Spheruleus is the long-standing artist name of Whitelabrecs owner Harry Towell, with releases outside of his own label appearing on the likes of Fluid Audio, Home Normal, Hibernate and Lost Tribe Sound. The project has been active since the netlabel days of 2009 and he has also collaborated with artists such as Sven Laux, Pleq and Ekca Liena. This new EP called Absent Frames is a short, conceptual work that delves back to his early work as a sound artist.

Harry had discovered some old field recordings he captured onto an Olympus digital recorder between 2007 and 2009. On listening to the collection, there were very few sounds that he could relate to; most were rain, birdsong or poorly recorded out-takes. In some cases, forgotten memories were recalled and overlapping events became a little clearer. But a clear and complete picture could not be recalled, due to the time that had elapsed and the lack of information to jog his memory.

The medium used to capture a moment in time does not record every tiny detail. A field recording doesn’t capture the visual experiences or tell you the location. For example, the rain droplets you hear could be from anywhere on the planet. A photograph does not always tell the story, the scent, the mood, the location. We use memory to recall the detail if we were present, but some of the detail may be stored in our subconscious or perhaps lost completely. We may easily recall some or most of the experience, but parts may be missing from even the most vivid of memories.

Recently, Harry took a photo of a swan swimming one evening in a local lake called Rutland Water. He can still recall the events earlier that day, the time of night, the section of the lake that his family were stood by, the time that they left the car park. The original photograph gave plenty of detail that would help him recall the memories from when it was taken. To match the theme of Absent Frames, Harry edited the image by replacing the horizon along the water surface, with the cloudy sky of a completely different image, from which memories will be much harder to recall.

Absent Frames is an EP consisting of two mid-length drone pieces, placing multiple field recordings at different volumes, along with drones to which he added multiple effects chains. The intent was to further blur the recordings, to make the content even harder to distinguish. So that in years to become, this theme becomes even more poignant.

Absent Frames

wlrep007 Spheruleus - Absent Frames

Soon: Empath - Wanting Is Suffering

Pre orders start 17.02.2022
Edition of 50

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

All tracks written by Mikko Ihalainen in Tampere, Finland in the year 2021.

Mastered by Andrea Porcu

Goddess - piano parts written and played by Emmi Ihalainen
Prana Mudra (Toiminto remix) written by Toiminto
Balagaardssiida (Tyhjiø Uhrituli Nomix) written by Tyhjiø.

Spiritual journey into universe of emotions. Learning and unlearning. Access on the sacred knowledge. New path to reality. Silence. Purity.

Empath - Wanting Is Suffering(album preview)

keeps calling tho

http://youtu.be/FrEpf2rB12k


The Void is Calling, but it Keeps Getting Wrong Numbers

Taken from the album 'taking into account only a portion of your emotions' released as CD and Download

taking into account only a portion of your emotions

pinkcourtesyphone 'Reference Point Intermission 1' (EMEGO 236)

A reworked version of one of the tracks used in the soundtrack to Surface Area Dance Theatre's production, 'Auricular'.

Auricular was performed in April 2017 at CCA, Glasgow (16 April), Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed (22 April)and at Turner Contemporary, Margate (29 April),

http://www.surfacearea.org.uk/auricular/

GB 2 Re/r/ed

‘And We Are Passing Through Silently’ is the sublime first survey of reworks by cult synthesist, Abul Mogard. 

Rounding up divine renderings of songs by Aïsha Devi, Penelope Trappes (The Golden Filter) and nick nicely (heralded by luminaries of the US underground Ariel Pink & John Maus), the album culminates with Brian Eno’s collaboration with Irish avant-folk band Fovea Hex. 

Also included is Abul’s brand new rework of Becoming Animal’s ‘The Sky Is Ever Falling’ which you can hear here, starring vocals from Cinder (This Mortal Coil/Cindytalk) and Massimo Pupillo on bass (Zu/Thurston Moore/Stephen O' Malley), exclusive to the 2LP, CD and digital release. Houndstooth have long been admirers of Abul Mogard’s beautifully stately, romantic melancholia for the best part of this decade. 

By most measures, Abul Mogard and his music are among electronic music’s most perplexing and revered quantities. Abul emerged in 2012 with an eponymous (and now sought after) cassette release for Steve Moore’s VCO. 

Unfurling Aïsha Devi into acres of imaginary space with ‘O.M.A.’ and transforming Penelope Trappes’ ‘Carry Me’ into a 12 minute organ meditation, Abul amplifies the emotions of each song while only making them feel more elusive in the process. It’s an approach which yields stunning results in the widescreen reframing of Cinder on ‘The Sky Is ever Falling’, and in his breathtaking, slow-mo explosion of Brian Eno’s Choral vocals for Fovea Hex, while the bruised soul and lysergic greys of his nick nicely rework, beautifully demonstrates the heart-wrenching grasp of harmonic distortion that everyone craves in Abul’s work. 

Leading on from Abul Mogard’s ‘Above All Dreams’ album in 2018 for Not Waving’s Ecstatic, and following veiled live appearances across Europe, ‘And We Are Passing Through Silently’ offers another tantalising window onto one of modern synth music’s rarest spirits. 

Art by London-based long-time collaborator Marja de Sanctis, who also works closely with Abul Mogard’s live visuals (marja.co)

And We Are Passing Through Silently

The Sky Is Ever Falling (Abul Mogard Remix)

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Becoming Animal - The Sky Is Ever Falling (Abul Mogard Remix)

Album ‘the spectre always leave the same way it entered’ by ϙue (@optovolokonniy) is a tribute to other-dimensional aspects of our existence. An attempt to look behind the flickering veil, a break-up music for blackmetal couples, a journey of the soul. The spiritualist seance will begin on May 14: 10 original avant-garde stories plus 3 remixes from @ArthurKriulyn, @Monotronique and @Lostlojic are waiting for you. Also will be available on limited edition of cassettes. mystictrax.bandcamp.com @mystictrax
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"...It may feel empty and confusing, but there is a rhythm within you. If you are mindful enough, you will find it. I know you can. And there will also be real peace and beauty in destruction..."

Bandcamp

there is even a rhythm in being empty

Part of Longform Editions (LE053)- produced, mixed and mastered by Carmen Villain. Flute performed by Johanna Scheie Orellana.

Affection In A Time Of Crisis (LE053)

https://soundcloud.com/muzaneditions

https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-of-mountains

Dream on the Retina - yolabmi (from The Sound of Mountains)

A3 - Laika bégaye

Anthéne, the music of Bradley Sean Alexander Deschamps. He is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and also curates the Polar Seas Recordings label. His compositions are primarily created using electric guitar and synthesizers, with field recordings and occasional acoustic instruments. Over the past few years his music has been released on Home Normal, Constellation Tatsu, Past Inside the Present, among other labels.

Anthéne - the slow wave [GRFTPS006]
available for pre-order on giraffe tapes bandcamp exclusively limited edition cassette / digital -
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-slow-wave

Giraffe Tapes - Anthene Live [19.02.2021]

Sounds of the Harbour

Sounds of the Country

Sounds of the Brain Damaged


No notes played by machines 

Recordings of machines sometimes used for notes

The Void is Calling, but it Keeps Getting Wrong Numbers

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