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For piano, organ and violin. Recorded at a little studio in the middle of the English countryside.

Performed/produced by Jessica Roch. Mastered by Mike Day and cover art photography by Edmund Curtis

Power Dynamic

A collection of modern classical pieces for effected piano, violin, organ and voice.

Borrowing from the worlds of electronic/experimental music and combing with modern classical minimalism.

Dictate/Meditate

Medicine Prelude

“Tenderness” is the first collaborative album between Japanese musician Yumi Iwaki and Brazilian Carlos Ferreira using unreleased sketches, improvisations, and samples, “Tenderness” is a mosaic of painted sounds that does not end in itself, inviting the listener to inhabit its center.

Porto Alegre based experimental guitarist Carlos Ferreira and Tokyo-based synthesizer hypnotist Yumi Iwaki are presenting "Tenderness" , their first ever collaborative album through Modern Obscure Music. Carlos and Yumi have created this powerful ambient odyssey at the distance. Despite some connections between Yumi's family roots with the Brazilian musical scene, both artists feel a strong attraction about their cultural differences, through Literature, films, scents, colors, and nature… Carlos feels “there are infinite cultural differences between Japan and Brazil, and this can be explained by historical and even geographical factors, but people come together through very strong elements that are able to transcend these differences. Diversity must also unite us.”. Yumi explains that when she met Carlos on Instagram, she was instantly captivated by “his quiet, deep and fantastic view of the world, the feelings we shared seemed to take shape naturally, but it was Carlos' great talent to complete the production...  more
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released September 2, 2022

Yumi Iwaki: modular & analog synthesizers, op-1, piano, voice, FX pedals, looper, field recordings, sampling.
Carlos Ferreira: electric guitar, bowed guitar, FX pedals, digital synthesizers, looper, field recordings, sampling.

Written & produced by Yumi Iwaki & Carlos Ferreira
Mixed & mastered by Carlos Ferreira

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Wide Scope Protocol
‘Swan Cake’
Vinyl/Digital/Streaming
7th April 2023
Modern Obscure Music

Wide Scope Protocol is the new project from Barcelona-born composer, film score writer and producer Javier Rodero Villa. ‘Swan Cake’, his free-form debut album, will be released on April 7th, 2023, through Modern Obscure Music.

‘Swan Cake’ is a collection of works composed of long landscapes, psychedelic passages, and brain dance cuts reminiscent of the sounds of Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Manuel Gotching, Cocteau Twins, Stereolab and Moon Duo. During a two year “stage” living in London, Rodero Villa wanted to explore new territories far away from his background of composing film scores, with fellow Spaniard Pedro Vian giving him his Modern Obscure Music platform to experiment without limits. 

‘Swan Cake’ is 10 tracks of scintillating emotion with tender melodies, undulating euphoria and deep cinematic soundscapes showcasing the entrancing nature of Wide Scope Protocol’s sonic palette. The eerie atmosphere pulsates throughout the album as twinkling synths combine with icy, IDM-tinged fx and slow-burning, rhythmic vibrations.

Rodero Villa was a lover of music from an early age and took his early influences from the sound of bands like The Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3 (Swan Cake closes with a version of their legendary song Repeater)., and Low in addition to soundtrack composers such as Bernard Herrmann, Morricone and Carter Burwell.

Rodero Villa attended the ESCAC Film Academy in Barcelona, from which he graduated in Editing and Post Production. Given his musical and film training, coupled with his 15 years’ experience as a film editor and propelled by his mastery of the film language, Rodero went on to pursue a career in film scoring.

His first film, ‘Ghost Graduation’ (Javier Ruiz Caldera 2012, 20th Century Fox), was characterized by electronic sounds and experimental synthesizers combined with stringed instruments and percussion.  In 2015 Rodero Villa was nominated for the Feroz Awards along with composers such as Shigeru Umebayashi and Alberto Iglesias for his work in ‘Spy Time’ (Javier Ruiz Caldera 2015, Warner Bros). Further film score compositions include ‘Valley of The Death’ (Sony Pictures), the upcoming film, ‘A Man Of Action’ (Netflix Original) - and a variety of soundtracks for series and documentaries like ‘Ciudades a Contraluz’, ‘Le Jour de Glorie’ or the upcoming: ‘The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld’.

