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KMRU - OT

If you’ve missed the self-titled debut, released by Island People in 2017 on raster, you’re in for a treat! Known for its surgical- precision explorations into post-digital manipulations, the celebrated label and a platform for many groundbreaking sounds has signed a mastering engineer Conor Dalton, Grammy Award-winning producer David Donaldson, musician and DJ Graeme Reedie, and a guitarist Ian “Chippy” Maclennan for a fascinating journey that brought much of their organic and warm sounds to the slightly cold, a little sterile, and desolate space. For their sophomore release, simply titled II, the group push their sounds into a further territory, resembling their home country of Scotland, “made of contrasting lights and harsh elements where time seems to stand still, circling the moment.” Beyond elements brought on from individual contributions, the group has relied on influences experienced together during their tour. Such slight melancholy can be grasped through pieces titled “Far From Shore,” “Stillness,” and “All My Plants Are Dead,” but today I am happy to offer you this exclusive premiere of a track named “Loneliness Has a Purpose,” which you can first experience it here on its own, and then, along the rest of the tracks on the full album.

"Out of the whole album, this track best represents the sound of paths not taken. Of one destination for some still feeling like a journey yet to be taken for others. The narratives we create reveal us all to be unreliable storytellers, it is only in looking back honestly that we can direct the ending. With the feeling of isolation during intense quarantine bringing up a lot of time for introspection, songs like “loneliness has a purpose” reflect on the many directions a life could take, potential futures not chosen and the many decisions that shape a future."
— Island People


I was going to write a bit more about this exciting release, but I feel that I’d be simply paraphrasing the following words, already appearing on the group’s Bandcamp: “The arrangements unfold like the long tracking shots of an early Antonioni film […] gloomy, darker, richer textures have conquered their space…” Yeah, well said. An absolute gem for lovers of surrealist and organic noir-fi as well as pristine, process-oriented production – a culmination of the above four minds gathered in the same unique space! Once again, the physical album is scheduled to start shipping on June 25th.

Loneliness Has A Purpose

TRACK PREMIERE : Island People - Loneliness Has a Purpose

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
Faint025 // FaintCD025
Faint / 2021

Pepo Galán - Blurry Memory

Pre-Order:

Worriedaboutsatan - Circles II
CD/Cassette/Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/circles-ii

Release date: 10.9.2021

CD: last 4 copies left!!!
Cassette (Circles I&II): last 11 copies left!!!!
September Releases CD Bundle: SOLD OUT

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/circles-ii

The idea about these releases is to present a continuous mix of floating - experimental - ambient - techno - electronica pieces.....a perfect mix between styles...... 

Artwork and music by Gavin Miller 
Mastering by Kris Illic

Video: Worriedaboutsatan "Tunnels"
https://youtu.be/NxdHnO3Gmz0
Directed by Gregory Hoepffner:
http://www.gregory-hoepffner.net

Worriedaboutsatan - Circles II

"Noctiluca" is a four track EP by Japanese artist Silentwave, exploring the mysteries of the deep sea.

Track 1 to 3 are based on improvisation and a feeling for the deep sea, recorded October 2020.
Track 4 consists of field recordings done March 2019 on the coast of Izu/Japan. The sounds were recorded on a very windy day and later on processed into a drone sound.

Track list:
1. Noctiluca
2. Noctiluca 2
3. The Bottom Of The Sea
4. Uminari

About the artist:
Silentwave creates works of ambient and techno with a peculiar interpretation. The themes are "human beings and nature", "consciousness and unconsciousness" and "light and darkness".

silentwave.bandcamp.com/music
https://silentwave.jimdofree.com
soundcloud.com/user-212555617
twitter.com/hiss_records
www.instagram.com/noguchi_yoshinori/?hl=ja

Download @ https://droneworksinternational.bandcamp.com/album/silentwave-noctiluca

Release Date: 10th Dec 2021
Drone Works International DWI 36

Bandcamp

Silentwave - Snippets Of Noctiluca (DWI 36)

Made for the Naviar Haiku Community, naviarhaiku417 – on New Year’s Day

on New Year’s Day
lucky! lucky!
a pale blue sky

Main synth is my Roland D70 (ambience and piano), then some small drops from my Roland Gaia. The guitar is my Yamaha semi-acoustic classical guitar.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 5th January 2021

haiku by Kobayashi Issa http://haikuguy.com/issa
picture by Kumiko SHIMIZU https://unsplash.com/@shimikumi32

The Blue Sky Promisses A Clear Mind [Naviarhaiku417]

We continue our journey into sound with the Wandering II Compilation. This compilation celebrates the 20th release in the original SS series. A journey that took close to a year to compile and prepare. The tracklist is comprised of friends and artists who share in a connection with Silent Season through their music.

