Name: In Memoriam Masaki Iwana. Live @ Danae Festival (Milan, Italy) by Lê Quan Ninh
Duration: 31 min 42 s
Description: Recorded live at the Danae Festival on Sunday 20 October 2024 at La Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan, Italy)

Yutori is the Japanese concept of consciously slowing down to allow us to savour the world around us.

Yutori

Recorded live at the Danae Festival on Sunday 20 October 2024 at La Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan, Italy)

Live @ Danae Festival 2024 Milano

In Memoriam Masaki Iwana. Live @ Danae Festival (Milan, Italy)

eRecords is a digital record series created by Whitelabrecs, to run alongside our physical releases. These editions aim to transform the digital format into something that can be experienced in a similar way to a listener’s interaction with a real, white label vinyl record. Each edition includes a special PDF scrapbook including polaroids and liner notes.

We do not publish details about the concepts or production methods of a release, so that the liner notes and content in each scrapbook will give you the background of each edition in the series.

catalog: eR033
artist: alexis delozanne
release title: acclimatation
runtime: 35:00
location: paris, france

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written and produced by alexis delozanne
mastered by james edward armstrong
art and design by harry towell

Acclimatation

eR033 Alexis Delozanne - Poudre à Couleurs

At ad21, we are delighted to present Piano Whispers 01, a unique compilation celebrating Piano Day 2025 (March 29). This album brings together 51 talented pianists from around the world, each contributing their artistic vision to the neoclassical piano music landscape.

Italo-Argentine pianist Bruno Sanfilippo unveils Cielo Rasa, a deeply introspective piece from 'Piano Whispers 01' compilation. With its warm felted piano tones and a serene, unhurried pace, this composition carries a delicate melancholy, inviting listeners into a world of quiet reflection.

Piano Whispers 01

Cielo Rosa

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Cielo Rosa - Bruno Sanfilippo

Love me, love me, love me, say you do Let me fly away with you

Blurstem’s 'Remnants and Whispers' is an album of memory-of echoes and fragments, of moments gathered and reshaped, of the past carried gently into the present. Released on Fluid Audio, renowned for its exquisitely crafted physical editions, this collection of soundscapes and textures is imbued with nostalgia, intimacy, and the quiet weight of time.

The album weaves together the delicate and the vast, the small and the sweeping. Tiny, almost imperceptible guitar plucks flicker like candlelight amidst expansive ambient washes. The sonic palette moves seamlessly between lo-fi warmth and pristine clarity, embracing the imperfections of cassette recording and the wobbly, warbled charm of home videos from a lost era. Each track breathes with a human touch-organic instruments processed and reimagined, from tremolo strings pitched and resampled on “Tethered” to layers of sound that feel like old photographs brought to life.

At its heart, 'Remnants and Whispers' explores the idea of remnants-what we carry with us through life, the fragments of friendships, memories, and fleeting moments that shape who we are. Much like the album’s sonic construction-built from past sketches, ideas, and textures revived and given new form-the music mirrors the way we collect and reinterpret our own experiences over time.

This ethos extends beyond the music itself into its physical presentation, with Fluid Audio’s deluxe edition incorporating 1920s sheet music and book fragments as old as the 1890s-historical relics that feel like the perfect visual counterpart to the album’s themes of memory, loss, and renewal. The tactile nature of these artifacts deepens the listening experience, making 'Remnants and Whispers' not just an album, but a tangible connection to the past.

Mastered on Bartels’ late ’60s analog tape machine, the album’s final touch further enhances its warmth and character, adding an unmistakable depth and timeless quality to its sonic palette.

A meditation on change, nostalgia, and the beauty of imperfection, Remnants and Whispers is an invitation to pause, reflect, and listen-not just to the music, but to the quiet echoes of our own stories.

Music: Blurstem
Mastering: Bartels
Design: Crossley

www.fluidaudio.co.uk
www.blurstem.bandcamp.com

Blurstem - Along the Rails

Æther #007 by Alessandro Barbanera
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

Mix number 7 in the Æther series comes from Italian sound artist, musician, composer and guitar maker Alessandro Barbanera. 

Over the course of an hour, Alessandro carefully explores the nuances of modern ambient music – often touching on its darker, more mysterious edges, yet never fully descending into shadows or melancholia.

