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Audiobulb Records is an exploratory music label designed to promote creativity in all its forms. Audiobulb releases artist works on CD & download formats as well as multimedia works, VST (virtual instruments), audio hardware and other creative tools. Our aim is to facilitate the development of new artists working within a realm of care, quality and craft.

Works supported by Audiobulb often explore the interface between the electronic and natural world. We embrace the complexity of unique electronics, intricate acoustics and detailed microsound.

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[Re]View is a reimagining of Otaru’s music by a process of remix and reinterpretation by Volume Objects (David Newman - label founder). These reworkings celebrate the beautiful flaws and timeless broken melodies of Otaru’s music.

[Re]View

Otaru - [Re]view [VO_1]

This album is all about Corona and the impact of the measures taken to beat it. As a social worker Gert got to see the undercurrent of what those measures bring about especially to the socially weaker people and it is not a pretty sight. In the past period he saw people collapse on the continuous non-perspective of never being able to get up again. He saw people hopefully trying to do their best to make things bearable. He witnessed people taking refuge in rebellion. He saw people practicing altruism to the most honourable meaning of the word. And he watched all that hope being crushed like a walnut.

Inperspectycon Vol​.​1

Distant Fires Burning - Book Of Rebellion

Taken from the album Soft Power.

I created this musical project in 2018 with the idea of bringing together my experiences, my memories, my encounters and to feed my compositions. In addition to reorganizing my ideas, I have also reorganized my creative space by orienting myself towards tools and instruments that also represent my feelings.

And I'm talking about my studio because it's a central part of this album. This is where I went regularly for 3 years, once a week, to have a special time, time for exploration and introspection. The rules were not to think about the composition, on the contrary. Focusing on a single instrument, experimenting with different recording processes (even absurd, utopian, aberrant), using the cassettes of my recordings as a child, immersing myself in a modular synthesizer patch, developing a plugin, trying to play the guitar,… Each session was an opportunity to discover things, to be amazed at the result of my trial and error, to let oneself be lulled by infinite sound loops.

Soft Power

Memory Scale - Islandis

A year into lockdown, the pandemic forced me to take a deeper look into myself. Taken out of my comfort zone, I decided to experiment. To think in different ways about composing my music. Themes of luck and chance inform the underlying creative process behind “GRAND TRINE”. In astrology, a grand trine is a harmonious pattern formed when three planets in a horoscope chart are each placed 120 degrees apart in a single moment in time, creating an equilateral triangle. Mindful of the implications of this arrangement, I simplified and clarified my attempts to capture the solemness of the times using meditative images that invited reflection. A contemplative walk through a slowly morphing tapestry gave birth to other musical languages employing sound, form and function. These elements, constellating as dust and interspersing with sparse notes, are disseminated over a landscape of subtle noise. In constant fluctuation, the complex combinations of tones remain warmly alien. Although soberly futuristic, this album is a sombre and subdued effort that, in the end, feels inherently satisfying.

Grand Trine

Ümlaut - Aspect Pattern

Based in Carlow, Ireland, Jimmy Behan's work blends acoustic and electronic sounds to explore the meeting points of present and past, random and regular, real and imagined.

For Dancers Only is taken from the album Here We Are Now - an exploration of the present moment and the impermanent nature of existence. Sounds and melodies form and unfurl before dissolving and morphing into something else, with no particular purpose other than to be. Recorded during the covid pandemic, it helped remind me to treasure each day, rather than dread the next. The album is dedicated to my dear old cat Loley, who passed during its making.

Here We Are Now

Jimmy Behan - For Dancers Only

At the end of winter, the faint breath of life shakes the air as the world is still surrounded by the silence of death. The small breath will eventually become a prelude for the spring when all life plays fanfare and echoes to the world. It's like a majestic symphony played by nature, wrapping the world quietly but with tremendous power. The gentle Eastern breeze, the scent of flowers drifting from afar, the shortening shadows on the ground, the quietly climbing silver moon, the sprouting trees, and the beasts come back to life with their breath. The spring throughout the winter is always far away, yet the warmth is endlessly gentle and floats around the world like soothing music.

Prelude For The Spring

Seigo Aoyama - Helioscope (with Ilya Delire)

I wanted to create tracks that implied motion, but a subtle motion in otherwise stillness, like the illusion of fluidity in a heat haze. Mostly, I wanted to make an album of unhurried music that was happy taking its time, each track existing in the moment, slowing up and speeding down.

