Such precise and determined sounds. Nothing sounds like it was an accident here.

Aphex Twin & Autechre - Live in Vancouver

Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011’s debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013’s Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices captured the duo creating their exceptionally detailed music together live during a Japaneses tour. Akari, in turn, is the first studio album where Illuha recorded and mixed together, throughout the entire process. The beautiful st-robo studio in Tokyo put a collection of amazing equipment at their fingertips, from vintage mics and outboard gear to a vast collection of instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Their writing sessions were numerous and long with details meticulously obsessed over for nearly a year. The result is the most bewildering music Illuha have created to date. An album swimming with the most delicately tactile sounds and instrumentation that draws the listener in with hushed, motionless attention.

While Illuha’s Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date are often drawn to the most sparse notes of Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, acoustic grand piano and guitar, the breadth of instrumentation is partially what makes Akari so abosrbing. They have succeeded in creating their own universe of sound, so beautifully recorded, where each element not only has its own space but connects and interacts so fluidly with the other sounds. It is as if they are placed perfectly by nature, the compositions are fluid and organic, a far cry from anything calculated or structured. It is this open space that the music exists in which in turn defines the music itself. There is ample room to breathe within this forest of gentle tines, bubbling analogue synthesizers, clicking percussion and quiet field recordings. This is subtlety at its most refined; hushed without being saccharine, distant without being morose.

Akari is the Japanese word for light. Conceputally the duo used this word as a guide, as if they were searching through the dark, trying to keep the light alive, as if one is cradling a candle doing everything in their power to keep it alight in a storm. It is this almost visceral sense of sheltering, of protection, that gives Akari a very human and personal sound whose intensely deep focus is as impressive as it is arresting.

Akari

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Tracklist:

Arvo Pärt / Else Trop / Christopher Bowers-Broadbent - My Heart's in the Highlands
Boards Of Canada - Everything You Do Is A Balloon
Eefje De Visser - Nee Joh
Neu! - Seeland
Dominique - Buds
Laurie Anderson - X=X / It Tango
Art of Noise - Moments in Love
Radiohead - Codex
The Streets - Blinded By The Lights
Brian Eno - The Big Ship
Spin Vis - De Grote Zon
Psychic TV - The Orchids
Arthur Russell - That's Us / Wild Combination
Neu! - Leb Wohl
Julee Cruise - Rocking Back Inside My Heart


Job Jobse - Resident Of The Month Podcast July 2014

Andrea Belfi - "Natura Morta" out november 7th on Miasmah.

Natura Morta, "dead nature" or "still life". This album can be understood as a powerful study of the minute details of the art of electro-acoustic composition, as much as the Renaissance "nature morte" were a masterful display of the artist’s skill in portraying the glow of a ripe fruit, or capturing the light beaming on a vacant chair.

Six tracks, to be listened to as two long explorations in the art of variation and repetition. Layers of drums and percussions intertwine with synth waves making the portrait come to life, detail after detail, until a complex figure emerges from the white canvas. The constant, unsteady sounds, wavering noise, swirling cymbals, and distant feedback gently pull the listener into the picture, letting them enjoy every detail of this beautifully staged compositions.

Recorded at EMS studio, Stockholm, ZKM in Karlsruhe and at the legendary Funkhaus in Berlin, this album mixes influences from both Italian minimalism and the electro-acoustic contemporary scene. Somewhere in between the electronics of Keith Fullerton Whitman, the percussive repetitions of Jon Mueller, and the atmospheric sensibility of Pan-American.

Andrea Belfi - Roteano

Ding-ding, like pieces of ice, metallophone sounds bounce off stones in the frost and, striking, change their shape, become thick and viscous, barely transparent, flowing downward. This is how time slows down, disappearing under the veil of tape, where naive childhood melodies decelerate and stretch. Whether from overwhelming nostalgia or from the realization that none of this ever existed.

syndryang is a project by Vladimir Sychev, whose childhood was spent in the far north in Novy Urengoy. According to the beliefs of the Nenets who lived in what is now the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, a person consisted of a body and two souls: breath ("ind'") and shadow ("syndryang"). Breath was the common soul of all living things, from humans to plants. The shadow, however, was half-independent: it accompanied a person, protected from other shadows and underground beings, brought dreams. The loss of shadow led to illness and madness.

self-titled '24 is an attempt to capture what slips away: the feeling of home in a place you want to leave, and longing for a time that perhaps never came. Cassette recordings and melancholic melodies, digitized and filtered through the prism of modern technology, create a double exposure effect of time. Here lives a blurred past, where genuine and imagined memories interweave into one sonic picture.

