Dreaming Journeys

A preview of our 2019 releases on Discrepant and Sucata Tapes

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Releases 2017(Discrepant, Sucata Tapes)

Demented Fuzz

Kraut

p*dis sampler 2017.11

From upcoming release "100% Electronica" on Sept 25th 2015

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Never Late Again

A tale about a sauna near a lake in my heart <3



Nära Elden

Exclusive piece created for Ears Have Ears.

Sophie Hutchings is a pianist and composer from Sydney. She began teaching herself piano at an early age before any tuition, developing her unique style through countless hours of secret practice. Hutchings has released three instrumental works to date, Becalmed, Night Sky and White Light, receiving fine recognition internationally for elegant and beautiful music compared to the likes of Nils Frahm, Max Richter, Peter Broderick and Dustin OʼHallloran. 

With new album Wide Asleep, released via Sydney experimental/pop music label Preservation, Hutchings has taken her compositional scope into larger realms of sound and feeling. It is her most searching work, based on ideas on consciousness between sleep and wakefulness. In her most dazzling and poignant pieces to date, Hutchingsʼ piano lines extend with both electricity and elegance, winding through strings, textured ambience and choral voices through beauty and vitality. Reaching further with her music than ever before, Hutchings is in great company, recording Wide Asleep with Tim Whitten, best known for his nuanced and dynamic work with The Necks. 

Hutchings piece for Ears Have Ears, titled 'Unfinished Story', was recorded via piano with the silent pedal in order to dampen the sound of the keys creating a sleepy placid sound, treated with the tiniest bit of room ambience to lace it with a warm late night mood.

EHE 18.07.16 - Sophie Hutchings (SYD) - Unfinished Story

Physical: geographic-north.com/cassette/death-on-the-hour/
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/death-on-the-hour-aural-apparitions-from-the-geographic-north
Catalog #: GN38
Wilted lilac cassette, limited to 100
Mastered by Sean McCann

Geographic North proudly presents 'Death on the Hour,' a ghastly collection of Halloween-inspired recordings intended to spook and seduce through every turn of the season. Spanning 11 harrowing tracks, Death on the Hour boasts a ghoulish smattering of Geographic North mainstays and a healthy dose of new blood weaving through original recordings as well as disfigured renditions of Halloween classics.

Arriving long past the witching hour, the looping vignette of Moon Diagrams’ (Deerhunter’s Moses Archuleta) “Omegaplex” repeats a curious and oddly familiar phrase of suspense not far removed from the "Opening Titles" of John Carpenter and Alan Howarth’s Prince of Darkness suite. Similarly, Leech's (Brian Foote, Peak Oil/100% Silk) "Utah" writhes in fits of rhythmic revulsion, perfectly soundtracking some doomed narrative of paranoia and peril. 

For a more spectral sense of evil, Windy & Carl's (Kranky, Music Fellowship, Darla) "Witch & a Cauldron" drifts in a cloud of black feedback and tonal haze proving once again that Dearborn's darling duo can find weightless beauty in a fit of foreboding harmony. Another product of the Great Lakes, Lansing’s Auburn Lull opens the B-side with “Unknown Color,” layering distant metallic clatter, muffled low-ends, shuffled static, and processed throat singing. It's a jazzy and noirish waltz through similar scenes haunted by Pan•American and Moritz von Oswald.

M. Sage (Patient Sounds) revises "I Put a Spell on You" into something equally mesmerizing, covering Screamin' Jay Hawkins' blues ballad into an unsettling bit of obscured, manic pulsing, lo-fi pop, while Lyonnais (Hoss Records, Geographic North) takes J.P. Shilo’s recent and stunning work "SLEEP" and re-imagines it into a majestic wide-shot of symphonic minimalism. An army of stringed instruments are bowed to their limits, holding on to the grim waking dream just long enough to make sense of it all. 

A warm and delirious trip through hauntingly alluring astral planes.

Ekin Fil - To Be

Two track preview of the upcoming LP, Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa. Featuring Live Low, Negra Branca, Eitr, Gonzo, Luar Domatrix, Tiago Morais Morgado, Filipe Felizardo, Calhau! and Peter Forest.

Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa (Anthology of Atypical Portuguese Music) is a series of volumes focussing on new strains of Portuguese music with an (un)characteristic foot in the past musical traditions of the country. The aim being to re-evaluate its musical history, de-construct clichés and re-assemble preconceptions into a new and daring musical landscape.

