A beautiful, healing remedy, a mix series that just promotes regeneration through listening. Always wonderful!🤍

Blurstem’s 'Remnants and Whispers' is an album of memory-of echoes and fragments, of moments gathered and reshaped, of the past carried gently into the present. Released on Fluid Audio, renowned for its exquisitely crafted physical editions, this collection of soundscapes and textures is imbued with nostalgia, intimacy, and the quiet weight of time.

The album weaves together the delicate and the vast, the small and the sweeping. Tiny, almost imperceptible guitar plucks flicker like candlelight amidst expansive ambient washes. The sonic palette moves seamlessly between lo-fi warmth and pristine clarity, embracing the imperfections of cassette recording and the wobbly, warbled charm of home videos from a lost era. Each track breathes with a human touch-organic instruments processed and reimagined, from tremolo strings pitched and resampled on “Tethered” to layers of sound that feel like old photographs brought to life.

At its heart, 'Remnants and Whispers' explores the idea of remnants-what we carry with us through life, the fragments of friendships, memories, and fleeting moments that shape who we are. Much like the album’s sonic construction-built from past sketches, ideas, and textures revived and given new form-the music mirrors the way we collect and reinterpret our own experiences over time.

This ethos extends beyond the music itself into its physical presentation, with Fluid Audio’s deluxe edition incorporating 1920s sheet music and book fragments as old as the 1890s-historical relics that feel like the perfect visual counterpart to the album’s themes of memory, loss, and renewal. The tactile nature of these artifacts deepens the listening experience, making 'Remnants and Whispers' not just an album, but a tangible connection to the past.

Mastered on Bartels’ late ’60s analog tape machine, the album’s final touch further enhances its warmth and character, adding an unmistakable depth and timeless quality to its sonic palette.

A meditation on change, nostalgia, and the beauty of imperfection, Remnants and Whispers is an invitation to pause, reflect, and listen-not just to the music, but to the quiet echoes of our own stories.

Music: Blurstem
Mastering: Bartels
Design: Crossley

www.fluidaudio.co.uk
www.blurstem.bandcamp.com

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Æther #007 by Alessandro Barbanera
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

Mix number 7 in the Æther series comes from Italian sound artist, musician, composer and guitar maker Alessandro Barbanera. 

Over the course of an hour, Alessandro carefully explores the nuances of modern ambient music – often touching on its darker, more mysterious edges, yet never fully descending into shadows or melancholia.

Check out Alessandro's latest album 'In Darkness Let Me Dwell', released by Dronarivm's dark vibes division, Owl Totem Recordings ~ https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/in-darkness-let-me-dwell

Tracklist:

00.00. Tape Loop Orchestra – I Was Born When She Kissed Me (excerpt) [from “In A Lonely Place”, Fluid Audio]
03.46. Carlo Giustini – A Letizia [from “Custodi”, ROHS! Lontano Series]
07.47. Dionisaf – March [from “Twelve Months”, Chitra Records]
12.18. Demetrio Cecchitelli – Notturno [from “Jump”, Le Mont Analogue]
16.08. Corrado Maria De Santis – Entangled Uncertainties [from “City of Tethers”, Owl Totem Recordings]
21.22. Francis Gri – Bruma II [from “Bruma”, self-released]
25.05. Federico Mosconi – At Midnight [from “Nocturnal”, Dronarivm]
29.56. Luca Giuoco – Shantih 3 Times [from “Collettivoinconscio vol.1”, Dissipatio / Toten Schwan Records]
33.03. Grotta Veterano & Music For Sleep – If Only Anything Could Change You [from “Endless Vacation”, Fluid Audio]
39.15. meanwhile.in.texas – Almost Blind [from “Heimat”, Secret Press]
42.18. Yugen (Gianluca Ceccarini, Alessandro Ciccarelli, Tetsuroh Konishi) – My Sounds [from “Yugen”, Disasters By Choice]
48.27. Gallery Six – Zansyuu [from “Kisetsu”, Le Mont Analogue]
52.34. Chelidon Frame – In I Reached (feat. A Distant Shore, Asymmetric Cut, Andrea Marinelli) (excerpt) [from “Flatline Voyages”, Difficult Art And Music]
58.24. Macrogramma – Catedral [from “Magnetic Series”, ROHS! Lontano Series]

