A Dancing Beggar

A Dancing Beggar is UK based musician James Simmons. His work is based on instrumental recordings where tenderly plucked guitar strings meet post rock undercurrents and ambient field recordings. These are melded with soft piano loops and tender vocals to produce a refined emotionally charged sound. Jame's work has been compared to the likes of Sigur Ros & Grouper.

Releases: AB036 + AB071

Autistici / Volume Objects

Autistici (aka Volume Objects) creates audio narratives aimed at exploring the interchange between sound and space. Space in this context also includes the subjective space held within the listener. In this realm, reflection and fantasy recontextualise the sound according to the listener’s inner world or psyche. This fascination on the interplay between inner and outer world embodies Autistici’s sound.

Releases: AB001 + AB002 + AB004 + AB006 + AB026 + AB028 + AB030 + AB032 + AB050 + AB062 + AB100 + AB113-EP + ABXNNN

Build

An exceptionally well planned micro-glitch urban landscape created for the convenience of suburban commuters. Engineers, surveyors, electricians and accountants have ensured every detail is correct. The unsightly pipes and wires and tucked deep beneath the surface to ensure a pristine and palatable life experience for inhabitants.

Releases: AB001 + AB002 + AB004 + AB006 + AB011 + AB112 + AB143

Calika

Simon Kealoha has been releasing his own brand of electro-acoustic music for years. Through each release he has continued to explore his love of jazz, hip hop and post rock, found sounds, degraded loops and twisted beats, incorporating them into loose musical structures that grow organically from start to finish, taking unexpected twists and turns along the way.

Releases:  AB009 + AB015 + AB031 

Causeyoufair

Causeyoufair's music portrays breath-taking beauty, delicacy and grace. His focus on space, reverberation tales and the emotional resonance that occurs between and across each musical notation is exquisite. The music encourages the listener to become immersed accessing dreams, hidden memories and nostalgia. The quality of this work surely sits right up there alongside William Basinski and Stars of The Lid.

Releases: AB041 + AB088 + AB100 + AB103 + AB111

Disastrato

We know scarce few things about Cüret / [dzyret] / Kül / Disastrato / C / Agraphy. He is not here. He was never here.

Releases:  AB002 + AB004 + AB006 + AB007 + AB011 + AB100

Distant Fires Burning

The creative work of Gert De Meester from the town of Battel (A suburb of Mechelen, Belgium, at the confluence of three rivers). In 2007 Gert started to experiment more with ambient and it became clear that Distant Fires Burning was the vehicle for a very personal expression and one in which the bass guitar re-entered as the primary source. Distant Fires Burning is Gert’s expression through bass - enhanced and manipulated to create a very unique and personal sound.

Releases: AB080 + AB100 + AB114 + AB120 + AB140

He Can Jog

I'm Erik Schoster a sound artist based in Minnesota.

Releases: AB001 + AB002 + AB004 + AB017 + AB038 + AB100 + AB144

Henry Leo Duclos

Henry Leo Duclos is an artist and musician from California. He mixes heavily processed samples from vhs, cassette and vinyl with digital synthesizers and drum machines; all blended into emotive sound collage.

Releases: AB002 + AB004 + AB006 + AB010 + AB011 + AB100

Jimmy Behan

The beauty is in the detail. Carlow-born Jimmy Behan produces pristine, emotional, intricate electro- acoustic music. He has taken a less-is-more approach to his sound palate via a process of refinement and streamlining. Barely there shapes, shifts and shadows and the introduction of micro-moods produce flickering bursts of ambient soundscapes. Jimmy's work retains a warm, emotional heart and soul that stirs the imagination.

Releases: AB020 + AB100 + AB117

Justin Varis / Claudia

Justin Varis (b.Cincinnati, OH 1979) is an American musician/composer living in Los Angeles. Drawing on the rich history of musique concrète while most recently exploring minimal single instrument composition, his music is one of contrast and contradiction. Abstract tendencies conjoin with basic intimate melodies. Disruptive sequencing is utilized alongside loops and repeating patterns. Meticulous audio editing creates calculated timing while improvised passages lend expressive mistakes.

