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Gloucestershire, UK based artist Andrew Heath returns to Whitelabrecs, following up on his album ‘Quiet Noise’ (2022) and collaborations with Simon McCorry ‘A Is For Autumn’ (2022) and Anne Chris Bakker ‘How To Breathe Like A Stone’ (2021). Andrew has also released music on labels including Fluid Audio, Disco Gecko, Audiobulb, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and more, through his solo output and collaborations with other artists.

Charting a lighter more open sound than recent albums, The Cloud Machine returns to and explores one of Andrew’s constant themes - his continuing fascination with and the depiction of, the simple innocence of his own childhood. In this case, a sound painting of light, radiance and naive joy through the metaphor of clouds and of a gaze drawn to the skies. From the ethereal beauty of The Cloud Machines and The Age of Enlightenment, to the memories of racing the shadows of clouds blown by the wind across fields as a young boy in Chasing Clouds, there is the ever present feel of blissful, innocence and wonderment at the beauty of the natural world around and above us.

The album explores these themes through Andrew’s use of his much loved piano and guitar and balancing them against constantly shifting, delicate and fragile electronic tones and textures. Using a lighter, more transparent tonal palette, The Cloud Machine has a gentle, blissful tone as though touching the drifting clouds overhead.

Written, Produced and Mastered by Andrew Heath
Artwork (Ghost Mills) by Zoë Heath
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

The Cloud Machine

wlr157 Andrew Heath - The Cloud Machine

Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko - O Ignis Spiritus

Respair

Il y a toujours eu un piano à la maison. Mon oncle Pascal en jouait parfois, ma mère à de rares occasions. Moi je n'ai jamais "appris", mais j'écoutais, m'aventurais parfois à pianoter quelques notes… Ce que j'ai continué à faire jusqu'à aujourd'hui, écouter beaucoup, pianoter un peu. Il y a toujours un piano ici qui ne sert pas beaucoup, avec sous chaque touche cette sorte d'émotion latente, particulière, au potentiel immense, qui ne demande qu'à être activée par un toucher sensible. Et cela tout le monde en est capable, musicien-ne ou pas. D'où cette idée de faire un mix spécial Piano Day, avec un maximum de contributions originales enregistrées pour l'occasion. J'ai lancé des invitations à participer, trouvé un bon micro à prêter - merci Yvan! - et enregistré quelques beaux moments, la plupart improvisés (ou presque). Parmi les participant-e-s, il y a des ami-e-s dont la musique n'est pas forcément la pratique principale (ou le piano pas forcément l'instrument de prédilection) et d'autres que je ne connais pas mais dont la musique m'a touché lors de mes pérégrinations internautiques... Ci-dessous la playlist, et encore plus bas des liens pour suivre les artistes qui vous auront le plus fait vibrer. Bonne écoute!

Photo: session studio avec Jann Dūne, 25 mars 2025

Playlist :
Antonin De Bemels - Ceux qui restent, module piano 1
Eva Koliopoulou - Η Μνημειώδης Απόδραση του Οράτιου Σουώρτς
Antonin De Bemels - La douceur (piano solo), variation
Hughes Devos - 17 mars impro I
Lucy Claire - Dear Shadows
Antonin De Bemels - Ceux qui restent, module piano 5
Marco Lucchi - [year's end] Farewell
Haroun - Sirène inversée
Mr. Pepper aka A.Sh feat. Edward Burton - Moent
Antonin De Bemels - Ceux qui restent, module piano 3
Boris Gronemberger - About Luc
David Christophe - 21 mars impro IV "si tu m'entends"
Marco Lucchi - Music for a film to come
Antonin De Bemels - La douceur (piano solo), thème principal
Olivier Taskin - 25 mars impro XII
Lucy Claire - Willow
Hughes Devos - 17 mars impro II
Jann Dūne - Birds in the Attic (25 mars, prise 4)
Olivier Taskin - 25 mars impro V
Juju - 15 mars impro "constellation"
Lucy Claire - Nettle
Julie Nayer - 15 novembre 1993
Olivier Taskin - 25 mars impro III
David Christophe - 21 mars impro III "sans filet"
Rachel Langlais - Latinitas
Antonin De Bemels - La douceur (piano solo), final
Olivier Taskin - 25 mars impro IV
Hughes Devos - 17 mars impro III
Rachel Langlais - Institutioni
Olivier Taskin - 25 mars impro IX
David Christophe - 21 mars impro I "départ"
Antonin De Bemels - Jour de neige
Olivier Taskin - 25 mars impro VI

