‘How to breathe like a stone’ is the third release from the ongoing collaboration between Dutch, ambient and experimental guitarist Anne Chris Bakker and British, minimal pianist Andrew Heath. Their work charts a slow moving, lower case journey inspired by place and process. Combining tonal washes and textural recordings, punctuated by pointillist piano and guitar notes to produce music that creates an ephemeral, dreamlike state.

Previous releases have been on Chihei Hatakeyama’s small Japanese label, White Paddy Mountain (Lichtzin) and the English, tape cassette label, Rusted Tone Recordings (A Gift for the Ephemerist).
Having been aware of each other’s music, Chris and Andrew finally met when Andrew invited Chris to play in the UK’s Resound festival several years ago. This cemented a friendship and mutual admiration of each other’s music. Various visits to both The Netherlands and the UK offered opportunities to record and improvise together before a file exchanging process followed, allowing their work to be edited and further refined.

Both artists are experienced performers and collaborators, with Andrew having played at Iceland’s Extreme Chill festival and working with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Toby Marks; Chris Has performed with the trio Kleefstra/Bakker/Kleefstra, touring Europe and Japan.

How To Breathe Like A Stone utilises Chris’s mainstay, the guitar, often processed with a huge 20 second delay and placed alongside Andrew’s piano and electronic sounds. Two different church pianos were used for their natural tones, one recorded in Noordlaren and the other in the village of Sheepscombe. Additional textures derived from field recordings and reel to reel tape machines, providing a layer of subtle detail to complete the aesthetic. One of the more unusual recordings on the album was made at the Kröller Müller museum in The Netherlands in the large sculpture room. The sun outside was causing the building to emit various quiet creaks and clicks, amplified by the acoustics of the space. It was as if the weather had its own improvised response to the collaboration, creating further notable moments that became woven into this story of chance.

This album does not have a mapped out concept, more that it uses the artist’s evident love of process and improvisation as a springboard into their sound world. It is hoped that the listener will pause to absorb this environment, both contemplating and losing track of time.

releases March 20, 2021
Written and produced by Andrew Heath and Anne Chris Bakker
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

How To Breathe Like A Stone

wlr089 Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker - How To Breathe Like A Stone

Ambient/experimental track from "it feels like rain" by szelest


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It feels like rain

Paranoia  |ambient|  |experimental|

In this new release, we welcome a collaboration between David Newman (Autistici) and Erik Schoster (He Can Jog). These artists have released music individually across a range of labels including 12k, KESH, Hibernate, Home Recordings, Audiobulb Records and Distance Recordings. This duo have worked together to form Soft Generator, with their inaugural release featuring artwork by collage artist Tom Tebby.

‘A Carefully Controlled Space’ was crafted with orchestral sounds, analogue and modular synthesisers, computer generated routines, the Pippi Computer System pippi.world and field recordings.
The work centres on the idea of hypnotic rest as a portal to recovery. Referencing the process of Asclepeion 'sleep temples', visited by the citizens of ancient Greece, the album wonders what it would be like to go through the ritual and process in modern times. A Carefully Controlled Space imagines a remedy as it reaches out and offers each listener a chance to reset, heal and escape.
credits
releases July 24, 2021

Soft Generator are:
David Newman (Autistici/Volume Objects) - volume-objects.com
Erik Schoster (He Can Jog) - hecanjog.com

Mastered by Volume Objects

Art and design by Tom Tebby

A Carefully Controlled Space

wlr097 Soft Generator - A Carefully Controlled Space

©2021 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ♥♥♥♥ X4 RECORDS 
Produced & Mixed by Danny Playamaqui 

Photo by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels

released October 8, 2021

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The Disadvantages of Air Fryer

The track for @NatureTales label compilation Autumn Meditations: https://naturetales.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-meditations

from
the album 
"Performances in the Temple of the Body": https://assemblyofhoney.bandcamp.com/album/performances-in-the-temple-of-the-body

Выступления в Храме Тела / Performances in the Temple of the Body

Intention of Direct Communication [for Autumn Meditations by Nature Tales label]

music for "Tour de Nippon" ITOIGAWA video project.
lovely place, enjoy ;)💓

video: 
https://youtu.be/ERF_M0ah7mU

新潟の最西端に位置する糸魚川市は、宝石箱のような街なのかもしれない。地形的特徴や名所などを地図に書き記してみると、世界に誇れるものがぎゅっと凝縮して存在していることに気づく。ころんと丸い小石を海岸で拾いながら街を眺めれば、その背後を覆うように連なる日本百名山を含む美しい北アルプスの山々までが目に入る。海・街・山が織りなすダイナミックな風景にため息がこぼれる。豊かで厳しい大地、自然とともに強くしなやかに生きる人に心を寄せる旅へ。

Situated on the western tip of Niigata Prefecture, the city of Itoigawa is something of a jewelry box. Scrawling down the topographical traits and famous places on a map, you realize that it is crammed full of world-beating spots. As you pick up the round pebbles on the seashore, a glance over the city reveals the dramatic backdrop of the Northern Alps, including several of Japan’s most celebrated peaks. Time to take a trip into this bucolic yet unforgiving land, where locals agilely coexist with nature.

Na Ka Ji Ma's #2

tides &
NTO  / DUSG > RING > VCM
> QPAS > mimeophon

modulated by quadraturia and ochd

011622002 MDLR Ambient

Shibusa

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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.

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