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Track taken from the album 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay' / HB50 - Released October 2013

Ian M Hazeldine records under the alias Antonymes, hailing from Hawarden, a small village in North Wales, whose most famous inhabitant was William Ewart Gladstone. He creates atmospheric melodies, using various pianos, celesta, strings, church organ and field recordings, and has had releases on Soundcolours, Cathedral Transmissions, Hidden Shoal, Time Released Sound and Rural Colours.

With a long standing interest in music making and active listening, Hazeldine works with any influences, from his surrounding landscape to the artists he has worked with. His compositions often take on a semi-improvised structure with accidental atmospheres used as a starting point. As well as his own projects, Hazeldine also works with Marconi Union's Richard Talbot, under the name Prospector. He also works as a graphic designer, film maker and photographer, having art directed many of the Hibernate releases including our critically acclaimed vinyl series, and has worked with many other artists and labels including Facture, Field Rotation and Olan Mill.

In late 2009 Antonymes released 'Beauty Becomes the Enemy of the Future' on Cathedral Transmissions of which the CD is now unavailable. Since then he has revisited the album, which has culminated a new release, 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay'. Hazeldine's own reworkings are intertwined with those of friends Ian Hawgood, Isnaj Dui, Offthesky, Field Rotation, Wil Bolton, Spheruleus and James Banbury to create an album of captivating melancholy and beauty. The guest reworkings venture into other, darker territories, where one might be harder pressed to identify the original material.

The sleeve features beautiful images of the North Wales landscape by Richard Outram, fitting the music perfectly.

Credits:
Mastered by Jason Corder (offthesky.com)
Photography by Richard Outram and Ian M Hazeldine
Art Direction by Ian M Hazeldine

“Majestic testament to a talent that is fully realized… Hazeldine’s work is distinct, yet the parts remain hazy in one’s memory, dreamlike” - The Silent Ballet

"So moving that I myself am at a loss for words" - Delusions of Adequacy

"Not only music for dreams, but rather a complex mosaic by a romantic minimalist" - Ondarock

"Unfolds at a beautifully measured pace" - Textura

"Barely visible movements of slate grey cumulonimbus, slowly building its massive architecture, rumbles of thunder emanating from its core" - Futuresequence

"Amazingly uplifting listen with surprise euphoria hidden around every corner" - Norman Records.


Misshapen Beauty [i]

Paraply

Voices - Alev Lenz
Piano - Lucy Claire
Violins - John Garner and Julia Loucks
Viola - Marie Schreer
Cello - Samuel Justitz

Recorded by Josh Green
Produced by Lucy Claire

Somnus Ft. Bruised Skies

it's embarrassing sometimes
when the wanting shows.
how i just need someone's hands on mine.
how i just want a soft voice to call me out of sleep,
somebody to drink coffee with while the sun wakes up.
i am so good at being alone until i remember what it's like
to be loved and then i am aching all over again,
and then i am calling you up in the middle of the day and asking for
something impossible. [couldn't you come over?]
couldn't you pretend like i'm not altogether too much,
just for this one afternoon?

i am sad again.
for a while i got to be someone different-
cool girl, fun girl! always up for anything girl.
like playing dress up i wore the persona of someone
easy to love, easy to hold onto. easy to wait
until you were ready. now the air is icing over and
i cannot be this person anymore-
maybe i was never her or maybe she died
at the beginning of the month,
when the air was static silent for ten long days. 
i am sad again, and the afternoons are getting darker.
i won't ask you stay through this tired and heavy winter.

and suddenly, my friends are gone or they're telling me
i had changed. suddenly, my desire to get up in the morning faded.
my grades got lower. my room stayed messy. my followers unfollowed.
my hair had split ends. my cheeks were the hills that 
tears would run over more and more. my imagination faded.
art wasn't fun anymore. i didn't care for the sweet company
between hand and pencil. it took too much effort to read a
book. my attention span weakened. my mother hated me.
life hated me. and the wanting showed.

the truth is, i'm a lonely person.
it doesn't matter how many friends i have or
how many times i am told that i am loved. 
i will sit down at 12AM when the world is quiet
and i am surrounded by no one. or at 12PM
when the world is bustling and i cannot count
the faces around me. and i feel the same lonely. 

