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The form of an object, in part, finds definition in its points and intersections. Linear movements meet at a crossroad only to alter trajectory and build upon each course change. Slowly but surely, one becomes two, two becomes three; what once began as a simple dash across nothingness assumes a robust purpose and reveals meaningful multi-dimensional features.

Forms, as a series of musical collections, opts for measured themes unique to each edition. Meditative, with carefully constructed folds, the compilation is sewn together with the intent to capture, and make tangible, concepts in motion.

For the latest edition to our compilation series we invited some artists whose efforts constitute our past and some artists that represent our future to help us celebrate our fifth anniversary as a record imprint. Starting with our very first release in November 2014 we have sought to pay tribute to the music that gives us pause and to create artifacts that cement that beauty. Each song herein marks a waypoint in our paradoxical lineage, bound together by the urgent need to grow fast yet age slow. We thank them all, today, tomorrow, and hereafter.

*EXCLUSIVE TO BANDCAMP FOR 1 MONTH
The "Five Years" compilation will be available from all digital outlets starting Friday 24 January 2020
Credits

All songs written & produced by their respective artist(s)
"Old Leopard Paws" features Alex Hamburger on flute, and additional production by Danae Greenfield.
"Alex the Spacecat" features Yoh on flute.
Mastered by Kaye Loggins from Greenpoint, New York
Cover Art by Cristian Iacob (www.instagram.com/c.icb)
Design by Nicholas Concklin
Executive Produced by John Moses & Nicholas Concklin

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This is the final eilean rec. release which close the map and the project with all the music artists involved since the beginning, during these last 5 years.

109 music artists / 82 tracks / 6 hours of sounds.
61 unreleased and new tracks / 21 tracks from back catalogs (16 from eilean rec. + 6 from some other labels)

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• artists involved in alphabetical order •

9t Antiope (Nima Aghiani + Sara Bigdeli Shamloo)
Aaron Martin
A Home For Ghosts (James Edward Armstrong + Neil Carter)
Amuleto (Francesco Dillon + Riccardo Dillon Wanke)
Andrew Tasselmyer
Aries Mond
Arovane & Mike Lazarev
Autistici & Justin Varis
Bamboo Stilts (Orla Wren & Leigh Toro)
Banabila & Machinefabriek
Benjamin Finger (with Lynn Fister)
Ben Mc Elroy
Ben Rath
Bill Seaman (with John Supko & James Chu)
Bmrn
Chris Dooks
Cicely Irvine
Ciro Berenguer
Cyril Secq + Sylvain Chauveau
Dag Rosenqvist (with Aaron Martin & Lisen Rylander Löve)
Daniel K. Böhm
Daniel WJ Mackenzie
Danny Clay
Darren Harper
Dramavinile
Ecovillage (Emil Holmström and Peter Wikström)
E and I (The Humble Bee & Emmanuel Witzthum)
Emmanuel Witzthum
Francesco Giannico & Giulio Aldinucci
Florian Von Ameln
Foresteppe
HolyKindOf
Ian Hawgood
Ian Nyquist (with Jack Sheehan)
Ieva
Inga-Lill Farstad
Jacek Doroszenko
James Murray
Jason Van Wyk
Jonathan Kawchuk
Josco
Josh Mason
Kenji Kihara
Knivtid
Lake Mary (with Anna Wilson-Prymek)
Lee Chapman
Leigh Toro
Ljerke (Kleefstra Brothers, Hilde Marie Holsen, Sytze Pruiksma, Alexander Rishaug, Michael Francis Duch)
Masaya Ozaki
Michael Cutting
Miguel Isaza
Monolyth & Cobalt
Monty Adkins
Moss Covered Technology
Nathan Mc Laughlin
Offthesky (with Cody Yantis)
øjeRum
Omrr
Otto Solange
Pascal Savy
Phi Bui
Richard Ginns
Ruhe
Saenïnvey
Seabuckthorn
Sonmi451
Sound Meccano
Speck (Nikita Bondarev)
Spheruleus
Stijn Hüwels
Srúti (Omrr + Pie Are Squared)
Sublamp
Sustainer
Tatsuro Kojima
The Prairie Lines
Toàn
Twigs & Yarn (Lauren McMurray with Adam Hilton)
Twincities (with Matthew Citarella)
Uwe Zahn | Porya Hatami | Darren Mc Clure
Vhr-1.7
Wil Bolton
Xu
Yadayn
Zhalih

