~ Deep Breakfast 164 by https://soundcloud.com/awakenedsouls ~

'Our intention with this mix is to present the listener with a place for introspection and warmth in this fragile, beautiful world.'

Tracklist:
01. Inquiri - Ruminating (PITP)
02. awakened souls & From Overseas - Migration (From Overseas rework) (PITP) 3:31
03. Jogging House - Athletes (Seil Records) 6:42
04. Untitled 7 (Mystery Circles) 11:50
05. Julia Gjetsen - With You (Headphone Commute/Hollie Kenniff) 15:06
06. Tyresta - Evergreen (awakened souls rework)(PITP) 18:00 
07. Claire Deak - Dampen the Waves (PITP) 22:00
08. Lamasz & Grandbruit - Purement Accidentelle (Florina Cassettes) 25:30
09. Fields We Found - Only (Seil Records) 28:50
10. Clariloops - New Dawn (self-released) 30:23
11. Velvet Rope Crowd Control - Opening Night (Stereoscenic) 33:00
12. bvdub - Kaleidoscopes in Blue Skies (self-released) 36:09
13. Jack Lever - Daystar (sk222) 40:00
14. Drum & Lace - Plantae (PITP) 43:15
15. Elin Piel - Omsorg (Mystery Circles) 48:10
16. awakened souls - Melt Away (Headphone Commute / Hollie Kenniff) 52:10
17. ovïd - everything changes, nothing perishes (Captured Visons) 56:30
18. 36 - Emerald (PITP) 60:00
19. Illuvia - Naissance (A Strangely Isolated Place) 63:00
20. ASC and Inhmost - Sunrise on Titan (Auxiliary) 65:40
21. The Lifted Index - Temporary and Fragile (self-released) 71:30 
22. Billow Observatory - Red Morning (Felt) 72:45
23. Líom - Scarr (self-released) 77:30
24. Joel St. Julien - dream (self-released) 80:20
25. zakè and City of Dawn - Epode (Azure Vista) 82:40
26. anthéne - Cedar Point I (Distant Bloom) 86:30
27. Mike Lazarev - If I Could Be Your Tears (Slowcraft Records)  90:00
28. awakened souls - half-breathed words (unreleased, from 9128 live performance) 92:10

Photography by https://soundcloud.com/marineeyes

Deep Breakfast 164 - awakened souls

A show about water, or a show about music's obsession with water. A drippy, wet mix drenched in mystery and punctuated by the pitter-patter of drums and other unfathomable sounds.

Originally broadcast live on RTM 15 August 2022

Show notes and track list can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1brKp1c4yL0NElaqQ2nF7CfufH-k6X9Kd-bLWeZcqok8/edit?usp=sharing

Image is from Roni Horn's water series

RTM 2022.08.15

Nada Nodes

unfinished, only track i didid on the matriarch.
vocal sound is actually a Onde Magnétique om1 cassette recording being spazzed with control voltages from the Cirklon  ***

matriarch test 3+Om1 Cass+909 edit1 F6 omc+1

This month we welcome Tokyo-based electronic sound artist and lyricist, Yumi Iwaki.

Yumi is an extraordinary talent, who layers her voice, acoustic instruments, field recordings, modular synthesisers, and small synthesisers, as if travelling through an imagined landscape.

Her mix takes us through a selection of music she likes to listen to when she wants to relax, but at the same time add something spicy. The flow of sounds take her to different places while in a daze.

Tracklist:

1. Zane Trow - a call from minyon falls [Room40, 2021]
2. IDRA & Hiroshi Ebina - IV [Mystery Circles, 2022]
3. Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - Hanging Glass Structure [Melody As Truth, 2017]
4. Suso Saiz - Scrub Your Ego [Music From Memory, 2019]
5. Ryan J Raffa & Yumi Iwaki  - Rains of Keelung [泊人ANKR, 2023]
6.  |||||||||||||||||||| - Outlook Remains Untouched [self-released, 2021]
7. Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov - Our Choices Are Prepaid [Etheraudio Records, 2018]
8. Ann Annie - By Morning [self-released, 2022]
9. Carlos Ferreira - Imaginary Soundscape I (Postcard Six) [Past Inside the Present, 2020]
10. Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Trebizond [Shelter Press, 2021]
11. Bana Haffar - Sit Still [Touch, 2023]
12. Federico Durand - Salvia [laaps, 2021]
13. r beny - alone in the pavillion [self-released, 2020]
14. J Foerster / N Kramer - Four Glass Steps [Leaving Records, 2021]
15. Shuttle358 - Can you prove I was born [12k, 2015]

