Orla Wren - The One Two Bird and The Half Horse (album preview)

Composed and recorded by Dag Rosenqvist and Aaron Martin from the 5-year anniversary Home Normal compilation "Elements":

On the 21st of March 2014 we will be celebrating 5 years of Home Normal. It has been an incredible journey to get this far and we never could have reached it without the kind support of talented artists and all the wonderful people who have ever bought one of our releases or attended one of our shows.

In this modern digital age with its constant stream of information, we've sought to work as quietly as possible, firmly rooting our ethos that things can be released in a subtle, quiet way. 'Organic' has always been the key word, and we are so thankful that people seem to still appreciate the natural path we've chosen, ignoring all the noise that surrounds our chosen way.

To celebrate this great landmark for us, we will be releasing our 5th year compilation 'Elements'. With over 60 artists from our past, present and future involved, this five disc compilation will be raising money for 5 different charities which are close to our hearts. All profits from the releases will be donated to the charities as follows:

Elements One (地)
The Archway Foundation is a charity that was set-up by my father which aids those who suffer from loneliness through outreach, social events, and befriending.

Elements Two (水)
The British Heart Foundation fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart and circulatory disease.

Elements Three (火)
ecoACTIVE is an innovative environmental education charity with a reputation for using hands-on, practical and fun approaches to explore complex issues of sustainability.

Elements Four (風)
Habitat Japan is very close to our hearts as they help to build houses for people who lost their homes in Sendai and Fukushima. They also provide valuable support worldwide to those in most need.

Elements Five (空)
Kalaweit is a wonderful charity my wife supports regularly. Its main objective is to save the gibbons of Indonesia and their habitat. In addition to this they also educate the local community about deforestation, as well as the dangers of increased use of palm oil leading to a rapid destruction of their habitat and continuing loss of biodiversity. Such education and protection is fundamental in one of the mot incredible (but poorly protected) countries in the world.

Thanks so much for all your support these past five years x
credits
released 25 April 2014
Mixed and mastered by Ian Hawgood
Design by togoshi + mondül

http://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/elements-one-five

Landfall (From the Mouth of the Sun)

It was an honour to be asked to put together this one-hour mix for the Home Normal label’s 15th anniversary. Home Normal’s output over its past fifteen years has been immense to say the least, with many, many incredible albums and artists involved. It became clear early on that approaching this as more of a “collage” than a straight DJ-Mix was the way to go for what I wanted to achieve. Thirty tracks were used overall. Edited, broken apart and re-pitched, with some improvised synth parts and further production added.

Mixes from a selection of their artists are available through their Bandcamp on a pay-what-you-like basis, with each mix put together exclusively from the label’s own catalog over the past fifteen years.

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/home-normal-mixtape-by-jason-van-wyk

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01 - Wndfrm - Alpental Cascade	
02 - Felicia Atkinson - Green & Grey
03 - Pleq & Giulio Aldinucci - The Prelude To
04 - Melodia - Luna (en el hotel Am Bad, Tübingen)
05 - Konntinent - Tensile Strength
06 - Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek - Drape (Parts 1 & 4)
07 - Islands Of Light - Heisternest
08 - Ten and Tracer - Molossom
09 - Cass. & Cross Record - Boy Interlude
10 - The Boats - Palais Glide
11 - Hotel Neon - The Eye's Mind
12 - Mere - Mere II / Mere III (Parts IV & IX)
13 - Isnaj Dui - Founded On Curiosity
14 - Part Timer - Myr
15 - Ouvala - Brume + Bellow
16 - L/M/R/W - Tegendraads
17 - Silent Vigils - Munhitsu
18 - Tsone - A Good Cleansing Always Sets One's Mind to Rights
19 - Orla Wren - Willow Bows
20 - Chronovalve - Into a New Future
21 - Ian Hawgood & Wil Bolton - See Their Faces Fall
22 - Nicolas Bernier - Aurore VII
23 - Ken Ikeda + David Toop - Skin Tones
24 - bvdub - The First Day
25 - A New Line Related - Lip Lifted
26 - SLVBRD - Inpouring
27 - Michael Santos - Cut Them Loose
28 - Geskia! - Poem From My Room (Marihiko Hara Remix)
29 - Juxta Phona - Passive Makes Perfect
30 - Tobias Hellkvist - Stripes

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Mix and production by Jason van Wyk, April 2024
Cover photography by Rebecca Hauri

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Home Normal 15th Anniversary Mixtape

Taken from the EP ‘Atarashii hi‘ /Home Normal, 2015/.



