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The Sustain Series project continues with its second volume, 24 recycled forms created from old and unused material. Since the release of Volume 1 in November last year, more artists have come together to salvage, repurpose, restore and deconstruct each other’s pieces, or collaborate on a particular idea. What results is a growing variety of approaches and outputs, from minor embellishments to full disfigurement.

Volume 2 moves thematically, as if in four chapters, from the expressive openers, through enchanting natural-sounding pieces, before opening up to more ethereal expanses, and finally darker and more thoughtful ones. As it does, visions emerge of our natural world - its power, its beauty and its vulnerability.

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Lauge - Reflection Of Self (Off Land Recycle)

Antarctic Wastelands, Julia Gjertsen, Snufmumriko, anthéne & Logic Moon - Sculpture 2 (by zarr.)

anthéne, Pepo Galán & Marty Hicks - Sculpture 1 (by Dear Gravity)

awakened souls & City Of Dawn - piedro blanco

Logic Moon & Henrik Meierkord - Skogsfolk

Artist : Tim Linghaus
Track : Travel Sketches (Room After Performance)
Album : Vhoir

Bandcamp : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/vhoir
Itunes : https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/vhoir-ep/id1170469161
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/album/37qtqXpRJGZoNBq4nmsHbg

Written and mixed by Tim Linghaus
Mastered by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering
Artwork by Matt Niebuhr
Layout by Nick Hyatt

Vhoir

Tim Linghaus - Travel Sketches (Room After Performance)

"Chemins Secondaires" is extract from Quanta Records’ third release, Correspondances, a mini LP by αίών (aeon) that combines experimental techno, ambient and musique concrète elements.
The tracks of the album communicate through similar sounds, noises and rhythmic patterns. But while atmospheres diverge, there is a constant exchange from cold and industrial to solar and melodious so as to form a complex and balanced ensemble.
αίών’s has placed randomness at the centre of his creative process. Computing and random programming have allowed the artist to explore new structures and to no longer simply consider a glitch as an error, but rather as a primal source of novel sound.
The outcome is a collection of sinuous and contemplative Correspondances that aims at contorting the listener’s subjective experience of time.

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering
Design by @atroistudio (www.atroistudio.com)

Correspondances (QR003)

αίών - Chemins Secondaires (QR003 - B2)

One-take synth improvisation, taken from 'All In The Same Room'.
Buy tape + digital at nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com/album/020-all-in-the-same-room

All In The Same Room

Grapefruit

Pausal are Alex Smalley and Simon Bainton | pausal.net
Mastered by Lawrence English and Porya Hatami
Cover artwork by Susanne Seinmann  | www.susannesteinmann.de

Buy: https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/volume-flow
Edition: CD /150
HB66 | hibernate-recs.uk | We Like Ambient

Pausal / Volume Flow (Snippets)

'A Seasons Past' is the first full release on Archives by talented japanese artist Hirotaka Shirotsubaki. 

Mastering by Fraser McGowan 
Archives50 // ArchivesCD31 
Archives / 2018

a seasons past

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Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Morning Haze

Final track from the new album 'Any Given Moment', now available via Whitelabrecs: 
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/any-given-moment

I've Longed For This // from the album 'Any Given Moment'

Taken from the album 'Cylene' released as 2LP and Download.

Cylene

François J. Bonnet & Stephen O'Malley 'Première noire' (EMEGO 262)

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek 'Elephant'
Posh Isolation 231

preorder : 
https://poshisolation.bandcamp.com/
http://poshisolation.net/
The combined forces of Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek first found a way into the world in 2017 with the album 'Buy Corals Online'. Together they now present 'Elephant', an eight-track album that composes an inquisitive space with its parts.

The economy of movement across Rahbek and Valentin's new collaborative album makes for a gentle transmission of its abstract intimacies. This presence, which we caught glimpses of on their previous work 'Buy Corals Online', is shaped by the delicate interplay between acoustic instrumentation and synthetically rendered sounds. Hauntingly melodic at times, the album feels like a suite of uncanny lullabies that grant access to realities that can only be found in dreams. Rahbek and Valentin are always leading us somewhere and showing us something—one piece of the scene at a time, coming and going with different parts of a puzzle that eventually settles into a complete form. And through all this we perceive an inviting restlessness on their behalf, encouraging us to stray further and further into the private space of 'Elephant'.

Valentin is perhaps best known for his work in the exquisite atypical pop group Kyo, though his wide- reaching music and videography practices covertly underpin his flagship projects. Most recently, Valentin has been working with Yung Lean as both producer on his 'Nectar' album as Jonatan Leandoer127 as well as on their commission for Sweden's Cullberg Ballet. As Croatian Amor, Rahbek has made similar forays into unworldly pop and his work with Christian Stadsgaard as Damien Dubrovnik has been as critical as their co- founding of Posh Isolation.

