from 'HYMNEN UND HELDEN' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den387
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/sanktotten  


Alongside with the release of the new album “Tote Winkel”, Sankt Otten will be delighting us with another limited vinyl bonus release. “Hymnen und Helden” (hymns and heroes) is a collection of cover versions created over the last few years. As the album title suggests, it pays homage to self-proclaimed musical hymns and heroes from the seventies and eighties.


HYMNEN UND HELDEN – track by track:

A well-known Moog sequence leads us on the way into the cover album. Giorgio Moroders 1977 disco classic “I feel love” has been tackled here. Sankt Ottens instrumental interpretation starts out familiar, but ends in a slightly disturbing disharmony of mellotron and ebow guitar.

The instrumental version of the melancholy Wipers anthem from 1983 starts with a rather unusually fast 808 beat for Sankt Otten. The 80s electronic echoes suit the punk rock earworm “Doom Towen” surprisingly well.

Without Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, more unusual electronic music would hardly have been conceivable in Germany in the early 1980s. “Alles ist gut” tribute to this band and singer Gabi Delgado-Lopez, who passed away in 2020 and with whom they shared the festival stage in 2015. Gabi‘s lyrics are rendered by text- to-speech software with the voice of an unknown Claudia.

“Wishing (If I had a photograph of you)” was made famous in 1982 by A Flock of Seagulls. This record was regularly played on Stephan Ottens turntable back then. Reason enough to remember this with “Sehnen (Hät- te Ich von dir eine Fotografie)”. The recordings for this album were made in 2007 and have been updated and completed in the last year. Carsten Sandkämper, who was also featured on Sankt Ottens debut album “Eine kleine Traurigkeit”, contributed the vocals and lyrics.

The Swiss band Grauzone became famous with the NDW hit “Eisbär”. Instead of this title, they took on the B-side of this single with “Ich liebe sie”. A synthpop love song full of innocence, stylishly sung by Carsten San- kämper and refined with Kraftwerk-like choral sounds and an herbaceous motorik beat.

The band has enjoyed a personal friendship with Harald Grosskopf since their collaboration in 2013 on the album “Messias Maschine”. With “So weit, so gut”, they take on his little hit from the album “Synthesist”, which is one of the gems of the synthesizer albums of the eighties.

“Kriegsmaschinen, fahrt zur Hölle” is an anti-war song from 1974 by Günter Schickert, the Berlin master of the echo guitar. Unfortunately, the lyrics are still relevant. Oliver Klemm contributes the delay guitars and Stephan Otten puts the lyrics through a vocoder. Sankt Otten compress the 17-minute original to just under 5 minutes and move it musically from the 70s to the 80s.

Sankt Otten’s adaptation of David Bowies “Heroes” is equipped with warm Juno 106 sounds, ebow guitar and synthesizer pads. The German “Helden” version, known from the movie Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, is sung in a touching way by Carsten Sandkämper.


New York-based Rafael Anton Irisarri was responsible for mastering of the record. As part of the series with graphic covers, this die-cut artwork was also created by Mexican designer Daniel Castrejon. The one time only vinyl pressing, limited to 350 copies, comes in a beautifully designed die-cut cover and colored vinyl. The Osnabrück duo Sankt Otten, founded in 1999, have been releasing on Denovali since 2009. The band has dedicated itself to the holy trinity of Krautrock, Ambient and contemporary Electronics.

Sankt Otten - Doom Town

Taken from 'Endling' by Qasim Naqvi
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℗© 2025 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.

Endling

Qasim Naqvi - Plastic Glacier

Layers of Afternoon

The Broad Belt Of The World (feat. Scott Moore)

This album is the culmination of an ongoing exploration of musical and sonic concepts, including mutation, evolution over time, generative patterns, sampling and re-sampling. Several tracks from the album have been performed, presented, and utilized in various formats, such as concerts,
performances, or installations-either in their entirety or specific sections.

The six tracks represent the distilled essence of a creative process that commenced in 2020, characterized by continual iteration, variation, and the transformation of formless clusters of melodies, harmonies, or mere textures into somewhat finished compositions.

Each musical piece has been a companion to me for an unusually extended period (something it rarely happens in my process). Much like features in a landscape, these tracks have shaped a geography of memories, places, and fleeting moments over an exceptionally prolonged time in my life (with some, like Bancal, tracing back to 2014). Consequently, the personal and emotional weight they carry is significant and necessitates being acknowledged to make room for the new and unexpected.

In Valencian, "una geografia temporal" translates to “a temporary geography."

Edu Comelles - Mola

Tracklist

01. Ian Hawgood - No Walls To Contain These Fervent Spirits
02. Hadley Roe -  When I Look Back...
03. Celer -  Melancholy Movement III
04. Betts(JP) - Yosde 03
05. Samuel Regan - Tell Them I've Had a Wonderful Life
06. Lamasz & Thme - Lueurs
07.  Rhucle - In Haze
08. Pruski - Last Particle (feat. Tomasz Mreńca)
09. Aiko Takahashi -  Un Beau Matin D’Été
10.  Dalton Alexander - Modrý (Reprise)

423. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Immersive space ambient mix from Chitra Records and Ambient Cat Records by Dionisaf.