Each volume will have a loose theme and will be comprised of Portuguese artists working on the fringes and not following obvious and commercial paths of musical homogenization.

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Various - Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa (LP preview feat. Live Low & Negra Branca)

Julianna Barwick - Envelop

Go Thru Your Phone

BRIAN CASE - Ship Building

Excerpts from Carlos Casas' Pyramid of Skulls 2xLP out on 26th May 2017

Ghosts from the future and spirits from the past collide in this sci-fi field recording experiment. 

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Pyramid of Skulls

Carlos Casas - Sinpoj Variations (excerpt from Pyramid of Skulls 2xLP)

++ Vinyl Repress March 2019 ++ 

180 gram gatefold double 12" 

www.juno.co.uk/products/wanderwelle-lost-in-a-sea-of-trees/646625-01/ 

www.silentseason.com/ssv11/ 

@Wanderwelle - Lost In A Sea Of Trees [SSV11]

1. The Starry Night
2. Where The Wind Howls
3. Through The Meadow
4. Lured By An Unseen Presence
5. Across The River The Leaves Whisper
6. Eyes In Looming Trees
7. Unholy Grounds
8. The Domovoi

www.silentseason.com/ssv11/

2x12" Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl [SSV11] Available July.

Amsterdam-based duo Wanderwelle return to Silent Season for their debut album which is inspired by the mysterious pagan tribes that once roamed across the European woodlands. Lost in a Sea of Trees tells the tale of a lone traveller who enters a dark, ancient forest. Lured deep into the woods by something not of this world as he enters uncharted grounds. Step by step his journey is getting darker as he encounters strange phenomena and beings among the trees.

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/wanderwelle-lost-in-a-sea-of-trees/646625-01/

Written and produced by J.P.A van Dulm and A.G.A. Bartels
Illustrations by Floor van het Nederend
Mastered by Optimum Mastering
Insert photo by Danthon

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Lost In A Sea Of Trees

Wanderwelle - Lost In A Sea Of Trees [SSV11]

Track 2 from Ryan Power 'They Sell Doomsday' [NNA104]
Available October 20th, 2017 on Vinyl, CD, and Digital formats.
http://nnatapes.com

They Sell Doomsday

Ryan Power "The Cavalry"

One track preview of Ross Alexander's Memorias Vol1 - Bugandan Sacred Places.

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Memorias Vol1

Ross Alexander - Wood of the Lusamba (from Memorias Vol.1 tape)

from RAZEN - THE XVOTO REELS
Out on sept. 15th, 2017
PREORDER: wearethreefour.bandcamp.com/album/the-xvoto-reels

The Xvoto Reels provides additional proof (if necessary) that Razen is an audacious group. If the Belgian band led by the duo Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour has explored different musical worlds with changing formations, the involuntary irruption of a sixth “member” has upset the content of this new album. Through these brutal and unpredictable interventions, it made an ambitious album - recording live improvisations in a church with an organ and a tabla - unique.

“When we listened to the tape reels months after the recording sessions at the St Martin’s Church, we were forced into noticing that a presence had placed itself on all of the recordings. A presence playing tricks with the dynamics and the church acoustics, leaving inexplainable sound prints and cuts on the reels, turning our music into stray phantoms, as if what was left on the tapes was only a vague recollection of the sessions, reducing the slowed down ragas we had had in mind into a version so different and frayed yet at the same time so layered and eternal, that at first we had a hard time recognizing our original ideas,
let alone deciding whether this was not too personal, intimate and obscure at all to let it out into the world, because what we had in our hands now, was the sound of a deeply private dream, a message from the subconscious, rather than a collection of tracks by five improvising musicians.

It did not take us long before we observed that what was lost in terms of our original expectations of these recordings (the precision of our tunings and interplay, proper endings and beginnings, clearer definition of sound) we had suddenly gained on other and far more worthier levels; the levels of randomness, unexpectedness and irrationality, precisely the sort of qualities our improvised music had always embraced, which were now put to the fore in a manner we had not yet encountered.

So here it is. More than the sum of tabla + hurdy gurdy + recorders + double bass + church organ. More than the sum of 5 musicians + tape engineer + church acoustics.
The Xvoto Reels – a prayer in the halflight, a comforting sermon out of St Martin’s Church - is a version of Razen where the music played itself, and chance dictated what essence of this was allowed to be captured. We look back on those days in August as a moment in time where in fact, we ourselves and all those involved had become the instruments, in a way such as described by Inayat Khan: “I played the vina until my heart had changed into the same instrument. Ever since I have become His instrument, and whenever He wishes, He plays me with His music”.

