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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.

shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

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)

Mind over MIDI - Skuddår 3
Release May 7
Album 3 of 3 focusing on life just below the arctic circle.

mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/skudd-r-3

Skuddår 2
mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/skudd-r-2-2

Skuddår
mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/skudd-r

Skuddår 3

Kaldfront

DL Album

Kaldfront (Skuddår 3)

Markus Guentner returns with his signature expansive ambient world-building, and the third concept album on A Strangely Isolated Place, titled Extropy. http://asip.me/asipv032

Markus Guentner / Extropy (ASIPV032) [PREVIEWS]

The "Wasteland Survivors" is an atmospheric and immersive audio journey consisting of 8 meticulously crafted tracks. Each piece is designed to capture the essence of survival in desolate, post-apocalyptic settings. This collection is an ideal resource for game developers and content creators seeking to infuse their survival game environments with a soundscape that intensifies the experience of navigating through a barren and unforgiving wasteland.

Features of the "Wasteland Survivors" include:

    Post-Apocalyptic Ambiance: The tracks are imbued with a sense of desolation and resilience, mirroring the harsh conditions and the relentless spirit of survival in wasteland scenarios.

    Varied Musical Themes: From eerie, suspenseful melodies that reflect the uncertainty of a desolate world, to more intense rhythms that accompany moments of danger and combat, the collection offers a broad emotional range.

    Atmospheric Depth: Each composition is layered with textures that enhance the sense of immersion, whether it’s through haunting minimalistic tones or more dynamic, rhythmic patterns.

    Seamless Looping Capability: With gaming environments in mind, the tracks are designed to loop smoothly, allowing for a continuous and unobtrusive audio backdrop that enhances gameplay.

    High-Quality Production: The tracks are produced with high fidelity, ensuring clear and vibrant sound that complements the visual elements of the game.

    Adaptability for Various Game Phases: The music is versatile, fitting seamlessly into different phases of gameplay, from exploration and resource gathering to tense encounters with threats.

The "Wasteland Survivors" is not just a compilation of background tracks; it's an essential component for creating a compelling and immersive post-apocalyptic world. Its evocative soundscapes are designed to elevate the player's experience, making their journey through the wasteland not only a challenge of survival but a deeply atmospheric adventure.

1 - Phat Phrog Studio - Wasteland Survivors - Desperate Hour

A haunting wave of nostalgia and emotion slowed into infinity, reverb echoing like memories you can’t escape.

"YOU COULD BE SOMEONE" x Empathy (Slowed + Reverb)

Made with tape loops and synths in a cold tiny space.

BANDCAMP

Piccoli Rumori Tristi II

Welcome to the 22nd chapter of the monthly Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics.
This month we present what can be described as the current 'collected works' by Jeremy Clarke and his collaboration with SVSh.  A gorgeous long player, taking us on a journey through a mystical landscape.  It is indeed the landscape of the 'everyday', but not as we know it.  It is, however, a landscape as we could know it, if we gave it our full attention.

As Jeremy has previously stated, 'In our blinkered, urban hurrying, we've stopped attending - to anything that is outside of our own 'purpose'.  What doesn't serve us, doesn't matter.  When we lose sight of the small details, of the incidental, we risk losing a sense of the sacred.  And in so doing, risk losing ourselves.
There is a quiet, meticulous, fragile world that coexists with our own dailiness.  We need to look and listen for it.  It is offering us something - about itself, about us.'


This mix has been specially created for Deep Electronics by SVSh.


Tracklist:

Blue
7 Psalms Vol I
Secreta
7 Psalms Vol II
7 Psalms Vol III
Terra Sancta
7 Psalms Vol IV
Music for Amen


Jeremy Clarke is a British poet.  He lives in London.
soundcloud.com/jeremyclarke
www.jeremyclarke.com

SVSh is a composer and sound artist from Ekaterinburg.
soundcloud.com/svsh
www.svsh.bandcamp.com