Pour approfondir :
Antonin De Bemels (Bruxelles) -> https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com
Eva Koliopoulou (Athènes) -> https://soundcloud.com/eyaklp
Hughes Devos (Bruxelles) -> https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/la-place-des-yeux
Lucy Claire (Londres) -> https://soundcloud.com/lucyclaire
Marco Lucchi (Modena) -> https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi
Edward Burton (Saint-Petersbourg) -> https://soundcloud.com/edwardburton
Alexey Shlykov (Saint-Petersbourg) -> https://soundcloud.com/alexey-shlykov
Boris Gronemberger (Bruxelles) -> https://www.riverintolake.com
David Christophe (Bruxelles) -> https://davidlundmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ever
Jann Dūne (Bruxelles) -> https://soundcloud.com/nina-sky-w-k-coeur
Julie Nayer (Bruxelles) -> https://cimarra.be/julie-nayer/
Olivier Taskin (Bruxelles) -> https://soundcloud.com/olitaski
Rachel Langlais (Saint-Arnoult) -> https://unjenesaisquoi.bandcamp.com/album/dothe

Mélancolie douce XXVIII (Spéciale Piano Day)

Live performance as part of TIME AS A SONIC GESTURE - a durational concert for headphones by Jacqui O'Reilly.

The very start of the recording features a live variation on first track (The Frequency of a Leaf) off my forthcoming album.

From Jacqui "The concept for Time as a Sonic Gesture, emerged in response to Katelyn Geard’s work, I Have Something to Say, (exhibited in GRAPHITE, at DRAW Space, April 2024). This work was described as a drawing ‘soft as a whisper’ in its reach beyond two dimensions.  Time as a Sonic Gesture plays with this notion of persistence of vision, to instantiate time as a trans-disciplinary gesture of collective presence in the making and sharing of art. Throughout the evening local guests artists Laura Altman and Alexandra Spence will improvise with O’Reilly and play solo, to unfold an experimental and immersive soundscape performance."

TIME AS A SONIC GESTURE is curated by Belinda Yee (@belindayee) as part of an ongoing series of performances looking at the relationship of drawing to sound. Photography by James Peter Brown.
https://drawspace.org/past-exhibitions-and-events/jacqui-oreilly

Live at DRAW Space March 2025

~ LAAPS 044 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP44]

artist : Aiko Takahashi
album : The Grass Harp
duration : 41.11 mn
date : June 09th, 2025

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

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Piano, Tape Loops, Drones recorded by Aiko between March and November 2024 in Aiko's former studio, a secluded spot near the River Isonzo, between Gorizia and Nova Gorica.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Thomas Ratt
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://aikotakahashi.bandcamp.com/
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Aiko Takahashi - Vases À Iris

Essence 2 (dark current)

Disquiet Junto Project 0704: Right on Cumulus
The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video.

In 2002, the media artist Cory Arcangel created a work of art titled Super Mario Clouds, which removed everything from the 1985 Super Mario Bros. video game except the blue sky and passing clouds. This means that Arcangel’s video was silent, because also excluded was Koji Kondo’s classic score.

The asignment is to record a very sedate 8-bit music that does feel aligned with Super Mario Clouds. So while listening please watch the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCmAD0TwGcQ).

More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at https://disquiet.com/0704/

Mario Clouds [disquiet0704]

This is a recording of what we believe is a culverted stream below Fallenbrunnen in Friedrichshafen. We noticed this almost as soon as we arrived there, the night before we played at VOD-Festival (19 July 2025), right across the street from Kulturhaus Caserne, the festival venue. The recording was incorporated into the live show, a hidden sound from somewhere almost beneath our feet as we played.

