Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 352
Hi folks and welcome to Light In the Tunnel episode 352 of my Virtual cassette library. It’s Tuesday and I hope your week is off to a great start. Please let me know if you want something mentioned in future episodes as I do realise that social media just doesn’t connect us. I know this as I’m sending actual physical mix tapes to anyone who suggests a piece of music they love at the moment and I’ll make a personal cassette based on it. New subscribers or tip givers jump to the top of the que of course. What surprizes me is the lack of enthusiasm and response to this. I’ve had one comment and I’ve lost 6% of my subscribers since posting this offer. I don’t get it.
Anyway on to the show.
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The first side will include Cub\cub with the track The horizon becomes narrower. It’s the music of getting closer and closer until closer stops being a place and starts being a condition. From the compilation All About HER (a benefit compilation for Hollow Earth Radio). Out on Hollow Earth Radio. Also Robin Rimboud aka Scanner who I plan on bumping physically tomorrow here in Stockholm. You’ll be blessed with the track Nightwalk from the EP Scanner Librarian EP 1. There’s a librarian involved, which means someone is supposed to be quiet, but the night is not cooperating.
This floats into the track Som solsken which is Swedish and means Like Sunshine. It’s by Ingmar Wennerberg aka Snufmumriko and is from the album Talisman. Out on the Le Mont Analogue label. It’s gentle. A little rhythmic, but the kind of rhythmic that doesn’t want to make a scene. Like sunlight that has decided to take the long way around instead of coming straight through the window.
Then Matthew Hiram with the track Viridis Which is Latin for green, I looked it up so I wouldn’t sound like someone who just guessed. From the album Shade Songs. Minimal and patient, like it’s fine waiting for you to notice the difference between being in the light and being under it.
Finally before the tape flip another friend Alex Ringess and his 10 minute opening piece 13/8 from his self released Experiments album. The track saying “this is how many beats there are today” and the rest of us can catch up or not. Music that refuses to round itself down. After that side B will flip itself like a polite pancake while you notice a detail in your soul.
First off is long time friend of the show Binaural Space with “Light In the Tunnel” from the self released album Luvisgod. Close your eyes and start walking through whatever tunnel this is.
Enjoy…
Welcome to the intermission aka the flip side. You just heard the track “13/8” by Alex Ringess. Remember If you make music, run a label, or hold a private stash of sounds that have not yet found more ears, send links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. Every submission is considered. Today’s album of the day is by Buffalo, New York’s finest pollsign and the EP Asymptote which is mastered by Michael Southard aka Time Rival and released on the super duper Triplicate Records label.
Okay, so this album. Asymptote. By the guy. Pollsign. I put it on and immediately I’m like, “What is this floaty thing doing to my brain?” It’s ambient, right? Late-night, never-quite-arrives, the line that keeps getting closer but doesn’t touch. Like when you’re trying to high-five yourself in a mirror and you keep missing and then you just start narrating it.
I listened to it twice and both times I forgot what I was supposed to be doing. That’s either a review or a cry for help. Either way, it’s good. The incomplete kind of good. The kind where the missing part is the part that makes it work.
https://pollsign.bandcamp.com/album/asymptote
The next set will feature the longest piece of the episode at just over 13 minutes. It’s hershel with the closing track from the album silent steps for a better way titled We’re almost there. Out on the one of a kind whitelabrecs. The kind of music that makes you feel like you’re walking toward a door that keeps moving back at the same speed you’re walking. This drifts into Illume by Tewksbury from the album rust/wave out on Imaginary North. When you want to drift without having to explain where you’re going. Then Sevensy + Ikipr with Delicate Morning from the album Stretch Out Above The Clouds out on the super prolific label of quality stuff Mahorka. Morning light, the early kind, before the regular light shows up and starts making plans. When you want to stretch out above whatever the clouds are doing today without having to explain. We stick with the Mahorka label for the penultimate piece by Record Of Tides and the closing track Fish Tank from the album Intercelestial. When the fish are looking at you and you want a groove that doesn’t mind coming undone. We end episode 352 with the shortest track of the day by April Emily aka ff8282 titled myla from the album taunt_taunt which will be released on November 12 on the great 4000 Records. A name someone whispered. Brazilian traditions and visceral poetry somewhere in the mix. Experimental enough that the edges don’t stay put, intimate enough that you notice when they move.
