap record player that had a small built-in speaker. In many ways I felt like I was building a series of temporary sculptures, as I wanted the experience to be physical – similar to the use of hands in making bread from scratch.
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    Richard Youngs – Red Alphabet in the Snow (CD)

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    Red Alphabet in the Snow is a solo album by the extremely prolific but highly talented Richard Youngs. Two 17-minute pieces, in which Youngs layers acoustic guitars, banjo, cifteli, bass guitar, electric lead guitars, electric violin, epinette des vosges, shakers, sitar, swanee whistle, tambourine, triangle, 12-string guitar, ukulele, and his own voice, build up a meandering instrumental, acoustic, and even psychedelic mix. Each side of the album is made up of various compositions woven together with instrumentation, but which seem to flow seamlessly into a rich and resonant whole. Recorded in Krakow, Poland, and at home in Glasgow.  
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    North Side Drive – Snow / Sea / Sky

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    Snow // Sea // Sky is an EP by North Side Drive, the moniker of artist Jonathan Pearson, and continues the elements-based theme of his previous two EPs. Using piano and electronics, “Snow” is full of textures, clocking in at over ten minutes, and sets up the rest of the EP beautifully. A fast, staccato piano line slowly builds, with piano chords and electronics, falling into ambient noise; only for the piano line to re-emerge. “Sea” is a much more modern-classical melody, gentle, and leads the way to a more robust “Sky”. The album comes as a pressed CD, in a handmade, recycled card sleeve and insert, hand stamped and numbered on the back, and limited to 150 copies.
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    Siavash Amini – What Wind Whispered To The Trees

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    Full length modern classical drone masterpiece from Iranian Siavash Amini. In ‘What Wind Whispered to the Trees’ Amini references characters from Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ and ‘The Devils’. Conveying a sense of loss and of longing from opening track, the album unravels chapter by chapter holding the listener in a dark, dense and poetic tale, as if translating Dostoevsky into musical form. The raw string melodies, fine tonal auroras and contrasting heavy drones are expanded and deepened by stunning mastering from Lawrence English. Glassmastered CD in matt finish digipack sleeve and clear tray.
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    Pinkcourtesyphone – A Ravishment of Mirror

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    Los Angeles, a city of mirrors, twinkling lights, noir history, and deep secrets is the new home for Pinkcourtesyphone. This third full album explores Hollywood dreams and deception… meant to be slowly sipped. We all pretend but in Hollywood pretending is its dark sustenance… a plastic organic unity ready to enfold and repackage you.
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    Yann Novak – Snowfall

    First presented as a durational audio-visual performance presented at Human Resources in Los Angeles (CA), Snowfall explores the hushed stillness and isolation sometimes experienced during a snowstorm. Presented over 6 hours, the audience was allowed to come and go as they please. This afford the viewer a more personal experience with the piece through the dispersion of the audience. Snowfall was constructed using photographs and field recordings collected at the Jentel Artist Residency outside Banner, WY in February 2010. Yann Novak is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. Through the use of sound, light and space, he explores how these intangible materials can act as catalysts to focus our awareness on the present moment and alter our perception of time. Novak’s work, whether conceptual or rooted in phenomenon, are informed by his investigations of presence, stillness and mindfulness. His works can be experienced as architectural interventions, sound diffusions, audiovisual installations and performances, durational performances, concerts and recorded sound-works.
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    Tess Said So – I Did That Tomorrow

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    I Did That Tomorrow is a collection of pieces about initiation and reaction, travel and stillness, simplicity and mutation. The sound world of piano, percussion and electronics, engineered at Will Larsen’s Recliner Studios in Melbourne, shifts through organic, improvisatory, imperfect patterns, playing with the idea of movement in light, space, and liquid, usually resolving – though not necessarily tonally – for a sense of agreement. Tess Said So is the creative partnership of musicians Rasa Daukus and Will Larsen. Adopting a pop sensibility to a classical format, Rasa and Will write and perform all their own material. More like a band than a traditional classical ensemble, they are influenced by a shared interest in new music and blurring the lines that define musical genre.
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    Lost Trail – An Elegy And A Mirror

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    Lost Trail’s “An Elegy And A Mirror” is on the Twice Removed Editions Sub label. Lost Trail is the ambient/drone/shoegaze/experimental noise project of husband-and-wife duo Zachary Corsa and Denny Wilkerson Corsa. Based in the mysterious small city of Burlington, North Carolina, The Corsa’s utilize lo-fi and obsolete recording technology in their music, aiming to capture a sense of atmosphere and landscape in both man-made and wild environments. Working primarily with second-hand analogue equipment, their work is a vivid patchwork collage of damaged cassette loops, field recordings, primitive percussion, layers of ethereal guitar drones, wailing feedback and static and skeletal traces of antique piano and organ. The themes of Lost Trail’s work often include a sense of the otherworldly or supernatural, as well as strong ties to nature, human calamity, and a fascination with the concept of passionate belief systems. The songs themselves are raw, broken, minimalist, imperfect, flawed, emotionally resounding and chaotically unpredictable, all composed in the spirit of reckless, heedless improvisation.
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    Saito Koji – Guitar Loop is My Life

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    Saito Koji’s “Guitar Loop is My Life”. Saito Koji was born in Fukushima, Japan in 1978. He uses guitars, keyboards, some effects and field recordings to create delicate minimal sound collages and improvisations. He cites three primary influences in his approach to experimental music: Otomo Yoshihide, Derek Bailey, and the sublime visuals of Kaoru Abe. Since 2004 Koji has released works on the Japanese Magic Book Records, Kesh Recordings, SEM label, Stereoscenic, Somehow, Resting Bell, Gears of Sand Recordings. Last heard on Twice Removed with his long form collaboration with Sima Kim (“Light and Gravity”), “Guitar Loop is My Life” is a 6 track 60 minute album with his fondness of loops explored over 10 minutes per track which allows for extension and focus in his loops. This release comes in a Guided Products recycled card sleeve with 2 lots of photographic artwork. 25 have 1 image on the cover and the other as an insert, while the other 25 have those images reversed. The insert is hand stamped on handmade Mulberry paper made in Thailand. This release is limited to 50 copies.
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    Mathieu Lamontagne – Recivides

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    Mathieu Lamontagne’s “Recivides” is on the Twice Removed Editions sub label. Mathieu is also known as Arbee Monkey and has appeared on labels such as Recycled Plastics, Somehow, as well as Net labels such as Pertin _Nce, Relaxed Machinery and others. He also collaborates with other artists such as Specta Ciera, Bleupulp and others as well as being in groups Allumettes and Anachronic XP. “Récidives is about things that change. Those things that change slowly, subtly. One day, you wake up and realize that fall is near, that somebody you love is quietly moving away from you. Only yesterday, my son was born, now is going to school… Récidives is about slowly moving melodies, sounds. Evolving sounds, Evolving people.” This release comes in an edition of 30 copies with each copy coming with a custom postcard and individual recycled magazine paper sleeve.
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    Ross Baker – Periphery

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    Ross Baker “Periphery” (TR024), Released September 1, 2014 in a Guided Products recycled card sleeve with attached art, handstamped cd-r and a random series of card. Limited edition of 50. “Periphery” is the follow up to “Two Suns Were Visible in The Sky” on the Flaming Pines label and the recent Middlemarch “Wolf Hall” release on Time Released Sound. Described by Ross as “a mini album containing material recorded at the same time as “Two Suns…” which were deemed too personal or too claustrophobic to fit that record’s vast scope”.
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    Emil Klotzsch – 14 Arten Den Regen…

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    Emil Klotzsch has appeared on some of the finest net labels such as One, Autoplate, and 12rec to name a few. “14 Arten…” is a soundtrack to the film of the same name and features music made on a ruined piano to accent the story of a boy who locked himself up in a room for 5 years. The release also comes in a Guided Product sleeve with a cut cover (like the Zenjungle “Leaving Stations”) with a double sided insert and a retro original photographic slide. It is also limited to 50 copies.
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    Kevin Verwijmeren – It’s The Colour…

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    The album comes in a lovely 4-panel digisleeve with cover photography by Julien Lambrechts and inside photography by Jan Van Der Kleijn / Professionally duplicated CD-R / Edition of 100 copies. Soft Corridor’s seventh release is the debut album by Kevin Verwijmeren : “It’s The Colour Of A Cloud Covered Sky”. When you look out of a window while you are travelling… When you just stare at the landscape that is flashing by… When you are not thinking about what you see but more about what you feel… That’s the feeling Kevin Verwijmeren wanted to evoke with his debut album “It’s the colour of a cloud covered sky”. He composed and produced the music by searching for melodies and patterns describing this inner state…
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    Middlemarch – Wolf Hall (Deluxe)

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    This deluxe version will be available in an edition of only 85 copies. There is also a beautiful, standard digipak version in an edition of 150 copies. For TRS045 we are very pleased to bring you this full length album from Middlemarch… aka Dimitris Avramidis/piano and Ross Baker/electronics. A beautiful melange of melodic and atmospheric, pastorally infused and electronically treated and overlaid piano ambiance, that is inspired in part by the novel Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel.  
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    Middlemarch – Wolf Hall

    This is the beautiful, standard digipak version in an edition of 150 copies... For TRS045 we are very pleased to bring you this full length album from Middlemarch… aka Dimitris Avramidis/piano and Ross Baker/electronics. A beautiful melange of melodic and atmospheric, pastorally infused and electronically treated and overlaid piano ambiance, that is inspired in part by the novel Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel.
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    Loren Dent – Anthropology (2 x CD)

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    Anthropology Vols. 2 & 3 features 25 tracks and over 140 minutes of all new material. Housed in a 6 panel digipak with cardstock slipcase. Design by Loren Dent & Timothy O’Donnell. Massive new double CD from Loren Dent. Over 3 years in the making, Anthropology Vols. 2 & 3 continues from Anthropology Vol. 1 CD (INFX 034) and the Anthropology Extras (INFX 032 FD). Epic sweeping ambience with layered drones punctuated by piano interludes. The intonation that is created is of an orchestra that has been somehow slowly suspended and released, gradually yielding a symphony of sound.  
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    Orla Wren – Soil Steps

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    Following swiftly on from 2013’s ‘Book Of The Folded Forest’ (Home Normal) and ‘The Blizzard That Birthed Her’ (Facture) the new Orla Wren album ‘Soil Steps’ finds the ever itinerant tui divesting himself from his usual cadre of musical collaborators and travelling, solo, into the Spanish wilderness with a tent and a portable recorder. Recorded during months of wandering isolation in the Iberian fastness, a process only concluded when our hapless traveller contrived to break an ankle (high in the Sierra Nevada and minus any painkillers, a logical point at which to call time), ‘Soil Steps’ shifts focus from the enveloping ruminations of ‘Folded Forest’ to the more Spartan and spacious tones of the field recording discipline. Orla Wren devotees will not be disappointed, as tui refines and reduces his atomistic approach to composition in order to reveal its luminous essence. Inspired by and taken almost entirely from the natural sounds emanating from his chosen environment; recordings of insects, snakes, street musicians, the movement of warm wind through bamboo on a dry river bed and broken only by Eva Puyuelo’s occasional narration of tui’s words (suggestive that a handful of thoughts could last all day).
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    Italian resonances – Dronegazers?

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    Limited edition of 100 CDr... The title of the work is “Italian Resonances | Dronegazers?”. It is an eight track album made by a seven artist collective composed by electroacoustic ambient musicians with a particular bent for drone music. Work has been commisioned by Fabrizio Garau from “TheNewNoise.it” , an italian webzine focused above all about alternative, experimental music. The artists involved in the work are : Enrico Coniglio, Alberto Boccardi, Easychord, Attilio Novellino, Cristiano Deison, Giulio Aldinucci, and Francesco Giannico.  
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    David Newlyn – Good Luck

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    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped black cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper Sound In Silence is happy to announce the return of David Newlyn, presenting his new album Good Luck (Enigma). This is his second release on the label after the, already sold out, collaboration album O.S. with Yellow6 back in 2012. Since 2006 his releases have appeared on labels such as Mobeer, Cotton Goods, Symbolic Interaction, Tokyo Droning, Time Released Sound, Hibernate Recordings and on his own October Man Recordings and Cathedral Transmissions. On Good Luck (Enigma) he offers ten new tracks in about 43 minutes, shifting from electroacoustic ambient to minimal neoclassical. Knowing perfectly how to use his devices, including computer, keyboards, cassette tape, guitar and loop station, he creates a beautiful chilled out collection of sounds which appeals to all fans of atmospheric and cinematic music.
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    TRDLX – Dystopia

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    Glitchy textures swirl around the temples while addictive beats thump the temples. Soundscapes crawl beneath a barbed wire of dense and complex patterns. Dystopia is the first album of Paris based producers Boris Haladjian and Thibault Csukonyi. Within a constant state of flux and tension, the sound waves delve into incisive electronic and organic textures, ranging from IDM to sound-design or gorgeous ambient layers. Trdlx is the project of the Parisians Boris Haladjian and Thibault Csukonyi. Oscillating between heavy fractured beats and abrasive textures, their sound is similar to a complex hybrid electronica, nourrished of dense rhythmic patterns and immersive ambient layers. Largely influenced by trip-hop, IDM and drone / ambient, Trdlx’s music is engraved in a dark melancholic cinematic universe in which each composition can be seen as a singular story.
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    Daydreamer – Camus

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    TRS043 is the feature full length album from Russian duo, Daydreamer. Entitled “Camus”, it is an homage of sorts to the great French existentialist writer of the same name. Like the band name suggests, it’s a dreamy mix of melodic post rock ambiance, and serves as a sort of soundtrack to the road movie that Albert Camus lived… and died on…
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    Daydreamer – Camus (Deluxe)

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    TRS043 is the feature full length album from Russian duo, Daydreamer. Entitled “Camus”, it is an homage of sorts to the great French existentialist writer of the same name. Like the band name suggests, it’s a dreamy mix of melodic post rock ambiance, and serves as a sort of soundtrack to the road movie that Albert Camus lived… and died on… Limited version, in an edition of 90 copies, comes in the form of a multi page booklet that is hinged in the corner and fans open into an abstract mandala of sorts. The cover photo is printed on sheer Japanese tissue paper, and is hand adhered and shredded… The pages are printed on super heavyweight Moab paper, and are punched, collaged, sewn, stamped, doodled, and in general hand worked as usual. The back of the pages are a spray stenciled daydream of their own! Hanging from the front corner of each booklet is a little capped vial containing most of a Gauloises cigarette… the brand that Camus obsessively smoked until the end… feel free to light it up, listen, and start a daydream of your own! Each booklet comes in a 6″square, spray painted, punched and stamped translucent envelope.
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    Richard Ginns – Fall, Rise

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    ‘Fall, Rise’ documents an experience during a winter trip to the Alps in France. “Inspired by a snowstorm/whiteout I was alone and the weather was turning fast, the snowstorm completely took over and visibility was next to zero. Far from home, cold, tired and in fear of my surroundings, the reality of where I was really hit me.” “Stranded, an empty wilderness, surviving against the elements” “A path would lead me home … A voice in the distance, to which direction it was coming from exactly I couldn’t tell … I began to trek knowing my ears would guide me … Bringing me back home!!” “Richard Ginns made this record because he almost died. That’s a rather dramatic way to open an introduction to your album, or a review, but his inspiration for this release was being caught in a snowstorm and whiteout conditions whilst in the French Alps. One might very well make the assumption that the music within the record will be heavy, cloying, dark ambient constructions filled with fear and morbid introspection, but the opposite largely appears to be true, as Richard instead focuses on the details and the minutiae of his surroundings rather than the tenuous situation at hand.” Hearfeel.co.uk
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    Joan Cambon – Reshaping…

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    Reshaping the seasons for Kaori’s body”, the second solo album by Joan Cambon (co-founder of Arca with Sylvain Chauveau) was composed of samples from the 4 Seasons by Vivaldi, as well as snippets of sounds produced by the dancer Kaori Ito and some Japanese radio previews. The origin of this album is the composition of the music for “Plexus”, solo dance Aurélien Bory for Kaori Ito (choreographer and dancer for James Thierrèe, Decouflé, Alain Platel, Angelin Preljocaj, Denis Podalydès…), a work based on the following themes: impermanence, strata, Japan, the body, the portrait of Kaori, strings (thousands of son is the scenography of.) Sound material, which should avoid any idea of ​​folklore, was then imposed: 4 seasons (for the idea of ​​impermanence, Preljocaj’s choreography that Kaori had interpreted as the sounds of strings, familiar to all world), the body of Kaori and radio recordings (both traces of contemporary Japan and familiar colours of childhood Kaori.) In the end, eleven pieces form a coherent whole album (among which are the four major music shows.)
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    Akamatsu – Infi​(​ni​)​me

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    Electronic music and electro-acoustic, eyeing both to school Warp ancient times (Autechre, Plaid), but equally in the kraut-rock (Can …), the German Silky Pop (Notwist, Mr John Soda …), minimal music (Erik Satie, Nils Frahm…)
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    Sontag Shogun – Tale

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    Sontag Shogun’s immense debut full-length album, “Tale”, compiles three years worth of composing and directed textural improvising, molded into nine concise musical statements. They have been experimenting with songform and traversing nostalgic emotional territories, quietly honing their craft alongside collaborators across disciplines such as video, film, dance, performance and poetry. Primarily making use of a grand piano, field recordings, tapeloops and digitally treated vocals, the trio has discovered a unique niche that straddles identifiable genre boundaries. Repetitions of phrases, digitally glitched-out melodies, superimposing practice takes with studio takes. Call this album modern classical, ambient, new age, Sontag prefers their own nomenclature: lullanoise.
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    Joe Evans – Septimal

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    Spectropol Records is delighted to announce the release of Septimal by UK composer Joe Evans. A 46-minute album that will be available as a Digipak CD-R and high quality download, Septimal features fourteen superlative tracks that explore the sonic and expressive potential of the autoharp. Joe Evans writes: “While I initially conceived of Septimal as a study of microtonal harmony, it has developed into something far more complex and personal. The word Septimal, meaning “Pertaining to all things Seven” is not widely used outside of the world of scales and temperaments, where it refers to intervals derived from the 7th harmonic. These intervals are often poor relations of intervals derived from the 3rd & 5th Harmonics, fighting for space on an otherwise occupied keyboard. By removing any notes derived from the 5th harmonic, the space opens up to allow the character of septimal intervals to shine, a coup within the harmonic series, perhaps?
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    Meccano / Droomoff ‎– Walking Through (2 x CD)

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    On the duo’s second official full-­length proper, their art of creating complex sonic worlds truly shines. The album, appropriately titled “Walking Through”, indeed resembles a soundtrack for a day­long exploration of an imaginary national park in all its diversity – forest, rivers and creeks, fields and meadows, abandoned industrial zone and even a visit to a busy trade fair. Richly textural, organically synthetic, generously spiced by multilayered field recordings, with occasional live instrumentation (cellos and flutes) and traces of vocals, it’s a true cinematic feast for the ears and imagination. Subtle electronic pulses and minimalistic percussive work are delicately brought in and out to keep the listener awake; synth pads are delicate and lulling, but never pretty or overwhelmingly grandiose. The mood, the density of sonic fibre and the light/darkness ratio is constantly changing, making the 84 minute­ long trip a consistent but never a dull listen – sometimes welcoming, sometimes challenging – rounded off with two fantastic long­form highlights:
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    Vitaly Beskrovny – Movements

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    Vitaly Beskrovny’s third album ‘Movements’ on Preserved Sound, sees him go for the stripped-down piano sound. When he first approached us about releasing Movements we discussed adding strings to the pieces, but decided to go for a much simpler style. The album is a wonderful mixture of Nils Frahm and Yann Tiersen, with just a slight hint of Beethoven.
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    A Model Kit – Invention of Love

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    First full-length album by A Model Kit on Hidden Vibes, following his previous “Roads For” EP and “Lights/bay” single. Limited edition of 100, each copy comes with a small printed photo book. A Model Kit is a solo-project of Maxim Popov from Russia, working in the field of ambient electronics and modern classical.
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    James Murray – Mount View

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    Every copy of Mount View includes a signed insert and comes in a custom designed 4-panel recycled card sleeve. Everything has been sourced as ecologically responsibly as possible here in the UK. The glass-mastered CDs have been professionally replicated, sleeve and insert are individually rubber-stamped with James’ original artwork and each package is carefully assembled by hand. Please note that as the CD packaging materials are constructed from raw recycled card they are likely to exhibit minor natural imperfections.
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    Monolyth & Cobalt – Polarlicht

    TRS041 is the newest glacial beauty from French sound artist extrordinaire, Monolyth & Cobalt….and is entitled “Polarlicht” As the title implies, this is a minimal and shifting aural mass of arctic airs ….light….bright…northern climes brought to the windswept and musically adventurous among us. A crystalline and twinkling, guitar infused gem of electronica brilliance awaits you here….button up!
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    Pjusk – Tele

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    Pjusk is Rune Sagevik and Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik from the west coast of Norway – both from small villages close to nature. The sound of Pjusk is inspired by the harsh Norwegian weather and wild landscape. At the centre point of the collaboration between the two is an old cabin high up in the mountains. This is where most of the music of Pjusk is made – framed by snowy peaks and the sound of cold streams. The album “Tele” (the Norwegian word describing frozen underground water) is a natural progression from the album “Sval” released on the US label 12k in 2010. Inspired by the arctic wilderness, Tele is a journey of snow, ice and cold.
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    Retina.it – Descending into Crevasse

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    Retina.it (Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono), is born in the first half of 90’s. This duo, placed near the Vesuvio (Naples), explored all the capabilities of analogic synths since the beginnings, developing an its own idea of sound. The undifferentiated manipulation of sounds extracted from modular and digital synths or objects/environment sound’s recording, leads this original duo to a continuos research of a sonic identity. Retina.it’s music has been released from labels such as Hefty records (US) , Mousikelab (It), Flatmate/Storung (Spain) and Glacial Movements (It). They have worked with different personalities of music business and visual arts, such as John Hughes, Marco Messina, Claudio Sinatti, Gabriella Cerritelli, Giorgio Li Calzi, Red Sector A. Moreover, the deep live-performing activity has led Retina.it to share important stages of International contest (such as Storung, Sonar…) with prestigious artists like Kraftwerk, Matmos, Telefon Tel Aviv, T.A.G.C., Rechenzentrum, Oval, Noto, F. Bretschneider, Plaid, Apparat, Biosphere and many more. “Descending into Crevasse” is a sort of metaphor. An ipotetic journey between the gorges of eternal ices, such as a travel inside ourself researching reassuring corners. A flux of muffled and confused memories, frosted in a wave moving like an algorithm.
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    Aidan Baker – Aneira

