the pics for this series are so cool, love the sounds too

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.

James Bernard - Growth (Off Land Recycle)

Not to Speak II

from the album Little Pink Fluffy Clouds A
released August 11, 2022
Mixed/Produced by Karen Vogt
Mastered by Mark Beazley/Trace Recordings
Artwork by Caro Mikalef (Cabina)
Physical and digital items can be purchased from my Bandcamp: https://karenvogt.bandcamp.com/album/little-pink-fluffy-clouds-a

cloud one Karen Vogt

‘Floating World’ is an album by US based artist Todd Gautreau, who records as Tapes and Topographies. It was created in response to a collaboration project called Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island with British artist Jonathan S Hooper. The album follows last year’s ‘Amplitudes’ and is another entry to Todd’s discography, alongside music on labels such as Past Inside The Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own Simulacra Records.

Jonathan S Hooper is a mixed-media artist based in London, who works with paintings, photography, sculpture and film. Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island is an evolving multi-factorial project in which Hooper continues his exploration of ontological concepts of time and space through the landscapes of his native Cornwall. Specifically, the project focuses on a small uninhabited outcrop called Newland Island, which lies just off the Cornish coast in the Atlantic Ocean’s most westerly margins. The project’s title is inspired by Katushika Hokusai’s series of woodblock prints of Mount Fuji, drawing in Hooper’s broader interest in Japan’s artistic heritage. It also adds to the cultural connection between Cornwall and Japan first established in St Ives, in the 1920’s, through the collaboration of master potters Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji. A collaboration that continued through much of the twentieth century.

A particularly fascinating consideration is that Mount Fuji is an instantly recognisable geographic icon, yet in contrast, Newland Island is unknown to most. This frees the project from the limits of preconception, opening up opportunities to explore further ideas of landscape, and our place within it. Through collaboration with Gautreau (who is based some 5000 miles away), Hooper sought to give creative licence to a composer, in order to encourage another viewpoint. He had first discovered Todd’s music through Elizabeth Alker’s BBC Radio 3 Unclassified programme, and subsequently reached out to invite him to work on a soundtrack, which has now become ‘Floating World’. He sent photographs of his paintings, scans of the polaroids and his studio notes; the work developed organically into a collection of nine soundscapes, in which Hooper sees as independent views of Newland Island in their own right.

Hooper will be working to share this project through galleries and installations and we felt it was apt to assign full creative control over the CD packaging design to these two artists. Todd, also a graphic designer, has pulled together some of the polaroids for the outer and inner sleeves. There is a 16 page booklet included, which contains paintings, further polaroids and text from both artists. This is also included with the digital version of this album.

Written and produced by Todd Gautreau
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Paintings and polaroids by Jonathan S Hooper
Design by Todd Gautreau

https://www.jonathanshooper.com/

floating world - reflections on 36 views of newland island

wlr126 Tapes and Topographies -Floating World - Reflections on 36 Views of Newland Island

Det Förgångna III

Pre-order: 10th March 2023
Release date: 16th March 2023
Format: CD, Digital

'Divide' is a wound, a gash in the earth, a chasm within which sound currents - previously flowing placidly to the surface - plummet. 
The effect is disruptive, it is like a clash of sounds or more precisely a collision of musical worlds. 
It is a dizzying fall into an abyss that tears two environments apart.
But this is precisely the place where the electric and acoustic sounds of Roberto Galati’s and Federico Mosconi's guitars tangle, in an impervious and not easy context, mostly unexpected. 
This place is a source of inspiration; the beginning of a new and transformed source.
Torn from their environment, the sounds mix. 
They are caught in the chasm and ruinously collide and split. 
But at some point they reassemble, the upheaval subsides and changes its appearance.
Blue is the colour of calm, of emotional serenity, of harmony and of a found balance. 
Blue is the hue that gives colour to the ocean, to steel and to cobalt. 
It evokes the Arctic, as well as a sea and space. 
It tastes electric and ultramarine. 
An assortment and a richness of shades are created in the chasm; making theirs way beyond its boundaries, they can spread freely. 
It is a stream of sounds that is not always reassuring; it is coarse yet polished. 
Its thousand rivulets propagate with a flow at once mild and unruly, ideally calm like the endless space and impetuous like the ocean.
'Divide' is a fracture that abruptly and furiously unites.

