Japanese voice artist Hatis Noit returns with explorative new single Fernweh as a precursor for an Erased Tapes compilation titled Music for kō coming out on April 1.

Fernweh is a hymn for imaginary travel, allowing the music to take you on a journey. This self-produced piece, sung in a universal wordless language, sees Hatis Noit transcend boundaries through eerie, atmospheric sound explorations. Its German title, meaning a longing for exploring faraway places, captures the artist’s headspace at the time of recording.

“During the third UK lockdown in early 2021 I finally challenged myself to self-produce a whole song, which I hadn’t done before. Before, I wanted to focus on just using my voice rather than making music sitting in front of a computer, but the situation of lockdown challenged me to go on this new journey. Whilst making the piece, I felt a sense of missing going on physical journeys, and that sense of wonder that comes with travelling. So the song turned out to be a collage of memories of journeys I had so far as well as imaginary journeys I might have in the future. The whole process of making this healed the painful feeling of Fernweh for me somehow, and I hope it might have the same effect on others.” — Hatis Noit

The track is the opening piece to an upcoming Erased Tapes compilation featuring Rival Consoles, Masayoshi Fujita and Daniel Thorne, originally commissioned by Folie À Plusieurs in partnership with the Noguchi Museum in New York.

Music for kō

Fernweh

Hatis Noit — Fernweh

Dynastor - A Memory Away
Taking from the forthcoming album "A Memory Away"

PRE ORDER:
A Memory Away
by Dynastor

CD/Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-memory-away

Lingering fingerprints of a time bygone, hints of a scent once always, a photograph. The dust settles, dancing in the the last rays of sunlight. These days were felt and the smiles and tears we shed are now or the past. The letters we wrote remain, the pictures fade as the world beyond the lens morphs into its ever changing continuum, leaving us with just our creation; a memory away. This album is an expression of nostalgia, capturing the bittersweet evocation of reading letters from the past, seeing the photographs, the wrenching effect of smelling the familiar scents of a time long passed and realizing that the world is always changing, and so are you. Created with many recordings of nature, instruments, non-instruments and processed using a wide variety of techniques including tape, granular synthesis and analog synthesis, Dynastor explores the storytelling quality of music, creating evocations of places, people, memories and their passing.

Limited to 50 CD's, handmade covers, various colors available, hand numbered:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-memory-away

Releases July 1, 2022 

Written and produced by Maurits Nieuwenhuis 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Analogue Photography by Edoardo Amaniera 
Swedish sackpipa on 3. by Dimitri Peftuloglu 

Shimmering Moods Records 2022 
SHM 218

Dynastor - A Memory Away

I wasn't exactly jumping at an opportunity to hear an album by Bob Holroyd, which he titled Football Chants and Nursery Rhymes. After all, it would fall somewhere between "crying babies" and "whistling drunks" for me. But I won't just judge the book by its cover, nor the album by its title or the cover art. This is something I've learned long ago, so it's time to hear the music. And given the fact that Holroyd has been deeply rooted in the world of ambient, neoclassical, and cinematic music, something tells me that this title here is tongue-in-cheek. "The album title derives from a conversation Holroyd had with a musician friend who commented on what type of music people say they like in relation to what they actually buy. This sentiment also extends to record labels which imply they are looking for something new and different yet seemingly release the same kind of music." This is something I could surely get behind. It reminds me of another circulating meme, where one is asked, "what kind of music do you listen to?" then answered with an "everything" and smile. And then they're blasted with some drill'n'bass or breakcore or the like. So Bob is right here - people want to live in echo chambers. But do soundscapes and atmospheric textures sound the same? What is it exactly that I listen for in electronic music? It's the sound of the emotion on the other side and the track's ability to move me in return, thus the artist's talent to convey a feeling. So what's exactly painted with "Big Fields"? Fragility, regret, forgotten pledges.

Football Chants and Nursery Rhymes

Big Fields

TRACK PREMIERE : Bob Holroyd - Big Fields

live set from a November 2010 show with Tim Hecker at Vancouver's Western Front.

LoscilWF

0:00-2:40 — Arve Henriksen - Opening Image
2:20-3:10 — Nesta Kerin Crain - Gongs in the Rain
2:40-5:30 — John Cage - In A Landscape (Harp by Amy Schulman)
4:25-8:00 — Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano - Winding and Unwinding
7:50-10:40 — Bersarin Quartett - Verflossen ist das Gold der tage
10:20-11:20 — Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
11:11-15:05 — Susumu Yokota - Tobiume
15:05-18:03 — Roberto Musci - Claudia, Wilhelm R and Me
17:58-21:17 — Kuniyuki Takahashi - Asia
20:10-21:35 — Helios - Samsara
21:35-24:00 — Helios - Light House
23:36-24:03 — Broadcast - Innocence In Orbit
24:03-26:40 — Michael Price - Ink On Paper (Dmitry Evgrafov Rework)
26:40-30:10 — Keaton Henson - Elevator Song
30:10-31:47 — Disasterpeace - Vignette: The Lamb
31:47-33:32 — Nils Frahm - The Dane
33:32-38:43 — Simeon ten Holt - Canto Ostinato (Edited)
38:43-43:48 — Wouter Dewit - Winter Sleeps
40:54-44:54 — Chuck Johnson- Calamus
44:54-48:10 — Dmitry Evgrafov - Znanie (Alternative Version)
48:10-54:48 — Huerco S. - A Sea Of Love
54:48-59:55 — Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Life Story
59:00-61:19 — Resina - Lethe

Dmitry Evgrafov - Mixtape 4

happy piano day! is it possible not to love the piano? an instrument that is so versatile, so deep and so full of different dimensions... so accessible and still so mysterious... so easy to play and such a special  instrument to master fully... also when you cross into more abstract soundscape and different textures of sound I think the piano is so open to improvisation, experimentation and exploration... also is an instrument that has such a long history of being expressed in so many differnt ways and yet today we hear a new and fresh exploration of it and that's AMAZING!

