This is the instrumental to "Just a Piece" from my debut album, Against the Odds of Entropy.

Just A Piece (Instrumental)

Step into a moonlit river of sound. Session XIX — Lanterns Over the Water drifts through the heart of Japan’s shrine and lantern traditions, weaving non‐lexical shrine chorus hums, shakuhachi sighs, koto glissandi, and taiko heartbeat pulses into a deep, meditative lounge journey.
Inspired by Kyoto’s Gion nights, coastal lantern festivals, and the still elegance of Shinto shrine waters, this session captures a ritual calm where fireflies, incense smoke, and floating lights move as one.

▸ REGION: Japan — Shinto shrine ambience, lantern festivals, Gion street nights
▸ VOCALS: nonverbal shrine chants, breath vowels (“aaa–ooo–eee”), whispered blessings (“mizu,” “tsuki,” “kokoro”)
▸ INSTRUMENTS: shakuhachi, koto, taiko, suzu bells, temple woodblock, night cicadas, water ripple field recordings
▸ MOOD: moonlit stillness • ritual elegance • drifting light on water

🎧 For meditative evenings, incense-lit moments, or midnight walks by water.

#LanternsOverTheWater #JapaneseChill #ShintoAmbient #BuddhaBarVibes #DowntempoBeats #WorldFusion #ZenChill #AmbientLounge #RitualMusic #GlobalLounge #TaikoBeats #KotoMusic #ShakuhachiFlute #LanternFestival #Ætherflux #ChilloutMusic #OpiumLounge #SlowBPM

Kawa no Hikari

Neon Ghosts is our little detour into a completely different world – away from the dark realms, diving into a synthetic ocean of neon lights, retro beats, and cyberpunk melancholy. This synthwave–electro–ambient album is a passion project by Raphaela Hartmann, Sascha Häusler, and Thomas Kaiser – all devoted fans of synthwave and cyberpunk culture.

We simply couldn’t resist exploring this genre ourselves – painting glitch-stars across the digital sky and creating soundscapes that feel like neon rain, chrome dreams, and distant cityscapes.

This is just our first step – an experiment, a side project made with love and pure fun.
If you enjoy our little venture and the feedback is positive, we’ll continue building and expanding this journey.

Welcome aboard – the city never sleeps, and neither do we.

Memory

Taruun-Flux-(Mellon Place Records)

'digging a hole to fill a hole'

Debut EP from drab [@drabsounds], released May 10, 2019 via Future Archive Recordings [@FutureArchiveRecordings]. 

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For the Boston-based artist Andrew G Nault, drab started out as more of a concept; broad strokes of a particular mood to convey sonically. “There’s beauty in the less favorable moments in life,” explains Nault. “Musically my ear has always leaned in that direction. Chalk it up to a small brush with death at a young age, I guess.” Indeed, there is much to be learned from life’s darker moments, and plenty of layers to shed along the way to do so. This is the context that drab operates in. Layered compositions of haze, feel, and movement that shift and progress with subtlety. 

Though a newcomer to electronic music production, Nault is a long time student of music in general. With well over a decade of experience as a producer, engineer, and musician, there’s not much he hasn’t tried. Stylistically unafraid, his credits stretch across a multitude of genres. From Folk to Doom to R&B and more, each venture has left a lasting impression on the next. “drab is another chance for me to challenge myself and explore… a melting pot to throw all of these styles and experiences into and see what comes out,” writes Nault. With the upcoming release of his debut EP, Nault again sets his wheels in motion, continuing to dive deeper into his unconventional combination of influences and an ear for the bittersweet. 

Track Listing:

01. better
02. strain (feat. Thomas John Cadrin)
03. muse
04. loveliness
05. spine (feat. Adam Henry)
06. thief
07. omen
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More about drab at http://futurearchiverecordings.com/drab
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digging a hole to fill a hole

thief

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“Maisha” is the Swahili word for life.

This album to me expresses the feeling of embracing life in all its forms, with its different perspectives, moods, sounds, energies. In contrast to previous work, which was somewhat more reflective, this album was made with a lot of creative energy and drive. When starting each track I felt like I was overflowing with ideas that I had to try out and get down as soon as possible. Sometimes the inspiration would come from listening to various new albums on Bandcamp from around the world: jazz, African folk, hip-hop, Neo-soul, funk, afrobeat. Other times the inspiration would come simply from biking around Los Angeles and taking in sights and sounds from different parts of the city.

