The concept that time and space aren’t separate but are woven together into a single, four-dimensional “fabric” of reality, where moving through space affects your experience of time, and massive objects warp this fabric, creating gravity.
Special Thanks to:
Michael Stearns Joy Dyanne Stearns Jos Verboven Ken Hanes Paul Asbury Seaman Mishawn Smith
This collaborative release presents three immersive movements of avant-electronics full of unexpected tonal contrasts and shifts in intensity. Powered by modular synthesis, “concrete” assemblage technique and a pervasive desire to work with the full spectrum of sound, Tokokawa is the product of its two producers’ commitment to a dynamic, ever-renewing sense of aesthetics.
From late 2023 to the present, we started from a simple, agreed interest in collaboration to something that became much more carefully calibrated and conceptually guided.The results are, to my ears, a seamless and strangely organic suite of electro-acoustic pieces that hone in on the “essences” of various avant-electronic genres (“noise,” “drone,” “dark ambient,” etc etc) without succumbing to their more cliched elements. We composed this material almost telepathically (i.e. with a bare minimum of instruction and revision needed) and I’m excited to share the results with my supporters here.
I think our music is a representation of us being conduits for energies that precede us and will survive us, and to that end we also named the three “phases” here with verbal cues indicating different states of matter: “Amanogawa” is either the “Milky Way” or, in direct translation, the “River of Heaven.” “Nurikabe” is a solid plaster wall that, I’m told, occasionally figures into bouts of sleep paralysis. “Jouhatsu suru Yuurei” are “vaporizing ghosts” (the confusion this may cause native Japanese speakers is intentional – I was trying to imagine something ephemeral becoming somehow even more ephemeral).
We aimed at creating pieces which would also have the “properties” of solid, liquid or gas, but not completely: the focus is, again, on cyclical renewal and therefore each of these phases has just enough of an open-ended quality to it.
The CD version of this album on Fourth Dimension is also enhanced by lovely full-color artwork from Paul Takahashi, and expert mastering by Ryoko Ono.
Originally released on 5th July 2024
Y’ng-Yin Siew (Reverse Image), Thomas Bey William Bailey: analog modular synthesis, real-time digital processing
recorded during 2017~2025: (1) recorded apr 2022 (2) recorded apr 2017 * (3) recorded jun 2022 (4) recorded dec 2025 (5) recorded jun 2022 (6) recorded sep 2017 * (7) recorded oct 2022 (8) recorded nov 2024 (9) recorded apr 2017 * (10) recorded oct 2022
* – taken from unreleased pre-flyoversx 12-track demo
Label Description: Current catalogue number is : MF349
Mean Flow is a solo project of Theofil Tsiolakakis from Thessaloniki, Greece.
All 17 tracks of this album have written and recorded between 13th February to 5th of March 2026. Total duration is 01:33:21 (10 main tracks plus 7 bonus (collaboration) track(s), so totally 17 tracks).
Many thanx to the following musician for his collaboration with me to the bonus tracks of this album :
– {AN} Eel (Neal D. Retke) (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) for my rerwork to his track : no 11 “Monks Lick Lips”.
There are also 3 previous remixes/reworks by me to his music and 3 by him to mine on my previous albums : “Enclosed Sky”, “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”,”Vauge Emotions”, “Unsolved Labyrinth Remixed (By Various Artists)” & “Forgotten Crimes”. Also many Mean Flow tracks included in various artists compilations released by {AN} Eel netlabel called and I hope there are more in the future.
– Sabila Orbe (Rancagua, Chile) and his projects Filmy Ghost, Insectoid Girl, Yaka-anima and Miss Spectra (Rancagua, Chile – Born: Cali, Colombia) (along with Sabila Orbe) and their project Humanfobia for our collaboration track (me adding music to their voice track) : no 12 “Fire Walk With Me”.
There are more collaborations with the projects above with 32 tracks inluded on my previous albums “Enclosed Sky”, “Eternal Call”, “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”, “Greatest Failure”, ”This Feeling”, ”Darkness Versus Light”, “Humanfobia’s Letargo Sumergido E.P. Reworks”, “Subduction Zone”, “A Monument To The Ruined Age”, “Humanfobia’s Realidades Paralelas Reworks”, “Reductio Ad Absurdum”, the compilation “Mean Flow x Humanfobia – ▼👻░░░ (2022)”,”Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure”, “Ambient Landscapes”, “Liquid Material”, “Demolition Of Ideals” & “Exhausted”. Also many Mean Flow tracks included in various artists compilations released by Mist Spectra/Humanfobia netlabels called “Cian Orbe”, “Gothic Spectra Compilation”, “Internet Daemon Netlabel” & “Dawn Of Darkness”.
