Top 30 albums of 2018. 
Full list: https://diveintosun.wordpress.com/2018/12/11/best-albums-of-2018/

Diveintosun Best albums of 2018

Second single from the upcoming album 'Oceanic', out on 7K! records on 9 February 2018.

Pre-order the album here: 7K.lnk.to/Oceanic

'This song I created while looking outside of the window. There was an empty beach and I did imagine two ballet dancers whirling up the sand.'

Niklas Paschburg - Sand Whirling

'roses' is a funeral piece dedicated to my friend’s mother who died from cancer. The ostinato, the repeating single note in the intro, represents her beating heart, and the tumour's presence, sometimes forgotten but still spreading. How do ill people find peace, if they do at all? "roses" is a journey of someone's musical memories, wandering from pop to classical remembrances, concluding on nostalgic harmony. - Jean-Michel Blais (01/25/18)

c‘est une pièce funéraire dédiée à la mère d’une amie qui est décédée d'un cancer.  L’ostinato, la note répétée de l’intro symbolise le battement de son cœur ainsi que la tumeur inquiétante, parfois oubliée, mais toujours présente. Comment les gens malades trouvent-ils la paix, si jamais ils le peuvent? roses est ma tentative de refléter les souvenirs musicaux de quelqu'un, passant de la pop aux souvenirs classiques et se concluant sur l'harmonie nostalgique. - Jean-Michel Blais (01/25/18)

http://jeanmichelblais.com

roses - Single

Jean-Michel Blais "roses"

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'Tambour - Silhouettes'
Co-produced by Pietro Amato and mixed by Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire’s collaborators) - the eight minute piece in two movements juxtaposes an intimate, slow moving opening that is overtaken by a series of gripping, ambitious orchestral swells in the second half. Pairing delicate, melodic piano with lush string and horn sections, the track displays Tambour (Simon P. Castonguay) at his best: patient, carefully constructed arrangements that are at once full of life and vivid imagery…

Silhouettes

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Tambour - Silhouettes

Aaron Martin’s album "A Room Now Empty" sees him returning to the memory-based recordings of previous albums such as "Almond", "River Water" and "Chautauqua", where layered meanings in the music and titles don’t allow a single clear-cut reading of the music.

“A Room Now Empty is similar to the concept of Day Has Ended where Christoph Berg and I created music to encompass the passing of a day, but stretched out for the passing of a lifetime or at least a portion of a lifetime,” says Aaron.

Using cello, electric guitar, bass, roll up piano, banjo, concertina, acoustic guitar, voice, ukulele, singing bowls and lap steel, "A Room Now Empty" keeps the same intimacy and directness of Aaron’s previous albums, with a slightly more processed sound creating distance within the music.

All music by Aaron Martin

cello, electric guitar, bass, roll up piano, banjo, concertina, acoustic guitar, voice, ukulele, singing bowls, lap steel

Silent Figure with Landscape LIX by øjeRum

Mastered by Ian Hawgood

www.preservedsound.com

Depth of a Glance

No. 4

christina vantzou 'some limited and waning memory'

from the album 'grid of points' available 4/27

Grid of Points

grouper 'parking lot'

bvdub​ - 'A Different Definition of Love' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-52
Format: CD / DL
Release date: March 30th, 2018

Brock Van Wey's bvdub project reaches its landmark 30th full-length album with a special tale of unexpected love and loyalty found, innocence lost, and the silent spaces that remain. 

Black sky hides your stars, 
Fall from the heavens with might, 
Silent you arrive. 
Giants in your path, 
Perish those who stand opposed, 
Felled by love they know. 
Empty spaces yearn, 
To know once again, 
A lost yesterday. 
Through sun and sands dry, 
Oceans drown hearts of steel stars, 
This place remembers. 
We, unstoppable, 
For now we know our two hearts, 
No you, me, only us. 
We fall together, 
Pillars raise towers through sky, 
We rise beyond all.

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bvdub - Rainless [R]ivers

An omnipresent sense of duality lingers, as with the ivory and ebony colours of piano keys, or the birth and decay of seasons.

Zinovia Arvanitidi - Ivory (Ivory, 2018)

Astral Projection - the new ASC LP  - http://smarturl.it/astralprojection

Available on 3x12" and Digital

Astral Projection

ASC - Astral Projection (Plate 1)

Halftribe​ - 'For The Summer, Or Forever' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-53
Format: CD (ltd. 200) / DL
Release date: May 18th, 2018

Laconic haze, ethereal curiosities, nostalgic glimpses and fictional illusions.

Northern Irish Halftribe’s (Ryan Bisset’s) third album and Russian imprint Dronarivm’s fifty-third catalogue entry arrives punctually to soundtrack the coming summer - or eternity, apparently, if you like. It is indeed suitably warm and familiar stuff, going straight for the bliss-out button with dreamy, droning pieces mixing airy synths and calm field recordings.

