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from the album "Uto'Pians vol.2"
#pianoday2021

Midori Hirano Keep Shining

From Endurance's Long-Term Memory, out now on tape and digital:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/long-term-memory

Endurance - Expanding Repetition

MIXED SIGNALS II represents the next chapter of Fax and Braulio Lam’s collaboration, which started with their first EP in 2020. Across four tracks, they navigate creative exploration, and wander among the textures, colors, and sizes that sound can possess. 
  
Much like its predecessor MIXED SIGNALS, the sequel EP delivers a meditative ambient swirl, dedicated to finding balance while still moving. And yet, if the first album was to be considered grounded and earthy, MIXED SIGNALS II is determined to challenge gravity—it creates spacious cinematic landscapes that stretch out and up.  

The four tracks are distinctive in their progression: The airy subtleties of the field recordings in ”Fragmented” take off and open up into an expanse of drone, with echoes of feedback further off in the distance. “Porta” twinkles in a dark sky; it wavers slightly in a liminal space of gradual transformation. In “Visions”, there is a hypnotic revelation, with an underlying heartbeat that gently draws one into its ascent. Finishing with the title track, “Mixed Signals II” is a docking; it rotates as it revolves, slowly considering what lies beyond its own orbit. 

This meditative soundtrack is like a hazy black and white image, captured by a telescope or transmitted by a satellite, hinting at what lies far beyond our own limits of perception. The arrangement of acoustic instruments and electric guitars layer with field recordings and synthesizers to create a hypnotic reflection on sound—how it reaches out in the space around it, how it rises, how it looks, and how it feels.  

MIXED SIGNALS II was recorded between Tijuana and Mexicali, in Mexico by musicians Braulio Lam and Ruben Tamayo (a.k.a. Fax). Together, the artists built upon their first collaboration to pass beyond the horizon of instrumental music.

Mixed Signals II

Fax + Braulio Lam —  Visions

An album of my thoughts about the river.
Until one day this memory of mine reaches the sea.
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki

released June 6, 2022

https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/the-river-will-one-day-reach-the-sea

The River Will One Day Reach The Sea - Sample

Pre-order now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/upward-eyes-kindred

Handstitched* is thrilled to announce the next installment of the split-artist series, Ian Hawgood and Fields We Found feature alongside each other for an outing of outstanding musical composure and tranquility. 

Ian's music needs little introduction, with many releases and collaborations under his belt on numerous well-known labels - to say he's prolific is pretty close to the mark. Ian also curates the wonderful Home Normal label, here in the UK. "upward eyes" is seriene, slow-moving and hauntingly subtle, prolonged space fills the moments we frequently overlook and leaves time for reflection during a quiet time spent in an open space. We are honoured to have his debut EP "upward eyes" featuring on Handstitched*. 

Fields We Found has just released his outstanding album "Distance" on the lovely Seil Records, which has been on constant rotation here at Handstitched* over the past month - and the new EP "kindred" is equally as moving, graceful and bewitching. The equilibrium and expression within "kindred" is harmonious - and at the same time, quietly sonorous.

Fields We Found and Ian Hawgood are both welcomed to Handstitched* with many thanks and admiration for their respective musical works as part of the split-artist series, it's great to have them visiting Handstitched* for this special release.

Limited to 50 copies. Released on mini CD-r and sage green cassette with hand-made packaging, tape O-cards and unique designs for each CD package. [HS45/45T]. 

Released August 12.

Ian Hawgood / Fields We Found - upward eyes/kindred [HS45/T S4mpl3r]

GRFTPS018
Chelidon Frame - Transience
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/transience

Transience

B3. Chelidon Frame - Transience [GRFTPS018]

Long version is available on Bandcamp.
https://sudanobuto.bandcamp.com/album/winter-banana

About Illustration.
Attribution statement: "U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705" Permanent URL: handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/POM00001125

Winter Banana

Generative Tape Test #4

Pre-order: 12th April 2023
Release date: 21th April 2023
Format: CD, Digital

This new release for Lontano Series is influenced by forest landscapes, in my mind these tracks are part of an imaginary soundtrack that accompanies me when I walk through the trees.

Copyright © 2023 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

previews. David Cordero - Among Pale Trees | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

~ LAAPS 030 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP30]

artist : Tomas Knoflicek
 album : Serendipity
duration : 41.09 mn
 date : August 31th, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / black LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Music by Tomáš Knoflíček
Guests: Emiko – vocal (2, 3), Hanabi – vocal (2, 5, 6)
Lyrics by Hanabi
Recorded in Ostrava, Cheb and Les Království

Mastered by Ondřej Ježek@jaMor
Artwork by Mickael Zermati
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
Thanks to Ondřej Lasák, Tomáš Slunský, Ondřej Ježek, Martin Režný and Haco

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://sonmi451.bandcamp.com/

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Serendipity

Tomas Knoflicek - Otranto

Tobira

Roji

~ IIKKI 022 ~

music : Aiko Takahashi
artwork : Edouard Elias
album : It Could Have Been A Beautiful
duration(s) : 42.15 mn (LP) / 57.13 mn (CD)
date : November 13th 2023

