Ambient 2

SONG 111

Luna

I may not trust the intarwebs, but I will surely trust my label. When it comes to discovering new music (to pop me out of my echo chamber and insistent feedback loop), it’s easy to get lost among the new releases. There’s just too much of everything, and it’s only getting harder to discern. Anyone can share their latest content. And anyone can upload with a click. There’s a reason for that. The companies that host it all have made it easy for a reason: to monetize your music. To turn your content into cash. On the flip side, the labels take their time. They are, in turn, investing in the artist. So when you buy into the label, you buy into their world. Past Inside The Present has been curating my journey since 2018, and I have learned to trust Zach’s choice in music. So when he backs North Carolina-based vocalist Angela Winter for her slightly avant-garde solo debut release for the label, I’m all ears. I write “solo” because in 2024, we’ve already heard her voice on a collaboration with the label boss himself, titled Mid Sky. Together, the duo navigated “a realm between the terrestrial and cosmic with organic drones and ethereal vocals“. In August, Angela returns with a full-length titled Forbidden Questions In Space, centered around ambient and drone improvisations, and of course, her voice, for a koan-inspired drift into the endless cosmos. If you’ve been following Headphone Commute, you know that I tend to focus on mostly instrumental music, often with a darker tint of sonic experimentation. Today, I select one of those pieces from her upcoming album to give you a taste.

TRACK PREMIERE : Angela Winter - Saturn, lightly

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

Untouched by Sunrise (naviarhaiku607)

Traditionally a real-time improviser, Thorn applies the same method here: live improvisation, spontaneous structure-building, and experimental mélanges of violin and code. Many of its foggy textures derive from Haze, a tool he developed for generating densely patterned lo-fi soundscapes.

A sonic memoir imbued with violin and experimental code, a curious doubling of terms begins at the churning waters of Necarney Creek merging with the Pacific. Unfolding from pure lyricism into machinic textures, the music summons the verdant twilight of the primeval forest and the glow of the city lights it ad-umbrates. The machinic is both refuge and trial in this work, though the final word is the fracturing, hard-driven logic-become-logistics that may signal a morbid dénouement.

Bandcamp

Seth Thorn - What Lies Before

Morning Passage

The Hill

eRecords is a digital record series created by Whitelabrecs, to run alongside our physical releases. These editions aim to transform the digital format into something that can be experienced in a similar way to a listener’s interaction with a real, white label vinyl record. Each edition includes a special PDF scrapbook including polaroids and liner notes.

We do not publish details about the concepts or production methods of a release, so that the liner notes and content in each scrapbook will give you the background of each edition in the series.

catalog: eR040
artist: louis gardner
release title: the lake
runtime: 22:57
location: cheltenham, uk

Louis Gardner - The Lake (excerpt)

wve-1202-estraval-mix

Gray Acres has always been a space for subtlety and restraint, distinct from the denser, more cinematic atmospheres of Hotel Neon. Where that project often explores process, technique, and narrative arcs, Gray Acres tends to be produced "in the moment" and stays still. It lets you think for yourself. Soft Erasure especially embraces that characteristic stillness.

This is the first full-length Gray Acres album since 2021’s “Dreams and Phantoms.” It’s a project that came together slowly with an intentionally light touch…more about dissolving sounds than constructing them. Subtraction vs. addition.

The title Soft Erasure came about as we noticed a recurring quality across the recordings: a sense of tangible things like guitars, pianos, and strings fading, softening, and slipping just out of reach as we shaped and processed them. The music feels like it’s constantly on the verge of vanishing, or being gently wiped away into an indistinct atmosphere. That idea of erasure not as violence, but as gentleness, decay, or transformation, felt like the right metaphor to latch on to. It speaks to memory, distance, and time, and how all of those forces shape and reshape our perception of sound and self.

Musically, this album is built mainly from resampled acoustic instruments: delicate piano lines, sustained strings, frozen and looped guitar textures. Much of the source material was recorded clean, then stretched, blurred, and layered until it became something abstract…like an impression of a song, or a half-remembered phrase. In some ways, we were trying to find the most washed-out and ephemeral version of each sound. The result is a record that is designed less for narrative and more for immersion.

If you’ve followed this project before, I think you’ll hear a natural continuation of its aesthetic. But if you’re new to Gray Acres, this is a great entry point. It’s music that tries not to demand attention, but rewards those who tune in closely for a while.