Rodero Villa is currently working on a new TV Show while preparing the next Wide Scope Protocol album.


01. A Simple Plan
02. Editor’s Choice
03. Swan Cake
04. Safety Matches
05 Black Folder
06. Upstream Quest
07. Vermouth
08. Brickley K
09. Crystal Clear
10. Repeater S3

Wide Scope Protocol - A Simple Plan

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meditative drone set for "LIMINAL DREAMS"
at traffic Tokyo

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Carlos Ferreira is an experimental Brazilian guitarist and composer whose work is concerned with the nature of listening and explores the relationship between sound, space, time and memory. Artist of Past Inside The Present (USA), Modern Obscure Music (Spain) and AKP Recordings (USA), he has released albums on several labels worldwide, such as ARCHIVES (Spain), 梅レコード / Umé Records, Beatless Tapes (Japan), Atlantic Rhythms, Aural Canyon, Mystery Circles , Histamine Tapes (USA) and Giraffe Tapes (Georgia) among others; he has also produced special live sets for Dublab radio stations in Osaka (Japan) and Los Angeles (USA). Frequent contributor to Fantaspoa (International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre), the largest festival of its kind in Latin America, performing new live soundtrack performances for classic silent films. He has already done remixes for artists such as Hinako Omori, Patricia Wolf, Jonny Radtke, among others.

Instagram: @carlosferreirasounds

For complete bio and interview visit:
www.institutrecords.com/podcast/carlosferreira
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Institut GLOBAL Invites - Carlos Ferreira (Live) / Podcast # 004

This month we welcome Tokyo-based electronic sound artist and lyricist, Yumi Iwaki.

Yumi is an extraordinary talent, who layers her voice, acoustic instruments, field recordings, modular synthesisers, and small synthesisers, as if travelling through an imagined landscape.

Her mix takes us through a selection of music she likes to listen to when she wants to relax, but at the same time add something spicy. The flow of sounds take her to different places while in a daze.

Tracklist:

1. Zane Trow - a call from minyon falls [Room40, 2021]
2. IDRA & Hiroshi Ebina - IV [Mystery Circles, 2022]
3. Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - Hanging Glass Structure [Melody As Truth, 2017]
4. Suso Saiz - Scrub Your Ego [Music From Memory, 2019]
5. Ryan J Raffa & Yumi Iwaki  - Rains of Keelung [泊人ANKR, 2023]
6.  |||||||||||||||||||| - Outlook Remains Untouched [self-released, 2021]
7. Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov - Our Choices Are Prepaid [Etheraudio Records, 2018]
8. Ann Annie - By Morning [self-released, 2022]
9. Carlos Ferreira - Imaginary Soundscape I (Postcard Six) [Past Inside the Present, 2020]
10. Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Trebizond [Shelter Press, 2021]
11. Bana Haffar - Sit Still [Touch, 2023]
12. Federico Durand - Salvia [laaps, 2021]
13. r beny - alone in the pavillion [self-released, 2020]
14. J Foerster / N Kramer - Four Glass Steps [Leaving Records, 2021]
15. Shuttle358 - Can you prove I was born [12k, 2015]

Mix mastered by Holosuite Mastering
Artwork by Clayton Ciolac

The Observatory - Yumi Iwaki

わたしのすいか

Carlos Ferreira is an Brazilian experimental guitarist & composer, whose work is concerned with the nature of listening, and explores the relationship between sound, space, time & memory. Artist at Past Inside The Present (USA), Modern Obscure Music (Spain) and AKP Recordings (USA), he has released albums on several labels worldwide, including ARCHIVES (Spain), 梅レコード / Umé Records (Japan), Giraffe Tapes (Georgia), Aural Canyon, Atlantic Rhythms & Mystery Circles (USA), among others.

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