Wow, is this available somewhere? Need this!

very strange to not be able to tell what I'm really listening to, yet I dont feel the urge to switch away.

Taken from the album "Retrograde Amnesia" by Xu & Oberlin, released on Slow Tone Collages:


The record delves into the haunting history of the former psychiatric hospital in Colorno (Parma – Italy, in use from 1873 to 1978). Titled "Retrograde Amnesia”, it explores the lives of patients who were once confined to the institution, many of whom were forgotten by society. 
The hospital, which is now abandoned, was once home to over a thousand patients, including those who were deemed "dangerous" or "marginalized" by society. Among them were prostitutes, alcoholics, vagabonds, and even small children. The psychiatrists who worked at the institution were free to experiment with new treatments, including practices such as electroshock and frontal lobotomy. While these doctors saw themselves as innovators and experimenters, many of the patients were no longer considered people. One of the devastating consequences of the treatments administered at the hospital was retrograde amnesia, which is the loss of memories of past events. Many patients who underwent these treatments were left with gaps in their memory, unable to recall important moments of their lives, as their identities were fragmented and their shared human experiences obliterated. Forgotten by society and stripped of their own sense of self, they were consigned to the shadows of history. 
"Retrograde Amnesia" is a haunting and emotional record that aims to shed light on the lives of these forgotten patients. Through the use of ambient soundscapes and atmospheric textures, the music captures the sense of isolation and despair that many of the patients must have felt. Enveloped in the echoes of empty corridors and abandoned rooms, one easily feels consumed by the weight of the lives that once occupied these desolate spaces. 

releases September 1, 2023 

W&P by Xu & Oberlin 

Xu: 
Acoustic and electric piano, vocals and psaltery samples, small eurorack 
system, Korg Volca FM, Strymon El Capistan 

Oberlin: 
Eurorack modular synth, tape-recorder 

Mastered by Francis M Gri 
Artwork and packaging design by Slow Tone Collages 
STC 036 
Slow Tone Collages 2023

Xu & Oberlin - Retrograde Amnesia - Part I

=> Album Pre-orders are Now Available: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lonely-home-over-cypress-hill

Here are the previews of my new upcoming 7track ambient album entitled "The Lonely Home over Cypress Hill", which will be released by dutch Label Shimmering Moods Records on December 12th 2023 in a Very Wonderful Cd Edition

=> Pre-orders available from December 1st 2023
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lonely-home-over-cypress-hill

=> Soon Available on my Bandcamp
thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com

Formats: Cd, Digital

Here's the provisional album cover

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"The one permanent emotion of the man is Fear: fear of the Unknown, the Complex, the Inexplicable.” (H.L Mencken)

Written, Composed, Performed, Recorded, Mixed by Fallen between March and June 2023

Mastered by Andrea Porcu, November 2023

Instruments performed, recorded, processed: Piano, Organ, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass, Synthesizers, Voice, Field Recordings

"The Lonely Home over Cypress Hill" sounds like a sort of an unintentional sequel of my album "Sonnambuli" that Shimmering Moods Records has released on March 2023, but it goes beyond that album, experimenting more with sounds, sounding maybe more intense than "Sonnambuli": shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/s…nambuli (on Label's Bandcamp), thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com/album/sonn…-10th-2023 (on my Bandcamp)

SHIMMERING MOODS RECORDS (The Netherlands)
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The Lonely Home over Cypress Hill_OUT Dec 12th on Shimmering Moods_Pre-orders NOW AVAILABLE (Link)!

Tracklist

01. Ambalek - Oceannaire Pragmatist
02. Anthéne - Balance (featuring fields we found)
03. Betts(JP) - Yosde 05
04. Brambles - To Speak Of Solitude
05. Cat Tyson Hughes - Goldfields
06. Dag Rosenqvist - August
07. Hotel Neon - The Hope of Becoming
08. Marcus Fischer - Lighting the Shadows
09. Minamo & Moskitoo - Palm Fable
10. Norihito Suda + Stijn Hüwels - 蓬莱 : Hourai

360. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Mark David Hadley - Lichen
02. Blochemy - Jag b
03. Adrian Lane - The Field Path
04. Tatsuro Murakami - Swimming in the Dark
05. Stefano Guzzetti - Shoji
06. Thme - Nocens
07. Low Altitude - Kayak
08. Andrew Tasselmyer - Hearts Like Wells
09. Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Denn Repp
10. Darren McClure - Look At The Light
11. Two Hands - One Engine - Winter Blues (Section 4- Melt)

362. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Sawako - Deep Under
02. Sawako - Untitledcave
03. Sawako - Pink Liquid Cotton Candy
04.  Sawako - Performed Perfume
05.  Gurun Gurun - Yume no mori (ft. sawako)
06.  Sawako - H u g b u g
07.  Sawako - Cloud No Crowd
08. Sawako - Eclipse Dawn
09. Sawako - 7-fin
10.  Sawako - Fertile Emptiness

368. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

The works of zakè always take their time unfolding into rich worlds of detailed, harmonic drone, and on Dolere – his latest for Germany’s Affin – he offers two of his most patient and affecting compositions to date, over a span of 70 minutes. For this study of the ways in which time itself seems to stretch and slow during phases of sorrow and pain, the artist describes an inspiration from the feeling of being “suspended in the weight of emotions we cannot change.”