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    Aidan Baker is a multi-instrumentalist, classically-trained in flute, but best known as a guitarist. Using various electronic effects combined with prepared and/or alternate methods of playing the guitar, he creates music which generally falls within the ambient/experimental genres but draws on influences from shoegaze and post-rock, contemporary classical and jazz. Over the course of the last decade, Baker has released numerous recorded works, both solo and with his duo Nadja, plus various other musical projects, on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Important Records, Die Stadt Musik, and Broken Spine Productions. He is also the author of several books of poetry. Baker has collaborated in-studio and live with such artists as Tim Hecker, Carla Bozulich, Jessica Baillif, Noveller, OvO, members of The Jesus Lizard, and members of Swans. He has also composed for and performed with such contemporary classical ensembles as The Penderecki Quartet, The Riga Sifonietta, and The Monday Morning Singers. Baker has toured extensively around the world and appeared at such international festivals as FIMAV, SXSW, Incubate, and Mutek. Aneira (Welsh for ‘snow’) is one long, slowly changing piece created using only a 12-string acoustic guitar, manipulated and played with different tools, as a sound source in order to make sounds resembling that of ice moving or breaking and of wind or snowstorms. Aidan Baker also wrote a poem about Aneira, that will be inside the digipack.
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    Netherworld – Alchemy of Ice

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    “Sliding notions; familiar frames of source. Chill insinuated breezes capture attentive ear. Strokes gently away the fast-spinning overworld.” – Ews Nsj
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    bvdub & Loscil – Erebus

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    From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and bore from union in love with Erebus. – Hesiod, Theogony (120–125)
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    Yair Elazar Glotman – Northern Gulfs

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    Handmade natural card CD case (limited edition of150 copies)... Yair Elazar Glotman is a musician and sound artist living and working in Berlin. His focus is on experimental electroacoustic composition, sound installations and sound sculptures. In addition, he works as a sound designer and composer for film, dance and video art. His education includes Classical Double-Bass, electroacoustic composition and Art and Media studies, where he explored the gap between sound art and contemporary music. His work has been played at various sound venues including ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, LEAP Gallery, NK and FEED Soundspace. This album is a journey through the arctic gulfs in the north seas . Electro-acoustic composition aiming to find a delicate balance between digital processing and analog electronics, with acoustic instruments and real-world field recordings.  
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    Way Station – The Ships

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    Limited edition of 150 in special 7″ packaging… The Ships – is the first album by Way Station. Work on this album was conducted in the period from 2009 to 2013. This music drew inspiration from books and movies about space, people and about great values. Every single track is a story, told by feelings and emotions. When you are immersed in this music – you are fly away from here. “All our thoughts, hopes and dreams hidden inside this blue cover …”
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    Nousinthis – End Song

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    Limited edition of 150 in special 7″ packaging... “End Song” EP is a debut release of Ukrainian post-rock band nousinthis. Wide and explosive sound passages change with quiet tracks full of magiс vocal. Harmony is the one that unites them. Analogies in the music world could be drawn primarily to Sigur Ros, Jeniferever, EF, Radiohead.  
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    Paskine – Nimrod

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    NIMROD is Paskine’s debut album. Paskine here continues his experiments with noise and repetition, making his most abstract compositions to date, and adding a strong narrative element with the album’s structure. NIMROD was created with the idea of plunging the listener into a sound storm. It is composed of immersive drones, deconstructed melody, crackles and multiple kinds of noises invading space, blowing, little heavy and repetitive rhythm. The album is structured into nine parts, as kind of chapters; some minimalist, sometimes just the opposite; sometimes melodic, sometimes completely abstract.
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    Damian Valles – Exposure

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    Damian Valles describes ‘Exposure’ as the logical follow-up to ‘Badlands’ (somehow recordings) which was released in a limited edition in the spring of 2013… The six tracks that comprise this release delve further into darker territory and cold, harsh environments. A continuation on the theme of desolation, erosion and annihilation. However, this time around things are further stripped down and bare, leaving more room to explore and dwell amidst the vastness of the surroundings. If ‘Badlands’ was the journey, perhaps ‘Exposure’ is the destination.
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    Hakobune – Nebulous Sequences (2 x CD)

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    Sparkles of mist, ebbs of mystery. Tiny shades of colours within a suspended time. “Nebulous Sequences” is the new masterfully album of Kyoto based musician Takahiro Yorifuji who operates under the name of Hakobune. The ripples of dense and elusive drones create a vast and meditative landscape where air and water flow and shimmer together. Using layers of processed guitar, this album envelops and surrounds the body with the beauty of a soothing and nebulous presence.
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    Matteo Uggeri – Untitled Winter

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    Limited Edition of 100 Letter-pressed Jackets... Matteo Uggeri is an Italian musician and sound artist based in Milan. What he’s constructed here is an extremely intimate story line. Matteo is a master of setting a scene and carrying the listener into non-existent interiors and exteriors of his own creation. Reoccurring themes tie the already seamless tracks together culminating into one long meditative piece. Throughout the album a feeling grows of great gratitude for the night time hours when the only gears left turning are those of your own creation.
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    Various – Prototypes

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    ‘Prototypes’ is a collection of uniquely mixed and edited original tracks and outtakes from future collaborative Home Normal releases. Mixed and edited by Aki Sallas, Sif Sandersen, and Ian Hawgood, the work includes unique tracks by Christopher Hipgrave, Sif Sandersen, Ahti Ijäs, Aki Sallas, Miki Laa, Tsone, Uthai Montri, Ian Hawgood, and Maarit Maaja. Over its almost 70 tracks, spread over five CD’s, the ‘Elements’ compilation is a celebration of everything Home Normal represents through friends and artists who have helped to develop the label’s identity. ‘Prototypes’ is a unique glimpse at some long-term projects we have been working on with an eye very much on the collaborative future of the label, working with some new and emerging artists which has always been a firm goal of ours. ‘Prototypes’ is a 250 limited CDR with photography by Hitoshi Ishihara (attic.cc), and design by togoshi + mondül. It is included with all advanced tickets to our show in London on March 21st, 2014 with Gurun Gurun, Gareth Davis, Ithaca Trio, Christopher Hipgrave, Gideon Wolf, and Ekca Liena.
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    Butterfly In The Snowfall

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    Butterfly In The Snowfall are a group made up of members from the Rune Grammofon band, Astrïd, and Sylvain Chauveau. Astrïd performed at the HomeNormalism festival in summer of 2013, blowing the audience away with their incredibly organic, transfixing music. Their music has been likened to Laughing Stock-era TalkTalk, which is a very apt description really. Formed in 1997 around Cyril Secq and Yvan Ros, as a guitar/drums duet, Astrïd has stabilized with successive arrivals of the violinist Vanina Andreani (1998) and the clarinetist Guillaume Wickel (2005). Their music takes its roots in improvised music, 70’s folk and jazz, classical and contemporary music, from Ravel to Arvo Pärt. From 2007, the group has lived and worked between Nantes and Marseille (France). They are also well known as common collaborators and performers with Rachel Grimes.
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    Rene Margraff – Phasen

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    René Margraff lives and works in Berlin. He started Pillowdiver in 2008. Before this he also pretended to be a Japanese girl under the name of Le Mépris. Previously he released on Home Normal with the highly acclaimed Two People In A Room album back in 2011. This is René’s first work under his given name and to say it covers a lot of ground would be a massive understatement. From contained harmonics through to the comedown choral end, ‘phasen‘ is a beautiful play in light refraction and subtle inflection. The frequencies open up, bringing forth shining melody as the light refracts, only to be covered by new objects, diminishing the index into the dimmest of views, a claustrophobic nightmare. Indeed, if ‘phasen’ were a film, it would be a Norman Bates character on an acid- trip journey through a futuristic Tokyo; all neon lights, rain, and well…Blade Runner really. How would that end? When all things go dark, what shards would be left to hang on to? Through glimmers, the faintest of which reach our eyes, we see that light does in fact remain…the index run ragged.
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    Vitaly Beskrovny – Life on Paper

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    Vitaly Beskrovny is a self-taught composer from Ukraine. He has been writing instrumental pieces for piano and orchestra since 2005. Vitaly’s second album on Preserved Sound entitled Life on Paper is more ambient than Vitaly’s previous work, and uses sound samples recorded near his house in Ukraine.
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    Richard Formb – Sine

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    Richard Formby is a producer, mixer and artist, and has worked with the likes of Hood, Fuxa, Darkstar, and the Wild Beasts. Sine is Richard’s first album on Preserved Sound, and consists of a 30-minute one-track album created using a modular synth and a Revox tape machine. The end result is a wonderfully rich organic synth drone ambient piece of music. Sine was recorded using a modular synthesiser and Revox B77 tape recorder, and mixed live in one take on 26th May 2012.
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    Adrian Lane – Lights Are Very Deceptive At Night

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    Adrian Lane’s first album on Preserved Sound, Lights Are Very Deceptive At Night is a wonderful collection of short dark piano pieces, modern-classical piano pieces written in the vein of Eric Satie.
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    Visionary Hours – The Road to Basho

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    Visionary Hours creates mainly instrumental music. Combining the sound of strings, guitar, voice and clarinet, he creates slowly evolving ambient/modern-classical pieces, full of space and gently revealed micro melodies. This technique has been refined on The Road to Bashō, an album inspired by the famous Japanese wandering poet, Matsuo Bashō, released on Preserved Sound in 2012.
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    Visionary Hours – Still Point

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    Still Point by Visionary Hours has been long in the making, but is finally here. This album builds on the idea of using loops, but is much more organic and melodic than the previous The Road to Bashō, using flutes, clarinets, and strings to create an acoustic ambient-classical album.
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    Unconditional Arms – Kinship

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    Kinship was written by Jeff Wright for the birth of his son Owen, and can be compared to other acts as Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Mogwai, and The Appleseed Cast. “New life is a beautiful thing, something that one is eager to share with the world … Love overflows on this release, especially in the dialogue of ‘First Look’, but it doesn’t overwhelm … ‘The Family Tree’ possesses a similar sense of ebullience. The peaceful finale, ‘Rest’, implies something that new parents don’t encounter often; but in this case, if Jeffrey can get it, his rest will have been well-deserved.”
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    Adrian Lane – The Answering Smile

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    The Answering Smile is the second album on Preserved Sound by Adrian Lane. Featuring instruments including alto bowed psaltery, baritone bowed psaltery, violin, acoustic guitar (bowed and plucked), mandolin, zither, percussion and laptop, The Answering Smile is part contemporary classical and part medieval in its influence and sound. This album is for fans of Jozef van Wissem, Stephen Micus (ECM Records), James Blackshaw, and Brethren of the Free Spirit.
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    Faures – Continental Drift

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    “It let them float and drift, break apart and converge. Where they broke away, cracks, rifts, trenches remain; where they collided, ranges of folded mountains appear.” – Hans Cloos Continental Drift came about from an idea inspired by Alfred Wegener’s book The Origin of Continents and Oceans. Fuzz Lee (elintseeker) is a believer in the romantic notion that a person is truly shaped by the landscape and environment the person is in. A person’s personality and character in daily life, because of the environment that he or she is in, will also be expressed naturally in musical form. With that in mind, what would the results be when three individuals from three different continents with their own unique approach and style to music making are made to work together? René Margraff (Pillowdiver) from Germany and Samuel Landry (Le Berger) from Canada were specifically invited by Fuzz to join him in this musical experiment. The tracks are made in a 3-way ‘triangular’ process. Each musician has to come up with two tracks or samples, pass it on to the second musician from the next continent to work on and once that musician is done, he will then pass the tracks on to the third and final musician from another continent who will do the same. The tracks can only be worked on once for each musician. If you replace ‘continents’ with ‘sound’ in structural geologist Hans Cloos’ quote about the continental drift theory, the creation, mixing, layering and other working processes of the samples and tracks are not too dissimilar, “It let them float and drift, break apart and converge. Where they broke away, cracks, rifts, trenches remain; where they collided, ranges of folded mountains appear”. These 6 tracks are the ‘trenches’, the ‘cracks’, ‘folded mountains’ and ‘rifts’ in musical form.
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    Birdt – Place For One Day

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    Birdt, a wonderful group from the Netherlands who make incredibly wistful and tender folk, with a hint of electronic. The group is made up of Janne Mansens on violin and second vocals, Sascha Schmitt on accordion, our very own Gareth L. Davis on bass clarinet, and led by the very talented Bardt van der Dennen on guitar and vocals. It always surprises people when they find out that Home Normal is not just an ambient label, with a strong love for really excellent songwriters, harsh noise and electronica when its right. The focus has and will always be good old organic music after all, and at the very root of the birdt full album debut ‘Place For One Day’ is a beautifully organic and free spirit.
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    William Ryan Fritch: Leave Me Like You Found Me (Deluxe CD)

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    – Glass Mastered CD housed in a panoramic 7” x 5” heavy stock, reverse printed case. – Featuring artwork throughout by world renowned Brazilian artist/illustrator João Raus. – 14 Song Mini-Album on a download card, containing 28 minutes of original music not found on the CD. – Double-sided Art Card Print featuring original artwork from William Ryan Fritch and Jamie Mills. Deluxe packaging featuring the work of renowned visual artist João Ruas, a 14 song mini-album on a download card with half an hour of brand new original music unavailable anywhere else, and a double-sided card print of original artwork from William Ryan Fritch and Jamie Mills.  
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    William Ryan Fritch – Emptied Animal

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    Artwork by world renowned artist/illustrator Joao Ruas. Glass Mastered CD housed in a Japanese style heavy stock, reverse printed case. Limited to 250 copies... Emptied Animal, the debut release from William Ryan Fritch, is an overture to the surrealist Psych-folk of his upcoming LP Leave Me Like You Found Me. This 10 song EP, full of more music and ideas than most long playing records, is comprised of five new songs featuring his honeyed, expressive vocals over bold, panoramic orchestration and five equally sumptuous and engaging instrumental tracks all showcasing a unique sense of orchestration and texture. The breadth and scope of this album’s instrumentation and arrangement belie the seemingly incomprehensible fact that every sound was played live, recorded, and mixed by Fritch in his home studio. After more than a decade of slowly refining and honing his DIY, no budget, maximalist aesthetic, Emptied Animal with it’s new, evocative sound palette is a statement piece for a solo artist who has continually strived to make music larger than his modest means. Those who purchase the physical album will receive four exclusive bonus tracks derived from the Leave Me Like You Found Me sessions.
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    Wegrzyn – Volksmusik

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    ”Volksmusik” is a debut full length release from Wegrzyn. Three short piano loops processed, edited and arranged into three lengthy ambient pieces. There was no other sound material used during the making of this album but those three loops. Recorded and mixed in one week, ”Volksmusik” was inspired by a rather sad event in artist’s life. Eventually sadness gave way to a bunch of other feelings. Most of them very positive and uplifting. And those feelings combined with childhood memories of a number of summers spent in a beautiful place in the countryside with the most loving people, became the foundation of what would be released as ”Volksmusik”. Those people are no longer there. The place had changed almost beyond recognition. Recording took place a long way from the landscapes and imagery that inspired the music. But still.. in a countryside. Very different though. The artist limited himself to the use of piano sounds only which helped him to stay focused on the possibilities of manipulating that sound. Through heavy audio processing a simple chord or even a single note would lead him to discovery of some interesting soundscapes and spaces. On the other hand, a rather short time spent on developing the pieces, made the initial feeling of nostalgia present throughout the record. Lukasz Wegrzyn was born in 1979 in Poland. As a teenager he featured in a number of guitar oriented indie/rock/noise bands. In 2009 Wegrzyn started making music on his own as slept. Strongly influenced by all sorts of images and sounds he now happily records under his own name.
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    David Newlyn – Disintegrating Suburban Dream

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    With his solo project, David Newlyn has been creating atmospheric, textural music since 2007. Known to Hibernate fans for a collaborative EP with Yellow6 back in 2011 he has also had numerous works released on labels such as Cotton Goods, Time Released Sound, Tokyo Droning and Flaming Pines. Based just outside Durham city, David combines electronics with guitars, keyboards and fretless bass to create hazy melancholic pieces. His latest album, ‘Disintegrating Suburban Dream’ sees David’s love of exploring and photographing derelict or abandoned places translated into a series of twelve impressionistic studies that focus on time and place. Alongside the markedly more acoustic instrumentation than his previous work lie spur of the moment field recordings made simply on a phone or camera, making a feature of the hiss and grit generated by these recordings. A celebration of dereliction, David Newlyn’s latest work succeeds in drawing the listener through its crumbling corridors as distant, decaying melodies act as a backdrop to ghostly chatter through a layer of fog.
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    3+ – Kazesarai

    “Kazesarai” is the newest release from Japanese artist(s) 3+, from the Time Released Sound label. This gentle beauty is a somewhat minimalistic, electronically treated piano based journey into a fantasy landscape of gently rustling bamboo and reeds… flowing rivers… and mountainous mists… the stuff that dreams are made of, indeed…! Kazesarai will be available in two versions, this is the digipak edition of 200 copies.
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    Various – Hope

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    As suggested by its title, Hope’, embodies a concept of positivity and the alleviation of strife through the creative translation of emotion into sounds sent to soothe (and) images formed to inspire. Artists were asked to create compositions that reflected their interpretation of the term Hope, producing varied yet cohesive results with a profound resonance. 50% of the profits are donated to Toybox, a charity providing aid, shelter and support for homeless children in Latin America, the majority of which are estimated a life expectancy of around four years on the street. Coupling all of this with the CD’s bespoke artwork and carbon neutral manufacture provides a consumable and tangible product that serves to aid a constructive cause through the medium of music. Ishq – Forever 10:51 2 Snakestyle – Hopeful 6:32 3 Field Rotation – Regenzeit 8:21 4 James Murray – Fingersand 7:11 5 Iambic – Turn The Seasons 2:19 6 Bersarin Quartett – Was Uns Bleibt 4:39 7 Playb – Acoustics Of The Piano (Plucked) 6:34 8 Halogen – Sunriser 5:23 9 Ben Beiny – Start Again 5:02 10 Iambic – Flags 4:18 11 Digitonal – We Three 4:57 12 Hol Baumann – Time To Change 5:05 13 Ben Beiny – A Part Of You 2:45
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    Porya Hatami – Shallow

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    Porya Hatami is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/minimal, his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field recordings. On Shallow, Porya has masterfully sculpted three pieces that are rich in tone and effortlessly relaxed and spacious. The album was mastered by M. Ostermeier. Cover Photography by William Keckler.
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    Le Chat Blanc Orchestra – Three Flats Too Minor

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    Stamped black bottom CDR, A7 white envelopes, three 5″x7” prints. Handmade. Edition of 100... “Three Flats Too Minor” is the 2nd full-length album from Le Chat Blanc Orchestra and 2nd release on TQA Records (first one was their EP “Theories sur la danse in 2007).
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    Sequences – As The Dust Reveals All

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    Stamped black bottom CDR, A7 white envelopes, four 5″x7″ prints. Handmade. Edition of 100... Sequences is a manifest of soundscapes that are captured and created in the ether between light and darkness; where the light began, the darkness will end. In the ashes of this project, we find a sole member who will represent the sound of a hidden world, buried within ourselves.  
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    Mains de Givre – Mort

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    Stamped black bottom CDR, A7 white envelopes, three 5″x7″ prints. Handmade. Edition of 100. Mains de Givre is a guitar/violin-centered ambient project involving self-taught experimentalist Eric Quach and classically trained musician Émilie Livernois-Desroches, from Montreal. Quach is widely known for the experimental drone/shoegaze work he’s produced under his thisquietarmy alias and also is the founder of the post-rock band Destroyalldreamers. Livernois-Desroches has played violin since she was seven years old and has been a part of various chamber music and symphonic orchestras. She also performs/performed with a wide variety of bands in styles ranging from pop to post-rock to medieval folk-black metal such as Le Diable aux Corsets, Sugarshack, Les Bâtards du Nord, Marie-Mai and Profugus Mortis. So far, they’ve released one album called ‘Esther Marie’ in 2010 on Textura (Canada) which was nicely received, as well as an EP “Insomnie à l’Ail” on TQA Records (Canada) & several tracks on various compilations. ‘Mort” regroups works from the last recording sessions in 2010 & 2011. It might be the final release for this project.  
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    Michel Banabila – More Research…

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    This is the follow-up to ‘The Latest Research From The Department Of Electrical Engineering’ (2011) . Sounds/ instruments that are used : EXS 24 sampler, found objects, fluorescent tube sounds, refrigerator sounds, plug sounds, ring thing modulator, korg monotribe and monotron, michael norris plugs, omnysphere soft. synth, pulsaret software, webSDR recordings, tape noise, kaoss pad, logic pro.
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    Listening Mirror – The Heart Of The Sky

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    Full colour digipak… The Heart of The Sky’ was inspired by a trip that Jeff made with his family to a lake called Tequesquitengo in Mexico. The sounds and atmosphere of the lake and it’s surroundings form the backing to three of the four compositions of slow drone, loops, and reverb drenched guitar on the album. The fourth track ‘ Mixtli Sleeps’ is an interpretation of the Mexican equivalent of Romeo and Juliet – the sad and beautiful story of the princess Mixtli and her prince Popocatepetl, with beautiful, haunting vocals by Alicia Merz. ‘The Heart of The Sky’ was originally released on cassette, in 2011 by Bathetic Records. It sold out pretty quickly, and ever since, Jeff has been asked to make it available again, but in a more accessible format. So here it is, on CD, in an expanded edition that includes remixes by Wil Bolton, Sleeper, and Leon Muraglia. Listening Mirror was discontinued in 2013, but Jeff and Alicia have continued to work together under the name ‘Snoqualmie Falls’, and have already released a sold out EP, with one album complete, and another in the pipeline.”
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    Con_cetta vs Monologue – Orlando

    “Orlando”, by con_cetta vs Monologue, is a split album of sorts, between the two artists con_cetta aka Giuseppe Cordaro, and MonoLogue aka Marie e le Rose. This beautiful album of alternating tracks serves as an imagined soundtrack to the dreamily poetic novel Orlando, by Virginia Woolf. And like the novel itself, “Orlando” plays as an example of modernity for it’s time, while still coming across as classic and timeless in it’s essential nature. Essentially melodic electronica for the ages… and for the full Orlando experience, please read the novel while listening!!
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    Machinefabriek – Attention, the Doors are Closing

