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Sima Kim - Plugged Eyes 

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Unknown Tone is honored to welcome back artist Sima Kim for our first official release of 2021. This will be Kim’s first release in 5 years and certainly worth the wait. "Plugged Eyes" dives head first into a vast world of spacious experimental electronica. Lush FM synthesis and algorithmic modular pianos cascade though nebulous domains with a near scientific precision. 

Kim, depicts a future, post mankind, where machine and technology blend into nature. An advanced biotech environment, symbiotically linked to the nature world. Tracks were composed and arranged using everything from high end plugins, to homemade DIY synthesizers and oscillators. Imagine you enter a "Temple", then notice something disappear "Vanished Fantasy" as your sight diminishes "Plugged Eyes" you pass through the "Corridor" into the inner sanctum. The listener could theoretically conjure up a map in ones mind, revealing amorphous forms that inhabit these expanding galaxies. 


*Available digitally direct from the artist (simakim.bandcamp.com) 

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releases June 26, 2021 

Artwork | Sima Kim 
Composed & Produced | Sima Kim (www.simakim.bandcamp.com) 
Mastered | RedRedPaw Mastering (www.redredpaw.com)

Buy Tape/DL: https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/plugged-eyes

Sima Kim - Vanished Fantasy

'WOOL' CULMINATES FROM 2 YEARS AND 3 WINTERS. A FAILED FILM SCORE. A THEME REPEATED IN STOLEN MOMENTS ON GRAND PIANOS IN WISCONSIN, NEW YORK, AND NEW MEXICO. PIANO AS WOOL. VIOLA DA GAMBA, A BORROWED CLARINET,AND DESERT SNOW.

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HEDIA
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WOOL
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I.WAKING BLIND
II.FAINTLY, IF AT ALL
II.WHITETREES
IV.CHANDALIER (DREAM)
V.WET WOOL
VI.A MIRROR OF FADED COLOURS
VII.WATER BECOMING ICE
VIII.BREATH ON AIR
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releases 16 November 2013
Recorded 2011-2012 in Albuquerque, and early mornings alone in Cuba, New Mexico. Also in Annandale-on Hudson, New York, and January days in the woods of Galesville, Wisconsin. Piano, Viola da Gamba, Clarinet, Trumpet, all sounds by Bryce Hample.

WWW.UNKNOWNTONERECORDS.COM

HEDIA - WHITETREES

Danny Clay - Glacier Park

Coming Soon // Sept 27th 2014 // 100ltd. Cassette Tape

This is Danny's first release on Unknown Tone Records...and we are excited to say that this is some wonderfully crafted magical music. Created with the use of only a GameBoy(TM) and a reel to reel tape machine, Danny has gone back in time to mix two sonic formats from opposing mediums: tape and digital. The 8-bit lofi GameBoy(TM) tones meld seamlessly into the warmth of the tape loops, creating deeply nostalgic sounds. 

Most of the works were inspired by his Grandparents 35mm film photography from their 1996 trip to Alaska.

Out Sept 27th // 100ltd. Clear Cassette // plus additional artwork 

In Danny's words:

I've been working on this one for a long time, and it is the culmination of a year's worth of experimenting with the idea of "8-bit hauntology." 

The process of simultaneously digging back into photos from my grandparent's 1996 Alaska trip and (sort of) learning to compose on GameBoy - the same GameBoy I would have been playing back in 1996 - has opened up a kind of main line back to my childhood, and led to some sounds that, for me anyway, hit a mysteriously deep, magical place.

At any rate, I hope that regardless of your history with Alaska, or the GameBoy, you will give it a listen and find it meaningful in some way.

Thanks to UT maestro Mark Kuykendall for the lovely artwork (some of which will include some of my grandfolk's original photos) and amazing support!