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Divide

previews. Galati|Mosconi - Divide | ROHS!

Waves

"Billowing, Grouper-esque folk-drone works for processed guitar and voice improvised by Paris-based Australian musician Karen Vogt. ‘I’ve been waiting for the longest time’ wears Vogt’s heart openly with a floating structure of melancholic chord progressions and wistful melody, before really blooming out in the 14 minutes of noctilucent pads** threaded with shivering strings that eventually introduce her harmonically layered choral vocals like a forlorn Grouper."   ~~Boomkat
**bless Boomkat for this review, but no pads/strings here. Made only with vocals, guitar & effect pedals. 
Mixing: Karen Vogt/Mastering: Stephan Mathieu/Design: Joe Gilmore/Released on Superpang Nov, 2022 
Buy on Bandcamp: https://karenvogt.bandcamp.com/album/ive-been-waiting-for-the-longest-time
HD quality video: bit.ly/3GC4KIh
Recorded originally as a live improvisation session at Karen's home in Paris, France. Later, she made some edits and added minimal overdubs to the two tracks. Karen plays electric guitar and runs both her guitar and voice through various pedals, effects and loopers.

I've Been Waiting For The Longest Time

Album samplers of our releases in 2023 from Fields We Found, ghost and tape, Federico Durand, Stefano Guzzetti, Stijn Hüwels and Wil Bolton.

homen149 Fields We Found - Trust (album sampler)

Mi Cosa de Resistance is Buenos Aires, Argentina based artist Fernando Perales, who has released with labels including Elm, Rusted Tone, Minimal Resource Manipulation, Aural Tethers and his own imprint ‘Hissful Tapes’. Fernando was also the spearhead behind the various artists album ‘A Speechless Body’ which we released on Whitelabrecs in January 2022. Within the line-up of artists included in this project was Ciro Berenguer with whom he has collaborated for this album.  Ciro also originates from Argentina, hailing from Rosario but for the last couple of decades, he has lived in Barcelona, Spain. Ciro’s music has been released on labels such as Dauw, Eilean and Slaapwel. He has also collaborated with Ghost and Tape (Heine Christensen) as Sokkyo.

This collaborative album between Mi Cosa de Resistance and Ciro Berenguer is entitled ‘El final de las lluvias', which translates to ‘The end of the rains’. It is inspired by moments of transition; in the Mediterranean they know Spring has ended and Summer is approaching once the rain subsides. This may be the title of the album and but one example, yet the broader theme of the album is to mark the end of something, and the beginning of something else.

There is a balance of these artists’ respective styles and inputs, in an album adept in presenting light, dark and melancholic moods through its many shades. It’s a space in which their musical personalities can live alongside one another as one, with Fernando’s hints of darkness placed alongside Ciro’s music box compositions and recordings of bicycle rides through the suburbs of Barcelona. It draws in experiences of pre and post pandemic life, from the viewpoint of two populous cities, and its blend of blurred naturalistic-leaning tones sit, decayed, against an urban bedrock. At times optimistic, at times despairing, El final de las lluvias was finished in Spring 2022 as these artists emerged from a 2 year period of life, learning to deal with the challenges of the pandemic. This record, a document, marks the conclusion of one phase, and the beginning of something else.

El final de las Iluvias

wlr138 Mi Cosa de Resistance & Ciro Berenguer - El final de las lluvias

THIS IS NOT A SAD SONG!
Just a thought-provoking creation, I hope.
I have dabbled in AI music creation for the past couple of years and found that it is not all that bad.
Is this AI, me, or a combination?

There Comes A Time

Henrik Meierkord is a musician who experiments with different genres. His main instrument is the cello, but he also plays other instruments. Through his ambient music he tries to let the listener find his/her own emotion and contemplate.
For Henrik Meierkord, music is therapy and balsam for the soul and he will keep making music in his unique way.

And please! Mail me at :
henkemeierkord@gmail.com
 Not via sc. 

https://link.tospotify.com/l6nYu0pcpbb

Det Förgångna III

Henrik Meierkord

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