now available ...

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/generational-drift-the-celestial-sphere

Handstitched* is happy to announce a new split-artist EP (hs53) is by two consistent artists and friends of Handstitched* - Darren Harper & Ümlaut, both well-known and respected within musical spheres and both have released music on an amazing array of well-respected labels over the years.

Darren Harper - "Generational Drift - A seasonal reflection in four movements" wanders through a tactile and circular movement of explorations and minimalistic patterns of generative structures, each arrangement allows itself to occupy its own space within the theme, and variations evolve with harmonious and unrestricted woven textures, subtly offering an openness and tranquillity. "Generational Drift" is a long-form piece that is a sonic tapestry of evolving beauty and internal perceptions.

Ümlaut - "The Celestial Sphere" in contrast to Darren Harpers' work is fractured, short-formed pieces adjoining each other with a disjointed tension, sometimes off-kilter but always focused with a thought-provoking structure. Ümlaut navigates his way through contrasting and conflicting elements and carries the listener through a maze of articulations and random jazz-infused electronic segments, choosing to avoiding traditional form and creating something uniquely dynamic and engaging, all wrapped-up inside a sonic cosmos.

Issued on dual-format, limited edition tape and mini double CD featuring individually hand-bound and hand-cut collage CD wallets made from vintage materials and papers, a special print edition of five x ten designs for the [tape] O-cards to house the c45 cassettes. Each CD copy is hand-numbered and packed inside glassine bags, tape copies are packed inside a clear eco bag.

Darren Harper / Ümlaut - Generational Drift / The Celestial Sphere S4mpl3r [HS53]

now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/coastal-main-lev-e

split-artist s4mpl3r ☀️

Of the Night Sky / Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet [HS45]

Handstitched* returns after a summer excursion and is super-excited to announce the next release in the split-artist series, this limited issue is by producer and instrumentalist Andrew Dobson under his guise Of The Night Sky, and French sound artist Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet.

Both artists deliver two emotionally resonant and individual perspectives for the split EP, Of The Night Sky who has previously released an EP on the Cactus Island label as Digitonal visits Handstitched* with his Coastal EP which focuses on his creative visions, surroundings and explorations with combinations of textured ambience and introspective harmonies which links Of The Night Sky’s music and the Suffolk landscapes together in musical soundscapes.

Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet is focused on improvisation - weaving patchworks of modular synthesis, tape variations, resampling and digital process into magical and mysterious sound collages, inspired by Musique Concrète and his trademark overlapping of intimate dimensions within natural environments. À main levée was composed in early 2024 in the heart of Parc Naturel du Livradois-Forez's green hills where he is now located. À main levée follows his recent album Les Alentours which was released on Californian imprint Not Not Fun Records.

Issued on limited edition mini double CD and C-45 cassette [HS45] both formats are limited to 50 copies, featuring individually hand-bound and unique hand-cut collage CD wallets made from vintage Japanese materials and papers.

Each CD copy is hand-numbered and packed inside glassine bags. Handmade, creased and glued tape O-cards are presented in five separate designs taken from the collage artworks of the CD covers and packed in clear eco bags.

ofthenightsky.com
jerosnet.com  

released: September 6, 2024

Tracks 1-4: Of The Night Sky
Tracks 5-8: Jean Emmanuel Rosnet
Tracks 9-10 Maps and Diagrams [remixes]

☀️ Of the Night Sky / Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet - coastal / à main lev​é​e - S4mpl3r [HS54]

Original Version:::
https://soundcloud.com/arcondenieze4/orage-taon-x-oct24-retangled-no

Photo: Ivons

ORAGE [gen~] - TAON X - Senglar Version

Format: CD
Pre-order: 12th December 2024
Release date: 20th December 2024

We begin this small tour around 1995. I am not able to sleep. With no immediate prospect of ending this bad infinity, I create a tower from my pillows and fashion my blankets into a cave. Soon enough I fall asleep; the structuring of this formerly empty and directionless time had pushed me towards its conclusion.

Now 2019, I acquire a Revox reel-to-reel tape machine. I record many hours of improvisations, sending sounds from my Max MSP patch directly onto tape loops. Covering up the erase head with some cardboard, I enjoy listening to melodies gradually fade away as new layers are burned on top. The sounds I use are constantly plundered and re-plundered from past work of mine, forever composting my own musical memories. I like how the tape adds an extra layer of haze to the already distant fragments.

Now early 2024, I am in a small community in the Australian outback. I constantly refresh my browser to see the water height at Diljin Hill, to work out whether the river would flood us 12 hours later. As the flood waters rise and we get cut off from the outside, I can’t help but conceive of another sense of time, of grand time.

An eternal rhythm constructed not by humans, but by the land and the skies above it.

A slowly shifting present that doesn’t necessarily offer deprivation, but rather more of the less. A sense of what is, rather than what could be.

An eternal time that doesn’t require a neat sign-off from a conversation.

But why must I rely on the computer to see our fate? Might it not be better to just look eastward and see if clouds are gathering above the catchment?

And in any case, why must I obsess over travelling 12 hours into the future?

In early 2020, as the world goes into a restless slumber, I start to conceive of this album. As did the floodwater, a natural force precipitates a lasting present. Gradually I plow through recordings from the year before in order to find material. My original plan is to make a long, single piece of slowly developing music, that might help bridge the listener across the empty span of a night. Gradually I start to favour smaller vignettes, each separate from the universe, with no clear antecedent or consequence. You can find signs of both on this album.

