Due out on limited CD on November 12th

DR-79 : ENRICO CONIGLIO - Alpine Variations

"The strenuous conquest of the top, the splendor of a landscape that slowly reveals in its dazzling beauty. In his new work, the Venetian based composer, guitarist and field recorder Enrico Coniglio leads us once again among his loved ones mountains: an epic landscape in which enchantment and fear are deeply intertwined. He chooses to do so offering us the sound as a sensory canvas of an imaginary enterprise with deliberately indefinite contours.

"Alpine variations" is a further step in the sound research carried out by the author in a long and complex path built over time inspired by environmental and atmospheric sounds.

A bewitching narrative emerges from the intersection of bright harmonic textures and dense ambient vapors crossed by restless shadows. The individual parts of this narration represent the stages of an ascent that is at the same time physical and spiritual. It is a nostalgic plot that in the partial roughness of its resonances returns the sense of precariousness of a bumpy path, poised between quiet contemplation and impending danger. 

The cinematic approach constantly reveals the genesis of an album originally built on a series of recordings dedicated to the creation of a film sound commentary that finally become an autonomous itinerary. Finally, all that remains is to close your eyes and prepare to face the journey". 

To Marina, she has returned to the mountains

ENRICO CONIGLIO - First Ascent

Pre-order now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/upward-eyes-kindred

Handstitched* is thrilled to announce the next installment of the split-artist series, Ian Hawgood and Fields We Found feature alongside each other for an outing of outstanding musical composure and tranquility. 

Ian's music needs little introduction, with many releases and collaborations under his belt on numerous well-known labels - to say he's prolific is pretty close to the mark. Ian also curates the wonderful Home Normal label, here in the UK. "upward eyes" is seriene, slow-moving and hauntingly subtle, prolonged space fills the moments we frequently overlook and leaves time for reflection during a quiet time spent in an open space. We are honoured to have his debut EP "upward eyes" featuring on Handstitched*. 

Fields We Found has just released his outstanding album "Distance" on the lovely Seil Records, which has been on constant rotation here at Handstitched* over the past month - and the new EP "kindred" is equally as moving, graceful and bewitching. The equilibrium and expression within "kindred" is harmonious - and at the same time, quietly sonorous.

Fields We Found and Ian Hawgood are both welcomed to Handstitched* with many thanks and admiration for their respective musical works as part of the split-artist series, it's great to have them visiting Handstitched* for this special release.

Limited to 50 copies. Released on mini CD-r and sage green cassette with hand-made packaging, tape O-cards and unique designs for each CD package. [HS45/45T]. 

Released August 12.

Ian Hawgood / Fields We Found - upward eyes/kindred [HS45/T S4mpl3r]

last track of the CD ''Ashtayama-Song of Hours'', on Amiata Records, Florence 2000, based on Raag Malkauns, only voice and digital delays by A.Cuni and W.Durand

Eight Yama  Deep Night

Our second mix is being released on Global Drone Day, an event created by Marie LeBlanc Flanagan of Weird Canada (https://droneday.org). This mix includes a new track by Chihei Hatakeyama from his forthcoming album, "Thousand Oceans," which will be released on Dronarivm in June on LP, CD, and digitally.

The mix, compiled by yours truly, Dmitry T., features tracks from various recent releases in the contemporary ambient/drone scene. These tracks have been a source of inspiration for me, and I hope they do the same for you. Drone on!

Tracklist:

00:00. Chihei Hatakeyama - Thousand Oceans (from the upcoming ‘Thousand Oceans’, Dronarivm)
05:35. Tomotsugu Nakamura - Rain Boundaries (from ‘Moon Under Current’, Teinei)
09:50. Enrico Coniglio - The Blue Hour (from ‘The Sirens of Titan’, Dronarivm)
13:22. Tim Six - Constellations Over Waves (from ‘Homing’, Atlantea Records)
19:02. Runaway Horses - House in the Woods (from ‘Recollected in Tranquility’, Dronarivm)
22:50. anthéne - Whispering Wave (from ‘Stray Light’, Floralia)
27:55. A Lily - Kemm Nixtieq Li Qed (from ‘Saru I-Qamar’, Phantom Limb)
31:35. Celer - Ultra-terrestrial Yearning (from ‘Perfectly Beneath Us’, Field Records, Still*Sleep re-issue)
35:05. Ryan J Raffa & Nico Rosenberg - On Thin Air (from ‘On Thin Air’, Muzan Editions)
42:15. David Cordero - Voice of the Forest (from ‘Important Small Details’, Home Normal)
45:50. Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - In a Gadda Da Vida (from ‘Lieder Ohne Worte’, Chitra Records)
50:35. Floating Shrine - A Moment, by the River (from ‘Connecting’, Decaying Spheres)
53:10. Masaya Ozaki - Skerpia (from ‘Mizukara’, Laaps)
56:36. The Green Kingdom - Softly Away (from 'Arcadian', Sound in Silence)

