https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/klangturm-sounds-for-the-bell-tower-of-the-immanuelkirche-hamburg-veddel

"Klangturm" was commissioned by the Immanuelkirche church in Hamburg-Veddel. The church had recently replaced its bells with a loudspeaker and automated playback system and had asked a number of artists to compose music to be played hourly as well as shorter sounds to be played 15, 30 and 45 minutes past the hour. 

Thinking about what sounds have bell-like properties (but aren't bells) and taking into consideration the technical limitations of the bell tower's loudspeaker (mono, limited bass and high frequency), I decided to work with a limited pallet of just electric guitar and a few effects pedals (reverb, tremolo, pitch shifter, envelope). 

Each piece at the full hour is "previewed" by short fragments of its component parts at the preceding 15, 30 and 45 minute mark. Some, but not all, of the pieces include a time-telling element; a melody with the same number of notes as the hour. 

These pieces were played back from the bell tower of the church from 8 AM to 8 PM every day (except Mondays) during July 2021.

8:00 PM (excerpt from "Klangturm")

Midori Hirano / @midorihirano

Sonmi451 - Seven Signals In The Sky
Claire Rousay - preston ave
Grey Frequency - Telekinetic
Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples - GonnaDieWithMyHammerInMyHand
FRKTL - Fire Upon The Deep
HÜMA UTKU - Truth From The Deepest Source
james K - I Can Not Remember
SABIWA - Enigma
Svetlana Maraš - Opening
Natalie Beridze - Be Airborn
MARTINA BERTONI - Distant Tropics

Midori Hirano ~ Correspondence Nº32

A woman moves back to her rural home town in Manitoba where her brother Modeste has been raising the woman's daughter with his wife.

Ste. Anne (Original Soundtrack) released October 1, 2021.

Side A- Ste. Anne Original Soundtrack by B.P., Andy Rudolph & Kelsey Braun
Side B- Ste. Anne Original Soundtrack loops by B.P.

@bretparenteau @makadestar

Purchase: https://makadestar.bandcamp.com/album/ste-anne-original-soundtrack

Format: Cassette & Digital
Info and trailer here: www.imdb.com/title/tt14091768/
More info: www.facebook.com/ste.anne.film.2021

Support the artist

Premiere - B.P. & Andy Rudolph - Ste Anne

Andrew Sherwell -  The Book of Trinkets (Album Preview)
CD/Digital

Limited to 50 copies, handmade sleeves and wallets, hand numbered...
Only 1 copy left!! 

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-trinkets

This is an awkward album. Some of this awkwardness is unconscious and unplanned, the by-product of lo-fi techniques and studio ineptitude. Some is planned and conscious, the product of searching for rifts, of searching for “the symbols of the divine that show up in the trash stratum” (Philip K. Dick). Through awkwardness and juxtapositions, glimpses of something else can be seen, a something that is lost in the polished, the tuned, the smooth. Partly because I believe ‘better’ works often come with their own inbuilt responses, by engaging with them they engender a set reaction, so there is simply no room nor stimulus for the listener/reader/viewer’s own interpretation and thoughts. The art has become artifice – merely propaganda or pornography. 

By embracing the rifts, the imperfect, the awkward, and the juxtaposition, we turn our backs on works that are apparently perfect reflections, as comforting and numbing as they are, of a reality that doesn’t really exist anyway. To push further, alongside art, we need other, obsolete modes of thinking, approaches that, well, capitalism has forced out. We need more magic, more religion. Through art, magic, religion, we can push back, think for ourselves and finally see the radical mystery, the Other, the divine behind everything, and that makes life, and by extension, us anything but irrelevant. 

All that from some static and too much reverb. 

Andrew

Releases October 8, 2021 

Music & Artwork - Andrew Sherwell 
Mastering - Stephan Mathieu 
Shimmering Moods Records 2021 
SHM 175

Andrew Sherwell - The Book of Trinkets (Album Preview)

Wish We Were Goths (Comedown Mix) w/ Lizzie Urquhart, Matt Robin & Caapi (29/10/21)

@hviledag

When we heard his “Chant” rework from Kumi Takahara, we knew he had to be a part of our label. So, we are very happy to have him here today ahead of future releases later this year. 

Some words from the artist about the set, “I wanted to tie together a wide collection of recent inspirations. This is all music that I think relates to my Hviledag project in one way or another. Listeners can expect a journey of reflective drones, cold electronics, woeful ecstasy and acoustic timbres”. 

Tracklist 
It’s Winter Already - David Toop, 鈴木昭男, Lawrence English
Und - KMRU
Ama Divers - Oqbqbo
It’s not a skill, It’s a Curse - Theodore Cale Schafer
Xerrox Plongée - Alva Noto
Quelque Chose - Felicia Atkinson
Music Is The Controllable Desire You Can Own - Dj Sprinkels 
Parting Phrase - Hiro Kone
Don’t Turn The Page - Sharp Veins
Moderato - Astrid Sonne
The Plateau Which The Zephyr Of Flora Occupies - Susumu Yokota 
Helpless Child - Swans
Harbor Dive - M. Sage
Xerrox Neige - Alva Noto
The Peach Tree Next Door Grew Over Our Fence - Dylan Henner

WAVES FROM Hviledag

Sozinho com pat

@lillerne

K. Leimer - My Timid Desires
Exael - Bundle
Cemetery - ADD
Boliden - Park 
Cabaret du Ciel - Surrealthòn
YlangYlang - Hejira
Pharaoh Sanders - Greeting to Saud
Multa Nox - A Pearl in the Back of the Lid
anthéne - immovable

New Age Gabe - Untitled

a comedown track for the party people and for my party self

8:00 PM (excerpt from "Klangturm")

Andrew Pekler