Now available: Blinkar från Norr / Metaphors For Things

It’s not often we get to release music by an artist without a recognizable catalog, so we’re very excited to present the first ever release by Blinkar från Norr.

The debut album from Sardinian composer Blinkar från Norr covers a rich, atmospheric and melancholic stretch of territory. Metaphors For Things was born from composer Andrea Garau’s own personal experience of the world today, brought to life through currents of powerful sound and an always shifting but ever-pensive state.

The album aims to express the negative conflicts and diseases often seen in people and modern society, capturing thoughts, emotions and feelings that can generate internal conflicts, anxieties and fears.

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri and featuring artwork by Noah M / Keep Adding, Metaphors For Things is available on transparent, colored smoke gatefold vinyl and digital download.

See the release page for all links to buy

Pre order: Blinkar från Norr / Metaphors For Things

We’re excited to announce and introduce a new artist into the ASIP family, Sardinian composer Andrea Garau as Blinkar från Norr. The debut album Metaphors For Things is available to pre order today, with full release on February 17th. Expect deep and dark ambient underpinned by electro-acoustics and pensive emotion.

For more info, links to listen and buy visit the release page

Now available: Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri / Una Presencia En La Brisa

Leandro Fresco and Rafael Anton Irisarri return with their second cross-continental collaboration on A Strangely Isolated Place with 'Una Presencia En La Brisa' (A Presence In The Breeze).

The duo once again return to the dense, rich and otherworldly drones, exploring a concept of human connection.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree, and featuring artwork by Molly Smith and thousands of hand-drawn dots - the vinyl edition comes as a 12” Silver Sky color and digital download.

More information and links to buy

We’ll also have a limited edition t-shirt available through Everpress featuring the unique artwork by Molly Smith, screen-printed on a Unisex Heavy Cotton Gildan Hammer tee. Pr-orders for the tee are only available for the next 21 days, then the t-shirt will go into production.

ASIP 2019 Label Compilation

I’ve always wanted to do one of these for the label each year, but until now we’ve never really had enough output to warrant a decent end of year ‘sampler’. 2019 however saw us release eight records in various formats, so consider this our first of hopefully many annual label compilations.

There’s no hype or deep context needed for this, it’s one track taken from each of those eight releases however, some tracks features some slight edits* / versions as detailed below. Hopefully people will still discover something new, or if you’ve purchased them all already (thank you!) there are some small edits to present a new listening experience.

Thank you to everyone who has supported our music this year and a big thank you to all of the artists included who are along for the ride.

Available to download on Bandcamp for $1.

2019 releases (in reverse chronological order)

Olga Wojciechowska / Infinite Distances 12” Vinyl + Digital - buy

“…Sometimes opposing thoughts can be held in tension, and a person can be two things at once; in such cases, reconciliation is not two halves that make a whole, but two wholes that occupy the same space. In the end, the beauty of Infinite Distances is not distance, but closeness, as Wojciechowska sews seams between past and present, abstract and concrete, composer and listener ~ more intimate than infinite.”

— A Closer Listen

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36 / Fade To Grey (Reinterpreted) CD + Digital - buy

*Compilation includes an edited version of Midnight Tether.

“Entering the aural Eden, the primal dystopian “Fade To Grey” scenario by 36 exquisitely shifted into awe-inspiringly drifting dronescape euphoria... ”

— Richard Gürtler on Bandcamp

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Comit / Remote Viewing 2LP Vinyl + Digital - buy

“... a supremely listenable piece of music, as much bespoke made for your mind as for your heart.”

— Headphone Commute

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Max Würden / Format 2LP Vinyl + Digital - buy

*Compilation includes an edited version of Constituent Elements

“Though it may sound like hyperbole, the absolute masterpiece that is Format deserves to award Würden a place among the likes of Eno, Laraaji, Jenssen, Budd and Roach, such is the richness of content, diversity of technique and spellbinding atmospheric ambience”

— James Knapman / Igloo Magazine

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Yagya / Stormur 2LP Vinyl + Digital - buy

*Compilation includes the unmixed vinyl version of Stormur Sex.

“Their combination sparks something particularly unique on ‘Stormur niu‘ – a wonderful shuddering, driver of a track featuring whispered vocals in Japanese from Hatis Noit.”

— Andy Gilham / inverted Audio

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James Bernard / Atwater (Remixes) Digital - buy

Arovane, Bluetech, Christian Kleine, Comit, Mike Golding (B12), Milieu provide 90’s IDM & electronica takes on the original recording of Atwater.

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James Bernard / Atwater 12” Vinyl and Digital - buy

A recording of a modular live set performed by James a year earlier in Los Angeles, brought to life once again.

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36 / Fade To Grey 2LP Vinyl and Digital - buy

“Fade To Grey is aware of a deeper need, a deeper yearning, a deeper wish”

— James Catchpole / Fluid Radio

Now available: Olga Wojciechowska / Infinite Distances (ASIPV020)

We’re very proud to announce our latest release by Polish producer Olga Wojciechowska.

Infinite Distances varies from expansive modern-classical pieces, to more experimental and electronic touches - a personal recollection that spans the emotions surrounding the feelings of loss; the highs, the lows, the polaroid-like happy memories, the ones that you never want to let go, and those that will never quite fade away.

Read about the release, listen and view links to buy on the release page.

You can also head to A Closer Listen for a lovely in-depth review of the record.

A big thank you to Olga for putting her faith in ASIP with this lovely record, for Marco Vannini and his beautiful artwork and RAI for the magical finishing touches.

“...In the end, the beauty of Infinite Distances is not distance, but closeness, as Wojciechowska sews seams between past and present, abstract and concrete, composer and listener ~ more intimate than infinite.”

— A Closer Listen