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Here are a some reviews from the last few months releases GYPSY EYES – Nefelibata >>>>  http://beachsloth.blogspot.com/2015/11/gypsy-eyes-nefelibata.html “fleeting whirls of beauty” >>>> http://acloserlisten.com/2015/10/28/gypsy-eyes-nefelibata/ “Listening to Nefelibata is like walking through a haunted house backwards….This gentle surprise is like the tucking in that follows a fairy tale: all is safe, all is well.” MARK LYKEN | EMMA DOVE – Mirror Lands >>>> … Continue reading →

The latest first… Sara Forlund’s ‘Water Became Wild’ UK based blog Nordic Music Review talk in detail about the different tracks and says “Quiet music can be loud.” They recommend to ” just turn it up really loud and let it completely take over every little corner of your house.” We hope you will do the same. … Continue reading →

Coming up in mid June 2015  is the second release from Time Sensitive Materials. This first solo album from moody Swedish chanteuse Sara Forslund is entitled “Water Became Wild”. Sara sang vocals on and was half of the duo behind the Birch And Meadow release on Time Released Sound a couple of years back. As another … Continue reading →

Maria had made the above 3D layered landscape collage a few months ago as a mockup and this was the starting point for the design of this release. TRS053 comes in two distinct versions as usual. The first limited deluxe version in an edition of just 75 copies comes in the form of a mysterious … Continue reading →

As with TRS projects, the Time Sensitive Material releases come in two versions… but since we are starting anew we also made some over-the-top promo copies. Juliet came to help, and give us some DNA fingerprints. Maria sewed pieces of lace onto each cover, and Colin played his part as the rubber stamp master… Teamwork! … Continue reading →

Here is the latest round of reviews! Big thanks to the reviewers who help spread the sweet sounds! TRS052 Drawing Virtual Gardens has had a review at the Italian language blog OndaRock. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> TRS051 Pines has an italian review from the Music Won’t Save You blog and in english at A Closer Listen blog: There’s a … Continue reading →

The deluxe limited version comes in an edition of just 70 copies. This set of seven somewhat tense and at times industrial sounding, yetstill melodic and tenderly manipulated tracks was inspired mainly by the impending birth of his first daughter.So this got us working with childhood, machines, surprise, discovery… all meant to convey both the feeling … Continue reading →

Here are a few short reviews in italian and english at the LOOP blog : of SOMNI451 and Pines >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and SONMI451 is also lovingly recommended by  Ambientblog.net >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Stationary travels writes Pines (Zachary Corsa) | The Field Journal The Field Journal is a little gem of an EP from Pines, a solo project of North Carolina based musician Zachary … Continue reading →

Francesco Giannico announces [Metrophony] Audiovisual Installation and Live Performance at 90dB Festival – Winter Edition on 21th february in Rome. Wish we were a mouse in his pocket… >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> People are still discovering TRS and we love to hear we are still surprising the regulars too, even at our 50th edition!  A Belgian customer has just compared us … Continue reading →

… dreaming of spring… Each of these beauties comes housed in a vintage, 4” square zip disc case, whose lid is covered inside and out with unique, antique pastoral snapshots.   Each also contains an 8 panel, accordion style fold out print, each panel of which is hand colored with dirt, grass and flowers and … Continue reading →

TRS050 is available in two versions. The deluxe, limited version, in an edition of just 70 copies, comes as sort of “case file”…  …something that might be found hanging at the foot of a patient’s hospital bed, so we made sure to stamp it Confidential! Each of these files is made from an antique art … Continue reading →

Avant Music News Reviews: con_cetta vs MonoLogue – Orlando (Time Released Sound)  May 11, 2014 by nepets in AMN Reviews  “Orlando” is one of the most remarkable novels of the twentieth century, a post-impressionist masterpiece that also manages to be postmodern and post-feminist avant la lettre. In it, Virginia Woolf tells the tale of a child born into 16th-century Elizabethan aristocracy who undergoes … Continue reading →

