Comes To Light

In the Lens, Solo Andata’s fourth full-length album, was born from recordings found in the interstices of decades-old hard drives, lost email threads from disused accounts, and forgotten samples recorded on cassette dictaphones. These fragments were combined and re-worked with newer elements to create an album very much in the spirit of the band’s debut Fyris Swan (Hefty Records, 2006), an album touched by both folk and jazz and swathed in a dusty, narcotic haze.
Solo Andata’s Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco have always pushed aside the digital studio in favor of a more haphazard and hands-on workshop vibe to their productions. They prefer near-broken acoustic instruments, cheap microphones and, as can be witnessed by their live performances, tend to turn anything they can get their hands on into a beautiful sound-making object.

While there is a raw and guileless nature to the duo’s sound it is precisely this that makes their music so powerful amidst the over-produced cliches of much modern music. The beauty of their work is how simple instruments and objects can be physically manipulated into creating such rich, layered sound. Dark, swaying, almost-looped melodies from piano, woodwinds and horns wrap themselves in smoky obscurity around remnants of percussion and warm beds of noise and the world around us.

In The Lens is very much a late-night record, reflected in the rain-soaked cover imagery, dripping with half-forgotten memories. Jittery yet calming, rhythmic, yet unhurried, it leads you down its dark corridors to a soft resting space. Ikin and Fiocco have created a new story around the chemistry of their creations that were taking place during the early days of their musical explorations.

In The Lens

Leaden Sky

sketch for Brian Young
1973-2018
rest in peace and freedom
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2047394-Brian-Young-8

stillespace (sketch for brian)

Distant Fires Burning (a.k.a. Gert De Meester) : Bass guitars, Electronics, Treatments 
Seigo Aoyama : Ac. Piano, Stylophone, Synthesizers, Sample

© 2019 by Distant Fires Burning, Seigo Aoyama.  All rights reserved.

Distant Fires Burning + Seigo Aoyama - Monostone

"Wooded" is taken from "Paths", the new album by Darren Harper.

Limited edition cassettes and CD's in hand made packages available here:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paths

“A micro-world of textured electronics and voltage; a simple wind chime singing in a breeze” 
Created with a modular synthesizer and effect pedals, Paths is an account of missteps and error, a process of understanding; an unfolding. A discovery of oneʼs voice...a reflection of nature.

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darren harper's latest work is a joyous collage for all seasons; a delicate record that soothes and refreshes the spirit.

kaleidoscopic chimes and playful bells tumble against each other. twinkling notes drift down in little flurries, then melt away as sunlit chords push aside the clouds.

low, thrumming bokeh echoes bring distant mountaintops intimately close, then curve down into hushed forest floors, winds whispering through leaves overhead. tiny layers of loops and quiet delays, jumbled melodies, sparse crackling branches, and somber swells invite contemplation of these fragile spaces.

each moment is cherished, each song reveals new life: ephemeral, yet enduring. the ice breaks, slowly gliding away as the river shakes off its long slumber.

never obscuring, always revealing; these intertwining paths abound with the hopeful promise that spring is coming.

-- joshua saddler

Releases August 23, 2019

W/P by Darren Harper 2018/19 
Mastered by Porya Hatami 
poryahatami.com

Darren Harper - Wooded

My latest collection of work titled 'Slow Walking' is out today via Toronto's Polar Seas Recordings. Available on vinyl and digital formats. This is the first time any of my work has been available on vinyl and I have to thank Brad Deschamps for making that a reality. See buy link. UK and EU people can also get copies here - https://www.normanrecords.com/records/177983-moss-covered-technology-slow-walking

Slow Walking

'Forgotten Views' - Slow Walking - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2019]

Bird (Naviarhaiku 330)

Here's our first lead.
Let us know what you think!

Francesco Rista, Smüss - Aleos

Cicada No.62

Kanaeru

'Seabuckthorn' is the solo work of Andy Cartwright.
Exploring various approaches on guitars, with fingerpicking, bowing and slides, often with layered accompaniments