focus noise

This is a recording of what we believe is a culverted stream below Fallenbrunnen in Friedrichshafen. We noticed this almost as soon as we arrived there, the night before we played at VOD-Festival (19 July 2025), right across the street from Kulturhaus Caserne, the festival venue. The recording was incorporated into the live show, a hidden sound from somewhere almost beneath our feet as we played.

If you know more about the history of this, particularly the name of the stream if it has one, let us know.

Fallenbrunnen

~ LAAPS 046 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP46]

artist : Offthesky
album : Nocturnas
duration : 40.28 mn
date : August 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / marble pink/purple LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Sound and composition by Jason Corder
Vocals by Rin Howell
Created in Thailand and Colorado, 2022 - 2024

Mastered by Offthesky
Artwork by Gaël Bonnefon
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://offthesky.bandcamp.com/
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Offthesky - Dying Within Dreams

Written for Norbert Rodenkirchen. Early flutes, electronics. To be presented in 8-channel sound at the ZKM Karlsruhe on November 20th, 2025

The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity (Excerpt)

#44
- 2020.04.16–2022.12.18 -
by Soloi Sounds @monotone-orchestra

For this mix, I selected some beautiful tracks that were released during the pandemic—(most likely) produced in Japan. While I feel a bit uneasy about drawing a simple connection between COVID-19 and ambient music, I put this together as a way of recalling the many experiments and explorations that were happening at that time.
(The mix title reflects the release period of the tracks featured.)

今回のミックスではコロナ禍にリリースされた（おそらく）日本で制作された素敵な楽曲を選んでみました。コロナとアンビエントっぽいものを安易に結びつけるのもモヤっとしますが、あの時期にいろんな試みが行われていたことを思い出しつつ作成してみました。
（Mixタイトルは使用させていただいた楽曲の発表期間になります）

- Tracklists -
1	Nobuto Suda - Winter Banana	
2	Precipitation & Mirage Area - 星の通信 Star Transmission 	
3	Soloi Sounds - Lights	
4	Shuma Yamakaji - Orogeny	
5	Shota Okubo - Adolescence and Old 	
6	Yosuke Tokunaga - ME ZZOTINTS	
7	Shuta Hiraki - on baluster 	
8	Akito Tabira - Two (Variation) 	
9	Iu Takahashi - Oblivion
10	Yoichi Ichikawa - Sea that has Become Known	
11	For Nina - Untitled	
12	a0n0 - Sounds that ring in the outside world	
13	nzworkdown - Vapor	
14	Betts(JP) - Osafune 01

- Selector -
Soloi Sounds @monotone-orchestra

Based in Tokyo. He has released eight albums on labels in Japan and abroad, including Chitra Records, Dragon’s Eye Recordings, and Ume Records.

東京都在中。Chitra Records、Dragon’s Eye Recordings、梅レコードなど国内外のレーベルから8枚のアルバムをリリース。

- Artwork -
www.instagram.com/loid0001/

#44 - 2020.04.16–2022.12.18 - by Soloi Sounds

Titter

~ LAAPS 047 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP47]

artist : Seabuckthorn
album : A Path Within A Path
duration : 42.03 mn
date : October 03rd, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / red (oxblood) LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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All music composed by Andy Cartwright, except the guest parts on tracks 2, 5, 6 ( Dean McPhee, Claire Deak, Loscil)
Recorded in Saint-Pierre-d'Argençon, France between July 2024 and January 2025.

Mastered by James Plotkin
Cover photo by Andy Cartwright
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/music
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Seabuckthorn - Black Boar

Track started Aug 13, 2016, finished Sep 14, 2025.
Photo by Learda Shkurti @ pexels.
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Look at the little king
He found out all he wanted to know
It doesn’t change a thing
No-one is near to cushion the blow

I found my tribe
If I survive remains to be seen
I feel the need to hide
What does it mean, the end of a dream

I found my tribe
If I survive remains to be seen
I feel the need to hide
What does it mean, the end of a dream

We came so far
To meet the raging breakers on the bar
They leave their mark on the sand
But where is the helping hand

We came so far
To meet the raging breakers on the bar
They leave their mark on the sand
But where is the helping hand

Where is the helping hand
 
We must not separate
Over the sea, the crescent is gone
Time to accept our fate
Whether we lost, or whether we won

I found my tribe
If I survive remains to be seen
I feel the need to hide
What does it mean, the end of a dream 

I found my tribe
If I survive remains to be seen
I feel the need to hide
What does it mean

I Found My Tribe

Remnants of Noise — Offret FW 25/26 Soundtrack
A limited edition 12” vinyl. Remnants of Noise by Igor Dyachenko reimagines Offret FW 25/26 as a sonic journey through memories and drifting echoes. Ghostly atmospheres and fleeting sounds intertwine, bridging humanity, nature, and architecture.