Beach Sloth blog loves Traces of Voices as much as we do: Masaya Kato – Trace Of Voices 7.9 Masaya Kato’s “Trace Of Voices” is an enthralling collection. Throughout “Trace Of Voices” Masaya Kato references a great deal of styles from classical to the hauntological elements explored by groups like the Advisory Circle. Fragments of field … Continue reading →

Francesco Giannico & Porya Hatami :: Double review (Time Released Sound) 01/15/2015 8:33 PM ALAN LOCKETT Favourite boutique-artisan label is back bearing time released sounds from the underground via Francesco Giannico and music for airports from Porya Hatami. Francesco Giannico recorded Rome’s metro—lines “B” (Rebibbia-Laurentina) and “B1″ (Bologna-Conca D’Oro). For Metrophony, the results were manipulated and blended with synth and instruments. While … Continue reading →

Happy New Year of great music everyone! A Closer Listen has us as: One of the years best winter music  … with Polarlicht by Monolith & Cobalt And still in the top three label “With bespoke packaging reflecting the nature of each release, Time Released Sound has become an artist’s dream; Colin Herrick continues to impress, … Continue reading →

Our friends here in San francisco at the mythical Aquarius Records store: GHOSTWRITER & MICHAEL PAINE Morrow [Deluxe] (Time Released Sound)  Ye gods, how do they do it? Another great release, in of course both regular and deeeeeeeeeeluxe versions, from Time Released Sound, a local label specializing in obscure experimental/ambient loveliness from around the world, and also specializing … Continue reading →

This release comes in the form of a Japanese style, 2015 calendar/scroll…featuring six beautifully printed evocative photos by Warsaw based photographer, Irina Urumova. Collecting, choosing, and pressing the ginkgo leaves shed by our neighborhood tree… The exterior envelopes are made with Paper Mills beautifully hand block printed Topo Hum wallpaper that we cut to size before … Continue reading →

Stationary Travels review: “Through a musical lens” is a short series of reviews focusing on albums that present and explore human experience through music. Each album incorporates field recordings, ephemera, or motifs that revolve around everyday life and memory thus creating an especially intimate connection between their transportive sounds and the listener.    Through a musical … Continue reading →

sweet words Slug Magazine says: Porya Hatami Arrivals and Departures Time Released Sound Street: 09.28 Porya Hatami = Siavash Amini + Asfandyar Khan + Stars of the Lid If you haven’t been paying attention, some of the best ambient-drone music has come out of some of the most obscure places in the past few years. Macedonia, … Continue reading →

To practice your romance language skills and translations we have 3 new reviews…. Thank-you’s to MUSIC WON’T SAVE YOU for two new reviews in Italian: PORYA HATAMI – Arrivals And Departures  (Time Released Sound, 2014) and GHOSTWRITER & MICHAEL PAINE – Morrow (Time Released Sound, 2014) and from the Chilean blog Loop in Spanish and English … Continue reading →

From Adequacy comes this review: Ghostwriter w/Michael Paine – Morrow December 2, 2014 by Adrian  Ghostwriter – Morrow Having carved himself an inventive niche under his Ghostwriter guise with 2010’s The Continuing Adventures Of The Strange Sound Association album and 2013’s Dimensions EP, Mark Brend (erstwhile member of Mabel Joy, The Palace Of Light, Farina and Strange Sounds Orchestra) returns again … Continue reading →

This is how we made … a pastorally infused, folktronica tinged, and somewhat eccentric paean homage to early mid century England, with it’s seaside holidays and early suburban aesthetic, it’s country houses and their gloomy, wallpapered interiors, and it’s war weary yet seemingly hopeful demeanors… First Colin got down on the ground to distress with … Continue reading →

We will play show and tell and the web cam will be live for an hour! Sunday November 30 7-10pm Time Released Sound Special Naysayer will play selections from the Time Released Sound label, interview its founder, Colin Herrick, and look at some of the specialty collector’s editions, which listeners can view on the KFJC HD webcam here. … Continue reading →

