DBH - Genuine Leaf Fairy Sighted in English Woodland
The Funz - Emain Ablach to Avalon
Mary Stark - King of the Faeries
Ian Humberstone - Swinging Lamps in Starlit Globes
Dean McPhee - Pudding Pie Hill
Tragic Magic - Rowan Ash and Red Thread
Stu Bannister - Holy Wells
Bridget Hayden - The Stone Woman
Mary & David - Lob of Spirits
Emily Oldfield - Diptera
Brian Campbell, Peter Smyth and Carl Turney - Requiem for the Lost
Magpahi - Transposed to Stone
David Chatton Barker - Starlight Quickbeam (Rowan)
Jennifer Reid - Boghart Hall Clough
David Jaycock - Sam Spriggan
Sam McLoughlin - Green and Brown
Sarah Lundy - Piseog [egg of ill omen]
Arianne Churchman - The Night-Mare
Steve Patterson and Mark Patterson - Faery Abstraction

Swifter than the Moon's Sphere - Sampler

We’ve reached book IV in Rupert Clervaux’s series of “Zibaldone” audio diaries, at which point we find him telling a different kind of story. 

“The first three all had very specific themes, while this one feels a little bit looser and doesn’t have just one thematic thrust,” he tells me, which maybe explains why listening feels a bit like annotating. I’m underlining, emphasizing, drawing arrows from here to there, highlighting symbols and noting motifs, realising, questioning, eureka-ing. An impressionistic meaning’s been encoded in and we’re lucky to be given the space to play that most poetic and boundless of all mental games: narrativization. 

There are no wrong answers, but Rupert offers some clues either way. If there’s any cipher here it’s “something like a meditation on the concept of ‘depth’––in all its connotative forms.” Think below the surface, (the) underground, yawning oceans, being ‘down in the dirt’, soil, roots, rootlessness, pulling at the dregs, collapse, profundity, stable and unstable horizons, distance, perspective, intuition, not to mention relative opposites: to be shallow, to be above, to be beyond. 

It’s got me thinking of Bresson’s “Bring things together that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.” His: “Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.” Rupert has realized these—two favourite goals of mine!—here. 

This is music that catches you at your own periphery, gives pause, has you offering a little “huh” to, asking “I wonder why” to. Again, it’s got me musing on another mindworm, this time from New York publisher and multi-sensory reading room Dispersed Holdings: “Feeling-making-knowing feedback loop; cartography of feeling; water as text, read to know the land beneath and around it, and body as reader.” 

Is it ok to offer up these other contexts out of context? I think so, because Zibaldone IV articulates a similarly swirly tone. Like, we’ve got Rebecca Solnit talking through Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and later calling out to Michael Ruppert a ways away, and “Easy Rider” is playing in the wings. We’ve got Susan Sontag magically contextualizing Mariah Carey with poet Thylias Moss triangulating in order to sketch out (Rupert again) “something a little more interesting than wilful eclecticism or that laboured and patronising kind of pop-savvy.” 

Are we following? Whether yes or no Vanessa Bedoret follows on with a performance of a performance of Moss’s 'Water Road’: to be once or twice removed, via strange transitions, purposeful confusions, and, suddenly, seagulls. We’re on a boat with Ingeborg Bachmann—and how I wish I could actually be! But maybe thanks to this music I can as literature, films, friends, lethargy, coincidences, little mental links, eternal wormholes, lingering notions come together to imagine something better. 

Text by Natalia Panzer 
npanzer.com 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Music by Rupert Clervaux 

with 
Vanessa Bedoret: voice and violin on Thylias Moss #2 
Eben Bull: trumpet and electronics on Mutual Aid and Departure from England 
Isis O’Regan; voice on Departure from England 
Nick Taylor: electronics on Chthonic ’97 
Ben Vince: saxophone and electronics on Chatsworth ’17 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Warm thanks to James Marrs, as always, and Natalia Panzer 

Vanessa recreates and reads an excerpt from ‘Water Road’ by Thylias Moss. Isis reads ‘Departure from England’ by Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins). This record is dedicated to both poets––with great respect and deep admiration.

04. Does Pop Culture Interest You?

Lying on our bed in the privacy of our room, music is the expression of our thoughts and reflections, ideas, flashes and sometimes our deeply buried feelings. This second show is about how music is sometimes the best bandage for a soul tired of after-party moods and deep questioning.

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Outsiders: Demord Enregistrements w/ Delphine Demord & Albane Chaar @ Kiosk Radio 14.03.2022

Law of Glances taking over Bonambi records to play some haunting night colored tales and to share some tracks of their first release.

