The distilling of sketches = Ōe
credits
released October 26, 2021 

Music - Ishmael Cormack 
Mastering - Fallow Recordings 
Artwork - A reel, open scanned 









For quiet rooms

Ishmael Cormack - Ōe

Harbor

Desaturation

Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida
Taken from the forthcoming album "Room tones"

PRE ORDER:
Room tones
by Jet Jaguar

CD/Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/room-tones

In sound work for films and so on, recording a "room tone" is where you record the space where the action is going to happen, but while nothing is happening. I don't have any personal experience in that world, but I feel like I'm forever interested in music where not much is happening, so 'Room Tones' made me laugh - a collection of recordings that are barely there but still serve a point? I mean, I'm not Steve Roden or anything, but the name clicked. I'm usually looking for double-meanings in an album name and it hardly needs to be said at this point that any music made in the last few years is probably in some way about being tucked away indoors. So tones made in rooms, made for rooms? Sure. 



When I was writing about my last album on Shimmering Moods, 'Recording', I compared music-making to a diary. Two and a half years later, I still really strongly feel that same sense. I don't write with a project or release in mind, usually - if anything I've been working hard on not being too bound by what I've already done - but it still all comes from me and I typically select things for coherence. That seems like something I expect from a diary. Perhaps where the metaphor falls down is that a diary is chronological, while with 'Room Tones' I'm pulling together finished bits and pieces I feel work together. It was 2007 when I made the recording that gives 'Ōokayama Cats At Night' its name, sitting on the back porch of my apartment, waiting for the washing to finish. In contrast, I made 'Tonal Drift' as soon as I recorded the korimako that showed up to make some noise in the garden at my current place. And while most of this music was completed around the same time, one track is maybe five years older than the others. 


As always, thanks to all who listened or supported me in other ways, especially Amanda, Adrien, Tim, Shanan, Jenny, Andy, Stuart, and all my family. Times being as they have been, thanks to little online communities like the Disquiet Junto, AEMC, and lines. 

Limited to 60 CD's, handmade covers, various colors available, hand numbered:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/room-tones

Releases July 1, 2022 

Written and recorded by Michael Upton 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Photo's by Michael Upton 

Shimmering Moods Records 2022 
SHM 219

Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida

Chimères

Comma

Light . Everywhere | Album 'LIGHT'

2 notes

Cede

Burnt Island

A certin feeling as we sit to listen to this music

Golden Vibrations

killswitch lullaby (sped up)

20th Jamuary…
An ambient outing for the creatures of the Seaquence app. 
Sounds are from Korg Module.
Reverb is from Revolv.

Comma

Christine Ott