HALFTRIBE - For The Summer, Or Forever

Wanderwelle ~ Gathering of the Ancient Spirits [SSV13]

The Amsterdam-based duo Wanderwelle return to Silent Season with their second album. Gathering of the Ancient Spirits is inspired by the last years of the life of Paul Gauguin, which he spent on the islands of French Polynesia. The album tells the alternative history of his search for a land that is untouched by modern society and whose inhabitants were still dependent on the gifts of nature and connected to their ancestors. During his stay, the painter encounters forgotten rituals and the primordial beings which haunt the islands since the dawn of time.

In 2018, it’s exactly 115 years ago that Paul Gauguin passed away. This album is an ode to one of the greatest artists that ever lived.

- @Wanderwelle

http://silentseason.com/ssv13/

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01. Primitive Dreams (6:13)
02. Sanctuary for Forgotten Birds (5:46)
03. Her Name is Vairumati (6:27)
04. An Offering of Gratitude (6:22)
05. The Seed of the Areoi (5:16)
06. Sacred Spring, Sweet Dreams (5:37)
07. The Fire Dance (4:50)
08. Ancestral Guidance (4:17)
09. The Haunted Shores of Hiva Oa (6:03)
10. Oviri (3:40)

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Available Summer 2018
- Gatefold 2x12" Color Vinyl
- Traditional Limited Edition CD
- Digital formats

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Written and produced by J.P.A van Dulm and A.G.A. Bartels
Illustration by Floor van het Nederend
Mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum
Design and layout by Jamie McCue
Vinyl distributed by Juno Records
[SSV13] Silent Season 2018

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Gathering of the Ancient Spirits

Album Info

Wanderwelle ~ Her Name Is Vairumati [SSV13]

Tangent - Confinement

Preview of the first track from Markus' upcoming album, Empire. Now available to preorder on X2LP. http://asip.me/asipv012

Markus Guentner’s story continues where his last album, 'Theia’ left off, with another set of epic atmospheres and brave new worlds. This time Markus enlists the skills of harpist; Tom Moth, cellist; Julia Kent and fellow ambient storyteller; bvdub to complete the journey. More info and links to buy: http://asip.me/asipv012

Markus Guentner / Offworld (ASIPV012)

'Fossils' is the first single taken from Ben Chatwin's upcoming album 'Staccato Signals'.

Pre-order the album here: https://bit.ly/2GEc2s0

Staccato Signals

Ben Chatwin - Fossils

Two years on from her critically acclaimed, self-titled debut, Polish cellist Resina (aka Karolina Rec) returns with her sophomore album for FatCat’s influential 130701 imprint. A less fragile, far more immediate album, ‘Traces’ sees the Warsaw-based artist working a sound which moves closer towards the listener, with increased viscerality and weight. It’s a bold, dynamic and assured step forward and an album fully deserving of your attention.

‘Traces’ is released on 130701 on 6th July on vinyl, CD and digital formats.  
Tour dates and a remix EP are being scheduled for early Autumn.

Traces

Surface

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Resina - Surface

The Waves, The Wake

Great Lake Swimmers - The Talking Wind

"Touch Dissolves" (vinyl/CD/fine art book) is the result of a dialog between the artist Yusuf Sevinçli and the composer Aaron Martin initiated by IIKKI, between January 2018 and May 2018:

iikki.bandcamp.com/album/touch-dissolves

All music by Aaron Martin. Recorded from March 6, 2018 to April 13, 2018 in Topeka, Kansas.

Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork by Yusuf Sevinçli
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

A Child's Arms Are Moonlight

Double Negative

Always Trying to Work It Out

Nummern

Nummer N

Endless Melancholy​ - ''Fragments of Scattered Whispers' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-55
Format: LP (ltd. 100), CD (ltd. 150),  DL
Release date: November 9th, 2018
Pre-orders start October 19th

'Fragments of Scattered Whispers' is the sixth album from Endless Melancholy, a solo-project of Oleksiy Sakevych from Kyiv, Ukraine. It follows previous releases on labels such as Preserved Sound, 1631 Recordings and Hidden Vibes. 

Arriving on CD, digital and heavyweight vinyl editions, 'Fragments of Scattered Whispers' is a collection of soft piano melodies and transparent ambient textures, gently flowing one into another. On this album Endless Melancholy continues with the tape sound explorations, started on his previous album 'The Vacation', but in a new, more distinctive way. On this occasion, Oleksiy teamed up with Krzysztof Sujata (known for his musical outfit Valiska), who did some outstanding job on processing the tracks through different kinds of tape recorders and mastering them afterwards. Accompanied by a stunning artwork by an acclaimed artist Gregory Euclide, 'Fragments of Scattered Whispers' is meant to evoke hazy reminiscences from the deepest corners of listener's mind, like a blurry photograph suddenly falling out of an old book.

Cover art by Gregory Euclide
Mastered by Krzysztof Sujata

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Endless Melancholy - Postcards (taken from 'Fragments of Scattered Whispers')

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