Eden

PCM. This time out, the trio of Francesco Perra (P),
Matteo Cantaluppi (C), Matteo Milea (M) veer away
from the inter-cellular themes of their previous collections
to shed aural light on what humans spend most of
their life doing: sleeping. Each track on Dreamland
focuses on a phase of sleep from that ever-frustrating
half-awake feeling to tranquil R.E.M. and from disaffecting
nightmares to blissful dreaming. As a result, each of
the album's works float by, some with a cloudiness that
mirrors confused sleepy feelings and others that display
the vividness of the most memorable of dreams.

PCM - R.E.M. Phase

I believe that music is present in every moment, in every scene. We can feel music relatively easily when those scenes are easy to understand and impressive, of course, but when they are not, for example, I think this is especially true in situations that are too mundane, too ordinary, or seemingly unrelated to music.

I can never hear it, but I think I hear it. Only after it has taken shape as a piece of music do I feel that this is how it must have sounded at the time. And the question of whether it was right or not will never be answered. But by questioning things that are becoming just a shell and looking at things from a different angle, we can gain a new perspective.

Questions always come up and I try to answer them somehow, but they always elude me. So by continuing to create my work, I manage to find my own answers to different questions at different times.

In this day and age, when all that is valued is how easy, quick and simple it is to get answers, it would be nice to have a few more people who are willing to face questions that will never be answered.

Produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover Art by Hidekazu Imashige

Angle of Light

Study in Etenraku

A short excerpt from a recent livestream "Psychic Soundwaves 10".
Played as a transition to something else, but became its own thing. I was quite sad at the time but I wasn't overtly aware of that when I played it, but it was there and it bled into the piece.
Hence, the title " Nostalgia" - A nice memory that also happens to be a wound.
Full live stream here: https://youtu.be/eW0uubP_aTI

Psychic Soundwaves 10 (excerpt) "Nostalgia"

Recourse

Over the last few years, Rostami has been playing with new ideas using field recordings, improvised piano, and tape processing. Already having made a few records experimenting with these ideas, "Siren" sets itself apart as a concentrated approach to illustrate abstract environments and landscapes through sound. On songs like "Cold Stream" and "The Recent Past" you will hear literal field recordings of nature mixed with composed musical emulations of environments, whether it be a representation of running water or the quiet nostalgia of suburban life. Songs like "Landscape" and "Today and Tomorrow" take field recordings of field recording records played in Rostami's studio space along with multiple recordings of the same piano performance. The piano is recorded with a field recorder, as midi and as a D/I recording and woven together, in and out, blending the soundscapes of field recordings and studio recordings into an undefined grey area.

Aria Rostami currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Rostami started releasing music in 2011 and has releases on labels such as Spring Theory, Glacial Movements, Dark Entries, Crash Symbols, Zoom Lens, Audiobulb and Jacktone Records. Aria Rostami occasionally performs and releases work with Daniel Blomquist.

Music written and recorded by Aria Rostami
Cover image by Dylan Tushar
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Thank you Pepper, Afshin, Abbas, Nasrin, Dylan Tushar, Daniel Blomquist, Ashkan, Evan Scott, David August, and Sean Raji

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Today and Tomorrow

A Weather Internal

'A Weather Internal' - A Weather Internal - [Fluid Audio, 2023]

Taken from the album "In the Still Water"
by Wil Bolton & Francis Gri

Limited to 40 copies / Handmade covers, hand numbered
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-still-water

releases November 10, 2023 

All music by Wil Bolton and Francis Gri 
Recorded between London and Milan in 2022 
Mixed by Wil Bolton 
Mastered by Francis Gri 
Photography by Wil Bolton and Francis Gri 
Design by Francis Gri 

Shimmering Moods Records 2023 
SHM 271

Wil Bolton & Francis Gri - Shrouded In Fog

Ambient soundscapes exploring for your pleasure. Relax, chillout and enjoy.

NECRONOMICON DREAMS - NOCTILUCENT

i dont recognize myself anymore

11. Lune

n5MD is a record label based in Oakland CA that releases emotive styles of contemporary music.

PCM - R.E.M. Phase

n5MD

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