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Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita returns with his new album Migratory, where his sonic explorations into the unknown continue. The record is set for release September 6 and features Moor Mother and Hatis Noit. Fujita has shared the first, synth-lead single from the record, Tower of Cloud.

On the track, Fujita said "'Tower of Cloud' took form when I was preparing a live set for a tour a few years ago, and it evolved as I played in Europe and Thailand. The synth riff gives me a late summer feel and reminds me of cumulonimbus clouds, and I can see a swallow drawing a circle in the sky to the marimba melody.”

Migratory

Masayoshi Fujita - Tower of Cloud

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This month’s episode of Human Chorus is a focus feature on boutique Belgian label Dauw, whocelebrate their 10 year anniversary in 2024. Specialising in tape and vinyl releases, Dauwprovide quiet, introspective sounds for those who love to listen to music deeply. Amongst songs from their catalogue, is a mix of Steve Reich inspired electronica, meditative moments of bliss and contemporary classical pieces to float away to.

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From the album: The Green Kingdom - Arcadian

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Sound In Silence is happy to welcome back The Green Kingdom, presenting his new album Arcadian.

The Green Kingdom is the solo project of Michael Cottone, a sound artist and graphic designer based in Michigan, USA. Interested in creating compositions which blur the lines between soundscape and structure while keeping a sharp focus on melody, his pieces are crafted using a variety of instruments, electronic sources, sampled textures and field recordings.
Since 2006 he has released several wonderful albums and EPs on labels such as Lost Tribe Sound, Dronarivm, Home Assembly Music, Hidden Vibes, Past Inside The Present and many others.

This is his fourth album on the label after the highly acclaimed Seen And Unseen in 2018, Solaria in 2021 and Voyager in 2022.

Arcadian is a gorgeous album of floating ambience and enchanting soundscapes, consisting of nine new tracks with a total duration of 41 minutes, carefully mastered by George Mastrokostas (Absent Without Leave).
Arcadian is something rural, rustic, or pastoral, especially suggesting simple, innocent contentment. Inspired by the definition of Arcadian, Cottone wanted the music of his new album to be contemplative, ideal for considering simpler, less chaotic times when we lived in harmony with nature.

This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 285 gsm off-grey recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 170 gsm light cream recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

The Green Kingdom - Vista

From the album: JARR - All These Past Lives

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Sound In Silence is happy to announce the return of JARR, presenting their new album All These Past Lives.

JARR is the ongoing collaboration between Jon Attwood (JA / Yellow6) and Ray Robinson (RR / Wodwo).
In their collaborations, they reimagine and rearrange elements of each other's work, often blending existing components with fresh elements to craft something entirely new and (hopefully) innovative.
Successful collaboration necessitates overcoming various hurdles, including creative disparities, egos, and the risk of burnout. Surmounting these obstacles demands resilience, compromise, and a dedication to personal and collective development as a duo.
Moreover, they find that their emotions heavily influence the music they create. The same notes can yield different compositions based on their mood or external circumstances at the time of creation. Consequently, they believe that their feelings are subtly woven into the fabric of their music, serving as a source of inspiration that enriches the creative process.

All These Past Lives is JARR’s fourth full-length album, and their third for Sound In Silence, following last year’s album 42º. Their new album is made up of nine compositions, carefully mastered by George Mastrokostas (Absent Without Leave), with a total duration of 62 minutes and built around slow and contemplative reverbed guitar loops, walls of ambient textures, delayed guitar melodies, minimal post-rock ambience and washes of distorted shoegazing drones.

This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 285 gsm light yellow-cream recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 120 gsm olive yellow recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

JARR - A God At The Door

From the album: Memory Drawings - Deathbed Requests

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Sound In Silence is happy to welcome back Memory Drawings, presenting their new album Deathbed Requests.

Memory Drawings is an Anglo/American/Australian collective led by Minneapolis-raised, Casablanca-based hammered dulcimer player Joel Hanson (Judgement of Paris).

Deathbed Requests, their fifth album and second release for Sound In Silence after the Phantom Lights mini album back in 2019, consists of eight dense, dulcimer-driven, post-rock tracks that feel like chapters in a larger sonic narrative. The title is both a reference to Joel’s irreparable dissatisfaction with the appalling state of technofeudal America and the utopian desire to right its most egregious injustices. The title also refers to actual thoughts left unsaid to a few close friends in Joel’s life who have drifted away or died since A Few Scattered Hours was released at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To forge the album’s more aggressive, rock-focused sound, Joel once again turned to former bandmates and friends from his hometown of Minneapolis. Dulcimer-player and percussionist Joel Smith contributed to the initial sketches of these tracks that were later made far more captivating by the contributions from musicians Joel hadn’t collaborated with in nearly three decades. Josh Larson (bass) and his brother Aaron Kesher (guitar) played alongside Joel in the early 90’s band Passage and his brother Brad (bass, guitar, keyboards, and interludes) was instrumental in shaping the sound of trance-pop pioneers Judgement of Paris. The evocative melodies of violinst Sarah Kemp (Brave Timbers) and cellist Peter Hollo (Tangents / FourPlay String Quartet) also grace several tracks on Deathbed Requests. The album closes with A Final Request, which began as an improvisation between Joel and Ben Chatwin eight years ago and remains the only track to be released from those sessions in Edinburgh. The album was mixed by Ross Halden and mastered by Simon Scott (Slowdive).

