Birds sing and the valley cries
A vaguely blurry peach dream
Grasses get wet after the spring rain

鳥が囀り谷が鳴く
ぼんやりとした桃の夢
雨立ち上り草濡れる

Congrats to the 10th Anniversary of Naviar ! 
Thanks for the inspirations from the Naviar Haiku Fest.. and now come to this place again for naviarhaiku530 

An another experimental hypnotic track inspired from the poem of spring rain by kobayashi issa - mixed with the humbled profound Taiko drums from the liveset at Naviar Haiku Fest in Tokyo 2024- a kind of tribute track for the 10th anniversary of Naviar's long journey :) 

taking it easy
the mouse sleeps too...
spring rain

Haiku : Kobayashi Issa
Music : Nukumori Eugene / Nx  https://a-tale-of.bandcamp.com/
IG: www.instagram.com/jinsei_books

Spring Rain - 春雨  [naviarhaiku530]

This track is part of an EP called Moss Garden, to be released later this year.

In the afternoon the birds are back. Lately ravens and crows gather around, waiting for the winter to end. In our garden their rasping songs drown the dwellers tune, sending out a melancholic message of past times. Mysterious.

Birds

~ LAAPS 043 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP43]

artist : Ben McElroy
album : Elkwort
duration : 41.21 mn
date : April 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / green LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Ben McElroy - composition, arrangement, mixing, instrumentation

Elinor Rowlands - spoken word on "The Howling and I Must Have Walked past There a Thousand Times"
Debbie Armour - vocals on "Kindling and "Deosil"
Nick Jonah Davis - guitar and bowed weissenborn on "A Dream Of Deosil"

Recorded at home, Jt Soar (with Phil Booth and Rich Snug) and Nick’s studio-shed.

Mastered by Nick Jonah Davis
Artwork by Nieves Mingueza
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://benmcelroy.bandcamp.com/
https://www.benmcelroy.co.uk/
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Ben McElroy - I Must Have Walked Past There a Thousand Times (with Elinor Rowlands)

"At this point I have a request for our fans.  If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us -- leave us the fuck alone!  Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records."

Protect The Dolls!

sun | Album 'SUN, SAND AND SALT'

Title track from "Au temps pour moi" LP on Thin Consolation
-> https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/au-temps-pour-moi

Composition, mix, mask: Antonin De Bemels
Mastering: Yvan Hanon

Au temps pour moi

"Offrande insensée de la vie
Nous rappelle à l'éphémère joyau de l'émoi
Rendue je suis
A toi mon destin
Fais-moi danser entre tes mains" (Shantala Pèpe)

Image: Roxane Métayer https://www.roxanemetayer.com/

Playlist:
00:00 Half Asleep - Interlude 1 (invisible as music)
01:10 Nina Skywōkeur & Lloyde - Medusa
05:43 S280F - owls sing for the birth of Lilith (F168)
07:37 Giraffe - Drought
12:28 Shantala Pèpe - Entre tes mains
13:52 Klimperei - De branche en branche
15:53 Roxane Métayer - Première image
17:38 Yasmine Laassal - Rêve 11/04/23
18:54 Monika Bugajny & Gareth Davis - On The Edge Of Shadows I (Edit)
19:55 Christophe Petchanatz - musique pour le demi-sommeil 1.5
24:19 Refurinn Kitsune - Je t'aime à la folie (Madame Patate Cover)
27:10 Giraffe - Pressure
29:31 Roberto Musci - Water Music
31:20 Khôra - Echemythia
35:52 Klimperei - Lola Petit Chagrin
37:30 Khôra - Golden Femur
42:37 Antonin De Bemels - Au temps pour moi
48:53 Mariane Mendels Flandre - Trouble # 9
50:26 Roberto Musci - Back Railway To
54:01 Klimperei - La rencontre
57:36 Half Asleep - Ah! Whence is this- What is this severance-
59:15 Olivier Taskin - Comme ça

Mélancolie douce XXX

The focal point in these elided consecutive excerpts from a continuous dawn recording is the dawn duet and solo singing of the Kangaroo Island subspecies (lashmari) of the Western Whipbird (Psophodes nigrogularis), also known as the White-bellied Whipbird (Psophodes leucogaster).** Background species include: Crescent Honeyeater, Galah, Grey Shrike-thrush, Kangaroo Island subspecies (KI) Crimson Rosella, KI Grey Currawong, KI Superb Fairy-wren, among others. The recording was made near the edge of a waterfall that was completely dry, overlooking a deep valley winding down to the ocean just over a kilometre away.

