- 1Decompression
- 2Blur;Green
- 3Pocket Analysis
- 4Decompression Two
- 5Sunroom
- 6Lichen
- 7Rhododendron
- 8Way Will Open
- 9Water's Edge
- 10Jaguar;Blur
- 11Form In Ice
- 12Whispers
- 13Nubu
WLC014
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Open edition
Shīdo - “Interims”
LP
TC03: Biome 01; Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests;
WLC014
Hey this is Skwirl here to gab at you briefly about the records we have coming for this year’s thematic cluster! The theme is Biome and each record has been linked to one of Earth’s distinct bioregions/ecosystem types.
The first record in our Biome series is the textural, bright and warm ambient LP “Interims” from my Shīdo project.
https://tr.ee/WLC014_Feels_Swatch
“Interims” marks the first material made under my ambient compositional moniker Shīdo and was made over a couple of furiously inspired weekends back in autumn 2010. At the time I was working a canvassing job that required me to spend my weeks camping and canvassing various towns and areas of my native Wisconsin. Also around that time I had acquired a trusty H4n and had begun in earnest to capture the world around me directly through exhaustive field recordings of everyday life, the mundane and the curious. When I arrived home on the weekends the pent up energy propelled synaptic threads of my memories’ narratives into extensive studio sessions.
These sessions foundationally changed my relationship with my tools as well as vastly deepened my experience of making music - as conscious action gave way to flow states of the deep subconscious. These “underwater” sessions were so fundamentally different to my other work flows and output that it clearly belonged to its own project character name. The name I gave it originally was “Bija”: Sanskrit for a seed - both literally as in a plant seed but also broader and more metaphysical: the seed that blossoms into life, potential, and cause. This name was later changed to the Japanese “Shīdo”, which also means seed, after I met another Bija in the wild who was also making ambient music.
“Interims” then is an album comprised of music made in the midst of an adventure of sorts; in between excursions into corners of my world I had never journeyed to - places so close to home that I’d never known - with a collection of strangers that became friends. It is also an album most dear to me as it represents a turning point at which the act of making music became something of a spiritual experience: the moment of fusion with tools that allows the inner world to seep out and find capture.
This record has been classified as Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests: the biome of my home that I found myself traversing, exploring, cursing as I shivered in my tent, and ultimately capturing during the gestation and emergence of the energy that became this album.
May it bring some peace to you.
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all tracks written, produced and mixed by Shīdo
Mastered by Jacob Korn @ Tailout
Videos by ◢sidehatch.
Feels Swatch by Brittany Myers
Distributed digitally by EPM Music
https://www.instagram.com/woodland_creatures_label
https://linktr.ee/woodlandcreatures
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LP
TC03: Biome 01; Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests;
WLC014
Hey this is Skwirl here to gab at you briefly about the records we have coming for this year’s thematic cluster! The theme is Biome and each record has been linked to one of Earth’s distinct bioregions/ecosystem types.
The first record in our Biome series is the textural, bright and warm ambient LP “Interims” from my Shīdo project.
https://tr.ee/WLC014_Feels_Swatch
“Interims” marks the first material made under my ambient compositional moniker Shīdo and was made over a couple of furiously inspired weekends back in autumn 2010. At the time I was working a canvassing job that required me to spend my weeks camping and canvassing various towns and areas of my native Wisconsin. Also around that time I had acquired a trusty H4n and had begun in earnest to capture the world around me directly through exhaustive field recordings of everyday life, the mundane and the curious. When I arrived home on the weekends the pent up energy propelled synaptic threads of my memories’ narratives into extensive studio sessions.
These sessions foundationally changed my relationship with my tools as well as vastly deepened my experience of making music - as conscious action gave way to flow states of the deep subconscious. These “underwater” sessions were so fundamentally different to my other work flows and output that it clearly belonged to its own project character name. The name I gave it originally was “Bija”: Sanskrit for a seed - both literally as in a plant seed but also broader and more metaphysical: the seed that blossoms into life, potential, and cause. This name was later changed to the Japanese “Shīdo”, which also means seed, after I met another Bija in the wild who was also making ambient music.
“Interims” then is an album comprised of music made in the midst of an adventure of sorts; in between excursions into corners of my world I had never journeyed to - places so close to home that I’d never known - with a collection of strangers that became friends. It is also an album most dear to me as it represents a turning point at which the act of making music became something of a spiritual experience: the moment of fusion with tools that allows the inner world to seep out and find capture.
This record has been classified as Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests: the biome of my home that I found myself traversing, exploring, cursing as I shivered in my tent, and ultimately capturing during the gestation and emergence of the energy that became this album.
May it bring some peace to you.
_____________
all tracks written, produced and mixed by Shīdo
Mastered by Jacob Korn @ Tailout
Videos by ◢sidehatch.
Feels Swatch by Brittany Myers
Distributed digitally by EPM Music
https://www.instagram.com/woodland_creatures_label
https://linktr.ee/woodlandcreatures
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