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One of the remixes from the Remixes and Alternates CDr that ships with the new LP by Zvuku. This disc only goes to people who help the funding campaign on indiegogo and select the extra disc perk!

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Zvuku - Coldsong (Tiny Leaves Remix)


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]

My childhood in August, so many sweet sweet memories..
*3*~♫

Video on YouTube -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJIlYWmqLcU

August

Wake Up

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0bf5EW1aMSEpvysqe16iUB?si=CD_igLkpTemBuLVyVEKSLw

Epiloog

Contains a sample from:

Low (Remix) - IA (Produced by IA)

Pay Attention Or Pay The Price

Lonely Love

203 Years taken from the album 'The Sleeper Awakes' released on the 4th May 2015 through Village Green.

The track features a 19th Century 'Dulcitone' - A piano-like instrument using tuning forks instead of strings.  Limited numbers of them were made in Glasgow in the late 1800's.

Available on LP / CD / DL here - https://benchatwin.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeper-awakes

203 Years

from compilation ‘Algorithmics’ (Piano Day 2017)
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2oG1fbz
iTunes: https://itun.es/ca/wNf5ib
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2pfs44p

@daigohanada
Written and recorded by Daigo Hanada
Mastered by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering

Artwork by Marin Blanc (http://www.marinblanc.com)
Layout by Nicolas Hyatt

Daigo Hanada - Once Heard (Algorithmics/Piano Day 2017)

Buy Album: http://smarturl.it/clutchedbc

There have been many pretty and sorrowful pieces written for cello in recent years, yet Alder & Ash seem discontent in this mild approach, opting instead to purge the demons with a more unsettling and destructive aural palette. Not to say it’s all doom and gloom, as the moments of tension do give way to some resolve and enlightenment, but the true genius of Alder & Ash’s music lies in the balance of these extremes.

'Clutched in the Maw of the World', the second full-length album from Alder & Ash, is as much maximal as it is minimal. It punctuates periods of barren calm with thunder and screams, before creeping back to the silence and the dusk. The album is comprised entirely of cello. 'Clutched...' combines traditional classical modalities with gnarled, heavily treated modern techniques to devastating affect. Glass, wood, rain, stone and air are all present in the music, from the crystalline notes of the "Merciless Dawn" to the unyielding crashes and lumbering slabs of distorted rhythm of "A Seat Amongst God and His Children."

Alder & Ash treads on the experimental fringes of modern classical, perhaps too abrasive to play nice with the coy melodrama of the scene. Yet, the music has enough grit to take hold of lovers of doom, noise, and the like, perhaps winning over new fans of cello music from even the most hardened black metal die-hards.

Alder and Ash are not without their contemporaries, at times bringing to mind the lonesome bowed soundscapes of Warren Ellis, the calculated and darkly toned compositions of Christoph Berg, the rustic grandeur of the Montreal based label Constellation, or even the recent High Plains album on Kranky. With Alder & Ash’s penchant for unconventional rhythmics and freeform, teeth-baring experimentation one could also draw comparisons to the work of Colin Stetson.

Album Art by Susi Sie

Clutched in the Maw of the World

A Seat Amongst God and His Children

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Alder & Ash - A Seat Amongst God and His Children (from Clutched in the Maw)

from 'Manos Milonakis - Festen' released May 26th 2017

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Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Manos Milonakis (@manosmilonakismusic) at -1 Studio.

Piano, synth : Manos Milonakis
Violin : Viktor Orri Árnason
Viola : Viktor Orri Árnason
Cello : Sebastian Selke, Thodoris Papadimitriou

Artwork by Tilman  http://geometrydaily.tumblr.com
www.manosmilonakismusic.com

Festen

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Manos Milonakis - Father's Theme

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

Original music and sound design composed for a dance performance for the "Researcher's Night 2017" of EKETA. Presented at Thessaloniki Concert Hall, 29.09.2017
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www.researchersnight.gr
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Direction: Nikos Kapelios
Dance: Rhiannon Elena Morgan
Make Up: Lida Dalla
Einstein Act: Kostas Kafantaris

Time

Wormhole

Entropy

Today I would like to introduce you to Reza Safinia with this exclusive premiere of a piece titled “Within” from his upcoming, self-released Yin album. He’s got a fascinating background, with names such as Destiny’s Child, Britney Spears, Akala and even Dr Dre appearing on his curriculum vitae. But this is not a pop record – I wouldn’t feature that on Headphone Commute, right? Rather, the album collects compositions influenced by romantic classical music (Satie and Debussy are quoted) with a touch of cinematic electronica, which Safinia incorporated from his extensive background in film music (he’s scored a few Hollywood productions, such as The Trust and Mercy). There is an influence of the spiritual and eastern philosophies on the record (Safinia is a yoga teacher and a practising Daoist), and its reflection can be glimpsed in the album title itself. Of course, there is a second half, appropriately named Yang, which will be published later in the year, but for now, we have eleven gentle, peaceful, slightly melancholic and overwhelmingly beautiful tracks, with the album’s opener featured here today.

Within

TRACK PREMIERE : Reza Safinia - Within

Soundcloud music library of Manos Milonakis // composer, performer, architect, former member of the band "Your Hand in Mine".

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