Audio Obscura ~ Gathering Silence

We love the idea of a field recordist wandering around the countryside, recording the sounds of old and long-abandoned churches.  The album begins with a haiku from Ian Joyce: Microphone in hand, I sit inside the old church, Gathering silence.

V/A ~ Gomel, 1986

In her book Chernobyl Prayer, Svetlana Alexievich says that “Chernobyl is, above all, a catastrophe of time. The radionuclides strewn across our earth will live for 50,000, 100,000, 200,000 years. And longer. From the perspective of human life, they are

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki ~ Wet Petals

The ambient music of Hirotaka Shirotsubaki, a sound artist from Kobe, Japan, is as serene as a leaf on still water. We drink it in deeply, like a beautiful verse of poetry. Untroubled by whatever may pass, Wet Petals gleams as brightly

Naviar Records ~ Naviar Series 006

Music is inspired By poetry and stories Music breathes slowly   Poetry is here Inside the ambient ice Inside Naviar   Naviar Records For the sixth in their series Produce glowing drones   Police sirens that Flash by in the wink of