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Alexandr Vatagin: ...
Just in time for valeot records 5th anniversary, co-founder and label head alexandr vatagin presents his third solo album “serza”. in combining the analogue and tender atmosphere of “valeot” (2006) with the harsh, yet subtle digital electronics of “shards” (2008), “serza” is attesting to a consequent and traceable development towards maturity in sound and structure. featuring a huge spectrum of common as well as unusual instruments, it takes you on a thirty minute trip full of delicate melodies, pushing drums, gentle noise, swirling celli, warm vibraphone chimes and sweet piano tunes. The album features friends from all over the world …
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Mark Templeton: Je...
Mark Templeton presents Jealous Heart, an album which reimagines the story of his sound in an approach that is both staid and deeply emotional, re-orienting what is offered and what is held back through a myriad of smeared stringed instruments, fragmented horn phrases, tape loops, and found-sound-driven explorations. Templeton’s music is always difficult to truly classify, which is part of its charm. It is way too dense and detailed to qualify as ambient in a traditional sense – instead developing itself into a highly organized, spacious clutter. It is electro-acoustic music that hearkens to tape machines and misused instruments of …
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Betacicadae: Mouna...
Clear vinyl in handmade printed sleeve and insert. Individually numbered edition of 100, each one-of-a-kind. Includes download code for bonus material. Painstakingly constructed by multi-instrumentalist Kevin Scott Davis during more than two years of spiritual struggle and rebirth, ‘betacicadae: mouna’ is a lush, transcendental narrative in sound. It is a cohesive whole that employs a broad spectrum of textures and extends far beyond formula like “drone” or “field recordings.” The sounds absorb, project, embrace, and comfort the listener in imaginary geography—surreal, dreamlike spaces beween earth and otherworldliness. ‘mouna’ is an intimate personal statement, but also a universal musical narrative of …
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The Mistys: Stalki...
This little baby comes in a super limited 7″ pressing (200 copies) and we have a feeling they will not be around for long! Comes with a Japanese style ‘Wrap around’ cover and black/white photo booklets. Mistys are the first signing to The Boats new label Other Ideas and ‘Stalking / Drawers’ will be it’s debut release! We want more Mistys music please Andrew. This stuff gets me and Jess moving around the room!
Latest CD’s
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Machinefabriek �...
Limited edition CD (x150) in a recycled card sleeve that is hand stamped (designed by Machinefabriek) and numbered. It includes four double sided color prints and a download that includes all bonus items! Bonus digital items include two Machine Room movies by Sanja Harris, a full color art PDF and two exclusive remixes by Marcus Fisher and Steve Roden… Through the sublimely shot images and the stunning and engrossing audio material, ‘Machine Rooms’ really does set the bar for a conceptual album, with both aspects of this beautiful looking package really complimenting the other, and enhancing the synesthetic vision of …
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Ian Hawgood &...
Hibernate would perhaps not be where it is today without ‘Wolfskin’ by Ian Hawgood, our inaugural release back in 2009. Wolfskin referenced a series of nightmares Ian had as a child, focussing on elements of dreams and violence by marrying beauty with the harsh. Ian Hawgood has immersed himself in musical projects for longer than he cares to remember; in recent years he has released through the likes of Experimedia, Dragon’s Eye and his own Home Normal label as well as through several netlabels. Increasingly, Ian has been collaborating with other artists – including Jason Corder (Offthesky), Tim Martin (Maps …
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Darren Harper: Awa...
Photo inlay printed on traditional Japanese rice paper is included / Limited to 150 copies… Darren Harper met the analog recorder. Reflections on loss, surrender, hope, and indifference. Experiments for ReVox A77, Fender Telecaster, Piano, Field Recordings, and Ableton Live. All tracks W/P by Darren Harper 2012/13 Photo: Barker Reservoir, Nederland, Co. Autumn, 2012 by Darren Harper. Mastered by Seth Chrisman. 01. Upon The Edge Of An Imaginary Sea, I remembered How Things Once Could Be (4:52) 02. Still (4:02) 03. A Breath, Release (7:08) 04. Pastorale Loop (6:52) 05. Meander; Between (6:28) 06. Submerged; Alone & Revealed (5:04)
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Alexandr Vatagin: ...
