Have met some inspiring & supportive creators here the last month. A sample of some of their works. Diverse and Unique.

Diverse & Unique

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/the-inner-circle

Taken from the See Blue Audio release page.

The story of ‘The Inner Circle’ goes back to 2016 and ‘The Outer Circle’ released on Bricolage. Subtitled ‘A Semi-Conscious Experience’, it captured the mood of a Sunday morning after a long weekend and travelling home on a busy subway train from the West End of Glasgow. Field recordings made on the journey were used as the basis for a series of tracks that reflect this special post-clubbing state of mind.

Field recordings also form the core of ‘The Inner Circle’, but whereas its predecessor was a little raw and rough around the edges, this long overdue follow-up is more refined and thoughtful, more mature even, in terms of both production and ideas. This is also reflected in the setting of the field recordings: 10pm on a quiet weeknight and travelling from the south side of the city. In both cases, the destination and final stop were the same – home – but ‘The Inner Circle’ is more introspective in tone. Essentially, this is the story of the subway environment expressed through music.

This second collection of five tracks, predominately beatless, begins with ‘One Way’ and the implication is clear: this journey has an ending. As often happens, we experience a sense of exhilaration when entering a subterranean world, and the dreamlike, slow-motion synths are reminiscent of ‘Departure from Nowhere’ and ‘Colour in Motion’, the opening tracks on ‘Maps of the Lost’ and ‘Chromatherapy’ respectively, both released on See Blue Audio in 2020. This is followed by ‘Kinning Park’, a suburb of Glasgow, and we are now fully immersed in an underground world of metal and machines. There’s a feeling of anxiety, even claustrophobia, to this track with its eerie bleeps and shadowy sounds.

As we reach ‘Shields Road’ and closer to home, the atmosphere is lighter, lifted by ethereal washes of electronica and trippy beats, which appear for the first time on ‘The Inner Circle’. Then it’s onto the post-industrial area of ‘West Street’ with its euphoric ambient tapestry of sound, which breaks down to an electronic pulse taken from a field recording of a train in motion, a hypnotic sound that surely resonates with us all.

Finally, ‘Home’ as the train pulls to a stop, and we pass through the ticket barrier and into the cool night air. Exquisite and cinematic, it’s a sublime ending to the story, but as is often the case, tinged with sadness now that the journey is over. As in life, most journeys are a bittersweet mixture of highs and lows, tension and excitement, communication and contemplation.

‘The Inner Circle’ is a musical dialogue between a mechanical underground world and the stories of the travellers through that world, as imagined by Fragile X, who fleetingly appear and disappear in the short stops between stations. The field recordings are far more than just background sounds, and they have been looped and integrated into the music that surrounds them. Trains approaching, brakes screeching, doors closing, tannoy announcements, cables buzzing, dripping water and the clang of metal, the buzz of commuters, the very stuff of life. In the context of 2021, it’s also the sound of the slow and hopeful return to normality from the coronavirus pandemic.

Mastered by Richard Jones at Dark Fidelity Hi Fi Studios.

The Inner Circle EP

The Inner Circle

Written for and performed by the Miyabi Duo (Hugh Millington and Saki Kato) at Wigmore Hall on 4 June 2021. Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of its 2020/21 RPS Composers Programme.

A work in two movements:
1. bend
2. lullaby for the end/ beginning

in memory of Uncle Charlie

same but different (2021)

Stella Maris : a female protector or guiding spirit at sea.

Music and artwork by J.Gorecki

For my Sun and my Moon.

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/stella-maris

Stella Maris

Mångata (Together In Silence)

"Blindspot" is the debut EP from the mysterious Jonblund.

With a name that translates as "The Sandman" in Norwegian, the music plays up to that theme and beyond. A transcendent assemblage of tunes to soundtrack your dreams and slow down the time. The EP is a mixture of live instrumentation and analogue electronics threaded together with glitchy downtempo beats.

The meshing together of piano, horns, strings and synth alongside carefully manipulated digital landscapes makes for a progressive listening experience that at times flirts with the grandiose nature of things without ever becoming melodramatic. Each track breathing new life into the next and forming new textures and an organic aesthetic that flows throughout the release.

The sandman cometh...

bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/blin…spot-bc072

@jonblund

Blindspot (bc072)

Blindspot

Jonblund - Where The Sun Swallows The Moon (from the "Blindspot" EP)

The end of August is our 7 year anniversary as a label and brings with it a new compilation in the form of "Working Memory".

We've pooled together some of the most unique artists on the roster for this special release.

