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Sean McCann - Ten Impressions for Piano & Strings
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: Jan 16, 2015
US: Jan 20, 2015

Realized over a four year period, Sean McCann’s Ten Impressions for Piano & Springs is a document of transition and maturation. Slow moving cloud forms over corporeal landscapes, these impressions whisper of McCann’s imminent & decisive lean towards classical & avant-garde musics, culminating in 2013’s Music for Private Ensemble on his own imprint, Recital. Less a final statement on ambient music, more a meditation on change, discovery and process.

rootstrata.com/release/RS97

Sean McCann - Guardian

Thaw

Taken from the compilation - Evidence of Intense Beauty

Music can be a transformational experience... 

Evidence of intense beauty is a series of exquisite compositions from pioneers in the field of ambient microsound and modern classical curated by David Newman from Audiobulb Records. These works are exemplars selected by the artists to represent their conceptual sense of beauty. 

This collection brings together the work of artists who are immersed in a broad range of aesthetics. Beauty cannot be predefined but the principal responsibility of the composer is to control the experience of time for the listener and in that time help them discover what resonates within. 

Paul Dresher once said that human attention and consciousness works by “holding onto a certain amount of familiarity, and then introducing a certain amount of newness”. 

This idea brings the hope of an intensely beautiful music. A beauty in what is both endlessly new and evolving becoming incredibly moving. Beauty is the experience of an outstanding and benign emotional impact. 

Our audience includes people who actively engage with music and who want to be taken on a journey. Each track takes the ingredients of minimalism coupled with a strong sense of tonality to produce a slowly evolving narrative. We present materials in a way that engages with the listener progressing and enhancing their experience of time.

Monty Adkins - With Small Hands Waving

'Daydreams In Low Fidelity' is the new work from talented UK-based artist Halftribe, who brought us 'Luxia' last year. Presented in a beautiful 4-panel CDr with pictures by Brian Young.

Written and Produced by Halftribe. 
Mastering by Rob Small. 
Photography by Brian Young | www.instagram.com/losingtoday 
Archives33 // ArchivesCD014 
Archives / 2017

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Halftribe - Coastal Lows

From Idle Worship Cassette and Digital out April 28 2017 on Sounds of the Dawn

Idle Worship

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Alex Crispin - Green Ember (Cassette and Digital Out 4/28/17)

Music: Paolo Alberto Samonà
N° Repertorio: 17327031000

STONE MEMORIES

Butterfly Bend

From Sonja Tofik and Mar-llena's collaborative LP release 'Vilar i dina spår', released on LP in May 2018
MOLOTON003 & MOLOTON008
@sonjatofik
@moonilena

Vilar i dina spår

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Sonja Tofik - I din famn, äntligen fri

'Peaks' it's our first compilation, with fifteen pieces going from ambient to techno. Including some new and familiar faces on Faint, like Mykja, Araceae, Powlos, Data Domain or SVLBRD.

Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi.
Faint008 // FaintCD008
Faint / 2018

Blomkraft & SVLBRD - Manaslu

This is the lovely opening track on the new Time Released Sound Around The World Ambient Music Program release. Available in both a limited edition CD version, and an extended digital version with three bonus tracks!

The Time Released Sound Around The World Ambient Music Program... Purl - Thaw

Aisuru - Mother, taken from 'A Family'

A pastel blend of tonalities, channeling the deepest intimacies contained within the family sphere. Where the nuclear family is currently deconstructed by the evergazing public eye, it still attempts to withhold the raw, bleeding emotions of promise, birth, and, ultimately, death. 
Communicating these chapters of life through the whispers of magnetic tape, 'Mother' especially reminisces a warmth and delicacy, evoked through soft touches on the piano keyboard. A smile, a gesture, frozen in time. 