Thanks to Music won’t save you for this review in Italian: FRANCESCO GIANNICO – Metrophony (Time Released Sound, 2014) Nella maggior parte dei casi, gli spunti di ispirazione e le tracce sonore concrete contenute in lavori di sperimentazione ambientale improntati al soundscaping presentano caratteri in un certo senso esotici, distanti dal vissuto quotidiano per loro … Continue reading →

For TRS047 we decided to change mediums and worked in the neighboring Berkeley silkscreening workshop called the Grease Diner.       The set of hand silkscreened 6” square prints are renditions of the dark and moody photographs taken by Giannico himself in the subway. Each of these 12 unique prints is printed on a different … Continue reading →

Gideon Wolf – Diagram (Time Released Sound) By Charlie Sage August 29, 2014 Tristan Shorr continues to display his compositional chops as Gideon Wolf on Diagram, the final release of the “chocolate box” series from bespoke art label Time Released Sound. The four tracks clock in at twenty minutes and the three-inch CD that houses them is packaged … Continue reading →

Porya Hatami – Arrivals and Departures [Time Released Sound] October 11, 2014 by Stationary Travels       Arrivals and Departures by Porya Hatami  [Time Released Sound] What other word could we use to describe the year 2014 for Porya Hatami but prolific?  He has already given us two excellent solo albums in the form of Shallow (on Tench) and The Garden (on Dronarivm) … Continue reading →

here’s the making of the Porya Hatami, “pilot’s logbook” release…in an edition of 75 or so… Our friend and studio-mate Jaime Baines made the little windows into the book with his laser cutter, and a little help from us with the exacto… for the lovelyglass slides of airplanes from 1944, then taped in on both sides…the logbook … Continue reading →

Here is the english version of a recent review of a TRS favorite,  “Unsettled beings” on this islandic website. Mikael Lind is a Swedish composer of electronic music and neoclassical. The musician was born in Sweden in 1981. There he grew up and grew up. In 2003 and 2005, visited Iceland for a period of several months. This time was … Continue reading →

read the review here or read below Monolyth & Cobalt: Polarlicht  Posted by Vito Camarretta (@)  Ambient / Electronica / Ethereal / Dub / Soundscapes / Abstract Sep222014 Artist: Monolyth & Cobalt (@) Title: Polarlicht Format: CD Label: Time Released Sound (@) Rated:  I’m never timely enough when Time Released Sound begins to spread the limited deluxe editions of its releases, and the one they … Continue reading →

the review on Loop Gideon Wolf | ‘Diagram’ | Time Released Sound | 2014   Gideon Wolf | ‘Diagram’ | Time Released Sound | 2014 Este es un nuevo lanzamiento del sello con base en Alameda, California que dirige Colin Herrick que edita un número limitado de copias hechas a mano. Gideon Wolf es un … Continue reading →

A new review of Wolf Hall by Middlemarch at Cyclic Defrost says…. Wolf Hall is the debut release from Middlemarch on the relatively new and certainly interesting label, Time Released Sound. Middlemarch is the duo project of Dimitris Avramidis on piano and Ross Baker on electronics. The album length Wolf Hall is based on the Hilary Mantel novel … Continue reading →

Discover the package through the music. Watch it unfold!  

Beautiful new book on limited edition packaging, with a two page TRS spread…featuring the Plinth, “Collected Machine Music” music box…This beautiful Thames Hudson book is available here at Amazon…  

read the review at Fluid Radio or read below! Gideon Wolf’s two albums to date, “Paper” and “I Am Wolf”, have showcased two quite different sides to the artist also known as Tristan Shorr. “Paper” was a largely neo-classical album, with distinctly abstract, drone leanings. “I Am Wolf”, on the other hand, turned the focus to … Continue reading →

here is the review at Music won’t save you GIDEON WOLF – Diagram (Time Released Sound, 2014) Venti minuti di risonanze pianistiche rappresentano il contributo di Tristan Shorr, alias Gideon Wolf, alla serie di mini-cd 3” in edizione limitata della californiana Time Released Sound. Ancorché incentrati sul pianoforte, i quattro pezzi di “Diagram” si discostano … Continue reading →

