Name: The Ferns Are Greener Still by Lapith Girl
Duration: 5 min 17 s
Description: Track 3 of Lapith Girl debut album 'I Promise That I Won't Die Before You Do' released by Subosc Records, 2020

Falling Through Graves And Houses

from Martina Bertoni's forthcoming album "Hypnagogia", out on 20th january 2023 as LP / tape / DL

Hypnagogia

MARTINA BERTONI - Inversion

from KR096: GIULIO ALDINUCCI - Real 
out on october 14th 2022 as 180gr LP / tape / DL

Real

GIULIO ALDINUCCI - Asymptotic Embrace

Generative Tape Test #4

Taken from 「水と生き物たち」Part 1 (Water And Creatures)

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/part-1

Pre orders start April 7th 2023 // Release date: April 14th 2023
The album will be available in a limited edition CD with handmade wallets, hand numbered, edition of 40.

shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

今回のアルバムの曲の多くは2019年から2022年に作りました。なるべくアコースティックな楽器を使用しました、ギターのような音の多くはウクレレです。これらの曲には演奏を合わせる一定のリズムがないことがあるので、その代わりに音のコントラストのような物を意識しました。いつも的確なアドバイスをしてくれるShimmering Moods Recordsのオーナー、ポールのおかげでアルバムを作ることができました。

Written and produced by Nao Otsuka
Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Shimmering Moods Records 2023

Nao Otsuka - Howling Melody

Taken from the album "Retrograde Amnesia" by Xu & Oberlin, released on Slow Tone Collages:


The record delves into the haunting history of the former psychiatric hospital in Colorno (Parma – Italy, in use from 1873 to 1978). Titled "Retrograde Amnesia”, it explores the lives of patients who were once confined to the institution, many of whom were forgotten by society. 
The hospital, which is now abandoned, was once home to over a thousand patients, including those who were deemed "dangerous" or "marginalized" by society. Among them were prostitutes, alcoholics, vagabonds, and even small children. The psychiatrists who worked at the institution were free to experiment with new treatments, including practices such as electroshock and frontal lobotomy. While these doctors saw themselves as innovators and experimenters, many of the patients were no longer considered people. One of the devastating consequences of the treatments administered at the hospital was retrograde amnesia, which is the loss of memories of past events. Many patients who underwent these treatments were left with gaps in their memory, unable to recall important moments of their lives, as their identities were fragmented and their shared human experiences obliterated. Forgotten by society and stripped of their own sense of self, they were consigned to the shadows of history. 
"Retrograde Amnesia" is a haunting and emotional record that aims to shed light on the lives of these forgotten patients. Through the use of ambient soundscapes and atmospheric textures, the music captures the sense of isolation and despair that many of the patients must have felt. Enveloped in the echoes of empty corridors and abandoned rooms, one easily feels consumed by the weight of the lives that once occupied these desolate spaces. 

releases September 1, 2023 

W&P by Xu & Oberlin 

Xu: 
Acoustic and electric piano, vocals and psaltery samples, small eurorack 
system, Korg Volca FM, Strymon El Capistan 

Oberlin: 
Eurorack modular synth, tape-recorder 

Mastered by Francis M Gri 
Artwork and packaging design by Slow Tone Collages 
STC 036 
Slow Tone Collages 2023

Xu & Oberlin - Retrograde Amnesia - Part I

Here is the first track available to listen from 'Amos’ Flat' a three part album by VASE, in collaboration with @opal-tapes & INDEX:Records.

Versal is the forth track from 'Amos’ Flat: Room 1' which will be sculpted into the physical form of a 12” vinyl record, released by INDEX:Records and will be followed by Opal Tapes reeling out Room 1 & 2 on double Cassette Tape. As well as a third room of digital remixes featuring artists Basic house, Fis, Katsunori Sawa, Shelley Parker and PYUR.

Available at: 

Bandcamp - www.indexrecords.bandcamp.com / www.opaltapes.com
Juno - bit.ly/2MLnS8Z
Redeye - bit.ly/2VRy8kb
Deejay - bit.ly/2Biv5bq
Yoyaku - bit.ly/2PznFqW
Decks - bit.ly/2t3Xd0R
HHV - bit.ly/2rDBxIz
Bordello A Parigi - bit.ly/38yAJ8P
OTG - bit.ly/2LLey5v

Amos' Flat: Room 1

Buy 12"

VASE - Versal [INDEX:OPAL01]

Track 3 of Lapith Girl debut album 'I Promise That I Won't Die Before You Do' released by Subosc Records, 2020

The Ferns Are Greener Still

Prior to the 20th century, and the emergent dominance of equal temperament, the association of emotions with particular musical keys was common practice. 