Bonambi Records w/ Law of Glances (23/03/22)

An episode for all the wounded who will heal after all in the dog days of summer. A sonic catharsis of gloomy elegies, emotive wave, livid leftfield and hopeful classics.

more on www.lyl.live

SVVENIR (07/07/22) w/Minou Oram

pre-orders start Friday July 22, 2022 at https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/

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Toni Dimitrov & Demetrio Cecchitelli – A New Dawn (Shimmering Moods, 2022)


Like the sudden passage of a light ray, this new and first collaborative effort by Dimitrov & Cecchitelli evokes images of daily-life surrounded by a whitening veil of nostalgia and melancholy. An immersion into the multifaceted colours of ambient music, precisely in a direction of slow transformation dilated sounds into space, time and imagination. Deep textures mainly developed by Cecchitelli and strong soundscape/found sounds source from Dimitrov’s archive, yet extraneous either reflecting, all transporting to a structured aesthetics that takes back to the idea of a sound installation within a land-art point of view or a scenography merely composed of organic elements. Materic at the intersection between real and surreal, a spiritual voyage.

credits:
Demetrio Cecchitelli, Toni Dimitrov: field recordings, textures, composition/dramaturgy
Elia Moretti: percussion
Andrea Porcu: mastering

A New Dawn

03 — Recall (feat. Elia Moretti)

Download/Stream >> https://fanlink.to/AMB2205

Accomplished musician and composer Jackson Mico Milas unveils his debut album this November. ‘Blu Terra’ brings together eleven tender and emotive compositions and finds the British-Australian artist hitting his stride. 

New single ‘White Noise’ follows first album track drop ‘Lost In Seasons’, which has picked up airplay from BBC 6 Music’s Cerys Matthews and came alongside a hypnotic visualizer for its B-side ‘Katia Standing Alone’.

On ‘White Noise’, Jackson’s eclectic sonic vista expands from the hushed acoustic lushness of ‘Lost In Seasons’, inviting the listener further into his intimate world, with subtle electronics and gorgeous airy atmospheres layered over organic drums and double bass. ‘White Noise’ washes over the listener like a cool summer breeze, with Jackson’s soft vocal hooks and melancholic tones penetrating that inner psyche. The accompanying video is the first of three video which will progressively expand visually to narrate his Album. “White Noise” sees Jackson on a secluded beach, the waves and sea foam crashing behind as the song’s moods progress and expands.

White Noise

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Jackson Mico Milas - White Noise (Apollo)

Andrew Heath & Seigo Aoyama - North by North East (album preview)
Release date: 4.11.2022
Format: CD/Digital

Limited to 60 copies, handmade wallets/covers, hand numbered, different colors....

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/north-by-north-east

North by North East is a dense, slowly shifting tone collage. Drawing inspiration from the seasons and topology of their native landscapes, Andrew Heath and Seigo Aoyama present an album which displays their unique styles in the use of piano, electronics, field recordings and found sounds......

Andrew Heath & Seigo Aoyama - North by North East (album preview)

NOSE DRIP 1.11.22

Wave Track #7 comes to us from St Celfer, a Korean-American sound artist and musician who splits his time between Sao Paulo and Seattle. His track, Fifty One, wastes no time announcing itself, beginning with a sequence of machine-like, harsh sounds that rise in volume before slowly giving way to a melancholic rhythm, interspersed with soft tones that combine to create a nostalgic, almost cinematic quality. In just under three minutes, St Celfer manages to elicit a strong yearning for elsewhere, a sensibility that encapsulates–and communicates with–the other works presented in Infrasonica’s Wave #7. We hope you enjoy listening. INFRASONICA.ORG

Bandcamp

Fifty One (Super Happy Fun Land Outro)

‘Panama / Suez’ is the first EP by trio @OrenAmbarchi, @KonradSprenger and Phillip Sollmann (aka @Efdemin). The three multi-instrumentalists collaborated with the goal of creating subtly shifting musical passageways: sonic routes that run between continents of musical category.

The results are two variations of kraut-y, groove-based post-techno that unfurl through mutating polyrhythms and chiming, ethereal guitar play – a rare moment of guitar and techno in deep embrace.

With a potential to sustain energy on experimental dancefloors, Panama / Suez lives from Ambarchi, Sprenger and Sollmann’s diverse input while reflecting a common penchant for both pop and the hypnotic.

More info & pre-order: ostgut.de/ton/record/222

Panama / Suez

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Oren Ambarchi, Konrad Sprenger, Phillip Sollmann | Panama (Original)

Folklore Tapes is an open-ended research project exploring the vernacular arcana of Great Britain and beyond; traversing the myths, mysteries, magic and strange phenomena of the old counties via abstracted musical reinterpretation and experimental visuals. The driving principle of the project is to bring the nation’s folk record to life, to rekindle interest in the treasure trove of traditional culture by finding new forms for its expression. 