Out now: https://hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/a-wake-in-shadows

“A wake in shadows” is a funerary dirge for the lost and an implement of catharsis for the here and now. A warm embrace for cold nights when loneliness scrapes at the frozen windowpanes and shadows of ourselves dance on the periphery of the firelight. In the darkness of a hushed forest and a quiet mind, the leaves fall from whispering trees, their limbs shed bare in the frigid moonlight. In the spring the roots will feed on the past and sing bittersweet life into the canopy with a long sigh of ephemeral recompense.

a wake in shadows

Bandcamp

In February of 2022, as Storm Eunice worked its way across the UK, two people, namely Greig Baird and his partner Susie Baird set out for a rare weekend away on the North Coast of Devon. The weather was rough, but life affirming. The North Devon coast spectacular and dramatic; made more so by the waning storm.

This collection is a set of sonified memories; moments in a particular location at a particular time. A creative recalling. A set of sound postcards if you will.

For Susie. As always, thank you. I love you.

Special thank you to Uma Baird.

Thank you to Brad Deschamps and Polar Seas Recordings.

Also a big thank you to James Bernard.

written and produced by Greig Baird 
mastered by James Bernard at Ambient Mountain House 
photography, design and layout by Greig Baird

psr-066

A Shared Place

Storm Waning

'Storm Waning' - 'A Shared Place - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2023]

Last Days

Support

Veil

Taken from "I want to hear and see everything"

Only a few last copies of the limited edition CD available here:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-want-to-hear-and-see-everything

Di Rosa belongs to those authentic musicians who have tackled the vast field of action offered by the genre from a theoretical basis, aiming above all at an aesthetic verification of means and instruments dictated by concrete experience. In his case, it is difficult to take into account reference models since everything materialises after understanding the potential of keyboards, synthesisers and software for manipulating acoustic signals, a research that is then transferred into completely improvised sounds, plots and textures. With his music, Di Rosa tries to document the 'experience', the feelings and relationships that the environment (understood in a broader sense than the natural environment) provides us with. 

In the tracks of 'I want to hear and see everything' there is a further aspect to be taken into account, namely his geographical origin, since the sound material used is the result of a meditated elaboration on the specificities of the Sicilian territory, particularly that of Ragusa, during a live performance to celebrate the writer Gesualdo Bufalino: In concrete terms, Di Rosa's profound thoughts turn to the paintings of Piero Guccione, an artist who worked magnificently on the optical density of lines, shadows and representations, allowing for a visual level of detail capable of providing an inimitable interplay between presence and rarefaction; the 'confusion' of elements was most evident in the paintings of the sea, where Guccione infused a fabulous atmospheric intent, managing to create an indistinct visual 'mass' capable of making us imagine even what is not in the painting. 

Undoubtedly, Guccione could be a pictorial reference for a good slice of ambient musicians of the last two decades, who have based their expressive power on the 'confusion' of real and instrumental sounds, with the aim of restoring images that linger in the memory for a few seconds and then give way to other images of a different calibre. The music of 'I want to hear and see everything' tends towards the same evocative idioms, it is constructed with interventions that want to arouse those prophetic densities, a contracted lyricism that technically feeds on a mix that contains within it loops, wide synth openings, granulations, sculpture sounds, fragments of vocal field recordings, irregular downtempo music, electrical short circuits and coherent responses to the processuality of digital signals (Di Rosa uses the DSP of ppooll immersed in Max/MSP). 

As Hippolyte Taine warned in his essay 'On Intelligence', images appear and disappear, come into conflict with our ideas, take us back to a strange world of addictions: imagination is therefore a powerful distributor of positivity and negativity of contexts, and this justifies the 'roughness' that Di Rosa often places alongside the trance of sounds: the visions and complexities of his land are found intact in another dimension, they are those little mysteries that stud Guccione's calm and absolute paintings of the seas, which make us navigate between seductions and truths. 

Ettore Garzia 

releases December 6, 2024 

SHM 323 
Shimmering Moods Records 2024



Rosario di Rosa - calende greche

forgotten

Dark ambient Dreamscapes for you to enjoy. Relax, unwind, meditate and chillout

DARK AMBIENT - AFTERMATH

Ms* Gloom - Bodyguard (No:Heaven remix)

taken from the remix ep:
AROVANE & HIOR CHRONIK - IN BETWEEN (REMIX EP)
on A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE
feb2016

Arovane & Hior Chronik - Scale (Markus Guentner Remix)

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Under Blankets'...

Audio: Caught In The Wake Forever
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

Mailing List:

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Under Blankets

Caught In The Wake Forever - Under Blankets

Track 2 from "cloudform" by zarr.

zarr.bandcamp.com/album/cloudform
open.spotify.com/album/0a6HkYdetmEVV4WqsYzYcl

cloudform

zarr. - Kairos

The North Shore: Bliss Out v.20

Always Alone

'Storm Waning' - 'A Shared Place - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2023]

Moss Covered Technology