Trip

A seasonal selection of ambient, modern classical, and electroacoustic works. Closed on 25 November 2021.

Photo by Niklas Veenhuis on https://unsplash.com

Field Journal Companion - Autumn 2021

Lend Me Your Radio - Nov 21

ASMR/Storytelling Mixes

sCi fI plane

Hello confinerds
Please sit down
Find your space into the space
My ram ablution are almost finished
The ritual will start soon
For those who join us today let met briefly introduce
It’s been almost three years since i stopped going outside
Therefore i accepted a challenge
Thanks to my community for following me through this path
For those who wonders
what the hell is this all about?
The virus ended abruptly my career
as a musical entrepreneur
i made a very big depression
then suddenly out of despair i told my self
as i cant access to success in my flesh and body form
then my avatar will do it for me
And so i understood that day the true destiny of humanity
thank to corona to make me remember the burden of the body and its uselessness
So i will merge with my avatar, 3d, 4k,
always in good speed, always in good format, always with the best subtitle
forever evolving, upgrading, beta, alpha, omega
i’ll will be in the oneness, the whole, the big data
no more waiting for potential vaccine to live
no more waiting
so today we’re back together for ceremonial music stream
pray for my waves to penetrate your cyborg senses
and your soul embrace the web
You know i talk to you but i have no idea who you are
It’s been such a long time since i saw humans
I am not sure i can recognise one, without its pixels. Did they really
exist out there?
How are they any different from the ghosts that haunt me
Those web ghosts…
Mind and the screen are the same these days
Mind and the screen are the same these days
Mind and the screen are the same these days
breath ….. relax…. imagine yourself surfing on the web
watching your suscribers on the coast from afar, not caring, just observing
then suddenly you find a bottle in the water
it’s a message from keanu reeves,
“you are so magnificient with this new instagram filter”
he shared your picture on his own account
you are now into the light, radient like a sun
inspire, expire
relax your pineal gland
little by little you are getting more and more likes
you are now adored and praised all over the world
every shadows of past fears disappear into your light
you know now without a mistake, how much the world needs you
But me too sometimes i doubt.
Am i really this avatar i show the world?
Can i become it someday?
Was i lying all this time?
Am i just a servant for my glorious avatar?
Through it, will i be able to connect with the others?
Though i am not sure the others have ever existed.
Separated from the others
Couldn’t still find my answer within
I still miss humans
creature of the cities
I still remember your eyes
digital memories
Reading your crypted message
still make my heart beat
Maybe its a mind trojan
Collecting your mp3s
Searching the horse, still
Reality is fading
I am melting
Separated from the others
Half of a being
My dear ghosts
This now the end
So since you tomorrow until the end of times,
Like, share, meditate, tweet, pray, breath,
Never disconnect, Never disconnect, Never disconnect

Jan Loup - Rising Artifical Sun By The Afternoon

Ripperton 
Hudmo 3_2
Meemo Comma Neon Glow
The Gaye Device Getting back to before it began
Space Africa Judge
Richard Norris Refelctions of Kyoto
Minimal Drone GRL Belcarra forest ambience 
CLAIR - Queen Bee
Exit Omni (Ross woodhall) Ceremony
CLAIR - Tiger queen
Arushi Jain Richer than blood 
Jeremy Bible Ecologies iii 
Rebecca Vasmant Morning (Mourning)
Ripperton Eloigne
Neil Luck Polka dots and moon beams
JC Invisible Reddere Pretium 
Koreless - White Picket fence 
Arabesque No.1 in E major Heavy rain and birds of India 
CLAIR Kelvingrove
CLAIR Robin redbreast 
Minimal drone grl - Nostalgic Echoes 
Koreless strangers
Konx-Om-Pax Cabin Fever
Jake Muir - Drifter
Keith Rich Money $$ Var.3
Luke Sanger Efflorescence
Big Voyage Wasahed
Toby Wiltshire Surfacing
CLAIR Catnip

CLAIR - Radio Buena Vida 14.07.21

Iris

Our summer single series wraps with the sixth and final entry ‘Kanade’ by Japanese composer @nlart. Let yourself be guided to new shores by the pure and spontaneous sounds of his piano playing, replete with colourful melody and subtle harmonies...

You can listen to the piece wherever you stream or download your music: https://idol.lnk.to/kanade

Kanade

⊜ spotify

Hideyuki Hashimoto - Kanade

The first sounds of @snorrihallgrimsson’s Landbrot II have officially arrived with the record’s sublime lead single ‘Sandlóa’. It is the perfect soundtrack for this lovely early autumn 🎧 idol.lnk.to/sandloa

Pre-order LP/Vinyl : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/landbrot

Landbrot

Sandlóa

Buy LP/Vinyl

Snorri Hallgrímsson - Sandlóa

“Companion” is the title track of Otto A Totlands final album in his trilogy of personal, sparse piano compositions, following “Pinô” and “The Lost”. It´s a first glimpse into a new series of fourteen melancholic pieces by the Norwegian composer. Coming November 26th on Sonic Pieces.

