First insights from the album Shoto, released on March 29th.

Shoto: https://minui.bandcamp.com/album/shoto

Between the uncomfortable and the pleasant, minui returns to activity with fresh pine air, exploring the unknown life's language, keeping its focus on simplicity.

"Shoto" - It literally means, "pine-waves," that is, the motion that pine trees make when the wind passes through them. As the wind goes through the pines, their waves fill the pianist and speak through him, giving nature a tonal voice - the waves of the wind. Open your ears to these persistent resonances as the notes slowly die out - the contrast - one shimmers while the other has a darker, almost nocturnal feeling. It really is the feeling of just being on the edge of silence, but never quite - never final.

In Japanese poetry, haiga is haiku traditionally accompanied by an ink brush drawing. Inspired and reinterpreted by this, the new album merges with a kind of interactive haiga.
Each page generates a pause.

Music_Lorenz Weber
Haiku_松 濤

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Shoto

Lorenz Weber - Shoto (excerpt I)

Minimal Meditation is an ambient mini-album built on sparse textures and steady tones, designed to create a calm, focused atmosphere for relaxation, meditation, or quiet reflection.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Matthew Callahan (Dellasollounge)
Cover picture and design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Minimal Meditation

Omni Luci

Ambient Experiment

One Dime Blues (In A Cave)

july 19, 2017 (music box 19)

further experiments with the error instruments sonic lullaby and make noise morphagene, this time with a 4ms Dual Looping Delay providing the backwards bits... and, overall, a longer loop in the morphagene for a more sparse sound. i like this one!

july 20, 2017 (music box 20)

early experiments with the intellijel plonk module. here's the plonk looped by the phonogene and sent into a rossum morpheus filter. that's it for the patch. reverb provided by a pcm81.

august 08, 2017 (tapping, rolling, loop)

Victor Candela Cordoba : instruments and treatments

reworking "Mornings" by Marco Lucchi
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/track/mornings

luglio 2019

VictorYibril - Mornings Delights

"Wooded" is taken from "Paths", the new album by Darren Harper.

Limited edition cassettes and CD's in hand made packages available here:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paths

“A micro-world of textured electronics and voltage; a simple wind chime singing in a breeze” 
Created with a modular synthesizer and effect pedals, Paths is an account of missteps and error, a process of understanding; an unfolding. A discovery of oneʼs voice...a reflection of nature.

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darren harper's latest work is a joyous collage for all seasons; a delicate record that soothes and refreshes the spirit.

kaleidoscopic chimes and playful bells tumble against each other. twinkling notes drift down in little flurries, then melt away as sunlit chords push aside the clouds.

low, thrumming bokeh echoes bring distant mountaintops intimately close, then curve down into hushed forest floors, winds whispering through leaves overhead. tiny layers of loops and quiet delays, jumbled melodies, sparse crackling branches, and somber swells invite contemplation of these fragile spaces.

each moment is cherished, each song reveals new life: ephemeral, yet enduring. the ice breaks, slowly gliding away as the river shakes off its long slumber.

never obscuring, always revealing; these intertwining paths abound with the hopeful promise that spring is coming.

-- joshua saddler

Releases August 23, 2019

W/P by Darren Harper 2018/19 
Mastered by Porya Hatami 
poryahatami.com

Darren Harper - Wooded

Preview of the album 'Luchtwezen'
SØVN Records, July 15 2020, cd/dl/stream
https://sovnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/luchtwezen
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Constructed by Rutger Zuydervelt, Rotterdam, February – April 2020
Rutger Zuydervelt: church organ (Oude Kerk Charlois), electronics
Berlinde Deman: serpent and vocals (recorded at home, Ghent)
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Many thanks to Lies Klaus, Gilbert van Drunen (Koffie & Ambacht),
Jaap van Gils, Stepping Stone, and SØVN records 
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Rutger Zuydervelt, a.k.a. Machinefabriek , needs no presentation to the ambient and drone audiences. (Hyper)active since the early 2000s, he epitomizes a minimalistic, electro-acoustic approach to these genres bringing together real world and synthetic oscillations. Berlinde Deman is a tuba player, and amongst many other projects member of the unconventional jazz big band Flat Earth Society.

In Luchtwezen, the two are brought together by a common veneration of the physical experience of the creation of sound. Both musicians each exploit on this record an unusual instrument: Rutger plays the Hess church organ of Oude Kerk Charlois, in south Rotterdam (together with some electronics); Berlinde sings, and plays the serpent, an ancient wind instrument, made out of wood and shaped like a snake. The meeting of the two should have taken place, as a matter of fact, in the Oude Kerk Charlois itself, during a live concert organized by Koffie & Ambacht. However, the quick rise to power of Covid-19 forced the duo to turn this get-together (as all musical get togethers during our quarantines) into a virtual one: a studio recording, that you can hear as Luchtwezen .

And yet, by just listening to the record, you may be fooled into thinking that this was a live recording - as we have all thought, because of their intensity, that some quarantine Zoom calls were not happening over a screen, but rather out there, in the real world. The flow is natural, the sound space unitary. The clicks of the organ keys are just right there in front of us. After the first brooding half, we all feel the mysterious, oriental breath flowing from the serpent in the spaces between us. And then, a simple melody sang by the organ reminds us of the feeling of excitement of going to a live concert - where you know that a serpent will dance to the sound of the organ's pipes.

Machinefabriek with Berlinde Deman – Luchtwezen (preview)

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is pleased to welcome back Kamran Sadeghi for his first release on the label since 2008. On BETWEEN US, Sadeghi explores life in quarantine by directing his listening attention towards the element of our homes that is both sheltering us and giving us a glimpse of the outside world—the window.

BETWEEN US was created using field recordings captured with DIY contact microphones attached to the glass window of Sadeghi’s home in Brooklyn. These protective barriers in the buildings we inhabit operate as a filter from the outside elements. Sadeghi describes the impulse of "wanting to hear the sound outside as it was being transformed to what I was hearing inside." Each recording's tonal slips due to the presence of sonic artifacts such as resonance, noise, low rumble, feedback, and cyclical hum (caused, in part, by the microphones' excessive gain) suggests a gauzy, shifting passage of time at a distance.

Between Us

Kamran Sadeghi - Morning

With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.