I created this track over two sessions. The first part (the watery piano melody) was an improvisation that I played and adapted during the Saturday morning Naviar Records Discord group. This is a weekly group that anyone can join and I'd highly recommend it, it's a great start to the weekend. The second part (sound design) was built this Sunday evening afterwards, and it took the original idea into an entirely different direction. I keep thinking about the parlour game "Exquisite Corpse" as a creative method - which doesn't apply here as I already knew and was playing over the first part, but the separation of a day brings an entirely new perspective onto. 

Credits are due to the creators from freesound.org for these three samples used in the sound design:

VLF Radio.flac by sumsa -- https://freesound.org/s/63761/ -- License: Attribution 3.0
Radio band switch 08 mic by DN_KP -- https://freesound.org/s/117935/ -- License: Attribution 3.0
radio_frequency.mp3 by themfish -- https://freesound.org/s/33631/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Here is the information about this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge:

 
"A quiet cabin;
hunting milkcaps, I was soon
lost among the pines"

Kagami Shikō was a Japanese poet, considered one of the ten outstanding disciples (Shōmon jittetsu 蕉門十哲) of Matsuo Bashō. He was in turn the master of the famous poetess Fukuda Chiyo-ni.

Originally from the present-day Gifu Prefecture, Kagami Shikō became a monk at Daichi-ji Temple, and in 1690 he became a pupil of Bashō, later accompanying him on some of his journeys and recording his last will in 1694.

After Basho's death, he kept travelling around Japan, writing several essays on haiku and collections of writings until his death in 1731.

Haiku by Kagami Shikō

Extract of picture by Michele Purin

Submission deadline: 24h December 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/




lost (naviarhaiku624)

Track featured on the Dragon's Eye Recordings Twelfth Anniversary compilation (2018).

Steel: Dragon's Eye Twelfth Anniversary

Hidden Circuits

Crystal

from KR077 : die ANGEL - Utopien I . LP / DL out on april 24th 2020

Ilpo Väisänen : electronics & effects
Dirk Dresselhaus : electric guitar & effects
Oren Ambarchi : electric guitar & effects

die ANGEL -  Cargo Cult (feat. Oren Ambarchi)

A preview track from the forthcoming CD "Scaath Catfish". From the mud of the Illinois River and some chromium dioxide found along the Mississippi.

Scaath Catfish

Catfish Splinter

One of the beautiful, pastorally infused tracks off of the lovely new album from English artist, Enofa... entitled "Nerra Ninna Noak"...

Enofa "Nerra Ninna Noak" (Part 5)

Ümlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. experimental sound artist based in Queens, New York. The thematic concepts distinguishing his work are absence and silence; the ineffable exchange between viewer and image; random moments of stillness within a landscape in flux. The listener sets out on a richly layered journey into the unknown. With computer-as-instrument, fragments of sounds, textures and a warm palette of noise patch together. Found acoustics will tweak the listener's inclination to reflect and discover. Manipulation of sound seamlessly juxtaposes the digital world with field recordings. The universal assimilates with the personal. Sit very quietly, and when the scenery shifts, slip between it.

Insight

Ümlaut - Insight

From psr-049. Out August 2020 on limited LP.

Echolog - Modular

second excerpt from Ludovic Medery | Les pierres sèches cd on Unfathomless.

In its regular version, this release is limited to 180 hand numbered copies and packaged in clear vinyl sleeve with folded insert and additional art card on 350gr satin paper. 

There is a special edition strictly ltd to 20 numbered copies coming with a different packaging (see website/Bandcamp page for details).

Les pierres sèches

U65 | Ludovic Medery | Les pierres sèches_excerpt2

Spectral Etimasia

The first time Stijn Huwels and Cok van Vuuren collaborated with Michel Banabila was in April 2020. They made an extremely peaceful 12-minute track in reaction to all the stress in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to soothe some of the stress and calm you down. The track was picked up by Apple Music and added to one of their playlists, resulting in over 655.000 streams in just a few months, still increasing to this day: https://soundcloud.com/michel-banabila/one-moment-in-time

'Across The Sky' is their second collaboration, maintaining a positive vibe, this time with a little more emphasis on rhythm. Droney synths and imaginative electronics are mixed with space guitars, all infused with analog elusive layers of tape echo and reverb. 

DL & cassette: https://banabila.bandcamp.com/album/one-moment-in-time

Michel Banabila: keys & sampler.
Stijn Hüwels: el. guitar & field rec. @steiner
Cok van Vuuren: el. guitar. @user-472747517

Produced by Michel Banabila.
Mastering by Marlon Wolterink / White Noise Studio.

Across The Sky

buy on bandcamp

with Stijn Hüwels & Cok Van Vuuren: Across The Sky

Songs, artifacts, and debris from an artificial past. Over 30 years of fake resurrection.

Catfish Splinter

Fossil Aerosol Mining Project