Winter Memories

At the movies - is my way out. Sitting alone in company watching earth from above.

Entering this precious place is like diving into a parallel existence, waiting for the countdown to begin, prepairing for liftoff. Then, finally, the lights go out..

Parallel Existence

Glow

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers
Henrik Meierkord : cello and fx

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27 gennaio 2025

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Fire, walk with me

In the summer of 2023 we welcomed a young @hellosulci into the Bricolage family with her debut, "Before The Echo".

Eighteen months later she returns with her sophomore effort, "Four Chambers".

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/four-chambers-bc091

The evolution of Sulci is clear on this latest set of tracks. There's a new found maturity and musicality. The album pulls in a plethora of influences and uses them to provide us with some more dancefloor friendly tracks, whilst keeping that distinct mellow vibe that Sulci has become known for. It's quite the combination. Rippling and rolling funk, melded into cosy ambience amid laid back vocal experiments.

"Four Chambers" starts off on a serene plain before kicking through the gears as we go and a more open minded approach to production has allowed for the vibrant and colourful elements to bloom into full focus as the warm, shifting percussion falls around them. There's also a celestial feel throughout as the ethereal vocals wax and wane among the numerous weaved melodies and pads.

Four Chambers (bc091)

Four Chambers

Sulci - Bloodsports (from the "Four Chambers" album)

Released February 20, 2025

Various Artists – Healing Sound Propagandist: Retrospective [2019-2024]

Since its foundation, Indianapolis-based Healing Sound Propagandist has quietly built a catalog of nearly a hundred releases by a cadre of emerging and established artists, specializing in undiluted doses of textured drone and experimental ambient. To commemorate this prolific run, Retrospective [2019-2024] collects 76 standout tracks over five hours, from the warm tonal blankets of James Bernard (“Never Alone”), to the wispy, boreal loops of UK’s Pallette (“Für What”) and the womb-like warble of Sean Evans (“Repetition”), along with scores of other beautifully rendered works covering a broad range of atmospheres and instrumentations.

As an arm of the renowned Past Inside The Present imprint, HSP maintains a kinship with its creators and followers that only an artist-run house can provide. Label head Zach Frizzell (aka zakè) found himself in need of a dedicated home for deep cuts and longer form works by his vastly talented roster – one where the focus is squarely on the music and energy, rather than narratives, conceits, or other diversions. Across the label’s discography there is a consistency of quality, from ascendant and seasoned artists alike, that has kept supporters eagerly engaged since the very start. A deliberate choice to release exclusively on digital and cassette formats further places the focus on uninterrupted, deep listening.

Throughout Retrospective, there is a gentle and effective pacing that more than justifies its overall span, while venerating the sheer variety of approaches to curative music. UK-based Moss Covered Technology provides the overture, “Glare”, placing soft, flittering synths over gathering swells of sweetened drone, while Chicago’s wøunds delivers a frigid hum underscored by subtle, strummed guitar on “December191920”. Elsewhere, the duo of Blanket Swimming + Gallery Six evokes a sunlit garden in the sustained blush of “With Endless Eyes”, and Amsterdam’s andarctica unfurls the album-length “Pur”, a hypnotic vessel of stunning depth and dimension.

While the term “propagandist” might evoke some staunch political ideology or breed of thought control, its use by HSP is an ironic foil to the earnestness of the music, which is intended to be fully open to interpretation and suitable for all forms of engagement. According to Frizzell, “Our conviction is that healing sounds and meditative music contain transformative powers — this is an ethos we pursue with unwavering passion, putting all our cards on the table and letting the work speak for itself.”

In a culture beset by gimmicks and ghosts in the machines, simplicity and authenticity are in vanishingly short supply; a reliable sanctuary is a real gift, and for six years the curators at Healing Sound Propagandist have kept that notion at the forefront. Across its many topographies and tonalities, Retrospective is a (relatively) concise distillation for the familiar fan, and only a tantalizing toe in the water for the uninitiated, offered in the hope that it might open new entryways to profound listening experiences.