Gurun Gurun •• Itsuka no Hoshi (Mergrim Remix)

On the 21st of March 2014 we will be celebrating 5 years of Home Normal. It has been an incredible journey to get this far and we never could have reached it without the kind support of talented artists and all the wonderful people who have ever bought one of our releases or attended one of our shows.

In this modern digital age with its constant stream of information, we've sought to work as quietly as possible, firmly rooting our ethos that things can be released in a subtle, quiet way. 'Organic' has always been the key word, and we are so thankful that people seem to still appreciate the natural path we've chosen, ignoring all the noise that surrounds our chosen way.

To celebrate this great landmark for us, we will be releasing our 5th year compilation 'Elements'. With over 60 artists from our past, present and future involved, this five disc compilation will be raising money for 5 different charities which are close to our hearts. All profits from Elements Three (火) will be donated to ecoACTIVE which is an innovative environmental education charity with a reputation for using hands-on, practical and fun approaches to explore complex issues of sustainability.

Mixed and mastered by Ian Hawgood
Design by togoshi + mondü

http://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/elements-one-five

Landfall

Wil Bolton's 'Maemi' takes its title from the Korean word for cicadas. Recorded live at Cafe OTO, London during the Home Normal label's Homenormalism festival on 3 August 2013, Wil weaves effected guitar drones, synthesizer, music box, effects pedals and environmental sounds creating a slow moving dronescape. The environmental sounds - timber mill machinery, traffic, and the buzz of cicadas - were recorded in Incheon, South Korea in August 2012, during an artist residency at the Incheon Art Platform.

This is Rural Colours 77
Mastered by Fraser McGowan
Artwork by Katie English

Wil Bolton / Maemi (Preview)

A remix for Tobias Hellkvist, included in the digital version of the new edition of 'Vesterhavet' on Home Normal.

Tobias Hellkvist - Vesterhavet (Warmth Remix)

1. Lee Yi - 3 (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
2. Tropic of Coldness - Déplacés (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
3. Valanx - Copper track 1 (Diametric)
4. Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet - Hamnstad (Low Point)
5. Giuseppe Falivene - Untitled 13 (Shimmering Moods Records)
6. Hotel Neon - 3-04 AM (Fluid Audio)
7. Olan Mill - Flute + Field (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
8. Kirill Mazhai -  N59.957534 E30.323258
 (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
9. Moss Garden - The Fabric of Sentinel (Kaico)
10. Sebastian Paul - Cool Evening Air (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
11. Leigh Toro - All is Equal (Rural Colours)
12. Toàn - Plume (Eilean)
13. Anne Garner - Brink (Rural Colours)
14. Giulio Fagiolini - Dietro a un vetro (Home Normal)
15. kj - Angels (Forthcoming Lost Tribe Sound)
16. øjeRum - Træerne & Intetheden part IV(Champion Version)

SHIMMERING MOODS @ RESONANCE EXTRA #12

This song is taken from 'Fragments', released via HOME NORMAL on March 5th. 

Pre-order your copy here:
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/fragments



Most of the tracks are in mono because i recorded directly onto tape and did no post-processsing. Most of this is guitar and a loop pedal, some songs have synthesizers, others are sampled from worn out children's cassettes. 

Recorded in Essen in Autumn/Winter of 2015 

Photography by Tina Sosna 
Mastered by Ian Hawgood

Fragments

B I (taken from 'Fragments' out on HOME NORMAL)

Music for Whales, an ambient radio transmission. Chapter 7: Tribute set to Home Normal records for this ten years making music from the deepest zone of the soul. Thanks and congratulations..


