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1: Common quantum physicists’ interpretation and statement is that there is no such thing as matter and what we all call matter, in reality is energy. The whole universe is energy, frequencies, vibrations. What we observe is energy vibrations that are slowed down to a level that is perceivable by our senses and sensors. It all exists thanks to forces which make particles quiver and yet keep the whole system together. Many spiritual or metaphysical things in essence have always been just physics which we have not properly seen and understand yet.

2: “Spaces lost, abandoned, cheated by history and nature have an odd, somewhat surreal charm … When things and places lose the context that gave them function or meaning, you can rediscover them. Useless, even freed in a sense, they gain a specific aura. Not only do we see them as new, but they also turn their surprised sights towards us and try to ask us a question … Sometimes an accidental glance is enough to give in to the force of that place for years. Sometimes a place lives in a person since childhood.” — Katharina Raabe, Monika Sznajderman, taken from the intro to„Znikająca Europa”, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec, 2006.

These two contexts were the inspiration for the energy, frequency and vibration of Wolne Pokoje’s “Kostropate”.

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Recorded in Gdanska Studio, Kolobrzeg, Poland, 2018/2019

Music and production: Robert Demidziuk

Recorded using: neutron, monotron, wavedrum, guitar & effects, xylopohone, bamboo sax, slovakian bass aliquot flute, kaoss pad, vintage rhytm machine erm-32, dub sirene, field recordings

Cover artwork design, photography: Ivo Petrov

Released September 12, 2021 as free (cc) digital download and a special limited edition cassette tape.

“Do dreams have a past or a future? Are they forever intrinsically linked with our consciousness? What happens if we share them? Do they take hold in our larger narratives and become stories in their own right?

Last year I released an album named 小さな夢達 (which reads as Chiisana Yumetachi) – Small Dreams. Today, just days after the first anniversary of its release I find myself listening to 10 remixes of those dreams. The Reinterpretation of Dreams, if you will. It is thanks to Ivo Petrov, label head of Mahorka, who envisioned this album as a great way to celebrate netlabel day 2021. He invited an amazing group of artists to contribute their remixes and share their own reinterpretations.

There isn’t a single track on there that isn’t amazing – I find that on repeated listening different tracks stand out each time, sometimes the softer ones speak more to me, sometimes the weirder ones, then again, on another listen, it’s the more energetic ones. But every time it sounds like a coherent whole. A world appears, held together by the threads woven into the fabric of the original tracks, but expanded into a multi-faceted sonic cosmos, a wider world for the original narrow story to expand into. And after the final remix, you’re invited to wake up again to the meditative meta-verse of the Small Dreams: Where all the remixes expand on the original theme, my contribution – an afterthought of sorts – is there to take you into a meditative state build around the ambiances and field-recordings that lie at the core of 小さな夢達.

My gratitude to all the artists who were kind enough to put in their work and creativity to contribute these remixes! To Ivo for making it all happen, to Zach Bridier for mastering and to dfkt for creating the cover.” –Tomoroh Hidari, London 09.07.2021

released July 14, 2021, Netlabel Day 2021

All tracks are remixes/interpretations of original tracks of original music by Tomoroh Hidari
Except The Clear Sound of Jewels by Tomoroh Hidari

Mastered by Zach Bridier

Cover artwork: dfkt.

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