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Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011’s debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013’s Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices captured the duo creating their exceptionally detailed music together live during a Japaneses tour. Akari, in turn, is the first studio album where Illuha recorded and mixed together, throughout the entire process. The beautiful st-robo studio in Tokyo put a collection of amazing equipment at their fingertips, from vintage mics and outboard gear to a vast collection of instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Their writing sessions were numerous and long with details meticulously obsessed over for nearly a year. The result is the most bewildering music Illuha have created to date. An album swimming with the most delicately tactile sounds and instrumentation that draws the listener in with hushed, motionless attention.

While Illuha’s Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date are often drawn to the most sparse notes of Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, acoustic grand piano and guitar, the breadth of instrumentation is partially what makes Akari so abosrbing. They have succeeded in creating their own universe of sound, so beautifully recorded, where each element not only has its own space but connects and interacts so fluidly with the other sounds. It is as if they are placed perfectly by nature, the compositions are fluid and organic, a far cry from anything calculated or structured. It is this open space that the music exists in which in turn defines the music itself. There is ample room to breathe within this forest of gentle tines, bubbling analogue synthesizers, clicking percussion and quiet field recordings. This is subtlety at its most refined; hushed without being saccharine, distant without being morose.

Akari is the Japanese word for light. Conceputally the duo used this word as a guide, as if they were searching through the dark, trying to keep the light alive, as if one is cradling a candle doing everything in their power to keep it alight in a storm. It is this almost visceral sense of sheltering, of protection, that gives Akari a very human and personal sound whose intensely deep focus is as impressive as it is arresting.

Akari

Structures Based on the Plasticity of Sphere Surface Tension

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Structures Based On The Plasticity Of Sphere Surface Tension

Taken from the new EP "Noyaux" - out Nov. 6th  2015 on Morr Music.
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Benoît Pioulard: Noyaux

Fading warmth in endless shadows — “where the light once lingers” by instagram.com/arancinalofi and instagram.com/nooneislisteningmusic blends melodic darkness with cinematic stillness, like the last memory of sunlight.

arancina x no one is listening - where the light once lingered - slowed + reverb

the drones of twinned twin paradox audio-rate LFO's

A beautifully mysterious track from the upcoming collaborative beauty from Porya Hatami & Uwe Zahn (Arovane). Available in Late July 2016...

Porya Hatami & Arovane..."Kaziwa"   iaan

Cinderland

high plains 'black shimmer'

California-based r beny appeared on my radar late last year, with his beautifully crafted opus fashioned from modular and hardware synthesizers entitled cascade symmetry. Kicking of 2018, now on Dauw label from Ghent (Belgium), this mysterious composer returns with a cassette (and digital) album, titled saudade, which is now available for pre-order. The sparkling synth bits are back, shimmering in a sunlight of the San Jose beaches, bathed in light winds of tape hiss and lo-fi textural treatments. “Saudade” is a Portuguese word, referencing to a melancholic state of mind, and its loose translation perfectly captures the mood of longing for someone with a repressed knowledge that they may never return. The opening track, “fernwood”, which we are proud to premiere for you today, is a beautiful and fragile prelude to an emotional journey.

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TRACK PREMIERE : r beny - fernwood

Halftribe​ - 'For The Summer, Or Forever' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-53
Format: CD (ltd. 200) / DL
Release date: May 18th, 2018

Laconic haze, ethereal curiosities, nostalgic glimpses and fictional illusions.

Northern Irish Halftribe’s (Ryan Bisset’s) third album and Russian imprint Dronarivm’s fifty-third catalogue entry arrives punctually to soundtrack the coming summer - or eternity, apparently, if you like. It is indeed suitably warm and familiar stuff, going straight for the bliss-out button with dreamy, droning pieces mixing airy synths and calm field recordings.

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HALFTRIBE - Swimming Off That Sombre Shore

excerpt from a live tape loop, percussion, guitar + modular synth performance at S1, Portland.

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Eighteen months on from his last new release, Vancouver-based singer / composer Ian William Craig returns with an (album-length) EP that collects together eleven new tracks. Entitled 'Thresholder', the record sees Craig return towards the smudged and scoured beauty of his 2016 opus, 'Centres'.

