~ LAAPS 012 ~ [SEQ.02 - LP12]

artist : Federico Durand
album : Herbario
duration : 39.52 mn
 date : June 17th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / green colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 07th, 2021 / official release : June 17th, 2021
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Federico Durand: ARP Odyssey, cassette tapes, feedback looper, Sony TCM-459V, Microcosm, El Capistan, EHX 2880, RE-201, sampler, short-wave radio.
 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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"Herbario is the Spanish name given to a collection of dried plants and flowers preserved in an album. The collector usually writes with pencil the name of the herb, the place and date of collection, thoughts, and the habitat where the plant was collected from.
 
I live in a place surrounded by mountains and wild gardens which are, to me, a source of inexhaustible beauty. Through them I feel the passage of time: an ancient, circular temporality that follows the course of seasons, dialogues with the dark stillness of the mountain and the moon calendar. Each musical piece of Herbario has the name of my favourite flowers and trees.
 
Through a year of uncertainty, from March 2020 to March 2021, I composed this album in the same way a botanist would have proceeded: collecting and preserving simple, broken and hypnotic melodies.
 
F. D.
La Cumbre, Argentina. "

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 1 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 1 2

Federico Durand - Salvia

maybe heared something before sleep ? 


!🦦

心臓のすぐちかくの

The distilling of sketches = Ōe
credits
released October 26, 2021 

Music - Ishmael Cormack 
Mastering - Fallow Recordings 
Artwork - A reel, open scanned 









For quiet rooms

Ishmael Cormack - Ōe

This track is quoted from the album 'youth'.
Listening to all tracks of the album and purchasing are available on the link below.

https://gallerysix.bandcamp.com/album/youth

written, mixed, mastered by Hidekazu Imashige 
cover photo, design by Hidekazu Imashige

Graduation

~ IIKKI 020 ~

music : Akhira Sano
photography : David Nissen
album : Shadow's Praise
durations : 37.40 mn (LP) / 43.31 mn (CD)
date : April 20th 2023

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All production by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by David Nissen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / marble (crystal, silver and white) LP / hand numbered  / pantone
cd: limited to 200 CD / hand numbered / pantone
book: limited to 500 copies hand numbered / embossed / selective UV varnish / hand stamped 

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pre-order : March 03rd, 2023 / official release : April 20th, 2023

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Links :
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://linktr.ee/Akhira_Sano
https://www.davidnissenphoto.com/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 3 - I I K K I - I I K K I 0 2 0

Akhira Sano - Nakazu

~ LAAPS 031 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP31]

artists : Bill Seaman / Tim Diagram / Stephen Spera
album : The World Was Turning Before 
duration(s) : 40.52 mn (LP) / 61.04 mn (CD)
date : October 23rd, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / blue LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : October 06th, 2023 / official release : October 23rd, 2023
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Seaman: 
Piano, Ebow Guitar, Analogue synth, DX7, non-location recordings, micro-rhythms, sample arrangements, glass harmonica samples, drones

Diagram:
Guitar, Synth, location recordings, noise drones, sample arrangements

Spera:
Synth, Vocal Arrangements, Location recordings, Wollensak reel-to reel, CB Radio, sample arrangements, Historical Vocal Recordings
 
Voice samples sung by Tamalyn Miller

Recorded in 2022
Produced by Seaman. Diagram, Spera

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Russell Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://billseaman.com/
https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/stephenspera/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 3 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 3 1

Bill Seaman / Tim Diagram / Stephen Spera - Velta

Modern Sound Healing with Julie Jewels Smoot, LLC 

Strength in Vulnerability

In the Lens, Solo Andata’s fourth full-length album, was born from recordings found in the interstices of decades-old hard drives, lost email threads from disused accounts, and forgotten samples recorded on cassette dictaphones. These fragments were combined and re-worked with newer elements to create an album very much in the spirit of the band’s debut Fyris Swan (Hefty Records, 2006), an album touched by both folk and jazz and swathed in a dusty, narcotic haze.
Solo Andata’s Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco have always pushed aside the digital studio in favor of a more haphazard and hands-on workshop vibe to their productions. They prefer near-broken acoustic instruments, cheap microphones and, as can be witnessed by their live performances, tend to turn anything they can get their hands on into a beautiful sound-making object.

While there is a raw and guileless nature to the duo’s sound it is precisely this that makes their music so powerful amidst the over-produced cliches of much modern music. The beauty of their work is how simple instruments and objects can be physically manipulated into creating such rich, layered sound. Dark, swaying, almost-looped melodies from piano, woodwinds and horns wrap themselves in smoky obscurity around remnants of percussion and warm beds of noise and the world around us.

In The Lens is very much a late-night record, reflected in the rain-soaked cover imagery, dripping with half-forgotten memories. Jittery yet calming, rhythmic, yet unhurried, it leads you down its dark corridors to a soft resting space. Ikin and Fiocco have created a new story around the chemistry of their creations that were taking place during the early days of their musical explorations.

In The Lens

Separate Lovers

Taken from the score for dance and circus performance 'Engel', by Marta Alstadsaeter and Kim-Jomi Fischer. Available here: https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/engel

Engel

Buy on Bandcamp

Cradle

happy to announce the start for pre-order GRFTPS002
@gallery-six - The Waves Wiped Memories Away

http://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-waves-wiped-memories-away

limited edition cassette / digital now on bandcamp

video for "Sentiment" here - https://youtu.be/6mf4iBzcFIc

--
七月の波はすべてを拭い去った
あの日の喜びも悲しみも
僕はただそれを見ていた
二度と戻らないその思い出を
夜が明けるまで
あの波打ち際で

The waves of July wiped away everything
The joy and sorrow of that day too
I merely watched memories that will never get back
At the edge of water until dawn
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-- Hidekazu Imashige

The Waves Wiped Memories Away

A1. Gallery Six - Sentiment (GRFTPS002)

Halftribe - Cloud Dreaming And Shadows
This track is taken from the forthcoming album "Cloud Dreaming And Shadows"

CD/Cassette/Digital

Releases 24.9.2020
Pre orders: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Inspired by the scenery while escaping to the countryside during lockdown, either on my own, or in my family bubble.

Written and produced by Ryan Bissett 
Mastered by Porya Hatami // www.poryahatami.com

CD
Limited Edition CD / 100 copies / Hand Numbered / Hand Made Packages / Brown Kraft Wallets / Professional duplicated cdr 

(Includes unlimited streaming of Cloud Dreaming And Shadows via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more)

Cassette
Limited Edition / 30 copies / Full color o-cards / Pro Dubbed / Clear Turquoise Cassettes / C48 

(Includes unlimited streaming of Cloud Dreaming And Shadows via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more)

Halftribe - Cloud Dreaming And Shadows

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each release start with the end of the previous one.
in sounds and visually. 
an exquisite corpse with 100 releases which will make the loop.
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Federico Durand - Salvia

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