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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

Making “Water Became Wild”_ Sara Forslund

Making “Water Became Wild”_ Sara Forslund

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

Making sacred spaces

Making sacred spaces

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

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

Making the packaging for Drawing Virtual Gardens

Making the packaging for Drawing Virtual Gardens

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

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

Making the SONMI451 Limbic System release

Making the SONMI451 Limbic System release

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

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

Making the Masaya Kato calendar- scroll

Making the Masaya Kato calendar- scroll

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

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

Making Morrow by Ghostwriter with Michael Paine

Making Morrow by Ghostwriter with Michael Paine

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

KFJC 3 hour radio interview

KFJC 3 hour radio interview

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

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

making Metrophony by Francesco Giannico

making Metrophony by Francesco Giannico

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

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

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

Daydreamer Camus video

Daydreamer Camus video

Discover the package through the music. Watch it unfold!  

collector’s edition book

collector’s edition book

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…  

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 at Chain DLK of Reappearance

Review at Chain DLK of Reappearance

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