Otto A Totland - Companion

Mana

Gleam

klaar

Seven artists reckon with isolation and subsistence in Dragon’s Eye Recordings’ latest release, titled 'Touch'. Organized by Tomoko Hojo, the album collects six sound pieces by various artists who grapple with the restriction of physical contact through sound. Our ability to touch is a means of survival, an essential and intimate way of living and communing with others. So when it is taken away for the same reason we possess it—for the sake of staying safe—how can it be replaced? What can stand in? 

The pandemic claimed so much; and for a time, touch fell victim. In the album 'Touch', Alexandra Spense, KMRU, Viv Corringham, Myriam Van Imschoot and Federico Protto, Tomoko Hojo, and Melissa Pons prod at means of non-tactile touching. They explore spaces where touch is only a memory, a recording, something missing to find replacements. In assembling this six-piece collection, artist Tomoko Hojo recalls Yoko Ono’s 1964 event which invited attendees to “watch the sky and touch”. Over the course of 'Touch,' the listener is an attendee, witnessing sonic reconstructions of haptic happenings. In each of the album’s pieces, sound grazes unseen surfaces and traces invisible shapes with an absent finger.  

In “Communion”, Alexandra Spense recalls a space where tactility transformed into something more, an instance that dissolved the borders of the physical body to blend spirit with its surroundings. KMRU’s “its not a tangency” relies on repetition to feel the boundaries of its container. Almost like echolocation, the listener relies on distant children’s voices and the monotony of soft drones to situate oneself in an imagined space.  

“Imagine myself walking with you” engages with the physical intimacy created not through touch, but rather physical presence—the nearness of two bodies, the potentiality of tactility, the imprint conversations can leave long after they end. Viv Corringham digitally recreates her process of walking and talking with strangers, instead connecting with a friend online. In “Human Measures”, Myriam Van Imschoot and Federico Protto create an instrument which mimics what touch might sound like by simultaneously breathing into a circulatory system of tubes, wrapped into something like the symbol for infinity.   

In “fall asleep”, Tomoko Hojo conjures whispers, chants, and rings bells to touch the air.  From these sound waves of voice and instrument and element, intentional and drawn out, their dispersal can be felt. It’s when the waves enter the ear that we can hear them. But Hojo asks what happens to other waves that run into other parts of the body, unalive or unhearing.  

The absence of other bodies, the ultimate vehicles of touch, brought Melissa Pons inward with her piece “Three”. Through airy field recordings, scattered static, and gently howling drones, it’s as if Pons watches her emotions float off of her body like the minuscule flakes of skin that comprise dust.  

Each of these six pieces ask to expand outside of sound, to take physical shape, make gestures and wander. In their own unique ways, the artists of 'Touch' attempt to transmute sound into tactility, and they come as close as they can. Collectively, the sound pieces exist within the container of the compilation—an abstract notion that places collections of noise alongside one another. And so what is a compilation if not individual tracks rubbing up against one another, meshing, touching?

Touch

KMRU - Its not a tangency

The Green Kingdom - Audioloom 1
Maps and Diagrams - Streams

Pre-order now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/audioloom-1-streams

Handstitched* (HS40/40T)
Release date: December 2021

The new Handstitched* series of evolving limited-edition issues are released on both mini CD and C45 cassette and will focus on two artists with a total of 22 minutes per artist, one CD and one-half of a C45 cassette per artist - limited to 50 copies per release. Each of the formats have hand-crafted packaging, unique, hand-printed covers for the CD and hand-made cassette sleeves for the pro-dubbed tapes.

After many years of amazing releases, and many moments spent admiring and listening to The Green Kingdom's musical adventures, Handstitched* is happy to announce a new release as part of the new limited-edition split artist format by The Green Kingdom and Maps and Diagrams.

Michael Cottone is a graphic designer and sound artist based in Michigan and presents to us "Audioloom 1", which will hopefully become a series of works over time. Michael creates an audio collage from disparate sources, samples, synths as well as acoustic and electric guitar. The "Audioloom" story is intended to create a musical narrative. We are over-the-moon to be releasing these new pieces by The Green Kingdom, who has previously released music via these well-respected imprints; Dronarivm, Past Inside the Present, Sound in Silence, Hidden Vibes, Lost Tribe Sound, Tench and Nomadic Kids Republic, to name but a few. 

Maps and Diagrams, appears on the "B" side of the split artist release with The Green Kingdom; with four tracks making-up "Streams" - focusing on a tonal and minimal edge that brings moments of the past year together, like a musical sketchbook where we can reflect as we slowly move forward. 

Thanks for listening x

Audioloom1 - Streams - S4mpl3r

Fragments IV: Collected Waves from Surrogate Memories

Ada's Chant (From Fragments IV)

This is a mixed down composite version of Browser Music 1. 

