From the album Youth available here: https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/youth

Youth

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Pre-Winter Forest 
V.A - United Soundscapes Oriented to Nature [USON03 / USON]

Produced by Hirotaka Shirotsubaki
Mastered by Pobla Studios
Artwork by Marco Aurelio Usón
Released by USON from Madrid, Spain
Release Date : December 17th. 2021

Abstracting the voice of a single creature from a habitat and trying to understand it regardless of its own context is a little like trying to comprehend an elephant by examining only a single hair at the tip of its tail. On the contrary, integrated sounds of nature in a given time and place of an environment have a specific context and meaning. In many regards, it mimics a modern-day orchestra: the voice of each creature has its own frequency, amplitude, timbre, and duration, and occupies a unique niche among the other musicians; the sum of each of these voices gives birth to a biophony. This bio-orchestra or biophony represents a unique sound grouping for a given biome with diverse “bio-vibrations” and an array of messages for the soul; one of them is that sound is discontinuous. If nature “vibrates” sounds, every bio-vibration of the biosphere is a finite and discrete time instant. However, from a “macroscopic” view point, biosounds are, on the other hand, continuous, which results from superimposing one bio-vibration to another and linking them together. The continuity of biosounds is just a matter of integrated global perception, which in many cases is deeply memorized by our central nervous system. The same incredible system that builds consciousness, multimedia memories, creative dreams, as well as our sense of life and love.

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki (Kobe, Japan)
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V.A - United Soundscapes Oriented to Nature

Pre-Winter Forest

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~ 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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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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Harbor

Taylor Deupree - Harbor

~ LAAPS 023 ~ [SEQ.03 - LP23]

artist : Seabuckthorn
 album : Of No Such Place
duration : 39.34 mn
 date : November 04th, 2022

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

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Guitars, field recordings, clarinet, tongue drum, cymbals, effects and mixing by Andy Cartwright.
Double bass on 1,2,3,5,6 by Phil Cassel.
Recorded at home between March and April 2022 in Veynes, France.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photo taken by Andy Cartwright in Le Dévoluy in Oct 2021.
 Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/
https://seabuckthorn-music.com/

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Seabuckthorn - Hand In The Upward Sky

~ 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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https://lemasterklass.com/klavdij-sluban/
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Observatories - Our Recently Acquired Knowledge

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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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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Bill Seaman / Tim Diagram / Stephen Spera - Velta

i came up with this short piece today and it struck me as the sound i may have been looking for for a proposal to an offer from a friend's label for a release. the idea is to make something that sounds like something i do.. but to take it in a dirtier direction....

i quite like this. it's pretty, yet ugly. sloppy, yet relaxing.

march 16, 2015 (a brief proposal)

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

To Which The Rest Were Dreamt

happy to announce the start for pre-order GRFTPS002
@gallery-six - The Waves Wiped Memories Away

http://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-waves-wiped-memories-away

limited edition cassette / digital now on bandcamp

video for "Sentiment" here - https://youtu.be/6mf4iBzcFIc

--
七月の波はすべてを拭い去った
あの日の喜びも悲しみも
僕はただそれを見ていた
二度と戻らないその思い出を
夜が明けるまで
あの波打ち際で

The waves of July wiped away everything
The joy and sorrow of that day too
I merely watched memories that will never get back
At the edge of water until dawn
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-- Hidekazu Imashige

The Waves Wiped Memories Away

A1. Gallery Six - Sentiment (GRFTPS002)

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 16, 2015 (a brief proposal)

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