Arms and

"an exquisite little pop record" - Mary Anne Hobbs

"A euphoric yet deeply textured track that’s easy to get lost in" - The 405

Out on strictly limited cassette and digital formats 17th Nov 
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Esoteric electronic duo Hirola announce the release of their fantastic debut mini-album through new music group Phantom Limb, headed by FatCat alumnus James Vella and former Royal Albert Hall exec Mark Pearse.

Hirola comprises Bristol-based producers https://soundcloud.com/lto-oa (formerly of acclaimed electronic outfit https://soundcloud.com/oldapparatus, and a highly respected solo artist in his own right) and @edapollo (who has had releases on Bad Panda Records and Svnset Waves). Their music together is entrancing. More expressive and human than straight computer music, much more obfuscate and abstract than pop music, Hirola’s debut offering has strength enough to scale multiple peaks. From deeply textured electronic production that competes with Kiasmos or Rival Consoles, to lush vocal delivery akin to Rhye, to a dreamy and hazy wooziness roughly orbiting in Boards of Canada’s galaxy. There is enough intricacy and intelligence of sound design and composition here to roughly mimic, say, a Thom Yorke remix of a Tim Hecker track.

Though founded in LTO’s piano playing (he is a piano teacher in his civilian life), edapollo’s vocals and the pair’s shared production alchemy, Hirola is more than just a skill-trade, but a mutual elevation and inspiration, a new concoction very different to its base materials. “It's taken a couple years of trial and error to develop a sound that's equal parts LTO and edapollo,” Hirola write.

The mini-album was created over those couple of years of honing and sharpening, culled from an ongoing body of work, continuously constructed, fluidly and instinctually, as a production collaboration. Eventually sending to Phantom Limb through an existing friendship, the record serves as a bird’s eye view over the span of Hirola’s production and songwriting skills, its abundance of sound design, melody, field recordings and room-shaking bass delivering greatly, and yet promising more.

The record was mastered by Taylor Deupree of 12k Mastering (Loscil, Hauschka, Ryuichi Sakamoto etc.) and features original artwork created by Hirola.

Phantom Limb was launched by Vella and Pearse in June 2017, the former having spent eight years in A&R for FatCat Records, and the latter heading the Royal Albert Hall’s contemporary music programming before moving into music publishing. Hirola is its first original release, offered on strictly limited cassette and digital formats in November 2017

Hirola

Hollow

None Yet, Really

Surprise - we just released a new album. It's called LEVIATHAN (IN TIMES OF) and is best experienced on headphones in a quiet place. Suppose that shouldn't be a problem these days. Available only on Bandcamp for now. Here's 1 song from it.

In celebration of Piano Day 2020, you can "Name Your Price" on Bandcamp until Monday --> http://bit.ly/leviathan-in-times-of

Co-produced, mixed, mastered + artwork by @SunGlitters.

Thanks for listening.

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LEVIATHAN (IN TIMES OF)

EVERYTHING OF YOU

FULL ALBUM ON BANDCAMP

FUTURE ARCHIVE, VOL. 2 is the new label compilation from @futurearchiverecordings. Out 29 May 2020 and featuring 15 brand new tracks from 15 artists!

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Track Listing:

01. Starkey [@starkbot] - Clay
02. Kognitif [@kognitifofficial] - Creamy
03. il:lo [@il-lomusic] - Ntili Ntili
04. Arms and Sleepers [@arms-and-sleepers] - Olivia Hutton
05. Asta Hiroki [@asta_hiroki] - You & Me
06. Natasha Kmeto [@natashakmeto] - trust issues
07. Yppah [@yppah] - Grey Eyes
08. CLD.RĀN - /ˈwɪdəʃɪnz/
09. CNJR [@cnjrmusic] - Mines
10. Michal Menert [@michalmenert] - Sorry
11. Daily Bread [@daily-bread] - Thank You, Appreciate It
12. NOTME [@momslovenotme] - Moonlight City
13. Sun Glitters [@sunglitters] - Things Undone
14. ERA C T NOD 1 [@eractnod1] - idk, idc
15. drab [@drabsounds] - nothing

