Label Description: Collects works from 2025 and 2026. If they’re named for a saint, they were made on or around that saint’s feast day.
FANFARE: Everyone needs a fanfare. This is the Fanfare Of Slant Tales. One synth, one chord sequence. Welcome to the fair.
Jungular: A breakbeat broken. A bassline that refuses to sit still. Clouds of harmony modulated by industrial noise.
St Nestor: His saint day is October 27th. The Emperor Maximinian had him killed for killing the emperor’s favored gladiator. The sounds each run in their own time, colliding and mingling.
Andromedy: Tragedy? Comedy? Andromedy! While my melodica gently weeps.
North Face: named for Autechre’s iconic preferred outerwear brand.
Taschen: German For “bags.” A dance for the rhythmless.
St Rose: Her Saint Day is August 23. She wore a heavy silver crown of thorns. Halfway between baroque and chaos.
St Venturino: His Saint Day is March 28th. A charismatic leader, he led a pilgrimage to Rome and was imprisoned by Pope Benedict XII for 8 years. Sounds like an underwater harpsichord playing several songs at the same time.
XGiving: It is a holiday. Solve For X. A mixed meter breakbeat, like climbing stairs on uneven stilts, but the harmony still rises.
St. Athanasius: His Saint Day is May 2nd. He was exiled 5 times over the question of Christ’s divinity. The music is an edgeless cloud of shifting harmony.
Composition & Realization: Kent Williams/Chaircrusher Mastered by Michael Southard music@rumortone.com Cover art: @laraianuzzi.bsky.social Album Title: Inspired by Larry Baker, author of “Tell It Slant,” inspired in turn by Emily Dickinson. Dedicated to Richard Williams(RIP).
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!
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
Label Description: Recorded in Ipswich in the mid 1980’s, using two track reel to reel tape recorders, cassette recorders, SCI Pro One, bass and electric guitars, Boss DE-200 digital delay, Roland TR-606 drum machine, Colorsound fuzzbox, Shure SM50 mic, radio and various effects pedals.
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
Label Description: Esqueça o Black Metal norueguês feito por mauricinho que passa frio na floresta: este é o puro sumo do underground nativista, parido diretamente da baia de um cavalo no coração dos pampas. O álbum traz a saga de Lord Bagual, um sujeito que troca a igreja pelo entrevero, o vinho litúrgico pela canha da braba e o cheiro de incenso pelo perfume de esterco de vaca ensacado. Entre riffs que parecem coice de mula, vocais gravados à base de muita aguardente e letras que ensinam como fazer churrasco de padre, o trabalho é uma homenagem soturna a todos os jaguaras, chinelos e bagaceiros que já levaram um laço na vida. Um disco feito sob medida para aterrorizar as chinocas na saída da missa e fazer qualquer taura da roça pedir arrego. —- Forget Norwegian Black Metal made by rich kids shivering in the woods: this is the pure, raw essence of Southern Brazilian countryside underground, born straight out of a horse stall. The album chronicles the saga of Lord Bagual, a local menace who trades church for street brawls, communion wine for lethal moonshine, and holy incense for the sweet smell of bagged cow dung. Packed with riffs that hit like a mule kick, harsh vocals fueled by cheap booze, and lyrics offering practical advice on how to barbecue priests, this record is a dark tribute to every countryside rogue and troublemaker out there. Craftily designed to terrify churchgoing girls and leave even the toughest farmers begging for mercy.
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.
