LOST TRAIL 'for roaring woodlands'.

ALBUM : 'One Day We'll All Walk Outside And Stare Up At The Blameless Sky And Wait For Something To Happen'.
LABEL : SOFT (ST007).
RELEASE DATE : January 2015.

Excerpt from forthcoming 9 tracks album - CD ltd+digital.

Artwork by David Teboul.
Photography by Peter Nejedly.
Mastered by David Teboul.

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LOST TRAIL - For Roaring Woodlands (excerpt from ST007).

Excerpt from the long awaited new masterpiece by Eus, Postdrome & Saåad 'DIFFERENT STREAMS'
Soon available over SOFT (CD+DL) & GRAINS OF SAND (TAPE+DL)

Artist : Eus Postdrome & Saåad
Title : the bitter truth
Album : Different streams
Label : SOFT & GRAIN OF SAND
Release Date : February, 2015
Reference : ST008
Format : Digipak 6 panel CD, ltd. ed. 120 + digital & TAPE + digital

MUSIC by 
EUS – Jose Acuña 
Postdrome – Charlie Floyd 
Saåad – Romain Barbot & Grégory Buffier

Recorded in London (UK), San José (Costa Rica), Kuala-Lumpur (Malaysia), Hong Kong (China) Singapore (Singapore) & Toulouse (France) between February & June 2014.
Additional violin on ‘Dervish Dealer’ by Nik Koniwzski.
Mixed & Mastered by Byron Christodoulou, Athens (Greece), 2014.
Photographies by Charlie Floyd.
Design by Romain Barbot.

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EUS, Postdrome & Saåad - The Bitter Truth (excerpt from DIFFERENT STREAMS)

Excerpt from 'BELONGING TO THE INFINITY'.
Ref : ST009.
Limited CD + digital (march 2015).
Photography : Mehran Naghshbandi
Mastering : Taylor Deupree @12K

This is the first collab release between David Teboul (LINEAR BELLS / France) & Nguyễn Hồng Nhung (SOUND AWAKENER / Vietnam).

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SOUND AWAKENER + LINEAR BELLS 'post-modern structuralism' (ST009)

LINEAR BELLS "there's no man happy"
FROM ALBUM : "OR"
LABEL : SOFT (ST10).
RELEASE DATE : October,18th - 2015
Excerpt from forthcoming 5 tracks album - CD ltd+digital.
Artwork by David Teboul.
Photography by Peter Nejedly.
Mastered by David Teboul.
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ORDER at : https://softrecords.bandcamp.com/album/or

To understand the outcome of this new release “Or” translated as “Gold” in English, listeners and fans need to comprehend certain factors and attributions. A. “Or” is a record that is extremely personal from David Teboul a.k.a [ Linear Bells ]. B. All arrangements of this new release started from spring 2015 right till the end of summer 2015 and C. David also went completely solo on this recording as oppose to a collaboration act like the previous release with [ Sound Awakener ]. Considering those factors when we speak of “Or” we are literally talking about three month’s seclusion, as if gathering all your dedications, ideas, musical thoughts and motivations in one place and withdrawing yourself in solitude to make a record.
Now that we’ve touch based a little as to how it all happened which clearly is impressive, let’s dive to the end result of “Or”. On a musical note the album is more of a drone-wash of infuse ambience from the outset, the album is clear of static noises and majority of beeps and glitches are purified from the inner layers to the outer surface. Yes, I’ll agree to a certain extent we still got the same [ Linear Bells ] sound signature but this time I think we can all admit that David has presented us a more organic delicacy. The meticulous output of the entire album is drowned from layers of guitars + pedals and organs resonating in waves. And while the sound, to my understanding went through a distillation phase, the outcome pertain a solid darkness and a mysterious flow that is rather obscure, acting in accordance to the likes of [ Ember Wreath ], [ Sequences ], [ Ous Mal ], [ Isartum ] and [ Anji Cheung ] but in a more subterranean fashion with accessible arrangements and a sophisticated touch.
Without getting in too much details, I mean although emotions can be translated in words but we have to agree that emotions also varies from listeners to listeners, so what I feel and what I vision while listening to “OR” may not necessary be what you feel and what you experience. That said, various listeners can take different approaches on “OR” but keep in mind that whichever angles you look at it, chances are very like that you’ll end up concluding that “OR” fall somewhere between background music, soundtrack music, relaxation tunes or meditative sound and film noir or independent movie soundtrack. The drone(y) strings on “OR” has a strong tendency to engrave a musical path and the reverberated vibrations holds hazy motifs that float in waves-motion between frequencies offering hints to the album’s advancement and making it impossible to pause midway.
Final note: As dark and as heavy it gets the enhanced melancholy atmospheres have a strong tendency to keep listeners guessing and prying for more. In its entirety “OR” clock’s just over an hour and while in its obscurest form the album offers a murky atmospheres but yet carried out with notions of structure and flexibility in cautious elegant ways that project a great amount of care without the feeling of being laboured, vice versa in its clearest moment “OR” unearth crumble distortions and delays that communicate a collection of glistening tones that create a stylized perspectives and haunting beauty. My best advice on this new release is to schedule it, find a comfy moment and a lonely spot for the next hour is going to be epic guys. We got ourselves some extremely dark yet melancholic listen to indulge our hearing senses. 

