Label Description: Recorded at the junction path from the east to the west，in SHINJUKU.
2008.
Original release : 2008
Kalimba : HIROYUKI
Recoding, editing : Akira Matsuoka
HIROYUKI – HIROYUKI Plays Kalimba (VLZ PRODUKT)
Tag Archives: field recordings
the shallow margins (the humble bee & fields we found) – tule (quiet details)
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
Olio Flux – City (Self-Released)
Label Description: “Listening Spaces” — A New Ambient Album Series
Listening Spaces is a series of ambient albums built for focus, rest, and background listening.
Each release runs approximately one hour, combining minimal ambient textures with natural soundscapes. The emphasis is on space, slow movement, and continuity rather than melody or structure.
All albums will be released individually on Bandcamp under a pay-what-you-want model, but suggested support: $3–$5.
City is a slow-moving urban landscape made out of drifting textures, deep tone, and patient escalation. The music feels like late-night streets, distant lights, and the low hum of a place that never fully goes quiet. Rather than rushing toward a climax, City unfolds gradually, revealing a dense, contemplative world where stillness and motion exist at the same time.
Zeta II Reticuli – Light Waves (Self-Released)
Label Description: Created for Light Waves Collective’s Anthropocene Unseen, an installation shown on Saturday, September 26, 2026 as part of the Luna Fest in Revelstoke, BC, Canada.
Thank you for listening.
Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
Sounds of nature by Ariel Hill, Ciara Linteau, and Julya Hajnoczky.
Synthesizers by zeta ii reticuli.
Dead Branch – september 12, 2026 (Self-Released)
Label Description: all sounds recorded september 12, 2026
mixed – september 12-13, 2026
Antoine Chessex & Dave Phillips – Vrhältnis (Coherent States / Krim Kram)
Label Description: More than twenty years of friendship haunt Vrhältnis, the new album by Antoine Chessex and Dave Phillips, out now on Coherent States and Krim Kram. Its source material reaches back twenty years, originating from live performances during a 2005 joint tour in Lausanne and Basel and a studio session recorded the same year at the Dynamo/Popkredit Studio in Zürich. Both sessions were then filed away, the recordings disappearing into the archive, untouched for nearly two decades, before resurfacing in 2025 and prompting both artists to return to them with fresh ears and renewed intent. The material was subsequently reworked, manipulated, layered and decomposed -in Zürich and in Thailand- into the two extended pieces that form this album. Iischtellig and Tüüfi unfold across an expanded temporal horizon, echoes and non-linear fragments reverberating between what was recorded, what was remembered, and what was made anew.
The strange ritual unfolding within Vrhältnis possesses a particular distant quality – the creators’ specific gravity and distinct compositional traits concealed behind accumulating densities. Musique concrète with strong noise and heavy electronics elements is the obvious point of entry, yet the work exists under a mystical prism that embraces sonic naturalness, as if the sounds themselves carry a memory that predates their recording. Running through both pieces is a haunting vocal presence drawn from the Silvesterchlausen tradition of northeastern Switzerland -an ancient Alpine ritual of winter processions- raw and untethered, arriving from no fixed point, eerie and unmoored. Deep in the forest, spectral voices surface and dissolve. What time is it?
Antoine Chessex is a sound artist based in Zurich. Drawing on long-standing experience in experimental music and sonic arts since the late 1990s, his work engages sound and listening across multiple formats. Emerging from an early practice as an improvising saxophonist and a sustained investigation of noise within performance contexts, his work has traversed plural sonic territories. It has since evolved into a distinctly transversal practice moving between performance, installation, research, improvisation, and composition. Rooted in sonic intensity, Chessex’s early experience as a solo performer and collaborator -including works with Zbigniew Karkowski, Jérôme Noetinger, and Valerio Tricoli- positioned him within international noise and avant-garde communities. As a founding member of the experimental noise-rock band MONNO, he toured extensively across underground scenes while maintaining an active international practice as a solo artist. He has appeared at CTM Festival, Unsound, INA/GRM Présence Électronique, Issue Project Room, Berghain, and Café OTO, among others, and has released works on Tochnit Aleph, Fragment Factory, Editions Cave12, Musica Moderna, Bocian, and Rekem Records.
