Name: 1996 by vv.
Duration: 6 min 27 s
Description: vicvellam.bandcamp.com/album/1978-ldn-btn

loving the tense and brooding atmosphere in this..

i feel there's a story behind this.... feels like the distant hum of the past

My track 'Astray' is a part of the stunning move for freedom - the compilation dedicated to events in Myanmar. It aims to support struggling people in their protest, therefore it is filled with striving for liberation and the spirit of fighting injustice. A truly explosive and powerful compilation! But my track is not about struggle.
 It reflects confusion, slowing down and turning inward in attempts to find the own place in the actual processes,  and distortion of thinking in attempts to pave a new route on an already irrelevant map. 
 Hope you will find it actual.
Also! You can take part in supporting Myanmar people by buying this album. I should say, it's really rich. Just look at the tracklist. What names it included! 
Proud to be part of it.
https://makenoisemyanmar.bandcamp.com/album/make-noise-myanmar-2

Astray

vicvellam.bandcamp.com/album/1978-ldn-btn

1996

Fallow Recordings is pleased to present ")When what" by the adept artist Wodwo. 
Wodwo crafts narrative-driven musical collages using guitars, effect pedals & improvising. 
")When what" is a work of pure exploration & showcases Wodwos style in it's most minimal form. 

Think of noisy amplifiers, … herz hum… unresolved phrases…

Wodwo - )When What Decides

Mind over MIDI - I
https://mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/i

I Sit

I Sit (from I)

Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida
Taken from the forthcoming album "Room tones"

PRE ORDER:
Room tones
by Jet Jaguar

CD/Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/room-tones

In sound work for films and so on, recording a "room tone" is where you record the space where the action is going to happen, but while nothing is happening. I don't have any personal experience in that world, but I feel like I'm forever interested in music where not much is happening, so 'Room Tones' made me laugh - a collection of recordings that are barely there but still serve a point? I mean, I'm not Steve Roden or anything, but the name clicked. I'm usually looking for double-meanings in an album name and it hardly needs to be said at this point that any music made in the last few years is probably in some way about being tucked away indoors. So tones made in rooms, made for rooms? Sure. 



When I was writing about my last album on Shimmering Moods, 'Recording', I compared music-making to a diary. Two and a half years later, I still really strongly feel that same sense. I don't write with a project or release in mind, usually - if anything I've been working hard on not being too bound by what I've already done - but it still all comes from me and I typically select things for coherence. That seems like something I expect from a diary. Perhaps where the metaphor falls down is that a diary is chronological, while with 'Room Tones' I'm pulling together finished bits and pieces I feel work together. It was 2007 when I made the recording that gives 'Ōokayama Cats At Night' its name, sitting on the back porch of my apartment, waiting for the washing to finish. In contrast, I made 'Tonal Drift' as soon as I recorded the korimako that showed up to make some noise in the garden at my current place. And while most of this music was completed around the same time, one track is maybe five years older than the others. 


As always, thanks to all who listened or supported me in other ways, especially Amanda, Adrien, Tim, Shanan, Jenny, Andy, Stuart, and all my family. Times being as they have been, thanks to little online communities like the Disquiet Junto, AEMC, and lines. 

Limited to 60 CD's, handmade covers, various colors available, hand numbered:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/room-tones

Releases July 1, 2022 

Written and recorded by Michael Upton 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Photo's by Michael Upton 

Shimmering Moods Records 2022 
SHM 219

Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida

Place

ruhe

sinewaves + LFOs played on an akai MPC 1000

230108 (dodecalogue 007)

sleep in nothingness, 2018 

// sounds heard 
samples from the Guimet's archival LP copy of 'Japanese masterpieces for the shakuhachi' (Lyrichord_MX4205_1989) 
+ artists own field recording of train ride in the monastic region of Koyasan Japan, clarinet, sine tones, voice, amplified objects, sferics, and a google-translate/text-to-speech recording of the album liner notes. // 

In a dream he found himself floating in a boat. Suddenly thick mist rolled down the sky and blocked his view of the moon. On hearing the moving melody of a flute, he reached out for his favourite bamboo flute to accompany the ethereal melody. The music is long and simple, and the listener is expected to forget everything and "sleep in nothingness".
-the dream of a priest named Kyochiku in the 12th Century while meditating at a temple in Nara (as cited in the album liner notes).

composed for performance at the Guimet Museum in Paris on Feb 03 2018, curated by the French label Tsuku Boshi.

sleep in nothingness

https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/halcyon

Halcyon V

Excerpt from forthcoming album with MP Hopkins 'The Divine For Me Is Whatever Is Real', to be released on More Mars, 2021.
Recorded by Alexandra and MP at Tempe Jets, mastered by Renato Grieco.

1996

vv.

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