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Improvised piece for two pianos, an oscillator, a resonator and a bird.

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]

An excerpt from a recent studio improvisation session... OP-1, Microcosm, Norns/Grid (mlre & compass), Organelle, Mood, Plaits swells, all mixed into the 1010 Bluebox, and recorded live into Ableton... .

I hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!!!

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Autumn Droning Pt.2//Live Improvisation 10/15/22

This is a tribute mix to one of the most talented, kind, and lovely people I know. I have been a fan of Norm's work since I first became interested in "ambient" music, falling in love with the Pavilion LP the moment I heard it. His music has given me so much joy, solace, and inspiration ever since. 
His passing has left a giant hole inside me and for the past two days I haven't done much else other than listen to his music. This mix features some (but not all) of my favorite pieces by Norm.
I never had the pleasure to meet Norm in person, but it was an honor to work with him on several occasions at Muzan.
Norm, wherever you are - perhaps floating on some galactic current in a space-faring bathysphere - I miss you so much. Thank you for everything.

-Endurance

https://panabrite.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist:

00:00 		Panabrite - Veil (Pavilion, Immune)
06:10 		Panabrite - Regent (Pavilion, Immune)
11:00 		Panabrite - Reflections (Blue Grotto, Love All Day)
13:45 		Jürgen Müller - Jenseits des Stromes (Science of the Sea, Digitalis Recordings)
18:40 		Panabrite - Blue Grotto (Blue Grotto, Love All Day)
21:40 		Panabrite - Garden Interlude (Blue Grotto, Love All Day)
23:30 		N Chambers - Froth (Air Example, Love All Day)
24:50 		N Chambers - To Continue (Facets, Love All Day)
26:00 		N Chambers - Dome Flora (Mirage Colony, Soft Profile)
28:30 		N Chambers - Automatic Bog (Air Example, Love All Day)
32:30 		N Chambers - Optimal Point (Air Example, Love All Day)
36:45 		N. Chambers – Teto (Idea Region, Muzan Editions)
40:40 		N Chambers - Cathedral Canopy (Mirage Colony, Soft Profile)
44:00 		Panabrite - Golden Drape (Blue Grotto, Love All Day)
49:30 		Panabrite - Particle Counterpoint (Xenon District, VCO Records)
52:20 		Panabrite - Dawnscape (Blue Grotto, Love All Day)
55:05 		N. Chambers – Humidity (Idea Region, Muzan Editions)
57:00 		N. Chambers - Bells for Jun (Idea Region, Muzan Editions)
01:02:15 	        N Chambers - Carillon (Air Example, Love All Day)
01:03:15 	        N Chambers - Terrace (Air Example, Love All Day)
01:05:05 	Panabrite - Pool (Pavilion, Immune)
01:07:30 	Panabrite - Humid Zones (Seychelles, Field Studies)
01:13:15 	        Panabrite - Anse Boileau (Seychelles, Field Studies)
01:16:20 	        Panabrite - Riddle (Seychelles, Field Studies)
01:18:45	        Jürgen Müller - Wasserwelt (Science of the Sea, Digitalis Recordings)

Norm's Bandcamp

A Tribute To Panabrite / N Chambers / Jürgen Müller

Age And Youth

"Lias" taken from the new album "Alluvium" by Maps and Diagrams.

[Released on 07 July 2014]

http://www.handstitched.net/

http://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/alluvium


Maps and Diagrams - Lias

Track taken from the album 'In The Dead Of Night When Everything Is Asleep' by Aaron Martin and Leonardo Rosado...

NOW AVAILABLE IN MY BANDCAMP PAGE:
https://idiom.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-dead-of-night-when-everything-is-asleep

Music: Aaron Martin / Leonardo Rosado
Mastering: James Plotkin
Label: Fluid Audio

In the dead of night when everything is asleep

In the dead of night when everything is asleep - Aaron Martin and Leonardo Rosado

Over several years, Guenter Schlienz has graced labels such as Constellation Tatsu, Sacred Phrases, S.I.N.K. CDs, SicSic, Preservation so we are very excited here at Rural Colours to be added to that list with his latest work Peace.

