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shimmerglisten – Soughing Of The Wild (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

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Label Description: About this release.

shimmerglisten is the cinematic ambient project of Tim Rabjohns, creating immersive soundscapes for “films that don’t exist.” Drawing on film soundtrack traditions and dark ambient styles, shimmerglisten crafts deeply emotional, hypnotic compositions that serve as sonic sanctuaries for life’s most intense and quiet moments.

At the heart of shimmerglisten’s unique sound is extreme manipulation of guitar textures—transformed beyond recognition through effects pedals and experimental sound design—layered with hypnotic synths – using a mixture of old analogue and modern plugins, choral elements, and collaborations with acoustic musicians (eg gongs, singinbowls, harp, double bass and flute). This blend of organic and synthetic creates mysterious, cinematic worlds that invite listeners into a state of “yutori”—the Japanese concept of leaving space to breathe.

Tim’s background spans two decades as founder of the multi-award-winning music production company Shriek, creating sound for Sony PlayStation, BBC CBeebies, Channel 4, and UEFA. After leaving commercial music in 2017, he founded shimmerglisten in 2020 during the pandemic as a return to his experimental roots. Over ten years volunteering with environmental organisations in and around Lewes and Brighton deeply informs the project’s connection to nature and climate themes.

shimmerglisten has released two albums already: the cinematic debut Sound of Shadows (2023) and a more purely ambient LP Equanimity (2025), The latter was composed for his unborn daughter and was played as she was born in an NHS birthing room featuring various nature sounds with a spacey backing.

Live “sound-bath-concert” experiences—featuring sold-out shows at Brighton’s The Rose Hill and Lewes’ Subud Centre—invite audiences to lie down and immerse themselves in multisensory performances with dreamy lighting and nature-inspired visuals.

“Soughing of the Wild” continues shimmerglisten’s compositional journey, offering listeners a sometimes tender and sometimes troubled look at our relationship with the natural world. 

Credits and track notes.

Song credits: all composition, guitars, synth and production by shimmerglisten apart from:

Holding My Smile – Vocal, lyrics and melody, Nina Luna Fridel

Moonbroch – Vocal & lyrics, Isa Howie

Soughing Of The Wild – Voice, Don Agustin Machacca Florez.

Sweet Rain – Vocal, lyrics and melody & harp, Vic Cooper

Swollen Bones – Co-writer, Marston Mortaine

Velleity – additional field recordings, Darinau

Yutori – Gongs, Jo McEwen, backing vocals, Isa Howie

Rand In The Sand, Woe’s Hollow, Parosmia, Valley Of The Rocks – 100% shimmerglisten

Some notes about the songs.

Soughing Of The Wild – featuring a message from an Andean shamanic elder called Don Agustin Machacca Florez. During a trip to the high Andes in Peru in 2024 I was spending time with Don Agustin and his family. He’s a very wise soul and so I asked him if he could send a message to those in the Western world, what would it be? He replied in Quechua (the only language he knows) and I got his son to tell what he said afterwards. In a nutshell he said we need to all start living closer to nature, and respect the natural world if we were going to have a chance of surviving. This is where I got the idea for the concept and the name of this album.

Moonbroch – featuring the voice of talented upcoming folk singer Isa Howie – known for soulful melodies, heartfelt lyrics, and a deep connection to storytelling. I first met her at a Celtic ceremony on a hill near where I live and knew I had to record her some how!

Sweet Rain – was a co – write and features the harp playing and voice of local sound healer Vic Cooper. She’s such a soulful person and I loved the story and words behind this track that I really wanted to collaborate with her. The words were written after the loss of her grandfather – I turned the song into something more ghostly – imagining her grandfather looking on.

Holding My Smile is another co-write – this time with a very talented 13 year old – Nina Luna Fridel – the daughter of a friend of mine. Her best friend moved from London to Milan and she wrote of having to ‘hold her smile’ in place when she was so utterly bereft inside. I took a performance she did with voice and piano on an iPhone and remixed it and transformed it to what you hear here. It has a beautiful naive quality, I think.