PRE-ORDER NOW HERE: https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/glacier-park

www.UnknownToneRecords.com

Danny Clay - tracy arm

twincities
memoirs: to dust 

OUT ON UNKNOWN TONE FEB 27TH 2015


“the sound of decay” 

"The, "sound of decay" thing I've kind of had floating around as a tagline for the album of sorts. I don't know that I like using the term "concept album", but if my last full length focused on the celesta, this one definitely focused on decaying sound." - Fletcher McDermott


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gentle memories
gentle [memoir]
gentle melody
A stuck bird
january 14th
a flown bird
miniature places and luminous lines
kadaver dogs
unspoken

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music written and recorded february-may 2014 
by fletcher mcdermott

with help from-
jesse asch, electric bass on track 7
matthew citarella, lap steel on track 6
tanya lam, viola on tracks 2-9
ysanne spevack, cello on tracks 2-5, 7 &amp; 8

recorded and mixed at home by fletcher mcdermott

mastered by taylor deupree at 12k

holga photography by caleb reed

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https://www.facebook.com/twincities666
Twincities
https://twincitiesny.bandcamp.com/

twincities - gentle melody

Tekla Mrozowicka, a versatile purveyor of ambient (but she can drone, go into harsh noise mode and has a penchant for a good beat, too) has been extremely busy with keeping her stream of sounds at bay. Her main alias is cétieu, which is an ambient-drone moniker of a multifaceted „técieu / cétieu / éctieu” project, under which she has released over a thousand minutes worth of music. In doing so, she has also happened to generate quite a buzz by striking deals with record labels from around the globe. Her efforts garnered her comparisons to Ian Hawgood, Hakobune, Steve Roach, Tim Hecker, Celer and Stephen Mathieu. However, it’s worth mentioning that not all of Tekla’s inspirations are musical. The textural approach with which she sculpts her sounds is an extension of her keen interest in painting and visual arts, that to her is as essential as the sonic constituents. 
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Music by Tekla Mrozowicka 
Track II recorded 11 November 2014, mixed 09 May 2015 
Track I, III-VI recorded June-August 2015, mixed September 2015 
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This is a DIGITAL RELEASE to raise money for the physical tape release, Unknown Tone Records, USA 2015
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released September 24, 2015 

Artwork: Polaroid from Mark Kuykendall's Family Collection

cétieu - inertia

Pre-order now

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Le Moors – Tendrils

Bio:

Wil Bolton

Wil Bolton is an artist working predominantly with sound. His work combines electronic tones with digitally processed acoustic sounds including field recordings and musical instruments. He has exhibited in a number of exhibitions, including A Thing About Machines, Coventry (2009), Trading As…, King’s Lynn (2009), Transfixed Motion / Transitory Still, Sheffield (2009), Sound:Space, Bracknell (2008), Black Powder + White Party, Seoul (2007), and Fresh Interventions, Oxborough (2007). He has also released music on various record labels under the name Cheju and has performed at several events, including Late at Tate (2009), the Glade Festival (2008), Sunrise Festival (2007), and the opening for Julian Opie in the 90s (2007). His work has received airplay on radio stations including Classic FM (UK), Resonance FM (UK), and Digital::Nimbus (USA). He collaborates with Shay Nassi as Shail and has also worked on projects with video artists, choreographers and dancers.

wilbolton.co.uk

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Bio:

Jeff Stonehouse

Jeff Stonehouse is a british avant-electronic composer. He has been experimenting with sound on and off since the mid eighties, originally with tape loops and shortwave radio, and by the nineties he moved into psych/drone guitar music. This led to an ambient/trance/dub phase, releasing music on the Magick Eye label as Spiralhead. Jeff Stonehouse then took about 10 years to focus on a more personal way of using sound as a defence against itself.

In 2010, Jeff Stonehouse became one half of the ambient/drone project called Listening Mirror, along with Kate Tustain. The Listening Mirror project released albums and EPs on Somehow Recordings, Rural Colours, and Hibernate, before being terminated in February 2013.

