2023-05-22

Quiet Sunday

Forecast

Pre-order available now - https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/anatomy-of-infinity-oriens

Offthesky - Anatomy of Infinity 
Soysea - Oriens
HS49/49T
Released: 7 July

Handstitched* returns with a new release in the split-artist series - where two artists feature back-to-back on both CD and tape. Offthesky and Soysea meet somewhere in the middle for this amazing release. Both of the artists' music compliment each other very nicely, a perfect pairing of musical minds and sound.

Offthesky makes his second appearance on Handstitched*, after the mesmerising "to break is something sacred" long-player in 2019. Jason's new work "Anatomy of Infinity" features three epic pieces, shrouded in timeworn mystery, far-eastern echoes shine through, glistening and descending through a contrast of discord and awe-inspiring beams of light. 

Soysea makes a welcome appearance on Handtitched* - after hearing his music previously we were excited to get a chance to release "Oriens". Michele's music is nicely-rounded, understated drones and subtle vocals carry the listener through longitudinal divisions, meaningful and with purpose, the music is splendid, soulful and thought-provoking. 

It's amazing to get the chance, once again for another Offthesky release, this time alongside Soysea - the music is simply elegant, and contentment, which Handstitched* is very happy to put proudly out-there. Each format is limited to 50 copies each. The tape release is slid into hand-made, creased, folded and assembled cotton rag O-cards, the CD release comes in hand-made gatefold sleeves with mixed-media collage cover artworks, every design is individual, unique and made by hand.

Thanks for listening  : )

Offthesky / Soysea - Anatomy of Infinity / Oriens HS49/T [s4mpl3r]

2023-07-01

NLS - 2023 - 07 - 01 - Birds

The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories. – Haruki Murakami

Track list and start times:
00:00  Wixel – On My Way To The Moon
05:31  Colin Offord – Three Sisters
10:45  ikjoyce – Morning Glow (NaviarHaiku491)
18:44  Gabriel Saloman –Adhere pt. 1
27:32  Good Willsmith – documents that you don’t understand (excerpt)
32:33  Olga Wojciechowska – Primal Fear
36:44  Stray Ghost – Migration/Refraction/ In the Light of Recent Failures
46:39  Vincent Eoppolo – Nights of Quarantine
51:45  Loren Connors – Airs 6
54:50  Utu Lautturi & Ailing Vomit – Percussive Worship LIVE at Yö galleria, Helsinki (excerpt)
1:02:02  Gazelle Twin & NYX – Fire Leap
1:08:57  Jeff Duke – Emergence
1:13:39  Machinefabriek – Wintervacht
1:20:29  moduS pony – [cold embrace]]]]]]
1:22:46  Philippe Petite – A Reassuring Elsewhere, Pt. 4 (edit)
1:30:50  Martin Hoogeboom – Deconstruction II
1:33:35  Jesús Lastra – morning glow (naviarhaiku491)
1:37:53  HameloH – Innervibes Act 5
1:44:46  Gazelle Twin & NYX – Deep England
1:52:53  Wil Bolton – Edges
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Eclectic current – On my way to the moon

1947

Why mix clouds, curbs, and the smell of sweat is the question she asks herself as she leaves her dream. It's not all supposed to form a coherent whole. How can you be inside the curb smell of a cloud with people walking on it?

Cloud Curb Smell

Burial Chamber

Tides of the Beyond is a ceremonial ambient journey crafted for deep inner exploration, guided by the soothing elements of the ocean. Inspired by the sensations of lying on warm sand, hearing distant seagulls, feeling the sea breeze on your skin, and dissolving into the rhythm of the waves, this album is designed for truffle journeys and expanded states of consciousness.

With layered soundscapes, nature textures, subtle trance elements, and ethereal female vocals, each track invites you to surrender, drift, and return transformed. A musical odyssey between shore and soul where boundaries blur and the tide takes you beyond.

Created for psychedelic ceremonies, meditative dance, and lying fully immersed in nature’s embrace.
Best experienced with headphones, eyes closed, and heart open.

Beyond the Tide

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known

what it feels like

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

*****

Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

Eclectic current – On my way to the moon

Tuonela