Remixes/Colabs/Etc.

‘How to breathe like a stone’ is the third release from the ongoing collaboration between Dutch, ambient and experimental guitarist Anne Chris Bakker and British, minimal pianist Andrew Heath. Their work charts a slow moving, lower case journey inspired by place and process. Combining tonal washes and textural recordings, punctuated by pointillist piano and guitar notes to produce music that creates an ephemeral, dreamlike state.

Previous releases have been on Chihei Hatakeyama’s small Japanese label, White Paddy Mountain (Lichtzin) and the English, tape cassette label, Rusted Tone Recordings (A Gift for the Ephemerist).
Having been aware of each other’s music, Chris and Andrew finally met when Andrew invited Chris to play in the UK’s Resound festival several years ago. This cemented a friendship and mutual admiration of each other’s music. Various visits to both The Netherlands and the UK offered opportunities to record and improvise together before a file exchanging process followed, allowing their work to be edited and further refined.

Both artists are experienced performers and collaborators, with Andrew having played at Iceland’s Extreme Chill festival and working with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Toby Marks; Chris Has performed with the trio Kleefstra/Bakker/Kleefstra, touring Europe and Japan.

How To Breathe Like A Stone utilises Chris’s mainstay, the guitar, often processed with a huge 20 second delay and placed alongside Andrew’s piano and electronic sounds. Two different church pianos were used for their natural tones, one recorded in Noordlaren and the other in the village of Sheepscombe. Additional textures derived from field recordings and reel to reel tape machines, providing a layer of subtle detail to complete the aesthetic. One of the more unusual recordings on the album was made at the Kröller Müller museum in The Netherlands in the large sculpture room. The sun outside was causing the building to emit various quiet creaks and clicks, amplified by the acoustics of the space. It was as if the weather had its own improvised response to the collaboration, creating further notable moments that became woven into this story of chance.

This album does not have a mapped out concept, more that it uses the artist’s evident love of process and improvisation as a springboard into their sound world. It is hoped that the listener will pause to absorb this environment, both contemplating and losing track of time.

releases March 20, 2021
Written and produced by Andrew Heath and Anne Chris Bakker
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

How To Breathe Like A Stone

wlr089 Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker - How To Breathe Like A Stone

Thenoisemachine & The Fade Beta - Logan

Hey, long time no see.
So happy to once again be part of the Vessels compilation from my friends over at Future Astronauts.

Some amazing tunes this year, if you'd like to check it out and give some money to charity, here's the link!

https://futureastro.xyz/vessels-ix

All Recorded Days

Hush Hush Records is thrilled to present the sublime debut album 'Swimming' by Marigold Sun, the solo alias of NYC-based Singaporean-Australian musician Eric Li Harrison.

Download the first single and pre-order the full album here: https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/swimming

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While 'Swimming' marks his first offering under the Marigold Sun moniker, Eric has previously been a member of bands in his home country of Australia, with the most prominent collaborative project finding a home on Australia’s premier label Future Classic. Recently relocating to New York following the natural ebb-and-flow of life changes, Eric began writing music on his own and forging a new sound to define his solo works. Finding deep inspiration in new and old friendships, as well as the mountain foxes and calm quiet mornings that surround his creative environment in rural New York, Eric’s piano-based sketches gradually began to take shape.

With nearly four years’ worth of ideas in tow, Eric spent the long winter of 2020/2021 recording between his home studio in Brooklyn and a barn in the Catskill Mountains of New York. These efforts have led to his 10-track debut solo album 'Swimming,' an immersive record with a consistently warm, cinematic, and blissful sound. Piano-soaked neo-classical instrumentals rest comfortably next to colorful synth-led ambient passages, while blissful jazzy downtempo beats are briefly sprinkled in to further showcase his eclectic palette. Whether his piano arrangements are laid clean and bare, or find themselves stretched, looped, and transformed into new sonic landscapes, there’s an affinity for organic textures and a rich melodic streak that allows the album to explore different pockets of styles in a cohesive and effortless fashion.

In a nod to the album’s namesake, Eric’s vision for 'Swimming' was to create the feeling of care-free weightlessness that one experiences when floating in salty water. From the buoyant first notes of the album’s opening title track, to the hopeful melodies of closing track “Kosciusko,” 'Swimming' masterfully provides that desired effect with a meditative soundtrack that fosters a sense of inner calm, and optimism about the future. 

Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Eric Li Harrison.
www.marigold-sun.com

Mastered by Ohad Nissim at 136 Studios, Funkhaus Berlin.
www.ohadnissim.com

Cover Art by Cassidy Turner.
www.instagram.com/cassidyturner

Swimming

Karoshi

Remix of: https://soundcloud.com/mo_bius/sas-outtakes-57

Outtake from https://soundcloud.com/mo_bius 's new album:
https://soundcloud.com/mo_bius/sets/shapes-and-spaces

umershye - Outtake 5 (Thenoisemachine Remix)

Ft Olivia Brame, France @https://soundcloud.com/okoexperience 
Lyrics: Scotty V

Overcome

Sleep Three

For my daughter, my joy, my forever.

Celli — Song Insight

This song is more than music.
It is a gift, a release, a remembrance.

On the day my daughter was born,
my heart knew a love deeper than words.
I loved her before I knew her,
while she was still in my tummy.
I loved her when I first saw her beautiful face.
I have loved her through every season of her growing —
into her own little person,
and now into a radiant young woman.

But this song carries even more than memory.
It carries miracle.
It carries the vow I made years ago —
a mother’s prayer whispered in the darkest night,
when I told God, “Take me instead. Let her live.”
He heard me.
He spared her.
And He never forgot what was spoken.

As I created Celli,
I felt Him reminding me of that vow,
reminding me that love this deep
cannot be erased or silenced.
It can only be transformed.

So this track is not just for my daughter’s 20th birthday.
It is a supernatural release of healing and renewal —
for her, for me, and for anyone who listens.

Happy birthday, my baby girl.
This is yours. 🕊️💙

https://youtu.be/jCtmO4LzEm0

#RedRoseEmeraldzCity #Celli #BirthdaySong #MotherLove #HealingThroughMusic #SoundPrayers #MusicForTheSoul

Celli

“Day Dreaming” is an instrumental journey into calm reflection, weaving lush textures and mellow rhythms into a soundscape that feels timeless. Perfect for late-night drives, creative flow sessions, or moments when you just want to drift away.

Day Dreaming

great thanks to everyone involved. namaste
credits in order:
https://soundcloud.com/diosca
https://soundcloud.com/noise-junk
https://soundcloud.com/quorty
https://soundcloud.com/ccylinder
https://soundcloud.com/mo_bius
https://soundcloud.com/user-300924649
https://soundcloud.com/dassuo / https://soundcloud.com/encryp
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https://soundcloud.com/fishermandan

The Noise Machine - Tranquility

The Noise Machine - Mouse That Is Dead

pájaro en rama

pájaro en rama - meditative nesting™ interlude

On Bandcamp: https://orix.bandcamp.com/album/flim-aphex-twin-rework

Flim (Aphex Twin Rework)

reclaiming this melody from the psychotic anphibian

popcoRn

Tunemaking est. 2012

One half of https://soundcloud.com/joymachines

'Good Tunes' Playlist every month(ish)

Contact: maxrutter.music}@{gmail.com

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