Fluid Audio announces 'Series Of Room', the quietly moving new release from Italian composer Grotta Veterano. Mastered by Ian Hawgood and featuring cover artwork by Danish artist Øjerum, the album offers a deeply introspective journey through sound, memory, and emotional architecture.

Initially recorded as a series of private piano sketches - “written improvisations, controlled sketches” - the tracks were never intended as a cohesive album. Yet when brought together, they began to resemble something whole: a constellation of internal spaces, unresolved and beautifully unrefined.

“They ended up becoming a series of rooms,” writes Grotta Veterano, “each one made of memory, of recurring fragments from the past, reconstructed over time. When I say ‘a series of rooms,’ I mean the ones we carry inside us, not physical spaces.”

Each piece unfolds like an overheard thought, a door left ajar. There’s no grand statement here-only presence, absence, and the trace of something lived. With its unadorned fragility and its refusal to over-explain, Series Of Room speaks in the language of quiet honesty.

The album is presented in a meticulously handcrafted edition of 50 copies, drawing from the same tradition of tactile collage and analogue storytelling that has defined recent Fluid Audio editions. Each set features original Ordnance Survey map segments, cloth-backed and carefully bound, forming a unique shell for each copy. Also included are custom-designed A6 prints on heavyweight uncoated stock, vintage photographic slides, black & white travel photographs, photo negatives, and salvaged book pages from. Fragments of reel-to-reel field recording tape, antique travel stubs, and ephemera gathered from forgotten drawers complete the assembly.

All elements are housed in a hand-waxed, stamped, scented archival bag, individually numbered. No two packages are alike. No repress.

Audio: Grotta Veterano
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Cover artwork: Øjerum
Design: Daniel Crossley

Grotta Veterano - For The Birds

Live recorded track, made by playing in sequence two pre-recorded 4-tracks tapes.
Second tape loop is a personal version of the track "EL ÚNICO" by CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso.
Reverbs, echoes effects and live dubbing technique.

VIDEO:https://youtu.be/DJnACJd3aOw?si=MGJBLAnQA-HdthN6
REEL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOMEUXECNwJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Bandcamp: https://maremmario.bandcamp.com/track/aq13-live-session

Enjoy :)

AQ13 live session

South Lake Tahoe Road Trip. 
This was our South Lake Tahoe Road Trip. 
It was a hundred degrees as we were leaving. 
It was sixty when we got there 
we were tired and it was raining 
something we had not considered. 

We napped under cozy blankets. 
it was quiet and we were tired.
Some dude knocked upon our window
we'd left our headlights on
and parked in the wrong damn driveway. 

South Lake Tahoe Road Trip. 
This was our South Lake Tahoe Road Trip. 
We wandered to the beaches 
with the best of stone walls
so far from the real stonewall.
We ate some thing delicious

We sat near a public boat ramp
watched big trucks with trailers
some with more skills than others
tempting fate and driving backwards

South Lake Tahoe Road Trip. 
This was our South Lake Tahoe Road Trip. 
Puddles was the first act 
a clown who sang about a pumpkin
and about a pinball wizard
He really likes Keven Costner. 

Then later in the evening 
came the man who sang Just Eat It
then later sang I'm Fat
Weird Al's a friggin' legend. 

South Lake Tahoe Road Trip. 
This was our South Lake Tahoe Road Trip. 
Early Monday morning 
still star struck from the evening
we found an obscure museum 
with a copper mine in the basement. 

There was a fruit stand on the way home. 
where we bought a jar of Frog Balls. 
It was an excellent adventure 
an excellent adventure.


South Lake Tahoe Road Trip 9 5 25

Slow dance under the fraying moon

Live session made at RESEDE workshop after filming the video where they let me build the wooden tape loop support and the tape loop itself.
I have first recorded the four tracks on the tape using an Electron model: samples, then tuned the tape velocity and dubbed it live.

Live session video: https://youtu.be/TkTucciepuQ?si=-atCiOgN6DGhbXLD
maremmario X RESEDE video: https://youtu.be/pwbCvQlXXik?si=L7jGsxqJi39dWMZ8
REEL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DObWjOwjtgg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Bandcamp: https://maremmario.bandcamp.com/track/maremmario-x-resede-live-session

Enjoy :)

maremmario X RESEDE live session

9-12-25 (lady sings the blues)

Ice Falling in Fashion

Gray Acres has always been a space for subtlety and restraint, distinct from the denser, more cinematic atmospheres of Hotel Neon. Where that project often explores process, technique, and narrative arcs, Gray Acres tends to be produced "in the moment" and stays still. It lets you think for yourself. Soft Erasure especially embraces that characteristic stillness.

This is the first full-length Gray Acres album since 2021’s “Dreams and Phantoms.” It’s a project that came together slowly with an intentionally light touch…more about dissolving sounds than constructing them. Subtraction vs. addition.

The title Soft Erasure came about as we noticed a recurring quality across the recordings: a sense of tangible things like guitars, pianos, and strings fading, softening, and slipping just out of reach as we shaped and processed them. The music feels like it’s constantly on the verge of vanishing, or being gently wiped away into an indistinct atmosphere. That idea of erasure not as violence, but as gentleness, decay, or transformation, felt like the right metaphor to latch on to. It speaks to memory, distance, and time, and how all of those forces shape and reshape our perception of sound and self.

Musically, this album is built mainly from resampled acoustic instruments: delicate piano lines, sustained strings, frozen and looped guitar textures. Much of the source material was recorded clean, then stretched, blurred, and layered until it became something abstract…like an impression of a song, or a half-remembered phrase. In some ways, we were trying to find the most washed-out and ephemeral version of each sound. The result is a record that is designed less for narrative and more for immersion.

If you’ve followed this project before, I think you’ll hear a natural continuation of its aesthetic. But if you’re new to Gray Acres, this is a great entry point. It’s music that tries not to demand attention, but rewards those who tune in closely for a while.

Gray Acres - Soft Erasure
Music by Andrew & Michael Tasselmyer
Mastered by Alex at Quiet Details

Gray Acres - Vestige

Hang around the water and figure out the sun

"Strawberry Fields Forever" by The Beatles reinterpretation + Elisa's voice and mine (fortunately at very low level).
4-track cassette tape loop, dubbing it live.

Full Video: https://youtu.be/PDrlTf0XxZs
Track's Bandcamp:
REEL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPCB8ZyDpQ2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Enjoy :)

Strawberry Fields Forever _ Tape Loop

Bambino: One shop destroyed. Three heads split like overripe melons. One man wounded and one castrated. All in two hours. Just two hours I left you alone. Two hours.
Trinity: Well, you asked me to give you a hand.

Ambient electronic music propject based on 4-tracks cassette tape loops and live dubbing.

Focusing on experimental genres, we aim to provide a space to share in the creative process and spread the experience of inner exploration through musical expression.

Manchester based electronic musician, creating whatever feels right at the time.

New tracks tagged #tape loop