very deeply moving music .. love this fragile atmosphere ....

Into the Odd

Fading Away

This is my piece for a fantastic project called Lifepen. 
Lifepen is a 25-artist-compilation that is aimed at raising money for suicide charities. 
For more information, and to purchase your very own Lifepen which will feature all 25 pieces from each artist, visit: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lifepen

Facebook: Facebook.com/AirScape03
Twitter: twitter.com/AirScape_03

If you would like to make a small donation you can download this track and many others of mine for any price you choose, at Bandcamp: http://mharris.bandcamp.com

Even the tiniest of donations would be highly appreciated :)

Michael Harris - A Savoured Moment In The Rush Of Life

Slow Heart Music is the acoustic side project of ambient and drone musician Ben Rath. Based in Manchester, UK, Ben has released music under his own name with labels including Sound in Silence, Unknown Tone Records, Eilean Rec., Cathedral Transmissions, Moonswing Netlabel, Triple Moon Records and Whitelabrecs. As Slow Heart Music, Ben focuses more closely on solo acoustic guitar instrumentals and has released albums exclusively through Whitelabrecs.
The majority of Ben's musical output finds its home in the rich and diverse territory of experimental ambient and drone music. Ben creates compositions using original recordings of guitar, keyboard, and piano, as well as samples, field recordings, and digital synthesizers. These sounds from various sources are then moulded, transformed, and edited together to form instrumental arrangements which span a wide variety of styles, tones, and emotional registers, with inspiration drawn from pioneers in the genre such as Tim Hecker and Lawrence English, the early ambient works of artists such as Sean McCann and Colleen, and the emotional weight and resonance of Constellation Records greats such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Esmerine (among many others).

Under the Slow Heart Music moniker, Ben strips things back to explore the simple joy of the acoustic guitar. His playing, influenced by the likes of Eric Chenaux and Richard Dawson, as well as the gentle beauty of solo piano works from artists such as Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds, combines a sense of playful and spontaneous improvisation with arrangements and compositions that often express a gentle and tender emotion.

For his new album ‘Hope’, Ben returns to the artful acoustic arrangements and soulful guitar playing that marked his debut as Slow Heart Music, ‘This Body Is Not Me’ (2017). Armed with the same £5 half-size classical guitar which was used to record the first time around, Ben adds a second classical acoustic borrowed from his girlfriend in the spirit of using whatever was to hand to create with. He had a vision for the sound he wanted to achieve, which builds on influences from artists that embrace the mournful and melancholic, but also find beauty and uplift amidst the sadness. As Ben explains, “I’ve struggled with my mental health ever since adolescence, and music was the thing that often provided me with the most solace and comfort. The artists that inspired me were those who were expressing something that felt real to my experience, that taught me that I was not as alone in my feelings of deep sadness and anxiety as I often felt, and that meaning and beauty could still be found and expressed in the midst of it all.’’

Those who know him would describe Ben as a quiet, calm, and reserved person, but his music is the space where he is able to express himself more fully. ‘Hope’ is a collection of soft and minimal pieces, steeped in emotion and feeling, at times mournful, at others uplifting, but never seeking to prematurely soothe or distract from the suffering of the world, instead sitting in the mud of it all, and seeing what can be created from there. It is Ben’s sincere hope that his music may help some other lonely soul feel that little bit more connected and understood.

Hope

wlr161 Slow Heart Music - Hope

Forest is calling

Free download, if you fancy it.

This one had been sitting on my HD for a while so I decided to finish the mix and let it see the light of day.

