A seasonal selection of ambient, modern classical, and electroacoustic works. Closed on June 13, 2022.

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Field Journal Companion - Spring 2022

Lend Me Your Radio - Jun 22

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MAPS&DIAGRAMS

Stijn Hüwels

Pre-order for the new Handstitched* release "Teygja Part A" by Maps and Diagrams, released on both limited edition mini CD and cassette. 

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/teygja-part-a

View the packaging for the release by following Handstitched*
https://www.instagram.com/_handstitched/

"Teygja Part A" - handmade CD wallets from vintage hardback books, the CD's sit inside timeworn-illustrations and technical diagram sleeves. A hand-made mini collage and print come with every edition. Each edition is hand-numbered and limited to 50 copies, packed in glassine bags.

"Teygja Part A" C-45 cassette - hand-stamped, sage green cassette inside a handmade manila slip case, hand-numbered and packed in glassine bags. Limited to 25 copies.

Maps and Diagrams_Teygja Part A [s4mpl3r]

Preview for a track from the forthcoming Maps and Diagrams EP "FØRSTE" on Hibernate Recordings, released around October, 2013.

buy digital: http://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/f-rste 

http://hibernate-recs.co.uk/

Maps and Diagrams - Goldfuss

Bonus track from "_modulus" on Handstitched* [HS38]

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/modulus

Maps and Diagrams - Seam

Arun Sood / The Old Dictaphone

“A Place For Every Piece” was written in 2021. It is about a cabin I have been visiting over a decade now. Growing up and all of the memories that are with me still today. Every time I go there everything is always in the exact spot I remembered it. My grandmothers organ, blankets draped over the couch, Two chairs on top of the rocks outside. This track is very nostalgic to me. The melody towards the end of the song was originally written on that organ and later transcribed to guitar. This is the first song from my new EP which is set to release 5/6/22

A Place For Every Piece

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5YSvkrHpwEf6tAfKuirF2G?si=acQYBAlhSOW0p1cTVQhH-g
Hi here is our slowest and softest song lately. We hope you like it!

Press info blurb:
“Shapes in Time” is new delicate instrumental song by Japan-based band, Lullatone.
A soft ambient ode to life's little moments. Equally apt at fitting in the background while focusing for work or taking a nap, the meditative melody swells and lulls like an ocean’s waves. 

The video, all shot around the the duo’s studio in Nagoya has the same kind of relaxing mood as the melody. A sleepy sunset sheds flickering rays of washed out light over their instruments as cassette tape loops and a homemade mobile spin in circles. Other instruments include a vintage wooden fender stratocaster, a milkman audio amp pedal providing the spring reverb, an organelle and OP-1 for granular sample mangling and more.

While nodding at the palette of the ambient essentials of the past, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Aphex Twin, Stars of the Lid... the track feels also at home with more modern masters of the genre like Emily A. Sprague, Alaskan Tapes, Hainbach, Nila Sinephro and more. 
And though not quite classical, the composition has a similar atmospheric mood to the duo's most popular piano track "falling asleep with a book on your chest (piano version)". Leave it on in the background for a reading soundtrack or doing work or even falling to sleep with sweet dreams. 

You can hear more from Lullatone on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3h100hRlLZ7QDz8GRt5QsD?si=WFU8m2jOR0qGccw4hS4SZA
Apple Music: ‎‎https://music.apple.com/us/artist/lullatone/34467705
Bandcamp: https://lullatone.bandcamp.com
Website: www.lullatone.com

“Shapes in Time” はLullatone (ララトーン) の最新曲です。
ソフトでインストルメンタルなこの曲は、日々の小さな瞬間にささげる歌です。
仕事中、勉強中、お昼寝中など、何かに集中したい時の背景にぴったりと寄り添う瞑想的なメロディーは、波音のように繰り返し静かに響きます。

名古屋にあるスタジオで撮影された映像は、メロディーと同じようにリラックスしたムードを漂わせます。
本を読みながら聴く時も、猫のように昼寝をする時も、ゆるくて心安らぐBGMになります。

Lullatoneは毎月新曲をリリースするプロジェクトを進行中です。このトラックはシリーズ４曲目になります。

Thanks for listening,
Shawn & Yoshimi

short stories

shapes in time

For Piano Day 2022

Debs McCoy - piano, guitar, other instruments and arrangement

Leah Coloff - cello

The Weight with Leah Coloff (Piano Day 2022

From the album: JARR - Talking About X

Physical copies and digital downloads available here:
http://soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com

Sound In Silence proudly announces the addition of JARR to its roster of artists, presenting their new album Talking About X.

