Shomyo: Buddhist Ritual Chant
Moonlight Mantra
“… clad in brightly colored monastic robes, the choir alternates between monotone stillness and ecstatic polyphony…”
Searching for Home Normal
Home Normal
Location: London, Tokyo, Warsaw
Founded: 2009
Organic-minimal-electronic-folk record label curated by Ian Hawgood, co-run with Ben Jones, with design assistance from Jeremy Bible and Christian Roth. Originated from Tokyo, but relocated later to Warsaw, Poland.
Ian Hawgood, Landtitles, and Francis M. Gri
This week I am spending some time with James Murray‘s exceptionally curated Slowcraft Records
Hotel Neon
Moments
“… a lullaby for all the uneasy…”
Pleq & Hakobune
Adrift (offthesky Remix feat. Silverness)
“… an album of organic ambiance, warm texture, and minuscule glitch…”
James Murray & Mike Lazarev
Suññatā
“… where fragile tones appear to hang in an infinite amount of space…”
James Murray & Mike Lazarev
Suññatā
“… the experience of encountering the non-self, of a sound and its reflection meeting in an empty space…”
James Murray
Slowcraft Radio
Syndication of an episode from Slowcraft label boss featuring his latest favorite tunes
In the studio with Christine Ott
“Some ideas slip away, like beautiful shooting stars. Others, by dint of playing them, begin to structure themselves. But there are no rules…”
Phil Tomsett
The Sound of Someone Leaving (with Aaron Martin)
“… absence is powerful…”