Name: Noah - Odette by FLAU
Duration: 4 min 25 s
Description: Showcasing the emotion and freedom of night with minimalism and moody jazz inflections, Noah’s Noire is a gorgeous archive charting the artist’s growth from 2015 to 2020.

The Deserter by Patrick Ellis @patrick is an album of wordless pop composition and instrumental hip hop, influenced by The Avalanches, The High Llamas, Bibio, and utopian fiction. It's lush and inviting and intricate. It's a narrative collage of electronic and analog sounds. It's full of insular soundscapes and complex organic compositions. It's a soundtrack for a movie that will never exist; it's a daydream and a children's story.  it's big and patient and honest weird, and it slaps.

Patrick Ellis - Rainbow-Gored

Patrick Ellis - Rainbow-Gored  (K-LONE Remix)

Showcasing the emotion and freedom of night with minimalism and moody jazz inflections, Noah’s Noire is a gorgeous archive charting the artist’s growth from 2015 to 2020.

Noah - Odette

The far-off piano in ‘Gemini — Mysterious Lot’ is captivating enough, but add to that the late-night strings, bubbling bass and energetic percussion, and it seems that Noah has created an instant classic for an after-dark atmosphere.

Noah - Gemini ― mysterious lot

Written in tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto, ‘A Song’ shivers with introspection and nostalgia. Melodic but restrained, with its warm, almost comforting chords, the piece calls to mind the proto-ambience of Erik Satie.

Having received his training in Rennes and the conservatories of Paris, Dalibert has a musical background that is naturally entrenched in the technical aesthetic of classical music. However, experimenting with algorithmic ways of writing and other mathematical concepts such as fractals, Dalibert’s music combines emotion and logic for captivating results. His music has been played on BBC Radio, Radio France and NTS Radio, among others.

Melaine Dalibert - A Song

Japanese niche wonder artist Moskitoo meets Federico Madeddu Giuntoli. With her magic, made of whispered melodies and vocal subtleties, Moskitoo speaks straight to heart in “Text and the form”, second single and emotional epicenter of the album “The text and the form”. 
As we listen, a glow of shady grace and vibrant deepness seduce and gently shake us to stillness, in subconsciuos and mysterious ways.

Federico Madeddu Giuntoli - Text And The Form (feat. Moskitoo)

In science and the human heart is the latest album from Tokyo-based audio artist and gagaku (Classical Japanese imperial court music) musician Hiroshi Ebina. Ebina made his debut on KITCHEN. LABEL with Faraway Vicinity EP, via a collaboration project with composer Kin Leonn, was recorded during the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic and offered a remedy for social isolation. In science and the human heart represents an evolution of its predecessor and goes deep diving into crafting a warm weightless environment and free-floating ambiance to encourage a state of relaxation, ‘sound health’ and, most interestingly, address issues of the human heart. 

With this release, Ebina opened up about overcoming depression during his early adulthood and created this work as a personal therapeutic process to cope with the experience. Meditative, gentle and minimal, In science and the human heart is a calming recording. The artist produced the music via a system of open-reel tape processing in conjunction with modular synthesizers and acoustic instruments such as music boxes, glockenspiel and guitars. The album starts with the sound of the tape machine (a half-a-century-old NAGRA IV) turning on, and a music box recorded onto 1/4 inch tape slowly reverberates along with a subtle drone. Ebina modifies the playback speed and mics the output from the built-in speaker. The method resulted in capturing some sounds of the tape machine itself, and these were purposefully left in the final mix. Jewel-toned plucked sounds, tape noise and the sounds of found objects alternate with cascades of light and fragile beauty, creating an aura of stillness and an indescribable sense of balance. Light harmonics and decay that hovers throughout the album add its imminently lingering quality. In science and the human heart has an unhurried and lulling quality that lends itself well as a background for meditation or creating a peaceful atmosphere for sleep. 

The instrumental exploration seems to speak directly to the heart, which enfolds the listener in a comforting curve of sound. Ebina states, “Each song is a small message card to listeners. I hope they might be signposts for your life when you need them as they did for me.”

Mastered in New York by Joseph Branciforte, Hiroshi Ebina’s In science and the human heart will be released on November 11, 2022 on limited edition cassette tape and digital formats.

Hiroshi Ebina - Forgive yourself (In science and the human heart, 2022)

Originally released in 2011, Janis Crunch & haruka nakamura’s collaboration album “12 & 1 SONG” is now reissued on vinyl for the first time. 

On a wintery night in 2007, the duo were in a recording session for haruka nakamura’s solo album “grace”. Instinctively, they decided to venture off the album recording and to compose a Christmas carol of their own. The track was christened “12 & 1 song” and then published online on a time-limited basis during the Christmas season. The spontaneous sessions spawned a few more winter-themed compositions and quickly became favourites among fans of both haruka nakamura and Janis Crunch. Even as the two ventured apart on other projects, their creative bond sustained this year-end tradition till a substantial collection of winter-themed songs, recorded between 2007-2011, was borne.

Janis Crunch’s warm, sonorous vocals ring bright and true above haruka nakamura’s placid classical guitar and soundscape arrangements. The former reveals the heart of her compositional skills of her primary instrument, in particular her solo piano performances on “SOLITUDE” and “Reqiuem”. “12 & 1 song”, “nuit” and “prayer” promptly bring to mind the early signature sounds of haruka nakamura. ARAKI Shin, who has been featured prominently on haruka nakamura 2nd album “twilight”, collaborates with the flute on “insincere love”. A treasury of 13 compositions themed with hazy childhood memories and the phenomena of the winter solstice, at times tender and childlike, yet at others, imbued with a sense of humanity and world-weariness, glow with the warmth of a log fire. 

The vinyl edition will be released on December 16, 2022 via KITCHEN. LABEL. Remastered by Gen Tanabe in Japan, the reissue is presented in a 12” outer sleeve and 4-page insert, printed on premium paper stock with artwork faithful to the design on the original first press edition. The package also comes with a digital download card that contains six bonus tracks that were recorded during the original sessions, five of which were previously made available as digital downloads on earlier editions and one of which, "A graca economica de Deus," has not yet been released.

Janis Crunch & haruka nakamura - forche (12 & 1 SONG, 2022)

date : 2023.8.23
location : Kuzuha River（Hadano, Kanagawa）
time : 16:58
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Log_20230823（demo）

date : 2023.9.6
location : Housenji Temple（Yachimata, Chiba）
time : 17:10
weather : ☁️

Log_20230906（demo）

Me Missing You #Touch1MadeIt produced by Anthony Smith/ Touch1 for Touch1MadeIt Productions

Me Missing You #Touch1MadeIt

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