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artist : Sonmi451
album : Seven Signals In The Sky
durations : 39.10 mn (Vinyl) / 56.07 mn (CD)
 date : July 29th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / yellow colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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All tracks written & produced by Bernard Zwijzen/Sonmi451. 

Equipment : Moog Mother 32, Elektron Octatrack, Instruo Arbhar, Make Noise Morphagene, Happy Nerding FX Aid. Plugins by Applied Acoustics, Native Instruments, Arturia and U-He. Additional production, sequencing and mixing in Ableton Live.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Artwork by Stéphane Mahé
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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"Bernard likes to thank Mathias for his wonderful work on the LAAPS project and for the opportunity to participate. Thanks also to friends & places for inspiration"

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://sonmi451.bandcamp.com/

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Seven Signals In The Sky

Sonmi451 - Beautifully Dovetailed

"The Days Long" from Duane Pitre's new solo album "Omniscient Voices" - Out Nov 19th, 2021 on IMPREC.

Pre-order available via Imprec.com

Duane Pitre returns to Imprec with Omniscient Voices, an articulate, intense and emotionally resonant set of five pieces for justly tuned piano and electronics.

Omniscient Voices is a uniquely distinct work that follows Pitre's trilogy of releases which culminated with 2015’s Bayou Electric and included the critically acclaimed Feel Free (2012) and Bridges (2013) albums. Where those albums were rooted in long form pieces, Omniscient Voices is a collection of shorter pieces, offering more harmonic variety than previous works, with a unique sound and feel that is still unmistakably the work of Duane Pitre.

In 2019, after a five year period where Pitre did not focus on outward facing music, but instead on his own personal practice, a small idea in the form of a question came to him: would the combination of his latest computer- and electronic-based experiments, used in conjunction with justly tuned piano, produce interesting results; simply put, would it “work”? Concurrently, Pitre was studying a handful of Morton Feldman scores for their focus on tonal clusters, reading a book on Arvo Pärt’s life and work, and contemplating the pulse-based rhythms of Steve Reich and Phillip Glass.

In 2020, with no intention of making a new album, the composer tried to answer this question. The results would spawn five pieces that would become Omniscient Voices. On this new work, Pitre finds himself giving equal priority to both piano and electronics, utilizing his Max/MSP-based generative network to real-time convert precomposed piano motifs, into data, which is then used to communicate with two polyphonic, microtonal hardware synthesizers whose patches Pitre authored; this process generates the electronic component of the album. Pitre also utilizes controlled improvisation to interact with the piano-reactive electronics in a spontaneous and inspired manner, going back and forth between these two pianistic approaches. In all, this approach creates a “musical feedback loop” of sorts.

Despite Omniscient Voices being the culmination of 15 years of hard work and inspiration, this beautiful album somehow materialized in a natural, intuitive and effortless way (like any artist's best work.)

Mastered and cut by Golden and pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity.

Artist's statement:
“When making the pieces that would become Omniscient Voices, I often viewed the piano as human action, a single note becoming a single gesture that has the potential to change the electronic environment, the electronics becoming the environment surrounding that human in the natural world, who then has the power to change their actions based on their surroundings. All actions have consequences. The interconnectedness of everything. Single actions making waves of change.”

RIYL: Arvo Pärt, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass

Duane Pitre - The Days Long - from Omniscient Voices - Pre-Order Available

Tracklist

01. Francisco Sonur - Ataraxia
02. Scattered Light - Tides
03. K Nogami -  Satoshi (alternative)
04. Grotta Veterano - Slaap
05. Hymns57 - il suono degli anelli di crescita
06. Andrew Tasselmyer - Make Your Peace
07. David Cordero - Charly Menta Poleo
08. Fortresses - June
09. Fields We Found - Snow
10. Forest Robots - Even The Tallest Leaves Return To The Roots
11. Ghost And Tape - Seabird
12. The Lifted Index - Secret Colors Never Named

266. Sleepy Sunday Podast (Elm Records)

Pre-order date: 10th March 2022
Release date: 18th March 2022
Format: CD, Digital

Each track was inspired by the experience of the landscapes connecting the body and displacing it into a sound. 

Track1: La Paz (Bolivia)
Track2: Eduardo Avarua Andean National Reserve (Bolivia)
Track3: Machu Picchu (Peru)
Track4: Buenos Aires (Argentina) 
Track5: Atacama Desert (Chile)
Track6: São Paulo (Brazil) 

Tatsuro Murakami is a guitarist and composer, based in Tokyo and São Paulo. Since 2014 he has been studying the roots of Brazilian popular music from Choro and 7-string classic guitar. Besides ambient music, he works with soundtracks for movies, art installations, and his own creations on sound art. 
(tatsuromurakami.com) 

Music by Tatsuro Murakami 
Vocal on track 2 and original photography by Anais-karenin 
(https://anaiskarenin.com)
Mastered by Taylor Deupree

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Dynastor - A Memory Away
Taking from the forthcoming album "A Memory Away"

