From my new one out next week! (July 29).

dawn, always new, often superb, inaugurates the return of the everyday

overlooking the gardens, rhythms blur - from Dawn, always new, often superb...

"Seven Stones" is based on field recordings made in several different places in Japan.
Recorded sounds merged with digital and analog synths, bringing out the musician’s perception of these sound spots, starting from the recordings and spiraling them into seven tracks.
Akin to the dry landscape of a Japanese rock garden, each of the album's tracks, although is a piece in its own right, take part in a multiform story.
Hence the name “Seven stones”.


Arts by Pietro Michi
Mastered by Pietro Michi
Biodiversità Records

05 Garden Voices

Session #01
Lukas De Clerck (aulos)
Victor Guaita (viola)
Andrés Navarro (bass drum)

Chapelle de Boondael (Brussels)
14.01.22

Lukas De Clerk , Victor Guaita , Andrés Navarro's session

Rie Nakajima/Takahiro Kawaguchi, Utsuho

Scanner The Homeland of Electricity DiN72

Release date 17th June 2022
Limited to 500 copies Digipak CD

The second album for the DiN imprint by British Electronic Musician Scanner sees Rimbaud utilising a different toolset from his first album, An Ascent (DiN63), released in July 2020. Here he focuses in on several Elektron instruments such as the Analog Four, Analog Rhythm and Digitakt. Whilst his debut album was forged live in his studio during the start of the global pandemic here Rimbaud was after a lighter, more optimistic tone.

Rather prophetically Rimbaud states that this album was indebted to the work of the Ukranian film maker Laris Shepitko. Indeed the title of the sixth track “Artemovsk” references the birth place of Shepitko. Furthermore the title of the album, “The Homeland of Electricity”, is taken from her 1968 film which was commissioned by the government to celebrate the October Revolution’s 50th anniversary, but was rejected by the authorities for not being patriotic enough.

At times the music has a sense of blissful calm such as the opener “You and Me” with layers of texture slowly rising & falling to unveil hidden depths to the soundscape. Rimbaud’s love of the human voice as a musical element can be heard in the tracks “Another Aircraft”, “Artemovsk” and “At last it moves into silence” albeit with very different sonic outcomes. Fluctuating between darker elements displayed in such tracks as “Air in the Air” and “Beginning of an Unknown Century” in the end the album reveals a sense of hope which is no more apparent in the joyous simplicity of “Acentria”.

As Rimbaud puts it “this album feels like a sound polaroid of this exact moment in time, capturing our times in atmospheric sound works, where light will be found again, even in the midst of struggle”.


01 You and Me   05:58
02 Air in the Air   05:10
03 Another Aircraft   05:29
04 Grain, Letting Go   05:02
05 Beginning of an Unknown Century   05:33
06 Artemovsk   05:32
07 At last it moves into silence   03:47
08 Heaven Research Unlimited   04:08
09 Acentria   04:55
10 Traces upon Traces   04:19

Total Time :  50:11

The Homeland Of Electricity

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The Homeland Of Electricity by Scanner (DiN72) Demo Mix

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What if the secret life of the machines that surround me every day grew suddenly louder, the way a part of the body cries out for attention whenever pain arises? I began to walk through my new and apparently post-pandemic city, where the quiet streets hummed again, and even the air seemed cut with a new intensity and purpose. This track begins with a late night calling, an uneven pulse, that summons a world of ticking gears and levers, underpinned with dark drones and stretched choral verses, as if despair was the necessary beginning of every joy.

Back In The Streets

Raw sonic explorations of the tools I am designing at INA grm. No external input, no post-processing, live capture with minor editing. 

This week, when time becomes malleable matter.

GRM Development Diary 4

this is a very similar patch as Untitled VI, except that now there are three voices instead of one: SMR, piston honda (which is also in the rosie efx loop from time to time, which is a bad habit/crutch that i lean on way too often) and e350. SMR is droning and fluttering into clouds, while the piston honda and e350 are both hitting an optomix before going into rings for some reverb. there is also a field recording churning in the background inside the disting, which i am randomly and manually controlling the playback speed on. 

i could listen to this for hours (and did)

Lukas De Clerk , Victor Guaita , Andrés Navarro's session

Andrés Navarro

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