In November 2016 a musical bond was formed in a small suburban part of Copenhagen. What later turned into the foundation of Nature Tales, several sonic creations, events, workshops, concerts and travels, all began with a walk around the local lake with a handheld recorder on an ice-cold late autumn day. On that day these two pieces were composed from recordings from the frozen lake, combined with ngoni, frame drum and voice, and from there the journey back to nature through organic/electronic ambient music commenced.

We are happy to finally share this EP for the first time to the public, almost 6 years after its creation.

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Releases 25. February

Pre-order via Bandcamp: 
https://naturetales.bandcamp.com/album/moon-lake

Pre-save for Spotify, Deezer etc
bfan.link/moon-lake

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soundcloud.com/ishtadi
soundcloud.com/respirabreathe

Artwork by Markus Trige Frandsen

Mastering by Molle Nifkin

Ishtadi & Respira - Moon Lake (Preview) [NT005]

This is a track that was actually made quite a while ago but recently surfaced on the Shimmering Moods compilation 'VA/Meditations 11. 

You can check out the rest of the compilation by clicking the 'Buy' link.

Meditations 11

'Against Yourself' - Taken from 'VA/Meditations 11' - [Shimmering Moods, 2022]

Sustain Series returns for its third iteration, bringing together ever-more artists for another showcase of recycled music. Reworks and newfound collaborations make up this 27-piece album, demonstrating what can be achieved with ‘one’s trash and another’s treasure’.

 https://bit.ly/amb-sustain3

All Bandcamp proceeds of this album are to be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects, to help continue their work sustaining important local environments, and providing jobs to those that restore and maintain them.

Andy Cartwright - Founded (Sebby Kowal Recycle)

Ai Yamamoto - Quiet Room (anthéne Recycle)

Tracklist

01. América Analógica - En vivo en laboratori estudio I
02. Francisco Sonur - Non human love
03. Glacis - Five
04. The Lifted Index - Truth Like Seeds Of Trees
05. twincities -  June 5th (an illustrated cross section)
06. Federico Durand - Flor Imaginaria 
07. Melodía - Music box for Nils and Noé

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Tracklist

01. Pan•American - Alentejo
02. Fields We Found - View
03. Anthéne - The Fields
04. Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Pfad_Onset
05. James Murray - Least Resistance
06. Hideo Kobayashi - All of You
07. Grotta Veterano - Slumbers (Part 2)
08. Black Brunswicker - Dreams We Share
09. Ruhe - A Beautiful Weakness
10. Twincities - Harbor-hums
11. xu - Daydream Delusion
12. Andrew Heath & Simon McCorry - Mist

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Tracklist

01. Lullatone - like grains of sand in your hand
02. Maps and Diagrams - Black Land
03. Mikael Lind - Spheres
04. Moss Covered Technology - Night #4
05. Observatories - We Both Try For The Same Thing (But For Completely Different Reasons)
06. Marine Eyes -  Idyll
07. Thme - On a vale of foe
08. The Lifted Index - The Dim Light Of The Last Day
09. Morimoto Naoki - Off
10. Moskitoo - Fluctuations
11. The Humble Bee & Benoît Pioulard - Honesty

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Tracklist

01. Jogging House - Narrative
02. Weareforests -  Vor___1
03. Miguel Otero - Blooming in Sturton
04. Seaworthy - Distant Hills Burn Bright (Part 6)
05. Melodía - Luna (en el hotel Am Bad, Tübingen)
06. Federico Durand -  Día de nieve
07. Stijn Hüwels - Clouds as seen from an airplane
08. Wil Bolton - Lavender Layer
09. Altars Altars -  Family's Downstairs
10. Norihito Suda - Macrocystis
11. OHIO - Crépescule

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Gentle textural soundscapes trace the quiet shift in season, evoking warmth, stillness, and the beauty of impermanence. A sonic reflection on the passage of time, memory, and the subtle charm of change.

Christoph Vogel (Ghostloop) about his album: “It’s a collection of nine ambient pieces — soundscapes shaped by personal moments and quiet shifts I experienced over the past year, many of them spent in nature.

I worked with field recordings I captured during that time, letting them carry traces of place and memory. While writing, I also began building my Eurorack modular system, slowly integrating its sounds into the tracks as they took shape.

'Almost Autumn' reflects a quiet cycle of the year — the slow transitions, inner stillness, and changing atmosphere that come with time passing”.

Christoph Vogel, known as Ghostloop (Germany), weaves immersive soundscapes shaped by the serene rhythms of nature. Drawing from the ambient textures of field recordings and grounding them with deep, fluid basslines, his compositions echo the quiet moods of Northern Germany and the Baltic Sea coast. Rooted in a deep sense of place, Ghostloop’s music invites listeners to pause, drift, and sink into gentle, emotive layers of sound.

Produced and mixed by Christoph Vogel (Ghostloop)
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture and design by Dionis Afonichev

Almost Autumn

Routines Remain

Through signs that never arrive and streetlights that refuse to shine, light makes its way through broken streets and fading echoes. Veins of neon pulse in the shadows, fragile but enduring, while the mechanisms of silence turn ceaselessly. In this fragile geometry, illumination emerges not as brilliance, but as presence, gently carried, born of a silent persistence.

Lanterns That Never Glow

Let me introduce you to my new side project: AWAKINO. An amusement park for electronic experiments – more rhythmical structures, occasional club references, straight from my e-smogplayground studio.

Digital-only, spontaneous, often just sketches – raw and imperfect. Flirting with Synthi-Pop at times – but always a bit weird around the edges.

Here’s the very first EP, uploaded straight to Mirlo – a charming alternative platform beside the big players. Cheers.

https://mirlo.space/awakino/release/beautiful-world-ep

Beautiful World EP

Beautiful World

>>> Get in on Mirlo!

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

309. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

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