Birds sing and the valley cries
A vaguely blurry peach dream
Grasses get wet after the spring rain

鳥が囀り谷が鳴く
ぼんやりとした桃の夢
雨立ち上り草濡れる

Congrats to the 10th Anniversary of Naviar ! 
Thanks for the inspirations from the Naviar Haiku Fest.. and now come to this place again for naviarhaiku530 

An another experimental hypnotic track inspired from the poem of spring rain by kobayashi issa - mixed with the humbled profound Taiko drums from the liveset at Naviar Haiku Fest in Tokyo 2024- a kind of tribute track for the 10th anniversary of Naviar's long journey :) 

taking it easy
the mouse sleeps too...
spring rain

Haiku : Kobayashi Issa
Music : Nukumori Eugene / Nx  https://a-tale-of.bandcamp.com/
IG: www.instagram.com/jinsei_books

Spring Rain - 春雨  [naviarhaiku530]

~ LAAPS 043 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP43]

artist : Ben McElroy
album : Elkwort
duration : 41.21 mn
date : April 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / green LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Ben McElroy - composition, arrangement, mixing, instrumentation

Elinor Rowlands - spoken word on "The Howling and I Must Have Walked past There a Thousand Times"
Debbie Armour - vocals on "Kindling and "Deosil"
Nick Jonah Davis - guitar and bowed weissenborn on "A Dream Of Deosil"

Recorded at home, Jt Soar (with Phil Booth and Rich Snug) and Nick’s studio-shed.

Mastered by Nick Jonah Davis
Artwork by Nieves Mingueza
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://benmcelroy.bandcamp.com/
https://www.benmcelroy.co.uk/
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Ben McElroy - I Must Have Walked Past There a Thousand Times (with Elinor Rowlands)

sun | Album 'SUN, SAND AND SALT'

Title track from "Au temps pour moi" LP on Thin Consolation
-> https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/au-temps-pour-moi

Composition, mix, mask: Antonin De Bemels
Mastering: Yvan Hanon

Au temps pour moi

Isn’t it fascinating how thoughts that are more melancholic tend to linger? Things we don’t want to let go of will ultimately stay to haunt us. Maybe we need to re-live them in our heads and hearts? 
It gives me peace and closure to use these parts from the past - to realize that they were supposed to wait for this moment. 

Featuring vocals by Scottish musician Hamish Mackintosh (aka FUEL / The Wave Room).

Released May 1, 2025 on UK label Wayside and Woodland: https://waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/haunted-woodland-volume-five

Karen Vogt: vocals, guitars, effects pedals, bass, field recordings, and more.
Vocals & lyrics on tracks 1 and 3 by Hamish Mackintosh, recorded in London.
Recorded and mixed by Karen Vogt in Paris
Mastered by Ben Holton

Air On My Skin

"Offrande insensée de la vie
Nous rappelle à l'éphémère joyau de l'émoi
Rendue je suis
A toi mon destin
Fais-moi danser entre tes mains" (Shantala Pèpe)

Image: Roxane Métayer https://www.roxanemetayer.com/

Playlist:
00:00 Half Asleep - Interlude 1 (invisible as music)
01:10 Nina Skywōkeur & Lloyde - Medusa
05:43 S280F - owls sing for the birth of Lilith (F168)
07:37 Giraffe - Drought
12:28 Shantala Pèpe - Entre tes mains
13:52 Klimperei - De branche en branche
15:53 Roxane Métayer - Première image
17:38 Yasmine Laassal - Rêve 11/04/23
18:54 Monika Bugajny & Gareth Davis - On The Edge Of Shadows I (Edit)
19:55 Christophe Petchanatz - musique pour le demi-sommeil 1.5
24:19 Refurinn Kitsune - Je t'aime à la folie (Madame Patate Cover)
27:10 Giraffe - Pressure
29:31 Roberto Musci - Water Music
31:20 Khôra - Echemythia
35:52 Klimperei - Lola Petit Chagrin
37:30 Khôra - Golden Femur
42:37 Antonin De Bemels - Au temps pour moi
48:53 Mariane Mendels Flandre - Trouble # 9
50:26 Roberto Musci - Back Railway To
54:01 Klimperei - La rencontre
57:36 Half Asleep - Ah! Whence is this- What is this severance-
59:15 Olivier Taskin - Comme ça

Mélancolie douce XXX

~ LAAPS 045 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP45]

artist : Akhira Sano
album : D-R
duration : 31.24 mn
date : July 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / white LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Sounds, arrangements and Mixed by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Jenni Toivonen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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https://linktr.ee/Akhira_Sano
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Akhira Sano - Demande Un

stream/download the full piece here :
https://bremnar.bandcamp.com/album/the-avenue

The Avenue (excerpt)

Fluid Audio presents Giulio Aldinucci & Matteo Uggeri - The Promise of a Threat coming soon on Fluid Audio...

In The Promise of a Threat, two veteran composers of ambient and electroacoustic music - Giulio Aldinucci and Matteo Uggeri - converge on a collaborative terrain that is at once intimate and immense, reflective and unsteady, beautiful and unsettling.

Created between June 2021 and early 2022, and mastered by Aldinucci in 2025, the album stands as a slow-burning document of digital and emotional correspondence. It reflects the language of ambient music not as static wallpaper, but as a deeply expressive form - one that allows silence and signal, memory and disturbance, to coexist within the same fragile space.

A Digital Dialogue Across Distance...

