Rain Rituals (Naviarhaiku 379)

We’re pleased to welcome back Toronto, Canada’s anthéne in the form of this collaborative album with UK cellist and composer Simon McCorry. Between them, they have released solo recordings on labels such as Home Normal, Archives, Past Inside The Present, Naviar and Fallen Moon. They’ve also both released on Polar Seas, a label helmed by Brad Deschamps, the man behind anthéne.

Both artists are comfortable collaborators, having worked alongside the likes of Ian Hawgood, Andrew Tasselmyer and Andrew Heath. It was in 2020 when their remote recording sessions translated into The Equation Of Time, combining and processing Brad’s guitar and Simon’s cello into a collage of droning textures. A concept sprang from their work together, during the unfolding pandemic and its resulting lockdowns, where time itself seemed to stand still, go backwards and go forwards, all at once. Add to this the the sheer geographical distance and time zones separating these artists, the often-explored artistic muse of time and space became the central theme.

The title ‘The Equation Of Time’ relates to the differences between the day of the earliest sun rise, the day of the latest sunset, the longest day. Each of these days are different, noted by the ancient Greeks and the Persians before them. The enormity of time and the ability for humans to occupy the same space as multiple predecessors is particularly fascinating when faced with something ancient, such as a cave painting, a forest or the ruins of a fallen civilisation. The track titles are aptly borrowed from parts of T.S. Eliot’s 4 Quartets, which also deals with the contemplation of time. You can surmise from these poems that ideally, one would focus only on the present, in order to make the most of each turn of the clock; the past cannot be altered and the future is unknown. Our memory can subconsciously serve us back our own recollection of past times, which can result in nostalgia, melancholy or both. Our minds can also influence our perception of the future, with feelings of either fear, excitement or both.

The Equation Of Time grapples at these themes and ideas without the intention of ever truly being able to define time. A wash of faded memories, unknowns and current thoughts stir into one-another; ambient music itself always seems so able to reflect and evoke a sense of wonder, at things far bigger than we can ever comprehend. 

Releases May 22, 2021

Written and Produced by Brad Deschamps and Simon McCorry
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Tom Tebby
Packaging design by Tom Tebby

The Equation Of Time

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A new collection of work titled 'Sodium Light' from myself has just been released on Lee Norris's excellent NeoTantra label. The work was inspired by a series of night walks my daughter and I took towards the back end of 2019; pre all the states we find ourselves in at the moment. It's an impressionistic work of night-time cityscapes. Mastered by Fraser McGowan.

Sodium Light

Night #1

'Night #1' - Taken from the release 'Sodium Light' - [Neotantra, 2021]

Tapes and Topographies is US based artist Todd Gautreau, who has had music releases on labels such as Past Inside the Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own imprint, Simulacra. His project has been active since 2014 following his previous alias Tear Ceremony and he also produces a downtempo as Sonogram.

With each new album, Todd follows a different workflow to achieve new details and results in his sound. Increasingly, his work has been aided by the use of hardware and outboard effects.
In his latest album Amplitudes, he has taken a set of sounds and fed these through a looper, experimenting with altered loop speeds. He used FM synthesis for the first time in this body of work, alongside some of his tried and tested methods, joined by field recordings.

These nine compositions clock in at almost 50 minutes; a compelling listen through dreamy, organic textures. Todd has created a lot of music in the last 18 months and Amplitudes is the latest in his continuous process of distilling his sounds and ideas down to their essence.
The album’s artwork is a macro-photograph of a stone, as the fine details are ‘amplified’ by the magnification effect of the camera’s lens. There is not a clear concept but inspiration is drawn from film and literature, as well as self-reflection, memory, loss and dreams. As these compositions play out, you’ll find yourself concentrating on fine details, whilst at other times, in a blissful state, zooming out to absorb the bigger picture.

Amplitudes

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The distilling of sketches = Ōe
credits
released October 26, 2021 

Music - Ishmael Cormack 
Mastering - Fallow Recordings 
Artwork - A reel, open scanned 









For quiet rooms

Ishmael Cormack - Ōe

Allvaret

Not to Speak II

The sonic epilogue to Fionnlagh's debut album, 'What Came Before'. Featuring original material and remixes from ambient heavyweights: Warmth, Powlos, Hilyard, Anwalter, Logic Moon and Seabuckthorn.

Download here: https://bit.ly/3hdecqL
'What Came Before' vinyl here: https://bit.ly/2SZvdsi

What Came After

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Fionnlagh - Bj2x8i8l2e0f7s1 (Warmth Remix)

Inspired by Wagner and Wendy Carlos. A simple jam on an Oberheim and an my beloved Mutable Instruments Anushri. Synthesizers can like any instruments be very expressive it's just a question to keep raw and not overproducing...

Wagnerien

Now available on tape, and as a pre-order on CD. 

Recorded by øjeRum (Paw Grabowski; https://soundcloud.com/oejerum).
Post-production by Andrew Chalk.
Mastered by Jos Smolders (EARLabs). https://soundcloud.com/earlabs

Released on glass-mastered CD in a 6-panel digipak, featuring 7 collages from øjeRum’s Silent Figure With Landscape series.

An Image of a Bird Seconds Before It Appears

øjeRum – An Image of a Bird Seconds Before It Appears [first 6 minutes]

My contribution to the new Elm Records compilation "A New Leaf".  Honored to join so much talent on this wonderful V/A.

Check out the full release here ~ https://elmrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-leaf-compilation-2

*Mastered by James Armstrong (Slow Clinic)

Flicker & Hiss; Recalling Hope

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/

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