Velleity – is an Instagram collab with a Norwegian ambient duo called Darinau who do a lot of lo-fi ambient sounds and field recordings. I loved that they were very nature focussed, so I asked them to send me something.They sent me something quite minimal and I added layers onto it. The work Velleity means the lowest degree of volition, a slight wish or tendency – which really described the minimalism of what they sent me to begin with.

Yutori – a collaboration with another local sound healer – Jo McEwen. This time recordings of gongs and singing bowls, with added vocals from Isa Howie – I wanted to make this more of a track with a journey, rather than just another sound bath. The Japanese concept of “Yutori” emphasizes the importance of having enough space and time to live a balanced, stress-free life – which I thought was appropriate for a gong piece – I hope that the addition of hypnotic synth lines will allow the listener to get in to that state as well!

Social and web inks for shimmerglisten
Web: www.shimmerglisten.com
Bandcamp: shimmerglisten.bandcamp.com
Youtube: www.youtube.com/@shimmerglisten
Instagram : www.instagram.com/shimmerglisten_
Facebook : www.facebook.com/shimmerglisten

Nadja – Necroausterity (Forever Version) [Self-Released]

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Label Description: An extended remix of ‘Necroausterity’ from our album “Labyrinthine,” which track features lead vocals from Full of Hell’s Dylan Walker. Thematically, the track is based around the concept of ‘sokushinbutsu,’ an extreme from of Buddhism involving self-mummification.

Aidan Baker – guitars, drum machine
Leah Buckaeff – bass
Alan Dubin – vocals
Rachel Davies – vocals
Lane Shi Otayonii – vocals
Dylan Walker – vocals

The Legendary Pink Dots – The Legendary Pink Dots’ Hallowe’en Special 2026 (Self-Released)

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Label Description: The ghost was in the refrigerator….
Dormant for years. Just part of the furniture in an expensive , fashionable kitchen.
An ingredient, an under taste, aftertaste. Recently departed yet undeniably present. A memory trapped in the freezing domain , jealous of the new life that developed when a slice of cheese or carton of yoghurt had been there just a little too long.
The ghost had all the time in the World. Not our World .The ghost’s World… parallel with no overlap, no line of reliable communication until one ordinary day in October.
That was the day when the dimensions collided and crumbled .
And The family was away on vacation as the ice melted, the butter melted, the milk boiled, the carrots cooked, the cans blackened and the flames leapt. That’s when the ghost left the refrigerator…..
Restless ,onwards . To the microwave. Off with the child lock, crunching the numbers. Spinning upwards as the flames spread and engulfed the expensive kitchen.
And the ghost in the tv triggered Channel X, the forbidden one. As performers tumbled from the screen, fused together on a burning carpet while the alarm howled… howled with laughter.
And the thermostat flashed crimson and an impossible number jumped from the display, cartwheeled to the curtains, climbed the curtains and behold… the ghosts were upstairs.
Floor 2, floor 3, floor 53. A sky on fire as the frightened city dialled for help. But there was no help.
Because the ghosts in the phones jammed the touchscreens, sang jingles, burned holes in the palms of impassioned believers, who prodded and prodded, and couldn’t give in.Yet they had to give in.
See…This was the day the experts predicted. The was the day we knew HAD to come.
And the star chambers buzzed while bad actors cried ‘blameless’.And fingers tapped buttons that beamed leafy green..
This fire raged from Seattle to Seoul, Penn State to Pyongyang, Santiago, Saskatchewan, Moscow, London, Paris ,Prague. The planet burned brightly as ghosts raised their torches.
The dead took revenge on the living … until no one was living. EK

{AN EeL} & C.P. McDill – The Second Mouse (Petroglyph Music)

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Label Description: The completion of a two-part conceptual recording projects,
the first being Moon Party/Lupus,
previously released on Petroglyph Music.
petroglyphmusic.bandcamp.com/album/740-moon-party-lupus

That earlier album was entirely produced and mixed by {AN} EeL,
and includes sounds recorded and contributed by C.P. McDill.