JARR is a collaborative project between British ambient guitarists Yellow6 and Wodwo.
Jon Attwood started Yellow6 as a solo guitar project in the late 90s, initially inspired by space/post-rock, electronica and reverb soundscapes. From his debut single on the Enraptured label, Attwood’s discography runs to over 150 releases, spanning a wide spectrum of atmospheric post-rock and minimalist ambient music. Throughout Attwood’s illustrious career, his music has featured on The John Peel Show and Resonance FM, has provided the soundtrack to several films and TV documentaries, and found homes on labels such as Make Mine Music, Resonant, Cathedral Transmissions, Silber and Somewherecold.
Wodwo is the alias of Ray Robinson, an award-winning novelist and screenwriter with literary works that have been adapted into major motion pictures. Inspired by artists such as Yellow6, Yutaka Hirasaka and Marcus Fischer, Robinson’s foray into ambient music began in 2018 and his compositions have quickly attracted a blossoming legion of fans.

Talking About X is JARR’s second full-length album, following their debut An Echo In Her Skin, released on Hush Hush Records in 2021 to critical acclaim. Their new album, made up of nine new tracks with a total duration of about 50 minutes, is stylistically different to their debut, being more heartfelt and emotional. Its sound is far more expansive and melodical, while the soundscapes are still solidly post-rock but with a much dreamier, more ambient feel.
Talking About X is a captivating album with a dreamlike quality, carefully mastered by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave) and highly recommended for devotees of Labradford, Roy Montgomery and Harold Budd.

Talking About X comes in two distinct editions.

The first one is a deluxe limited edition of 100 handmade, hand-stamped and hand-numbered collectible copies. This edition includes an exclusive bonus disc, not included in the other edition or the digital download. The bonus disc, entitled More About X, includes X new tracks with a total duration of X minutes. It is packaged in a lovely, hand-tied, sewn fabric envelope, which includes two 4 panel insert sheets containing tracklist and information printed on 250 gsm light green and light brown recycled cardboards and the front cover images printed on polaroid style photo paper. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

The second one is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 250 gsm light green recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 120 gsm light brown recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

JARR - The One Who Was Terrified Of Cats

Taken from the album 'Wisps', out July 1st 2022 (cd/download/stream)

Pre-order here: https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/wisps

Wisps

Bandcamp

Machinefabriek with Anne Bakker – Ruimte I

tears in the sun

CD & Digital available June 10 2022

1. Wilson
2. Spontaneous Simplicity
3. Valley Impressions
4. Synonymy
5. Remind
6. Atrium Thinking
7. Tributary II
8. Cascading

Floor 9

Forest Management - Floor 9 [TOW008] PREVIEW

Maps and Diagrams - Occupying Space

This recording is available to download from: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/laraaji-sun-araw-play-zone/

Laraaji & Sun Araw : The Playzone LIVE For St John's Sessions X Boiler Room

as a thank you to all for the support in 2023 <3 

three 'pay whatever' tracks from a new maps and diagrams album [Islands] - 2024

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/islands

thanks for listening xx

Eigg

LIVE at Kaschemme, Basel (2015)

A tribute to this visionary. RIP.

Zenmai
Blue Sky And Yellow Sunflower
I Am Flying
Love Bird
Form An Idea
Plateau On Plateau
Yokota - River Side
Painted Room Key
Black Sea
Uchu Tanjyo
Prism - 4°C
Circular
Sea Blue

Susumu Yokota: 1961 - 2015

1 - Powler 
2 - On Demon Wings 0:05:03
3 - Midnight Walker 0:12:05
4 - Street Tattoo 0:19:23
5 - Painless Steel 0:29:15
6 - Darkstalker 0:35:01
7 - Nightwolf 0:40:45
8 - Black City Skyline 0:57:17
9 - Dead End Angels 1:03:07

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Sunset Mission // Full Album

20111114

Mix by Moonbow @moonbowmusic | instagram https://www.instagram.com/eleanorhardwick

Artwork by Francesca Riley
newhive.com/flriley

View the full track here: http://dismagazine.com/disco/mixes/84769/moonbow-bad-dreamz/

Tracklist::
Jade Statue - Strained Spine
Throwing Shade - ODC
Arca - Beacon
Wooky & Bruna - Track 3
0comeups - Try to levitate above it all
K. Leimer - From a common center
Suzanne Kraft - Bank
Drömnu - Native
Bataille Solaire - Boul
Objekt - Ganzfield
Bruce Smear - Pick & Roll

Moonbow - BAD DRe-AMz Mix

from 'Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den289
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/moonzero]

The first set of new Moon Zero cuts in two years, ‘Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space’ is a product of fevered displacement that nonetheless achieves a temple-like sense of calm, proportion and permanence. Scheduled for release in November 2017 on Denovali, the record is carpeted in traces of the settings that producer and composer Tim Garratt has found himself since we last heard from him, from Reykjavík to Leipzig with anything from a Dictaphone up to a studio to hand - it bears sounds from a vast number of different spaces, instruments and machines across its four colossal tracks. Paying attention to these rich patterns, they move and wind you in, producing a deep and rewarding catatonia.

