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仮想夢プラザ - 吸収 [Trilogy Available on Cassette]

https://plus100.bandcamp.com/album/balance-2

Useless & 仮想夢プラザ team up to bring you the split album 'Balance', an aptly named album that will be sure to facilitate energetic ambient transcendence. Clocking in at 86 minutes, this album will be great for meditation and focus. The cassette edition will be dubbed on an edition of 150 white tapes housed in a white case.

Balance

Useless - 128E

Cover artwork by Melanie Kretzer
Mastered by David Georgos

RISE! PANIC!

Taken from the upcoming album 'Year Zero'...

Audio/Field Recordings: Gideon Wolf
Mastering: James Plotkin
Photography: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

Year Zero

Gideon Wolf - Falling

Sinking

Underneath the Evening - Mr. Projectile

Included in The Wire Tapper 44, the CD compilation included with the August 2017 edition of The Wire.

Badalisc (from The Wire Tapper 44)

Taken from the album 'Aster' released as 2LP and Download

Aster

Kassel Jaeger 'Rose Poussière' (EMEGO 235)

Recorded in 1978

Taken from the album 'Tremblements...' released as LP and Download

François Bayle 'Tremblement De Terre Très Doux' (excerpt) (REGRM 019)

"Clarity" by 仮想夢プラザ & Useless out now on Virtual Dream Plaza.
https://virtualdreamplazashop.bandcamp.com/album/clarity
VDP004

Clarity

仮想夢プラザ - 直視

仮想夢プラザ - 水明

4-channel piece, first presented as a sound installation in Berlin (8-channel version)
http://madsemilnielsen.dk/Creepage-Current

Andrea Neumann / Mads Emil Nielsen - Creepage Current 3 - excerpt

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-victor-de-roo-gewoon

Half of the Vanderschrick duo, recently responsible for an inaugural 12" on Ziggy Devriendt's imprint, STROOM, @deroovictor steps up on Amsterdam's ever polymorphic @knekelhuis with his debut solo EP 'Nachtdichter (Poëzie door Alex Deforce)', due out in the shops 14th January.

Victor De Roo - Gewoon [Knekelhuis]

From "We Can Sleep Now", available on cassette and digital from Unifactor:
https://unifactor.bandcamp.com/album/we-can-sleep-now

The Mountain (cassette out now on Unifactor)

synthetic lick

Deaf Center's second album Owl Splinters from 2011 gets a lavish re-packaging as a gatefold 2LP. It includes the Svarte Greiner re-interpretation album Twin as well as new cover-art with photos by cinematographer Joshua Zucker-Pluda.

Owl Splinters was originally released 6 years after DC's debut Pale Ravine. In contrast to their previous work, it was recorded in a studio setting (Nils Frahm's Durton studio, to be exact), and the lo-fidelity, haphazard techniques of their early recordings where all but gone. With the benefit of high-end engineering and analogue equipment, Erik K Skodvin and Otto A Totland's murky compositions were transformed from sketches into glorious widescreen spectacles. 8 years later the album sounds as moving, beautiful and obscure as it did back then.

2019 edition coming 22nd March(MIA042)

Owl Splinters

Deaf Center - Hunted Twice

arbitrary08: Black Box 1 - Untitled (2) excerpt (bonus track)
7" + DL (September 2018)
http://arbitraryproject.com/Black-Box-1

arbitrary08 - Black Box 1 - Untitled (2) excerpt

Anthéne is Toronto, Canada based artist Brad Deschamps who has been recording Ambient music since 2011, after also forming part of the duo North Atlantic Drift for which he’d performed alongside artists such as Benoit Pioulard and Bing and Ruth. Solo releases have emerged on leading labels such as Hibernate, Sound In Silence and most recently Home Normal, who released ‘weightless’ only last month which label boss Ian Hawgood describes on the website as ‘warm analog sleep echoes’. Brad also runs the magnificent Polar Seas Recording label, which has released material from artists such as Mikael Lind, Celer and Andrew Tasselmyer.

We’re pleased to present the next release in Brad’s catalog, which is entitled ‘asymmetry’ as he strived to explore different depths of sound. The title of the album was born out of his idea of recording in different ways to create narrow, saturated recordings as well as widescreen ambience yet trying to blend these works together as a cohesive whole. Guitar and effects pedals, synthesizers and field recordings are some of the elements that form the basis of this dynamic yet minimal range of compositions but a simple yet key ingredient can be heard in the warm and gentle tape hiss which underpins the record.

Whilst Brad’s ideas are rooted in joining disparate, unrelated textures, the resulting record is something that makes sense; the seven pieces have been lovingly mastered by Ian Hawgood, the sheer patience of each gently unfolding track will comfort even the most restless of soul and the packaging design features artwork from Peter Nejedly. Somewhere, unintentionally, an indescribable theme emerges from nothing to blanket your eyes and ears.

Asymmetry

wlr053 anthéne - asymmetry

Anoyo

tim hecker 'you never were'

Ian Hawgood is back with another contemplative classic, one which I’m sure I’ll be spinning on end, this time on James Murray‘s handcrafted label, Slowcraft, truly prepared “for people who treasure beautiful audio artefacts.” I know that this is a very personal and highly revered little treasure [I could see that in Murray’s glistening eyes as he handed over the specially reserved press edition of the album], and so I treat it with respect, with worship, as such music clearly merits. So without further ado, I am honoured to present you with an exclusive premiere of one of the delicate pieces from this upcoming album, called “Ever Loved”.

