Icy expanses, but warmed by a human heart. Thanks for sparing the frostbite.

Pr⦵f⦸nda Atm⦶sfera #11

Pre-order: 10th March 2023
Release date: 16th 10 March 2023
Format: Cassette, Digital

'Tra macerie di lutto' is a work about remembrance, about the ability of our mind to mutate an event into memory. How real is what we remember? How do time and memory change what we have actually experienced? The combination of acoustic instruments and electronics gives life to two compositions that seem to change continuously while remaining static, where the sound appears volatile while chasing an end that seems to never come. This release is inspired by ‘Tra macerie di lutto’, a poem by Alessandro Izzi.

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previews. Ivano Pecorini - Tra macerie di Lutto | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

Pre-order: 12th May 2023
Release date: 23th May 2023
Format: Cassette, Digital

'Passages' is a journey through a transformative process that leads to a place where memories are gathered.

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Dionisaf - Ulysses (album preview)

Limited Edition CD available at: https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/ulysses

Ulysses is another name for the Odyssey. The album is based on Odysseus' story, considering James Joyce's rethinking of the epic in Ulysses. The recording actively uses the sounds of "non-musical" objects (sea shells, paper, foam, etc.). At different moments you can hear food sizzling in a pan or a cat purring. This collection of small elements of everyday life symbolizes the modest human feats we perform every day, as we strive toward our goals. Just as Odysseus strove home to Ithaca, overcoming difficulties, losing friends, and sometimes forgetting himself, but continuing his way, each person becomes the hero of their own Odyssey. Ulysses is a post ambient album, because ambient should be plotless, non narrative, like wallpaper. But here we have the plot and connection with a lot of meanings.

Music and mastering by @dionis-afonichev
Cover artwork by Å Asher Yates

Ulysses

Dionisaf - Ulysses [AR013] preview

Pre-order: 14th June 2023
Release date: 21th June 2023
Format: Cassette, Digital

"KYOKAI" is the first collaboration between duenn and Satomimagae. After seeing Satomi's live performance, duenn decided to make music with her. 
Mixing duenn's experimental ambient sound scape and Satomi's voice, they made "heteromorphic" pop sounds, which are more than "Haiku" but less than "Music". 
The title "KYOKAI" meaning "Border" in Japan, comes from a sign on the street on the way to duenn's work. Many vague boundaries that exist in this world inspired this album.

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previews. Satomimagae + Duenn - 境界 KYOKAI | ROHS!

Tracklist

Tore Figenschou - Reinmerking Vassdalen Edit
Niilas - Standing By The Edge  [Niilas]
Jarguna & Uzbazur - Esoteric Garden  [Riteshindi]
Eirik Havnes - Det Ene Føder Det Andre  [Music Super Circus]
Dream Carpets - Melon City  [Dreamcarpets]
Mind over MIDI - Alt om meg blir natt  [Mindovermidi]
Rudow - Mind over MIDI Optical / Wave (Reshape) [Take It Away Police]
Arthur Kriulyn - Oblaka  [Mystictrax]
Mikael Lind - Horizon  [Dronarivm]
ALVA NOTO - Subterraneans (Instrumental) [Noton]
Heavenchord, Infinity Dots - Summer Night  [Secretdomainlabel]
Johan Sara Jr - Áhpi,ent  [Stierdna]
Alexander Rishaug - H_kon  [Dekorder]
Genning - Typewriter's Landscape  [Spitzer]
H.Takahashi - Wurzel  [Wheretonow]
fish don't like milk - part 4  [Fishdontlikemilk]
Biosphere - Tombant  [Biophonrecords]
Pablo Bolivar & Sensual Physics - Im Norden  [Sevenvillas]
Themistoklis Altintzoglou - SCIFER  [xtxax]

Midnite Sun Soundscape Vol. 6

Mi Cosa de Resistance is Buenos Aires, Argentina based artist Fernando Perales, who has released with labels including Elm, Rusted Tone, Minimal Resource Manipulation, Aural Tethers and his own imprint ‘Hissful Tapes’. Fernando was also the spearhead behind the various artists album ‘A Speechless Body’ which we released on Whitelabrecs in January 2022. Within the line-up of artists included in this project was Ciro Berenguer with whom he has collaborated for this album.  Ciro also originates from Argentina, hailing from Rosario but for the last couple of decades, he has lived in Barcelona, Spain. Ciro’s music has been released on labels such as Dauw, Eilean and Slaapwel. He has also collaborated with Ghost and Tape (Heine Christensen) as Sokkyo.

