Mr. Evgrafov, I have written lyrics to this song. I will practice singing it then record it.


Track taken from the album 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay' / HB50 - Released October 2013

Ian M Hazeldine records under the alias Antonymes, hailing from Hawarden, a small village in North Wales, whose most famous inhabitant was William Ewart Gladstone. He creates atmospheric melodies, using various pianos, celesta, strings, church organ and field recordings, and has had releases on Soundcolours, Cathedral Transmissions, Hidden Shoal, Time Released Sound and Rural Colours.

With a long standing interest in music making and active listening, Hazeldine works with any influences, from his surrounding landscape to the artists he has worked with. His compositions often take on a semi-improvised structure with accidental atmospheres used as a starting point. As well as his own projects, Hazeldine also works with Marconi Union's Richard Talbot, under the name Prospector. He also works as a graphic designer, film maker and photographer, having art directed many of the Hibernate releases including our critically acclaimed vinyl series, and has worked with many other artists and labels including Facture, Field Rotation and Olan Mill.

In late 2009 Antonymes released 'Beauty Becomes the Enemy of the Future' on Cathedral Transmissions of which the CD is now unavailable. Since then he has revisited the album, which has culminated a new release, 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay'. Hazeldine's own reworkings are intertwined with those of friends Ian Hawgood, Isnaj Dui, Offthesky, Field Rotation, Wil Bolton, Spheruleus and James Banbury to create an album of captivating melancholy and beauty. The guest reworkings venture into other, darker territories, where one might be harder pressed to identify the original material.

The sleeve features beautiful images of the North Wales landscape by Richard Outram, fitting the music perfectly.

Credits:
Mastered by Jason Corder (offthesky.com)
Photography by Richard Outram and Ian M Hazeldine
Art Direction by Ian M Hazeldine

“Majestic testament to a talent that is fully realized… Hazeldine’s work is distinct, yet the parts remain hazy in one’s memory, dreamlike” - The Silent Ballet

"So moving that I myself am at a loss for words" - Delusions of Adequacy

"Not only music for dreams, but rather a complex mosaic by a romantic minimalist" - Ondarock

"Unfolds at a beautifully measured pace" - Textura

"Barely visible movements of slate grey cumulonimbus, slowly building its massive architecture, rumbles of thunder emanating from its core" - Futuresequence

"Amazingly uplifting listen with surprise euphoria hidden around every corner" - Norman Records.


Misshapen Beauty [i]

Wake Up

The Way That Tears Made

'Undan Hulu' is a song by Ólafur Arnalds from the album '…And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness' originally released on Erased Tapes Records.

Reworked and performed by CEEYS (Brueder Selke).
Recorded and mixed by Sebastian and Daniel Selke at Klingenthal Studio, Potsdam.
Mastered by Michael Schwabe at Monoposto, Dusseldorf.

This rework is part of a collection of pieces by contemporary composers,
reworked and performed by CEEYS (Brueder Selke).

Ólafur Arnalds - Undan Hulu (CEEYS Rework)

The second song from 'Mono' - Simeon Walker's new full length album - 'Turn' invites and welcomes listeners to hunker down and hibernate away from the stresses and strains of the world.

With stunning artwork by Gregory Euclide, the album is now available to pre-order both digitally (on all major streaming services) and on limited edition vinyl and CD.

Head to www.simeonwalker.co.uk/shop for more information

Mono

Pre-order

Turn

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When You Take Off Your Shoes

Nathan Shubert - When You Take Off Your Shoes

Mute

Thessaloniki-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Manos Milonakis debuts on piano and coffee records with "The Seagull", a synopsis of his original score for Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov’s play of the same name, directed by Yiannis Paraskevopoulos for theatres of Greece and Romania.

The first musical lines of this project were drawn while in Romania, where together with the director, Milonakis travelled to prepare a show for Craiova’s National Theatre. The post-communist atmosphere, the humid streets, the sense of modern balkan darkness contrasting with incredibly vivid painted walls, strong flavors, smells, and amazingly passionate and friendly people would be decoded into music for the classic Russian play. The thirteen tracks in "The Seagull" blend melancholic piano melodies, soaring strings, gentle electronics, atmospheric haze, and evocative soundscapes. Sometimes discreet and others at the forefront of a strong narrative, each piece pours itself into the other like communicating vessels, coexisting with romantic encounters, philosophical arguments, family quarrels and a series of unanticipated arrivals and departures. Piece by piece, Milonakis masterfully introduces us into a world of frustrated lives and unrequited love.

Even though "The Seagull" was composed in 2015, a year before his previous release, "Festen", it took Milonakis significantly more time to decide it was the right moment to release it. “During these years and working in-between other projects”, he says, “I sometimes looked back in my hardrives and these recordings always resonated inside my heart. Having performed the music extensively in concerts was also revealing an urge to me: that I should probably share this stuff with the world”. This brought him to Denmark, where he had the pleasure to have some piano re-recorded and the full album freshly re-mixed by Ed Carlsen at his studio in Kongens Lyngby.

"The Seagull" releases on 13 March 2020 via piano and coffee records worldwide, and is available on limited edition CD and digital formats, with artwork by London-based illustrator Jordan Amy Lee.

Credits:

Recorded and mixed by Manos Milonakis and Ed Carlsen between Thessaloniki and Kongens Lyngby.

Mastered by Manos Milonakis at -1 Studio.

All instruments performed by Manos Milonakis except:
Violin: Christina Georgeli, David Bogorad
Cello: Thodoris Papadimitriou

Artwork by Jordan Amy Lee
Layout by Rita Silva

Big thanks to Yiannis Paraskevopoulos, T.N.M.S Craiova-Romania, all actors and contributors, Sergio, Ed, Eirini, Mihalis, Etten, The Salonico String Quartet, my friends and family.

Manos Milonakis - Treplev's Song

Download: https://tristaneckerson.bandcamp.com/

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/24LGVKHzsrVV7oo94nlNE1

Listen on Apple Music: itunes.apple.com/us/artist/trista…erson/1243764726

Patreon: www.patreon.com/tristaneckerson

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