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Future Archive, Vol. 2

Olivia Hutton

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Arms and Sleepers - Olivia Hutton

From Haelium "Recovery EP" : smarturl.it/haelium-recovery

Mixed and mastered by HAELIUM

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HAELIUM - With You

All Forms Are Unstable

All Forms Are Unstable (Delhia de France's Trust Rework)

'FÁCIL EP' is the latest release from ERA C [@idcbackwards], the new project from Sofia Insua of @easyeasyband + Mirza Ramic of @arms-and-sleepers. Out Feb. 19, 2021 via @futurearchiverecordings.

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ERA C, the new project from Sofia Insua of the Guatemalan group Easy Easy [@easyeasyband] and Mirza Ramic of the American duo Arms and Sleepers [@arms-and-sleepers], released their single ‘FÁCIL’ last summer. The group now returns with an EP centered around the single, with an instrumental version of the track, a remix from @Yppah, and the new instrumental track 'resurrection'.

Debut album coming May 2021.
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FÁCIL EP

FÁCIL (Yppah Edit)

ERA C - FÁCIL (Yppah Edit)

@PALLADIANmusic remix of the @arms-and-sleepers song 'Black Out / Sun Shine'. Out Sept. 17, 2020 on @futurearchiverecordings.

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Up-and-coming electronic duo PALLADIAN (Barcelona, Spain) emerges with a compelling remix of the Arms and Sleepers track ‘Black Out / Sun Shine’. Originally from the full-length album ‘Safe Area Earth’, released in January 2020 on Future Archive Recordings, PALLADIAN re-envisions the lo-fi beats track with a contemporary downtempo aesthetic akin to Bonobo, il:lo, and Tycho. No stranger to downtempo, lo-fi, and cinematic electronic fans, Arms and Sleepers has been featured by the likes of Earmilk, XLR8R, NPR, and Huffington Post, and their music has been licensed by Vice, Amazon, National Geographic, and United Airlines, among others. 

'Black Out / Sun Shine' is taken from the Arms and Sleepers album 'Safe Area Earth', out now on Future Archive Recordings: https://ffm.to/safeareaearth
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Black Out / Sun Shine (PALLADIAN Edit)

Arms and Sleepers - Black Out / Sun Shine (PALLADIAN Edit)

Loci Records is excited to welcome on board 'Arms and Sleepers', a staple among cinematic, lo-fi, and downtempo music fans for over a decade. 

On October 02, Loci will be releasing the new EP by Arms and Sleepers titled 'Current Powers of Movement'. A starkly lo-fi, nostalgic, and timeless EP, 'Current Powers of Movement' has the feel of a classic while standing out as a new aesthetic welcomed among the growing catalog at Loci. 

Additional Credits:
Co-Produced, mixed, and mastered by @SunGlitters
Art by Edifon Adiakpan - @edifon_oj

Arms and Sleepers - Multiform

CORPUS DEI is the new album from @arms-and-sleepers. Out Dec. 4, 2020 via @FutureArchiveRecordings.

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Arms and Sleepers continue their journey through a turbulent 2020 with the 5th installment in their 6-part music series being released this year. The new full-length album, titled CORPUS DEI, will be out on Dec. 4 via Future Archive Recordings.

Arms and Sleepers is the electronic music duo Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic. Formed in Boston, USA in 2006, the group has amassed over 30 releases, nearly 2,000 live performances, and countless TV and Film music placements in their 15-year history. 2020 has been the group’s busiest year yet, and the upcoming new album CORPUS DEI looks to add another signature stamp in Arms and Sleepers’ diverse music catalog.

