2016

Started by recording three samples from my little daughter's toy guitar with my iPod. The entire track solely consists of these three samples, though heavily processed. This is just a try-out and needs some mastering.

Untitled 1 (demo)

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Gallery Six + Sound Awakener - Here Comes The Acoustic Season 

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“This album basically consists of beautiful sound materials from Nguyễn Hồng Nhung aka Sound Awakener, based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her special soundscape brought me many inspirations, so I immediately figured out what I have to do. Although both of us have basically been trying to turn our attentions to beauty which inhere in elements of minimalism, consecutiveness, silence, darkness, at the beginning of making this album, in an attempt to share each other's sensibility, we interacted very often, and then, eventually found out the affinity. To combine things we see, hear, touch, taste, smell, feel in our everyday life is just only what we wanted to express in our music. We have confidently concluded that it's a thing we've been looking for. We two artists from Asia are, as it were, AWAKENER with SIX senses.” 

•	Hidekazu Imashige (Gallery Six) 


“I discovered Gallery Six’s music in summer 2014. I really, really love the sound he created as well as his photos so I got in touch with him and we started discussing a bit about the collaboration. I am much inspired by his approach to field recordings and electronic sounds – which is a great reminder of nature. 

In this album I tend to focus on layering soft soundscapes and adding classical music influence – this is the first time I’ve ever done it. 
For me Minimalistic Freedom is an experience for the peace of mind and my usual admiration for nature. It is a strange sweetness through pain – since most of my parts were recorded at one of the hardest times in my life. It is my pleasure to have Gallery Six throughout this musical journey.” 

•	Nhung Nguyen (Sound Awakener)
credits
releases August 30, 2016 

All tracks composed and recorded by Hidekazu Imashige and Nhung Nguyen 

Mixed by Hidekazu Imashige 

Mastering by Mark Kuykendall at Unknown Tone Studios (www.UnknownToneStudio.com) 

Artwork/Photography by Hidekazu Imashige 
Cover image by Mark Kuykendall 
Total play: 40:27

ORDER HERE: https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/here-comes-the-acoustic-season

Here Comes The Acoustic Season

Gallery Six + Sound Awakener - Here Comes The Acoustic Season

Rhucle - Lantern

Try-out of a second track I am currently working on.

Untitled 2 (demo)

THIS SESSION HAS BEEN ISSUED ON TAPE by Tanuki Records : 
https://tanukirecords.bandcamp.com/album/niobium

here is a short excerpt from session41
slight compression & reverb

those who were there that day : 
* Anna : harp
* Arthur : things & electronic things
* Gregory : cigarbox guitar
* Lidya : psalterion
* Sylvain : things & electronic things

E42.A8 - Nul N'y Voulut Entendre

inspired by Erling Kagge's "Silence in the Age of Noise"

uncertain divide

sketch for Brian Young
1973-2018
rest in peace and freedom
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2047394-Brian-Young-8

stillespace (sketch for brian)

Another beautiful track from this wonderful album from strië...to be re-released this month in a double 10" lathe cut package...in an edition of only 40 copies. Originally released by Time Released Sound on CD in 2012.

strië  "õhtul"...     sovn ll

Originally released on 2016. Remastered version.

Written and Produced by Robert Farrugia
Remixes by SineRider and Warmth
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Photography Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
Archives60 // ArchivesCD41
Archives / 2019

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Robert Farrugia - Relentless

track 6 from “On the Sorrow of Firn” by @Hilyard
https://hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-sorrow-of-firn

On the Sorrow of Firn

Hilyard - Inhale the Skyline

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is pleased to welcome back Kamran Sadeghi for his first release on the label since 2008. On BETWEEN US, Sadeghi explores life in quarantine by directing his listening attention towards the element of our homes that is both sheltering us and giving us a glimpse of the outside world—the window.

BETWEEN US was created using field recordings captured with DIY contact microphones attached to the glass window of Sadeghi’s home in Brooklyn. These protective barriers in the buildings we inhabit operate as a filter from the outside elements. Sadeghi describes the impulse of "wanting to hear the sound outside as it was being transformed to what I was hearing inside." Each recording's tonal slips due to the presence of sonic artifacts such as resonance, noise, low rumble, feedback, and cyclical hum (caused, in part, by the microphones' excessive gain) suggests a gauzy, shifting passage of time at a distance.

Between Us

Kamran Sadeghi - Morning

This is a series of sketch-like works that arose out of the need for me to create an atmosphere when working in the studio. A loop would be made then I'd start the prep work for that session. The loop may even inspire the output and work created for that day.

The release is pay what you like and I'd appreciate if you took a moment to go over to Dewtone and check this out.

Many thanks and I really hope you enjoy this small and beautiful release with artwork from photographer Courtney Smith and mastering by Pheek over at audioservices.studio.

Hope you enjoy it.

'Untitled Quiet Loop #5' - Quiet Loops - [Dewtone Recordings, 2020]

The fictitious tour of far-away lands continues, as anonymous artist Glåsbird follows the scratchy, folk-ambience of Norskfjǫrðr with a return to lonely arctic-island sounds. Novaya Zemlya is a Russian-owned island, stretching from just off the mainland between the Kara and Barents seas, with two islands split by the Matochkin Strait.

The Southern island Yuzhny is the home of a few inhabitants whereas the Northern counterpart Severny is pretty much all glacier. The added complication of sea-ice during Arctic winters have made certain parts of this land very difficult to navigate. There are accounts stretching back to the 16th century when explorer Willem Barentsz died on an expedition and his body is rumoured to have been buried on Severny.
Into more recent times, Novaya Zemlya has been a sensitive military area throughout the cold war as well as a nuclear testing site. In 1961 the world's most powerful nuclear weapon was detonated, the 'Tsar Bomba'.