1. Ian Hawgood – She
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained
2. Islands Of Light -  Heisternest
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/ruebke
3. Jason Van Wyk – Before
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/attachment
4. Christopher Hipgrave -  Glittering flecks scattered
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/no-greater-hero-than-the-least-plant-that-grows
5. Altars Altars -  Small Hours
https://altarsaltars.bandcamp.com/album/small-hours-cd
6. Hotel Neon -  A Lament
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-neon
7. Konntinent - Tensile Strength
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/the-empire-line
8. Cass. - You On My Mind
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/magical-magical
9. Nicolas Bernier - Aurore III
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-a-book
10. Faures - Asthenospheric Movement I
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/continental-drift
11. Orla Wren - I Must Live In My Lantern
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/book-of-the-folded-forest
12. Chronovalve  - Memories Still With Us
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/trace-of-light
13. Stefano Guzzetti – Shoreline
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/leaf
14. Kinder Scout – First Half
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/the-writing-life
15. Fifto - Dan Lo
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/with-miur
16. Ouvala – Microspa
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/psychology-of-colour
17. Birdt - Place for One Day
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/place-for-one-day
18. Stefano Guzzetti – Stay
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/--2
19. René Margraff - You call this music2012.9.13llrec18.27.38
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/phasen
20. M. Ostermeier – Albatross
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/tiny-birds
21. Daniel Thomas Freeman - The devil would steal your joy
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/the-beauty-of-doubting-yourself
22. Federico Durand - El pequeño zorro colorado
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/el-libro-de-los-rboles-m-gicos
23. David Cordero - Faro de Trafalgar, Barbate
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/el-rumor-del-oleaje
24. Tobias Hellkvist - White hole
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/evolutions

Music For Whales - Ten years of Home Normal

Jason van Wyk is a composer and music producer based in Cape Town, South Africa. His work spans album releases on labels such as n5MD and Home Normal, as well as film, media and production music for Universal, Paramount, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Netflix, The Criterion Collection, and Taschen.

Estación de radio. 
Conversación socioMusical enlatada, sin censura ni sesgos de proximidad.

[Electromagnetismo es lo que sucede cuando le das otra vez al play. Lo que te anima a escuchar eso que llaman música, esa música que utiliza el aire como portadora, una onda senoidal como discurso y nuestros oídos como destino de su corta pero sugerente vida.

Bienvenido o bienvenida a electromagnética…]

FLAU is a record label based in Tokyo, Japan.

general inquires: flau@flau.jp
press: press@flau.jp

Motohiro Nakashima/Kumi Takahara/Seigen Tokuzawa & Masaki Hayashi/Kazumichi Komatsu/FEM/Spring In A Small Town/The Future Eve feat. Robert Wyatt/Same Waves/Cicada/Madegg/Henning Schmiedt/CRYSTAL/Rayons/Nemui PJ (kidkanevil & noah)/Noah/Submerse/Radicalfashion/Stefan Jós/Cuushe/Rima Kato/Machinone/Ulises Conti/Danny Norbury/Sparrows/IKEBANA/Ensemble 0/Masayoshi Fujita/El Fog/Liz Christine/Twigs & Yarn/MayMay/Cokiyu/Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven/Kanazu Tomoyuki/The Boats/Kumisolo/Novisad/aus/Dale Berning/Part Timer/Colophon(Jefre-Cantu Ledesma)/Geskia/Orla Wren/Sylvain Chauveau

events:
julia holter / ólafur arnalds / julianna barwick / sharon van etten / grouper / james blackshaw / kira kira / deaf center / rachel grimes / masha qrella / pascal pinon / ryan francesconi & mirabai peart / otto a totland / erik k skodvin / rauelsson / dustin wong / safety scissors / tape (häpna) / serafina steer / florencia ruiz / grand salvo / aspidistrafly / caroline / federico durand / f.s.blumm / springintgut / the mistys / sophie hutchings / spartak / celer / en / rachael dadd / tomi lebrero / takuji aoyagi | 青柳拓次 (kama aina) / tenniscoats | テニスコーツ / tujiko noriko / 内橋和久 | kazuhisa uchihashi / トウヤマタケオ | takeo toyama / bun / fumitake tamura / saphhire slows / shuta hasunuma / gutevolk / squares on both sides / patten / ian hawgood / smile down upon us / pan am scan / the young group / mitä kuuluu / 大谷友介（オオヤユウスケ）/ 伊藤ゴロー |ito goro / mama!milk / 石橋英子 | eiko ishibashi / 阿部海太郎 | umitaro abe / organ-o-rounge / tatsuhiko asano / kyo ichinose / miki / predawn / mmm / 曽我大穂 (cinema dub monks) / 坂田学 / popoyans / 青葉市子 / 麓健一 / 扇谷一穂 / 王舟 / 青木隼人 | aoki hayato / sawako / trico! / miko / ikebana / rayons / minakumari / カラトユカリ | karato yukari / yok / rima kato / oh' yoko / 惑星のかぞえかた / voq / 小鳥美術館 | nagisa shima /

