sun | Album 'SUN, SAND AND SALT'

Yek (Single Edit)

~ LAAPS 045 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP45]

artist : Akhira Sano
album : D-R
duration : 31.24 mn
date : July 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / white LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 30th, 2025 / official release : July 28th, 2025
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Sounds, arrangements and Mixed by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Jenni Toivonen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://linktr.ee/Akhira_Sano
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Akhira Sano - Demande Un

Places we have been - they guide us somehow. Sometimes even if we only have been dreaming of beeing there.

In the streets of Osaka there is a lot of melodic sounds in the air. From traffic lights, garbage collections, mobile traders selling ramen soup... 

In this track everything you hear is from field recordings made by @maguri - thank you Martin!

Osaka

"But what's really changed? The dead stay dead, and the living stay living, until they die, at which point, they stay dead.
And you can't save the dead! I've tried! They're just too damned dead!"

"You can't save the dead! I've tried! They're just too damned dead!"

Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it

Fluid Audio presents Giulio Aldinucci & Matteo Uggeri - The Promise of a Threat coming soon on Fluid Audio...

In The Promise of a Threat, two veteran composers of ambient and electroacoustic music - Giulio Aldinucci and Matteo Uggeri - converge on a collaborative terrain that is at once intimate and immense, reflective and unsteady, beautiful and unsettling.

Created between June 2021 and early 2022, and mastered by Aldinucci in 2025, the album stands as a slow-burning document of digital and emotional correspondence. It reflects the language of ambient music not as static wallpaper, but as a deeply expressive form - one that allows silence and signal, memory and disturbance, to coexist within the same fragile space.

A Digital Dialogue Across Distance...

The entire work emerged through remote exchanges between Aldinucci (based in Siena, Italy) and Uggeri (Milan, Italy), unfolding gradually through shared sessions, sketches, and iterations over time. The process was not unlike the movement of tectonic plates - imperceptible at first, yet with weight and intention. Layers of processed field recordings, abstracted rhythms, and spectral textures accumulate into dense yet transparent forms. Every detail is traceable, yet elusive.

Giulio Aldinucci, known for his deeply spatial drones and sensitive treatment of field material, builds immersive sonic beds that seem to hover just above the surface of the Earth - simultaneously grounded in place and untethered from time. Matteo Uggeri, by contrast, applies a more tactile touch: assembling beats, samples, and environmental recordings into patterns that give pulse and tension to the atmosphere.

Together, their styles intersect in subtle and surprising ways - sometimes bleeding into one another, at other times standing apart in contrast. The balance between order and entropy, harmony and noise, creates a dynamic that speaks to the album’s title: The Promise of a Threat. Beauty does not arrive alone. It is always shadowed by its inverse.

Processes of Presence and Absence...

Across the album’s runtime, the listener is drawn through zones of dissolving melody and shadowy rhythm, passing through spaces that feel neither entirely natural nor entirely artificial. A drum sample on Track 2, provided by Andris Brinkmanis, adds a skeletal percussive element - a quiet agitation beneath the calm. The rhythms are not dominant but suggestive, like distant industrial echoes or memories of forgotten structures.

The artists manipulate the digital medium not as a tool of perfection, but of erosion and transformation. Hiss is preserved. Glitches are welcomed. The human ear remains present in every detail. The processing - granular, filtered, stretched - is not ornamental but fundamental, a way of sculpting emotion out of signal. Field recordings are often submerged, embedded beneath layers of drones and rhythms, yet their presence adds a layer of organic residue - a trace of wind, rust, or breath beneath the circuitry.

A Tactile Offering...

True to the ethos of Fluid Audio, the physical release of The Promise of a Threat will be crafted with great care and material sensitivity. Expect a limited, hand-assembled edition that honours the intimacy and intricacy of the music - an object to be held, as much as heard. Full packaging details and release date will follow.

