Tracklist

01. Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall) - Sounds From Another Room
02. The Lifted Index - Secret Colors Never Named
03. Moss Covered Technology - Untitled Quiet Loop #5
04. Ishmael Cormack -  Lavender Wires
05. Norihito Suda - In the Faraway Distance
06. This Valley Of Old Mountains - Polei
07. Tomotsugu Nakamura - Library
08. Wouter van Veldhoven - A head stuck in tapes 1
09. The Inventors of Aircraft - The Distance In Miles From Here

220. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

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.

shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

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

Bandcamp

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)

Another ambient and electronic experiment with the Teenage Engineering OP-XY. Great device!

Timeless

0116granu_23

the stars will dance with you

Neglect (Tucson-based artist and musician Joseph Valentino) is an ambient music project that chronicles the beauty of the American Southwest and Pacific Northwest with sparse, elliptical melodic fragments on guitar and synths. Influenced by sources as diverse as dub, detroit techno, 90's IDM, and abstracted sound art, Valentino's music mines the deep emotional resonance and meditative quality of the endlessly repeating ostinato melody, like Wolfgang Voight's Gas project, Stars Of The Lid, and William Basinski. 
https://soundcloud.com/neglectsound
https://neglectsound.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist

Murkok - Panflora Wind (Saklahcha)
Monadh - Calanque (Muara)
David Tagg + John Daniel - Moonlight Prophecy (Midnight Cloud)
Neglect - Costa Brava (A Giant Asleep)
Tim Gray - Pentahedron (Polyhedrons)
Anthony Child - emeaningoflifeistoliveth (Unfolding Forms)
SOS Gunver Ryberg - Day After Day (Cutterhead soundtrack)
Rapoon - Ochre (Raising Earthly Spirits)
Strie - untitled 1956 (Struktura)
Jon Hassell - Al Kongo Udu (Listening To Pictures)
Pole - Karussell (3)
Strategy - SWIC10 (What If?)
Pye Corner Audio - Transmission Seven: Pathways Open (Black Mill Tapes Vol. 3)
Pioneer - Paperboats (self titled)
Grouper - Sleep (fragment)
William Basinski + Lawrence English - Selva Oscura (Selva Oscura)
Neglect - Lithium (version 2)
Darren McClure - Strange Slip In Time (On Opposites)

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 036 - Neglect

CI-MXD by Olan Mill
taken from "Citation Index" 
Format: Cassette-CD-Digital

Last cassettes and CD's here: 
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/citation-index

Alex Smalley aka Olan Mill returns to Shimmering Moods with his new album. 

Captured throughout 2019, Citation Index was layered together from recordings of guitar, synthesiser and voice. 
Energy has become a theme in my work. The albums titles and artwork are based around common methods of energy production. It seems our mastery of physical energy has accelerated many things, so the slow movements of this album aim to counter that in some small way. 

Alex Smalley

released February 5, 2021 

Written and produced by Alex Smalley 
Artwork by Richard Wild 

SHM 137

Track list:

1. CI-MXD 40:29
2. Electrostatic 01:41
3. Redox 04:22
4. Protonation 04:30
5. Combustion 05:44
6. Piezoelectric 05:27
7. Magnetocaloric 05:50
8. Photocatalysis 06:44

Limited Edition / 75 copies / Hand Numbered / Hand Made Packages / various wallet and envelope colors available / Professional duplicated cdr

Limited Edition / 25 copies / Full color o-cards / Pro Dubbed / Clear Turquoise Cassettes / C78

UK customers: Limited CD copies will be available at Norman Records around the end of February: https://www.normanrecords.com/records/185689-olan-mill-citation-index

Olan Mill - Citation Index - CI-MXD

Tracklist

01. Hiroshi Ebina - Empty beach
02. Simeon Walker - Froze
03. Andrew Heath - Tree Cathedrals
04. Kinder Scout - Epilogue
05. Simon Scott - Apart F
06. The Green Kingdom - Somber System
07. Hipnotic Earth - Repose (Longplay Remix)
08. Christina Vantzou - Staircases
09. Moss Covered Technology - Gen #4
10. r beny - and fall, standing alone again
11. Josh Mason - S51

216. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

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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