Tracklist:

A1. Vows
A2. First Born
A3. Mother
A4. Specialists
A5. Hospital Visits

B1. Father
B2. Last Goodbyes
B3. Childhood Home

All music composed by Aisuru

AEST-036
Edition of 36
2019

https://soundcloud.com/aisurudrone
https://soundcloud.com/perfectaesthetics

A Family

Premiere: Aisuru - Mother [Perfect Aesthetics]

Slow Walking

'Departure Process' - Slow Walking - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2019]

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Strategy, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Production
Mally Harpaz - Harmonium, Vibraphone, Cymbal Percussion
David Lynch - Visual Art

Song of the Stellar Circuits

Written and produced by Greig Baird 
Layout and design by 扎克 
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© Healing Sound Propagandist 
HSP-05 | MMXIX 
pastinsidethepresent.com/hsp 
healingsoundpropagandist.bandcamp.com
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all rights reserved

In the Summer of 2019 Greig Baird and his family moved home and into a new area of a city they have lived for many years.

The layers and layers of history in this new locale were palpable and inspired Baird to create this small collection of music, ‘Once Hallowed’.

This new area was home to a Franciscan Friary established in the 13th century and later home to a church, Allhallows-on-the-Wall built in the 19th century. This church was later a corset factory, then later a parachute factory during war time. The last burials in this place were conducted in secrecy by the light of a midnight moon during the cholera epidemic of 1832. The wall outside Baird’s home dates to Roman times and was once the south-western city limit.

The burial grounds now deconsecrated and long abandoned are also home to the catacombs of the city. Again abandoned long ago, bodies long removed, tales of stolen skulls and grave robbing, and the stone of which they are built are all that remains. The areas wildlife, dog walkers, children playing, students hanging around, drunks falling asleep on abandoned tombs and the city’s drug dealers plying trade all make the place what it is. Often beautiful as the light changes and Falcons fly above, the sounds of the day city form into the nocturnal; sometimes sad as the desperation of people’s modern situations becomes abundantly clear.

The relics of the past experienced in our present creates something else. Something deeply inspiring, creating an atmosphere deeply felt and not entirely understood.

Once Hallowed

'Distant Station (Nocturne)' - Once Hallowed - [Healing Sound Propagandist, 2019]

Solo Steinway 2017 Album VOL.1

Moonlight & Bees

Nu minns jag

Alltid så

This is a series of sketch-like works that arose out of the need for me to create an atmosphere when working in the studio. A loop would be made then I'd start the prep work for that session. The loop may even inspire the output and work created for that day.

The release is pay what you like and I'd appreciate if you took a moment to go over to Dewtone and check this out.

Many thanks and I really hope you enjoy this small and beautiful release with artwork from photographer Courtney Smith and mastering by Pheek over at audioservices.studio.

Hope you enjoy it.

'Untitled Quiet Loop #1' - Quiet Loops - [Dewtone Recordings, 2020]

Fatih Tuter - Winterwald
This track is taken from the forthcoming album "Beehive"

CD/Cassette/Digital

Releases 24.9.2020
Pre orders: shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Recording and finalizing of Beehive last almost 4 years because of unavoidable breaks. It can be seen as personal notes from my last 4 years after moving to a new country. At the end, it had been nice to record changes of inspiration which mainly came through nature and the new people in my life.

Written and produced by Fatih Tuter
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Artwork by Serhat Kavas

CD
Limited Edition CD / 75 copies / Hand Numbered / Hand Made Packages / Brown Kraft Wallets / Professional duplicated cdr

(Includes unlimited streaming of Cloud Dreaming And Shadows via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more)

Cassette
Limited Edition / 25 copies / Full color o-cards / Pro Dubbed / Clear Frosted Cassettes / C51

(Includes unlimited streaming of Cloud Dreaming And Shadows via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more)

Fatih Tuter - Winterwald

Written and Produced by Powlos
Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
Faint020 // FaintCD020
Faint / 2020

Enamour

Salomé

~ Enamour ~

2020 plays out to the sound of ‘Ghost Sounds’ by Polaroid Notes, who returns to Whitelabrecs following 2017’s ‘Unsung Memories’. The artist, based in the countryside that lies between Munich and the Alps, has released with us on sister labels Tessellate Recordings and Audio Gourmet, as well as Weber & Alcantu, Büro für Erdrotation and his own label Drone Works International. Some may also recall the Rhodes-led ambience of the ‘Moonlight Sessions’, the fourteenth edition of our Home Diaries series.