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• back catalog / eilean rec. •

Bamboo Stilts - Porthole (from «Beneath The Bark», 2015)
Ciro Berenguer - Luna Creciente (from «El Mar De Junio», 2019)
Florian von Ameln - Komplement (from «Rvvr», 2016)
Francesco Giannico & Giulio Aldinucci - Reframing (from «Reframing», 2017)
HolyKindOf - Ceremonial Magnet (Part I) (from « Stay/Sea », 2014)
Josco & Spheruleus - Kilis (from «Folded Distance», 2017)
Josh Mason & Nathan McLaughlin - Markers & Surveys (I-VI) (excerpt) (from «On The Brink», 2017)
Lee Chapman - Let me In (from «The Common Silence», 2015)
Masaya Ozaki - Patina (from «Fluid And Dreaming Of Stripes», 2015)
Miguel Isaza - El Monte Suspendido (from « Uji », 2014)
Otto Solange - Ever Round, It turns, He Goes To Sleep (from « шон », 2019)
Saenïnvey - Something New (from « The Path », 2016)
The Prairie Lines - Echo Collapse (from «Today Leap And Stop Time», 2018)
Uwe / Zahn / Hatami - V-Modal (from «Veerian», 2016)

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• back catalog / other labels •

9t Antiope - Seagulls Feast (single, self-released, 2017)
Chris Dooks - Steady States And Transient Oscillations (from «Non - Linear Responses of Self - Excited Harmoniums», self-released, 2011)
Dag Rosenqvist - Come Silence (from «Elephant», Dronarivm, 2016)
E and I - A Perhaps Song (from «An Inch Of Air», Cotton Goods, 2010)
Nathan Mc Laughlin - The Road is Dark (from «The Refrigerator is Emotional», Senufo Editions, 2012)
Richard Ginns - Point Dunes (from «Sea Change», Slow Flow Recs, 2011)

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credits
All music composed, performed, recorded and mixed by all the music artists involved including :

with Benjamin Finger : Lynn Fister
with Bill Seaman: John Supko (rhythm libraries) / James Chu (Clarinet)
with Dag Rosenqvist: Aaron Martin (Cello) / Lisen Rylander Löve (Saxophone)
with Ian Nyquist : Jack Sheehan
with Lake Marry : Anna Wilson-Prymek
with Offthesky : Cody Yantis
with Twigs & Yarns : Adam Hilton
with Twincities : Matthew Citarella
with Xu : Darren Harper

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Mastered by Mathias Van Eecloo except :

(CD1) track 03: mastered by Orla Wren / track 08: mastered by Taylor Deupree / track 17: mastered by Ian Hawgood
(CD2) track 02: mastered by Miles Whittaker / track 16: mastered by Ian Hawgood / track 17: mastered by Phi Bui
(CD3) track 03: mastered by Ian Hawgood / track 04: mastered by Porya hatami / track 08: mastered by Lasse Marhaug 
(CD4) track 03: mastered by Bernard Zwijzen / track 10: mastered by Erich Steiger / track 13: mastered by Ryan Connor / track 15: mastered by Miguel Isaza
(CD5) track 12: mastered by James Murray / track 14: mastered by Taylor Deupree

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Artwork by Marco Cadioli
Inside photography by Mathias Van Eecloo
Design by Superfluxgrafizm

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"thanks a lot to everyone since these 5 years.
the music artists and the artwork artists, and all the people who have trusted, followed and loved the eilean rec project.
thanks a lot to Rémi for his artistic guidance, to Sarah for her love and support, and to all my close friends."

