"Quiet Rooms" is the fifth release of Polaroid Notes on UK label Whitelabrecs.

About the album:
"Quiet Rooms" came about during a strange phase of deliberate and involuntary personal changes and attempts to refocus. Moving back home after nearly eight years of working far away and dealing with one of the most annoying things a musician can experience; tinnitus.

"Quiet Rooms" was therefore initially a kind of self-healing process to get back onto a decent track with music, focusing on slow-burning, minimalist piano lines, gentle melodies and lots of space in between the individual notes. The tracks "Quiet Rooms" and "Two Wrongs Won’t Make It Right" were the first pieces to be recorded and these set the direction for what was to come in the rest of the album.

Everything was improvised and recorded at a time when it felt right. One particular idea was to keep the tracks as transparent as possible, so that light and atmosphere could shine through as if through a piece of gauze. Later, electric piano, reversed loops and some additional electronic and field recording sounds were added. And that’s it. The music is focused, dense and uplifting in its quest for deep contemplation. It instills a sense of serenity with a gently absorbing, balanced stillness.

All recordings were made in the evening and at night, with the lights dimmed while the cat slept gently next to the recording equipment. The individual titles of the twelve tracks reflect the mood and hope in which the album was created. What you hear on the album is a carefully curated extract from several hours of recordings. The photos that can be seen across the four gatefold sleeves of the packaging were staged presentations of quiet rooms inside the artist’s home. For us the listener, they serve as fictitious environments to place ourselves, in which to escape into a quiet space.

Tracklist:
1. Quiet Rooms / 2. Two Wrongs Won't Make It Right / 3. The World Outside Disappears / 4. The Night Returns Without A Sound / 5. Frigid Stars / 6. Dust To Dust / 7. Be There Forever / 8. Lunar Melancholy / 9. I Can Hear You In The Wind / 10. Advanced Study For A Lullaby / 11. Invitation To A Ghost Seance / 12. Nighthawks

Written and produced by Polaroid Notes
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Polaroid Notes
Art and design by Andrew Heath 

Limited Edition CD and digital download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-rooms

Release date: September 21, 2024
Whitelabrecs wlr 169

Bandcamp

Polaroid Notes - Snippets Of Quiet Rooms (Album)

Ambient / Contemporary Classic / Cinematic Sounds / Drone

Releases:
+ Time Is Coming To An End (Album, with Glacis)
(Whitelabrecs  wlr 192, Oct 2025) 
+ 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)

Music for listening and being

Empty Cross - electronic-guitar ambient music project (duet of two musicians, Maria and Albert) based in Lviv, Ukraine.

The sound of the project is a delicate ambient sound fabric, woven from shimmering reverberated guitars, soft analog synthesizers and harmonies, interspersed with minimalistic melodic piano phrases. In this sound space we place abstract vocal parts or vocalises, which become another instrument, creating a flow of intuitive states.

Sit down and relax...

