Zenapolæ · Netlabel for Ambient, Dark Ambient, Avantgarde, Scenic and Experimental Atmospheric Music. Free mp3 download under a Creative Commons license.

Release date: 19.06.2015

music inspired by stories from Japanese Noh dramas
an ambient mix of electronics, radio snippets, drones, and acoustic recordings

1. scatter echoes from each pylon
2. by wave lanes we came a far, far journey
3. lost to view #1
4. obliged to raise a delicate subject
5. lightless valleys, cleft to awful depths
6. a frightened bird, as darkness falls
7. lost to view #2

Japanese: ...You know that the Japanese stage is empty.
Inquirer: That emptiness demands uncommon concentration.
Japanese: Thanks to that concentration, only a slight additional gesture on the actor's part is required to cause mighty things to appear out of a strange stillness.

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Copyright (c) 2015 by phenotypo.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Cover photography supplied by Philip Cerda.

phenotypo

phenotypo is from Nishinomiya, Japan

Electronics, tape recordings, other recordings, radio snippets, static, dronescapes, soundscapes, ambient washes, digital glitch, a few old synths, a knackered bass guitar, some books.

phenotypo has been steadily reaching its metal fingers into the world for over a decade now, and still drags along some stuff from before even then.

Always interested in collaboration, so please get in touch.

Soundcloud link: soundcloud.com/phenotypo

Releases by phenotypo on Zenapolæ

zen131 [EP]

phenotypo: margins

Release date: 14.02.2016

a dark minimal ambience

1. Margins 1
2. Track Changes
3. Margins 2
4. Minor Loss of Fidelity
5. Uchi/Soto

...this time I used recordings while placing myself at the edge of things. [...] it was all about capturing sounds that flow from the middle of a place (like the large office I work in) and merge with those on the outside. It's also about how documents, whether photographs, text, or audio evolve over time, taking in elements of the margins of life, and sometimes editing, and even destroying them.

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zen122

phenotypo: airships at 4 am

Release date: 06.09.2015

a bright minimal ambience

1. Airships Part 1
2. A Report on Balloons
3. At the End of Continents Part 1
4. We Saw the Storms
5. Cloud Scraping With Loved Ones
6. At the End of Continents Part 2
7. Airships Part 2
8. Four am

These tracks were influenced by three writers: Barry Hannah with his wonderful collection of short stories, "Airships," a myriad of Donald Barthelme's work of focused American absurdity, and the romantic SF (precursor to Steampunk) work of Michael Moorcock, especially, "The Nomad of the Time Streams."