Releases: AB012 + AB046 + AB100

Memory Scale

Memory Scale is the project of Arnaud Castagné, from Bordeaux, France. Memory Scale is a cinematographic universe based on sound textures and synthetic melodies, mixing electronica and ambient to create a hybrid and contemplative pop. I created this musical project in 2018 with the idea of bringing together my experiences, my memories, my encounters and to feed my compositions.

Releases: AB115 + AB139

Monty Adkins

Monty Adkins is a composer and performer of experimental electronic music. His music is characterised by slow shifting organic textures often derived from processed instrumental sounds and found sounds. Inhabiting a post-acousmatic sensibility, his work draws together elements from ambient, acousmatic and microsound music into a richly melodic and harmonic tapestry. Adkins has worked collaboratively on a number of audio-visual projects and Rift Patterns is the natural extension of this work.

Releases: AB035 + AB051 + AB058 + AB100

Neuro... No Neuro

Neuro... No Neuro (NNN) is a moniker of the electronic musician Kirk Markarian, an avid synthesist, drummer, abstract painter, and graphic designer residing on the alluvial plain of the Sonoran Desert, in dry and dusty Tucson, Arizona. Flickering lights and hallucinations; the grasp for words that cannot be found and memories lost. The methods of improvisation on a daily basis to appear normal enough to fit into ordinary situations where you know full well that you do not

Releases: AB090 + AB091 + AB095 + AB099 + AB100 + AB106 + ABXNNN + AB149

Porya Hatami

Porya Hatami (b.1981) is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/ minimal, his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field recordings. His Debut album released on UK based Somehow Recordings in January 2012 and since then he has worked with numerous high quality record labels.

Releases: AB068 + AB100

Russ Young

I usually work by trying to create forms out of found audio and material extracted from field recordings. I like to think in terms of skins of sounds and what characteristics I can pour into it them to create a hybrid. I take field recordings of everywhere I go, searching for ‘sound marks’ or 'habitats' that I can capture and use to generate new sound designs and inspire new work.

Releases: AB054 + AB085 + AB102 + AB132

Seigo Aoyama

Seigo Aoyama is a Japanese musician/composer/sound designer residing in Tokyo. He started his career in music from 20 years old playing piano & keyboards in many pop, rock and jazz groups. During his career, he studied classical musical and with a focus on 20th century composers (Debussy, Stravinsky, Cage, Reich and musique concrete). In 2014 he started incorporating field recording into his contemporary, ambient or experimental music.

Releases: AB081 + AB100 + AB105 + AB118

Tatsuro Kojima

My approach to music, having received a specialized education in art, might be said to be closer to that of paintings and sculptures. Being conscious in the handling of elements such as hue, saturation, brightness, mass, form, and texture, I directly apply these principles to sound as well. My inspirations are visual rather than musical. To me, there is no boundary in particular between making music and drawing a picture.

Releases: AB039 + AB063 + AB100

Tomo-Nakaguchi

Tomo-Nakaguchi is musician / sound artist living in Yokohama, Japan.

He is a member of experimental rock band "1769" and multi media group "skyward photo film".

His work creates dreamy and warm texture use layers of modulated acoustic / electric guitar, sampler, broken tape machine, field recordings and many instruments sound.

Releases: AB104 + AB121 + AB134

Tomotsugu Nakamura

Tomotsugu has received continuous support from many artist like Laurence English and Nils Frahm. His live performances have featured in art galleries participating with Stephan Mathieu + Taylor Deupree + Federico Durand during their tour of Japan. Tomotsugu has had sound installations in the art festival "steirischerherbst’18" in Austria. In 2016 his 3rd album “An opened book in the dark” was released from Kaico, this followed previous releases with Audiobulb & White Paddy Mountain.

Releases: AB055 + AB086 + AB100 + AB141

Ümlaut

Ümlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. experimental composer/sound artist now based in the northern Connecticut countryside. The thematic concepts distinguishing his work are absence and silence; the ineffable exchange between viewer and image; random moments of stillness within a landscape in flux. Using a minimalistic, electro-acoustic approach, his elusive patchwork of field recordings and electronics merge the world of shadows and colours. His memory recordings expose the complex relationship between music and silence.

Releases: AB083 + AB087 + AB098 + AB100 + AB116 + AB129 + AB135 + AB145 + AB153