A Quiet Shimmering is the new LP from ambient sound artist Todd Stapleton. It is his first full length release of new
material since Resonance / Forms in 2017 and his thirteenth release overall.

A Quiet Shimmering is seven tracks spanning nearly eighty minutes in length. The album is a palette of rich sounds
that are reminiscent of late-70s progressive ambient music. Kaleidoscopic layers of ambient synth patterns intertwine
with sparse electronics, cascading piano bits and a myriad of other processed sounds that flow together and coalesce 
into a sea of ambient bliss. 

This latest release showcases a diversity of sounds and approach that shows a slight change in focus from his earlier 
releases with a more compositional approach rather than the free-form improvisation so prevalent in his recent works. 
This slight shift harkens back to his 2015 debut Requiem For A Dying Sea, his showcase composition and to this date one 
of his greatest musical achievements.

A Quiet Shimmering is a reflection of Stapleton’s innate interest in creating compositions that foster complexity and a
myriad of variations within the simple structures and elements of pieces such as “Steps In And Out Of Balance” and the
album’s centerpiece “The Expanding Distance Between Two Points”. This is immersive ambient music with a sonic ferocity 
and expansive motion that is unconventional and unconfined.

A Quiet Shimmering

Steps In And Out Of Balance

A short excerpt from "Spectre #4" from SPECTRE II.

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(a Short Excerpt From) SPECTRE #4

A short excerpt from "Spectre #5" from SPECTRE II.

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(a Short Excerpt From) SPECTRE #5

from the EP Perspectives Électroniques, available for download at http://21recordings.bandcamp.com

Listening

a short excerpt from DRIFTS II B.

From the four EP set DRIFTS.

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DRIFTS II

DRIFT II B (excerpt)

a short excerpt from DRIFTS IV A.

From the four EP set DRIFTS.

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DRIFTS IV

DRIFT IV A (excerpt)

short excerpt from toddstapletonabstract, a seventy-three minute retrospective mix from the discography of Todd Stapleton. It is a definitive sample of the strange and ambient sounds of the nine releases from sound artist Todd Stapleton.

toddstapletonabstract is available as a FREE download from 

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toddstapletonabstract

toddstapletonabstract excerpt 1

an excerpt from the 18-minute track After, taken from the 2020 release Before / After EP.

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After (excerpt)

Two short excerpts from the single track EP I Am Haunted By The Lonely Remnants Of Things I Miss, released in August of 2020.

I Am Haunted By The Lonely Remnants Of Things I Miss (excerpt 2)

I Am Haunted By The Lonely Remnants Of Things I Miss (excerpt 1)

I am an artist of sound.

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