This collaborative album between Mi Cosa de Resistance and Ciro Berenguer is entitled ‘El final de las lluvias', which translates to ‘The end of the rains’. It is inspired by moments of transition; in the Mediterranean they know Spring has ended and Summer is approaching once the rain subsides. This may be the title of the album and but one example, yet the broader theme of the album is to mark the end of something, and the beginning of something else.

There is a balance of these artists’ respective styles and inputs, in an album adept in presenting light, dark and melancholic moods through its many shades. It’s a space in which their musical personalities can live alongside one another as one, with Fernando’s hints of darkness placed alongside Ciro’s music box compositions and recordings of bicycle rides through the suburbs of Barcelona. It draws in experiences of pre and post pandemic life, from the viewpoint of two populous cities, and its blend of blurred naturalistic-leaning tones sit, decayed, against an urban bedrock. At times optimistic, at times despairing, El final de las lluvias was finished in Spring 2022 as these artists emerged from a 2 year period of life, learning to deal with the challenges of the pandemic. This record, a document, marks the conclusion of one phase, and the beginning of something else.

El final de las Iluvias

wlr138 Mi Cosa de Resistance & Ciro Berenguer - El final de las lluvias

Tracklist

01. Arovane - Endett
02. Andrew Heath - Belonging
03. Solo Andata - Leaden Sky
04. Memory Scale - A Suivre
05. Thme - Nocens
06. Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson - Anther
07. Mi Cosa de Resistance & Ciro Berenguer - Los espejos
08. Andy Cartwright - Mended Environment
09. Francesco Covarino - Nido i
10. Miguel Otero - End of Summer by The Pier

338. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Winter Calm
Artist: Akmuo
Release date: 2023-07-28
Label: Liberty Rhythm
Catalog: LBRTHY110
https://www.beatport.com/release/winter-calm/4180128

Winter Calm

Akmuo - Exiting Physical Reality [Liberty Rhythm]

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Yost - To Those Who Wander

There Is No There

'Opia' from the Scandinavian Swords II LP compilation. Released on Northern Electronics

Buy: https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/scandinavian-swords-ii
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Northern-Electronics-Scandinavian-Swords-II/release/8901056
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-xJfqXPMs

Opia

From the album Geophony. 

2019 Remastered edition
http://tlov.bandcamp.com/album/geophony

Geophony

Visual

Visual (2019 Remaster)

Earthen Sea - A Relentless Gaze [SSX01]

A1. The Sky is A Sea of Darkness
A2. Bells of Venus
B1. Our Bloods
B2. The Time Past

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Earthen Sea is New York based musician Jacob Long. Since 2006, Long has released music on a variety of formats on a number of labels including Lovers Rock, Imminent Frequencies, and Other People. The music has been noted for its swirling low end, pulsing melodies and propulsive barely-there rhythms and his work has also been described as  having a knack for texture that creates a disorienting, lost-in-your head sensation that allows it to work as both trippy ambience or immersive dance music.

https://soundcloud.com/earthzone

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The Silent Season 10 Year Anniversary compilation celebrates a decade of deeper electronic music. The vinyl series features artists whose music continues to inspire the Silent Season journey. 2007-2017.

silentseason.com/ssx10/

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info@silentseason.com
www.silentseason.com

A Relentless Gaze

Juno Records

Earthen Sea - A Relentless Gaze [SSX01]

Subsolar out now 

Hailing from Kristiansund on the northwest coast of Norway, Helge Tømmervåg has been crafting electronic sounds since the early '80s. His earliest work recorded under the now-familiar Mind over MIDI moniker arrived in the early '90s. He's released scores of highly regarded and stylistically uncompromising sounds over the years, appearing on labels including Silent Seasons, Diametric, Hibernate, Whitelabrecs, ROHS! Lontano Series, Shimmering Moods Records, Slow Tones Collages and via his own Berserk Fabrik.


ABOUT THE MUSIC
Electronic music for daydreamers and nighthinkers. Inspired by the icy winds, snowy vistas and frozen landscapes in Norway.

If you can picture the very furthest, coldest, darkest part of Norway, that's where Mind over MIDI resides. If you want to get an idea of what it's like there, and can do without the frostbite, then this is the perfect solution.

There Is No There

Mind over MIDI

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