From "Microphone Permission" LP, Editions Mego, 2020
https://jasmineguffond.bandcamp.com/album/microphone-permission

An Utterly Dark Spot

Fortresses guides a pensive, ethereal meditation on the passage of time with his debut release, Eve, on Dragon’s Eye Recordings. 

A day may be observed by exact moments, counted down by the hands on a clock; or, its progress might be witnessed through less immediate means—a shift in shadows, the sky’s hue, the air as it warms and cools. 

In this sense, Fortresses both measures the day with exactitude, and honors its slower unfoldings. Each of Eve’s three carefully crafted compositions allow the listener to hone in on a singular element, or lean back into a wider gentle drone. One can pinpoint a hint of static, or drift with a melodic looping hum as it phases in and out again. 

In his own words Fortresses offered us some insight into the making of Eve: 

Eve formed slowly during a self-reflective and transformative period in my life. The songs stand as a personal document of the time they were made and the rituals that gave shape to them—watching the seasons change from my studio window, letting the colours and qualities of light inspire the compositions; and long walks in East London’s natural and urban areas where I would listen to rough edits of the tracks and record open-air sounds that blended well with the music. 

With this music, the process is compositional and very deliberate, as opposed to improvised or open-ended. The tracks are manipulated guitar and synth lines, meshed with both raw and processed field recordings, and broken chords and melodies made with a Mellotron iPhone app.

Fortresses - June

(P) & (C)  2022 CROSSPOINT

All rights of the producer and of the owner of the work reproduced reserved. 
unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance, broadcasting and making transmittable of this record prohibited.

Wa No Wa - Wa No Wa (Sample Excerpt)

Maps and Diagrams - Occupying Space

My third album “Mujo” will be released on November 11, 2022. 
The album was made from 2014 to 2022. All together 9 years of time but over 10 years including the research period. 
It is an album of improvisation and recording simultaneously, using non-instrument objects along with the sounds that occur 
from a frosted lake and drifting ice, and recordings made by affecting the environment itself.
This album is comprised of 2 discs. Disc 1 features performing and interaction with sounds that occurs above the ice. 
Disc 2 features performing and interaction with sounds that occurs below the ice using hydrophones.
This trailer is a mixture of tracks included in disc 1 and disc 2.
Hopefully, you'll be able to hear it through solid mid- and low-range speakers or headphones. And this is just a trailer. It's even more amazing when you listen through the entire sound source.
The CD is full of ideas that you can't get from the download version, and the booklet on page 32 contains untold stories about the making of the album and photos I took between recordings, so I hope you buy the CD and listen to them.

Click here to purchase
https://naturebliss.bandcamp.com/album/mujo-kk039

Recorded and produced during 2014 – 2022  All
recordings and editing by Kazuya Matsumoto
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Photography by Kazuya Matsumoto
Artwork design by mondii
Special thanks to Fumi Miyoshi,Yuichiro KONNO

Video editing: Yuichiro KONNO (busstrio)  http://busstrio.com
Photo: Kazuya Matsumoto  http://www.horhythm.com

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2022年11月11日に松本一哉 の 3 枚目となるアルバム「無常」をSPEKK からリリースします。
今作「無常」は、氷をテーマとした作品となっていまして、2014 年から 2022 年までの 9 年 の歳月をかけて制作しました。リサーチを含めると 10 年以上になります。凍結した湖や流氷などが起こす音と共に、本来楽器ではない モノなどを使用し即興で 1 発録音をしたり、色々な仕掛けを用いて環境そのものに働きかけて録音した作品です。 
本作は 2 枚組になっていまして、disc1 は氷上で起こる事との演奏や働きかけを基にし、disc2 はハイドロフォンを使用し氷下で起こっ ていた事との演奏や働きかけを基にした作品構成になっています。
このトレイラーではdisc1とdisc2の音源を混ぜて構成しています。
願わくば、中低域のしっかり鳴るスピーカー、またはヘッドフォンで聴いてもらえたら嬉しいです。そして、これはあくまでもトレイラーです。音源全体を通して聴くともっと凄いです。
CDではダウンロード版では味わえない趣向を凝らしてますし、32ページのブックレットにはアルバム制作の秘話や私が録音の合間に撮影した写真が記載されていますので、ぜひCDを購入してで聴いてほしいです。

Recorded and produced during 2014 – 2022  All
recordings and editing by Kazuya Matsumoto
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Photography by Kazuya Matsumoto
Artwork design by mondii
Special thanks to Fumi Miyoshi,Yuichiro KONNO

品番 : KK039
レーベル：SPEKK
発売日：2022年 11月11日
販売価格：4,000円
収録時間：DISC1 68′ 07″ / DISC2 68′ 12″
フォーマット：2CD

170 x 140mm 変形紙ジャケット入りの2枚組CD + 32ページカラーブックレット, 録音時の映像風景動画へのQRコード付。

▶︎説明：http://spekk.net/catalog/mujo.html

▶︎販売ページ：https://naturebliss.bandcamp.com/album/mujo-kk039

▶︎無常リリースツアー開催します。2023年の春頃までに全国各地を周ろうと計画中です。
http://www.horhythm.com/portfolio_item/mujo-tour
※日程確定次第こちらのページに随時アップしていきます。

3rd「無常」トレイラー / third album「Mujo」Trailer (mixture of tracks included in disc 1 and disc 2)

