43rd installment of the Joyful Union Select series.

Tracks by J Da Unknown, Esoterism Records, Tito Machete, 회사AUTO, 1stN3rd, Gafael, Xuji Sunset, Koncept Jack$on & Ohbliv, and more.

Joyful Union Select 043

41 Ceremony Journey

Focusy

DEEP SLEEP

Atmosperic Ambient 2.0

GRFTPS014
K Nogami - here / there 
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/here-there

here / there

A4. K Nogami - Their [GRFTPS014]

GRFTPS020
Carlos Ferreira -In Praise of Shadows
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp

https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/in-praise-of-shadows

In Praise of Shadows

B2. Carlos Ferreira - The Excluded [GRFTPS020]

@GAIAXIS

From upcoming album Neo Tokyo Live 30XX

Vocals from GAIAXIS

ＷＡＮＤＥＲＬＵＳＴ (ft. GAIAXIS)

Excerpt from NNA88: Jake Meginsky "Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes"
Available March 18, 2016 on Cassette & Digital formats.
http://nnatapes.com

Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes

Jake Meginsky  "Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes" (excerpt)

It's been so long since i've been able to spend time in my little studio, but I was able to spend the day on Feb 1st, and this is what came about...a bit rough, but it felt nice to play.  

*UPDATE*
I remixed this piece in late 2019, and it now appears on the Meditations 6 compilation presented by Shimmering Moods Records, and has been beautifully mastered by Andrea Porcu
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-6

Meditations 6

A Way/Within (2019 redeux)

Pausal are Alex Smalley and Simon Bainton | pausal.net
Mastered by Lawrence English and Porya Hatami
Cover artwork by Susanne Seinmann  | www.susannesteinmann.de

Buy: https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/volume-flow
Edition: CD /150
HB66 | hibernate-recs.uk | We Like Ambient

Pausal / Volume Flow (Snippets)

4Sep18

The image is my re-work of the Dr. Mrs. The Monarch image found here;
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/260364422180851722/?lp=true

:D

Boson Spin - Soundscape Experiment #53

Single tapeloop on Tascam MF-P01 Portastudio. Recorded live to Ableton Live.

Det är alldeles för sent

temple byte

Pic by Matthieu Arnauld
https://www.instagram.com/analogue__dreamer/

Dream Gate

The final track of surrealm which you can stream on spotify here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0nJVoghfmHXak0eVhiLuy5?si=238paIz_TS-ewf8ndSsrNw

Messages For The Future

A colourful selection of ambient tracks I've made over the past year using my Eurorack and VCV Rack. I hope you enjoy it.
Subscribe to my Youtube channel for more: https://www.youtube.com/user/Synthikat

2 Strumming Trees

June of 2018, after 17 years of fighting cancer, my
mum had been given 3 months to live. It was then
when I made the decision to be by her side during the
last moments. This work is all the music I wrote over
the course of those months. In Cádiz, next to the
ocean. By her side. I stopped writting and recording the
25th of August.
David Cordero

Written and Produced by David Cordero.
Gonzalo Eizaga: Piano (1)
Pepo Galán: Sounds & Effects (4)
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (NY)
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
Archives57 // ArchivesCD38 
Archives / 2019

David Cordero - Habitación 218 (Warmth Remix)

Picture disc edition of 300 copies

Maja S. K. Ratkje is at the forefront of the musical avant-garde. Her music is bold, original and it is meant for sharing. At its heart lies Ratkje’s own voice, an open door to her individual musicianship and a constant tool for realigning her work with natural expressions and human truths.

On Mara, layers of vocals overlap and layer their way through the reverberant woodwork of an early baroque parish in Austria. At times slow and beautiful, other times frantic and sinister, this live recording is full of depth, passion and life. 

Live-recording at Pfarrkirche, Lockenhaus at Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus July 9, 2018. 

Recorded and mixed by Peter Laenger and Andreas Ruge from Tritonus Musikproduktion.
Mastered by Maja S. K. Ratkje at Svartskog 2019.

All music created and performed in real-time by Maja S. K. Ratkje, except sung parts from the Norwegian traditional Hanen sten på stabburshella and the American traditional Mining for Gold. 

Maja is using voice processing software created by Øyvind Brandtsegg. 

www.ratkje.com

Maja S.K. Ratkje - Mara - Picture Disc LP - Pre - Order Available now

Il beneficio del dubbio

Sounds from Elsewhere - Malu Entu

Falling

This track is the result of a field recording workshop held at Skotfoss and Løveid Locks in April 2019. The workshop was part of the Greenlightdistrict Arts Festival 2019.
The workshop aimed to capture the sonic identity of a closed down industrial site in the south of Telemark, Norway. 
Artistic leader was Jørgen Larsson. Producer for Greenlightdistrict was Tom Hovinbøle. 
**
Collecting sound is my habitual endeavour. Using recorded sound as my raw material, detach it entirely from its source and reconstruct it through a series of electronic processing. Texture rich tracks blend the sounds of my journeys. From heavily droning soundscapes towards a more rhythmic narrative.

