Very wonderful and inspiring.  I love melancholy piano but these strings are glorious

The first of a series to be released throughout 2018, String Works is a collection of pieces focusing mainly on stringed instruments, supported of course by melancholy piano and atmospheric soundscapes.

String Works


Track taken from the album 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay' / HB50 - Released October 2013

Ian M Hazeldine records under the alias Antonymes, hailing from Hawarden, a small village in North Wales, whose most famous inhabitant was William Ewart Gladstone. He creates atmospheric melodies, using various pianos, celesta, strings, church organ and field recordings, and has had releases on Soundcolours, Cathedral Transmissions, Hidden Shoal, Time Released Sound and Rural Colours.

With a long standing interest in music making and active listening, Hazeldine works with any influences, from his surrounding landscape to the artists he has worked with. His compositions often take on a semi-improvised structure with accidental atmospheres used as a starting point. As well as his own projects, Hazeldine also works with Marconi Union's Richard Talbot, under the name Prospector. He also works as a graphic designer, film maker and photographer, having art directed many of the Hibernate releases including our critically acclaimed vinyl series, and has worked with many other artists and labels including Facture, Field Rotation and Olan Mill.

In late 2009 Antonymes released 'Beauty Becomes the Enemy of the Future' on Cathedral Transmissions of which the CD is now unavailable. Since then he has revisited the album, which has culminated a new release, 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay'. Hazeldine's own reworkings are intertwined with those of friends Ian Hawgood, Isnaj Dui, Offthesky, Field Rotation, Wil Bolton, Spheruleus and James Banbury to create an album of captivating melancholy and beauty. The guest reworkings venture into other, darker territories, where one might be harder pressed to identify the original material.

The sleeve features beautiful images of the North Wales landscape by Richard Outram, fitting the music perfectly.

Credits:
Mastered by Jason Corder (offthesky.com)
Photography by Richard Outram and Ian M Hazeldine
Art Direction by Ian M Hazeldine

“Majestic testament to a talent that is fully realized… Hazeldine’s work is distinct, yet the parts remain hazy in one’s memory, dreamlike” - The Silent Ballet

"So moving that I myself am at a loss for words" - Delusions of Adequacy

"Not only music for dreams, but rather a complex mosaic by a romantic minimalist" - Ondarock

"Unfolds at a beautifully measured pace" - Textura

"Barely visible movements of slate grey cumulonimbus, slowly building its massive architecture, rumbles of thunder emanating from its core" - Futuresequence

"Amazingly uplifting listen with surprise euphoria hidden around every corner" - Norman Records.


Misshapen Beauty [i]

god's fingertips

Concluding "Hope" theme for the mini documentary "A Neighborhood At The Limit", commissioned by Parallaxi, realised by DesTV, directed by Giorgos Skandalaris. Screened at Olympion / Thessaloniki / 10 June 2015.

- This track was later on expanded and adapted to the 8.1 surround system of "Start Fellowship Celebration" held in Labattoir, Thessaloniki, May 12 2016. Photo by Angelos Zymaras

Special thanks to Elisso Papastrati (violin) and Charalambos Papadopoulos (Cello)!

A Neighborhood At The Limit - Hope Theme (extended)

Touch

The second song from 'Mono' - Simeon Walker's new full length album - 'Turn' invites and welcomes listeners to hunker down and hibernate away from the stresses and strains of the world.

With stunning artwork by Gregory Euclide, the album is now available to pre-order both digitally (on all major streaming services) and on limited edition vinyl and CD.

Head to www.simeonwalker.co.uk/shop for more information

Mono

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Turn

If The Moon Could Frown ft. The Iskra String Quartet

Silhouettes

Mourners Matinée

The first track from Lucy Claire's upcoming EP, String Works, out 9th March 2018 on 1631 Recordings! 

Violin - Marie Schreer, John Garner 
Viola - Francis Gallagher
Cello - Naomi McLean
Double Bass - Gwen Reed
Piano - Lucy Claire

It Is Winter Here

Piano solo piece from my new Album "Reminiscence" to be released in May 2018. © 2018 Dominique Charpentier. All rights reserved
https://dominiquecharpentier.bandcamp.com/album/r-miniscence
Artwork by Anna Salzmann: www.annasalzmann.com

Réminiscence

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Brugge (from "Réminiscence")

"Allewind", composed by Dirk Maassen. This is my piano cover. 
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_T15bUWMiE
Original sheet music: dirkmaassen.bandzoogle.com/sheets

Allewind - Dirk Maassen // Piano Cover by Dominique Charpentier

Title track from Daigo Hanada's forthcoming EP 'Ouka' out June 21st 

Pre-order the album on CD/DL : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/ouka 

Stream the track on your favourite digital platform : https://orcd.co/single-ouka 

Written and recorded by Daigo Hanada 
Mastered by Martyn Heyne

Ouka

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Daigo Hanada - Ouka

Another excerpt from live performance of my first opera based on H. Ch. Andersen's fairy "The Ugly Duckling"  Beautifully performed by Con Brio Children's Choir and Leopoldinum Orchestra in National Forum of Music in Wrocław.

Photograph by Tomasz Bogusz

The Ugly Duckling (Children's Opera)

The King of Swans

Download: https://tristaneckerson.bandcamp.com/

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/24LGVKHzsrVV7oo94nlNE1

Listen on Apple Music: itunes.apple.com/us/artist/trista…erson/1243764726

Patreon: www.patreon.com/tristaneckerson

It Is Winter Here

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