Excerpt from "an introduction to".
V/A compilation, first release from SOFT recordings, brand new ambient label.
OUT march, 30th.
www.soft-recordings.com 

Track List : 
1. KEVIN VERWIJMEREN scenery for a hallway.
2. LEONARDO ROSADO sub pulse zero one.
3. MONOLYTH & COBALT a winter breath (inhale).
4. DARREN HARPER a winter’s path.   
5.  LINEAR BELLS few steps away.  
6.  ENDLESS MELANCHOLY broken.  
7.  SIMA KIM 24-25.
8.  LOST TRAIL netherworld. 
9.  RADERE respirator.
10. KISSY SUZUKI port green.
11. SAITO KOJI bells.
12. BENGALFUEL sofia.
Total Run : 64 mn.

David Teboul, founder of Soft Recordings, has curated a collection of sonic gems from such luminaries as Darren Harper, Sima Kim, Bengalfuel, and others. These dozen tracks reveal a broad spectrum of drone, ambient, experimental, and noise music, with a sprinkling of modern classical.

Each song in the compilation flows into the next. Throbbing melodies, low vibrations, and distorted strings blur, thickening into gritty choirs. The crunch and muted crackle of densely layered tape. Growling, scratchy textures. Despite their differences in styles and backgrounds, the artists' individual works share mood and vision: songs full of longing and half-remembered dreams. Kevin Verwijmeren's opening lush chords, swelling and fading. Leonardo Rosado uses bursts of static to form broken percussive sequences, balanced by the focused formlessness of Saito Koji's fuzzed hum toward the end of the record. Radere's liquid field recordings segue into Kissy Suzuki's warm atmospheric pads. Linear Bells and Endless Melancholy each blend dissonant, atonal structures with sparse, lovely piano melodies. Lost Trail's insistent guitar arpeggios run in counterpoint to the glitched feedback loops of Monolith & Cobalt.

"An Introduction to Soft" is an evening spent in a mountainside cabin, listening to the storm shake the trees in the darkness. Inside, all is still, hushed, waiting. The fervent glow of firelight, bright against frosted windows.

Forthcoming : 
ST002 – LINEAR BELLS "the stars will shine" double CD album + digital.
ST003 - DARREN HARPER "untitled" CD album + digital.


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LINEAR BELLS few steps away - excerpt from ST001.

“Linear Bells” is David Teboul, composer and sound artist.
His music is a mix between sound manipulations, field recordings, mainly created with acoustic and analogic instruments.
 



Soft is a small independant label focused on Ambient, drone & experimental music. We're producing physical releases and are a non-profit label. Soft was set up by David Teboul (Linear Bells). Contact : dt44 ( @ ) free.fr
Manager : David Teboul.
Writer : Joshua Sadler.
Photographer : Peter Nejedly.

LINEAR BELLS few steps away - excerpt from ST001.

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