Reshape contains musical interpretations by Alva Noto, ASC, bvdub, Warmth, Markus Guentner, Simone Giudice, zakè and Głós. The works are related to original pieces from Joachim Spieth's past creative phase and thus form a musical conclusion to the 15th label anniversary of Affin.

Reshape is released as 2 x 12" vinyl album and digital formats. All tracks were mastered at Artefacts Mastering Studio in Berlin. The graphic design was realized by Markus Guentner.
credits
released December 16, 2022

all tracks written & produced by Joachim Spieth
design | markus-guentner.de
photo | tim-grothe.de
Affin | linktr.ee/AffinLTD
mastering | artefactsmastering.com
distribution | www.spacecadets.world

Joachim Spieth -  Apas (Warmth Reshape)

"Amber" is a track recorded for SEQUENCE8 compilation by @futuresequence label/magazine.

"Amber crackles like the surface of a quietly waking volcano, a rising melting-heat of ambient melody gathers momentum before fading and giving way to a wonderful piano refrain."

Free download here:
https://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/album/sequence8

Brief info on artists here:
http://www.futuresequence.com/sequence8/ 

Amber

A remix I´ve done for Makiko Miyara, on the japanese Bishop label.
https://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/yue-zui-bei/id966453999

Tsukiyoi Uta (Kettel Remix)

Taken from "Frammenti"

A few copies left:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/frammenti

Edition of 35 handmade CD packages, wallets, stamped, hand numbered.

releases February 8, 2025 

Written and produced by Paco Maddalena 
Mix: Nauta Studio 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 

SHM 327 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025



Paco Maddalena - Perpetuo movimento

pre-run stock cube

Skazka means fairy tale in Russian. Fairytales are more real than modern life, filled with illusory values. A man truly exists only in myth, in a supernatural, mystical reality, and everything else is just an external pursuit of illusory success, which prevents us from being present in the moment, understanding ourselves, and being truly happy.

Skazka

Fountain of Desires

attilio novellino - snapshot of a loss

From the album With Voices available January 18, 2019 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/with-voices-2
iTunes hyperurl.co/806yif
Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/3dDRn42zqNUv4vITI2Z3CU
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv185

With Voices is the newest recording by Dutch composer Rutger Zuydervelt under the moniker Machinefabriek. True to its title, the album’s eight pieces exhibit Zuydervelt’s use of cassette recorders, tone generators, radios, synths, and other hifi curio to construct bewildering aural architecture around vocal contributions from Peter Broderick, Marissa Nadler, Richard Youngs, Chantal Acda, Terence Hannum (of Locrian) and others. These human voices are featured as musical instruments rather than mere vehicles of lyrical content, resulting in a sub-linguistic mosaic of primordially stirring moods.

The initial spark of With Voices was kindled while Zuydervelt was in Taipei creating music for a dance company. In the final days of his trip, a dancer named Wei-Yun Chen caught Zuydervelt’s ear with an instagram video featuring a voice that turned out to be Wei-Yun’s own (she would end up on the album’s seventh movement, a piece that features dissected bits of Taiwanese poetry amid low-pitched murmurs and whispering fogbanks of static). The encounter stirred Zuydervelt to create a single 35 minute soundscape upon which each vocalist on With Voices was encouraged to improvise, be it talking, reading, singing, or wordless, guttural intoning. Such vocal smatterings were then used to determine how the other tonal elements should be arranged, dictating where each musical passage would ultimately lead. “The idea was for everyone to just do what came naturally” he recalls, “the element of unpredictability was important to me.” 

Indicative of this approach “III” (the tracks are simply titled with Roman numerals) slowly winds like ivy through staccato phrases spoken by Zuydervelt’s peer Peter Broderick, whose micro-incantations skip along mechanically only to telescope into monastic grandeur at the track’s midpoint; the vibrations of vocal cords are often stretched to a seismic hum to form the heavy implements in Zuydervelt’s toolkit. On “V”, tape recordings of Berlin electronic artist Zero Years Kid (aka Joachim Badenhorst) sputter with their own apparent intelligence like a faulty AI attempting to interpret reels of human speech in some ruinous library of the distant future. Finally, a siren-like Marissa Nadler leads the suite to its lullabic endpoint with overlapping wisps of harmony devoid of accompaniment ending the album on an angelic note.  

In these moments, like much of With Voices, warm-blooded arteries seem to have grown around bits of well-designed artifice to form something warmly alien, soberly futuristic, and inherently satisfying. More than simply an album of collaborative features, With Voices is a mutating collage of modern minimalism that challenges as often as it comforts. There is an alchemical, metallurgical quality that arises from Zuydervelt’s unique way of merging humanness with abstraction, harshness with beauty, and unintelligibility with familiarity on what may be the most affecting Machinefabriek release to date.

Machinefabriek - "VIII (with Marissa Nadler)"

Originally from the "Warmth (For Jii)" compilation, which is no longer online.  It now appears on an e.p. entitled 'Collected', which is a small collection of music that had first appeared on comps that are sold out, or no longer available.

http://darrenharper.bandcamp.com/album/collected

Mastered by Tokee: doperec.com/tokee 
Artwork by Peter Nejedly: www.flickr.com/photos/peternejedly/


purchase

Memory Loop

The track from my latest album "Swallow".

W&P by Masaya Kato and Denis Davydov (Valotihkuu) 
Mastered by Denis Davydov 
Artwork pictures by Oleksandr Demianenko

Listen full album: https://band.link/5HXVt

Swallow

Gardenia

Spring of 2021 is off to a good start! Well, at least when it comes to beautiful music that I love to feature on Headphone Commute! This week has already been full of introductions, announcements, and exciting premieres! And today is no exception! In fact, it’s the highlight of my week, as I’ve been awaiting to share this release with you for almost a month now. “Anxiety Mist” is an opening piece from Matt Emery‘s upcoming six-track EP on Injazero Records, titled Spotlight Series : Cello, and it holds no prisoners! As you may have already glimpsed from the title, Emerie intends to release a series of recordings, focusing on an individual instrument for each one – with the opener prominently featuring the cello. In addition to showcasing the virtuosity, tonal range, and timbre-rich textures of each one, there is also a story with each release. Perhaps the album cover [and my tongue-in-cheek pun of mentioning ‘prisoners’ above] gives away the theme of this first entry, as the dark, intense, and cinematic climax of this piece retells a story of a samurai preparing for a battle. Anxiety is at the core of rising tones, increasing tension in dynamics as if performed in one big breath until exhale brings on comfort.

Opener ‘Anxiety Mist’ is made up of fifteen individually-performed lines, its core revolving around a rising glissando figure, eventually accompanied with lush, building harmonies and punctuated by stabs and erratic higher melodies that paint the picture of warriors waiting in line amid the mist, a thunderous charge into battle forebodingly imminent.

Spotlight Series : Cello

Anxiety Mist

TRACK PREMIERE : Matt Emery - Anxiety Mist

ambient/experimental sound artist, lover of nature, wanderer... .

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Memory Loop

darren harper