TVCL #305 Surface Tension

00:02:21 **spaceseer** - Cliffdwellers
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/spaceseer-cliffdwellers
*I start with an apology to the artist EBlo who in the last episode I mixed up with an artist of the same name. EBlo is in fact based in Malmö, Sweden and not the US. Also a shout out to the wonderful aeon who not only is one of my only subscribers but also left a comment on a show a while back and asked me to do an episode of his amazing CAMP radio monthly series Fragments. Opening this episode with a piece from the new compilation album Gemstones VII out on Cyclical Dreams that Record label focused on Berlin School, Ambient, Soundscape, Space Music, Drone, and electronic music. Provo, Utah based spaceseerer who’s described themselves as doom-synth and dark ambient.*

00:07:20 **Klaus Wolfe** - Castle Waters - Spirit Bridge
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/klaus-wolfe-castle-waters-spirit-bridge
*This is followed by another track from the same Cyclical Dreams compilation. Klaus Wolfe is the only artist that has released work on The Dream Journal Institute label that seems to actually exist anywhere else*

00:12:20 **Akira Film Script** - Dream
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/track/dream
*from the album Holo which is released on Ethereal Projector which is a sub label of Ambient Cat which in turn is a sub label of Chitra Records or something like that.
Ryan Watts. 808, Bass Station II and 303 from 2018, a daughter’s number sequences in the notebook. Hiroshi Watanabe masters. Meaghan Watts covers.*

00:17:11 **Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkord** - The Evening Seems So Distant
https://ab-euanalexandermillar-mcmeekenhenrikmeierkord.bandcamp.com
*The first exclusive track today comes from this Scottish Swedish collaboration. From the album Darkness Is Just Darkness which will be released on September 22 on the Audiobulb label.
Synths, drones and cello. Spoken passages sit inside the music. Darkness as a state to sit with.*

00:22:39 **The British Stereo Collective** - E.S.P.
https://thebritishstereocollective.bandcamp.com/track/e-s-p
*The penultimate track of side A and an aboloute legend of the synth world. From the self released album TeleKinesis The trilogy that began with ExoGenesis and continued with ProtoSynthesis now concludes with TeleKinesis: a journey through the mind and the senses; through consciousness and altered states.*

00:24:11 **Trees Can Talk** - Surface Tension
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/surface-tension
*The final track of side A and the longest piece on the episode at 7:51. From that must have new Passed Recording compilation Passed Oceans. Classical instruments, punk years, electronica as therapy. Half of sales to Doctors Without Borders.*

00:31:25 **Adeptus Mechanicus** - A new mysterious Beginning
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/adeptus-mechanicus-a-new-mysterious-beginning
*We open with annother long track of the episode at 7:42 from two compilation albums recently released. First the whopping 53 track name your price album Summoning 4 out on Hull, UK based Netlabel for sounds of horror, the occult and the unexplained “Dittany of Crete” and also on channel supporting Argentinian label Cyclical Dreams stunning Gemstones VII.
Adeptus Mechanicus is Dutch noise, dark space ambient and sound art.*

00:39:06 **Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman** - I Placed The World At Your Feet #2
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/house-with-a-curse
*The second exclusive track of the episode and a shorter one at 1:42. From the album House with a Curse which releases October 16 on one of our favorite labels Clay Pipe Music. I love when these two get together. Shout out to Tommy for sending me this.
Score for the 1925 Phantom of the Opera centenary. Cinema screenings across the UK and Ireland.*

00:40:25 **Bolbec** - À L'instar Du Flair
https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/a-linstar-du-flair
*And now for something very different with some French floating flute library just to spice it up a bit. From yet another wonderful compilation album on the fantastic Batov Records label titled Around The Sun.
Batov Records celebrates ten years with a landmark compilation
Imaginary soundtrack beside Piccioni and Legrand. DJ Kobayashi selects. November 6.*

00:42:44 **Sandman Project** - Questions Answers
https://sandmanproject.bandcamp.com/track/questions-answers
*Staying on Batov Records. Leipzig, Germany based afrobeat from the album, Hearts Forever. releases October 23, 2026. Tal Sandman. Desert-rock guitar and brass call-and-response. Golden Rules Studio.*