Dreamy, melancholic, peaceful, or just plain gorgeous? As long as your ears are open, the sound world of Yui Onodera will take you where YOU want to go. From simple means (piano, guitar, computer), Onodera draws complex materials, and then mixes them back into deceptively simple results. The work draws inspiration (and its title) from an abstract structure thought up by architect Christopher Alexander. What you get is quiet background music if you leave it at that or, if you are willing to take the time to listen, a deep immersive journey.

Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, Yui Onodera is a musician, a composer, and the founder of Critical Path. He studied both music and architecture, which explains his uncanny grasp of spatiality in music. His method consists in blending delicate instrumental lines with field recordings and computer treatments to create quiet, ambient electroacoustic pieces. This approach is akin to artists like Machinefabriek, Stephen Vitiello, and Chihei Hatakeyama.

"Semi Lattice" is Onodera's second solo album to be released in 2015 (the first one was "sinkai" on Japanese label Arctic Tone), after eight years of solo silence. In the interval, Onodera pursued several fruitful collaborations with musicians and groups like The Beautiful Schizophonic, Pjusk, Vadim Bondarenko, Mizkami Ryuta, and Baskaru recording artist Celer. All these projects seem to have informed "Semi Lattice" in some way, Onodera's solo works having grown lusher, fuller, and more fully-formed.

Yui Onodera - Semi Lattice 2

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Tiefenrausch

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'Friends - An Ambient Compilation' is available digitally and in a limited cassette edition via Seil Records.

Friends are: 
Emily A. Sprague, Lightbath, Hainbach, Interlaken, Paperbark, Scott Campbell, Jogging House, Ann Annie, ioflow, r beny, Amulets

Wind Map ('Friends' compilation / Seil Records)

included in Occulto Compilation #6 by Occulto Magazine

occulto.bandcamp.com/album/occulto-…fqg03eR2Ra2lMs

The Toxic Nostalgia Of Your Memory

40 minute longform piece put together for the Sedna Sessions at the end of 2019.

Darren McClure - Sedna Session

MISC.WAVES APOCALYPSE DISTRACTION SPECIAL
w/ Datassette, Mücha & Tengui

Inappropriate Joyousness
Unexpected Positivity
Mild Amusement In Accidentally Apt Lyrics
Happysad / Melancholy
Classic Cheddar

Originally broadcast on Threads Radio, April 9th 2020

Tracklist:

Intro
The Pharcyde - It's All Good!
Julianna Barwick - Someway
Robert Lippok - All Objects Are Moving
Kate Bush - King Of The Mountain
Arthur Russell - Being It
A-Ha - Take On Me (Datashat Abandoned Shopping Mall Remix)
Awakening - Gotta Do Something (Might As Well Cultivate)
Chris Morris & Steeve Coogan - Crisis Correspondent
The Black Dog - Virtual
Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath
Joful Talk - Part I - I've Got That Trans-Dimensional Feeling Again
Khotin - Frog Fractions
Talk Talk - I Believe In You (Tengui 1000 Yard Stare Version)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Viholliseni Maala (In The Land Of My Enemy)
Crystal Stilts - Converging In The Quiet
Broadcast - Echo's Answer
Mogwai - Tracy
Broadcast - Corporeal
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround 7
X-Ray Pop - Contakt
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Maximum Joy
Voices From The Lake - S.T. (VFTL Rework)
Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened
Bent - Always (Import Version)
Schneider TM - The Light 3000
Dubstar - Stars (2003 Datashat Edit)
Mücha - Hear, See, Feel
Outro

MISC.WAVES - Apocalypse Distraction Special w/ Datassette, Mücha & Tengui (9 Apr 2020)

The Light Of Setting Suns

my remix from “Soledad” by @PepoGalan

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/soledad

Soledad

Pepo Galán - Tristeza (furnish remix)

Tropic of Coldness is an Italian-US duo both based in Brussels, Belgium. David Gutman and Giovanni La Placa have been recording together since 2011 and have released through labels such as Cathedral Transmissions, Organic Industries, Shimmering Moods, Glacial Movements and Krysalisound. Their live performances have taken them across the Belgian cities as well as London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Frankfurt, and a couple of venues in The Netherlands.

Their new album ‘Human Kindness’ has been inspired by the current social and political framework, in particular the rise and mainstreaming of far-right political movements with their disheartening racism, authoritarianism, intolerance, bigotry and science-denialism, just to name a few of their contributions to the regression of mankind.

It is also dedicated to all the people who, everywhere in the world, are trying to peacefully resist and oppose the deterioration of our societies by being kind, empathic and helpful towards their fellow human beings.

In this sense, each song title is the outcome of a reflection on one of the above mentioned issues or has been inspired by a particular event. The sounds are slow and evolving as a long process of fully improvised guitar patterns are finely tuned into cathartic drones.

These pieces are landscapes that tread the finest lines: between hope and despair, fragility and strength. In between these lines are each one of us and the choices we make.
credits
released October 4, 2020

Recorded and mixed in Brussels by Tropic of Coldness between September 2018 and December 2019.
Mastered by Alessandro Rorato in December 2019.
Artwork by Tropic of Coldness
Packaging design by Harry Towell