from 'Sabi' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den383
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/eraldobernocchi

Denovali is pleased to present the second cooperation album of the Italian composer, arranger, producer and guitarist ERALDO BERNOCCHI with the Berlin-based Japanese violinist, composer, electronic producer and TANGERINE DREAM member HOSHIKO YAMANE.

Eraldo Bernocchi and Hoshiko Yamane have come together again to create their second album - inspired by the Japanese concept of "Sabi". The record is a unique blend of electronic and acoustic music - with Bernocchi’s pulsating textures and Yamane's haunting treated violin melodies weaving together to create a captivating and emotional sonic landscape.

"Sabi" is a Japanese aesthetic that celebrates the beauty of impermanence and decay. It is often associated with the simplicity, austerity, and solitude found in nature, and is said to evoke a sense of melancholy, nostalgia, and reverence for the passage of time. Bernocchi and Yamane's "Sabi" explores these themes through a collection of minimalist compositions that combine electronic and acoustic instruments immersing the listener in a deeply cinematic experience.

The album takes the listener on a journey through a series of atmospheric tracks, sometimes melancholic pieces that evokes the sense of solitude and simplicity often associated with the concept, other times more energetic and uplifting, optimistic ones that celebrates the beauty of transience.

Throughout the record, Bernocchi's electronics work provides a powerful, quite physical, backdrop for Yamane's violin melodies and harmonies , which are at once mournful and hopeful. Together, they again created a sound that is both beautiful and haunting, evoking the sense of nostalgia and reverence that is at the heart of the "Sabi" aesthetic. "Sabi" is a unique and powerful work of art that explores the beauty of impermanence and the passage of time. With its blend of electronic and acoustic elements, it is a record that is both modern and timeless, and is sure to appeal to a wide range of fans of electronic, ambient and experimental music. The artwork again was created by the renowned designer Petulia Mattioli.

Sabi

Eraldo Bernocchi / Hoshiko Yamane - Our days

Taken from Airmid

https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com

Airmid (named after the Irish goddess of healing), is my first ever piece composed as a sort of ambient sound bath. I went on tour last month and performed this piece live as a sound bath - participants laid out on mats on the floor and experienced the wash of sound and vibration for 90 minutes, as a meditation. Before leaving for tour, I recorded two versions of the piece in my studio, which I have worked/re-worked into this album. 

Airmid is built upon a binaural beat that I created in Max/MSP, using 285hz + 285.4hz and modulating the .4 slowly down to .1 to create variations in the beat. The first part (Restoring), uses layers of synthesizer, guitar, and 4 longform field recordings along with the binaural frequency to create an immersive, swelling journey. The second piece, (Resting), is nearer to what the live version sounded like. I brought in my singing bowl to signal the start and end of the sound meditation, and used an additional supposive healing frequency (741hz) that fades in and out throughout the track. The second track also features dulcimer and 3 more field recordings.

Releases September 12, 2024 

Written and produced by Nicholas Maloney 

STC 051 
Slow Tone Collages 2024

Blanket Swimming - Airmid (Restoring) (Slow Tone Collages)

cosa rara

cosa rara (Matias Aguayo's dopamine dub) [feat. David Sylvian]

Nicolás Melmann — Música Aperta

Umor Rex, catalog UR154
Vinyl LP, digital and streaming 
Release date: April 4, 2025

Nicolás Melmann (born in Buenos Aires and now based in Barcelona) explores sound's social and poetic dimensions through transdisciplinary projects. Drawing inspiration from Erik Satie's concept of "furniture music," Melmann's compositions transform the listening experience into havens of calm and contemplation.

Música Aperta is a fusion of acoustic and electronic sounds, rich in beautiful harmonies, where carefully soft elements interplay with delicate raspiness. Made up of three parts, the music unfolds slowly, immersing the listener in time. Música Aperta resonates with echoes of Satie, the meditative minimalism of Arvo Pärt, the roughness of Phill Niblock, and the nostalgic reflections of Richard Skelton.

Another way of listening to Música Aperta is through its digital encore – an extension of the album experience that brings the concept of open music to life – "a work that remains unfinished and open to transformation." The website features a reactive audiovisual interface where images dynamically respond to the music's behavior, translating electroacoustic frequencies into real-time cinematic landscapes. The album blends instrumental and electronic textures while allowing listeners to interact with different layers through a virtual mixer, enabling them to create unique sound combinations and personal sonic experiences.

All songs written and performed by Nicolás Melmann in Château Éphémère 
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY
Artwork by Daniel Castrejón

Project supported by: Asylum Arts / The Neighborhood (New York), and Château Éphémère - Fabrique Sonore et Numérique (Poissy).


VINYL LP
A1  Música Aperta I  — (06:30)
A2  Música Aperta II  — (11:17)
B3  Música Aperta III — (18:36)

Umor Rex records 2025 / UPC: 796520479937
Press & general inquiries: editor@umor-rex.com 
Worldwide distributed by Morr Music Distribution GmbH 
Anklamer Str. 30, 10115 Berlin  /  order@morrmusic.com

Música Aperta

Buy LP or DL

Nicolás Melmann - Música Aperta II

The Moorish Shield is a subjective navigation. The main beacon on this poetic and haunted route is a villa from the beginning of the twentieth century, called La Mauresque, located in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, on the French Riviera. Its owners (past and present), its location (nested at the end of the cape, almost invisible…) and the spirit of this place (where, through the ages, the stunning beauty of the landscape always hides a darker dimension…) give matter to sonic explorations, based on field recordings, out of tune pianos, radio interceptions, ghostly tones and tape manipulations. The title comes from a Moroccan symbol placed at the entrance of the villa by its most famous owner: novelist William Somerset Maugham. The main traditional function of such a symbol - central to Maugham’s life - is to protect from the evil eye, while deflecting the evil power back onto the malevolent. The eleven tracks of The Moorish Shield explore this ambivalent relationship between sun and shade and question what a Riviera landscape hides in the Mediterranean bright light, behind the perfectly maintained hedges, through the passing of decades.

Written and produced by squncr
Mastered by Julien Bayle/Void Label
Designed by Daniel Crossley

squncr - Umbrella Pine

Black Mirror: Season 7 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)

The Letter

Evelyn

E T H E R

Sthlm Drone Society I is the beginning of a new XKatedral tape series featuring generative music originally presented inside the Mimer mining facility in Norberg, Sweden by the collective Sthlm Drone Society. This first edition is a split release by Mats Erlandsson and Maria W Horn utilising bowed piano strings, metal plates, phase modulated sine waves and field recordings of the reverberating mine itself.

Edition of 100
C60 XK07
2016

Minutiae

Track A1 from Tsembla 'The Hole In The Landscape' [NNA110]
Available May 25th, 2018 on Limited Edition Vinyl & Digital formats.
http://nnatapes.com

The Hole In The Landscape

Tsembla "Gravitating Bones"

Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano - "Stratum"

Taken from FRKWYS Vol. 15: serenitatem, available April 5, 2019 on RVNG Intl.

smarturl.it/frkwys15

©2019 RVNG Intl. // www.igetrvng.com

Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano - Stratum

RVNG Intl.