~ LAAPS 011 ~ [SEQ.02 - LP11]

artists : Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date
album : 遠き火、遠き雲 (A Distant Fire, A Distant Cloud)
durations : 34.12 mn
 date : May 27th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / grey colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : May 07th, 2021 / official release : May 27th, 2021
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All music and sounds by Tomoyoshi Date & Stijn Hüwels. 
Recorded 2020/2021 in Japan and Belgium.

Tomoyoshi Date: piano, harmonium, synths, field recordings. 
Stijn Hüwels: guitar, pedals.

Mixed by Tomoyoshi Date.
Mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama.
Artwork by Lynn Pollard
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

Tōki hi, tōki kumo 遠き火、遠き雲’ (A distant fire, a distant cloud) is a poem by Tadahito Ichinoseki.

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records
https://stijnhuwels.bandcamp.com/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 1 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 1 1

Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date - 朝空に閃く光の粒子（Particles Of Light Flashing In The Morning Sky)

A new collection of work titled 'Sodium Light' from myself has just been released on Lee Norris's excellent NeoTantra label. The work was inspired by a series of night walks my daughter and I took towards the back end of 2019; pre all the states we find ourselves in at the moment. It's an impressionistic work of night-time cityscapes. Mastered by Fraser McGowan.

Sodium Light

Night #6

'Night #6' - Taken from the release 'Sodium Light' - [Neotantra, 2021]

Red deer stags rutting in the Carpathian Mountains, Bucovina, Romania.

Red Deer Rut In Bucovina

Luminous:01

Enregistrement de la Nuit de la Bourrée à Sainte Féréole ( 19 ) Le 31 Janvier 2015

Bourrée du voisin de la morangie

produced by David Rothenberg
artwork and visualization by Michael Deal

What record album was so important that ten million copies of it needed to be pressed at once? You guessed it. Songs of the Humpback Whale. In 1979 National Geographic Magazine inserted a flexible "sound page" inside the back cover of all of its editions in twenty-five languages, and that is supposedly how many they printed. No human pop star has ever received such magnanimous treatment, so what is it that is so special about the songs of the humpback whale?

Well, for one, humans knew nothing of this fabulous sound until the US Navy released its classified recordings at the end of the 1960s, at the very moment the world was most poised to listen to the unknown, the psychedelic, and the trippiest of sounds. Humpback whale song fit the bill perfectly. From high wails to deep growls to rhythmic scratches to tearful moans, it encompasses the full range of emotions in the longest song performed by any animal, a tune that can go on for nearly twenty-four hours at a time. People are often moved to tears when they hear such intensity for the first time. Some cannot believe it could ever come from a place as silent as the sea. This song inspired the global movement to Save the Whales which continues unto this day.

People tend to assume humpback whale song just a "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooh" and leave it at that. But if you sit down and listen to a complete humpback performance you will find that the long moan is only one note in a complex composition, with distinct phrases, repetition, structure, organization, shape and form akin to many kinds of human music. This is no random outburst of cries and whispers, but a song with power, verve, identity, and design.

It is a desire to go beyond memory and into the sounds of reality that has led us to release New Songs of the Humpback Whale, which aims to gather the best recent recordings of scientists and whale listeners the globe over to give all of us a chance to assess what has happened to whale song over the past few decades. One can hear gradual changes in humpback song from year to year, with some phrases lengthening, others shortening, others disappearing altogether as new variations appear. The change can be heard month to month, and even week to week within a single season. Today's whale songs should sound quite different from what he fondly remembers from the sixties. But is their musical culture going downhill? Or is it on the rise? Or just changing? Can we humans even tell the difference?

To tell the difference Michael Deal, designer of the Pinterest logo and a veteran of Google and Splice, has created a new way to visualize humpback whale song, based on sonograms familiar to sound scientist but simplified into colorful glyphs making the structure of this grand underwater music easier to understand than ever before.

Though humpback whale song did not evolve for humans to appreciate, it may be no accident that we do. Upon hearing the great song for the first time, whale scientist Roger Payne said he heard the size of the ocean, "as if I had walked into a dark cave to hear wave after wave of echoes cascading back from the darkness beyond.... That's what whales do, give the ocean its voice."


Humpback Whale in Madagascar from New Sounds of the Humpback Whale CD

july 27, 2016

Will Samson - You Are An Ocean (feat. Benoit Pioulard)

Fallen

Unearth

Hollie Kenniff - Field Edge

from 'Window In' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den332
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/michaelvallera

Window In is Michael Vallera’s third full length offering on the Denovali label, following  All Perfect Days (2018) and Vivid Flu (2017).  

The four tracks that compose Window In are an exercise in density, movement, and space. Raw studio recordings of electric guitar were taken as the foundation, then heavily altered and manipulated through sampling, erasing the trace back to origin of the sound. The result is a series of vignettes that are unattached to a particular source but instead exist in an emotive and internal state.

Window In

Michael Vallera - Deep Sleeping Exit

sound for Tour de Nippon commercial.
"MINAMI ASO"
stunning video are here💕 https://youtu.be/qygUWyZLKGQ

🌋Cycling in Minami Aso🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️
The Aso caldera is one of the largest volcanic features of its kind, measuring 25 km north to south, 18 km east to west, and 128 km in circumference. It stands in Aso Kujū National Park in Kumamoto Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu. Its peak is 1,592 metres above sea level. The valley is a global rarity home to fertile land, human communities, and even a railway. Join us on a virtual ride as we cycle Minami Aso Village and take in its nature and culture.

Humpback Whale in Madagascar from New Sounds of the Humpback Whale CD

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