Jeff Stonehouse then explored different sonic landscapes. Travelling with him was Alicia Merz, who also releases amazing intimate and heartbreaking music as ‘birds of passage’. Together they inhabited and explored the dreamscape that the called Snoqualmie Falls – a place of dark and spectral beauty that was reflected in the music they produced together, releasing an EP on Cooper Cult, and an album on Twice Removed. The Snoqualmie Falls project is currently undergoing a hitatus, to allow Jeff and Alicia to focus on other projects.

Jeff Stonehouse has also worked with the talented Sanja Vernacki, under the name Bewilderness. Recent works also include the self released album Mariners Willow and the soon to be released Become Becoming, a piece written to accompany a gallery show by the American artist Jeanie Tomanek.

In 2015, Jeff Stonehouse signed a deal with The Sublunar Society and released the album On Returning.

listening-mirror.bandcamp.com
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releases April 27, 2016

Music by Wil Bolton + Jeff Stonehouse

Artwork by Jeff Hogue

Layout / Design Mark Kuykendall

Mastered by Wil Bolton
shipping out on or around 27 April 2016
edition of 100

Edition of 100 / Factory Replicated CD / includes additional artwork by Jeff Hogue (www.jeffhogue.net)

Pre-order Here: unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/tendrils

www.unknowntone.com

Le Moors - Where A River Sings

Pre-Order Now!

Gallery Six + Sound Awakener - Here Comes The Acoustic Season 

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“This album basically consists of beautiful sound materials from Nguyễn Hồng Nhung aka Sound Awakener, based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her special soundscape brought me many inspirations, so I immediately figured out what I have to do. Although both of us have basically been trying to turn our attentions to beauty which inhere in elements of minimalism, consecutiveness, silence, darkness, at the beginning of making this album, in an attempt to share each other's sensibility, we interacted very often, and then, eventually found out the affinity. To combine things we see, hear, touch, taste, smell, feel in our everyday life is just only what we wanted to express in our music. We have confidently concluded that it's a thing we've been looking for. We two artists from Asia are, as it were, AWAKENER with SIX senses.” 

•	Hidekazu Imashige (Gallery Six) 


“I discovered Gallery Six’s music in summer 2014. I really, really love the sound he created as well as his photos so I got in touch with him and we started discussing a bit about the collaboration. I am much inspired by his approach to field recordings and electronic sounds – which is a great reminder of nature. 

In this album I tend to focus on layering soft soundscapes and adding classical music influence – this is the first time I’ve ever done it. 
For me Minimalistic Freedom is an experience for the peace of mind and my usual admiration for nature. It is a strange sweetness through pain – since most of my parts were recorded at one of the hardest times in my life. It is my pleasure to have Gallery Six throughout this musical journey.” 

•	Nhung Nguyen (Sound Awakener)
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releases August 30, 2016 

All tracks composed and recorded by Hidekazu Imashige and Nhung Nguyen 

Mixed by Hidekazu Imashige 

Mastering by Mark Kuykendall at Unknown Tone Studios (www.UnknownToneStudio.com) 

Artwork/Photography by Hidekazu Imashige 
Cover image by Mark Kuykendall 
Total play: 40:27

ORDER HERE: https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/here-comes-the-acoustic-season

Here Comes The Acoustic Season

Gallery Six + Sound Awakener - Here Comes The Acoustic Season

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Ruhe + Lee Chapman - Studies: Rothko (PRE ORDER NOW)

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CFA tapes + Unknown Tone Records | Joint label release 2016 


details: 
format: c30 cassette 
edition: 100 
runtime: 29min 20sec 
label: cfatapes 

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statement by the artist: 

"an intercontinental collaboration between myself and my dear friend lee chapman, who currently resides in latvia. 

i had the privilege of seeing mark rothko's paintings at the portland art museum a couple years ago. i was so affected by the experience that i went home and created some music in response to residual thoughts and feelings. 'untitled, 1969' was born. 

strangely enough, latvia opened the mark rothko art center in april 2013. lee, by this time already a good friend of mine, acquired a print of one of rothko's paintings and hung it above his piano. 

unbeknownst to me, lee also created a piece of music in response to his experience with one of rothko's paintings, 'light red over black.' 

imagine our surprise when we discovered that we both had created "music for rothko" - a wonderful coincidence!; it only seemed right to collaborate and create one additional "response," and to release the three songs as a set." 