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    After making the music (with Aaron Martin) for his pieceHide And Seek, choreographer Iván Pérez asked me to score his workAttention: the Doors Are Closing!The piece was made for Ballet Moscow, as part of their collaboration with Korzo (The Hague), for the Rusland-Netherlands year 2013. Before Ivan went to Russia to start working with the dancers, I made hours of raw material, mostly based on recordings of drums (which I found fitting with the concept of the piece). The last three weeks of the working process I joined Ivan in Moscow to work intensely on the music, while he was dealing with the finishing touches of the chreography. Each day the piece grew, and sound and movement got closer together. Attentiondeals with human relations in all its aspects, and especially how these function in a Russian society. It’s a very physical performance that draws from agression, humilation and intimacy in equal parts. The score enhances this, making it a very intense and at times intimidating work. The cd comes in a slim cd-single-style jewelcase and is mastered by Joe Panzner.
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    Absent Without Leave – Faded Photographs Remixes (2 x CD)

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    This is a limited edition of 500 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped white recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert printed on nice fabric paper… Absent Without Leave is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist George Mastrokostas, based in Athens, Greece. To date, he has released three full length albums, four EPs and six split/collaborative releases on labels such as Distant Noise Records, Unlabel, Chat Blanc Records, Awkward Silence Recordings, Thisquietarmy Records, Three:Four Records, Duotone Records and many others. Occasionally he has done some selective live shows around Europe and has shared the stage with many talented artists, including 65daysofstatic, God Is An Astronaut, Port-Royal, I Like Trains, Jeniferever, Arms And Sleepers, Piano Magic, Manyfingers, and others too. Faded Photographs was originally released in late 2010, including guest appearances by Port-Royal, Stafrænn Hákon, Epic45, Millimetrik and members of Hood, The Declining Winter, Eksi Ekso, Plumerai and Tupolev amongst others. The album received really great reviews from many magazines, webzines, blogs and radio shows worldwide and was promoted with the first ever Absent Without Leave European tour in spring 2011.  
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    Moult / Colohan – Hexameron (CD)

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    Standard digipak version comes in an edition of 200 copies, and is a collaborative, industrialised collage between the great artist Gustave Dore and Colin Herrick Hexameron is a collaborative effort between Richard Moult, and David Colohan… both of whom play with the brilliant neo folk group, United Bible Studies, and each of whom is involved with numerous other projects either on their own, or with others. This is a profoundly and deeply felt imagined soundtrack to the remote places of pagan pilgrimages, early Christian Hermitages, and the wanderings of the ancient wastelands of their unique heritage. This beautiful interplay of piano, electronics, and treated guitar work will take you across these ancient vistas and into the religious wilds of a Europa long gone.
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    Moult / Colohan – Hexameron

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    The deluxe limited version in an edition of just 75 copies is composed of original pages from a 100 year old book on the work of the obscure 15th century printer and illustrator, Anton Sorg. The collaged and inked and stamped envelope, comes in a hand worked, outer translucent envelope…with a selection of his medieval drawings, a banded CD sleeve made from a page of heraldic crests, and a large double sided insert, complimenting both Master Sorg, and the musicians themselves. Hexameron is a collaborative effort between Richard Moult, and David Colohan… both of whom play with the brilliant neo folk group, United Bible Studies, and each of whom is involved with numerous other projects either on their own, or with others. This is a profoundly and deeply felt imagined soundtrack to the remote places of pagan pilgrimages, early Christian Hermitages, and the wanderings of the ancient wastelands of their unique heritage. This beautiful interplay of piano, electronics, and treated guitar work will take you across these ancient vistas and into the religious wilds of a Europa long gone.
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    A Veil Of Water – Reminder

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    “Reminder” is the debut album by multi-instrumentalist Rune Trelvik, under the moniker A Veil Of Water. “Reminder” represents the culmination of a two year long journey through a tumultuous relationship. This album travels through the feelings of initial attraction, infatuation, love, hope, nostalgia, and the subsequent loss of the entire bond. Self-taught in piano, drums, guitar, and bass, Rune has drawn inspiration from a wide array of musical styles utilizing essences rather than direct influences by the bands and genres he appreciates. Experimental in nature, A Veil Of Water has been mostly associated with post-rock and neoclassical styles, yet remains faithful to its re-occuring melancholic theme. In short, A Veil Of Water tries to capture fleeting sensations, momentary glimpses, and feelings of longing, producing a musical representation of his internal world.
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    Andrei Machado – Catarse

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    Cover art by Jamie Silveira (The Album Leaf) this is a stunning 8 track Neo Classical release that comes in a printed card sleeve and factory replicated disc… Twice Removed is proud to announce the release of Andrei Machado”s “Catarse”. “Catarse” (translated to English means Catharsis) is Andrei’s third album, but first as a physical product. Andrei Machado is a composer from Brasília, Brazil. Composing ‘Catarse’ was a constant search for the essential. A search for quiet, serenity and peace. A search for less.” Andrei’s previous releases were “Lacuna” (2008) and “Étant” (2009) and both came out on the Brazilian Sinewave net label. His influences are neo-classical music and minimalist artists like Peter Broderick, Bosques De Mi Mente, Max Michta, Goldmund and Michael Andrews. “With a soft touch and a mix of elegancy, Andrei Machado blends beautiful soundscapes with heartbreaking melodies, giving you, at the same time, the feeling of freedom and anxiety. And it’s definitely something a human being should experience.” (The Siren Sound).
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    Andreas Brandal – Seance

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    The release comes in a recycled cardboard gatefold sleeve with Andreas’ artwork attached and a handstamped cd-r. It is a limited edition of 50 copies… Twice Removed is proud to announce the release of Andreas Brandal’s “Seance”. Andreas Brandal is a prolific Norwegian musician who has been active since the late 1980’s and has appeared on many releases as either a solo artist or as part of a duo. Labels that Andreas has been on include Smalltown Supersound, Basses Frequencies, Stunned, Sweat Lodge Guru and many more. His music covers such genres as Noise, Electroacoustic, Ambient, Drone and Experimental styles. “Séance” is an 8 track release which has a filmic theme to it with music that would not be out of place in a Science Fiction movie with an Industrial and occasional ominous feel to it.
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    Benoit Pioulard: Hymnal Remixes (2 x CD)

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    This one is stunning, designed utilizing two beautifully toned photos taken by Tom Meluch. The double disc album comes housed in a perfectly worn heavy stock Japanese style CD wallet including matte printing on the disc faces as well. Mastered by Carl Saff… Seattle-based Benoît Pioulard has become a stalwart of Chicago’s kranky imprint over the course of four full-lengths, the most recent of which is Hymnal. Lost Tribe Sound is pleased to release Hymnal Remixes, a compendium of interpretations, constructions, reductions and destructions. On Remixes the roll call includes: Fieldhead, Loscil, Field Rotation, William Ryan Fritch, Graveyard Tapes, Part Timer, Cock & Swan, Brambles, Segue, The Remote Viewer, The Green Kingdom, Squanto, James Murray, Zachary Gray, Widesky, Radere, Ruhe, Window Magic, Benoît Honoré Pioulard
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    Ulises Conti – Atlas

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    Atlas collects what could be considered Ulises Conti’s most distinguished recording works throughout his 10-year solo career. The selection reveals a great sound display that generates musical spaces and landscapes of a beauty that is unusual in today’s scene, which stresses the timbral element (piano, French horn, viola, lap steel, etc.) This is only a brief sample from his productions as a musician, because his work also expands on other disciplines such as film, visual arts, dance and theater, as the composer of soundtracks, installations and other sound research projects. He is one of the Argentine composers with the most potential and international projection considering his powerful and inspiring work.
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    Cuushe – Butterfly Case

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    “Butterfly Case” is Cuushe’s brand new breath-taking 2nd full length album, coming four years after her beautiful debut “Red Rocket Telepathy” and the subsequent “Girl You Know That I Am Here But The Dream” EP. While Cuushe’s debut album put more focus on field recordings and found sounds, in “Butterfly Case”, you can see her moving graciously from her dreams into reality, expressing herself with delicate analog tape, distorted synths, drum machines, looped guitars and her signature feathery vocals. This wonderful album is co-produced by flau label mastermind aus, with Geskia at the mastering helm. These astonishing new songs allow us see a new vision, an imagination from Cuushe that we’ve never seen before. The balearic guitar-house track “I Love You”, which is one of the most popular tracks from the album, has already been receiving raving reviews from the press both in Japan and overseas, while the ambient-ish R&B take in “Hanabi” is a wonderful reminiscent of Cocteau Twins & early 4AD meet soul music. Cuushe’s uniquely beautiful voice, and the delicately beat-driven music that was masterfully produced in “Butterfly Case”, has undoubtedly unfolded a new exciting dimension in dream pop music. by Tim McGregor & Wei Yuen, mu-nest.
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    Atom Eye – The Otolith Sessions

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    CD release with a limited edition, 50 page book complete with beautiful images and texts eluding to the recording materials, machinery, processes and personnel. The book also encompasses an audio cookbook with recipes for you to create your own experimental audio loops and soups. The culmination of a year’s worth of sound experiments with machines of a bygone era, The Otolith Sessions sees Elsie Martins ‘Atom Eye’ project realise it’s most ambitious and complete work to date. A meticulously programmed full length as opposed to a collection of tracks the album develops and unfolds with a palpable sense of purpose and adventure over the albums six storied compositions. The visceral nature of the beautiful but abstruse music is no fluke but a deliberate result of the unhurried nature of the albums writing and production process. The Otolith Sessions was mixed & co-produced by James Aparicio (Liars, Spiritualized) and features guest appearances from regular collaborators; award-winning percussionist Pete Lockett (Björk, David Holmes, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lee Scratch Perry, Primal Scream) and Mute Artist, Composer and Producer Simon Fisher Turner (whose work includes soundtracks for Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, The Last of England, The Garden and David Lynch-produced Nadja).
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    Ithaca Trio – Music For Piano & Patience

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    Ithaca Trio is Leeds based artist Oliver Thurley. He is one of our favourite artists, with notable releases on Hibernate and Under The Spire, as well as his highly praised split with Machinefabriek ‘Par Avion’ in 2010. He is currently studying a PhD in Composition at the University of Leeds, UK. ‘Music For Piano & Patience’ is a beautiful two piece album based on piano loops run through reel-to-reel. It was mastered on degrading 1/4” reels.
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    Wndfrm – C60 / Tmkutekt

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    Wndfrm is Tim Westcott, from Portland, Oregon. This is our first release with Tim, although we go way back now after his cloudburst moniker produced the excellent Resting Bell release ‘Katedra’ in 2008. ‘c60 / tmkutekt’ are two long-form compositions he created with grant funding from the Canada Council for The Arts. The source field recordings for “c60” were obtained exclusively from within the “Biosphere Museum of the Environment”, which at the time of recording was located in the geodesic dome in Parc Jean- Drapeau, Montreal. Indeed all the sounds used in these two compositions were derived from field recordings obtained during a visit to Montreal, Canada, in the early summer of 2011. The work was greatly inspired by the performances and atmosphere of the MUTEK Electronic Music and Digital Arts Festival.
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    Maps and Diagrams – In Circles (CD)

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    Conceived in part as a follow up to his extremely well received 2011 album, “Get Lost”… this too is an absolutely classic, languid mix of melodiously flowing and organic electronica of the highest caliber. The standard, printed digipak version of this release comes in an edition of 200 copies with a factory pressed replicated disc.
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    Maps and Diagrams – In Circles

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    This, the deluxe version comes in an edition of only 70 copies. Each of these hand altered black digipaks comes collaged, punched and inlayed inside and out with antique, ornate silkscreened Spanish cork wallpapers…even the spine! Like the digipak itself the black, double sided hand printed and punched textual insert has had all edges blacked out as well. The digipak itself comes in an extensively hand stamped, hole punched, inked and diagrammed translucent envelope…also included in each is a 75 year old page of hand drawn and written diagrams and text. While Get Lost was all about the maps… In Circles is all about the diagrams…in your mind!
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    Rion

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    Rion are Ian Hawgood and Ryo Nakata, although both veterans of the scene this is their debut outing as a duo. Inspired by the magic of low light periods and the quietude of a summer spent in the countryside, Fireflies, is an album of organic, magical and hazy presence. Ian Hawgood has immersed himself in musical projects for longer than he cares to remember; in recent years he has released through the likes of Experimedia, Dragons Eye and his own Home Normal label as well as through several netlabels. Ryo Nakata hails from Sapporo, Japan and records under the name Ryonkt. He runs the Small Fragments label and has had EPs and albums out on labels such as Smallfish, The Land Of, Resting Bell and Twice Removed. The album also features vocals from Rie Mitsutake (Miko). Fireflies was recorded over a two year period. Ryo recorded layers of drone guitar at home while Ian spent about a year gathering field recordings in parks and the countryside, as well as recording instruments such as Rhodes, church organ, harmonium, guitar and double bass in music shops, churches and so on. The idea was to keep the album fresh, improv-like and just quite unique in approach. All these elements were recorded to a small multitrack cassette and then multi-layered onto reels, no software or laptops were used. The cover photograph is by renowned ambient artist Fabio Orsi and acts as a beautiful juxtaposition to the theme of the album. On first viewing it is a decayed, urban environment, and yet the image has a beautiful magic to it.
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    Given – Piano Improvisation…

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    310 gsm folded card sleeve in a clear plastic wallet… Debut release from Italy’s Dona Basile who records / performs under a variety of names and styles. This release is an album of Modern Classical Piano matched with Electronics and Beats.
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    Mote – Frames

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    Comes in recycled card sleeve from Guided Products with attached artwork… I’ve composed Frames in the last 60 days of 2012. At the time I was still in my hometown, so all the songs were basically written in my bedroom with laptop, keyboard and earphones. In a certain sense, this EP is something that comes way before what Mote is: in fact, lately its completion convinced me about the path to take with this project. I haven’t really planned anything about it, the whole year has been fairly troubled and my mood kept on waving daily so ultimately i’ve ended up with a huge amount of semi-improvised material written in scattered/sleepless nights. Every time it felt like pulling something out of my head and placing it in a frame so it could firmly stay there. With no lyrics or straight references in the music itself, what i see in them stays implicit and as a consequence, the journey between the songs is always personal for the listener. As a totally untrained musician i’ve always been extremely unconfident about what i write: yet today i think that this is the biggest limitation that i’m fighting against. Taking my first compositions out of that bedroom after all of this time represents a big challenge, it took me quite a while to accept it. I wish these frames will show something to the listeners and, hopefully, that they’ll find more feelings and colours in them that i could even except.
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    Various – Water Mountain (2 x CD)

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    Sprawling hand-numbered edition of 250 copies double CD set from this international super-group… Gatefold, die-cut outer cover / hand screen printed on 300 gsm cardstock… On a personal note, I remember vividly when Hitoshi Kojo told me with excitement about a transhumance through UK with the specific purpose in mind of doing sessions with some of the great drone masters over there, namely : Colin Potter, Jonathan Coleclough and Paul Bradley… Retrospectively, I think I was as stirred as him. The resulting collected material has been shelved for years (7 actually !), and I began to fear this estimable musical heritage could get lost…this was not taking into account Hitoshi Kojo’s sense of perseverance. It is now available in a splendid handcrafted ltd edition sleeve with cut-out made by patient graphic virtuoso designer Hitoshi Kojo himself – even before any listening, already a beautiful physical object to behold. Most probably there have been a considerable volume of editing ahead, and an intense compositional shaping process searching for paths within the vertiginous sonic matter before reaching this radiating amalgam. Rather than splitting the work in as many distinct collabs, the choice has been to mould it in a six long parts confluential movement distributed on 2 CDs
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    Chantal Acda – Let Your Hands Be My Guide (CD)

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    Currently based in Belgium, Dutch-born Chantal Acda (b. 1978) has worked under the Sleepingdog moniker since 2006, making three acclaimed albums that closed on the ‘With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields’ (2010) album for which she collaborated with Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid, A Winged Victory For The Sullen). They toured the UK and Benelux with Low in 2011.
 After all this, it was time for her first real solo record. Playing in various formations had made her conscious of the patterns that we all, as humans, share in. So, she sought out kindred spirits with whom she might record an album filled with freedom and intensity, and who were conscious of the patterns we so often fall back on.
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    Antonymes – There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay

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    Features a 6 panel card sleeve and 8 page booklet with beautiful images of the North Wales landscape by Richard Outram and texts by Paul Morley… Ian M Hazeldine records under the alias Antonymes, hailing from Hawarden, a small village in North Wales, whose most famous inhabitant was William Ewart Gladstone. He creates atmospheric melodies, using various pianos, celesta, strings, church organ and field recordings, and has had releases on Soundcolours, Cathedral Transmissions, Hidden Shoal, Time Released Sound and Rural Colours.  
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    Martin / Berg – Day Has Ended

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    Aaron Martin & Christoph Berg’s split called “Day Has Ended” is a piece of quiet, intimate music, interfused with daylight and covered by a soft mist of evening dreams. This album spans the course of a day until the point where night falls. The first part, created by Aaron Martin, is a water-colour, cool and delicate. The twinkling sun reflected itself in a slow river, transparent silvery clouds sparkle and brush the heads of drowsy trees. The closer to the middle of the album, the lower goes the gentle shadow, saturating. In the second part – Christoph Berg’s one, water-colour turns into gouache. The sound becomes more full, more sensuous, it comes in waves, like breath of a sleeping man. Just close your eyes, be all ears and you’ll feel – the night is not silent. Sweet tune of twilight and darkness full of echo, humming blue, vague voice of the strings and clear gleaming of bright stars in a velvet sky – that is the night. It’s a perfect and severely sincere work, slightly bittered with melancholy. Aaron Martin is a very talented multi-instrumentalist from Topeka, Kansas who has releases on such labels as Experimedia, Preservation, Under The Spire, Sonic Meditations. Christoph Berg is composer and sound artist currently living and working in Berlin focusing on fragile acoustic chamber music compositions. Also writes electro-acoustic music as Field Rotation. He has releases on Facture, hibernate, Denovali Records, Fluid Audio.
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    Hybernation – Object Studies – Metal

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    Stuart has been recording and sampling objects since the start of his Hybernation project in 1999, after becoming tired of familiar electronic sounds, plug-ins and presets. Early tracks, such as on Snow Cover (Rednetic Recordings) and Interduvet Yarns (both released in 2007) used objects to create beats and rhythms, that as a drummer, Stuart could not recreate using just four limbs. As he delved further exploring the resonant tones of objects, these increasingly became melodic and textural components. This can first be heard on tracks from ‘E2 & E8’ (Cotton Goods, 2010) where Stuart combined them with location-based recordings, and on ‘Thirty’ (FBox Records, 2012) a recording of a live performance using 30 donated objects. Object Studies takes this a step further by using just one object to create each track. Sounds produced by objects are usually a by-product of their usage, so by concentrating and reducing them down to a resonant form tiny characteristics can be discovered. Stuart uses these to form a musical, harmonic response, turning the sound into something more purposeful and accessible. In this first collection, all of the sounds are made from metallic objects or components.
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    Various – Vernacular (2 x CD)

    This compilation collects a gathering of 15 sound artists from 11 countries. Released as a double CD compilation album with a 16-page booklet, V.A. / VERNACULAR connects the past and future of theelectronica, ambient, and experimental scenes, using the locality of each artists country as the theme… 1-1 –Hior Chronik Sketches Of You 1-2 –Steve Roden If Here, Not There, If Not There, Then Here 1-3 –Yui Onodera Blue Planet Sky (For 21st Century Museum Of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa) 1-4 –Janek Schaefer Rest In Peace Knowing The Sound Of Angels 1-5 –Kenneth Kirschner July 10, 2012 1-6 –Simon Scott Adventurers Fen 1-7 –Tu M' Tenebrae 2-1 –Federico Durand Magnolia 2-2 –Dale Lloyd Extra Ordinary, Extra Regular 2-3 –Jos Smolders Vangsaa: Revisited, Reduced 2-4 –Yves De Mey Local Fracs 2-5 –Kim Cascone A Spectacle Of Malleable Glass - Alchemisphere Three 2-6 –Troum Welcen 2-7 –John Grzinich* Animate Structures #2 (Wires, Wind, Snow) 2-8 –Lawrence English Breaking Clouds Apart
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    Mikael Lind – Unsettled Beings

    The title of Mikael Lind’s latest album, Unsettled Beings, is a reference to his restless self. Mikael is Swedish, but has lived and worked in Iceland since 2006. The interesting thing about his new release, is that all the people involved in realizing the music are also foreigners living in Iceland. Paul Evans from Greenhouse Studios played the violin and also mixed the album. Ryan Karazija, who is doing very well in Iceland with his band Low Roar, lent his vocals to four of the tracks. Alex Somers from Riceboy Sleeps, producer of several important new musical acts in Iceland, mastered the album. The basic idea of the album is a core of several different pianos accompanied by a lush pattern of violins. The pianos are of varying character, and their melodies often intertwine in a poly-rhythmic fashion, giving the listener the option of letting different melodies compete for attention. Ryan’s vocals add warmth to the songs, ornamented with Paul’s violins – sometimes in a call-response aesthetics.
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    Routine – Sì

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    Sì is the first release by Routine. Recorded between 2000 and 2013 and composed by 2009, this work sprout by love for organic, raw, electroacoustic sounds and the merging of the typical song structure with musique concrète.
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    Ennio Mazzon – Xuan

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    Ennio Mazzon is a sound artist who works in the field of experimental electronica. His background in engineering and his interest for maths, physics and programming languages are conveyed into the development of infrastructures of digital tools that he uses for audio processing and live improvisation. He is the founder of the label Ripples and he is part of the project Zbeen
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    Rosati / Saguto – Gridshape

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    Gridshape is an intersection of heavily distorted violent sounds with points of kinetic aural quietness through the interaction between digital electronics and guitars.
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    Mysterybear – Oscillation

