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'Transcend' by Respira & Atmøsphäre 
@respirabreathe
@atmosphare

Also on the 'Ambient I' compilation:
atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-i

Audio mastering by Seth Bellow.
Cover art design by Anthony Asher - Yates.

Ambient I

Transcend

Respira & Atmøsphäre - Transcend

Frankie Cosmos :: Birthday Song

Frankie Cosmos :: Owen

We’re happy to announce the welcoming of Heather Woods Broderick to our roster with her new album Domes. The album will be released on May 13th 2022 on vinyl, tape and digital. After having released solo albums on Western Vinyl and Preservation, Domes presents the first entirely instrumental work of the California based multi-instrumentalist.

Domes is a collection of meditative pieces based around the cello. While not being her primary instrument, the cello holds a very special place for the artist. Throughout the past 2 years, Heather often felt the need to find moments of respite in response to the chaotic and turbulent times we all faced in that period. Her days started or ended with the cello. A single melody initiated a process in which new elements were gradually added to the initial loop until the sounds filled her up. This process and the instrumental nature of these pieces opened the path for self-reflection and enabled her to express emotions outside the world of words or lyrics:
 
“The cyclical nature of the loop combined with the sound feeling like it’s surrounding me feels serene and safe. My hope is that listeners experience this as well.” - Heather Woods Broderick
 
Domes is a documentation of that period and offers 7 pieces which to the artist feels like dense masses – strong grounding sounds that can hold weight or be used to disperse weight - in an emotional sense. The album title, Domes, reflects this idea as domes are made out of triangles – the strongest shapes in the physical world. Coincidentally, there are 7 different triangles. As such, the pieces on Domes each reflect a different triangle, a different strongest shape which offers the listener a solid basis to find rest and calmness.

Artwork by Femke Strijbol
Mastered by D. James Goodwin

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Heather Woods Broderick - Figura

Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011’s debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013’s Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices captured the duo creating their exceptionally detailed music together live during a Japaneses tour. Akari, in turn, is the first studio album where Illuha recorded and mixed together, throughout the entire process. The beautiful st-robo studio in Tokyo put a collection of amazing equipment at their fingertips, from vintage mics and outboard gear to a vast collection of instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Their writing sessions were numerous and long with details meticulously obsessed over for nearly a year. The result is the most bewildering music Illuha have created to date. An album swimming with the most delicately tactile sounds and instrumentation that draws the listener in with hushed, motionless attention.

While Illuha’s Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date are often drawn to the most sparse notes of Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, acoustic grand piano and guitar, the breadth of instrumentation is partially what makes Akari so abosrbing. They have succeeded in creating their own universe of sound, so beautifully recorded, where each element not only has its own space but connects and interacts so fluidly with the other sounds. It is as if they are placed perfectly by nature, the compositions are fluid and organic, a far cry from anything calculated or structured. It is this open space that the music exists in which in turn defines the music itself. There is ample room to breathe within this forest of gentle tines, bubbling analogue synthesizers, clicking percussion and quiet field recordings. This is subtlety at its most refined; hushed without being saccharine, distant without being morose.

Akari is the Japanese word for light. Conceputally the duo used this word as a guide, as if they were searching through the dark, trying to keep the light alive, as if one is cradling a candle doing everything in their power to keep it alight in a storm. It is this almost visceral sense of sheltering, of protection, that gives Akari a very human and personal sound whose intensely deep focus is as impressive as it is arresting.

Akari

Structures Based on the Plasticity of Sphere Surface Tension

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Jane 16

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 'december hunting for vegetarian fuckface'

Frankie Cosmos "Next Thing" out April 1st 2016 on Bayonet Records. Artwork by Meredith Wilson. 

Pre-order the limited edition LP. Comes with clear+white specks vinyl, zine+poster, lip balm and pin: http://bayonetrecords.com/products/frankie-cosmos-next-thing

For the alternate  sky blue vinyl version head to your local record store on April 1st! Comes with all of the same goodies.  

Next Thing

Sinister

Frankie Cosmos "Sinister" Official Single

The beauty in Frankie Cosmos' writing can be found in her ability to examine situations and relationships with heartbreaking sincerity. "Next Thing" explores new emotional and instrumental territory for Frankie Cosmos, and is slated for release April 1st on Bayonet Records.

Order "Next Thing" LP/CD: http://hyperurl.co/frankienextthinglp
Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/6TBmcO9ZzPVWFsWTm9F1Iv
Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/next-thing/id1079006535
Bandcamp: https://ingridsuperstar.bandcamp.com/album/next-thing

Frankie Cosmos  "On The Lips" Official Single

Julianna Barwick - "Same" from the album 'Will' out May 6, 2016 on Dead Oceans

Dead Oceans: smarturl.it/jbarwick
iTunes: smarturl.it/jbarwick_it
Amazon: smarturl.it/jbarwick_amz
Support you local independent record store: smarturl.it/jbarwick_ind

Same

Julianna Barwick - Same

Dance Four

Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - Wind on Water

Adriaan de Roover, who is also known as Oaktree (check out a few of his excellent mixes for Headphone Commute), announces a new EP, titled Voor anderen, with which he joins a Belgian imprint, Dauw. The label has been on the forefront of delicate ambient music, working with graphic artist Femke Strijbol "to create a unique hand-made piece of art that flatters both the ear and the eye." With this new release, they welcome Maarten De Naeyer as a new in-house graphic designer to continue the visual identity while opening up the door to new artists. I continue to be happy with their choice of album covers, which "engage interactions between different art disciplines." The work of Adriaan nicely slots among the label's catalogue, with its soft blurry hues of minimalism, micro-drone and environmental sound. On the EP, elegantly combined organic textures blend with their electronic parallels, sweeping the wide-ranging frequency spectrum across glitters and bass. The selection features commissioned pieces between 2015-2018 "merging feelings of distance and proximity into melancholic sonic entities."

Voor anderen

TRACK PREMIERE : Adriaan de Roover - Voor Damiaan

Late Night Tales: Hot Chip

At Dawn

from the album 'because of a flower' available 11/13

because of a flower

ana roxanne 'suite pour l'invisible'

please don't message us via our soundcloud account for demo submissions. while links to your songs hosted on soundcloud are fine for us, please send to krankyinfo@gmail.com as per usual.

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