fave listenings of this month

gennaio 2022

in the picture Peter Michael Hamel

"musica assoluta" (gennaio 2022)

This is the second track from the new album 'Seafields', release 260321 via Dronarivm.

Seafields

'Warm Kane' - Seafields - [Dronarivm, 2021]

https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/tell-me-a-secret-story-in-the-sleepless-summer-midnight

Tell me a secret story in the sleepless summer midnight - Sample

Fortresses guides a pensive, ethereal meditation on the passage of time with his debut release, Eve, on Dragon’s Eye Recordings. 

A day may be observed by exact moments, counted down by the hands on a clock; or, its progress might be witnessed through less immediate means—a shift in shadows, the sky’s hue, the air as it warms and cools. 

In this sense, Fortresses both measures the day with exactitude, and honors its slower unfoldings. Each of Eve’s three carefully crafted compositions allow the listener to hone in on a singular element, or lean back into a wider gentle drone. One can pinpoint a hint of static, or drift with a melodic looping hum as it phases in and out again. 

In his own words Fortresses offered us some insight into the making of Eve: 

Eve formed slowly during a self-reflective and transformative period in my life. The songs stand as a personal document of the time they were made and the rituals that gave shape to them—watching the seasons change from my studio window, letting the colours and qualities of light inspire the compositions; and long walks in East London’s natural and urban areas where I would listen to rough edits of the tracks and record open-air sounds that blended well with the music. 

With this music, the process is compositional and very deliberate, as opposed to improvised or open-ended. The tracks are manipulated guitar and synth lines, meshed with both raw and processed field recordings, and broken chords and melodies made with a Mellotron iPhone app.

Fortresses - June

am.1.010122

FULL - https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/my-lost-city

About the city I loved. Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

My Lost City - Sample

FULL - https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/snow-silence

My father's hometown is an area with a lot of snow, and I spent some time there in the winter when I was a child.
It was then that I first experienced the feeling of silence when it snowed.

That sense of silence as I walked through the falling snow may have been the catalyst for my current work in ambient music.

This music is dedicated to those snowy, beloved winter nights.

Snow / Silence - Sample

Murmet [part 1]

“Leaving together, Leaving apart” is one of 6 pieces I recorded using my 8th mosesa
In November 2018. I have since made several other models,, but recently rediscovered this album in my files.

It anticipates many things that I am doing currently, namely playing and responding to overtones and instrument body resonances. Tuning is by ear as well as all playing. I tuned the instrument to resonate with my wishes when playing.

The mosesa 8 is composed to 2 guitar strings, a cello bridge resting on a thin, patched and pressed wooden bowl. I used a DPA microphone, external guitar pedals and internal Logic Pro filters to create the sound that you hear.

The emotional background for these pieces, “Leaving together, Leaving apart” was the coming and goings between myself and one of my children of college age. I felt so much joy at being together, then sorrow with leaving.
The music is not illustrative, and I think focuses mostly on the joy of relating each moment with another.

Happy New Year and enjoy!
Wilhelm Matthies
January 1, 2022

Listen to or purchase the album here:
https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-together-leaving-apart-2

Leaving Together, Leaving Apart, 4, 11 - 17 - 18

GRFTPS015
Sunbeamer - Cape
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamphttps://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/cape

Cape

A2. Sunbeamer - Sunrise [GRFTPS015]

Long version is available on Bandcamp.
https://sudanobuto.bandcamp.com/album/winter-banana

About Illustration.
Attribution statement: "U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705" Permanent URL: handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/POM00001125

Winter Banana

~ LAAPS 024 ~ [SEQ.03 - LP24]

artist : Tomoyoshi Date
 album : 438Hz As It is, As you are  (「あるがまま、あなたのままに」)
duration : 27.19 mn (45 rpm) 36.27 mn (33 rpm)
 date : December 19th, 2022

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / gold LP / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : December 02nd, 2022 / official release : December 19th, 2022
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note: this project has been thought, created and recorded to be played in 33 rpm and 45 rpm.