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Music crafted by Aiko Takahashi with laptop and various music devices, analogue and otherwise.
Recorded in North East of Italy in March 2022.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Edouard Elias
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
• vinyl: limited to 300 copies / yellow transparent LP / hand numbered  / selective UV varnish / black inner
• cd: limited to 200 CD / hand numbered / selective UV varnish
• book: limited to 500 copies / hand numbered / embossed / selective UV varnish / hand stamped

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pre-order : October 06th, 2023 / official release : November 13th, 2023

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Links :
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/

It Could Have Been A Beautiful

Aiko Takahashi - It Could Have Been A Beautiful Evening

Their Prayer

this is a very similar patch as Untitled VI, except that now there are three voices instead of one: SMR, piston honda (which is also in the rosie efx loop from time to time, which is a bad habit/crutch that i lean on way too often) and e350. SMR is droning and fluttering into clouds, while the piston honda and e350 are both hitting an optomix before going into rings for some reverb. there is also a field recording churning in the background inside the disting, which i am randomly and manually controlling the playback speed on. 

i could listen to this for hours (and did)

Untitled VII

This piece completes our "Gradient Colors" album of collaborations:
https://soundcloud.com/johngilmorejazz/sets/collaborations-with

Music ©2018 John Gilmore and VictorYibril. Art ©2018 VictorYibril. All rights reserved.

Thanks to Victor for initiating this piece and creating the title and rich image that grace it.

Victor's music is here on Bandcamp: 
victoryibril.bandcamp.com
and here on SoundCloud:
@victoryibril

Some of John's acoustic piano files are available to all musicians for collaboration as a free (name-your-price) download here on Bandcamp:
johngilmore.bandcamp.com/album/sliced…labs-remixes

John's collaborations with Victor and other artists are here:
soundcloud.com/johngilmorejazz/sets/collaboration

Spellbound

John Gilmore & VictorYibril - Spellbound

Excerpt from #Concertzender Live program broadcasted on september 2018 : https://www.concertzender.nl
Recorded April 1st 2018 in Utrecht, @ TivoliVredenburg
Live event for Piano Day, curated by Fluister
http://www.fluister.org
Tracklist : 
00:00 Horizons fauves
06:03 No memories
10:03 Solitude Nomade
16:24 Raintrain

Christine Ott - Piano Day - Live in Utrecht

Greetings friends! Once again the earth has circled the sun, and the fall season is upon us! As the days shorten, and the leaves fall, we are pleased to bring you this most appropriately seasonal release from Italian based musician, Francis M. Gri, entitled “Decays”. At times sounding like the soundtrack to a moody, somber Tarkovsky film, Gri has captured the din of the clatter and clang of life as it grows, and then rises in an uplifting anthemic glory to all that man has made, and unmade. Darkly delicate…constantly decaying and yet reborn again…eternally…

Francis M. Gri, "Decays"... Subliminal Violence

Emilía /Pollinations [RTE 0010] 


Pollinations is a mini -Album recorded last year at home, as Live Session & rehearsal; included Eyoko´s Remix of Oil Bread! ( from Down to the Sadness River Album)



Photography & Design by Meneh Peh 
Mastered at Rottenman Studios

Pollinations

Emilía / Pollinations - Oil Bread [Eyoko Rmx]

From 'Slowly Dismantling' on Room40, out on November 1.

With 'Slowly Dismantling,' Los Angeles based artist Yann Novak problematizes understandings of ambience as homogenous and static. 'Slowly Dismantling' deconstructs ambient, pulling it way from the blank and the atmospheric, refusing the perceived luxury of sound within which context is erased. Reflecting on his formative experiences as a queer youth in middle America, he explores the idea of these acoustic and social spaces as zones of liberation within which a spectrum of identity is formed. He creates a series of dense sonic fields that reflect on how the past can be decoded and utilized as a device for contextualizing the future.

Slowly Dismantling

All Things End, Sometimes In Fire

https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-baths-vol-i

Music for Baths Vol. I is the debut album from former Georgia resident Early Fern, and the inaugural release from new Métron Records project/sub-label small méasures - which aims to donate funds to organisations and causes of the artists choosing.

Having recently quit their full time job and begun seasonal work on organic farms, Early Fern began a process of reconnection in their own life. Taking the plunge to move away from the stresses of 9 to 5, along with the depression and anxiety engendered by participation in that lifestyle, they began to find a new grounding in remote farm-stays in Florida, Texas, and New Mexico. It was during this process that Early began recording music that mirrors their attempts to become more calm, more present, and more connected to their natural surroundings. It was in these sessions that Music for Baths was recorded.

Baths are a place where people have historically visited to find restoration, both mentally and physically, whilst soaking in the tranquility of water. It thus seemed appropriate that this record be an homage to those moments of calm, and to the process of healing. Indeed we can confirm that these tracks are a fantastic accompaniment to a soothing bath.

Early wanted to use the profits from this release to support an organisation close to their heart. Seeding Sovereignty is an indigenous womxn led collective which seeks to dismantle colonial structures and policies in politics, agriculture, and justice. These songs were recorded on colonised land, and by donating to them Early seeks to undo some of the harm of colonial structures and, in a small way, offset some of the privilege from which they benefit in a colonised nation.

Music for Baths [Vol.I]

Early Fern - Body Yoghurt

Tiago Morais Morgado  As A Listener (Nachtstuck Records, Sermons Of The Horizon, XS Records PT Netlabel, Quantum Studios), as a listener

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Tiago M Morgado As A Listener