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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

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

Making Pines, aka Zachary Corsa’s “The Field Journal”.

Making Pines, aka Zachary Corsa’s “The Field Journal”.

… 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

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

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

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

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

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 making of

Porya Hatami making of

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

Making of the Wolf Hall collages

Making of the Wolf Hall collages

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

Interview by Tobias Fischer for Tokafi music blog

Interview by Tobias Fischer for Tokafi music blog

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