This month's mix comes from pianist Lorenz Weber (@lorenzweber). He has created a beautiful thematic mix for us titled "Silence in your body", where he takes us on a journey through ambient, piano, field recordings, and of course, silence. 

Info + Tracklist: subtempo.com/mixes/lorenz-weber

Interview + Tracklist

Subtempo Mix 034 - Lorenz Weber

Tape available via IMPREC.com

Brian Thummler’s  Ghost Birds combines piano improvisations and noise to create a uniquely compelling musical duality. These 7 pieces, selected by John Brien, are inspired by a lifetime of experience, art & poetry as well as Cage, Merzbow, Satie, Sun Ra.

Ghost Birds takes flight with experimental simplicity. The interaction of noise and piano, a synergy that also pushes and pulls, creates profound musical dimensions available to the attentive listener. 

Ghost Birds was recorded in a studio and on an enclosed porch where an old, noisy out of tune upright grand piano lives. Traffic sounds seep in and plant themselves in the recording while the human soul empties into the piano. 

Who is Brian Thummler? To quote the poet Lu Yu, he is “the old man who does as he pleases.” 

This first edition of Ghost Birds is packaged in a handmade, letterpresses O card slip sleeve.

Brian Thummler - The Outline Of Nameless Things - Tape - PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE

This month's mix comes from the talented Sinemis, aka @sinebuyuka & @villettemusic, founder of London-based label Injazero Records. She brings us an eclectic set, full of experimental and ambient music by artists from Turkey.

Interview + Tracklist: subtempo.com/mixes/sinemis

Tracklist + Interview

Subtempo Mix 037 - Sinemis

Tony Rolando's debut "Breakin' Is A Memory" could be your soundtrack. This worldbuilding album of electronic music leaves room for the listener to make big personal connections through subtly complex music resembling a sonic mobile which, as it spins, reveals new forms and colors.  

 This is a collection of very human music with a deceptive simplicity and relaxed intensity. The listener gets the feeling that only the instrument designer could play with such flexible expression, unencumbered by the electronic element. These is cleverly assembled music that you want to flip over and play again, like Rolando's recent cassette on Imprec's Cassauna label.

As with all Imprec vinyl releases, great care has been taken to ensure that this is a high quality pressing with low noise floor and loads of sonic detail.   

On "Breakin' is a Memory" Tony Rolando invites the listener on tiny adventures questing insignificant treasures. Minimal percussion only suggests rhythm, allowing your mind to wander the crystalline lattices Tony weaves from handfuls of simple arpeggios. Soft analog bass frequencies make your travels more comfortable and the Strega instrument, a recurring recognizable character, is there to lead when you are too lost. The pace of "Breakin' is a Memory" oscillates from restless roadway motion to meditative exploration. The record closes with a celebratory decimation of the graphic memories of these tiny adventures. Play it again to rekindle them.

For more than a decade, Tony Rolando has composed electricity into musical instruments at Make Noise. When he collaborated with Alessandro Cortini in 2019 to create the Strega instrument, the experience rekindled Tony's love of composing and recording music. In 2021 he released "Old Cool Echoes" with IMPORTANT Records/ Cassauna. A third release of music composed entirely for the Shared System instrument he designed will follow later this year. 


RIYL: Early OPN, Alessandro Cortini, Caterina Barbieri, Tangerine Dream

Tony Rolando - Running Toward An Edge from Breakin' Is A Memory - LP - Available Now

Graeme Miller
Comet In Moominland
(FKR111) Finders Keepers Records

Release date: 3rd June 2022

From deep in the heart of Moomin Valley, frozen in time for many midwinters passed, comes a genuine treasure chest of never heard Moomin melodies and instrumental comet songs composed for the continued animated adventures of our Fuzzy-Felt freak folk friends who disappeared from UK TV pastures in the mid-1980s. From the top of the Hobgoblin's Hat and the bottom of Snufkin's satchel, original Moomin's composer Graeme Miller (The Carrier Frequency) kindly shares this patchwork selection of spellbinding sound poems and percussive peons made using the very same selection of ocarinas, kalimbas, miniature squeak boxes, Waspy synths, cornflake box shakers and a seemingly endless array of talent and lo-fi home studio trickery.

