Im always amazed with how much you can do with so little.

peaceful , beautiful and profound melancholy

live set recorded for room2.fm online show on October 8, 2021. a mix of new and old fav textures (shiny, silky, swishy, fuzzy, hissy) and an ode to the sea, which I miss because my lockdown radius doesn't reach.
Thankyou to Raag Bhatia and Patrick Hase for hosting, designing and curating the room2.fm events.

Room2.fm Live Set

GRFTPS015
Sunbeamer - Cape
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamphttps://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/cape

Cape

A2. Sunbeamer - Sunrise [GRFTPS015]

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 collaboration between Rhucle and I, taken from the album 'With'. Released on ROHS! September 22, 2021. 

https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/with

Original photography by: getoutski 
Record label: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series 
Publisher: ROHS! RECORDS

With

Rhucle - 'Beyond The Light' feat. Moss Covered Technology - [ROHS! Records, 2021]

~ 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)

~ LAAPS 028 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP28]

artist : Ned Milligan
 album : Considerable
duration : 43.49 mn
 date : May 29th, 2023

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

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chimes, singing drum, autoharp, field recordings, processing: Ned Milligan.
campfire recording in "Sky Smokes & Electronics": Jerome Klap.
additional percussion in "Mosey With Me": Rory Milligan.
singing: graciously and anonymously donated.

recorded mostly outdoors, sometimes indoors in York, Maine .

Mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k)
Cover Photograph by Joe Librandi-Cowan
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.nedmilligan.com/
https://nedmilligan.bandcamp.com/

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Ned Milligan - The Path You Took To Existing (excerpt)

Tobira

Roji

for the past couple of months i've been working pretty hard on my new album. i developed a process of composition that works really well to achieve what i'm after.. which is intense repetition without sounding like it.

this here is a quick bounce down of a track in progress far from being finished, mixed, or otherwise "done"... but i thought i'd share.

the tentative title for the new album is "Sti.ll" which echoes the sentiment of its 2002 predecessor but i'm not sure i will so directly reference that album or not.

i hope you enjoy this direction.

march 13, 2015 (a work in progress, new album 2015)

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

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.

march 13, 2015 (a work in progress, new album 2015)

12k

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