Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011’s debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013’s Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices captured the duo creating their exceptionally detailed music together live during a Japaneses tour. Akari, in turn, is the first studio album where Illuha recorded and mixed together, throughout the entire process. The beautiful st-robo studio in Tokyo put a collection of amazing equipment at their fingertips, from vintage mics and outboard gear to a vast collection of instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Their writing sessions were numerous and long with details meticulously obsessed over for nearly a year. The result is the most bewildering music Illuha have created to date. An album swimming with the most delicately tactile sounds and instrumentation that draws the listener in with hushed, motionless attention.

While Illuha’s Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date are often drawn to the most sparse notes of Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, acoustic grand piano and guitar, the breadth of instrumentation is partially what makes Akari so abosrbing. They have succeeded in creating their own universe of sound, so beautifully recorded, where each element not only has its own space but connects and interacts so fluidly with the other sounds. It is as if they are placed perfectly by nature, the compositions are fluid and organic, a far cry from anything calculated or structured. It is this open space that the music exists in which in turn defines the music itself. There is ample room to breathe within this forest of gentle tines, bubbling analogue synthesizers, clicking percussion and quiet field recordings. This is subtlety at its most refined; hushed without being saccharine, distant without being morose.

Akari is the Japanese word for light. Conceputally the duo used this word as a guide, as if they were searching through the dark, trying to keep the light alive, as if one is cradling a candle doing everything in their power to keep it alight in a storm. It is this almost visceral sense of sheltering, of protection, that gives Akari a very human and personal sound whose intensely deep focus is as impressive as it is arresting.

Akari

Structures Based on the Plasticity of Sphere Surface Tension

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Structures Based On The Plasticity Of Sphere Surface Tension

This piece was composed and recorded between November 2013 and April 2014.

A new version of this track is part of the cassette "The Sky Had Vanished" released in July 2015 by Ecstatic Recordings.

https://ecstaticrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/abul-mogard-the-sky-had-vanished-cassette-2nd-edition-white-cassette


My other works can be found at my bandcamp page:
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/


Desires Are Reminiscences By Now

Taken from the album 'Quixotism' released as CD and Download.

Oren Ambarchi 'Quixotism Part 5' (eMEGO 202)

Tracklist

01. Ian Hawgood - No Walls To Contain These Fervent Spirits
02. Hadley Roe -  When I Look Back...
03. Celer -  Melancholy Movement III
04. Betts(JP) - Yosde 03
05. Samuel Regan - Tell Them I've Had a Wonderful Life
06. Lamasz & Thme - Lueurs
07.  Rhucle - In Haze
08. Pruski - Last Particle (feat. Tomasz Mreńca)
09. Aiko Takahashi -  Un Beau Matin D’Été
10.  Dalton Alexander - Modrý (Reprise)

423. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

“A Kindness” is a short ambient suite tracing the residue of memory, soft gestures, and quiet absurdities. From the scent of wet earth to a lullaby lost mid-sentence, it leaves you in a stillness that lingers.

Petrichor

Album instrumental mélant Rock celtique et musique néo-classique

Sur mon chemin

"Silent Moon" IMPRO

A mix created by Loscil for the Style of Sound inspired by recent encounters, interactions, collaborations with the talented community of people Loscil knows and love. Loscil focused on recent works by friends and collaborators, with some of his own work thrown in there to make him like he belongs.

The track list:
1. 0:00 Rachel Grimes - In the Vapor with the Air Underneath - The Clearing (Temporary Residence) 2015
2. 4:28 Rafael Anton Irisarri -  Empire Systems - A Fragile Geometry (Room 40) - 2015
3. 12:48 Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie - Last Tango in Dendermonde - Travels In Constants Vol.24 -  (Temporary Residence) 2015
4. 18:45 Lawrence English - Wrapped in Skin - Wilderness of Mirrors - (Room 40) - 2014
5. 21:52 Christina Vantzou - Stereoscope - No. 3 - (Kranky) - 2015
6. 28:00 Taylor Deupree/Marcus Fischer - Twine (12k) - 2015
7. 33:52 Loscil - Serpens - Sine Studies 2 (JAZ Records) - 2015



Sounds from... Loscil

Nº4
Kranky records
https://christinavantzou.bandcamp.com/album/no-4
www.kranky.net
RELEASED APRIL 6, 2018

1.  Glissando for Bodies and Machines in Space 
2. Percussion in Nonspace 
3. At Dawn 
4. Doorway 
5. Some Limited and Waning Memory 
6. No.4 String Quartet 	
7.  Staircases
8. Sound House
9. Lava 
10. Garden of Forking Paths 
11.  Remote Polyphony ft. Steve Hauschildt

Nº4

From the album "Tea Notes". All music by Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren. Recorded january to march 2018 in Antwerpen and London. Mixed and edited by David Edren at ll150. Mastered & cut by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin.  Artwork by Victor Robyn. Vinyl + digital release on Ekster: 12th of September 2019: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/tea-notes

Tea Notes

Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren: "Shincha"

This piece, initially titled "Untitled 14 March" is now featured on my new album "In a Few Places Along the River" released via Bandcamp on 01/02/2022

https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-few-places-along-the-river

Thanks to William Oldroyd for providing the initial inspiration for this piece.

In a Few Places Along the River

Along The River

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

423. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Elm Records

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