Brecht Ameel & Kim Delcour / Razen

Razen - Dunes Spell Runes On The Edge Of Town

From the album "Impossible World"

releases on cassette and digitally 9/22/17

to purchase:
hausumountain.com/?page_id=9

Nelson Bean's work under the name Black Hat bridges the gap between kinetic beat music and mesmeric ambient texture. His take on modern electronic composition finds room for high definition synth programming, swathes of fine-grain drift, and layered percussion lines that evolve into webs of head-bobbing polyrhythm. Impossible World, Black Hat's second release with Hausu Mountain after 2014's Thought of Two LP, catches up from where his practice left off, broadening his sound over the course of a 70 minute program stuffed with dense sketches and extended cinematic set pieces.

for more info:
http://hausumountain.com/?page_id=3148

Impossible World

Black Hat - Cracked

Excerpt from Pierre Bastien's Live album ''The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien'' out on 27th October on Vinyl and Digital.

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Pierre Bastien - May Yam (Excerpt from The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien)

Short preview of People Like Us and Porest radio collages split LP, Optimized!

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Porest & People Like Us - Optimized! (preview of split LP)

Pre-orders available now via Imprec.com

Home Age is the first proper Eleh full length since 2012's Homage To The Pointed Waveforms. Packaged in a deluxe gold on black heavy duty letterpress jacket made by Studio On Fire in Minneapolis. Edition of 500. Also available simultaneously is a new split LP between Eleh & Christina Kubisch.

These three new pieces seek to expose the inherent musicality of pure electrical currents via high resolution Serge STS synthesizers. Like early Eleh work, Home Age is inward looking and deliberate but also slowly emotional and revealing as if peering blurry eyed through a window. Melody, harmony and counterpoint are suggested but not revealed.

Home Age

Eleh - Home Age - Album Mix - Available Nov. 17, 2017

Sakanoshita Norimasa

A GUITARIST living in Tokyo area.
Mainly playing own composed and arranged music 
based on Jazz, Classic, Bossa nova, and traditional folk songs.

1 Glacis From HORIZON

Pre-order 'Union Cafe' on LP/CD/DL: http://phonofile.link/union-cafe

Erased Tapes has the huge privilege of reissuing the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s last ever studio album Union Cafe including a first time vinyl edition — out December 1st 2017 to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of founder Simon Jeffes’ passing in 1997.  

It was 1972 in the South of France when Simon had an unfortunate experience with food poisoning which lead to a much more fortunate circumstance when a vivid dream, induced from his illness and depicting a dystopian future, conceived the Penguin Cafe; a charming place where solace, harmony, and the orchestra’s unique music could be found amidst brutal concrete structures and darkness. For the following 25 years, Simon carried out this vision bringing brightness into a world full of noise. Sadly, after his passing, the original orchestra disbanded, but the doors to this happy place reopened when his son Arthur decided to continue his father’s legacy under the name Penguin Cafe.

The continuation of the PCO began at London’s Union Chapel in 2007 when Arthur and the original musicians commemorated Simon 10 years after his death. Another 10 years forward, 2017 will see Penguin Cafe pay tribute to him once again at the Union Chapel on December 11th where they will perform Union Cafe in full – a union from all corners of this magical world.

Union Cafe was the fifth, and the last studio album by Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It was initially released in 1993 merely on cassette and CD, and will now be given a new breath of life, for the first time available on vinyl, and another chance to reach old and new fans alike. 

“Union Cafe was the last studio album recorded by the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra and marked a move towards a definitive English pastoral sound combined with larger string arrangements set against longer solo piano pieces. With this last album they got even closer to the PCO idea of squaring the circle of intellectually challenging modern music that is still actually beautiful. For me this has always been a contender as my favourite PCO album, and the fact that it never ended up on vinyl was more to do with the way things were in the early 90s, and chance rather than it being deliberate. So in that sense this release is righting an old wrong. The slow development of the pieces means that you can really get lost in them and vinyl is of course the perfect way to do that.” — Arthur Jeffes

Arthur very kindly gave access to the original Union Cafe painting that currently lives in his North London home studio, created by Arthur’s mother Emily Young and now photographed by Alex Kozobolis for this special reissue edition.

Union Cafe

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Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Nothing Really Blue

Life diffraction - feat. Gryphee

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