Harmonious ambient ecosystem development is no mean feat & ironically collaboration is probably a hindrance hence solo endeavours are largely the norm, but the new LP from Stijn Hüwels & Tomoyoshi Date for Laaps is a wonder of minimal tones, field recordings, lightness of touch & ultimately synergy.  https://laaps-records.com/album/a-distant-fire-a-distant-cloud

Meditation music

~ LAAPS 011 ~ [SEQ.02 - LP11]

artists : Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date
album : 遠き火、遠き雲 (A Distant Fire, A Distant Cloud)
durations : 34.12 mn
 date : May 27th, 2021

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

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pre-order : May 07th, 2021 / official release : May 27th, 2021
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All music and sounds by Tomoyoshi Date & Stijn Hüwels. 
Recorded 2020/2021 in Japan and Belgium.

Tomoyoshi Date: piano, harmonium, synths, field recordings. 
Stijn Hüwels: guitar, pedals.

Mixed by Tomoyoshi Date.
Mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama.
Artwork by Lynn Pollard
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

Tōki hi, tōki kumo 遠き火、遠き雲’ (A distant fire, a distant cloud) is a poem by Tadahito Ichinoseki.

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

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Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date - 朝空に閃く光の粒子（Particles Of Light Flashing In The Morning Sky)

Fortresses guides a pensive, ethereal meditation on the passage of time with his debut release, Eve, on Dragon’s Eye Recordings. 

A day may be observed by exact moments, counted down by the hands on a clock; or, its progress might be witnessed through less immediate means—a shift in shadows, the sky’s hue, the air as it warms and cools. 

In this sense, Fortresses both measures the day with exactitude, and honors its slower unfoldings. Each of Eve’s three carefully crafted compositions allow the listener to hone in on a singular element, or lean back into a wider gentle drone. One can pinpoint a hint of static, or drift with a melodic looping hum as it phases in and out again. 

In his own words Fortresses offered us some insight into the making of Eve: 

Eve formed slowly during a self-reflective and transformative period in my life. The songs stand as a personal document of the time they were made and the rituals that gave shape to them—watching the seasons change from my studio window, letting the colours and qualities of light inspire the compositions; and long walks in East London’s natural and urban areas where I would listen to rough edits of the tracks and record open-air sounds that blended well with the music. 

With this music, the process is compositional and very deliberate, as opposed to improvised or open-ended. The tracks are manipulated guitar and synth lines, meshed with both raw and processed field recordings, and broken chords and melodies made with a Mellotron iPhone app.

Fortresses - June

This piece was composed and recorded between November 2013 and April 2014.

A new version of this track is part of the cassette "The Sky Had Vanished" released in July 2015 by Ecstatic Recordings.

https://ecstaticrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/abul-mogard-the-sky-had-vanished-cassette-2nd-edition-white-cassette


My other works can be found at my bandcamp page:
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/


Desires Are Reminiscences By Now

In February of 2022, as Storm Eunice worked its way across the UK, two people, namely Greig Baird and his partner Susie Baird set out for a rare weekend away on the North Coast of Devon. The weather was rough, but life affirming. The North Devon coast spectacular and dramatic; made more so by the waning storm.

This collection is a set of sonified memories; moments in a particular location at a particular time. A creative recalling. A set of sound postcards if you will.

For Susie. As always, thank you. I love you.

Special thank you to Uma Baird.

Thank you to Brad Deschamps and Polar Seas Recordings.

Also a big thank you to James Bernard.

written and produced by Greig Baird 
mastered by James Bernard at Ambient Mountain House 
photography, design and layout by Greig Baird

psr-066

A Shared Place

Shoreline Constellations

'Shoreline Constellations' - A Shared Place - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2023]

Astrokid Mini Pack - Frozen Temple (Fantasy Winter Ambience)

Frozen Temple - Track 10

Meditations with a twist - some movement and some experimentation!

Summon Your Calm

Deep Sleep Twenty Nine

Arovane's remix, taken from the Arovane & Hior Chronik remix EP now available on Limited Edition Vinyl + Digital download.

