Artefact
First album under the Codespira1 alias by Stockholm-based composer Mattias Petersson, trained in electroacoustic composition at the Royal College of Music. The project began as a vehicle for one-take electronic performances built around SuperCollider patches and a modular system, here extended into longer structures. Artefact unfolds as an articulated drone modelling the subconscious cycle of memory and resonance: a continuous tonal field where small events trigger gradual reconfigurations.
Waanzintraan
Second album for the label, composed in China where van Huizen was based. Waanzintraan extends his investigation into what he calls 'the harmony of noise': not noise as genre signal but as aesthetic and visceral material, deployed within often consonant frames. The piece weaves processed field recordings from Shanghai and Xi'an into a sustained electronic discourse of contrasts, where harsh and resonant matter coexist within a unified compositional logic, on the ambient-noise threshold.
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.
Locked So Tightly In Our Dreams
On his first physical release, Glenn Dick steers Find Hope In Darkness away from the broken-beat and post-rock textures of his earlier digital work, redirecting it toward sustained drone form and the darker reaches of ambient music. The writing favours long, slowly modulating tonal masses over event-based gesture, working with low-register density, harmonic ambiguity and the gradual erosion of timbral edges. Dark ambient and isolationist drone treated as immersive interior.
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.
Play Cat's Cradle
Built entirely from a single acoustic source - a rare zither-family instrument of 114 strings, with eleven chromatic chord banks switchable between major, minor and suspended-fourth voicings via semitone levers, plus three octaves of plucked melody strings. Across two impromptu sessions, Sandy's playing is processed live by Rose: long sympathetic resonances, prepared techniques and varied attack points open a suspended landscape between minimalism, drone and modern classical.
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.
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…
Glimpses of an Eternal Bloom
An introspective dive into an ethereal atmosphere, “Glimpses of an Eternal Bloom” is the debut album of Turkish producer, composer and pianist Berk Icli.The album is an attempt to frame certain moments of “being” no matter the emotional state concerned, whethereuphoric, sentimental or dark and contemplative. At times, this is done through orchestrations of strings, brass andwoodwinds. Other times with solo piano, field recordings, electronics and the use of samples. Born in Istanbul, Berk Icli r…
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…
The Sky Torn Apart
Tip! *2022 stock* The sky tore apart and the sun curdled like a diseased eye. Below, where once a continent of ice spanned the horizon, there lay nothing but a vast expanding mirror, implacable and silent. For days, clouds of flying creatures scoured it’s surface for purchase before falling exhausted into their own reflections. This work is a reflection on the uncanny parralells found in our anthropogenic environmental transformation and the Nordic myths of Ragnarök in which the earth is subsume…
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 …
Bruma
*200 copies limited edition. 2022 stock* Line Spectrum is the new project by Oleg Puzan from Ukraine, who also released some excellent works on the Cryo Chamber label as Dronny Darko. Line Spectrum is a sound art project that is created to expand sonic boundaries through sound manipulations, often in a form of severe minimalism using a vast palette of microscopic sounds forming an immersive auditory monsoon. Slowly evolving textures mixed with field recordings and synthesized particles suits as …
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…