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    Analog Path bring us this CD from composer/musician Dave Seidel aka Mysterybear. He attended Simon’s Rock College from 1974 to 1978 where he was the first person to receive a BA from that school with a Major in Music Theory and Composition, and after playing in a number of experimental and avant garde projects he is now making music purely from non modular analog electronic instruments. ‘Oscillation’ is two pieces of monotone synth noise. Track one is a single synth buzz for a solid 35 minutes long, pretty hard stuff to take in really but very interesting all the same. Track two, entitled ‘Transpiration’, has a little more variation though as the buzz fades in and out with a slightly different tone. This is purely for the hardcore aficionado of electronic music and not just for the casual ambient listener!
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    Sparkling Wide Pressure – Stream Returner

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    Layers of shifting, shimmering synths are joined by echoed, unintelligible vocal loops; industrial drones give way to gentle tropical guitar…it’s all rather gentle and patient and sleepily detailed stuff. I have had a hard time reviewing it because Phil kept resetting the internet router, so this write-up has ended up rather brief but I listened to the whole thing and it was most pleasant.
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    Ikebana – When You Arrive There

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    Ikebana, in Japanese, is an art of flower arrangement. Unlike conventional flower arrangement, it often focuses on other areas of the plant, such as its stems and leaves, rather than its blooms, and lays emphasis toward the shape, line, form of the arrangement. Ikebana is about minimalism, about beauty in space, and about calmness. And so does the music of flau label’s latest signing, the Japanese female duo Ikebana. Ikebana is made up of 2 wonderfully talented female artists, maki and en. Their unique music is infused with a strong sense of Shoegaze and Ambient, but in a very much stripped-down form. Phases of minimal guitar noise floating through the space of sounds, like a wavering light in darkness, with deeply reverbed female voices drifting in to create a calm universe between a dream and the reality. Unlike the current style of psychedelic/drone music for overseas, Ikebana’s music is about minimalism, about beauty in space, and about calmness, just like the art of flower arrangement of Ikebana itself.
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    0 – Sonando

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    0 is a french band directed by Stéphane Garin (percussion), Joël Merah (acoustic guitar) and Sylvain Chauveau (acoustic guitar, glockenspiel), whose line-up can change for each project with the addition of regular guests. The trio of Merah, Garin and Chauveau have spend two years composing, recording and mixing the seven pieces of the Soñando album (dreaming in Spanish).This chamber folk suite is entirely played with acoustic instruments (guitar, glockenspiel) and small pieces of metal collected by Stéphane Garin for their special sound and tuning. In quiet spaces, this repertoire can even be performed without any microphone or amplification. The result looks like an original mix of rhythmic patterns assembled togetehr like the pieces of a puzzle.
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    Machinefabriek – Stroomtoon II

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    In December 2011 I recorded the album Stroomtoon, which was released by the French Nuun label the year after. The music was constructed using recordings from improvisations with a setup that I was trying out for upcoming live performances. It’s the same setup that I still use nowadays, mainly consisting of an old Phillips analogue tone generator and a selection of effects units. When making Stroomtoon, it felt like moving into new territory that was worth explore more. While that album is very layered, subtle and considered, I wanted to try to capture the roughness and spontaneity of my live performances. I recorded more material, picked out the best moments, and edited them without adding too much post-production. When the labels Fake Jazz and Superior Standards asked me to release material on a few lathe cut singles, I knew this would be perfect for the music I was working on. simple, to the point vignettes with the ideal playing time for the 7-inch format. After making six Stroomtoon tracks and having them released on three extremely limited lathe cuts, I realized what a shame it was that they were so limited and that they weren’t gathered on one medium, like the first Stroomtoon album. With the extra value of having them in better sound quality then the lathes, I decided to compile them on this DISC, adding two other tracks that were previously released on lathe as well, my personal favorites Kreupelhout and Toendra. Stroop appeared on the compilation Antibothis 4. These extra tracks fit nicely with the other material on this CD. Then there’s the art of Rebecca Norton that’s gracing this cd sleeve. Rebecca got in contact when I was working on the music. Browsing her website, I was immediatly grabbed by her ‘The Affine(s): Small Paintings’ series. Their spikey, concentrated shapes struck me as perfect visualizations of the Stroomtoon II II material. That’s when all fell into place. – Rutger Zuydervelt, Rotterdam, January 2013
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    Banabila / Machinefabriek – Travelog

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    Matte laminated four panel digipak… When Michel Banabila and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) finished their first collaborative album, it felt like they were just getting started. Suprised by how fluent and natural their collaboration went, it was obvious that this wasn’t over yet… While ‘Banabila & Machinefabriek’ was quite an abstract affair, its successor ‘Travelog’ is lighter, playful and rhythmic. Some moments might recall the mighty Tape, while others showcase motoric krautrock influences and subtle hints of African rhythms. All in all, this album clearly radiates the joy of its creative process and sees Banabila and Machinefabriek on the top of their game. ‘Travelog’ comes housed in a full colour digipack, graced with photography by Michel Banabila, designed by Rutger Zuydervelt. It’s released by Tapu Records, in collaboration with Lumberton Trading Company.
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    Strongheart

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    A heartwarming record by multi-instrumentalist, songwriter Matthew Anderson’s new project Strongheart. Heavily recommended to fans of Sigur Ros, Steven Wilson, Shearwater and anybody who is interested in the underground gems around U.S or any kind of artful music. Here at Wounded Wolf Press we’ve been long friends and in contact with Matthew Anderson even before this press were in existence, collaborating and making guest appearances on each others albums. For instance the drums on Svefn Plural’s ‘Skyhook’ (Except ‘Polaroid Girl’) were by Matthew and Atay did play guitars and mellotrons on his previous project Noble Dust. Package comes in six variations, differentiating in photograph on the cover -each is a crop from the original by George Anderson-, in ivory sleeve alongside with two informative cards within.
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    Treefingers – Op.I

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    Treefingers is a solo project of Atay İlgün focusing on ambient, drone-based and industrial music. It wanders through sounds of minds under the confusion of micro-cosmos and universe, supernovas with vivid details of elemental clouds, dreamy lands where giant machines were meant to be natural belongings creating beautiful forests. It does these with a zen like beautiful and very beautifully crafted soundscapes which simply deserves to be experienced in an enverioment where it’s sounds can live in. When it lives it gains the capability to slow one’s metabolism to turn the listener inside for an hour of healing , both physically and mentally. Package design is a reworked one of the first edition which was mostly designed by Alper Yıldırım. Photographs by Alper Yıldırım. Contains the bonus track ‘The Summit’ which was solely available from the mrsvee’s website.
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    Miaou – Bring The Lights EP

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    This is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped green recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and two inserts with the tracklist and credits… Miaou are a band based in Tokyo, formed in 1999 by Tatsuki Hamasaki and sisters Mayumi & Hiromi Hasegawa out of a university project and a shared love for music. To date they have released four albums, one remix album, two EPs and one split EP (with Below The Sea) on labels such as Thomason Sounds, Teto Records, Preco Records and Noon Records and have collaborated with artists like Ben Cooper (Electric President/Radical Face) and Ben Holton (Epic45). They have played live across Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Ireland and UK and have toured with Epic45, Below The Sea, Tracer AMC, Art Of Fighting, Radical Face and Not Squares. Miaou have also contributed to various compilations and have done remixes for the likes of EF, Not Squares, Masha Qrella and many others. On Bring The Lights EP they present five new captivating tracks, blurring once more the lines between post-rock and electronica. The perfect combination of wistful guitars, swelling synths, fender rhodes, glockenspiel, samples and glitchy beats, alongside with instruments like piano, cello and flute, results in about half an hour full of warm and blissful melodies. The finishing touch on the dreamy sound of Bring The Lights EP was applied by the mastering of George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave), bringing to mind the best moments of The Album Leaf, Epic45 and Mum.
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    Threethings – Antecedent Conditions

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    Limited edition CD of 150… Threethings is the solo project of Ben Worth (b.1979), who spent the first three decades of his life in England before moving to Toronto, Canada in 2010. He first picked up a guitar as a teenager and has been playing around with home recordings in one form or another ever since. From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the band Kontakte, who during that time put out two full albums and an EP on the Drifting Falling label, and shared the stage with bands such as M83, Epic45, Six by Seven, Vessels and Fuck Buttons. Threethings started as a project after Ben’s move to Canada, where he found that he had more time to explore sounds that interested him – playing with pedals, processing and manipulating guitar loops, and combining the results with field recordings, contact mic textures, and other found sounds. Antecedent Conditions features six tracks built up in this way from a base of processed guitar loops and the incidental sounds that were captured along with them. Additional sounds, textures, and instrumentation were added as the tracks were slowly sculpted into their final form – all the while trying to find something beautiful/hopeful in the imperfect and accidental nature of the original recordings. The cover features an extract from a painting called Locust Limb by the Toronto based artist Jessica Rode.
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    Graveyard Tapes – Our Sound is Our Wound

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    Gorgeous 6 panel re-issue… Many of you are already familiar with this year’s well-received album from Graveyard Tapes. The Deluxe Book Editions sold out in record time. With artwork this excellent from illustrator Jamie Mills, we couldn’t help ourselves in producing a Second Edition of this debut album. Taking much of the art from the original and translating it into a 6 Panel Matte-Print CD Wallet, the Second Edition is more compact than the Deluxe. Yet, it still captures the beauty of the illustrations in a more affordable design. For those that didn’t get a chance to grab a copy of this album the first time around, it is a beautiful piece of work. The Graveyard Tapes music is one of the most evolving, surprising, and emotional releases we have had the pleasure to release!
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    Grzegorz Bojanek – Constraints

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    Limited edition of 23 hand numbered copies. Also includes digital download code… While exploring SoundCloud I found a very interesting group called Disquiet Junto, created by Marc Weidenbaum. As Mark says: “The purpose of the group is to use constraints to stoke creativity”. When I joined the group the artists were working of the 14th project and I decided to take part in it. It went quite well cause I love to use “less” in order to create “more”. What is more, the artists who create their tracks following Marc’s guidelines are very creative and the comments they leave under the “soundclouds” are deep and honest. In my opinion it is because everybody really listens to the tracks of the other people very carefully and analyses the creative process which is always described under the track. This is really amazing. So far I’ve created several tracks for the Disquiet Junto group and they are free to download from my SoundCloud profile. Still, I wanted to publish them as an album, because I feel that they should exist also in a physical form. So I asked my friend Krzysztof Orluk to make the analogue mastering with his toys to add some warmth to the tracks. I must say I really like the new line of ETALABEL packages but in this case I also wanted to work with constraints while creating the package. That is why I made limited handmade digipacks. They are mostly in black and yellow (I don’t know why but when I think about the group those colors are in my mind). The graphics on the cover was designed by Mateusz Bąkała. I carved a woodcut out of the graphics and “stamped” it into the covers.
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    Monochromie – ST

    4 panel digipak version in an edition of 200 copies… An absolutely beautiful, piano centric affair from Monochromie, aka Marseilles based, French composer, Wilson Trouve’.This is ambient melancholy at it’s loveliest… upon hearing them, these wonderfully evocative and plaintive melodies will remain with you throughout the day. Pastoral, emotive and nostalgically treated instrumentation and electronics, that leave a whole lot to the imagination…as all the most beautiful music does. This album is mastered by Wil Bolton as well.
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    Porya Hatami – Land & Land Remixes

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    2 x digipak... Originally released on Somehow Recordings in January of 2012, this second edition of “Land” has been remastered and is co-released with “Land Remixes”. Buy both albums in a combo pack. Porya Hatami’s ‘Land’ explores a vibrant soundscape of hypnotic loops, delicately percussive chimes and manipulated field recordings to evoke the sensual, blissful minutiae of the natural world and of the life that both inhabits and interprets it. Fundamentally delicate and yet insistently, breathtakingly complete, Hatami’s keen ear for microscopic levels of sonic detail allows the album as a whole to sketch a wide-screen vision of nature at work. Buried deep within the gauzy, feather-light haze that permeates the album is a deep-seated sense of purpose – the insistent, bubbling loops underpinning ‘Autumn’; the porcelain synth washes of ‘Sea’; the disquieting crackles and squeaks of ‘Bug’. It’s an album obsessed with both stillness and movement, and the contradictions inherent in occupying those two modes of being lie at the heart of the record. Thematically profound and tonally complex, the album charts a course through a fragile natural world, constructing an exquisitely intricate tone poem from the manifold sounds of the earth and its transitory inhabitants.
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    Hovering – Nektarios Manaras

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    From the Greek island of Chalkis comes a very special debut by Nektarios Manaras celebrating magical sea life, the ancient Metéora rock pillar complex of monastries and dancing flowers. Glistening with gorgeous instrumentation, Hovering is a languid album full of fantastical imagery and whispered half truths. As the music plays, whales slowly submerge and monks scale the rock face to pray while the earth floats its way around the sun. It is an album to soak in on sun-dappled days, as the sun sinks beneath the sea and everything for that one moment seems perfect. As Manaras puts it: “The main idea is that everything in the universe and earth is floating in such a beautiful way. That is the feeling I’m trying to capture with my music.” And he certainly has.
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    Be My Friend In Exile – The Silence, The Darkness

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    Second full release from the UK’s BMFIE following from his last release, an EP on Twice Removed Editions. This is a 4 panel digipak with factory replicated disc in an edition of 100 copies…
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    Birch And Meadow – Butterflies And Graves (Deluxe CD)

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    Deluxe version comes in an edition of 100 copies. Each of these is comprised of a hinged, modified/collaged/printed 5″ reel to reel tape box. The cut out lid is collaged with pages from a 100 year old book on Lepidoptera, with the cut out forming a sort of an ancient and tattered specimen box, and revealing a two sided, quadra folded 5″ x 19″ print. Printed on Moab rag natural 300# paper, one side is printed from a detailed 3 dimensional scan, and the other is stamped with butterflies, each hand colored with leaves and flowers. In the box and beneath the print, comes the factory pressed disc in picture sleeve, and a hand numbered textual insert, all on a bed of mounting material…
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    Birch And Meadow – Butterflies And Graves

    32min beauty from Birch And Meadow entitled “Butterflies And Graves”. Birch And Meadow are David Wenngren (Library Tapes), and Swedish singer songwriter Sara Forslund. Alongside David’s spare and lingeringly lovely electronic treatments, Sara vocalizes an emotional soundtrack to an imaginary film featuring Nico and folk legend Shirley Collins, fighting over the man who has left them both and stolen their harmoniums! This is a somewhat dark and meditative… languid and eerie … and breathy and beguilingly melancholic affair indeed.
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    Fibreforms – Treedrums

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    One-time numbered edition of 300. Includes two previously unreleased tracks from that early era… Long before KILN turned to the sunset-soaked textures of Dusker (2007), they made music as fibreforms. Treedrums (1996) documents their transition from live performance trio to sound-art synergists, balancing symbiotic instrumental spaces of kit-drums and treated guitars with lost & found sound to evoke moments that are at once invigorating and tranquil. Seventeen years later, Treedrums is presented here as an economized, re-amped, remixed, and properly restored archival edition of this once buried treasure of sonic curio.
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    Eluder – Through Horizon

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    Japanese style mini-lp gatefold sleeve – printed by Stoughton. Features printed inner sleeve. Design by Timothy O’Donnell. Images by NASA. Edition of 400 copies…
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    Minadeo / Brown – Wood Land

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    ‘Wood Land’ features deluxe packaging with a perfect bound booklet of 28 pages, matte digipak, housed in a slipcase… Wood Land is a story of a nameless worker caught in the mundanity of placid bureaucracy. Wood Land is a story of buried towers and subtle rebellion. Wood Land is a story of unsubtle rebellion and totalitarian overthrow. Wood Land is a story of deep space awakening and astronaut spiders. Wood Land is a story of return and reconciliation. Wood Land is a story. Scored by Joseph Minadeo and written by Curt Brown with imagery by both. Sonically, ‘Wood Land’ was an extension of Joseph Minadeo’s first foray into ambient – ‘sounds from a photograph’, a ‘Pearl’-esque LP of Lanois affected piano and placid drones. ‘Wood Land’ extends that premise and gives a hazy nod towards Noto and Sakamoto’s collaborative soft digital clicks and sustained piano. Airy atmospheres are constructed with multiple piano layering plus guitars dissolving into despondant organ, synth sequencing and minimal drum padding. Slow cadences of hope and light are countered with ominous sonatas. Indescernible Vocals, courtesy of Gabriela Kropf, are mixed into the mellotron choirs. Joseph Minadeo is a composer behind the former Akron, Ohio (now Los Angeles) based Patternbased label. He is also a member of the post-rock outfit Low in the Sky. He recently moved to California to dig deeper into art and music. Curt Brown is an Akron, Ohio based artist and is a co-founder of Rubber City Noise, a collective that runs a record label and arts space in Akron. Current projects include Black Unicorn and Cane Swords among others. Several tracks from ‘Wood Land’ were used in the global collaborative documentary film ‘One Day on Earth’ (along w/ Sigur Ros, Beirut, Cut Chemist and Mum).
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    Monos – Age & Transformation / Aged & Transformed

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    2 x CD: Each CD is packaged in a card stock envelope and then housed in a mini-lp gatefold Stoughton sleeve with matte finishing and spot gloss lettering. Designed by Timothy O’Donnell.  Darren’s work has always been that of a drone eccentric — and proof positive of that is the micro-editions released since 2003 on his own Fungal Records. True modern-day psychedelia, drawn out drone excursions, electric guitar scraping & expansion, synth noodling harbored into small private recordings for the chosen few. The limited number of those exposed to Darren’s view –which was NOT intended to be exclusive — just small updates as to where/what was happening with Darren in terms of gear, mood and circumstance. There is an inherent feel that little editing takes place – just captured recordings with the reel-to-reel on. Tate has worked extensively with other collaborators – Andrew Chalk (together known as Ora), Colin Potter (as Monos), Paul Bradley, Andrew Liles, Ian Holloway to name a few. Collectively a solid block foundation of great U.K. drone artists. In a collaborative setting, there may be a bit more judicious editing employed for better (or for worse) depending on where one sits in appreciation of refinement over improvisation. Which brings us to “Age & Transformation”. Two tracks, both around the half-hour mark and presumably recorded in one take each. The first track (Untitled) contains all elements of what makes a Tate recording effective- gentle guitar scraping, echoed city recordings, air vibrations oscillating an overall nocturnal hush that shrouds the whole piece. The second track (again, simply “Untitled”) is undoubtedly one of Tate’s finest solo moments. A defining impressionistic recording from the middle of the night. It opens with the sound of a freeway – a very distant light traffic flow filtered through the forest. A lonesome organ sonata, languid chords with silence in between weave in and out at various points throughout. Tate sitting by the window capturing the sounds of the freeway, voices – haunting arias both human and industrial. The 2nd disc is a reworking by Colin Potter. Extracted from the quiet of “A&T”, the first track “Aged” is an encapsulation of the entire recording with the small dervishes, organ melodies and drone wrapped up in an almost tidy nine minutes. The second “Transformed” – is over 40 minutes of water tower acoustic sustained tones, layered subtle guitar hum – a perfect complimentary refinement on a classic ambient improvisation.
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    Celer – Discourses of the Withered

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    This is where it all began in a sorts for Celer. This was their first properly issued release (after a handful of achingly rare CDR releases). One of our favorite all-time acts. Originally released in 2008, remastered 2012 by Chihei Hatakeyama. All music by Will Long & Danielle Baquet-Long, featuring each of the tracks on the first issue, with an expanded version of “The Separation of the Two-phased Apple Blossoms” and includes a previously unreleased track “Retranslating the Upside-down Mountain” which was from the ‘Discourses…’ sessions. Cover image is a photo by Danielle, and a re-design by Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek). Reissue is in an edition of 500 copies.
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    Celer – The Everything And The Nothing

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    Sublime, album-length track of ambient drones from the wonderful Celer. In its 71-minute duration ‘The Everything and the Nothing’ slowly transitions between glowing tones to symphonic bliss-outs and darker zones of bass subduction to ghostly drifts
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    James Murray – The Land Bridge

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    The Land Bridge comprises seven heartfelt reflections on patience, devotion and loss. Delicately balanced electronics, keyboards, piano and guitar carefully combine to chart a territory personal to us all. This is a place of sparse, graceful motifs: an intimate, essential experience for sensitive souls who feel and listen deeply.
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    L’air Mort – Television Dream Suite

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    L’air Mort is the musical identity of three mysterious members all hailing from Terra Australis. Drawing from a diverse range of influences such as film soundtracks, found sounds, instrumentation and field recordings, their music weaves together a spectral haze of sound. Television Dream Suite is L’air Mort’s first outing; combining found sounds, degraded vinyl and cello into an album that recalls moments of modern classical composition, haunted soundtracks and electro acoustic experimentation
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    Bailleau / Demoulin – Outshining Memories (Deluxe CD/Booklet)

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    Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies... Each one comes in the form of an 8" x 5.5" machine sewn booklet. Each unique booklet has a cover made from an antique 8"x 10" b/w negative still…sewn in between the folded and sewn film still is a selection of original artwork pages, antique diagrams and wallpapers and other ancient paper ephemera. Each book is then gone through and scribbled in, stamped and otherwise artified. Sewn into the center of the book is the cotton sleeve that holds the factory pressed disc. Each booklet comes in a hand stamped translucent envelope.
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    Bailleau / Demoulin – Outshining Memories

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    Hand printed paper sleeve version… A collaborative release from musicians Julien Demoulin and Christophe Bailleau entitled “Outshining Memories”. This is an unfolding and languid mix of spatial and organic synth work and overlaid electronic treatments often bubbly and shimmering, slightly rumbling at times and shifting into moodier but still overall warm vibes spacey stuff with an endless and beautiful echoey ambiance. Best to listen to out on the prairie under the stars at night particularly when the synth gives way to twang and the moon rises full…
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    Sarah Hughes – Accidents of Matter or of Space

