A new collection of work titled 'Sodium Light' from myself has just been released on Lee Norris's excellent NeoTantra label. The work was inspired by a series of night walks my daughter and I took towards the back end of 2019; pre all the states we find ourselves in at the moment. It's an impressionistic work of night-time cityscapes. Mastered by Fraser McGowan.

Sodium Light

Night #2

'Night #2' - Taken from the release 'Sodium Light' - [Neotantra, 2021]

DR-83; DAVID CORDERO & MIGUEL OTERO - A Possible Distance is due out on CD / DL October 14th

dronarivm.bandcamp.com

The world is undergoing severe social and political changes in a short time that has taken individualism to the far extreme.

For this reason Possible Distances is a reflexion on the gap between human relations and everyday life; distance and closeness. The immediacy and the small personal moments that make us feel even more alone.

Written in the distance, Cordero and Otero build a bridge between their recording studios with minimalist melodies wrapped in luminous skies to enhance common places while nature takes its course.

After Salinas (Archives, 2020) and Distension (Playneutral, 2021), this work together brings us the kindness of small daily details.
credits
releases October 14, 2022

Written and produced by David & Miguel in Cadiz, south of Spain
Mixed & mastered at Nada Nueva Studio
Illustrations by Eva Arango

A Possible Distance

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DAVID CORDERO & MIGUEL OTERO - Everyday Things

New track from Moss Covered Technology; forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

Dartmoor! thou wert to me, in childhood's hour, 
A wild and wondrous region. Day by day 
Arose upon my youthful eye they belt 
Of hills mysterious, shadowy, clasping all 
The green and cheerful landscape sweetly spread 
Around my home; and with a stern delight 
I gazed upon thee. How often on the speech 
Of the half-savage peasant have I hung, 
To hear of rock-crowned heights on which the cloud 
For ever rests; and wilds stupendous swept 
By mightiest storms; of glen, and gorge, and cliff, 
Terrific, beetling o'er the stone-strewed vale; 
And giant masses, by the midnight flash 
Struck from the mountain's hissing brow, and hurled 
Into the foaming torrent; and of forms 
That rose amid the desert, rudely shaped 
By Superstition's hands when time was young; 
And of the dead, the warrior dead, who sleep 
Beneath the hollowed cairn!  My native fields, 
Though peerless, ceased to please.  The flowery vale, 
The breezy hill, the river and the wood, 
Island, reef, headland, and the circling sea, 
Associated by the sportful hand 
Of Nature, in a thousand views diverse, 
Or grand, or lovely, -to my roving eye 
Displayed in vain their infinite of charms; 
I thought on thy wild world, -to me a world,- 
Mysterious Dartmoor, dimly seen, and prized 
For being distant and untrod; and still 
Where'er I wander'd, -still my wayward eye 
Rested on thee!

In sunlight and in shade, 
Repose and storm, wide waste! I since have trod 
Thy hill and dale magnificent. Again 
I seek thy solitudes profound, in this 
Thy hour of deep tranquillity, when rests 
The sunbeam on thee, and thy desert seems 
To sleep in the unwonted brightness, calm, 
But stern; for though the spirit of the Spring 
Breathes on thee, to the charmer's whisper kind 
Thou listenest not, nor ever puttest on 
A robe of beauty, as the fields that bud 
And blossom hear thee. Yet I love to tread 
They central wastes when not a sound intrudes 
Upon the ear, but rush of wing or leap 
Of the hoarse waterfall. And oh, 'tis sweet 
To list the music of thy torrent-streams; 
For thou too hast thy minstrelsies fro him 
Who from their liberal mountain-urn delights 
To trace thy waters, as from source to sea 
They rush tumultuous. Yet for other fields 
Thy bounty flows eternal. From thy sides 
Devonia's rivers flow; a thousand brooks 
Roll o'er they rugged slopes; -'tis but to cheer 
Yon Austral meads unrivalled, fair as aught 
That bards have sung, or Fancy has conceived 
'Mid all her rich imaginings: whilst thou, 
The source of half their beauty, wearest still 
Through centuries, upon they blasted brow, 
The curse of barrenness.

- Noel Thomas Carrington

A Weather Internal

Moss Covered Technology - River Slows Pt.1

Taken from the upcoming album 'Oyasumi', forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

In a musical exchange back and forth between Tokyo and Copenhagen, Kei Nogami (JP) and Mathias Lystbaek (DK) has the created the album Oyasumi. The album is centered around eclectic electroacoustic loops with the addition of piano, flute and cymbal. Oyasumi means ‘Goodnight’ in Japanese, and the music reflects the sleepy haze before dreaming, with repeated fragments of melodies reminiscent of childhood lullabies and music boxes. This quiet album is an exploration of looped and improvised material, suitable for tranquil moments and contemplative pauses.

- Kei Nogami (K Nogami): Loops, electronics, field recordings & found objects. 