PRE ORDER:
A Memory Away
by Dynastor

CD/Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-memory-away

Lingering fingerprints of a time bygone, hints of a scent once always, a photograph. The dust settles, dancing in the the last rays of sunlight. These days were felt and the smiles and tears we shed are now or the past. The letters we wrote remain, the pictures fade as the world beyond the lens morphs into its ever changing continuum, leaving us with just our creation; a memory away. This album is an expression of nostalgia, capturing the bittersweet evocation of reading letters from the past, seeing the photographs, the wrenching effect of smelling the familiar scents of a time long passed and realizing that the world is always changing, and so are you. Created with many recordings of nature, instruments, non-instruments and processed using a wide variety of techniques including tape, granular synthesis and analog synthesis, Dynastor explores the storytelling quality of music, creating evocations of places, people, memories and their passing.

Limited to 50 CD's, handmade covers, various colors available, hand numbered:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-memory-away

Releases July 1, 2022 

Written and produced by Maurits Nieuwenhuis 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Analogue Photography by Edoardo Amaniera 
Swedish sackpipa on 3. by Dimitri Peftuloglu 

Shimmering Moods Records 2022 
SHM 218

Dynastor - A Memory Away

Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida
Taken from the forthcoming album "Room tones"

PRE ORDER:
Room tones
by Jet Jaguar

CD/Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/room-tones

In sound work for films and so on, recording a "room tone" is where you record the space where the action is going to happen, but while nothing is happening. I don't have any personal experience in that world, but I feel like I'm forever interested in music where not much is happening, so 'Room Tones' made me laugh - a collection of recordings that are barely there but still serve a point? I mean, I'm not Steve Roden or anything, but the name clicked. I'm usually looking for double-meanings in an album name and it hardly needs to be said at this point that any music made in the last few years is probably in some way about being tucked away indoors. So tones made in rooms, made for rooms? Sure. 



When I was writing about my last album on Shimmering Moods, 'Recording', I compared music-making to a diary. Two and a half years later, I still really strongly feel that same sense. I don't write with a project or release in mind, usually - if anything I've been working hard on not being too bound by what I've already done - but it still all comes from me and I typically select things for coherence. That seems like something I expect from a diary. Perhaps where the metaphor falls down is that a diary is chronological, while with 'Room Tones' I'm pulling together finished bits and pieces I feel work together. It was 2007 when I made the recording that gives 'Ōokayama Cats At Night' its name, sitting on the back porch of my apartment, waiting for the washing to finish. In contrast, I made 'Tonal Drift' as soon as I recorded the korimako that showed up to make some noise in the garden at my current place. And while most of this music was completed around the same time, one track is maybe five years older than the others. 


As always, thanks to all who listened or supported me in other ways, especially Amanda, Adrien, Tim, Shanan, Jenny, Andy, Stuart, and all my family. Times being as they have been, thanks to little online communities like the Disquiet Junto, AEMC, and lines. 

Limited to 60 CD's, handmade covers, various colors available, hand numbered:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/room-tones

Releases July 1, 2022 

Written and recorded by Michael Upton 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Photo's by Michael Upton 

Shimmering Moods Records 2022 
SHM 219

Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida

Ekin Fil - Hidden Place 
Rosewood Untitled EP [re:38 / re:st]

Produced by Ekin Üzeltüzenci aka Ekin Fil
Mastered by Deeskee
Artwork by Lcp
Released by re:st from Berne, Switzerland
Release Date : January 13th. 2023
Format - Vinyl and Digital

Turkish producer Ekin Üzeltüzenci aka Ekin Fil debuts on re:st with her Rosewood Untitled LP. The experimental, lo-fi folk and ambient artist, hailing from Istanbul, presents a warm and colorful collection of ambient works inspired by the resistance of nature. Most of the songs on the album were written and composed under the influence of big forest fires that lasted for days in over 50 cities in the summer of 2021 in Turkey as in many areas of the world as well. The music in the album tries to touch on the extinction after the fire, trying to understand the pain of existence and tries to believe that the forest will regenerate itself again.

Ekin Fil (Istanbul, Turkey)
https://soundcloud.com/ekin-fil
https://www.instagram.com/ekin.fil

re:st
https://soundcloud.com/relationreset
https://www.facebook.com/relationreset
https://www.instagram.com/relationreset
https://relationreset.bandcamp.com

Oslated.
http://www.oslated.com
https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com
https://formaviva.com/oslated

Rosewood Untitled EP

Hidden Place

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Cogitations 2 is part of Cogitations EP. This 5 track drone ambient EP is designed to draw listeners inward, inviting quiet introspection. The subtle ambience encourages space to pause and reflect on life’s shifting emotions. 


Cogitations 2

Lost in the blur of city lights and fading feelings.

Cigarettes out the window (Dreamy + Extra Slowed)

Ismare

Falling Through Graves And Houses

*S O U N D S C A P I N G*
Contact: Shimmeringmoodsrecords@gmail.com

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

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