always a fantastic mix-learn new artists and sounds..thank you ALL!

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.

Donate

Lauge - Frazil Ice (Sebby Kowal Recycle)

Fields We Found is a new direct-to-tape project, heralding back to some of the founding techniques of ambient music. Performed live and recorded to 1/4" tape, 'Thanks' utilises the space between its swells of electronic and sampled tones, intertwining layers of charming melody.

Download it here: https://bit.ly/3ioQFA7

’Thanks’ is an album of simplicity, inspiration and most of all, gratitude.

Thanks

Download

Fields We Found - Give

Glåsbird is an anonymous artist, active since 2018 and with releases to date appearing exclusively on Whitelabrecs, as part of a series called A Sonic Expedition. With each edition in the collection, the artist concentrates on a different geographic location. The project emerged somewhere inside the Arctic Circle, descending to Greenland, moving onto Svalbard and then the Norwegian Fjords before most recently, on the Russian owned peninsulas Novaya Zemlya. The music of Glåsbird ranges from electro-acoustic Ambient to Modern Classical, with this artist keen on producing a range of experiments to show their full range of ideas and techniques.

We’re pleased to unveil the next destination in this series, in the form of Siberia which is a double album befitting an exploration of the largest region on earth. Glåsbird has teamed up with glaciologist and photographer Nelly Elagina who provides first-hand accounts of Siberia in the form of images and captions from her time there. In the CD packaging, a special photo booklet has been included to showcase these experiences. For the artist, their account of this latest destination is entirely imagined. The first disc sets out to explore the beauty of the landscape and its ancient history. As with previous albums, the music feels icy cold but evocative, aiming to transport you to imagine the landscape in all its splendour for yourself. The second part of the album moves into more topical territory, portraying Siberia as it is today. Shifting weather patterns and devastating climate change inspire the mood of the compositions, which lean towards melancholy, tense or dramatic reflections, rounded off with a thought provoking title.

As always, we wonder, where in the world might the Glåsbird land next?

Siberia

wlr099 Glåsbird - Siberia

Tracklist

01. Sonmi451 - Lampenfiber
02. Zoltan Fecso - Sheets of Rain
03. Rinnovare feat. Benoît Pioulard - To Be in the Grey is Okay
04. Sinerider - Hadean
05. Ian Hawgood & Wil Bolton - Emerging
06. Benjamin Finger - Time Gestures
07. Forest Robots - Over The Drainage Divide
08. This Valley Of Old Mountains -  Yvy
09. The Humble Bee -  I am sorry I trespassed in your heart
10. Celer - In The Intimate Hours

252. Sleepy Sunday Podcast ( Elm Records)

Tapes and Topographies is US based artist Todd Gautreau, who has had music releases on labels such as Past Inside the Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own imprint, Simulacra. His project has been active since 2014 following his previous alias Tear Ceremony and he also produces a downtempo as Sonogram.

With each new album, Todd follows a different workflow to achieve new details and results in his sound. Increasingly, his work has been aided by the use of hardware and outboard effects.
In his latest album Amplitudes, he has taken a set of sounds and fed these through a looper, experimenting with altered loop speeds. He used FM synthesis for the first time in this body of work, alongside some of his tried and tested methods, joined by field recordings.

These nine compositions clock in at almost 50 minutes; a compelling listen through dreamy, organic textures. Todd has created a lot of music in the last 18 months and Amplitudes is the latest in his continuous process of distilling his sounds and ideas down to their essence.
The album’s artwork is a macro-photograph of a stone, as the fine details are ‘amplified’ by the magnification effect of the camera’s lens. There is not a clear concept but inspiration is drawn from film and literature, as well as self-reflection, memory, loss and dreams. As these compositions play out, you’ll find yourself concentrating on fine details, whilst at other times, in a blissful state, zooming out to absorb the bigger picture.

Amplitudes

wlr104 Tapes and Topographies - Amplitudes

Tracklist

01. Rhucle -  Ku Ku
02. Maps and Diagrams - The Open Door
03. Tapes and Topographies - Everyone is far away
04. Simon McCorry - Ascendance
05. Mi Cosa de Resistance - Instructions to read a love letter
06. Paper Armies - Leave your room
07. Stijn Hüwels, Jens Pauly - The Trees Will Bloom
08. Joe Borreson & Craig Tattersall - Lost in the post (Excerpt)

255. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Scattered Light - Winds
02. Francisco Sonur - I will cross the river through the deepest part
03. Ishmael Cormack - Sleep & Decay
04. Federico Durand - Nogal
05. Hymns57 - Bitcrush Butterflies
06. Tomotsugu Nakamura - Resolution
07. anthéne - degrade ii
08. Christina Vantzou -  Some Limited and Waning Memory
09. Darren Harper - Small Remembrance
10. Jason Calhoun - Three Parts
11. The Lifted Index - Dutcher
12. Home Learning - Assembler
13. Pleq and Hakobune - Storm (Wil Bolton remix)

258. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Alex Bober - Bad Goodbye
02. Scattered Light - Beacons
03. Suisen - Sunken Moon
04. Seaworthy - Distant Hills Burn Bright (Part 4)
05. Szymon Kaliski - Gaze Into The Sun. I
06. Arovane - Eben
07. Fortresses - June
08. Sonmi451 - Split Second
09. Celer - The Rue des Eglantiers As A Pillow
10. Gallery Six - The Cosmos Garden
11. Marine Eyes - Idyll
12. Asuna + Tomoyoshi Date + Federico Durand - Down through the tunnel to the river

259. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Modulated Cranial Incursion (2024-2025)

Ambient Session №31

Freak show

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

255. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Elm Records

Recent comments

Patter Light Grey

Related tracks