Deep Focus

Darren Harper - A Way/Within
Taken from VA/Meditations 6
Limited Edition CD available here:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m…tions-6

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Release date: 12.3.2021

Darren Harper [b.1970] is an American experimental/ambient sound artist residing high within the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 
Drawing from both electronic and acoustic sources, his compositional output is based entirely on experimentation and improvisation, with a strong emphasis on minimalism, and often reflects a desire for a greater understanding of nature and self, and the relationship therein. 
Darren has released works on several international labels, including Shimmering Moods, Dronarivm, Flaming Pines, Analogpath, Rural Colours, Soft Recordings, Disq AN, Audio Gourmet, and Twice Removed, as well as several compilations, netlabel and self-released projects. 

soundcloud.com/darrenharper 

darrenharper.bandcamp.com

Darren Harper - A Way/Within

Mind over MIDI - Night Owl 
Taken from VA/Meditations 7
Limited Edition CD available here:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m…tions-7

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Release date: 12.3.2021

Mind over MIDI a.k.a. Helge Tømmervåg is from Kristiansund on the north-west coast of Norway. He has been working with electronic music since the beginning of the 80's, first as a member of synth-pop band ToC, and later as Mind over MIDI. 

His early works was in the british experimental style, drawing inspiration from µ-ziq, Autechre and Aphex Twin. He then evolved into more minimal soundscapes inspired by a.o. Richie Hawtin/Plastikman and Mauritzio/Basic Channel, mixing this minimalistic approach with an "arctic" ambience and feel, inspired by a.o. Biosphere. 

With releases on labels such as Silent Season, Shimmering Moods, Rohs! and Beatservice in the early days. He has also contributed a short record to Hibernate Recs charity series and Whitelabrecs Home Diaries series.

The Meditations various artists compilation continues its exploration into sounds with exclusive tracks for this compilation series.

Mind Over MIDI -  Night Owl

Duenn - 33
Taken from VA/Meditations 7
Limited Edition CD available here:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m…tions-7

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Release date: 12.3.2021

Duenn (Fukuoka, Japan) is an electronic musician and composer producing minimal works, using a minimum source of equipment. Through collaborations with other artists, both sonic and visual, Duenn seeks an expansion of self. In 2017, Duenn formed the experimental collaborative unit 3RENSA with Merzbow and Nyantora 
His new album " 新しい環境 "with Japanese sound artist Sleepland will be released on Shimmering Moods this month.

The Meditations various artists compilation continues its exploration into sounds with exclusive tracks for this compilation series.

Duenn - 33

SqrtSigil - Matchhead
Taken from VA/Meditations 7
Limited Edition CD available here:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m…tions-7

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Release date: 12.3.2021

SqrtSigil is the solo project of Maciek Jaciuk (30 Kilo Słonca, Ak Uki, mothertape) and is one of the founders of the Plaża Zachodnia label. 

The project was founded in 2014, since then it has evolved both musically and in terms of equipment, in the meantime abandoning sequencers to play free impro. 
Since its inception, it has released several (mostly) cassettes, including for Swedish label Purlieu Recordings. and UK's Tone Burst. 
Noisy, crackling, experimental pulses are complemented by unreal and hypnotic ambient, where fragments of field recordings often play an important role, full of quiet conversations, sighs and whispers. Everything is submerged in fuzzy sound blurs, in which one can hear unidentified micro-sounds, textures, murmurs and rustles with emerging dub bass pulsations or fragments of beat. 
He performs live sporadically, as he convinces us, he treats it as playing "in the bedroom", to soothe the nerves after a day full of noise and chaos... In his free time he builds synths and finds joy in creating short audio-visual forms. 

open.spotify.com/artist/5XSCIaJlUPlssCLVMX7sGj 

dmtrecords.bandcamp.com/album/post-dog-lp 

sqrtsgl.bandcamp.com 

toneburst.bandcamp.com/album/new-technologies-require-sacrifices 

instagram.com/sqrtsgl/

The Meditations various artists compilation continues its exploration into sounds with exclusive tracks for this compilation series.

SqrtSigil - Matchhead

Cerrus - Grotto 
Taken from VA/Meditations 7
Limited Edition CD available here:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m…tions-7

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Release date: 12.3.2021

Cerrus (pronunciation: /ˈker.rus/, [ˈkɛr.rʊs]), a producer based in London, doing open ended off the grid work that speaks to minimal but deep and dubby. 
His music phase shifts between windows streaked with rain smearing the lights from the high rise opposite into a smudged polaroid vision. 
A Cerrus release will be available on Shimmering Moods soon.

cerrus.bandcamp.com

The Meditations various artists compilation continues its exploration into sounds with exclusive tracks for this compilation series.

