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Gavin Prior – All Who Wander
CD, SaleGavin 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.£7.00 -
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Jim Ghedi – Home Is Where I Exist…
CD, SaleGlass 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£7.00 -
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Toby Hay – Rhayader
CD, SaleGlass 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£4.00 -
Vektormusik – Time Woke Up In Darkness (Deluxe)
CD, DeluxeLimited 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.£45.00 -
Vektormusik – Time Woke Up In Darkness
CDIn 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.£12.00 -
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Ales Tsurko – Transliaciya
CD, SaleInfluenced 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£7.00 -
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Antonymes – (For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly
CD, Sale10 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.£8.00 -
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Chris Dooks – Accretion Disc
CD, SaleOutside : 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.£9.00 -
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Twinkle / Endresen – Debris In Lower Earth Orbit (CD)
CD, SaleTwinkle3 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.£7.00 -
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Eumig – S/T
CD, SaleCourier 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.£5.00 -
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Lorenzo Masotto – Rule and Case
CD, SaleSearching 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.”£7.00 -
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Parallelism – Angular Geometry
CD, SaleA 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.£10.00 -
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Valanx – The Towering Pillars
CD, SaleVeteran 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.£10.00 -
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Submersion – Abrade
CD, SaleAbrade 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.£8.00 -
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Vitaly Beskrovny – Imperfect
CD, SaleSeeking 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.”£7.00 -
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Drombeg – Earthworks
CD, Sale‘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.£8.00 -
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Siavash Amini – Subsiding
CD, SaleComplete 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.£8.00 -
Marta Mist – Scavengers
CDFor 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!£12.00 -
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Fontaine – Diamond Lake
CD, SaleDiamond 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.£8.00 -
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Limited Liability Sounds – Surrounding Countryside
CD, SaleIt 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.£8.00 -
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Michel Banabila: Tapu sampler 2016 (2xCD)
CD, SaleLimited edition 2CD album in a full colour matte finish 3 panel digipak. Compilation of tracks from independent releases on Tapu since 2005.£7.00 -
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Olga Wojciechowska – Maps & Mazes
CD, SaleTRS057 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…£9.00 -
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Joe Evans – Elemental States
CD, SaleAs 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.£6.00 -
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Darren McClure – Apperception
CD, SaleDarren 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.£5.00 -
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Post Global Trio – Clouds
CD, SalePost 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.£5.00 -
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Xu – Panpsychism
CD, Sale“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.£5.00 -
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Yamaoka – Silent Film
CD, SaleYamaoka 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.£5.00 -
Gypsy Eyes – Nefelibata
CDFor 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…£11.00 -
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Grace Beneath The Pines – ST
CD, SaleThe 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.£7.00 -
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J Butler – Memory
CD, SaleMemory 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.£7.00 -
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Chandeliers – Artifacts
CD, SaleImaginative music from Chandeliers (19 years old, living in Detroit/USA) trying to capture the deep sadness and nostalgic feeling of abandonment…£10.00 -
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Light Sleeper – The Goodbye…
CD, SaleThe 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.£10.00 -
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Silk Saw – Imaginary Landscapes
CD, SaleComes 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.£8.00 -
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Lyken / Dove – Mirror Lands
CD, SaleAs 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.£9.00 -
The Doubling Riders – Garama
CD, SaleThis 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…£11.00 -
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Zander One – Emerald Awaking
CD, Sale“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.£10.00 -
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Artificial Memory Trace – Amfibion
CD, SaleAmfibion 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.£7.00 -
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Arash Akbari – Vanishing Point
CD, SaleIran’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.£7.00 -
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Corder Ritger Yantis – Possession
CD, SaleThree 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.£7.00 -
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Valiska / Zenjungle – A Changing Light
CD, SaleBorn 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.£7.00