Mastering: Sergey Kosov
soundcloud.com/mmcm

Photography: Jeremy Clarke

Design by Jeroen Smulders
Circuit Jellyfish by NLz


Ambient Sessions # 22 - Jeremy Clarke - with SVSh

Campfire Stories 41 (Wandered lonely as a cloud) by @faruambient

~ About The Story ~

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

- William Wordsworth

~ Chapters ~

Faru - Fieldrecording Panama / Anton valley
Faru - Mountain Adventures
Biosphere - Gravity Asist
Eric Wøllo - Blue Mountain
Purl - The. Stars Will Have An End
Aukai - Snow (Abul Mogard Rework)
Ketev - Stripes From The House of The Shaman
Dedekind Cut - Tahoe
Popnoname - Fembria
Blazej Malinowski - Fragmenta
Purl - Violante (Evaporating Edit by Faru) unreleased
Hotel Neon - Essential Nature
ASC - Washed away over time
yunas - Krauty Dreams (Faru’s melting clouds remix) unreleased
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Stratus
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb
Warmth - Dust
Shorelights - Summer Cottage Soundscapes
Warmth - Hivern
Thomas Köner - Teimo
Eluder - warm warning
Naal - The great wait
Celer - Lights inside and ahead
Chubby Wolf - Covered with builder loom
Tetsu Inoue - Sour cloud
Huerco S. - A Sea of Love
Akira Rabelais - 1382 Wyclif Gen. ii. 7 And spiride in to the face of
hym an entre of breth of lijf.
Oneohtrix Point Never - Midday
Pan American - The Penguin Speaks
wrong dials / tutti harp - Neony
Chi - Mahat
Hotel Neon - Roke
The Black Dog - Sleep Deprivation 1
Alio Die & Lorenzo Montanà - Eternal Wisdom
Waveform Transmission - V 2.2-2.3
Biosphere - Black Mesa
Pausal - Murmuration I
Pausal - Murmuration II
Warmth - Anchorage
Faru - Ella (unreleased - forthcoming on Faint)
Rod Modell - Spirit Tracking
Thomas Köner - Lira
Michael Meyer - Sully (Wolfgang Voigt Mix)
ASC - Snow in Summer
Faru - Faru - Fieldrecording Panama / Cloud Forest

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 41 (Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) by Faru

Faru is a Berlin-based musician and designer from Germany. His works have been described as a natural orchestra in a dream-like manner. Exploring movements of nature, noise and harmonics. He is also passionate about landscape photography and field recordings, which build the foundation of his musical journey.

https://faru.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist

Isorinne - Blurred Perceptions of Substance
Benoit Pioulard - i
ASC - Seamounts
Purl - Violante (Evaporating Edit by Faru)
sonmi451 - outer shell
Benoit Pioulard - III
Nmls - On & On & On
sonmi451 - bay hatch
Bojanek & Michalowski - sculptures
Araceae - Gleaming Embers
Deru - Pathologically Bored (Remix)
Faru - unreleased
Chubby Wolf - Covered with builder loom
Klaus Wiese - Akash II
Carl Stone - Banteay Srey
Faru - unreleased
Celer - Sol Azur
Grzegorz Bojanek - Pure Part 2
Faru - unreleased
Celer - spindles And Fires
ASC - Hadal Zone
Andy Stott - Time Away
Pan•American - Project For An Apartment Building

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 009 - Faru

"In the Nada Brahma book I find the words:
"with the Sufis is the name of the original sound "Saute Surmad": 
the sound that fills space. "
In this mix there's a track from Chi Factory's Hanyo v. Oosterrom called "Saute Soermad", I think he means it too. 
I think that's how it could have started.

Spiritual travel is my second mix for the great guys of "Nature Tales". Planned as a "one and only mix", it quickly became clear that the multiplicity of tracks and the somewhat different mood required a split into two mixes. "Spiritual Journey" has definitely become darker than the "Tropical Mysteries" version. It was a long way from planning, track selection and tricky in the details. I hope you like it."

Poems by :
Eric Fassbender | Felix Blume | from Hodge with Deep Nalström
Slow Tide | Folest | Maneki Neko | Robert Rich | Alio Die | Creation VI	
Warren Sampson | Filip Stefanowski | J. Derwort | Swami Kriya Ramananda | Atmøsphäre | Ishtadi | Music For Sleep | Hanyo van Oosterom | The Chi Factory | Rag Dun | Luna Monk | Ross Alexander	
Tuu | Ishq | Dimitar Dodovski | Steve Roach | Sowing Paranoia | Wanderwelle | Lorenzo Montanà | Respira | Ishtaspira | Ecovillage