For now, The Promise of a Threat lingers just at the edge of hearing - like the low hum of an incoming storm, or the quiet reassurance of knowing something is coming, even if its shape remains undefined.

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

So Finally I Stared at It All, Still and Satisfied

From A Danger to Ourselves
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Lyrics

you are the only one
i can fool death with
in this world
your ketamine tears
where light disappears
keep fooling, bullying, pulling
my tongue
until i’m ‘you’ 

y en el espejo es lo mismo
y en el espejo es lo mismo y tú
tan tan divina
y ves la acumulación
y ves la acumulación de tu vida, mi vida
y en él, te dejas llevar 
te el espejo te dejas llevar
tan fragmentada 
¡tanto!
en sus lágrimas
en sus lágrimas
de mercurio
juntos
juntos
juntos

i circle you
in cerulean blue
in this underworld 
underworld
a ritualised fire
a plume of desire
hugging and burning
flesh blended
dying as ‘you’ 

Credits

Featuring Lucrecia Dalt and Lucia Maher-Tatar
Directed by Tony Lowe
Music by Lucrecia Dalt
Video concept by Lucrecia Dalt
Edited by Tony Lowe
Cinematography by Sayer Danforth
Art Direction by Lucia Maher-Tatar
Creative direction by Lucrecia Dalt
Produced by RVNG Intl. and Lucrecia Dalt
Kissers: Cyrus Cambell and Anna Motyl
Shot at the Institute of Contemporary Art of Santa Fé @icasantafe, except for the tear licking scene shot at Cocoon Santa Fé 
Special Thanks: David Sylvian, Chiara Giovando, Mike Bachers, Cyrus Campbell, Lucy Maher-Tatar, Anna Motyl, Alex Lazaro, Matt Werth, Camille Mandoki, Sammy Oortman Gerlings, Louie Perea, Squeegee

©2025 RVNG Intl. // https://www.rvng.com

A Danger to Ourselves

divina

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Check us out on: https://linktr.ee/legacyofthought

The album: Mystical Cities
Step into the labyrinth of vanished worlds, where forgotten cities whisper in the dark. Beyond maps, beyond memory, they wait in shadows of the ancients...

Release date: 01-08-2025 on Legacy of Thought label:

The tracks:

01 Ambient Indigo - Lyonesse
02 Time Away - El Dorado
03 Aestheia - Ys
04 snurretop - Zerzura
05 Andawan - Rhapta
06 Colin Stevens - Camelot
07 Der Bischof - Kitezh
08 Tuuligan - Paititi
09 Hellweed - Shambhala
10 Sonic Bodhi - Thule
11 Progeny-1 - Agartha
12 Cosmic Cadence - Astradorei
13 Wane of Summer - Atlantis
14 Promethex - Hyperborea
15 Helsinki Project - Ophir

Artwork & Mastering: Chris Held

Time Away: https://soundcloud.com/timeaway
Colin Stevens: https://soundcloud.com/colin-stevens
Der Bischof: https://soundcloud.com/daturasonoris
Andawan: https://soundcloud.com/andawan
Progeny-1: https://soundcloud.com/progeny-1-617773258
Tuuligan: https://soundcloud.com/tuuligan
Ambient Indigo: https://soundcloud.com/ambientindigo
Promethex: https://soundcloud.com/promethexmusic
Wane of Summer: https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
Cosmic Cadence: https://soundcloud.com/cosmic-cadence
Hellweed: https://soundcloud.com/hellweed
Aestheia: https://soundcloud.com/aestheia
Sonic Bodhi: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-bodhi
Helsinki Project: https://soundcloud.com/helsinki-project
snurretop: https://linktr.ee/snurretop


Agartha *Mystical Cities*

That Once Was

1  Antenna '77 - Opening

Focusing on experimental genres, we aim to provide a space to share in the creative process and spread the experience of inner exploration through musical expression.

So Finally I Stared at It All, Still and Satisfied

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