Just in time for valeot records 5th anniversary, co-founder and label head alexandr vatagin presents his third solo album “serza”. in combining the analogue and tender atmosphere of “valeot” (2006) with the harsh, yet subtle digital electronics of “shards” (2008), “serza” is attesting to a consequent and traceable development towards maturity in sound and structure. featuring a huge spectrum of common as well as unusual instruments, it takes you on a thirty minute trip full of delicate melodies, pushing drums, gentle noise, swirling celli, warm vibraphone chimes and sweet piano tunes. The album features friends from all over the world …
Latest Tapes
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The Fractal Skulls...
70 c40 electric blue cassettes in yellow library cases. 3 colour, double-sided risograph sleeves designed and printed by James Hines… Fractal Skulls is a High Wycombe, UK based master of the kosmische. His side of the tape follows on from a full length on Subexotic and cassettes on Blue Tapes and Reverb Worship. Unashamedly mellow, ‘Telepylos’ melds the highest regard for the likes of Terry Riley & Cluster with a hint that we should be questioning everything. Adam Willetts is from Christchurch, New Zealand. Over the last few years he has been quietly releasing a slew of clever electronics for …
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Be Honest: Tea, Su...
Two side-length tracks of extended guitar techniques, ambient synth work, field recordings and chance happenings. ‘Tea, Sugar, Soda, Soap’ is inspired by the battered earth of the Irish midlands and the palpable stillness of the life there which is fast disappearing back into the bog and bracken. The album is based on field recordings collected over the course of a year from the Brosna river basin in Offaly in the Irish midlands. These recordings were then overlaid with a series of improvised guitar playing, experimental instrument triggering and generative synth patches designed to short-circuit preconceived compositional ideas and habitual performance …
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Hakobune: A Distan...
Limited edition tape run… Hakobune, aka Takahiro Yorifuji, is an ambient/drone act from Japan. His work typically includes layers of guitars to create a soundscape. This release in particular sounds more lonely than other releases. The art is puzzling, how it just moves from place to place with the swept paint.
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Yousei Suzuki: The...
Housed in screen printed hand numbered Bradpaks in Edition of 100. No two copies alike… Yousei Suzuki is a young steel string guitarist from Osaka Japan. ‘The Scene From A Frame’ is the follow up album to his release on Senri Records last year entitled ‘Broken Woods & Some Prayers’. A continuation of his experimentations with broken guitars, zither, and piano. The songs on this album were all recorded either live or in one take. Suzuki’s compositions are sometimes full, fluttering bustling tales told with ringing steel strings- but they’re also sometimes sparse, songs scraping together shy offerings that tiptoe …
Latest Books
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Various: Sound By ...
This seminal title is considered by many to be one of the most important books about sound art ever published and is now finally back in print with this handsome new edition via Charivari Press. Originally published in 1990, the book was part of Art Metropole’s “…by Artists” series and includes essays written by John Cage, Christina Kubisch, Alvin Lucier, Annea Lockwood, Christian Marclay and many others, covering historical overviews, surveys of recent work, discussions of copyright and even some recipes for reproducing works of sound art. The book includes John Cage analysing the use of noise and perucssion in …
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Marihiko Hara and ...
Wistbook 009 / Edition series. 100 / Format. 3″cd and novella… A murder mystery by one of today’s finest crime writers, “Jigokuhen” takes place in a declining coastal city whose once thriving harbours and shipyards now house a shadowy criminal underworld. Drawn into this world when the son of the city’s mayor is killed, a jaded middle-aged detective finds himself distracted by a beautiful unemployed dockworker who spends each day walking aimlessly along the shore, and whose mysterious past may just hold the key to solving the crime. Throughout the novella, these two characters act as allegories of the dingy …
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David Newlyn: Cano...