and when the wanting shows sometimes i am 19 standing
in the kitchen wondering how you forgot to have breakfast
and lunch today, how you will exit the teenage in 47 Fridays,
how you used to love watermelons four summers ago and
now you can't stand the sight of it, how there were floors
that you saw you wipe them clean off your own tears once,
how you changed your favorite coffee recipe last summer
because your best friend liked it and you guys haven't
talked since then, how the new book you're reading was never
really your type but you love it, how you hated your hair for
nine winters, how the windows of your new house are bigger, how you
feel bad for hurting them, how many making mistakes is okay, how maybe
you go out today, how the wind feels too right whenever you snuggle
into your bed, how you were seventeen and all the winter ache
wanted you to open your kitchen drawers and look for warmth. how
then you didn't know someday you'll be 19 standing in the kitchen
wondering if you forgot to put sugar in your coffee again.

and when the wanting shows, the shame of being seen consumes me.

when the wanting shows

Third track of Manos Milonakis's remix release "Sólfar Reworked" by:

Luke Howard (www.lukehoward.com , @lukehoward) : 

Australian Music Prize-nominated composer Luke Howard has been described as “absolutely heavenly” (Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC Radio 6) and his music as “an ambient masterclass” (Musos’ Guide), but no words can fully capture the potency of Howard’s enthralling compositions. A pianist since childhood, Howard has scored films and performed with artists as diverse as Lior and Jeff Mills, capturing audiences with contemporary classical arrangements that curl and twist around the boundaries of a particular emotion. Though wordless, Howard’s songs perform a function unique to music as a medium – that of evoking without describing, bringing listeners to a feeling which defies articulating. 

Now signed to UK label Mercury KX (Lambert, Olafur Arnalds, Solomon Grey) and joined live by drummer and collaborator Daniel Farrugia, 2017 has Howard working across several projects: arranging the keyboard works of photographer William Eggleston, a pioneer of colour photography; a European tour beginning in the UK and ending with a performance at Germany’s legendary Elbphilharmonie; and a new record. 

Howard is one of Australia’s foremost practitioners of contemporary classical music. Having already accomplished so much and with more on the horizon, he is set to captivate audiences worldwide.

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Celebrating Record Store Day and given the occasion of Sólfar EP’s 1st anniversary, Manos Milonakis invites friends, composers and producers to rethink-reimagine its’ 5 tracks. Sólfar EP was Manos’s second solo release, after Your Hand in Mine, which he recorded in Iceland with contribution of local musicians.

The 5 pieces of Sólfar EP have been reworked by:
Steve Gibbs, Fragile Balloon, Luke Howard, Hior Chronik, Ed Carlsen.

Sólfar Reworked is out worldwide on 22/04/2017, Record Store Day 2017, in limited handmade CD edition and digital.

You can find it at:
Thessaloniki: Lotus, Noise, Stereodisc
Athens: Underflow
Worldwide: www.manosmilonakismusic.com
Digital release: https://manosmilonakismusic.bandcamp.com

Sólfar Reworked

Ten (Luke Howard Rework)

Anne Lovett’s stunning new release for 1631 is a departure from her beautiful previous solo piano album Beyond (and below). Without loosing any of the startling beauty of the preceding album, in The Eleventh Hour, Anne Lovett revels in a new sonic world. Joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra , UK’s most innovative and respected ensemble routinely heard alongside such luminaries as Radiohead or Johnny Greenwood, and later in duo with phenomenal cellist and composer Oliver Coates, Anne Lovett also introduces subtle electronics interwoven carefully alongside layered melodic piano lines.

The main narrative for the album was conceived shortly after a new addition was brought in to Anne’s studio, a plantation chair which sat opposite her Grotrian-Steinweg grand piano. It led to intense hours of rethinking around the instrument itself and more generally about the seismic shifts that were taking place in society. The album is an attempt to reconcile the flaws of time. 

Best described by the Japanese concept of Kintsugi or “broken beauty”, The Eleventh Hour is a heartbreakingly beautiful contribution to the modern “indie” classical genre. The thirteen tracks all meticulously crafted and ringing out with a dark luminosity, like an elegy to our troubled times. 

It will appeal to fans of Dustin O’Halloran, Nils Frahm, Max Richter, Philipp Glass, Jóhann Jóhannson who will find many reasons to love this album .

www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-eleventh-hour

The Eleventh Hour

Anne Lovett - The Eleventh Hour

Björk is the second track in Klangriket's solo EP 'Tjärn'. 

Free download: https://pianoandcoffeerecords.bandcamp.com/album/tj-rn-reworked

Composed by Klangriket. 
Recomposed by Jakob Lindhagen and Vargkvint.

Klangriket - Björk (Jakob Lindhagen & Vargkvint Rework)

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