Don't be fooled....this isn't disco. This is for the walk home afterwards. Deep and atmospheric late night garage from Doxil.

https://soundcloud.com/ahchooo

CD and digital available at https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/working-memory-bc074

Working Memory (bc074)

Working Memory

Doxil - Disco

The end of August is our 7 year anniversary as a label and brings with it a new compilation in the form of "Working Memory".

We've pooled together some of the most unique artists on the roster for this special release.

Multi dimensional sonic experimentation and spoken word with frayed jagged burst of electronics from Synda Sova.

https://soundcloud.com/anne-louise-kershaw

Available : https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/working-memory-bc074

Working Memory CD

Synda Sova - Black Lava Spitting Rain

The end of August is our 7 year anniversary as a label and brings with it a new compilation in the form of "Working Memory".

We've pooled together some of the most unique artists on the roster for this special release.

A fully charged glitch and modular freakout from Sarmism. This one really encapsulates what the label is all about.

https://soundcloud.com/sarmism

Available : https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/working-memory-bc074

Sarmism - New View

Sea, beach, seagulls, walk, rest, vacation. That's what waves is about. Enjoy.

Feel free to follow on youtube for visual accompainment: www.youtube.com/channel/UCERcKVyoZ52CV0jWbeQNkuw


made in @ableton

waves

Chase

Dark orange

Systeme Biotic-Cryptomyces [Dark Nature Concept]

Beating Heart C1a master 2025

yuhhhhh

Muistot (Memories)

Echoes is the gorgeously composed three track Triplicate Records debut of Berlin musical wanderer Marie Wilhelmine Anders. Her training in melody and aptitude for constructing fabulous beats are immediately apparent, and no time is wasted over the brief run-time in enticing you to get up and dance to the freshness. It's a level of confidence and professionalism in one's craft seldom heard, a trio of instant classics waiting to be discovered. So discover it. 
https://fanlink.to/mwaechoes

50% of proceeds for "Echoes" will be donated to  https://www.rescue.org
"The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people affected by humanitarian crises—including the climate crisis—to survive, recover and rebuild their lives. Founded at the call of Albert Einstein in 1933, the IRC is now at work in over 40 crisis- affected countries as well as communities throughout Europe and the Americas. We deliver lasting impact by providing health care, helping children learn, and empowering individuals and communities to become self-reliant, always seeking to address the inequalities facing women and girls.“

released May 11, 2022 https://soundcloud.com/triplicaterecords

Written & Produced by Marie Wilhelmine Anders 
Track 1 Mastered by Marie Wilhelmine Anders
https://soundcloud.com/marie-w-anders
Tracks 2 & 3 Mastered by Michael Southard https://soundcloud.com/timerival
Artwork by Thomas Lutz with design elements by Bryan Kraft https://soundcloud.com/BVSMV
Interview by https://soundcloud.com/suncastle-303

"To Dr. Hake"
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

In the beloved hour that ushers the day,
In the pure dew, under the breaking gray,
One bird, ere yet the woodland quires awake,
With brief réveillé summons all the brake:
Chirp, chirp, it goes; nor waits an answer long;
And that small signal fills the grove with song.

Thus on my pipe I breathed a strain or two;
It scarce was music, but 'twas all I knew.
It was not music, for I lacked the art,
Yet what but frozen music filled my heart?
Chirp, chirp, I went, nor hoped a nobler strain;
But Heaven decreed I should not pipe in vain,
For, lo! not far from there, in secret dale,
All silent, sat an ancient nightingale.
My sparrow notes he heard; thereat awoke;
And with a tide of song his silence broke.

Bandcamp

Marie Wilhelmine Anders - A Tide Of Song (Echoes EP) [Triplicate Records]

'Bricolage' is an underground electronic label based in Glasgow. We specialize in distinctive sonic adventures from both local and global producers. Our aim is to give productive and imaginative artists a platform of complete creative freedom from which to express themselves.

We are currently not accepting demos at the moment due to a full release schedule being lined up into 2025 and beyond.

CURRENT RELEASE : Bricolage VA "X" (10 Year Compilation)
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/x-bc094

PREVIOUS RELEASE : Fragile X “Curves and Calculus”
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/curves-and-calculus-bc093

estd. 2015

Bricolage was founded and is managed by @fragilex

Guitars in Electronica.
Soundscaping through the infusion of strings.

Collabs, multi genre jams, production learnings & cold beer with Orange Peel Music as 'ParQushea' and valued others. 

Gratitude to fretboard mentor Sunyata for knowledge, insight to curly compositions and creative insightful tips, all leading to inspiration, productivity and an appreciation of varied music.

Synaesthetics (Melbourne) Various Artist feature on track by Funkform -'Walk You Through'. Thank you Maddy for the opportunity to play together.
synaestheticsxyz.bandcamp.com/album/meridians

Doxil - Disco

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