Check out Alessandro's latest album 'In Darkness Let Me Dwell', released by Dronarivm's dark vibes division, Owl Totem Recordings ~ https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/in-darkness-let-me-dwell

Tracklist:

00.00. Tape Loop Orchestra – I Was Born When She Kissed Me (excerpt) [from “In A Lonely Place”, Fluid Audio]
03.46. Carlo Giustini – A Letizia [from “Custodi”, ROHS! Lontano Series]
07.47. Dionisaf – March [from “Twelve Months”, Chitra Records]
12.18. Demetrio Cecchitelli – Notturno [from “Jump”, Le Mont Analogue]
16.08. Corrado Maria De Santis – Entangled Uncertainties [from “City of Tethers”, Owl Totem Recordings]
21.22. Francis Gri – Bruma II [from “Bruma”, self-released]
25.05. Federico Mosconi – At Midnight [from “Nocturnal”, Dronarivm]
29.56. Luca Giuoco – Shantih 3 Times [from “Collettivoinconscio vol.1”, Dissipatio / Toten Schwan Records]
33.03. Grotta Veterano & Music For Sleep – If Only Anything Could Change You [from “Endless Vacation”, Fluid Audio]
39.15. meanwhile.in.texas – Almost Blind [from “Heimat”, Secret Press]
42.18. Yugen (Gianluca Ceccarini, Alessandro Ciccarelli, Tetsuroh Konishi) – My Sounds [from “Yugen”, Disasters By Choice]
48.27. Gallery Six – Zansyuu [from “Kisetsu”, Le Mont Analogue]
52.34. Chelidon Frame – In I Reached (feat. A Distant Shore, Asymmetric Cut, Andrea Marinelli) (excerpt) [from “Flatline Voyages”, Difficult Art And Music]
58.24. Macrogramma – Catedral [from “Magnetic Series”, ROHS! Lontano Series]

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Æther #007 by Alessandro Barbanera

"Refugio de Luz" by Italo-Argentinian pianist Bruno Sanfilippo is a radiant and uplifting composition that shines with warmth. Its gentle felted piano lines flow gracefully, evoking a sense of peace and hope, offering listeners a luminous sanctuary through sound. Released by the reflective neoclassical label ad21.

Refugio de Luz

Swedish pianist Ana Rebekah offers a reflective composition, where each note feels both intimate and sincere. With its emotional depth and graceful simplicity, the piece invites the listener into a quiet inner world of contemplation. A soulful journey released by the introspective neoclassical label ad21.

Heaven's Dew

Today we welcome Makoto Sawai, a Japanese pianist and composer, to the ad21 family with his beautiful single “Deep Love”. Performed on his own acoustic piano, Deep Love is a gently hypnotic piece that unfolds with a quiet devotion. Its nostalgic and melancholic tones invite listeners to pause, breathe, and journey inward, or perhaps to a distant memory. Let yourself be carried away by this serene and heartfelt composition, now available on all streaming platforms.

Deep Love

Lisren

Tament is an exploration of sound as both memory and possibility-an attempt to blur the boundary between the concrete and the imagined, the heard and the felt. This album is born out of an ongoing curiosity: what kind of dialogue can exist between the raw, unfiltered audio of the everyday and the abstract sonic worlds we construct through synthesis and production?

At its core, Tament weaves together field recordings, modular synthesizers, and software-generated textures. The ambient recordings are drawn directly from the soundscapes that surround me: the footsteps echoing through familiar streets, fragments of passing conversations, distant traffic, the subtle rhythms of urban life. These are the sounds that often fade into the background, yet they form the soundtrack of my existence. By capturing them, manipulating them, and placing them in new contexts, I aimed to reframe the ordinary-to open a space where the habitual becomes mysterious, and the familiar is rendered strange.

This project is not about documentation or representation. Rather, it’s about translation. I wanted to create an alternate version of the spaces I move through-a kind of dream logic of place, where reality is stretched and reassembled into something more ambiguous, immersive, and open-ended. In doing so, Tament becomes a liminal zone, a place between places.

Just as important as the sound itself was the intention behind its structure-or rather, the lack of imposed structure. I deliberately avoided giving the tracks a fixed narrative or emotional direction. There are no clear themes or guiding concepts here. The music offers a frame, not a story. It is a space left intentionally undefined, allowing each listener to encounter it without expectation, to inhabit it on their own terms. In that sense, Tament is less an album and more a set of sonic invitations.

It is about listening closely, noticing what usually slips past us, and discovering new meaning in repetition, texture, and silence - Glinca

Music, production, and mixing by Tazio Iacobacci
Mastering by Sebastiano D’Amico at Zen Arcade
Track 8 - 'Horocele', features Francesco Canè on modular synthesiser
Design by Daniel Crossley

Glinca - Alized

Percussionist. Improviser. Performer. Occasionally composer and field recordist. Co-founder of the ensemble]h[iatus. Co-founder and curator of Le Bruit de la Musique festival. Artistic adviser of Association Ryoanji Épicentre.

In Memoriam Masaki Iwana. Live @ Danae Festival (Milan, Italy)

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