LINEAR BELLS - There's No Man Happy (Excerpt from ST10)

Pre Orders : https://softrecords.bandcamp.com/album/luminar 
Get ready , the new album from EUS (José Acuña / COSTA RICA) is probably the masterpiece of 2016 , we will have rarely been so far in this 12 tracks drone symphony treasure ... 

SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST11
Title : Luminar
Release Date: February 2016
Artwork by Justin Cherry
Layout & design by EUS
Mastered by Byron Christodoulou
Cello by Oliver Barrett
Violin by Nik Koniwzski
Vocals by Ana Mariela
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com 
Format : 6 panel Digipack CD + Digital. 
LINKS : soft-recordings.com

EUS - Luminar I (Single Edit) - Excerpt from ST11

Excerpt of forthcoming release from Paris based artist JULIA WHITE 'in the cities of dust'.

SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST12
Title : in the cities of dust
Release Date: February 2016
Artwork by Julia White
Layout & design by David Teboul
Mastered by David Teboul
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com
Format :  Digipack CD + Digital.
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JULIA WHITE - Red Beach Harbour (excerpt from ST12)

Excerpt of forthcoming release from LINEAR BELLS 'Silence' (ST13).
Music Video : https://vimeo.com/201851526
SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST13 
Title : SILENCE
Release Date: Feb, 2017 
Written, Recorded and Processed : David Teboul © 2017. 
Mastered by David Teboul. 
CD Artworks & photos : David Teboul 
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com 
Format : Digipack CD booklet + Digital.

LINEAR BELLS - Silence (Preview from ST13)

Excerpt of forthcoming release from VARGKVINT 'Brus' (ST14).
SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST14 
Title : Dimma
Release Date: June 10th, 2017 
Written, Recorded and Processed : VARGKVINT © 2017.  
CD Artworks & photos : VARGKVINT & David Teboul 
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com 
Format : Digipack CD + Digital.

VARGKVINT - Dimma (Excerpt from ST14)

Second excerpt of forthcoming release from VARGKVINT 'Brus' (ST14).
SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST14 
Title : Varg
Release Date: June 10th, 2017 
Written, Recorded and Processed : VARGKVINT & LINEAR BELLS © 2017. 
CD Artworks & photos : VARGKVINT & David Teboul 
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com 
Format : Digipack CD + Digital.

VARGKVINT - Varg (with Linear Bells) Excerpt from ST14

Like a dry autumn
Leaf
Flying place to place
Making home
Anywhere
Or like a gypsy
Roaming the earth
Deserts
Cities
Forests
Following the
Stars or
The fortune
Content at any change
I wish you my Heart
You were a leaf
Or a gypsy
A wandering spirit
A nomad
Vagabond
But you of all
Chose to be
A Swan
@Linear Bells 2018

Linear Bells - Oh Swans !

Soft is a small independant label focused on Ambient, drone & experimental music. We're producing physical releases and are a non-profit label. Soft was set up by David Teboul (Linear Bells). Contact : dt44 ( @ ) free.fr
Manager : David Teboul.
Writer : Joshua Sadler.
Photographer : Peter Nejedly.

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