I think there can easily be pressure when making to album for it to feel as though each album has to embody a sophisticated concept or make some specific statement. Albums expressing abstract concepts or political or social statements are important for the musical culture, to be sure; but music is also an expression of where the artist is at spiritually, emotionally, and creatively at a certain point in time. This is what Maisha means for me. It represents the joys, excitements, and bursts of creative feeling, as well as the tranquility and nostalgia that I felt at times while making it. With this work, as with my previous work, I am ever seeking to defy genre. Of course, it’s clear that downtempo and trip-hop music form the backbone of what I am doing, but I am also trying to challenge those labels all the time by exploring different rhythms, scales, arrangements, and instruments.

I hope this album helps you find inspiration to express yourself or explore in whatever ways are possible or speak to you in your life, as it did for me.

Thanks for listening.

x

Tristan de Liège

Personnel:
Conor Malloy: Drums 
Parker Law: Drums
Yvette Holzwarth: Violin
Isaac Takeuchi: Cello
Moana Avvenenti: Vocals
Carly Barnette: Vocals
Selina Carrera: Vocals
Steven Robinson: Trombone
Henry Solomon: Flute, Saxophone
Tristan de Liège - Flute, Saxophone, Clarinet, Guitar, Bass, Percussion

All tracks written and produced by Tristan de Liège, except:
Hawa (feat. Carly Barnette) written by Tristan de Liège and Carly Barnette, and
Mbali (feat. Selina Carrera) written by Tristan de Liège and Selina Carrera.

Hawa (feat. Carly Barnette) (Radio Edit)

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IG: https://www.instagram.com/aonianmusic

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AONIAN brings his new single 'Ascent', fusing melodic, trippy electronica with Mediterranean soundscapes.

The first glimpse to Aonian's world as the first single of his upcoming debut album, it showcases a blend of contemporary electronic synths and swirling melodies, colliding with dreamy traditional and ethnic soundscapes.

With references to traditional and folk elements from his home country, the Greek born and London based producer successfully pays homage to our past and present whilst remaining loyal to an ever-changing cultural identity.

"Ascent was inspired by conversations I had with friend, storyteller, and ethnomusicologist Anastasis Sarakatsanos (@nomadmusicamsterdam) back in the summer of 2017, conversations surrounding history, migration, and cultural identity, and how that part of history (and present) kept fuelling folklore stories and traditional music, as well as modern art in the Balkans, and the Mediterranean cultures. His performance on the Qanun instrument is featured throughout the track and made me overcome my initial doubts in including soundscapes from my motherland in my productions.

It's the first track of my debut album, and the entrance to my Aonian world." - Alkis Livathinos

Having already established a trusted reputation in composition across media and brands (including Louis Vuitton and Glossier), AONIAN emerges from five-years of conceptual and instrumental experimentation, delivering a refreshing sound, listeners need.

His recent remix for the Glastonbury brothers - Speakman Sound - has been supported and played by DJ John Digweed in a Bunker Sessions set and his upcoming debut album has attracted interest from the likes of London start-up Remixology HQ and the recently awarded music blog Give it a Spin.

Ascent is out February 17, as the first single of his upcoming self-titled debut album.

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Written and produced by Alkis Livathinos
Qanun by Anastasis Sarakatsanos
Mixed by Gigi Piscitelli
Mastered by Mark Dobson aka Ambassadeurs at Coda Mastering

Recorded in London, Amsterdam, Patras.

Artwork Direction & Design by George Kroustallis (@minorstep)
Moving artwork visuals by Scyld Bowring (@scyld_bowring)
Ascent music video visuals by Joshua Guillaume (@josh.ontheweb)

Photography by Mariza Kapsabeli (@marizcaps) 
and Alex Kozobolis (@alex_kozobolis)

Ascent

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Aonian - Ascent

All Forms Are Unstable

All Forms Are Unstable (Delhia de France's Trust Rework)

'Surfaces' is the debut EP from the Barcelona-based electronic duo @palladianmusic. Out Feb. 26, 2021 via @FutureArchiveRecordings.

