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As a tribute to Susumu Yokota, a much loved friend and colleague who passed away this year, The Leaf Label and Lo Recordings have joined forces to release My Energy, a 6 track EP featuring selected highlights from Yokota’s varied and much acclaimed back catalogue. The EP is available now on Bandcamp as a ‘Pay What You Want’ release with half the proceeds going to Animal Refuge Kensai and half to Yokota's family.

https://susumuyokota.bandcamp.com/album/my-energy-ep

Susumu Yokota - Morino Gakudan

Ambient Dreamscapes for you to enjoy. Relax, unwind, meditate and chillout

DARK AMBIENT - ATHENAS SHRINE

Em 25 de setembro de 2025, korikoeme estreia seu projeto musical "ekókatu", lançando seu álbum non-stop, EKÓKATU, com 24 faixas de lo-fi experimental.

A Edição Bandcamp inclui 6 faixas alternativas adicionais:
6PM (Deluxe Version)
PRÓXIMA FASE (Deluxe Version)
TRANSCENDÊNCIA (Deluxe Version)
ÁGUAS (Deluxe Version)
ENCANTADO (Deluxe Version)
MANHÃ (Deluxe Version)

"ekókatu", em tupi, significa "paz, calma" e captura perfeitamente o significado do projeto: criar beats que trazem leveza ao ouvinte enquanto experimenta novos estilos lo-fi, como jazz, trap melódico e hip-hop.

Produzido por Felipe Pequeno. Licenciado por korikoeme.

Edição Bandcamp | $5

MANHÃ

Joanna Brouk -  Healing Music (Excerpts)

Terry Riley Don Cherry Duo (excerpt2)

EGYPTOLOGY "Sur Les Autres Mondes" (LP/DL)
Release date: 23rd March 2018

Cat.#: HITD 036
All tracks composed, performed & recorded by Stéphane Laporte & Olivier Lamm
Mixing @ Red Bull Studio, Paris
Mastering by Mike Grinser @ Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Images by Lucien Rudaux
Layout by Jean-Philippe Bretin

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

EGYPTOLOGY - Wunder Der Schöpfung (Merveilles de la Création)

Composer and drummer of Dawn of Midi, Qasim Naqvi, releases his debut album for Erased Tapes on May 3rd. 'Teenages' captures the sound of electronics living, breathing and mutating of their own accord – almost autonomously – with only subtle, sparing but perfectly-judged and masterful guidance.

This album is one singular synergy between Qasim and his machine within a broader milieu of sound, also explored by contemporaries Sarah Davachi, Alessandro Cortini, Caterina Barbieri and also the forefather, Morton Subotnick. At points tonal, textural and rhythmic, over six evolving and growing audio organisms, the album flourishes upwards in stages, from initial micro-sonics to something bigger, brighter and anthemic.

With 'Teenages', Naqvi summoned all the material on an analog modular synthesizer – a voltage-controlled sound generating system comprised of multiple modules. Naqvi built this synth over the course of two years and amassed a collection of works for this album. The album chronicles both Naqvi’s understanding of writing for this type of instrument and the growth of the instrument itself:

“I started with just a few modules. And naturally things had to be layered and pieced together but as the synthesiser and its components grew over time, I was able to create broader and more complex strokes in the moment. And by the time I got to ‘Teenages’, it was possible to create a robust, large-scale piece spontaneously. This is very much an experiential album for me because it was borne out of my direct experience of learning the instrument. And as the synthesiser grew over time with more components, it matured. At times I felt like it was even rebelling against my instructions or surprising me with what felt like its own choices. When everything was finished and I was thinking about track titles, this idea of artificial intelligence came into my head; a machine that reacts to your impulses and is capable of giving you something different from what you ask, and even defying you. It felt like different stages of growth and adolescence, and that lead to the album title, ‘Teenages’.”

Deeply rewarding on close listening, Naqvi has created an inspiring and synapse-stimulating new masterwork, within the analogue/modular cannon.

· pre-order 'Teenages' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/QasimTeenages

Teenages

No Tongue

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Qasim Naqvi - No Tongue

**taken from the upcoming Zelienople album "Hold You Up", coming March 13th on Miasmah.

"For their first album in 5 years, Zelienople turns on the current time with a record of low-key decaying songs wrapped in hypnotic, driving rhythms.

The Chicago based trio is back with a stunner of an underground pop album. Their most reverb heavy bombast is gone in favour of pure earth bound intimate tunes that feel like they summon the spirit of the late Mark Hollis. Shrouded tribal percussion and rippling vocals are at the forefront, while looped atmospheres echo in the distance.

Since the release of their last album, vocalist Matt Christensen has been known for pouring his soul out in countless bandcamp releases of singer/songwriter, experimental and ambient offerings. It's hard to keep up with him, but one can't but to admire the dedication and extremely high quality of it all. Mike Weis on the other hand is less prolific, but has become a focused student of Korean Shaman and Buddhist music, often performing in zen based percussive rituals when he's not involved in side projects of improvisational music. Brian Harding is perhaps the most anonymous of the three, yet he is the steady, grounding element on bass that keeps them as one. Together, they create a beautifully realised own voice that feels especially close on their new album. Hold You Up is like a slow walk through a withering world, though one with a sense of refuge. This is music with heart - navigating darkness through light."

Hold You Up

Zelienople - You Have It

'Sigh of Floes' is the first single from "Solace", the forthcoming second album by American neoclassical minimal ambient artist Memorybell. "Solace" will see release on the 2nd of October 2020. The accompanying music video is available for streaming in 4k via YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObtrlGAGuc . More on Memorybell here - http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/memorybell

Taking inspiration from moments of repose, Solace sees Memorybell expand upon the pockets of stillness introduced in Obsolete and enlarge them until one can become lost. Solace explores the kinds of natural phenomena that can calm an anxious mind, such as watching an orange sunrise over snow or sitting alone in a quiet forest. These moments of inspiration provide the core of each song, with a few seconds transformed into expansive meditations.

The mechanics of creating the album mimic the ideas that inspired it. In late 2016, Outerbridge began building a modular synthesizer that became the source instrument, alongside piano. Notes are sustained and re-shaped into resonant tones effacing their initial impulses. Piano phrases bounce between filters and echo into themselves; arpeggiated strings become mist; one thought dissolves into many. This scattering of focus creates a blanket of sound, a feeling that there is nowhere to look but everywhere.

The music of Memorybell is available for licensing (film, tv, web and more) via Hidden Shoal.
www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Memorybell - Sigh Of Floes

from the album 'lullabies and nightmares' available 5/27

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