Slow Up, Speed Down

Darren McClure - Filed As Flies

These are the dry samples that manipulated in AUXTURE V1.5 - see 

AUXTURE release page > https://www.audiobulb.com/AUXTURE.htm

Auxture Dry Samples

Preoccupations with aquatic textures, underwater pianos, a nocturnal atmosphere and fragments from my everyday life merge and overlap. Most of this work has a softly saturated, almost molten character that I associate with the late evening or fading light.

Cloak

Russ Young - Chancel Of Living Trees

“The Long Night in Winter Light" is an album that began in the fall of 2021, just after the production of "Tayutau" was finished. Compared to its predecessor, which was characterized by a kaleidoscope of sounds created through a dizzying array of myriad material, this album was produced in a more restrained manner, with fewer effects and experimental sounds, and instead features strings and piano at its core. The resulting sound evokes a beautiful, majestic, and harsh snowfield. 

This world may still be in darkness. However, the beauty of the starry sky that we casually look up at seems to cast a ray of light on this world.

The Long Night in Winter Light

Tomo-Nakaguchi - Morning View Of The Iceberg

In Japanese, Yūgen signifies “a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe… and the sad beauty of human suffering.” Yūgen suggests that which is beyond what can be said, but not as an allusion to another world. It is about this world, about this experience. The album cover and musical tracks were inspired by a piece of art that hangs in my bedroom. For weeks, as I lay on my back after surgery, I looked at the painting every day. It became a sort of meditative practice. Up until my recuperation, the meaning of the painting had eluded me. But over time, a closer focus on the artwork brought forth a revelation. The painting was about being reborn. New life, with no attachment to the past and no expectation of the future. A profound liberation of the spirit overtook me. Electronic sparks, intonations, chords, arrhythmic percussions, chimes and whooshes of sound free floated through my imagination… and “same but different” was born.

Same But Different

Ümlaut - Causes And Conditions

Neuro... No Neuro creates his sounds as you hear. This is RETEXTULE DRY (no processing).

RETEXTULE Off - Dry

Neuro... No Neuro creates his sounds as you hear. This is his sound processed by RETEXTULE WET.

RETEXTULE On - Wet

Edges is taken from the album ‘Swept’, an exploration of emotional turbulence, resilience and rejuvenation. Created with electric guitar, modular and analogue synthesizers and pedals, most of the sounds were recorded at the start of the global pandemic. The album is bookended with field recordings made from the artist’s garden in East London. It opens with the sound of tarpaulin sheets on a neighboring construction site swept by heavy winds during Storm Ciara, shortly before the first UK lockdown, and closes with the sound of birdsong after rainfall, signaling hope for better times.

Swept

Wil Bolton - Edges

Memory Scale, whose real name is Arnaud Castagné, is a French musician living in Bordeaux, specializing in melodic and cinematographic ambient/electronic compositions.

Inspired by artists such as ambient pioneer Brian Eno, the 90s ambient scene, IDM, electronica and Krautrock, as well as the sounds of artists such as The Durutti Column, Dieter Moebius, Seefeel, Boards of  Canada or even Tortoise (among others), Memory Scale knew how to merge these varied influences to create a recognizable style.

Memory Scale tracks transport the listener into haunting soundscapes, evoking cinematic images and deep emotions.  Delicate melodies blend seamlessly with atmospheric textures, creating an immersive auditory experience.

Memory Scale - You Could See What I Heard

~ sine on you crazy diamond [andrew halliday]
~ gairyaku [eretsua]
~ distress sine [ultre]
~ 440 hz sine wave (experiment) [cep2let]
~ sine of weakness [austin martin]
~ heterodyne brainwash [henry walmsley]
~ you soidal, me jane [adcbicycle]
~ outward from the origin [lotus wire]
~ sine of it all pt.3 [daniel chavez]
~ componente [omar lavalle]
~ sines on tape [talking makes no sense]
~ distress sine ++ [ultre]
~ untitled sine 1 [si_comm]
~ untitled sine 2 [si_comm]
~ untitled sine 3 [si_comm]
~ withered dawn [object 4]

++ all tracks are composed using sounds derived from a single one second 440 hz sinewave ++

440 hz sine wave [cep2plet]

R Abacus Lndr is a colourful collection of ambient glitch, an EP with 4 hauntingly beautiful tracks oozing a dreamy cinematic vibe that reminds of the underground arthouse scene. Often dark and mysterious by nature, the soundscapes evoke a deep and existential state of contemplation about the deepening awareness that there's an entire universe of understanding forever outside our reach. Questions only
lead to more questions, boundaries are fading and behind every fallen curtain a new majestic world emerges waiting to be explored.

