Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011’s debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013’s Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices captured the duo creating their exceptionally detailed music together live during a Japaneses tour. Akari, in turn, is the first studio album where Illuha recorded and mixed together, throughout the entire process. The beautiful st-robo studio in Tokyo put a collection of amazing equipment at their fingertips, from vintage mics and outboard gear to a vast collection of instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Their writing sessions were numerous and long with details meticulously obsessed over for nearly a year. The result is the most bewildering music Illuha have created to date. An album swimming with the most delicately tactile sounds and instrumentation that draws the listener in with hushed, motionless attention.

While Illuha’s Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date are often drawn to the most sparse notes of Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, acoustic grand piano and guitar, the breadth of instrumentation is partially what makes Akari so abosrbing. They have succeeded in creating their own universe of sound, so beautifully recorded, where each element not only has its own space but connects and interacts so fluidly with the other sounds. It is as if they are placed perfectly by nature, the compositions are fluid and organic, a far cry from anything calculated or structured. It is this open space that the music exists in which in turn defines the music itself. There is ample room to breathe within this forest of gentle tines, bubbling analogue synthesizers, clicking percussion and quiet field recordings. This is subtlety at its most refined; hushed without being saccharine, distant without being morose.

Akari is the Japanese word for light. Conceputally the duo used this word as a guide, as if they were searching through the dark, trying to keep the light alive, as if one is cradling a candle doing everything in their power to keep it alight in a storm. It is this almost visceral sense of sheltering, of protection, that gives Akari a very human and personal sound whose intensely deep focus is as impressive as it is arresting.

Akari

Structures Based on the Plasticity of Sphere Surface Tension

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Structures Based On The Plasticity Of Sphere Surface Tension

Not fully done or mastered yet I still need to a bridge so if you have any ideas please let me know.

Clear Space (Demo)

From the Blue so to the Earth

wanted to make something that sounded empty and mind-numbing

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empty chasms

The third volume of 'Ambient Archives' comes with music by Robert Farrugia, Alonefold, Stabilo (Speaker Gain Teardrop) and Warmth. From subtle distorted synth lines to heavenly guitars, intense drones and misty field recordings, in a new collection.
 
 Mastering by Zzzzra. 

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 Archives / 2015 

Warmth - Time As a Reward

Forwind kicks 2016 off with three powerful new EP’s by Tokyo's Tomonari Nozaki. The first instalment 'Credence' is Tomonari's first new material on the label since his hugely well received debut 'North Palace' in 2013.

The new compositions see Tomonari experimenting with even denser layers of sound, morphing acoustics and chugging industrial rhythms, all while keeping his distinctive and much loved tape recorded sonics hissing and gestating away.


Pt.1

Snufmumriko - Wellspring 
Taken from the album "At First Light"
Out Now
CD/DIGITAL 
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Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 40 copies. 
Handmade artwork, each hand numbered.
Brown kraft wallets with envelopes. 
Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper.
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One of the themes of this album is, I would say, dawn, new beginnings, taking the first steps on a new journey and so on, and many of the sounds used on it were recorded early in the morning. Several feature water, be it rain or a gently burbling forest stream. The recorded sounds were then processed in various ways to create soundscapes which hopefully have something of the life and organic feel of nature in them. A commentator online once described my Snufmumriko music as ”soundscape cloth woven from field recordings” or something along those lines, and i think that’s an apt description. There’s also an almost spiritual dimension to these tracks, and I was often in a very introspective mood as I created them.

Track list:

1. Eos 
2. Exile 
3. Still Early Days 
4. Kingdom of Lost Summers 
5. You Will Know 
6. Wellspring 
7. Cormorant Road 
8. Overflow

All tracks by Ingmar Wennerberg
Mastered by Early Reflections

Snufmumriko - Wellspring (Out Now)

"Perversa" is taken from the album "Versa" by Biuddha, out March 19 on Shimmering Moods Records. 
Available digital and limited CD packages, handmade....30 copies only.
Release date: 19.4.2018

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The goal was set to input sounds of life and mix them with my own sound output.

To do so, i designed a blend of computer-made ambient loops with field recordings and sound design. The field recordings where taken as i traveled from Baja California to Ciudad de México, mostly from airports, planes, streets, parks, animals and my voice. As a result, the album consists in 7 lengthy tracks of minimalistic transitions.

The structure of every track is loop-based, therefore you can listen to the same sounds at the beginning then at the end, they will repeat through the entirety of the piece, therefore i chose to call it ''Versa''. In spanish, my mother tongue, it means ''To spin around something'', and ''To set a topic or theme'', however it seemed fit to the album and applied as a wordplay to name every track.

Ernesto André

Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg (Early Reflections)
Shimmering Moods Records 2018

Biuddha - Perversa

"Who Knows, Who Knew" is taken from the album Lies, Deception and Sin by Niskogradba.

Release date: 18.10.2018
Format: CD/Digital

All tracks sampled, looped and produced by Niskogradba 
between November 2017-March 2018 
Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg

Limited edition of 40, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, Handmade packages, hand numbered.
Different colored wallets with envelopes: Brown Kraft, Blue and Red.
Bigger and smaller sleeves, smallest size in transparant bag.
Photo's.

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Niskogradba - Who Knows, Who Knew (Taken from Lies, Deception and Sin - Out Now)

From "We Can Sleep Now", available on cassette and digital from Unifactor:
https://unifactor.bandcamp.com/album/we-can-sleep-now

The Mountain (cassette out now on Unifactor)

"Santraukos" (plural) is a Lithuanian word that means "summary/epitome/abstract".

This 4-track EP is a collaboration work that started in 2017 between Sole Massif and Jacob Newman. It explores experimental sounds and harmonic content, deep ambient textures, synthesis, sound design and melody.

Thanks to everyone for their interest and support, we hope you enjoy the music...

https://jacobnewman.bandcamp.com/album/santraukos

Santraukos

Sole Massif & Jacob Newman - Santrauka I

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