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Photon

Long overdue, we've finally got back to the task of editing up more tracks pulled from our four improvisations using sounds kindly provided by @anmoku, recorded early this year. This one was taken from the fourth jam in the series, recorded 28/01/21 and unusually for us, is relatively calm and peaceful.

Castle In the Air

Fog Factory (excerpt)
10:19 Min.
Commissioned by  SEAMS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in Sweden) enabled with support from The Swedish Arts Council.
Premiéred in October 2020 at the ”Echoes Around Me Festival” in Vienna. Karl Sczuka Price 2021.

Special thanks to Elektronmusikstudion EMS, Stockholm, Almgrens sidenväveri, Textilmuseet Borås.

Fog Factory (excerpt)

‘Floating World’ is an album by US based artist Todd Gautreau, who records as Tapes and Topographies. It was created in response to a collaboration project called Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island with British artist Jonathan S Hooper. The album follows last year’s ‘Amplitudes’ and is another entry to Todd’s discography, alongside music on labels such as Past Inside The Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own Simulacra Records.

Jonathan S Hooper is a mixed-media artist based in London, who works with paintings, photography, sculpture and film. Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island is an evolving multi-factorial project in which Hooper continues his exploration of ontological concepts of time and space through the landscapes of his native Cornwall. Specifically, the project focuses on a small uninhabited outcrop called Newland Island, which lies just off the Cornish coast in the Atlantic Ocean’s most westerly margins. The project’s title is inspired by Katushika Hokusai’s series of woodblock prints of Mount Fuji, drawing in Hooper’s broader interest in Japan’s artistic heritage. It also adds to the cultural connection between Cornwall and Japan first established in St Ives, in the 1920’s, through the collaboration of master potters Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji. A collaboration that continued through much of the twentieth century.

A particularly fascinating consideration is that Mount Fuji is an instantly recognisable geographic icon, yet in contrast, Newland Island is unknown to most. This frees the project from the limits of preconception, opening up opportunities to explore further ideas of landscape, and our place within it. Through collaboration with Gautreau (who is based some 5000 miles away), Hooper sought to give creative licence to a composer, in order to encourage another viewpoint. He had first discovered Todd’s music through Elizabeth Alker’s BBC Radio 3 Unclassified programme, and subsequently reached out to invite him to work on a soundtrack, which has now become ‘Floating World’. He sent photographs of his paintings, scans of the polaroids and his studio notes; the work developed organically into a collection of nine soundscapes, in which Hooper sees as independent views of Newland Island in their own right.

Hooper will be working to share this project through galleries and installations and we felt it was apt to assign full creative control over the CD packaging design to these two artists. Todd, also a graphic designer, has pulled together some of the polaroids for the outer and inner sleeves. There is a 16 page booklet included, which contains paintings, further polaroids and text from both artists. This is also included with the digital version of this album.

Written and produced by Todd Gautreau
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Paintings and polaroids by Jonathan S Hooper
Design by Todd Gautreau

https://www.jonathanshooper.com/

floating world - reflections on 36 views of newland island

wlr126 Tapes and Topographies -Floating World - Reflections on 36 Views of Newland Island

HS47-47T pre-order now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/phases-dream-vestibuli

Handstitched* is proud to announce a new release — the latest in the split-artist series from Alexandre Navarro and Caya.

Navarro's Phases & Caya's Dream Vestibuli is a contrasting range of electronic-acoustic and organic sounds — featuring Navarro's signature sklent and emphasised imaginations alongside Caya's emotive, tape-infused and hauntingly natural soundscapes. The results are two engaging and alternative perspectives, focused on their diverse range of sound and melodic fusions.

The release is available in a limited edition of 50, hand-numbered copies on both CD and tape — handmade gatefold collage covers for the CD and printed o-cards for the pro-dubbed tape.