If you know more about the history of this, particularly the name of the stream if it has one, let us know.

Fallenbrunnen

bandcamp.com

The last place

Jason van Wyk is a Cape Town (South Africa) based electronic music producer whose music I often wish could have been my own. From cinematic soundscapes to soft piano keys and mesmerising passages, the elements of his pieces are all the necessary ingredients that I often try to combine in my music. And that is basically the highest sort of praise that I could give. There are many incredible ambient musicians who truly inspire me with their ability to create and transport me to their fantastic sonic worlds. And plenty have contributed to my growth as a musician - I am permanently indebted to many of them, whom I am honoured to call friends. But in my soul, I am a pianist, and the instrument [or its echoes] inevitably make it into my tracks. And this is what I love about Jason's music. His most recent release on the beloved n5MD, Inherent, is a more upbeat, forward-driven progression, combining his skills of crafting dance-oriented grooves with atmospheric soundtracks. For his upcoming EP, Jason reworked three tracks into pure ambient pieces. To truly appreciate the transformation, start by hearing the original track, followed by this alternative version. If you want to dig deeper into the process behind the composition (including the details of the actual effects chain used, like the Space Echo, etc.), you can read up on Headphone Community, where Jason revealed it all when he was a featured artist for the entire month of July [the content is still up there!]. Deep listening and focus are essential to truly appreciate the textures here...

https://www.patreon.com/HeadphoneCommunity







TRACK PREMIERE : Jason van Wyk - Inner (Horizon)

X" marks the spot and "X" marks the years. 

Veelargo : https://soundcloud.com/veelargo

A compilation of brand new and exclusive music to celebrate a decade of Bricolage. 27 tracks in total. Over 2 and a half hours of sound. A journey that captures a multitude of styles from all across the electronic spectrum.

It's a 'who's who' of the label past, present and future. We've got Bricolage stalwarts like Dark Fidelity Hi Fi, Belial Pelegrim, Minimal Drone GRL, Fragile X and No Arrival. Some returning old favourites in the form of The Jaffa Kid, Foundered, Minerva and Arran Trax. A bunch of some of our newer regulars in Wilks, Sulci, The New Human and Beira alongside some completely fresh faces on Bricolage with appearances from Veelargo, Kuma and Oceanographer. There's a whole host of other artists that help characterise exactly what Bricolage endeavours towards musically.

Available @ https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/x-bc094

Veelargo - Shun Sine (from the "X" compilation

#1
Track list:
- R.J. Stefanski - Approaching Blue Heron Lagoon [edited for Shimmering Moods]
- Nikita Bondarev - Siberian Ruins, part 1 (Klammklang)
- Å Asher- Yates - Intro (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Embers Below Zero - Forget About Me La Mer Profonde (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek - Theme Part I (White Paddy Mountain)
- Timedog - The Pilgrimage (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Viewfound - Triptych (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Offthesky - Form Light (eilean rec.)
- Gideon Wolf - Hunger (Fluid Audio)
- Embers Below Zero - The Ashes Of Our Past (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Å Asher- Yates - (Rain) (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
-  Å Asher- Yates - Breeze In The Sun (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Viewfound - Lukewarm (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Benjamin Finger - The Woods Are Not What They Seem (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Adzuki - In one's fading consciousness (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Aleks - Shimmering (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Aleks - Dark Chords & Dreamscapes (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Arkadelphia - Untitled 22 (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Ard - Her Eyes Over The Ancient Castle (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Parallelism - 03 Untitled (Shimmering Moods Records)
- ISM - Vertical Order (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)

Get lost in sound:
Shimmering Moods will host a new series of radio shows on 
Resonance Extra , UK's most creative independent radio station. Every month at https://extra.resonance.fm, this is the first show from Wednesday 20th July at 20:00-22:00 BST/21:00-23:00 CET
Experimental-Ambient-Electronics-Soundscapes-Drones-Field Recordings-Outsider Techno-Noise-Acoustics & more … released, unreleased, exclusives tracks from various labels & artists around the globe. 
Dates for the rest of the year:
Wednesday 17th August at 8pm
Wednesday 7th September at 8pm
Wednesday 2nd November at 8pm
Wednesday 7th December at 8pm
Next to this we will continue our monthly radio shows on Red Light Radio, next RLR show: 22.8 14:00-16:00 CET.

