Week 4  is taken from Sounds of a New Father, the new album by Olan Mill.

After the recent album on Unknown Tone Records, Olan Mill returns to Shimmering Moods Records. There is no doubt that the birth of a child is the most incredible, wonderous, and, frankly, miraculous event to be a part of. It’s the climax of the most complex and awe-inspiring biological processes, the most radical change the human body can go through and the most utterly emotionally over-whelming event possible. No wonder everyone involved is knocked for six....“The music was recorded in the moments after baby Alma had gone to sleep. All tracks were recorded using electric guitar and effect pedals. There was no post production or revisions to the original recordings. I was very tired while thumbing out these drones.....” Alex Smalley aka Olan Mill. 

Music written and mastered by Alex Smalley 
Original paintings by Alma Kemya Smalley 

Release date: 16.11.2018
Format: CD/Cassette/Digital
Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-a-new-father

Olan Mill - Week 4

“ Where words leave off, music begins.”

A musical narrative visible to the minds eye.

***Currently on a hiatus...***
A monthly radio programme on Soundart Radio celebrating the understated,  electronic underground, with the music and artists connected in some shape or form to the labels: cotton goods, moteer, mobeer and the family that orbit around them.

The original series of shows ran from 2011 to 2018 and, after a two-year hiatus, returned to Soundart in July 2020.

Special thanks to Craig Tattersall and Andrew Johnson of Moteer / Cotton Goods for their support and musical inspiration.  
Thanks to Chris, Dave & Lucinda at Soundart Radio in Totnes (twinned with Narnia), Devon.  
Former DJ at Cafe Belen, Madrid - January 1998 to July 1999. 



PS. The image is from a picture I bought in a restaurant / art gallery in Ejsberg, Denmark back in about 2006/7.   Can't remember who the artist was, apart from the intials SB  So if anyone does know her/him, then please say thank you on my behalf.
The original painting is called 'The Concert' by Gerhard Terborch (1617-1681)and depicts af girl playing viola da gamba and harpsichord. 17th century, early Baroque.

*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