~ LAAPS 020 ~ [SEQ.03 - LP20]

artist : Taylor Deupree
 album : Harbor
duration : 41.38 mn
 date : May 30th, 2022

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

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pre-order : May 06th, 2022 / official release : May 30th, 2022
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sounds and arrangements by Taylor Deupree
mixed and mastered at 12k
published by 12k Music (ASCAP)

Artwork by Herbert Pfostl
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

"thank you to Corey Fuller, Stephen Vitiello, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Mathias Van Eecloo."

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://taylordeupree.bandcamp.com/

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Harbor

Taylor Deupree - Harbor

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]

~ 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

my favorite kind of rain today. gentle. no wind. the kind that quiets everything. rain that you can walk in.

a field recording off the back of the studio, here in pound ridge, new york. about 6:30pm



June 09, 2014 (light rain)

Tobira

Roji

~ LAAPS 031 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP31]

artists : Bill Seaman / Tim Diagram / Stephen Spera
album : The World Was Turning Before 
duration(s) : 40.52 mn (LP) / 61.04 mn (CD)
date : October 23rd, 2023

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

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pre-order : October 06th, 2023 / official release : October 23rd, 2023
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Seaman: 
Piano, Ebow Guitar, Analogue synth, DX7, non-location recordings, micro-rhythms, sample arrangements, glass harmonica samples, drones

Diagram:
Guitar, Synth, location recordings, noise drones, sample arrangements

Spera:
Synth, Vocal Arrangements, Location recordings, Wollensak reel-to reel, CB Radio, sample arrangements, Historical Vocal Recordings
 
Voice samples sung by Tamalyn Miller

Recorded in 2022
Produced by Seaman. Diagram, Spera

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Russell Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://billseaman.com/
https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/stephenspera/

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Bill Seaman / Tim Diagram / Stephen Spera - Velta

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

"L’album è una ricerca volta alla comprensione del linguaggio degli ambienti e degli oggetti che ci circondano e dei quali probabilmente conosciamo solo la facciata esterna."

Carlo Giustini "Manifestazioni" will be out on 28/9/2018 on Cassette, 7" Vinyl Dubplate and Digital.

“A manifestation is an object that clearly shows or embodies something abstract or theoretical” 

These are five untamed field recordings captured between the desolate streets of suburban Treviso in late June 2018. 
Five explorations of the secret language whispered by its houses and by the slow and mysterious movements of its inhabitants exhausted by the summer heat. 

Matter owns a hidden language, a dusty and ancient one. 
Sound is matter. 

Matter is a tactile manifestation of something that is higher, or at least something that lives hidden among the cracks of our everyday life. 

Something vast, which is capable of moving matter and space. 
Something speaking in codes. 

The movements captured in this work are sometimes brusque, sometimes more tired and dragged. 

These are five declarations of love towards a more real world of truth, a world that is hidden but that somehow manifests itself continuously through the familiar sound of objects and everyday life. 

All five recordings are first single takes, recorded on worn out tape rolls found here and there. 

All recordings captured with a rusty Phillips portable tape recorder and a contact mic.

Buy Cassette/Vinyl

extract. Carlo Giustini - Il Vicino (Si Muove) | "Manifestazioni" Album | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

Softer Than Before

From 'Slowly Dismantling' on Room40, out on November 1.

With 'Slowly Dismantling,' Los Angeles based artist Yann Novak problematizes understandings of ambience as homogenous and static. 'Slowly Dismantling' deconstructs ambient, pulling it way from the blank and the atmospheric, refusing the perceived luxury of sound within which context is erased. Reflecting on his formative experiences as a queer youth in middle America, he explores the idea of these acoustic and social spaces as zones of liberation within which a spectrum of identity is formed. He creates a series of dense sonic fields that reflect on how the past can be decoded and utilized as a device for contextualizing the future.

Slowly Dismantling

All Things End, Sometimes In Fire

~ IIKKI 014 ~

music : Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall)
photography : Miho Kajioka
album/book : Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come
duration : 40.58 mn (vinyl) 45.10 mn (cd)
date : March 2021

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All music by Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Miho Kajioka
Design by sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 750 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : February 15th, 2021 / official release : March 25th, 2021

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Links :
https://www.leavings.co.uk/
https://www.folkreels.com/
https://www.mihokajioka.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/music

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Observatories - Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come (album preview)

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.

June 09, 2014 (light rain)

12k

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