Milkwood April 2020 Playlist

Shimmering Moods RecordsPro Illimitato

The opening track from the upcoming album from Kira Kira, entitled "Alchemy & Friends"...available on vinyl in two handmade versions on June 17th...

Kira Kira, "Alchemy & Friends"... Talk To Your Hands

'7456. Live at Human Resources, Los Angeles' summarizes Fabio Perletta’s recent works 'Genkai' (in collaboration with sound designer for Pioneer Haruo Okada) and 'Ichinen', both released by LINE imprint, in 2016 and 2017 respectively. As it blends the two albums’ distinctive approaches, it reveals their contrasts in terms of hi dynamic range and aesthetics of hesitation, silence and instability. This live recording marks the end of a cycle of works initiated with 'Kaikō' (collaboration with Haruo Okada, 901 Editions, 2014), which ruminates on notions of presence, limitation, contemplation, patience and humility. 

Like the photograph on the cover, the music explores distance, proximity and the necessity to be emotionally detached to achieve balance. It is impossible to enjoy a flower if it’s viewed too closely, it will appear blurry. Like the photograph, the music doesn’t change, instead it exists in potentially infinite variations through its exposure to each listener unique memories, experiences, and perceptions. '7456. Live at Human Resources, Los Angeles' thus asks the questions: is there and where is truth? Are artworks really finished? Do artworks which artists create belong to them? Duality, inconsistency, impermanence, and paradoxes are themes Fabio Perletta is questioning and enjoys his inability or need to solve. 

“The notes fade, but they don’t necessarily stop. They echo into infinity, at once trapped inside the deep trenches of the past and in turn shaping things that have yet to arrive. Harmony and silence are one and the same”. — James Catchpole on Ichinen for A Closer Listen. 

'7456. Live at Human Resources, Los Angeles' was recorded live on June 11, 2017, as part of Fabio Perletta’s VOLUME residency. His appearance was made possible with support from DE.MO./MOVIN’UP, II session 2016. MOVIN’UP II session 2016 was promoted by Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Suburbs, General Directorate for Performing Arts and GAI – Association for the Circuit of the Young Italian Artists.

7456. Live at Human Resources, Los Angeles

Fabio Perletta — 7456. Live At Human Resources, Los Angeles (Excerpt)

Single tapeloop on Tascam MF-P01 Portastudio. Recorded live to Ableton Live.

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Federico Mosconi - Storm Not Storm, taken from the new album "Light not Light"

Format: Digital and CD
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Federico Mosconi - Storm Not Storm (Taken from "Light Not Light")

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Orpheus Variations (After Stravinsky) 31:23

Orpheus Variations is a new composition by Alvin Lucier for solo cello and seven wind instruments. It is based on a particular sonority from the first movement of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score, Orpheus; a sonority that has haunted Lucier for decades. 

Orpheus Variations is one of eight large-scale compositions made expressly for Charles Curtis by Alvin Lucier in the last 15 years. This performance was conducted by Petr Kotik, with Charles Curtis playing solo cello alongside members of the SEM Ensemble.

“Lucier speaks first of a sonority, and only then of a chord. He discusses the chord, its notes and their disposition, but what haunts him is a “particular sonority.” A sonority is the product of physical action on physical materials: the instruments, the registers in which they are activated, the breath of the musicians, the waveforms thus produced, their merging and interfering, and finally the moment and place of these actions. An energy field, certain to vanish completely once the musicians put down their instruments. However concrete and real the actions and materials, the sonority they produce is a phantom.”

Alvin Lucier - Orpheus Variations - Charles Curtis & SEM Ensemble -

Out now: An On Bast - Nothing Shapes Everything
Format: CD, Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-shapes-everything

Released March 26, 2019

Written & produced by Anna Suda 
Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg 
Shimmering Moods Records 2019

An On Bast - Nothing Shapes Everything

Out now: Bad News from Cosmos - Blue Jelly Island
Format: Cassette, CD, Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blue-jelly-island

Recorded in November, 2015 on 4-track Tascam Porta-07 by Andrii Hrachov and Iryna Bodnar."

Released March 26, 2019

Written, produced and mastered by Bad News from Cosmos 
Shimmering Moods Records 2019

Bad News from Cosmos - ☽

Out now: PJS - In Between
Format: Cassette, CD, Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-between

Patrick Dique - Harmony, Rainbows, Vision 
Jordan Christoff - Intuition, Magic, Chaos
Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg

Released March 26, 2019
Shimmering Moods Records 2019

PJS - Floatbirddrop

An On Bast - Pusia

Out now: T. Gowdy - Pachira Aquatica
Format: CD, Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pachira-aquatica

Released March 26, 2019

Music by T. Gowdy 
Mastering by Jose Leonardo Pupo D. 
Artwork by Emma Roufs 
Shimmering Moods Records 2019

T. Gowdy - Ehm Bubble

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