About Resonance Extra:
Resonance Extra is a pioneering new digital radio platform launched in December 2015, available on DAB to listeners in Central Brighton and online to the rest of the world. Dedicated foremost to the global artistic community and with a focus on long–form international music programming and sonic experimentation, Resonance Extra exists to mobilise diverse and emergent communities of sound artists, musicians, broadcasters, academics and expert curators.




Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #1 (20.7.2016)

Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #3

Imaginational, soft tones, distant noises and 
other ambient explorations and experiments…..

1. Midori Takada - Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream (RCA Red Seal)
2. Leigh Toro + Miguel Isaza - Phase Serendipity (Eilean Rec/Dauw)
3. Richard Ginns - Leaves On The Lake (Dauw)
4. The Boats - The Ballad Of The Malting Floor (Our Small Ideas)
5. Stars Of The Lid - Hiberner Toujours (Kranky)
6. Duncan Ó Ceallaigh - Scapa Flow (Audio Gourmet)
7. Vincent Gallo - Lonely Boy (Warp)
8. The Caretaker - All you are going to want to do is get back there (History Always Favours The Winners)
9. Leigh Toro - Ringstone Round (Eilean Rec)
10. Legiac - Troven Briangular (Dronarivm)
11. The Boats - The Ballad Of Omission (Our Small Ideas)
12. The Caretaker - Libet's Delay (History Always Favours The Winners)
13. Viewfound - Den ( Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
14. Robert Lippok - Close (Raster-Noton)
15. Phil Tomsett - Midnight Furnace (Fluid Audio)
16. Ard - Spring of no regret (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
17. D.Å.R.F.D.H.S.- Svältåren (Northern Electronics)
18. Hummingbird - Thoughts in the Head (Cassiopea) (Facture)
19. Koen Holtkamp - Scene 1 (Umor Rex)
20. Monadh - Boira (Further)
21. Rezo Glonti - Meter Meter (Time Released Sound)
22. Olga Wojciechowska - The White Spaces (Time Released Sound)
23. The Boats - The Ballad Of Failure (12k)
24. Benoît Pioulard - Alogia (Serein)
25. Vienna Orchestra - Verließ (Where To Now?)

Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #3

Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 30.1.2017

1. ຄ່ໍາຄວນ - Hazy Montagne Mystique (Jeunesse Cosmique)
2. The heat of the day escaping out towards the late evening sky, a high blue haze over the drifting hills, the soil of a path underfoot, cracked a little, brushed by dry grasses, walking back across moors in the ancient light - Sub Loam (Dissolving Records)
3. Canyon Sequence 3 - Macheteoxidado (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
4. Alba - Å Asher-Yates (Shimmering Moods Records)
5. Agua Santa Limpia Me pt. 1 - Macheteoxidado (Shimmering Moods Records)
6. Baranquillo - Balsam (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
7. LesLang - Jan Jelinek & Masayoshi Fujita (Faitiche)
8. Spirit In Prison - Yves Tumor (PAN)
9. Part 1 - Post Global Trio (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
10. Dreaming of You - KWC 92 (LIES)
11. Anthropocene - Loscil (Kranky)
12. Guided Body Scan - Aleks (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
13. Headlights - Dravier (Always Human Tapes)
14. Mountain - Donnacha Costello (Not On Label - Band Camp)
15. into the wild - x.y.r.(not not fun records)
16. SEQ - Aleks (Unreleased / Forthcoming Lonely Planets)
17. Exotic World - x.y.r.(not not fun records)
18. Special thanks to Guidance - DJ Sports (YIELD)
19. After the rain - Aquarium (New Information)
20. Glossy Amoog (Original Mix) - Cass. (Emotional Response)
21. Blossoms in Rain - Donnacha Costello (Not On Label - Band Camp)

Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 30.1.2017

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Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 30.1.2017

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