~ LAAPS 012 ~ [SEQ.02 - LP12]

artist : Federico Durand
album : Herbario
duration : 39.52 mn
 date : June 17th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / green colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 07th, 2021 / official release : June 17th, 2021
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Federico Durand: ARP Odyssey, cassette tapes, feedback looper, Sony TCM-459V, Microcosm, El Capistan, EHX 2880, RE-201, sampler, short-wave radio.
 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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"Herbario is the Spanish name given to a collection of dried plants and flowers preserved in an album. The collector usually writes with pencil the name of the herb, the place and date of collection, thoughts, and the habitat where the plant was collected from.
 
I live in a place surrounded by mountains and wild gardens which are, to me, a source of inexhaustible beauty. Through them I feel the passage of time: an ancient, circular temporality that follows the course of seasons, dialogues with the dark stillness of the mountain and the moon calendar. Each musical piece of Herbario has the name of my favourite flowers and trees.
 
Through a year of uncertainty, from March 2020 to March 2021, I composed this album in the same way a botanist would have proceeded: collecting and preserving simple, broken and hypnotic melodies.
 
F. D.
La Cumbre, Argentina. "

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https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/

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Federico Durand - Salvia

maybe heared something before sleep ? 


!🦦

心臓のすぐちかくの

Pre-order now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/upward-eyes-kindred

Handstitched* is thrilled to announce the next installment of the split-artist series, Ian Hawgood and Fields We Found feature alongside each other for an outing of outstanding musical composure and tranquility. 

Ian's music needs little introduction, with many releases and collaborations under his belt on numerous well-known labels - to say he's prolific is pretty close to the mark. Ian also curates the wonderful Home Normal label, here in the UK. "upward eyes" is seriene, slow-moving and hauntingly subtle, prolonged space fills the moments we frequently overlook and leaves time for reflection during a quiet time spent in an open space. We are honoured to have his debut EP "upward eyes" featuring on Handstitched*. 

Fields We Found has just released his outstanding album "Distance" on the lovely Seil Records, which has been on constant rotation here at Handstitched* over the past month - and the new EP "kindred" is equally as moving, graceful and bewitching. The equilibrium and expression within "kindred" is harmonious - and at the same time, quietly sonorous.

Fields We Found and Ian Hawgood are both welcomed to Handstitched* with many thanks and admiration for their respective musical works as part of the split-artist series, it's great to have them visiting Handstitched* for this special release.

Limited to 50 copies. Released on mini CD-r and sage green cassette with hand-made packaging, tape O-cards and unique designs for each CD package. [HS45/45T]. 

Released August 12.

Ian Hawgood / Fields We Found - upward eyes/kindred [HS45/T S4mpl3r]

a very simple, yet i think really successful, sound tonight. not many modules involved. make noise rene sequencer controlling a doepfer envelope and pitch control into a harvestman piston honda wavetable oscillator. i really like the piston honda. it reminds me a lot of the waldorf microwave. digital, yet warm.

the rene plays along, quite randomly, yet locked into a key, but there's a loop that's been caught by the phonogene and  provides the backbone of the sound as rene and honda continue to dance around.

it's all going through a bit of eventide reverb.

kind of a dreamy, floaty one tonight… this is an excerpt of what was an 8 minute recording.

Jan 25, 2014 (waves)

~ LAAPS 027 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP27]

artists : Russell Burden (Being) & Craig Tattersall (The Humble Bee)
 album : Diagenesis
duration : 44 mn
 date : April 29th, 2023

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

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pre-order : April 07th, 2023 / official release : April 29th, 2023
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All Tracks written and produced by Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Russell Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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diagenesis: the watery interactions, microbial activities, alterations, compactions, and chemical transformations of sediments slowly converting to rock.
this music was created through a process of exchange - passing tracks back and forth, each layer of sound buried a little deeper beneath the next.

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.leavings.co.uk/

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Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall - Settlings (excerpt)

Tobira

Roji

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.

While there is a raw and guileless nature to the duo’s sound it is precisely this that makes their music so powerful amidst the over-produced cliches of much modern music. The beauty of their work is how simple instruments and objects can be physically manipulated into creating such rich, layered sound. Dark, swaying, almost-looped melodies from piano, woodwinds and horns wrap themselves in smoky obscurity around remnants of percussion and warm beds of noise and the world around us.

In The Lens is very much a late-night record, reflected in the rain-soaked cover imagery, dripping with half-forgotten memories. Jittery yet calming, rhythmic, yet unhurried, it leads you down its dark corridors to a soft resting space. Ikin and Fiocco have created a new story around the chemistry of their creations that were taking place during the early days of their musical explorations.

In The Lens

Separate Lovers

A selection of more acoustic-sounding and harmonious music by Maps and Diagrams, some previously released and a few recently-discovered and unreleased songs from hard drives, tapes and mini-disc. All songs written, arranged and recorded by Maps and Diagrams.

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/

There's some exciting news for Handstitched* in the coming months - a couple of new releases due, stay tuned and try not to take one single moment in this life for granted.

Thanks for listening x

tracklist:

Jasper (Handstitched*)
Ten Black Cards (Time Released Sound)
Untitled (unreleased)
Untitled (unreleased)
Komagataella (Audio Gourmet)
Untitled (unreleased)
Untitled (unreleased)
Circa (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Lias (Handstitched*)
Novachord Spectrum (False Industries)
Floating Sculptures (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Untitled (unreleased)
Red (Handstitched*)
Cut-Out Silhouettes (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Curious Expeditions (Touched)
Untitled (unreleased)
Untitled (unreleased)
Sleep (Audio Gourmet)
Oracle (Grenzwellen)

Maps And Diagrams - Rediscovered Acoustics For Winter [December 2019]

~ LAAPS 004 ~ [SEQ.01 - LP04]

artists : Danny Clay
album : Ocean Park
duration : 41.04 mn
 date : June 04th, 2020

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 250 copies / blue colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : May 14th, 2020 / official release : June 04th, 2020

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Ian Scarfe - harmonium
Philip Brezina - violin
Christina Simpson - viola
James Jaffe - cello
Danny Clay - voice, music box, combs, turntables, electronics

Special Thanks:
Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival, Jon Fischer

Fall 2019, Taos, New Mexico, US

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Anni Leppälä
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://dannyclay.bandcamp.com/
https://www.dclaymusic.com/
https://www.annileppala.fi/

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Danny Clay - Prologue

Aquaeductus vestibuli

Falling Through Graves And Houses

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.

Jan 25, 2014 (waves)

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