A very beautiful track from the album Stadsbilder, to be released on Time Released Sound on August 6th, 2021.

Stadsbilder

Jakob Lindhagen & Dag Rosenqvist, "Stadsbilder"... Östersjön

from 'Progress Trap' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den362
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso

Ten years after the transcendent syncopated debut ‘Progress Chance’, Ricardo Donoso returns with a pulsing retrospect of rhythmic determination and wide-eyed wonder with ‘Progress Trap’, his new album for Denovali. As is customary with Donoso, the moods on these electronic miniatures vary from piece to piece; some somber, brooding, and laden with mystery, others starry-eyed, tinged with sci-fi, and hungry for adventure.

Connections are finally forged between Donoso’s early hardware synthesizer arpeggiation experiments, his darker and more abstract work with an emphasis on synthetic textures, pulsation, and sound design and the more recent extreme full throttle electronic mayhem and prog inspired technical opuses found in the Calibrate/Re_Calibrate/Content era. 

Progress Trap is as harmonious as its predecessor allowing dissonance to subtly seep in, providing mere hints at the undercurrent of threat hidden beneath the music's smooth surface. If ‘Progress Chance’ was naive and innocent, ‘Progress Trap’ is mature and calculated. Perhaps some of the optimism has extinguished, but there is a stalking exhilaration which threads through the entire album, taking on merely different shades between sides – as with most of Donoso’s work something verging on a deep longing always lingers heavily as an aftertaste. There's a lot to digest on Progress Trap, as with Donoso’s entire canon, but as always, the effort is repaid.

Progress Trap

Ricardo Donoso - Master and Emissary

Oliver Doerell (Dictaphone, Swod)and Iranian musician Jawad Salkhordeh find themselves merging eastern and western music on a record that blends reality and mysticism into a unique soundscape. 

"Schatten" is the first glimpse into the their album "سایه
[sāje]", out November 26th on Sonic Pieces.

Oliver Doerell & Jawad Salkhordeh - Schatten

Days, Then...

Taken from PERILS - S/T (Pathway010)
PERILS is Benoît Pioulard and Kyle Bobby Dunn.

Mutual admirers of each other’s work, Thomas Meluch (Benoît Pioulard) and Kyle Dunn (Kyle Bobby Dunn) endeavored to put together a collaborative recording that ruminates on painful realities, disappointments, and transitioning to new homes, in the hopes of finding a coping mechanism to bring them through to the other side.
PERILS began auspiciously in 2012 at transitional points in these artists’ lives. Kyle was living in a small town called
Belleville, Ontario trying to complete Kyle Bobby Dunn and The Infinite Sadness (Students of Decay) and coming to grips
with the fact that this great endeavor was at its end. Given the enormity of the record and the emotionally and physically
exhausting process of recording the album, Kyle found himself drained with unforeseen questions and confusions. Working only at night, Kyle immersed himself into this newfound nocturnal work, finding a path in the midst of wondering. Thomas, meanwhile, was in a state of literal transition: uprooting from the UK and relocating to Seattle during the recording process of PERILS. In a state of flux, nearly drowning under the anxieties of living on uncertain ground, Thomas channeled these emotions into musical escapades. Thomas recorded in his spare moments, sending sonic puzzle pieces one by one to Kyle, who would in turn explore the musical sentiments Thomas had shared, adding his own billowing sounds to the seething mix.
The ten pieces created for this release are culled from a poutine- and whisky-fueled trudge through the dark corridors of an as-yet undiscovered or possibly imaginary mystic temple. Commencing with the shimmering guitar and tape loops of “Colours Hide My Face,” the album crawls out of the grooves with a slow-churning turmoil, coaxing the listener to embark along its path. The dirge-like guitar clang and vocals of “(Dead in the) Creekbed Blues” could be an 18th century blues standard emitted from a buried radio. On PERILS, Thomas Meluch and Kyle Bobby Dunn lock arms and together chart the upheaval in their lives to bridge the liminal gulf between the once-was and the soon-to-be.

PERILS - Flaw

Wall Sailor

The Swifter - Steel Murmuration

Released today & the last release of this year: 

øjeRum "A Certain Grief"

All sounds were recorded at Paw Gabrowski's (øjeRum) his girlfriends parents house. They live remote in the country side and have a really old pump organ in the living room. It's a really old house and in winter they only heat up this room for special occasions. He recorded this two winters ago in freezing cold, with gloves on and candlelights. All background sounds are the actual sounds that were in the house while recording; the creaking chair, the crackling and pumping of the organ, the everyday noises of the family talking and working in the kitchen next door.