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© all right reserved to all the music artists and eilean rec.

except track 22 by Jonathan Kawchuk :
© all right reserved to Paper Bag & eilean rec.

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They are mainly songs that have been born out of the ups and downs of spending a lot of life on the road. Sometimes everything just makes sense and you can’t understand how things could be anything but beautiful, yet at other times the bottom falls out, desperation takes hold and all seems lost.

Tracks 1-9 were recorded at Uber Studios in Hull with Rob Burgess. Between Rob, Holly and Will they covered basically all instrumentations. The exact breakdown of some of the more secondary instruments can’t quite be remembered. We consider this a good thing! All songs were primarily mixed at Uber with Rob, Holly and Will before they were sent over to Fairview to be remixed and mastered.

Track 10 was recorded at Fairview Studios in Hull with John Spence and had Holly and Will on vocals and guitar and Dave and Tom on drums and bass respectively.

John Spence at Fairview studios mixed and mastered all tracks.

Holly Blackshaw - Vocals and rhythm guitar throughout
Will Bladen - Vocals, rhythm and lead guitar throughout, slide guitar, bass
Rob Burgess - Drums, slide guitar, keys, bass
Beth Nicholson - Cello, track 1
Dave Tomlinson - Drums, track 10
Tom Skelly - Bass, track 10

All music is by Crooked Weather
Artwork is by Holly Blackshaw
Photo (and faithful roadie) credits go to Ella Blackshaw

This album is dedicated to Bari Razzaki. Most trusted friend, unofficial Crooked Weather member and a bright light to follow at any time. Peace.

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Stuttgart, Germany based multimedia artist and producer MinaeMinae delivers his debut release of cosmic polyrhythmic explorations with 'Variante.' Whether beamed in from the future or uncovered from the past, Variante calls to mind a place and time far from here and now. Synthetic mallets and anti-guitars comprise the record’s gritty foundation, while interlocking melodics and where’s-the-one rhythms tessellate a kaleidoscopic patchwork.

Born and raised in a small German village far from city life, MinaeMinae’s formative musical experience began by making music for his village friends to enjoy using his tape recorder, microphone, a janky keyboard and, later, a simple freeware multitrack DAW. This sense of childlike play stayed constant throughout MinaeMinae’s adulthood and informed the process in which he created 'Variante.' “When I make music, I try to stay in an intuitive flow. I try to play as a kid would,” says MinaeMinae. “A child can play forever without becoming tired. There is no competition, no comparison, there is no direct purpose, no usability. The purpose is the game itself.”

Composed after an inspiring first trip to India, 'Variante' is an attempt to interpret the subjective impressions of his first visit outside of the western world. “I felt very naive,” says MinaeMinae. “The attempt to reflect this other world alone with my existing knowledge had to fail; it was doomed to fail. It seems to me arrogant to put this world in my mind's drawers. So I tried to see this world with an ‘innocent eye,’ through the eyes of a child.”

The term “the innocent eye” was coined by the Victorian era English art critic John Ruskin in his book 'Elements of Drawing' (1857). In order to learn how to draw, Ruskin writes that one must see the world, colors, and shades with “the innocence of the eye,” or, in other words, a childlike perception. “This approach, in the artistic sense, may be a bit dated. The concept of ‘innocence’ seems strange from today's point of view, but for me, this approach was interesting. It reduces the sensory impressions and complexity of the world which helps in creative work,” MinaeMinae explains.

'Variante' is not a direct copy or interpretation of Indian music or culture, rather, it’s “an attempt to approach the tragedy of the impossibility of complete understanding of other cultures, and to accept this tragedy with the utmost respect and humility for the foreign. This acceptance of non-knowledge creates new possibilities to musically translate my own subjective impressions,” explains MinaeMinae.

Through the percussive glimmers of 'Variante,' another far-off world, seemingly familiar and foreign, takes shape. A world that offers listeners the space for thoughts and impressions to drift, dock, or swirl in the many shifting spaces between rhythms.

MinaeMinae’s 'Variante' will be released November 1, 2019 on vinyl and digital formats via Human Pitch.