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Coming off of their debut year (2020), PALLADIAN will drop their first EP titled ‘Surfaces’ on Feb. 26 via Future Archive Recordings. A powerful combination of contemporary IDM & electronic, with a classic downtempo feel, PALLADIAN quickly turned heads following their first few singles. ‘Surfaces’ will feature these songs alongside two new tracks to round out their debut collection of songs. Living up to a COVID era release schedule, PALLADIAN has also been releasing rooftop and apartment setting live videos, all from their home base in Barcelona, Spain. Already seeing features among staple downtempo blogs and channels, as well as solid DSP numbers, PALLADIAN is a noteworthy new act to watch, and ‘Surfaces’ will surely find its place as a soon-to-be classic for the genre.
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Carpets (Sun Glitters Edit)

Carpets

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CORPUS DEI is the new album from @arms-and-sleepers. Out Dec. 4, 2020 via @FutureArchiveRecordings.

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Arms and Sleepers continue their journey through a turbulent 2020 with the 5th installment in their 6-part music series being released this year. The new full-length album, titled CORPUS DEI, will be out on Dec. 4 via Future Archive Recordings.

Arms and Sleepers is the electronic music duo Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic. Formed in Boston, USA in 2006, the group has amassed over 30 releases, nearly 2,000 live performances, and countless TV and Film music placements in their 15-year history. 2020 has been the group’s busiest year yet, and the upcoming new album CORPUS DEI looks to add another signature stamp in Arms and Sleepers’ diverse music catalog.

Written and produced throughout 2020 – while on US and European tours, unplanned quarantine in Latvia, and settling into a new home in Berlin – CORPUS DEI is a surreal musical journey that feels both free-spirited and highly tense. It is the culmination of a fragile, uncertain and difficult year, and a closing statement on an ambitious, multi-release conceptual project. CORPUS DEI is Arms and Sleepers’ fourth full-length album released in 2020 alone, which also saw the release of several EPs, standalone singles, and remixes. Each release has revolved around the idea of “self-destruction”, an eerily relevant topic that was conceived well before the pandemic-stricken year. Writes Ramic: “I started planning for this 6-part music release in 2019 as a way of dealing with and processing my own increasing existential obsession with mortality, meaning, and ultimate absurdity of life. I wanted each release to capture some broader, objective elements of human life as well as some more personal, subjective experiences. Little did I know that I would end up living in isolation in Latvia for nearly 4 months earlier this year. It was an incredibly bizarre period of my life, as it was—and continues to be—for much of the world.”

CORPUS DEI combines the varied sounds of Arms and Sleepers’ recent releases, merging elements of instrumental hip-hop, IDM, electronica, downtempo, and ambient music. The intricately textured beats and densely layered synths form a sonic palette that should be familiar to fans of Arms and Sleepers, but the static-induced, noisy and unsettling atmosphere of the album as a whole adds a new dimension to the group’s catalog. Experimenting more closely with sound design and focusing on the overall compositional flow, Arms and Sleepers manages to create a record that seems to—for better or for worse—capture the dreadful emotional weight of 2020. Writes Ramic: “The various song ideas for CORPUS DEI were written throughout 2020 in what seem like impossibly different contexts: a few days off on tour in Augusta, Georgia in warm southern weather in mid-February; a tiny hotel room in Odessa, Ukraine on the first day of a European tour; a strange 4 months in Riga, Latvia while stranded there in the midst of a pandemic; and a rejuvenating new chapter of my life in Berlin, Germany despite the continued uncertainty about the pandemic. This album feels like a collection of estranged fragments of my life this year – a year that has felt like an eternity.”

CORPUS DEI releases on Dec. 4 via Future Archive Recordings and will be accompanied by various special cinematic visualizers.
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CORPUS DEI

2083

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Above the Corners

Bookings:
Paolo Visci
Pentagon Booking
info@pentagonbooking.net

Licensing:
Marmoset
http://marmosetmusic.com/artists/stev

Other inquiries:
stefanostev@gmail.com

Above the Corners

Stèv