This album flips the roles.
Produced and mixed by C.P. McDill,
with sounds contributed by {AN} EeL.

{AN} EeL – Sounds & Noises
panpanpanaviandistresscall.bandcamp.com

C.P. McDill – Sounds & Noises
cpmcdill.bandcamp.com

Produced and mixed by C.P. McDill
August 2026
Cover design includes a detail of a painting by Louis Wain
[Public Domain]

Filmmaker – Slammer Weapons EP (Bruto Industries)

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Label Description: Bruto Industries presents Slammer Weapons EP by Colombian producer Filmmaker, the label’s third 12-inch release.

Five original tracks built on EBM, industrial, and electro, infused with elements of dungeon synth and centered around a raw, dark, and distinctive sonic identity.

The tracks explore a range of tempos and have been conceived as club tools: sonic weapons designed to work at varying levels of intensity.

Dob41 closes out the EP with a remix of “Swordmaster,” reimagining the original track with a more extreme and direct approach.
agining the original track with a more extreme and direct approach.

Mixed and Mastered by Dan Böhler.
Artwork by Lucas Salinas.
Distributed by Melting Pot Records.

the shallow margins (the humble bee & fields we found) – tule (quiet details)

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Label Description: Digital half-price until 30th October x

Credits:
Music by the shallow margins (the humble bee & fields we found)
Mastered by Alex at quiet details studios
Artwork by quiet details in collaboration with the shallow margins
Design by quiet details
© quiet details 2026 all rights reserved

For the next in the quiet details series, pleased to present a collaboration between Craig Tattersall, the humble bee, and Alex Gold, fields we found – here as the shallow margins, with tule.

Craig is an essential part of quiet details, opening our series with qd01 lichen cloak on a white stone, and qd09 the observatories (with Ian Hawgood) frost forms – both quintessential embodiments of the label’s ethos. A legendary figure in the world of the most subtle and thoughtful music – Craig has a wonderful back catalogue on his own Cotton Goods and many other excellent labels.

I’m Alex, making music as fields we found and curating quiet details. It is my great fortune to work with Craig – we’ve know each other for a long time now and he’s a dear friend, and I consider him to be one of the most creative artists working today.

Since recovering from lymphoma a couple of years ago, my outlook on my own music shifted in a deeply positive way, more introspective and free – so the timing was perfect for us to start this project, something much discussed.

Inspired by a mutual love of ecology and fragments of sound, and the margins of our lives – shaped into musical form.

Quiet and textural – these pieces are a view through misted glass, clouded and suggesting a reflection on the layers found within. Emotions conveyed through hand-played instruments, magnetic tape and the patina of many generations of recording.

Sharing sounds back-and-forth – piano, harmonium, field recordings, long free-form experiments from collections of instruments and more.

Recorded and looped on multiple tape machines and old samplers – coaxing out the underlying sonic remnants, and bringing those traces into view.

Endless thanks to Craig for this, and his constant inspiration.

The artwork was made as always influenced by the music and idea behind the album – originating from a photo from the humble bee 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, unique and representing the music in its purest form.

thehumblebee.bandcamp.com
fieldswefound.bandcamp.com

Dead Artist – Fantasy Of Progress (Body Musick)

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Label Description: Colombian based live act Dead Artist is back after his contribution to ‘Pulsating Body’ compilation, this time with a 4 track EP titled ‘Fantasy Of Progress’ loaded of frenetic rhythmic noise and harsh electropunk.
In his words “The progress is perfect when it doesn’t touch their fictional castles, when it doesn’t select their sons for war. The progress is perfect when doesn’t dirty their cities of putrid soul.

The watchful eye, the police, and the state hidden hand restrict inhabiting the city.

​Concrete Cemetery / Future Dead Cities

Tracks by Dead Artist
Artwork & mastering by Faunes Efe