Name: Polaroid Notes - Sleepy Sun by Polaroid Notes in Polaroid Notes - Piano Days
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: New track to celebrate this year's Piano Day on March 29th

The 88th day of the year is Piano Day, because of the number of keys on the instrument being celebrated. I have had the honour of contributing a piano track to this event since 2015. All of them are gathered in this playlist.

Polaroid Notes - Piano Days

"Between Your World And Mine" is the second single in a row of digital 7-Inch releases by Polaroid Notes in 2022, this one being released especially for Piano Day on March 29.

More (digital) singles will be released at irregular intervals throughout this year.

Tracklist:
1. Between Your World And Mine / 2. As We Move On / 3. How To Keep A Promise

Recorded and mixed February and March 2022

Download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/between-your-world-and-mine

Release Date: 26th March 2022
Büro für Erdrotation Spin 030

Bandcamp

Polaroid Notes - Between Your World And Mine

DR-83; DAVID CORDERO & MIGUEL OTERO - A Possible Distance is due out on CD / DL October 14th

dronarivm.bandcamp.com

The world is undergoing severe social and political changes in a short time that has taken individualism to the far extreme.

For this reason Possible Distances is a reflexion on the gap between human relations and everyday life; distance and closeness. The immediacy and the small personal moments that make us feel even more alone.

Written in the distance, Cordero and Otero build a bridge between their recording studios with minimalist melodies wrapped in luminous skies to enhance common places while nature takes its course.

After Salinas (Archives, 2020) and Distension (Playneutral, 2021), this work together brings us the kindness of small daily details.
credits
releases October 14, 2022

Written and produced by David & Miguel in Cadiz, south of Spain
Mixed & mastered at Nada Nueva Studio
Illustrations by Eva Arango

A Possible Distance

Buy CD / DL

DAVID CORDERO & MIGUEL OTERO - Everyday Things

London-based Slowcraft continues to craft... slow, and quiet, beautiful music... the type of music that I love waking up to and observing the dark sombre sky open up to the world for another short day. For the latest release on this boutique label curated by James Murray, we are gifted with a six-piece album by a Czech composer and field recordist, Tomáš Šenkyřík, titled Hajú, which is an old Moravian word that loosely translates to “hush hush”. Today's track premiere of "Advent" is as appropriate as ever, with the seasonal preparation for the holidays, which began yesterday, November 27th. The word is a Latin adoption of "adventus" which means "arrival," and whether you are of Christian faith or not, the approach towards this time is sensed by everyone. For me, it's like a ramp down off the highway of the year, about to enter through the tunnel, where night and quietude surround a slow transition in-between, before a ramp-up into busy January, where somehow everyone exhales anew. This journey is perfectly soundtracked by Hajú, with its "subtle weaving together of acoustic elements, soft synthetic manoeuvres and evocative field recordings to spellbinding effect." These gentle, minimal, and fragile sounds are cradled further by warm strings and piano keys, concluding with a lovely lullaby, with vocals by Marie Puttnerová, "a modern-day framing of Moravian folklore guided as much by ambient minimalism as the ghosts of Dvořák and Janáček, one in which the family hearth forever glows with unmistakable warmth and generosity of spirit."

Hajú

Advent

TRACK PREMIERE : Tomáš Šenkyřík - Advent

"Mike Lazarev drops his first album on Past Inside the Present, and it's one that reminds us why he has such a great reputation as being one of modern ambient and classical's finest composers. After exploring notions of time in previous records, for this one, he embraces the here and now, and that lends itself to a record steeped in mindfulness and meditation. As such, Sacred Tonalities is a perfect accompaniment to introspective moments with textural soundscapes placing you at the centre of them. The harmonics range from soft to gritty, the moods occasionally hint at trance, and the layers of bass, piano and arps bring subtle and ever-shifting rhythms."
-- Juno Records

Full album : https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-tonalities

Sacred Tonalities

Tonality Number Two

TRACK PREMIERE : Mike Lazarev - Tonality Number Two

With the Hollow at My Feet is the debut single from Tiny Leaves forth-coming Mynd album. The music combines field recordings with minimal instrumental sounds to create a portrait of a particular valley in Shropshire's Long Mynd.

With The Hollow At My Feet

Buy In the Octopus Pond: 
https://arrowounds.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-octopus-pond

Buy the 4 album series:
https://arrowounds.bandcamp.com/album/therianthrope-series

Lost Tribe Sound proudly introduces 'In The Octopus Pond', the first album in a series of album from Arrowounds, titled, the 'Therianthrope Series.' With previous works, Ryan Chamberlain has taken us through personal lows and bleak watery worlds in disrepair. However, 'In The Octopus Pond' sheds much of that skin and sets course for lush, green environments steeped in the bizarre. That said, this new material sounds more accessible than ever. The first entry in the trilogy draws from a range of musical influences, Can, Bark Psychosis, Young Gods, Slowdive, Durutti Column, Seefeel and much of early 4AD.

