First insights from the album Shoto, released on March 29th.

Shoto: https://minui.bandcamp.com/album/shoto

Between the uncomfortable and the pleasant, minui returns to activity with fresh pine air, exploring the unknown life's language, keeping its focus on simplicity.

"Shoto" - It literally means, "pine-waves," that is, the motion that pine trees make when the wind passes through them. As the wind goes through the pines, their waves fill the pianist and speak through him, giving nature a tonal voice - the waves of the wind. Open your ears to these persistent resonances as the notes slowly die out - the contrast - one shimmers while the other has a darker, almost nocturnal feeling. It really is the feeling of just being on the edge of silence, but never quite - never final.

In Japanese poetry, haiga is haiku traditionally accompanied by an ink brush drawing. Inspired and reinterpreted by this, the new album merges with a kind of interactive haiga.
Each page generates a pause.

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Shoto

Lorenz Weber - Shoto (excerpt I)

written and produced by MILA CHESK
ph: elina krima

in my room

They Are Here

Recorded in Formby, England 2010 and 2013 and inspired by the myths and legends of Glastonbury and The Isle of Avalon.
Composed and performed by Paul Landry
Buy https://www.newagemusicplanet.com/buy-paul-landry-avalonia

© 2015 Paul Landry Music
℗ 2025 Ditto Music LTD


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Pilgrimage

Taken from the album 'Invisible Forest'.
Release date: March 25, 2019 on Hidden Vibes.

Hidden Vibes on web:
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Alex Bober - Reflections Of Yesterday

A Minute Before Sunrise

https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/the-sparrow

The Sparrow

Soar!

The fictitious tour of far-away lands continues, as anonymous artist Glåsbird follows the scratchy, folk-ambience of Norskfjǫrðr with a return to lonely arctic-island sounds. Novaya Zemlya is a Russian-owned island, stretching from just off the mainland between the Kara and Barents seas, with two islands split by the Matochkin Strait.

The Southern island Yuzhny is the home of a few inhabitants whereas the Northern counterpart Severny is pretty much all glacier. The added complication of sea-ice during Arctic winters have made certain parts of this land very difficult to navigate. There are accounts stretching back to the 16th century when explorer Willem Barentsz died on an expedition and his body is rumoured to have been buried on Severny.
Into more recent times, Novaya Zemlya has been a sensitive military area throughout the cold war as well as a nuclear testing site. In 1961 the world's most powerful nuclear weapon was detonated, the 'Tsar Bomba'.

In this album, Glåsbird composes a soundtrack which transcends the years of history, combining themes of explorers and Barentsz's tragic demise, isolation, climate change and polar bears, underpinned by radio broadcasts to give a slightly unsettling undercurrent, hinting back to the cold war. The track Vanya is named after a code name the Russians had for the Tsar Bomba detonation project and this piece sits at the centre of this album, in some of the most dramatic soundtrack work this artist has made to date.

The cover artwork and bonus images within the CD packaging were taken by photographer Uliana Prokhorova, who visited a few locations on the island. As always, this album uses the sounds, photography and track titles to build an imaginary soundtrack in your mind as you listen and immerse yourself in this latest sonic exploration.

Credits:
Written and produced by Glåsbird
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Uliana Prokhorova
Packaging Design by Harry Towell

Novaya Zemlya

wlr080 Glåsbird - Novaya Zemlya

Lead single 'Waiting' from Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres' debut album 2 YEARS STRANGER releasing Nov 20th 2020

All tracks written and produced by Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres
Mastering | Freddie Prest
Publishing | Manners McDade
Distribution | The Orchard
Artwork | SABR Mask by Tim Hamilton

2 Years Stranger

Waiting

It’s fair to say that the events of the year 2020 will go down as quite a year and may form a large part of the history curriculum for the children of tomorrow. The pandemic is of course just part of the story, against a backdrop of political unrest, climate change and injustice too.

Whitelabrecs was affected with the closure of our local post office, meaning we were unable to ship our CDs. We also felt we had a duty not to hold up a queue of people and decided to stop production of our catalog. During that time, to make sure we still had a label left to return to, we launched the ambitious Home Diaries series. It ran for 3 months and in that relatively short space of time, the series reached 30 releases!

Home Diaries was an invitation to artists and musicians to create an album or EP to document their personal experience during the lockdown or social distancing conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The series reflects a range of sounds, styles and ideas, as each artist portrayed their own reflections uniquely, available as a digital only edition including a bonus interview and photos.
Each of the 30 digital editions in the Home Diaries series is an individual work of art, created to share the varying experiences felt by each artist. 

This compilation album pulls together a track from each record, sequenced in a way that flows as a specially curated environment, over the course of two CDs. We have two versions available as follows:

A standard edition, which is a double-disc gatefold vinyl-effect CDr album, featuring a re-interpretation of the original cover artwork, painted by Adrian Lane.

A deluxe matchbox edition, in which the double-disc gatefold vinyl-effect CDr is housed inside a gold foil-etched box, which also contains a booklet which includes a photo from each artist's home during lockdown. This version serves as a time capsule into the original series; a keepsake which is limited to just 70 copies.

If you opt for the digital version, this also includes the photo booklet as a bonus PDF item. 

credits
releases January 23, 2021

Painting and artwork by Adrian Lane
Booklet images provided by each respective artist
Packaging layout by Harry Towell
Compilation curated by Harry Towell

All tracks mastered by James Edward Armstrong, except:
12 'Out In The Open' Mastered by John Hannon
17 'Distance Learning' Mastered by Michael Southard
29 -'Stanze e Distanze (part 2)' Mastered by Francis M. Gri

The Home Diaries

wlr085 Various Artists - The Home Diaries

Elm Records compilation album. The Silence Beneath The Bark. Featuring artists Anthéne, Andrew Tasselmyer, Halftribe, Spheruleus, Stijn Hüwels, Valotihkuu, Ishmael Cormack, zakè & City Of Dawn and James Osland

Mastered by James E Armstrong except track 08 Mastered by Stephan Mathieu

Artwork by James Osland

Soar!

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