this is just beautiful. such rich texture - the piano and violin go together beautifully against the complex backdrop. terrific collaboration.

Love the combination of noise and strings!

~ LAAPS 012 ~ [SEQ.02 - LP12]

artist : Federico Durand
album : Herbario
duration : 39.52 mn
 date : June 17th, 2021

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

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Federico Durand: ARP Odyssey, cassette tapes, feedback looper, Sony TCM-459V, Microcosm, El Capistan, EHX 2880, RE-201, sampler, short-wave radio.
 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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"Herbario is the Spanish name given to a collection of dried plants and flowers preserved in an album. The collector usually writes with pencil the name of the herb, the place and date of collection, thoughts, and the habitat where the plant was collected from.
 
I live in a place surrounded by mountains and wild gardens which are, to me, a source of inexhaustible beauty. Through them I feel the passage of time: an ancient, circular temporality that follows the course of seasons, dialogues with the dark stillness of the mountain and the moon calendar. Each musical piece of Herbario has the name of my favourite flowers and trees.
 
Through a year of uncertainty, from March 2020 to March 2021, I composed this album in the same way a botanist would have proceeded: collecting and preserving simple, broken and hypnotic melodies.
 
F. D.
La Cumbre, Argentina. "

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/

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Federico Durand - Salvia

maybe heared something before sleep ? 


!🦦

心臓のすぐちかくの

0rbit0r_demo_1

Stereo Hypnosis - Eraldo Bernocchi - Christopher Chaplin. Live at Fríkirkjan í Reykjavik 9.10.22 - Extreme Chill Festival 2022

Stereo Hypnosis - Eraldo Bernocchi - Christopher Chaplin - Fríkirkjan 9.10.22

Tu Musica No Miente. (II Purgatory) (SIM Residency Project. Iceland. 2023)

. svyra svalbardas .
for wind orchestra.
2023.

performed by Lithuanian Symphonic Wind Orchestra.
conducted by Karolis Variakojis.

live from Contemporary Music Festival 'Druskomanija 2023'.

svyra svalbardas (2023) for wind orchestra

~ LAAPS 035 ~ [SEQ.05 - LP35]

artist : Masaya Ozaki
album : Mizukara
duration : 43.48 mn
date : April 29th, 2024

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 250 copies / total clear LP / selective UV varnish / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Composed and produced by Masaya Ozaki
In collaboration with: 
Ferdinand Ledoux: concepts (Evening Regions)
Stijn Brinkman: violin and field recordings (Evening regions)
Eyrún Úa: Flute and objects (Opið Rými)
Lindy Lin: voice, poem, and electronics (Siskin) 
Asalaus: guitar, voice and electronics (Frá Vatni)
Guomundur Arnalds: electronics (Skerpla)

Recorded in Reykjavík, Iceland, between 2023 and 2024

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Jenni Toivonen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://www.masayaozaki.com/
https://masayaozaki.bandcamp.com/music

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Mizukara

Masaya Ozaki - Skerpla

Tracklist

01. Masaya Ozaki - Evening Regions
02. Glacis - From One Room To Another (So You Leave Me Now)
03. Seabuckthorn - The Lights All Out
04. Federico Durand, Pablo Picco - Nuevos colores
05. Luis Miehlich - Small Scores June
06. Slow Heart Music - Overflow
07. Braulio Lam - Skylight Filter
08. Waldgrenze + Nikita Vasilenko - Mist

375. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

You can purchase at
https://eileanrec.bandcamp.com/album/dialog-tapes
https://dauw.bandcamp.com/album/dialog-tapes

"Dialog Tapes is a blend between Eilean Rec. & Dauw in which we linked artists of both labels. It’s the result of true love for each other works. We hope you enjoy this little treasure." 

Of Rainforests And Glaciers

‘Hesitant’ is a sound study created over the course of 2017, and also a reissue and partly a rework of a special 35 copy edition book released for my 2017 Japanese tour. This work is dedicated to Steve Roden.

‘Hesitant’ includes several sound sources captured for various events I was invited to participate in. The sounds were in perpetual change and becoming for a year, until I almost lost track of their origin.

I met Steve Roden in Pasadena during my residency in Los Angeles, curated by VOLUME in June 2017. We spent almost an entire afternoon at his beautiful bubble house talking about life, art, upcoming works and drinking a Japanese roasted tea called houjicha. He told me about his recent decision to get rid of the gear he had used for years, in order to approach something he wouldn’t know very well, like a modular synth. The courage to perform live without a complete knowledge of the new instrument, nor any pre-arranged sound or synth patch, exposes him to failures. “Being vulnerable means sharing”, he said. I was stunned by his incredible honesty. That is a real enlightenment in the contemporary darkness based on appearance, rather than contents. 

Compositions, live performances or anything concerning shows, are all something that deal with fiction in a way. With this new work I sought to not create any pre-determined intention as much as possible, erasing any explicit compositional gesture to focus on instability and hesitation. This is a work without a precise form, yet to be completely revealed, like something ancestral that could potentially be anything. 

‘Hesitant’ is an attempt to present sound as it is, not attached to anything but itself, yet far away from being a document or a representation of something.

—

(Maybe) recorded at EMS Elektronmusikstudion (Stockholm), Pollinaria (Civitella Casanova), Japanese Pavillion @ LACMA + Richard Serra’s ‘Band’ @ LACMA + 600 Moulton Ave (Los Angeles), Tokonoma Studio (Roseto degli Abruzzi), Garten Der Welt + Eisenbahnstr. 15 (Berlin).

Photography by Matthias Urban. Art direction by Joe McKay. 

Thanks to Steve Roden, Lorenzo Balloni, Luigi Turra, Joe Mckay, and all the people I met in Japan in Nov–Dec 2017.

Excerpt from Hesitant

Hesitant (excerpt: 5, 9, 14)

The second movement of Morton Feldman's music for the film ‘Sculpture by Lipton’ , a documentary from 1954 about the work of the sculptor Seymour Lipton to which Feldman wrote the music. The original score has not survived, but the piece was transcribed from the soundtrack by Philip Thomas, who performs it on his 5-CD box set of Feldman's piano music, which will be released in September 2019.

Of Rainforests And Glaciers

Masaya Ozaki

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