Deathbed Requests comes in two distinct editions.

The first one is a deluxe limited edition of 150 handmade, hand-stamped and hand-numbered collectible copies. This edition includes an exclusive bonus disc, not included in the other edition or the digital download. The bonus disc, mastered by George Mastrokostas (Absent Without Leave), includes remixes and reworks by Birds of Passage, Hessien, Maps and Diagrams, Yellow6, Stafrænn Hákon / OPandolfo, Cloudwarmer, Test Card, and Epic45, that are only available in physical format here. It is packaged in a lovely, hand-tied, sewn fabric envelope, which includes two 4 panel insert sheets containing tracklist and information printed on 290 gsm grey and off-grey recycled cardboards and the front cover images printed on polaroid style photo paper. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

The second one is a limited edition of 350 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 290 gsm grey recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 290 gsm off-grey recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

Memory Drawings - A Final Request

From the album: Panoptique Electrical - For Years

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Sound In Silence is happy to announce the return of Panoptique Eelectrical, presenting his new album For Years.

For over twenty years Jason Sweeney, based on Kaurna Country in South Australia, has been composing and recording either solo, in various electronic bands (Other People’s Children, Pretty Boy Crossover) and under the composer alias of Panoptique Electrical. He has also been directing and creating interactive works for the internet, making experimental films, curating projects for galleries and theatre spaces and has collaborated with and composed for some of Australia’s leading performing arts companies, artists and organisations.

This is his fifth album on the label after the highly acclaimed Disappearing Music For Face in 2016, Quiet Ecology in 2017, Five Pianos in 2020 and Decades (2001-2021) in 2021.

For Years is comprised of ten new compositions of atmospheric textures and calming soundscapes, with a total duration of 40 minutes. Warm pads, melancholic drones and minimal piano, all gracefully blending into another wonderful ambient album by Panoptique Electrical, mastered by George Mastrokostas (Absent Without Leave).
For Years was made as part of a larger music project called Ageism that traverses ideas of what it means to be older and queer. The compositions on this album observe the ageing queer body as a site of beauty, of wisdom, of false promises and a fragile future. Something to look forward to, something to leave behind.

For Years comes in two distinct editions.

The first one is a deluxe limited edition of 50 handmade, hand-stamped and hand-numbered collectible copies. The disc of this edition includes three exclusive bonus tracks, not included in the other edition or the digital download. It is packaged in a lovely, hand-tied, sewn fabric envelope, which includes a 4 panel insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 290 gsm off-grey recycled cardboard and the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

The second one is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 285 gsm off-grey recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 170 gsm off-grey recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

Panoptique Electrical - For Piano

Track: Lavanda di Mare
Release type: Compilation
Album Name: Ennio's Muse
Label: Whitelabrecs
Mastering: James Edward Armstrong

Ennio’s Muse is a digital compilation album, released by British record label Whitelabrecs, as a means to generate funds and interest into an ambitious project called Return to Sea and Sardinia. 2021 marks 100 years since D.H Lawrence’s travel book Sea and Sardinia, in which he documents his travels from Sicily, through the Mediterranean Sea and up through Sardinia, before returning to his Sicilian home.

In Return to Sea and Sardinia, photographer and film maker Daniele Marzeddu plans to retrace Lawrence’s steps, a full century on since the original voyage. The journey will be captured through photography and a documentary film, which will be scored by Glåsbird. This ambitious plan is currently underway as we work together to hopefully obtain the funding needed to realise it.

Whitelabrecs have decided to curate a digital compilation, in which all proceeds will be donated to Return to Sea and Sardinia for a period of 12 months. The album is themed on cinematic scoring, inspired by the late great Ennio Morricone and throwing forward the themes of Mediterranean travel that lie ahead. The artists invited have been asked to produce a piece of music, as if they are scoring for an imaginary film. The result is a series of dream-infused pieces, in which you can expect modern classical composition and ambient moods, all draped under a clear-night-sky canopy of stars. The artists each pull in their own direction but collectively, Ennio’s Muse is bound as a cohesive whole.

Lavanda Di Mare

https://www.glasbird.com/

glåsbird
​a sonic expedition
glåsbird is an anonymous project by an established artist, built specifically to branch into the world of composing music for film and creating far-flung fictitious journeys. working alongside british record label whitelabrecs, glåsbird is developing a series of albums, each themed around different geographic locations.

Cover photography in Novaya Zemlya, taken by Uliana Prokhorova

Lavanda Di Mare

glåsbird

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