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Дзынь-дзынь, словно кусочки льда, звуки металлофона отскакивают от камней на морозе и, ударяясь, меняют свою форму, становятся густыми и тягучими, еле прозрачными, стекают вниз. Так замедляется время, исчезая под пеленой плёнки, где наивные детские мелодии замедляются и растягиваются. То ли от накатывающей ностальгии, то ли от осознания, что всего этого никогда не было.

syndryang — проект Владимира Сычёва, чьё детство прошло на крайнем севере в Новом Уренгое. Согласно представлениям ненцев, живших на территории современного Ямало-Ненецкого автономного округа, человек состоял из тела и двух душ: дыхания («инд'») и тени («синдрянг»). Дыхание — общая душа всего живого, от людей до растений. Тень же была наполовину самостоятельной: она сопровождала человека, защищала от чужих теней и подземных существ, приносила сны. Потеря тени вела к болезням и безумию.

self-titled '24 — попытка ухватить то, что ускользает: ощущение дома в месте, которое хочется покинуть, и тоску по времени, которое, возможно, никогда не наступало. Кассетные записи и меланхоличные мелодии, оцифрованные и пропущенные через призму современных технологий, создают эффект двойной экспозиции времени. Здесь живёт размытое прошлое, где подлинные и выдуманные воспоминания сплетаются в одну звуковую картину. 



Release date: 12.09.2025
Streaming: https://musicalligator.link/syndryang
Buy tape: https://faktura-ural.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-24

Music: Vladimir Sychev
Art & Design: Julia Kashina (instagram.com/julia__kashina/)
Mastering: Daniil Kraev
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Екатеринбург, 2025

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Oceanic Queen

Music from the forthcoming EP by Luke Abbott and Jack Wyllie of Portico. 

Released via Buffalo Temple (BFFT003) on 25th September available on 12" vinyl and digitally.

Xantako

from the album 'monument builders' available 11/11

Monument Builders

loscil 'monument builders'

Resina is the alias of Karolina Rec, a cellist/ composer based in Warsaw, who signed to 130701 having sent in this album as a hugely impressive demo late last year. A very accomplished performer with a background in Polish underground music, this eponymous album is her solo debut and sees a rich, atmospheric re-imagining of a Polish music rooted in a feeling for indigenous nature / landscape and realised via an intuitive, experimental approach to playing.

A fantastic debut release, ‘Resina’ is an immersive and deeply enchanting album, which unveils a unique and striking new talent. 

more info at 130701.com

Resina

Resina - Tatry I

Limited blue vinyl+digital edition (300 copies)
GZH71 | Release Date : February 17th, 2017
PRE-ORDER >> www.gizehstore.com/products/foudre-earth

EARTH is the third opus of FOUDRE! - a telluric drone qu​artet​ composed of Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête, The Rustle Of The Stars​, FareWell Poetry​), Romain Barbot (Saåad, I Pilot Dæmon)​,​ Grégory Buffier (Saåad, Autre​n​oir), Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf, Extreme Preca​u​tions​, Autrenoir​)​, featuring electric chimeras by Christine Ott​ ​on ondes martenot. ​

​Commissioned by Silke Schmickl from Lowave for the festival 'Singapour Mon Amour'​ in Paris, this album was recorded in the 16th century gothic church of Saint-Merry ​in ​June 2015​ as​ a live soundtrack performance for EARTH ​- ​an experimental film directed by one of the most important Singaporean contemporary artists, Ho Tzu Nyen​. Acclaimed by art and film critics worldwide and presented at some of the most prestigious international film festivals (Cannes, Venice, Rotterdam..)​, EARTH is inspired by the works of classical European painters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Delacroix​. ​The film unfolds dramatically as the camera moves across a theatrically choreographed scene involving 50 actors, as the details of a post-apocalyptic landscape are revealed frame by frame.

