Release date: 28/05/21

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

180g vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Another uncovering arrives from Astral Industries by the name of The Humble Bee. The alias of industrious, multi-talented UK artist Craig Tattersall, The Humble Bee’s ‘A Miscellany For the Quiet Hours’ was the inaugural release on Tattersall’s now discontinued Cotton Goods imprint. This beautifully intimate work resurfaces after more than a decade since its initial release, now available on vinyl for the first time.

Constructed entirely of tape loops, fragile tapestries of forgotten artefacts canter with teetering rhythmic pulses. Melodic counterpoints drift in soft bucolic reverie, as hazy recollections of undefined pasts seep out in blurs of nostalgic colour. The album is imbued with a close tactile quality, lovingly crafted as a result of both manned and unmanned decay experiments. Undeniably tender yet wilfully introspective, something speaks immediately of those magic sonic moments, illuminated by the quiver of late night candlelight.

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B5. Faithful Friend

Release date: 19/11/21

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

3x12" 180g vinyl//flyer included//LF58 sticker included//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Following the arrival of their debut album ‘Alterazione’, LF58 (F.Scorcucchi and G.Tillieci) are back on Astral Industries with a special trove of outer-space explorations. Recorded one evening back in April 2019 as a live performance at Rome’s Brancaleone, the eponymously titled album offers a sprawling journey across the pan-dimensional ether. Spread across six sides of vinyl, the performance includes fully improvised material as well as choice selections from Simone Giudice, Jonas Kopp, Nuel, Birds of Prey, Rapoon, Steve Roach and Adham Shaikh. There is no doubt that the unique energy and circumstances of the evening contribute to a certain atmosphere present in the music.

With seemingly no beginning nor end, the session emerges in suspension; an electric ocean of infinite deepness. Gleaming across the patter of galaxies on a wide black backdrop, its myriad vistas are projected like transitioning scenes of an unending story. The gentle tide brings with it specks of cosmic debris and mysterious signals. Soon, quiet drones are overtaken by ripples of solar flare and percussive clamours. Forms melt like liquid, a ball of amorphous plasma pulsating with ecstatic radiance. Prying open universe within universe, ‘Live at Brancaleone’ has a vastness that cannot really be contained.

Side B

Release date: 22/04/22

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

2x12” 180g gatefold vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//leaflet included//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Son of Chi returns to Astral Industries, alongside Spanish artist Clara Brea, for the collaborative release of AI-29. A product of fate, chance experiments, but most of all, sensitive artistry - ’The Wetland Remixes’ exists as a confluence of two kindred musical spirits, a wayfaring epic that draws together a rich archive of ecological field recordings, live instrumentation and higher inspirations. 

Ahead of Hanyo’s concert at ‘Avalovara listening club’ (Madrid) at the end of 2019, the curators (Diskoan & Josephine’ Soundscapes) organised a special dinner and arranged the meeting of Clara and Hanyo. As Hanyo recalls, “It was like stereochemistry. There was an instant match and understanding, and basically we decided in a split second to exchange recordings and to collaborate on future live and studio experiments.”  

The auspicious meeting of the two ignited a remote exchange of materials and ideas, as the world descended into a series of pandemic-related lockdowns. The first of said recordings included the stems of Clara’s ‘Wetland Project’ - a site-specific audiovisual project originally produced for Eufonic Festival (Spain), using field recordings from the Ebro Delta nature reserve (one of the most threatened regions of climate change on the Iberian peninsula). 

From this initial impetus, Hanyo began working on the first sketches of the album back in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Just like their meeting in Madrid, the project developed naturally and spontaneously with extraordinary ease. Later, Hanyo started adding field recordings from the Magic Cave and Wetlands of the ‘Kallikatsou’ (Patmos, Greece) as well as organic and acoustic overdubs, featuring bass, drums, percussion, guitars, oud, piano, hammond organ, wurlitzer, flutes, bells, and mouth harp. 

In the distance, the sound of birds peak through the effervescent wash of the wetland soundscapes. The pass of running water flows deeper into a land full of secrets never told. On the strike of dusk, the silhouettes of shapely trunks and foliage melt slowly into the impenetrable darkness. As darkness passes, light emerges, with exquisite moments of tranquility that seemingly emerge from nothingness.  

Beneath the shimmering veneer of textures, wildlife and melodies, one may hear the deeper references of ’The Wetland Remixes’. With credit to Clara’s input, for Hanyo the album process became a kind of refuge, and ultimately inspired the return to the core of Abstract Sound - what the Sufis call “Saut-i Sarmad.” Such references allude to the spiritual quality embedded in the music - the autonomous process of self-expression, the great mystery. Hanyo: “An ambience like this cannot be created by routine. There is no blueprint. The music has to find you. It’s like a blessing if it happens. You should not interfere, just observe and be impressed...” 

Deep, luscious mind trips as per the classic Chi sound, ‘The Wetland Remixes’ beautifully correlates the interconnecting dots of geography, ecology, and mythology’s forgotten lore.