Gray Acres - Soft Erasure
Music by Andrew & Michael Tasselmyer
Mastered by Alex at Quiet Details

Gray Acres - Vestige

Available at:
Delsin Records: http://www.delsinrecords.com/release/5100/zander-one/emerald-awakening
Fluid Radio/Stashed Goods:
http://www.store.fluid-radio.co.uk/2015/08/zander-one-emerald-awaking-cd-preorder/
Norman Records:
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/154874-zander-one-emerald-awaking-
Databloem:
http://databloem.com/home/860-zander-one-emerald-awakening.html

100 CDr's, hand made, hand numbered, photo's, no repress.

"Inspired by the thick haze of the Ohio summer, Emerald Awakening explores the sonic realms embodied in the incandescent vapor hanging over the Cuyahoga Valley. As the awakening of spring permeates into every corner of the atmosphere, warm pads begin to take shape and form, backed by the gentle rhythm of the valley coming alive once more. Organic melodies layer the cloudy sky, through sun and storm, with a culmination of the gentle transition to autumn."

This album includes two remixes from Coppice Halifax and Shea McGilvray.

Track list:
1. Sleep Chamber					
2. Hazel Canticle					
3. Remnant	        					
4. Twilight Basin						
5. Abend (Whelm mix)					
6. Floret & Foliage					
7. Seaswept					
8. Distant Skies					
9. Essence					
10. Echoflight					
11. Discarnate Vapor				
12. Petrichor				
13. Hazel Canticle (Coppice Halifax Blue Shape)					
14. Abend (Shea McGilvray Mauve Mix)			



Release date: 31-8-2015
Label: Shimmering Moods Records
Artist: Zander One
Release: Emerald Awaking
Format: CDr (digital downloads will be available later)
Cat. number: SHM CD010
Mastered by Early Reflections



Zander One "Emerald Awaking" Album Preview (OUT NOW)

Extended version of the latest SHM radio show on Red Light Radio 12.08.2015

Track list:
- Field recording by Faunethic
- Work it by Sons of Melancholia (from the forthcoming album Silencer on Diametric-music, release date 14.09.2015 pre order:
diametricmusic.limitedrun.com/products/5…d-preorder)
- Eyelock by Body Boys (Opal Tapes)
- GBA by The Fear Ratio (Skam)
- Out by Aleks (from the forthcoming album Day & Night on Shimmering Moods Records)
- Ferm by The Fear Ratio (Skam)
- 196.96655 by Autumna (From the forthcoming EP 'Unfurl' on Shimmering Moods Records)
- Olympic Mess by Helm (PAN)
- Shores of Mind by Arkadelphia (From the forthcoming album on Shimmering Moods Records)
- 88.9MHz by Adzuki (From the forthcoming album 'Radio sounds like waves' on Shimmering Moods Records)
- Day 58 by MCM (Unreleased)
- Versace Towel by Regularfantasy (Unreleased)
- Abend by Zander One (Shea McGilvray Mauve Mix) (From the forthcoming album 'Emerald Awaking' , release date 31.08.2015 on Shimmering Moods Records)
- Orpheus Relay by Shea McGilvray (Unreleased)
- Part 3 by Aleks (from the forthcoming album Day & Night on Shimmering Moods Records)
- Moving On by nthng (Mörk/Lobster Theremin)
- Piezo by Parallelism (From the forthcoming album on Shimmering Moods Records)
- Perpetual Unfolding Part 2 by TimeDog (Unreleased/Upcoming….)
- Den by Room of Roots (Etched Traumas/Shimmering Moods Records)
- A spark is all it takes by Valanx (from the upcoming album on Shimmering Moods Records)
- LFP#2 by Arkadelphia (from the upcoming album on Shimmering Moods Records)

Enjoy!

Shimmering Moods on Red Light Radio 12.08.2015

We continue our podcast series with DR from Germany who will release a digital EP soon for the Shimmering Moods Digital Only series, he's also releasing an album in 2016 for the Shimmering Moods CDr series. This mix was created during a sleepless night…

DR (Dominic Razlaff) is an ambient musician from Braunschweig, Germany. Uses Synthesizers, Field Recordings, Tape Loops & Granular Synthesis to create Ambient / Drone Soundscapes. 