- Bryan Ruhe (worksbyruhe.net/rothko.html)
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releases December 1, 2016 

All Sounds by Bryan Ruhe + Lee Chapman 

Artwork by Bryan Ruhe (worksbyruhe.net) 

Mastering by Mark Kuykendall at Unknown Tone Studios (www.UnknownToneStudio.com)

Pre order tape here: https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/studies-rothko

Studies: Rothko

Ruhe + Lee Chapman // Studies: Rothko - B2. segram mural sketch, 1959

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Samuel Regan - Stil de Grain 

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Samuel Regan's music is a communion of calligraphic abstraction, feelings (foremost, dread and love), and an almost confrontational emotional frankness and vulnerability. Formally, his music shows influence from modern classical, baroque, musique concréte, and contemporary experimental sound. Aesthetically, his work is laced with glimpses of romanticism, the sacred, the Arcadian, and the imagined. 

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*Revenue made from the digital sales of this album will go towards the production of a physical format in late 2017. 

Release date: 

12/11/2016 

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To support the artist directly and listen to more music go here: 
samuelregan.bandcamp.com
credits
releases December 11, 2016 

mixed and masted by Ben Hill (Askanse) 
violin on "abroad" by Amy Erickson 
viola on "nocturne" by Iya Prytkova 
artwork by Amy Erickson 
remastered by Mark Kuykendall

Samuel Regan - sweetness and light

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Benjamin Hill and Samuel Regan - Untitled 

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"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic 
Orders? And even if one were to suddenly 
take me to its heart, I would vanish into its 
stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but 
the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear, 
and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains 
to destroy us." 
-Ranier Maria Rilke 

A meditation in four parts on the sublime, Untitled explores the ecstasy, fear, hope and despair involved in confronting the world and its manifold mysteries. 
This work was composed and produced with reverence to Renaissance and Baroque masses, modern classical, contemporary minimalism and experimental electronic music. Listeners may hear commonality in the work of Hildegard Von Bingen, Palestrina, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, Swans, Tim Hecker et alia. The worlds built by Milton, Borges, El Greco, Bernini and Cy Twombly are, too, nearby. Untitled is an offering of ambition and love. Conceding the possibility of their completeness, these songs constitute a grasp into our surrounding darkness as an ode to its inconceivable expanse." 

-Samuel Regan 
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MORE NEWS: 

The album will release digitally 24hrs after Christmas Day on 12/26/2016. Digital sales will go towards funding a vinyl pressing in late 2017. For more info and updates: www.unknowntonerecords.com
credits
releases December 26, 2016 

Composed and produced by Benjamin Hill and Samuel Regan 

Instrumentalists: 
Avery Felton (vocals) 
Benjamin Hill (electronics, percussion) 
Sydne Rain (cello) 
Patrick Richardson (double bass) 
Samuel Regan (percussion, pipe organ, vocals) 

Paintings by Amy Erickson 
Mixed by Benjamin Hill 
Mastered by Mark Kuykendall (www.unknowntonestudio.com)

Untitled

Benjamin Hill And Samuel Regan - Untitled II

Samuel Regan - A Warm Room 

All proceeds will go directly to pressing lathe vinyl format of the album in its entirety. Releases 3/21/2017 for digital streaming and download. Thank you for your support.
credits
releases March 21, 2017 

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Samuel Regan (early 2016) 

Photography by Samuel Regan 
Violin on 'centuries' by Sarah Reid 
Vocals on 'centuries' by Sarah Nawotka 

Thank you for listening, even if briefly. 
Special thanks to Mark and Lindsey Kuykendall, Sarah Reid, Sarah Nawotka, Jake Alvarez, and Amy Erickson. 