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    Sarah Hughes’ ‘Accidents of Matter or of Space’ is a limited edition of 100 archival CD-R’s mounted on an 11×14 letterpress score produced by Milkfed Press in Alameda, California. A complementary informational sheet includes credits, track list, and an essay by Dominic Lash. This release brings together a solo zither improvisation recorded in a disused transmission station in mid-Wales with three realizations of the 2011 composition (can never exceed unity), performed by Rhodri Davies, Patrick Farmer, Jane Dickson, Neil Davidson, and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga… In what has become an oft-quoted passage, the British composer and improviser Cornelius Cardew wrote that “it is impossible to record with any fidelity a kind of music that is actually derived in some sense from the room in which it is taking place – its shape, acoustical properties, even the view from the windows. What a recording produces is a separate phenomenon, something really much stranger than the playing itself, since what you hear on tape or disc is indeed the same playing, but divorced from its natural context”. This text is usually cited as evidence of the artificiality of recorded improvisation and the superiority of “the real thing”, the live concert happening in real time. I love “the real thing”, but it seems to me that recorded improvised music at its best deliberately exploits the strangeness to which Cardew refers. We are not forced to choose between either experiencing the “natural context” (if one is there in the room when the improvisation is taking place) or having no inkling of it (if one only hears a recording of the improvisation later). Rather the recorded sounds can give greater or lesser hints as to the nature of that context, depending on the way the music is recorded, and the particular sensitivities and sensibilities of each listener. These hints can be accurate or misleading in any degree and any combination, and the activity of the listener’s fantasy in relation to these hints comprises one of the great pleasures of listening to recorded improvised music.
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    Chen Brothers – Ally

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    The Chen Brothers’ «Ally» is a limited edition of 50 archival CD-R’s in recycled, hand-made packaging designed and printed by Jeremy Chen with sound by Jonathan Chen… Several years ago, my brother Jeremy and I began discussing the possibility of a collaborative project. Our initial idea was just that the collaboration would have something to do with the creation of an album: I would be responsible for the sound, and Jeremy would be responsible for the visual. As our discussion continued, we decided that Jeremy would design the sleeve before I would make the music, reversing the way recordings normally proceed. Thus, Jeremy would determine all the visual content of the sleeve, including the track names and times, and I would create the music to fit these parameters. This turned out to be a difficult task for me. I wasn’t used to accommodating a time frame in such a specific way as a composer. I made several versions of a couple of the tracks, but I didn’t feel like they were right. Meanwhile, the sleeve, which had the year 2006 printed on it, was missing its well past due CD. I had put the project aside for a couple of years when I decided on a different approach. I decided that maybe my brother was the composer here and that I was the performer/improviser. He had determined the track times and the instruction to me was to “do something within that time.” I treated each of the times as a stopwatch score with the instruction being to start and stop within the given time frame. Within that given time frame I improvised on electronics, in this case feedback. The recording was made at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY.
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    Jeff Gburek – The Watermark

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    First conceived as the stain of water on paper. Irremovable. The identify of a particular action. Irreversible. Then the tracing of that action, in this case a melodic fragment or tone cluster, with painstaking exactitude, to create a forgery of the accident. Form born from seeming chaos or which reveals a kind of coherence that underscores the cosmos. It’s all right. It’s all wrong. See-saw in your playground. Next thought of as the manner the signature is added to what I do without my knowing it. In what I do. In each case, some little detail that marks out and yet implies the agent. A way to remain, yours truly. Thirdly, the color of water itself and the color of now. There is the place where I make this. It’s not the physical apartment but the space machine that I call Villa dei Misteri. Let’s call a studio. I have been receiving rare but welcome visits and a few of these tracks are the result of such meetings.
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    Quarry House – Those

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    Numbered edition of 50 copies in clay sleeve. Recorded in January 2009 & January 2011 in Springfield, MO
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    Thomas Bel – To Dye Every Night

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    A release from Mr. Thomas Bel. Rain, voice, guitar and reverse romanticisms. Presented with a deceptively simplistic language, minimalistic, yet sublimely scuttling across the floors of silent seas. perhaps yearning for love and cruelty, a slowly growing blindness, impossible memory.
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    Lopez / Sigurta – Erm

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    This is a split album comprised of two very different tracks, which are nonetheless built around the same original material. The tracks could be described as a suite, divided in movements, of around 20 minutes each, which allow for the specific characteristics of the two musicians to emerge. Sigurtà delves primarily into drone-based territories drawing sonic landscapes oscillating between the ethereal and the concrete, often harboring a beat whereas López works with and within the minutiae of sound, penetrating into the most intricate textures and creating rhythmic patterns with glitches and fragments of sound, while keeping to a well defined and steady musical path. The Sigurtà / López split sees two generations, two worlds and two different approaches to music coming together on one single album.
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    AIPS – Postcards From Italy

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    The Italian Archive of Soundscapes (AIPS), is a collective of sound artists formed in 2010 by Alessio Ballerini and Francesco Giannico in order to document the changing face of the Italian soundscape and to promote the ecology of sound through a variety of workshops, soundwalks and soundmap projects covering different Italian cities including Taranto, Bisceglie and Rome. Taking their cue from Gianmarco Del Re’s column on Fluid Radio, which profiles the most interesting sound artists and musicians currently operating within the Italian electroacoustic scene, Giulio Aldinucci and Attilio Novellino translated the Postcard from Italy project into an album and a live event.
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    Ben Steed – From Here You Can See Everything

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    This release is a handmade package using recycled card sleeves made by Guided Products with a nice 310 gsm card cover and insert and is a numbered edition of 100 copies… Ben got in touch with the label just after he had started a crowdfunding drive to help produce this album. A preview of some tracks via Soundcloud led to the interest in releasing it on Twice Removed. Ben describes himself as a “Psychonautic composer from the realms of the internet” rather than a musician and this is evident in the scope of his music which covers a variety of genres such as Ambient, Modern Classical, IDM and others with a very strong soundtrackesque feel which is highlighted by his collaborations with Dan Donahoo on both this and his previous album “From Atop A Frozen Summit”
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    Chronovalve – Trace Of Light

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    Comes in a new 4 panel thick card package designed by Christian Roth and Ian Hawgood, in an edition of 500… Chronovalve is the ambient music project of Mike Engebretson. For those that don’t know the work of this amazing artist, we’ve known him since his (sadly missed) Smallfish days. The connection with Smallfish Records (see Isnaj Dui, bvdub…and really, a huge amount of what we have put out and one of the main sources of inspiration for the label) continues as Chronovalve was a key component of the Smallfish realm. Smallfish was an incredible record store and highly regarded label based in east London. I happened to live right opposite the store for a year. It was here that I gained my real music education into more minimal / ambient work, going daily to the store to see what new music they had on offer. After Smallfish sadly closed its doors a number of years ago, many of the artists on the label went off to release some wonderful work. Perhaps the best known of these would be bvdub, Celer, and Isnaj Dui of course. However, one of my favourite artists from the Smallfish days seemingly went under the radar, and that was Chronovalve. Now, some 5 years after discovering this wonderful artist, and after not releasing anything in that time, Chronovalve is finally back. We are thrilled that we are able to carry on the Smallfish torch, even if it is in a small way. His work has always been wonderfully melodic and textured, but ‘Trace of Light’ develops further with its choral tone, and haunting (even angelic) melodies and structures. It may well have taken its time to get here, but we are so glad that it finally has.
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    Shelling – S/T

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    Shelling are Aya (vocal) and shota (guitar). Aya’s voice like a movie on the surface of the water. Shota’s guitar sounds have reflecting Sadness. “Shelling” hangs between ambient and Shoegaze. 01. Floating Area 02. If i’m you 03. Labyrinth 04. 8 Bright,Moonlight 05. Over 06. Milky Way 07. Drive to Siberia 08. Endless Beautiful Days 09. CAVE 10. Labyrinth Remix by chihei hatakeyama 11. 8 Bright,Moonlight Remix by Hakobune
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    Opitope – A colony of kuala mute geeks

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    “A colony of kuala mute geeks” is made up of 6 songs. Many guest electronic musicians are involved including… Asuna, Carl Stone, Christophe Charles, Christopher Willits, Hans Reichel, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Tagomago, Taylor Deupree, Tetsuro Yasunaga and Toshimaru Nakamura. 1.Askococo and Opitope 2.Christophe Charles, Tamaru and Opitope 3.Christophe Charles, Christopher Willits, Taylor Deupree, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Toshimaru Nakamura and Opitope 4.Carl Stone, Hans Reichel, Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Opitope 5.Tagomago and Opitope 6.Asuna, Yusuke Date and Opitope
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    Chihei Hatakeyama – Alone by The Sea

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    Chihei Hatakeyama was influenced by Fudaraku-tokai. It is a form of the ascetic practice of sacrifice performed in medieval Japan. A monk undertaking this practice would set out to sea in a small, single-sailed (but oar-less and rudderless) boat in the hope of arriving at the southern paradise of the Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokitesvara; Guanyin; Kannon). The fudaraku tokai was carried out over twenty times between the eleventh and seventeenth centuries. Chihei Hatakeyama used only one sound file for making this album.
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    Bjerga / Micromelancolie – Momentum

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    Twin, extended drones, smooth, minimal but bumpy with data coursing just beneath their skin and executed with great aplomb. Sindre Bjerga is a multifaceted sound artist amongst whose impressive discography can be unearthed gems of both dark and lighter ambient, while Micromelancolié is Robert Skrzyński, who is also Microdepresja, and who belabours “no-input mixing board, old VHS tapes, classic analogues and field recordings.” This is their second collaboration. “Towards Water” begins with fluorescent bulb buzz in the empty hallway leading down to hell and the thousand voices murmuring are distressing, a torture of one thousand cuts. It quietly shears against the ears and furrows the brow. Surprisingly, the dark, low undertone that stealthily emerges is majestic, almost comforting when in other contexts would be decidedly creepy. On the title track, a miserable piano is left out in a field, under skies in which clouds of iron clash. But “Momentum” gets more complicated, a stream of consciousness churning through coaxial cable, visited with the same, low, dull, ultimately maddening white noise and muffled, mundane chatter. Despite the unwelcome company, Momentum is gorgeously desolate. One must admire the restraint the duo commands, elegantly and perversely amplifying its ghastliness. - Igloo
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    Monolyth & Cobalt – De Lieux

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    Limited edition of 100 copies presented in 4 panel digipak…
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    Loop Collections 9: Dark Side Of The Audio System

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    Limited to 150 copies… Very tender and quiet piano loop collection. Tape loop on broken recorder with hiss and flutter via prepared tape. In memory of Yawata Masami.
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    Yannick Dauby – Hares & Bells

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    Hand numbered edition of one hundred, handmade package with tipped in inkjet print… A release from Mr. Yannick Dauby, a homage to young hares and their fascination with bells!
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    Arthur De Eriomém – Drowned by Voices

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    Handmade packaging and tipped in inkjet print. Numbered edition of 100… Arthur De Eriomém – Drowned by Voices, Somewhat Rather Slowly. New version of the 2011 Drowned by Voices, recomposed Avril 15th 2013 with analog delay and fender twin reverb. Computer used only for editing. Title inspired by David Toop’s Sinister Resonance.
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    Bad Braids – Supreme Parallel

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    Edition of 200; CD with full colour face, jewel cases with 4-panel inserts with full colour art by Sarah Guck. Recorded by Paul Christian & Megan Biscieglia, mastered by Paul Christian, layout by Silas & Amanda…
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    Valiska – A Day as a Blade of Grass

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    200 limited edition digipak CD’s… In his 24-minute opus ‘A Day as a Blade of Grass’, Krzysztof Sujata glides effortlessly through the shared spaces of ambient, noise and modern classical to craft one of the defining works of his rapidly expanding oeuvre. Delicate piano phrases and trembling guitars hold the piece together, sliding in and out of view across its six sections under punishing waves of feedback and static. But for all of the noise and jittering experimentation that skitters through the mix, Sujata is most infatuated with those slivers of light in the darkness that give space to reflect. It’s in those moments when the truly human elements of his music are brought to the fore and the connections between the fragments are made in the mind of the listener. To dissect the essential fabric of sound is a difficult enough task, but doing it with such care and devotion marks Valiska out as an artist in complete control of his craft. With its emotional resonance and sonic verve, ‘A Day as a Blade of Grass’ is a captivating and transportive piece from one of the most highly respected figures in contemporary ambient music.
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    Various – Fogbound

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    Lovely 4 panel digipak that comes with 8 photographic postcards… Contributions from the following artists: Hakobune Porya Hatami Celer Darren Harper Tomoyoshi Date Chihie Hatakeyama A Bleeding Star
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    Stafrænn Hákon – Prammi

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    This is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped blue recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on glossy photo paper and two inserts, with the tracklist and credits, printed on nice fabric paper…
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    Ian Hawgood & Friends: Wolven (2 x Digipak CD)

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    Hibernate would perhaps not be where it is today without ‘Wolfskin’ by Ian Hawgood, our inaugural release back in 2009. Wolfskin referenced a series of nightmares Ian had as a child, focussing on elements of dreams and violence by marrying beauty with the harsh. Ian Hawgood has immersed himself in musical projects for longer than he cares to remember; in recent years he has released through the likes of Experimedia, Dragon’s Eye and his own Home Normal label as well as through several netlabels. Increasingly, Ian has been collaborating with other artists – including Jason Corder (Offthesky), Tim Martin (Maps and Diagrams), Danny Norbury, Ryo Nakata (Ryonkt) and Clem Leek.
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    Darren Harper – Awaken My Heart…

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    Photo inlay printed on traditional Japanese rice paper is included / Limited to 150 copies… Darren Harper met the analog recorder. Reflections on loss, surrender, hope, and indifference. Experiments for ReVox A77, Fender Telecaster, Piano, Field Recordings, and Ableton Live. All tracks W/P by Darren Harper 2012/13 Photo: Barker Reservoir, Nederland, Co. Autumn, 2012 by Darren Harper. Mastered by Seth Chrisman. 01. Upon The Edge Of An Imaginary Sea, I remembered How Things Once Could Be (4:52) 02. Still (4:02) 03. A Breath, Release (7:08) 04. Pastorale Loop (6:52) 05. Meander; Between (6:28) 06. Submerged; Alone & Revealed (5:04)
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    Alexandr Vatagin – Serza

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    Just in time for Valeot Records 5th anniversary, co-founder and label head alexandr vatagin presents his third solo album “serza”. in combining the analogue and tender atmosphere of “valeot” (2006) with the harsh, yet subtle digital electronics of “shards” (2008), “serza” is attesting to a consequent and traceable development towards maturity in sound and structure. featuring a huge spectrum of common as well as unusual instruments, it takes you on a thirty minute trip full of delicate melodies, pushing drums, gentle noise, swirling celli, warm vibraphone chimes and sweet piano tunes. The album features friends from all over the world including martin siewert (radian, trapist), hideki umezawa (pawn), james yates (epic 45, pattern theory), fabian pollack, giulio aldinucci, all tupolev members and patrick pulsinger, who provided several self-recorded synth samples. Serza is presented live either by alexandr vatagin (cello, synth, laptop) solo or as a trio: alexandr vatagin (bass, nordlead, laptop), martin siewert (guitar, devices) and david schweighart (drums). Born in ukraine in the early 80ies, vatagin moved to austria in the beginning of the 90ies, and only started to make music another decade later. he plays in tupolev and port-royal and founded the project quarz, which recently released its first album on cronica. he has collaborated with b. fleischmann, stefan nemeth (lokai), steven hess (pan american), philippe petit (strings of consciousness), bernhard breuer (elektro guzzi, metalycee), alexander schubert, kutin (dirac), nicolas bernier and many others and played concerts all over western, central and eastern europe. his solo works and works he was involved in were released on valeot records, morr music, cronica, n5md, mikroton, moozak and many more.
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    Attilio Novellino – Through Glass

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    Attilio Novellino is an Italian soundartist born in Catanzaro in 1983. He started to make music under the moniker of “Un vortice di bassa pressione”, under which he has released “Anonymous said” (2009, Inglorious Ocean), a mainly electronic-ambient work with some post-rock echoes. He also curated and contributed a track to “Underwater Noises” (2010, Ephre Imprint / Lost Children), a compliation album about the theme of water, which contains tracks by 15 Italian artists. A one-track Ep called “Lost Days” will be released in January by Small Doses. Attilio is also a member of Sentimental Machines. Through Glass emerged from thoughts about the power of the light filtered through glass: as the light, so the sound can be reflected in a thousand directions, giving rise to previously inaudible material, with a mysterious and intense charm. Attilio Novellino explores the intersection between noise, dissonance and melody, with a physical and emotional approach to his compositions, aiming to create an unconventional and uncontrollable beauty. Guitar, electronics, deep basses, field recordings, piano and harsh distortions are used to build dreamy and melancholy soundscapes, to draw floating layers and to launch drone textures that become noise, streaked by misty romanticism, characterized by a pronounced emotional side that combines post-industrial visions, deep-sea creature lights, nocturnal glows, blurred pictures and old memories. Over the last years, Attilio Novellino has performed at festivals and art events such Flussi Festival and Diagonal Jazz / Diagonal Visual, playing, during the last edition, a fully improvised set with Ahleuchatistas, as a duo with his live partner Leastupperbound.
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    Kutin – Ivory

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    Digipak CD… ‘Ivory’ is the third solo-record by Vienna-based ‘soundworker’ Peter Kutin. The guitar is the instrument that creates / triggers most of the sound we can hear on this record, real-time transformed by Peter’s laptop. Only for three tracks other instruments were used additionally: a viola, a korg synth and a double bass, the latter being played by Matija Schellander on the sparkling ‘after the plague’ (#4). ‘Ivory’ developed while Kutin was writing music for old silent movies for the Austrian film-archive. Somehow one can still hear the filmscore, the cinematographic idea within the music. The album offers sounds that will thrill our ears, allows journeys through different sonic spaces, creates pictures inside the listeners head; ‘world without end’ might be the only track that almost reaches the format of a ‘pop-track’, while most of the other tracks want and need you to listen closer. The minimal final anthem ‘lonesome monster’ seems to move only in its spectrum, not in metrum. The partial-tunes sing the song. A piece of music that stretches time, positioning itself somewhere besides Stars of the Lid’s orchestral style.
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    Various – Seismology

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    Live experimental music – 27th April 2013 – The Railway, Winchester. Limited to 50 copies… 1. Grohs – Untitled 2. Seth Cooke & Dominic Lash – Live at Cafe Kino, Bristol, 9th January 2013 3. Pausal – Fruition 4. John Chantler – Tone Works Seismology is the second music event to be staged by The Ologies. It will include acts ranging from remarkably original analogue synthesis from John Chantler (Café Oto), classically influenced ambient artists Pausal and live improvisations from Seth Cooke (Bang the Bore) & Dominic Lash, among others. TheOlogies are Joe Evans from Runningonair Music and Matt Poacher from Mountain*7 & The Liminal. As a joint project, The Ologies was started to introduce something different into the geographical area where they both lived. Despite its size and the presence of a university and an art college, Winchester has relatively few music venues and very little in terms of catering for experimental music – The Ologies series was set up to counter this. The Ologies does not favour any particular genre of music but instead aims to host highly contrasting work, both within and between each event.
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    Zen Lu – River

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    Physical edition of the “River” EP limited to only 50 copies. Handmade, numbered cardboard ekopack, handpainted by artist Ben Bojanek… Zen Lu is an experimental electronic musician, sound artist, new media artist, events curator living in Shenzhen (Guangdong, China). Zen Lu’s minute, meticulous and minimalist digital music style as well as events organized by him and his label have played a major role in bringing a new wave of artistic activities to Shenzhen and changing the cultural landscape of the city which has been long considered a cultural desert. During the whole 2012 he was busy co­organising the biggest autumn festival in Shenzhen, called “ChoP Festival ­ Polish Experimental Music in China”. After the busy time Zen finally had some time to start thinking about his new album. He came back to his hometown, where he grew up, and recovered the memories from his childhood creating an amazing EP called “River”
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    Virlyn – Man Asleep

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    Limited Edition run digipak of 100 copies… “Man Asleep” is an electronic experiment with a wide variety of instruments. The idea is to deform and reform the classic sounds of various instruments and vocals and to reuse them in an electronic and atmospheric setting. With an emphasis on experimentation the original musical output of the instrument is reshaped and distorted beyond recognition. A second constant is the use of housemade sounds and field recordings, varying from recordings from nature (rain, fire, footsteps in snow) to the use of selfmade wooden and plastic sound reproducing equipment. These field recordings and homemade sounds infuse the soundscapes with a more tangible and less elusive sensation.
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    Betacicadae – Mouna

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    Handmade printed case, insert, and transparency. Individually numbered edition of 100. Includes download code for bonus material. Painstakingly constructed by multi-instrumentalist Kevin Scott Davis during more than two years of spiritual struggle and rebirth, ‘betacicadae: mouna’ is a lush, transcendental narrative in sound. It is a cohesive whole that employs a broad spectrum of textures and extends far beyond formula like “drone” or “field recordings.” The sounds absorb, project, embrace, and comfort the listener in imaginary geography—surreal, dreamlike spaces beween earth and otherworldliness. ‘mouna’ is an intimate personal statement, but also a universal musical narrative of redemption. Source material for each track began with field recordings: a farm in Oregon, a rainforest in Hawaii, different cities. An array of acoustic and electronic sounds were generated from scratch: instruments included guitars (electric, bass, lap steel), wood flute, vibraphone, harp, violin, percussion, synthesizers, effects pedals, and digital software. Elegua Records is proud to present this debut release by betacicadae. Beginning with photographic images by Davis, the design, printing, and construction of the album’s physical editions are approached with the care and depth of feeling that the music deserves. Taking the label’s handmade DIY approach to limited editions a step further, clear vinyl and compact disc editions of 100 will include one-of-a-kind screen printed, stamped, and individually numbered inserts and transparencies. The physical editions will also include a unique download code with access to high-quality digital files of the album and bonus material.
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    Aidan Baker – Already Drowning

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    CD – 4 panel digipak … Already Drowning, a song-cycle inspired by various myths & folktales about female water spirits, marks something of a departure for Aidan Baker. While still retaining his trademark sense of ambience & texture, the tracks on this album are much more structured & song-oriented, embracing a minimalist post-rock, slowcore style & featuring a different guest vocalist on each track. Aidan Baker is a multi-instrumentalist, classically trained in flute, although his primary instrument is the guitar. Using various electronic effects combined with prepared &/or alternate performance methods, Baker creates music which generally falls within the ambient/experimental genres, but draws on influences from shoegaze & post-rock, contemporary classical & jazz. Over the course of the last decade, Baker has released numerous album, under his own name, with his duo Nadja, & with various other group projects, on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Important Records, Broken Spine Productions, & Robotic Empire. He is also the author of several books of poetry. Baker has toured extensively around the world, appearing at such international festivals as FIMAV, SXSW, Unsound, & Pop Montreal. Baker, originally from Toronto, Canada, currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
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    Forest City – Peloton