Mix mastered by Holosuite Mastering
Artwork by Clayton Ciolac

The Observatory - Yumi Iwaki

More often than not, a respected label introduces me to a new artist or a project. Sometimes, a rare instance occurs in reverse, where a favourite artist appears on a previously unknown [to me] label. This is the case with the Philadelphia-based Andrew Tasselmyer, whom I’ve been a fan of for his solo ambient releases on imprints such as Shimmering Moods, Constellation Tatsu, Polar Seas, Eilean, Home Normal, and laaps, among the many, but also as a member of Hotel Neon, which I’ve been following via Past Inside the Present, Thesis, Archives, Sound in Silence, and Fluid Audio. All of those are very familiar to me – in fact, you can find most of them in my Labels Directory, but the Las Vegas-based Mystery Circles is definitely new, and I only recognise a few names on its roster. So, more for me to hear! Now, back to the release! Titled Where Substance Meets Emptiness, this 8-piece album features more than just Tasselmyer’s beautiful ambience, with some piano keys and field recordings. There are lots of sparkling and shuffling beats and percussive elements reminiscent of the early IDM era, where harmony met rhythm. The track I am premiering for you today, “Flowers in a Storm”, reminds me of those days when I would listen to Arovane, Dabrye, Metamatics, Deaf Center, and Secede. This makes me want to revisit my very own liftmuziek sessions!

"Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

Taking in the magical surrealism of the celebrated Japanese author, Tasselmyer composes music that fades in and out of reality, bridging the atmospheric world of dreams and the present moment, where we find ourselves floating and merging with all the beautiful vibrations. Featuring some sonic postcards from his friends (Steven Kemner, Dave Mantel, and Sean Galloway), Tesselymyer paints a new world to traverse – one that is as imaginary as it is real, where “ordinary methods and immediate results are ditched along with their traditional maps in order to reach uncharted places of the imagination.” It’s an absolute pleasure to wander within this open space, and I find myself pleasantly lost among its many turns and expansive pastures.

The full album is out tomorrow, January 30th, 2024, on Mystery Circles. Mastered by Taylor Deupree, it is available as a digital, CD, or cassette edition. Beautiful album cover by his brother, Michael.

Where Substance Meets Emptiness

Flowers in a Storm

TRACK PREMIERE : Andrew Tasselmyer - Flowers in a Storm

Æther #005 by Faux Tapes
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

Faux Tapes, aka João Pedro Nogueira, hails from Portugal, and we were thrilled to release his mini-album Dive last month ~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/dive ~ The physical edition sold out quickly, but you can still enjoy his music on our Bandcamp page or any major streaming service.

Here, Faux Tapes showcases his personal taste in ambient music, presenting a rich blend of warm vibes, gentle sequences, and melodic tunes.

Tracklist:

00:00. Dokkodo Sounds - Together (from 'Sea Tumble', Drift)
04:01. Lee Hannah - Winter Lake (from 'Thermal Pool', Healthy Tapes)
06:56. M. Sage - Mercy Lowlands (from 'Paradise Crick', RVNG Intl.)
09:47. Morimoto Naoki - Koyoi (from 'Kotoba', Seil Records)
13:03. Duelling Ants - Bloom (from 'Moments in Spring', Wow and Flutter)
14:49. M. Sage feat. The Spinnaker Ensemble - Spinnaker on a Southerly (from 'The Wind of Things', Geographic North)
17:58. Federico Mosconi - At 10 P.M. (from 'Nocturnal', Dronarivm)
22:39. R Beny - Saudade (from 'Saudade', Dauw)
26:33. Ann Annie - Ocean’s Breeze (from 'Cordillera', Nettwerk)
31:40. Peakae - Sandcut (from 'Cabin Sessions I', self-released)
36:09. Sundayman - Pleasure (from 'CS-70M Sessions', self-released)
39:25. Masaya Kati & Valotihkuu - Anil (from 'Swallow', Shimmering Moods Records) 
43:35. SineRider - Ribbons (from 'A Familiar Light', Sound in Silence)
47:05. Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ice Copy (from 'Music for Nine Post Cards', Light in the Attic Records)
50:03. Green-House - Desire Path (from 'A Host for All Kinds of Life', Leaving Records)
54:05. Hiroshi Ebina & IDRA - IV (from 'Circle', Mystery Circles)
59:19. Will Samson - Vozes Encontradas (from 'A Baleia', Dauw)