All music composed by Tomoyoshi Date.
Recorded at Studio Familia.
Field recordings recorded in Izu, Shizuoka, Japan.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree(12K)
Artwork by Jürgen Heckel
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 2 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 2 4

438Hz As It is, As you are (あるがまま、あなたのままに)

Tomoyoshi Date - 熱 netsu (45 rpm)

~ IIKKI 019 ~

music : Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall)
photography : Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
album : Our Recently Acquired Knowledge (book: 07 AM)
duration : 35.56 mn
date : January 2023

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All music Ian Hawgood & Craig tattersall

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / natural clear LP / hand numbered  / selective varnish / hand numbered
cd: limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) / hand numbered
book: limited to 700 copies hand numbered / embossed / hand stamped / Swiss binding

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pre-order : December 12th, 2022 / official release : January 19th, 2023

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Links :
https://www.leavings.co.uk/
https://www.folkreels.com/
https://terezakozinc.com/
https://lemasterklass.com/klavdij-sluban/
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 3 - I I K K I - I I K K I 0 1 9

Observatories - Our Recently Acquired Knowledge

Spotify

my little winter.

https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/chapter

Hydrangea1.0+1.1 (Released 2011)

"I'm a mellow artist, aging 67. I love and release eclectic music, from post-classical to drone. My fave instrument is the Mellotron."

Così, sinteticamente, di solito mi presento.

In genere compongo musica partendo dal suono delle tastiere, ma il mio vero strumento è il registratore.

O i software di registrazione.

"I was made for loving and making recorded music."

Confido da sempre nel potere evocativo e orfico della musica, nella sua capacità di riconsegnarci a mondi più veri e più giusti, più belli di quelli in cui di solito viviamo.

"Ich bin ein kosmische Kurier"

I'm using these tools: Mellotron micro, Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer, Behringer Crave, IK Multimedia Uno synth, Roland Juno synth, Volca keys, Casio digital piano, micropiano Korg, Manetron (iPad app), iTampura (iPad app), Eko 11 (...) string acoustic guitar, electric violin, Orla analogic expander, tenor, treble and descant recorders, soprano and tenor tin whistle, Akai, Roland, Alesis and Arturia controllers, upright piano, Squier 3/4 electric guitar, melodica, Bubble Harp (iPad app), Schoenhut toy harp, soprano ukulele, Eko acoustic guitar, Peavey Composer acoustic guitar, Kurzweill micropiano, Boss and JamMan loop stations , Behringher multi-fx, Olympus portable digital recorder, Phonic, Behringer and Yamaha mixers, Audacity, Paulstretch, various players and plug-ins .. (that's all, folks, I think ..)

latest releases
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/venusia
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/as-riddled-as-the-tide

for further works please go to my bandcamp page
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/

and to 
http://webbedhandrecords.com/
http://www.laverna.net/home/
https://silentflow.org/

iTunes and Spotify as well ..
feed and share ..
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TRilVaDaQw0ksGqU5tuCh?si=zXD-0xFWS-2yrUs542SH9A

SoundCloud è la piattaforma musicale che preferisco perché è soprattutto il regno degli amateurs, di quelli che fanno musica per sé e per gli amici .. come quando da ragazzi si condividevano con gli altri le invenzioni e le creazioni .. io sostanzialmente sono rimasto lì e così .. non sempre, ovviamente, ma spesso ci trovo delle cose che valgono altrettanto - se non di più - rispetto a quelle più affermate e conosciute

Kobe Japan.
mail h.shirotsubaki@gmail.com
https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/music

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ujHOCDCgJcR25vPFKlQ9N?si=ZSMDGrY0TseIH2QIgk3Opw

https://music.apple.com/jp/artist/hirotaka-shirotsubaki/433573090

Snow / Silence - Sample

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