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DAVID GRANSTRÖM, Empty Room - LP

Release date - April 2th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2102
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1) Obsidian 09:22
2) Aeon 10:56
3) Sapphire Visions 04:50
4) Occultations 10:08
5) Transience 04:45

Credits:
All tracks composed, recorded, performed and mixed by David Granström 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Photography by Aron Mattsson
Cover design by Greenpointless

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On »Empty Room,« David Granström works with slow transformations, cyclical and isometric patterns as well as just intonation as a way to create harmonic stability, allowing his long-form pieces to develop their own unique temporal and spatial qualities. A prolific figure in Stockholm’s experimental drone scene and a collaborator of Hallow Ground label mates Maria W Horn and Mats Erlandsson, the Swedish composer navigates through moments of quietude and crushing volume on these five tracks. Sonically and atmospherically, the pieces on »Empty Room« simultaneously call to mind Fennesz’s most meditative work or the physical experience of seeing Sunn O))) live, blending guitar recordings and synthesised sounds with forceful effects similar to those of Mario Díaz de Leon’s Oneirogen project while still being as moving and delicate as Alessandro Cortini’s solo work. The album is marked by melodies and harmonies that are the product of a peculiar working process that turned the composer into an intent listener collaborating with, rather than simply using technology. 

Having been invited by the self-organising artist group The Non Existent Center for a residency to Ställbergs Gruva, a defunct iron ore mine in Sweden’s Bergslagen region, Granström took his guitar as a starting point for his compositional work that heavily relies on real-time sound synthesis. »I seldomly use the instrument as a sound source in the final compositions and rather transcribe and orchestrate the harmonic structures using sound synthesis,« he explains. »On this album however, I chose to include the actual recordings of the guitar in order to extend the spectra between non-referential synthetic sounds and embodied referential sounds.« Working with precise tunings in order to blend the timbre of the synthesis with the harmonic structures of the composition, he created composite sound objects in which the harmonic elements blend into each other. 

Through the re-amplification of synthetic musical materials from the inside of the abandoned mine, his original compositions were enriched with site-specific sound qualities before he further refined them in a singular working process. Granström works with algorithmic and generative processes, using the SuperCollider programming environment and thus blurring the lines between generative and creative forms of composition. »One of the things that I like about this way of working is that it creates a distance between myself as a composer and myself as a listener of the music that is produced entirely by the system,« he says. Granström’s technologically aided eschewing of the conventions of composing doesn’t make the end result any less personal, however. By listening again and again to the newly generated output, Granström simply took on a different role in the process of finalising the music, with the technology and the sounds becoming his co-authors. 

By creating systems that generate music, he gains a new perspective on (musical) time, says Granström. »There doesn't have to be a fixed length to the music at all,« he explains. »And by writing music with this in mind, my focus tends to shift towards writing cyclical structures that gradually change and transform over time.« Simple parts, in other words, that emerge as the five complex wholes that form »Empty Room,« a record that itself seems to take on different forms with every new listen.

DAVID GRANSTRÖM - Occultations (HG2102)

GRFTPS013
Francisco Sonur - Sleep Researchers 
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-researchers

Sleep Researchers

B3. Francisco Sonur - I Will Cross The River Through The Deepest Part [GRFTPS013]

Radio Mnemosyne

Snufmumriko - Proxima Centauri

Sans En Altérer La Nature

Falling Through Graves And Houses

music for the celebration of the solstice and memories of summers past

samsuo - out
georgia - as is
areliz ramos - ava
subespai - ends
snufmumriko - undrends tid
odd ned - crumble
angel hunt - apparition floor
andy nicolson - arc
onsy - metal beams
best available technology - q2sub2
sleepdial - charred
romance relic & softie - crystallized night jessamine
iu takahashi - end is ___
kore - fey
jake leech - flitrjl
diatom deli - sunday's dying light