Modest interventions from processed field-recordings and semi-erupting synths invite you to zoom in enough to hear the human hand. An attention to listening, to how sounds cradle the small movements and gestures that naturally accompany the playing of guitar, piano, and viola, is acutely developed by Rahbek and Valentin. It's in this way that 'Elephant' persuades us that even small stories unfurl into the most intricate and tremendous of sagas.

Tracklist

1. Solina 03:35
2. Touch And Vision 04:22
3. Scarlett 08:05
4. In Waves ft. CTM 03:17
5. Call Me By My True Names 02:45
6. Sense World 03:42
7. The Heart Of Things 05:31
8. Elephant 03:40

Mixed by Nikolaj Nielsen 
Mastered by John Hannon 
Posh Isolation 231 
28th February 2020

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek - Scarlett

FUJI||||||||||TA, iki, LP

Release date - April 3th 2020
Catalogue nr. - HG2003
Format - Ltd. Vinyl/digital

https://hallowground.bandcamp.com

Credits:
All music composed, played and Recorded by FUJI|||||||||||TA
Mixed by Makoto Oshiro
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space

Tracklist:
1) keshiki (09:42)
2) nNami (09:20)
3) osoi (10:12)
4) sukima (07:03)

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"FUJI|||||||||||TA has created a work that operates as a beautiful nexus between the material and immaterial qualities of music. 
It is a lived-in dreamscape of deep, rich tonality. A remarkable debut."
(Lawrence English)

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FUJI||||||||||TA, real name FUJITA Yosuke, is a Japanese sound artist. After countless performances in different contexts either solo or along artists such as Yamantaka Eye of Boredoms and the legendary avant-gardist SUZUKI Akio as well as a slew of solo releases, his LP »iki« (»breath«) for the Swiss-based Hallow Ground label is his first in nine years. On these four pieces, Fujita explores the idiosyncratic sound qualities of the pipe organ he has built all by himself in 2009. This - quite literally unique - instrument features only eleven pipes, an air pump called »fuigo« which was modelled after a traditional blacksmith’s one and has no keyboard. Inspired by traditional gagaku, it was designed to evoke rich landscapes rather function as just another musical instrument. While his previous records saw FUJI||||||||||TA explore various modes of abstraction, »iki« is a highly emotive yet meditative album, musically restrained but full of imagination.

»keshiki« immediately sets the mood for this record with a long sustained note that is punctuated by the soft clicking of Fujita’s air pump. Once Fujita carefully starts bringing melodies into play, the interplay of the drone and the discrete rhythmic element gives way to a fuller harmonic whole. »keshiki« is an intimate piece that perfectly displays the artist’s knack for painting a rich sonic picture with only a reduced palette. »nNami« juxtaposes the sounds of two pipes that are out of tune with each other, creating a hypnotic sensation of ebb and flow (»nami« translates to »wave«) that is full of subtle friction. It’s a staggering artistic interpretation of the instrument’s material characteristics. Clocking in at ten minutes, »osoi« (»slow«) is an overall melancholic piece that explores the relationship between different tone colours through minute changes in pace. Finally, »sukima« (»blank space«) is the shortest and the most rhythmic piece of the four. Composed of only staccati, it is a masterful exploration of the harmonic qualities Fujita’s stunning pipe organ has to offer.

Recorded between September and December of 2019, »iki« marks the culmination of FUJI||||||||||TA’s ten-year-long work with the instrument that he had built without any prior knowledge and started to teach himself to play without a manual in sight. It is, in other words, the unique result of a unique musical mind paying his dues to the uniqueness of his own creation; introspective and welcoming at once.

FUJI||||||||||TA - osoi (HG2003)

Released on m_division's compilation 'Unity'
Profits from the sale go to supporting cancer patients affected by COVID-19 in Russia.

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https://advita.ru/
https://mdivision.bandcamp.com/releases

Mastered by Aleksandr Matlakhov
Released June 25, 2020

SKY H1 ft. Soho Rezanejad - Animal

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Torus, 'Chroniko' (2020). Courtesy the artist.

From KR014 Homespun
A myrmidon of melodrama in a world of exquisite introspection, of shimmering inquisitiveness.
https://krutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/homespun

Radio Hito - L'Obscurité des eaux (live version)

Taken from Not Waving & Romance - Eyes Of Fate [E065, Ecstatic]
 
Not Waving combines with Romance on the free-floating grandeur of ‘Eyes Of Fate’ : nine tracks of mythological, Old Testament ambient.

The first new music from Not Waving since 2019 and the first pairing with label mate Romance 'Eyes Of Fate’ explores the fertile territory between secular and religious music that has long fascinated artists, allegories on the divine and existential bliss and terror in equal measure. 

From the curdled invocation of opener ‘I Bowed On My Knees’ to the enrapturing devotional of ‘While My Heart Still Beats’ to the final judgement of ‘Kneel For Mercy’, the album wrenches highly emotive textures utilising a blend of centuries-old chant styles and orchestration consisting of  chamber strings, tape loops and plangent processed sounds.

Not Waving & Romance - While My Heart Is Still Beating [E065]

ECSTATIC