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Catalog: INNER164
Format: Tape Cassette // Digital // Streaming

Transparent Blue Tapes // 75 copies worldwide

Music for the Ninth Silence the first full-length ambient album by TOMC, is a work that speaks of "uncategorizable emotions and silence”, comparing them to the metropolis. The duration of all the tracks is unified at 4 minutes and 33 seconds, and each track is given a name based on psychologist Carl Jung's eight typologies and the places in Tokyo that TOMC recalls.

All of the music is produced with TOMC's electronic piano playing, with a nod to Hiroshi Yoshimura, Erik Satie and Steve Reich, and without sampling from existing music. The fusion of tones reminiscent of 1980s Japanese ambient / new age music and the three-dimensional sound textures of contemporary ASMR culture, free from the constraints of the grid, is a reflection of his vision of Tokyo.

The vibrant Japan of the 1980s is considered by many young Japanese people to be a fantasy far removed from the present day. On the other hand, much of the culture and urban landscape of modern Japan undeniably originates from the 1980s. TOMC, who lives in Tokyo, the largest city in Japan today, has been thinking about the "uncategorizable emotions and silence" that suddenly come to the minds of people living in the city, which is faced with various problems unique to developed countries and sometimes has to embrace a sense of stagnation, and depicted them in this album.

TOMC sees that ambient and new age music is not a form of "escapism" but an art form to connect the self with reality. When people who are in the midst of "uncategorizable emotions and silence" (i.e., you in someday) come into contact with the tracks and reclaim themselves, this album will be truly completed.

This stage is on-going today, and is full of questions: What does it means to be oneself? What assumptions are accurate? What’s been an act all along? It’s a period of her life, and on the album, that’s deconstructive and lighter in tone. In its entirety, Yesterday & Tomorrow is deeply personal, but there’s a message for all of us to internalize: no matter how dark things get, there’s always hope. Even when you think it’s completely out of reach.

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Music for the Ninth Silence

LIMITED EDITION TAPE

TOMC - Extraverted Thinking (Shinjuku)

Pre-order now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/upward-eyes-kindred

Handstitched* is thrilled to announce the next installment of the split-artist series, Ian Hawgood and Fields We Found feature alongside each other for an outing of outstanding musical composure and tranquility. 

Ian's music needs little introduction, with many releases and collaborations under his belt on numerous well-known labels - to say he's prolific is pretty close to the mark. Ian also curates the wonderful Home Normal label, here in the UK. "upward eyes" is seriene, slow-moving and hauntingly subtle, prolonged space fills the moments we frequently overlook and leaves time for reflection during a quiet time spent in an open space. We are honoured to have his debut EP "upward eyes" featuring on Handstitched*. 

Fields We Found has just released his outstanding album "Distance" on the lovely Seil Records, which has been on constant rotation here at Handstitched* over the past month - and the new EP "kindred" is equally as moving, graceful and bewitching. The equilibrium and expression within "kindred" is harmonious - and at the same time, quietly sonorous.

Fields We Found and Ian Hawgood are both welcomed to Handstitched* with many thanks and admiration for their respective musical works as part of the split-artist series, it's great to have them visiting Handstitched* for this special release.

Limited to 50 copies. Released on mini CD-r and sage green cassette with hand-made packaging, tape O-cards and unique designs for each CD package. [HS45/45T]. 

Released August 12.

Ian Hawgood / Fields We Found - upward eyes/kindred [HS45/T S4mpl3r]

find on Bandcamp here: 
https://marineeyes.bandcamp.com/track/half-dreaming

i wrote ‘half dreaming’ last month when heavy rains came to southern california. 

this one-off single is a bit of a new hushed direction for me—using only tiny swells of my voice, osmose synth & field recordings. life feels extra fragile & precious lately and i hope listening (with headphones on) inspires you to take rest, and drift.

half dreaming

I would like to start this year with this album.

I have been making music alone for almost 20 years now. I would like to thank everyone who has ever purchased or listened to my music, my subscribers, my collaborators, everyone who has criticized as well as praised me, the equipment and electricity I have used to make music, my room, my time, my friends, my family, everything. Thank you so much.

As a token of my appreciation, I would like to release this album for free. Please enjoy it.

I have only one request. For once, for about 40 minutes listening to this album, please do nothing and think about nothing and just be in a daze. We are too busy. We need time to intentionally give our heads and hearts a rest. Once you get into that habit, you will inevitably feel yourself becoming energized again.

I wish you all a very happy new year.

1. Hogaraka (朗らか) - Cheerful
2. Ajiwai (味わい) - Flavor
3. Utakata (泡沫) - Ephemeral
4. Mizumaki (水撒き) - Watering
5. Neiro (音色) - Tone Color
6. Mederu (愛でる) - Celebrate
7. Otsukimi (お月見) - Moon Viewing
8. Oboroge (朧げ) - Faint

Richness of the Heart

Neiro

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Our second mix is being released on Global Drone Day, an event created by Marie LeBlanc Flanagan of Weird Canada (https://droneday.org). This mix includes a new track by Chihei Hatakeyama from his forthcoming album, "Thousand Oceans," which will be released on Dronarivm in June on LP, CD, and digitally.

The mix, compiled by yours truly, Dmitry T., features tracks from various recent releases in the contemporary ambient/drone scene. These tracks have been a source of inspiration for me, and I hope they do the same for you. Drone on!

Tracklist:

00:00. Chihei Hatakeyama - Thousand Oceans (from the upcoming ‘Thousand Oceans’, Dronarivm)
05:35. Tomotsugu Nakamura - Rain Boundaries (from ‘Moon Under Current’, Teinei)
09:50. Enrico Coniglio - The Blue Hour (from ‘The Sirens of Titan’, Dronarivm)
13:22. Tim Six - Constellations Over Waves (from ‘Homing’, Atlantea Records)
19:02. Runaway Horses - House in the Woods (from ‘Recollected in Tranquility’, Dronarivm)
22:50. anthéne - Whispering Wave (from ‘Stray Light’, Floralia)
27:55. A Lily - Kemm Nixtieq Li Qed (from ‘Saru I-Qamar’, Phantom Limb)
31:35. Celer - Ultra-terrestrial Yearning (from ‘Perfectly Beneath Us’, Field Records, Still*Sleep re-issue)
35:05. Ryan J Raffa & Nico Rosenberg - On Thin Air (from ‘On Thin Air’, Muzan Editions)
42:15. David Cordero - Voice of the Forest (from ‘Important Small Details’, Home Normal)
45:50. Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - In a Gadda Da Vida (from ‘Lieder Ohne Worte’, Chitra Records)
50:35. Floating Shrine - A Moment, by the River (from ‘Connecting’, Decaying Spheres)
53:10. Masaya Ozaki - Skerpia (from ‘Mizukara’, Laaps)
56:36. The Green Kingdom - Softly Away (from 'Arcadian', Sound in Silence)

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Aether #002 by Dronarivm

Format: CD
Pre-order: 12th December 2024
Release date: 20th December 2024

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