Darren Harper - A Way/Within
Taken from VA/Meditations 6
Limited Edition CD available here:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m…tions-6

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Release date: 12.3.2021

Darren Harper [b.1970] is an American experimental/ambient sound artist residing high within the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 
Drawing from both electronic and acoustic sources, his compositional output is based entirely on experimentation and improvisation, with a strong emphasis on minimalism, and often reflects a desire for a greater understanding of nature and self, and the relationship therein. 
Darren has released works on several international labels, including Shimmering Moods, Dronarivm, Flaming Pines, Analogpath, Rural Colours, Soft Recordings, Disq AN, Audio Gourmet, and Twice Removed, as well as several compilations, netlabel and self-released projects. 

soundcloud.com/darrenharper 

darrenharper.bandcamp.com

Darren Harper - A Way/Within

Mind over MIDI - Night Owl 
Taken from VA/Meditations 7
Limited Edition CD available here:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m…tions-7

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Release date: 12.3.2021

Mind over MIDI a.k.a. Helge Tømmervåg is from Kristiansund on the north-west coast of Norway. He has been working with electronic music since the beginning of the 80's, first as a member of synth-pop band ToC, and later as Mind over MIDI. 

His early works was in the british experimental style, drawing inspiration from µ-ziq, Autechre and Aphex Twin. He then evolved into more minimal soundscapes inspired by a.o. Richie Hawtin/Plastikman and Mauritzio/Basic Channel, mixing this minimalistic approach with an "arctic" ambience and feel, inspired by a.o. Biosphere. 

With releases on labels such as Silent Season, Shimmering Moods, Rohs! and Beatservice in the early days. He has also contributed a short record to Hibernate Recs charity series and Whitelabrecs Home Diaries series.

The Meditations various artists compilation continues its exploration into sounds with exclusive tracks for this compilation series.

Mind Over MIDI -  Night Owl

VISIONARY MIND LAB 
Live Jam @ Müvelodeszi Szint, Budapest
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Snippets: [link]

Featuring:

Adrian Newgent (NL) - electronics, guitar, voice 
Viktor Nagy (HU) - electronics, body controllers 
Harshavardan Sreedhar (IND) - voice, synthsitar, electronics 
Pietro Bardini (IT) - electronics 
Zsombor Czeglédi (HU) - trumpet 

powered by Martin Audio

"MüSzi was a co-working space at he the border of the center, at the last floor of an old building that was hosting the carcass of what once used to be a shiny mall.  A space big enough to give shelter to the repeatedly chased away underground tribes of the city. 
We had rented one of the spaces available and opened what slowly became a studio, an office, a second home, a concert or rearsal room. Sometimes a bedroom. 
A creative, vibrating hub at the core of MüSzi, generating a wide magnetic field that kept creative people in orbit around it, playing music and experiencing its power. 

Visionary Mind Lab was pulsating loud, day and especially night. 

We threw a few events at MüSzi main hall too: on March 12, 2016, The Lab joined into a few hours long jam session. We dusted off the recording and after 4 years we decided to release a part of it to celebrate those times. The space had to close, our lab shut its doors and a lot of energy got dispersed. This recording will help us not to forget too much."

Mastering by Adrian Newgent
Original cover artwork by Viktor Nagy

Live Jam in Muszi (part II)

Visionary Mind Lab - Live Jam In Muszi Snippet SideB

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🎧 Music for:
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Recurring Dreams

25 Sept - Rubber

This track unfolds as a deeply atmospheric and introspective journey, characterized by its expansive synth pads and subtly evolving textures. A gentle, almost arpeggiated synth line emerges, weaving through the ethereal soundscape, while filtered percussive elements provide a soft, understated pulse. The overall mood is one of profound calm and contemplation, perfect for deep listening or as a backdrop for focused work. 

Astral

Working only with highly processed recordings of choirs, plus field recordings from churches and cathedrals throughout Europe, Andrew Sherwell’s murky, lo-fi, devotional drones have been released on Whitelabrecs, Shimmering Moods Records and Rusted Tone Recordings.

