The Moorish Shield is a subjective navigation. The main beacon on this poetic and haunted route is a villa from the beginning of the twentieth century, called La Mauresque, located in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, on the French Riviera. Its owners (past and present), its location (nested at the end of the cape, almost invisible…) and the spirit of this place (where, through the ages, the stunning beauty of the landscape always hides a darker dimension…) give matter to sonic explorations, based on field recordings, out of tune pianos, radio interceptions, ghostly tones and tape manipulations. The title comes from a Moroccan symbol placed at the entrance of the villa by its most famous owner: novelist William Somerset Maugham. The main traditional function of such a symbol - central to Maugham’s life - is to protect from the evil eye, while deflecting the evil power back onto the malevolent. The eleven tracks of The Moorish Shield explore this ambivalent relationship between sun and shade and question what a Riviera landscape hides in the Mediterranean bright light, behind the perfectly maintained hedges, through the passing of decades.

Written and produced by squncr
Mastered by Julien Bayle/Void Label
Designed by Daniel Crossley

squncr - Umbrella Pine

Tracklist

01. Daniel Vickers - Alter
02. Glacis - Under The Bare Sky
03. Federico Durand - Mensaje Desde El Mar Del Norte
04.  Rhucle & morimoto naoki - Kisui
05.  Pruski - Last Particle (feat. Tomasz Mreńca)
06.  Christopher Bissonnette & Wil Bolton - Overcast
07.  Runaway Horses & Valotihkuu - Timeless Beauty
08.  Akhira Sano - Grain Culture
09.  Ned Milligan - Sky Smokes & Electronics
10.  Sonmi451 - Hyperbole


414. Sleepy Sunday Podast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee - Case Study 5
02. Dag Rosenqvist - Linnebråten
03. Dudal - Peut-être hier
04. The Volume Settings Folder - Unreel
05. Celer & Forest Management - Montrose
06. Henrik Meierkord - Sprickor
07. Tomoyoshi Date - 土 Tsuchi (33 rpm)
08. Blue Lake - Weft
09. Will Samson - Loshult
10.  Olli Aarni - Hetken laskoksissa

417. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Aiko Takahashi - Un Beau Matin D’Été
02. Ian Hawgood - And You Were Gone
03. Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee - Case Study 1
04. Federica Deiana - If
05. Hiroshi Ebina - A White House
06. Blochemy -  Slong
07.  Jason Calhoun + Foresteppe - a four part cure ii
08. Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken - Sema 
09. Lorenz Weber -  Everything Remains One
10.  Ciro Berenguer - Retorno al mar

419. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Aiko Takahashi - Vers L’Étranger
02. 't Geruis -  Towards Home, Dark Blue
03.  Dag Rosenqvist - Somna, sov
04. Jason Calhoun + Foresteppe - A Four Part Cure  iii
05. Nobuto Suda - Magnetic Comfort
06. David Cordero & Rhucle - Air Pocket
07.  Moss Covered Technology & Snufmumriko - Skagerrak
08.  Slow Reels (Ian Hawgood and James Murray) - Handwritten
09. Naps - Maybe
10. The Humble Bee -  Concealed By Yellow
11. Andrew Lang -  False Departure-Silent Terminals

428. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Meteoric End

Jason van Wyk is a Cape Town (South Africa) based electronic music producer whose music I often wish could have been my own. From cinematic soundscapes to soft piano keys and mesmerising passages, the elements of his pieces are all the necessary ingredients that I often try to combine in my music. And that is basically the highest sort of praise that I could give. There are many incredible ambient musicians who truly inspire me with their ability to create and transport me to their fantastic sonic worlds. And plenty have contributed to my growth as a musician - I am permanently indebted to many of them, whom I am honoured to call friends. But in my soul, I am a pianist, and the instrument [or its echoes] inevitably make it into my tracks. And this is what I love about Jason's music. His most recent release on the beloved n5MD, Inherent, is a more upbeat, forward-driven progression, combining his skills of crafting dance-oriented grooves with atmospheric soundtracks. For his upcoming EP, Jason reworked three tracks into pure ambient pieces. To truly appreciate the transformation, start by hearing the original track, followed by this alternative version. If you want to dig deeper into the process behind the composition (including the details of the actual effects chain used, like the Space Echo, etc.), you can read up on Headphone Community, where Jason revealed it all when he was a featured artist for the entire month of July [the content is still up there!]. Deep listening and focus are essential to truly appreciate the textures here...

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TRACK PREMIERE : Jason van Wyk - Inner (Horizon)

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Suncycle (With Ocean Sounds)

Synthbiont & Anassimandrus is the new ambient/experimental project born at the end of 2018 by the collaboration between Nicolò Faggiani and Tommaso Gobbo. Their musical background comes from different musical experiences as DJs, vinyl collectors, and founders of two web-radios dedicated respectively to electronic music and dub-reggae. Synthbiont & Anassimandrus was developed to research the deepest ambient atmospheres, creating musical journeys where the listener can immerse itself in a parallel sound universe. The idea behind the mixing process is to elaborate different digital and analog sources, editing samples and tracks, and creating a unique soundscape. This way of experiencing music brought them to approach musical realities such as Ozora and Mo:Dem festival, Silent Season record label, and entering in contact with artists such as Mental (Visionary Mind records).
https://soundcloud.com/synthbiontanassimandrus
https://soundcloud.com/electronicmusicculture303

Tracklist

1. D.Unison – Orange [Pulpa]
2. Nthng – Shine [Transatlantic]
3. Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri – Immemorial [Cryo Chamber]
4. ASC – Orcus [Auxiliary]
5. Ancestral Voices – Meruah [The Fifth Kingdom]
6. Foliage – Ostra Stillestrop [Visionary Mind]
7. Haloed – Mythical Object
8. Asuna & Jan Jelinek - Pulsating Primary Structure [Faitiche]
9. H.U.V.A. Network – Symetric Lifes [Ultimae Records]
10. Mandelbrot – Gespensperkrabben [Audiophob & Mandelbrot]
11. Faugust – Parallel Rave Fantasies [Our Circula Sound]
12. PierroX – Sad Deepness [Schizophrenic Records]
13. Krill.minima – Kalmar [Genesungswerk]
14. Jon Hassell – Blue Nile [ArsNova]
15. Bamboomusic – Desert
16. Mind Over Midi – The Rest Is Silence [Silent Season]
17. Carbon Based Lifeform – Irdial [Soundmute Recordings]
18. Nthng – Atom [Transatlantic]

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 041 - Synthbiont & Anassimandrus

A suitably powerful and atmospheric isolatedmix to accompany the epic ambient style of Italian producer https://soundcloud.com/saffronkeira http://asip.me/isolatedmix105

Tracklist 

01. Blinkar från Norr - Motionless 
02. Biosphere - Birds Fly by Flapping Their Wings (v2)
03. Becoming Animal - The Sky Is Ever Falling (Abul Mogard Remix)
04. Emra Grid - Trace It Back
05. Lawrence English - Hapless Gatherer
06. Cristian Vogel - Signal Symbol
07. Emra Grid - Fifteen Day Trilogy
08. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Black Pitch
09. Siavash Amini and Saåad - Dragging the Harrow
10. LF58 - Metamorfosi
11. Alina Kalancea - Devil's Lullaby
12. Saffronkeira - Chthonian (w/Mia Zabelka)

ASIP - isolatedmix 105 SaffronKeira

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417. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

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