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2024 Chris Sharp
(p) 2024 Chris Sharp

Q London

~ IIKKI 002 ~

artist : andrea belfi 
album : alveare
duration : 34.26 mn
date : 17.01.17 
edition : vinyl, limited to 500 copies + fine art book, limited to 500 copies

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pre-order : January 03th / official release : January 17th, 2017

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all tracks played and composed by Andrea Belfi on drums, percussion and synthesizer.
Audrey Chen: cello on "grigio"
Attila Faravelli: rotating speakers on "abito"

mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi in September 2016
artwork by Matthias Heiderich
design : Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :

Andrea Belfi : 
http://www.andreabelfi.com
Matthias Heiderich : 
http://www.matthias-heiderich.de
IIKKI :
http://www.iikki-books.com
https://iikki.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/iikki.books

Andrea Belfi - Alveare (album preview)

Flowers for Bodysnatchers - Fall The Night (EP). Download from BandCamp. 
https://flowersforbodysnatchers.bandcamp.com/album/fall-the-night

Available in 24 bit.

Fall The Night is an EP Inspired by Nathan Hassall's illustrated poetry chapbook, The Flesh and Mortar Prophecy. Nathan Hassall leads the way where few are willing to go, deep into the mind's Dark Sanctuary. All-knowing doctors, schizophrenic demons and apocalyptic visions are all part of the process within the confines of flesh. Once entered, there is no way to unlearn the awakened chimeras of the self.

They Dwell in Factories 

Victim to passion’s redundancy 
men are put away, 
scarred from life’s leash. 

unable to control their beasts 
they weep on their bellies 
obedient and still 
scattered between crumbled walls 
in tattered clothes. 

depraved minds trick themselves 
that sanity is beyond 
the ruin. 

they whimper like padlocked dogs.

Nathan Hassall http://www.nathanhassall.co.uk 

You can purchase The Flesh And The Mortar Prophecy from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1326730193

Fall The Night

They Dwell In Factories

Last Breath

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Solaris is an album based on the 1961 Polish philosophical science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem. The book centers upon the themes of the nature of human memory, experience and the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species. 

In probing and examining the oceanic surface of the planet Solaris from a hovering research station the human scientists are, in turn, being studied by the sentient planet itself, which probes for and examines the thoughts of the human beings who are analyzing it. Solaris has the ability to manifest their secret, guilty concerns in human form, for each scientist to personally confront. 

Solaris is one of Lem’s philosophic explorations of man’s anthropomorphic limitations. First published in Warsaw in 1961. 

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Available in 24 bit. 

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Releases 30 April 2015.

Composed and performed by Duncan Ritchie. 

Mastered by Duncan Ritchie. 

Duncan Ritchie uses Ableton LIVE software. 

Cover art by Duncan Ritchie. Photography by Fernando Cortes.

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Strange Objects

Dead Melodies presents us a dark cinematic space album with Primal Destination. 

The dying star shone weak in the ancient system. Desperate bursts of green-tinged solar flares scattered towards the nearest planet; a terrestrial world circled by a ring of moons. The crew's search for habitable lands seemed to be reaching an end. 

Upon descent, as far as the eye could see, jagged lapis-blue karsts peaked the horizon, almost reaching up to meet the flares above as they breached the atmosphere. Dazzling pearlescent skies laced with layers of swirling clouds gave the impression this was a land harmonious with nature, but as the exploration pod set down in the clearing of a misty swamp, this seemed far from true. 

Remnants of civilizations tore through the land from what appeared to be a long forgotten race. The karsts were hollowed-out with metal shards spiking out the sides, entangled in flora and corroding at the roots. Strange bird calls carried on the wind, underpinned by bloodthirsty growls that echoed from the tangled foliage. In the distance, beyond the low lying mists, sentry beacons lit up the overlooking foot hills followed by search lights that scoured the glade highlighting the endless sea of ruins before focusing right on the pod, and then the chase began... 

Deep drones, sweeping atmospheres and a mysterious setting creates an immersive setting for this sci-fi journey.

Primal Destination

Bandcamp

Superdrone Descent

Quite possibly one of the best dark ambient albums I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to. There’s a diegetic ambience that flows seamlessly through every track creating an expansive cinematic presence that few albums possess. Like the films of Andrei Tarkovsky a haunting humanity pushes and pulls you through a world in slow motion. Photography by Thymournia http://www.thymournia.com/

Buy Full Album

Tristesse

I've just released another album - a short, heartfelt and imperfect little sibling to Koyomi. It features various recordings made throughout the year 2019 and is available on tape and digitally via Inner Space Travels (Berlin). Featuring mastering by James Armstrong, Artwork and Design by Bettina Gackstatter.

