We can’t move for it, for the demands the makers or their representitives make on our limited time and it hard to beat a crumble and there are lots of apples and that’s before we let the the algorhythmn take us to even more of this stuff that’s a little more than jsut stuff. Here’s some more albums and things…

Ümlaut – Musique de Film III (Audiobulb) – Following in the tracks of the tracks on Musique de Film I and Musique de Film II (rather obviously), Ümlaut’s new album, Musique de Film III, continues to rather beautifully explore “the relationship between sound and vision”, although right here we are, besides the images painted in our heads, dealing with the sound rather than the vision. “As a point of departure, this album presents a new creative direction in the evolution Ümlaut’s unique world. Each of the twelve audio and video tracks were created individually and simultaneously, with an overarching theme of perpetual geographies in mind. While the titles impart hints as to a song’s inherent meaning, room is left for listeners to discover their own interpretations”.

“Simplicity is the key” so we’re told and yes, it is simple, it is minimal in a full bodied manner, minimal for “maximum sensual impact”, rather beautiful but then it has arrived here on a gloriously sunny Autumn morning. The instrumental pieces, although he calls them songs, I always thought a song required something you could sing? These pieces of soundscape or sound art or musical composition or something somewhere near the combination of those three of those things are “stripped down their essentials. Nothing is superfluous. The sound is futuristic, yet immediate, where being in the moment yields rewards. A palette of atmospheric colours and spectral harmonics lures the listener into a peaceful dimension of silence and harmony, where delicate field recordings and distorted textures are threaded with warmth”. And yes, I’m being lazy, I’m throwing the artist’s or maybe the label’s own words back out there and time is off the essence and I have may own art to make rather than standing here banging out words on a keyboard and dancing around this architecture. 

These are a beautifully detailed deliciously minimal set of musical pieces,right now this piece, Mandala, is reminding me rather positively of Mike Oldfield’s Woodhenge, most of the time the music Jeff Düngfelder makes reminds me of no one else besides Ümlaut. Expatriates is a particular stand out with that rather bright skip, the whole thing is rather bright actually, rather recommended… 

All music composed and constructed by Jeff Düngfelder using tape loops, field recordings and synthesizers.

“Ümlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. experimental composer/sound artist now based in the northern Connecticut countryside.

The thematic concepts distinguishing his work are absence and silence; the ineffable exchange between viewer and image; random moments of stillness within a landscape in flux. Using a minimalistic, electro-acoustic approach, his elusive patchwork of field recordings and electronics merge with the world of shadows and colours. Allowing for infinite possible interpretations, he lets the listener’s imagination fill in the blanks between the grainy textural sounds with elements of ambient, musique concrète and noise.

Combining spaciousness with a sense of intimacy introduces a musical language of experimental ambience. His memory recordings expose the complex relationship between music and silence.

The album is released on October 11th, 2025 – Bandcamp

Louis Giannamore – On A Brutal Night – “On A Brutal Night is a soundtrack for the bleakness of London in the wintertime; the stark, brooding environment of the Louis’ home city is harsh, maddening and overwhelmingly dark” or so we’re told. The album has just arrived on our doorstep right at the start of Autumn and right now in the warmth of the morning sun and that glorious light you only get at this time of year, right now just as the leaves are starting to think about turning colour, right now this sounds anything but bleak or stark – “When you look up, the buildings appear as if sleeping giants, staring down. The frosty air pierces our lungs as we move through what feels like endless night. When the days are shorter, so is our will, so are our energy levels”. On A Brutal Night is a warm rewarding set or electronic organic compositions that touch on many bases, it does sound like inner city music, it feels uplifting, bold, it feels rewarding, I like it, not sure if it really does “becomes a soundtrack for contentment in solitude and those searching for it” and if “London is desolate and empty. It is in hibernation, like us. All living things need time to rest; animals, insects, the forest, as do we, as does the city”. I guess it could be seen as something that “becomes a soundtrack for nostalgia; treating the long and wintery months not as miserable but a time for creativity and peace”, it certainly works in terms of a healthy soundtrack to creativity, it doesn’t want to impose, it certainly isn’t just background music though and yes it could well be nostalgic, I like it, it feels full bodied, committed, a little more so that most of the experimental electronic music that arrives uninvited here, bottom line is I really like it (I don’t like the artwork so much). Louis Giannamore is a French/American composer and drummer based in London. Bandcamp

Cheryl E. Leonard and a piece of music called mørketid that came our way this morning…

“Cheryl E. Leonard is a composer, performer and instrument builder whose works investigate sounds, structures, and objects from the natural world. Her projects often feature one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments and field recordings from remote locales. She uses microphones to explore the subtle intricacies of sounds and develops compositions that highlight these unique voices”. Find more on Bandcamp

Hang on, here’s the new album that that piece of music or sound art or whatever you wishto call it (I’d probably call it both) that passed our way this morning came from…

“Cheryl E. Leonard is a composer, performer and instrument builder whose works investigate sounds, structures, and objects from the natural world. Her projects often feature one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments and field recordings from remote locales. She uses microphones to explore the subtle intricacies of sounds and develops compositions that highlight these unique voices”. 

cheryl e. leonard – near the bear (forms of minutiae) – Actually this album sounds like something you might hear on Resonance FM prime time; “2025 was declared the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation by the United Nations, accompanied by the proclamation of March 21st of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting this year. As they put it, “this is an opportunity to raise global awareness about the critical role of glaciers, snow and ice in the climate system and the hydrological cycle, and the economic, social and environmental impacts of the impending changes in the Earth’s cryosphere.” To celebrate this decision forms of minutiae presents a series of albums dedicated to glaciers and the acoustic multiplicity of the ice, with field recording works by Marc Namblard, Ludwig Berger, Yoichi Kamimura, Cheryl E. Leonard, and Pablo Diserens” –  what is there to say about the sound walrus encounters? Where are the words? I guess I could attempt to write about it but really, do I need to? Here it is, go find out for yourself, go see where being curious might take you… 

And…

F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm – and this piece of YouTube only came our way as a result of the curiosity that made us listen to Cheryl E. Leonard’s piece on the delf same platform (we’d originally gone there to listen to The Sick Man of Europe if you really need ot know), sometimes, very rarely, the algorhythmn works…

“F.S.Blumm and Nils Frahm share their fifth collaborative album, Handling. Containing three tracks but 40 minutes long, it finds the duo advancing from 2021’s dub-influenced 2X1=4, deploying its lessons in ambitious new territory that also nods to earlier collections”.

This is rather beautiful, to call it background music is to do it a disservice, it is clearly (obviously) far more than just that, it is serving rather well as I work today though. Clever, considered, calming,  exquisitely considered pieces, every moment carefully placed, timed just right in a full bodied rather warm less is more way. Glowing details,     

“That the duo’s collaboration is built on a friendship and mutual admiration dating back to the early 2000s enables an unusual level of trust, despite both operating in their own distinct manner. “It’s not Frank, it’s not Nils,” they reflect. “We’ve become a new persona.” Handling blends Blumm’s organic chaos with Frahm’s structured intuition, offering a distinct and luminous experience that doesn’t just sound different, but feels like its own evolving world” – I just really like it, I don’t want to have to think about it, they have an instinct, they paint it so well and every moment sounds just right, the tone of every note, every carefully considered sound, everything almost perfectly composed and placed just right. Three pieces of music and around forty minutes of pleasure put together in just the right way, every note needed and every space between those notes vital.     Bandcamp

And while we’re here and seeing as it was mentioned up there….