Buy: http://darla.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=43946


A new remastered and expanded edition of the most popular of Manual records - the 2005 shoegaze classic Azure Vista. Jonas Munk aka Manual remastered the original six album tracks and added seven live tracks performed in Chicago and Los Angeles on Manual's 2007 US tour. Long time friend and partner in music Jakob Skott redesigned the artwork for this 2xCD edition, which comes in a six panel Eco-wallet.

 10 years after its release, Azure Vista still feels like a bold, and highly original work that's near-impossible to categorize. There's a definite dream-pop influence, occasionally recalling Robin Guthrie's most panoramic guitar work in Cocteau Twins, as well as Slowdive's oceanic euphoria. But this is far from being another shoegaze-homage. What really sets this set apart is the earnest and completely un-ironic incorporation of 1980s fm-radio sounds and John Hughes soundtracks, which Jonas Munk absorbed throughout his childhood and early teens - ghosts of Tears for Fears, New Order, Simple Minds and The Cure can all be heard throughout these six abundant, adventurous compositions, enveloping the ambience and electronics in a strange, nostalgic haze.

 The album was partly written and conceptualized during a three month trip to California, when Munk was 22, and comes off as a crazed, innocent celebration of youth, freedom, sun and sea  gradually unfolding over the course of 47 blissful minutes. If one senses a conceptual similarity to M83's indie hit record Sartudays = Youth (as well as one or two similar synth-riffs) , it's worth noting that Azure Vista was released three years earlier (!).

 The second disc features 7 live cuts performed with Jakob Skott (aka Syntaks) on synths and samplers. There's a previously unreleased track included (Untitled) as well as radically different versions of Marbella – a track Munk originally wrote with Robin Guthrie – and Rise (a Syntaks track), as well as Sal Paradise (from the collaborative Manual & Syntaks effort Golden Sun).

Manual: Azure Vista 2015 remaster

Tune in, zone out

Jonas Munk

bedtime mix two

From the Manual album "Bajamar", released on Darla Records in 2006. Available on CD and download here: http://darla.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=35750

Manual - "September Swell"

From the Manual album "Confluence", released in October 2008. Buy CD or download directly from Darla Records: 
http://darla.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=52



Manual - "Sanctuary"

From the 2010 album Drowned in Light released on CD/LP/DL on Darla (US) and Make Mine Music (EU).

Get it from http://manual.bandcamp.com/album/drowned-in-light or www.darla.com

Manual - "Slow"

From the album: Manual with Jess Kahr: "The North Shore", released ten years ago on Darla Records.

www.darla.com

Manual - "1986"

Late Night Dream

Manual: "Clear Skies Above The Coastline Cathedral"

Manual: "Summer Of Freedom"

Manual: "Twilight"

Manual: "Tourmaline"

Manual: "Neon Reverie"

from 4th Album "Private Cottage"

http://chiheihatakeyama.bandcamp.com/album/private-cottage

Track List

1. Until The Rise of The Sun  
2. Morning Mist　　
3. Terrace　
4. Shady Path　　　
5. Miyukinohama (Day)　　
6. Towards Nightfall　
7. Miyukinohama (Night)　
8. Constellations　　
9. Berceuse　　
10. Night is Far Advanced　

■発売日 ： 2016年4月13日（水）
■発売元 ： White Paddy Mountain
■商品番号 ： WPMC031
■価格  ： 2,000（本体価格）＋ 税
■バーコード ：4941135980637

Shady Path (short mix)

10 Melt

This is the opening segment from the album 'Love & Suffering', recently released on ltd edition CDr via Cathedral Transmissions, and available for download via bandcamp: http://benrath.bandcamp.com/album/love-suffering

Cover art by Viannavi: 
www.vivianalevrino.com 
flickr.com/photos/vivianalevrino/ 
facebook.com/viannavi.vi

A Fresh Start (from the album 'Love & Suffering' : digital copies available via bandcamp)

Physical: Sold Out
Digital: shiningskullstudio.bandcamp.com/album/in-summer
Catalog #: GN35
Barro negro cassette, limited to 100

For nearly two decades, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has led an ambitious and exploratory trail through a variety of sounds and genres. As a member of longtime underdogs Tarentel, Cantu-Ledesma broadened the horizons, challenged genre constraints, and pushed the boundaries of the entire post rock genre. Later, Jefre established with several experimental bands (the Alps, Portraits, Moholy-Nagy, etc.) and collaborative projects (Raum, with Grouper). But Jefre has also operated a bit behind the scenes, issuing heady sets of experimental music and film through Root Strata, the label he co-runs with Maxwell August Croy.