Dave Phillips is a sonic activist, composer, performer and core member of the legendary Schimpfluch-Gruppe alongside Rudolf Eb.er and Joke Lanz, a collective that has spent four decades wielding sound as a tool of metaphysics, protest and catharsis. Emerging from the radical tradition of Viennese Actionism and pushing it into the terrain of harsh noise, performance art and extreme sound, Schimpfluch-Gruppe remains one of the most uncompromising and influential collectives in the history of experimental music. Phillips’ roots stretch back further still, to his co-founding of Swiss grindcore pioneers Fear Of God in the late 1980s. His solo work is as philosophical as it is visceral, rooted in a radical ecological and humanimal worldview that consistently positions the listener at the edge of civilisational discomfort. He has appeared at No Fun Fest, Colour Out Of Space, Liquid Architecture, Ende Tymes, Bergen International Festival and many others, and has released his music on Schimpfluch, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Ideal Recordings, Misanthropic Agenda and numerous other labels worldwide.
Mastered by Francisco Meirino | Artwork inspired by the Silvesterchlausen tradition | Layout by PH!D
A co-release between Coherent States and Krim Kram.
CS-59. coherentstates.com bandcamp bigcartel 2026
KK-34. krimkram.com bandcamp 2026
Kevin Drumm – Terror Of Time (Self-Released)
Label Description: Recorded here 2026 at The Horror Of Space Studios, Chicaggo(sic) illinois.
Electronics,Wind and synthetic wind.
Dave Phillips – don’t hurt me for your pretty (中国实地录音) [Self-Released]
Label Description:
WARNING: PLEASE DON’T BUY, SELL, TRADE OR DISTRIBUTE THE CD VERSION OF THIS RELEASE, THE CD IS FAULTY.
the audio contained on the cd version is not the material i provided for release, and it does not meet the quality standards that i wish to offer.
the label releasing the CD managed to press an early demo version rather than the final audio master. duh. the demo version differs partly in composition and is only partially mastered, some tracks are unfinished and have different track lengths….
the label, once confronted about this mistake, stopped communications alltogether.
read more here: www.davephillips.ch/discog/dp-dhmfyp
the audio contained on the cd version is not the material i provided for release, and it does not meet the quality standards that i wish to offer.
the label releasing the CD managed to press an early demo version rather than the final audio master. duh. the demo version differs partly in composition and is only partially mastered, some tracks are unfinished and have different track lengths….
the label, once confronted about this mistake, stopped communications alltogether.
read more here: www.davephillips.ch/discog/dp-dhmfyp
credits
released April 1, 2021
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recorded 2014 in taiwan & china by dp
xiexie: yan jun, mei zhiyong, nathalie dreier
TRACK INFOS:
1. yangmingshan cicadas, a storm comes up, different cicadas resound. kalamoji mountains 14 jul 2014
the kalamoji mountains are about an hour and a half drive from taipei and yannick dauby kindly offered to take me there. once we are about an hour’s walk into the lush and dense forest, the endemic yangmingshan cicadas start sounding. we set up our recording equipment and listen, with goosebumps. after about 10 minutes, lightning, then a crack of thunder, then another, and heavy raindrops start falling, increasing fast. speedily we pack up our gear and start heading back. soon rain is pouring in torrents and we can but run. that’s when the yangmingshan cicadas start sounding ecstatic, loud, dense, from all directions. i’m sorry i can’t let you hear that. we are soaked by the time we reach the car.
2. zhangjiajie cicadas and whistlers on the river path to yazizhai.
zhangjiajie national forest park 4 aug 2014
zhangjiajie is one of china’s most popular national parks. hordes of people flock into it daily, and nearly all visit the most easily accessible spots only – usually spectacular viewpoints that end up being very crowded. a larger part of the park though is more or less free of humans.
the path to yazizhai is a simple, ugly, concrete footway along a stream that looks as if built fifty years ago and then forgotten. it leads off from one of the popular, very crowded picnic spots – and suddenly, there’s nobody. the couple of times i walked this path i never encountered another human. the path’s beginning is marked by a tumbledown gate, along the way the concrete has crumbled, sunk, been washed away and is covered by leaves, fallen branches and trees or obstructed by rocks that moved. armies of cicadas are sounding, acccompanied by whistlers and other insectan sonics. as the sun starts setting their volume and density increases.
