Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 316

there is no tomorrow

Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.

The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.

Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands.
The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now the stage begins to turn.

A shadow planet named I, then a Kyoto summer asked to keep its voice down.
Side A holds the Kármán line where atmosphere gives up and space takes the shift, fogs a Mahorka pane so it does not fall, learns the ocean’s temperature and refuses to hurry, turns only because the title says Turning, scores the belt and the bin for people who never board, and shares one letter between the eclipse’s head and tail. Side B lets Yasaka stay open if she lets it quiet, declines the next page for two minutes of distant particles, steps out of the flock into tape smear, presses a golden tree between other people’s leaves, keeps the receipt for work done in vain, and poses for a sixth painting that will not sit still long enough to be framed.
Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly high-altitude — full of silent motion, small mercies, and calendars that simply decline the next page. Perfect for dusk listening, airport corridors after hours, or sitting still while the lotus holds for the title of the night.

Mood mist: a shadow planet named I, a security lane dreaming of flight, a record that turns because it is called Turning, chill that crossed an ocean to sit down, glass remembering a face, jazz written at the altitude where the sky stops being sky.

00:03:30 Outer Worlds Jazz Ensemble – Kármán Cantata
https://outerworldsjazzensemble.bandcamp.com/track/k-rm-n-cantata
From the album: The Kármán Line. Label: ATA Records
The line where atmosphere gives up and space takes the shift. Chip Wickham and Neil Innes keeping the higher planes they put aside in Tokyo, then found again in a room.
00:09:29 4T Thieves – Reflection
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/reflection
From the EP: Glass. Label: Mahorka
Doors closing, wood scraped into percussion, Boards of Canada still fogging the corridor. Mahorka holding the pane so it doesn’t fall.
00:14:23 The Bird’s Companion – Pacific Chill (feat. Glenn Moores)
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/the-birds-companion-pacific-chill-feat-glenn-moores
From the compilation: Imaginary North Transmission 012. Label: Imaginary North
A bird that learned the ocean’s temperature and refuses to hurry the forecast.
00:17:42 Rhucle – Turning
https://rhucle.bandcamp.com/track/turning-2
From the album: Turning. Label: Silent Songs
Silent Songs naming the motion and then doing only that. The stage agrees to spin at the speed of the title.
00:19:18 Keith Hanlon – TSA Dreamer
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/tsa-dreamer
From the album: Music for Airport Workers. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Music for the people who never board. Cyclical Dreams scoring the belt, the bin, the small mercy of a green light.
00:23:01 Brandon Locher – I
https://brandonlocher.bandcamp.com/track/i
From the album: Rahu Ketu.
The eclipse’s head and the eclipse’s tail — sharing one letter and calling it a whole self.

Mood mist: a sixth painting that never dried, work done in vain and kept anyway, a gold tree from a book of leaves, a flock left on purpose, particles too far apart to share a calendar, a Kyoto summer asked to keep its voice down.

00:28:39 Josaleigh Pollett – Yasaka, Natsu
https://josaleighpollett.bandcamp.com/track/yasaka-natsu
From the album: If I Let It Quiet.
If she lets it quiet, the shrine gate stays open and summer does not announce itself.
00:31:10 SanelliX & SpoonBeats – there is no tomorrow
https://valleyviewrecords.bandcamp.com/track/there-is-no-tomorrow
From the album: Distant Particles. Label: Valley View Records
Distant particles from Caracas and Mexico, filed in Stockholm. Two minutes in which the calendar simply declines the next page. Title of the night. The lotus holds still for it.
00:32:49 Spirit Unwell – Devine
https://spiritunwell.bandcamp.com/track/devine
From the album: Leaving the Flock. Label: Mystery Circles
Spelled the way a leaving sounds. Nic Fit stepping out of the flock into tape smear. Mystery Circles keeping the door from slamming.
00:36:25 Kat Emma – Laurelin
https://ambientcuration.bandcamp.com/track/kat-emma-laurelin
From the compilation: Compilation vol. 3. Label: Ambient Curation
The golden tree, borrowed from a wood that only exists when someone is reading. Ambient Curation pressing it between other people’s leaves.
00:38:28 Arbee – Exigu
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/exigu
From the album: En vain. Label: Chitra Records, Ambient Cat
Small on purpose. En vain — what we do without being asked, and sometimes it matters, and sometimes the modular just keeps the receipt.
00:43:12 Alex Ringess – Tableau #6
https://alexringess.bandcamp.com/track/tableau-6-2
From the album: Analog Abstractions.
Analog abstractions posing for a painting that will not sit still long enough to be framed.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 316.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.