I believe that music is present in every moment, in every scene. We can feel music relatively easily when those scenes are easy to understand and impressive, of course, but when they are not, for example, I think this is especially true in situations that are too mundane, too ordinary, or seemingly unrelated to music.

I can never hear it, but I think I hear it. Only after it has taken shape as a piece of music do I feel that this is how it must have sounded at the time. And the question of whether it was right or not will never be answered. But by questioning things that are becoming just a shell and looking at things from a different angle, we can gain a new perspective.

Questions always come up and I try to answer them somehow, but they always elude me. So by continuing to create my work, I manage to find my own answers to different questions at different times.

In this day and age, when all that is valued is how easy, quick and simple it is to get answers, it would be nice to have a few more people who are willing to face questions that will never be answered.

Produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover Art by Hidekazu Imashige

Angle of Light

Walking Through a Dream

The Foreword of a Beautiful Day

Tracklist

01. Fortresses - Hear
02. Katharina Schmidt - February. all-night donut shop
03. Ian Hawgood & David Cordero -  An influx of dreams curtailed by the softest of voices
04. Sonmi451 - A Taste For Vicarious Pleasure
05. Harry Towell - Laurus nobilis
06. Memory Scale - A Suivre
07. Daily Rituals -  Self-portrait under rusting sun
08. Andrew Heath - Eulogy
09. James Osland - I Am Because Of You
10. Imprints - Overworld
11. Richard Skelton -  Hypervelocity

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DR-88 : ARIA ROSTAMI - 'Siren' CD / DL
releases August 4, 2023 

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.

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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The Recent Past

Tracklist

01. Stijn Hüwels - Midtown
02. The Inventors of Aircraft - Waiting For Something To Break
03. Ian Hawgood & David Cordero -  Singular in the afterthought alone
04. Darren Harper - Traverse
05. Ambalek - Heage
06. Blochemy - Maze
07. Danny Clay - 02 12.21.2022
08. Hummingbird - West
09. Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall) - Our Recently Acquired Knowledge

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Tracklist

01. Tomotsugu Nakamura - Tiger Lily
02. David Cordero & Rhucle - In the Mirror
03. Celer - In The Intimate Hours
04. Emily A. Sprague - Mirror
05. Francisco Sonur - Another way
06. Glacis - Seven
07. Szymon Kaliski - And Belong
08. Thme -  Under red
09. Forest Robots - Over The Drainage Divide
10. Minamo & Moskitoo - Palm Fable
11. Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitello- Slow Machines - A Clearing

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Episode 53 of the Mare Nostrum podcast is now online !

An ambient mix between drone, electonica & world music, with: Asaf Sánchez, Kernal, Ghost In The Loop, Hania Ranni, Anoushka Shankar... Selected & mixed by absÜrda

Thanks for listening !

1- Absolut / Asaf Sánchez / 00:00
2- P a l i n dr o ne (edit) / Kernal / 03:50
3- Eve / Anchorsong / 08:44
4- Le chant de la glace / Ghost In The Loop / 14:30
5- Mi09 / Cell / 20:46
6- Devil’s Water (Devil’s reprise) / Rennie Foster / 26:36
7- Run/ Hania Rani / 31:30
8- Le Brin (edit) / Den Sorte Skole / 35:00
9- Summoning The Spirits (edit) / D.K. / 36:26
10- New Planet / Vega Trails / 42:40
11- Stolen Momments / Anoushka Shankar / 45:44
12- Pressure Relief / The Persuader / 51:44 
13- Juanito Laguna / The Myrrors / 54:56

Mare Nostrum
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Mare Nostrum Podcast - Episode 053 mixed by Absurda

Tracklist

01. Imprints - Trial
02. Darren Harper - Patina
03. Ambalek - Coast
04. The Humble Bee - Flakes of rust fill my palm
05. Hummingbird - Slo
06. Fields We Found - Parallels
07. Landtitles - Nightbirds and static flight
08. Moskitoo - Night Hike
09. This Valley Of Old Mountains - Yvy
10. Tomotsugu Nakamura - Library
11. Tsone - Instruments of an ecstatic cult

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A life without dreams is as dry as a life without tears...

5 years of Amulet of Tears

TEARS025

Amulet of Tears

Undveld - Untitled

An Ambient Improv meditation on a Kawai ES7 Stage Piano by https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles
.... and an invitation to add whatever I would like - the alto saxophon was my choice, enJoy !

Quantum Twilight / by Anomon / Sax remix

Soundtracks for films that didn't make it out of the edit suit.

Tension

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