First movement, “Dolera” (from the Latin dolor, describing anguish), drifts on gorgeous, melancholy waves that encourage total focus and slow, sympathetic breath. It is ensconced in a trademark analog hiss, adorned in the stereo field by sonic streaks of light and the contemplative sound of decayed tape samples, mimicking a mind unceasingly turning over its preoccupations. Nearly album-length in its own right, “Dolera” may act – like many zakè pieces – as a sonic Rorschach Test, equally capable of serving as emotional commiseration, or as the backdrop for the essential inner work of meditation.


The artist states: “This year, my life came to a halt, as if the Spring froze in its tracks; amidst the heaviness I longed for reprieve, and to escape the relentless march forward. These tracks serve as a refuge for those burdened by distraction or sorrow, offering a brief respite from the inexorable passage of time.”


Fittingly the title piece, “Dolere”, is named for the present-tense, infinitive form of dolor. This small but significant linguistic difference echoes the shift in mood from the album’s first half, as a more darkly-tinged drone underscores barely perceptible field recordings of birdsong, and the subtle drama of a glow peeking through somber fog. “Dolere” progresses at a deliberate pace, shifting its hues in the way tree shadows move across a forest floor; the background white-noise hiss builds in tandem as fixation intensifies. The only time entropy wins is when the final notes fade, and we’re returned to the ticking of the clock on the wall.


zakè’s catalog is rich with modern ambient highlights, and Dolere feels destined to become a touchstone of the genre in league with those by artists like Thomas Köner and Andrew Chalk, perfect for those in need of a breath during an era defined by breathlessness.


The partnership in this release is a natural fit, as zakè’s own renowned label Past Inside the Present has worked with Affin’s founder Joachim Spieth closely over the years, and both share the same noble goal of building uncommon sonic spaces outside the mainstream. Dolere is graced with artwork by legendary polymath Markus Guentner, whose own releases for Affin – alongside those of bvdub, Tori Fuko, and Simone Giudice – have helped define the label’s graceful aesthetic.

design | https://markus-guentner.de
mastering | www.ambientmountainhouse.com
Affin | https://affin.bandcamp.com

Dolere

zakè - Dolere

Taken from "MADRESELVA" the new album by Dominic Sambucco

Soon on Shimmering Moods Records

Shimmering Moods Records 2024

Dominic Sambucco - Amazonian Soundscape 1 (night)

Pre Order the new album by Oberlin which was recorded in the summer of 2021 in Koblenz, Germany, while preparing a concert that never happened.

releases May 3, 2024 

All music and instruments (Eurorack Modular, Ibanez Custom Guitar, Koma Electronic Field Kit) by Alexander Holtz 

Shimmering Moods Records 2024 
SHM 299

Oberlin - Gernholland

Cartridge Grain - I (Slow Tone Collages)

taken from "Immersioni"

https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/immersioni

Cartridge Grain - I (Slow Tone Collages)

Tracklist

01. Fennesz - Sognato di Domani
02. Runaway Horses - Life Finds a Way
03. Daniel Vickers - Mist
04. Christian Wittman - Suspended Realities
05. No Memory - Kiko's House
06. Anthéne - Deeper in the valley
07. Andrew Heath - Landscape after Corot
08. The Humble Bee & Offthesky - Body
09. Federico Durand, Pablo Picco - Junípero

373. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Record)

1. Andrew Tasselmyer - Nightfall in Taroko (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
2. Ian Kubra - Feu Profonde 
3. Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot (The Trilogy Tapes)
4. Mister Water Wet - Dart (West Mineral)
5. Carlo Giustini - Se Tutto Precipitasse (ACR)
6. MAbH - Dreaming in the Dirt (Self Released/ Band Camp)
7. D.K. - Summoning The Spirits (Good Morning Tapes)
8. Valotihkuu - Obscure (Rework) (Denis Stelmakh / Band Camp)
9. Coombe Harbor Vol.1 - Sadness is a Drug Called Love (International Feel)
10. Ian Kubra - Haute Maladie, Part 1
11. Dravier - Untitled / "Temperament & Sequestration" (TOURIST)
12. Wind in the Willow - I (Self Released/ Band Camp)
13. John Powell-Jones & Craig Tattersall - Bonus Track (Self Released)
14. Giuseppe Falivene - Echo, Diffusion III (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
15. Skyphone - Hildur #29 (forthcoming Lost Tribe Sound)
16. Gavin Miller - The Scottish Cafu (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
17. Anthéne - The sun is up, my eyes are open (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
18. Tyresta - Now Will Never Be Again (Part 2) (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
19. Chimess - Jinghong (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
20. Bonie Jash - Elm (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
21. Darren Harper - Shadow of Spring (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)

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