- Mathias Lystbaek (Circa Alto): Piano, flute, bass & cymbal.

Credits:

Artist: K Nogami & Circa Alto
Album: Oyasumi
Composition & mix: Kei Nogami & Mathias Lystbaek 
Cover photo: Kei Nogami
Label: Fluid Audio
Design: Daniel Crossley

Oyasumi

K Nogami & Circa Alto - Kasumi ka kumo ka

This beautiful collaboration between Andrew Heath and James Osland places itself in a dense, fog-like, woven landscape and charts paths that reveal slow moving cloud-like structures and motifs. Informed by muted modular tones, ethereal guitar work and sparse piano with found-sounds and field recordings that dance around the dense air and leaves the listener in a cocooned, dreamlike state.

Elysian Fields is the pair’s second release. They were drawn together by a mutual respect for each others work in the ambient music field. Both are UK based artists. Andrew having released several albums and EPs on Disco Gecko, Whitelabrecs, Rusted Tone Recordings, Elm Records and Chihei Hatakeyama’s Japanese label, White Paddy Mountain. He has collaborated with among others, the legendary Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dutch ambient guitarist, Anne Chris Bakker and electronica artist, Banco de Gaia. James Osland not only runs the boutique cassette label, Elm Records but releases as an artist in his own right having worked with such labelsu as Unknown Tone Records, Whitelabrecs, Flaming Pines and Rusted Tone Recordings to name a few. His work seeks to explore our relationships with sound, memory and place through a variety of different sonic processes.

Both artists continue to quietly work on material together so expect more from this wellspring of beautiful and dreamlike work.

Mastered by Alex at quiet details studios
Design by Daniel Crossley

Release date:
12.01.24

James Osland & Andrew Heath - Industrial Breathing

The artistic collaboration between Giuseppe Cordaro and Marco Giambrone is an immersion into sonic exploration, born from the convergence of distinct musical perspectives and backgrounds. Despite living in distant cities, both share roots firmly planted in a remote mountainous village in Sicily, a wild terrain that has shaped their work.

The focal point of this musical journey is the Platani River, known in ancient times as Alico (derived from 'Halykòs,' which means 'salty' in Greek). It's from this river that the entire concept takes shape and evolves, following its sinuous course from the source to its mouth in the sea. Each track of the album is named after the river's tributaries, often little more than thin streams of water that dry up in the summer, leaving muddy beds. This intricate and sensitive path culminates with the Alico River finally merging into the Mediterranean Sea, embracing Capo Bianco.

These wild and captivating places have been the source of inspiration for the two musicians, who decided to capture the sensations experienced during their explorations and transform them into a sonic journey. Water, rock, sand, and the vibrant life along the riverbanks are transfigured by modular synths, guitars, and field recordings.

The album was created by adopting an instinctive and authentic approach, avoiding overdubs to favor the genuine essence of analog instruments. The result is a sonic journey that captures the raw and magnetic essence of these places, transforming visual suggestions into an immersive and engaging auditory experience. Listening to this work, one is immersed in a sonic world that mirrors the irregular beauty and wild vitality of the Sicilian landscape, uniting past and present in timeless sonic snapshots.

Written by Giuseppe Cordaro e Marco Giambrone
Recorded by Giuseppe Cordaro at Home Studio Boschi di Puianello - Marco Giambrone at Home Studio San Giovanni Gemini
Mixed by Marco Giambrone
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

Credits:

Giuseppe Cordaro : Modular Synthesizer, Programming, Field recordings, (AL)chemy
Marco Giambrone: Guitars, Effects, Autoharp, Solina

"Platanis oritur inter Castrum Novum et Cammaratam, novi nominis oppida, ex parvis quidem fontibus"

Alico

Giuseppe Cordaro & Marco Giambrone - DellaTerra

Dust, Alleluia

This is my contribution to the new remix album of https://soundcloud.com/w_a_r_m_t_h

Available on CD / Digital here: https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-remixed

Release notes and credits:
Remix album for the latest Warmth's work 'Parallel'. Including remixes by Shuta Yasukochi, Warmth, Pepo Galán, Purl, The Green Kingdom, David Cordero, Powlos and SVLBRD.

Written and Produced by Agus Mena 
Remixes by Shuta Yasukochi, Warmth, Pepo Galán, Purl, The Green Kingdom, David Cordero, Powlos and SVLBRD. 
Mastering by Taylor Deupree 
Photography by Alexander Kopatz 
www.go70north.com 
Archives52 // ArchivesCD33 
Archives / 2019

Parallel Remixed

Warmth - Spherule (Purl Remix)

Polygoner

track 4 from “Skogsro” by @Christian_Berg1

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/skogsro

Skogsro

Christian Berg - Askjemvannet

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.

Giuseppe Cordaro & Marco Giambrone - DellaTerra

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