Name: Mike Lazarev - Healing by Headphone Commute
Duration: 1 min 57 s
Description: A short composition, which I will most likely include on my next release, whenever that will be! Meanwhile, check out my last mini-album on 1631 Recordings, titled "Unhinged" : https://1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/unhinged

Incredible! I wrote a poem listening this beautiful song, thank you!

Listen Imperfect||Monologs (EP 2022) here: https://soundcloud.com/to_mi_nor/sets/imperfect-monologs-ep-february

This composition is a product of my attempt to find meaning and purpose in life, and to reflect on my achievements and relationships. The human consciousness is an intricate and fascinating system, consisting of over 100 billion neurons - a number comparable to the stars in our galaxy. It's astounding to think that our minds are capable of creating entire worlds, as complex and intricate as the universe itself.

As I pondered the questions of how many people love me, and how many will love the real me behind my mortal shell, I realized the beauty in the fall - the inevitability of change and the power within us to create something beautiful out of it.

This project is titled "The Serenity of the Fallen Minde" because it represents the inherent motion of life and the human experience. It symbolizes the concept that we are constantly falling, evolving, and growing - and that's what makes life so beautiful.

So I ask you, what do you think about the power of the human mind and its ability to create complex worlds? Have you ever thought about the beauty of the fall and the changes it brings? How do you find meaning and purpose in your own life, and what keeps you fascinated by it?

The Serenity  of The Fallen Mind

The Serenity of the Fallen Mind[ March's EP 2022 by Thomas Nakas ]

Good morning, and welcome to the quietest week of the year. Did you have a good holiday? Before I sign off for the year, I think I’ve got one more gem to share with you. Here's a wonderful label showcase and a reflection on this past year from a lovely independent Valencia-based imprint, Archives, curated and operated by Agustín Mena, aka Warmth. I’ve profiled plenty of its releases since its inception in 2015, and I must admit that Warmth’s Parallel (2018) has been on repeat more than others. If anything, it is only rivalled by Glow, which is his collaboration with Fionnlagh, recently released on December 8th, 2023 (you’ll hear a few tracks on this mix). In any case, enjoy the mix, and please support the featured artists! For full details and tracklisting, visit Headphone Commute's main site.

Mixes

Archives 2023

Warmth - Archives 2023

There are some projects, albums, and tracks that I just can't wait to share with you. It is especially true for those long in the making, from my favourite artists, teased years before. Such is the case with the latest release by Fernando Corona, whose music as Murcof I have followed since his solo debut in 2002 (before Martes, Corona participated in other electronic and even prog-rock projects). In 2008, I covered The Versailles Sessions, which I revisited in a "remastered" writeup here, covering the history of this Tijuana-born electronic musician. I was also honoured to [virtually] spend some time In the studio with Murcof, where you can peak into yourself for a list and photos of modular gear. Two years ago, in 2022, there was an announcement of a new project under the name Twin Color, diving into a futurist nostalgia of retro-synthesis, Blade Runner-esque apocalyptic melancholia, and all of those delicious things that feed your sentimentality. And I've been waiting ever since. Today, I'm happy to premiere a track from the upcoming album, tauntingly entitled Twin Color (vol. I) [presumably with another volume to come], which is finally due out in November on the French InFiné imprint. The production began during the first wave of the pandemic, drifting towards something romantic, evocative, and tastefully vintage. Perhaps initially, it was experimental. Perhaps it was playful indeed. But what finally came out two years later is a collection of gorgeous cinematic music, a track of which I am happy to share with you today.

Read more on Headphone Commute:
https://headphonecommute.com/2024/10/01/murcof-fight/

Twin Color

Fight

TRACK PREMIERE : Murcof - Fight

Last year in September I released the album ‘Quiet Rooms’ on the British label Whitelabrecs. The tracks on this album were a kind of self-healing process to refocus on home life after a long absence caused by working far away. At that time I was making a lot of improvised music and recording many ideas and sketches. After selecting the tracks for ‘Quiet Rooms’, some ideas, feelings, blurred images and unfinished tracks remained, which later became a solid base for ‘All Our Yesterdays’. Over the course of 2024, more recordings were made and - voilà - a new album was born.

'All Our Yesterdays' is probably a bit more introspective, exploring the spaces between the notes in a much deeper and broader way. So each track is quite transparent in atmosphere and sound, with piano notes, electronic textures and strange sounds drifting in and out. As always, all was recorded mainly at night in dim lighting to focus on what's important to me and my music. ‘All Our Yesterdays’ could be seen as a metaphor for missed moments on the one hand and great moments with the people you love on the other. Deep contemplation with a sense of serenity and balanced stillness - some things don't change...

The cover picture was taken in autumn at a nearby lake, when everything was already prepared and waiting for winter.