– Marco Lucchi (Modena, Italy) for my rework in his 4 tracks : no 11 “The Scarecrow [Naviar Haiku # 629]”, no 12 “Arpeggios Are Very Selfish N*5”, no 13 “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen” & no 14 “Slowly Gliding [Naviar Haiku # 632]”.
Other 289 Marco Lucchi’s tracks, remixed/reworked by Mean Flow are also included in my previous albums “Viridis Achates”, “Inmost Silence”, “Floating Thoughts”, “Blurred Imagination”, “Eternal Question”, “Black Veils Over Sad Tales”, “Enclosed Sky”, “Eternal Call”, “Dark View”, “Noise Elegance”, “Distant View”, “Obscure Details”, “Greatest Failure”, “This Feeling”, “Marco Lucchi’s 100 First Reworked Tracks”, ”Darkness Versus Light”, “Subduction Zone”, “Winter Tales”, “Anchored Dreams”, “Vauge Emotions”, “Directed Public Awareness”, “A Monument To The Ruined Age”, “Reductio Ad Absurdum”, “Tunnel Vision”, “Ιnsufficient Εnergy”, “Low Profile”, Secret Place”, “Unknown Aspects”, “Endless Destination”, “Timeless Experiences”, ”Elegant Plan”, “Under Epidermis”, “Temporary Respite”, Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 2″, Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 3″, “Τhe Τruth Οf Εach”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 4”, “Dead End”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 5”, “Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 6”, “Ambient Landscapes”, “Liquid Material”, “Social Castration”, “Creative Destruction”, “Forgotten Crimes”, “Rights Vs Prejudices”, “Marco Lucchi’s Mello_w_tron Reworked”, “Hollow Impressiveness”, “Profit Sacrifices”, “Under Destruction”, “Preset Sensitivity”, “Unhealed Scars”, “Traceless”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 7”, “Pointless”, “Decriminalized Pleasures”, “Hidden Items”, “Marginalized Snapshots”, “Self Destruct”, “Law Of Action And Reaction”, “Pensive Mood”, “40 Years”, “Demystification”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 8”, “Tired”, “Outside”, “New Member”, “Sad But True”, “Demolition Of Ideals”, “Soft Razors”, “Guilty Silence”, “Fundamental Elements”, “Imagination Release”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 9”, “Truth Or Dare”, “Short Journey, Infinite Distance”, “No Fair”, “Cornucopia Of Pleasures”, “Green”, “Unpleasant Expectations”, “Sky Limit”, “Destruction Signature”, “Mortgaged Life”, “Life Will Never Stop Being Unfair, Very Unfair”, “Crushed Life”, “Haunted Figurehead”, “Truth Relativism”, “Abnormal Regularity”, “Attribution Of Blame”, “Convalescence”, “Abuse Of Power “, “Unjust Guilt”, “Democratic Dictatorship”, “Clarity Over Compulsion”, “Fight The Sickness”, “Online Decay”, “Negotiated Portrayal”, “Meaningless Purpose”, “Mental Reset”, ”Allegorical Interpretation’ & “High Mental Load”‘.
– Scott Lawlor (Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.) for my remix to his track : no 14 “Glittering Lights Above The Clouds”.
There are also 7 tracks made by Scott Lawlor and reworked/remixed by Mean Flow for a collaboration album called “Nocturnes, Volume 8”. It’s a part of project where many people rework/remix all of some of these tracks for collaboration albums. First 2 parts of these reworks are included also on my previous album “40 Years”.
– Finally ArtKlang, a collaboration project between Gildas Brugaro and his solo project “SRVTR” (Rennes, Bretagne, France – born: Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France) for my rework to his track : no 13 “Nuit Blanche”. ArtKlang is a collaboration project between Gildas Brugaro (solo project “SRVTR”) (Rennes, Bretagne, France – born: Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France) and Bruno Green (Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada)
There are other 13 SRVTR reworked tracks by me included on my previous albums : “Black Veils Over Sad Tales”, “Dark View”, “Obscure Details”, “Dead End”, “Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure” & “Ambient Landscapes”. There was also a collbaration track of ours called “Bug Sound” and there were 16 remixes by many various artists to this collaboration track, including also 2 remixes by each of us (Mean Flow & SRVTR), that released as an album called “SRVTR/ Mean Flow : Bug Sound Remixed” in SRVTR’s bandcamp link : srvtr.bandcamp.com/album/srvtr-mean-flow-bug-sound-remixed. This collaboration track “Bug Sound” and my Mean Flow remix of it were included on my previous album “Eternal Question”. Also he remixed Mean Flow’s track “Frozen Lake (SRVTR Remix)” included on my previous album “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”.
All other music, keyboards, any kind instruments, sounds-noises, sound effects to rest of the songs made by Mean Flow (Theofil Tsiolakakis), Thessaloniki, Greece.
Many thanx to all people who like and support my music.
