rustig

From the forthcoming album SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (Faitiche 33)

SG - Western Affect

Walt McClements - "Cloud Prints"

Haze

Nexus

Suddenly/Big Empty Country

Big Empty Country (Edit)

Dusk Can Dance

Once Was Ours Forever

Walk The Eighth Path

The Way Things Looked

Holy Moment

Obsolescence

CST063: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales (2010) TRACK 06

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra • "Kollaps Tradicional (Bury 3 Dynamos)"

CST084
Those Who Didn't Run EP
Colin Stetson

www.cstrecords.com/cst084

Colin Stetson • The end of your suffering

CST085
Impossible Spaces
Sandro Perri

www.cstrecords.com/cst085

Sandro Perri • "Wolfman"

Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura's music remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy and Spencer Doran – is proud to reissue Yoshimura's debut Music for Nine Postcards for the first time outside Japan in collaboration with Hiroshi's widow Yoko Yoshimura, with more fully licensed reissues of Hiroshi's work to follow in the future.

Working initially as a conceptual artist, the musical side of Yoshimura's artistic practice came to prominence in the post-Fluxus scene of late 1970s Tokyo alongside Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi, taking many subsequent turns within Japan’s bubble economy afterward. His sound works took on many forms - commissioned fashion runway scores, soundtracking perfume, soundscapes for pre-fab houses, train station sound design - all existing not as side work but as logical extensions of his philosophy of sound. His work strived for serenity as an ideal, and this approach can be felt strongly on Music for Nine Postcards.

Home recorded on a minimal setup of keyboard and Fender Rhodes, Music for Nine Postcards was Yoshimura’s first concrete collection of music, initially a demo recording given to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art to be played within the building's architecture. This was not mere background music in the prior Japanese “BGM” sense of the word, but “environmental” music, the literal translation of the Japanese term kankyō ongaku [環境音楽] given to Brian Eno’s “ambient” music when it arrived in late 70's Japan. Yoshimura, along with his musical co-traveler Satoshi Ashikawa, searched for a new dialog between sound and space, a new way of listening: sound not as an absolute, but as something that interlocks with a physical environment and shifts the listener’s experience within it. Erik Satie's furniture music, R. Murray Schafer's concept of the soundscape and Eno’s ambience all greatly informed their work,  but the specific form of tranquil stasis presented on releases like Nine Postcards is still difficult to place within a specific tradition, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic despite the economy of it's construction. This record offers the perfect introduction to Hiroshi's unique and beautiful worldview: it's one that can be listened to - and lived in - endlessly.

Music for Nine Post Cards

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - "Dream" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

CST093
Mo7it Al-Mo7it
Jerusalem In My Heart

Debut album from Montreal-based experimental music + film projection project. Release date: 14 March 2013

Album info: http://cstrecords.com/cst093
Band info: http://jerusaleminmyheart.com/

Mo7it Al-Mo7it

Jerusalem In My Heart • "Yudaghdegh el-ra3ey wala al-ghanam"

<b>SARAH NEUFELD</b>, "Hero Brother"
from <i>Hero Brother</i>
Release date: 20 August 2013

http://sarahneufeldmusic.com/
http://cstrecords.com/cst095

Sarah Neufeld • "Hero Brother"

We are an independent record label based in Montréal, releasing experimental music we care about in the most careful ways we can.

Sandro Perri • "Wolfman"

Constellation Records

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