Summer Solstice

From Tyresta & Ruan's Elements Return, available now on cassette and digital from Muzan Editions.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/elements-return

Tyresta & Ruan - Who Will Save Us?

GRFTPS004
@tetenoise - Sea of tranquility
PRE-ORDER > limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-tranquility

video for "Stratosphere [part II]" here - youtu.be/xwNqgU8lnpk

"This tape contains string and wind instruments which accompanies tape loops and field recordings.

Tracks on side A are named after moon craters, the seas of Serenity, Knowledge and Tranquility are the craters where Apollo 11 and 12 was landed and so would Apollo 13 if it wouldn’t fail at launch.

Field recording of stratosphere is done with Tascam DR40-x aprox. 45000 meters up under the framework of the project “Exhibition in space”.

Side A is recorded with Elfa 332, Dynacord and Pioneer CT-W
Side B is recorded with Tascam DR40-x and Panasonic RN102

Field recordings:

Side A
Stratosphere at approx. 45000m
Flies on shit (Tusheti, Georgia)
Port (Poti, Georgia)

Side B
Underground station (Rustaveli, Tbilisi)
Stratosphere approx. (8000m-45000m)

#giraffetapes #GRFTPS004 #tetenoise #piano #tapeisnotdead #stratosphere #fieldrecordings #preorder #album

Sea of Tranquility

Sea of tranqulity

B3. Tete Noise - Stratosphere [part II] (GRFTPS004)

Composed and performed by Matteo Mariano 

(2021) http://macrogramma.com

MAGNETIC SERIES – Album – Format: CD, Digital – Releases September 20, 2024

“I’ve always had a deep connection with magnetic tape. Since the end of the ’80s, when I was just a kid, musical experimentation was inextricably linked to that medium, to the tapes that filled my days. Every recording, every edit, every sound etched onto those tapes represented my first naive steps into the world of music. It was a way to explore, to get to know myself and the sounds I could create.

Then, in the late ’90s, the introduction to Minidiscs and, later, HD recording changed everything. Daily interaction with tape seemed like a thing of the past, forgotten in favor of newer, more immediate, and versatile technologies. But that magic, that physicality, was hard to replace.

Over the years, I’ve watched with curiosity as magnetic tape made its return to the tables of ambient and experimental music creators. I realized that many had already rediscovered and embraced this medium, while for others, it had never really gone away. I, on the other hand, was much slower to return. But it was precisely through the works of other artists that I found the drive to immerse myself once again in this dimension, more convinced than ever.

Since 2020, after some attempts to incorporate tape elements into my compositions, I began to explore this path more seriously. I started creating tracks where the use of magnetic tape wasn’t just an accessory, but an expressive end in itself. “Magnetic Series” is not a concept album in the traditional sense, but rather a collection of tracks created between 2020 and 2024, united by a common thread: the manipulation of tape in various forms, from cassette loops to reel-to-reel, from slowed-down/speed-up tracks to entire mix passed through tape.

Beyond the allure of nostalgia and the fun that this medium provides, magnetic tape offers something unique: an intransigence that digital lacks. While digital allows you infinite possibilities, tape forces you to make definitive choices, pushing you into a creative process that permits no compromises. And perhaps it’s this very unyielding nature that makes it so fascinating and valuable.“

Music by: Matteo Mariano (macrogramma.com)
Mastereing: Andrea Porcu
Photo & Desig: Moreno Pirovano
Record label: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series
Publisher: ROHS! RECORDS

Cat.#: LONTANO-S-CD47
Release date: 20/9/2024
Format: CD, Digital

Copyright © 2024 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

Magnetic Series

Tape in A minor

Tape in A Minor

KADV034 

omne - in boom bap we trust

limited edition cassette, shirt, poster: kadv.bandcamp.com/album/in-boom-bap-we-trust

streaming: fanlink.to/eFFg

"infinite thanks to everyone who supports the project of this EP, to
the record label kick a dope verse!, family, friends and hiphopheads!
el salvador central america 2021.
//infinitas gracias a todos que apoyan el proyecto de este EP a la disquera kick a dope verse, familia, amigos y hiphopheas! el salvador centro américa 2021" - omne

all beats produced, mixed and mastered: omne
soundcloud.com/omne1

kick a dope verse! © 2021

in boom bap we trust

omne - back in the days

Lift Off

the complete story to read here: https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa/ethereal-reach-wodwo-svayam-joerxworkx
......... with heartfelt thanks to Wodwo and Svayam - please check out their music !!!
WODWO https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040 : guitar, mix
SVAYAM https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa : Sitar, mix, master
JOERXWORX : Tenor Saxophone

Ethereal Reach // Wodwo / Svayam / joerxworx

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.

B3. Tete Noise - Stratosphere [part II] (GRFTPS004)

giraffe tapes