Warp Records

Vlek

Sensitive Rec.

Circus Company

Circus Company

Field Records

RVNG INTL.

MUTE

The Ambient Institute

WRWTFWW Records is very happy to announce the release of Interwoven, the deeply moving collaborative album from Ken-ichiro Isoda and aus (Yasuhiko Fukuzono). Recorded between Hachijo Island and Tokyo, Interwoven distills two visionary voices of Japanese ambient and electronic music into a single breath of feather-light and quietly luminous meditative sound. Isoda is a revered figure of New-age and environmental music whose work on Oscilation Circuit - Série Réflexion 1 (originally released on famed label Sound Process) has long attained mythic status. He composes, notably with harp and wind instruments, produces contemporary music and video game scores, and crafts his very own brand of ambient music from the volcanic island of Hachij?-jima. Tokyo-based electronic composer and synth master aus is known for tender, melody-driven soundscapes. From the two artists comes a dialogue suspended between land and sea, bridging the generation gap and the physical distance between them. What began as a series of sketches - impressions of water, islands, and shifting light - gradually evolved into an exchange without explanation, a correspondence of sound that dissolved boundaries. In that anonymity, both artists discovered an uncommon freedom: a place where each could move lightly and intuitively, without expectation. The music drifts with a gentle, intuitive grace: lingering piano, soft cinematic synths, and field recordings that unfold like whispered recollections, while flute and saxophone lines pass through like occasional breezes - a human presence felt as warmth more than form. Interwoven is music for those who cherish stillness and the delicate beauty of the everyday. It's music for admirers of Satoshi Ashikawa, Midori Takada, Satsuki Shibano, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Takashi Kokubo, Brian Eno, and all who seek a quiet refuge in sound.

PAN

Planet Mu

XL Recordings

sequenzial shift

.Vril and Rødhåd return with the third chapter of their ongoing collaboration OUT OF PLACE ARTEFACTS - A COMPLEX INTERPLAY OF ZEROS AND ONES will be released via WSNWG on the 20th of February. Featuring GiGi FM, Sara Clarke and Peryl the album moves toward calmer soundscapes and more deliberate compositions. While the preceding volumes laid out the duo's ongoing investigation into the numinous aspects of sound and texture, this chapter can be conceived as a clearing of sonic space. Yet beneath the surface, the familiar tension between disorder and clarity shapes the record's structural framework. What emerges is an album of uncanny cinematic melancholia, the traces of which were already present in the earlier volumes, now coming to full bloom.

Inspired during a packed tour of Japan, in his downtime Scott explored the countryside of Kyoto and the Kansai region. While there he collected the sounds and atmospheres, and this album is their musical manifestation. A journey of hypnosis and textural bliss - vast subs meet glittering highs, held together by lush and vivid synthetics. Scotts huge technical skill brings all these elements together in a beautifully elegant way, creating a vibrantly chromatic world thats mesmerising at every step. Made as a single piece, shared on the CD version in its original form, this is Deadbeat at his deepest and most psychedelic - truly a masterpiece from this revered artist. As Scott says: The autumn colors were in full bloom, and the incredible serenity and beauty of the place were beyond words. Perhaps the most breathtaking of all was visiting the former studio of Yusai Okuda, which is where a great many of the photos Ive included in the folder for potential cover ideas were taken. In addition to his gorgeous silk dying works, the entire place uses water in various still pools to reflect the forest around it, creating some truly Lysergic scenes. The garden behind the house is filled with a collection of ceramic sculptures of diverse sizes, which you are invited to pour water into. The water then filters through several small openings and drips into the resonant ceramic body, producing a mind-blowingly complex range of rhythms and tonalities. Needless to say, we spent a good long time recording and documenting these little wonders, and those recordings, along with ones made walking in the forest adjacent, served as the initial source material and inspiration for this work. If it manages to effectively convey even a portion of the spirit of that wonderful place, which so enriched our souls, I couldnt be happier. Huge thanks to Scott for this stunning addition to the series.

Livity Sound Recordings

ANS Recordings (EU)

Erased Tapes

Field Records