Ambient sound

A longing as deep as the winter snow infuses Hiraeth, suffocating, beautiful and haunting. Composed by Iranian musicians Farshad Xajehnassiri (tarxun) and Siavash Hakim in the cold months of 2015, this album presents longing not as a quiet and controlled mourning, or an almost pleasant nostalgia, but as deeply disorienting landscape, a salve one moment, the next overwhelming, abrasive and menacing.

The comforts of memory and nostalgia here exact a price. Winds howl, fences, windows and strings vibrate, voices echo, distort and dissolve, as Hakim's trumpet insists on a remembrance already futile and taunting. In naming this album Xajehnassiri and Hakim turned to the Welsh word 'Hiraeth' to describe a longing for a home which perhaps never was, and in its eight compositions it is to these twin qualities of memory that the pair return again and again. A vision so sweet it taunts, a longing so strong it becomes a house in which to dwell. A cocoon of sound: potent and intoxicating; familiar and strange.
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releases November 5, 2021

hiraeth
(n.) A deep, wistful, nostalgic sense of longing for a home to which you cannot return; a home that is no longer or perhaps never was.

tarxun:Guitar, Bass, Electronics, Field Recordings
Siavash Hakim: Trumpet, Piano / Organs, Synthesizer, Xylophone, Setar, Ney.
Mastered by: Nima Aghiani
Photography by Farshad Xajehnassiri and Siavash Hakim.
Design Farshad Xajehnassiri, Siavash Hakim and Kate Carr
Released November 5, 2021

Placebo Seduction from Hiraeth by tarxun and Siavash Hakim out Nov 5

Honor the sacred seed within your soul, sink into the profound, pregnant silence and release all earthly stresses, pressures and deadlines. For here, time has no sway. Here, all simply is and will be.

Akbal

Divertissement is the third collaborative full length from minimalist composer William Basinski and sound artist Richard Chartier.

The duo utilize electronics, piano, tape-loops and short wave radio to evoke a dense atmosphere suggesting hundreds of years of history rising up from the depths of a reverberating cathedral. Subtle, buried and intense murmurs of melody morph through this deeply consuming and slowly evolving composition in two parts.

Pressed in an edition of 500 with beautiful cover drawings by artist James Elaine. 100 copies are on color vinyl for mailorder customers.

William Basinski + Richard Chartier - Divertissement - LP edit Aug 2015

Award-winning sci-fi writer Geoff Ryman's was commissioned to write a new story for the BBC, investigating the portrayal of gender in utopian science fiction, as part of BBC Radio 4's Utopia season.

I scored the new work and a separate documentary exploring the subject. This is an instrumental excerpt from the score as many people had expressed an interested in hearing it again.

No Point Talking

In collaboration with film company Lampray, Gidge & arts platform Norr,  we offer Lulin: a 24 minute film and 42 minutes of audio. Watch the film in full at http://lulin.se get the vinyl at https://atomnationrec.lnk.to/GidgeLulin

"I saw something last night. We were in the car on our way home from a dinner, the children were asleep in the backseat. On the left side of the road, by the trees right on the edge of the forest, something was standing. Do you remember that summers night when we were kids and we thought we saw something moving in the woods? I had almost forgotten about that night [...] but I swear, what I saw last night was that very same thing.”

Leif Hedlund, September 19th 1974

Gidge - Hon

Played piano on this bonus track from the debut album from Orcas (Benoît Pioulard and Rafael Anton Irisarri)


Burnt Away(Orcas)

Ought've

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/asleep-in-amber

Photography/Album Art by Bryan Hilyard

https://hilyard.bandcamp.com

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Asleep In Amber

When It Rains

Resina is the alias of Karolina Rec, a cellist/ composer based in Warsaw, who signed to 130701 having sent in this album as a hugely impressive demo late last year. A very accomplished performer with a background in Polish underground music, this eponymous album is her solo debut and sees a rich, atmospheric re-imagining of a Polish music rooted in a feeling for indigenous nature / landscape and realised via an intuitive, experimental approach to playing.

A fantastic debut release, ‘Resina’ is an immersive and deeply enchanting album, which unveils a unique and striking new talent. 

more info at 130701.com

Resina

Resina - Tatry I

Pre-order CD/Digital https://faintmusic.bandcamp.com/album/svalbard

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena.
Mastering by Neel.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz www.go70north.com
Faint001 // FaintCD001
Faint / 2016

SVLBRD - Narwhal

From the upcoming release "Soft Ice" on Polar Seas.

psr-023

poemme - Clouds Of Breath

Puerto Rico Relief - Various Artists

20 artists join in to aid in the reconstruction effort after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in conjunction with the charity "Friends of Puerto Rico”. 