As a solo artist, Cantu-Ledesma creates deeply emotional sets of drone, noise, tape collage, and field recordings on the likes of Type, Mexican Summer, Digitalis, Students of Decay, and more. 

Jefre now joins Geographic North with In Summer, a cassette that furthers the nostalgia and melancholy portraits of 'A Year with 13 Moons' (2015 Mexican Summer) and 'Songs of Forgiveness' (2014 BARO) for briefer, yet more potent tape loop meditations. 

"Love's Refrain" opens the cassette by plunging into depths of reeling, Cocteau Twins-esque clouds of guitar and patient drum machine. Riddled with static and glorious, hypnotic tape warble, the song perfectly sets the stage for In Summer's emotional arc. "Little Deer Isle" meditates on a series of field recordings and unbelievable calmness.

"In Summer" exists in a rolling simmer of aural infidelity and physical, circumstantial magic. "Blue Nudes (I-IV)" creates a deep and undulating traipse through various vignettes of hope, love, loss, and admiration, while "Prelude" closes things out with a calm, understated but permeating sense of calm optimism.

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - "Love's Refrain"

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/asleep-in-amber

Photography/Album Art by Bryan Hilyard

https://hilyard.bandcamp.com

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Canopy

'Moon Phase' is a collection of lush and melancholic ambient pieces by our long time favorite artist, SineRider. Presented in a beautiful 4-panel CDr.

Written and Produced by Devin Powers.
Mastering by Rob Small.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz www.go70north.com 
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SineRider - Take This Moment

Super Magic Hats "Wish" PFCD66 2017.3.15 release
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01. Sleepless
02. One Year
03. Dark
04. Filter Girl
05. Seashell feat. Mayumi
06. Softly Slowly
07. Point Blank
08. Going Home
09. Slow Ending feat. Rosaline Yuen
10. Leave
11. Past My Best
12. Cruisy
13. Tear

◆『Wish』アルバム紹介  https://pform.thebase.in/items/5602370

キッチュで聴き手の情感に寄り添う温かいサウンドを表現するロンドン育ち／メルボルン在住のミュージシャン兼プロデューサーRob Mastertonによるソロ・プロジェクト"Super Magic Hats"の2ndアルバム。

ドリーム・ポップ・チルウェイヴといったイメージを軸に　一聴するとコケティシュかつスタイリュシュな印象を持つサウンドの中に、温かさ、楽しさ、懐かしさ、物悲しさといった都度の感情から想起される叙情性がより深い音楽性とともに瑞々しく帰結しており、90年代から脈々と受け継がれる良質なダウンテンポ～ブレイクビーツを踏襲した無駄のないプロダクションと相まい、制作に15ヶ月以上をかけたという本作を確かなものとしている。またロンドン～メルボルンなどで培ったであろう80年代以降の多様なサウンドがSuper Magic Hatsの手腕の中で見事に昇華されており、それが本作の世界観を広げ魅力的なものにしている。

ゲストヴォーカルとして、シューゲイズロックポップユニットChelsea Terraceと併行してソロプロジェクトGrayNightlyとしても活動するMayumi、ロンドンとメルボルンを拠点に活動するボーカリスト／作曲家／プロデューサーRosaline Yuenが参加しているほか、M1/4/13でIA、M2でIrohaとIA、M6/7/8/11で初音ミクを起用、日本の音楽にとても詳しい彼が創り出す音楽　はあたかもウルリッヒ・シュナウス×ボーカロイドといった趣きとして感じ取れるかもしれない。