A:
01 – fragment 1 (3:56)
02 – inward (3:05)
03 – churning (3:08)
04 – fragment 2 (3:38)
05 – noise event (4:13)
B:
06 – after 7 pm (3:58)
07 – atm (4:39)
08 – street tone (5:40)
09 – glimpse (3:42)

Remnants of Noise

Of Silence Revelation Dub

Klein - 84 remy [Parkwuud Entertainment]
https://klein1997.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-with-a-cane

Thme & Virginia Aveline - From Above [VAKNAR]
https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/diving-wounds

Barefoot - Loam [Captured Visions]
https://capturedvisions.bandcamp.com/album/unseen-objects

Natas Kunas - The Sea (Čiurlionis Recomposed) [self-released]
https://nataskunas.bandcamp.com/track/the-sea-iurlionis-recomposed

Patina Lush - Mist Unseen (Script Remix) [Amulet of Tears]
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/album/mist-unseen

Sleep Inc. - Dive to the Heart [self-released]
https://sleepinc.bandcamp.com/album/ambient

Imberbe - getting clearer and clearer [Altamira Records]
https://imberbe.bandcamp.com/album/presence

XENIA REAPER - container 3am [Oscilla Sound]
https://oscillasound.bandcamp.com/album/lmnl004-zumi3

DJ Lostboi - LB 100 [Queeste]
https://queeste.bandcamp.com/album/the-flash

PRESENTE - Acqua Fresca [Yerevan Tapes]
https://lentefantasma.bandcamp.com/album/ultra-heaven

Glacial Anatomy - Twilight at 3AM [Perceptual Tapes]
https://perceptualtapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-star-whispers

Teatre - Where the River No Longer Runs [Flummoxed]
https://flummoxedrec.bandcamp.com/album/entrusting-flame

Malibu - Jaded [YEAR0001]
https://mmmmalibu.bandcamp.com/album/vanities

ıšdavıkaı - Ett rasande stillestånd [Flummoxed]
https://flummoxedrec.bandcamp.com/album/entrusting-flame

Amulet of Tears @ Radio Vilnius #14 / October 15th, 2025

Drone For David Session

John Luther Adams Canticles of the Sky (RVNGNL48 - 320 - Promo)

Sky With Nameless Colors

Craig Leon - Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon

RVNGNL55

Full album available May 10, 2019

smarturl.it/rvngnl55

©2019 RVNG Intl. // www.igetrvng.com

Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon

The Gates Made Plain

Craig Leon - The Gates Made Plain

Improvisation on Ondes Martenot type Ondomo, 
Christine Ott || 2019
http://ondomo.net/

Improvisation Ondomo #1 - 'Feu Sacré'

"The soulful and grooving play of Ken Vandermark (one of the key musicians/composers in the current free jazz scene) on reeds with the filigran electronic distortions and loops of Christof Kurzmann, with a solid rhythm layer by the young Dutch bassist lloopp Jasper Stadhouders and drummer Tim Daisy. An unusual "jazz" record, fascinating so much the more.

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Ken Vandermark / reeds

Christof Kurzmann / electronics, lloopp

Jasper Stadhouders / bass

Tim Daisy - drums

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Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Bob Weston.

TR164 - Made To Break "Slipping Words Against Silence (for Kerry James Marshall)"

(Samuel L. Jetson is an alter ego of Ethan Jones)

As you can imagine we are under huge pressure at the moment and are working flat out to ensure Cafe OTO survives this. The impact of this situation is extremely acute for small venues like ours and we need all the support we can get to pull through. Please donate what you can, if you can. Thank you. 

Cafe OTO opened in April 2008 with the aim of providing a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream. It comprises one large cafe/performance space open during the day serving food and drink with an evening programme of live music almost seven nights a week. 

OTOROKU is part of OTOProjects - a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) that has been set up to manage the programme at Café Oto. Any profits from OTOROKU are put back into supporting what we do and will help us to continue programming the best musicians and performers from all over the world.

www.cafeoto.co.uk

TR164 - Made To Break "Slipping Words Against Silence (for Kerry James Marshall)"

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