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Ian Hawgood and James Murray began Slow Reels in 2018 from studios in London and Warsaw. The early work involved exchanging heavily modulated long-form textures, recorded on a variety of instruments, notably vintage synths. Reiterative digital manipulations and successive destructive passes through an end-of-life reel-to-reel tape setup resulted in a collection of entirely unrepeatable drone suites.

Their debut Farewell Islands for Morr Music was met with widespread critical acclaim. Sustain, presented now by Fluid Audio, extends the force of this uncompromising aesthetic further, as the artists’ shared medium further degenerates into overwhelming, full-frequency emotion.

Music: Slow Reels (Ian Hawgood & James Murray) 
Mastering: Ian Hawgood 
Design Daniel Crossley

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Made by hand,

Book Editions' series. Vintage books dissected, re-assembled and re-structured into book-bound CD covers...

1 x Vintage (circa:1890-1958) hardback clothbound book (re-assembled into CD covers) 
1 x CD (full size) 
15 Pages of writing / image inserts 
12 x edited polaroid prints on luxury uncoated paper (250grm) 
1 x Stamped / numbered library card 
1 x Vintage photograph (circa; 1902-1946) 
1 x Vintage book-mark 
1 x Vintage celluloid negative 
1 x Vintage 35mm slide 
1 x 35mm reel to reel audio strip 
1 x vintage music score insert 
Housed inside glassine bags

Stamped / hand numbered / scented 
Download code (includes 20 PDF prints)

Strictly limited edition: 100 copies (no two copies are the same)

Made with love...

Sustain

Slow Reels - Sustain

I would like to start this year with this album.

I have been making music alone for almost 20 years now. I would like to thank everyone who has ever purchased or listened to my music, my subscribers, my collaborators, everyone who has criticized as well as praised me, the equipment and electricity I have used to make music, my room, my time, my friends, my family, everything. Thank you so much.

As a token of my appreciation, I would like to release this album for free. Please enjoy it.

I have only one request. For once, for about 40 minutes listening to this album, please do nothing and think about nothing and just be in a daze. We are too busy. We need time to intentionally give our heads and hearts a rest. Once you get into that habit, you will inevitably feel yourself becoming energized again.

I wish you all a very happy new year.

1. Hogaraka (朗らか) - Cheerful
2. Ajiwai (味わい) - Flavor
3. Utakata (泡沫) - Ephemeral
4. Mizumaki (水撒き) - Watering
5. Neiro (音色) - Tone Color
6. Mederu (愛でる) - Celebrate
7. Otsukimi (お月見) - Moon Viewing
8. Oboroge (朧げ) - Faint

Richness of the Heart

Hogaraka

Free DL

this is a pine trip

Fumeiryou - 不明瞭, Obscureness

1. 有耶無耶、2. 茫乎、3. 縹渺、 4. 漠然、5. 模糊、6. 曖昧、7. あやふや、8. 朦朧、9. ぼんやり

The titles of all the tracks are Japanese words that are close to the meaning of obscurity.

When we do not define the attributes of an object and see it as it is, there is something that comes into view for the first time.

全ての曲のタイトルは、不明瞭という意味に近い日本語である。

対象の属性を定義せず、それをあるがままに見ると、そこに初めて見えてくる何かがある。

All tracks are produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover art by Hidekazu Imashige

Fumeiryou

Hyoubyou

I Don’t Know (ACS’s Always High Remix)

A Preview from the  “Fruity Loops Series Vol.1 ”(exotique waves) by X.Y.R

Available on bandcamp and all streaming platforms!

Music by Xram Yedinennogo Razmuwlenuja
Audio mastering by Tom Lievens
Video artwork by Anthony Asher - Yates

Fruity Loops Series Vol. 1 "exotique waves"

X.Y.R - Fruity L∞ps Series Vol. 1 "exotique waves" [AR028] preview

Message In A Bottle

They say that home is where the heart is. Sometimes, late at night, the sound of it beating can keep you awake.

Disquiet Junto 0661 invited us to devise a drone made from the sounds of consumer electronics and appliances around our homes. "It's Just an Old House Settling" is composed entirely from the dulcet tones of an air purifier, a DVD player, a dehumidifier, a ringing cell phone, a clothes dryer, a computer booting up, and an air fryer.

More about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0661

It's Just An Old House Settling (disquiet0661)

Step 1: Imagine a bicycle race underway. Picture two competitors in the lead, running neck and neck for a long distance.  Step 2: Record a piece of music in which two prominent musical elements align, one each, with the two bicyclists in Step 1. How would you depict their rivalry as it unfolds, the give and take as each bicyclist strains to pull ahead of the other?. 
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0662-spin-cycle/68523


I picked up an abandoned idea from a month ago, an acoustic bass guitar (left) that goes up the whole neck and then down with delays giving this steady marching/running feel. On the right channel an acoustic guitar tries to keep pace, all the way up and down the neck too, or sort of. Most of the time it's the bass that leads the race.  think in the end the guitar makes it though.  

I may re visit this and make a longer version one day  I mixed the first half (one way up, pause, one way down) , after that there are lots of  editing to do and I'm afraid it will be boring in the end (I recorded 3 cycles, up-down).  

I recorded the bass and a first take on guitar  in august 2024 and most of the guitar today, 5/Sep/2024 

Photo is by Paolo Candelo.

Message In A Bottle

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