The entire work emerged through remote exchanges between Aldinucci (based in Siena, Italy) and Uggeri (Milan, Italy), unfolding gradually through shared sessions, sketches, and iterations over time. The process was not unlike the movement of tectonic plates - imperceptible at first, yet with weight and intention. Layers of processed field recordings, abstracted rhythms, and spectral textures accumulate into dense yet transparent forms. Every detail is traceable, yet elusive.

Giulio Aldinucci, known for his deeply spatial drones and sensitive treatment of field material, builds immersive sonic beds that seem to hover just above the surface of the Earth - simultaneously grounded in place and untethered from time. Matteo Uggeri, by contrast, applies a more tactile touch: assembling beats, samples, and environmental recordings into patterns that give pulse and tension to the atmosphere.

Together, their styles intersect in subtle and surprising ways - sometimes bleeding into one another, at other times standing apart in contrast. The balance between order and entropy, harmony and noise, creates a dynamic that speaks to the album’s title: The Promise of a Threat. Beauty does not arrive alone. It is always shadowed by its inverse.

Processes of Presence and Absence...

Across the album’s runtime, the listener is drawn through zones of dissolving melody and shadowy rhythm, passing through spaces that feel neither entirely natural nor entirely artificial. A drum sample on Track 2, provided by Andris Brinkmanis, adds a skeletal percussive element - a quiet agitation beneath the calm. The rhythms are not dominant but suggestive, like distant industrial echoes or memories of forgotten structures.

The artists manipulate the digital medium not as a tool of perfection, but of erosion and transformation. Hiss is preserved. Glitches are welcomed. The human ear remains present in every detail. The processing - granular, filtered, stretched - is not ornamental but fundamental, a way of sculpting emotion out of signal. Field recordings are often submerged, embedded beneath layers of drones and rhythms, yet their presence adds a layer of organic residue - a trace of wind, rust, or breath beneath the circuitry.

A Tactile Offering...

True to the ethos of Fluid Audio, the physical release of The Promise of a Threat will be crafted with great care and material sensitivity. Expect a limited, hand-assembled edition that honours the intimacy and intricacy of the music - an object to be held, as much as heard. Full packaging details and release date will follow.

For now, The Promise of a Threat lingers just at the edge of hearing - like the low hum of an incoming storm, or the quiet reassurance of knowing something is coming, even if its shape remains undefined.

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

So Finally I Stared at It All, Still and Satisfied

After decades of chasing, accumulating, and then sharing new music with you, I think I've hit some saturation point. I think I'm done spinning in the vortex of the "new", being pulled in all directions, catching up on all the "fresh" and "innovative" tracks. I'm not saying that I will stop covering new music. No. But I think I'll focus the virtual lens of my listening on a very narrow point, investing my time and attention over more extended periods. I think I will turn inwards... towards music and the artists that genuinely make me feel. This is the case with Rafael Anton Irisarri's A Fragile Geography, an album from 2015, which captured my attention then as it does now, triggering memories, triggering thoughts, and emotion. A decade ago, during a move between coasts, Rafael lost his possessions - stolen with the moving truck - along with all his audio archives, forcing him to rebuild his studio and sound from the ground up. The pain of this loss is reflected in almost every single track on the album. This music is slightly dark and melancholic. It's visceral, and it gets under your skin. And there it stays with you for ages. Becoming part of you, becoming part of your existence.

On September 19th, the album will be reissued, beautifully remastered by Stephan Mathieu at his Schwebung studio, along with a limited edition cassette of remixes by the most renowned artists, handpicked by Rafael. "This record has always been about letting go of one life and rebuilding another", says Irisarri, "It feels fitting to return to it now - ten years later, in a different country, a different world." These reworks are worthy of your precious awareness as well. I know that there are more than a few in the pipeline (at least six), which will be revealed one at a time. As of this writing, there is already a gorgeous rework by the one and only William Basinski, with his version of "Secretly Wishing For Rain" with Gary Thomas Wright, which incorporates field recordings of Reseda rain and birds captured by Basinski himself. You can check out a digital stream of that track here. *BUT!* Today, I am premiering for you a second rework by Abul Mogard! This piece bears not only the original elements of "Persistence" but, of course, Guido's extremely personal touch that breathes new life into this sound.

Head over to headphonecommute.com to read more about this release, including a quote from Abul Mogard on the rework.

TRACK PREMIERE : Rafael Anton Irisarri - Persistence (Abul Mogard rework)

PJS - In Between
Releases March 26, 2019
Format: CD/Cassette/Digital
Pre Order: 
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-between

Limited Edition Cdr / 40 copies / Handmade sleeves / Hand numbered / Various colors / High quality pro duplicated CDr's / No repress 

20 pro dubbed C40 light blue cassettes, supplied in printed full color o-cards.

A delayed release that was originally planned for 2018 finally sees the light of the day....... 

In between thoughts reflecting intersections of spirit, psyche and body. 
Transmuting form and feeling multiverse union via sound and friendship. 
The blessing of life providing healing and access to ancestral celestial harmony. 

Sound worlds created live without presets, computer screens or sounds. 
All live alive creations :)

Tracklist: 
1. Invisible Mind
2. Meteor Shower 
3. Floatbirddrop 
4. мирната 
5. Cetaceans (CD Only)
6. Symbiosis

Patrick Dique - Harmony, Rainbows, Vision 
Jordan Christoff - Intuition, Magic, Chaos 

Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg 

Infinite gratitude to all the curious ears and special rainbow hearts to Paul the creator of Shimmering Moods.
Shimmering Moods Records 2019
https://soundcloud.com/pjs11

PJS - In Between (Preview)

*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

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