It gives me great joy to announce that next in the quiet details series is an artist I’ve followed for a long time and have a huge amount of love for, the irrepressible Scott Monteith, here as Deadbeat.
Since the turn of the century, Scott has been at the forefront of the electronic music world, probably known best for his fathoms-deep dub, techno and house excursions. Releases on ~scape, Wagon Repair, his own BLKRTZ, Cynosure, Echochord, Visionquest and many others cemented him as a mainstay of the scene. There’s much more too – live performances, experiments across genres and collaborations with artists such as Paul St. Hilaire, The Orb and Lee Scratch Perry, Monolake, The Mole, Om Unit, Sa Pa and many more, have shown him to be as versatile as he is talented.
So it’s an honour to welcome him to quiet details, and he’s outdone himself with the next-level incredible Kansai Botanticals
Inspired during a packed tour of Japan, in his downtime Scott explored the countryside of Kyoto and the Kansai region. While there he collected the sounds and atmospheres, and this album is their musical manifestation.
A journey of hypnosis and textural bliss – vast subs meet glittering highs, held together by lush and vivid synthetics. Scott’s huge technical skill brings all these elements together in a beautifully elegant way, creating a vibrantly chromatic world that’s mesmerising at every step.
Made as a single piece, shared on the CD version in its original form, this is Deadbeat at his deepest and most psychedelic – truly a masterpiece from this revered artist.
As Scott says: “The autumn colors were in full bloom, and the incredible serenity and beauty of the place were beyond words. Perhaps the most breathtaking of all was visiting the former studio of Yusai Okuda, which is where a great many of the photos I’ve included in the folder for potential cover ideas were taken.
In addition to his gorgeous silk dying works, the entire place uses water in various still pools to reflect the forest around it, creating some truly Lysergic scenes. The garden behind the house is filled with a collection of ceramic sculptures of diverse sizes, which you are invited to pour water into. The water then filters through several small openings and drips into the resonant ceramic body, producing a mind-blowingly complex range of rhythms and tonalities.
Needless to say, we spent a good long time recording and documenting these little wonders, and those recordings, along with ones made walking in the forest adjacent, served as the initial source material and inspiration for this work.
If it manages to effectively convey even a portion of the spirit of that wonderful place, which so enriched our souls, I couldn’t be happier.”
Huge thanks to Scott for this stunning addition to the series. The artwork was made as always influenced by the music and idea behind the album – originating from a photo from Scott which was then captured with analogue photography and processed here at quiet details studios.
As usual, the album is presented on the physical edition, a custom six-panel digipack with a separate fine art print too. The CD also has a special long-form continuous mix of the album, created by the artist and representing the music in its purest form – highly recommended.
A ponderance on the cosmic horrors in the shadows, just beyond the veil of what you can see.
The sky and the cosmos are one.
Special thanks to everyone at FromSoftware for Bloodborne, which served as the inspiration for and subject matter of this album.
All sounds designed by rauðvik at Overlook Studios Recorded, mixed, and mastered by rauðvik at Overlook Studios Cover photo by Nephron – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9716436 Text added by rauðvik
Memorial continues the path opened by Sacrifice. After the burning, there is stillness. Time spent among what remains. Ashes settle, memory lingers, and the question is no longer how to begin again, but what can finally be released.
The record moves through remembrance toward letting go and acceptance — a quiet reconciliation with what cannot be carried further. It speaks from a single, unpersonified voice: a shared human state shaped by loss, exhaustion, love, and the fragile will to endure.
At its center stands a forest hut: not a physical place, but a retreat of the mind. A solitary structure in the woods, an escape from the collapsing outer world, where everything decays, familiar bonds loosen, and people drift apart and return changed. The hut becomes a memorial itself — an obelisk in the forest, a burial site for former lives, a place one returns to alone to contemplate what remains.
Inside, memory becomes both refuge and weight. What was meant to be forgotten stays. What was meant to last dissolves. Grief softens into stillness.
Unlike Sacrifice, Memorial offers a different kind of rebirth. Rebirth here is indistinct — a quieter transformation found in letting go rather than becoming. Only in its final moments does movement return: a fragile renewal, like thawed water finding its way to a river.
Memorial is dedicated to more than one loss. It holds space for the dead, for love that has outlived itself, for time that cannot be returned, for friends forced to flee, and for selves left behind. Its meaning remains open, shifting with each return — a structure in the forest, unchanged, waiting.
Information about vinyl and CD editions will be available very soon; as usual, they will be released via Avantgarde Music.
Music – Andrey Novozhilov and Tim Yusupov Screwdriver solo on track “When the Ashes Grow Cold” – Artem Selyugin of Show Me A Dinosaur, Somn, hopeyouwell Sound – Mikhail Kurochkin Artwork – Margot Makletsova