Nice slice of slightly sun warmed, grey scale, hazy ambient...

Thoughts, memories, feelings and emotions hidden in noise and fragments of sound.

released July 14, 2022

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Halftribe - The Beauty Of Scars (feat. Marine Eyes)

Having collaborated previously on the second instalment of the Sustain Series, Swedish artists Henrik Meierkord and Sole Gipp Ossler come together for a full release - otherworldly vocals atop grounding cello composition.

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Lära

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Henrik Meierkord & Sole Gipp Ossler - Lära (Album Mini-Mix)

~ LAAPS 023 ~ [SEQ.03 - LP23]

artist : Seabuckthorn
 album : Of No Such Place
duration : 39.34 mn
 date : November 04th, 2022

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / solid silver LP / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Guitars, field recordings, clarinet, tongue drum, cymbals, effects and mixing by Andy Cartwright.
Double bass on 1,2,3,5,6 by Phil Cassel.
Recorded at home between March and April 2022 in Veynes, France.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photo taken by Andy Cartwright in Le Dévoluy in Oct 2021.
 Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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https://laaps-records.com/
https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/
https://seabuckthorn-music.com/

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Seabuckthorn - Hand In The Upward Sky

We interrupt our ongoing "Best of 2022" feature to take a breath and spend some time with [new] music. Music, after all, does not believe in time, it just becomes into existence when it's ready [sort of like us, but without the self-importance]. It doesn't know that there's a "schedule". It doesn't know that it may fade away before I bring it into existence once more, from the beginning. "Sounds arise from nothing and return to nothing." And so it's ready to be heard. Thus, today, I'm listening to a new piece by an Italian musician and sound artist, Daniele Bogon, who recently got picked up by Slowcraft Records for his upcoming album, Del Suono e Della Luce, scheduled to be released on February 3rd. The track I'm premiering for you today, titled "Prima Luce", is a highly textured, emotive sip of widescreen ambience that is both cerebral and prosaic, just as this form intends to be. It's a perfect introduction to his full length, "a brightly lit electronic work provoking visceral, intense impressions, [on which] the finely judged minimal aesthetic reinforces our long-held belief that less truly is more." Fans of soundscapes, drones, and analogue modular synth frequencies, along with those evoked from Bogon's guitar, hand made instruments, and piano, all captured, reworked and processed through a chain of fuzzy machines, will feel perfectly at home with this music, happy to be interrupted, at any point in time.

Del Suono e Della Luce

Prima Luce

TRACK PREMIERE : Daniele Bogon - Prima Luce

"Mike Lazarev drops his first album on Past Inside the Present, and it's one that reminds us why he has such a great reputation as being one of modern ambient and classical's finest composers. After exploring notions of time in previous records, for this one, he embraces the here and now, and that lends itself to a record steeped in mindfulness and meditation. As such, Sacred Tonalities is a perfect accompaniment to introspective moments with textural soundscapes placing you at the centre of them. The harmonics range from soft to gritty, the moods occasionally hint at trance, and the layers of bass, piano and arps bring subtle and ever-shifting rhythms."
-- Juno Records

Full album : https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-tonalities

Sacred Tonalities

Tonality Number Two

TRACK PREMIERE : Mike Lazarev - Tonality Number Two

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life.” - Jack Kerouac, “On the Road” (1957)

In chapter 13 of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” we find Sal in a Los Angeles hotel room with his new girlfriend, Terry, soon after they’ve decided to hitchhike back to New York with the $10 they share between them. Staring out the window in a sleepless fit, Sal observes a domestic dispute across the street: the humming neon sign of the hotel is an audible element amidst the police’s questioning, family’s sobbing, and city’s howling sirens, all of them blending together in an oddly poignant moment. 

This idea of sound adding context and emotion to human experiences is the foundation of Hotel Neon. The project formed in 2012 under far less desperate conditions than Sal’s, but it has always been anchored in the practice of recording musical responses to the current moment. The chord progression of “A Lament,” for instance, was recorded in the hours following the breaking news out of Sandy Hook on December 14, 2012. Ever since then, we have continued to create soundtracks for specific settings and situations in our lives.

