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"Soulcaster" is the third solo record by Brooklyn-based composer/performer Joanna Mattrey. Following Live in Accord and various Notice Recordings-curated performances in the Hudson Valley, this album is a further development in our years-long friendship. With "Soulcaster", Mattrey scrapes, scratches, and wails on viola, prepared viola, and a tromba marina, built by Webb Crawford. Mattrey’s love of unique and unusual sounds has inspired her to alter the pure tone of the viola through preparations with styrofoam, plastic toys, chains, and other objects. But the newest sounds in her arsenal come from the tromba marina, which has one primary playing string and thirteen sympathetic strings. Rather than gently coaxing out the harmonics, as the historical playing style suggests, Mattrey employs a raucous and roaring approach.

The title, "Soulcaster", is borrowed from Brandon Sanderson’s book series, "The Stormlight Archive". In the fantasy series, a soulcaster is an instrument that transforms one object or life form into another. Mattrey’s practice connects heavily to the idea of transformation. She uses preparations and objects not only to create new sounds from her instruments, but to embrace the unknown. No matter how many times the same object has been used, depending on the vibrations on a given day, the preparations might bring out totally different sounds. This randomness creates a joyful challenge for Mattrey, who believes that especially during improvisation, music has its own life that activates and guides the sound forward. Mattrey surrenders to this energetic line of sound over the eleven tracks featured on this tape.

NTR076 - Joanna Mattrey - Soulcaster - [Sing Out]

"Magnet Blues" presents Zhu Wenbo and Zhu Songjie’s unique and utterly bizarre take on American blues, as if filtered through layered variations of darkness. Throughout the recording, we hear barely audible vocals, minimalist, smart, and subtle guitar work, and the folkish atmosphere of what sounds like distant train activity and dying radios. Instrumentation is notable here: Songjie uses the peculiar Casio EG-5 electric guitar, with a built-in cassette deck, while also playing harmonica. Wenbo plays a Fisher-Price toy cassette player, sings, and also plays harmonica. Throughout bursts of noise and rustling midrange timbres, Zhu and Zhu navigate an understated, focused, and dreamlike realm of song and texture.

NTR078 - Zhu Wenbo - Zhu Songjie - Magnet Blues - "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"

Grietas

a little chill piece focusing on 4ms Sampler, Looping Delay and Ensemble Oscillator.

4ms Suite

When sight came back

SenSen - LeC II

Track selection from the forthcoming N/A release by Robert Eggplant, "Empty Campground."

Empty Campground

Robert Eggplant - No Moon, No Wave

A collection of low slung groovers, kosmische cookers, expansive environments + more. Featuring current and forthcoming label releases, recent discoveries, and perennial passengers. 

Track list:
No Zen Orchestra - Yuga
M. Willet - Lazy in the Safe Space
Drug Free America - Ransacking the Ethernet
Mad Spiders - Cosmic Horror
Robert Eggplant - Cosmo Consultations
Nightly Closures - Krauted
Cook - Amazonas
Dania Sixto - Untitled II
G.T. Modell - We Won’t Let You Down
23 Skidoo + Klaus Schulze - Quiet Pillage for Seth
Rental Snakes - Buzz Off
Night Foundation - On Hold
usof - Conz
Fsik Huvnx - Untitled
FH HF - Lampshade and Shifting Sillhouetes
Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk (Mark Clifford remix)
Drug Free America - Baby Doll and the Dolphin Burger

Noir Age 05/11/23

Awaiting Structure

Minimal, textural drones — emotionally resonant yet contemplative — capture the fragile beauty of morning light and the quiet promise of renewal.

Produced and mixed by Sebby Kowal
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture and design by Dionis Afonichev

A Brand New Day

Brand New Day

Gentle textural soundscapes trace the quiet shift in season, evoking warmth, stillness, and the beauty of impermanence. A sonic reflection on the passage of time, memory, and the subtle charm of change.

Christoph Vogel (Ghostloop) about his album: “It’s a collection of nine ambient pieces — soundscapes shaped by personal moments and quiet shifts I experienced over the past year, many of them spent in nature.

I worked with field recordings I captured during that time, letting them carry traces of place and memory. While writing, I also began building my Eurorack modular system, slowly integrating its sounds into the tracks as they took shape.

'Almost Autumn' reflects a quiet cycle of the year — the slow transitions, inner stillness, and changing atmosphere that come with time passing”.

Christoph Vogel, known as Ghostloop (Germany), weaves immersive soundscapes shaped by the serene rhythms of nature. Drawing from the ambient textures of field recordings and grounding them with deep, fluid basslines, his compositions echo the quiet moods of Northern Germany and the Baltic Sea coast. Rooted in a deep sense of place, Ghostloop’s music invites listeners to pause, drift, and sink into gentle, emotive layers of sound.

Produced and mixed by Christoph Vogel (Ghostloop)
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture and design by Dionis Afonichev

Almost Autumn

Music inspired by the dystopian futures of Blade Runner, I Robot and all the wonderful Science Fiction of the Past and Future.

NEXUS: SOMEDAY SOON

Drift, aka Alessandro Ferrario, defines his style as “Slow-motion electroacoustic sound paintings”, this definition comes from the tempo he uses, 40 BPM with 4/4 time signature, the main instrument he uses, an upright piano, and the layers crafted using the instruments you can find in orchestra, cello, viola, violin and double bass most of the times. He then elaborates all the patterns, adding modern era VSTs to create layers, like a painter does with paint.

In “Fragments of a Distant Now”, the artist explored time and memories, unfolding slow rhythms and digital manipulation to create textured atmospheres, which, like memories, can convey either relaxation or tension. Using delays, echoes, reverbs, and distortions, he crafts a sense of glitch in sound that mirrors the imperfections of fading memories.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Alessandro Ferrario (Drift)
Cover artwork by Alessandro Ferrario
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Fragments of a Distant Now

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03 By The Light Of Heaven

Atmospheric music inspired by a trip to Tokyo. Ambient with shinkansen noises.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Tidal etc - onerpm.link/139106137582
Music video - youtu.be/Wt6CiAggiXY

Shinkansen

A Memory of a Tree

Experimental ambient music label.

Surreal music for a deep listening experience.

When sight came back

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