Follow Echo and Rauschen:
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www.instagram.com/echo.and.rauschen/

Nature Tales Mix #12: Echo and Rauschen - A Spiritual Journey For The Mind And Soul

Arkaean - Dawnlit Passage [SS27]

01. Callow Tongue *
02. Hollow Amid the Ferns
03. Buried in Fog
04. The Tributary
05. Ring Cairn Aurora

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Available November, 2019
Digital 24Bit/96kHz Masters

https://shop.silentseason.com

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Written & Produced by Billy Hesmondhalgh (Moors, Southwest England)
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering (Portland, OR)
Cover art by Tolga Çokdeğer
Silent Season 2019

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Inquiries
info@silentseason.com
www.silentseason.com

Dawnlit Passage

Arkaean ~ Dawnlit Passage [SS27]

The first week of February 2020.
Oslated Mix Episode 189 - Emika Elena

Human Lessons
Berlin
Japan

Emika Elena is a Berlin based techno DJ / producer from Tokyo and founder of the record label, Human Lessons.
Music has always been a huge part of her life, ever since she started playing piano in her family home at the age of 4, but it was the discovery of techno in her early teens that led her to become a DJ.
Having played one of the top venues such as Contact, VENT, eleven, UNIT, Origami, Air, Dommune and so on.
In 2016, she officially launched Human Lessons and released a solo EP titled ”Delicate Details”. 
One year later, she collaborated with Ryogo Yamamori, on a new EP ”Confusion” which was a limited edition vinyl release on her label. 
Gathering attention by being played by big name producers and radio programs such as BBC Radio1 and Deep Space Helsinki, she was significant success in first European tour in 2018. 
Her trademark sound is all about hypnotic darkness, influenced by soundtracks and cinematic scores.

Emika Elena 는 도쿄 태생의 베를린 기반의 테크노 DJ / 프로듀서이자 레이블 Human Lessons 의 창립자이다.
음악은 언제나 그녀가 4살때 피아노를 연주하기 시작했을 때부터 그녀의 삶의 가장 큰 한 부분이었다. 하지만 그녀는 십대 초반에 테크노를 접했고 이 경험은 그녀를 DJ 의 길로 이끌었다.
Contact, VENT, eleven, UNIT, Origami, Air, Dommune 등의 베뉴들에서 플레이 해온 그녀는, 2016년에 Human Lessons 를 런칭한 후 “ Delicate Details” EP 를 발매했다.
1년 후, 그녀는 Ryogo Yamamori 와 협업한 ”Confusion” EP 를 한정판 바이닐로 발매했다.
그녀는 여러 라디오 프로그램에서의 플레잉으로 주목을 받으며, 2018년 유럽 투어를 성공적으로 마쳤다.
그녀의 트레이드마크는 사운드 트랙과 필름 스코어로부터 영향받은 어두운 최면적 사운드이다.

- Translated by Taegyun Yoon

Discography
Emika Elena - Spiral Light [2018 / Human Lessons]
Emika Elena & Ryogo Yamamori - Confusion [2017 / Human Lessons]
Emika Elena - Swallow [2017 / Human Lessons]
Emika Elena - Delicate Details [2017 / Human Lessons]

https://soundcloud.com/emikaelena
https://www.facebook.com/emikaelena
https://www.instagram.com/emikaelenahml
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/emikaelena-jp

Artwork by Clément Davout
First cutting for February 2020

Oslated Seoul.
http://www.oslatedseoul.com
https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://www.facebook.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/oslated

Oslated Mix

Oslated Mix Episode 189 - Emika Elena

Hello dear people. So the podcast channel is back after this three months break - I needed some time to think about something else, work, exciting new projects to come. I expected to relaunch the channel a bit later, but considering the actual situation, I guess it's essential to keep the head up and to share art and music as much as possible. Keep safe, take care of yourself and your loved ones, everything will be ok 💚

So we have a special one for you today. I have the pleasure to welcome Andreas, aka Kraut Sounds on the channel with a beautiful live performance.

Kraut Sounds lives in the South of Germany. Originally started in spring 2012 as a dub techno project, evolving since then into an experimental electronic outfit with deep ambient roots and a certain kraut electronic vein.