Mastering by Mark Kuykendall (www.UnknownToneStudio.com)

Samuel Regan - Tell Them I've Had A Wonderful Life

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øjeRum - 'Landscape with Silent Figure' 

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øjeRum is Copenhagen based musician and collage artist Paw Grabowski. Since 2014 he has put out releases on various labels such as Cabin Floor Esoterica, Scissor Tail Editions, Vaald, Eilean Records, Fluid Audio and Aurora Borealis Recordings. These works will mark the first release on Unknown Tone Records from the Danish artist and is accompanied by three collages from his series "Landscape with Silent Figure". 

www.oejerum.dk 

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***The limited edition 10" is only available for pre-order until 6/1/2017. We will then press as many copies as are pre-ordered. Records will ship late June / early July. Thanks for supporting and listening! 

Limited Edition 10" Lathe Cut Vinyl // 10" fold overs in poly bags, 2 sides, color labels // Includes 3 8x8" collage prints by Paw Grabowski // + Download Code w/ Bonus Track (Third Figure) 


Pre-order/stream/download at: 

unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/landscape-with-silent-figure

øjeRum - First Figure

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dramavinile - 7

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dramavinile is an experimental musician based in Irpinia:

40° 55' 14.072" N /14° 44' 21.669" E

composed during the Summer/Autumn 2016

"7" iis a Lo-Fi album;
"use EQ that you feel most suitable for an optimal listening." 
"wish i could see" is dedicated to my mother.

dramavinile attempts to match and combine
lo-fi //electroacoustic// field recordings//melodramatic abstract ambient.

dramavinile.bandcamp.com


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Vincenzo Nava also manages an independent Italian label "manyfeetunder/concrete" 

www.manyfeetunder.eu

https://manyfeetunderconcrete.bandcamp.com

All Sound + Production - dramavinile

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All tracks composed and mixed and by Vincenzo Nava 

Mastering by Anacleto Vitolo at AV-k Studio 2017 

Layout/Design/Found Photographs by Mark Kuykendall

dramavinile - wish i could be free

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Pepo Galán & Max Würden - All Of A Sudden 

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It was a rainy day in October when the mail man knocked on Max Würden's door. He had ordered an album from El Muelle Records in Malaga, Spain, but when he opened the package it didn't contain only PEPO GALAN's album STRANDED, he found a bunch of CDs in there, published by the same label. What a pleasant surprise, and it turned out to be a true cultural survival kit just in time for the following grey weekend full of rain. Having never actually met in person they came to realize that they already followed each others musical projects online for years, a vivid exchange ensued peaking with a question if they shouldn't work together on an album. 30 minutes later Pepo had sent his first idea, and Max started working on it right away. Musically the two artists had found each other. They immersed themselves so deep into the tracks that at the end neither one of them was able to tell who exactly contributed which sounds to their album ALL OF A SUDDEN. 

They also found commonalities in their work processes. Both like to incorporate cassette tapes (like Max's album RETOUR, Kompakt 2016), and they also like to experiment with guitars...  more
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releases May 30, 2018 

All Sound + Production | Pepo Galán & Max Würden 

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Pepo Galán 

Pepo Galán is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer born in Málaga. His compositions create a characteristic sound with micro-textures, noisy atmospheres and melancholic melodies full of beauty and elegance. 

pepogalan.bandcamp.com 

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MAX WÜRDEN 
*born 1971 
- musician since 1987 in various formations 
- soundtrackproduction since 2001 
- educated drummer and game sound designer 
- generates sounds from silence if necessary 

RELEASES on 
farfield records, exponate, kompakt records, tonatom, schaltkreis, tinnitus hörspiele, edition roadhouse, traum schallplatten, nurnichtnur... 

