Itona is back in 2025 with ‘a distant memory’ - an EP that represents what ENiGMA Dubz’ side project is all about, with stunning bathing soundscapes and subtle percussive pulses perfectly complementing its meditative melodic and harmonic phrasing. 

Third single slumber train winds the tempo down to a place of rest and fulfilment with its luscious and comforting melodies, leading to a super sleepy and mellow lofi chillhop beat, adding a hypnotic element of tranquility. Exquisite production.

slumber train

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As will as the haiku:

revealing in the dark
the sadness of things
a fisherman's torch

this also takes cues from the accompanying image, which together make up Naviar Haiku challenge 609, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A bit of a change for this one, I didn't use anything modular and didn't do everything in a single take.   However with the waves field recording, chord sequence, (technically dyads), played using a custom patch for Dreamsynth from Cherry Audio:  https://cherryaudio.com/products/dreamsynth and the footsteps at the beginning in place. 

I then recoded volume automation for those elements allowing me to live mix them with my performance using the Creature From The ID stand alone synth by Giorgio Sancristoforo: https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/softwares which was passed through delay and reverb effects, in place as I recorded so I could judge their effect. 

With those main elements done I added the extra footsteps and buoy bell. After listening to the Creature sounds and deciding that in places they more resembled short wave radio interference than whale song I added the Morse Code.

Sounds used.

Waves - My own recording but available from freesound: Waves_on_a_Shingle_Beach by Mr_Lamppost -- https://freesound.org/s/800900/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Footsteps: walking slow on stones by launemax -- https://freesound.org/s/249921/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Buoy bell:  S29-19 Bell buoy.wav by craigsmith -- https://freesound.org/s/675693/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Morse Code - generated nn line using Morse Code Translator: https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html

The Sadness Of Things - (naviarhaiku - 609)

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

DARK AMBIENT  - THE BONE YARD

INFO => self-titledmag.com/2018/05/11/ne247-meyers-negative-artist-mix/

NE247: Meyers - 'Negative Artist' Mix

Released February 28th, 2020.


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Anne-F Jacques/Tim Olive, Bistre

Image from -https://aphelis.net/bruce-davidson-photographs/ - Circus by Bruce Davidson

3Sounds - Сircus 2

Luring portal to past memories, beckoned in by an atonal piano.

‘Woven Empty’ comes at a key moment in the history of Sequences and as an end point of an exhausting transitory period in the personal life of its creator musician and visual artist Niels Geybels. The album is the result of an almost obsessive hunt for analog and acoustic sounds, some captured and recorded during travels all around Europe, while others have been crafted through tape experiments with an array of instruments and tools like electric guitar, piano, kalimba, flute, harmonica, contact microphones and 4-track recorders. But there surely is something more that lies beneath the surface of Sequences’ first appearance on vinyl.

In one way or another, human beings have always craved an environment they can call home. While for some this personalized habitat is merely a shelter for others it remains a carefully built reflection of the self. A home can be a physical projection of an inner world, a means to firmly grip and control your own life or a step towards the socially affirmed sense of security. However, in the turbulent and (not so) slowly disintegrating reality, which we are forced to share with other human beings, home is often a sanctuary and an escape. In the past five years Niels Geybels found himself moving house five times. In the process of constantly having to ‘destroy’, pack and rebuild his own world life he’s looked with new eyes at the empty rooms, cold beds and dusty windows that awaited him to start his new life within their domains.

Despite being inspired by the spirits of empty homes and the long-forgotten voices of their former inhabitants, ‘Woven Empty’ is not an album confined within any four walls. Its sonic worlds, being extracted from an array of realities themselves, are instead constantly blurring the listener’s perception of the mundane and the surreal. You might find the music taking you to a confined path amidst a foggy meadow at dawn to realize that you are sleepwalking. ‘Woven Empty’ turns insomniac visions into memories and reoccurring dreams into fears. It stares at you as much as you stare into it. This is the effect of an album created and inspired by emotional turmoil, structure developed through a time-consuming and almost obsessive sound-creating process and then left to quietly wait for you at the end of a 10-year-long hike in the obscure borderlands of drone, ambient and emotional noise music.

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The Duo Ludwig Wittbrodt, that‘s Emily Wittbrodt on cello and Edis Ludwig on laptop and drums. The two develop a thicket of sounds and melodies that absorbs us in a completely unpretentious way and fills us with associations and warmth. Sometimes in the jungle, sometimes under water in the desert, we are reminded of the achievements of both Krautrock and Neue Musik, of early electronic music as well as Drone and Ambient.

At first glance, Emily and Edis seem to be an unequal couple. She has an academic background as a cellist, he is self-taught with his main instrument being computer and programming. She is active in Free Jazz, he drums with the rock band Düsseldorf Düsterboys. On the other hand, both have been active in the Free Improv scene in the German Rhine-Ruhr region for years - for example in ensembles such as The Dorf or Hilde (Emily) and Nasssau or Transport (Edis).

After some concerts and a first tour now is the time for the release of the group‘s debut album. Ludwig Wittbrodt will be released on cassette (yes, on real music cassette) and of course digitally. These four tracks, which evolved from a mixture of improvisation and joint composing, show the musical communication between Edis and Emily, but also the fun of combining moods, styles and instruments, which, according to our dusty listening habits, are surprising and irritating in a pleasant way.

Ludwig Wittbrodt

Ludwig Wittbrodt - Prélude, All Deserts Filled With Water

TR088 - Nakul Krishnamurthy - Ten Thousand Dancing Shivas

TR105 - Yama Yuki - 'Movimento 1'

>>>FREE PALESTINE 

Something is stirring in the deep. Truly ingenious progression can only be found hidden away.

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