Name: to turn and remove the key by our dear friend, the medic
Duration: 5 min 15 s
Description: lilisette, i pray you forgive me to speak in such vulgar and plain term, as i've yet to find such a perfect distillation of that which travels through my heart. and so i will ever say it again - i love you. -violetta

dorotheme

lilisette, i pray you forgive me to speak in such vulgar and plain term, as i've yet to find such a perfect distillation of that which travels through my heart. and so i will ever say it again - i love you. -violetta

to turn and remove the key

~ LAAPS 032 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP32]

artist : iu takahashi
album : Sense / Margin 
duration : 31.46 mn
date : December 14th, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / marble turquoise/clear transparent LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : December 01st, 2023 / official release : December 14th, 2023
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« Early morning mist in the mountains, the lakeside ripples in the stillness.
On rainy days, open the window and lie in bed.
The moment when a margin is created in me.
I want to feel these senses forever. »

All tracks written, produced and voice by iu takahashi.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork created with friendly permission by Dirk Stewen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://www.iutakahashi.com/
https://iutakahashi.bandcamp.com/

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iu takahashi - Blink / Landscape

just a little synth bop I cooked up this week.

Night Terrors

Awe is something you feel when confronted with forces beyond your control: nature, the cosmos, chaos, human error, hallucinations. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/laurel-halo/episodes/laurel-halo-26th-march-2024

Awe w/ Akira Rebelais 260324

Polaroid Notes is a German artist named Andreas, who lives in the countryside between Munich and the Alps. In addition to his work as an ambient dub electronic musician under the name Kraut Sounds, he started Polaroid Notes almost ten years ago as a side project for contemporary classical music, but in recent times it has become the main focus of his artistic work.
 
Polaroid Notes has released music on Germany based labels Büro für Erdrotation, Drone Works International, Weber & Alcantu and soon on Licht-ung. He has also released albums on Whitelabrecs, including Unsung Memories (2017), Home Diaries 014: Moonlight Sessions and Ghost Sounds (both 2020) and Cloud Anthems (2022). He also released on Whitelabrecs predecessors Tesselate Recordings and Audio Gourmet.
 
Quiet Rooms came about during a strange phase of deliberate and involuntary personal changes and attempts to refocus. Moving back home after nearly eight years of working far away and dealing with one of the most annoying things a musician can experience ; tinnitus.
 
Quiet Rooms was therefore initially a kind of self-healing process to get back onto a decent track with music, focusing on slow-burning, minimalist piano lines, gentle melodies and lots of space in between the individual notes. The tracks ‘Quiet Rooms’ and ‘Two Wrongs Won’t Make It Right’ were the first pieces to be recorded and these set the direction for what was to come in the rest of the album.
 
Everything was improvised and recorded at a time when it felt right. One particular idea was to keep the tracks as transparent as possible, so that light and atmosphere could shine through as if through a piece of gauze. Later, electric piano, reversed loops and some additional electronic and field recording sounds were added. And that’s it. The music is focused, dense and uplifting in its quest for deep contemplation. It instills a sense of serenity with a gently absorbing, balanced stillness.
 
All recordings were made in the evening and at night, with the lights dimmed while the artist's cat slept gently next to the recording equipment. The individual titles of the twelve tracks reflect the mood and hope in which the album was created. What you hear on the album is a carefully curated extract from several hours of recordings. The photos that can be seen across the four gatefold sleeves of the packaging were staged presentations of quiet rooms inside the artist’s home. For us the listener, they serve as fictitious environments to place ourselves, in which to escape into a quiet space.

Quiet Rooms

wlr169 Polaroid Notes - Quiet Rooms

“I pray the tomb is shut forever," recited Harrowhawk, with the curious fervidity she always showed in prayer.

"I pray the rock is never rolled away. I pray that which was buried remains buried, insensate, in perpetual rest, with closed eye and stilled brain. I pray it lives, I pray it sleeps ...”

Castle of Skulls

monthly mix series curated by marine eyes. if you love the mix, a little help goes a long way: https://ko-fi.com/marineeyes. 
for full archives + short interviews with women artists on their creative process head to my newsletter: https://cloudcollecting.substack.com

women of ambient~ december '24
1. Dream Crease feat. Drum & Lace- Grotto (s/r) 
2. upsammy- Mazing (topo2) 4:10
3. Kayla Painter- For You I Won’t Forget (s/r) 8:00
4. Aisha Vaughan-No Past, No Present, No Future (Leaving Records) 11:30
5. Pefkin- Gossip in the Leaves (Nite Hive) 15:05
6. Cassandra Croft- Country of Your Mind (s/r) 17:10
7. amelia courthouse- Vihangi (s/r) 21:40
8. Gia Margaret- Mourning Dove (Red Hot Org) 23:27
9. Merely & Malibu- love hard (YEAR0001) 25:00
10. Alanna Crouch- to go out again 29:15
11. Celia Hollander- Air / Water (s/r) 31:10
12. VoxAxoV- VERT6 (s/r) 33:30
13. wood ear- Amethyst Deceiver (s/r) 36:45
14. Antonina Nowacka- Moth Spins (Mondoj) 37:40
15. Belly Full Of Stars- Swannanoa (Bakkerman) 39:00
16. Freya Arde- Falling In Love Again (s/r) 41:50
17. our dear friend the medic- cold clouds go over (avos records) 44:00
18. Veryan- Lift Hands (quiet details) 46:40
19. Moskitoo- Words Wardrobe (Headz) 49:37
20. perila- wish (Lapsus Records) 54:20
21. Sofi Paez- 1123 (OPIA Community) 58:00
22. Sun Swept- Mirror Lake (Aural Canyon) 59:25
23. Hollie Kenniff- What Carries Us (Nettwerk) 61:43

women of ambient ~ december '24

Spark

pulsar cascade

video version::: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYRVxJunKo4

1st/4 for pure data category in Spring Tracks IX major
https://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/%5Bsk%5D_dream_iteration/34774/

minimal ambient
some of the sounds reminded me of a casio sk-1
all abstractions are original, including a tr808 cymbal generator, 16 step trigger sequencer and more

[sk]_dream_iteration

believing in the remedial peculiarities of music, our dear friend, the medic proffers audio anesthetics, melodic medicines, and all other manner of aural tinctures, gauzes and balms found in her kit to those in need of palliative care

to turn and remove the key

our dear friend, the medic

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