When listening to this recording (and viewing the accompanying track photograph taken at the location), it is important to embrace in mind that one is listening to an ecosystem soundscape recorded at dawn only five years after untypically catastrophic bushfires (the 'Black Summer' bushfires of 2019-2020) - an untypicality that is scientifically attributable to anthropically-caused climate change. This an ecosystem still in early stages of a struggling recovery (exacerbated by the continuation of the drought that initially catalysed the 'Black Summer' bushfires), and the focal birds that one is listening to were listed, in 2021, according to the IUCN Red List classification, as 'Endangered'. The following is a quotation from the Australian government environmental report that advised this classification:

"The main factor that made the subspecies eligible for listing in the Endangered category was the severe (>50%) reduction in population size in the previous 10 years. This major reduction in population was caused by the largest recorded wildfire on Kangaroo Island that burned for six weeks from late December 2019 to early February 2020. The subspecies’ extent of occurrence is estimated at 5,300 km2 (stable trend), and the area of occupancy is estimated to be 540 km2 (contracted). The population is estimated to have declined to 1,000 mature individuals in the wild due to the Kangaroo Island 2019/2020 bushfires, however this decline is probably not continuing. An analysis by a team from the National Environmental Science Program Threatened Species Recovery Hub shows that a large proportion of the range of Kangaroo Island Western Whipbird was affected by these fires: 51% was burnt in high to very high severity fire, and a further 11% was burnt in low to moderate severity fire. A structured expert elicitation process was used to estimate the proportional population change for this species from pre-fire levels to immediately after the fire and then out to three generations/10 years after the fire, when exposed to fires of varying severity. These results, combined with the spatial analyses of fire overlap, suggest that one year after the fire, the species has experienced an overall decline of 44% from pre-fire levels, but that the decline could be as large as 62% (bound of 80% confidence limits). After 10 years, the estimate for the overall population decline relative to the pre-fire population is predicted to be 33%, but potentially as much as 58% (bound of 80% confidence limit). For comparison, experts also estimated the population change over time in the absence of fire; by 10 years, the overall population of Kangaroo Island Western Whipbird after the fire was estimated to be 30% lower than it would have been, had the 2019/2020 fire not occurred."

Reference: https://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/species/pubs/81024-conservation-advice-14122021.pdf

**A note of thanks to the amazing Marc Anderson for identifying a clip from this bird's song on xeno-canto.

2025.04.08 White-bellied Whipbird. Dawn Songs. Kangaroo Island. Autumn.

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/views-of-mind

"Views of Mind” continues my recent trend towards ambient chamber music, blending electronic soundscapes with acoustic instruments, and moving towards a kind of contemporary classical music. 

Through its minimalism, this new album is introspective, unwinding the threads of a slow, fluid, serene and meditative musical reverie. 

Like a sonic screen on which to project intimate films, “Views of Mind” encourages contemplative listening, away from the tumult of the world...

releases July 21, 2025 

Compositions, sound design: Christian Wittman 
Recorded and produced at Nina Studio, Paris, May-June 2024. 
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong 
Artwork: Christoph Harbonnier 

Bandcamp: christianwittman.bandcamp.com 
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4q4V7ci4nsWYEoPSb09voh 

Blog: christianwittman.blogspot.com 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083593063457 
web: lightwave-musique.com 
Links: linktr.ee/christianwittman 

SHM 348 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025

Christian Wittman - Introspection

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/spaces-between-words

In a world where every word carries weight, UK based electronic producer Simon Vince (HERE) invites listeners into a sonorous exploration of the unnoticed silences and spaces. With his latest ambient album and second release on Shimmering Moods ; Spaces Between Words. HERE crafts eight beautifully fragile and melancholic electronica tracks that delve into the delicate nuances of love and loss. 
Each piece is a hauntingly wistful soundscape, woven from electro-acoustic ambience and drones to shimmering synths, delicate textures, and gentle pulses that evoke the bittersweet essence of separation. 

From the emotive echoing tones in “Spaces Between Words” to the nostalgic reverberations and drawn out chords of “I Find You In Whispers" this album invites you to embrace the unspoken and the unshared, allowing you to linger in the quiet spaces that define our connections.

releases July 21, 2025 

Music & Cover Design By Simon Vince (HERE) 
Mastering By James Woodsmith 

SoundCloud : @here_music 
Instagram : @here.music.official 

SHM 351 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025

HERE - Spaces Between Words

Do Right

A Ghost in the Photographs

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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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