Coming soon: Tomosla - A small town in the mountains

Limited Edition CD, handmade packages, hand numbered, edition of 40

Written and produced by James Osland and Thomas Hoey 
Mastered by James E Armstrong
Artwork by Huili Chai
Layout design by James Osland

Shimmering Moods Records 2021 
SHM 155

Tomosla - Springs

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artists : Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date
album : 遠き火、遠き雲 (A Distant Fire, A Distant Cloud)
durations : 34.12 mn
 date : May 27th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / grey colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : May 07th, 2021 / official release : May 27th, 2021
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All music and sounds by Tomoyoshi Date & Stijn Hüwels. 
Recorded 2020/2021 in Japan and Belgium.

Tomoyoshi Date: piano, harmonium, synths, field recordings. 
Stijn Hüwels: guitar, pedals.

Mixed by Tomoyoshi Date.
Mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama.
Artwork by Lynn Pollard
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

Tōki hi, tōki kumo 遠き火、遠き雲’ (A distant fire, a distant cloud) is a poem by Tadahito Ichinoseki.

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records
https://stijnhuwels.bandcamp.com/

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Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date - 朝空に閃く光の粒子（Particles Of Light Flashing In The Morning Sky)

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artist : Federico Durand
album : Herbario
duration : 39.52 mn
 date : June 17th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / green colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Federico Durand: ARP Odyssey, cassette tapes, feedback looper, Sony TCM-459V, Microcosm, El Capistan, EHX 2880, RE-201, sampler, short-wave radio.
 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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"Herbario is the Spanish name given to a collection of dried plants and flowers preserved in an album. The collector usually writes with pencil the name of the herb, the place and date of collection, thoughts, and the habitat where the plant was collected from.
 
I live in a place surrounded by mountains and wild gardens which are, to me, a source of inexhaustible beauty. Through them I feel the passage of time: an ancient, circular temporality that follows the course of seasons, dialogues with the dark stillness of the mountain and the moon calendar. Each musical piece of Herbario has the name of my favourite flowers and trees.
 
Through a year of uncertainty, from March 2020 to March 2021, I composed this album in the same way a botanist would have proceeded: collecting and preserving simple, broken and hypnotic melodies.
 
F. D.
La Cumbre, Argentina. "

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/

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Federico Durand - Salvia

Tracklist

01. Seaworthy - Distant Hills Burn Bright (Part 4)
02. Sonmi451 -  Karabiber
03. Zhalih - Yellow
04. Celer - Melancholy Movement III
05. Emily A. Sprague - Star Gazing
06. Kenji Kihara - Sunny Spot
07. Tobias Hellkvist - Deadfall, Sothering, Taghairm
08. Ciro Berenguer - Retorno al mar
09. Marcus Fischer - Lighting the Shadows
10. Norihito Suda - The Weather of the Day Was Too Calm Almost as If Nothing Had Happened

251. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

(lost)

This is a remix of Yuri Konos track "Hikari"- produced by Goncalo Abrantes(aka GON: https://soundcloud.com/gonsmusic), in which I focused to create a picture, associated with stone skipping ( jap.: Mizu-kiri). Therefor I concentrated on Yuris voice, haevingly manipulated and underlined with a dark space.

Yuri Kono is a great experience, so please check out her work and show some love:
Yuri's Latest Single 'No Rush': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGZtCvmfwqo&t=3s  

Yuri Kono: https://soundcloud.com/yurikono
                   https://www.yurikono.com
Goncalo Abrantes: https://soundcloud.com/goncaloabrantes

Headphones highly recommended!
Watch your volume!
Enjoy!

Yuri Kono -  Hikari / 'A Gleam Of Hope'( Owl Yeah MIZU KIRI Remix)

Landscape/

Soon

James A. McDermid "In Little Swallows" (Album Preview)

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music : Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall)
photography : Miho Kajioka
album/book : Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come
duration : 40.58 mn (vinyl) 45.10 mn (cd)
date : March 2021

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All music by Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Miho Kajioka
Design by sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 750 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : February 15th, 2021 / official release : March 25th, 2021

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Links :
https://www.leavings.co.uk/
https://www.folkreels.com/
https://www.mihokajioka.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/music

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Observatories - Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come (album preview)

Don’t Worry I’m With You is a new collaborative album between James Osland and Finn Kelvin who first met one another at Bath Spa University, UK. They initially performed as part of the Elm Collective before releasing an EP under their respective names, on our sister netlabel Audio Gourmet. Their debut album ‘Colourless’ was released via Kate Carr’s Flaming Pines label in 2017 and this new record is their follow-up.

This record was created via remote exchanges of material at the beginning of the emerging pandemic. The resulting nine pieces are a set of foggy, atmospheric works which draw reflections from the passing of James’s grandfather at the beginning of 2020. James’s grandfather suffered with dementia for a long time and Don’t Worry, I’m With You explores the dark and unsettling place the mind must go when suffering with the disease, unable to communicate with those who love you.

The album features two very different approaches to sound creating as James focused on a purely digital sound through the complex processing of electronic sound beds, whilst Finn’s parts were guitar performances fed through a series of bespoke pedals. The human glimmers of guitar that are interspersed between layers of confusion, provide twists and turns throughout, as a milieu of contrasting moments.

The odd and unlikely emotions of sadness and relief meld together, as clearly recollected memories are interspersed with a vacant hum of melancholy and occasional paths of darkness. The album finishes to mark James’s grandfather’s passing on the 10th January 202; the track ‘Your Love, I Don’t Want To Lose’ is a reflection of the final release from this disease. 
credits
releases February 20, 2021

Written and produced by James Osland and Finn Kelvin
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Peter Nejedly
CD Packaging Design by Harry Towell

Don't Worry, I'm With You

wlr087 James Osland & Finn Kelvin - Don't Worry, I'm With You

Elm Records is an independent record label specialising in ambient and experimental music.

251. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

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