soundcloud.com/wuerden 
wuerden.bandcamp.com 

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CHRISTINE NGUYEN (Artwork) 

Christine Nguyen currently resides in Long Beach, California. She received her B.F.A from California State University, Long Beach and M.F.A from University of California, Irvine. Solo exhibitions of her work have been featured at the Hammer Museum (Project), Michael Kohn Gallery, Andrewshire Gallery in Los Angeles, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong and Galerie Quynh, Vietnam . Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach;Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena; San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Sprueth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany; Dancing Elephants Project, Bogota, Columbia and Churner and Churner, New York. 

www.lephant.com 
contact: christine@lephant.com 

*Album Cover | Tree of Life (2016) salt crystals, graphite, cyanotype on stretch muslin by CHRISTINE NGUYEN 

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Music Video for "Particle" by Mark Kuykendall (thenewhoneyshade.com)

All Of A Sudden

Pepo Galán & Max Würden - Particle

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Olan Mill - variations on the letter H 

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Olan Mill is Alex Smalley and 'variations on the letter H' quite possibly marks the last release for this beautiful project. The album comprises nine instrumental pieces, Smalley draws into his world of piano, guitar and pipe organ. Field recordings occasionally emerge to ensure an even greater sense of space. 'variations on the letter H' is a soft hiss of layered tones that seem to recall the feeling one might have while napping at the base of magnificent waterfalls. A type of heavenly quality pervades the compositions that seamlessly drift in major keys from one movment to the next. 

'variations on the letter H' associates itself musically with more natural, energy, life themes and was recorded over the last year or two in various locations. Olan Mill are not overly concerned with the idea of minimalism, nor is there an inkling of the pieces being charted out. In the end the outcome for the listener can be steady and continuous, like a current or stream that ebbs and flows through the natural world.

This last album from Olan Mill is an uplifting homage to a past romantic body of work which stretches over 6 years. Unknown Tone is pleased to share this work and hope too see more music in the future, whatever form it may take. We hope you'll enjoy this final vestige from Olan Mill and may the beauty they've created throughout the years echo on. 

Many thanks 
xx 

UTR 2018 
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releases October 30, 2018 

Music + Production | Alex Smalley 
Mastering // Artwork | Mark Kuykendall

CD/TAPE/DL :: 
www.unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/variations-on-the-letter-h

Olan Mill - variations on the letter H - C

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Lee Chapman - untitled 


These lost tape loops were sent to us by Lee over 3 years ago and somehow were shelved and forgotten. Upon rediscovery, we fell in love with these tender recordings and offered the 3 short tape movements up for remix. Multiple artists both national and international replied and submitted their beautiful renditions. Please enjoy these reworks that total over a 50 minute journey through the music of Lee Chapman. 

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Remix Artist Include: 

Olan Mill (olanmill.bandcamp.com) 
HEDIA (hedia.bandcamp.com) 
Maps and Diagrams (handstitched.bandcamp.com) 
Samuel Regan (samuelregan.bandcamp.com) 
Pepo Galan (pepogalan.bandcamp.com) 
Max Wurden (wuerden.bandcamp.com) 
The New Honey Shade (thenewhoneyshade.bandcamp.com) 
Mathieu Lamontagne (arbee.bandcamp.com) 

Special thanks to all participating artists!
credits
releases April 27, 2019 

All Sound "untitled (i-iii) by Lee Chapman" 
Artwork by Mark Kuykendall

untitled

Lee Chapman - untitled i

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Anne Chris Bakker | Stof&Geest 

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Anne Chris Bakker is a musician from the Netherlands who creates electro acoustic, experimental, ambient and minimal music. This marks Chris's first release with Unknown Tone and we are delighted to welcome him and share this music with you. Thanks for listening and supporting! 



