I am Hearing this since two days i a loop... great atmosphere it never get boring 🙌

Written and Produced by Dovydas Vasiliauskas
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
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Misleading Structures - Inner Heat Ascent

Notgoodenough & SVSH - Soundnum22

'The Future is a Forward Escape Into the Past' is the latest album by Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist and composer Yann Novak, and his second for Touch. It considers the relationships between memory, time, and context through four vibrantly constructed tracks that push Novak’s work in a new direction while simultaneously exploring his sonic past. 'The Future is a Forward Escape Into the Past' is composed as a quadriptych – a single gesture broken into four parts – that meditates on the inevitable progression of time, our relationship to the past, and our distortion of the past through the imperfections of memory. The album will be released February 23, 2018 on the London-based label Touch. Available digitally and on CD, the physical version will be packaged in a gatefold sleeve as a limited edition of 500. For more information on the artist and release, please visit www.touch33.net.

The album’s conceptual roots stem from 'The Archaic Revival' by American ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna. In it, McKenna theorizes that when a culture becomes dysfunctional it attempts to revert back to a saner moment in its own history. He suggested that abstract expressionism, body piercing and tattooing, psychedelic drug use, sexual permissiveness, and rave culture were proof of this default to a more primal time. The text’s idealism was influential to Novak in the ‘90s, but today the theory bears a darkly-veiled resemblance to the rise of nostalgia-driven nationalism. Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with the signifiers of a ‘better time’ - McKenna’s idea highlights our propensity for selective memory, seeing history through the lens of memory instead of fact. On 'The Future is a Forward Escape Into the Past' Novak looked back at his own older works through this lens as inspiration.

“For this album I was interested in expanding into a more emotive compositional style and palette. In doing so, I was reminded that this was territory I had covered early on in my career — the whole process became a way to reconnect with my own past and history.”

The Album’s four tracks dynamically shift and surge, where time is rendered as material and momentum compels it into movement. Subtle distortion throughout the album ties the tracks together and echoes techniques explored in Novak’s 'Meadowsweet' (Dragon’s Eye, 2006). Tension gives way to a halcyon vision of place in “Radical Transparency,” immediately followed by the austere swells of “The Inertia of Time,” a piece that captures the twin impulse of generating optimistic beauty in harshly muted tones. Both tracks introduce subtle bass swells and stabs reminiscent of 'In Residence' (Dragon’s Eye, 2008). From there, the album grows darker with “Casting Ourselves Back into the Past,” and “Nothing Ever Transcends its Immediate Environment,” two icier tracks that preserve the album’s core: a layer of something long since passed that locks us into the very moment we inhabit. The latter introduces a processed vocal sample of Geneva Skeen, similar to Novak’s collaborative work with Marc Manning on 'Pairings' (Dragon’s Eye, 2007). The album is a study in perception and alteration, manipulation and awareness, effectively capturing Novak’s command of emotional texturing.

The Future is a Forward Escape Into the Past'

The Inertia of Time

'Stratus' is the first full album by SVLBRD, side project of ambient artist Warmth. The following chapter after the Svalbard EP, released on Faint in late 2016.

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena.
Mastered at Artefacts Mastering.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
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Faint / 2018

SVLBRD - Vessel

"Echo Echo Echo" taken from the new Ouvala album...

Ouvala "Multiperspectivity" is now available for pre-order...

handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/multiperspectivity

Ouvala are Ian Hawgood and Tim Diagram, their first album "Psychology Of Colour" was released on Fluid Audio in 2016.

Ouvala "Multiperspectivity" is the most-recent handiwork and features nine collaborative pieces, thrown back and forth several times. It is a characteristic of sound, short stories and mystical adventures where both musical perspectives are projected to the listener.

All songs written, recorded & mixed by Ian Hawgood and Tim Diagram 2016-2018 on location in Japan, Poland and the UK.

Design and packaging, assembled by Handstitched* 
Limited to 70 copies. [HS27]. 
Copyright 2018 Handstitched*

Thanks for listening!

Ouvala - Echo Echo Echo

excerpt from a live tape loop, percussion, guitar + modular synth performance at S1, Portland.

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Split tape with Cheekbone available now on our Bandcamp:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Midnight Air

From Slow Walking out Aug 30th on limited LP

Moss Covered Technology - Departure Process

Taken from "Formosa" the new album by Andrew Tasselmyer

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/formosa

Releases November 29, 2019

Music by Andrew Tasselmyer 
Mastered by Ian Hawgood 
Cover photo by Yong Chuan 
Cassette j-card layout by Steven Kemner 
Shimmering Moods Records 2019


Formats: Cassette/CD/Digital

Cassettes: Pro Dubbed / C37 / Clear Prison Cassettes / Full color J-cards / Design by Steven Kemner / Limited to 20 copies! (SOLD OUT)

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

Andrew Tasselmyer - Phang Nga Secrets

ILUITEQ - A Sylvan Elegy

Ambient tape label out of Osaka, Japan. Run by Endurance and Dérive
NO DEMOS please. Seriously. Thanks for your understanding.
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デモ音源は受け付けていません。ご理解のほどよろしくお願いします。

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Midnight Air

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