Dynastor - A Memory Away
Taking from the forthcoming album "A Memory Away"

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A Memory Away
by Dynastor

CD/Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-memory-away

Lingering fingerprints of a time bygone, hints of a scent once always, a photograph. The dust settles, dancing in the the last rays of sunlight. These days were felt and the smiles and tears we shed are now or the past. The letters we wrote remain, the pictures fade as the world beyond the lens morphs into its ever changing continuum, leaving us with just our creation; a memory away. This album is an expression of nostalgia, capturing the bittersweet evocation of reading letters from the past, seeing the photographs, the wrenching effect of smelling the familiar scents of a time long passed and realizing that the world is always changing, and so are you. Created with many recordings of nature, instruments, non-instruments and processed using a wide variety of techniques including tape, granular synthesis and analog synthesis, Dynastor explores the storytelling quality of music, creating evocations of places, people, memories and their passing.

Limited to 50 CD's, handmade covers, various colors available, hand numbered:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-memory-away

Releases July 1, 2022 

Written and produced by Maurits Nieuwenhuis 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Analogue Photography by Edoardo Amaniera 
Swedish sackpipa on 3. by Dimitri Peftuloglu 

Shimmering Moods Records 2022 
SHM 218

Dynastor - A Memory Away

Tracklist

01. Moss Covered Technology - Brick & Air IV
02. Alex Bober - I Don’t Always Do Right Things
03. Ishmael Cormack - Pinecone
04. Minamo & Moskitoo - Superstitious Typology
05. Jeannine Schulz - The Wind Blows Over The Earth
06. Ian Hawgood - Fields
07. David Cordero - Unreal
08. Fields We Found - Rains
09. Michael Scott Dawson - The Sentimentalist
10. Lorenz Weber -  Wärmst Du Mich

300. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Toàn - Flake (taken from Kouskediñ)

Soft Generator - We Found It 
Taken from "On a Map of Sound" the new long form album by Soft Generator.

Soft Generator are: 
David Newman (Autistici/Volume Objects) - volume-objects.com 
Erik Schoster (He Can Jog) - hecanjog.com 
Michel Mazza (OdNu) 

Mastered by Volume Objects

Edition of 50. Handmade covers, hand numbered, various colours.

https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/on-a-map-of-sound

Soft Generator - We Found It (taken from On a Map of Sound)

Tracklist

01. Lorenz Weber - Remember It
02. The Humble Bee - Anchored In Scorched Earth
03. Hummingbird - Neerland
04. Innesti - Around this Space
05. Kenji Kihara - Hayama Ambient 043
06. Landtitles - Asunglint
07. Michael Scott Dawson - The Sentimentalist
08. Morimoto Naoki - Soto
09. Samuel Edmund - A Long Way Up
10. Steve Pacheco - Distant
11. Scott Campbell - Serein
12. Darren Harper - Brook

320. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Andy Cartwright - Mended Environment
02. Blochemy - Fluss
03. Ned Milligan - Sky Smokes & Electronics
04. Morimoto Naoki - Bee
05. Stijn Hüwels - Falling head over heels
06. Andrew Heath - Forest
07. Observatories - Snow And Stars Danced Through The Night
08. Andrew Tasselmyer -  Hearts Like Wells
09. Jason Calhoun - Blindsided by my own cowardice
10. Landtitles - Folded Yellow, Framed
11. Kenji Kihara - End of Summer

335. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

from deep within 

malnourished desire,

did I lose my appetite?

did it become so unbearable this time around? i've woven dreams to not forget.


cover art - lightlyheld



high and above

Ambient Dreamscapes for you to enjoy. Relax, unwind, meditate and chillout

CTHULHU MYTHOS - ARCHAEAN CORRELATIONS

Hearts of Spades

Headphone Commute https://soundcloud.com/headphonecommute
On today’s podcast, we celebrate some of the pioneers of early electronic ambient music, with the help of a long-time contributor, Fingers in the Noise. Here are all of the first explorations into the then unnamed genre, sometimes referred to as avant-garde, new-music, or simply electronic music. Pictured for the cover art of this mix is Laurie Spiegel, an American composer, who, while working in Bell Laboratories in the early 70s, composed with analog synthesizers using interactive software she wrote herself. Some of this music is hard to come by, with the early experiments a bit difficult to digest, so I thank Laurent Bisch for his wonderful selection of tracks for this very special tribute.

Full Playlist & Download:
https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2017/05/23/fingers-in-the-noise-a-tribute-to-the-pioneers-of-electronic-ambient-music/

Mixes

Playlist & Download

Headphone Commute - Fingers In The Noise - A Tribute to the Pioneers of Electronic Ambient Music

Excerpt from a release with Longform Editions. Listen/purchase the full track here https://longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/immaterial

// 
Earlier this year I spent a two-month period on residency in Hong Kong. I was instantly drawn to the colour and vibrancy of the city, as well as to certain materials and objects that kept reappearing on my explorations.

Billowy, gauzy construction cloth that covered spiny bamboo scaffolding, the devastatingly-inviting colourful-sheen of single-use plastics, discarded durian husks, the deep blue night-time sky made hazy/dreamy/luminous from neon lighting, lush and vibrant green foliage…

I was thinking about the small variations in the repetition of these materials, as well as the repetition of certain images and sounds.

The phasing on/off flash of orange construction lights lining long stretches of road; the rhythmic phasing of multiple pedestrian crossing beeps heard simultaneously. the overhead circling of the kites (seabirds) in the sky; the below-water circling of plastic bags in the harbour.

For a little while now I’ve been cultivating an obsession with the relationships between sound, material/object and texture. How feeling can inform listening, how listening is feeling, and how this felt-listening can alter our perception of things as we are taught to ‘know’ them. For me listening is acknowledging the intrinsic connections between our surroundings and ourselves.

If we acknowledge the vibrancy and resonance of everyday objects how might this change our actions and thinking around them.

"My hunch is that the image of dead or thoroughly instrumentalised matter feeds human hubris and our earth-destroying fantasies of conquest and consumption. It does so by preventing us from detecting (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling) a fuller range of the nonhuman powers circulating around and within human bodies." Jane Bennett in Vibrant Matter

It occurred to me, whilst writing this and listening back, that not only are materials amplified in Immaterial but certain sounds appear almost material in themselves, such as the squeak of shoes on basketball courts, and the droplets of rain on foliage. These sounds seem not to belong to shoe or court, rain or leaf, but are formed in the entwining to become a thing in themselves. It is this connectedness through sound that I am fascinated with. Through sound unequal forms can be connected: mic distortion disguises itself as crinkling plastic bags that blends into the crackling sound of shrimp underwater.

Sound waves traverse through our bodies and our surroundings, forming knots and vibrations and connections and confusions. In sound material blends with the immaterial and new imaginaries can be made, for me this is a way out.

Immaterial was composed in parallel to these thoughts.
Like silky-soft milky tea tasted alongside a crispy-sweet pineapple bun.
//

All sounds heard on Immaterial (excepting one recording of clarinet) were recorded in Hong Kong between April and June 2019.
Composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Alexandra Spence
Additional percussion by Karen Yu
Mastered by A.F. Jones at Laminal Audio

Immaterial excerpt

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