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Exclusive track by Rime Trails taken from the upcoming album 'Sacred Groves' released through Shimmering Moods Records.

"Music for springtime in eight parts. Recorded between April and September, 2016, using various instruments, synthesizers, and a microphone that is now retired. A big thanks goes out to the many birds who were kind enough to lend their voices throughout, wherever they might be now."

Release Date: 9/03/18

Available as a white Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 50 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered.

White editions handmade wallets with envelopes, small and large sizes. Photo's, transparent bag...

Pre order:

www.shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-groves

Taken from the upcoming album 'Afternoon Hours'...

Audio: Ned Milligan

Mastering: Taylor Deupree

Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Far Away Music' released through Preserved Sound...

Far Away Music sees Benjamin Louis Brody reimagine previous compositions to create what he calls “music inside of music”...

“When I started this project, I asked myself whether I could give my music depth perception, similar to a painting or drawing – the classic illusion of train track perspective that gives a painting a certain sense of distance,” says Brody. “With Far Away Music , I set out to do that with sound.”

“The music and sounds you hear could only have been created through computer technology. By manipulating the speed and texture its allowed me to change the perspective of the original content,” says Brody. “Far Away Music represents how I experience my work in a more personal way – it’s vast and subconscious.”

Having composed for NYC’s The Chelsea Symphony, independent films and various mixed ensembles, Brody has also worked with or for composers such as Elliot Goldenthal, Tom Waits and Philip Glass. Far Away Music is Brody’s first album on Preserved Sound.

Release date: February 26. Pre-order here:

www.preservedsound.bandcamp.com

Track taken from the upcoming album 'A Score for Darling' released through Sonic Pieces on Mar 23, 2018 (Worldwide)...

A Score for Darling is both the sound track for the Danish film "Darling" (2017) as well as a collection of outakes from it.

Raúl Pastor Medall (Rauelsson) and Erik K Skodvin (Svarte Greiner & 1/2 of Deaf Center) were paired together to work on the accompanying music after the director, Birgitte Stærmose wanted to try a new direction. Both together and individually they have created a highly affecting collection of pieces to a film that is not afraid of pushing the emotional content to the max, centered around the story of a dancer on the rollercoster ride of her life. This is also the first time either of them have made a full lenght sound track, making it their debut on the big screen.

The music and instrumentation heard on the album is brimming with dynamics and diversity, featuring violin by Christoph Berg, cello by Anne Müller as well as a mass of other sounds like church organs, synths, guitar amp violation, electro-acoustics, piano and more, all layered together into 15 beautiful and devastating fragments of mood. The final piece of the album "Breathe" - featuring Otto A Totland on piano and Katinka Fogh Vindelev (We like We) on voice - can be seen as their own lamenting end title to a longer period of work with this album, finally finished.

www.sonicpieces.com

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Hidden For The Eyes' released though Slowcraft Records on 9th March 2018 (Pre-orders from 2nd March)...

'Solar System for Nina' is a farewell to a girl who decided to leave this world in 2015. She was probably the most kind-hearted creature I met in my life. The symbolism of the song is based on “prayer” for freedom – “May the shields be eradicated and may not be more created.”

Recitation / singing of this text resonates with the opening of three different parts of the composition that symbolize my idea of 3 planets of an extraterrestrial solar system somewhere in the Universe. All planets combine the same motif as the symbol that it is the same star system. It is a string loop that is slowed down during the first two planets and symbolizes the gravity and rotation of the planet. Since I was deeply convinced that Nina is now free, I imagined what it would be like when she visited them when she wanted to. The planets descend gradually from the farthest to the closest to the central star.

The first visited planet is rotating in the opposite direction, wrapped in a thin atmosphere, less massive than Earth, but too cold to have life. Its surface, however, offers breathtaking views and stunning auroras borealis (whistling crackling sound is a aurora borealis radio record). From 2:52 begins the middle and the most massive planet – the iovian gas giant. There are peaceful areas on the planet, but huge tornadoes, unbelievable storms of enormous sizes and catatonic forces are still prevailing. From 6:16 the third, closest, smallest and warmest planet comes. It is a green, living oasis. There are countless beings who are in harmony with themselves and the world they live in. - Lukáš Bulko (Alapastel)

www.slowcraft.bandcamp.com

www.slowcraft.info

www.alapastel.com

Bruno Sanfilippo’s newest album, Unity, is an emotionally evocative collection that moves the listener through moments that exalt the senses. Through cyclical and minimalist sound, the composer creates visceral experiences that are both ethereal and hauntingly beautiful.