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Curated, mixed, and compiled by zakè. CD1: Tracks 1-22. CD2: Tracks 23-44. CD3: Tracks 45-67. CD4: 68-76. Disc Description Protocol by James Bernard, Ambient Mountain House. Marketing, distribution, and compact disc copyright: Healing Sound Propagandist. Glass mastered, manufactured, and assembled by Analogue media Technologies Inc. dba Duplication.ca, Canada. Design and layout by zakè. © 2025 Healing Sound Propagandist ℗ 2025 Past Inside the Present Publishing (BMI). This is HSP-91. For credits and detailed album information, please visit the respective artist's release page.
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Various Artists – Healing Sound Propagandist: Retrospective [2019-2024]

Glare

'Glare' - Healing Sound Propagandist: Retrospective [2019-2024] - [Healing Sound Propagandist, 2025]

Taken from the forthcoming album "Ausencia" ~~ Pre Orders start 14/3

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Ozbolt is the moniker of Germany-based artist Andy Ozbolt, who also records as Andy Aquarius. Andy’s music has appeared on labels such as Hush Hush, Constellation Tatsu, 7k! and Shimmering Moods to name but a few. His work as Andy Aquarius tends to focus on his Celtic Harp compositions whereas Ozbolt is a tribute to his Croatian heritage, capturing the essence of external landscapes and offering sonic reflections of specific places in time. In an album shaped by adventure, wonder, and the ineffable essence of lived experience, here Andy presents us with his Whitelabrecs debut Chasyng Drakens. This latest work stems from a transformative journey through the Drakensberg mountains of South Africa, blending the organic textures of field recordings with the ethereal resonance of the Celtic harp.

The album’s origins trace back to a chance experiment—setting up a rental harp in a coastal tree to let the wind play its strings. The resulting tones were so captivating that Andy sought to preserve them, leading to the spontaneous collection of field recordings throughout his travels. Upon returning to Berlin, these atmospheric recordings became the foundation for Chasyng Drakens, inspiring a flurry of creativity that saw most of the album come together in just two weeks. Layers of harp, from muted plucks to synthesized tones, intertwine with analog synths, rhythmic samples, and contributions from South African musicians on saxophone, flute and voice.

At its heart, Chasyng Drakens is a time capsule, as an attempt to translate the profound solitude and discovery of solo travel into an immersive sonic tapestry. While each track stands alone, the unifying presence of field recordings pulls them into a singular, cohesive world, evoking the shifting landscapes and fleeting moments of Andy’s journey.

This album serves both to document space and time, and as an invitation to open up a portal into the wonder of the unknown, and get a sense of the place and circumstance it was made. Ozbolt has captured here the raw joy of exploration, weaving sound and memory into a musical map of an extraordinary adventure, complete with photography captured on the trip. The rest of the story is for our own imagination. 

Written, recorded and produced by Andy Ozbolt
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Analog photography by Andy Ozbolt
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Saxophone on Yielbongura by Chant Messina
Flute on Harkerville Coastal Trail by Jonathan Velthuysen
A field recorder, kindly provided by Gerdus Oosthuizen, was destroyed in the process of creation.

Chasyng Drakens

wlr182 Ozbolt - Chasyng Drakens

Moments fade, memories shift — “it’s never the same” by instagram.com/ambientbyID10 x instagram.com/lunnorr captures the beauty of change through atmospheric ambient textures and quiet emotion.

✨ https://go.ambiqo.nl/il-itsneverthesame

ID10 x Lunor - it's never the same

You are wondering why the track is called “The Wintr” instead of “The Winter”? That was a deliberate typo. I just kept it.

Ashes

The Wintr

Wake (Demo)

The sound of Logic Moon has graced the airwaves on esteemed labels such as Whitelabrecs, Archives and Ambientologist, among others.