Stockholm-based pianist/composer Shida Shahabi follows up last year’s ‘Lake On Fire’ OST with the release of another short film score,  for Swedish director Maria Eriksson-Hecht’s ‘Alvaret’. Stepping away from her piano entirely, the EP’s five tracks are performed by Shida on electric bass and synth, alongside the cello of regular collaborator Linnea Olsson. It was mixed by Hampus Norén and mastered by Francesco Donadello, and will be released as a digital EP via FatCat’s 130701 imprint on November 26th. A beautifully rich and atmospheric soundtrack, ‘Alvaret’ posts further confirmation of Shida’s special talent and growing reputation as a composer of the highest order.   

Produced by Lars Von Trier’s Zentropa company, Eriksson-Hecht’s ‘Alvaret’ is a powerful, stunningly shot 20-minute study on the aftermath of tragedy and a young girl’s resilience and determination to hold her remaining family together. The film runs short on dialogue but deep in emotional honesty and integrity as it probes the depths of care and despair. Perfectly in step with the director’s vision, Shida’s score avoids tugging at hearstrings via the obvious tropes of sentimentality, instead pulling back to a cooler, more measured and complex emotional distance, and an intimation of the barren, low-lying island landscape in which the film is set.

Alvaret (original soundtrack)

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Shida Shahabi - Low Land

Underground Sounds mix, 28/03/2022, @radiockut

01. 't Geruis - gracieux
02. 't Geruis - het einde zet in (via @losttribesound)
03. Adrian Copeland - No Heat No Light
04. Alapastel - Flight Over Utopia
05. Alapastel - Goodnight, Valley of the Roses
@lukas-bulko-654539883
06. ARROWOUNDS @ryanoftsavo - Antarctica's Spherical Anomalies Leave Residual Trails (Edit)
07. @copcarbonfire - repurposed
08. copcarbonfire - rinna
09. copcarbonfire - ida
10. Dayin - Cloud Control (via @amekcollective)
11. Dayin - Flares Still Burning
12. @elena-kakaliagou - One who never saw the sea, but had shells instead of ears - Ένας που δεν είχε δει ποτέ θάλασσα, αλλά αντί
13. Elena Kakaliagou - Ascending
14. @faditabbal -  My Doll
15. Fadi Tabbal - Music for Tangent Lines
16. Fadi Tabbal - The Death of Strangers
17. Experimental Kindness - Numby
18. @federico-mosconi - Foam
19. Federico Mosconi - Blood
20. Federico Mosconi - Wandering
21. Federico Mosconi - A New Dawn
22. @fletcher_pratt - Weedy Dub
23. Fletcher Pratt - Carpenter Dub (via @crashsymbols)
24. @holobody - Cube
25. Holobody - Bath

Photo taken by Oaxaca, Mexico by Stefan

Underground Sounds mix, 28/03/2022, CKUT 90.3fm

Circassian-Turkish Producer Sine Buyuka debuts new solo project Sinemis with lush, graceful album ‘Dua’, gently combining the ancestral Sufi music of her homeland with sophisticated techno-inflected ambient.

Gazel is the first single taken off the album. "Most of the Dua album is created with organic sources of audio and acoustic instruments, lots of creative audio editing and soft synths. However, Gazel is the only track that has a vintage analogue modular analogue synth at its core, a Roland System 100m. I started improvising without a plan and recorded bits and pieces for fun. A couple of months later, after my surgery when I was homebound, I felt like visiting those recordings and decided to use one as a basis of a new track. It was a recording done in a single take, later adorned with ney recordings, vocal chops, and ambient soundscapes. I wanted to see how I could integrate two instruments belonging to two different musical cultures to create something new and perhaps a bit mystical, marrying different musical traditions. The name Gazel, which refers to an age-old improvised singing form that is sometimes accompanied by the ney (or ud or tanbur) in Turkish music is also a nod to the production process – my voice being my synth."

‘Dua’ was also mixed and mastered in Dolby Atmos (available on Apple Music, Tidal and Amazon) to capture the immersive experience of Sufi music.

Please note this is the binaural version of the track. Listen on headphones for the experience.

Binaural and Dolby Atmos mixes by Tom Bailey (Air), mastering by Matt Colton (Metropolis).
Stereo mixes by Mark Dobson (Coda), mastering by Joshua Eustis.
Cover artwork by Özge Cöne.