0:00 Metric System 1981 & KapTep - Appearance (A Quiet Place) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-place
4:40 CosmoMoose - Comsat Sonaris (Sonoris) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonoris
8:50 Suseti - Oort Cloud (At the Edge of the World) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-edge-of-the-world
13:02 Sacred Seeds - Space Fields (Between Spaces) https://sacredseeds.bandcamp.com/album/between-spaces
17:04 Philippe Deschamps - Cybele Asteroids (The Silence of Pallas) https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/album/the-silence-of-pallas
21:43 DRGBL5 - Light of Planets (Noises of Nature) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/noises-of-nature
26:39 Blanket Swimming - Flight from Neptune (Seeing the Circles Above) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/seeing-the-circles-above
30:23 Ancient Astronaut - Stellar Streams (Ethereal Dreams) https://ancientastronaut.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-dreams
34:08 Brannan Lane - Peaceful Painted Sky (Northern Lights) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/northern-lights
36:27 Sebby Kowal - Where the Stars Lead Us [KapTep Remix] (Chitra Ambient Remixes) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/chitra-ambient-remixes
40:39 Dionisaf - Orion Nebula (Pacification) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/pacification
45:45 Piscean Daydreams - The Outer Reaches of Inner Space (Piercing the Veil) https://pisceandaydreams.bandcamp.com/album/piercing-the-veil
55:52 Michael D. Tidwell - I Am inevitable (Now It's My Turn) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/now-its-my-turn
57:52 Dionisaf & KapTep - Transmit and Receive (Modem Punk) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/modem-punk
1:02:36 Sacred Seeds - Missing Space (Between Spaces) https://sacredseeds.bandcamp.com/album/between-spaces
1:11:16 Andrew Lozano - Voyager (Voyager) https://andrewlozano.bandcamp.com/album/voyager
1:16:00 KapTep - Holding Patterns (Exhale) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/exhale
1:19:54 Le Code - Don't Go Beyond the Edge of the World (Early Morning) https://le-code.bandcamp.com/album/early-morning
1:22:48 Philippe Deschamps - In the Wake of Ceres (The Silence of Pallas) https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/album/the-silence-of-pallas
1:26:17 Metric System 1981 - Moonrise [Le Code Remix] (Ambient Cat Remixes, Vol. 1) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-cat-remixes-vol-1
1:28:00 Dellasollounge - Flow (Voyager) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/voyager
1:29:52 KapTep - Slew Rate (The Perfect Error) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-perfect-error
1:34:48 Zen Lemon - Universal Truth (Soul's Alchemy) https://zenlemon.bandcamp.com/album/souls-alchemy
1:37:52 Diogene - Particles (The Ocean in Our Minds) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/the-ocean-in-our-minds
1:42:08 Michael D. Tidwell - Now It's My Turn (Now It's My Turn) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/now-its-my-turn
1:44:19 Ancient Astronaut - Shimmering Lights [Le Code Remix] (Ambient Cat Remixes, Vol. 1) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-cat-remixes-vol-1
1:47:46 Piscean Daydreams - Transmedium (Unidentified Ambient Phenomena, Vol. 1) https://pisceandaydreams.bandcamp.com/album/unidentified-ambient-phenomena-vol-1
1:52:02 Ghostloop - Depth Charge (Omicron) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/omicron
1:55:30 Dellasollounge - Halo (Voyager) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/voyager
1:56:31 Winter Silhouette - Reasoning (Unity Drift) https://wintersilhouette.bandcamp.com/album/unity-drift

Ethereal Projector #1 Space Odyssey

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Ethereal Projector #1 Space Odyssey by Dionisaf | Immersive Space Ambient Mix

~ LAAPS 045 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP45]

artist : Akhira Sano
album : D-R
duration : 31.24 mn
date : July 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / white LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Sounds, arrangements and Mixed by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Jenni Toivonen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
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Akhira Sano - Demande Un

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-bel-m


A series of solo piano recordings registered in Belém, Brazil at a cultural centre in the Praça da república run by the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) downtown. I had a 1 hour window to record one evening thanks to Margaret Refkalefsky. This series of recordings took place in the moment and also was mediated by the sounds of the city. I was listening intently to the city's soundscapes while playing. My friend, musician and producer Nick Schofield, generously took these recordings and worked with them to bring out some of the rich tones that were registered simply on a Zoom H4n recorder. 

Thank you for listening. – Stefan Christoff

releases July 21, 2025 

Recorded by Stefan Christoff 
Mixed by Nick Schofield 
Artwork, “Vistas” is by Ionaldo Rodrigues 
Thank you to Margaret Refkalefsky 

SHM 349 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025

Stefan Christoff - In Belém VI

This remix has been made using exclusively a Prophet 08 and the music recorded by Ochre.

Ochre - Paper Unicorn (Marc Melià Remix)

New track from the forthcoming "Imbalance"ep

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Aphelion

from 'Re_Calibrate' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den318
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso

‘Re_Calibrate’, the companion piece to Donoso’s 2018 acclaimed album ‘Calibrate’ continues to obfuscate any clear definition of genre or style and continues to push his music into stranger, more complex and extreme territories. Equal parts tender and twisted, cynical and honest, beautiful and obnoxious, ‘Re_Calibrate’ shines through as a major point in the composer’s discography – and provides a glimpse into the new directions being taken. ‘Re_Calibrate’ is a challenging listen; void of any trendy tropes or appeal for consumers of watered down, homogenized and dogmatic electronic music.
A truly honest and original work in an ocean of clones.

Ricardo Donoso - A Hostage of the Past

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