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The new album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

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‘Frahm truly excels’ 9/10 Uncut 
‘Frahm works his magic’ ★★★★ Mojo
‘The infinite elasticity of sound’ 7.8 Pitchfork 
‘Improvisatory, wild, heartfelt’ Interview Magazine
‘A fantastic record’ The Guardian Album of the Week 
‘Frahm creates something mesmerising’ ★★★★ The Observer
‘My favourite new piece of music this year’ Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music

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Spaces

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Composed for the new Netflix hit series Katla, Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and composer Högni Egilsson has created ‘Sensus Terrae (Voice of Katla)’; a sonic exploration bringing the heart of the volcano to life. 

Using seismic data, the renowned artist, formerly of GusGus, has teamed up with scientist Kristín Jónsdóttir, lead actor-singer GDRN and the Cantoque Ensemble, creating something otherworldly. 

"Inside Katla, there are eight active areas that have their own earthquake frequency. We took these frequencies and transform them into musical expressions. The volcanic activity is actually a conversation between these eight areas – eight voices inside Katla.”

Stop what you’re doing, put on your headphones, and let the volcano Katla sing you the song of her people.

Sensus Terrae (Voice of Katla)

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Högni - Sensus Terrae (Voice of Katla) ft. GDRN

Taken from the upcoming album 'Gaze Into The Sun', forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

Gaze Into The Sun

Szymon Kaliski - To Linger

Nils Frahm – Ambre

Track previews for Arovane & Hior Chronik's upcoming album 'Into my own', arriving on double transparent vinyl + digital, August 28th 2017. Preorder now available: http://asip.me/2wiYVrv

Arovane & Hior Chronik / Into my own (Album preview)

Michiru Aoyama is a Japanese ambient producer from Kyoto who also enjoys making music in the quiet seaside city of Kamakura, just south of Tokyo. Michiru studied electronic music production in Berlin after his work was hand-chosen by Ryuichi Sakamoto for a radio audition in 2006. Since then, Michiru has released projects on prominent ambient labels such as Organic Industries, taâlem, and Somehow Recordings.

Michiru Aoyama’s Brilliant Days LP comprises two tracks of untitled songs that weave in and out of each other. Michiru’s signature guitar harmonics are treated with serene electronic filters met with youthful under-layers of electronic experimentations and glitchy backdrops.

Production - @michiru-aoyama
Mastering - James Plotkin 
Artwork - Patti Bai 

180g vinyl pressed at GGR, Cleveland, Ohio. Comes with insert and download code. Limited to 200 copies. 

Available for ordering at Juno, Boomkat, Bleep, Deejay.de, etc. 
Bandcamp: https://miraearts.bandcamp.com/album/brilliant-days
More updates on our website and social pages: https://miraearts.com/

Michiru Aoyama - Brilliant Days LP [Audio Sample]

Taken from 'Shimmer Raga' (HH102), the official label debut from Melbourne-based musician and sound designer Zoltan Fecso.

Digital + Cassette Tape release date: August 17th, 2018.

Digital + tape on Bandcamp: goo.gl/DL86Da
Apple Music / iTunes: smarturl.it/ShimmerRagaApple
Spotify: smarturl.it/ShimmerRagaSpotify

Zoltan Fecso / Soundcloud - @zoltanfecso

Shimmer Raga

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Zoltan Fecso - Time Bath (feat. Anna Morley)

Composed, Played & Recorded By Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt

Mixed by Monolyth & Cobalt.

Month Nine Project (Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt)

Ladies and gentlemen, I have discovered an old hard drive with some of my old mixes, and I found them all in FLAC! Among these is an entire "liftmuziek" collection of volumes, which was the very first podcast I ran more than a decade ago (way before Headphone Commute was even born). These will be released, one at a time, on here, so watch this space for some amazing classic electronic music circa 2006! But before the unveiling, I figured I'd publish yet another beautiful selection that I dug out from the archive. This mix was made to celebrate two Native State albums from Rena Jones and Shen, which I put together to promote an event at an art gallery in Chicago. I hope you enjoy!

asmadeus - resplendent

Federico Mosconi - Memories Not Memories, taken from the new album "Light not Light"

Format: Digital and CD
Limited Edition Cdr / 50 copies / Handmade sleeves / Hand numbered / Black and Brown Kraft paper / High quality pro duplicated CDr's / No repress 

Pre Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/light-not-light

In Light not Light, as the titles suggest, each track could be, or not be, each draws a scenario where the listener is the subject, and the composer has already completed his task. 
The sound, too, comes from an instrument (classical guitar) that is no longer itself, shaped and transformed by electronics into its future projection. Sometimes you can find traces of natural sounds, as if to preserve a connection with the original idea, sometimes I inserted some field recordings, as little suggestions. 

Federico Mosconi

Releases February 20, 2019 

Written, produced and mastered by Federico Mosconi 
Federico Mosconi: classical guitar, live electronics/processing 
Shimmering Moods Records 2019

Federico Mosconi - Memories Not Memories (Taken from "Light Not Light")

Sacred Geometry is full of detail and texture. Its emotional depth comes from a connected place. Following my experiences in yoga and plant medicine I began to see the mathematical elegance of nature. To mirror these geometric forms in sound was the source of my creative process.

The first half of the record captures a performance at the 2018 Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht, Holland. Voice, guitar, synthesiser and field recordings were processed into a collage of mediative sounds. In the second half of the record acoustic sounds are fused with harder electronic processes. The track Toroids represents my vision for this record (almost) perfectly.