Written and produced throughout 2020 – while on US and European tours, unplanned quarantine in Latvia, and settling into a new home in Berlin – CORPUS DEI is a surreal musical journey that feels both free-spirited and highly tense. It is the culmination of a fragile, uncertain and difficult year, and a closing statement on an ambitious, multi-release conceptual project. CORPUS DEI is Arms and Sleepers’ fourth full-length album released in 2020 alone, which also saw the release of several EPs, standalone singles, and remixes. Each release has revolved around the idea of “self-destruction”, an eerily relevant topic that was conceived well before the pandemic-stricken year. Writes Ramic: “I started planning for this 6-part music release in 2019 as a way of dealing with and processing my own increasing existential obsession with mortality, meaning, and ultimate absurdity of life. I wanted each release to capture some broader, objective elements of human life as well as some more personal, subjective experiences. Little did I know that I would end up living in isolation in Latvia for nearly 4 months earlier this year. It was an incredibly bizarre period of my life, as it was—and continues to be—for much of the world.”

CORPUS DEI combines the varied sounds of Arms and Sleepers’ recent releases, merging elements of instrumental hip-hop, IDM, electronica, downtempo, and ambient music. The intricately textured beats and densely layered synths form a sonic palette that should be familiar to fans of Arms and Sleepers, but the static-induced, noisy and unsettling atmosphere of the album as a whole adds a new dimension to the group’s catalog. Experimenting more closely with sound design and focusing on the overall compositional flow, Arms and Sleepers manages to create a record that seems to—for better or for worse—capture the dreadful emotional weight of 2020. Writes Ramic: “The various song ideas for CORPUS DEI were written throughout 2020 in what seem like impossibly different contexts: a few days off on tour in Augusta, Georgia in warm southern weather in mid-February; a tiny hotel room in Odessa, Ukraine on the first day of a European tour; a strange 4 months in Riga, Latvia while stranded there in the midst of a pandemic; and a rejuvenating new chapter of my life in Berlin, Germany despite the continued uncertainty about the pandemic. This album feels like a collection of estranged fragments of my life this year – a year that has felt like an eternity.”

CORPUS DEI releases on Dec. 4 via Future Archive Recordings and will be accompanied by various special cinematic visualizers.
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CORPUS DEI

You Wanted To Dream But I Wanted To Kill

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Arms and Sleepers - You Wanted To Dream But I Wanted To Kill

Maybe It Was Yesterday (feat. Sofia Insua)

Arms and Sleepers - Maybe It Was Yesterday (feat. Sofia Insua)

rough little home recording with my dad's old Aria acoustic and a cheap Chinese tube MXL condenser mic.

Scruffy Guitar Demo

@Grabek rework of the @SaigonWouldBeSeoul track 'If This Is A Man', out January 22, 2020 via {int}erpret null.

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'If This Is A Man' is taken from the latest Saigon Would Be Seoul album 'The Human Stain', out now on {int}erpret null: https://ffm.to/the-human-stain
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If This Is A Man (Grabek Rework)

Saigon Would Be Seoul - If This Is A Man (Grabek Rework)

'Tiny Melodies' is the upcoming new album from @Grabek. The lead single 'Two' releases on February 26th, 2021 via @interpretnull.

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Following up on his debut release with the ambient/post-classical label {int}erpret null, the Polish composer Grabek announces a new album to be released on 30th April 2021. Having intensified his creative output as of late, including a contribution to the {int}erpret null compilation 'miniatures, vol. 1' alongside artists such as Peter Broderick, B. Fleischmann, Arms and Sleepers, David Allred, and Aidan Baker, as well as a recent EP 'variations on wieniawski', Grabek will now shift focus to releasing a follow up to his stunning 2020 full-length album 'imagine landscapes'. His new effort, composed of 10 songs and titled 'Tiny Melodies', is his most focused work yet and promises to captivate fans of neoclassical, modern-classical, and minimal electronic genres. Leading the way is the 1st single 'Two', showcasing Grabek's skillful ability to combine electronic and acoustic instruments into a cohesive whole. Calming, gentle, and meditative, 'Two' is a mesmerizing initial taste of what's to come.
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Tiny Melodies

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Arms and Sleepers - Maybe It Was Yesterday (feat. Sofia Insua)

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