3. nocturnal anuran soundscape.
huashan shanzhai/panlong 15 aug 2014
4. night rattlers.
huashan shanzhai/panlong 14 aug 2014
5. electric insect solo.
huashan shanzhai/panlong 15 aug 2014
huashan shanzhai / panlong in guangxi province is surrounded by forest-covered karst peaks, is home to the longrui nature reserve and to the two thousand year old huashan cliff murals. a village of a few scattered houses and at the top of it, a hotel, of which we are the only guests, as it’s the off season. hiking is only possible with a guide due to the danger of getting lost. but the sounds are all around and at night symphonies are created. these recordings were made in different spots of the village between 22h and 2 a.m., in gardens, overlooking a pond, by the river, and next to thickets at the edge of the dense jungle beyond.
6. upstream moon thicket swell.
dehang 6 aug 2014
dehang in western hunan province is located in a large geological park with astonishing countryside landscapes, terraced valleys and waterfalls. leaving the village upstream, fields of arable land pass by before wilderness takes over, with the path leading further up to the dramatic liusha (or ‘fading yarn’) waterfall, that feeds the little river into dehang.
this path at night is another story. the moon casts a pale light and i stand before a thicket, ears about a hand’s width away from it, for what felt like hours, entranced by the melody and rhythm that these insects reveal as time loses itself. occasional frogs croak from the stream some metres below.
the photo of the insect on the cover, is taken on this path.
7. typhoon.
ri yue, hainan island 28 aug 2014
the sun and moon bay at ri yue wan is a gorgeous stretch of coastline on hainan’s eastern shore, popular with surfers – it is windy. it is even windier the morning after we arrive. the surfer hostel’s caretaker, informed by weather apps, tells us: this is building up to a typhoon. we have to stay put. but listening to this force is awe-inspiring, it sounds, looks and smells incredible, furious winds, trees bending, objects flying around and crashing, stones moving, dogs barking…
8. waterfall and cicadas.
detian 16 aug 2014
detian waterfall in guangxi province is asia’s largest and the world’s second largest transnational waterfall. vietnam is at the top of these falls. surrounded by karst peaks, the falls drop in three stages to create cascades and small pools. as we arrive in the afternoon and walk along these falls, cicadas sound in the papaya orchards nearby.
9. river path walk to yazizhai.
zhangjiajie national forest park 4 aug 2014
see track 2 for info on the location. apart from a few split-second cuts, this is an unedited recording, as i walk, and the sun is beginning to set.
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recorded 2014 in taiwan & china by dp
xiexie: yan jun, mei zhiyong, nathalie dreier
TRACK INFOS:
1. yangmingshan cicadas, a storm comes up, different cicadas resound. kalamoji mountains 14 jul 2014
the kalamoji mountains are about an hour and a half drive from taipei and yannick dauby kindly offered to take me there. once we are about an hour’s walk into the lush and dense forest, the endemic yangmingshan cicadas start sounding. we set up our recording equipment and listen, with goosebumps. after about 10 minutes, lightning, then a crack of thunder, then another, and heavy raindrops start falling, increasing fast. speedily we pack up our gear and start heading back. soon rain is pouring in torrents and we can but run. that’s when the yangmingshan cicadas start sounding ecstatic, loud, dense, from all directions. i’m sorry i can’t let you hear that. we are soaked by the time we reach the car.
2. zhangjiajie cicadas and whistlers on the river path to yazizhai.
zhangjiajie national forest park 4 aug 2014
zhangjiajie is one of china’s most popular national parks. hordes of people flock into it daily, and nearly all visit the most easily accessible spots only – usually spectacular viewpoints that end up being very crowded. a larger part of the park though is more or less free of humans.
the path to yazizhai is a simple, ugly, concrete footway along a stream that looks as if built fifty years ago and then forgotten. it leads off from one of the popular, very crowded picnic spots – and suddenly, there’s nobody. the couple of times i walked this path i never encountered another human. the path’s beginning is marked by a tumbledown gate, along the way the concrete has crumbled, sunk, been washed away and is covered by leaves, fallen branches and trees or obstructed by rocks that moved. armies of cicadas are sounding, acccompanied by whistlers and other insectan sonics. as the sun starts setting their volume and density increases.