Gazel

Sinemis - Gazel

nowhere wood’s ethereal new single “snowing” was recorded in London earlier this year with ambient producer, Paul Cousins. Their approach was to reimagine the Pink Floyd song ‘Flaming’, having been inspired by its fantastical imagery and melodies. The impressionistic track uses celestial guitars and piano to capture the gentle calm of falling snow, finding a meditative space for the listener to reflect within its dreamlike world.

snowing

London-based Slowcraft continues to craft... slow, and quiet, beautiful music... the type of music that I love waking up to and observing the dark sombre sky open up to the world for another short day. For the latest release on this boutique label curated by James Murray, we are gifted with a six-piece album by a Czech composer and field recordist, Tomáš Šenkyřík, titled Hajú, which is an old Moravian word that loosely translates to “hush hush”. Today's track premiere of "Advent" is as appropriate as ever, with the seasonal preparation for the holidays, which began yesterday, November 27th. The word is a Latin adoption of "adventus" which means "arrival," and whether you are of Christian faith or not, the approach towards this time is sensed by everyone. For me, it's like a ramp down off the highway of the year, about to enter through the tunnel, where night and quietude surround a slow transition in-between, before a ramp-up into busy January, where somehow everyone exhales anew. This journey is perfectly soundtracked by Hajú, with its "subtle weaving together of acoustic elements, soft synthetic manoeuvres and evocative field recordings to spellbinding effect." These gentle, minimal, and fragile sounds are cradled further by warm strings and piano keys, concluding with a lovely lullaby, with vocals by Marie Puttnerová, "a modern-day framing of Moravian folklore guided as much by ambient minimalism as the ghosts of Dvořák and Janáček, one in which the family hearth forever glows with unmistakable warmth and generosity of spirit."

Hajú

Advent

TRACK PREMIERE : Tomáš Šenkyřík - Advent

Tracklist

01. Jogging House - Narrative
02. Weareforests -  Vor___1
03. Miguel Otero - Blooming in Sturton
04. Seaworthy - Distant Hills Burn Bright (Part 6)
05. Melodía - Luna (en el hotel Am Bad, Tübingen)
06. Federico Durand -  Día de nieve
07. Stijn Hüwels - Clouds as seen from an airplane
08. Wil Bolton - Lavender Layer
09. Altars Altars -  Family's Downstairs
10. Norihito Suda - Macrocystis
11. OHIO - Crépescule

322. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Buy In the Octopus Pond: 
https://arrowounds.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-octopus-pond

Buy the 4 album series:
https://arrowounds.bandcamp.com/album/therianthrope-series

Lost Tribe Sound proudly introduces 'In The Octopus Pond', the first album in a series of album from Arrowounds, titled, the 'Therianthrope Series.' With previous works, Ryan Chamberlain has taken us through personal lows and bleak watery worlds in disrepair. However, 'In The Octopus Pond' sheds much of that skin and sets course for lush, green environments steeped in the bizarre. That said, this new material sounds more accessible than ever. The first entry in the trilogy draws from a range of musical influences, Can, Bark Psychosis, Young Gods, Slowdive, Durutti Column, Seefeel and much of early 4AD.

Rather than tackle some inner monologue or global crisis with the album, ITOP is instead accompanied by an obscure short story and visuals just as fitting. As both Arrowounds and LTS would prefer to take some time away from heavy realities and make up our own.

For here it begins and circles back into itself…
In the days before the great boil, the earth was lush and green, cared for by a race of mystic octopoed. In acts of preservational instinct, many chose to build their temples high on top of engineered tumuli, weary of prior flooding and wildfires that drastically disfigured the landscape. It was here that these priests of arms who carved ornate reliefs into the great pillars of obsidian and bone, dug down seeking mineral deposits in the earthen abyss and found a gestating world beneath the below... to be continued

In the Octopus Pond

Blue Entombed (Edit)

Arrowounds - Blue Entombed (Edit)

Taken from the forthcoming album "Grλvity" by Milam Wisp

Pre orders start April 7th 2023 // Release date: April 14th 2023
The album will be available in a limited edition CD with handmade wallets, hand numbered, edition of 35.

shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

" Grλvity is themed around imagery that is evocative of something primordial, universal, constant and experiments with variations in subtlety and modulation and which has an oneiric dream like flow. The album contains a collection of tracks made between the year 2016 to 2022. "

Shimmering Moods Records 2023

Milam Wisp - I Know Something You Don't

avril 20

Walk in Kyoto

The intro track off the forthcoming album, 'Me, With You' by @jonnnah – a gentle collaboration with Pavel Milyakov (@buttechno)

Jonnnah – Still Here, Playing Gtr (feat. Pavel Milyakov)

An independent avant-ambient and experimental electronic label from London & Istanbul. Home to music from Hinako Omori, KMRU, Pétra, C. Diab, Steve Gibbs, Heinali, Matt Emery, Snowdrops, LTO, Tegh & Adel Poursamadi and Sinemis. 

We are unable to accept any demos at the moment, thank you for your understanding.

Sinemis - Gazel

Injazero Records