The Black Glass Ensemble recently revisited this historical alignment of sound and emotion to offer a brief ‘embrace’ in B Minor - the key associated with patience. 

The initial embrace, featuring the 8 musicians of the Black Glass Ensemble and guest Colin Potter, with whom they had been due to perform prior to the Covid19 lockdown, was well received. Consequently, Black Glass sought to widen the reach of their embrace to other musicians to make a more comprehensive piece of work.

The response was unprecedented. 104 musicians returned 247 individual musical tracks to be mixed into this present arrangement.

The full 38’ 50” minute work, “Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor” is made freely available in the sole hope that this extended embrace may help in some small way to nurture strength, fortitude and comfort.

Black Glass Ensemble and Friends
Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor
Arranged and produced by Michael Begg

Cover Image by Ben Ponton, used by permission of Sue Cannon

The Black Glass Ensemble:
Michael Begg
Douglas Caskie
Jen Cuthbertson
Neil Cuthbertson
Clea Friend
Julia Lungu
Aisling O'Dea
Ben Ponton

Contributors:
Tommy Aashildrød
The Alaska None
David Allison
Christopher Alvarado
Mkl Anderson
Carsten Aniksdal
Artificial Memory Trace
Matt Atkins
Nigel Ayers
Simon Balestrazzi
Stephen Bishop
Sergey Bulychev
Matt Burnett
Dave Burraston
Ed Carter
Kim Cascone
Don Clemenza
cl0v3n
Chris Connelly
Dane Law
Thomas Dimuzio
Pablo Diserens
Anthony Donovan
John Duncan
Kate Ellis
Steve Fors
Clive Graham
Scot Jenerik
Jean Johnson
Dan Joseph
Evan Henderson
Robert Henke
May Haliburton
Mark Hand
Jim Haynes
Liz Helman
Jack Hertz
Kathy Hinde
Marc Hurtado
France Jobin
Andreas Karperyd
Katpis Tapes
Fergus Kelly
Julia Kent
Jon Lee
Edvard Graham Lewis
Andrew Liles
Malcolm Lindsay
Marco Lucchi
Patrick Tubin McGinley
Grey Malkin
Robert Mazrim
Radboud Mens
Emmanuel Mieville
Abul Mogard
James Murray
Philippe Neau
Adi Newton
B J Nilsen
Mike Nolan
nula,cc
Aisling O’Dea
Orphax
Mike Orr
Chris Osborne
Daniel O’Sullivan
Ivy O’Sullivan
p_fish_mani
Filippo Panichi
Lee Paterson
PBK
Ben Ponton
Colin Potter
Nicola Quiriconi
Audrey Redpath
Ivan Ristić
Carla Santana
Paul sawford
Janek Schaefer
Second Harmonic Generation
Simon Šerc
Tim Shaw
Chandra Shukla
Clodagh Simonds
Steven R. Smith
Jos Smolders
sp3ct3rs
Julia Spooner
Mayor Stubbs
Bill Thompson
VIVIB
Frans de Waard
Warm Digits
Simon Whetham
Gary Wilkinson
Pete Woodhead
James Wyness
Zach Zinn

Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor

from KR083:  MARTINA BERTONI - Music For Empty Flats. LP / DL / Tape out january 29th 2021

Music For Empty Flats

MARTINA BERTONI - Music For Empty Flats

no one wants to admit that i am afraid (for W.B.) [emotionally overextended version] 
Pinkcourtesyphone

there comes a time on any dance floor when the lights go low, the music turns pretty, and everyone gets that cheek-to-cheek look in their eyes. 

this deflated valentine from Pinkcourtesyphone is not for that time. 
is your heart awake... yet? 


originally created during the "sessions" for the album September 2020 Pinkcourtesyphone 'Leaving Everything To Be Desired' (room40, Australia) [https://richardchartier.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-everything-to-be-desired] 

... further manipulations, pokings, and frostings continued through January 2021.
released February 5, 2021 as a bandcamp exclusive download

photography: James Elaine 
thank you: L.English, W.Basinski, J.Elaine, M.Harding 

published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd 
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