The Gears of Sand Catalogue
Here are the releases from Gears of Sand: Sounds of Impermanence.
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BEN FLEURY-STEINER: Drifts - Re-release on Hypnos Secrets Sounds
A re-release of the now out of print work of floaty ambience.
CD price: $12.97
SAITO KOJI: Guitar
Light as a feather guitarscapes that float in chords made of cloud vapor.
CD price: $12.97
P.D. WILDER: F/M
Electric guitar performed from the snowy backwater of Fargo, North Dakota: A gorgeous weave of icey drones and warm, melodic highs.
CD price: $12.97
NORTHERN VALENTINE & P.D. WILDER: Northern Valentine & P.D. Wilder
Sprawling canvases of electric-guitar recast in a curtain of textured sonorities.
CD price: $12.97
STEPHEN BISHOP: Cllpss
Two long compositions of delicate field recorded manipulations and submersible drones.
CD price: $12.97
ASHER: Simple Machines
5 delicate and stirring meditations for looped acoustic guitar and fm radio.
CD price: $12.97
JEREMY BIBLE & JASON HENRY: Vryashn
This two track opus is a truly epic immersion into the vast imaginations of Bible and Henry. The confident, effortless development of broken piano treatment at Vryashn's epicenter bring to mind the sublime energy of Harold Budd and Brian Eno.
Recommended if you like Harold Budd, Stars of the Lid.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
TRUE COLOUR OF BLOOD: All of the True Things I'm About to Tell You Are Lies
Guitar drone with a decidedly subversive edge (i.e., what we love.).
CD price: $12.97
GYDJA: Machina Mundi
Amorphous ambient time worlds; ever shifting and altogether mesmeric.
Recommended if you like Brian Eno, Robert Rich.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
NORTHERN VALENTINE: Rusted Gates (Volume 1) - Leopard's Mouth
Haunting, melodic, live multi-instrumental sessions filled with beautiful noises from the field.
Recommended if you like Stars of the Lid, Windy & Carl.
CHRISTOPHER MCFALL: Solemn Words for a Fabled Apparatus
Hauntingly beautiful field recordings transmuted into a vast language of the urban, post-industrial landscape.
Recommended if you like Dale Lloyd.CD price: $12.97
RUMFORSKNING: Himmelhvælv
The dark, deeply textural ambient duo of Danny Kreutzfeldt and Mads Weitling from Denmark.
CD price: $12.97
LIGHT OF SHIPWRECK: From the Idle Cylinders
Released as part of the Crucial Bliss Series: Gorgeously packaged in a foldover card with the disc itself attached to the sleeve on a plastic hub and featuring striking photo design.
CD price: $12.97
YUI ONODERA: Rhizome
Beautiful atmospheric work of delicate warming drones, spacious piano, and subtle field recordings.
Recommended if you like Harold Budd, Brian Eno.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
CON_SENSE: Compass
Warm and beautifully mastered ambient with atmospheric beats in the tradition of the very contemporary sound of Monolake infused with other combinations of various Berlin school legends.
CD price: $12.97
MATT BORGHI & BEN FLEURY-STEINER: What the Night Leaves Behind
Two well established craftsmen of ambient atmospherics join forces to create a gorgeous paean to the fleeting night sky.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
MIKRONESIA: Iris Or Comfortable Too
Gorgeous piano woven with velvet threads of deeply introspective experimental ambient and subtle glitch.
Recommended if you like Harold Budd, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto.MP3 price: $9.99
ENCOMIAST: Transit Bed
Organic drones that evolve and open into effortless tonescapes.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
JONATHAN BLOCK & THE CIRCULAR RUINS: Shadows on Water
Tranquil, liquid ambience from two accomplished artists.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
CORDELL KLIER: Espionage
Fascinating, minimalist glitch-pop from a truly special artist.
Recommended if you like Alva Noto.MP3 price: $9.99
SECONDS IN FORMALDEHYDE: II
A fascinating fusion of guitar drones and edgy, noisier six string craftsmanship.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
PATRICK BALTHROP: Autopoetic
Gorgeous waves of ambient, microbeats
Recommended if you like Tetsu Inoue, Nova.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
M. PECK: Glacial
Ambient, Environmental Soundscapes
Recommended if you like Biosphere, Robert Rich & Steve Roach.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
NETHERWORLD: Six Impending Clouds
Dark Ambient, Isolationist Drone
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
PHOLDE: That which tends to dissuade
Dark ambient, aural industrial sculptures
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
SALVAGESOUND: 12 Reductions
Electronic, modern Musique Concrete
Recommended if you like Kraftwerk, :zoviet*france:.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
AIDAN BAKER: Green & Cold
Fascinating mix of drone, post-rock, and what the artist calls appropriately "deconstructive dream-pop."
Recommended if you like My Bloody Valentine, Codeine.MP3 price: $5.00
SYNTHETIC BLOCK: Means of Ascent
Simultaneously rhythmic and spacious ambient music that is all Synthetic Block at his virtuousic best.
Recommended if you like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze.MP3 price: $9.99
BEN FLEURY-STEINER: As a Means Through Which I Can Speak
Complex album of drones, reverberating frequencies, fractured melodies, and hidden siren songs.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
WILLIAM FIELDS: Timbre
'Timbre' is a work of beautiful ambient glitch.
Recommended if you like Tetsu Inoue, Fennesz.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
SYNTHETIC BLOCK: Escape Veloctiy
Warm analog synth creates 6 evocative, progressive ambient tracks to immerse oneself in.
Recommended if you like Brian Eno, Jeff Greinke.MP3 price: $9.99
BEN FLEURY-STEINER: Drifts
Warm ambient electronica - a suite of 11 tracks built around inter-connected themes.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
AIDAN BAKER: Pendulum
On Pendulum, Baker explores the deconstructive sonic possibilities of the electric guitar as a primary sound source, creating music that is at once ethereal and sonically engrossing.
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $9.99
MIKRONESIA: Tissue Paper Ghosts
Fans of minimal techno with glitchy undercurrents in the 12K style will surely love Tissue Paper Ghosts; a deeply personal album of loss, redemption, and letting go into the white light.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