While touring the first LP ‘Moon Zero’ (2015) Garratt lost his studio and flat, a relationship came to an end and he briefly moved back to his parents’ in the Midlands. An emotional parabola familiar to anyone experiencing an economically-adrift, prolonged adolescence, it was heavy fuel for the melancholic sound world of Moon Zero. You can make out the origins of the record at the bottom of its multi-story wedges of sound, through dancing, duelling blocks of frequencies. And you can follow (somewhat obliquely, filling in the gaps) the inflections of different processes that these textures and melodic ideas have undergone, as Garratt moves them from machine to machine, speed to speed, room to room, through different combinations of effects. This churning celestial chaos, built painstakingly from detuned instruments, mono synths, field recordings and tape loops, is then meticulously ordered in the editing room.

The first side is in two tracks, each divided into two sweeping musical gestures, ordered by tone into a sequence of light-dark-dark-light and ending in a crescendo pulse with a ‘Loveless’-like shimmer. The flip is also in two long tracks, each one a continuously-building, monolithic tranche. The change at the opening of the third number, ‘Erwood Araf’ is signalled with the entry of an unthreaded melody that repeats and gradually distorts while other caverns of sound open underneath and around it. Then, again on the halfway point, the idea dissolves and a minor key swell aches into frame before breeze block low end is deployed. One of Moon Zero’s go-to sounds, an alloy of bowed cymbal, tape delay and who-knows, invokes the sound and disembodying feel of a train pulling into a station, if that moment could be elasticated and dragged far out. Emitting a chrome-sheen continental modernity, it’s probably the emotional centre of the record and calls to mind Kraftwerk’s ‘Trans-Europe Express’ and ‘Radio-Activity’ albums. Towards its end, on the nine-minute mark, in rides a soaring melody that surely has its roots in Garratt’s Eastern European travels.

Each expansion of the Moon Zero universe has felt like a logical progression along lines set before, becoming ever more inventively structured and ambitious with its sonic palette but never straying from its nucleus of menacing, meditative drone. Fresh from playing Ruhrtriennale Festival alongside Actress, Demdike Stare and Ricardo Donoso amongst others, ‘Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space’ is due to be released in October and Moon Zero will be announcing further shows in due course. This latest installation is the most profoundly affecting Moon Zero work to date; an unparalleled piece of infrasonic, atmospheric manipulation.

Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space

Moon Zero - Sunk Cost

taken from my "Sic Ergo Ludens" album released on Holy Geometry in May 2018
Cat: HG013

Hand-cut collage by Ryan Kent

https://soundcloud.com/holygeometry
https://www.facebook.com/holygeometrytapes/

Sic Ergo Ludens

Zhe Pechorin - In Fieri [HG013]

Buy (until 03/09/18) -  https://www.hibernate-recs.uk/product/8-ep/

The second release in a series of 10 8″ lathe cut transparent vinyl EPs to be released on Rural Colours; Stijn Hüwels’ Inaka No Iro is a VERY limited edition which will only be available to order for the next 7 days and will never be released on this format again. There will only be as many copies as there are pre-ordered plus a few additional copies for the artist. Each release will come in a hand printed sleeve on recycled card with original artwork by Katie English who has been doing all the recent Rural Colours sleeves.

Stijn Hüwels / Inaka No Iro [excerpts from side A and B]

A selection of more acoustic-sounding and harmonious music by Maps and Diagrams, some previously released and a few recently-discovered and unreleased songs from hard drives, tapes and mini-disc. All songs written, arranged and recorded by Maps and Diagrams.

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/

There's some exciting news for Handstitched* in the coming months - a couple of new releases due, stay tuned and try not to take one single moment in this life for granted.

Thanks for listening x

tracklist:

Jasper (Handstitched*)
Ten Black Cards (Time Released Sound)
Untitled (unreleased)
Untitled (unreleased)
Komagataella (Audio Gourmet)
Untitled (unreleased)
Untitled (unreleased)
Circa (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Lias (Handstitched*)
Novachord Spectrum (False Industries)
Floating Sculptures (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Untitled (unreleased)
Red (Handstitched*)
Cut-Out Silhouettes (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Curious Expeditions (Touched)
Untitled (unreleased)
Untitled (unreleased)
Sleep (Audio Gourmet)
Oracle (Grenzwellen)

Maps And Diagrams - Rediscovered Acoustics For Winter [December 2019]

Taken from the album "Elegies For The End", released on Cyclic Law in late 2009.

September Dirge

Between a Lie and the Truth

Wintertime isn't like a story, it's more of an inner whirling between the higher and lower notes. Entropy slows down and on snowy forest paths, the quietening call of a future is heard. A sleeping life of the shimmering heart, soft sight journeys into the window - in the anticipation of bloom and return of color. Gentle movements and lurking stillness; and sun, the winter symbol of the steadily warming order on Earth, vanishing just to continue the way through the snow-covered wastelands.

released December 14, 2020 on ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ Records | ПAN173 

Composed and produced by Blear Moon in November of 2020 in Snezhinsk, Russia 
Mixed and mastered by Nikita Chaikin 
Photography by Alexander Bondar 
Text by Anna Repman 

my socials and other links: 
blearmoon.bandcamp.com 
soundcloud.com/blearmoon 
instagram.com/blear_moon 
secretpress.bandcamp.com 
instagram.com/secret_press