In this new release, we welcome a collaboration between David Newman (Autistici) and Erik Schoster (He Can Jog). These artists have released music individually across a range of labels including 12k, KESH, Hibernate, Home Recordings, Audiobulb Records and Distance Recordings. This duo have worked together to form Soft Generator, with their inaugural release featuring artwork by collage artist Tom Tebby.

‘A Carefully Controlled Space’ was crafted with orchestral sounds, analogue and modular synthesisers, computer generated routines, the Pippi Computer System pippi.world and field recordings.
The work centres on the idea of hypnotic rest as a portal to recovery. Referencing the process of Asclepeion 'sleep temples', visited by the citizens of ancient Greece, the album wonders what it would be like to go through the ritual and process in modern times. A Carefully Controlled Space imagines a remedy as it reaches out and offers each listener a chance to reset, heal and escape.
credits
releases July 24, 2021

Soft Generator are:
David Newman (Autistici/Volume Objects) - volume-objects.com
Erik Schoster (He Can Jog) - hecanjog.com

Mastered by Volume Objects

Art and design by Tom Tebby

A Carefully Controlled Space

wlr097 Soft Generator - A Carefully Controlled Space

Fly Butterfly

The track for @NatureTales label compilation Autumn Meditations: https://naturetales.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-meditations

from
the album 
"Performances in the Temple of the Body": https://assemblyofhoney.bandcamp.com/album/performances-in-the-temple-of-the-body

Выступления в Храме Тела / Performances in the Temple of the Body

Intention of Direct Communication [for Autumn Meditations by Nature Tales label]

music for "Tour de Nippon" ITOIGAWA video project.
lovely place, enjoy ;)💓

video: 
https://youtu.be/ERF_M0ah7mU

新潟の最西端に位置する糸魚川市は、宝石箱のような街なのかもしれない。地形的特徴や名所などを地図に書き記してみると、世界に誇れるものがぎゅっと凝縮して存在していることに気づく。ころんと丸い小石を海岸で拾いながら街を眺めれば、その背後を覆うように連なる日本百名山を含む美しい北アルプスの山々までが目に入る。海・街・山が織りなすダイナミックな風景にため息がこぼれる。豊かで厳しい大地、自然とともに強くしなやかに生きる人に心を寄せる旅へ。

Situated on the western tip of Niigata Prefecture, the city of Itoigawa is something of a jewelry box. Scrawling down the topographical traits and famous places on a map, you realize that it is crammed full of world-beating spots. As you pick up the round pebbles on the seashore, a glance over the city reveals the dramatic backdrop of the Northern Alps, including several of Japan’s most celebrated peaks. Time to take a trip into this bucolic yet unforgiving land, where locals agilely coexist with nature.

Na Ka Ji Ma's #2

Shibusa

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The Poem

Crangon

Glåsbird returns following the debut EP ‘Drift Stations’ which was a digital only release on Whitelabrecs just prior to Christmas last year. The eagerly awaited full-length debut album is something that this currently anonymous artist has carefully shaped over a lengthy period of time and it is entitled Grønland. Those looking to the themes of the North Pole and travel through the treacherous Arctic Circle which were contained within Drift Stations, will see a pattern of travel or rather, migration developing. Next stop – Greenland, the world’s largest island as well as one of the most uninhabited landmasses on the planet, which is thanks to stark temperatures and the permanent ice sheet which occupies most of this land.

Glåsbird imagined that they were assigned the task of scoring the soundtrack to a film about Greenland and spent a great deal of time researching the subject. Hours of documentaries, drone helicopter footage, NASA and satellite images, Instagram traveller accounts, 360° photos, web articles and maps were surveyed, to the point where this artist felt sufficiently immersed in this sub-zero but beautiful land. One such traveller/photographer who has physically witnessed the splendour of Greenland is Lennart Pagel, who kindly provided the cover image; the shot not only captures the essence of this country with its iced mountains, freezing lake and primary-coloured cabin but also there is a bold starkness which lends itself to this soundtrack.

Two releases in and whilst we’re no clearer as to who is behind this project, it is clear that Glåsbird is becoming synonymous with storytelling and specifically travel or migration, if you prefer.
The music itself adopts a Modern Classical approach with icy piano shards shimmering alongside glacial violin and cello drones as well as the occasional hint of grounding electric guitar. We’re told that the artist even recorded some sections of sounds to cassette before placing the tape in the freezer to give an added chill factor.

We’ve decided that such an impactful concept would suit a special ‘gatefold LP’ style packaging that we’ve run a couple of times as well as an increased run of 100 copies. Where will the Glåsbird land next?

released February 9, 2019

Written and produced by Glåsbird
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Lennart Pagel
Packaging design by Harry Towell

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Intention of Direct Communication [for Autumn Meditations by Nature Tales label]

Assembly of honey