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Æther #005 by Faux Tapes

Sometimes it’s the familiar things that get you. Microfibers, the self-titled debut release by visual artists and musical collaborators Jonny Campolo, Keegan Monaghan, and Eugene Wasserman, makes the everyday strange — conjuring up an intensity that belies its unassuming title, surfing the tension between the warmth of its communal effort and cool-to-the-touch presentation.

Microfibers is an otherworldly transmission from known territory. Recorded at Brooklyn’s totemic BC Studios — helmed by the same Martin Bisi who has presided over a host of avant classics in Gowanus since the 80s — the two-track album is mere degrees of separation from its influence. BC Studios was built with Brian Eno to make Ambient 4: On Land (1982), an out-there favorite at the heart of Microfibers’ inspirational cosmos. Its core and peripheral contributors are now standbys of the greater New York art and art-adjacent music scenes, drawing from a similar set of influences spanning film music, ambient, and free-improvisational styles.

Familiarities aside, there’s nothing quite like Microfibers. It bathes in the uncanny, a subtle and all-the-more destabilizing twist on the normal. As with its ambient and minimalist forebears, the album’s twin tracks consciously create a space rather than blending into the background — an oblique pushback to the anesthetizing playlist ambient that soundtracks our outer lives. While Microfibers can resemble soundtrack music in its patience, it is more filmic than a typical score would allow, with its own suggestive narrative and heady atmosphere. Tension and release, dissonance and consonance, and attack and sustain all shed their expected expressive functions. The mood is resolutely ambivalent, spaciously claustrophobic, serenely tense.

Clocking in at just over 18 minutes, “Glass of Water” creeps in on a hesitant harp arpeggio from Shelley Burgon, patiently unfolding alongside increasingly insistent background thrums and hits. The meditative quality of the Italian avant-garde is present, but the sense of repose is slightly askew, as Burgon’s microtonal plucks fold in gently alongside blocks of sonic shade and grit. Meanwhile, “Tiers” smolders with overdubbed saxophones courtesy of fellow Soap Librarian Eve Essex, splitting the difference between haunted overdubs and lockdown dread. As bell-like sounds — evocative of a forgotten herd on a far-off knoll — rise in the mix, metal-splinterings from a prepared piano jar the listener from their reverie.

The recording process laid the groundwork for its multivalent listening experience. Beginning as motifs drawn from long improvisations, the music slowly grew into a hybrid improv-composition, as the trio overlaid responses to their initial gestures using guitar, synth, and a range of other instruments to dialogue with themselves asynchronously. The result is a controlled, musical aleatoric, evoking the wistful feeling of a chance encounter; a fleeting conversation with a passerby that lingers in the memory. Despite its connection to the canon of experimental minimalism, the album as a whole conjures a contemporary feeling, one that is fraught with both tension and possibility. Microfibers contains a lot, but conceals as much as it reveals, inviting you to dwell in its liminality a little longer.

Microfibers releases on Friday, May 9, 2025 on Soap Library in vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats, accompanied by a double-sided 20-strike matchbook. Jump in, the water’s warm – but so is the flame.

©2025 Soap Library // www.soaplibrary.net

Microfibers

Microfibers — Glass of Water

Vinyl + tapes on Bandcamp: https://tatsuromurakami.bandcamp.com/album/mita-koyama-cho

Streaming Links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/tatsuromurakami_mitakoyamacho

'Mita Koyama-cho' offers a fresh perspective on today’s ambient music scene, blending acoustic and electronic elements into a rich, evocative soundscape. Murakami, a multi-instrumentalist, weaves together acoustic and jazz guitar, saxophone, fretless bass, and an array of keyboards—including vintage synthesizers, Mellotron, and acoustic piano. The result is a fusion of jazz, new age, folk, Brazilian music, and even 1970s progressive rock.

