Reviews

Reviews summer – fall

Reviews summer – fall

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

Reviews in review_ Quiet music can be loud

Reviews in review_ Quiet music can be loud

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

Gardens, pines, and other sound travels in review

Gardens, pines, and other sound travels in review

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

February and March Reviews

February and March Reviews

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

Latest news, rants and raves and reviews

Latest news, rants and raves and reviews

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

Reviews: Orlando and Metrophony

Reviews: Orlando and Metrophony

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

Traces of Voices reviews

Traces of Voices reviews

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

Igloo Magazine reviews Francesco Giannico & Porya Hatami

Igloo Magazine reviews Francesco Giannico & Porya Hatami

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

We are the best… of 2014!

We are the best… of 2014!

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

Several Ghostwriter and Michael Paine reviews

Several Ghostwriter and Michael Paine reviews

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

present and explore human experience through music

present and explore human experience through music

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

Reviews of Porya Hatami Arrivals And Departures

Reviews of Porya Hatami Arrivals And Departures

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

review, review, and review… of various titles

review, review, and review… of various titles

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

2 Reviews of Ghostwriter and Michael Paine

2 Reviews of Ghostwriter and Michael Paine

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

Francesco Giannico Metrophony review

Francesco Giannico Metrophony review

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

Cyclic Defrost review of Gideon Wolf – Diagram

Cyclic Defrost review of Gideon Wolf – Diagram

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 review by Stationary Travels

Porya Hatami – Arrivals and Departures review by Stationary Travels

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

Mikael Lind “Unsettled beings” review

Mikael Lind “Unsettled beings” review

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

Monolyth & Cobalt Polarlicht review on CHAIN DLK

Monolyth & Cobalt Polarlicht review on CHAIN DLK

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

Loop spanish and english review of Gideon Wolf Diagram

Loop spanish and english review of Gideon Wolf Diagram

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

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

Gideon Wolf review on Fluid Radio

Gideon Wolf review on Fluid Radio

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

Italian Review of Gideon Wolf’s Diagram

Italian Review of Gideon Wolf’s Diagram

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

Review of Orlando at A Closer Listen Blog

Review of Orlando at A Closer Listen Blog

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

Review in italian of Camus by music won’t save you

Review in italian of Camus by music won’t save you

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

Time Released Sound gets it’s first review!

Time Released Sound gets it’s first review!

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