Wistbook 008 / Edition series. 100 / Format. 3″cd and novella… This botano-philosophical treatise is a classic of Renaissance scientific literature. Delicate, minutely detailed sketches of flora and fauna litter the pages, attesting in their exquisiteness to the wonder and beauty of a world viewed under the microscope for the first time. Accompanying the drawings are Alberic’s handwritten notes on taxonomies and classifications, designations of anatomical parts, therapeutic and practical uses, and allegorical meanings. A sober yet reverential tone is retained throughout, and the book ends with a sublime canticle praising the Divine Creator “who deigned in His Infinite Wisdom …
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Gareth Davies and ...
Wistbook 007 / Edition series. 100 / Format. 3″cd and novella… Terra Incognita” tells the tale of a fictional nineteenth century attempt to find the Northwest Passage, a proposed sea route along the northern coast of Canada and Alaska that hitherto lay undiscovered. The novella opens in the midst of a vast wasteland, frozen and empty, the creak of wood or ice only emphasising rather than breaking the silence. During the journey, there are moments of mortal danger as the crew do battle with the occasional squall or manoeuvre round looming icebergs, but for the most part they are in …
Wil Bolton: Under A Name That Hides Her (Limited Edition Vinyl)
Limited edition of 200: We are very happy to be selling the limited edition first 100 copies that come with a CD, beautifully printed postcard, download code, plus a nice little Hibernate business card…
Despite being a difficult subject to put into words, nostalgia nevertheless attracts a great deal of fascination and is something that every individual can relate to. It is often close to the heart of the artist, shaping their identity and aesthetic and providing the inspiration for many a project. We welcome back Wil Bolton to Hibernate with his first vinyl release; we are pleased to present an album that places nostalgia at the heart of its overriding theme. It was conceived when Wil set out to create an album that was inspired by the guitar bands he listened to as a teenager, such as The Cure, The Smiths, The Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine. He strived to transmit his nostalgic recollection of adolescent musical influences into a heavily treated, droned out muffled and crumbling sonic environment. He wanted to create something that sonically presents his nostalgia, sounding submerged or decaying, as if heard through a veil the way memories and images become distorted over time.
The album title ‘Under A Name That Hides Her’ is a quote from ‘The Space of Literature’ by Maurice Blanchot and is a reference to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. It’s a book that Wil read around 15 years ago and this quote in particular has always stayed with him. When working on this album, it somehow seemed to reflect that nostalgic, romantic yearning for something lost that inspired these tracks. Despite the treated droning textures that form the basis of Under A Name That Hides Her, Wil cites it as his least digital work to date. The sounds were mostly pooled from an electric guitar and fed through complex chains of effects pedals and loopers. Field recordings also formed a central part of the album and they include the sound of birdsong in the ruins of a medieval castle in Beaumaris, North Wales, the lapping of waves around a lighthouse in Anglesey, rain on the window of Wil’s flat in Chinatown, Liverpool, a train journey in North Africa and a forest in the Scottish Highlands.
Aside from Time Lapse, released on Hibernate two years ago, Wil has released on labels such as Time Released Sound, Cathedral Transmissions, Distant Noise and our sister label Rural Colours. Before working under his own name, Wil has also released several works under his beat-based production guise Cheju and most recently, Wil has embarked on live performances which have given him the opportunity to share a stage with the likes of Pimmon, Machinefabriek, Konntinent and The Boats.
Wil Bolton: Under A Name That Hides Her (Limited Edition Vinyl):
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Ian Hawgood &...