Available here: http://asip.me/asipv003r

Arovane & Hior Chronik - After Tomorrow (AMX)

Snufmumriko - Wellspring 
Taken from the album "At First Light"
Out Now
CD/DIGITAL 
ORDER: 
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/at-first-light

Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 40 copies. 
Handmade artwork, each hand numbered.
Brown kraft wallets with envelopes. 
Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper.
Photo's.

One of the themes of this album is, I would say, dawn, new beginnings, taking the first steps on a new journey and so on, and many of the sounds used on it were recorded early in the morning. Several feature water, be it rain or a gently burbling forest stream. The recorded sounds were then processed in various ways to create soundscapes which hopefully have something of the life and organic feel of nature in them. A commentator online once described my Snufmumriko music as ”soundscape cloth woven from field recordings” or something along those lines, and i think that’s an apt description. There’s also an almost spiritual dimension to these tracks, and I was often in a very introspective mood as I created them.

Track list:

1. Eos 
2. Exile 
3. Still Early Days 
4. Kingdom of Lost Summers 
5. You Will Know 
6. Wellspring 
7. Cormorant Road 
8. Overflow

All tracks by Ingmar Wennerberg
Mastered by Early Reflections

Snufmumriko - Wellspring (Out Now)

Re-mastered and issued by Incidental Music on vinyl for the first time ever. Ambienti Coassiali's Vol. 1 is a missing link in the world of 1980's Italian electronic music. A parallel project of Capricorni Pneumatici, Vol. 1 was conceived in and around Milan in the late '80s and released only on an incredibly limited cassette. Recorded solely with a Yamaha DX7 and two track Revox A77 tape machine, Vol. 1 is composed of 6 "rooms" (stanze), each their own world of meditative & ethereal FM synthesis. 
Vol. 1 also features collaborative contributions by Riccardo Sinigaglia.

Ambienti Coassiali - Room 5

"Perversa" is taken from the album "Versa" by Biuddha, out March 19 on Shimmering Moods Records. 
Available digital and limited CD packages, handmade....30 copies only.
Release date: 19.4.2018

Pre Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/versa

The goal was set to input sounds of life and mix them with my own sound output.

To do so, i designed a blend of computer-made ambient loops with field recordings and sound design. The field recordings where taken as i traveled from Baja California to Ciudad de México, mostly from airports, planes, streets, parks, animals and my voice. As a result, the album consists in 7 lengthy tracks of minimalistic transitions.

The structure of every track is loop-based, therefore you can listen to the same sounds at the beginning then at the end, they will repeat through the entirety of the piece, therefore i chose to call it ''Versa''. In spanish, my mother tongue, it means ''To spin around something'', and ''To set a topic or theme'', however it seemed fit to the album and applied as a wordplay to name every track.

Ernesto André

Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg (Early Reflections)
Shimmering Moods Records 2018

Biuddha - Perversa

One-take synth improvisation, taken from 'All In The Same Room'.
Buy tape + digital at nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com/album/020-all-in-the-same-room

All In The Same Room

Grapefruit

excerpt from a live tape loop, percussion, guitar + modular synth performance at S1, Portland.

180812

Wandering After the Rain

From Slow Walking out Aug 30th on limited LP

Moss Covered Technology - Departure Process

Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea: "Liberamente" out on Azure Vista Records on October 16! Available on CD/LP/download. Preorder from azurevistarecords.bandcamp.com

Info:

"Second album from American trio Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea, consisting of zakè, Marc Ertel and Damien Duque. Together they're creating soft-textured and slowly unfolding sonic landscapes, somewhere between guitar-oriented drone music and modern classical. Liberamente is the kind of album that demands attention and patience from the listener, yet it's ultimately a very rewarding one. 

Stylistically Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea sums up several decades of American soundscape and drone music, taking threads from Windy & Carl, Auburn Lull, and Stars of the Lid then weaves them into a contemporary, and sonically adventurous whole. On the surface it suggests simplicity, but dig deeper and the seven pieces on Liberamente reveals a rare compositional dexterity. This is minimalism at its finest."

Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea: "Liberamente"

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

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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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Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date - 朝空に閃く光の粒子（Particles Of Light Flashing In The Morning Sky)

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