Indite
Composed during 2014, Haarvöl's second album consolidates the Portuguese trio's writing practice: a non-hierarchical compositional grammar where analogue, digital and electronic sources sit on equal footing, threaded with field recordings as structural rather than illustrative material. The trio favours density over experimentation for its own sake, building rigorously detailed cinematic textures whose internal consistency works through resonant correspondences rather than repetition.
Cheophiori
Recorded in a single late-night session in 2005 - electric guitar by Alasdair Satchel processed live by Ruaridh Law (TVO) through AudioMulch - and first issued as an elusively limited CD-R on Diesel Combustible. Here remastered to cassette with an added Orphax remix. The music sits on the threshold between drone and live processing: feedback and slow textural beds opened up through computer-assisted transformation, weighing organic warmth against an abstract, unstable foreground.
De Tragedie Van Een Liedjesschrijver Zonder Woorden
Drawn from material composed between 2005 and 2007 and revised through 2010, the first standard CD under the Orphax name. Sietse van Erve's writing rests on minute compositional detail: slow-shifting drone fields that drift between long-tone minimalism, isolationist soundscape and lo-fi experimental ambient. A deepening of Orphax's investigation into psychedelic, mind-altering atmosphere through reduced means, where harmonic stillness and slow textural accretion carry the structural weight.
Of What Once Was
A fifty-five-minute diptych. The opening piece transposes Yves Klein's Monotone Symphony (1949) onto solo electric guitar: a sustained drone on the pitch D, where variation arises only from durational shape and the changing morphology of resonance. The closing piece, live-improvised, marks Machinist's move beyond guitar-drone toward wider sonic terrain. Across both runs the same inquiry: spatial field recording against non-spatial computer tone, mediated by guitar amplifier as resonating body.
Dream Sequences Volume 1 Orphax Reframed
First compilation in a series where other musicians reframe pieces from Orphax's ongoing Dream Sequence cycle, an open-ended sequence of experimental ambient and drone works. Haarvöl, Jos Smolders and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) each take a different Dream Sequence as point of departure, returning quiet contemplative re-readings that fold their own languages into the source. A study in remix-as-translation across the Dutch and Portuguese electronic-experimental axes.
Trees in General: and the Larch
Tip! ** 200 copies ** Matthew J. Saunders’ Twilight Sequence takes a title for this stunning 12” from the natural history series of books by John Hammerton called “Outline of Nature in the British Isles”. This track came about as the result of Merseyside promoters/record label “EmotionWave”, run by Neil Grant (Lo Five) putting out a request for submissions of 20 minute audio/visual pieces to be played in a marathon charity telethon aired online just before Christmas 2020. When “Trees in General:…
Haunted Bedrooms
Jilk are a UK based collective of musicians, fusing a bewildering collage of home-found sounds with the ambient soundscapes of washy synths, exquisite strings, insect-like clicks and cuts, and huge gorgeous waves of all encompassing experimental noise. Collaboration and open minded exploration are at the centre of all that they do.A year on from their debut release for Castles In Space, Jilk present their new album; “Haunted Bedrooms”. Eight diverse tracks exploring themes of rebellion, protest,…
Prairie Spells, A Ribbon Wove
*63 copies limited edition* "Prairie spells, a ribbon wove" is the outcome of a long-distance collaboration between Lightning White Bison (Adam Parks, also of Timber Rattle) and Drekka (Mkl Anderson), who at the time of its culmination were in eastern Czechia and central Indiana respectively. The four 11-minute tracks are a sonic document of the exploration and reconciliation of geographic disparity, the distance between the places in which the collaborators each found themselves in a time of i…
Great / Most Secret c/w The Miracle
If you saw Pillars and Tongues perform anytime during 2008 - 2010, the set you heard was likely comprised of two long songs. They are called “Great / Most Secret” and “The Miracle.”
