yui onodera / sinkai
ARCTIC TONE (Japan) 2015
http://www.arctictone.com/at02-yui-onodera-sinkai/

Recorded & composed in Tokyo, 2013-14.
All sounds sourced from Piano, Electric Guitars, Field Recordings, Found Objects, Analog Electronics, Synthesizers and Processing.

Suncycle (Frozen)

“inside” invites the listener to turn inward, tracing the subtle landscapes of thought and memory.

Through delicate textures and introspective tones, it offers a companion for moments of solitude, where silence and sound merge to illuminate the inner self.

generated by Nicolie Binara
produce, artwork and mastered by Setsuya KUROTAKI


All tracks copyright protected. All rights reserved.
℗ / © 2025 schön rec. under exclusive license to NOiR Inc.

inside one

reverie

Taken from Billow Observatory's album III: Chroma/Contour on Azure Vista Records, out February 8.

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III: Chroma/Contour

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from 'Lost World' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den320
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/md

This summer, Samuel van Dijk (also known as Mohlao and VC-118A) takes up his Multicast Dynamics alias for his fifth album on Denovali. Once again this storytelling artist sets out to remove you from reality and sink you deep into his Lost World. You arrive long after humans have left, but why? That is for you to find out.

Multicast Dynamics albums are always absorbing and journeying affairs that are as immersive as a film or evocative as an audio book. Since 2015, long players like Aquatic System, Outer Envelopes and Continental Ruins have explored forgotten utopias and unexplored oceanic abysses with a documentary maker’s attention to detail and narrative, and Lost World continues in this fine tradition.

This is a mysterious album that wants you to engage not only with the music, but with what it means. Where it takes you. What happened before it started and what will happen long after it ends. How did you get here? Where will you go? Listening to it is like tuning into a world that already exists, somewhere, like some distant sci-fi reality turned underwater ruin that has a million stories to tell if only you can find them. It’s an isolated world that is somehow alive with microbial life, crumbling architecture and radioactive energy that leaves you with a thousand questions as you descend ever deeper in search of some form of truth.

Track titles are subtle signposts along the way, while the music is like sonic poetry: expressive and beautiful, yet open to wide interpretation and always rather mysterious. It is music that fits perfectly with our visual world in the way the artist places sounds in specific places in the sonic field. You are the central character as the action moves, pans and unfolds around you in a 360 degree spatial field rather than on a linear plane. Lost World, then, is a voyage to a distant reality that awaits your own endless exploration.

Lost World

Multicast Dynamics - Oceana

Time is Local

We like We & Jacob Kirkegaard - Clotho

Water Mirror

Vaporize

noćni stražar

I nodded ascent and began to stare. Of course, I did. I always followed Grandfather’s instructions. As did almost everybody else. 

I concentrated on the flame. Grandfather spoke, but what, I cannot remember. Then I heard him move. He stopped, spoke again, and walked slowly on. Now I lost track of him, lost to the flame. The flickering grew brighter and brighter, the darkness around me swelled. Suddenly, I was aware that the blackness held within it colours that changed in waves. But still I stared. And then I could smell…Grandmother’s perfume, a bonfire of leaves, then new-mown grass, freshly fallen snow…. I tried desperately hard to remember them all, I knew that this was something Grandfather would want to know. 

I awoke sometime later. Grandfather had draped a travel blanket across my shoulders. It was warm and tickly. When he saw me stir, he got up from his chair by the dying fire. “Bed, I think, yes?” 

As he tucked me in, I told him of the colours (gold, blue, red, and green) and the smells, although by then I couldn’t be certain of any. He smiled. “Good.” 

In the doorway, he stopped, silhouetted against the landing light. “Next time, no candle. You are ready to see.” 

He was right. I did. I still see them now. 

As above, so below. 

Music & artwork – Andrew Sherwell 

Mastering – Stephan Mathieu 

With thanks to Ophelia, Cameron, James Armstrong, Steve Fors, Paul SMR, and Stephan Mathieu for constant support and friendship. 

“As the shadows closed in, the stars came out.” Derek Jarman 

Releases December 4, 2020

Available on CD, Cassette (limited editions) and Digital
Pre Order: Soon @ shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/music