CERRUS - Grotto

Kagami Smile - Reflection of Light 
Taken from VA/Meditations 7
Limited Edition CD available here:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-7

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Release date: 12.3.2021

Kagami Smile is from an industrial city a few hours from Chicago and spends some of his time in the futuristic sprawl of Shenzhen, China. He takes influence from shoegaze records as well as minimal techno labels such as Chain Reaction and Modern Love. His most recent output of music focuses on minimal meditative synthwork reminiscent of early Aphex Twin and strong nods to Japanese video game soundtracks as well as the concept of liminal spaces. His music reflects a series of recurring dreams had since 2017, that of a missed moment with a stranger. His compositions are usually filled with nostalgia and romance as well as a haze of urban solitude. He has released on labels such as Dream Catalogue, Tekres, SOVN, Gin&Platonic, as well as an upcoming album on Opal Tapes and Sores (Sound+Matter) from Sweden. He will also release an album on Shimmering Moods this year.

The Meditations various artists compilation continues its exploration into sounds with exclusive tracks for this compilation series.

Kagami Smile - Reflection Of Light

Evitceles - Lucid Note 
Taken from VA/Meditations 7
Limited Edition CD available here:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m…tions-7

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Release date: 12.3.2021

Etien Slavchev is an experimental electronic music producer based in Sofia, Bulgaria. 
Mainly known for his intense, beat-driven post-club sound, found on releases for Opal Tapes, Yerevan Tapes and Noorden among others, Evitceles debuted on Shimmering Moods in 2020 with an immersive collection of atmospheric pieces (shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/somnambulant-fog) 

Even in his most aggressive and complex works, Bulgarian producer Etien Slavchev has always managed to find a place for transparent and moody ambient layers, giving his music an overwhelming sense of nostalgia and melancholy. 

soundcloud.com/evitceles 
evitceles.bandcamp.com 
www.instagram.com/evitceles/

The Meditations various artists compilation continues its exploration into sounds with exclusive tracks for this compilation series.

Evitceles - Lucid Note

VISIONARY MIND LAB 
Live Jam @ Müvelodeszi Szint, Budapest
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Snippets: [link]

Featuring:

Adrian Newgent (NL) - electronics, guitar, voice 
Viktor Nagy (HU) - electronics, body controllers 
Harshavardan Sreedhar (IND) - voice, synthsitar, electronics 
Pietro Bardini (IT) - electronics 
Zsombor Czeglédi (HU) - trumpet 

powered by Martin Audio

"MüSzi was a co-working space at he the border of the center, at the last floor of an old building that was hosting the carcass of what once used to be a shiny mall.  A space big enough to give shelter to the repeatedly chased away underground tribes of the city. 
We had rented one of the spaces available and opened what slowly became a studio, an office, a second home, a concert or rearsal room. Sometimes a bedroom. 
A creative, vibrating hub at the core of MüSzi, generating a wide magnetic field that kept creative people in orbit around it, playing music and experiencing its power. 

Visionary Mind Lab was pulsating loud, day and especially night. 

We threw a few events at MüSzi main hall too: on March 12, 2016, The Lab joined into a few hours long jam session. We dusted off the recording and after 4 years we decided to release a part of it to celebrate those times. The space had to close, our lab shut its doors and a lot of energy got dispersed. This recording will help us not to forget too much."

Mastering by Adrian Newgent
Original cover artwork by Viktor Nagy

Live Jam in Muszi (part II)

Visionary Mind Lab - Live Jam In Muszi Snippet SideB

The flagship's command console was filled with a myriad of controls, buttons and sensors. It was time to get out of the cyberdemon lair. The incomprehensible digital ratios seemed a strange rebus, even for experienced intergalactic wanderers. The stormtrooper squad was already on the way, so all the modulations were done intuitively.

Suddenly, Cat felt something irresistible, not limited by the laws of physics. A surge of energy forced his body to move to the rhythm of the sound-pumping speakers. "Mechatronics!" said Spacelunch with a grin. He had guessed the existence of such engineering solutions. At the right moment, the once-tamed element helped launch the plasma engines. It was enough to rely on hearing.

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Written and produced by R.Hz (@r-hz)
Remix by Marcibagoly (@marcibagoly)
Mastering by Pheek (@pheek)
Artwork by Fold Media Collective (@foldmedia)
Write-up by atroqjournal (@atroq)
Catalog number: SL33

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I Decided to Look The Sky

Cool Off in the Evening

Gentle textural soundscapes trace the quiet shift in season, evoking warmth, stillness, and the beauty of impermanence. A sonic reflection on the passage of time, memory, and the subtle charm of change.