Does this change of plan weaken the ability to induce sleep?
Or is that what dreaming is?
The construction of some sort of overarching sensibility, or even meaning, from our mishmash of fleeing presences in our age of being?

I write this now from yet another time and place. I am trying my best to make sense of some notes I wrote about 8 months ago, which were themselves derived from a book by a well-known contemporary Korean/German philosopher. Perhaps, dear reader, you picked up this reference throughout my little ramble?

As they tend to do, my musical tastes and interests have changed considerably since I began this album. Yet I have enjoyed returning to it when it suited my mood. While tired or lacking energy it has been a warm blanket to guide me. As I look out my window now, the sky is grey and the wind is blowing leaves off the trees. Perhaps this might have formally been a trigger to open up this project folder.

There are still traces of this album in my newer work. It sits as a dream to my more current work; a lingering warmth while the moonlight has already died.

I am gradually getting better at falling asleep as well.

What’s that rustling outside my window?
Or is it a faded memory whispering to me?

Ssshhh, time to sleep
Let the hiss guide you

Thank you to Vicky, who kindly let me use this amazing photo. And thank you to Andrea, who has been an absolute dream to work with, and who also did a particularly sensitive job of the mastering.

I hope you enjoy this album, and I hope you don’t get stuck in too many bad infinities. 

Copyright © 2024 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved


previews. Daniel Craig - Diljin Rising | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

Dear friends,

It has been a long time since we last released a compilation – our previous one was back in 2020. For the 100th release of our label, we felt it was the perfect occasion to celebrate in great company! We invited many musicians who have collaborated with Dronarivm in the past to create joint tracks with an artist of their choice. The result is 24 uniquely diverse tracks that showcase the vast musical spectrum of the genre we generally call "Ambient."

We are proud to present Illuminations III, a compilation created as a heartfelt thank-you to everyone who has supported us over the years. This includes musicians, listeners, visual artists, photographers, designers, podcasters, reviewers, and everyone who has helped us grow and move forward.

Illuminations III features over two hours of outstanding music from leading ambient producers, and just like any true gift, it's completely free to download. Of course, if you wish, you can contribute any amount you find appropriate. All proceeds will go toward supporting and further developing our projects.

For those who prefer a physical format, the album is also available as a print-on-demand double CDr.

We hope you enjoy this release – a labor of love that took over six months to create. Thank you for your continued support!

David Cordero & Rhucle - Illuminations III (free download) - 01 Far Away

Runaway Horses & Valotihkuu - Illuminations III (free download) - 03 Timeless Beauty

Format: CD
Pre-order: 12th December 2024
Release date: 20th December 2024

The spirit of this album is introspection, the ability to stop everything around for a few seconds and reflect.

The absence of a common good as humanity. I believe that the proliferation of neoliberal governments and supranational corporations has brought a suffocating work logic, where productivity is god and workers are sacrificed to this deity, leading to the hyper-individualization of the person, where others are seen as outsiders to be defeated.

We are no longer part of something larger but have become an end in ourselves.

I see the widespread apathy toward the suffering of others as a consequence of the exaltation of the self over the communal. Thinking about others, being empathetic, requires time — time I cannot dedicate if all I think about is myself.

Today, the social mandate is to reach an unattainable potential, creating a constant state of frustration in individuals.

This idea of "being your own brand" turns us into just another item on the market shelf, where our social relationships lose sight of belonging, empathy, and the common good.

Institutions no longer represent us; everything is regulated by this post-modern and neoliberal logic.

To dedicate time to others, without expecting anything in return, is an act of resistance today. 

Copyright © 2024 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved


previews. Francisco Sonur - Random acts of kindness | ROHS!

excerpt of some tracks of the upcoming album on plane III (002)
out in FEB2025 on CD and all digital platforms

https://suolamusic.bandcamp.com/album/simple-offerings

SUOLA - SIMPLE OFFERINGS (LP TEASER - FEB2025)

Atmo Idref OP-7 IDF

Buy the cassette edition: https://nbbeats.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-92834646f-r-i-g-h-t-d-v-cassette-tape-edition
Stream: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/nxxxxxs/ambient-92834646fr-ightdv

AMBIENT___ṁ̶̭͉̞̔͌ų̶̛̘̓̕ŝ̶͕̿ï̷̼͋͝ć̷͍̹͚ ̷̨̨̼̏92834646f̴̹̞͔̃ŏ̸͕̏r̵̞̚ͅ ̵̥̑Ǹ̷̡͕̖͙͕̩͋̓̽̿̿͠͝I̴̡̢͙̦̯̒̐̐̇̿̒G̶̙̯̗̥̤̝̮̗̣̞͐̆̑H̴̨̠̳͈̞̖̝̯̼͛̍́̊̍̂͋̆͜T̶̮̖̩͙̏d̶̛̝ȑ̸̼̭̗̲̞́͛̒̚͜ḭ̴̧̘͍̯̰̓̉̌͐͘͜ͅv̴͍̦͙̩͇̳̺̪̆̀̄̉̃̈́̂̐̕ȇ̶̢̯̘̕͠͠_---**___ (Cassette edition Out now)

soursaw

Independent record label founded by Andrea Porcu in late 2007.