Ho Tzu Nyen on E​ARTH​: 
“We see the site of an unknown disaster, the debris of history that constitutes the story of Earth. Upon the site, lay fifty 50 humans oscillating between consciousness and unconsciousness, life and death. Sometimes, one of them emerges into the foreground - clutching a fist, batting an eyelid, or weeping for his neighbor. At other times, these figures recede from the light, losing their individual shapes to form a gigantic organism, breathing in unison, pulsating like a jellyfish, though their journey across Earth.”

Original soundtrack​ by FOUDRE!​ recorded live by Samuel Navel at église Saint-Merry, Paris, on the 7th of June 2015 during the 'Singapour Mon Amour' festival curated by Lowave & Les Rendez-Vous Contemporains // Edited by FOUDRE! at Magnum Diva Studio // Mixed by Samuel Navel // Mastered by Lawrence English // Still-frames by Ho Tzu Nyen // Graphic design by Iam Sailor // Thank you Silke, Jeremy, Mickaël, Patricia, Taissa, Baptiste, Marguerite, Frédéric, Eglantine & Babbel Productions, As Human Pattern & Gizeh Records​

Frédéric D. Oberland​ /​ mellotron, analog synths, buzuk 
Romain Barbot​ /​ electronics 
Gregory Buffier​ /​ ​acoustic laptop​, electric guitar 
Paul Régimbeau​/​ analog synths 
Christine Ott​ /​ ondes martenot

INTERVIEW​ 
>> www.lowave.com/singapour-mon-amour/p3.htm

WEBSITE
>> foudrenoise.bandcamp.com/

EARTH [OST] 

Sleep

Pulse one Special Live Ambient/Idm cut

Map 165 is a collaboration between Martin A Smith and Tim Hooper exploring disorganised sound, atonality, beauty and evocation. Following on from 2014’s The Fatigue of Sunlight and Wine (Voxxov) and their collection of live recordings A Foreign Country, we are pleased to announce the release of their latest album Of Adam Sleeping in the Lap of God. 

An ambient work in four movements inspired by the north portico of Chartres cathedral Of Adam Sleeping in the Lap of God melts stone into music using a series of field recordings, synths and guitars. 

Of Heaven and earth: 
The formless becomes formed. A swirling coalescence of themes and sounds. Through repetition a pattern appears. Order is created. Across a slow shimmering, four notes call out bridging the void. 

The deepest midnight blue 
The sound from the lowest point of the lake 
The silence of the space above the Earth 
The beat of the heart 

Of the firmament: 
A blissful disorientation. Shimmering, confusing, a wrapping inwards of time and rhythm with multiple refraction of the same themes overlaid but still apparent. 

It is the clangour of bells reflected off stone walls in an old town 
It is the beat of wings over a lake 
It is the confusion of walking in to a dark interior out of the brilliant sunshine 
It is the clamour of foreign languages in the market place 

Of the Sun and the Moon: 
Reflective and contemplative, with a receding sadness. Watching the last sun of Summer set knowing that Winter will be coming. 

Wind between the fingers of trees 
Dust settling in corners until Spring 
Hands resting upon the table 
Valleys filled with fine rain 

Of Eden: 
Neither afraid of night or morning. Each day welcomed; each day passing as easily as water in a river. The security of knowing what you like and trusting your judgement. Equal with all, afraid of none. Night comes blissfully again. 

The comfort of time passing 
The first moment of sleep 
Closing the door once home 
A friend’s voice 

Written and recorded by Martin A. Smith and Tim Hooper 
Assembled and Produced by Martin A. Smith 
Choir at Chartres Cathedral recorded by Helen Smith 
Recorded at Flying Boat Studio, Cambridge, UK 
Sleeve artwork by Katie English 
This is Rural Colours 84

Map165 / Of Adam sleeping in the lap of God (Snippets)

Warp records UK 1994
http://www.discogs.com/Autechre-Amber/release/30187

Autechre - Further

"Who Knows, Who Knew" is taken from the album Lies, Deception and Sin by Niskogradba.

