Empath - Padma in Xibalba (preview)
Pre orders start this Friday, 02.04.2021, handmade CD packages, limited to 40 copies, brown kraft and white sleeves.

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

The anxiety. The pain. Soul searching. And then release of those dark forces. Finding out new directions. These sounds helped bringing me back into light from eternal darkness. This goes for my loving family and all the music lovers.

releases April 9, 2021 

Written and produced by Mikko Ihalainen 
Recorded in 2020 at Ikuri Audiocave, Tampere, Finland 
Remixers: Gruth, drS 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 

Cat. number: SHM 149

Empath - Padma in Xibalba (preview)

Knower - Curiosity Is Not Dead (preview)
Pre orders start this Friday, 02.04.2021, handmade CD packages, limited to 50 copies, brown kraft and white sleeves.

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This is a story about curiosity.
When wandering through nature, I quickly find out that I am in no control. This is essential because then I can freely indulge in its spontaneity, revelation, fruitfulness and those mystical shows which nature performing for us. I am just a sole floating observer with a open-minded devotion to dive into the pores and immerse into details and meanings.
My way was to consciously trip on the nature and let the unconscious do the work. By that I was sure that I don’t know anything and was ready to curiously absorb all the magnificent moving distractions. And that’s how the album was unfolding - I just wander and the wonders open up themselves.
The whole journey was beautifully exhausting, filled with various versatile living beings “who do not sweat and whine about their condition, nor lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins”.

Artwork by Aleksandra Andrejic (www.aleandric.com)
Mastered by Andrea Porcu
https://soundcloud.com/knwr

Knower - Curiosity Is Not Dead (preview)

Here's my slow-burning and spacedelic remix for Empath, featured in his ambient album "Padma in Xibalba". Released by Shimmering Moods Records --> https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

https://soundcloud.com/shimmering-moods-records
https://soundcloud.com/empath00

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Empath - Unmanned Flight (drS Version)

Hipnotic Earth - Home World (preview)
Pre orders start this Friday, 02.04.2021, handmade CD packages, limited to 50 copies, brown kraft and white sleeves.

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This record is about hard sadness and of heartbreak imbued with the humble expressions of the indescribable beauty of this existence which rings true through all of it, for all time. 

Musically, I am compelled toward long-form live improvisations that go on for 20-30 minutes. I then edit and manipulate and polish, carving and sculpting over and over, long days often for months on an album until it becomes a truer version of itself that was not there at conception. Much like life! I then pick the best section for the songs that infer their own structure. Also included on this album are short-form telescopic soundprints where I use a dronier and more layered approach. 

Some very personal meditations make up tracks 5 and 7 and 9 of Homeworld. During a very hard and also heart-breaking beginning to the New Year of 2020 (even before the pandemic!) I recorded the pieces Sadness Too Deep and Ode to Scotty allowing the expressions of both the pain and the beauty which rang so true then, still and always. Supporting the song Ode to Scotty is a long field recording I captured in our apple orchard on the afternoon of March 3, 2020, a full moon with very heavy grey weather. Soon afterwards came the very bad news. Two days later the music was improvised while meditating with these creatures’ songs and was originally a seventeen minute piece. 

Yes. Nature sounds. I am 100% addicted. Waters. Melodic winged-ones. Insects. So cliché and yet it melts my soul good. I love manipulating the recordings into a designed sound sometimes. In consort with the music it just puts me in a trance: when I am playing, when I am editing and afterwards as a listener! The combination of the piano-centric sounds and the earth samples can make one think of the new age style but these are very deliberately poised away from such deliberations to keep something I cannot put my finger on; perhaps a shying away from rhythm or repetitions; rather more like water flowing, moving over rocks; not as a clock ticking or a song singing. The exception is a new color appearing as Emerald Nymphs; this Hipnotic Earth composition uses tempo and bass and drum with inferred and sparse effects, a style I will be expanding with. The older Lakeboat is included here, another strangely hypnotic track whose call for the light of day is answered in Homeworld. I can listen to this track forever, it does something to me. I hope it does to you, too. 

(I would like to make a special shout-out here to Lars Nyquist for his phenomenal photographic image “in Hope” urtida.com. Also, a big thank you to Paul for supporting this album!!) 

~Cosmos 

releases April 9, 2021 

For Ani Adams; my Muse and Inspiration 
Music by Cosmos 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
(Emerald Nymphs - Mastered at SDS Studio (WA) by Drew Sullivan) 
“in Hope” photography by Lars Nyquist urtida.com 
Shimmering Moods Records 2021 

Cat. number: SHM 151

Hipnotic Earth - HomeWorld (preview)

a three sided record telling the story of a man driven to madness as he navigates a temporal loop of cosmic proportions

B6. By stars benign.

A distinctive piece from the Ballroom Records archive, “From Here to Eternity” by Kostas Maskalides is featured on TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 4 — a curated collection exploring the label’s most atmospheric and genre-defying Electronica.

TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 4

From Here to Eternity

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James crafts gentle ambient music with an emphasis on field recordings, using music creation as a sonic journal influenced by time and place. As an artist, James has released his own music on Whitelabrecs, Shimmering Moods Records, Rusted Tone Recordings and Flaming Pines, amongst others. James also runs Elm Records (https://soundcloud.com/elm-records), a label specialising in organic ambience, with releases by the likes of Sound Awakener, Poemme, and Gallery Six.

Tracklist

01. Federico Durand - Lluvia de estrellas
02. Norihito Suda - In the Faraway Distance
03. Moss Covered Technology - Gen #3
04. Melodía - The rise of early morning
05. Twincities - Studies Of A Small Island
06. Samuel Regan - Tell Them I've Had a Wonderful Life
07. Ohio - OHIO - Apeiros (Upward)
08. Steve Pacheco - First Light
09. Ian Hawgood - Friluftsliv
10. Sawako - From Sea Shell
11. Benoit Pioulard - Rionnach Maoim
12. Stijn Hüwels - Tomodachi (yukitomo)
13. Marcus Fischer - From A Tree
14. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Un Saltador
15. r beny - If I

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 045 - James Osland

This is the 67th Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. The monthly released session brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer.
It's the first sunday of april and that means a brand new session! This months chapter is created Medulla Oblongata

Ambient can reach this kind of techno in his opinion. He played an all night long ambient set in the second room of KALT (a famously underground club in France) and he had to keep people on the dancefloor and this kind of ambient techno did the work. People were just flying in the dancefloor. Rhythmical ambient music can be moving people without losing it's power in the relaxation that ambient can give.

At this moment the coronavirus is spreading around the world. Please be safe, keep listening, be positive, watch over eachother. We will beat this! 

Bio :
From the tick of the clock to the waves crashing on distant shores, the French vinyl digger Medulla Oblongata shares his deepest feelings through melancholic ambiences and dark hypnotic grooves.

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@medulla_oblongata
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Follow Club KALT: https://soundcloud.com/clubkalt

Tracklist:
01. Julianna Barwick - Envelop
02. Dj Healer - Protection spell
03. Morgen Wurde feat. Maria Estrella - Lässt Los
04. Joachim Spieth - Iliachtides
05. Sebastian Mullaert - Wonderphalt
06. Wanderwelle - Through the Meadow
07. Superpitcher - Moon Fever (Gluteus Maximus Mix)
08. John Daly - Everlasting
09. Raär - leave me in my broken dreams
10. Birds ov paradise - walls of bones
11. Donato Dozzy - 12H.5 (remix)

Artwork created by Jeroen
Logo design by Fernando Ribeiro ( Subchord)

Ambient Sessions # 67 - Medulla Oblongata

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2020 élan vital recordings

Private Mountain's third long-form release СТРАТУМИ (STRATUMI or STRATUMS in Cyrillic) uses the metaphor of geological strata to meditate on the different aspects of reality, their relationships and tectonic confrontations. Political, Economic, Cultural, Mental, Morphogenetic, Libidinal strata are the constituents of what the personal and social realities are. Now is the time to stop taking it for granted, to come out of the philosophical cave and learn personal and social responsibility, solidarity, communication and collaboration especially in these troubling times of capitalism pandemic accelerating beyond our ordinary powers of comprehension. 

After 'Dark political stratum', slightly noisier and experimental release (which development came out as an outtake of this material), on 'СТРАТУМИ' they return to more subtle plateaus, combining field recordings, drone and ambient sound, this time supported by the piano and synth of the drone superstars Carlo Giustini and Robert Farrugia! 
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Private Mountain is audio and visual project of Dimitar Dodovski and Toni Dimitrov releasing their debut album 'Blue Mountain' on UK label Neotantra (curated by Lee Anthony Norris). It is a project about their shared fascination with nature, art, philosophy and many discussions about the past and future of ambient music, that resulted with a beautiful introspective album, a complex blend of field recordings, drone and ambient sound that captivates fans of this genre with its emotional impact and subtle nostalgia (and that entered the bandcamp chart of ambient bestsellers and received many great reviews). The second album 'Dark Political Stratum' (published on Élan Vital Recordings) is a conceptual album that refers to the global geopolitical changes and turbulence at the beginning of the 21 century. Produced in Macedonia, a center of the global geostrategic clashes of the superpowers, it is a sound statement to these global political shifts, observed through the local prism. 

Produced by Dimitar Dodovski. Field recordings and arrangements by Toni Dimitrov. Additional synths and piano by Robert Farrugia, Carlo Giustini. Cover design: Dimitar Dodovski. Photo inlay: Toni Dimitrov.

releases July 20, 2020 
buy the album https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/stratumi

Private Mountain - Glow

Oliwa - Drift ion Soma
Format: CD - Digital

Last CD's available here:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/drift-ion-soma

Drift ion Soma was conceived both as an album as well as a meditative experience. It's pure improvisation with pure intention, and the tracks are essentially -in my perspective- hymns, mantras, odes to the energy that lies within ourselves and all around us, with nature always present, as an ever-surrounding presence.

Oliwa - Drift ion Soma

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