‘Ghost Sounds’ treads the cinematic lines of atmospheric piano and electronic ambient music, with unsettling undercurrents which occasionally creep into view. It has been in production since November 2019 as the sound of Polaroid Notes was pushed to develop a wider variety. The recording methods, effects and techniques were painstakingly adapted through experimentation and some truly spooky moments were captured. From here, Ghost Sounds became an obvious working title for the album.

The basic approach behind this album is an attempt to deal with our weird and uncertain times in politics, health, social separation, isolation and cocooning. Ghost Sounds tries to capture this strange atmosphere - somewhere between deep despair, silent hope and the wish to wake up from restless and unfullfillable dreams. The album artwork features photography by the artist during the first few winter days of 2020, captured in the Black Forest, which is close to the artist’s working residence during the week.

Ghost Sounds

wlr084 Polaroid Notes - Ghost Sounds

From the album: Hotel Neon - Moments

Physical copies and digital downloads available here:
http://soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com

Sound In Silence is proud to welcome Hotel Neon to its family, presenting their new album Moments.

Hotel Neon is an ambient trio, geographically spread between Philadelphia, Baltimore and Virginia Beach, USA. Formed in 2013 as a duo by twin brothers Andrew and Michael Tasselmyer, Hotel Neon expanded into a trio when Steven Kemner joined them in 2015. To date they have released five albums on labels such as Home Normal, Fluid Audio and Archives, a 10” vinyl split with Endless Melancholy on Thesis, and a single on Past Inside The Present. They have also self-released a remix album, two tour cassettes and four singles, two of which collaborating with Slow Meadow and one with Blurstem. Hotel Neon have toured with the likes of Benoît Pioulard, Lowercase Noises, Slow Meadow, Loscil, The Sight Below, Marcus Fischer and Christopher Tignor, filling a variety of performance spaces from galleries to cathedrals with their densely layered walls of sound, while all three members have also been active either as solo artists or in groups and projects such as The Sound Of Rescue, Gray Acres, Solidarity Hymn, Mordançage and Transient Sounds.

Moments, Hotel Neon’s sixth full-length album and first for Sound In Silence, consists of seven evocative tracks with a total duration of something more than 36 minutes. Recorded in the span of just eight weeks and done remotely, Moments is definitely one of the more minimal and textural albums Hotel Neon have ever made. Proving that they avoid repeating themselves with every album, on Moments there is certainly a stronger presence of more orchestral sounds than on their previous albums. Widening their sound palette with more swelling strings, moving orchestral elements, and subtle piano melodies, along with their usual textured layers of hazy guitars, glassy drones, soothing pads and field recordings, Hotel Neon offer one of their best albums to date.
Mastered by Taylor Deupree, Moments is a truly touching masterpiece which appeals to all fans of artists such as Stars Of The Lid, Hammock and A Winged Victory For The Sullen.

Moments comes in two distinct editions.

The first one is a deluxe limited edition of 100 handmade, hand-stamped and hand-numbered collectible copies. The disc of this edition includes an exclusive eighth bonus track, mastered by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave), not included in the other edition or the digital download. It is packaged in a lovely sewn fabric envelope, which includes a 4 panel insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 250 gsm smoky grey recycled cardboard and the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

The second one is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 250 gsm smoky grey recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 120 gsm greyish white recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

Hotel Neon - nov 3

'Untitled Quiet Loop #1' - Quiet Loops - [Dewtone Recordings, 2020]

Moss Covered Technology