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photography by Delphine Ancelle-B.
Available from the label's Bandcamp page in the usual range of formats.

This compilation is dedicated to Akifumi Nakajima and Robert Gray Brownstead.

Track 1: Dedicated to the pioneers. Thanks to Jean-Marc for getting me out of the cave.

Track 3: Composed in September/October 2016.

Track 4: Composed from field recordings, glass and synthesizers.

Track 6: Source material: Improvisations by Elizabeth Twiddy & Edward Ruchalski, late summer, 2016. Instrument: Takafumi Ide’s sculpture Threshold. Location: Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia N.Y.

Track 8: Recorded live August 2016.

Track 9: Stahlfluss. A river of steel. A meditation on noise and minimalism. Steel in flowing motion. Synthetic sounds meet sample manipulation.

Track 10: Rec. 2012 and 2016. Recorded on different trains, final mix at home 2016. All rights by Tarkatak/Lutz Pruditsch. Picture by Piet P. 2016.

Track 13: Recorded 1997/2016 @k029 for k029 project. Assbld:20161213. Clue: No way out.

Track 15: Recorded 2016.

Track 17: Digital Love Song was made using nothing but website interface elements found online. In listening to these elements individually, the began to tell a story. If HAL fell in love, this is what the conversation would sound like. Disconnection used mainly phone samples to hearken back to the old dial-up days.

Track 18: -2016-

Track 21: Recorded and mixed at home in November 2016. All sounds © hum. Visuals by SDM 2016.

Track 24: Your house is a chest buried in the snow, brimming full of resonances to guide through the silent landscape. Hautes-Pyrénées. November 2016.

Track 29: -2016-

Track 32: Composition formed from sketches of 'The Beginners' project with Rebecca Sharp, Fife, Scotland, 2016. Photo: Rebecca Joy Sharp.

Track 33: No overdubs no outtakes.

Track 35: In 2015, shomyo & shakuhachi was recorded at Ikkyu temple, located in Kyo-Tanabe, (Kyoto prefecture) on the anniversary date Ikkyu-zen-monk passed away, while people were admiring and cerebrating his birth and his long time ago existence. The Japanese flute called shakuhachi part was composed by him. (Words by Soko Tanabe, monk at Ikkyu-ji temple).

Track 36: Objects and situations found in Rovaniemi, Hamburg, Mooste, Põlgaste, Tallinn, and Bordeaux between 2003 and 2016. Title found in the same name by Panos Panagiotopoulos.

Track 39: Original track released on Ephre imprint in August 14, 2011.

Track 40: Composed 9.7.2016 in Eire including some instrumental sounds from Brigida Romano and Kwiboys.

Track 41: Sound/mix/art 2016.

Track 42: This track finds its origin in my visit to Toyama (west center of Japan), a region known for its foundries. I had the opportunity to record within a two-ton bell, experimenting the vibrational frequencies and harmonic locations by creating feedback. Special thanks to Toshihiro Koizumi & Mariko Fujita from Japan. Produced in 2016.

Track 43: 2016.

Track 44: Processed and raw elements constituting the sound materials of this piece come from underwater recordings, found objects, small bell and xylophone. Recorded and composed (Nov.2016).

Track 45: Photography by Donato Gagliano.

Track 47: Recorded in 10/01/2016 at Moufurokuon. For Watanabe Haruko. I referred to the following music: Seikilos Epitaph, Carla Blay Ida Lulino, Nursery Song I Love Bread.

Track 48: (Part of the tarot series). Music 2016. Recorded at New Terminal studios, Brussels.

Track 51: -2016-