Releases:
+ Resonance (Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 043, Nov 2025)
+ Distance EP
(Drone Works International DWI 53, June 2025)
+ Drone Signals (Album)
(Drone Works International DWI 50, May 2024)
+ Altitude EP
(Terra Rossa TR_O, Jan 2024)
+ Stills (Album)
(Drone Works International DWI 46, Sept 2023)
+ Spheres (Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 033, July 2022)
+ Quando Arriva La Nebbia w/ Velo Di Nebbia (Album)
(Drone Works International DWI 40, May 2022)
+ Silence (Mini album)
(Whitelabrecs wlrep006, Sept 2021)
+ Fjorden (Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 026, May 2021)
+ Circular EP
(Terra Rossa TR_N, August 2020)
+ Seaside Stories w/ Deep Tremolo Sustain (Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 024, June 2020)
+ Salon Obscure Live Session
(Weber Salon Obscure 4, May 2020)
+ Closed Circle Live Session
(Stellar Transitions, Stellar Series Episode 47, March 2020)
+ Remaining Spaces EP
(Drone Works International DWI 23, March 2020)
+ Monuments (Mini album)
(Büro für Erdrotation / Terra Rossa Spin 023 / TR_M, Jan 2020)
+ Spaces (Album)
(Drone Works International DWI 20, Nov 2019) 
+ Tempera EP
(Terra Rossa TR_L, Febr 2019)
+ Live Drones w/ Velo Di Nebbia (Album)
(Drone Works International DWI 10, Oct 2018)
+ Drone Scapes (Album)
(Drone Works International DWI 05, March 2018)
+ Echoes (Album)
(Diametral Records DMTRLLP001, Nov 2017) 
+ Sky Textures EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 016, August 2017) 
+ Peaks & Summits Live Session
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 014, May 2017)
+ Sunset Symphonies EP (with Polaroid Notes)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 013, April 2017)
+ Drone Paths (Mini Album)
(Drone Works International DWI 01, Dec 2016)
+ Directions EP
(Terra Rossa TR_K, Dec 2016)
+ 3 in 1 (Compilation)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 011, August 2016)
+ In Dub EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 010, May 2016)
+ Light & Space EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 009, March 2016)
+ spiel:feld's live operation with.... Kraut Sounds - live operation IV
(spiel:feld SPF_live016, Jan 2016)
+ Secret Garden EP
(DimbiDeep Music DIMBI031, Sept 2015)
+ Crosstown EP
(Terra Rossa TR_G, August 2015)
+ Atmosphere EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 007, April 2015)
+ spiel:feld's live operation with.... Kraut Sounds - live operation III
(spiel:feld SPF_live015, March 2015)
+ Nature (Album)
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 006, Dec 2014)
+ Night Drones EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 005, Sept 2014)
+ Kraut Sounds vs. Drum Tracks - Spectral EP
(Terra Rossa TR_D, May 2014)
+ spiel:feld's live operation with.... Kraut Sounds - live operation II
(spiel:feld SPF_live005, March 2014)
+ Deep Sky EP
(Adeptlabel adpt 015, Febr 2014)
+ Dark Nights EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 004, Nov 2013)
+ spiel:feld's live operation with.... Kraut Sounds
(spiel:feld SPF_live003, Oct 2013)
+ Kraut Sounds vs. Drum Tracks - Mare EP
(Terra Rossa TR_B, Sept 2013)
+ Arctic EP
(Adeptlabel adpt 011, August 2013)
+ Ambient Drones Pt. 2 EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 003, June 2013)
+ Ambient Drones EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 002, April 2013)
+ Space Mantra EP
(Büro für Erdrotation Spin 001, Jan 2013)
+ Islands EP
(Dub Techno Blog Exclusive 001, Dec 2012)

Compilation Tracks:
+ Deep Forest Sounds
(Ambient Sessions Compilation Vol. 3, Deep Electronics, June 2024)
+ Calm After The Storm
(Nature Of Silence Compilation, Audio Mol, May 2023)
+ Torquoise Waves
(Dive In - Chapter 4 Compilation, Mare Nostrum, March 2023)
+ Late Night Drift
(10 Years Anniversary Compilation, Deep Electronics, March 2023)
+ Media Luna
(Ambient Sessions Compilation Vol. 2, Deep Electronics, Dec 2022)
+ Reverb
(Deep Diversity Vol. 7 Compilation, Deep Electronics, Dec 2021)
+ Dream Incubation
(Ambient Sessions Compilation Vol. 1, Deep Electronics, Sept 2020)
+ In Transition
(Drone Works Vol. 3, Drone Works International, Dec 2019)
+ Cosmic Sign
(6 Year Anniversary Compilation, Deep Electronics, Dec 2019)
+ Translucent Heart
(Drone Works Vol. 2, Drone Works International, Dec 2018)
+ Floating In Space
(Dusk Transmission, Moody Drones, Dec 2018)
+ Lakeside View 
(100 Compilation, Cold Fiction Music, Dec 2018)
+ Pole Dub (feat. Deep Tremolo Sustain)
(5 Year Anniversary Compilation, Deep Electronics, Sept 2018)
+ 20 Seconds To Infinity
(Drone Works Vol. 1, Drone Works International, Dec 2017)
+ Tidenhub
(Chronicles, ODrex Music, Oct 2017)
+ Walk On Air
(VKRS Purespace Compilation Vol. 08, May 2014)
+ Summer Storm
(Echogarden Compilation Vol. 1 eg.comp.1, August 2013)

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Büro für Erdrotation is a small netlabel based around Munich/Germany. It is focused on dub techno, ambient, drone sounds and strange electronic experiments.

BFE has a sublabel named Terra Rossa for minimal dub techno.

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