From the album Youth available here: https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/youth

Youth

Long version is available on Bandcamp.
https://sudanobuto.bandcamp.com/album/winter-banana

About Illustration.
Attribution statement: "U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705" Permanent URL: handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/POM00001125

Winter Banana

~ IIKKI 019 ~

music : Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall)
photography : Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
album : Our Recently Acquired Knowledge (book: 07 AM)
duration : 35.56 mn
date : January 2023

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All music Ian Hawgood & Craig tattersall

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / natural clear LP / hand numbered  / selective varnish / hand numbered
cd: limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) / hand numbered
book: limited to 700 copies hand numbered / embossed / hand stamped / Swiss binding

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pre-order : December 12th, 2022 / official release : January 19th, 2023

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Links :
https://www.leavings.co.uk/
https://www.folkreels.com/
https://terezakozinc.com/
https://lemasterklass.com/klavdij-sluban/
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/

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Observatories - Our Recently Acquired Knowledge

Living Trance Wawes BT

Brendan Dougherty’s LP Economy and Failure is a work stemming from two tumultuous years for the artist: births, deaths and other big changes. The music was made in hotel rooms, airports, cafes and various studios using a basic setup of laptop and headphones. In contrast to Dougherty’s 2016 LP Sensate (Entr’acte), which used heavy synth patterns to create jittering rhythmic pulses without drum sounds, Economy and Failure sees the drums return on longer arrangements that bear some resemblance to techno. These tracks are interspersed with shorter études in texture and pulse. The resulting pattern heightens the tension between minimalism and emotional depth, making Economy and Failure a peculiar and poetic piece—and "Perfecter" is a perfect example of these qualities.

Brendan Dougherty – Economy and Failure
PE-013

Format/Editions: LP, limited Edition of 300 copies / files
Release Date: June 1st 2018

Get the LP

Brendan Douhgerty – Perfecter

from Jj Funhouse Christmas Compilation Vol.3 'Icicle'
https://jjfunnnhouse.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-compilation-vol-3-icicle-2
w/ tracks by Ōgon Batto, Accou, Ssaliva, N. Chambers, Jan Matthé and many more..

this track was recorded live at AB Salon, June 4th 2018

Christmas Compilation Vol. 3 'Icicle'

Ijskristallen

PREORDER/ https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/the-flower-and-the-vessel-2

Félicia Atkinson  'The Flower & The Vessel '
Shelter Press / SP110

French poet and ASMR auteur Félicia Atkinson has frequently fixated on the elusive interwoven relationship between microcosms and macrocosms – how even the quietest creative act ripples outward in unforeseen ways, a whisper with no fixed meaning. Her latest work pursues this notion in a more literal and lasting fashion, as it was crafted while pregnant on tour, in impersonal hotel rooms in foreign cities. She describes it as “a record not about being pregnant but a record made with pregnancy.” Each day and night, finding herself far from home, she asked herself “What am I doing here? How can I connect myself to the world?” The answer gradually revealed itself: “With small gestures: recording my voice, recording birds, a simple melody.”

In truth there is nothing simple about The Flower & The Vessel. The album’s 11 songs span a vast pantheon of whispering textures, opaque moods, and surreal spoken word, leading the listener through a mirrored hall of beguiling mirages. Atkinson cites a trio of French classical compositions from her childhood as formative influences on this particular collection: Maurice Ravel’s “L'enfant et les sortilèges” (“a scary opera for kids”), Debussy’s “La Mer” (for its union of narration and music) and Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédies” (as an exercise in negative space, irony without cynicism, and “melody with doubt”). There’s certainly a shade of classicism woven within these tracks, however veiled, abstracted, or unorthodox. Melancholic piano motifs repeat then retreat into a radiant frost of shivering frequencies; processed voices recite cut-up poems and interviews over delay-refracted Rhodes and Wurlitzer; iPad gamelan patterns flutter from meditative to melancholic and back again, offset by pointillist patches of delicate software synesthesia.

Although much of Atkinson’s past discography is shaped by speech and the lyricism of language, The Flower & The Vessel ventures farther into silence, absence, and voiceless wilderness. Among her sources of inspiration were “women who wonder, dream, and create vacant spaces in their art,” as well as Ikebana flower arrangements, which reflect her own relationship with listening: “structure combined with everyday noises, selecting them to make a sparse music bouquet.” Field recordings from Tasmania and the Mojave Desert murmur beneath hushed reverberations of gong, vibraphone, marimba, softly processed into an elegant emptiness, alternately eerie and serene.
 
Her mode of minimalism has long been one of reduction, riddles, and curation, but here Atkinson’s synergy feels close to apotheosis, emotive but ambivalent, a ceremony of expectation and invisible forces. The 19-minute closing collaboration with SUNN O))) guitarist Stephen O’Malley, “Des Pierres,” is one of the album’s few pieces tracked in a proper studio (Music Unit in Montreuil, France) but it broods and burns with the same subliminal majesty as the rest of The Flower & The Vessel: an ember in amber, seeds planted in shifting sands. Atkinson’s voice flickers like a flame, framed by slabs of shadowy feedback. Her process may be personal is but its impact ripples to the edges of existence: “How does the act of creation connect us, not only to history, but to the cosmic? It’s a process of taking, and then giving back. It makes us belong to the world.”

The Flower and the Vessel

Shirley to Shirley

FELICIA ATKINSON — Shirley To Shirley (SP110)

CE-19

yolabmi "Spirit's Whereabouts"

October 2019

https://soundcloud.com/yolabmi

yolabmi - Spirit's Whereabouts

Garden of Forking Paths (Zoë McPherson Rework)

from the "Flowering Tree, Distant Moon" CS (NNF371)
Not Not Fun / 2021

FLOWERING:
https://masahirotakahashi.bandcamp.com/album/flowering-tree-distant-moon-2
https://midheaven.com/item/flowering-tree-distant-moon-by-masahiro-takahashi

Masahiro Takahashi "Touji"

Satomimagae - Houkou

From Hanazono.
Learn more: https://smarturl.it/rvngnl74

Houkou

Satomimagae - Houkou

🌱 'Relativiteit Van de Omgeving' (NNF)
🍂 'Flow | 流れ'  w/ H.Takahashi (Aguirre)
🌫 Hare Akedod founder
and 1/2 of Spirit & Form (w/ Ōgon Batto)

Ijskristallen

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