With an intuitive sense of melody and arrangement, Murakami layers warm cassette textures, vintage amp tones, and intricate string and saxophone orchestrations. 'Mita Koyama-cho' is a deeply personal tribute to the musician’s family and the Tokyo neighborhood they once called home—demolished in 2024 due to corporate redevelopment.

Sax on track 1 by Hikaru Yamada
Mastering by Chihei Hatakeyama
Design by Yudai Osawa
Obi text by Masaaki Hara
Photography by Anais-karenin
Insert photography by Tanaka Ueno

All about circles and borders

MIMINOIMI podcast #18
- as coisas se conectam por aqui - things connect through there -
by Tatsuro Murakami @TATSUROMURAKAMI 

Brazilian music is widely known for samba and bossa nova, but with a landmass approximately 23 times that of Japan, the country is home to countless musical treasures that remain largely undiscovered. Alongside popular music, Brazil has a rich history of experimental music and music which could be considered ambient, many of which were ahead of their time and went unrecognized upon release.

For this selection, I’ve curated music from Brazil spanning the 1950s to the 1980s, using my own broad interpretation of the "experimental, avant-garde, and ambient" realm. From Garoto’s guitar pieces—featuring voicings so sophisticated that it’s hard to believe they were created in the early 20th century—to the wild fusion of spirituality and Afro-Brazilian percussion by Pedro Santos. Then there’s Marconi Notaro, whose music evokes the arid landscapes of northeastern Brazil, and Naná Vasconcelos, who lived in harmony with the spiritual essence of the Amazon.

These works are at once Afro-influenced, chamber-like, and rooted in rock, yet they also connect deeply with modern Brazilian popular music and jazz. While many of these tracks might be considered "B-sides" in a commercial sense, they exist on the razor’s edge between the mainstream and the avant-garde—each one a stunning piece of music.

サンバやボサノヴァで知られるブラジル音楽ですが、日本の約23倍の面積を誇るその地にはまだまだ世間的に知られていない音楽が沢山あります。ポピュラー音楽と並行して、実験的なサウンドや広い意味でのアンビエントな作品も数多く、世に出てくるのが早すぎて当時は評価されなかったような作品も多く埋もれています。今回はブラジルの50s~80sという縛りで、私の独自の広い解釈で「エクスペリメンタル・アヴァンギャルド・アンビエント」という脈略に通じる音楽を集めました。
20世紀前半に生み出されたとは信じ難いヴォイシングのGarotoのギター曲、スピリチュアルとアフロが融合したパーカッションニストPedro Santosの狂気、ブラジル北東部の砂漠地帯を連想させるMarconi Notaro、アマゾンの精神性と共に生きたNaná Vasconcelos。アフロでもあり、室内楽的でもあり、ロックでもあり、かつ現代のブラジルポピュラー音楽やジャズにも通じる。一般的にはB面的な曲たちですが、全てメインストリームと紙一重のところに存在している素晴らしい作品です。


-Tracklist-
1.Amanhecer tabajara - Fernando Falcão
2.Quem sou eu? - Pedro Santos
3.Ah vida avida - Marconi Notaro
4.Amazonas - Naná Vasconcelos
5.A noite do meu bem - Tom Zé
6.Um Rosto de mulher - Garoto
7.OMM - Nené Fonteles
8.Omm-ar - Zé Ramalho, Lula Côrtes
9.Rede - Hermeto Pascoal
10.Armina - Vinheta1 - Som Imaginário
11.água & vinho - Egberto Gismonti
12.Meditação - Garoto
13.Movimento dos barcos - Jards Macalé
14.Gestos de equilíbrio Priscilla Ermel

-Selector-
Tatsuro Murakami
@TATSUROMURAKAMI 

Born in Tokyo. After graduating from high school, he moved to Brazil and spent about seven years there to research Brazilian popular music and culture. He is the first Japanese guitarist to graduate from the Choro Department of “Tatuí Conservatory of Music” in Sao Paulo State with a major in classical 7 strings guitar. While studying at the conservatory, he began producing music in genres other than Brazilian music. He has released albums from Lontano Series (Italy), Whitelabrecs (UK), La Petite Chambre(BR) and Mystery Circles (US).