In this album, Glåsbird composes a soundtrack which transcends the years of history, combining themes of explorers and Barentsz's tragic demise, isolation, climate change and polar bears, underpinned by radio broadcasts to give a slightly unsettling undercurrent, hinting back to the cold war. The track Vanya is named after a code name the Russians had for the Tsar Bomba detonation project and this piece sits at the centre of this album, in some of the most dramatic soundtrack work this artist has made to date.

The cover artwork and bonus images within the CD packaging were taken by photographer Uliana Prokhorova, who visited a few locations on the island. As always, this album uses the sounds, photography and track titles to build an imaginary soundtrack in your mind as you listen and immerse yourself in this latest sonic exploration.

Credits:
Written and produced by Glåsbird
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Uliana Prokhorova
Packaging Design by Harry Towell

Novaya Zemlya

wlr080 Glåsbird - Novaya Zemlya

Tracklist

01. Ishmael Cormack - Skywire
02. Hakobune & Pleq - The Beginning
03. Gray Acres -  Touchstones
04. Marcus Fischer - From A Tree
05. Seabuckthorn - It Can Ashen
06. Simon Scott - Nigh
07. Tobias Hellkvist - Vesterhavet 5
08. Porya Hatami - Ewm
09. Bethan Kellough -  Black-East from the Crow
10. Pepo Galán - Growing Seed

202. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

It’s fair to say that the events of the year 2020 will go down as quite a year and may form a large part of the history curriculum for the children of tomorrow. The pandemic is of course just part of the story, against a backdrop of political unrest, climate change and injustice too.

Whitelabrecs was affected with the closure of our local post office, meaning we were unable to ship our CDs. We also felt we had a duty not to hold up a queue of people and decided to stop production of our catalog. During that time, to make sure we still had a label left to return to, we launched the ambitious Home Diaries series. It ran for 3 months and in that relatively short space of time, the series reached 30 releases!

Home Diaries was an invitation to artists and musicians to create an album or EP to document their personal experience during the lockdown or social distancing conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The series reflects a range of sounds, styles and ideas, as each artist portrayed their own reflections uniquely, available as a digital only edition including a bonus interview and photos.
Each of the 30 digital editions in the Home Diaries series is an individual work of art, created to share the varying experiences felt by each artist. 

This compilation album pulls together a track from each record, sequenced in a way that flows as a specially curated environment, over the course of two CDs. We have two versions available as follows:

A standard edition, which is a double-disc gatefold vinyl-effect CDr album, featuring a re-interpretation of the original cover artwork, painted by Adrian Lane.

A deluxe matchbox edition, in which the double-disc gatefold vinyl-effect CDr is housed inside a gold foil-etched box, which also contains a booklet which includes a photo from each artist's home during lockdown. This version serves as a time capsule into the original series; a keepsake which is limited to just 70 copies.

If you opt for the digital version, this also includes the photo booklet as a bonus PDF item. 

credits
releases January 23, 2021

Painting and artwork by Adrian Lane
Booklet images provided by each respective artist
Packaging layout by Harry Towell
Compilation curated by Harry Towell

All tracks mastered by James Edward Armstrong, except:
12 'Out In The Open' Mastered by John Hannon
17 'Distance Learning' Mastered by Michael Southard
29 -'Stanze e Distanze (part 2)' Mastered by Francis M. Gri

The Home Diaries

wlr085 Various Artists - The Home Diaries

taâlem's aim is quite simple : exploring the different sides of ambient music through 3"cd-r's (and more recently through FLAC files).
here's the complete list of the artists featured on taâlem:
.cut - (ad)VANCE(d) - 2kilos &amp;more - a wake a week - aalfang mit pferdekopf - aidan baker - andrea marutti - arc - artificial memory trace - asher - aube - babylone chaos - bad sector - bardoseneticcube - bartosz dziadosz - ben fleury-steiner - botchan karisen - brian lavelle - brume - celer - cendre ogata - chaos as shelter - cheerleader 69 - chihei hatakeyama - christian renou - christopher mcfall - cinema perdu - compest - conscientia peccati - cordell klier - cría cuervos - daniel menche - david tagg - david velez - désaccord majeur - d'incise - dronæment - edward ruchalski - ellende - emanuele becheri - emerge - emmanuel mieville - encomiast - enrico coniglio - fabio orsi - final cut - frédéric nogray - goose - hakobune - hiroki sasajima - hirotaka shirotsubaki - hitoshires - hokuro - horchata - hum - i: wound - IA - ieva - internal fusion - james mcdougall - james p. keeler - james wyness - jannick schou - jeff stonehouse - jérémie mathes - jgrzinich - kar - kissy suzuki - klood - kristian olsson - lecanora - liquid sphere - m.b. - mark bradley - mathias delplanque - mathieu ruhlmann - michael northam - michiru aoyama - mirko uhlig - moljebka pvlse - murmer - nature of dislocation - netherworld - nigel samways - nimh - ninth desert - no xivic - nobuto suda - nullkommajosefh - øe - opium - orphax - philippe lamy - pholde - pietro riparbelli - pleq - pollypraha - ragle gumm - raumerkundung - rhucle - ryosuke miyata - s•core - saito koji - seki takashi - shifts - sil muir - simon whetham - sleepland - spiracle - stillstand - strom noir - summons of shining ruins - tainnos - tarkatak - telepherique - terje paulsen - the imaginary soundscapes - tidal - tomasz mreńca - tomonari nozaki - tone color - toy.bizarre - tzesne - voice of eye - vox populi! - yann novak - yannick dauby - yannick franck - yui onodera

Assembly Field is a label specialising in ambient, experimental and electronic music.

Rhucle - Lantern

Assembly Field

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