Sounds and artwork by Paw Gabrowski

This release is available in beautiful packages, the C40 cream cassette was pro dubbed and comes in a lovely eco natural Maltese cross cassette box with several øjeRum collages printed on the panels. There's an extra øjeRum art picture included.
The CD is a pro dubbed high quality white Cdr in a beautiful hand made package with øjeRum collages photo's on the black enveloppe and eco brown kraft wallets.
There's also a special package deal were you get both the CD and Cassette for a special price.

50 limited cassettes (Sold out)
75 limited CD's  (11 left)
20 Limited CD/Cassette Packages (Sold out)
All comes with a a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more
Also available digital.

ORDER one of the last CD's here:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-certain-grief

øjeRum - A Certain Grief - Side A

Fabled Canadian avant-garde outfit Bell Orchestre are pleased to reveal their signing to Erased Tapes, ten years after the release of their last body of work.
The Montreal based group, who feature Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire amongst their six members, have previously set the blueprint for evocative, creative and sonically enriched instrumental music which defers from the often formulaic quiet-loud dynamics of post-rock music into something a whole lot more rewarding. Their first two records, 2005's Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light and 2009's As Seen Through Windows were very warmly received by critics for the cinematic scope and orchestration of their work. Whilst the band work on new material, they’re excited to sign with Erased Tapes for future releases.

To celebrate the announcement of their new musical home, Bell Orchestre are proud to share a short film, IX: Nature That’s It That’s All., directed by band member Kaveh Nabatian who utilises 16mm processing and scans of footage from the British Pathe archives.

· watch the short film: https://youtu.be/Wb2hz2NymNw 

Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths has been a long-standing fan of the band and its individual members, and is extremely pleased to welcome them to the label.

“I remember it so vividly. There was something that made me focus in on what Richy and Sarah (and Owen for that matter) were doing, whenever I paid attention to the Arcade Fire. I remember thinking ‘damn, who are these cats on multiple instruments, drumming on motorcycle helmets and scraping violins as if there’s no tomorrow?’ There was this raw, unfiltered energy about them that had an entire force of its own. Turns out this thing I was hearing in my head already had a name: Bell Orchestre. The world just wasn’t aware nor ready for it, yet.” — Robert Raths

Richard Reed Parry echoes this sentiment, stating:

"We are deeply pleased to have found such a good home for our music — Erased Tapes is a place where so much that’s impossible to categorize, and gorgeously unique music lives and thrives. And we’re thrilled to find ourselves in such a welcoming family of like-minded musical souls.” — Richard Reed Parry

Bell Orchestre is:

Pietro Amato: French horn, keyboards, electronics
Michael Feuerstack: Pedal steel guitar, keyboards, vocals
Kaveh Nabatian: Trumpet, gongoma, keyboards, vocals
Sarah Neufeld: Violin, vocals
Richard Reed Parry: Bass, vocals
Stefan Schneider: Drums

IX: Nature That's It That's All.

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Bell Orchestre - IX: Nature That’s It That’s All.

from 'Miscellany' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den348
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/origamibiro

After an almost 6 year hiatus, and the break up of the audio-visual trio it had evolved into, Origamibiro returns with Miscellany, a body of work amassed during the years since the release of 2014’s Odham’s Standard.

Though the group never officially disbanded, a number of life-changing events meant it simply became impossible to continue together. As such, the project organically reverted back to the solo pursuits of composer Tom Hill. Fellow multi-instrumentalist Andy Tytherleigh, however, remains a strong collaborator.

Miscellany comprises a varied mixture of work, ranging from electroacoustic to orchestral chamber music. Drawing upon much of the found-sound style for which Origamibiro became known, the DIY approach to sampling and composing continues to play a central role in the process.

Exploration into the tangible nature of everyday objects and textures - both in and outside of the home - is a theme relished in much of Origamibiro’s work. Forest brambles and plastic toy Easter eggs are examined in surgical detail alongside the debris of demolished piano parts, to be repurposed into whatever sonic potential they offer up.

However, new additions to the instrumental palette - viola da gamba, piano, zither, singing bowl, glockenspiel, drum machines and gongs - contribute to an even broader timbre.

Miscellany will be released on Denovali, March 2021.

Miscellany

Origamibiro - Swan In The Sand

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Taken from Origamibiro's LP Miscellany on Denovali Records, out March 26.

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