A continuously updated seasonal selection of ambient, modern classical, and electroacoustic works (closed September 2, 2024).

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Field Journal Companion Summer 2024

ambient

Dear, Piano #3

Ellipse (Mattia Vlad Morleo Rework)

Gloucestershire, UK based artist Andrew Heath returns to Whitelabrecs, following up on his album ‘Quiet Noise’ (2022) and collaborations with Simon McCorry ‘A Is For Autumn’ (2022) and Anne Chris Bakker ‘How To Breathe Like A Stone’ (2021). Andrew has also released music on labels including Fluid Audio, Disco Gecko, Audiobulb, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and more, through his solo output and collaborations with other artists.

Charting a lighter more open sound than recent albums, The Cloud Machine returns to and explores one of Andrew’s constant themes - his continuing fascination with and the depiction of, the simple innocence of his own childhood. In this case, a sound painting of light, radiance and naive joy through the metaphor of clouds and of a gaze drawn to the skies. From the ethereal beauty of The Cloud Machines and The Age of Enlightenment, to the memories of racing the shadows of clouds blown by the wind across fields as a young boy in Chasing Clouds, there is the ever present feel of blissful, innocence and wonderment at the beauty of the natural world around and above us.

The album explores these themes through Andrew’s use of his much loved piano and guitar and balancing them against constantly shifting, delicate and fragile electronic tones and textures. Using a lighter, more transparent tonal palette, The Cloud Machine has a gentle, blissful tone as though touching the drifting clouds overhead.

Written, Produced and Mastered by Andrew Heath
Artwork (Ghost Mills) by Zoë Heath
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

The Cloud Machine

wlr157 Andrew Heath - The Cloud Machine

Tokyo Laundry

improvisation

Produced by Brady Moen for Midwestern Records.

kate

eRecords is a digital record series created by Whitelabrecs, to run alongside our physical releases. These editions aim to transform the digital format into something that can be experienced in a similar way to a listener’s interaction with a real, white label vinyl record. Each edition includes a special PDF scrapbook including polaroids and liner notes.

We do not publish details about the concepts or production methods of a release, so that the liner notes and content in each scrapbook will give you the background of each edition in the series.

catalog: eR028
artist: the unknown shape
release title: transient ep
runtime: 15:30
location: north rhine westphalia, germany

written and produced by tobias dziapko
mastered by NFM-Mastering (HerbLF)
cover artwork by george korunov
booklet art and design by harry towell

Transient

eR028 The Unknown Shape - Transient

~ LAAPS 044 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP44]

artist : Aiko Takahashi
album : The Grass Harp
duration : 41.11 mn
date : June 09th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / apricot LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Piano, Tape Loops, Drones recorded by Aiko between March and November 2024 in Aiko's former studio, a secluded spot near the River Isonzo, between Gorizia and Nova Gorica.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Thomas Ratt
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://aikotakahashi.bandcamp.com/
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Aiko Takahashi - Vases À Iris

#1
Track list:
- R.J. Stefanski - Approaching Blue Heron Lagoon [edited for Shimmering Moods]
- Nikita Bondarev - Siberian Ruins, part 1 (Klammklang)
- Å Asher- Yates - Intro (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Embers Below Zero - Forget About Me La Mer Profonde (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek - Theme Part I (White Paddy Mountain)
- Timedog - The Pilgrimage (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Viewfound - Triptych (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Offthesky - Form Light (eilean rec.)
- Gideon Wolf - Hunger (Fluid Audio)
- Embers Below Zero - The Ashes Of Our Past (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Å Asher- Yates - (Rain) (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
-  Å Asher- Yates - Breeze In The Sun (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Viewfound - Lukewarm (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Benjamin Finger - The Woods Are Not What They Seem (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Adzuki - In one's fading consciousness (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Aleks - Shimmering (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Aleks - Dark Chords & Dreamscapes (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Arkadelphia - Untitled 22 (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Ard - Her Eyes Over The Ancient Castle (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Parallelism - 03 Untitled (Shimmering Moods Records)
- ISM - Vertical Order (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)

Get lost in sound:
Shimmering Moods will host a new series of radio shows on 
Resonance Extra , UK's most creative independent radio station. Every month at https://extra.resonance.fm, this is the first show from Wednesday 20th July at 20:00-22:00 BST/21:00-23:00 CET
Experimental-Ambient-Electronics-Soundscapes-Drones-Field Recordings-Outsider Techno-Noise-Acoustics & more … released, unreleased, exclusives tracks from various labels & artists around the globe. 
Dates for the rest of the year:
Wednesday 17th August at 8pm
Wednesday 7th September at 8pm
Wednesday 2nd November at 8pm
Wednesday 7th December at 8pm
Next to this we will continue our monthly radio shows on Red Light Radio, next RLR show: 22.8 14:00-16:00 CET.