1.Petrichor 06:17 
2. Wand 07:25 
3. Interval 05:15 
4. Stof&Geest 05:27 
5. Traces 09:57 
6. This Rhizome 03:15 
7. i can not tell 01:46 
8. Verdicht me 14:39 
9. Make My Bed in Crystal Waters 08:47 

*“Make My Bed In Crystal Waters” also appeared on 
Illuminations 2 Compilation CD <Dronarivm Label> 

-Digital release date Oct 26t 2019 
-CD shipping mid-late Nov 2019
credits
releases October 26, 2019 

Artwork by Anne Chris Bakker 
Recorded and Mixed by Anne Chris Bakker 
Mastered by Mark Kuykendall 

www.annechrisbakker.bandcamp.com 
www.unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com 

Unknown Tone Records {2019}

Stof&Geest

Anne Chris Bakker - Stof&Geest - Petrichor

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Francesco Giannico - Destroyed By Madness 


The album is an homage to "The Howl" by Alan Ginsberg as you can read from the title of the album and titles of the tracks too; they are basically short excerpt from his famous work. Album was created using samples captured from different situations, above all from a social point of view and for this reason it intends remembering all womens, men and children underrepresented and outcasts in this materialistic era like Ginsberg tried to do when he wrote the "Howl" in 1954-1955. 
So, as you can see, it's highly reccomended to don't looking for a strict correlation between A.Ginsberg and this music work. We'are talking about a suggestion, a very cerebral idea that finds its main point of contact in the selection process of audio samples and in the overall mood of the production of the entire work. 

Credits 
Photo Cover: Michele Maglio | Model: Carolina Ventura | Makeup: Paola Cremonesi 
Thanks to Elena and Leonardo
credits
releases Feb 22nd, 2020 

All Sounds + Production | Francesco Giannico 

Photo Cover: Michele Maglio | Model: Carolina Ventura | Makeup: Paola


CD + DL :: https://francescogiannico.bandcamp.com/album/destroyed-by-madness

FILM :: https://vimeo.com/387149928

Francesco Giannico - Hysterical Naked

Unknown Tone are pleased to share an early preview of the title track
for "Being Empty" by Maps and Diagrams (Tim Diagram). "Being Empty" is
Maps and Diagrams first full length album for Unknown Tone and will be
out in an edition of 100 limited edition CDs // Summer 2013 //
www.unknowntonerecords.com

Maps and Diagrams - Being Empty

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Samuel Regan - Acousma (Single) 

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We are happy to welcome back Oklahoma native Samuel Regan for the first single "Acousma" from the upcoming "Behind Veils" LP. Samuel has been attending Mills Collage in Oakland, CA and has also been busy with new aspirations in digital synthesis and sound design while pursuing his degree in electronic music. This work represents another milestone for the artist and we are pleased to share it with all of you. 

Full length album coming summer 2020...stay tuned! 

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*a note from the artist: 

I'm thrilled to present my new full length album, Behind Veils. It's my ninth studio album and first release since early 2018. I share it with more pride than any past work, as a culmination of visions and ideas and a taste of what's to come. 

The music arose from a two-year trip into synthesis and digital signal processing, which seem somehow endowed with infinitude and fraught with illusions of control and choice. They can shape sounds that emerge as living and breathing entities: filling uncanny spaces as geometries viewed from impossible vantage points. The songs guide these artifacts out into the daylight to dance and unfold like gestures in their own language. Their subjects include illusion, ecology, philosophy and psychedelia; the theatrical and the paradoxical - which all seem speak to us from behind a veil. 

I hope the music finds you healthy and well. There are so many challenging days behind and ahead of us - when things get hard, sometime meaning collapses and there's no music, and that's okay. An optimism runs through some of these sounds that won't always resonate, but they'll welcome you back... Sometimes an escape into unreality can be the loveliest medicine. 

