HOME NORMAL
Ambient/Electronic/Folk label, run by Ian Hawgood. With CD releases by Chihei Hatakeyama, Fabio Orsi, Elian, Asuna,Federico Durand, Felicia Atkinson, Olan Mill, Bvdub, Nicolas Bernier, Islands of Sanity aka Dino Spillutini, M.Ostermeier and many more.
"When I was a child I would fall backwards, literally. If I felt life unfair or hadn't control of my world, instead of losing my temper I'd go still, silent, bolt upright, close my eyes and just let go. At home, in public, wherever, it didn't matter. Always backwards, ...
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HOMEN112 | HOME NORMAL
"Silent Vigils is the work of Stijn Hu¨wels and James Murray. James Murray will be well known to many fans of the label and the ambient scene alike for his highly celebrated works, as well the Slowcraft label which he curates. Stijn Hu¨wels is the curator of the ...
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HOMEN111 | HOME NORMAL
"It has been just over four years since Stefano Guzzetti released his solo piano debut 'At Home. Piano Book Volume One' on Home Normal. The release led to an unbridled love affair between Stefano and Japan, leading to a few tours since and a great affinity for his ...
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HOMEN105 | HOME NORMAL
"Initially getting to know each other when Giulio released 'Tarsia' on Ian's Nomadic Kids Republic label back in 2011, the two have become firm friends and have continued to work on music together steadily since. 'Consequence Shadows' was initially termed 'snow ...
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HOMEN094 | HOME NORMAL
"This album is inspired by and a tribute to Nature, in all its wonderful chaos; pure and forceful with mystifying, beautiful patterns. The word 'Var' itself means spring, and originates in Old Norse, symbolising a new beginning, a chance to start fresh." (Heine ...
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"We are so happy that our final release of the year will be with New York's Sontag Shogun, alongside one of our favourite Japanese artists, Moskitoo." (label info) Vocals by Moskitoo, Piano by Ian Temple, Field recordings, treated vocals, electronic processing by Jesse ...
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HOMEN106 | HOME NORMAL
"Jason van Wyk has been releasing music since he was just 14 years old. Whilst he continues to produce electronic music, in the past few years he has turned his attention to more piano-based work. In 2016 he first caught our attention with the limited edition release of ...
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HOMEN088 | HOME NORMAL
"Jason van Wyk has been releasing music since he was just 14 years old. Whilst he continues to produce electronic music, in the past few years he has turned his attention to more piano-based work. In 2016 he first caught our attention with the limited edition release of ...
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HOMEN089 | HOME NORMAL
"There are far too many piano albums doing the rounds these days. We try to listen to every demo that comes in to the label, and in the past few years probably fifty percent of these are solo piano albums. We've released ONE dedicated solo piano record in all that time, ...
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HOMEN101 | HOME NORMAL
"In 2014, Wil Bolton released his highly-celebrated 'Bokeh' for Home Normal. Featuring cover art by the Japanese photographer Hitoshi Ishihara, the album showed-off Wil's carefully-layered, organic minimalist sound that he has truly marked his own. Ian and Wil started ...
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HOMEN104 | HOME NORMAL
"'Skin Tones' is a recording of a collaborative live performance by Ken Ikeda and David Toop. Recorded at Iklectik Art Lab, London on May the 22nd of 2016, 'Skin Tones' is a 27 minute piece that features steel guitar, flutes, DX synthesiser, and a variety of objects. ...
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HOMEN090 | HOME NORMAL
"We came across the work of James Murray through his excellent Slowcraft Records label. In 2012 he released what was to become a bit of a seminal work that year in the highly praised 'Floods'. He has since released superb records on a number of friends' labels such as ...
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HOMEN091 | HOME NORMAL
"Having been described as "one of Sweden's best kept secrets" when releasing his first widely distributed solo album ('Evolutions') back in 2010, Tobias Hellkvist has continued to gain worldwide recognition for his releases, exploring layers of heavily processed drones ...
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HOMEN076 | HOME NORMAL
"After being thoroughly shaped and fine-tuned over the course of the past 3 years, 'Vesterhavet' is the first proper full-length album from Swedish electroacoustic composer Tobias Hellkvist since 2012's Home Normal release 'Everything Is Connected'. Even though he ...
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HOMEN093 | HOME NORMAL
"I am happy to say that I have been able to deal with my bouts of depression with the love of my family. However, I have been unable to finish an album myself since 'The Shattered Light', as I found the pressure to complete something in any timeframe caused the stress ...
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HOMEN100 | HOME NORMAL
"Between January and June of 2016, Home Normal hosted a series of shows featuring Clem Leek, Anna Rose Carter, The Sly and Unseen, Folk Reels, Directorsound, Stefano Guzzetti with Ensemble, Danny Norbury, Ian Hawgood, Christoph Berg, ISAN, A New Line (Related), Paco ...
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"The work of Moritz Leppers, the man behind the Altars Altars moniker, makes music using a variety of instruments running through his faithful old reel to reel machine. Much has been made of reel to reel in recent years it has to be said, but when you come across an ...
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HOMEN078 | HOME NORMAL
"In 2012, Giulio released 'Tarsia' on Nomadic Kids Republic to critical acclaim. It was a slow burner for us, but seemed to hook people with its clever entwining of encapsulating melody and delicately place field recordings. His follow-up 'Goccia', takes a rather ...
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HOMEN067 | HOME NORMAL
"On April 15th 2016, we hosted a rare live event at London Fields Brewery with ISAN, Paco Sala, A New Line (Related), and R. Elizabeth. Prior to the concert, the artists came together to create a wonderful collection of rare unreleased and live works that flowed ...
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HN085 | HOME NORMAL
"composed and recorded by asuna arashi, 2006 - 2016. vocal, chorus, humming by rima kato. This comes in a 4 panel recycled card package in an edition of 500 copies." (label info)
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HOMEN086 | HOME NORMAL
"'Tiny Birds' is the new work by Marc Ostermeier. A resident of Baltimore, Maryland, Marc works as a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He also happens to be the co-founder of Words On Music and the Tench record label. He ...
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HOMEN071 | HOME NORMAL
"In March 2014, the excellent Ghent based tape label Dauw opened up its musical doors. Since then we've closely kept up with their wonderful releases by some very dear friends, with the one exception of artists we knew personally being the wonderful Osnabrück artist, ...
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HOMEN072 | HOME NORMAL
"Conceived as a follow up to Opal Island and over five years after its completion, Paco Sala's Antony Harrison has finally consented to the release of The Empire Line. It is the final Konntinent album and includes vocal contributions from Cuushe, Chantal Acda and Lisa ...
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HOMEN075 | HOME NORMAL
"Back in November 2010, Czech music pioneers Gurun Gurun released their critically lauded self-titled debut on Home Normal. Named after a fictional planet from the old school Slovak childish sci-fi TV series "She Came Out of the Blue Sky", their musical work combines ...
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HN074 | HOME NORMAL
"In 2009, I was lucky enough to spend some time with my dear friend Wataru Osako back in his hometown in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. As part of our stay the very talented Ryo Nakata invited us to hang out and play a show in Sapporo. On a wonderful night of ...
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