Bruno Sanfilippo is a classically trained musician and composer. His focus alternates between the exploration of minimalist piano concepts and electroacoustic music. He is obsessed with the search for new and unique qualities in music - the amazing, the magical and the deep. In dreams, there's no imagined thing that's too absurd, too strange, and Bruno Sanfilippo's music comes from that inexhaustible and shameless source.

www.dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/unity

Exclusive track taken from the upcoming album 'Landmarks' released through Constellation Tatsu...

Collaborating for the first time, Will Long and John Daniel combine their methods using tape machines, loops, and computers to score a reimagining of Peter Weir's film and Paul Theroux's novel "The Mosquito Coast". Sourcing inspiration from a view of the film and book as a historical pendulum, the musicians found that these reinterpretations left them nostalgic for a different time, something that's only partly imagined, and without the defined predictions about the life cycles of mass culture based on our limited understanding of current events.

Celer is the solo project of Will Long, an American musician, writer, and photographer living in Tokyo, Japan.

Forest Management is John Daniel, an American musician currently living and working in Chicago, Illinois.

Release Date: 02/05/18

www.ctatsu.bandcamp.com

Taken from the upcoming album 'Little Things' by Dalot & Sound Awakener...

'Little Things' is the first full length collaboration between Vietnamese sound artist Nhung Nguyen (Sound Awakener) and Greek sound artist Maria Papadomanolaki (Dalot). The album marks the completion of a 1.5 year-long exploration of common threads and interests between the two artists most notably the quotidian, the minute and the unnoticed often found in the fringes of big cities, busy landscapes and trajectories. It starts from ground-level interactions, field recordings of soundwalks in parks, on the streets, hydrophones in rivers and contact microphones on bridges and delicately moves to the ethereal; building up atmospheres of dreamsequences that differ from track to track.

‘Little things’ was created by a process of exchange and extraction of draft ideas between the two artists. The creative and personal connection was deep which results in a sense of intuition and mystery throughout the album. Each track has undergone iterative transformations until its final stage, with each artist peeling off layers and sculpting textures and moods prompted by words, memories and places. While, ‘Strangers in the city’ places the listeners in an urban junction, still with their eyes closed, ‘all that fall’ contemplates on the beauty of fallen leaves, autumnal afternoons and the smell of rain. In pieces like ‘a good day to be alone’ the two artists create feather-like motions resembling invisible drizzles of emotions, solitude and dreams filling up an empty, quiet room on a sunny morning. Elsewhere in the album, as in ‘sailing’, darkness supersedes lightness in a long dive into unknown waters.

The album creates a journey for the listener; a journey of changes between the two artists’ lives; the changes in seasons, life-events, ordinary moments  and creative processes that affected the perspectives and emotional states within which this album was produced. Rainer Maria Rilke has written that ‘the only journey is the one within’. In ‘Little Things’ the two artists offer an adventurous exploration of internal landscapes through sound and memory, the light and shadow encountered within. Nguyen and Papadomanolaki embark in a musical dialogue in an effort to create a new common dialect between them, a place where they can feel both familiar and lost.

Music: Dalot & Sound Awakener

Mastering: James Plotkin

Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for the overwhelming support throughout 2017. I know we always say it, but we really have been blown away by your kind words and encouragement. You guys are seriously awesome! Also a huge respect to all the artists involved with the record label this year; Caught In The Wake Forever, Hotel Neon, Irving Park, Matteo Uggeri, Aaron Martin, øjeRum, Norihito Suda, Steven Kemner, Craig Tattersall, Lizzie King, Andrew Hargreaves, Nieves Mingueza, James Plotkin, Ian Hazeldine, Ian Hawgood, Taylor Deupree, Gideon Wolf, Aaron Martin, Leonardo Rosado and Bill Seaman.

Born On Christmas Day...

Dan locked himself away for a few hours late last night composing an exclusive mix of audio taken from the 2018 Fluid Audio / Facture release roster. Artists included are: Jason van Wyk, Ben Chatwin, Humble Bee, Marconi Union, Antonymes, Peter Jørgensen, Tape Loop Orchestra, Cameron Day, Dalot & Sound Awakener, Giuseppe Cordaro, James Murray, Kirill Mazhai, Moss Covered Technology and The Seaman & The Tattered Sail.

Headphones advised!

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

Taken from the forthcoming album ‘Taken Apart’ on Fluid Audio…

Taken Apart is a document of the city and the human psyche and 21st century social politics. It incorporates sequences of concrete sound collages and reportage-like location recordings set against layers of string, synth and choir. The follow up to 2015’s Broken Memory Machine, Taken Apart shares many of it’s predecessors traits. However, the reflective romanticism is gone – if Broken Memory Machine told a story from the past, Taken Apart unfolds right here in the wide eyed present, with the listener at the white hot centre of it all.

Music - Phil Tomsett

Mastering - James Plotkin

Photography - Craig Tattersall & Lizzie King

Design - Daniel Crossley