I’m very pleased to announce that I have a new album coming out on the 16th February 2024. Titled Ashes and Dust, Earth and Sky, LLudw a Llwch, Daear a Nef, it is a solo project that feels like a bit of a shift in direction for me. One of the outcomes of a DYCP grant (thank you Arts Council England) that I received to explore composition using different recording techniques, it uses field recordings collected from West Wales and London, and recordings of saxophones, flutes and other bits and pieces.

In Peter Strickland's Flux Gourmet, a dysfunctional group of performance artists undertake a month-long residency at an institute devoted to culinary disciplines. Food is interrogated for it's sonic potential as the group mic-up, amplify, distort and transform what they cook in front of an audience. The noise that the characters in the film itself make is driven by food blenders, overflowing cauldrons of gurgling soup and sizzling frying pans (courtesy of The Sonic Catering Band), yet the music that soundtracks the culinary capers is engorged with aching melodies and wordless, airy vocals. Contributors include Cavern Of Anti-Matter, Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost of A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Trost's band, Roj (formerly of Broadcast), and Nurse With Wound.

Chad Crouch’s soundwalks fuse immersive binaural recordings—made while walking through a sound-rich natural environment—with his elegantly simple instrumental scores. Columbia Lowlands Soundwalk captures the reverberant ancient calls of Sandhill Cranes wintering along the Columbia river, pairing them to tender, evocative, melodic performances.

Field recordings of Hawaii. Captured in stereo on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. Aloha ʻĀina means love for the land in ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i.

Field recordings of Hawaii. Captured in stereo on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. Aloha ʻĀina means love for the land in ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i.

Field recordings of Hawaii. Captured in stereo on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. Aloha ʻĀina means love for the land in ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i.

Field recordings of Hawaii. Captured in stereo on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. Aloha ʻĀina means love for the land in ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i.

Field recordings of Hawaii. Captured in stereo on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. Aloha ʻĀina means love for the land in ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i.

Field recordings of Hawaii. Captured in stereo on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai, Moloka‘i and Maui. Aloha ʻĀina means love for the land in ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i.

With trickles of piano, synth, and viola, the Los Angeles-based collaborators shape a tranquil vision of a Nordic landscape that feels just beyond the edge of reality.

Other Minds is proud to announce the release of Antarctica: Music from the Ice, a collection of works fourteen years in the making, by San Francisco composer Cheryl E. Leonard.

When Gaia Falls from composer Bradford Blackburn is an environmental call for action in the face of climate change manifested through musical, literary, and sonic eclecticism as a medium of universality. Its central message? There is no better time to save the future than the present.

Chuck Johnson is a composer, producer, and musician residing in Oakland, California. He approaches his work with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty, with a focus on pedal steel guitar, experimental electronics, alternate tuning systems, and composing for film and television.

The reason why I decided to make this album was to ask him about the natural sound source owned by UNAMAS Label for the treatment of my illness, tinnitus and (correctly, headache). The troublesome thing about this tinnitus symptom is that there is no such a cure. Even if you listen to the sound source, you do not lose your tinnitus, but when you are concerned about tinnitus, for example, when you go to bed, you can play it and listen to the "sound" to reduce the level of awareness of tinnitus. For the purpose, it is scientifically based on the theory of TRT. Therefore, I searched for various sounds and listened to them, but somehow some noise called "random noise", that is, white noise, and some "natural sounds" that came out when I tuned the frequency of the radio. I felt it was suitable for neutralizing the noise that was being generated.

The latest release from nine-piece folk group Shovel Dance Collective, orbiting around the concept of water. Combining on-site documentation of traditional songs, folk tunes and field recordings in long-form sound-collages. The results lie somewhere between folk music, music concrete and acoustic ecology.