R Abacus Lndr

Pulse Mandala & Distant Fires Burning - R Abacus Lndr

"Antenna" is focused on glitching sounds.

Antenna

Tomotsugu Nakamura - Wildmint

A sense (in Swedish ”förnimmelse”) is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the world through the detection of stimuli.

To this sense the brain can observe color, forms, heat, coldness, taste, movement, smells and sounds.

But also in the unconscious we can experience things and perceive, like in a dream.

While visiting an ancient monastery in Sweden I got a feeling or sensation that something beautiful and sad had happened there. I got inspired by these sensations and made music.

In this album we will take a journey through these senses, from the world we live in, to the dream, the unconscious and things beyond words, sometimes a bit like music. It's an abstract experience…

”Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people”

”Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes” (C.G Jung)

F​ö​rnimmelser

Henrik Meierkord - Subliminal Perception

Perfectly executed electronic music. Motion, glitch with a smooth stability core anchored to multiple interior orientating points.

Orienting Points

Build - Run

These tapes are a collection of new and old music by folks close to the Audiobulb family. Some were commissioned for this project specially and some  were produced over the years in other contexts now collected and remastered here.

Most recently I invited some friends and Audiobulb at large to have at a data dump of renders, stems and alternate takes. 

Quite a number of pieces feature from a segment of the EP "it's / a / hoot / to / mix / and / match".

I had such plans for those trumpets but they never really materialized in "hoot". I'm really delighted that they've taken on a new life.

Audiobulb Plays He Can Jog (Vol. 1 & 2)

Audiobulb Plays He Can Jog

Audiobulb Plays He Can Jog (Vol. 1 & 2) - Preview Track

“Abandoned Spaces” merges both artists' distinctive sounds, talents and approaches to music making into an album that is full of otherworldly textures and melodies. Using a reductive approach to the compositions but with meticulous attention to detail Mazza and Düngfelder create jazzy vignettes that flow through heavily processed electric guitars, bass lines and drums that weave themselves into an ambient landscape of chiming micro sounds and ephemeral melodies. Songs flow into one another like water, which lends a devotional feel to the listening experience. In its truest sense, “Abandoned Spaces” is a tone poem. A merging of seemingly distinctive musical genres, it is an album of pristine sound design and unclassifiable style.

Abandoned Spaces

OdNu + Ümlaut - Abandoned Spaces

Taken from the album - Café Tristesse which is a collaboration between Andrew Heath and Fernando Perales (Mi Cosa de Resistance). There is a gentle melancholy at play here set out by Fernando's lo-fi guitar, beautifully hesitant and fragile and Andrew's shifting textures and minimal piano creating clusters of melodic sound.

Café Tristesse

Andrew Heath and Mi Cosa de Resistance - The Night Waiter

Frameworks is an album that seeks to explore the emotional landscape of changing the lens of how you view the world. Studies have shown that most habits and beliefs are set by the age of seven. And yet, throughout life we sometimes undergo radical change. What does it mean to change the way you think? How does it feel to change the way you view the world? What does it sounds like to leave a part of you that you thought gave life meaning only to find a deeper and truer meaning. The tracks across Frameworks present a narrative arc of having a belief, relationship, ideal, or other foundational aspect of your life that is removed from your life. The album moves through the spaces of unease and tension, but ultimately finds itself in a new space of hope and calm. The music of Frameworks is built on a piano tuned, not to the traditional 12 tones of equal temperament, but rather to Just Intonation scales of the composer’s devising. Some of these intervals are as close as a sixth of a tone apart. At the beginning of the album, these microtones are utilized to show tension and discomfort, but by the end the listening ear becomes acclimated to them, and they are recontextualized by the harmonies to sound warm and inviting. This serves to further the narrative of the album as a whole. Throughout the album the piano is wrapped in granular processing, analog and modular synths, self-patched filters, and programmed beats.