Christoph Vogel (Ghostloop) about his album: “It’s a collection of nine ambient pieces — soundscapes shaped by personal moments and quiet shifts I experienced over the past year, many of them spent in nature.

I worked with field recordings I captured during that time, letting them carry traces of place and memory. While writing, I also began building my Eurorack modular system, slowly integrating its sounds into the tracks as they took shape.

'Almost Autumn' reflects a quiet cycle of the year — the slow transitions, inner stillness, and changing atmosphere that come with time passing”.

Christoph Vogel, known as Ghostloop (Germany), weaves immersive soundscapes shaped by the serene rhythms of nature. Drawing from the ambient textures of field recordings and grounding them with deep, fluid basslines, his compositions echo the quiet moods of Northern Germany and the Baltic Sea coast. Rooted in a deep sense of place, Ghostloop’s music invites listeners to pause, drift, and sink into gentle, emotive layers of sound.

Produced and mixed by Christoph Vogel (Ghostloop)
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture and design by Dionis Afonichev

Almost Autumn

The Deer

She came with this freshness of the mind and....the path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

https://soundcloud.com/oneinstrument
https://soundcloud.com/grandriver

All tracks in the following mix are made with one single instrument

1. La Gigante Rossa - Moog Sub 37 Tribute Edition [One Instrument]
2. Ataxy - Waldorf Blofeld [One Instrument]
3. Wanderwelle - Roland Juno-106 (Exp#2) [One Instrument]
4. Ruhig - Roland Juno-60 [One Instrument]
5. Andrea Porcu - Korg Electribe A (EA-1) [One Instrument]
6. Farceb - Korg MS-20 Mini [One Instrument]
7. Serena Butler - Roland Alpha Juno 2 [One Instrument]
8. Svart1 - Fender Stratocaster Vintage (70’s) [One Instrument]
9. Kujo - Metasonix D-1000 [One Instrument]
10. A Beautiful Place - Fender Jaguar [One Instrument]
11. Abismal - Dave Smith Instruments Pro 2 [One Instrument]
12. Kuf - Korg Polysix (Exp#2) [One Instrument]
13. KYLN - Tom Oberheim SEM Pro [One Instrument]

Grand River mixes One Instrument

Working only with highly processed recordings of choirs, plus field recordings from churches and cathedrals throughout Europe, Andrew Sherwell’s murky, lo-fi, devotional drones have been released on Whitelabrecs, Shimmering Moods Records and Rusted Tone Recordings.

☆ Andrew's new album "Approaching" is out now on Rusted Tone Recordings ☆
https://rustedtonerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/approaching

Tracklist

00:00 Akira Rabelais - Gorgeous Curves Lovely Fragments (Spellewauerynsherde, Samadhi Sound, 2004)
02:30 Rafael Anton Irisarri - Lesser Than the Sum Of Its Parts (The Unintentional Sea, Room40, 2013)
10:06 Svarte Grenier - Kobbergruve, Endelig Jeg Fant (Til Seters, Miasmah, 2008)
13:05 Ian Nyquist - Phoill Bhig (Cuan, Eilean Rec. 2019)
16:30 Endrjua Servela - hesychasm 04v3 (2020)
22:12 Deathprod - Orgone Donor (Morals & Dogma, Smalltown Supersound, 1997)
29:45 Kreng - Na Da Sex (L’Autopsie… Miasmah , 2009)
33:40 James A McDermid - Pulling Yellow (In Little Swallows, Shimmering Moods, 2019)
38:30 Deaf At Sea - Nothing (is better than this) (2019)
43:24 Elegi - Gejnganger (Bansull, Dronarivm, 2017)
45:20 Juurko Haltuu - Void 5 (Void, Shimmering Moods, sometime in 2019)
54:40 Siavash Amini - The Wind (What the Wind Whispered To The Trees remaster, Room40. 2019)

Have a good listening.

deep breakfast

Deep Breakfast 012 - Andrew Sherwell

Played and recorded using analogue modular synthesis, the five tracks that make up 懐古的 (“Retro”) were created in a live setting by Japanese composer Takahiro Mukai who is actively involved with the resurgence of cassette culture and physical format.
The EP follows the struggle of the organism as it navigates the subtle static and chaos of life; its dance of tension and release. An imagining of a single oscilloscope taking simultaneous measurements of the currents from an inbound weather storm and the waveforms produced within the synthesiser.

Instrumentation, Production & Recording: @takahiro-5
Mastering: Ady Connor, TRK Mastering
Album art: Mary Leonard

Bandcamp

Takahiro Mukai - 懐古的 [NAI08] VINYL ONLY (Preview)

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