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Side C

Downwards

I’m not okay

© WOZPROD Collective, 2025, All Rights Reserved

Credits:
Music: Jan Janicki
Visuals: Jan Janicki

Hope

Happy new year!!! This is the very first Ambient Sessions podcast of 2017!

Welcome to the 28th chapter. This first session in 2017 is mixed by Michiro Sotomura from Japan. 

Bio:

Michihiro’s from Morioka city in Iwate and now living Uenohara city in Yamanashi. Active as a DJ since 1996 in Morioka. As the organizer of 'aquart', his themes center around transformation of heart and body led by sound. His mixing style known as simple yet smooth, using subtle Ambient / Electronica / Downtempo / Techno sound sources, pulsating each note.In 2009, Michihiro graduated from the YogaJaya International Teacher Training at the YJA300 level, And he had taught Hatha Yoga at YogaJaya for six years from 2009 to 2015. And also he have teaching experience more than 1000 hours and he is now a Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 200E-RYT and YACEP with the Yoga Alliance,and now he organizes "un." that aims the life to connect and harmonize the nature and the human.


Tracklist:

01. Eternell - Alcyone (Meditation)
02. echospace plays michael mantra - sea shell city (morning)
03. Alva Noto - Xerrox Spark
04. Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Vortex
05. Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Matrix
06. Arovane - III_I
07. Claudio PRC - Part III
08. Neel - Life on Laputa Regio
09. Alva Noto - Verrox Solphaer
10. echospace plays michael mantra - sea shell city (afternoon)
11. Donacha Costello - Ensō

Links:

https://beta.mixcloud.com/michihiro-sotomura8/

https://un-life.jimdo.com

Ambient Sessions # 28 - Michihiro Sotomura

Stationary Travels is a blog based in Richmond, Virginia that has been actively discovering, curating, and sharing immersive and transportive music from all over the world since 2013. The scope of coverage embraces a variety of predominantly instrumental genres such as experimental ambient, drone, field recording, modern composition, post rock, emotional electronica, electro-acoustic, and original soundtrack. From album reviews, song premieres, and interviews to playlists and mixes, the focus is on taking memorable journeys in music and sound and supporting the artist & labels that make it possible.

https://soundcloud.com/stationary_travels
https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/

Tracklist

00:00 Ian Hawgood - Loneliness/Whispers (from Impermanence on Slowcraft Records)
07:55 Windy & Carl - Forest Trails (from Pure Sounds of Michigan on Assemble Sound)
13:40 The Volume Settings Folder - Adequately Sized Heat Plate Exchangers (from Hothocleana on Oscarson)
19:44 Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea - passé tranquille (from Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea on Past Inside the Present)
25:40 Andrew Tasselmyer - Affordances (from Surface Textures on Eilean Rec.)
30:25 Pepo Galán - How Not To Disappear (from How Not to Disappear Completely on Lontano Series)
37:15 Black Brunswicker - Bohemian Paradise (from In the Age of Aristocracy on Stereoscenic Records)  
42:05 Adzuki - Snow of Sugar (from Undeveloped Land on Shimmering Moods)
45:42 Darren Harper - Wooded (from Paths on Shimmering Moods)
56:12 M. Grig - Form (from Mount Carmel on 12k)
60:30 Jens Pauly - Vihne (from Vihne on Whitelabrecs)
65:29 Josh Mason - Untitled (for Amy) (from Conduit on ScissorTail Records)

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 023 - Stationary Travels

1. Champignonsdesbois - Indonesia Muezzin (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
2. Fa.R - segment heaps ((forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
3. Music For Sleep - Infinite Tape Loops: In Fear And Trembling(forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
4. Havenaire - Channeling (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
5. HAND - Song For The Melloncollie part two (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
6. Biuddha - Pausa Intermedia (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
7. Sqrtsigil - Matchhead (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
8. Havenaire - Beta (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
9. Moss Covered Technology - Against Yourself (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
10. Mind over MIDI - Night Owl (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
11. Gallery Six - Bewitched (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
12. Anders Wasserfall - Birdland (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
13. Balsam - Something Between The Butterflies (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
14. anthéne - enough (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)

Shimmering Moods

Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 27.1.2020

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2020.10.02.html

@nobuka...
Roberto Carlos Lange - Cloud Wow 002
Leon Vynehall - Julia (Footnote IV)
Ryuichi Sakamoto & lenzan kudo - Jiko
nobuka - Atrophic
Mica Levi - Delete Beach (Japanese)
Suutoo - ABLAZE / Frojd
Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek - Close To Dark
Helm - Leave Them All Behind
Ahnnu - Scaling
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Duoon
David Bowie & NIN - I'm Afraid Of Americans (V4)
Helm - Toxic Racecourse
Klara Lewis - Muezzin
Rrose - Undergrowth
H.Takahashi - Lost
Machinefabriek - Dauw