Making music as Warmth and SVLBRD.
Label owner of Archives and Faint.

12" Vinyl, CD and Digital on Archives.
https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com

Vinyl, tapes, and downloads available at
www.altarsaltars.bandcamp.com

Dag Rosenqvist & Aaron Martin: Woven Tide, Into the Well, Hymn Binding and Menashe film score. New EP Sleep Stations out on Lost Tribe Sound May 2018.

contact: ftmots@gmail.com

"Gurun Gurun are a Czech quartet made up of Jára Tarnovski, Ondřej Ježek, Tomáš Knoflíček and Federsel. They are the inventors of an original declension of alternative pop, which melds deconstructions of typical pop songs, glitch electronica, quirky sonorities and bizarre sonorities." (Chain D.L.K.)

"Gurun Gurun’s tracks strike a nice balance between natural sounds and computer deconstruction." (Foxy Digitalis)

"Gurun Gurun return with their beautiful and bewildering sophomore LP, 'Kon B', creating not just an album, but an experience." (Anthem Review)

"Gurun Gurun have crafted an album of mysterious electro-acoustic expedition." (Foreign Accents)

"All I really can say is ‘wow.’ You just have to hear it…" (Cyclic Defrost)

“Its a remarkable debut, covering so much ground yet keeping things restrained enough to have a perfect fluency about it. I was instantly struck by the way its cute without actually being overly so, noisy yet structured and multilayered without being overly complex. Its wonderfully melodic, quirky, touching and tender, and the guest artists feel very much part of the fabric of the album and band, making the whole album seamless under the careful guidance of Tarnovski, Knoflicek and Federsel.” (Ian Hawgood)

"This totally hits the spot. Recommended!"  (Electroacoustic Tales)

"Honestly, i haven’t heard something that ephemeric from Europe for a long, long time (since múm in 2004, perhaps?), which for me makes this music even more valuable and worth checking." (Refreaked)

"Definitely a contender for album of the year!" (Soundscaping)

" It’s sweet, a little disembodied and tricky, not quite tender. A fun record." (François Couture, All Music Guide) 

“Lots of nice textures and unusual sounds are filling the air all wrapped up in a real sense of melody. The sound palette is very varied with a whole array of different sounds and noises going on. Loads going on in fact! You could listen to this album a good few times and hear new things in each listen.” (Norman Records)

“Gurun Gurun despite their distinctly Japanese sound are actually from the Czech Republic. I suppose this is why they manage to avoid the cloying sweetness of many of their contemporaries; the sound of Gurun Gurun is still delicate, electronic pop, but tempered slightly by noise and grit.” (Boomkat)

“Post-pop reverie. Minimalist and atmospheric glitch-pop located between the most narcotic and panoramic post-rock, the naive electronics of Tujiko Noriko, Dorine Muraille’s collages and the pop deconstruction of early Ensemble or So.” (PlayGround Mag)

“Gurun Gurun’s 12 track debut album is a balancing act of frenetic yet sedate melodic layering.” (Fluid Radio)” 


*S O U N D S C A P I N G*
Contact: Shimmeringmoodsrecords@gmail.com

Other projects:
Slow Tone Collages 
https://soundcloud.com/analogue-chat

*Monthly Radioshow @ Resonance Extra: First Wednesday at 8pm / 21:00-23:00 CET www.extra.resonance.fm

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