ILUITEQ - Don't Runaway

Havnegata

Recourse

Over the last few years, Rostami has been playing with new ideas using field recordings, improvised piano, and tape processing. Already having made a few records experimenting with these ideas, "Siren" sets itself apart as a concentrated approach to illustrate abstract environments and landscapes through sound. On songs like "Cold Stream" and "The Recent Past" you will hear literal field recordings of nature mixed with composed musical emulations of environments, whether it be a representation of running water or the quiet nostalgia of suburban life. Songs like "Landscape" and "Today and Tomorrow" take field recordings of field recording records played in Rostami's studio space along with multiple recordings of the same piano performance. The piano is recorded with a field recorder, as midi and as a D/I recording and woven together, in and out, blending the soundscapes of field recordings and studio recordings into an undefined grey area.

Aria Rostami currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Rostami started releasing music in 2011 and has releases on labels such as Spring Theory, Glacial Movements, Dark Entries, Crash Symbols, Zoom Lens, Audiobulb and Jacktone Records. Aria Rostami occasionally performs and releases work with Daniel Blomquist.

Music written and recorded by Aria Rostami
Cover image by Dylan Tushar
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Thank you Pepper, Afshin, Abbas, Nasrin, Dylan Tushar, Daniel Blomquist, Ashkan, Evan Scott, David August, and Sean Raji

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Today and Tomorrow

Dawn

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Nest

Hey, you remember the Icelandic independent imprint called INNI Music, yes? It opened up with Atli Örvarsson's You Are Here back in 2020, and then there was Rose Riebl's Do Not Move Stones in 2021, followed up with Jónsi, Sin Fang, Alex Somers, Kjartan Holm's Sounds of Fischer Vol. 1 a year after, all of which have consistently made to my Best of the Year lists, in every single year. Right. So, yes, this is the same Holm from that Jónsi (of Sigur Rós fame) collaboration, this time with a solo release. Hailing from Reykjavik, Kjartan Holm is a musician and a film composer with half a dozen scores under his belt. This album, titled HORIZON, was originally written for a same-named documentary about the late Icelandic painter Georg Guðni, "whose innovative interpretations of forms and ideas paved the way for a renaissance in Icelandic landscape painting." The music, as conveyed in a piece I am premiering for you today, is capturing the vast and sprawling atmospheres, blending abstract textures with ethereal melodies in pastel haze, shifting tones, and wide brushstrokes. You don't even need to look up the paintings to see the resemblance (but I recommend that you do). Lovely tonalities to get lost in on this one, and I recommend that you pick up the album, in just a few days...

HORIZON

Limitless Pt. II

TRACK PREMIERE : Kjartan Holm - Limitless Pt. II

Taken from the album "In the Still Water"
by Wil Bolton & Francis Gri

Limited to 40 copies / Handmade covers, hand numbered
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-still-water

releases November 10, 2023 

All music by Wil Bolton and Francis Gri 
Recorded between London and Milan in 2022 
Mixed by Wil Bolton 
Mastered by Francis Gri 
Photography by Wil Bolton and Francis Gri 
Design by Francis Gri 

Shimmering Moods Records 2023 
SHM 271

Wil Bolton & Francis Gri - Shrouded In Fog

Oändlig

After several months of exchanging messages and phone calls, and supporting each other's releases, we're finally releasing our first collaboration on Mare Nostrum Label.

Philippe Deschamps laid the foundations, and Le Code added a few ethereal sounds to create a mysterious, minimalist single.

Released 08.12.2023 as a free download on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms.

Night Glimpses

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Night Glimpses feat. Philippe Deschamps

Ambient soundscapes for your pleasure. Relax, chillout and enjoy.

NECRONOMICON DREAMS - EREBUS WAITS

Ghost Ship

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

Today and Tomorrow

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