The Wandering Compilation is named after the Wandering tree, a Big Leaf Maple that grows very slowly near the beach by my house. I sit under this tree to ponder and watch the ocean. It’s a favourite place to chill with music and contemplate life. It’s under this tree that the idea of compiling a series of music that embodies the Silent Season vision and sound was born. We welcome you to sit back, close you’re eyes and listen to the sounds of the Wandering II compilation.

In a world rife with chaos there is so much beauty that can be found by being in nature. The aim of the Wandering compilation is to share music that encourages people to take notice of their natural surroundings and find peace within Mother Nature. The love of nature is a common language that transcends political and social boundaries. Through music, nature gives us universal purpose.

Featuring tracks by: A.P, Yuka, DT-90, Kanthor, Aesthes, Ethernet, Hydrangea, Brother Blue, Alfredo Mazzilli, Hidden Element, Martin Schulte, Archivist, Michał Wolski, Birds of Prey, Mechanist, Slownoise, Warmth, Brando Lupi, Segue, Mr. Zu, Mon0, Tdel, Sonitus Eco, As If, ASC, Legiac, Inanitas (not in order)

In the words of Michael Mantra “No matter what happens, keep moving forward step by step. No one can stop you from making progress. Always move forward. Perseverance Furthers.”

Mastered by Anders Peterson at GS Mastering & Post.
Dedicated to Michael Mantra.

The Wandering II Compilation will available soon as a 3xCD set as well as in digital formats.

Stay tuned for more. Sign up to the Silent Season newsletter.

goo.gl/4dDEZM

Thank you to all the artists involved in making this compilation happen.

Find the original Wandering compilation here: shop.silentseason.com/album/wandering-compilation

Archivist - Photosensitive from The Wandering II Compilation [SS20]

I originally mixed this down as a 24 bit 48Hz WAV file which I may post on Bandcamp as part of an EP soon but this is a 320kbps mp3.
I'm working on blending more sophisticated beats with an ambient sound. There is more of this sort of thing to come.

Submerge

Rainy Dub (24 bit remaster)

This is the lovely opening track on the new Time Released Sound Around The World Ambient Music Program release. Available in both a limited edition CD version, and an extended digital version with three bonus tracks!

The Time Released Sound Around The World Ambient Music Program... Purl - Thaw

to be in nature. quiet

field recordings from the forests of bali oct 2018

check out visuals:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxFv5vXhdcL/

Another Begins

The sound on this release has been examined and produced throughout March and April 2019 in Frankfurt am Main during a music-residency initiated and hosted by "Künstlerhaus Mousonturm" and MMODEMM.

Written and Produced by Asuna Arashi

Asuna - Cloud River Seen From The Window

a bonus track from 'A Sky Beyond'

- RELEASE NOTES - 

This is the second chapter of SKY – a trilogy of releases exploring collective dreams of celestial origin.

released April 28, 2019 

Written and produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius 

Artwork created in a collaboration between Purl and ARIJ MOKA – www.instagram.com/arijmoka 
www.behance.net/arijmoka 

Mastered by The Analog Botanist at the White Pillar Workshop, Winter 2019. www.analogbotany.com

A Sky Beyond

Montreal

Frédéric Galliano - Multiples Un (Heavenchord Reshape)free DL

out on December 6th on limited edition CS / DL
dronarivm.bandcamp.com

Pre-orders start Nov. 22nd

DR-64 : SNUFMUMRIKO - Sekunder, eoner

Explorations into dreamy, texturally rich environments and dub flavoured landscapes through the use of rhythm and subtle melody.

Mastered by Tobias Lorsbach (Logic Moon)

Buy CS / DL

Snufmumriko - Sekunder, eoner

Leandro Fresco / https://soundcloud.com/leandrofresco and Rafael Anton Irisarri / https://soundcloud.com/irisarri return with their second cross-continental collaboration on A Strangely Isolated Place with 'Una Presencia En La Brisa' (A Presence In The Breeze). Available on Bandcamp: https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/una-presencia-en-la-brisa

Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Elevado Como Barrilete (ASIPV019)

'Fearless' taken from the forthcoming Jon Hassell album 'Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)' out July 24 on NDEYA.

Pre-order here: https://ndeya.ffm.to/seeingthroughsound

FURTHER READING ON JON HASSELL:
Fourth World in the 21st century: www.residentadvisor.net/features/2984
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell: www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/09/jazz.urban

https://jonhassell.com/
https://jonhassell.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJonHassell/
https://twitter.com/ndeyarecords
https://www.instagram.com/ndeya_records/

Jon Hassell | Fearless

27Aug20

My naviarhaiku347 submission;
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/08/26/naviarhaiku347-two-voices-that-sound-alike/
:D

Boson Spin - Through clouds of blossoms [naviarhaiku347]

Written and Produced by Powlos
Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
Faint020 // FaintCD020
Faint / 2020

Enamour

Salomé

~ Enamour ~

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (NY)
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
ARCHIVES71 // ARCHIVESCD52
Archives | 2021

Ambient 74

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