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The Sustain Series project continues with its second volume, 24 recycled forms created from old and unused material. Since the release of Volume 1 in November last year, more artists have come together to salvage, repurpose, restore and deconstruct each other’s pieces, or collaborate on a particular idea. What results is a growing variety of approaches and outputs, from minor embellishments to full disfigurement.

Volume 2 moves thematically, as if in four chapters, from the expressive openers, through enchanting natural-sounding pieces, before opening up to more ethereal expanses, and finally darker and more thoughtful ones. As it does, visions emerge of our natural world - its power, its beauty and its vulnerability.

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Gallery Six - 1 (City Of Dawn Recycle)

In the coming months, a lot of music will be released. Some will be bigger projects and some small, like this one, a track with a special vibe called 'Hidden Message'. These smaller projects will always be free to download.

Hidden Message

An album of my thoughts about the river.
Until one day this memory of mine reaches the sea.
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki

released June 6, 2022

https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/the-river-will-one-day-reach-the-sea

The River Will One Day Reach The Sea - Sample

From our Album "Inseln", released on Whitelabrecs

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Logic Moon & Henrik Meierkord - Avlägsna Öar

Sunset Mirage ( tomonari nozaki / 2022)

This track is released as a comparison to the track "The Descending Wave" (molgallery.bandcamp.com/track/the-descending-wave), which was released on the German label moL.

Both tracks use the exact same material, but "The Descending Line" is continuous drone music, while "The Descending Wave" has some silent sections in between track. The question "What is the nature of silence for you?" was posed to me by moL for the release, and this is my answer to that question.

The pitch of both tracks drops over time, but it will be hard to notice the change in "The Descending Line". In "The Descending Wave", however, it will be more easy to notice the change because of the silence between the track. In my opinion, silence is not the absence of something, but an organic “existence”.

Please compare the two tracks and try to find the "nature of silence" in your own way.

Produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover Art by Hidekazu Imashige

The Descending Line

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Gift of the Caves from the album 'Inward'
https://atmosphare.bandcamp.com/album/inward
Collaboration with @VictorYibril
https://victoryibril.bandcamp.com/

Inward

Gift Of The Caves

Atmøsphäre & VictorYibril - Gift Of The Caves

Infinity Hiker

Remix album for Warmth's latest work 'Parallel'. Including remixes by Shuta Yasukochi, Warmth, Pepo Galán, Purl, The Green Kingdom, David Cordero, Powlos and SVLBRD.

Written and Produced by Agus Mena
Remixes by Shuta Yasukochi, Warmth, Pepo Galán, Purl, The Green Kingdom, David Cordero, Powlos and SVLBRD.
Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
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parallel remixes

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Warmth - Saros (SVLBRD Remix)

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Slow Walking

'Departure Process' - Slow Walking - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2019]

'Place Language' is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.

The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of  new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.

Musical artists: Aaron Martin (USA), Anthéne (Canada), Benoît Pioulard (USA), Bethan Kellough (UK), Celer (Japan), Dalot (Greece), Federico Durand (Argentina), Hakobune (Japan), Hammock (USA), Hotel Neon (USA), Ian Hawgood (UK), Kate Carr (UK), Lawrence English (Australia), Lowercase Noises (USA), Marcus Fischer (USA), Melissa Pons (Sweden), Poemme (USA), Porya Hatami (Iran), Richard Skelton aka The Inward Circles (UK), Siavash Amini (Iran), Simon Scott (UK), Sound Awakener (Vietnam),  The Green Kingdom (USA), Tobias Hellkvist (Sweden), Warmth (Spain), Wil Bolton (UK), and Yann Novak (USA).

Release Date: 30.09.19
Record Label: Fluid Audio
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Artwork: Gregory Euclide
Words: Robert Macfarlane
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

Place Language

Taylor Deupree - Feorainn

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Bloom

"Language of Loss" is a piece composed in collaboration with Blurstem, an ambient side project by Chris Bartels of Minneapolis, MN.

Music by Hotel Neon and Blurstem - blurstem.bandcamp.com 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree - www.12kmastering.com 
Artwork by Chris Bartels - anthemfallsmusic.com

Language of Loss (with Blurstem)

From the new album "By the River": https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/by-the-river

During the album recording sessions, I limited myself to a certain setup: electric guitar, looper, delay/reverb pedal, and a 4-track portable tape recorder. This helped me to concentrate on expressing the moods instead of being distracted by the necessity of choosing the instrument and timbre. Each track was a result of a single recording session. By means of sound, I tried to express some sort of a “stream” feeling; that’s why it was important to me to stay in this state myself, not to ruin the general picture and make the album as solid as possible.

By the River

Evening Breeze

Valotihkuu's music is a mixture of nature sounds with a variety of acoustic and electroacoustic instruments, tape loops, found objects and lots of childhood memories, which are carefully transferred into music. Contact: valotihkuumusic@gmail.com

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