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    Handcrafted, handstamped & hand-numbered package limited to 250 copies for the world… After being signed to the same label half a decade ago (Stilll Records), the French prolific experimental artist Christophe Bailleau hooked up with the person behind Swedish folktronica duo a Perfect Friend; drone artist C-J Larsgården (Ondo, Yrsel) and indie-folkster Thomas Jonsson (I’m Kingfisher). Eventually they started the recording process of Peloton, intense both in mind and action before reaching completion, positioning themselves in an experimental yet accessible landscape.
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    Territoire – Mandorle

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    Comes with 8 pages lyrics booklet… Territoire, the new project from Olivier Arson after The Folding and the Point, bring together a constellation of alternative Spanish artists to offer a stripped, ambient creature that roams around a panoramic post-rock. After 3 years of obsessive recording sessions of a music made of skin and steel, more physical, organic and narrative, he achieves his most personal work as well as his most collective thanks to the collaboration of a constellation of musicians from the alternative spanish scene, and that now concludes with the release of “Mandorle”, an elusive and addictive mystery. Eight scenes, silent or narrated in french, that shift between dark drone ambient, a singular, creeping pop concerned with articulating silences and physical gestures which Taylor Deupree, founder of the 12k label, in charge of mastering, has perfectly respected, and a variable post-rock leaning towards the elastic tension of jazz or exploding in outbursts of kraut-rock.
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    Exit to Exist & Creation VI – Antigravity

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    Comes in a folded 310 gsm card sleeve with hand stamped cd-r attached by hub and placed in a clear plastic wallet in a hand numbered limited edition of 50 copies… This is a collaborative release from Creation VI who is based in Ukraine and has appeared on labels such as Dronarivm, Cae-sur-a and others, while Exit to Exist comes from Belarus and is a member of the group Nemertis. The release is a 4 track 36 minute release made up of guitar soundscapes and some electronics, added field recordings and some tiny details like broken violin sound.
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    3+ – Your Small Story

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    Comes in a folded 310 gsm card sleeve with hand stamped cd-r attached by hub and placed in a clear plastic wallet in a hand numbered limited edition of 100 copies... The release covers music from 2001-2013 and covers such ground as Ambient, Acoustic Guitars and Glitchy Electronica in a way that is wholly Japanese in it’s sound. Features 12k recording artist Moskitoo on several tracks.
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    Silencio – Floods

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    Limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped dark green cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper… Silencio is a musical project, presently based between Brussels, Belgium and the north of France, created by Julien Demoulin in the early 2000’s and focused on exploring themes such as absence, memory, distance and sleep. Having released four albums so far, with the help of his friends Bernold Delgoda, Nicolas Lecocq and Lénina Epstein, his music is a mix of ambient, post-rock and electronic. Floods is the fifth album of Silencio, including 12 tracks that are simultaneously warm and cinematic, reminding the sound of Stars Of The Lid, Labradford and Eluvium. The album was originally released in 2010 as an unofficial 10-track cdr in an extremely limited edition of 40 copies, just for friends and some fanatic listeners, and is now released officially by Sound In Silence with new artwork, including two bonus unreleased tracks and being, for the first time, properly mastered by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave). Floods is a collection of wistful and melancholic melodies played by Demoulin, Delgoda, Lecocq and Epstein using guitars, synthesizers, electronics, bass, drums and percussion.
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    Max Wurden – ST

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    Limited numbers on this one. 50 to be precise…. Come in a 4 panel clear tray digipak along with 7 photographic postcards on think card stock taken at locations of the field recordings used in the album…. Are you with me, or are you lost? That’s partly the question we can ask of Max Wurden’s mind and audience, and it’s surely an open question of the artform he is persuing on this very fine release from the Ambientmusic label. “Or Lost” is comprised of a dialectic sequence of sounds, ordered like poetry, sounding like poetry in motion – more of the structured love sonnet with a variation in stanza, written like a relationship with the stars… How does Wurden defy blandness, then? He has several means to create euphoria, on the other hand. Through textural synchronicity with the sounds of a lake (“Is” especially), bubbling under the table, its metal legs withstanding “The” power of fluids, and what copes less competently with electricity at back of the bass, that causes the crackles throughout, he also experiments with track in/out styles, “Fulfilled” inviting of high pitched chirruping cuts, yolky noise to close. If you have rules of lunacy, you’d be forgiven for breaking too many eggs to make an omelette. If you have Wurden’s rules, you break no more eggs than required, making the perfect weekend fryup music and music with transcendentally introspective longevity as well. The Ambientmusic label writes that Max Wuerden is looking for “Finding”, “the perfect moment” and this winter, with all it’s blustery weather forecasting haphazardness, is likely the best time in history for a release so perfect to arise from the snowy Narnia door. – Highly recommended!
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    Hivver – Don’t Try

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    Limited edition of 30 hand numbered copies. Each copy comes in a recycled magazine paper sleeve with handstamped cd-r, insert and antique photo…
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    Oliwa – Naturalia

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    Edition of 50 hand numbered copies in 310 gsm card sleeve. Each copy coming with a free badge…
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    Fabio Orsi & Pimmon – Procrastination (CD)

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    “When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.” – John Locke Procrastination haunts us. Even the most studious amongst us occasionally finds themselves trapped by a lingering daydream or escapist vision; one that absorbs us and removes us from the moment. But procrastination often masks a industrious subconscious flow. I posit, procrastination is a disconnected deep-thinking, a sub-dreaming, a hidden imagination that trickles in the deepest caves of our brains, which eventually join the conscious rivers of our mind. It’s procrastination that is to blame for the tectonic elegance heard on the debut collaborative effort from Italian musician Fabio Orsi and Australian laptopper Pimmon. After discovering a mutual admiration for their respective outputs, the two decided a collaboration was in order. Before long, Orsi passed Pimmon a set of recordings Pimmon felt “were, in my mind, fully realised”. Considering them as finished pieces, Pimmon was flummoxed as to what he might bring to the collaboration and he entered, as he calls it, “a zone of procrastination”. A deadlock ensued, as Pimmon ploughed through other projects unsure of how to resolve the question of the collaboration. 18 months had passed since the pair first exchanged files and Pimmon, whilst on break along the picturesque Margaret River found himself revisiting the files. Suddenly procrastination broke and the deadlock of directionlessness evaporated. The subconscious trickles had formed rivers and the rivers pounded together creating a tidal wave of sonic ideas that saw Orsi’s files transformed in quick succession. The source recordings shattered through a web of Pimmon’s processing devolutions, re-arranged and re-edited to reveal an entirely new perspective on Orsi’s sonic matter. – Lawrence
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    Cody Yantis – Place & Distance

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    Limited edition run includes a bespoke photo on soft paper that slips into recycled sleeves… “Place & Distance” is an album of raw fragments. Carefully prepared and recorded, it’s orchestrated in a way that disguises that this is actually an album of live electronics and improvisation. It is a work of sensitivity, varied and organic. Listening, one feels that much terrain was traversed in the process, and, yet, upon arriving, it’s as though the sounds have always existed. It is an album of traumatic surprise, in which sounds gather only to quickly, and sometimes violently, break up. There’s an irony in the way in which acoustic sound is dealt with so forcefully and abstractly. This is an album of multiple selves, as though many are improvising all at once, resulting in a kind of Zen dialogue between Yantis and the listener. All music by Cody Yantis, Recorded in Archuleta County, Colorado (Summer & Fall 2012). Mastered by Sean McCann. Photograph by Tiffany Clendenin.
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    William Ryan Fritch – The Waiting Room

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    For five months, director Peter Nicks embedded himself and his crew in the emergency room of Highland Hospital, a large public hospital located in Oakland, Calif., and filmed the hundreds of patients who entered the facility every day in need of care, as well as the overburdened staff of nurses and doctors attempting to deliver quality treatment in difficult conditions. The Waiting Room turns Highland’s ER into its own self-contained universe and keeps its focus entirely on the men and women who populate it. It’s a small-scale story that — captured through Nick’s intimate and transparent lens — speaks volumes about the larger problems facing American healthcare. The emergency room is understaffed and underfunded but the film is remarkably policy-free. There are no title cards or celebrity voice overs, no calls for action, no heavy-handed visual or musical cues suggesting the audience laugh or cry. The footage alone is enough.
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    Jüppala Kaapio – Animalia Corolla

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    Funky packaging design with this one: Includes screen printed belly bands wrapped around thick green gatefold card that has an inner card which CD rests inside… Love it! Most of us are living in an urban world, dominated by constant noise and contagious stress. Our ears are conditioned by this aggressive environment and have often lost the ability to perceive another discreet world surrounding us. It might be hidden but also swarming, vivid and incredibly musical. We are all able to prick up our ears to some birds chattering together, the wind shaking leaves, toads singing serenades or old spirits telling us their immemorial adventures… Since its creation in 2006, Jüppala Kääpiö has tried to substantiate what they were hearing and feeling from animals, plants or even minerals that they met in their living places in different countries and during travels in different continents. “Animalia Corolla” is a record of feasts of spirits gathered from the whole world. Their songs, dances and conversations about the synchronicity of their dreams have been transcribed in this album. Jüppala Kääpiö is a Swiss and a Japanese duo. They settled in Brussels in Belgium in summer 2011 after staying in Switzerland , Canada, Mongolia and Japan. The life in multicultural/lingual situations naturally gave to their music a style which might be called cosmopolitan folklore music.
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    Various – Tiny Portraits

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    Tiny Portraits – Sonic postcards from Australia’s lesser known places. An all Australian compilation with tracks by Michael Terren, Kate Carr, Broken Chip, Seaworthy and Matt Rosner, Camilla Hannan, Tom Hall, Gail Priest, Anonymeye, Dan Whiting and Shoeb Ahmad. From power points to a sedge and a working harbour, Tiny Portraits offers a sonic postcard from some of Australia’s lesser known places. Featuring some of Australia’s best known experimental and electronic artists, Tiny Portraits presents tracks celebrating small towns like Wesley Vale in Tasmania, alongside aural portraits from Australia’s most populous cities of Sydney and Melbourne. The brief for each artist was to explore a small and specific location which held meaning for them.
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    Tomonari Nozaki – North Palace

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    Wonderful full length from emerging Tokyo composer and producer Tomonari Nozaki. He may not be the only artist to have forsaken the convenience of producing his music on a macbook but there haven’t been many we have heard who have produced such a thoroughly captivating sound from their old reel to reel tape units and analogue equipment in recent times. ‘Tomo’s’ hugely immersive sound feels like opening an old dusty wooden box and hearing a frayed melancholy soundtrack to somewhere standing outside of time and the concerns of the world. It manages to be remote and indefinable in parts but has such spirit and warmth it’s hard not to let yourself become completely absorbed. Tomonari has been previously released under his UNKNOWNjp. alias on the Slovakian Label Soun Records. ‘North Palace’ sees him make his physical release debut, the first of hopefully many more. Anyone who has been following the forwind story so far will know we don’t go for bluster. Hand on heart this is genuinely sublime stuff.
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    The Inventors Of Aircraft – Where The Light Stops

    This is the standard sleeved version of the The Inventors Of Aircraft release, “Where The Light Stops”. Each factory pressed disc comes in a hand printed/stamped white sleeve. Inspired in particular by the decline and privatisation of the railway industry in the UK, and the consequent many melancholic and abandoned railway stations throughout the country, this full length album with it’s nostalgic and elegiac electronic vibrations, captures in an abstract and yet familiar manner the conceptual atmospheres and mental imagery connected with trains and their reference points of the countrysides flashing by, of the rumbling of the tracks, and in general of a feeling of loss and distancing from those slower times and leisurely travels of the past. Using sampled field recordings and electronically treated instrumentations, TIOA brings out the trainspotter in us all…and leaves us longing to purchase a ticket to a dream.
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    Ben Fleury-Steiner – Clearings

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    Limited CD edition of 150 comes packaged in a gatefold card…  Delaware (USA) based Ben Fleury-Steiner (Infraction, Low-Point, con-v, Mystery Sea, Gears of Sand, Hypnos and Secret Sounds) is an experimental/ambient sound artist drawing from both electronic and acoustic sources including electric kalimbas, small modular synthesizers, guitar drones and effects pedals. Ben’s sound always embraces a sense of a “somewhere”, sonically, always warm with tons of layers and subtle details. “Clearings” for Rural Colours became a way for Ben to let go of his anal retentiveness in his studio and start a fresh by embracing sound spaces inspired by nature as they evolved in real time. Three tracks make up the album, Wind-Up Bird’s Lament, Parallax, and Glade.
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    Grzegorz Bojanek – Live in May

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    Limited CDr edition of 30 in a hand-painted, hand-numbered recycled paper cover: Includes a bonus track called “a year later” which cannot be downloaded. This track was recorded in Cafe Belg exactly one year later, in May 2012. One of the 30 original square photos with the ship on the horizon – hand-numbered. Another insert individually typed on an old typewriter. Every one is slightly different than the other one because of the small, unintentional mistakes. The recycled paper cover is hand-painted and stamped with small letter stamps…
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    Linear Bells – Winter Haze

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    CD digipack with artworks from Peter Nejedly in a limited edition of 100… Winter haze was composed and produced over a period of 6 months whereby it was practised over improvised sessions followed by processing all the materials with the use of guitars, organ and field recordings. Winter Haze is part of a new series “RIVER LOIRE”. The pre-sequel started with [ EX KISS ] and a follow up of SUMMER HAZE. [ Winter haze ] is about loneliness, time passing, and frozen thoughts with the idea of keeping River Loire in mind.
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    IO – Flamenco Abstractions

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    Handmade, individually numbered edition of 300… Electro-acoustic artist David Font and guitar virtuoso Jose Luis Rodríguez have taken flamenco music into a bold new realm of performed deconstruction, offering a live dialogue between a primordial tradition’s multi-layered history and the crackle and hum of our 21st century digital soundscape. Rodriguez’s lush, polyrhythmic patterns and ornate chords provide the project’s whole cloth, while Font tugs and pulls at the strands in real time, deconstructing, altering and re-introducing Rodriguez’s expert playing as both rhythmic counterpoint and delicate washes of electronic echo and fuzz. The duo’s work expands the state of the art for both electro-acoustic technique and flamenco tradition, creating a fluid new musical dialect. They create experimental music that works on its own terms—not for novelty’s sake, but in search of beauty and transcendence in the moment. The results are hypnotic, strange, and surprisingly elegant. All of the recordings are realized in real time (i.e., no overdubs), allowing the artists’ affinity and decades-long experience to shape the music through a process based more on intuition and sensitivity than fixed design: electronics radically transform acoustic guitar, hand claps, and finger snaps to create intuitive feedback structures able to express a sensitivity that approaches the telepathic.
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    Oh, Yoko – Seashore

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    Classic Maxi-single case, with a glass-mastered compact disc. Edition of 500 copies… Seashore is the debut release by Oh, Yoko, the duo of Rie Mitsutake and Will Long. Rie Mitsutake, as Miko, has released full-length albums on labels such as Plop (Japan) and Someone Good (Australia). She has toured in Japan and Australia, and also collaborates with many other artists. Will Long, as Celer, has released music on labels from North America, Europe, and Asia. He also operates his own label, Two Acorns, and record store, Floor Sugar. Together they create nostalgic pop, using retro electronic and acoustic instruments, to create something pure for a more simple life. Seashore is a single from Oh, Yoko’s forthcoming debut album. It also features an instrumental b-side mix by Terre Thaemlitz, and a remix by DJ Sprinkles.
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    Shinobu Nemoto – Flowers

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    Shinobu Nemoto is experimental sound artist residing in Japan. Recorded using only acoustic guitar, then laid down on to reel to reel which removed noise reduction. For a dream of childhood. Dedicated to Haruka… Some signs. May have forgotten for a long time. He wanted to compose for alpine plants.. Our heart vibrates. All life is vibration, inorganic matter vibrates, too. It is the same in the alpine low oxygen concentration and even in space. This album penetrates your heart like flowers that grow slowly. Then a fragrance blooming all around as it surrounds you.
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    An Moku – Mononocle

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    Comes in a beautiful high quality DigiPack. Limited edition: only 100 pieces with bookmarks of Botanical Prints 73 x 162 mm… “Mononocle” is about transforming sounds and wooden noise. Hum, thunk and clunk. It is like listening to repeating sounds in different ways. Dominik Grenzler (aka An Moku) is a musician and sound artist with a spot for experimental and ambient soundscapes. Born in 1977 in Gdynia. Raised on a soundtrack of bubbly 80’s synth pop and early 90’s guitar music. Playing e-bass in several bands in Germany’s former coal-mining hub, the Ruhr district, from 1993 to 1995, he gained experiences in a wide variety of musical genres. This is followed by numerous performances with supporting acts for Whitney Houston, Joe Cocker, Marla Glen with Daniel Denecke amongst others from 1998 through to 2001. After a three-year creative break and thanks to his old friend Benjamin Maciej Pawlowski aka bnibs he finds his way back to electronic music.
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    Grzegorz Bojanek – Remaining Sounds

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    Modern Musique Concréte at it’s best: Expansive, lush yet gritty, this collection of experiments with breath, woodwinds, bass, and microscopic found sound is moving, odd, and comforting. Nine deeply compelling tracks by Warsaw based composer Grzegorz Bojanek…
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    Banabila / Machinefabriek – ST

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    One thing I noticed living as a ‘buitenlander’ (‘foreigner’) in The Netherlands was a marked tendency for artists of all stripes to collaborate with each other. Indeed, it seemed that the tradition of the lone artist wrenching out art from the depths of his isolated studio-bound soul was very much a thing of the past. Yet what was evident among the Dutch artists I encountered also seems to be increasingly true elsewhere, and not only among the arts: consider the difficulties of awarding Nobel Prizes, which are limited to a maximum of three recipients each year, in an age when most scientific discoveries are the result of collaborations between large teams of people. As the world becomes more and more complex (or perhaps, as we become more and more aware of the world’s complexities), the ability of one individual to produce a meaningful aesthetic statement or scientific innovation single-handedly is correspondingly diminished. Artists and scientists alike are learning to collaborate out of necessity. Rotterdam residents Michel Banabila and Machinefabriek are perhaps exemplary of this collaborative tendency, both as frequent collaborators with other musicians — Banabila with Scanner, Mete Erker, and noted Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, Machinefabriek with, well, almost anyone you’d care to mention — and also as contributors to film, theatre, dance, installation, and architectural projects. Their first, eponymous record together demonstrates this shared aptitude for cooperation, their respective approaches blending so seamlessly that it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. It could be argued that the album is too dramatic and too flooded with ambient warmth to be a Machinefabriek record, and also too playful and fluid to be credited to Banabila alone, yet the overall impression is of the workings of a single entity rather than the juxtaposition of two different styles. Although electronic sound sources predominate, with a fair few field recordings thrown in for good measure, the ‘acoustic’ appears privileged over the ‘electro’ in that I could almost describe the air pushed by my speakers as syrupy, so full and weighty is the sound. Highs are piercing and lows throbbing, yet never irritatingly so; this is music that is strongly present, without being overbearing. The album is self-released by the artists in CD and download editions. The idea that “two heads are better than one” may not be new, but if putting it into practice is increasingly the norm, for Banabila and Machinefabriek it is an approach that has reaped rich dividends. – Fluid Radio
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    Micromelancolie – Gravity Boat Editions

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    Comes in unique recycled magazine sleeves with antique postcard insert… Poland’s Robert Skrzyński is a visual and audio artist who has done work for Monotype, Already Dead, Bocian and others. He also has a long standing collaboration with Norways Sindre Berga. The cd-r includes remixes from Sima Kim, Benjamin Dauer, Problems that Fix Themselves and others.
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    Various – Woven

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    Limited Edition cd-r of 100 hand numbered copies… Four Australian artists from different states – Micheal Terren (WA), Tim Bass (VIC), Kate Carr (NSW) and Anonymeye (QLD) together as a sampler of contemporary Australian Experimental music.
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    Fontaine – Delays

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    Printed cd-r in a full colour cover card in an edition of 100 copies…
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    Talvihorros – And It Was So

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    Talvihorros is London based composer Ben Chatwin’s study of guitar and electronics. Numerous techniques are used to coax a myriad of sounds from both acoustic and electric guitars. Home-made and vintage electronic equipment are used to loop, process and manipulate improvised material into dense and dark sound collages. What started out as a personal challenge to make an album in 7 days grew into something else entirely. Over a year in the making, and expanding his trademark guitar sound with drums, strings, bells, organs and synthesisers, ‘And It Was So’ features contributions from fellow label mates Field Rotation (violin) and Petrels (cello) along with tour partner Jordan Chatwin (drums/percussion) and long time collaborator Anais Lalange (viola). If last years album ‘Descent Into Delta’ was reminiscent of plunging into the murky depths, his latest offering ‘And It Was So’ evokes the expansiveness, dynamicism and density of the cosmos . Attempting to find order in chaos is something Talvihorros has been striving to achieve over the past three albums and he has never balanced these elements so beautifully.
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    Philippe Lamy – Slowfast

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    Limited edition run that includes 3 inserts with fragments of Philippe’s paintings… A man is walking across the desert with memories of the sounds where he has come from, of what he has left behind. Crossing the arid landscape, he listens to those sound images, he is haunted by them, he superimposes them on the present and brings them with him toward the future he is making for. Step by step, he uses this confrontation to reinterpret his memories and to finally attempt to grasp the music of the desert. Debut CD by Philippe Lamy (Nowaki, Audio Gourmet etc), painter and plastics technician, teaches the plastic arts to the school of architecture of Toulouse (France). He has exhibited his artwork across Europe. He began to work with sound too around ten years ago, feeling that his paintings and music resonate together. His careful attention to texture and detail is something he has carried over from his experience as a painter and has transferred into his work with sound.
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    Nils Frahm – Screws

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    Nils experienced an unfortunate accident which saw him fall from his bunk bed located directly above his studio, which resulted in a broken thumb. But through inspiration from his fans and after a gentle walk and talk through the park with a close friend, he decided to deal with the situation in the only way he knew – playing his piano. With four screws surgically placed inside his thumb, he started recording with his remaining 9 fingers, what later resulted in 9 intimate piano recordings.
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    A Winters Gift

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    If your in or around the London area on Saturday 15 December I urge you to attend what is going to be a very special night of music! If you can’t make the gig then buy the CD anyway as it’s a great compilation and supports a fantastic cause… All tickets purchased include a limited edition CD (will be shipped immediately) containing unreleased material from the artists playing on the night plus others including Offthesky, Hakobune, Strom Noir, Simon Bainton, Field Rotation, Caught In The Wake Forever, Antonymes, Good Weather For An Airstrike, Wil Bolton, Listening Mirror, Jonatan Nästesjö and Autistici.
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    Two People In A Room – Endless Bummer