Rather than tackle some inner monologue or global crisis with the album, ITOP is instead accompanied by an obscure short story and visuals just as fitting. As both Arrowounds and LTS would prefer to take some time away from heavy realities and make up our own.

For here it begins and circles back into itself…
In the days before the great boil, the earth was lush and green, cared for by a race of mystic octopoed. In acts of preservational instinct, many chose to build their temples high on top of engineered tumuli, weary of prior flooding and wildfires that drastically disfigured the landscape. It was here that these priests of arms who carved ornate reliefs into the great pillars of obsidian and bone, dug down seeking mineral deposits in the earthen abyss and found a gestating world beneath the below... to be continued

In the Octopus Pond

Blue Entombed (Edit)

Arrowounds - Blue Entombed (Edit)

New track to celebrate this year's Piano Day on March 29th

Polaroid Notes - Sleepy Sun

So I finally decided to get rid of my CDs. I've even got a bit-perfect ripper to ensure my digital archive is immaculate. But as I started going through boxes and boxes of music, each physical item began to glow in its light. Marie Kondo would ask if a tiny digipack encasing a lonely compact disc would spark joy. Yes, it would. Yes, it does. Some of the very first releases from my beloved and now defunct Chicago-based electronic music label established by Paul Nielsen definitely still spark joy. These were the days of Tympanik Audio, and I was on a journey of discovering dark, glitchy, crunchy and punchy music of Emerging Organisms and Subheim's 2008 debut, Approach, was only its third full-length album [fourth release, because the opener was a compilation]. I still hold on to many other [first and only] copies of my favourite labels, which are now sadly gone. How can I dispose of music from Merck, Neo Ouija, Ad Noiseam and, of course, Tympanik? They're more than simple physical mementoes from those special days - they are a piece of history no longer in existence. And so, after ripping [and listening to] Approach, I put it back upon my shelves. But what's this? We've got another new release from Konstantinos Katsikas. In the last decade, this Greek electronic musician moved over to the celebrated Denovali Records [which has picked up and re-released his past catalogue], and on April 28th, 2023, it will be releasing Raeon, an ambient journey through a moody, spacious, lo-fi territory of sound. "Each composition feels like a distant, fading memory that unfolds faster than you'd expect it to and dissolves into an echoing nothingness before you’re able to hold on to it for more than a few seconds." There are no percussive elements on this record. Instead, Katsikas weaves intricate textures that move like ocean waves. Today I'm sharing the third piece from this album, titled "Akti".

Raeon

Akti

TRACK PREMIERE : Subheim - Akti

Tracklist

01. Fortresses - Hear
02. Katharina Schmidt - February. all-night donut shop
03. Ian Hawgood & David Cordero -  An influx of dreams curtailed by the softest of voices
04. Sonmi451 - A Taste For Vicarious Pleasure
05. Harry Towell - Laurus nobilis
06. Memory Scale - A Suivre
07. Daily Rituals -  Self-portrait under rusting sun
08. Andrew Heath - Eulogy
09. James Osland - I Am Because Of You
10. Imprints - Overworld
11. Richard Skelton -  Hypervelocity

341. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

eRecords is a digital record series created by Whitelabrecs, to run alongside our physical releases. These editions aim to transform the digital format into something that can be experienced in a similar way to a listener’s interaction with a real, white label vinyl record. Each edition includes a special PDF scrapbook including polaroids and liner notes.

We do not publish details about the concepts or production methods of a release, so that the liner notes and content in each scrapbook will give you the background of each edition in the series.

catalog: eR021
artist: the bird's companion
release title: the edge of the sea
runtime: 24:19
location: victoria, british columbia, canada

releases November 18, 2023

Written and produced by Casey van Wensem
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Cover art by Casey van Wensem
Booklet art and design by Harry Towell

The Edge of The Sea

eR021 The Bird's Companion - The Unmoving Shore

First track in 2024, more to come soon...

Polaroid Notes - Beyond Paradise

"Fragments Of Love" is a new EP by Polaroid Notes, which is being released on the occasion of this year's Piano Day on March 28. The five tracks are sketchy, improvised and minimalist in sound, but played with all the love that is in 88 keys.

Tracklist:
1. Fragments Of Love / 2. Castles In The Air / 3. Beside You / 4. Rusted / 5. A Momentary Lapse Of Peace

Recorded im March 2024
Written and produced by Polaroid Notes

Download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-of-love

Release Date: March 28, 2024
Büro für Erdrotation Spin 038

Polaroid Notes - Fragments Of Love EP (Piano Day 2024)

Euan from Glacis and I have been friends for a while and we've appreciated each other's music for much longer. So why not do something together? The first official result of our Scottish-Bavarian friendship is this 5-track EP ‘Reflections’, which we recorded over a period of a few months via file sharing. Euan performed the piano parts, I played electric piano and the other sounds.

