We’re happy to welcome Berlin based musician Midori Hirano to the label with her new album Soniscope. The album will be out on September 10th on a heavyweight vinyl edition and digital. Award winning composer Robot Koch provided a rework of the track Patterns under his recently announced new ambient project Foam and Sand.

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Artwork by Jelle Martens 
Mastered by Ian Hawgood

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Midori Hirano - Patterns (Foam And Sand Remix)

In anticipation of new work coming later this year, we happily welcome back David Allred to the label with his new single Daylight. 

Artwork by Skrew Studio  
Mastered by Ian Hawgood

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David Allred - Daylight

Extended, 7 minute version of "Vanished," the short, 64-second track ending Side A "Old Cool Echoes."
Created w/ a small Make Noise modular synthesizer, Vaaaaanished was 1st presented at MOTS AVL, Modular on the Spot Asheville, Spring 2021.
credits
released January 5, 2022
Written and Recorded: Tony, April 2021 @ Goldenechos Studios
Mastered: Kri Samadhi
Cover Art: David James Lynch
All music © suicide sound songs

Vaaaaanished

X.Y.R. "Aquarealm" LP (NNF377)
Not Not Fun / 2022

ENTER THE REALM:
xyrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/aquarealm
midheaven.com/item/aquarealm-by-xyr

X.Y.R. "The Signals From The Abyss"

Sa Casa Des Carbó

Lucient - Turquesa

"It’s the last song on the album - a love letter to anyone that might need it."

180gm white vinyl edition of 500 copies - deluxe printed inners / CD / Digital    https://hth.lnk.to/Hinako

London-based artist Hinako Omori releases her debut full-length album, ‘a journey…’ on March 18th. The release will be celebrated with a special performance on March 19th in the Purcell Room at London’s Southbank Centre accompanied by London Contemporary Orchestra.

Artist: Hinako Omori
https://linktr.ee/hinakoomori

Label: Houndstooth
https://linktr.ee/houndstooth

Artwork: Emi Takahashi
http://emitakahashi.ca

Lyrics:

"I tried to visualise
what it was like through
your eyes
 
But all I could see
closed in on me
 
the fragility
 
I wish I could let you know
that every passing moment
will fall like the snow
 
Not settling
disappearing without a trace
before you
 
Let me be your eyes
let me guide your light 
through the darkness
 
Let me be your eyes
let me shine a light
on your darkness
 
I promise there’s a way"

Snow

Hinako Omori - Snow

Serenity

New Dawn

Irrealis 

Shri

We’re happy to announce the welcoming of Heather Woods Broderick to our roster with her new album Domes. The album will be released on May 13th 2022 on vinyl, tape and digital. After having released solo albums on Western Vinyl and Preservation, Domes presents the first entirely instrumental work of the California based multi-instrumentalist.

Domes is a collection of meditative pieces based around the cello. While not being her primary instrument, the cello holds a very special place for the artist. Throughout the past 2 years, Heather often felt the need to find moments of respite in response to the chaotic and turbulent times we all faced in that period. Her days started or ended with the cello. A single melody initiated a process in which new elements were gradually added to the initial loop until the sounds filled her up. This process and the instrumental nature of these pieces opened the path for self-reflection and enabled her to express emotions outside the world of words or lyrics:
 
“The cyclical nature of the loop combined with the sound feeling like it’s surrounding me feels serene and safe. My hope is that listeners experience this as well.” - Heather Woods Broderick
 
Domes is a documentation of that period and offers 7 pieces which to the artist feels like dense masses – strong grounding sounds that can hold weight or be used to disperse weight - in an emotional sense. The album title, Domes, reflects this idea as domes are made out of triangles – the strongest shapes in the physical world. Coincidentally, there are 7 different triangles. As such, the pieces on Domes each reflect a different triangle, a different strongest shape which offers the listener a solid basis to find rest and calmness.

Artwork by Femke Strijbol
Mastered by D. James Goodwin

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Heather Woods Broderick - Figura

With a strong interest in geology and biology, Takahashi started imagining the landscape and life of the Earth in prehistoric times based on fossils and illustrated books, later used as inspiration for his compositions. At first sight, these images make it easy to envision the ecosystems and environments of prehistoric Earth as so distinct from those of today that they could almost be seen as different planets. Living through the pandemic, when Takahashi first started composing the songs, made him rethink his initial thoughts. 

“The Palaeozoic era was a time of extinction, of prosperity and decline. When I think ab out these facts from geology, they are quite spectacular. But I felt that this cycle is still happening today, b ut on a different scale. If you think about the time before Covid-19, people were very active and free to move around. It was with this in mind that I set about writing the music, imagining what it would be like to overcome the social upheaval of Covid-19." 

It's the similarities between his initial analogy and the new pandemic reality that ultimately formed the main context for Paleozoic. This led Takahashi to make an album which sonically reflected the sequence of Paleozoic: starting from a time when life flourished in the sea ,before the arrival of life on land, to the gradual arrival of plants and insects on land and the end of an era due to change. 

In order to create a more vivid representation of the life force and grandeur of nature, Takahashi decided to forgo his signature lo-fi production style of using GarageBand on his Iphone. For this, he enlisted the help of sound engineer, producer and Atoris bandmate Kohei Oyamada with the mix and arrangements, resulting in a highly evocative, expansive sound palette. 

“With his techno sensibility and sound engineering skills, he was able to bring me closer to the sound I've been chasing, which is full of mystery, life and images of a wild and simple time. This record is the first step in my work with him and the foundation for further progress." 

The result is a fascinating journey through imaginary landscapes infused with great dramatic affect and an acute sense for details across sweeping drones and electronic glistens. 
credits
released April 29, 2022 

Composed by H. Takahashi 
Mix & arrangement by Kohei Oyamada 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree (vinyl) and Kohei Oyamada (digital) 
Artwork by Alicia Carrera

Emerald

Forest Management conjures an immersive and absorbingly gauzy ambient meditation for Mirae Arts.

'Spring Snow' is out May 27th on Mirae Arts.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3G87Q4u

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Spring Snow 

Premiere: Forest Management - Seven Years Ago [Mirae Arts]

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Midori Hirano - Patterns (Foam And Sand Remix)

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