As featured in 'Toruna' on the Dunking on the DM podcast: https://anchor.fm/dunkedon-dm

Image: 'Contemplation, Monk on the Seashore' by Jakub Schikaneder

Et tenebrae
Lux aeterna
Ex verum solis

Eclipse over the sea

Recorded by @michiru-aoyama for The Memoir, 2025.
All tracks are written and produced by @michiru-aoyama.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Curated by Hypnus Records.

Love and light

Bullflat3.8 Bandcamp

Page 144: Michiru Aoyama

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We’re excited to present the 69th release of the Embodiment podcast series, featuring a set from Agonis, co-founder of Amenthia Recordings. After his mesmerizing performance at one of our club nights in 2024, we’ve stayed in touch, and now we’re thrilled to share this exploration of Agonis' electronic music catalogue.

Some personal words by Agonis: 
"The mix conveys music, which I think works for listening at home. I didn't want to go for one style but rather wanted to mix things with a similar vibe which fit the current spring and sunny mood."

We invite you to tune in as it’s a set that truly speaks for itself. Enjoy the ride.

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Embodiment 069 - Agonis

Compositional ambient, liminal, soft technological glitch, long quiet evolving tones - all are becoming trademarks to my developing sound world.   This one fits.

you, word, silence

Fluid Audio presents Giulio Aldinucci & Matteo Uggeri - The Promise of a Threat coming soon on Fluid Audio...

In The Promise of a Threat, two veteran composers of ambient and electroacoustic music - Giulio Aldinucci and Matteo Uggeri - converge on a collaborative terrain that is at once intimate and immense, reflective and unsteady, beautiful and unsettling.

Created between June 2021 and early 2022, and mastered by Aldinucci in 2025, the album stands as a slow-burning document of digital and emotional correspondence. It reflects the language of ambient music not as static wallpaper, but as a deeply expressive form - one that allows silence and signal, memory and disturbance, to coexist within the same fragile space.

A Digital Dialogue Across Distance...

The entire work emerged through remote exchanges between Aldinucci (based in Siena, Italy) and Uggeri (Milan, Italy), unfolding gradually through shared sessions, sketches, and iterations over time. The process was not unlike the movement of tectonic plates - imperceptible at first, yet with weight and intention. Layers of processed field recordings, abstracted rhythms, and spectral textures accumulate into dense yet transparent forms. Every detail is traceable, yet elusive.

Giulio Aldinucci, known for his deeply spatial drones and sensitive treatment of field material, builds immersive sonic beds that seem to hover just above the surface of the Earth - simultaneously grounded in place and untethered from time. Matteo Uggeri, by contrast, applies a more tactile touch: assembling beats, samples, and environmental recordings into patterns that give pulse and tension to the atmosphere.

Together, their styles intersect in subtle and surprising ways - sometimes bleeding into one another, at other times standing apart in contrast. The balance between order and entropy, harmony and noise, creates a dynamic that speaks to the album’s title: The Promise of a Threat. Beauty does not arrive alone. It is always shadowed by its inverse.

Processes of Presence and Absence...

Across the album’s runtime, the listener is drawn through zones of dissolving melody and shadowy rhythm, passing through spaces that feel neither entirely natural nor entirely artificial. A drum sample on Track 2, provided by Andris Brinkmanis, adds a skeletal percussive element - a quiet agitation beneath the calm. The rhythms are not dominant but suggestive, like distant industrial echoes or memories of forgotten structures.

The artists manipulate the digital medium not as a tool of perfection, but of erosion and transformation. Hiss is preserved. Glitches are welcomed. The human ear remains present in every detail. The processing - granular, filtered, stretched - is not ornamental but fundamental, a way of sculpting emotion out of signal. Field recordings are often submerged, embedded beneath layers of drones and rhythms, yet their presence adds a layer of organic residue - a trace of wind, rust, or breath beneath the circuitry.

A Tactile Offering...

True to the ethos of Fluid Audio, the physical release of The Promise of a Threat will be crafted with great care and material sensitivity. Expect a limited, hand-assembled edition that honours the intimacy and intricacy of the music - an object to be held, as much as heard. Full packaging details and release date will follow.

For now, The Promise of a Threat lingers just at the edge of hearing - like the low hum of an incoming storm, or the quiet reassurance of knowing something is coming, even if its shape remains undefined.

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

So Finally I Stared at It All, Still and Satisfied

Tracklist

01. Crane - Drifting Hours
02. Dalton Alexander -  Nico, Le Petit Chat Noir
03. Adrian Lane - Floating in the Memory Upon the River
04. Hadley Roe - Shadows Fill The Heart
05. Hiroshi Ebina - A Green House
06. Glåsbird - 2007
07. Federica Deiana - Tempest
08. Ishmael Cormack - Always Shifting 
09. Michael Santos -  360 Fade
10. r beny - fragile nowhere
11. Simon McCorry & Wodwo -  By Snail on its Slick of Light
12. Stijn Hüwels -  Décalage 5
13. Slow Heart Music - Solastalgia
14. The Lifted Index - Paresthesia

429. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Who Has Seen for vocal quartet

Performed by George Parris and The Carice Singers as part of the Cheltenham Festival Composers Academy 2025. Text by Christina Rossetti.

Who Has Seen

Tracklist

01. The Humble Bee -  13 jan 2010
02. Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Whispered Surfaces
03. Ambalek - Heage
04. Darren Harper - Brook
05. Old Amica - Signal
06. Stijn Hüwels - Horizon
07. A winged Victory For The Sullen - Atomos
08. Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Neben_Ghost
09. Wil Bolton -  Skymning
10. Lorenz Weber - Nami-makori
11. Bird Battles - Moth River

432. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

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

Tracklist

01. Blochemy - Sui
02. Amble - Not all Can Cross The Water
03. Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee - Case Study 1
04. Hadley Roe -  Fragrances
05. Folk Reels - Old Red Eye
06. Dag Rosenqvist - Somna, sov
07. Masaya Ozaki - Frá Vatni
08. James Osland and Andrew Heath - Outside The Light Was Starting To Wane
09. Christopher Bissonnette - Red Sky At Night
10. Ghost and Tape - Seabird

436. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

This is the closing track from the next sleep album... It's an early track of mine, but it's one I've done a lot of work on, and I'm finally happy with it. ^_^ The album has a deep-sea theme...and so the snow in the title is actually..marine snow! 
My apologies if it sounds a bit harsh~

suspended in snow (work in progress)

Deep in the ambient/ modern classical rabbit hole.

Eclipse over the sea

Tim J L