Name: Heavyen by Respira
Duration: 30 min 24 s
Description: 30 minutes for you to be present with yourself, explore imagination, fall asleep, dream and wake up

The backdrop to a very tranquil meditation. Thank you <3

Awake is taken from the album “My Own Island” - the result of my latest explorations within the immersive music realm and is my first Dolby Atmos album. My last album “Expansive Nothingness” was mixed binaurally and I really appreciated the spaciousness that the technology lent to my compositions. After that album was released in 2021, I became curious about Dolby Atmos and so alongside the creative process of composing this latest release, I was also figuring out the technical aspects of designing and setting up my own Dolby Atmos studio. I was interested in creating a studio environment that is immersive so that my composing, editing, mixing and mastering experience was also immersive. And in the process, I felt like I was creating my own island.
“My Own Island” is about that personal creative space and individual internal reality that each of us has. Each track on the album are poems within poems where I encoded my ideas and feelings into the sounds, loops and melodies. Even the album titles can be read like a poem. The guitar is the main instrument (even synth sounds are played with a midi guitar) with the addition of supporting instruments like voice, charango, clarinet, prepared vst piano, various synths and field recordings. All sounds pass through hardware effects back and forth before being recorded in my DAW. The mix is also a big part of the composition where I work with fader and knob gestures as an expressive tool in order to add a more human feeling. The result is a weaving in and out of leitmotifs that travel through ambient landscapes, dub infused passages or even sometimes song-like structures. A humanistic, expressionist, unclassified album guided by intuition and mixed in Dolby Atmos and made entirely on my own island.

My Own Island

OdNu - Awake

Tracklist

01. Norihito Suda - Kelp forest
02. Rhucle - Scape
03. Moss Covered Technology - Untitled Quiet Loop #6
04. This Valley Of Old Mountains - Vist
05. Tomotsugu Nakamura - Pastoral Song
06. Josh Mason - S41
07. Marcus Fischer-  From A Tree
08. Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date - 遠き火、遠き雲 (A Distant Fire, A Distant Cloud) Featuring Tadahito Ichinoseki
09. Francesco Covarino - Nido ii

299. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Secret Place

taken from Small Blue Micro Textured, the forthcoming collaborative album between Jet Jaguar and Adrien75

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/small-blue-micro-textured

Pre orders start April 7th 2023 // Release date: April 14th 2023
The album will be available in a limited edition CD with handmade wallets, hand numbered, edition of 50.

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

I don't remember who first suggested we put an album together, but as a long time Jet Jaguar fan (as in since the 90s) and someone who was lucky enough to appear on one of Michael's Angry Rabbit releases, I jumped at the chance. We had just recently finished our trio collaboration with Tim Koch (Takamu) when Michael's health forced him into a series of weekly hospital visits. To keep him engaged while waiting around in the hospital, I sent him files of recordings I had made of guitars or synths played through experimental effects pedals. Michael took these amorphous and chaotic sounds and used his laptop DAW to put them in a sequence that made sense. He also kept noticing that the boxes of rubber gloves in the hospital were labeled “small blue micro textured”. - Adrien

I’d also been into Adrien’s music since the 90s, when I picked up this mysterious compilation Highways Over Gardens in a record shop in Australia. I’ve always been the type of electronic music maker who stitches things together on screens and Adrien’s playing brings out ideas I’d never have. So it was a great and welcome diversion to take his starting points and focus on details and textures. And yes, with the hospital setting, there were bad jokes about “sick beats” in the online chat. Listening back now I don't connect the sounds with that time and if anything I find it mostly very peaceful and chilled. The title phrase made me smile, it seemed a weird combo of things out of context. Can you have a small shade of blue? Are we talking about something both small and micro? Each of the words suited the music and something about the slightly wonky combination seemed right as well. - Michael

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Shimmering Moods Records 2023

