The Swedish composer Kajsa Lindgren explores the catalogue of LA-based label Recital Program along with tracks from her own newest release on the label, Momentary Harmony, as well as tracks of inspirational artist and more.

more infos and tracklist at www.lyl.live

Kajsa Lindgren (04/06/21)

Recording from 6 September 2004; Premiere by the Doelen String Quartet and New Trombone Collective as part of the Gaudeamus Music Festival 2004.

The idea for slow wave sleep came about from research I was doing about sleep and dreaming for a piece that I wrote in 2003 (lab fly dreams). Slow-wave sleep (also known as stage 3 and 4 non-REM sleep) is characterized by brain wave patterns with a frequency of less than 4 Hz and upper brain inactivity . The mind is ‘out cold’, but the body is free to move around. Sleepwalking, sleep talking and tooth grinding often occur during slow-wave sleep. The piece is based around EEG recordings I made of myself in this state of sleep. I use the sound of the raw data of the electrical activity in the brain and filter it to create rhythmic patterns that are connected with biological rhythms that occur in sleep.

The string quartet and trombone quartet walk in and out of the space as if they are sleepwalking, their sound is processed and distributed in the space. Pulse waves, filtered noise and granular synthesis are the main materials I use in this soundscape.

The idea for the instrumentation came as request from trombonist Koen Kaptijn, to write for the same instrumentation (minus the singer) as Stravinsky’s “In Memoriam for Dylan Thomas” (1954) for the project “Do Not Go Gentle” of the New Trombone Collective. This was then my starting point and reference point during the time I was composing the piece. It seemed to make some kind of sense to write a piece about sleep as an answer to Dylan’s poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”.

Slow Wave Sleep (2004)

Generative Tape Test #4

Taken from 「水と生き物たち」Part 1 (Water And Creatures)

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/part-1

Pre orders start April 7th 2023 // Release date: April 14th 2023
The album will be available in a limited edition CD with handmade wallets, hand numbered, edition of 40.

shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

今回のアルバムの曲の多くは2019年から2022年に作りました。なるべくアコースティックな楽器を使用しました、ギターのような音の多くはウクレレです。これらの曲には演奏を合わせる一定のリズムがないことがあるので、その代わりに音のコントラストのような物を意識しました。いつも的確なアドバイスをしてくれるShimmering Moods Recordsのオーナー、ポールのおかげでアルバムを作ることができました。

Written and produced by Nao Otsuka
Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Shimmering Moods Records 2023

Nao Otsuka - Howling Melody

Horizon

Tatsuro Murakami is an artist originally from Tokyo, Japan, who spent several years Brazil before returning home, to rural Japan. After emerging from his earlier work as part of a progressive rock band, Tatsuro began to make Ambient and Experimental music. In the year that he graduated from a conservatory in São Paulo, he released his debut album on La Petite Chambre, a label from Belo Horizonte in Brazil. A few years later ‘The Sound of Living Things’ followed, on Italian imprint ROHS! Records. He has also headlined with many well-known compatriots including Shuta Yasukochi, Rhucle, Ken Ikeda and Ayami Suzuki.

Tatsuro’s work draws inspiration from places and feelings, whether this be photography, film or personal accounts and experiences. Living in Latin America and recollecting his time in rural Japan, nature has become a fixation for this artist, bleeding into the concepts of his work. A wide and varied taste covering styles such as Brazilian Choro music, Ambient and Jazz combined with his studies and performances as part of bands such as Stone Music, has led to a beautiful combination of sounds and textures in his solo work.

‘An Imaginary Autumn’ is a set of seven reflections, transcribing the eight years’ worth of Japanese Autumns that Tatsuro was not able to experience, due to personal circumstances. He aimed to create something as beautiful as the autumn leaves in Japan, which he was unable to see for himself. He stepped outside one December, only to be greeted by the cold winter wind as Autumn had already disappeared.

Tracks range in mood and composition, with opening piece ‘Slow Dance’ reflecting chord progressions that you might hear in Choro or Jazz music. ‘Liquefied Surface’ decodes the randomised melodies of a small modular synth kit before ‘In Her Absence’ warps electric guitar and bass into unrecognisable instrument sounds. Centrepiece ‘Misplaced Dream’ takes a solo guitar motif recorded to cassette tape, adorned by further iterations of minimal guitar sounds and happenstance tape-processing errors. The absorbing ‘Swimming in the Dark’ and its satisfying hiss follows, using a recording from a dark and rainy day in Tokyo. ‘Dialogue with a Mountain’ haunts, as Tatsuro’s first toy keyboard is turned into a droning soundscape, fed through some effects pedals. Closing piece ‘Rising of Something Brilliant’ places an electric guitar loop alongside some classical guitar chords, with cascading echoes of subtle overdrives and faded riffs ebbing into a melancholy bliss.