Closer consideration for the mysteries of consciousness has led the music to border on the spiritual. I hope people will find something to meditate on in each of these songs in the same way I have.

- Alex Smalley

releases September 27, 2019

Music - Alex Smalley
Violin on The Golden Ratio - Jane Wild
Piano on Dimensionality - Lucia Adam
Mastering - Porya Hatami
Artwork - Rafael Araujo

Thanx to Maria, Alma, Family Schmidt Smalley, Paul @Shimmering Moods, Bic & Jane, Si & Lee, Lucia, Andy, Rafael, Porya and Dmitry for their love and support. I would also like to thank anyone who is listening to my music. We are all connected.

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The Golden Ratio

Pakistani-American avant-composer and drummer of the cult experimental acoustic trio Dawn of Midi, Qasim Naqvi, shares the second single 'Onna at Pulse', taken from his new album 'Beta' — out June 20 to coincide with the first ever Love Record Stores Day, in support of local record shops. 

· support Love Record Stores Day: https://www.loverecordstores.com
· pre-order 'Beta' on limited edition clear LP: https://idol.lnk.to/onna-at-pulse
· watch Qasim perform live from his kitchen: https://youtu.be/Gedfxi28220

One in a series of experiments chronicling Naqvi’s understanding of writing for a modular synth, 'Onna at Pulse' sounds like as if it moves in and out of the realms of control, twisting around a melody with a life of its own; "Onna at Pulse was the first piece of music I made with an extremely rudimentary modular synthesiser. I had just acquired two components and I wrote this simple exposition as an exercise to see what the machine would do. It was like teaching one eyeball to blink." — Qasim Naqvi

Meant as a prequel to last year's 'Teenages', a modular synth suite in six parts, 'Beta' evolved from the most basic elements of a modular synthesiser. As Qasim explains; "One oscillator and a random voltage generator which is a module that releases sporadic currents through the system. Ironically, this component provided a lot of warmth and humanness to the music, a kind of fallibility. At the time I felt that this music was underdeveloped but listening back, I think the 'Beta' tracks add an interesting dimension to the entire 'Teenages' arc. They’re the zygotes.”

If 'Teenages' captured the sound of electronics living, breathing and mutating of their own accord 'Beta', rather, describes the moment they came to life.

Love Record Stores Day is an initiative from the #loverecordstores campaign, launched during lockdown to encourage music fans to shop online with their favourite record stores. Qasim Naqvi joins a wide range of artists and labels who have pledged to release exclusive, limited edition records including Caribou, Belle and Sebastian, Beach House, Robyn, New Order and many more.

Beta

Onna at Pulse

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Qasim Naqvi - Onna at Pulse

Two years after the release of his acclaimed Erased Tapes debut, ‘The Transition’, Californian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with a solo piano perspective on the album, aptly titled Felt The Transition — out December 18.

"Felt The Transition is a new minimalist solo piano perspective on my experimental chamber folk album previously released in 2018, called The Transition. This music is reinterpreted on my 114 year old upright piano which was very kindly donated to me by my friend Adam Selzer who previously ran a recording studio in Portland called Type Foundry. This piano is very sentimental to me as it was used by a handful of my favorite musicians on their albums over the past 20 years, namely Peter Broderick’s ‘How They Are‘ and ‘Two Balloons’.” — David Allred

Felt The Transition

Poet Tree (Solo Piano)

David Allred - Poet Tree (Solo Piano)

~ IIKKI 013 ~

music : Toàn
photography : Gilles Roudière
album/book : Volta No Vento
duration : 35.52 mn (vinyl) 36.52 mn (cd)
date : November 2020

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Composed, recorded and mixed by Anthony Elfort between 2017 and 2019 in Cruguel, France.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Gilles Roudière
Design by sprflxgrfzm

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cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 400 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : October 29th, 2020 / official release : November 29th, 2020

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https://soundcloud.com/toan-3
https://www.gillesroudiere.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.facebook.com/iikki.books/
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Toàn - Volta No Vento (album preview)

Two years after the release of his acclaimed Erased Tapes debut, ‘The Transition’, Californian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with a solo piano perspective on the album, aptly titled Felt The Transition — out December 18.

"Felt The Transition is a new minimalist solo piano perspective on my experimental chamber folk album previously released in 2018, called The Transition. This music is reinterpreted on my 114 year old upright piano which was very kindly donated to me by my friend Adam Selzer who previously ran a recording studio in Portland called Type Foundry. This piano is very sentimental to me as it was used by a handful of my favorite musicians on their albums over the past 20 years, namely Peter Broderick’s ‘How They Are‘ and ‘Two Balloons’.” — David Allred

David Allred - For Catherine E. Coulson (Solo Piano)

Founded by sonic architect and explorer Robert Raths aka ghostworker in 2007, Erased Tapes is a truly independent record label that has disrupted the industry and rejuvenated the musical landscape. The London-based label has consistently nurtured genre-defying artists from all around the world without losing its avant-garde ethos.

2015 saw BBC 6 Music radio presenter Mary Anne Hobbs stage an Erased Tapes evening featuring Nils Frahm and A Winged Victory For The Sullen at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the prestigious BBC Prom. It was the fastest selling ticket of the entire season. Shortly after Erased Tapes was awarded Best Small Label 2015 at the AIM Awards.

On February 5th 2017 Erased Tapes opened the doors to its new East London home, marking the 10th anniversary by introducing fans and the public to the new Erased Tapes Sound Gallery.

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