Hibernate would perhaps not be where it is today without ‘Wolfskin’ by Ian Hawgood, our inaugural release back in 2009. Wolfskin referenced a series of nightmares Ian had as a child, focussing on elements of dreams and violence by marrying beauty with the harsh. Ian Hawgood has immersed himself in musical projects for longer than he cares to remember; in recent years he has released through the likes of Experimedia, Dragon’s Eye and his own Home Normal label as well as through several netlabels. Increasingly, Ian has been collaborating with other artists – including Jason Corder (Offthesky), Tim Martin (Maps …
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Alexandr Vatagin: ...
Just in time for valeot records 5th anniversary, co-founder and label head alexandr vatagin presents his third solo album “serza”. in combining the analogue and tender atmosphere of “valeot” (2006) with the harsh, yet subtle digital electronics of “shards” (2008), “serza” is attesting to a consequent and traceable development towards maturity in sound and structure. featuring a huge spectrum of common as well as unusual instruments, it takes you on a thirty minute trip full of delicate melodies, pushing drums, gentle noise, swirling celli, warm vibraphone chimes and sweet piano tunes. The album features friends from all over the world …
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Zen Lu: River (Lim...
Physical edition of the “River” EP limited to only 50 copies. Handmade, numbered cardboard ekopack, handpainted by artist Ben Bojanek… Zen Lu is an experimental electronic musician, sound artist, new media artist, events curator living in Shenzhen (Guangdong, China). Zen Lu’s minute, meticulous and minimalist digital music style as well as events organized by him and his label have played a major role in bringing a new wave of artistic activities to Shenzhen and changing the cultural landscape of the city which has been long considered a cultural desert. During the whole 2012 he was busy coorganising the biggest autumn …
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Virlyn: Man Asleep...
Limited Edition run digipak of 100 copies… “Man Asleep” is an electronic experiment with a wide variety of instruments. The idea is to deform and reform the classic sounds of various instruments and vocals and to reuse them in an electronic and atmospheric setting. With an emphasis on experimentation the original musical output of the instrument is reshaped and distorted beyond recognition. A second constant is the use of housemade sounds and field recordings, varying from recordings from nature (rain, fire, footsteps in snow) to the use of selfmade wooden and plastic sound reproducing equipment. These field recordings and homemade …
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An Moku: Mononocle...
Comes in a beautiful high quality DigiPack. Limited edition: only 100 pieces with bookmarks of Botanical Prints 73 x 162 mm… “Mononocle” is about transforming sounds and wooden noise. Hum, thunk and clunk. It is like listening to repeating sounds in different ways. Dominik Grenzler (aka An Moku) is a musician and sound artist with a spot for experimental and ambient soundscapes. Born in 1977 in Gdynia. Raised on a soundtrack of bubbly 80’s synth pop and early 90’s guitar music. Playing e-bass in several bands in Germany’s former coal-mining hub, the Ruhr district, from 1993 to 1995, he gained …
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ChoP Vol. 5: Krzys...
Limited edition digipak of 100 copies: Comes with original hand painted pictures. All pictures are painted by Grzegorz Bojanek on Chinese rice paper with ink and watercolour paints. Nice! ETA label presents the 5th studio album of Polish and Chinese artists working as a part of the ChoP Project. This time, Krzysztof Orluk [PL] and Bai Tian [CN] were invited by the founders of the ChoP Project, i.e. Grzegorz Bojanek and Zen Lu, to joint this transnational initiative. Bai Tian about the project: In 2009, I had made some music samples which could form a new album. In that period …
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Noiko – Hone...
Limited edition digipak run of 100… Noiko – “Honey” is a debut album with ten instrumental electroacoustic lo-fi compositions created from various samples, sounds of a clarinet, guitar, drums, glockenspiel, piano and different electronic virtual instruments. The material consists of productions created within 4 years. The author recorded most of the sounds in his own house. Some productions were recorded with the help of Łukasz Maciejewski (turntable). The inspiration for the album came from the birth of the artist’s daughter, who was usually nearby during the sound recording. This album was carefully mastered by Krzysztof Orluk using analogue equipment which …