Frameworks

Micah Pick - Earth Everlasting

From the album Invisible Kin - released on Audiobulb records 25/09/17. www.audiobulb.com

Tucker Sferro is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer who began his career playing trumpet in live jazz ensembles, moving on to guitar, bass, and electronic music production with various bands throughout the Northeastern US in the late 90s and 2000s. He is known for blending rich and complex synth melodies with layered percussion, cultivating an innovative organic sound through assorted digital processes. Tucker is fascinated with mathematical models of probability and weaves a large component of chance into his compositions and live sets to create music that is constantly evolving.

Invisible Kin guides the listener on an expedition into the psyche in which successive layers of identity are peeled back to reveal a pantheon of archetypal themes. Spacious ambient backdrops, hypnotic swirling melodies, and fracturing percussive rhythms provide a roadmap to the discovery of synergistic relationships between music and experience. The interplay of melodic architecture and decomposition is a constant theme throughout the album in which the nature of the identity of both the musical arrangements and the listener are explored.

The Tin Box - Far Away Spaces

Build Buildings (New York producer Ben Tweel) returns with Glass, a concise and determined 4-song EP of songs that subtly explore time signature, rhythm and song structure, without losing sight of the melody and mood that define his earlier releases. As Textura described the sound, “If there's one thing that primarily distances Tweel's tracks from the clicks'n'cuts tradition, it's his focus on melody and song structure.... There's no shortage of whirr and click within a given Build Buildings piece, but such elements are deployed in the service of the song...that just happens to be assembled from found sounds and treated samples.”
These immediately captivating songs do just as well in the living room as in headphones, but close listeners are rewarded. Music nerds may notice polyrhythms, microtones and a gentle disregard for traditional Western 4-bar repetition, but this isn’t music that comes across as “challenging.” Hebei Victory and Honey Locust are melodic mood-setters. Glass explores the rhythms within rhythms that arise from slowly slipping loops. Cedilla’s propulsive, head-nodding beat is written in an Ableton-be-damned 7/8 time signature.
Build Buildings is perhaps most well-known these days for providing music for the Gimlet Media podcasts Reply All and StartUp, but his music has also been featured on radio, television and motion picture soundtracks (including NBC’s World of Adventure Sports; National Public Radio’s Radiolab and On the Media; and feature documentary Valley Uprising).

Build Buildings - Hebei Victory

Endless Endless v7

Endless Endless - v7

I made this short collection of microsound collages in the early hours of the morning before work. They began to take on a restful dream-like quality which I enhanced by imagining nocturnal scenes, cave systems, caverns, islands, and night skies. The title of the EP makes a tentative reference to Aldous Huxley’s Utopian classic ‘The Island’. I hope that the listener, too is transported to imaginary places of their own and feels rested by this music.

Pala (EP)

Russ Young - Polaris

“monologue” was born from conversation with the nature around. So, this work might actually be called “dialogue”. I focused on removing all unnecessary elements, so that the form has become more simple and acoustical. Total balance and stillness in human life is my purpose. I hope that some of my work will sneak calmly into the listeners’ mind and cure their heart.

monologue

Tomotsugu Nakamura - Monologue

Tomo-Nakaguchi is musician / sound artist living in Yokohama, Japan.

He is a member of experimental rock band "1769" and multimedia group "skyward photo film". His work creates dreamy and warm texture use layers of modulated acoustic / electric guitar, sampler, broken tape machine, field recordings and many instruments sound.

The tracks on this album were composed from 2005 to 2019 and almost every them recorded or re-recorded between 2018 and 2020. Tomo-Nakaguchi created a flood of sounds by processed guitars, synthesizers, chopped loops, smartphone apps sound and more. He aimed to create a sound that blends chaos and beauty on this album.

Smile

Tomo-Nakaguchi - Smile

Audiobulb Records is an exploratory music label designed to promote creativity in all its forms. Audiobulb releases artist works on CD & download formats as well as multimedia works, VST (virtual instruments), audio hardware and other creative tools. We embrace the complexity of unique electronics, intricate acoustics and detailed microsound. Home of 'Endless Endless', 'Root of Sign' and the AMBIENT and Lissajous sound modules.

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