Melody As Truth is proud to announce “Melodies In The Sand”, a collection of works from Czech artists Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi.

The husband-and-wife duo began working together in the mid 80’s as part of experimental ensemble Capella Antiqua e Moderna, a unique association of musicians whose repertoire spanned various styles of European classical music.

With an inventive and unorthodox approach to both historical and modern compositional techniques and interpretive procedures, the Havel’s have steadfastly developed a unique and musically autonomous language which continues to expand to this day.

Spanning their early work in Capella Antique e Moderna to recent pieces recorded for Viola De Gamba, ‘Melodies In The Sand’ is presented to the listener with the simple aim of shining a light on these incredible musicians. Their work has within it the ability to penetrate and enrich the innermost corners of a perceptive human soul, a gift which they share with sincerity and humbleness.

Irena And Vojtěch - She Is Dissolving

Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto - haru - Be-minor Remodel

DeadTonguesFromOutterSpace
Chapter #31 on @noodsradio 12th January '25

Ocean of Tenderness

Tracklist
Ashra - Ocean Of Tenderness
Growing - Variable Speeds
Maria Sabina - Santo...Nana
Mataparda - La Papa Suave
Matthewdavid's Mindflight - Dune Enigma
Ed Ruscha V & the Only Thingz - Breaking Clouds
Katsuya Hironaka - Entrance
Luis Paniagua - Preparativos Para El Viaje
log(m) & Laraaji - Galaxea
Pablo's Eye - Mysterious city
Bélver Yin - La Vida Está En Otra Parte
Sebastian Mullaert - Just This
Suso Sáiz - Healthy Digestion
OKRAA - Rememora
Kokubo Takashi - Quiet Inlet
múm - Sunday Night Just Keeps On Rolling

DTFOS #31 Ocean of Tenderness // noodsradio 12th jan '25

Your Heart Is So Loud - Colleen

3x12" of 'and their refinement of the decline' back in print for the first time in many years as of 8/14


stars of the lid 'piano aquieu'

Zwischen den Tönen · Geborgen im Klang

Dieses Album ist eine Einladung zur Ruhe.
Zu dem Raum, der entsteht, wenn Musik nicht antreibt, sondern trägt.

Die Klavierstücke auf dieser CD sind bewusst reduziert.
Zwischen den Tönen bleibt Stille – und genau dort darf sich dein Nervensystem entspannen.
Kein Leistungsdruck. Keine Worte. Kein Müssen.

Zwischen den Tönen / Geborgen im Klang begleitet dich
– beim Loslassen
– beim Ankommen
– beim Einschlafen
– oder einfach in Momenten, in denen du dich wieder spüren möchtest.

🎹 Hinweis:
Dieses Stück ist Teil einer vollständigen CD mit mehreren aufeinander abgestimmten Titeln.
Die größte Wirkung entfaltet sich, wenn das Album als Ganzes gehört wird – als ruhiger, geschlossener Klangraum.

📌 Tipp:
Jeder COACH BEATS Song wirkt umso tiefer, je öfter man ihn hört.
Wiederholung lässt innere Unruhe leiser werden.

📌 Website: https://www.coach-beats.de

📌 Instagram: @coachbeats_official
📌 TikTok: @coachbeats_central
📌 E-Mail: Kontakt@coach-beats.de

8. Die Stille bleibt

Piano M 8045 15-12-2025 4:09

Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura's music remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy and Spencer Doran – is proud to reissue Yoshimura's debut Music for Nine Postcards for the first time outside Japan in collaboration with Hiroshi's widow Yoko Yoshimura, with more fully licensed reissues of Hiroshi's work to follow in the future.

Working initially as a conceptual artist, the musical side of Yoshimura's artistic practice came to prominence in the post-Fluxus scene of late 1970s Tokyo alongside Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi, taking many subsequent turns within Japan’s bubble economy afterward. His sound works took on many forms - commissioned fashion runway scores, soundtracking perfume, soundscapes for pre-fab houses, train station sound design - all existing not as side work but as logical extensions of his philosophy of sound. His work strived for serenity as an ideal, and this approach can be felt strongly on Music for Nine Postcards.

Home recorded on a minimal setup of keyboard and Fender Rhodes, Music for Nine Postcards was Yoshimura’s first concrete collection of music, initially a demo recording given to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art to be played within the building's architecture. This was not mere background music in the prior Japanese “BGM” sense of the word, but “environmental” music, the literal translation of the Japanese term kankyō ongaku [環境音楽] given to Brian Eno’s “ambient” music when it arrived in late 70's Japan. Yoshimura, along with his musical co-traveler Satoshi Ashikawa, searched for a new dialog between sound and space, a new way of listening: sound not as an absolute, but as something that interlocks with a physical environment and shifts the listener’s experience within it. Erik Satie's furniture music, R. Murray Schafer's concept of the soundscape and Eno’s ambience all greatly informed their work,  but the specific form of tranquil stasis presented on releases like Nine Postcards is still difficult to place within a specific tradition, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic despite the economy of it's construction. This record offers the perfect introduction to Hiroshi's unique and beautiful worldview: it's one that can be listened to - and lived in - endlessly.

Music for Nine Post Cards

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - "Dance PM" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

A combination of the first and last tracks on Brian Eno's Music For Airports album. The pitch of "2/2" has been altered accordingly.

Brian Eno - 1/1/2/2

US-born, Stockholm-based minimalist artist and apprenticing organ tuner Kali Malone gave a special organ performance in TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal as opening of Le Guess Who? 2019. The performance was part of The Bug's curated program for the festival. 

We can now share two exceptionally beautiful pieces from the performance: 'Sacrificial Code' and 'Glory Canon III'. Both are deeply immersive and mesmerizing tracks, drawing in listeners with Kali Malone's well-known warmth and timelessness.

Captured on Thursday, 7 November 2019, at TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal during Le Guess Who? 2019.
Recorded and mixed by Marc Broer & Philip ten Brink.
Photography by Jelmer de Haas.

Brian Eno - 1/1/2/2

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