But first another long track at 9:45 by Mike Hans STEFFL and the track “sequencedARPverage” from the album average of the average out on the Aural Films label. Mikes been making music since the 70s so he knows his way around an arp. Music that has already done the math so you don’t have to.
Enjoy…
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Mind the flip.
Light in the tunnel across twelve rooms. Side A opens with a light already in the tunnel, moves through a horizon that becomes narrower, a nightwalk with a librarian, sunlight that takes the long way around, a green that waits, and a 13/8 that refuses to round itself down. Side B continues with a sequenced ARP average, a walk toward a door that keeps moving, an illume, a delicate morning, a fish tank that doesn’t mind coming undone, and a myla that arrives just before the release. The joins sit inside the grain. The sequence is the form.
Light already in the tunnel, then a myla that arrives just before the release.
Side A opens the tunnel with the light already there so the eyes can close and the walking begin, narrows the horizon until the closer becomes a condition it already agrees to, walks the night with a librarian who stays quiet while the night refuses to cooperate, lets the sunlight take the long way around a patient window, waits in the green that notices the difference between being in the light and under it, and counts the 13/8 that refuses to round itself down. Side B sequences the ARP so the average is already done and no one else has to, walks toward a door that keeps moving with the steps already silent and the almost already kind, illuminates without needing the explanation, stretches a delicate morning already early and above whatever the clouds are doing, lets the fish tank come undone while the fish keep looking and the groove is fine with it, and arrives the myla just before the release with the name already whispered and the intimacy already noticed.
Overall mood: Precise, and quietly open — full of open tunnels, refused roundings, and doors that prefer to keep moving. Perfect for dusk listening, soft libraries, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: light already in the tunnel, a horizon that becomes narrower, a nightwalk with a librarian, sunlight that takes the long way around, a green that waits, a 13/8 that refuses to round itself down.
00:04:10 Binaural Space – Light In the Tunnel
https://binaural-space.bandcamp.com/track/light-in-the-tunnel
Album: Luvisgod.
The tunnel already open. Close your eyes and start walking.
00:08:24 Cub\cub – The horizon becomes narrower
https://herbenefit.bandcamp.com/track/cub-cub-the-horizon-becomes-narrower
Album: All About HER (a benefit compilation for Hollow Earth Radio). Label: Hollow Earth Radio
The closer already becoming a condition. The horizon already agreeing.
00:09:29 Scanner – Nightwalk
https://scanner.bandcamp.com/track/nightwalk
Album: Scanner Librarian EP 1.
The librarian already quiet. The night already not cooperating.
00:12:33 Snufmumriko – Som solsken
https://le-mont-analogue.bandcamp.com/track/som-solsken
Album: Talisman. Label: Le Mont Analogue, Dronarivm
The sunlight already taking the long way. The window already patient.
00:15:43 Hiram – Viridis
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/track/viridis
Album: Shade Songs.
The green already waiting. The difference between in the light and under it already noticed.
00:19:07 Alex Ringess – 13/8
https://alexringess.bandcamp.com/track/13-8
Album: Experiments.
The beats already counted. The rounding already refused.
Side B
Mood mist: a sequenced ARP average, a walk toward a door that keeps moving, an illume, a delicate morning, a fish tank that doesn’t mind coming undone, a myla that arrives just before the release.
00:32:22 Mike Hans STEFFL – sequencedARPverage
https://mikehanssteffl.bandcamp.com/track/sequencedarpverage
Album: average of the average. Label: Aural Films
The math already done. The ARP already sequenced. You don’t have to.
00:42:27 hershel – We’re almost there
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/were-almost-there
Album: silent steps for a better way. Label: whitelabrecs
he door already moving. The steps already silent. The almost already kind.
00:53:26 Tewksbury – Illume
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/illume
Album: rust/wave. Label: Imaginary North
The drift already under way. The explanation already unnecessary.
00:54:39 Sevensy + Ikipr – Delicate Morning
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/delicate-morning
Album: Stretch Out Above The Clouds. Label: Mahorka
The morning already early. The stretch already above whatever the clouds are doing.
00:58:06 Record Of Tides – Fish Tank
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/fish-tank
Album: Intercelestial. Label: Mahorka
The fish already looking. The groove already coming undone, and fine with it.
01:02:12 ff8282 – myla
https://ff8282-4000.bandcamp.com/track/myla
Album: taunt_taunt. Label: 4000 Records
The name already whispered. The edges already moving. The intimacy already noticed.
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