1997

Acid Dream

音楽的建築 I - Musical Architecture I

track 4/8 from Head in the Clouds

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www.notimefortapes.com

thanks so much for listening!

credits for the cover art go to my lovely wife!

Head in the Clouds

Oak Tree

Bandcamp

track 5/8 from Head in the Clouds

it supports me a lot if you follow me here and there :)

www.notimefortapes.com

thanks so much for listening!

credits for the cover art go to my lovely wife!

Rainy Days

Gray Acres has always been a space for subtlety and restraint, distinct from the denser, more cinematic atmospheres of Hotel Neon. Where that project often explores process, technique, and narrative arcs, Gray Acres tends to be produced "in the moment" and stays still. It lets you think for yourself. Soft Erasure especially embraces that characteristic stillness.

This is the first full-length Gray Acres album since 2021’s “Dreams and Phantoms.” It’s a project that came together slowly with an intentionally light touch…more about dissolving sounds than constructing them. Subtraction vs. addition.

The title Soft Erasure came about as we noticed a recurring quality across the recordings: a sense of tangible things like guitars, pianos, and strings fading, softening, and slipping just out of reach as we shaped and processed them. The music feels like it’s constantly on the verge of vanishing, or being gently wiped away into an indistinct atmosphere. That idea of erasure not as violence, but as gentleness, decay, or transformation, felt like the right metaphor to latch on to. It speaks to memory, distance, and time, and how all of those forces shape and reshape our perception of sound and self.

Musically, this album is built mainly from resampled acoustic instruments: delicate piano lines, sustained strings, frozen and looped guitar textures. Much of the source material was recorded clean, then stretched, blurred, and layered until it became something abstract…like an impression of a song, or a half-remembered phrase. In some ways, we were trying to find the most washed-out and ephemeral version of each sound. The result is a record that is designed less for narrative and more for immersion.

If you’ve followed this project before, I think you’ll hear a natural continuation of its aesthetic. But if you’re new to Gray Acres, this is a great entry point. It’s music that tries not to demand attention, but rewards those who tune in closely for a while.

Gray Acres - Soft Erasure
Music by Andrew & Michael Tasselmyer
Mastered by Alex at Quiet Details

Gray Acres - Vestige

can't stop losing you

Ambient track from my live show Pascal Hachem, on YT soon.

Dichotomy

Moss

Random evening

@minereed
@biardo-records

Listening to Do  U Hav Smile feels a little like opening one of Georges Perec’s notebooks: fragments, repetitions, small gestures observed with care...Nothing insists, yet everything lingers... A question that drifting slowly through Paris, aware that clarity would ruin it...

Listen full album: https://biardo.bandcamp.com/album/reed-flutter

Dichotomy

katu