Recorded, produced and mastered by Ian William Craig himself, the origins of these tracks span a period from 'A Turn of Breath' to 'Centres'. Some were recorded at Ian's old studio on Vancouver's UBC campus, some at home, and one even recorded on tour in a giant secret underground cistern in Sweden. 

'Thresholder' will be released on 130701 on November 2nd.

Full info: http://130701.com/release/thresholder/

Thresholder

Ian William Craig - And Therefore The Moonlight

"Who Knows, Who Knew" is taken from the album Lies, Deception and Sin by Niskogradba.

Release date: 18.10.2018
Format: CD/Digital

All tracks sampled, looped and produced by Niskogradba 
between November 2017-March 2018 
Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg

Limited edition of 40, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, Handmade packages, hand numbered.
Different colored wallets with envelopes: Brown Kraft, Blue and Red.
Bigger and smaller sleeves, smallest size in transparant bag.
Photo's.

Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lies-deception-and-sin

Niskogradba - Who Knows, Who Knew (Taken from Lies, Deception and Sin - Out Now)

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music : The Humble Bee & Offthesky
photography : Nieves Mingueza
album/book : All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains
duration : 42.18 mn
date : July 2019

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Jason Corder: vibes, arrangement, mixing, mastering
Craig Tattersall : piano, guitar, vibes, synths, tape loops
Cody Yantis : sax
Julie Slater : viola
Rin Howell : voice
Jiah Shin : cello
Esther Hernandez : flute

Mastered by Jason Corder
Artwork by Nieves Mingueza
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 300 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : June 17th, 2019 / official release : July 15th, 2019

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https://www.leavings.co.uk/
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The Humble Bee & Offthesky - For Her Breath Is On All That Hath Life

Mystär

Pre-order available now. Release date: Jan 31, 2020

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Deep Listening, we offer you the definitive double LP combining the classic, complete original 1989 release with selected tracks from the Deep Listening Band’s 1991 album The Readymade Boomerang.

This elegant double LP is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with original and updated recollections from the performers, the recording engineer and a mesostic from John Cage, to which these recordings are inextricably linked.

Recorded in a cistern, this double LP reverberates with brilliant sonic clarity and masterfully improvised performances combining live electronics, vocals, trombone and accordion. Deep Listening is a classic in the fields of improvisation, minimalism, ambient/drone and modern classical.

Listen with attentiveness, listen while lying down, listen with headphones - as recording engineer Al Swanson entices the listener to become a virtual performer in selecting the many different ways to perceive these phenomenal tracks. Whatever you do, listen deeply.

Oliveros - Dempster - Panaiotis "Deep Listening" 2LP - 30th Anniversary & First time on vinyl!

Sebastian Paul - Walking Amongst The Sakura Trees
Taken from the forthcoming album "Amongst The Sakura Trees"

Limited Edition / 35 copies / Hand Numbered / Hand Made Packages / Brown Kraft & White Wallets / Professional duplicated cdr

Release date: 9-3-2020
SHM 122

Sebastian Paul - Walking Amongst The Sakura Trees

edition project focused on some dialogues between some visuals artists and music artists which works with 3 publishings by year dispatched in 2 physical imprints: a disc (vinyl/cd) and a fine art book.

Tonal.
mf BB was born when I found myself alone to experiment with music. I started to create mixes before going to my own composition. The influence of Nicolas Jaar and his label, Other People, has probably directed my music towards a slower techno. I remain passionate about minimal techno and deep tech house and I enjoy mixing both of them.
My journey in the music world took a different path when the label Tonal offered me to work with them. This new open door allowed me to work with extraordinary artists such as Thales Boutroumlis, Landhouse, Daniel Steinfeld, The Vold or Zoi. 
I have the chance to be surrounded by musician friends with whom I can work on the Ableton Live software. This tool is essential for my production and it also allows me to work with people from all over the world and to feel a connection in a way. 
In my mind, music is a synonym of spirituality. I look for ways to spiritually rise to a form of meditation that can lead to a feeling of full consciousness. To quote Bashar I would say that
we enter a new era where being connected "to the reality that excites us the most" become possible.

mf BB

The Humble Bee & Offthesky - For Her Breath Is On All That Hath Life

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