🖤💙🖤Absolutely beautiful🖤💙🖤

track 7 from the newly remastered and expanded edition of Black Brunswicker’s debut “In The Age of Aristocracy”

Name your price on bandcamp: https://blackbrunswicker.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-age-of-aristocracy-2nd-anniversary-extended-edition

In The Age of Aristocracy: 2nd Anniversary Extended Edition

Black Brunswicker - Vltava

From the album Youth available here: https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/youth

Youth

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]

Fortresses guides a pensive, ethereal meditation on the passage of time with his debut release, Eve, on Dragon’s Eye Recordings. 

A day may be observed by exact moments, counted down by the hands on a clock; or, its progress might be witnessed through less immediate means—a shift in shadows, the sky’s hue, the air as it warms and cools. 

In this sense, Fortresses both measures the day with exactitude, and honors its slower unfoldings. Each of Eve’s three carefully crafted compositions allow the listener to hone in on a singular element, or lean back into a wider gentle drone. One can pinpoint a hint of static, or drift with a melodic looping hum as it phases in and out again. 

In his own words Fortresses offered us some insight into the making of Eve: 

Eve formed slowly during a self-reflective and transformative period in my life. The songs stand as a personal document of the time they were made and the rituals that gave shape to them—watching the seasons change from my studio window, letting the colours and qualities of light inspire the compositions; and long walks in East London’s natural and urban areas where I would listen to rough edits of the tracks and record open-air sounds that blended well with the music. 

With this music, the process is compositional and very deliberate, as opposed to improvised or open-ended. The tracks are manipulated guitar and synth lines, meshed with both raw and processed field recordings, and broken chords and melodies made with a Mellotron iPhone app.

Fortresses - June

FULL - https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/snow-silence

My father's hometown is an area with a lot of snow, and I spent some time there in the winter when I was a child.
It was then that I first experienced the feeling of silence when it snowed.

That sense of silence as I walked through the falling snow may have been the catalyst for my current work in ambient music.

This music is dedicated to those snowy, beloved winter nights.

Snow / Silence - Sample

GRFTPS015
Sunbeamer - Cape
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamphttps://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/cape

Cape

A2. Sunbeamer - Sunrise [GRFTPS015]

[ snow/damage ]

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cycle # 17

part of an ongoing secret series of sound experimentation combining elements of field recordings, minimalism & repetition, texture & glitches.

[ 17 ]

~ IIKKI 019 ~

music : Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall)
photography : Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
album : Our Recently Acquired Knowledge (book: 07 AM)
duration : 35.56 mn
date : January 2023

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All music Ian Hawgood & Craig tattersall

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / natural clear LP / hand numbered  / selective varnish / hand numbered
cd: limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) / hand numbered
book: limited to 700 copies hand numbered / embossed / hand stamped / Swiss binding

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pre-order : December 12th, 2022 / official release : January 19th, 2023

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Links :
https://www.leavings.co.uk/
https://www.folkreels.com/
https://terezakozinc.com/
https://lemasterklass.com/klavdij-sluban/
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/

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Observatories - Our Recently Acquired Knowledge

Ruffien - Regen (Bonus Track)

In the Lens, Solo Andata’s fourth full-length album, was born from recordings found in the interstices of decades-old hard drives, lost email threads from disused accounts, and forgotten samples recorded on cassette dictaphones. These fragments were combined and re-worked with newer elements to create an album very much in the spirit of the band’s debut Fyris Swan (Hefty Records, 2006), an album touched by both folk and jazz and swathed in a dusty, narcotic haze.
Solo Andata’s Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco have always pushed aside the digital studio in favor of a more haphazard and hands-on workshop vibe to their productions. They prefer near-broken acoustic instruments, cheap microphones and, as can be witnessed by their live performances, tend to turn anything they can get their hands on into a beautiful sound-making object.

While there is a raw and guileless nature to the duo’s sound it is precisely this that makes their music so powerful amidst the over-produced cliches of much modern music. The beauty of their work is how simple instruments and objects can be physically manipulated into creating such rich, layered sound. Dark, swaying, almost-looped melodies from piano, woodwinds and horns wrap themselves in smoky obscurity around remnants of percussion and warm beds of noise and the world around us.

In The Lens is very much a late-night record, reflected in the rain-soaked cover imagery, dripping with half-forgotten memories. Jittery yet calming, rhythmic, yet unhurried, it leads you down its dark corridors to a soft resting space. Ikin and Fiocco have created a new story around the chemistry of their creations that were taking place during the early days of their musical explorations.

In The Lens

Separate Lovers

Emilía /Pollinations [RTE 0010] 


Pollinations is a mini -Album recorded last year at home, as Live Session & rehearsal; included Eyoko´s Remix of Oil Bread! ( from Down to the Sadness River Album)



Photography & Design by Meneh Peh 
Mastered at Rottenman Studios

Pollinations

Emilía / Pollinations - Oil Bread [Eyoko Rmx]

Giraffe tapes - the label was created in order to tell separate and limited stories via magnetic tape, analog photography, silk screen printing and other analog manifestations. Based in Tbilisi.

A2. Sunbeamer - Sunrise [GRFTPS015]

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