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    Limited edition of 150 copies… Two People In A Room is the project of Berlin based duo Michelle and René, the latter also known as the ambient solo artist Pillowdiver. Formed in 2009, Two People In A Room create their music using guitar which is then manipulated extensively through the use of effects pedals and signal processing. But one of the things that separate them from others is that it’s not solely feedback and drone as melodic elements get thread into the music’s dense fabric
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    Yuri Lugovskoy (2 x CD)

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    Double digipak release including a disc of remixes from the likes of The Humble Bee (Craig Tattersall from The Boats) and Mugwood (Antony Ryan from Isan) plus loads more… Yorkshire-based Home Assembly Music follow up that ace Northerner album with Yuri Lugovskoy’s new LP, backed with remixes from The Humble Bee, Tokyo Bloodworm, William Ryan Fritch, Strategy, Chessie and more. Ukranian, Lugovsky’s original disc, much like his one for Moteer, is concerned with minimal, meditative practice, yielding eight fuzzy, dusty pieces of looping melody and seeping filter adjustments thru to canny subbass movements and windswept modulations. Remix highlights appear from Mugwood with their mottled ambient swoon; a cutely creased and folded re-arrangement from The Humble Bee aka Craig Tattersall; and Tokyo Bloodworm’s doomy, creaking surprise hitting the vibe somewhere between Burial, Cuushe and Raime.
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    Hitoshi Kojo – High Tide Mirror

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    Inner resonance of planets… harmonies made from the distances between planets… melodies generated by their circular dances… Our bodies can become a receiver of cosmic music when we connect our roots to certain places on earth. However the electromagnetic field on the surface of the earth is unduly interfered nowadays. So our sympathetic ability is heavily oppressed by the violent moiré. First, shall we let ourselves synchronize with the flow of the earth’s fundamental magnetic field, immerse ourselves into the tonal dance with the sun and the moon? Then each of us will spontaneously begin to oscillate a unique vibration according to our character. It is the fundamental tone that becomes part of the universal harmony, and the first step to participate in the circular dance of the celestial orbs.
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    The Boats – Ballads of the Darkroom

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    Ballads of the Darkroom is the third and final part of the Ballads trilogy. And it is from the darkroom: this is a collection of images half-developed and others left floating in the sink. The album collects alternate versions, outtakes and remixes from the stellar Ballads of the Research Department on 12k. So, the good news is that while it may be the end of the Ballads trilogy, it is never the exit of the research department for The Boats. For those who have enjoyed the series thus far, Darkroom is a fitting denouement. Once you hit play it takes all of 8 seconds and that first atomic drop of tape hiss to realise we are in Boats land. From there, the “The Ballad of Bb” develops for a little over a minute and then disappears into the ether. It’s reminiscent of those slices of melody that are pastiched together to make Research Department, but this one is just that, a slice and nothing more. And that’s not a bad thing – 90 seconds of Boats loveliness is still enough to grab you by the heartstrings. “The Ballad of Underachievement” and “The Ballad for Underachievement” are other negatives that were never exposed. But, again, neither piece feels incomplete and that sense of feeling complete despite their brevity really does highlight the workmanlike construction of Research Department.
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    FareWell Poetry – Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite

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    ‘As True As Troilus owes its title to Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (act III, sc .2). In this work, Troilus embodies denial, he does not want to see his lover for what she really is. Despite the fact that she is ‘as false as Cressida’, he remains resolutely faithful in his love, desiring to be the superlative lover. ‘True swains in love shall in the world to come / Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhymes, / Full of protest, of oath and big compare, / Want similes, truth tired with iteration (…) / Yet, after all comparisons of truth, / As truth’s authentic author to be cited, / ‘As true as Troilus’ shall crown up the verse, /And sanctify the numbers.’ Unflinchingly wrestling with denial, As True As Troilus combines two antithetical energies : elucidation that puts into perspective/expounds upon the complex afflicting Troilus, and enchantment that champions over lucidity in order to access a full experience, deeper than any rational knowledge. The film finds its answer in an overwhelming radiance: images that radiate clarity, visceral logic, symbolic readability, and graphic splendour unfurling in symmetry and duplication.
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    Sleepingdog – With Our Heads In The Clouds…

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    Once upon a time in the days of the Belgian Franc, Chantal Acda made the acquaintance Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, and the two became fast friends through a mutual love of disco bowling, and 1970′s Danish scary movies. They first collaborated with vocals together on the infamous last track, ‘The Struggle’ on Mr. Wiltzie’s 2004 ‘The Dead Texan’ (kranky) Now, over the course of 10 years, this strange friendship has slowly developed into a musical collaboration which at this point is a rarity for Mr. Wiltzie, because of his notorious slow burning output for his deservedly or unlawfully, but undeniably legendary Stars of the Lid. For their new release, ‘With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields’, these two have somehow gone back in time to capture the sound of glacial moving, dark cough syrup pop music. Mr. Wiltzie has manipulated his trademark Stars of the Lid sound of haunting ambience, deconstructing, and funneling it through the beautiful voice, and song compositions of Chantal Acda. Together, Sleepingdog have gently abducted these gaseous tones, and choruses of pacific tree frogs into some beautifully crafted melancholic orchestration that reminds us all that we exist in a world of strangers, drifting only two feet apart.
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    The Colossal Ithaca Trio – New Music from the Delta Quadrant

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    Originally released back in 2010 New Music was a series of unheard, unreleased or otherwise unknown compositions by the mighty Leeds based trio. It was also released in a severely limited quantity of just ten hand-made editions. New Music From The Delta Quadrant sees the album re-released as a larger edition with the tracks having all been reworked by the Ithaca Trio and remastered by Lawrence English. Established in 2009, The Colossal Ithaca Trio is the project of Oliver Thurley, a composer based in Leeds, UK. The trio project encompasses a collage of compositions, soundscapes, improvisations, field recordings, manipulations and experimentations recorded by various members of the Deus Ex Machina Arkestra and associated sound-propagators.
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    Silencio – Gone EP

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    Following their first, critically acclaimed album for three:four, Silencio are back with the “Gone” CD ep, co-released in a limited edition with Eglantine Records, Julien Demoulin’s own label. This ep features the title track, two remixes by Bruno Fleutelot and Ken Camden, as well as two exclusive tracks recorded during the “When I’m Gone” sessions. 1. Gone (4:14) 2. Gone (Bruno Fleutelot Remix) (4:20) 3. Redwood Fog (5:10) 4. Gone (Ken Camden Remix) (4:22) 5. Only Now (7:12)
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    Good Weather For An Airstrike – Lights

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    This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped dark brown cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper… Good Weather For An Airstrike is an ambient/post-rock project by Tom Honey from Winchester, Hampshire in the UK. Taking the name from the Sigur Ros masterpiece Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása, Tom started the Good Weather For An Airstrike project in 2009 influenced by artists like Sigur Ros, Stars of the Lid, Eluvium and Hammock. The idea of the project was to create a collection of relaxing sounds which would help Tom alleviate the issues caused by suffering from tinnitus, which causes a ringing sensation in the ear and can often result in difficulty sleeping. He is also member of Damn Robot! and Sleepless Dreams and has previously released his Good Weather For An Airstrike albums & EP’s through Hibernate Recordings, Rural Colours, Bad Panda Records, Sonic Reverie and his own Hawk Moon Records. Lights is Honey’s most accomplished work to date, demonstrating a progression in his talent and skill in composing. Following on from last year’s well received Underneath The Stars album, Good Weather For An Airstrike has expanded his sound to create Lights, a blissful album combining processed guitars, dreamy strings, piano, synths, banjo, drums, lulling drones and subtle field recordings. Lights is a substantial release full of wonderful soundscapes that mix perfectly ambient, electronic, post-rock and neo-classical sounds.
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    MayMay: And So I Place You In The Setting Sun

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    MayMay is Laurel Simmons. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Simmonsʼ debut solo album, “And So I Place You In the Setting Sun” is a gorgeous, quietly powerful mediation on the acceptance of transition. Simmons is no stranger to creating pastoral, evocative music, having exercised her considerable vocal and instrumental skills as a member of beloved Portland chamber-folk darlings Loch Lomond, as well as collaborations with a variety of other well-regarded acts, including international touring with peers such as Alela Diane and Rauelsson. MayMay began during Simmonsʼ first winters in the Pacific Northwest leaving her homesick for the deserts of her native Arizona and the closeness of generations of family she left behind. MayMay is named in homage to her Arizona roots, in particular her grandmother Barbara Mae May. “And So I Place You in the Setting Sun” is a remarkable record, willing to experiment with the tension between ambiance and rhythmic texture, while nostalgia and eloquent melodies arrange themselves into dynamics that are compelling yet wanting. The instrumentation blooms and fades like seasons through artful arranging and listeners come away with the notion of how triumphant the heart can be. The collision of Simmonsʼ somber, ethereal vocals with lyrics permeated by images of sunlight and evocative themes of the process of letting go results in a record that truly sticks with the listener.
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    MayMay – MayMay EP

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    backyard. Recorded during the fall and winter of 2008 in Portland, Oregon, MayMay’s E.P. tells us a history through the sounds of fingerpicked nylon guitars, haunting vocal melodies and beautifully crafted string arrangements. With quietude and warmth, Laurel’s compositions flow full of emotivity and a natural sense of restraint. The music of MayMay transports us to a world in which we can dive to the bottom of the sea, ignoring the pressure of the water above us.
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    Sylvain Chauveau – Abstractions

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    “I’ve been remixing songs by other artists since 2001 and it’s something I always like to do. This year, in collaboration with the Flau label, I’ve decided to compile my favourite remixes and to release them on one CD. Most of the time, I like to transform very much the original songs. I try to bring them into my own musical atmosphere. For example, on Agoria’s techno song “Heart Beating”, I kept nearly nothing of the original music but I replaced it by orchestral parts that I had recorded with a 40-strings orchestra for the film by HR Boe “Beast”. Anyway, I always want to keep faithful to the original melodies. On this selection of remixes, I kept the original vocal parts. Some remixes are made out of songs that I’ve done myself (“Dernière Etape Avant le Silence”, “A_”) or with my band Arca with long-time collaborator Joan Cambon (“Attractions”, which inspired the title of this EP as “Abstractions”). Those remixes are another side of my musical work that had never been compiled before.” – Sylvain Chauveau
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    Liz Christine – Sweet Mellow Cat

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    Sweet Mellow Cat is a nicely arrenged showcase of liz christine’s work over the last few years. Subtle and delicate, sometimes verging’ on the abstract yet still instinctively melodic, her music is in fact a kind of sound-movie, or audio-text, constructed from a personal sound vocabulary and syntaxe developed by and for herself, where each sample has it’s own place on the narrative structure. Usually assisted by f s torres (aka kkfs) or the mysteriuos madamme f, Liz is basically using her own obsession (movies, old jazz divas and, of course, cats) to build sound-sculpture-books.
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    Chihei Hatakeyama – Norma

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    Chihei Hatakeyama’s music doesn’t change radically from one release to the next, yet that doesn’t prevent it from making a strong impression each time a new set materializes, whether it be on kranky, Room 40, Hibernate, or Home Normal, to cite a small number of the labels on which his music has appeared. And though it lodges itself comfortably within the ambient-drone soundscaping genre, Hatakeyama’s sound is so distinctive and personalized that it’s always immediately identifiable as his and his alone. This latest collection, recorded in various locations between 2008 and 2012 and the premiere release on the Japan-based Small Fragments label, is as fine a representation of Hatakeyama’s work and style as one might wish to find. The hour-long Norma features six pieces, two of them fleeting vignettes (“Rigel,” “Betelgeuse”) but two others meditations that unfold with becalmed deliberation for twenty minutes at a time. “Benetnasch” breathes peacefully for twenty-one minutes, its slumber punctuated by whistling washes of glimmering, high-pitched tones and other interruptive sounds, most of them so subtly woven into the mix when they arise they could go unnoticed. The other long-form setting, “Merak,” cultivates an even more placid and ethereal aura in its slow-motion, cloud-like drift. By comparison, “Mizar” is slightly blurrier, as if its suspended guitar flickers and organ-like tones are being diffused through a translucent scrim, while nature-based field recordings figure more prominently in the brief, Nakano-recorded “Rigel” and “Betelgeuse.” Though no instrumentation is listed on the release (aside from a note relating to electric guitar), the Tokyo-based sound artist is known for producing work using electric guitar, vibraphone, piano, and field recordings as sound sources and for using software to shape the material, much as does in this case, into softly glistening streams of serenading splendour. – Textura
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    Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures 3

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    Had a listener’s only exposure to Bruno Sanfilippo come about through hearing his recent Hypnos recording Urbs, said listener would have identified him as an exceptionally refined sound-sculptor working in the electro-acoustic ambient field. But the classically trained Sanfilippo also issues minimalist piano recordings, of which Piano Textures 3 is a particularly impressive example; it’s of course the third in a series (the first issued in 2007 and the second 2009), which can be purchased separately or in a lavish box set as a complete collection. It’s a luscious album of many moods—more often than not melancholy, though not exclusively so—that finds his reverberant piano playing augmented with electronic tinting and outdoors field recordings (bird chirps, water sounds). During the beautifully sad fifth, Sanfilippo adds chamber string textures as complements to the lilting piano patterns. Sometimes such additions aren’t necessary, however, as the piano playing would captivate perfectly well on its own without the accompanying sounds. The fourth setting exudes a bright, dance-like air that’s Debussy-like, while the seventh pairs strums of the piano’s inner strings with cascades that sparkle like rainfall. Sanfilippo’s shimmering piano sound suggests that he might regard Harold Budd as a kindred spirit, even if the latter’s style (especially on his early ambient classics) is gauzier. Though Sanfilippo’s been recording music for more than two decades, there’s nothing jaded about the playing on Piano Textures 3, nothing to suggest that it’s merely one more release to add to an ever-growing pile. Instead, Sanfilippo invests the eight untitled pieces with deep feeling, and the listener is often taken aback by the elegance and beauty of the material. There’s some hint that the settings are largely rooted in improvisation; if so, the recording impresses even more because its harmonious pieces present themselves as formal compositions of distinct melodic character rather than directionless musings. – Textura
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    The Hole Punch Generation

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    The Hole Punch Generation album showcases the sophisticated sound of this band. Each track soars and glides across manipulated electronics, shoegaze guitar riffs and the unique outpouring of Balthrop’s falsetto vocals. The pure emotional rawness of the tracks shines through – each one with a simple message tackling the existential issues about life, love, loss and decay. From the pleading outstretched message of the opener “Don’t Go” the listener is introduced to the mindset of young men who are in touch with their emotions, in touch with their needs as human beings and who demonstrate an intense empathy with their friends, families and lovers.
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    Glissando – The World Without Us

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    It’s been four long years since Glissando released the critically acclaimed ‘With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea’ and the duo finally return this November with a new record ‘The World Without Us’. The new material bares Glissando’s trademark of ethereal voices and tip-toing piano melodies but the overall sound is richer and more expansive. Epic swells of strings and guitars sore above the drones and field recordings to create an intense yet fragile noise. The dynamics of the new record are also apparent and through the use of an array of guests there is a new depth and ambition to Glissando that portrays the songs in their truest form. ‘The World Without Us’ moves slowly between dark shadows and into more hopeful territory throughout, it’s not afraid to be silent when the moment arrives but it’s also capable of enormous, echoing, choral and string crescendoes in one subtle movement. Since Glissando’s debut in 2008 Elly May Irving and Richard Knox have experimented with countless different live set-ups and members ranging from simple, more immediate shows as a duo through to a 7-piece group. Never tied to a specific ideal of how to play the material, it enabled the group to tour heavily for a couple of years in the UK and Europe whilst recording a follow-up album but inevitably this process took it toll. Knox began new projects; ‘The Rustle of the Stars’ (with Frederic D. Oberland of FareWell Poetry) and later A-Sun Amissa (which also features regular Glissando member Angela Chan) which weighed heavily on the amount of studio time he could commit to Glissando.
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    Listening Mirror – On The Passing of Chavela

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    Very nice limited edition CD that come in a fold out panel… ‘On The Passing of Chavela’ is a meditation on loss. The atmosphere continues to push and pull against itself as the music progresses. It’s very much in the spirit of South American ambient. It also feels feminine, sultry and as red-hot as her fiery spirit and red poncho she so famously adorned. The music is her love of tequila, and the trickling splash as it hit the bottom of the glass. The bottle tinkles against the glass in a melodic pool of liquor. Full of sensuality, and possibly a hint of lust, the Spanish guitar played soulfully on, accompanying her song. An absence of singing – via the voice – does not mean there is an absence of vocalisation. The dusty drone herself sings with a concealed spice that is only just vaguely scented on the Mexican streets, rising from the swirling clouds of drone. – Fluid Radio
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    Various – Phrenology

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    After the success of last year’s “Music Lab”, Running On Air label decided to expand the number of acts and shift up to a larger venue, The Railway. The aim of the concert was to present a diverse group of artists experimenting in areas ranging from field recording, noise, electro-acoustic and synthesis. All of the artists have released work on notable labels including Hibernate, Denovali, Somehow Recordings as well as Runningonair. Track List: Joe Evans – Patching Isnaj Dui – Not everyone Appreciates Literalism Dishwasher Petrels – Onkalu Pascal Savy – Out Of The Shadow Places Grohs – Vere Joe Evans – Approaching Unison
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    Offthesky / Man Watching The Stars – Afar, Farewell

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    Limited CD edition of 150 comes packaged in a gatefold card… Afar, Farewell is Offthesky joined by experimental violinist Brendan Paxton aka Man Watching the Stars for what is put simply one of the most breathtakingly moving albums we’ve ever released at Rural Colours. Unlike a lot of albums in the ambient genre this one is far from the usual background music with a variety of instrumentation and the disposition to engage in a more earthly, melodic, stucture. Afar Farewell supplies five gorgeous tracks of slowly evolving melody on a soft bed of processed guitar, molten strings and Offthesky’s deep and quirky signatures. What is most special about “Afar, Farewell” is its ability to enact this kind of ‘being-there’, of being in Nature, even if this turns out to be a kind of mythologised and yearned-for Nature rather than anything concrete. If our stories about the natural environment help make it what it is, then this release contributes to that process with a reverence and absorbed attention, turning high rises into pine trees and mountains into monuments. – Fluid Radio
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    Sonnamble – Blindlight

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    Initially released in mid 2011, a remixed/remastered version is now available and sounds better than ever… Blindlight is the second release from London based electro-acoustic improvisers Sonnamble, again consisting of Conor Curran on electronics and software and Peter Marsh on stringed instruments. Again the focus is on Marsh’s lap steel guitar, whose drones, chords and twangs are coaxed into expansive ambient fuzziness or atomised into grains of noise by Curran’s home-cooked software patches. But there’s a spareness and a more pronounced spikiness to the music this time round; it’s still immersive tuff, but more edgy…
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    Sonnamble – Seven Months In E Minor

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    Seven Months In E Minor is a record which unveils its profound beauty with great care, and requires a level on commitment to fully appreciate its depth. This said, the great ease with which Sonnamble arrange the various components at their disposal into consistent pieces and the deep level of understanding between the two musicians makes it a wonderfully enjoyable record. – themilkfactory
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    Night Shift – Trespassers Guide To Nowhere (Deluxe)

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    Deluxe limited version of 100 copies comes in the form of a”faux-rigami” pop up book of sorts, each hand bound with unique antique book covers, and including hand printed/typed inserts, and pop up pages made from the oversized sheets from a 100 year old hand written ledger… all encased in a hand made/stamped black slip case. Insanely labor intensive! See attached pics please!… Collaborative effort between the Russian trio Night Shift, and the main man behind Finnish band Ous Mal, Olli Aarni. An incredibly inventive sampledelic mash up of Russian folk melody, filmic referenced dialogue, field recordings and crushed and twisted electronic nuances, this cerebrally manipulative release is not one to be missed! Night Shift and Olli Aarni have made a record that is dramatic and playful, is woozy with histories ,and sharp with awareness of its own strengths. Track it down while you can, highly recommended. – Fluid Radio
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    Night Shift – Trespassers Guide To Nowhere

    Limited edition digipak run of 150 copies… Collaborative effort between the Russian trio Night Shift, and the main man behind Finnish band Ous Mal, Olli Aarni. An incredibly inventive sampledelic mash up of Russian folk melody, filmic referenced dialogue, field recordings and crushed and twisted electronic nuances, this cerebrally manipulative release is not one to be missed! Night Shift and Olli Aarni have made a record that is dramatic and playful, is woozy with histories ,and sharp with awareness of its own strengths. Track it down while you can, highly recommended. – Fluid Radio
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    Inner Signal – Extremum (2 x CD)

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    8 panel white digipak 2xCD audio (CD is pressed, no CDr!) Digipak hand-numbered. HQ digisleeve. 4pp color booklet…
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    Reversed Consciousness (CD / DVD)

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    Gatefold A5 digifile varnish cardboard. Each cover is an individual galaxy-painting of fluorescent dots which react to black light. 1xPro-CDr “Silver on Gold chrome spray”. 1xPro-CDr “Gold on Silver chrome spray”. 1xPro-DVDr in a colour sleeve (green, red, yellow or blue). All contained within a HQ plastic sleeve. Discs are guaranteed for 100-300 years! All tracks written, recorded, mastered by Dmitriy Rodionov in r/c-studio. Package painted and designed by David Ya. DVD Credits: Reversed Consciousness | Disappearing From The Outside All Musical Instruments: Dmitriy Rodionov. ~ Visual: Dmitriy Rodionov, Gregory Lebedeff. Actors: Dmitry Petrov, Dmitry Zabolotnikov, Dmitriy Rodionov. Operator: Gregory Lebedeff. Editor: Egor Kolenichenko. DVD Authoring, design: David Ya, Neil Tibbetts. ~ Live video recorded 30-04-2009 in Snezhinsk, Russia.
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    Various Artists – Instinct