Grieve
*50 copies edition* "Drekka's debut full-length, "Grieve", was release on August 24th, 1996. This was the day of my friend Phil Perry's funeral and the first copy was buried with him. Phil was one of the earliest and most enthusiastic supporters of my initial attempts towards making music, always honest and constructive when I was failing and always encouraging when I was making progress. Today, on the 25th anniversary of its release, I am unsure how I feel. I have created a body of work from th…
Idle
Kuntay Seferoglu (Kunsf) is a sound artist and designer based in Istanbul. Their works evolve around their passion for transforming daily objects into instruments. Kuntay religiously records everything that’s a matter of curiosity for them, before they goes on to manipulate them on granular synthesizers. In their live performances they use wearable instruments which they invented as part of their industrial design degree. ‘Idle’ is where Kunsf imagines spaces full of objects floating around in w…
Another Presence
The new Amphior album, Another Presence, is a longing echo of alienation.
Sonic Earth
Tip! Charles Richard is a Royal College of Art Alumni exploring multidisiplary theams. Founding Sonic Earth in 2017, the platform incorporates archival process, installation design and composition to reveal the potential of geological languages as vessels of sonic mystery. Working as an intermediary between the material and listener, Sonic Earth creates processed digital soundworlds composed directly through the internal resonances of extracted layers of the compressed landscape. “ Each rock is …
Jökel
*200 copies limited edition* Swedish musician Erik Levander gained attention as part of the new wave of young DIY laptop experimentalists arising in the early 2000's. His somewhat eclectic early output has since developed into a unique and vibrant blend of digital, analog and acoustic sounds weaved into epic and powerful atmospherics. Levander has performed his work extensively, including shows at Roskilde Festival, Norberg Festival, Nordic Music Days and Forma Nova Festival. With the release of…
Still
*200 copies limited edition* Five years have passed since Glacial Movements published the wonderful "Wandering Eye" album by the duo Aria Rostami and Daniel Blomquist, whose themes focused on a description of the best places to observe space from the Antarctic Plateau. A further step forward is represented by "Still", whose purpose is to describe how time can change its motion in case of cold weather. " "Still" consists of a few recordings done within our first year of collaborating (2015-2016) …
Ten Times The World Lied
"Brock Van Wey, aka bvdub, is undoubtedly among the greatest and most prolific artists in the world, whose music directly affects the heart, soul, and human mind. His soundscapes spread in the air as if they were delicate and slow movements of the northern lights, or the wind that blows on the flowers of the trees in spring. There is something divine in bvdub's music, and Glacial Movements is more than honored to welcome another great work for the world, Ten Times the World Lied, his fifth album…
Lost In Time
*2022 stock* Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronica artist Fernando Corona. Corona was born in 1970 in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in Ensenada. He was for a time a member of the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective of electronic musicians under the Terrestre project name. In 2000 he returned to Tijuana. Since 2006 Corona lives in Barcelona, Spain. Murcof's music is sparse, minimalist, electronica. Many of his compositions are founded on abstract, glitchy, sometimes complex …
You Only Live Ice
*2022 stock* A moody, detailed and wide-ranging work, in which atmosphere and dramaturgy lead the ear into a suspended world, like being entrapped within an Arctic ice shelf... Philippe Petit is interested in soundtracks; even if he creates original music he'd rather be introduced as a "musical travel agent" than a composer. Since the early 2000s he has been performing the world, playing festivals all over Europe, Canada, USA, Mexico, South America, Australia & Asia... Feeling lucky to release o…
Aneira
Aidan Baker is a multi-instrumentalist, classically-trained in flute, but best known as a guitarist. Using various electronic effects combined with prepared and/or alternate methods of playing the guitar, he creates music which generally falls within the ambient/experimental genres but draws on influences from shoegaze and post-rock, contemporary classical and jazz. Over the course of the last decade, Baker has released numerous recorded works, both solo and with his duo Nadja, plus various othe…
Wandering Eye
*2022 stock* Aria Rostami and Daniel Blomquist's debut album "Wandering Eye" was recorded over the span of a year and a half. "Dome A" and "Dome B" were recorded inside of a planetarium dome to no audience and it was the second time Rostami and Blomquist played together. "Ridge A" is the latest song recorded and it was performed live in Blomquist's basement. These live tracks use source material ranging from samples from the internet, to live field recordings, to synthesizers. "Dome C" and "Dome…