VAK48 | Jeremiah Carter & Kelby Clark - It Sure Ain't Worth A Damn (Feat. Sarah Viviana Valdez)

"For you, 

Sometimes the best photos are the unexpected ones. What once I could not know in that moment, I know now: all memory is memory of irrevocable loss. Today I'll never know what could have been. Blindly facing all possible pasts, different lives shuffled, shuffled in an afternoon of playing cards. The other side of yesterday, too, is unknown — no less than tomorrow or the next day. In my hand I hold a present and all these lives I have never lived, only this one. Only this once." 

- Michael Iona

released October 1, 2021 

Music - Nebel lang 
Mastering - Fallow Recordings 
Artwork - Fallow Recordings 









For quiet rooms

Nebel lang - Tomorrow Or The Next Day

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

Kittylung & Embassy - Membrane Breaking
Taken from the forthcoming album "Something Inevitable"

PRE ORDER:

Something Inevitable 
by Kittylung & EMBASSY

CD/Digital

Limited to 40 CD's, handmade covers, various colors available, hand numbered:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/something-inevitable

"Kittylung & EMBASSY is a collaboration between Chicago-based musician, Max Reikosky (he/him), and Portland-based artist, Toby Alden (they/them). After years of creating digitally art-damaged sound collages in the noise outfit micheal cushion and producing ambient works under their respective solo monikers, Kittylung and EMBASSY, Reikosky and Alden have teamed up once again to create an album of atmospheric, electroacoustic pieces inspired by the environmental perils of the anthropocene. Stylistically situated somewhere between Cluster’s Kosmische experiments, 12k’s sleek minimalism, and the spacious psychedelia of MFS Records’ early trance recordings, Kittylung & EMBASSY manage to create sonic spaces that evoke both the eerie stillness of empty, post-pandemic dance floors and the uncanny soundscapes of a world forever transformed by climate change." 

- Wyatt Thomas

Releases July 1, 2022 

Recorded, composed, and produced by Kittylung & EMBASSY 
Kittylung - kittylung.bandcamp.com 
EMBASSY - brlka.bandcamp.com 
soundcloud.com/embassy 

Cover art by Max Reikosky 
Back cover and tracklist art by Natalie Stevens - www.instagram.com/theceremonydoula/ 
Tracklist typography by Maxton McGuire - www.maxtonmcguire.com
 Mastered by Andrea Porcu 

Shimmering Moods Records 2022 
SHM 220

Kittylung & Embassy - Membrane Breaking

I wanted to create tracks that implied motion, but a subtle motion in otherwise stillness, like the illusion of fluidity in a heat haze. Mostly, I wanted to make an album of unhurried music that was happy taking its time, each track existing in the moment, slowing up and speeding down.

Slow Up, Speed Down

Darren McClure - Filed As Flies

pre-orders start Friday July 22, 2022 at https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/

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Toni Dimitrov & Demetrio Cecchitelli – A New Dawn (Shimmering Moods, 2022)


Like the sudden passage of a light ray, this new and first collaborative effort by Dimitrov & Cecchitelli evokes images of daily-life surrounded by a whitening veil of nostalgia and melancholy. An immersion into the multifaceted colours of ambient music, precisely in a direction of slow transformation dilated sounds into space, time and imagination. Deep textures mainly developed by Cecchitelli and strong soundscape/found sounds source from Dimitrov’s archive, yet extraneous either reflecting, all transporting to a structured aesthetics that takes back to the idea of a sound installation within a land-art point of view or a scenography merely composed of organic elements. Materic at the intersection between real and surreal, a spiritual voyage.

credits:
Demetrio Cecchitelli, Toni Dimitrov: field recordings, textures, composition/dramaturgy
Elia Moretti: percussion
Andrea Porcu: mastering

A New Dawn

03 — Recall (feat. Elia Moretti)

Hajú is an old Moravian word that loosely translates to “hush hush”.

With the lead single and title track from his upcoming album on Slowcraft, Tomáš' weaves together acoustic elements, soft synthetic manoeuvres and evocative field recordings to spellbinding effect.

Assisted by Pavel Rajmic on strings and Marie Puttnerová on vocals the Czech composer and field recordist has perfectly captured the spirit of both his homeland and the season.

Hajú

Tomáš Šenkyřík - Hajú

Pre-order available now - https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/anatomy-of-infinity-oriens

Offthesky - Anatomy of Infinity 
Soysea - Oriens
HS49/49T
Released: 7 July

Handstitched* returns with a new release in the split-artist series - where two artists feature back-to-back on both CD and tape. Offthesky and Soysea meet somewhere in the middle for this amazing release. Both of the artists' music compliment each other very nicely, a perfect pairing of musical minds and sound.

Offthesky makes his second appearance on Handstitched*, after the mesmerising "to break is something sacred" long-player in 2019. Jason's new work "Anatomy of Infinity" features three epic pieces, shrouded in timeworn mystery, far-eastern echoes shine through, glistening and descending through a contrast of discord and awe-inspiring beams of light. 

Soysea makes a welcome appearance on Handtitched* - after hearing his music previously we were excited to get a chance to release "Oriens". Michele's music is nicely-rounded, understated drones and subtle vocals carry the listener through longitudinal divisions, meaningful and with purpose, the music is splendid, soulful and thought-provoking. 

It's amazing to get the chance, once again for another Offthesky release, this time alongside Soysea - the music is simply elegant, and contentment, which Handstitched* is very happy to put proudly out-there. Each format is limited to 50 copies each. The tape release is slid into hand-made, creased, folded and assembled cotton rag O-cards, the CD release comes in hand-made gatefold sleeves with mixed-media collage cover artworks, every design is individual, unique and made by hand.

Thanks for listening  : )

Offthesky / Soysea - Anatomy of Infinity / Oriens HS49/T [s4mpl3r]

Davachi/Smith - Live at the Omnimax Theatre, Science World
Vancouver, BC, Canada

New Forms Festival 14
18 September 2014

Sarah Davachi - Buchla 300, Roland Jupiter-8, effects
Richard Smith - Buchla 300, Roland TR-808

https://soundcloud.com/ava76

Davachi/Smith - Collaboration with Richard Smith - Live 9/18/14  - NFF14

l vox

included in Occulto Compilation #6 by Occulto Magazine

occulto.bandcamp.com/album/occulto-…fqg03eR2Ra2lMs

The Toxic Nostalgia Of Your Memory

*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

Kittylung & Embassy - Membrane Breaking

Shimmering Moods Records

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