About Resonance Extra:
Resonance Extra is a pioneering new digital radio platform launched in December 2015, available on DAB to listeners in Central Brighton and online to the rest of the world. Dedicated foremost to the global artistic community and with a focus on long–form international music programming and sonic experimentation, Resonance Extra exists to mobilise diverse and emergent communities of sound artists, musicians, broadcasters, academics and expert curators.




Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #1 (20.7.2016)

Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #3

Imaginational, soft tones, distant noises and 
other ambient explorations and experiments…..

1. Midori Takada - Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream (RCA Red Seal)
2. Leigh Toro + Miguel Isaza - Phase Serendipity (Eilean Rec/Dauw)
3. Richard Ginns - Leaves On The Lake (Dauw)
4. The Boats - The Ballad Of The Malting Floor (Our Small Ideas)
5. Stars Of The Lid - Hiberner Toujours (Kranky)
6. Duncan Ó Ceallaigh - Scapa Flow (Audio Gourmet)
7. Vincent Gallo - Lonely Boy (Warp)
8. The Caretaker - All you are going to want to do is get back there (History Always Favours The Winners)
9. Leigh Toro - Ringstone Round (Eilean Rec)
10. Legiac - Troven Briangular (Dronarivm)
11. The Boats - The Ballad Of Omission (Our Small Ideas)
12. The Caretaker - Libet's Delay (History Always Favours The Winners)
13. Viewfound - Den ( Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
14. Robert Lippok - Close (Raster-Noton)
15. Phil Tomsett - Midnight Furnace (Fluid Audio)
16. Ard - Spring of no regret (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
17. D.Å.R.F.D.H.S.- Svältåren (Northern Electronics)
18. Hummingbird - Thoughts in the Head (Cassiopea) (Facture)
19. Koen Holtkamp - Scene 1 (Umor Rex)
20. Monadh - Boira (Further)
21. Rezo Glonti - Meter Meter (Time Released Sound)
22. Olga Wojciechowska - The White Spaces (Time Released Sound)
23. The Boats - The Ballad Of Failure (12k)
24. Benoît Pioulard - Alogia (Serein)
25. Vienna Orchestra - Verließ (Where To Now?)

Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #3

Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 30.1.2017

1. ຄ່ໍາຄວນ - Hazy Montagne Mystique (Jeunesse Cosmique)
2. The heat of the day escaping out towards the late evening sky, a high blue haze over the drifting hills, the soil of a path underfoot, cracked a little, brushed by dry grasses, walking back across moors in the ancient light - Sub Loam (Dissolving Records)
3. Canyon Sequence 3 - Macheteoxidado (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
4. Alba - Å Asher-Yates (Shimmering Moods Records)
5. Agua Santa Limpia Me pt. 1 - Macheteoxidado (Shimmering Moods Records)
6. Baranquillo - Balsam (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
7. LesLang - Jan Jelinek & Masayoshi Fujita (Faitiche)
8. Spirit In Prison - Yves Tumor (PAN)
9. Part 1 - Post Global Trio (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
10. Dreaming of You - KWC 92 (LIES)
11. Anthropocene - Loscil (Kranky)
12. Guided Body Scan - Aleks (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
13. Headlights - Dravier (Always Human Tapes)
14. Mountain - Donnacha Costello (Not On Label - Band Camp)
15. into the wild - x.y.r.(not not fun records)
16. SEQ - Aleks (Unreleased / Forthcoming Lonely Planets)
17. Exotic World - x.y.r.(not not fun records)
18. Special thanks to Guidance - DJ Sports (YIELD)
19. After the rain - Aquarium (New Information)
20. Glossy Amoog (Original Mix) - Cass. (Emotional Response)
21. Blossoms in Rain - Donnacha Costello (Not On Label - Band Camp)

Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 30.1.2017

Winter Sun

Whitelabrecs was set up by Harry Towell in late 2015 as another outlet to put out experimental electronic/acoustic music. It followed Harry’s previous labels Audio Gourmet, Tessellate and Warehouse Decay and focuses on a collectable series of highly limited edition vinyl-effect CDr packaging, with the first 50 releases influenced by white label vinyl records. The label also runs a digital only series called eRecords, with each of these releases including a special PDF booklet.

https://www.whitelabrecs.com
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/