~ LAAPS 013 ~ [SEQ.02 - LP13]

artist : Sonmi451
album : Seven Signals In The Sky
durations : 39.10 mn (Vinyl) / 56.07 mn (CD)
 date : July 29th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / yellow colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : July 12th, 2021 / official release : July 29th, 2021
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All tracks written & produced by Bernard Zwijzen/Sonmi451. 

Equipment : Moog Mother 32, Elektron Octatrack, Instruo Arbhar, Make Noise Morphagene, Happy Nerding FX Aid. Plugins by Applied Acoustics, Native Instruments, Arturia and U-He. Additional production, sequencing and mixing in Ableton Live.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Artwork by Stéphane Mahé
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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"Bernard likes to thank Mathias for his wonderful work on the LAAPS project and for the opportunity to participate. Thanks also to friends & places for inspiration"

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://sonmi451.bandcamp.com/

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Seven Signals In The Sky

Sonmi451 - Beautifully Dovetailed

With this latest edition to the Whitelabrecs discography, we welcome back composer Sven Laux with a collaboration with fellow Berliner and musician Fione. This record began from a chance meeting at a party after Fione had discussed her improvisational piano performances and how it might lend itself to Sven’s orchestral Ambient music. After over a year, Fione recorded a track and sent it to Sven, who added layers of additional texture and detail; enough to be a catalyst from which they produced an album.

Each original piano composition was adapted one by one, piece by piece, into its magical whole. Fione tells us that for her, the music was always about what could have been, a sort of pain that we feel inside of us that we know we can’t change, because it is impossible to turn back time. Instead, we live with what we know we have to deal with, facing every day with the uncertainty that something might change in a minute, an hour or, tomorrow. From here, Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different’s concept can be gleaned as we contemplate the past, present and future and it can be interpreted differently by the listener.

Quiet moments of reflection weave a pensive environment in which you can either concentrate your thoughts, or allow them to evaporate. The music feels at times as if it is containing and conserving its energy, only for swells of strings and fleeting crescendos to release the tension. It’s a release which reveals either negative, or positive energy, depending on its listener. The artwork from painter Maliana Wang reflects the album’s themes by offering what appears to be storm clouds or crashing waves.

We all see the future in different ways. Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different doesn’t tell you what will change, that things will get better, or worse. The clouds may thicken, or they may disappear.

Credits
Written and Produced by Sven Laux and Fiona Mortimer
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Painting by Maliana Wang
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different

wlr117 Sven Laux & Fione - Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different

Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida
Taken from the forthcoming album "Room tones"

PRE ORDER:
Room tones
by Jet Jaguar

CD/Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/room-tones

In sound work for films and so on, recording a "room tone" is where you record the space where the action is going to happen, but while nothing is happening. I don't have any personal experience in that world, but I feel like I'm forever interested in music where not much is happening, so 'Room Tones' made me laugh - a collection of recordings that are barely there but still serve a point? I mean, I'm not Steve Roden or anything, but the name clicked. I'm usually looking for double-meanings in an album name and it hardly needs to be said at this point that any music made in the last few years is probably in some way about being tucked away indoors. So tones made in rooms, made for rooms? Sure. 



When I was writing about my last album on Shimmering Moods, 'Recording', I compared music-making to a diary. Two and a half years later, I still really strongly feel that same sense. I don't write with a project or release in mind, usually - if anything I've been working hard on not being too bound by what I've already done - but it still all comes from me and I typically select things for coherence. That seems like something I expect from a diary. Perhaps where the metaphor falls down is that a diary is chronological, while with 'Room Tones' I'm pulling together finished bits and pieces I feel work together. It was 2007 when I made the recording that gives 'Ōokayama Cats At Night' its name, sitting on the back porch of my apartment, waiting for the washing to finish. In contrast, I made 'Tonal Drift' as soon as I recorded the korimako that showed up to make some noise in the garden at my current place. And while most of this music was completed around the same time, one track is maybe five years older than the others. 


As always, thanks to all who listened or supported me in other ways, especially Amanda, Adrien, Tim, Shanan, Jenny, Andy, Stuart, and all my family. Times being as they have been, thanks to little online communities like the Disquiet Junto, AEMC, and lines. 

Limited to 60 CD's, handmade covers, various colors available, hand numbered:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/room-tones

Releases July 1, 2022 

Written and recorded by Michael Upton 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Photo's by Michael Upton 

Shimmering Moods Records 2022 
SHM 219

Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida

a few soundscapes i've made with Luftrum's wonderful kontakt instrument Bioscape. i used customized samples: field recordings and synthesized sounds to create these immersive and surreal sound landscapes. https://www.luftrum.com/bioscape/

Bioscape Arovane Soundscapes

Sustain Series returns for its third iteration, bringing together ever-more artists for another showcase of recycled music. Reworks and newfound collaborations make up this 27-piece album, demonstrating what can be achieved with ‘one’s trash and another’s treasure’.

 https://bit.ly/amb-sustain3

All Bandcamp proceeds of this album are to be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects, to help continue their work sustaining important local environments, and providing jobs to those that restore and maintain them.

James Bernard - Growth (Off Land Recycle)

Pre-order: 12th April 2023
Release date: 21th April 2023
Format: CD, Digital

This new release for Lontano Series is influenced by forest landscapes, in my mind these tracks are part of an imaginary soundtrack that accompanies me when I walk through the trees.

Copyright © 2023 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

previews. David Cordero - Among Pale Trees | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

Cascade Infinity is a work for Gezhung and Electronics . It was composed by Jo Thomas. Played live in Pontio by Luxi Tain on the 18.2.24

Cascade Infinity Jo Thomas Show Reel Extracts

https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/chapter

Hydrangea1.0+1.1 (Released 2011)

Simple experiments geared towards performance, these pieces were recorded using Monome mlr & Grid, Organelle/Orac, Montreal Assembly CT5, Chase Bliss Audio Mood, and Mutable Instruments' Rings & Clouds.

I hope you'll enjoy!!

Performed/Recorded by D.Harper 6/2020

Mastered by Porya Hatami
http://poryahatami.com/

Poppy botanical by Walter Müller, 1910

Root

This track is taken from the forthcoming album "Midnight Visions"

CD/Cassette/Digital

Releases 24.9.2020
Pre orders: shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Midnight Visions maps the realms of our reality and transforms it into something beyond. When light and energy meet... painting images of landscapes and animals from this world and the worlds of our dreams.

Written and produced by Anthony Asher - Yates
Mastered by Seth Bellow

CD
Limited Edition CD / 75 copies / Hand Numbered / Hand Made Packages / Brown Kraft Wallets / Professional duplicated cdr

(Includes unlimited streaming of Cloud Dreaming And Shadows via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more)

Cassette
Limited Edition / 20 copies / Full color o-cards / Pro Dubbed / Dark Green Transparant Cassettes / C71

(Includes unlimited streaming of Cloud Dreaming And Shadows via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more)

El Peñon (Shimmering Moods Records)

track 6 from “Hyogo” by Hirotaka Shirotsubaki (@infection)

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/hyogo

Hyogo

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Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Monguchi

Bålsam is a visual & sound artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

His journeys have brought him all over South America, where he began listening and recording the voice of nature through walks in the mountains. This became the raw material to transform his music. Now he lives in the mountains of Colombia with his partner Nina Nativa, where they work with ceremonies, therapy, rituals and plant medicines. Choosing this healing path for himself, has allowed him to open his heart, cleanse his body overcome fears and believe in his creation as a healing vibration.

Co-founder of soundcloud.com/atlantearecords

El Peñon (Shimmering Moods Records)

Bålsam

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