All proceeds go directly to Friends of Puerto Rico, they bridge between education and cultural communities in Puerto Rico and its diaspora and are actively raising funds that invest in communities that support educational, cultural and development programs in Puerto Rico. As part of the organisation’s commitment, 100% of the donations received for the Hurricane Maria Recovery Fund will be to invest to rebuild Puerto Rico through the thirteen centres managed by the Boys & Girls Clubs in Puerto Rico. 

Thank you to the contributing artists who kindly gave up their time and talent to support this humanitarian cause and a big thank you to Angelique Sina from FoPR for working with us to get this over the finishing line. 

www.puertoricoreliefcompilation.org 
www.friendsofpuertorico.org/hurricanerecovery
クレジット
2018年1月9日リリース 

Curated by Juho Hietala, Barry Forbes and Jani Ürögi 

Cover by Ryan Alexander 

Mastered by Jani Ürögi @ Soun Studio - www.sounstudio.com 
Except of track 2 and track 15.

Phosphorescent Waves (tomonari nozaki /2018 / compilation)

Exclusive track taken from the forthcoming album "You Don't Belong" which releases 13.07.2018 on Shimmering Moods Records. Available on a baby blue limited cassette and limited CD in handmade packages.

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"This album was made between August 2015 and March 2017, which was in some way a transition period for me. Some life stages ended, some relationships failed, some changes happened. All the tracks on the album are dedicated to several places from those times, that meant or still mean something very special to me. A house by the lake, an apartment on the first floor, a park in the middle of the city – the places that stuck with me for a long time and don’t let go. 

It’s a tribute to those times, but also some kind of closure. The album was mostly a reminder to myself that when you feel attached to something in one way or another, you need to keep going, to move forward, that you really don’t belong anywhere. It was a reminder that it’s never too late to move on." 

All tracks by Kirill Mazhai 
Mastered by Early Reflections 
Artwork by Antonina Sotnikova 
Shimmering Moods Records 2018

Pre Order: 

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/you-dont-belong

You Don't Belong

N59.957534 E30.323258

Pre-Order

Kirill Mazhai - N59.957534 E30.323258

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2019/05/heinali-rainbow-folding-midori-hirano-remix/

Heinali - Rainbow Folding (Midori Hirano Remix)

from the album 'equivalents' available aug16

equivalents

loscil 'equivalent 7'

Nighttime (tomonari nozaki / 2019)

Henrik has been an integral part of the Ambientologist family from the beginning, and it’s with great pride that his work be showcased as an early member of the label family, and more still in offering a rare full length album.

The album is now live! Without a doubt this will be the most fitting soundtrack to your winter.

Buy here: http://bit.ly/34mDmaE

Henrik Meierkord - Själ (Album Mini-Mix)

UTR - 139 

Samuel Regan - Acousma (Single) 

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We are happy to welcome back Oklahoma native Samuel Regan for the first single "Acousma" from the upcoming "Behind Veils" LP. Samuel has been attending Mills Collage in Oakland, CA and has also been busy with new aspirations in digital synthesis and sound design while pursuing his degree in electronic music. This work represents another milestone for the artist and we are pleased to share it with all of you. 

Full length album coming summer 2020...stay tuned! 

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*a note from the artist: 

I'm thrilled to present my new full length album, Behind Veils. It's my ninth studio album and first release since early 2018. I share it with more pride than any past work, as a culmination of visions and ideas and a taste of what's to come. 

The music arose from a two-year trip into synthesis and digital signal processing, which seem somehow endowed with infinitude and fraught with illusions of control and choice. They can shape sounds that emerge as living and breathing entities: filling uncanny spaces as geometries viewed from impossible vantage points. The songs guide these artifacts out into the daylight to dance and unfold like gestures in their own language. Their subjects include illusion, ecology, philosophy and psychedelia; the theatrical and the paradoxical - which all seem speak to us from behind a veil. 

I hope the music finds you healthy and well. There are so many challenging days behind and ahead of us - when things get hard, sometime meaning collapses and there's no music, and that's okay. An optimism runs through some of these sounds that won't always resonate, but they'll welcome you back... Sometimes an escape into unreality can be the loveliest medicine. 

-Samuel Regan  
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released May 8, 2020 
Behind Veils by Samuel Regan 
composed, performed and produced by Samuel Regan 
Mixed by Samuel Regan 
Artwork Layout/Design by Mark Kuykendall 
“Acousma” mastered by Christopher Davidson


CD/DL: https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/track/acousma-single

Samuel Regan - Acousma

Invertedly Existing

I can`t live without music! Magic, amazing & divine soundz)))

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