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Æther #007 by Alessandro Barbanera

Taken from "Circle in the sense" the new album by People!Place!. Pre orders start 9.05.2025 at Shimmering Moods Records: shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com
LimitedCD , hand numbered, hand made sleeves. Edition of 30. 
Release date: 16.05.2025

People!Place! - Slow melting

South African Jason van Wyk is quickly becoming a favourite and prominent artist on these pages. You may even think I’m biased, because I asked Jason to rework one of my tracks. But this relationship is indeed in reverse – I only requested his participation because I admire his sound, and am indeed inspired by his music when I choose to work on my own. There’s something ethereal, delicate, and dreamlike in how his cinematic pads swirl in a cocktail spatial ambience and pulsating rhythm that takes over my heart and bewitches my soul. Stunning harmonic progressions show off true musicianship, while the layered textures keep me occupied with intelligent sound design. This is the culmination of elements that I highly respect in my music. This is why I keep listening to Jason’s music and try to share it with the world. This is why, I’m sure, Mike Cadoo continues to invite him on his label. We last heard from Jason nearly three years ago [time is always speeding up], when in October of 2022, he released Descendants, which inevitably landed on my Best of the Year list in the most coveted category, Music For The Film Behind Closed Eyelids. This is a sacred space, often occupied by the likes of Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds, and, of course, Jóhann Jóhannsson. With his latest sixth full-length album, Inherent, Jason is back on n5MD, pushing his boundaries forward, featuring even more expansive soundscapes of warm ambiance, haunting piano melodies, and trance-inducing beats. Enjoy this exclusive track, and who knows, maybe Jason will show up on Headphone Community (wink, wink).

TRACK PREMIERE : Jason van Wyk - Remnants

Tracklist

01.  Hiroshi Ebina - What Would They Say if They Were Still Here
02.  Olli Aarni - Pelkkä valo
03.  Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Cloudy Sky in November
04.  Runaway Horses - Mirrored Self
05.  Francisco Sonur - Aurora
06.  The Green Kingdom -  Silent Stars Above
07.  Tomoyoshi Date and Bill Seaman - Duet 3
08.  Weareforests -  Dogwood
09.  Pye Corner Audio - Volcanic Rock
10.  't Geruis - Tendresse
11.  Yuri Urano - New Earth

422. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Claire Rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - Spiral Branches
02. James Osland - The Last Breath Of Summer
03. Ghost and Tape - Pardinyas
04. The Deccan Traps - Kinder Ascent 
05. Julia Gjertsen and Gustav Davidsson - Into The Night
06. Pye Corner Audio - Memoria Del Agua
07.  Hadley Roe - When I Look Back...
08. Ian Hawgood - Live Texture I
09. Glacis -  To Begin Again
10. Masaya Ozaki - Frá Vatni
11. Darren McClure -Fernlike

427. 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)

Tracklist

01. Lake Mary & Daniel Wyche -Deer's Breathe In Every Color
02. Rhucle & morimoto naoki - Kisui
03. Folk Reels - Youth
04. Akira Film Script - O
05. Ghost and Tape - Paredes
06. Richard Ginns - Beneath Our Feet
07. Altars Altars -  Balu
08. América Analógica - Anochece

430. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Improvisations and experimental materials recorded live in Berlin 2025 - feat. Peter (guitar, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, bass), Delphine (piano, keyboards), Klaus (guitar, bass, drums), Delphine (piano, keyboards), Paul (guitar, keyboards)

A Fatal Crossing

Between fading skies and fragile whispers, time slackens and fades into silence. Lanterns breathe against the twilight, carrying echoes across maps that no longer guide. Ash and crystal glimmer in forgotten waltzes, while invisible veins pulse with a rhythm that transcends hours and years. In this stillness, a breath remains: timeless, weightless, infinite.

The Glow Beneath Ashes

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

428. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

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