-Samuel Regan  
credits
released May 8, 2020 
Behind Veils by Samuel Regan 
composed, performed and produced by Samuel Regan 
Mixed by Samuel Regan 
Artwork Layout/Design by Mark Kuykendall 
“Acousma” mastered by Christopher Davidson


CD/DL: https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/track/acousma-single

Samuel Regan - Acousma

ALEX KOZOBOLIS + LEE CHAPMAN - FROM NOVEMBER // TO MARCH   

(CASSETTE TAPE SPLIT)

Side A: Alex Kozobolis - From November

(Despite The Cold / Through The Leaves / The Light Will Warm Us Again)

Side B: Lee Chapman - To March [remix]

(Despite The Cold / Through The Leaves / The Light Will Warm Us Again)

This EP was finished as a re-release of Alex Kozobolis' "From November" Piano EP with a full reworking/remix by Lee Chapman. Limited edition cassette release of 100 C25 tapes is set to arrive April/May 2013 courtesy of www.UnknownToneRecords.com Pre-orders will begin sometime mid-April. Thanks for listening!

Artwork is collaboration by Alex Kozobolis & Aaron Cahill (www.nghbrs.org)


Alex Kozobolis // From November - The Light Will Warm Us Again

ALEX KOZOBOLIS + LEE CHAPMAN - FROM NOVEMBER // TO MARCH

(CASSETTE TAPE SPLIT)

Side A: Alex Kozobolis - From November

(Despite The Cold / Through The Leaves / The Light Will Warm Us Again)

Side B: Lee Chapman - To March [remix]

(Despite The Cold / Through The Leaves / The Light Will Warm Us Again)

This EP was finished as a re-release of Alex Kozobolis' "From November" Piano EP with a full reworking/remix by Lee Chapman. Limited edition cassette release of 100 C25 tapes is set to arrive April/May 2013 courtesy of www.UnknownToneRecords.com Pre-orders will begin sometime mid-April. Thanks for listening!

Artwork is collaboration by Alex Kozobolis & Aaron Cahill (www.nghbrs.org)

Lee Chapman // To March - The Light Will Warm Us Again

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Federico Mosconi - Sails 
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We are so very pleased to welcome Italian artist Federico Mosconi to the label for his full length release of “Sails” a blissful ambient work, that pulls the listeners attention into a sea of light and love. Drifting through field recordings and processed guitar drones this album features a tender reflective mood that embraces the audience as if drifting through moonlit sea scapes at dusk. Federico, an italian guitarist, graduating with a degree in classical guitar and multimedia composition. His live performances range from classical to contemporary styles , from solo to ensemble performances (EMUFest Roma, GAS Festival Goteborg, Festival Angelica Bologna) and orchestral works of authors such as H.W.Henze, B.Maderna and A.Schnittke. His primary dicipline is guitar and the use of Ableton Max/MSP. He’s also released titles on labels such as, Slowcraft Records, Shimmering Moods Records, Midira, KrysaliSound, 3LuneRecords, & Tranquillo Records. This marks Federico's first release with Unknown Tone Records and we are pleased to share this work with the world. Enjoy!
credits
releases August 7, 2020 

All songs, Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Federico Mosconi 
Album Cover double exposure by Mark Kuykendall

Sails

8/7/2020

Federico Mosconi - Sail And Floating Happiness

Porya Hatami & Lee Anthony Norris - Every Day Is Like A New Drug

Unknown Tone are pleased to share an early preview of the track
"Perfume Technique" by Porya Hatami & Lee Anthony Norris. The full length album "Every Day Feels Like A New Drug" is
Porya Hatami & Anthony Lee Norris first full length album for Unknown Tone and will be
out in an edition of 100 limited edition CDs // August 2013 //
www.unknowntonerecords.com

Album Tracklist:

1. Strand
2. Perfume Technique
3. And The Birds Flew In A Different Direction
4. Orpheus In The Willow
5. On The Edge Of The Mountian

Porya Hatami & Lee Anthony Norris - Perfume Technique

Midwest label exploring the surreal – avant-garde blended with film noir, as expansive and isolating as the Oklahoma prairie | www.Unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com

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