作曲家・プロデューサー。95年東京生まれ。家族の影響で中学校に上がると共にレコード収集を始める。高校卒業後にギター修行のためブラジルへ渡り約7年間を現地にて過ごす。ショーロやJazz/MPBを研究しながら、日本人として初めてサンパウロ州立タトゥイ音楽院をショーロギター専攻で卒業。在学中に映画音楽作家Gui Amabisのスタジオで音楽プロダクションの基礎を学び、ブラジル音楽以外のジャンル下で音楽制作を始める。個人名義ではRohs! Records、Whitelabrecs、Mystery Circles等のアンビエント系レーベルから多数のリリースを行い、アーティストインレジデンシーやStone Music（タージ・マハル旅行団）のギタリストとして国内外ツアーへの参加、商業音楽作家としては国内外の映画やドキュメンタリー、アートインスタレーション、企業CM等への楽曲提供を行う。また興行プロデューサーとして、2024年にアーツカウンシル東京とブラジル大使館の助成の元、ブラジル人ギタリストJoão Camareroと笹久保伸のギター公演を主催。来日ブラジル人アーティストや研究者の日葡同時通訳、ディスクユニオン傘下のTh!nk Recordsにて評論や翻訳を担当するなど、幅広い分野で活動する。

- Artwork -
www.instagram.com/loid0001/

#18 - as coisas se conectam por aqui - things connect through there - by Tatsuro Murakami

MIMINOIMI podcast #19
- pokopoko2025  -
by Nekomachi @neko_machi

At the beginning of 2025, I upgraded my live setup. I blended electronic sounds near my window at home, using the Sonicware ELZ_1 play synthesizer and Monome norns shield effect patches, with the Soma Cosmos as the main lo-fi effect.

I slightly reconstructed some of my past tracks, centering on bubbly, percussive synth sounds. New tracks are set to be released on a cassette in the summer of 2025.

One of my favorites is a track called tang sang sen, which has a soothing and chill-out vibe.

2025年頭に LIVE機材を新調しました。sonicware"ELZ_1 play"のシンセサイザーとmonome"norns shield"のエフェクトパッチをメインエフェクトsoma"cosmos"でlo-fiな電子音に自宅窓際で煮込みました。
ポコポココポコポ感じるシンセの音をメインに過去曲を少し再構築しました。新しい曲は2025年の夏以降にリリース予定のカセットに収録予定です。
癒しやチルアウトみがある炭酸泉という曲が私は気に入ってます。

-Tracklist-
1.pool(shallow) / プール(浅め)
http://2.new
3.tang sang sen / 炭酸泉
4.725
5.unseen worlds / 安心ワールズ(^^)
6.kopokopo / コポコポ
7.hole & foam pt.4 / 穴と泡パート4
http://8.life space zero dub / 生活スペースゼロダブ

-Selector-
Nekomachi / 猫町

An experimental music composer exploring lo-fi, ambient, new age, drone, and left-field.

In 2012, while based in Nagoya, released unrest under "Powell Shovel Audio."
After relocating to Tokyo, released Cat & Town in October 2022 via Shanghai-based label "eating music." This was the first release in nearly a decade, created during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was available in both cassette and digital formats.

Since 2023, has been consistently releasing 2–3 cassette works annually through international labels.

lo-fi,ambient,new age,drone,left field,などのエクスペリメンタル音楽作家。
名古屋を拠点に活動していた2012年に"Powel Shovel Audio"より「unrest」をリリース。
東京に拠点を移し2022年10月にコロナ禍によって制作された約10年ぶりの音源が上海の"eating music"より「Cat & Town」をカセットとデジタルでリリース。
2023年以降、海外のレーベルからカセット作品を毎年2,3本発表中。

- Artwork -
www.instagram.com/loid0001/

#19 - pokopoko2025 - by Nekomachi

synth music / lo-fi / ambient / beats / sound design / textures / quirky / liminal / etc / etc / etc /\/\/\/\/\/

All about circles and borders

Mystery Circles

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