Sebastian Mullaert - One Lake Eye / Piano Day 2019

Peter Kuhlmann allias : Air, Electronic Music Center, PEK (3), Peter Kuhlmann, Romantic Warrior, Sam Pels, Silence, Syn

Peter Namlook is one of the most influential figures of electronic and ambient music in the 1990s. Inspired by Oskar Sala, one of the pioneers of electronic music, Namlook focused on the untapped potential of analogue synthesizers, often developed or extended in his laboratory.
r.i.p...

Pete Namlook Travelling Without Moving Air 2 Trip 2

Needle Exchange 011: Nils Frahm

@Vargkvint Contemplative Classical Guest Mix:

This playlist features songs that inspire me in my music and that I’ve in many cases have had the pleasure to enjoy live. I think all of them has a roughness and honesty about them, that’s really suitable to the weather and mindset of Stockholm right now, where winter is long gone but spring never seems to arrive.  I see this mix as a journey that starts in a dreamlike state with the nostalgically haunting ”Come wander with me”, that then moves through delicate piano songs, some melancholic acoustic guitar pieces and evolving into more electronic soundscapes. The mix also features a premiere of Aisling Brouwer’s rework of Jakob Lindagen’s ”In the Machinery”. 
I’m imagining this mix working wonderfully while sitting in a remote cabin in the woods listening to this as the night slowly falls. 

Vargkvint is the musical project of Swedish multi-artist Sofia Nystrand. Her first full-length album ”Hav” is scheduled for release on April 5th through Piano And Coffee Records. She has on several occasions toured internationally, and will perform at Q3Ambientfest in Potsdam, Germany on April 14th. 

You can purchase Vargkvint new album 'Hav' via Piano and Coffee Records here: https://pianoandcoffeerecords.bandcamp.com/album/hav

00.00 - 02.53 - Jeff Alexander, Bonnie Beecher - Come Wander With Me
02.53 - 03.19 - Tim Linghaus - Looking For Dad In Radio Noice (Reprise, Pt. III)
03.19 - 06.12 - Muriël Bostdorp - Waltz For Sky
06.12 - 10.12 - Erik Enocksson - The Joy Of D.H Lawrence
10.12 - 16.28 - Vargkvint - Drivved
16.28 - 22.16 - Garreth Broke - Coping Mechanism
22.16 - 25.05 - Sergio Díaz De Rojas - The Day I Lost Her (CEEYS Rework)
25.05 - 29.47 - Tired Tape Machine - Sisyphus
29.47 -34.01 -  Lucy Claire & Marie Schreer - Voices Of The Sea
34.01 - 38.03 - Klangriket - Björk (Jakob Lindhagen & Vargkvint Rework)
38.03 - 43.35 - Kinbrae - The River Awakens
43.35 - 49.11 - Jakob Lindhagen - In The Machinery (Aisling Brouwer Rework)
49.11 - 54.00 - Múm - Green Grass Of Tunnels

Contemplative Classical Mix

Vargkvint - Contemplative Classical Guest Mix

@jan-platek provides us with our latest guest mix featuring the likes of Bill Lawrence, Neil Cowley, Ben Lukas Boyson, Hania Rani, Luke Abbot and much more. 

You can listen and purchase Jan's music via his band camp page here: 
https://jan-dirkplatek.bandcamp.com

Message from Jan: "Hello, I really feel honored that Matt from Contemplative Classical asked me to create this little, one hour long mix of my favorite songs from the past months. I hope you`ll dig it. If you like what you hear - please support the artists and buy their music. Thanks for listening."

Track List:
(00:00) BILL LAURENCE - The Keeper
(06:00) NEIL COWLEY & BEN LUKAS BOYSEN - Solitary Refinement
(11:54) ELUVIUM - Recital
(15:34) HANIA RANI - Hawaii Oslo
(19:44) LUKE ABBOTT - Tree
(23:00) TOM BLANKENBERG - Oktober
(27:28) LTO - Deja Reve Part 1
(31:54) LAMBERT - Sweet Apocalypse
(35:02) JOHANNES HIRSCHMANN - Winter In An Empty Church
(38:52) ARNOLD KASAR - A Million Miles From Silence
(42:48) 36 - D.R.E.A.M Link
(46:56) JOEP BEVING - Unus Mundus
(51:00) KUBA KAPSA - Exciting The Last Flight

Jan-Dirk Platek Contemplative Classical Guest Mix

Oslated Premiere 371

Daar - Sea Wind
Entire [SSD13 / Silent Season]

Produced by Álvaro Aragonés aka Daar
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering
Design and Assemblage by Jamie McCue
Photo by Jr Korpa
Dedicated to M.S.
Released by Silent Season from Vancouver Island, Canada
Release Date : March 05th. 2021
Format - CD and Digital

"Entire is a journey to the depths or how to use the strength of not hiding weaknesses. A piece described through strong feelings such as fear, sadness, desire to escape and change everything." 
- Álvaro Aragonés

Daar (Madrid, Spain)
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Sea Wind

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PREMIERE : Daar - Sea Wind [Silent Season]

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

Jan-Dirk Platek Contemplative Classical Guest Mix

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