Kraut Sounds released numerous EPs, albums and live sessions for several dub techno, ambient/drone netlabels: Büro für Erdrotation, Terra Rossa, Spiel:feld Records, Diametral, Dimbideep Music, Drone Works International (all Germany), Adept Label (Spain) and Dub Techno Blog (UK). Podcasts of Kraut Sounds can be heard at Deep Electronics, Echogarden, Hello Strange, Spiel:feld, Moshitaka and Technopoetry.

Kraut Sounds also records under the name Polaroid Notes improvisational music and contemporary classic. Up to now Polaroid Notes did several releases for Audio Gourmet, Whitelabrecs, Tessellate Recordings (all UK) and Büro für Erdrotation (Germany).

About the music:
“Since I’m into making music I like working with deep and minimal sounds, oscillating textures and free-form Kraut electronic stuff creating certain moods and feelings.
“Closed Circle” is about floating and drifting in sound and time. About getting lost in emotions, in deep meditative soundscapes and atmospheric drones. The live session features some tracks of my albums “Echoes”, “Drone Scapes” and “Spaces”, the latest one released mid of November 2019, together with a couple of new and unreleased sonic meditations. Sit down, relax and drift away…”

The picture was taken by Kraut Sounds in a pine wood at the Mediterranean Sea near Cecina/Toscana.

Follow him : 

Kraut Sounds
@kraut-sounds
www.krautsounds.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/krautsounds/

Polaroid Notes
@polaroid-notes
www.polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/polaroidnotesmusic/

Stellar Series Episode 47 - Kraut Sounds (Closed Circle)

DEBILARIUM 006 is imagined as a distant voyage for a deep listening. 

Consisting of ambiental stories, tribal lullabies, weird constellations, electronic impulses, acoustic planets, melancholic cries, cave rituals, forest mysteries, to mention some.

Among so many members who participated in this journey let’s highlight a few – Taylor Deupree, Dominique Lawalrée, Wanderwelle, Suzanne Kraft, Björn Olsson, Emily A. Sprague, Mo Boma, Love Peace & Trance, Aqua Bassino, Hector Zazou, Savvas Ysatis, Loscil, Solar Quest, Alter Ego, Jack Jutson, Dietrich Schoenemann.

Enjoy with care and open-minded.

*would gladly reveal ID upon request

DEBILARIUM 006

vital012
2021 élan vital recordings 

Sebby Kowal is a  newcomer to élan vital recordings, but he is not unknown to the ambient scene as 'Bright Spaces' is his fourth album. Similarly like his previous albums, 'Bright Spaces' firmly sits into the atmospheric ambient/drone realm, driving you calmly and peacefully towards the vast horizons with glacial movements of the sound spectrum. The whole atmosphere and aesthetic aims towards reaching inner peace of the soul and it succeeds to actually tranquil and soothe the farthest corners and vast spaces of your soul. Hazy but still melodic, the album is mixing fragments of static, hums, decayed melodies and shady sounds into unique meditative amalgamation.  Or said with the artists own words: My goal with the album 'Bright Spaces' is to bring a sense of peaceful calmness to the listeners, the sense that is especially relevant during these stressful times. 

Sebby Kowal is a Polish ambient producer with previously three albums released on the labels Whitelabrecs, Shimmering Moods Records and Lagerstatte, and his track 'Lost In Tokyo' was placed on 'tʌntrə XIl' compilation released on Neotantra imprint. One of Sebby's proudest achievements was his Warm Night Fall EP released on Dewtone Recordings that came out in 2017 and it was sold with over 800 copies worldwide.

Written and produced by Sebastian Paul
Mastering: Michele Andreotti 
Photo credit: Yosuke Nojima
Cover design and inlay artwork: Toni Dimitrov

Release date 3rd March 2021
Pre-oder at https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/bright-spaces

Sebby Kowal - Calm Evening

𖦹

in those subtle moments 
we sometimes drift into, 
when time slips away 
and life stands silent, 
words cease to spill from our mouths 
or even bubble up from that source within. 
the warming wholeness ensues 
at the sheer experience of it all:  
we marvel at the vast beautiful complexity 
of creation rolling around and within us. 
it’s likely that every human 
has experienced this feeling 
at least once in some form. 
it almost seems hardwired, 
like a key back into the garden 〜

*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

*Monthly Radioshow @ Resonance Extra: First Wednesday at 8pm / 21:00-23:00 CET www.extra.resonance.fm

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