@dronnydarko: Heh, I guess matching artwork with my soundscapes is one of my strong points? Haha. Glad you enjoyed dude!

Scorn Descent

Ajna - Inside An Autumn Coma

Ajna - The Coldest February

An ode to the wassailing folk freak himself! 

The Missing Room

Mari Lwyd (Room version)

Marco Lucchi : analog synthesizer, electric organ and tape

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playing with https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/deep-beyond-the-black-hole

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4 marzo 2025

studio n*2 [120bpm] w/Night Note

short version: https://soundcloud.com/zsolt-zsigmond/recursive-awakening-short-version
slowed and reverb: https://soundcloud.com/zsolt-zsigmond/recursive-awakening-ii

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Spotify · Bandcamp · YouTube · more → https://linktr.ee/amb1Matt3r

🎧 Music for:
sleep · deep focus · meditation · inner drift · slow time · space dreaming

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#ambient #drone #granular #spacemusic #sleepmusic #darkambient #soundscape

Recursive Awakening

Happy to announce that the digital version of "Inevitable Mortality" is out now on Reverse Alignment. You can get it here https://reversealignment.bandcamp.com/album/inevitable-mortality. Physical release comes out April 27th. This is the first track off the album. Thanks for listening!

Ajna - Inevitable Mortality (Digital version out now on Reverse Alignment) (See Description)

~ LAAPS 043 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP43]

artist : Ben McElroy
album : Elkwort
duration : 41.21 mn
date : April 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / green LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Ben McElroy - composition, arrangement, mixing, instrumentation

Elinor Rowlands - spoken word on "The Howling and I Must Have Walked past There a Thousand Times"
Debbie Armour - vocals on "Kindling and "Deosil"
Nick Jonah Davis - guitar and bowed weissenborn on "A Dream Of Deosil"

Recorded at home, Jt Soar (with Phil Booth and Rich Snug) and Nick’s studio-shed.

Mastered by Nick Jonah Davis
Artwork by Nieves Mingueza
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://benmcelroy.bandcamp.com/
https://www.benmcelroy.co.uk/
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Ben McElroy - I Must Have Walked Past There a Thousand Times (with Elinor Rowlands)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
586
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain/

2025-03-29

fog dissolves to rain (Naviarhaiku 586 )

This track was created in response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge:

"fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills"
 
Raymond Cobley (@ray_cobley) is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

haiku by Raymond Cobley
extract of picture by Inggrid Koe
 
Submission deadline: 2nd April 2025

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

showing (naviarhaiku586)

2Apr25
My naviarhaiku587 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/779706051549380608/naviarhaiku587-paperweights
:D

paperweights [naviarhaiku587]

Original Version:::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGJavcSJTg

Photo by Ivons

2Nite

Although this track was made as a response to:

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere

Naviar haiku challenge 598, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

It strayed a bit; In the very early stages while I was designing a sound for "Walking in sunshine", everything is assembled in virtual modular using VCV Rack, I played a simple phrase that suggested that it wanted to be a sequence, divergence begins. Probably because I had another project in mind  the original phrase and subsequent sequence development borrowed quite heavily from Steve Reich, I split off that version and pulled back a bit for this track although the roots are still there hence the minimalism tag. 

With the sequences complete I went back and designed an intro, not quite a typhoon but serves as as opening. And an outro; not really sunshine but while experimenting with modulated frequency modulation I unexpectedly found a sound I'd been hunting for a couple of weeks ago, it made a nice contrast so I kept it.

With all the elements in place I set up and did a one take multi-track live improvised mix, I also manipulated a couple of probability parameters, other modulations were built into the patch. 

A couple of eternal effects:
There is a final layer of reverb wash derived from the sunshine element made with SpaceBlender from Soundtoys and included in the performance via recorded parameter automation.      

I added a little bit of tape echo, Stardust 201 from Cherry Audio, to the sequences.
 
After all the usual blending a tweaking I added The Free Vinyl plugin from iZotope, felt like it would fit on the opening of the track.

After The Typhoon - (naviarhaiku - 598)

MMXXXIXVITSTPCH

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Maskim

Ajna is the enigmatic project of Chris F from New York and has been active since 2008. This project is mainly inspired by the supernatural, surrealism, esotericism, the collective unconscious, nature and antiquity. Ajna's sound has often been described as hauntingly beautiful, otherworldly, mysterious, nightmarish, etc…ranging from obscure dark ambient soundscapes to deep isolationist drone with electro-acoustic and industrial elements. The artist is currently affiliated with the Cyclic Law and Winter-Light labels.

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