マスタリングは、シアトルを拠点にユニットThe New Lawなどのアーティスト活動と併行してBreakpoint Mastering主宰するAdam Straneyが担当、またアートワークは、絵本や様々なアート作品のみならずイベントや個展でも活動中の人気イラストレーターIzumi Fontanaが担当する。

Public Rhythm
https://twitter.com/publicrhythm/status/837508864408875011

Clubberia
twitter https://twitter.com/clubberia/status/837518166578331648
facebook https://www.facebook.com/clubberia/posts/1319368428086696

All Tracks Produced, Composed, Performed, Arranged and Mixed by Super Magic Hats, 2015-2017, Melbourne, Australia

Except
01, 04 and 13 Vocals by IA
02 Vocals by Iroha & IA
05 Vocals and Lyrics by Mayumi (Chelsea Terrace, Gray Nightly)
06, 07, 08 and 11 Vocals by Hatsune Miku
09 Vocals and Lyrics by Rosaline Yuen
10 Guitar and Piano by Chris Oldfield
11 Rhodes by Chris Oldfield
13 Additional Production by Chris Oldfield

Mastered by Adam Straney (Breakpoint Mastering)
Artwork by Izumi Fontana


◆プロフィール  Super Magic Hats

ロンドン育ち／メルボルン在住のミュージシャン兼プロデューサーRob Mastertonによるソロ・プロジェクト"Super Magic Hats"。
ポップなメロディーを主軸にノイズと実験性を織り交ぜたキッチュなサウンドを展開、一般的な楽器以外の物をも含めたサンプリングをベースに心地よい空間系エフェクトを施し複雑かつ綿密に構築し、聴き手の情感に寄り添う温かい楽曲をプロデュースしている。

これまでに、米シアトルのHush Hushレーベルよりアルバム『Separation』を2016年5月にリリース、4枚のEP『Daydram』（Hush Hush 2015）『Slowly』（Tanukineiri 2015）『Kumori』（Hush Hush 2014）『Super Magic Hats』（Self 2013）、また4枚のシングルをリリースする。

Super Magic Hatsの楽曲「Happy Jazz」と「Hangin'」がオーストラリアとメルボルンの大手ラジオ曲＜Triple J＞と＜Triple R＞で大きく取り上げられたことにより2011年にまずはメルボルンのシーンで注目されることになる。それが発端となり楽曲「Happy Jazz」はBleep.comの未契約トラックを集めた部門で4,000曲の中から最優秀を獲得、英BBCの＜Radio 6＞でもオンエアーされさらに高い評価を得ることとなり、エレクトロニックのニューカマーを収録したBleepのコンピレーションにも収録される。

同年9月からライブ・パフォーマンスも開始、その後シドニー出身のインディー／ダンス・バンドRÜFÜS（RÜFÜS DU SOL）、Warner MusicオーストラリアのアーティストThe Kite String Tangle、米Ghostly InternationalのShigetoらのツアーをサポート・アクトとしてオーストラリアの有名な会場で数多い公演を行う。

そして2017年3月、制作に15ヶ月以上をかけ、より音楽の深さと叙情性を纏わせた秀逸な2ndアルバム『Wish』をリリースする。


発売日　　　： 2017年3月10日(金曜日)
アーティスト： Super Magic Hats（スーパー・マジック・ハッツ）
タイトル　　： Wish（ウィッシュ）
発売元　　　： PROGRESSIVE FOrM
販売元　　　： BRIDGE INC.
規格番号　  ： PFCD66
価格（CD）　： 税抜本体価格￥2,000
収録曲数　　： 13曲
JAN 　　　　： 4582237836127
https://www.amazon.co.jp/Wish-Super-Magic-Hats/dp/B01N37ULGX/

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Super Magic Hats "Sleepless" from "Wish" PFCD66

Music from the immensely massively multiplayer online Sci Fi game, EVE Online.

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EVE Online - Red Glowing Dust

Order here: http://felte.bandcamp.com/

Release date is December 4, 2013.

Billow Observatory - Calumet

Azure Vista Records is an independently owned and operated label based in Odense, Denmark with a strong focus on blissed-out electronic sounds!