☆ Andrew's new album "Approaching" is out now on Rusted Tone Recordings ☆
https://rustedtonerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/approaching

Tracklist

00:00 Akira Rabelais - Gorgeous Curves Lovely Fragments (Spellewauerynsherde, Samadhi Sound, 2004)
02:30 Rafael Anton Irisarri - Lesser Than the Sum Of Its Parts (The Unintentional Sea, Room40, 2013)
10:06 Svarte Grenier - Kobbergruve, Endelig Jeg Fant (Til Seters, Miasmah, 2008)
13:05 Ian Nyquist - Phoill Bhig (Cuan, Eilean Rec. 2019)
16:30 Endrjua Servela - hesychasm 04v3 (2020)
22:12 Deathprod - Orgone Donor (Morals & Dogma, Smalltown Supersound, 1997)
29:45 Kreng - Na Da Sex (L’Autopsie… Miasmah , 2009)
33:40 James A McDermid - Pulling Yellow (In Little Swallows, Shimmering Moods, 2019)
38:30 Deaf At Sea - Nothing (is better than this) (2019)
43:24 Elegi - Gejnganger (Bansull, Dronarivm, 2017)
45:20 Juurko Haltuu - Void 5 (Void, Shimmering Moods, sometime in 2019)
54:40 Siavash Amini - The Wind (What the Wind Whispered To The Trees remaster, Room40. 2019)

Have a good listening.

deep breakfast

Deep Breakfast 012 - Andrew Sherwell

Neglect (Tucson-based artist and musician Joseph Valentino) is an ambient music project that chronicles the beauty of the American Southwest and Pacific Northwest with sparse, elliptical melodic fragments on guitar and synths. Influenced by sources as diverse as dub, detroit techno, 90's IDM, and abstracted sound art, Valentino's music mines the deep emotional resonance and meditative quality of the endlessly repeating ostinato melody, like Wolfgang Voight's Gas project, Stars Of The Lid, and William Basinski. 
https://soundcloud.com/neglectsound
https://neglectsound.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist

Murkok - Panflora Wind (Saklahcha)
Monadh - Calanque (Muara)
David Tagg + John Daniel - Moonlight Prophecy (Midnight Cloud)
Neglect - Costa Brava (A Giant Asleep)
Tim Gray - Pentahedron (Polyhedrons)
Anthony Child - emeaningoflifeistoliveth (Unfolding Forms)
SOS Gunver Ryberg - Day After Day (Cutterhead soundtrack)
Rapoon - Ochre (Raising Earthly Spirits)
Strie - untitled 1956 (Struktura)
Jon Hassell - Al Kongo Udu (Listening To Pictures)
Pole - Karussell (3)
Strategy - SWIC10 (What If?)
Pye Corner Audio - Transmission Seven: Pathways Open (Black Mill Tapes Vol. 3)
Pioneer - Paperboats (self titled)
Grouper - Sleep (fragment)
William Basinski + Lawrence English - Selva Oscura (Selva Oscura)
Neglect - Lithium (version 2)
Darren McClure - Strange Slip In Time (On Opposites)

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 036 - Neglect

Taken from Unjin's EP Northern Atmosphere on Kizen Records, out June 19.

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"Growth" was born from the inspiration of both nature and my synths.

https://mickchillage.bandcamp.com/album/growth

On a recent walk around my local park and across its rather impressive yet brutal looking suspension footbridge which spans across the river below I noticed the growth of lichen on its fabricated structure, the bridge is only a few years old and I was taken by the bright yellow fungi contrasting against the wine coloured painted metal supports and the black slip resistant walk way, I felt this would make a nice photograph so I took a picture with my phone. 

The image kinda lingered in my brain longer than I expected and I was fascinated how the lichen was taking over the bridge, almost as if it was trying to blend in the alien structure to its natural surroundings.

I began to see a connection between nature's ability to grow in the most unexpected environments and how growth can happen to us in the unexpected situations, particularly poignant in the current pandemic we all find ourselves in, for many this has been a challenging time for sure but also its been a time of growth as we find new ways to cope and perhaps discover that maybe we should be doing things different in our lives. 

The track itself, came about purely through experimenting with the Moog Grandmother initially, a random generative patch I created was the catalyst, by dialling various control knobs it created very varied and unexpected results, I also captured some drones that evolved from this patch and then built more synth parts from the Prophet Rev2, & the Supernova II, eventually the Moog elements became more like background effects and as the track comes to its final quarter I played some improvised keys using the Native Instruments Maverick Piano which I felt complimented some of haunting synth sounds.

The title "Growth" seemed to fit as the track grew from an unusual sonic foundation just like the lichen had grown on the metal of the very industrial and brutal looking footbridge at my park.

Growth [download available @bandcamp]

This time on Snakecast Series we have a very special ambient mix from @nottarecords label boss Needless. It's a perfect Sunday soundtrack for the end of November 2020. Enjoy the journey.

"Listen carefully what I have to say thru these songs. Feel the emotions I have felt at certain points in my life. Especially, feel my sadness."
- Needless

SNAKECAST 012 - NEEDLESS

Mix series focused on the deep, abstract and emotional side of electronic music.

Est. 2019

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Deep Breakfast 012 - Andrew Sherwell

Deep Breakfast Series