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Taken from "Bright waters"
All copies are sold out, digital here:

https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/bright-waters

released March 3, 2023 

Music by Rime Trails 
Artwork by C. Fredenslund 

Slow Tone Collages 2023 
STC 025

Rime Trails - Bright Waters

~ LAAPS 027 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP27]

artists : Russell Burden (Being) & Craig Tattersall (The Humble Bee)
 album : Diagenesis
duration : 44 mn
 date : April 29th, 2023

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

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pre-order : April 07th, 2023 / official release : April 29th, 2023
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All Tracks written and produced by Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Russell Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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diagenesis: the watery interactions, microbial activities, alterations, compactions, and chemical transformations of sediments slowly converting to rock.
this music was created through a process of exchange - passing tracks back and forth, each layer of sound buried a little deeper beneath the next.

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.leavings.co.uk/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 3 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 2 7

Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall - Settlings (excerpt)

Blue Chemise documents the hermetic soundworld of Australia’s Mark Gomes. “Daughters of Time” follows 2017’s brilliant full-length “Influence on Dusk,” released in micro-edition on Gomes’ own Greedy Ventilator imprint. It is an elegiac set of vignettes recorded straight to dictaphone with minimal post-production. For me these pieces function in a manner akin to Loren Connor’s evocative “airs,” conjuring poignant, intangible senses of longing and nostalgia then disappearing well before overstaying their welcome. Regarding their genesis, Gomes points to a quote from Australian artist Robert Hunter: "It's like I'm external to them. They develop their own assertion and character; their becoming finished is a thing they decide themselves. It's unexplainable." LP/Digital available 9/7/2018 via studentsofdecay.com

Daughters of Time

Isla

You, Only is a beguiling insight into the world of Turkish musician Ekin Üzeltüzenci and her debut release on Vaknar. 

The album features a series of musical tapestries which prominently include live instrumentation in tandem with Ekin’s own voice, all of which has been fed through a series of tape delays, giving the final outcome a brittle and reflective tone.

Track List:

A1 Ekin Fil - Hope
A2 Ekin Fil - Other, Others
A3 Ekin Fil - You, Only
A4 Ekin Fil - Arise
B1 Ekin Fil - Scar
B2 Ekin Fil - Incident Light

About Ekin Fil:

After a stint of initial tape only albums which included the aforementioned 'Heavy', Ekin Fil went on the produce 4 albums for the Helen Scarsdale Agency. She was awarded "Best Original Film Music" for her first Soundtrack "Kaygi" at SIYAD, 2017 and "Best Film Music" for the Soundtrack of "Korfez - The Gulf" at Türkisches Film Festival in Frankfurt, 2018.
This year she released an LP of separate songs titled KOMA on the Stockholm based imprint Possible Motive.

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@ekin-fil

Arise

This is the 76th Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. The monthly released session brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer.

Happy 2021! That this year see more positivity and light. It was a difficult 2020 for everyone. So let's turn the page for new ideas, adventures, music, creativity and to support each other. Be safe, stay healty!

Here is the very first release on 2021. Jack Hyde makes is debut on the Ambient Sessions with a pure ambient music. 

Bio:
Jack Hyde is a Sound Designer and Musician based in Scotland, UK. 
Some released music and field recordings can be found here:

https://jackhyde.bandcamp.com/

This mix blends field recordings and music selections from around the globe. 

Tracklist:
01. Jan Eerala - Night by new Ice - Makholma Shore
02. Biosphere - From a solid to a liquid
03. Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Vague, Yet
04. Loch a'Choire
05. Jack Hyde - t-uo
06. Jana - Imert - Everything minus all
07. Salama - p of f
08. Jan Eerala - Icy Waves -  Makholma Shore
09. Andrew Pekler - Description of rain (Over Frisland)
10. Roméo Poirier - Pénombre
11. East Lothian
12. Meitei - Nami
13. Shuttle 358 - Chessa
14. Jack Hyde - Untitled
15. Fish ladder
16. Orlando Kimber & John Keliehor - Cloud music 
17. Mary Lattimore - Hello from the edge of the world
18. Adam Oko - The Burrow
19. Ross 154 - Apricot

Photo provided by Jack Hyde
Design by Jeroen
Logo by Subchord

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