Release date: 18.10.2018
Format: CD/Digital

All tracks sampled, looped and produced by Niskogradba 
between November 2017-March 2018 
Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg

Limited edition of 40, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, Handmade packages, hand numbered.
Different colored wallets with envelopes: Brown Kraft, Blue and Red.
Bigger and smaller sleeves, smallest size in transparant bag.
Photo's.

Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lies-deception-and-sin

Niskogradba - Who Knows, Who Knew (Taken from Lies, Deception and Sin - Out Now)

Première résidence de Syndrome Bordeaux, orchestrée par https://soundcloud.com/modern-collapse

L'exploration d'un univers onirique entre ambient et techno élégante vous garantissent un voyage immersif chargé en émotion.

Tracklist :
Minais B - As The River At Its Source
Lugh - Million Dollar Cowboy
BLNDR - Les Fantomes De La Cote 
Varg - Red Line (114 Östermalmstorg - 127 Vårberg) 
Jóhann Jóhannsson - One Of Twelve
Jacques Gaspard Biberkopf -  Black Soil 
Zann - Stalker
Lucia - For Ej At Blive Blot En Dråbe Spildt
Iku - Star Shopping [Lil Peep Cover]
Hainblash - Friends I Lost 
DJ Charme - Aurora X (Kurama remix)
Amnesia Scanner - AS Securitaz
Exploited Body - I Was Never Enough
René Audiard - And I Am
Stanley - Breakdancing Daddy
Deadcrow - Neon Forest
Emra Grid - Land Is 
Kali Malone - Arched In Hysteria
Raime - The Last Foundry
BLNDR - Doepfer Exercise
r hunter - rrrrrr
Travis Scott - sicko mode (Ronan’s No Sleep Mix)
Modern Collapse - untitled (unreleased) 
Varg - U Control The Ocean (Second Crush)
The Maghreban - Eddies (Batu Remix)
Rune Bagge - Pink Dreams 
Nomine - Nomine's Path 
Klara Lewis, Simon Fisher Turner - 8
Burial - Nightmarket
KYO - To All My Future Lovers (oqbqbo remix)
Sawf - Sonic#1 33rpm
Modern Collapse - untitled (unreleased) 
Deena Abdelwahed - Tawa (M.E.S.H remix)
Modern Collapse - untitled (unreleased) 
De Grandi - Plans
SHXCXCHCXSH - The Under Shore 
Modern Collapse - untitled (unreleased) 
Modern Collapse - untitled (unreleased)

Chromé ep01 • Modern Collapse (09.04.19)

FOUDRE! emerges as a rare seismic supergroup created in 2015 by three major activists from the independent scene: Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête), Romain Barbot (Saåad), and Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf). They are portrayed as "super-depth sounders", "laboratories of the unheard generating a fascinating sonic magma with rugged beauty", or "Badalamenti and Vangelis covered in dust and gravel". Their collective ethos is characterized by an insatiable appetite for urgency, boundless experimentation, and the spontaneous combustion of live performances.

FORTHCOMING >> VOLTÆ (CHTHULUCENE)
Limited marbled/black vinyl+digital edition
NAHAL018/ZZ85 | Release Date : October 25th, 2024

SOLD OUT >> FUTURE SABBATH
Limited black vinyl+digital edition
NAHAL009 | Release Date : January 15th, 2021

SOLD-OUT >> KAMI
Limited frosted beer vinyl+digital edition
GZH86 | Release Date : November 18th, 2018

SOLD OUT >> EARTH
Limited blue vinyl+digital edition
GZH71 | Release Date : February 17th, 2017

SOLD OUT >> AMOR MUNDI
Limited tee-shirt+digital edition
BLWBCK067 | Release Date : October 15th, 2016

SOLD OUT >> MAGNUM CHAOS
Limited cassette+digital edition
BLWBCK061 | Release Date : June 6th, 2015

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