Released: February 24, 2023

Tracks 1-5 Alexandre Navarro - @alexandrenavarro
Tracks 6-12 Caya - https://cayasmusic.bandcamp.com/

Alexandre Navarro / Caya — Phases/Dream Vestibuli HS47/T [s4mpl3r]

Pre-order available now - https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/anatomy-of-infinity-oriens

Offthesky - Anatomy of Infinity 
Soysea - Oriens
HS49/49T
Released: 7 July

Handstitched* returns with a new release in the split-artist series - where two artists feature back-to-back on both CD and tape. Offthesky and Soysea meet somewhere in the middle for this amazing release. Both of the artists' music compliment each other very nicely, a perfect pairing of musical minds and sound.

Offthesky makes his second appearance on Handstitched*, after the mesmerising "to break is something sacred" long-player in 2019. Jason's new work "Anatomy of Infinity" features three epic pieces, shrouded in timeworn mystery, far-eastern echoes shine through, glistening and descending through a contrast of discord and awe-inspiring beams of light. 

Soysea makes a welcome appearance on Handtitched* - after hearing his music previously we were excited to get a chance to release "Oriens". Michele's music is nicely-rounded, understated drones and subtle vocals carry the listener through longitudinal divisions, meaningful and with purpose, the music is splendid, soulful and thought-provoking. 

It's amazing to get the chance, once again for another Offthesky release, this time alongside Soysea - the music is simply elegant, and contentment, which Handstitched* is very happy to put proudly out-there. Each format is limited to 50 copies each. The tape release is slid into hand-made, creased, folded and assembled cotton rag O-cards, the CD release comes in hand-made gatefold sleeves with mixed-media collage cover artworks, every design is individual, unique and made by hand.

Thanks for listening  : )

Offthesky / Soysea - Anatomy of Infinity / Oriens HS49/T [s4mpl3r]

Mi Cosa de Resistance is Buenos Aires, Argentina based artist Fernando Perales, who has released with labels including Elm, Rusted Tone, Minimal Resource Manipulation, Aural Tethers and his own imprint ‘Hissful Tapes’. Fernando was also the spearhead behind the various artists album ‘A Speechless Body’ which we released on Whitelabrecs in January 2022. Within the line-up of artists included in this project was Ciro Berenguer with whom he has collaborated for this album.  Ciro also originates from Argentina, hailing from Rosario but for the last couple of decades, he has lived in Barcelona, Spain. Ciro’s music has been released on labels such as Dauw, Eilean and Slaapwel. He has also collaborated with Ghost and Tape (Heine Christensen) as Sokkyo.

This collaborative album between Mi Cosa de Resistance and Ciro Berenguer is entitled ‘El final de las lluvias', which translates to ‘The end of the rains’. It is inspired by moments of transition; in the Mediterranean they know Spring has ended and Summer is approaching once the rain subsides. This may be the title of the album and but one example, yet the broader theme of the album is to mark the end of something, and the beginning of something else.

There is a balance of these artists’ respective styles and inputs, in an album adept in presenting light, dark and melancholic moods through its many shades. It’s a space in which their musical personalities can live alongside one another as one, with Fernando’s hints of darkness placed alongside Ciro’s music box compositions and recordings of bicycle rides through the suburbs of Barcelona. It draws in experiences of pre and post pandemic life, from the viewpoint of two populous cities, and its blend of blurred naturalistic-leaning tones sit, decayed, against an urban bedrock. At times optimistic, at times despairing, El final de las lluvias was finished in Spring 2022 as these artists emerged from a 2 year period of life, learning to deal with the challenges of the pandemic. This record, a document, marks the conclusion of one phase, and the beginning of something else.

El final de las Iluvias

wlr138 Mi Cosa de Resistance & Ciro Berenguer - El final de las lluvias

Maps And Diagrams - Doughballs

"Dagens agenda: att bekämpa den gnagande känslan av bedragarsyndrom. Det är en kamp, men vi gör det här tillsammans. Det är nödvändigt för vår utveckling och framgång. Den här låten tillägnas till alla mina medkämpar där ute." (LR Friberg)

My Hidden Agenda - Äkta Varan

Improvised music produced entirely on the iOS platform using an iPad Pro.

Offthesky / Soysea - Anatomy of Infinity / Oriens HS49/T [s4mpl3r]

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