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from 'Déjà Rêvé' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den310
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/lto

Based in Bristol, LTO first made waves as part of mysterious electronic collective Old Apparatus. As a solo producer, LTO has since attracted attention with his praised debut LP "The Number From Which All Things Come" and subsequent ambient/modern classical-focussed "Storybook“ LP. With "Déjà Rêvé“, he expands on that classical sensibility, creating a highly expressive and nuanced release for Denovali Records.

Each of the tracks on this record express a certain abstracted sense of time and place, often of a long forgotten memory or dream, or of an imagined future; of places foreign, yet strangely familiar; of varying states of consciousness; of non-linear time systems; of repetitive childhood fever dreams; of places with different laws of physics removing the constraints of day-to-day reality that you never want to leave; of unimaginable landscapes.

Broadening the already far-reaching colour palette of "Storybook", LTO has created something truly remarkable: complex piano arrangements, ethereal soundscapes, elegant orchestration and floating ambience, all perfectly placed in a rich cinematic landscape. LTO creates an ingenious dramaturgy, inducing different moods, from dark to light, with an inimitable depth and irresistible suction.

“haunting and comforting in equal measure. 4/5" – MOJO

“like memory preserved in nostalgic aspic” – The Independent

“a beautiful collection that stands tall alongside the work of his contemporaries” – XLR8R

“Blurring the lines between the organic and machine-made... Takes nebulous sounds and crashes them with the clatter of machine rhythms… Brilliant.”  - Hyponik 

“An adventurous blend of hues grey and dark...Staggeringly rich.”  - FACT 

"Another great album by a real talent hugely deserving of even more attention. Remarkable. 9/10"  - God is in the TV

Déjà Rêvé

LTO - Modaxen

Olan Mill also returns to Shimmering Moods Records, just straight after his live appearance on Le Guess Who? Festival 2018 on November 11th, with a very special and personal project of him, a thing of pure beauty, floating sounds and relaxation....."Sounds of a New Father"

"Week 6" is taken from Sounds of a New Father, which will be released on Friday the 16th of November.

Music written and mastered by Alex Smalley
Original paintings by Alma Kemya Smalley

Release notes by Andrew, Cameron & Bambi Sherwell

Format: Cassette/CD/Digital:
50 limited edition C43 cream cassettes supplied in printed o-cards, pro dubbed by Bandcds UK + 70 limited edition handmade CD packages, photo's, hand numbered CDr, wallets in enveloppes. Different colors and sizes.

This release will be first available at Le Guess Who? Festival 2018 from 12:00-18:00, Sunday November 11
Limited edition packages will be available on the Shimmering Moods Band Camp page on Monday 12th of November:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com
www.leguesswho.nl

Soon

Olan Mill - Week 6

from the album Borders and Ruins released on LP by Karlrecords

Mastered by Alexandr Vatagin
Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin
Artwork by Joe Gilmore

Borders And Ruins

The Skype Cloud And Your Smile On The Left

Dimitar Dodovski / Predeli (Snippets)

Pre Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/silent-odes

Limited Edition Cdr / 50 copies / Handmade sleeves / Hand numbered / Brown Kraft paper / High quality pro duplicated CDr's / No repress

Made from sounds collected in Welsh valleys and the Lake District, During a period of resolution, relationship breakdown, reflection, acceptance. Silent Odes represent an acceptance for reality, finding closure in self and life, the beauty in the bleak, indescribable feelings and the poetry in being alone in nature.

Releases January 23, 2019 

Written and produced by Luna Monk 
Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg 
Shimmering Moods Records 2019

Luna Monk - Silent Odes (Preview)

From "longview" out March 1st on limited cassette and digital.

andarctica - meant

From my newly finished album 'Sight Seeing' - a musical theme and variations depicting different eye conditions.  Using an initial theme, the melody and harmony are taken away, distorted or otherwise changed to musically depict a number of common visual disturbances and conditions, from the sparseness of peripheral vision loss to the hallucinatory Charles Bonnet syndrome.
Release date etc TBC...

Glaucoma

Deaf Center's second album Owl Splinters from 2011 gets a lavish re-packaging as a gatefold 2LP. It includes the Svarte Greiner re-interpretation album Twin as well as new cover-art with photos by cinematographer Joshua Zucker-Pluda.

Owl Splinters was originally released 6 years after DC's debut Pale Ravine. In contrast to their previous work, it was recorded in a studio setting (Nils Frahm's Durton studio, to be exact), and the lo-fidelity, haphazard techniques of their early recordings where all but gone. With the benefit of high-end engineering and analogue equipment, Erik K Skodvin and Otto A Totland's murky compositions were transformed from sketches into glorious widescreen spectacles. 8 years later the album sounds as moving, beautiful and obscure as it did back then.

2019 edition coming 22nd March(MIA042)

Owl Splinters

Deaf Center - Hunted Twice

The first track off of the 2018 tour cassette "On Falling". 
Edition of 50 w/ hand letterpressed covers.

Out of print (but repressing *could* be possible)

(on falling) debris

Albums
(2022) Real LP/MC (Karlrecords)
(2020) Shards of Distant Times LP/CD (Karlrecords)
(2019) No Eye Has an Equal LP/MC (99chants)
(2018) Disappearing in a Mirror LP/CD (Karlrecords)
(2017) Borders and Ruins LP (Karlrecords)
(2016) Goccia CD (Home Normal)
(2015) Spazio Sacro CD (Time Released Sound)
(2014) Aer CD (Dronarivm)
(2012) Tarsia CD (Nomadic Kids Republic)

Collaborations
(2020) with Enrico Coniglio - Stalking the Elusive CD (Dronarivm)
(2018) with The Star Pillow - Hidden CD (Midira)
(2018) with Ian Hawgood - Consequence Shadows CD (Home Normal)
(2017) with Francesco Giannico - Reframing CD (Eilean)
(2017) with Francis M. Gri  - Segmenti CD (KrysaliSound)
(2016) with Francesco Giannico - Agoraphonia CD (Dronarivm)
(2015) with Pleq - The Prelude To CD (The Long Story Recording Company)

EPs
(2018) Crystalline Tragedies / The Procession (Distant Motionless Shores) split with Martijn Comes LP (Moving Furniture Records)
(2016) Confini / Fiaccole digital (Sonospace)
(2016) Mutus Liber split with Moon Ra  cassette/digital (No Problema Tapes)
(2015) Yellow Horse CD (Manyfeetunder / Concrete)
(2013) Archipelago cassette/digital (Other Electricities)
(2011) Boule à Neige digital (Laverna Net Label)

Various Projects
(2013) AIPS collective - Postcards From Italy CD (Oak editions)

The Skype Cloud And Your Smile On The Left

Giulio Aldinucci