In this mix are sounds from:
alex kozobolis
ghost and tape
celer
secret pyramid
tsone
DR
field rotation
bengalfuel
heezen

More DR:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/3225377-DR-9
https://soundcloud.com/ratze-1
drmusic.bandcamp.com

Enjoy!

SHM Podcast #32: Tears of Truth by DR

Available at Norman Records, Stashed Goods, Databloem, Delsin Records & more

Imaginative music from Chandeliers trying to capture the deep sadness and nostalgic feeling of abandonment…..

Release date: 14.10.2015
100 hand numbered CDr's with handmade covers.
All tracks by Chandeliers
Mastered by Early Reflections
SHM CD 012
2015 Shimmering Moods Records

Track list:

1. Do Not Go Gentle					
2. Pools of Light					
3. Flickers					
4. Edges						
5. Faded Photograph						
6. Heaven Abandoned					
7. Dawn					
8. Reflection

Chandeliers - Artifacts - OUT NOW

Last release of 2015 is a special one by Arkadelphia, his debut album "Islands of Mind" brings you 4 hours of ambient bliss, outsider techno & electronic sketches. 
A wooden walnut USB stick, highly limited, 50 copies worldwide, comes with a special brown paper bag with photo's with an extra download code for MP3, WAV or FLAC files.

AVAILABLE AT:
SHM BAND CAMP:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/islands-of-mind
DATABLOEM:
http://databloem.com/home/925-arkadelphia-islands-of-mind-usb-drive.html
NORMAN RECORDS:
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/157021-arkadelphia-islands-of-mind-
& STASHED GOODS (January)

Track List:
1. Arkadelphia - Untitled (1)8:27					
2. Arkadelphia - Untitled (2)9:40					
3. Arkadelphia - Untitled (3)2:19					
4. Arkadelphia - Untitled (4)8:19					
5. Arkadelphia - Untitled (5)8:03					
6. Arkadelphia - LFP#1 6:26					
7. Arkadelphia - LFP#2 11:05					
8. Arkadelphia - LFP#4 5:16					
9. Arkadelphia - Weightless 10:23					
10. Arkadelphia - Up in the sky 6:16					
11. Arkadelphia  - Untitled (11)9:32					
12. Arkadelphia - Theoretics 8:04					
13. Arkadelphia - Untitled (13)7:24					
14. Arkadelphia - Untitled (14)6:50					
15. Arkadelphia - Untitled (15)11:08					
16. Arkadelphia - Untitled (16)5:08					
17. Arkadelphia - Awms 8:33					
18. Arkadelphia -  Overcome 5:14					
19. Arkadelphia - Untitled (19)3:37					
20. Arkadelphia - Untitled (20)7:51					
21. Arkadelphia - Untitled (21)9:16				
22. Arkadelphia - Untitled (22) 12:28					
23. Arkadelphia - Shores of mind 5:25					
24. Arkadelphia - Rate of flow 8:12					
25. Arkadelphia - Untitled (25) 7:52					
26. Arkadelphia - Coastline 3:23					
27. Arkadelphia - Untitled (27) 3:52					
28. Arkadelphia - Along the way 4:42					
29. Arkadelphia - Untitled (29) 5:06					
30. Arkadelphia - Astrogradient 7:21
31. Arkadelphia - Sunbeam 5:02
32. Arkadelphia - Year in a day 7:07					
33. Arkadelphia- Stars align 3:47					
34. Arkadelphia - The answer 5:12					

SHM USB016
Mastered by Early Reflections
Shimmering Moods Records 2015


Arkadelphia - Islands Of Mind - Limited USB Release (OUT NOW)

Side Of The Road Flashback taken from the Light Sleeper album "The Goodbye That Keeps On Giving" , last physical copies + digital album available on band camp: 
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-goodbye-that-keeps-on-giving

The Goodbye That Keeps On Giving is about memories, the past and goodbyes.
The kind of memories that just dont seem to fade, and learning the importance of saying goodbye, in an attempt to find balance between holding onto memories, living in the present and looking forward to the future. 

Edition of 100 CDr's, hand made, hand numbered, photo's, no repress.





Light Sleeper - Side Of The Road Flashback

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Contact: Shimmeringmoodsrecords@gmail.com

Other projects:
Slow Tone Collages 
https://soundcloud.com/analogue-chat

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