‘An Imaginary Autumn’ is the second album to utilise our new record wallet style format, with artwork provided by Tatsuro’s long-time collaborator Anais-karenin. The photography here perfectly depicts the idyllic Japanese autumns that Tatsuro had been starved of for so long, until finally he was reunited in 2021.

Music & Mix by Tatsuro Murakami
Mastering by James Edward Armstrong
Original Photography by Anais-karenin

An Imaginary Autumn

wlr143 Tatsuro Murakami - An Imaginary Autumn

Take a listen to track n.6 entitled "Weaving Tiny Threads", taken from my upcoming new 7track ambient album "All The Dreams We Forget are Tiny Flowers burnt by the Endless Golden Flow of Time", OUT on September 30th 2023 via the icelandic Label Móatún 7.

Formats: 
10" Vinyl (4 tracks on 7)/ Cd (full tracklist)/ Tape (full tracklist)/ Digital (full tracklist)

The album will be SOON available here:
https://moatun7.bandcamp.com/music (Label's Bandcamp)
https://thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com (My Bandcamp)

Written by Lorenzo Bracaloni / Mastered by Árni Grétar / 
Design by Mason Verger

(c) (p) Móatún 7 2023

06 Weaving Tiny Threads_taken from my new album_OUT Sept 30th on Móatún 7_Vinyl/Cd/Tape/Digital

waves | Album 'WAVES'

Felt by Pete Kvidera, taken from the new album "Wind Shapes"

Pre orders start Friday 5.4.2024, release date 12.4.2024

Format: Digital / CD

Pete Kvidera -  Felt

Podcast #55: Eilean Rec. - Aankomst (mix)(2015) by Mathias Van Eecloo

A selective mix from the 16 releases recorded in 2015 on Eilean Records mixed by Mathias Van Eecloo
Artists involved in alphabetical order (from Belgium, Canada, Japan, Latvia, Norway, Sweden, UK, USA) :

Benjamin Finger / Bill Seaman / Dag Rosenqvist / Ieva / James Murray /
Jonathan Kawchuk / Lake Mary / Lee Chapman / Leigh Toro (Bamboo Stilts) / Masaya Ozaki /
Orla Wren (Bamboo Stilts) / Richard Ginns / Ruhe / Spheruleus / Stijn Hüwels / Twigs & Yarn / Yadayn

Track List:

00.00 - 05.28 : Dag Rosenqvist - VIII (The Forest Diaries) (eilean 37)
05.29 - 08.50 : Lee Chapman - Let me in (The Common Silence) (eilean 22)
08.51 - 11.57 : James Murray - Endure (Loss) (eilean 39)
11.58 - 16.55 : Bamboo Stilts - Seachest (Beneath The Bark) (eilean 89)
16.56 - 20.47 : Masaya Ozaki + Stijn Hüwels - Of Rainforests and Glaciers (Dialog Tapes) (eilean 15)
20.48 - 22.05 : Lake Mary - Had I Been Born (And The Birds Sung In Chorus First) (eilean 12)
22.06 - 25.56 : Richard Ginns - Faded From The Winter (Until the Morning Comes) (eilean 82)
25.57 - 33.02 : Twigs & Yarn - Lend a Hand (Still Forms Drift) (eilean 88)
33.03 - 34.57 : Ruhe - Guide (Patriarchs) (eilean 27)
34.58 - 38.41 : Benjamin Finger - Diamond Earth (Pleasurably Lost) (eilean 59)
38.42 - 42.33 : Jonathan Kawchuk - Lagos (North) (eilean 03)
42.34 - 44.35 : Masaya Ozaki - In Transit (Fluid & Dreaming Of Stripes) (eilean 26)
44.36 - 48.07 : Spheruleus - Ploein (Peripheres) (eilean 86)
48.08 - 49. 47 : Yadayn - Ruis (Pendel) (eilean 25)
49.48 - 55.49 : Ieva - Poussière (Lueurs) (eilean 73)
55.50 - 61.30 : Bill Seaman - Almost Black (bonus) (f (noir)) (eilean 33)
Total Duration : 61.32 mn
Artwork : Mathias van Eecloo

ENJOY!

Slow Wave Sleep (2004)

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