After noticing that several friends had begun to end emails marked 'Peace', Guenter Schlienz, ever full of questions, started to ponder on the meaning of the word in this context.  Around the same time he started to read Henry Miller's book 'The Collossus of Maroussi' and was intrigued by a couple of paragraphs devoted to exactly this question: what is "the meaning of peace". He came to the conclusion that there is much more to "peace" than just the absence of war.  The albums track titles are words by Henry Miller, and the work is Guenter's humble attempt to gather sounds and atmospheres around those lines.

Using modular synths combined with tape loops, analog and digital delays, vintage electronic organ and guitar, Schlienz works within a romantically inward looking framework, creating music that comes from deep within.  His compositions reflect themes of tenderness, alienation and homecoming and feature a range of guest musicians including Masako Kamikawa (piano on  'Reverberation of the Pandemonium') and Niko Lazarakopoulos (guitar on 'Faint Whispers') and even an anonymous busker from the streets of Stuttgart on 'Who Put the Demons There?'

inspired by henry miller's book "the collossus of maroussi". / "i never knew the meaning of peace until i arrived at epidaurus ".

Artwork by Katie English / This is rural colours 82
https://ruralcolours.bandcamp.com / vote for us

Guenter Schlienz / Peace (Snippets)

This is my contribution to the Rusted Tone Recordings: Sampler Vol. 1 various artists compilation.  Recorded using dual reel to reel tape decks and a single tape loop that continuously records over itself, slowly degrading over time.  Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy!!

https://rustedtonerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/rusted-tone-recordings-sampler-vol-1

A Thousand Tiny Heartbreaks

Track taken from the upcoming album 'And His Many Seas' by Moss Covered Technology...

Audio: Moss Covered Technology
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley
Label: Fluid Audio
Release date: 30.04.18

'Sea #4' - And His Many Seas - [Fluid Audio, 2018]

Composed, Played & Recorded By Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt

Mixed by Monolyth & Cobalt.

Month Eight Project (Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt)

Month Nine Project (Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt)

Isan - Cinnabar (Maps and Diagrams remix).

An old-ish "unofficial" remix from 2006 which never managed to see the light of day. Taken from the wonderful album "Plans Drawn in Pencil" by Isan (Morr Music – MM068CD)

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/

http://www.discogs.com/ISAN-Plans-Drawn-In-Pencil/master/45024

Isan - Cinnabar (Maps and Diagrams remix)

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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  
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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

It’s fair to say that the events of the year 2020 will go down as quite a year and may form a large part of the history curriculum for the children of tomorrow. The pandemic is of course just part of the story, against a backdrop of political unrest, climate change and injustice too.

Whitelabrecs was affected with the closure of our local post office, meaning we were unable to ship our CDs. We also felt we had a duty not to hold up a queue of people and decided to stop production of our catalog. During that time, to make sure we still had a label left to return to, we launched the ambitious Home Diaries series. It ran for 3 months and in that relatively short space of time, the series reached 30 releases!

Home Diaries was an invitation to artists and musicians to create an album or EP to document their personal experience during the lockdown or social distancing conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The series reflects a range of sounds, styles and ideas, as each artist portrayed their own reflections uniquely, available as a digital only edition including a bonus interview and photos.
Each of the 30 digital editions in the Home Diaries series is an individual work of art, created to share the varying experiences felt by each artist. 

This compilation album pulls together a track from each record, sequenced in a way that flows as a specially curated environment, over the course of two CDs. We have two versions available as follows:

A standard edition, which is a double-disc gatefold vinyl-effect CDr album, featuring a re-interpretation of the original cover artwork, painted by Adrian Lane.

A deluxe matchbox edition, in which the double-disc gatefold vinyl-effect CDr is housed inside a gold foil-etched box, which also contains a booklet which includes a photo from each artist's home during lockdown. This version serves as a time capsule into the original series; a keepsake which is limited to just 70 copies.

If you opt for the digital version, this also includes the photo booklet as a bonus PDF item. 

credits
releases January 23, 2021

Painting and artwork by Adrian Lane
Booklet images provided by each respective artist
Packaging layout by Harry Towell
Compilation curated by Harry Towell

All tracks mastered by James Edward Armstrong, except:
12 'Out In The Open' Mastered by John Hannon
17 'Distance Learning' Mastered by Michael Southard
29 -'Stanze e Distanze (part 2)' Mastered by Francis M. Gri

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