The individual parts and instructions for playing them are as follows:

Open each link below in its own web browser tab or window and press play on each. 

Part One: youtu.be/O7K1iG0TsHo
Part Two: youtu.be/wIK1krtrErM
Part Three: youtu.be/8GNHtoh3Q58
Part Four: youtu.be/Pv_X8e8cgJs 

The four parts are meant to play at the same time but don’t have to start together. You can stop / re-start individual parts and change their respective volumes as you wish. Like the components of a mobile sculpture, each part can be considered on its own or in any combination. 

This is music without development, where nothing much happens (or rather: the happening is evenly distributed throughout). This is also quiet music – perfect for playing in the background on your web browser while you are doing something else on your computer. You can even listen to other music / watch other videos / make Zoom calls, etc. while playing Browser Music in the background.

Support here: https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/track/browser-music-1

Bandcamp

Browser Music 1

A restorative bath of heavy ambient melodies, acapellas from beloved pop vocalists and poetry for the depths of these winter months. Put together with love, especially for cold nights and gently lit morning walks. 


Tracklist 

eternell - mira 
chantssss - breath
love spirals downwards- waiting for the sunrise
enya - so i could find my way
fernando pessoa
quitlife - eos
chantssss- your next online healing
dolores o riordan - i want you
sarah davachi - ruminant
william wordsworth
loveliescrushing - a bird flew to the sun
torus - enter the sun
colour plus - hpydgen
leo Dolgen - ocean and prayers
enya - oiche chiuin 
bon ivor - up in the woods
airflo - show me
quitlife - It’s love
aires - pink freckles
pablo naruda
lair - pause to rest
mike midnight - smiling in slow motion 
eternell - born of an ocean
colour plus - speed foto
anima - hoplite2000

lovers in arms ep3

Heilung (Lifa) -  Fylgija   Futhorck

Out now on limited cassette and digital. All music by @kareemlotfy

Cassette case includes zine designed by artist & two copies of the cassette. 

Cassettes available on our bandcamp: https://quiettimetapes.bandcamp.com/album/kareem-lotfy-qtt10

In select shops soon. 

Tracklist:
Asmar
Sundial Radio
Chromosome
GTO
Equilibrium
Second Seed
Kwkab

Kareem Lotfy - QTT10 - Full Tape Mix

Homo Machina is the first work composed as part of the suite Der Industriepalast. The piece is deeply influenced by the work of infographic pioneer, Fritz Kahn (1888-1968). Kahn’s most pivotal work was the life-sized poster “Der Mensch als Industriepalast” (Man as Industrial Palace) of 1926, which this piece is based upon.  Such is the inspiration of his work, it has influenced children’s anatomy books, comics (e.g. Numskullz) and even movies (e.g. Fantastic Voyage).

The visual crossover between industrialization and science in Fritz Kahn's artwork demonstrates the means by which human nature became culturally encoded by placing the knowledge of the human anatomy within the context of the modern, industrial world. Kahn produced lots of illustrations that drew a direct functional analogy between human physiology and the operation of modern technologies of the times. Therefore, by illustrating the body as a factory, Kahn was able to relate the body’s complex organic interior to the industrialized space so common in society during  the 1920’s.

As the work is intended as an introduction to a far longer suite, it is intended to provide an overview to the sounds that Kahn may have imagined as he was creating his remarkable graphics. It is therefore structured into 6 sections. 

Introduction: 00:00-00:21
Lungs: 00:22-02:03
Heart: 02:04-04:01
Brain: 04:02-06:05
Digestion: 06:05-07:59
Homo Machina : 07:59-10:07

Homo Machina

The Last Kingdom

God's Own Frequency (963Hz) + Shamanic Healing Echoes┇Cure Tension Headaches Fast, Stop Overthinking

Futha

Norupo

Lifa

Krigsgaldr

@networkerror + @felishaledesma

cover by isabella

isabella & felisha - chain mail vol 1

New track for compilation "A Journey Around My Room" tribute to Xabier de Maistre, thanks to @moradasonica #travellingwithoutmoving #lockdown2020 #soundexperimentation #sound #dronemusic #isolation #hibernation #room #confinement #closure #reclusion
https://wetdreamsrec.bandcamp.com/track/susana-l-pez-spain-era-lunar

VIAJE ALREDEDOR DE MI CUARTO

Era Lunar

Falling Through Graves And Houses

_ph011 Jordan Christoff - Плаващ

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is a digital imprint based in Los Angeles and curated by artist and composer Yann Novak. Emphasizing the elevation of marginalized voices in experimental music, our catalog represents a range of sounds, processes, identities, and practices. Since 2005, we’ve published over 100 works of sound art and experimental music with a focus on ambient, field recording, drone, electroacoustic, and acousmatic music. As an independent label, we work to build community for our artists and listeners searching for somewhere to belong.

KMRU - Its not a tangency

Dragons Eye Recordings