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    Limited CD-Audio digipak edition to 500 units… Compiled, produced and artistic direction by David Ya. 1. Nexus Sector A/D – Reminiscensor II 3:35 2. Relapxych.0 – City Nightlights (Re-Edit) 13:43 3. Lo – Lava Flow 8:70 4. Lipo – Deus Ex Vagina 6:24 5. The Spaced Goats – Le Jeu 6:05 6. Aum Guy – Morning Breeze 6:17 7. BOB T.racKer – Life For Anything 5:09 8. Lipo – Relax And Swing 6:26 9. Art?NO! – In Utero (Sounds From The Outside) 6:08 10. Silent Flowers Observer – Black Eyed Susan 7:27 11. Akira Club – Sunken Treasure (Come Across Edit) 8:15
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    Celer – Rags of Contentment

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    Available for the first time on CD as a limited edition run of 222 copies: Includes photography by Danielle Baquet-Long, and design by Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)… “I remember photos and negatives of sun-scorched Nepal scattered around the floor, notebooks written in randomly and seeming empty, and the evening lights of the outside night that seemed like they wouldn’t ever darken. We drove to Santa Ana over the 405 freeway to record the cars going by, but ended up watching the lights, buying whisky, and sitting the car listening to scratched Joanna Newsom CDRs and Eno’s Discreet Music. When the night was finally asleep and quiet, everything seemed still and the streets seemed dead, except for the swaying palm trees, and the glow from the kitchen light that was never turned off. Even the things that don’t exist anymore are still there, even if they aren’t apparent and obvious as much as they once were”.
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    Jesus On Mars – S/T

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    Limited edition of 170 copies only… The album features 53 minutes of electronic trip-outs, temporal concatenations and expansions; inner-spatial vistas and ferric visions of arcane pulp planetscapes. Packaged in a gatefold-style colour sleeve with cover painting by Thomas Shrubsole. … jerry-rigged nests of wires and plugs wrapped in multicoloured sleeves, potent transcendental devices awaiting the engagement of an active imagination, spreading out below a bird’s-eye viewer, clouds of dust, petrified ripples, gleams of water, crumbling cities, strange figures… the Martian deserts of the Mind.
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    Steiner – I Remember How We Were Standing

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    Comes in hand folded 4-panel chipboard, handstamped, with full-coloured booklet. Limited edition of 50… We were standing on Chesil Beach, the sound of the waves breaking on the pebbles was overwhelming. We hardly said a word. There was a house. I wondered how it would be living there. We were almost alone. I walked towards the water, which wasn’t easy with the loose shingle. It was quite steep where the water hit the beach and I tried not to imagine what would happen if someone, me, fell down. I looked at you from a distance and took a picture. It was out of focus. The water disappeared between the small stones. I walked back. I didn’t know what to say. There was only the salty air and the sound of the waves . Big clouds drifted towards the sea. A man with a fishing line walked between us. I didn’t know what to say. There was only the sound of the sea.
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    Kane Ikin – Sublunar

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    Sublunar is the first full-length release from Kane Ikin who is also known as one half of the duo Solo Andata. Sublunar follows Kane’s solo debut Contrail (7”, 12k 2012) picking up where that EP left off and pushing the boundaries outward in every direction into denser, deeper, wetter and more decayed terrain. The word “sublunar” can be read to contain many conceptual layers important to the album. It is music about moonlight, darkness, the faintest hint of light and shadow…. Moons locked in orbit, repetition, gravity, weight, pressure… Subconscious, subliminal, distant, deteriorated signals, like radio waves lost in a noisy haze of transmission… and about dust, noise and oversaturation.
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    Stephan Mathieu – Coda

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    The new CD-EP (clocking in at 20 minutes exactly) from Stephan Mathieu is a coda to A Static Place (2011, 12k), created with his highly focused setup of two mechanical-acoustic gramophones and computer. Coda (For WK) is dedicated to the legendary “quiet” pianist Wilhelm Kempff, whose 1927 recordings of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 26 Les Adieux from a double 12” 78RPM set on Brunswick were used as input for an autogenerative process. Mathieu’s process emphasizes the archaic beauty and texture of this early media while using the original tones for the body of this rich extended work that is both hypnotic and grainy; a journey into the essence of sound that can be appreciated on many levels. Mathieu has made this gramophone and computer setup a constant factor for his signature process of late and the work he produces becomes more deep and personalized with each release. The echoes of the past can be heard in these ghostly compositions and Mathieu’s love for not only the process but the original music is clearly seen in his passion for the work.
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    A Model Life brings Roman Bezdyk’s unique and ambitious style out to play again with instantly familiar loops, mid-bar trips and assorted quirk. Witchcraft and Pornography, the opening track to the album, sets off with an echolalic electric guitar riff, like Hendrix on a merry-go-round, while M’Ling introduces a spaghetti western-esque snippet that repeats catchily, like an over-caffeinated ear worm. Sone Institute offers a soundtrack to a world that doesn’t exist (and perhaps shouldn’t), as in The World is a Confusion, where 80’s electronic beats and honking psychodrama intermingle with a vocal that makes sure we know: ‘the world is confusion, a spiral drawn in the sand…’
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    The Doomed Bird of Providence – Will Ever Prey

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    Recounting stories from the dusty, obscure corners of colonial times, The Doomed Bird of Providence set off on an exploration of early Australian history, darkly probing its more abject and harrowing aspects. The resulting music is brooding, dramatic and heavily indebted to Ennio Morricone, Jacques Brel, Scott Walker and the English Folk Revival. Buttressed by accordion, ukulele, bass, guitar and violin, singer Mark Kluzek rants and laments the death and degeneracy of settlers and convicts alike in this hostile, unrelenting environment. The Doomed Bird of Providence shed light on obscure corners, to mythologise and empower previously hidden stories. And to bring forth all that is disturbing, mysterious and tragic. Will Ever Pray is their debut album – a meticulous creation cleaved from original historical source material, bringing to visceral life the forgotten stories of Australia’s earliest days, bathed in salt, blood and dark-deeds.
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    Berber Ox – Limiter

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    Slim line case with a printed hand numbered sleeve in an edition of 100 copies… Limiter follows on from David Berber Ox’s previous releases on labels such as Stunned, Install, Rocket Machine Tapes and Somehow Recordings. David Rutledge is a Sydney based radio producer who makes music that crosses genres such as Experimental, Drone, Dark Ambient, Power Electronics and Post Industrial often in the same track”.
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    Autistici – Beneath Peaks

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    Autistici is Sheffield, UK based composer/sound designer David Newman. He has released his work through Home Normal, 12k and Kesh, as well as his own label Audiobulb. His sound is characterised by the attention he pays to tiny detail, right from capturing the sound, carefully developing it and onto the stage where he sets them all together to create a new sound context from several disparate sources.
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    Spheruleus – The Late Surge of Gold

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    Limited edition run includes a bespoke photo on soft paper that slips into recycled sleeves… The Late Surge of Gold is the work of British sound designer Harry Towell, under his Spheruleus moniker. Previous releases have graced labels such as Hibernate, Home Normal and Time Released Sound and collaborations that have seen him work with the likes of Pleq and Ekca Liena. Harry also runs the Audio Gourmet netlabel and its new sister label Tessellate Recordings, which specialises in limited edition runs.
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    VA – Thank You

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    Limited cd release. Comes in a folded sleeve printed on recycled paper… All the money from this release will go to the charity ‘världens barn’ (children of the world). Artists who kindley donated there music for this release are: Machinefabriek, Julia Kent, Rachel Grimes, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Jasper TX, Offthesky and Pleq, Sylvain Chauveau, Monolyth & Cobalt, Listening Mirror, Woodworkings, Library Tapes, Anna Rose Carter.
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    Baker / Buckareff – Breathing Heavy Breathing

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    The breathing heavy/heavy breathing themes are illustrated by the commissioned Aural Diptych series artists Elayne Safir & Meryem Yildiz, translated into a deluxe grey A7 packaging with larger 5″x7″ prints… Berlin-based Canadians Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff, both of doomgaze husband/wife guitar/bass duo NADJA, finally deliver the long-awaited special string-less diptych release. Drones were strictly created from cymbals (Baker) & accordion (Buckareff). Initially released for the 2x 3″CDR Aural Diptych Series, both 20-minute piece were meant to stand alone and played simultaneously together to create a fuller drone ensemble. This stamped 5″ black-bottom CDR contains the two cymbal/accordion piece as well as the mix track..
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    Fujita / Harris / Shirley / Thoben / Troyer – Tesseract

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    Simon Harris (electronics), Jan Thoben (drums, percussion, objects), Kassian Troyer (guitar), Masayoshi Fujita (vibraphone) are members of the experimental improv band Pan Am Scan. Based in Berlin, the group perform with Rainer Kohlberger with live-generative visuals. Ian was first introduced to their work through mutual friends Craig (Moteer) and Yasuhiko (Flau), whom they have previously worked with on Flau and Our Small Ideas.
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    Hatakeyama / Asuna – Scale Compositions

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    ’Scale Compositions’ sees the return of Chihei to Home Normal after his 2010 release, ‘A Long Journey’. However, this time he is joined by the excellent Asuna, whose live improv and recorded work I have long admired (‘Flowers’ is one of my all-time favourite records). Anyway, let’s make this more digestible: – About Scale Compositions ‘Scale Compositions’ is made up of two parts: ‘Crown Scales’ and ‘Folk Scales’. ‘Crown Scales’ was recorded in a house in Nishiogikubo on January 20th, 2009. ‘Folk Scales’ was recorded at the SuperDeluxe live venue on January 23rd, 2009.
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    Nicolas Bernier – Music For A Piano / Music For A Book

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    ’Music For A Piano / Music For A Book’ is the latest release from Nicolas Bernier. ‘Music For A Piano’ was due to be released after his wonderful ‘The Dancing Deer EP’ back at the end of 2010. However, the project was pulled back, developed further and along with ‘Music For A Book’, presented as a double album in an amazing package designed by Urban9.
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    Cheer – Street Wondering Memory Recall

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    This release is an edition of 150 copies of pro-produced cdr with a digipack cover featuring photograph taken by Cheer in New York… Alec Cheer is a Glasgow based musician interested in playing guitar and other such devices. He has various albums out on various labels. He has been playing in and beyond Glasgow for the past ten-ish years and supported the likes of Six Organs Of Admittance, Grouper, Jozef Van Wissem, Amiina, Dosh, Vetiver, Julianna Barwick, Scott “Wino” Weinrich, Tickly Feather, & Moon Unit to name a few.
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    Caught In The Wake Forever – Against A Simple Wooden Cross

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    Caught In The Wake Forever is the work of Scottish based artist Fraser McGowan who hails from the delightfully lovely town of Paisley near Glasgow. Not long back we released the now sold out postcard ep “Sadness & Static” which was a collaboration between Fraser, Karina ESP and Sheepdog. Also Edinburgh based label Mini50 records last year released his ep “All The Hurt That Hinders Home” which featured remixes from the likes of Library Tapes, Fieldhead and Yellow6. Fraser has been recording music one way or another since 1998 and as part of the band Small Town Boredom he released two albums for the London based label The Remains Of My Estate. Fraser’s recent output has been mostly on a solo basis and with Against A Simple Wooden Cross, we’re very excited and honoured to present the first full Caught In The Wake Forever album.
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    Evade – Destroy And Dream

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    16 x 16 x 0.6cm (Close size). 48.6 x 32cm broadsheet foldout with customized greyboard CD tray… “Losing the absurd, a beautiful haze, the sun and moon as usual, fluctuating into madness” Since 2008, artists such as Kitchen. Label’s very own ASPIDISTRAFLY (Singapore) and Flica (Malaysia) have ventured successfully to Japan, presented music made in the Asia Pacific to the rest of the world. Following in these footsteps, electronic trio Evade have been honing their repertoire of sounds crafted from within their immediate surroundings of the urban pastoral landscapes of former Portugese colony, Macau. In this much anticipated full-length album entitled “Destroy & Dream”, Evade takes on the view of a distant observer, questioning life, the earth, the universe and the values of its living creatures, yet with the consolation of dreams, seclusion and shelter. Evade was born in the summer of 2004. Formed by Sonia Ka Ian Lao (vocals), Brandon L (guitar) and Faye Choi (sound), the trio released their first EP “Evade” in September 2009. Despite the fact that it was released on a small Macau-based label, with the help of Kitchen. Label producer Ricks Ang (who also mastered the EP and this album), the band attracted critical notice in Japan for their inventive and original style of electronic music, described by some as a wayward blend of minimalist electronic and dubstep combined with an ethereal pop sensibility. In August 2010, Evade was invited by Japanese independent music label PROGRESSIVE FOrM to perform at their curated event “New Sounds of Tokyo Vol.6″. Evade has also toured Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, and Singapore, and has lent support to Kashiwa Daisuke, ASPIDISTRAFLY and Flica’s Asian tours.
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    Ekca Liena & Spheruleus – Mapping The Boundary Layer

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    Surrounded in blossoming serenity, and drenched in raindrops of radio static, we start to descend into the deep, atmospheric mass which Ekca Liena and Spheruleus have carefully covered. Faint static crackles as if from an approaching cyclone, carrying electrical currents in the air as it passes closer and eventually surrounding us. A chime rings out and arises, arriving on a cool breeze and releasing the evolving ambient textures ever outwards on the breath of the air. Like Loscil expressed when he was making Grief Point, Ecka Liena and Spheruleus’ collaboration is shrouded in real ambience.
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    Tim Bass – I Have Become overcome…

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    Hand numbered limited edition run of 100 copies on 150gm printed sleeve in slim fit cd case… Recorded Febuary to March 2012. Tim Bass – Electric Guitar, Synthesizer, Real time processing. Grace Wood – Photography. Tracklist: 1, The Division Of Two, 2, Suspended Amoungst Lakes, 3, Entirety Of A Pause, 4, Hung From The Fragile Moon, 5, A Pasage Through
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    Sketches For Albinos – Days Of Being Wild And Kind

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    Here’s a beautiful collection of tracks from from Icelandic lo-fi artist Sketches for Albinos (the work of composer Matthew Collings). These tracks were all recorded in various apartments and spaces in Reykjavik, 2004-2010, and collect fan’s favourites from previous download-only releases. A set of beautiful music to comfort on winter nights. ́… on a par with anything that the mighty Sigur Ros have released ́ (Rawkstar.net) ́Surrounding him in an arc which extends around the back of the tiny stage and off both sides stand the seven guitarists he’s acquired for the evening. Seven leads feed into his nerve centre, and as seven hands pick out one drawn-out chord he works his magic; tuning and manipulating the sound and folding it back on itself across a background of quietly ticking electronica to fill the air around him with glacially mangificent sonic sculpture…building like some submerged orchestra. Ambient but definitely not background, when he draws it to a close it’s like being snapped out of hypnosis. Amazing stuff ́ (Manchester Music)
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    One Man Nation & Machinefabriek

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    This mini album captures the live improvisation Rutger did with One Man Nation (Marc Chia) at the Future Sounds of Folk Festival, at Bimhuis, Amsterdam. A very dynamic concert recording, full of electronic blips, sharp beats and persistent sine waves
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    Pillowdiver – Cassette Recordings

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    Here’s something rather tasty from Pillowdiver that comes in a limited edition run and includes a bespoke photo on soft paper that slips into recycled sleeves… The record is what I guess a bleak update compared to sleeping pills but pushed the formula of guitar/effects only a bit further for me. I assembled all the tracks usually within one or two hours, always starting without any idea what I will record… The set up was Fender Jazzmaster > Delay/Reverb/Distortion Pedals -> 4 track Cassette, no computer processing was involved. The other upcoming record on NKR will have completely different set up: computer only. For me reducing my possibilities, or focusing on certain elements is a big help to create something. – Rene
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    Rosary Beard – Halfmoon Fever

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    If your looking for beautiful acoustic music then you really can’t go wrong here. Comes in a 6-panel eco wallet presented with photos by Justin James King and artwork / custom text by Leah Koransky… Rosary Beard has been writing highly-detailed, emotive compositions together since January 2010. Halfmoon Fever represents music from the entire two year collaboration. The album was recorded live with no overdubs in sessions between late December of last year through March of this year by Ian White of Swordpaw in a historic ballroom in Troy, N.Y. Mixing for Halfmoon Fever was handled deftly by Troy Pohl (The Kamikaze Hearts, producer of Sean Rowe’s Magic LP) after which the album was mastered to perfection by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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    Good Shepherd – Sutra

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    Available in a limited edition hand made and numbered edition of 100 copies… Clocking in at a little over 30 min’s Sutra is a contrasting journey through varied shifts in instrumentation and ideas that merge to form an evolving and exciting soundscape. Sutra navigates the ponderous flow of an isolated temple in Nepal – incorporating sedate reverberations, insightful acoustic-electro guitar, experimental pulses, secretive field recordings and harmonious feedback. Good Shepherd melds field recordings, electronica and lo-fi acoustic guitar into a slow burning, meditative work. – Fluid Radio
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    Ian Hawgood – The Shattered Light

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    Stunning new album from Ian Hawgood that comes in a 6 panel digipack in limited edition run of 500 copies…  In 2007 and 2008, Ian finally decided to start sharing his early recordings through a handful of net labels. In addition to this he released two split E.P’s on Mobeer and U-Cover. In 2009, he released reworked limited editions on a few close friends’ labels: ‘We Are Better For Being Built This Way’ (Slow Flow), ‘The Great Allure’ (Experimedia), ‘Wolfskin’ (Hibernate) and ‘Snow Roads’ (Dragon’s Eye).
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    Simon Scott – Below Sea Level

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    Six panel digipak with gorgeous artwork… Below Sea Level is the first 12k release from seasoned musician and electronic sound artist Simon Scott. The inspiration behind Below Sea Level, including its music, title, artwork and photography (see accompanying journal) originally derives from Scott’s desire to musically explore the desolate and controversial environment of the Fens in East Anglia, UK. The memories Scott has of visiting this area as a child make this a poignant and highly personal project that explores nostalgic familiarity with a desire to capture the musicality of the landscape. For two years Scott ventured into this former wetland with hydrophones and self-built recording devices to explore the land that is cartographically below mean sea level, trace the devastating history of this environment caused by the drainage of the land, and arrange it into conceptual musical and visual project. Scott has, in the main, eschewed the guitar backbone of his previous releases, preferring instead to capture the timbres and textures of the landscape to form the basis for the seven tracks. His signature reverberated guitar does still surface, the beginning of the album begins with sparse finger picking reminiscent of Laughing Stock-era Talk Talk, but it only adds brief flickers of colour to the central field recordings throughout the album.
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    Pleq / Spheruleus – Quietus Gradualis

    “Quietus Gradualis’ is a blissful collaborative effort from Pleq (Bartosz Dziadosz) and Spheruleus (Harry Towell). With it’s almost folky and melodic background/filling of guitar meanderings and pseudo stringed ambiance, and a crackly and slightly crunchy and somewhat droney top coating, this is one taste treat not to be missed!
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    Sinneplakken – Picture Sleeve

    Here’s a lovely full length release from Romke Kleefstra, his brother Jan Kleefstra, Sytze Pruiksma and Christiaan Kuitwaard, called “Sinneplakken”. With it’s conceptual basis set in the history and atmosphere of the Frisian Islands, this music is steeped in those shorter days and longer nights of mysterious northern climes. The Frisian poetry that is being read on several tracks is blended with the electronics and sampled sounds of these flat, sub sea level islands, and the spirits of a long founded and somewhat obscured pagan past. Settle in with your cup of supplied East Frisian Black Blend tea, and enjoy this melancholic and deep felt minimalistic ambiance!
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    Sonmi451 – Four Peaks

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    TRS welcome back Bernard Zwijzen, aka Sonmi451. Where previously he took us via the deluxe Star Atlas release into the far reaches of the solar system, he directs us this time towards heights more earthbound, the mountain peaks of the Alps and Dolemites, which closer to home as they may well be, are still unreachable in reality for most of us devoted listeners. With his patented and delicate crystalline electronics, Sonmi451 again delivers the celestial goods we know so well, love so much and have come to expect!
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    Rezo Glonti – The Diary Of The Second Officer

    Here’s a new release from Georgian sound artist, Rezo Glonti’s. This lovingly crafted ambient voyage is a sort of imagined audio diary of a Second Officer…of a ship?… of a plane? We’re not sure, but Rezo himself lived this voyage himself, traveling about the world with his recorder, laptop and keyboard….and the resulting sounds and atmosphere we bring to you here with this release will sooth your own stay at home selves! Well…until it is time for you yourself to fly!
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    Isnaj Dui – Abstracts On Solitude

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    Isnaj Dui is Katie English, based in North London, UK. Her work in the past has graced labels such as Home Normal, Smallfish, Rural Colours and her own imprint FBox Records. One of her most recent and on-going projects is called Duodecim, a subscription based album that has seen a track released each month since September. It will eventually result in a CD which will be ready this August. With a history of recording and musical study that spans back to 1995, Katie’s current sound is characterised by her use of flute, particularly the bass flute. This is generally a rarely used instrument but is used frequently throughout her work as a defining feature. Add to this a few home-made instruments and electronics and you have the very distinctive sound of Isnaj Dui, a project that has been active since 2004. Katie has performed live alongside the likes of Library Tapes, Nils Frahm, Konntinent and Simon Scott amongst others and in venues such as The Foundry, National Portrait Gallery and The Union Chapel.  
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    Damian Valles – Nonparallel (In 4 Movements)

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    Nonparallel (In Four Movements), is composed and arranged entirely from samples from the recordings of avant-garde Western classical composers and computer music released by the Nonesuch label in the 60s and 70s. In working with the material, Valles wanted to enter into its very lineage, to forge a dialogue with it, to both extrapolate something essential from it and contribute to its legacy by using it to create an original work some three decades later. Divided into four movements, it is a nuanced album of subtle complexities that took roughly three years to complete.  
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    Marielle V Jakobsons – Glass Canyon

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    It’s been a little while since we’ve last heard from Oakland-based sound artist Marielle Jakobsons in a solo capacity, but that’s certainly not to say she hasn’t been busy. Last year saw full-length outings by her two duo projects, Date Palms and Myrmyr, and already in 2012 works with Bay Area drone ensemble Portraits and trio recordings with Helena Espvall and Agnes Szelag have been released. Her last major solo outing (under the nom-de-plume Darwinsbitch) came in form of the dark, complex Ore, released by Digitalis in 2009. With Glass Canyon, Jakobsons presents her first major work under her own name, a decision which perhaps offers a bit of insight into her compositional intentions on the album itself. Jakobsons sought to strip down her creative process to primarily just synthesizer and violin as a way of focusing, as she puts it, “on where two timbres meet.”  
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