3. nocturnal anuran soundscape.
huashan shanzhai/panlong 15 aug 2014
4. night rattlers.
huashan shanzhai/panlong 14 aug 2014
5. electric insect solo.
huashan shanzhai/panlong 15 aug 2014
huashan shanzhai / panlong in guangxi province is surrounded by forest-covered karst peaks, is home to the longrui nature reserve and to the two thousand year old huashan cliff murals. a village of a few scattered houses and at the top of it, a hotel, of which we are the only guests, as it’s the off season. hiking is only possible with a guide due to the danger of getting lost. but the sounds are all around and at night symphonies are created. these recordings were made in different spots of the village between 22h and 2 a.m., in gardens, overlooking a pond, by the river, and next to thickets at the edge of the dense jungle beyond.
6. upstream moon thicket swell.
dehang 6 aug 2014
dehang in western hunan province is located in a large geological park with astonishing countryside landscapes, terraced valleys and waterfalls. leaving the village upstream, fields of arable land pass by before wilderness takes over, with the path leading further up to the dramatic liusha (or ‘fading yarn’) waterfall, that feeds the little river into dehang.
this path at night is another story. the moon casts a pale light and i stand before a thicket, ears about a hand’s width away from it, for what felt like hours, entranced by the melody and rhythm that these insects reveal as time loses itself. occasional frogs croak from the stream some metres below.
the photo of the insect on the cover, is taken on this path.
7. typhoon.
ri yue, hainan island 28 aug 2014
the sun and moon bay at ri yue wan is a gorgeous stretch of coastline on hainan’s eastern shore, popular with surfers – it is windy. it is even windier the morning after we arrive. the surfer hostel’s caretaker, informed by weather apps, tells us: this is building up to a typhoon. we have to stay put. but listening to this force is awe-inspiring, it sounds, looks and smells incredible, furious winds, trees bending, objects flying around and crashing, stones moving, dogs barking…
8. waterfall and cicadas.
detian 16 aug 2014
detian waterfall in guangxi province is asia’s largest and the world’s second largest transnational waterfall. vietnam is at the top of these falls. surrounded by karst peaks, the falls drop in three stages to create cascades and small pools. as we arrive in the afternoon and walk along these falls, cicadas sound in the papaya orchards nearby.
9. river path walk to yazizhai.
zhangjiajie national forest park 4 aug 2014
see track 2 for info on the location. apart from a few split-second cuts, this is an unedited recording, as i walk, and the sun is beginning to set.
Holodec – Tru Folk (Phantom Limb)
Label Description:
PHTNM059
Holodec – TRU FOLK LP
footsteps, car horns, a drawer sliding shut.
wind chimes, family voices, street corners.
bus stops, parks, a dog barking, a fight on TV.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Taipei, Oakland, Keelung, San Gabriel Valley, South City.
░H░o░l░o░d░e░c░’░s░ ░T░R░U░ ░F░O░L░K░ ░L░P░ ░i░s░ ░b░o░t░h░ ░a░ ░f░o░l░k░ ░r░e░c░o░r░d░ ░a░n░d░ ░a░n░ ░a░u░d░i░o░ ░d░o░c░u░m░e░n░t░.░
It draws from a 15-year archive of field recordings that capture the ordinary music of lived life. Rather than aspiring to aesthetic refinement or spiritual escape, TRU FOLK exists at street-level. It approaches sound as a vernacular practice that values what is common and humanmade. The album functions as a record of presence, tracing how people live, move, and endure through shared environments. In doing so, it extends the idea of folk music into the realm of daily listening, creating a document of survival and place.