“Hotel Neon 10: Reworks” is a reflection on the 10th anniversary of our debut self-titled album, which was released on July 30, 2013 in a batch of 100 cassettes. Initially a loose collection of minimal drone experiments with no intention for follow-up after the tapes ran out, Hotel Neon has morphed into the central musical identity for each of us, leading to friendships, experiences, and purpose that we could never have imagined at the time.

This is not simply a remaster or remix; HN10 has been entirely reworked from the ground up. You will notice that some of the essential elements and structures from the original songs come through, but we made a concerted effort to build on those early ideas and present a new album with our current tools, techniques, and experience.

We deeply appreciate your support, and thank you for listening.

Music: Hotel Neon (Andrew Tasselmyer, Michael Tasselmyer, Steven Kemner)
Mastered: Rafael Anton Irisarri
Design Daniel Crossley

Hotel Neon 10: Reworks

Hotel Neon - Dust And Drag

Ian Hawgood and James Murray began Slow Reels in 2018 from studios in London and Warsaw. The early work involved exchanging heavily modulated long-form textures, recorded on a variety of instruments, notably vintage synths. Reiterative digital manipulations and successive destructive passes through an end-of-life reel-to-reel tape setup resulted in a collection of entirely unrepeatable drone suites.

Their debut Farewell Islands for Morr Music was met with widespread critical acclaim. Sustain, presented now by Fluid Audio, extends the force of this uncompromising aesthetic further, as the artists’ shared medium further degenerates into overwhelming, full-frequency emotion.

Music: Slow Reels (Ian Hawgood & James Murray) 
Mastering: Ian Hawgood 
Design Daniel Crossley

...

Made by hand,

Book Editions' series. Vintage books dissected, re-assembled and re-structured into book-bound CD covers...

1 x Vintage (circa:1890-1958) hardback clothbound book (re-assembled into CD covers) 
1 x CD (full size) 
15 Pages of writing / image inserts 
12 x edited polaroid prints on luxury uncoated paper (250grm) 
1 x Stamped / numbered library card 
1 x Vintage photograph (circa; 1902-1946) 
1 x Vintage book-mark 
1 x Vintage celluloid negative 
1 x Vintage 35mm slide 
1 x 35mm reel to reel audio strip 
1 x vintage music score insert 
Housed inside glassine bags

Stamped / hand numbered / scented 
Download code (includes 20 PDF prints)

Strictly limited edition: 100 copies (no two copies are the same)

Made with love...

Sustain

Slow Reels - Sustain

Storm Song

Simply a minimal drone, subtle sonic wallpaper. "Repetition is a form of change." ... an oblique strategy ... stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Inspired by minimal drone music in general, the subtleties of an oscillator, filter, reverb, or any sound source.

Thanks for listening...

Minimal

Chord Harmonics

This track is quoted from the album 'The Red Bridge Over The Valley'.
Listening to all tracks of the album and purchasing are available on the link below.

https://gallerysix.bandcamp.com/album/the-red-bridge-over-the-valley

This “Red Bridge” is located in Taisyakukyo valley (帝釈峡), northern Hiroshima, Japan. It is known as a scenic spot. I love this place and often visit because it has many colors and smells, and they make me feel calm. It has water, mountain, blue sky... What else do you need? 

This album was inspired by my experience when I visited there last Spring. I hope you can feel earthy smell, color of water, clear sky of blue of this scenery through this album. 

on Stereoscenic Records [SCENE-27] 
music and photo by Hidekazu Imashige 
mastering and design by Andrew J Klimek

The Red Bridge Over The Valley

Remix album for 'Strange Parentheses', released on October 2018.
Written and Produced by Pepo Galán
Remixes by r beny, Steve Pacheco, David Cordero, José Soberanes, Eyoko, Suero, Eduardo Briganty, Erissoma, Max Würden, Alberto Lucendo, Shuta Yasukochi and Warmth
Mastering by Ian Hawgood
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
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Pepo Galán - In A Straight Line (Warmth Remix)

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!

TRACK PREMIERE : Daniele Bogon - Prima Luce

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