Regarded as one of the most enigmatic, beguiling and haunting imported children’s programmes to ever grace UK TV screens, The Moomins was one of the first-ever commissions by Anne Wood (The Teletubbies) who ingeniously replaced the original Polish/Austrian/Finnish soundtrack with homemade music experiments by unknown post-punk theatre students Graeme Miller and Steve Shill (aka The Commies From Mars) who after the screening of two unforgettable series in 1983 and 1985 were left in eager anticipation of rescoring further Moomin adventures with new melodies, arrangements and sound designs which then lingered in the ether waiting until the Groke awoke and Snorkmaiden sang once more. With future felt adventures screened exclusively in Poland and Germany for many years (often as feature films) these unheard recordings are the only genuine musical sequel to the bizarre UK version of The Moomins and stand as important inclusions the Graeme Miller's own portfolio of theatrical theme music and sound installations as part of The Impact Theatre Cooperative including collaborations with artists and writers such as Russell Hoban. Witnessed in fragmented form during a short run of incredible rare live screenings at The Barbican Theatre and various film festival this record marks the first time this music has been heard in its original full-length form, free from sound effects, dialog and whimpers of euphoric joy and nostalgia from those who have continued to crave the company of our Moomintrolls and their mysterious music over the last five decades.  

www.finderskeepersrecords.com

Comet In Moominland

Raft Journey

Graeme Miller - Raft Journey

ASC - Truth Be Told  [SSCD15]

http://shop.silentseason.com

1. Some Other Life
2. The Machinery Of Night
3. Half The Words You Say
4. Hall Of The Gods
5. Behind The Veil
6. Lucent Vessel
7. The Widening Mire
8. Slow Autumn
9. The Certainty Of Tides

++ Album Background ++

After how well-received Time Heals All was, I already knew I was going to write a follow-up.  I had in mind that I would build upon the themes and ideas of the previous album and try to expand upon them slightly, while trying to retain everything that made Time Heals All so special.  Truth Be Told is 9 short stories based around love, depression, fantasy and my ever on-going fixation with science fiction.  I hope you find this album as rich and rewarding as the experience I had making it.
—James Clements

Written, Produced and Mastered by James Clements.

Photography by Danthon.

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Silent Season Canada
www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

ASC - Truth Be Told Sampler [SSCD15]

Toàn - Flake (taken from Kouskediñ)

Soft Generator - We Found It 
Taken from "On a Map of Sound" the new long form album by Soft Generator.

Soft Generator are: 
David Newman (Autistici/Volume Objects) - volume-objects.com 
Erik Schoster (He Can Jog) - hecanjog.com 
Michel Mazza (OdNu) 

Mastered by Volume Objects

Edition of 50. Handmade covers, hand numbered, various colours.

https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/on-a-map-of-sound

Soft Generator - We Found It (taken from On a Map of Sound)

A modular set from https://soundcloud.com/rodent-1 at the Moog Mother-32 Perfect Circuit Audio in-store on 2/22/17, utilizing a 3-tier Moog Mother-32 System and Eventide Space Reverb.

Check out their setup on Perfect Circuit: https://goo.gl/jt3e9X

Rodent @ Moog Mother 32 In-Store (2/22/17)

https://anjicheung.bandcamp.com/album/terma

Terma

Decan Of Clear Light

Pre-order availabe now via Imprec.com
Cassette edition of 100 via Cassauna/Imprec

ALEXANDRE BAZIN​ is a member of the ​Groupe de Recherches Musicales​, better known as the GRM, for which he writes documentaries about music for the radio. He is passionate about experimental music and more specifically acousmatic music created by members of the GRM, such as Bernard Parmegiani, Francois Bayle and Guy Reibel. Due to his background as a classical and jazz pianist, Alexandre Bazin is also passionate about instrumental music by the likes of Steve Reich, Erik Satie, Brian Eno ... This album attempts to synthesize these two worlds that are so dear to the composer, either in symbiosis or in opposition to one another with simple and loose melodies as its main theme. The use of analog synthesizers and acoustic sounds are at the heart of the composer's creative process. His music has already been heard thanks to Umor Rex Records in Mexico and the Moogfest festival in the USA.

OCEANS :

"Oceans" ​was written for Marimba, Piano and Buchla Music Easel, in 4 movements around the theme of the Ocean. Simple and loose melodies, played on piano and Buchla. They rotate around the marimba which evokes breathing and the rhythm of the swell. Suspended melodies reminiscent of Generative music although in this case they are an improvisation around a simple motif. Through its title and movements, this work evokes a reflection around climate change and our relationship to Oceans: water, breathing, the repetition of movement, but also its immensity which reminds us of our limits. The piece was performed by Alexandre Bazin on Piano, Buchla Music Easel and Marimba as well as Gabriel Benlolo on Marimba, a member of the Radio France Philharmonic orchestra.

Alexandre Bazin  -  Underwater (Part 4) From Oceans/Dream - Land - Cassette

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