Uue ajastu guru

Avastaja (feat. Argo Vals)

Live improvisation on the beautiful Vilsandi Island!

Live @ Vilsandi Trance 2023

buy the tape at https://juliabloop.bandcamp.com/album/bllop

like a vanished day

Space Beach - Black Hole SPA

Re-mastered and issued by Incidental Music on vinyl for the first time ever. Ambienti Coassiali's Vol. 1 is a missing link in the world of 1980's Italian electronic music. A parallel project of Capricorni Pneumatici, Vol. 1 was conceived in and around Milan in the late '80s and released only on an incredibly limited cassette. Recorded solely with a Yamaha DX7 and two track Revox A77 tape machine, Vol. 1 is composed of 6 "rooms" (stanze), each their own world of meditative & ethereal FM synthesis. 
Vol. 1 also features collaborative contributions by Riccardo Sinigaglia.

Ambienti Coassiali - Room 5

First track from the new Jon Hassell album 'Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)' - Out now:
http://smarturl.it/listeningtopictures

pen·ti·men·to / noun
Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.

Forty years since its creation, Jon Hassell's Fourth World aesthetic remains a powerful influence on modern electronic music. Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing, fragments of performance are sampled, looped, overdubbed and re-arranged into beguiling unexpected shapes. Hassell applies the painterly technique of ‘pentimento’ to the arrangements, teasing out texture by the overlaying of sound upon sound, or a carefully timed reveal of the delicate bones pinning the frame of a track together.

The release of this new album also sees the launch of Jon’s own label, Ndeya (pronounced “in-day-ya”), which will be a home for new work as well as well as selected archival releases, including re-presses of classic sides and some astonishing unreleased music.

FURTHER READING ON JON HASSELL:

Fourth World in the 21st century: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2984
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/09/jazz.urban
https://www.jonhassell.com/

Jon Hassell - Dreaming

Peolt Minema

Makoto Inoue and Yasushi Yamashita's Inoyama Land project spans nearly four decades, still active to this day. A portmanteau of their family names, the “Land” of Inoyama hovers between imagined mythical space and concrete reality, extending beyond physical releases into installations, site-specific sound design and theatre scores. After their famed Haruomi Hosono-produced 1983 release Danzindan-Pojidon, the duo became involved in the budding environmental music business that was taking shape in Tokyo during the development boom of the asset bubble - working directly with figures like Hiroshi Yoshimura (with whom they developed sound design for the International Stadium in Yokohama) and Takashi Sekiguchi (Bamboo from Asia). This collection expands upon their sound heard on Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (LITA 167) to illuminate material that is even lesser known outside of Japan - some of it presented publicly for the first time.

Working initially with Munetaka Tanaka's Sound Process Design (an acoustic consulting company formed by Tanaka with Satoshi Ashikawa, before Ashikawa's tragic death in 1983), their commissioned work mirrors the sound world first fleshed out on Danzindan: chiming synthesizers, pastoral hues, childhood memory – all pulsing with a distant, emotional resonance. This material – culled from limited CD issues of the material on Tanaka's Crescent label, Kazunao Nagata's Transonic Records and self-released CDRs – presents a window into this process, illustrating how Inoue and Yamashita's idiosyncratic musical identity gelled perfectly with all of the disparate environments of their commissions. Included is music written for the Kankaku (Sense) Museum in Miyagi, an exhibit on slime molds at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno park, the 1977 stage performance Collecting Net (which also included music that would later become Danzindan-Pojidon) and their score for a Tokyo re-staging of New York avant-theatre pioneer Richard Foreman's post-modern stage piece Egyptology.

Available exclusively via Light in the Attic: https://lita.fanlink.to/InoyamaLand

International Press Contact: Gamall / Backspin Promotions - g@backspinpromo.com

Commissions: 1977-2000 (Music for Slime Molds, Sensory Museum and Egyptology)

Inoyama Land - "Hair Air" (Commissions: 1977-2000)

From the album "Tea Notes". All music by Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren. Recorded january to march 2018 in Antwerpen and London. Mixed and edited by David Edren at ll150. Mastered & cut by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin.  Artwork by Victor Robyn. Vinyl + digital release on Ekster: 12th of September 2019: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/tea-notes

Tea Notes

Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren: "Shincha"

Based in Ö Stuudio. Member of dreampop group Pia Fraus. Collabs with Meisterjaan and Pastacas.

for home visit inquires: aigar.vals[at]gmail.com

solo releases:
Miisufy (2024, EP)
Uue ajastu guru (2022, album)
Leek (2022, single)
Imperaator (2020, album)
End Game Remixes (2019, single)
End Game (2018, album)

collaborations:
Meisterjaan feat. Kadri Voorand - Eilne kuu (2024, single)
Meisterjaan - Liiga valmis (2024, single)
midnight may - Erase (2024, album)
Meisterjaan - Kalurmees (2024, EP)
Pastacas & Aigar Vals - Siiri ärilapp (2023, single)
Argo Vals – In Loving Memory of (2020, album)
Eoins – Rites (2018, album)

bands:
Pia Fraus - Across the Street (2025, single)
Badass Yuki – OPEN YOUR EYES TO THE LANDMASS (2014, album)
Badass Yuki – Cherry Tree Bonanza (2012, single)
Badass Yuki – Black Apple Trip (2011, album)

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