The EP is a foretaste of the full album ‘Time Is Coming To An End’, which will be released this autumn on Whitelabrecs. None of the tracks on this EP will be on the album.

Release on Paino Day 2025

Tracklist:
1. Reflections / 2. He Smiles In The Mirror / 3. To Be Watched / 4. In The End There Is Truth / 5. A Long Time Back

All tracks written and performed by Glacis & Polaroid Notes
Mixed and mastered by Polaroid Notes

Download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/glacis-polaroid-notes-reflections

Release date: March 29, 2025

Glacis & Polaroid Notes - Snippets of Reflection EP

17 C418 - Excuse

Recorded for Nils Frahm's Piano Day on 29th March 2021.

"Time Passes Slowly" is the first track of my new album "Still Life", available at Bandcamp.

Polaroid Notes - Time Passes Slowly - #pianoday2021

Ambient / Contemporary Classic / Cinematic Sounds / Drone

Releases:
+ Inner Harmonies (Album)
(Driftworks Recordings DWR 009, June 2025)
+ Reflections EP (with Glacis)
(no label, March 2025)
+ All Our Yesterdays (Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 042, Febr 2025)
+ A Chance Before A Choice EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 041, Jan 2025)
+ Slow Tones EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 040, Nov 2024)
+ Quiet Rooms (Album)
(Whitelabrecs wlr 169, Sept 2024)
+ Remains Of Life EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 039, Aug 2024)
+ Fragments Of Love EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 038, March 2024)
+ Soundtrack For A Perfect Day (Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 037, Febr 2024)
+ Drones And Sketches (Album)
(Drone Works International DWI 47, Nov 2023)
+ Four Singles (Compilation Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 036, Oct 2023)
+ Nothing Left But Memories (Single)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 035, Sept 2023)
+ Forgiveness (Single)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 034, May 2023)
+ Winter Sketches EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 032, Dec 2022)
+ Autumn Sketches EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 031, Oct 2022)
+ Cloud Anthems (Album)
(Whitelabrecs wlr 123, Sept 2022)
+ Between Your World And Mine (Single)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 030, March 2022)
+ Walk Away In Silence (Single)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 029, Febr 2022)
+ Ocean Lines EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 028, Oct 2021)
+ Under The Stars EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 027, May 2021)
+ Still Life (Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 025, March 2021)
+ Schneewehen
(Weber & Alcantu Soundstory 2, Dec 2020)
+ Ghost Sounds (Album)
(Whitelabrecs wlr 084, Nov 2020)
+ Drone Reworks (Album)
(Drone Works International DWI 025, Sept 2020)
+ Home Diaries: Moonlight Sessions (album)
(Whitelabrecs Home Diaries Series HD 014, May 2020)
+ Passing Paris EP (ltd. edition 10 Inch vinyl)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 021, November 2019)
+ Golden Heart EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 020, March 2019)
+ Angel Band EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 019, Jan 2019)
+ Low Tides (Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 018, Nov 2018)
+ As Time Goes By (Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 017, Jan 2018)
+ Unsung Memories (Album)
(Whitelabrecs wlr029, October 2017)
+ Days Of Our Lives EP
(Audio Gourmet AGN 085, August 2017)
+ Re: Improvisation EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 015, May 2017)
+ Sunset Symphonies (Split-EP with Kraut Sounds)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 014, April 2017)
+ Dim Lights EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 012, October 2016)
+ The Rhodes Session (Mini Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 008, March 2016)
+ Sea Shores (Album)
(Tessellate Recordings TSR007, May 2015)
+ The Long Bright Dark EP
(Audio Gourmet AGN 077, April 2015)

Compilations:
+ Hold On Tight
("The Principle Of Hope" Compilation, Mol, Dec 2022)
+ Down By The Sea
("Ennio's Muse", Whitelabrecs, Jan 2021)
+ The Good Earth
("The Home Diaries", Whitelabrecs wlr 085, Jan 2021)
+ Dissolve (Drone Rework)
("Drone Works Vol. 3" Drone Works International DWI 21, Dec 2019) 
+ Nocturnal Mood
("Sleeplaboratory 1.0" Whitelabrecs wlr 50, Jan 2019)
+ The Good Earth (Minimal Drone RMX)
("Drone Works Vol. 1" Drone Works International DWI 03, Dec 2017)
+ Floating Not Drowning
(Track on "Earthtones Vol. 3" Compilation, Tessellate Recordings TSR006, March 2015)

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