@false-ind...
TMUX - State of Exception (forthcoming on False Industries)
Yair Etziony - It's A Grave Yard (Unrl.)
Yair Etziony - Hestia (False Industries)
Faction - Empty Beacon (False Industries)
Terence Makenna - Ayahuasca
TMUX - Hands Disinfect (Shackleton Remix) (Forthcoming on False Industries)
TMUX - Umlet (T.U. Remix) (Forthcoming on False Industries)
Yair Etziony - Deliverance (False Industries)
Yair Etziony - Job Interviews (Unrl.)
Yair Etziony - Commonplace (Seasides on Postcards)

m50...
Cinchel : An Unstable Ending : An Unstable Ending : Cinchel
The Durutti Column with Caoilfhionn Rose : Free from All the Chaos : Free From All The Chaos : Durutti
Seltene Erden : Pavis Schema : Scorched : Youth
Healing Force Project : Cloning : Sideral Escape : Amenthia

@TMUX...
The Invadarz - You Bring Me
LSB - Mist Of You (Soul:r)
Navigator Serum & Uncle22 - Choose one (Pieces)
Marcus Intalex - Step Forward (soul:r)
Lenzman - How Did I Let U Go (feat. Riya) (Metalheadz)
Total Science - Lightweight (Break Remix) (CIA)
Phaction- I Have You (feat. Leo Wood) [Ill Truth Remix] (CIA)
Mako - By Firelight (Metalheadz)
Seba & Method One - Heavy Traffic (Secret Operations)
Seba & Krazy - Imperial Moment (Metalheadz)
Source Direct - Web Of Siin (Metalheadz)
Homemade Weapons - Heiress (Samurai Music)
Source Direct - The Crane (Nonplus Records)
Goldie - Dark Metal (Source Direct Remix) (Metalheadz) 

streamed live at
@groove_cafe, BOS
@datafruits, ICN
@maindrainstudios, OAK
@internetpublicradio, GDL
Sphere-Radio, LEJ

Nobuka + Yair Etziony + m50 + TMUX @ etc 2020.10.02

Release date: 19/02/21

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

180g 2x12" gatefold vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Long-time AI associate Wolfgang Voigt returns to the London label with his next album – Rückverzauberung Exhibition. The Exhibition reimagines the concept with renewed purpose, opening the gates to deliver an arresting 60-minute journey into the underworld. Dense soundscapes mutate with alchemic fluidity, unravelling with vast symphonic counterpoints and synesthetic textures. Intoxicating in its Mephistolean dissonances and ambitious sonic structure, the sprawling "Rückverzauberung” itself becomes a nebulous organism shrouded in the seeping mist of the unknown.

Part One

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Bookings and all label enquiries: info@astralindustries.co.uk

Please, no demos.

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Artists: Deepchord, Wolfgang Voigt, The Chi Factory, Heavenly Music Corporation, Waveform Transmission, Sonmi451, Atom™, J.Derwort, Shorelights, Multicast Dynamics, LF58, The Abyss Within Us, Monolake, The Humble Bee, Son of Chi, Lucid Dreams, Mystic AM, Dialog, Sa Pa, Toki Fuko, Rod Modell, Ear to Ear, Pianeti Sintetici, Marco Shuttle.

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AI-01: Deepchord - Lanterns
AI-02: Wolfgang Voigt presents Rückverzauberung live in London
AI-03: Chi - The Original Recordings
AI-04: Wolfgang Voigt & Deepchord - Colours of Time, re-interpreted
AI-05: Chi Factory - The Bamboo Recordings
AI-06: Heavenly Music Corporation - Lunar Phase
AI-07: Chi Factory - The Kallikatsou Recordings
AI-08: Waveform Transmission - V 2.0-2.9
AI-09: Chi Factory - Red Lantern at the Kallikatsou
AI-10: Deepchord - Immersions
AI-11: Heavenly Music Corporation - In a Garden of Eden
AI-12: Chi Factory - The Mantra Recordings
AI-13: Sonmi451 - Nachtmuziek
AI-14: Dots - Dots
AI-15: J.Derwort - Bamboo Music
AI-16: Shorelights - Bioluminescence
AI-17: Multicast Dynamics - Ancient Circuits
AI-18: Chi Factory - Travel in Peace
AI-19: LF58 - Alterazione
AI-20: Waveform Transmission - V 3.0-3.9
AI-21: The Abyss Within Us - Life in a Circle
AI-22: Wolfgang Voigt presents Rückverzauberung Exhibition
AI-23: Monolake - Gobi. The Vinyl Edit 2021
AI-24: The Humble Bee - A Miscellany for the Quiet Hours
AI-25: Son of Chi & Radboud Mens - The Transition Recordings
AI-26: Multicast Dynamics & Sid Hille - Metamorphosis
AI-27: LF58 Live at Brancaleone
AI-28: Lucid Dreams
AI-29: Son of Chi & Clara Brea - The Wetland Remixes
AI-30: Mystic AM - Cardamom & Laudanum
AI-31: Dialog - Dialog
AI-32: Son of Chi & Arthur Flink - The Fifth World Recordings
AI-33: Sa Pa - Atmospheric Fragments
AI-34: Toki Fuko - Spirit Medicine
AI-35: Rod Modell - Ghost Lights
AI-36: Ear to Ear - Live Recordings
AI-37: Pianeti Sintetici - Space Opera
AI-38: LF58 - Radials
AI-39: Marco Shuttle - Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva
AI-40: ???

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Part One

Astral Industries

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