Label Description: Solitary, minimal and otherworldly guitar vignettes, recorded during nighttime/AM sessions throughout 1997, subsequently shelved and eventually forgotten over time due to other commitments. Recently unearthed, and mastered by JKB in 2025.
Label Description: Waxing Crescent is very happy to announce the new project from xlmxkhfi (al-makhfi, which translates to the hidden one). Based in Beirut, Sarah Huneidi is an editor and audio visual artist, and is co-founder of Shatr, a collective that aims to excite, nurture and showcase experimental modes of poetry and literature. I discovered Sarah thanks to Clair (HotGem), and listened to her EP ‘afterthought’ on VV-VA, which showcases ambient, dream pop sounds, produced through processing textures, vocals, and melodies on both hardware and software.
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Persian-American ambient producer sohme joins Phantom Limb’s Spirituals imprint for debut album Palm, a study of new fatherhood and changing stages of life for synthesis, acoustic instrumentation, and field recording, integrating a practice in architecture and two distinct cultural heritages.
Saumon Oboudiyat, aka sohme, is a Persian-American sound artist, producer and architectural designer based in Philadelphia. His music is informed by a decade of work in architecture and a lifetime of musicianship. Through a careful balance of soft harmonics, Eno & Lanois-esque melodic detail, slo-mo chordal shifts, and drifting, dreamlike field recordings, the music of Palm reflects Oboudiyat’s entry into parenthood and the accompanying transformation therein. “When I began working on the album in New York, we were just starting to see the other side of the pandemic,” he writes. “Upon completing mixing in my home studio, my wife and I prepared to welcome a new life into this world.”
Opening track and first single “These Are All My Thoughts” combines monastic reflection with a swelling and sirenic pathos, employing the kind of cosmic redolence that conjures early space travel documentary or hermetic contemplation. Hues of twentieth century German ambient production glitter and enshadow its powerful sonics.
Later, “The One, The Other” is more reminiscent of Middle Eastern musics. An oud-like pluck shudders and shimmers about broken and nonlingual vocal snippets, a howz of still water amidst a desert plain of sparse and arid instrumentation. Another key moment is “Signal”, and its deceptively pop-oriented chord structure. Housing clattering steps, shooting stars of high frequency melody, and single notes of conical synthesis that resemble the Persian karna, its soundworld is warm and enveloping, safe and secure.
sohme joins A Lily, Jan Esbra, Eamon Ivri, Sachi Kobayashi, Dau, Ibukun Sunday, Beqa Ungiadze, Suso Saíz, Menhir, Francsesca Ter-Berg, Dylan Henner, and Pram of Dogs (and others) on Phantom Limb’s Spirituals imprint, a sub-label offering works of high grade, emotive ambient and experimental music from emerging artists from across the world. Palm is his debut release.
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スティールパン、EMSシンセをはじめとした様々な楽器に精通し、NHKドキュメンタリーのサウンドトラック他、多岐に渡る制作をするベテラン町田良夫。
ジョン・ゾーン、クリス・コルサーノなど即興ジャズ界隈でのセッション、実験的ガムランの主宰、TVドラマ、舞台音楽のサウンドトラック、意欲的な実験音楽を発表するポルトガルのドラマー、ジョルジュ・ケイジョ。
両者によるコラボレーション作品”TOKYO”をリリースする。
両者は2016年にベーシスト千葉広樹と共に”LUMINANT”CDを制作しており、今作でも2人は息の合ったコラボレイトを見せている。
それぞれの録音素材をJorgeが中心となりミックス、編集している。
町田のスティールパン、ガムラン、ウクレレなどのアコースティックサウンド、Jorgeのライトなドラミング、電子音が一体となり、Jorgeがイメージした”TOKYO”を形成する。
それらのサウンドの在り方は非常に絶妙なバランスを持ち、アナログとデジタルの差を越えて完全に融合している。
そのサウンドは、東京の持つソリッドなイメージを具現化したものというより、都市の喧騒のすぐ隣に存在する”静けさ”や”儚さ”を感じさせる。
アスファルトや眩いまでのビルディングからの太陽光の照り返しから逃れ、ほんの少し入った路地裏の、ひんやりとした日陰の涼やかさと静けさ。
遠くに響く首都高の音、デジタルサイネージの喧騒、その隙間に響く寺院からの鐘の音。足元に響く地下鉄の振動。
「東京」の持つ華やかさの数歩横で感じるメランコリックさや憂いを思い出させる、非常に
情緒に富んだ作品となっている。
From his work with steelpan, metal percussion and EMS synthesizers to his NHK documentary scores, seasoned multi-instrumentalist Yoshio Machida’s path has been wide-ranging. He now joins Portuguese drummer Jorge Queijo, whose practice spans free jazz, experimental gamelan, theatre soundtracks and collaborations with John Zorn and Chris Corsano.
Their latest release, TOKYO, follows 2016’s LUMINANT with bassist Hiroki Chiba, and again the two reveal a natural, intuitive chemistry. Queijo handled the mixing and editing, shaping their recordings into a cohesive whole.
The result is a delicate, atmospheric portrait of the city. Machida’s acoustic palette—steelpan, gamelan and ukulele—blends with Queijo’s light percussive touch and electronic textures to create something that moves gracefully between analog and digital.
The Tokyo they evoke isn’t the hard-edged metropolis, but its shadowed backstreets: the hush of a narrow alley, the clang of temple bells cutting through LED screens, the subterranean rumble of the metro beneath the drone of the expressway.
Tokyo is an album of nuance and atmosphere, capturing the fleeting stillness that lingers alongside the city’s constant motion.
English translation: Cal Lyall.
Label Description: Dedicated to Leif Elggren.
Label Description: One of the Best Times Ever
Was Sex on the Beach
And not the Drink – Nothing
Metaphorically, Wet Wild & Juicy
Sex on the Beach, Stars in our Eyes
The Glow of reckless Youth Riding
Waves of Pale Moonlight
I Saw the Stars that Night, But they
Were Outshone
Always there
But
Always Alone – A Blink
in Time, A Moment in Stride
Inside so Close
The Dance of Sighs,
The Pitter Patter pattie
Try it on for Size ~
It’s What passes for Clase
Classy
Both Here
And Far
And Wide ~
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Review from On The Fringes of Sound!
http://www.onthefringesofsound.com/2025/08/heaven-topology-describer.html
CDs available here and from the artist in a super limited quantity!
Please follow and support the artist here:
heaventopology.bandcamp.com
heaventopology.net
Previous release on Ingrown here:
ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/worldpath-yggdrasil
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ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/bup-land-anomaly-audio
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This is a particularly slow performance. I’d gone into it somewhat sleep-deprived, though by the third and fourth pieces, I was getting energy back from the music, enough energy to leave more space and allow the rests to speak. Thank you to the audience for staying with me.
The hollowbody Univox vibrates quite a lot–there’s a lot of air in there. Consequently, there’s a lot of air in these timbres: French horn, muted trumpet, accordion, glass harmonica timbres. This one’s a step toward a collaboration with silence.
The titles this week are references to the visual art of Louise Blyton. Thank you for listening!
Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming
Signal chain: Univox Coily in Bb F Bb F Bb C tuning > Reuss Effects Understate, Reuss Effects Repeater Fuzz, Balls Effects KWB > Vox Wah > Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe Deluxe > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with FFT pitch shift, tremolo, convolution reverb, AudioThing Reels.
Impulses: Inchindown Oil Tanks ( Matt Gray mattg.co.uk ), silent5 Biamp MR/140 (Flat), St. Paul’s Huddersfield (near), Fort Worden Cistern
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