The album itself sprawls across the sonic vapours with elegant buzzing and hum, produced by the analogue machines guided by the mastering touch of this (finally London-based) musician. The sound is allowed to evolve, transform, and then decay, all that surrounds it and what it wraps in turn. Slow moving ambient textures rise and fall, swell and recede, into a breathing of its own, with the vibrations that make music. The manipulated medium of reel-to-reel tape machines, degraded cassette recordings, and analogue synthesizers, weave a love song of Impermanence.

"Impermanence is an understated, finely wrought work that honours process and outcome equally, exhibiting a rare tonal and conceptual elegance throughout and marking an assured return to solo composition from a true master of the analogue arts."

Beneath the outline of the used equipment, listed in detail on the album’s Bandcamp page, we find such magical items as a “Sony Cassette Tape hanging from our apartment by the river in Nakajuku, Tokyo,” and a very bold proclaiming statement that “No computers were used in these recordings.” Admirers of everything hand-made, intimate, and intricately curated will be in love with this fourth Slowcraft Presents entry in the series of exceptional and unclassifiable music. Highly recommended.

Impermanence

Ever Loved

TRACK PREMIERE : Ian Hawgood - Ever Loved

N Chambers - Automatic Bog

Forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

Lucia Adam + Alex Smalley
April 2017 - February 2019
Weimar, Germany

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Tides

Ilm - Tides

Purchase at:

https://soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/alting-falder-i-samme-rum

Sound In Silence is happy to announce the addition of øjeRum to its roster of artists, presenting his new album Alting Falder I Samme Rum. 

øjeRum is the solo project of musician and collage artist Paw Grabowski, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. For over a decade, he has been producing his sublime music, ranging from atmospheric ambient to experimental folk, having released several albums and EPs on labels such as Fluid Audio, Eilean Rec., Shimmering Moods Records, Champion Version, Unknown Tone Records and many others. 

Alting Falder I Samme Rum consists of six new compositions with a total duration of about 45 minutes, captivating the listener with its atmospheric textures and melancholic soundscapes. Grabowski creates one of his best albums to date, built around loops of minimal synth melodies, layers of lush pads and swells of hypnotic drones. Alting Falder I Samme Rum is a gorgeous album with a feeling of nostalgia and meditation, carefully mastered by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave) and highly recommended for devotees of William Basinski, Brian Eno, Harold Budd and Tim Hecker. 

This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 285 gsm off-grey cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 180 gsm raf blue cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

Alting Falder I Samme Rum VI

'Morphing Clouds' is the first release by bulgarian artist Scav. Recorded on improvised jam sessions, with no edit.


Written and Produced by Krasi Yonchev.
Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
Faint013 // FaintCD013
Faint / 2019

Scav - Morphing Clouds I

Piezo sensor and contact speaker attached on rear side of each plate Amplifying and mirroring their subtle and naturally occurring vibrations Evoking the characteristic resonant frequencies of each type of metal

The sound art of Jacob Kirkegaard explores ways to reflect on immediate complex, unnoticed or unapproachable aspects of the human condition or civilisation. His works have treated themes such as radioactivity in Chernobyl and Fukushima, melting ice in the Arctic, border walls in Palestine, and tones - otoacoustic emissions - generated from the actual human ear.

Jacob Kirkegaard - Phonurgia Metallis - Available June 21 - Pre-Order Now

Raw Energy by JD Twitch showing Petersen's Trance (Not Trance) the way to the dancefloor. Synths and sitars for eternal bliss on the flipside. Another pin glowing!

Back in 2017, Basso delved into his micro-press cassette collection to treat us to the first retrospective of kosmische wizard Trance. Spanning both the bucolic and galactic, 'Tapes' (GBR010) suspended time and space, enveloping us in the nebulous beauty of Jürgen Petersen's misty ambience. Among the appreciative audience for this mind expanding release was one JD Twitch aka Keith McIvor, one half of the mighty Optimo. Keith's vision of remixing Jurgen's 'Purification' for the club was embraced by both the artist and the label guy with glowing eyes. Charting a course through progressive house, ambient techno and the weirder bits of the solar system, McIvor combines the celestial synthesis of the original with some tough and tracky drum programming, turning the intensity up to 11 in pursuit of early morning ascension. A sensitive arrangement allows space for Peterson's waveforms to work their magic, while laser fire and additional fx abuse unlock evolutionary abilities buried deep in your unconscious mind. The previously unreleased, largely unheard 'Contemplation' was originally intended to feature on the 'Tapes' compilation, but fell off the edge of that flat Earth thanks to its maximal runtime. Too good to remain a secret, this crepuscular creation enjoys the entirety of the B-side, drifting through the eons via meditative electronics, delicate sitar and a touch of tapey flutter. Embrace the almost 40 year old tape's flaws and imperfections that could not be restorated and dive into the immersive and unparalleled. This is music for higher beings.
words by Patrick Ryder

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Trance - Contemplation Clip

Trance - Purification (JD Twitch Remix) Clip

Modular techno-adjacent ambient.

Label curator at @muzaneditions
Organizer at @feelthemoment2021
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The Mountain (cassette out now on Unifactor)

Endurance