Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 349
Hi folks and welcome to episode 349 of my Virtual cassette library. Happy Sunday and I hope you’re having a great weekend. A massive hello to everyone at Switched on Whitby which is happening right now. As I’m back recording daily voice overs do please let me know if you want something mentioned in future episodes as I do realise that social media just doesn’t connect us in any positive ways lately. A shout out to Neil Mason of Moonbuilding weekly fame for the writeup of The Synth Co-Op Volume Two release where he threw me in as being one of the more established artists. Which goes to show you how extremely niche our little world is.There are cassettes and zines left for this release as far as I can tell. Speaking of cassettes I’m sending actual physical mix tapes to new subscribers or tip givers which I thought was a great idea but so far I have only managed to lose a subscriber.
Shout outs to WHI recordings for dropping a comment on episode 347 and to Wojciech Stecko and Traindeer for the follow.
Anyway on to the show and the first side will include Ben Eyes, Towering Vertical, Coda Nautica, Christian Fiesel and Europe in Flames.
Side B will flip itself like a polite pancake while you notice a detail in your surroundings.
Also shout outs to all the artists and labels featured in this episode.
First off is Cincinnati’s finest Ed Herbers with “Ruskaretki (feat. Chris Hobbs)” from the album Season Cycle: Autumn.
Enjoy…
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Mind the flip.
A ruskaretki in autumn, then a weathering that takes its time.
Side A takes the trip already with the autumn kind, keeps Whitby wooden in the days of oak and hemp with the sail already set, blankets the sky with stratus from a cloud school already open, holds an inner landscape with the harmonics already intricate, enters a new phase where the second thought is already first, and softens the forgetting of how to breathe so the breath can remember itself. Side B carves the wooden spoon with the wood already patient, arrives the mantis with the maps already walked, keeps a tiempo propio beyond words, slumbers the glen already kind, repeats the town that is already stagnant, and weathers the triptych that is already open and taking its time.
Overall mood: Soft, and quietly patient — full of open schools, remembered breaths, and weatherings that prefer to take their time. Perfect for dusk listening, soft glens, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a ruskaretki in autumn, Whitby in the days of oak and hemp, stratus blankets from the cloud school, an inner landscape, a new phase, the forgetting of how to breathe.
00:02:41 Ed Herbers – Ruskaretki (feat. Chris Hobbs)
https://herbers.bandcamp.com/track/ruskaretki-feat-chris-hobbs
Album: Season Cycle: Autumn. Label: Passed Recordings
The trip already taken. The autumn already kind.
00:07:53 Ben Eyes – Whitby in the Days of Oak and Hemp
https://whitbyelectronicus.bandcamp.com/track/whitby-in-the-days-of-oak-and-hemp
Album: Pictures at an Exhibition. Label: ElectronicUs, Bonfire Hill
The days already wooden. The hemp already in the sail.
00:11:32 Towering Vertical – Stratus Blankets
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/side-1b-stratus-blankets
Album: Cloud School. Label: The Dream Journal Institute, Relics of the Eternal City
The blankets already low. The school already open.
00:16:20 Coda Nautica – Inner Landscape
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/inner-landscape
Album: Intricate Harmonics 3. Label: Neotantra.
Title of the hour. The landscape already inside. The harmonics already intricate.
00:17:25 Christian Fiesel – A New Phase
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/a-new-phase
Album: On A Second Thought [CYD 0162]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
The phase already new. The second thought already first.
00:22:49 Europe in Flames – Forgetting how to breathe
https://europeinflames.bandcamp.com/track/forgetting-how-to-breathe
Album: ONE.
The forgetting already soft. The breath already remembering itself.
Welcome to the intermission aka the flip side. You just heard the track “Forgetting how to breathe” by Europe in Flames. Remember If you make music, run a label, or hold a private archive of material that has not yet found a place, send links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. Every submission is considered. I’m adding a segment here called album of the day. Today’s album is by Andrew Davis aka Coda Nautica and the album Intricate Harmonics 3 which is out on the Neotantra label.
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/intricate-harmonics-3
The next set will feature Belial Pelegrim, David Cordero, Loneward, Nonturn and
ambalek. But first Stewart Keller with the track “Carving Wooden Spoon”. Enjoy…
Side B
Mood mist: a wooden spoon being carved, a mantis that arrives, a tiempo propio beyond words, a glen that slumbers, a town that repeats, a weathering that takes its time.
00:26:31 Stewart Keller – Carving Wooden Spoon
https://stewartkeller.bandcamp.com/track/carving-wooden-spoon-2
Album: 2020 – 2025: Archives.
The spoon already taking shape. The wood already patient.
00:28:16 Belial Pelegrim – Mantis Arrival
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/track/mantis-arrival
Album: Sleepwalking Through Rain Maps.
The mantis already here. The maps already walked.
00:31:24 David Cordero – Tiempo propio
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/track/tiempo-propio
Album: Más allá de las palabras. Label: Noray Records
The own time already kept. The words already beyond.
00:33:44 Loneward – The Glen Slumbers
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-glen-slumbers
Album: Nemophilous. Label: Altus Music
The glen already asleep. The slumber already kind.
00:52:58 Nonturn – Stagnant
https://nonturn.bandcamp.com/track/stagnant
Album: Repeating Town. Label: Audiobulb
The stagnant already still. The town already repeating itself.
00:57:38 ambalek – Weathering
https://oskarkarlstrom.bandcamp.com/track/weathering
Album: Triptych. Label: Oskar Karlström
The weathering already under way. The triptych already open.
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