go to the post or read below! con_cetta vs MonoLogue ~ Orlando By thenewobjective / August 22, 2014 / Ambient / The ever reliable Time Released Sound label kicked off 2014 in strong fashion with Orlando, a unique collaboration billed as con_cetta vs MonoLogue.  Though conceptually interesting and certainly enriched by an understanding of its context, the album stands as a beautiful work on its own. … Continue reading →

read it here below or read it on the website.  Posted by Vito Camarretta (@)  Ambient / Electronica / Ethereal / Dub / Soundscapes / Abstract Aug262014 Artist: Guy Gelem (@) Title: Reappearance Format: CD Label: Time Released Sound (@) Rated:  I received this tidbit by cello player Guy Gelem some months ago, but there should be some available copies of the strictly limited … Continue reading →

For TRS045 we are very pleased to bring you this full length album from Middlemarch… aka Dimitris Avramidis/piano and Ross Baker/electronics. A beautiful melange of melodic and atmospheric, pastorally infused and electronically treated and overlaid piano ambiance, that is inspired in part by the novel Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel. A good collage starts with … Continue reading →

here is the live 10th July 2014 interview with TRS founder Colin Herrick, by Gregory Sharpen for his Art in review program on our favorite independent music radio in the Bay Area KALX! LISTEN HERE

  This seventh and last of the “chocolate box” series comes in the form of an analog memory box of sorts, containing vintage bits of electronics/circuit boards/tubes/transistors /switches/punch cards and other detritus from the cabinets and workshop of my father, Ken Herrick, who kindly allowed us to appropriate these materials needed! The outside of the box is … Continue reading →

DAYDREAMER – Camus (Time Released Sound, 2014) Non sono così diffusi i riferimenti letterari tra i tanti spunti concettuali spesso sottostanti a sperimentazioni ambientali; la dedica allo scrittore de “Lo straniero” e “La peste” non è tuttavia l’unico motivo di interesse della contribuzione del duo russo Daydreamer alla serie di preziose edizioni limitate della californiana … Continue reading →

From July 11th to August 8th 2014 PopUp gallery @ Autobody Fine Arts presents an exhibit of work made about and with books, featuring a display of Time Released Sound artwork and releases. …Our studio is open as well (the doorway to the right!)! Here is a detail shot of the “chocolate box series”

Time Released Sound is creating sonic installations for your home. When Colin Herrick says he wants music to be appreciated as art, he means it. Operating from a studio space in the San Francisco Bay Area, his Time Released Sound imprint has established itself as a unique entity far from the typical restrictions and economics … Continue reading →

Hello everyone! Well… it’s about time I updated this news section..it’s only been a year and a half! Just too much to do and, not enough time! Here we are at the end of our third year, as a label…and onto our 38th release! As the last release of 2013, we are proud to bring … Continue reading →

For their fifth release, Time Released Sound is extremely pleased and excited to be bringing you the new effort from the multi talented and alternately affiliated maps and diagrams! This limited edition version of 60 copies is now available for pre-order. The standard digipak edition of 300 will be available for purchase on or around … Continue reading →

“As a special offer and a thanks to anyone ordering all three of our initial releases, we will include with your order this hand labeled 5″ disc containing the music from the Shaula, Orsi and Ballerini releases. The three together on one disc will make a lovely full length compilation of these initial offerings, from … Continue reading →

Check out this review of Time Released Sound’s first release “Shaula – The Girl in the Clock” on Fluid Radio, a UK based website that “brings you the best in experimental frequencies allowing listeners, artists, producers and promoters to be completely involved in the growth and direction of the station.” Hopefully this will the first … Continue reading →

Check out these ‘behind the scenes’ studio pics of the first few releases available at Time Released Sound. First, there is a selection of the hand artified antique photo folders that make up the package for the Shaula release. We at the Time Released Sound Art Department have finally made our way through the huge … Continue reading →