Gorgeous swells and movement and partially-recognisable sounds. Sounds like an ocean voyage...

As our fears manifest & the future becomes more uncertain, the simplistic yet poignant electro acoustic ambient swells of the new Christopher Bissonnette LP for Dronarivm seem like an apt soundtrack for our empty streets, shuttered businesses & closed front doors.

waves - limited edition gray cassette
▶ gray C40 cassette with transparent sticker
▶ 180mgr glossy photo paper J-Card
▶ real-time duplicating
▶ numbered edition - limited to only 35 copies!
▶ bonuses with every tape 

After few years of silence, Tokyo based producer Tomonari Nozaki returned with stunning work first time on cassette format. In this album Tomo has adhere to his unique style and approach of creating an immersive sound coverlet out of cinematic and grainy repetitions.

Produced by Tomonari Nozaki 
Artwork by Anya Ole-Irin

waves

"waves" Excerpt / tomoanri nozaki (secret press / 2021)

Full stream of Data Trails by Imprints, released on Serein, April 2014. www.serein.co.uk

Imprints are Shaun Crook, Darren Clark and Alex Delfont

Imprints - The Sea & Electricity

Raymond V

A track from "Biospherica" on Carpe Sonum Records:
https://jacobnewman.bandcamp.com/album/biospherica

https://carpesonum.bandcamp.com

All tracks by Jacob Newman.
Mastered by Jason Corder (offthesky).

Colorado Trifecta!–Recorded, mastered and released completely in Colorado!

CD will be forthcoming in 2017. Our policy is, and has always been, that if you purchase a digital download and later want the CD (either because it wasn't available at the time you purchased the download or because you changed your mind), you only have to pay the difference between the download price and the CD price (+ shipping).

Biospherica

Suspended Summers

Patterns

Taken from the forthcoming album ‘Taken Apart’ on Fluid Audio…

Taken Apart is a document of the city and the human psyche and 21st century social politics. It incorporates sequences of concrete sound collages and reportage-like location recordings set against layers of string, synth and choir. The follow up to 2015’s Broken Memory Machine, Taken Apart shares many of it’s predecessors traits. However, the reflective romanticism is gone – if Broken Memory Machine told a story from the past, Taken Apart unfolds right here in the wide eyed present, with the listener at the white hot centre of it all.

Music - Phil Tomsett
Mastering - James Plotkin
Photography - Craig Tattersall & Lizzie King
Design - Daniel Crossley

Taken Apart

Phil Tomsett - Procession

coming back to music making and exploring other worlds

image by Malevich (Black Square)

180828 nocturnal 0.1

Hotel Neon is a trio from Philadelphia, which has appeared on these pages [and hopefully on your rotations] ever since their self-released and self-titled Hotel Neon debut in 2013. The album has been subsequently picked up by Home Normal, with the band’s followups, Remnants (2016) and Context (2017) appearing on Fluid Audio, and migration with Means of Knowing (2018) to Agustín Mena’s (aka Warmth) Archives imprint. For their latest release, titled Vanishing Forms, the trio returns to Archives, with eight ambient atmospheres that blanket a spinning mind. The vastly spanning and highly textured pieces drown all anguish and polish the sharp edges of that troublesome thought. Listening to this music is like opening your eyes on the beach facing a boundless ocean, with an intense realization that at this moment all is real and everything else is just product of a projected and forever fueled in worry ego. This is how things truly are… And if you don’t have the luxury of an ocean near your dwelling, at least you can reflect on the presence in your headphones, with Hotel Neon spraying all the vapours of their waves.

- Headphone Commute - 

Music by Hotel Neon: www.hotelneonmusic.com
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri: www.blackknollstudio.com
Artwork by Dalvin Byron: www.dalvinbyron.com
Design by Steven Kemner: www.stevenkemner.com

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Hotel Neon - Burning Mist

For this Exclusive Track Premiere, I'm actually inversing on my roles: instead of being the announcer, I am the featured artist, along with Uwe Zahn, for our collaborative album, title "Aeon" released on Eilean Rec. today.

During our private conversation through music, Uwe and I explored the most mysterious of mediums, dimensions and philosophies - that of "time". Time is what allows sound to exist, by carrying the pressure levels through its mythic axis. Timelessness is unbeknown to man, and concepts like "forever" and "eternity" are captured in a Latin word of "aeon". The German word "unendlich" describes the notion of infinity on which philosophers have puzzled over "ages". And as "finality" is easier to grasp, since all things come onto an end, we're left with "endlich" of ourselves and of our music.

Uwe and I sincerely hope that you connect with our studies and deconstructions thereof, inasmuch as you simply enjoy the beautiful music that we wanted to share, beyond all theories... beyond all thought... beyond all time...

Mike + Uwe
Unendlich, Endlich
Aeon, 8/8/2019

Aeon

Unendlich, Endlich

TRACK PREMIERE : Arovane & Mike Lazarev - Unendlich, Endlich

A mournful celebration of the cycle of life and death and the memories left by those we’ve lost. From ovum to orphan…

Ovo/Orpo

Name Your Price

Orpo

DR-66 : Christopher Bissonnette - 'The Wine Dark Sea' CD / DL
due out on March, 13th
dronarivm.bandcamp.com

The Wine Dark Sea is Bissonnette’s fifth solo studio album. The album’s title is derived from the writings of Homer, where he oft referred to a rough and stormy sea as “wine-dark”. Homer’s descriptions of colour are devoid of any reference to the colour blue. And any suggested meaning in his description of the sea point to the colour red. This apparent contradiction has brought much speculation about the significance and understanding of colour in ancient Greece. Keeping with the motif of colour, track titles on the album are based on references from contemporary artists and their insights on colour, form and implied meaning.

The album represents a shift for Bissonnette’s work, moving from an exclusively synth-based series of explorations to a hybrid of electronic and acoustic methods. The result is a rolling and slow-moving tide of tones and undulations. The textures are in some passages soft and mollifying but fluently shift to moments of tension and unease. The Wine Dark Sea is an aural allegory to sound and colour and our tenuous understanding of abstract meaning.

Mastered by Porya Hatami
Cover photo by Christopher Bissonnette

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CHRISTOPHER BISSONNETTE - See With Eyes Closed (from 'The Wine Dark Sea')

Dutch independent label focused on contemporary ambient / modern classical music.

CHRISTOPHER BISSONNETTE - See With Eyes Closed (from 'The Wine Dark Sea')

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