Currents

Tape/Download

Flows | Taken from 'Currents' (Inner Space Travels)

Automne

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Flowers for Bodysnatchers - Fall The Night (EP).

Available from BandCamp. Released 
November 14, 2016.

https://flowersforbodysnatchers.bandcamp.com/album/fall-the-night

Fall The Night is an EP Inspired by Nathan Hassall's illustrated poetry chapbook, The Flesh and Mortar Prophecy. Nathan Hassall leads the way where few are willing to go, deep into the mind's Dark Sanctuary. All-knowing doctors, schizophrenic demons and apocalyptic visions are all part of the process within the confines of flesh. Once entered, there is no way to unlearn the awakened chimeras of the self.

Nathan Hassall http://www.nathanhassall.co.uk

You can purchase The Flesh and Mortar Prophecy from Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1326730193

Written, Produced, Mastered by Duncan Ritchie.

Artwork by Duncan Ritchie.

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Flowers for Bodysnatchers - Love Like Blood.

Available from Cryo Chamber. Released 
August 30, 2016.

https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/love-like-blood

Love Like Blood serves as a companion piece to Flowers for Bodysnatchers seminal Dark Ambient album Aokigahara. In this album we explore the haunted tale of despair of love lost, found and lost again. Our protagonists journey from the previous album is a shadowy narrative walking hand in hand with the fatal attraction that is Aokigahara. 

The album revisits the lonely intricate piano movements, soundscapes and field recordings compiled while exploring the underworld that is Tokyo. Exploring a metropolis and an individual constantly in a state of decay and rebirth. As is Love Like Blood.

Written, Produced, Mastered by Duncan Ritchie.

Artwork by Simon Heath & Duncan Ritchie.

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Flowers for Bodysnatchers - Aokigahara.

Available from Cryo Chamber. Released 
November 3, 2015.

https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/aokigahara

Aokigahara (青木ヶ原), known as the Suicide Forest is a 35-square-kilometre forest that lies at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Aokigahara forest is dense, shutting out all but the natural sounds of the forest itself. The forest has an historic association with demons in Japanese mythology, and it is a notoriously common suicide site.

Flowers for Bodysnatchers explores the long journey to Aokigahara through soundscapes ripe with lonely pianos on textural backdrops. Countless hours have been spent field recording on the voyage between Tokyo to Aokigahara which creates the perfect atmospheric companion to the intricate instrumental approach. This is a beautiful dark ambient soundtrack culminating in the final choice between life and death.

Written, Produced, Mastered by Duncan Ritchie.

Artwork by Simon Heath.

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Flowers for Bodysnatchers - S O L A R I S.

Available from BandCamp. Released 
April 30, 2014.

https://flowersforbodysnatchers.bandcamp.com/album/s-o-l-a-r-i-s

Solaris is an album based on the 1961 Polish philosophical science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem. The book centers upon the themes of the nature of human memory, experience and the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species. 

Solaris is one of Lem’s philosophic explorations of man’s anthropomorphic limitations. First published in Warsaw in 1961. 

Written, Produced, Mastered by Duncan Ritchie.

Artwork by Duncan Ritchie.

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Flowers for Bodysnatchers - Automne.

Available from BandCamp. Released 
March 1, 2013.

http://flowersforbodysnatchers.bandcamp.com/album/automne

Automne explores the emotional impact of the fall of humanity and the effect it has on an individual. Personal, social and environment decay are ripe themes in this album. We trace the path of our protagonist through the fall and explore the delirium associated with no longer being able to tell one season from another. Where every day feels like the approaching winter. 

Written, Produced, Mastered by Duncan Ritchie.

Artwork by Thymournia & Duncan Ritchie.

http://thymournia.com

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