waves - limited edition gray cassette
▶ gray C40 cassette with transparent sticker
▶ 180mgr glossy photo paper J-Card
▶ real-time duplicating
▶ numbered edition - limited to only 35 copies!
▶ bonuses with every tape 

After few years of silence, Tokyo based producer Tomonari Nozaki returned with stunning work first time on cassette format. In this album Tomo has adhere to his unique style and approach of creating an immersive sound coverlet out of cinematic and grainy repetitions.

Produced by Tomonari Nozaki 
Artwork by Anya Ole-Irin

waves

"waves" Excerpt / tomoanri nozaki (secret press / 2021)

There's a lot of work behind the scenes in Headphone Commute headquarters. All the email reading, promo sorting, and, of course, the listening and writing take up lots of time to make sure that I can bring you honest music on a regular basis. Sometimes, my "job" is mitigated through the trusted filter of a record label. After all, they invest more than just time into their supported artists. There are many such examples where I can turn to a favourite imprint and pretty much enjoy every single release. For many years now, since 2006 to be exact, I have been following the output of an Italian label founded by Alessandro Tedeschi, which he called Glacial Movements. As the name implies, the music put out by the imprint specializes in glacial and isolationist ambient soundscapes, "places that man has forgotten... icy landscapes... fields of flowers covered eternally with ice..." It's a beautiful place, and I have been a fan of the albums, including that of Tedeschi's own Netherworld project. Today, we're stepping away from these frozen territories of the inevitable future and instead take a look back at the ancestry of the past. In particular, the new album by Massimo Pupillo turns our attention towards the Indigenous people of the Arctic, who have been inhabiting some of these hospitable lands since the dawn of human civilization. The track I am premiering for you today, "Horagalles", is titled after the thunder god, often depicted with a sledgehammer in one hand and a cross-hammer in the other on the Sami shaman drums. It's a beautiful and slightly eerie piece, full of enigmatic worship, belief in the unknown, and of course, the distant rolls of thunder.

Our Forgotten Ancestors

Horagalles

TRACK PREMIERE : Massimo Pupillo - Horagalles

Wunderland, taken from Arovane & Hior Chronik's album, titled In-between. Available now on double-white vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, and digital formats. 

"This track was made with a patch i've programmed on the Waldorf Q synth'. It's an arpeggiated sound with delay efx. I love to tweak this kind of sound. The track is quite repetitive and reminds me of the minimalistic music of Reich and Adams. It was fun to tweak the delay time and shift the arpeggio pattern to accomplish a shimmering, floating kind of effect - like a huge cloud, rising and resolving in the sky" - Arovane.

For more info and to buy: http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/arovane-hior-chronik-in-between

ASIPV003 Arovane & Hior Chronik - Wunderland

ice cave 1 25 bpm keys take 1 12124

We are very happy to present you the first new release on Back Home after a long pause. Check out YGLO´s refreshing & stunning Weekender EP!
"The daily warmth slowly fades, the sun moves in lower paths, indicating that the indian summer has arrived. When you're burning up the coals of the campfire with another twig, hoping this time will never end. Fridays sun starts to set while the sparkling fire is still up,tangling with the night sky and you're dancing with your friends into saturday - until you fall asleep. Waking up at dawn. You stoke the last coals to keep you warm on this sunday morning."

Yglo - Sundays

Faru - Through Darkness Comes Light [SS24]

01. Through Darkness Comes Light
02. Gunung Bromo
03. Sunrise at Bratan
04. Mountain Adventures
05. Sukacita

Through darkness comes light takes the listener on a journey through the fog filled mountains of Indonesia. Through darkness comes light isolates the movements of nature and the artists experience, resulting in new sonic landscapes that reveal an inseparable relationship between music and soundscape. The natural orchestra is presented in a dream-like manner as diverse as the landscape itself. The sounds will have you drift through different states of mind.

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Faru is a Berlin-based musician and designer, born in Bonn, Germany. Since 2016 he is releasing Drone and Ambient music. His works have been described as a natural orchestra in a dream-like manner. Exploring movements of nature, noise and harmonics. He is also producing and playing Techno under the name Sert.

Mastered by Anders Peterson at GS Mastering & Post.

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info@silentseason.com
www.silentseason.com

Through Darkness Comes Light

Bandcamp

Faru - Through Darkness Comes Light [SS24]

Una Corda

Opalescent (Remastered)

Grace

From "A Forward-Facing Review".
Composed, performed, recorded and produced by Philipp Rumsch between February and July 2017.
Mastered by Markus @ Abendroth Mastering.

„A Forward-Facing Review“ is one of his works resulting from a one-year study period at „Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium“ in Copenhagen. In contrast to his previous work, Rumsch is responsible for both composition and sound design / mixing. Inspired by composers like Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi and Elaine Radique and by the music of William Basinski, Tim Hecker, Brian Eno and Ben Frost, Rumsch draws up concepts to approach electro-acoustic music with pianistic elements. By only using acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments like piano, fender rhodes and various synthesizers, Rumsch first created the sounds for his composition in order to manipulate and edit them on the computer.

"A Forward-Facing Review" is a twenty-minute long concept composition with two parts exploring in two different ways a various amount of sounds as well as their gradual modulation. "Part II" is the more minimalistic chapter of this composition. An almost constant number of elements creates a sonic composition, which rests in itself. Thus development emerges through a gradual modulation of a few parameters. Philipp Rumsch invites the listener to accept subtle developments and offers the possibility to immerse into a difficile and diverse soundscape. 

Danish artists Anders Bach and August Rosenbaum as well as Icelandic composer, sound designer and multiinstrumentalist Valgeir Sigurðsson supported Rumsch in producing „A Forward-Facing Review“.

A Forward-Facing Review - Part II

From Nakayama Munetoshi's Reboot a Repetition, available on cassette and digital now.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/reboot-a-repetition

Nakayama Munetoshi - Clear

Philipp Rumsch, born in 1994, is a composer, pianist, and sound designer based in Leipzig, Germany. Between 2013 and 2020 Philipp Rumsch has studied jazz piano under the aegis of Michael Wollny and Richie Beirach at the Academy of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig. In 2016 and 2017 he has refined his sound design and composition capabilities at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen with, among others, Niels-Lyhne Løkkegard, August Rosenbaum and Valgeir Sigurðsson.

Philipp is working both as a pianist, composer and arranger with artists, bands and ensembles from different genres. He has written music for theater and performances. His work is influenced by Avant-pop, electroacoustic, contemporary classical and improvised music. Philipp releases his music on the renowned record label Denovali. In 2018 he received the Leipzig award for young jazz musicians, funded by Marion Ermer foundation (Leipziger Jazznachwuchspreis der Marion-Ermer-Stiftung).

A Forward-Facing Review - Part II

Philipp Rumsch

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