p̷̨̛̺̩̣̻̟͇̹̖͛̊͊͒̒͂̿̽͘ͅa̶̧̦̞͕̮̠̐͗́̍š̵̲̙̲̗̳̯̼͐̇̿̆̓́̾͝ť̶̰̿̉̒̽͘ ̸̘̲̀̀͋̈l̸̩̽́̀̆̈͘͠ͅi̷͓̬̳̰͊v̶̫̩̦̱̳͎̟̲̤̽ͅẹ̸̛̾̽̑̋̔͝͠s̷̙̃̚ͅ ̸̛̛͚̭̻̒͐̔̏́͠b̶͚̱͍̟̗̜̤͍͐͛́̊̓̕ḝ̷̡̺̤͙̹̗̥̤̿͝c̶̲̮͇̱̰͒̄̀ͅỏ̷̰́̈̍̓̃͆͝͝m̸̨̤̯̯̯͙͓̱̘̻͑͋̄̿͊̃̍̊é̶̛̞̣̥̝͐̍̆̅̏͆͘͠ ̴̡̮͈̥̼͈̹̱̘̃͐̑̈͐̒̾̓͜͝ṱ̷̻̲̩̼̭̲͉̝̽̌̀̀͋h̶̡͚̹̓͐̋̂̋i̸̧̬̫͇͕̩͗͋͐͋̂͘ͅs̵̢̡͈͖͔̘͔͇̾̊͒̀̌͋̕͠ ̶̨̲͓͉͔̍l̴̤̻̱̜̬̒͆́̎́̐̄͠͝i̴̧̪͓̖̻̻͉͇̹̓f̴̛͍̥̤̣̙̅̓͊̀͆̉̈͝ę̴̰̫̖̖̀̚.̴̫̱̀̆̋̊͘͠ ̴̨̼̰͙̃̈́ẗ̶̗̼̲̗͈̤̹̭̲́̐̈̾͂̅̽͐͘͜͝h̵̛͍̤̜͇̉̔ī̸̞̙̲͇̻̕ş̶̩͕̩̲̈́͠ ̵̩͚́͆̓̐l̷̳͔̥͍̞̑̆ͅí̵̛̩͍́͑͗̈͝f̵͙̠̂̍ē̶̪ ̶̙͔̮̩̱̤̪́̑͘b̴̪̭̹̾ę̶̧̢̱͖̰̑̾c̶̨͚̺̗̬̳̎̀ǫ̵̢͓͖̠̝͎̺̌̔̿̍͘͘͜ͅm̴̼̬̩͒̑͆̋̕̚̚͝e̷̡̛̳͚̰̞̱͊͒͝s̶̢̨̅̀̿̈́̒͑ ̵̡̙̭̤̟͕̘̖͑́̋̄̾̚͜͜͝ṭ̶̢͔̪͎̘̋̾̚ͅh̸̥̪̦̮̆̑͠ȩ̷̝̳͚͕̦̃̆́̆͝͠ͅ ̸̡̰̪̲̣͈̤̆̿̃̈̏́n̶͖̓ê̴̢̧̹̥̙̭̞̂̃̓́̒͊̅̿͋x̵̥͙͉̝̙͍͖̱̭͇̆̾̀́̇̋̓̽̚͝t̸̨̧͙̘̻̞̰̍̆̇̈́̀̎̈́̀̚ ̴̧̖̠̪̙̊̿̍̏͊̏l̵̜̖̺̐̓̿i̴̞̘̲̪͚̪͛̆̓̃͊̓̅̓͒̈́f̷̟̜̻͗͗͒̌̐̎͗̍͜é̸͚̼̬͖̫̯̌̀̍ͅ.̵̧̦̮̼̙͚͍͗͊͗̅͒̚͜
credits
Mastered by Nick Foglia
Artist & Repertoire Direction by Jonathan Jayasinghe
Design by Allek Bien
Photography by Donovan Novotny
Peter Wullen – The Noble Rot (Self-Released)
Label Description:
Field recording Febr 27 2026 at 2pm. Sounds from an exhibition.
“Noble rot is a natural phenomenon caused by a fungus called Botrytis cinerea. This fungus develops on grapes when the weather conditions are favorable, especially in autumn, with alternating periods of humidity and sunshine.”
Inspired by Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built.
Listen with headphones. 🎧