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Aether #002 by Dronarivm

Sleeplessness

GG Promises Volumes 1 - 15 Released 9-1-2025 Director & Conductor & Principal Benjamin Hill Producer, Benjamin Hill, coproducer IBen Morton Mastering Benjamin Hill, Mixing, Benjamin Hill, Recording Engineer Benjamin Hill, assistant engineer IBen Morton All songs written by Benjamin Hill and IBen Morton Composers IBen Morton and Benjamin Hill Benjamin and Benjamin, Programming, Percussion, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Bells, various Vocals, IBen Morton and Benjamin Hill Label, IBen Morton Music, IBen Morton and Company, IBen Morton Company Music, IMCM

Vows in the Wind

Through signs that never arrive and streetlights that refuse to shine, light makes its way through broken streets and fading echoes. Veins of neon pulse in the shadows, fragile but enduring, while the mechanisms of silence turn ceaselessly. In this fragile geometry, illumination emerges not as brilliance, but as presence, gently carried, born of a silent persistence.

Dreams That Collapse

One of four remixes taken from 'Weightless' by Alex Kozobolis

Preorder LP | CD | DL: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alex-kozobolis-weightless#/

Weightless is an EP of intricate original piano compositions by UK artist Alex Kozobolis. With a series of solo releases over the past few years and collaborations with artists such as Lee Chapman, Harry Edwards, and Anna Rose Carter, Weightless represents Alex's unique approach to composition and melody.

His touch on the piano is light and fluid; moving between dense sustained runs, which evaporate as soon as they are heard, to spaciously plotted notes. Weightless is the sound of weight itself lifting, of the earthly effect of gravity removed and allowing the listener to be suspended within mid-air, uninterrupted by pressures and restrains of the physical world. Coursing with energy, and running to take flight.

Each of the four tracks have been remixed by Siavash Amini, Tom Adams, Trnspt and Hedia, with very different, but cohesive results, expanding the tone of the EP into new areas.

Weightless will be available on limited clear vinyl, digipack CD and digital editions.

Tracklist

Side A
1. Unravel
2. Closure
3. And Find Yourself
4. Weightless

Side B
1. Weightless (Tom Adams Remix)
2. And Find Yourself (Siavash Amini Remix)
3. Closure (Hedia Remix)
4. Unravel (Transept Remix)

And Find Yourself by Alex Kozobolis (Siavash Amini Remix)

Strange Slip In Time

Taken from the self titled record on ALTER, released on the 23rd of June.

Order: https://lovetheme-alter.bandcamp.com/album/love-theme

Love Theme - Desert Exile (ALT34)

If you recall, exactly a month ago, on November 3rd, I have premiered a track by Roger Goula from the upcoming Various Artists compilation, titled Ambient Layers, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow, December 4th, on 7K! imprint. I retrace my words and see that I was processing the news about a second lockdown in the UK. Well, yesterday the stores have opened up again. So at least the government has kept its word and did not stretch it further. But things, of course, are not the same. It’s still suppressed, a little cold, a little dark, and slightly empty. And as the city’s waking up, I’ve got this beauty of a track to share and get us ready for another round. I hope that you have recognized this American [and Brussels-based] composer from his name alone. If not, let me remind you of his work with Brian McBride as Stars Of The Lid; with Christina Vantzou as The Dead Texan; and of course, with Dustin O’Halloran as A Winged Victory For The Sullen. And I’m not even diving into details of his film-scoring credits, which include Jóhann Jóhannsson and his Golden Globe-winning soundtrack for The Theory of Everything. Adam Wiltzie‘s most recent collaborative work, with its absolutely gorgeous contemporary classical and cinematic ambient treatments, and stunning live performances, has even got the monumental Ninja Tune to join on the party. For this single piece, Wiltzie revisits an earlier recording, a slow-burner of an orchestral immersion, reworked to the perfect intersection of where the neoclassical and ambient sounds reside.


‘How To Disappear Inside A Thirty Piece Orchestra’, was recorded in Budapest in 2014. It is an excerpt from the first recording of the Stars of the Lid follow up to ‘And Their Refinement of the Decline’. Subsequently, this piece was abandoned and left in the lurch as time elapsed. After some contemplation, Adam is letting the world have a taste of what could have never been, and what is possibly yet to come.


The compilation is already available for pre-order, and from the tracklisting alone, you can see that it’s an impressive roster of artists coming together to showcase the genre. Among the featured artists on the release, my favorites include Ryan Teague, Tilman Robinson, Robert Lippok, Michel Banabila & Machinefabriek, Pjusk, and Midori Hirano, and plenty others to discover along the way. This could be a beautiful opener for those just getting into all that is ‘ambient’ or a wonderful treat for those in the know at the end of this year. Oh, and I think I’ll be back [rather shortly] with yet another surprise!

Strange Slip In Time

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