Tracklist:
01. All Our Yesterdays / 02. A Change Before A Choice / 03. The Silence Within Us / 04. Until It's Time / 05. There Are Ghosts Around You / 06. Half As Far Out / 07. Beyond Paradise / 08. Anything At All / 09. Before Night / 10. It Takes Confidence (To Let The Music Speak) / 11. The Inner Sea / 12. Fragments Of Love / 13. Never Gonna Let It Go / 14. I Could Sleep For Hundred Years

Written and produced by Polaroid Notes
Recorded between Nov 2023 and Dec 2024

Limited edition CD and digital download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/all-our-yesterdays

Release date: 22nd February 2025
Büro für Erdrotation Spin 042

Polaroid Notes - Snippets of All Our Yesterdays (Album)

This is a track from Gyr we help promote! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0J7EFptNh6K6Qebrsrcx8d?si=c89d9fdb58934190 

Letters (Piano Rework)

Ocean

from 'Scandinavia' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den245
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/multicastdynamics]

Samuel van Dijk is an electronic music producer, sound designer and media artist from the Netherlands, having released electronic music under a variety of projects, namely, Mohlao and VC-118A. With his current project Multicast Dynamics he creates ever-evolving sound textures culminating in intriguing soundscapes while preserving a tranquil cinematic atmosphere. Drawing inspiration from nature, technology, film and fiction, his music productions, live sets and audiovisual work presents a carefully arranged, recorded and processed body of work, using a vast amount of layered sound textures, field recordings and live improvisation. In May 2015, Denovali Records released the first two albums of a four part series by Multicast Dynamics, conceptually linked by our undeniable connection with nature and its wide range of landscapes, colors and movement. Now the third album called SCANDINAVIA follows in October 2015??.  The album series moves from an evolutionary to a cosmological scale: Starting from dry land filled with light and streams, to the constantly changing surfaces of the oceans, into a frozen and murky underwater world, finally up to the arrival in an interstellar space and the cosmos. With this concept Multicast Dynamics explores organic and aqueous worlds in a dreamlike and spiritual appearance.

SCANDINAVIA is the third installment in the four part series. Assembled during the coldest season, it’s an album full of contemplative electronic recordings, created by the use of granular synthesis, obscure delay units and rudimentary looping techniques on magnetic tape. Recorded with a longsighted outlook, SCANDINAVIA features washes of subdued tones and textures as well as melancholic and warm sounding pulses of noise - all characterized by distinctive aquatic features. Steadily flowing, but slowly awakening the album draws frozen remote landscapes ranging from dark, cold and desolated to melting, warm and hope.
SCANDINAVIA opens with a bleak arctic environment in deep hibernation, where echoes of glacial bursts cut the silence. An undulating mass of viscous ambience sends out blurred out signals through the storm. In this inhospitable surrounding of frost and ice slow changes appear. The form of the landscapes alters and the cold air no longer hinders the breathing. Slowly meltwater seeps out underneath thick layers of ice, slowly building up in momentum and space. Layers of hypnotic atmospheres with barely perceptible undercurrents, brooding pulses of bass and tonal patterns lead to the core of the sonic landscape. Gently radiant layers of light and soil emerge and aquatic echoes expose new paths. The water is harnessed. Preparations for a long journey have begun.

Scandinavia

Multicast Dynamics - Scandinavia

A short composition, which I will most likely include on my next release, whenever that will be! Meanwhile, check out my last mini-album on 1631 Recordings, titled "Unhinged" : https://1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/unhinged

Mike Lazarev - Healing

Temporal

Observing Wonder

From the album 'Reflections of Most Forgotten Love', out late June on Preservation.

Pre-orders shipped early: www.preservation.com.au

Brighter Days by Deep Magic

The soundstory "Schneewehen" ("Snow Drift") is an art project combining music, poetry and painting. "Schneewehen" was released 1st Dec 2020 by Weber & Alcantu, a collaborative project.

"Schneewehen" is a 40 min soundstory that reminds of a deep and quiet winter with a deep blue starry sky and frost flowers.

Audio : Polaroid Notes
Illustrations : Celina Schadow
Text : Lorenz Weber
Handcrafting : mal vertieft

The whole package of the soundstory consists of:
• Hand-sewn zine, 20 pages, 14 cm x 10 cm
• 2 Mini-CDs with the audio (duration 2 x 20 min)
• Two illustrations divided into 9 layers printed on natural tracing paper
• A specially written winter fairy tale (in German language)

Download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/schneewehen

Many thanks to Weber & Alcantu for letting me be part of this amazing project.

Bandcamp

Polaroid Notes - Schneewehen (Excerpt)

Here are some original solo piano pieces...  some mixes from my podcast... some exclusive track premieres...  and some tracks from the albums I review on Headphone Commute... Enjoy!

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