Name: astrid by anthéne
Duration: 7 min 28 s
Description: from "astrid" released Jan 2018 on Assembly Field

Absolutely love this - music of the clouds!

We’re pleased to welcome back Toronto, Canada’s anthéne in the form of this collaborative album with UK cellist and composer Simon McCorry. Between them, they have released solo recordings on labels such as Home Normal, Archives, Past Inside The Present, Naviar and Fallen Moon. They’ve also both released on Polar Seas, a label helmed by Brad Deschamps, the man behind anthéne.

Both artists are comfortable collaborators, having worked alongside the likes of Ian Hawgood, Andrew Tasselmyer and Andrew Heath. It was in 2020 when their remote recording sessions translated into The Equation Of Time, combining and processing Brad’s guitar and Simon’s cello into a collage of droning textures. A concept sprang from their work together, during the unfolding pandemic and its resulting lockdowns, where time itself seemed to stand still, go backwards and go forwards, all at once. Add to this the the sheer geographical distance and time zones separating these artists, the often-explored artistic muse of time and space became the central theme.

The title ‘The Equation Of Time’ relates to the differences between the day of the earliest sun rise, the day of the latest sunset, the longest day. Each of these days are different, noted by the ancient Greeks and the Persians before them. The enormity of time and the ability for humans to occupy the same space as multiple predecessors is particularly fascinating when faced with something ancient, such as a cave painting, a forest or the ruins of a fallen civilisation. The track titles are aptly borrowed from parts of T.S. Eliot’s 4 Quartets, which also deals with the contemplation of time. You can surmise from these poems that ideally, one would focus only on the present, in order to make the most of each turn of the clock; the past cannot be altered and the future is unknown. Our memory can subconsciously serve us back our own recollection of past times, which can result in nostalgia, melancholy or both. Our minds can also influence our perception of the future, with feelings of either fear, excitement or both.

The Equation Of Time grapples at these themes and ideas without the intention of ever truly being able to define time. A wash of faded memories, unknowns and current thoughts stir into one-another; ambient music itself always seems so able to reflect and evoke a sense of wonder, at things far bigger than we can ever comprehend. 

Releases May 22, 2021

Written and Produced by Brad Deschamps and Simon McCorry
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Tom Tebby
Packaging design by Tom Tebby

The Equation Of Time

wlr093 anthéne & simon mccorry - the equation of time

Written and Produced by Ian Hawgood & Brad Deschamps
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
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Rosales - Nest

from "astrid" released Jan 2018 on Assembly Field

astrid

Off Land
Quiet Earth
PYR-006
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Limited tape/digital
https://pyramidblood.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-earth
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A1 - Euclase
A2 - Nepheline
A3 - Amethyst
A4 - Osmium
A5 - Spinel
A6 - Aegirine
B1 - Xenotime
B2 - Zircon
B3 - Galaxite
B4 - Galena
B5 - Larimar

Off Land has created a truly lush and vibrant dream world for us to explore. Quiet Earth is an expansive ambient reimagining of last year’s On Earth album. A truly beautiful journey for the mind and soul, Quiet Earth will untether your dreams and sweep you away with its breathtaking vistas.


Music and cover art by Tim Dwyer 
Released February 19, 2018

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https://offland.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/offland-1
https://offlandia.tumblr.com

Off Land - Larimar

Postcard 38 comes from Mind over MIDI aka Helge Tommervag. Based in deepest and darkest Norway, Helge has been working with electronic music since the beginning of the 80's and over the years has graced many labels including Beatservice, Silent Season, Beserk Fabric and diametric. On his postcard EP for us at hibernate, Helge pays tribute to his natural surroundings where strong, chilly winds blow and die down to allow gorgeous atmospheric material to shine through.

A limited edition of 60 hand-numbered 3" CDr collectible copies. Available from hibernate-recs.uk

Mind over MIDI /  Tussmørke (Snippets)

Unmastered off-the-cuff kind of thing ; rangled & wrecorded 3 July 18 at LBS
Polaroid SX70 photo from Glacier NP, 6 June 18

Red air. is altar unlevel

Ekin Fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on Maps. For many years now, this Istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an introspective torpor. With each successive album, her songwriting has blossomed through broader instrumentation and more intricate melodic phrasing, though the somber atmospherics and ghostly manifestations remain a judicious constant. Minor-key, tear-stained notes of piano, organ, and guitar veer along elliptical orbits as a soft-whisper lilt of Ekin’s voice narrates more by emotive decree than by literary couplet. 

Maps addresses the distance and dislocation of the self from the bustling center of Istanbul, where Ekin FIl (neé Ekin Üzeltüzenci) had once called her home. Having spent her first winter on a relatively quiet island in the Sea of Marmara (while still in the greater metropolitan umbrella of Istanbul), Maps  is “lonely, different, kind of isolated,” according to Ekin, who also noted that the island had “too much silence around. There is no other choice but to concentrate, I guess.” Her poetics of silence on her previous recordings had been noted as an antidote or a dream capsule of sound in response to Istanbul’s cauldron of politics, culture, and philosophy that has been boiling almost since the beginning of civilization. Maps bends that maritime silence into wind-swept smudges that complement her already spacious compositions.  

The saddest songs of The Durutti Column excised of rhythm and those few plunges into sorrow by Harold Budd make for apt comparisons to Maps, in addition to the drone-on classics of Grouper, Slowdive, and Sarah Davachi.

Maps

Ekin Fil // Nocturnal Arc

Salaam for Yemen, compiled by hibernate and dronarivm. 100% of profits raised from this album will be donated to the charity War Child. Children and young people have the right to grow up free from fear and violence, to develop to their full potential and contribute to a peaceful future – for themselves and for their communities.

With The Green Kingdom, Isan, Hannu Karjalainen, Dalot, Olan Mill, Birds of Passage, øjeRum, Giulio Aldinucci, Phillip Bückle, Isnaj Dui, Sven Laux & Daniela Orvin, Hotel Neon, Anne Garner, Ekoplekz, Snow Palms, Maiya Hershey, Mind Over Midi, Aaron Martin, offthesky, Anjou, Anthéne, Olga Wojciechowska. Moss Covered Technology, Somni451, Pausal and Part Timer with Heidi Elva.

Artwork by Malcolm English
Released December 2018 / thank you for your support
Cat. hb67 / DR-56

Salaam for Yemen (Snippets)

2 hours with upcoming music from Shimmering Moods Records.........

Bára - Wavicles
Pjs - In between
S Oliwa - Soma
Ten Atmospheres - Windy Day
An On Bast - Forking Paths
Chimess - Dongchuan-Breathing
Andrew Sherwell - Without 01 v3
Giuseppe Falivene - Echo, diffusion III
Jurko Haltuu - Void 3
T Gowdy - Sea Etch
anthéne - the sun is up, my eyes are open
Darren Harper - Wooded
James A. McDermid - Pines, A line
Chimess - Apart
Line Spectrum - Dislocation
W.E._aa - ⠉⠜⠑⠰⠇⠇⠽（澄マス）
Beachers - Inertia
Cerrus - Outside
Robert Heel - Stream Of Frost
Alex Retsis - Epigeal Gemination 
The Zoo Child - Maak

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

Shimmering Moods

Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #30

Pre-order date: 17th November 2020
Release date: 27th November 2020
Format: CD, Digital

Still Harbours is a project by Bradley Deschamps (Anthéne) and Jamie Jones (Fossil Hunting Collective).

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previews. Still Harbours - Armature (Album) | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

recordings by bradley sean alexander deschamps.

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