~ IIKKI 019 ~

music : Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall)
photography : Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
album : Our Recently Acquired Knowledge (book: 07 AM)
duration : 35.56 mn
date : January 2023

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All music Ian Hawgood & Craig tattersall

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / natural clear LP / hand numbered  / selective varnish / hand numbered
cd: limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) / hand numbered
book: limited to 700 copies hand numbered / embossed / hand stamped / Swiss binding

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pre-order : December 12th, 2022 / official release : January 19th, 2023

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Links :
https://www.leavings.co.uk/
https://www.folkreels.com/
https://terezakozinc.com/
https://lemasterklass.com/klavdij-sluban/
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/

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Observatories - Our Recently Acquired Knowledge

~ LAAPS 026 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP26]

artist : Wil Bolton
 album : Like Floating Leaves
duration(s) : 40.37 mn (LP) 59.55 mn (CD)
 date : March 06th, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / natural clear LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : February 03rd, 2023 / official release : March 06th, 2023
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Written, recorded and mixed by Wil Bolton in East London, January - July 2022.
Environmental sounds recorded in Venice, Stockholm, New York and Tokyo, 2014-2021.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Russell Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://wilbolton.bandcamp.com/music
https://wilbolton.co.uk/

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Wil Bolton - Like Floating Leaves

~ IIKKI 020 ~

music : Akhira Sano
photography : David Nissen
album : Shadow's Praise
durations : 37.40 mn (LP) / 43.31 mn (CD)
date : April 20th 2023

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All production by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by David Nissen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / marble (crystal, silver and white) LP / hand numbered  / pantone
cd: limited to 200 CD / hand numbered / pantone
book: limited to 500 copies hand numbered / embossed / selective UV varnish / hand stamped 

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pre-order : March 03rd, 2023 / official release : April 20th, 2023

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Links :
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://linktr.ee/Akhira_Sano
https://www.davidnissenphoto.com/

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Akhira Sano - Nakazu

Taken from "Bright waters"
All copies are sold out, digital here:

https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/bright-waters

released March 3, 2023 

Music by Rime Trails 
Artwork by C. Fredenslund 

Slow Tone Collages 2023 
STC 025

Rime Trails - Bright Waters

Pre-order: 12th April 2023
Release date: 21th April 2023
Format: CD, Digital

This new release for Lontano Series is influenced by forest landscapes, in my mind these tracks are part of an imaginary soundtrack that accompanies me when I walk through the trees.

Copyright © 2023 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

previews. David Cordero - Among Pale Trees | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

from KR067 C.H.R.O.N.O.S.  LP / DL out on april 26th

C.H.R.O.N.O.S.

AROVANE + PORYA HATAMI - Catenoid

Kazuya Matsumoto is a Musician SoundArtists Composer percussionist and Drummer from Kanazawa (Ishikawa) now based in Tokyo.
Matsumoto uses any objects that sounds including Japanese instruments like Hamon and Shamisen.
He focuses on the sound itself rather than the notes and melodies, and performs and records in the nature to create documental pieces.
By mixing his performance with environmental sounds, he transforms the whole space giving the audience a new experience.
In 2013, he received the grad prix award in the Otokuchi project which was held as the related project of Setouchi International Art Festival.
In 2014, he produced music for Primitive Sense Art Festival.
In 2015, he releases his 1st solo album “Mizu no katachi“from SPEKK label.
In 2016, he joined the “Kenko music festival” organized by the Commons label hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto. He has also toured extensively throughout Japan (56 shows) as the “Mizu no Katachi release tour”.
In 2017, his first sound installation “Sound capsule ~ Kazuya Matsumoto himself as an exhibit” was exhibited at the “Nakagin Capsule Tower OPEN CELL 2017” held at a profound architecture designed by Kisho Kurokawa.
he releases his 2nd solo album “Ochill Chill Michill“from SPEKK label.
They hold a “Ochill Chill Michill Release Tour” that goes around all 47 prefectures and has over 100 performances in total. They will perform at Kanazawa Night Museum 2017, Zero-date Boys’ Art School 2017, Kobe Art Festival commemorating 150 years since its opening, Kumamoto Modern Art Museum, etc.
In 2018, he was in charge of the music for Nao Yoshigai “Grand Bouquet/The Most Beautiful Ladies of You” which was exhibited at the “Open Space 2018 in Transition.” held by the ICC.
At the chago/Residence Gallery, they have a dynamic movement exhibition “Moment/Mement” where they live in the gallery during the period and keep exhibiting the sound.
He held a Bustrio and Kazuya Matsumoto “Black and White and Ghosts.” at the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale in the Art Festival of the Earth. This performance will be held at Kanazawa 21 Century Museum of Art as a part of the art exchange joint project.
Participated in “Open Grind House”, a residence program by Kichijoji Theater and Bustrio.
In 2019, Sound performance “Tetsusaeru” tour is held.
“Grand Bouquet” directed by Nao Yoshikai, who was in charge of music in 2018, was officially invited to the Cannes Film Festival during its Director’s Week.
He appeared as a DOMMUNE Presents non-musical instrument player “World of Kazuya Matsumoto.” at the Setouchi International Art Festival 2019 DOMMUNE SETOUCHI.

3rd「無常」トレイラー / third album「Mujo」Trailer (mixture of tracks included in disc 1 and disc 2)

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