Jet Jaguar & Adrien75 - Walnut Catsup

This 45 minute long mix appears on side one of the cassette version of my latest release "Losing the Sea + Remixes". This mix includes all tracks on the original album (released originally through Mare Nostrum) plus a bonus track (Dark Salt) interspersed with sea recordings.
Listen/buy as a cassette or digital on Bandcamp here: https://karenvogt.bandcamp.com/album/losing-the-sea-remixes

Track ID & Timestamps:
0:00 Lapping Waves Against the Jetty
3:30 Losing the Sea
8:11 Watching the Waves from the Car Park 
9:44 Stranded by the Spring Tide 
15:22 Watching the Waves from the Shore
16:27 Night Soughing
19:54 Walking Along the Shore
21:03 Watching the Ninth Wave
25:48 As the Waves Reach my Feet
28:25 Amidst the Sea Fog
31:42 Searching for Shoals
39:46 Dark Salt 
41:24 Rain on Waves

Side 1 - Losing The Sea (Cassette mix)

"Mesh" (2022-2023) for ensemble and live-electronics, here live-performed by the Nadar Ensemble at the Concertgebouw Brugge on 26.3.2023 (Yves Goemaere, perc & live-electronics; Dries Tack, bass clarinet and live-electronics; Thomas Moore, trombone & euphonium; Nico Couck, e-guitar+FX; Pieter Matthynssens, cello; Stefan Prins, live-electronics, Wannes Gonnissen, sound engineer).

Additional samples from Rainforests in Borneo and the Amazon recorded by David Monacchi for "Fragments of Extinction".

Commissioned by Nadar Ensemble & Concertgebouw Brugge. Supported by the Flemish Community.

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Even though "Mesh" can be performed as a stand-alone composition, it was premiered as part of the evening-length project "Der Wanderer 2.0" which I developed together with the Nadar Ensemble in 2023. In the version presented in the context of this project, the audience is wearing headphones on which part of the soundtrack and amplification is played back, while other parts of the soundtrack and amplification are heard through the loud speakers on stage. This splitting allowed for an extensive manipulation of sonic depth, nearness, distance, foreground, background, blanketing and uncovering. The audience was encouraged to play with the headphones, taking them on and off freely, listening to only one ear, etc., creating their own listening experience.
Of course none of this can be replicatd on this live-recording, in which the soundtrack is rendered to stereo.

Mesh (Stefan Prins, 2022-2023)

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Release date: 18/09/18

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Format: 180g vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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This record was created for the Space Age Lounge, a technomystical chill room in Goa, India.

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30 minutes for you to be present with yourself, explore imagination, fall asleep, dream and wake up

Heavyen

A couple of months ago, I had the chance to discover @vickisiolos 's Bright Patterns shows on NYC-based The Lot Radio and her recent mix for excellent Mysteries of the Deep. Instantly, I found a lot in common in our tastes and I'm super happy she is joining me on that new session for Rinse France. Vicki is based in Brooklyn where this mix has been recorded - on Day 26 of quarantine! After a long time working in music, Vicki finally stepped up and started to play for crews like The Bunker NYC a couple of years ago showcasing her very own and unique tastes. She is now a resident DJ at The Lot Radio and she is preparing a new mix on cassette to come very soon.
This time, Vicki is on for the first hour with a very percussive, immersive & deep mix. Me, the second with a mix of news coming from ASC, Shoal, Fred P, Wata Igarashi & Voiski and some fav from Dots, Pris, Synthek rmx Natural/electronic.system etc.

Rinse France / Laura BCR with Vicki Siolos - 13th April 2020

A new 5 track mini album released on Hibernate Recordings.
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/nia

Charitable fundraising has been hit very hard by the COVID-19 so as part of #TwoPointSixChallenge we plan to release 26 free download/pay as much as you can afford Ep or albums on Hibernate Bandcamp page over the coming weeks. 100% income being donated to charities. All proceeds from this EP go to Medicins Sans Frontiers.

blochemy - Nia (Hibernate) Sampler

contemplative sound exploration

label manager @naturetales

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