Joachim Spieth
Ousia

Shipping from EU: ✅Shipping from UK: ❌"Alone" is the third longplayer from Italian sound artist Simone Giudice, following his 2021 album "Materia" released on the Spanish Semantica label. The album brings together seven parts that impress with compositional diversity and confidence, merging into a complete work.With sensitivity, melodic arcs of tension are brought together with partly classical instruments such as the piano, a dramaturgical performance that knows exactly when to press which emotional button to involve the listener to the maximum.

Shipping from EU: ✅Shipping from UK: ❌With "Onda", Regensburg artist Markus Guentner releases his follow-up to Empire, which appeared on A StrangelyIsolated Place in 2021."Onda" captivates with its orchestral-like progressions, an endlessly interwoven carpet of sound that spreads out over six etudes. As if in slow motion, he scans through the individual sound particles, works out details, lets dust fall from the source material, cores, connects and in the end lets everything flow...

Shipping from EU: ✅Shipping from UK: ❌Irradiance is Joachim Spieth’s first full length album, to be released on his own imprint Affin. It reflects a cycle ofrealignment in a carefully realized emotional journey. A constant motion through the layers of the tracks shape thesonic landscape, while evolving atmospheres provide a cohesive feel with shimmers of optimism. This is a re-release of the vinyl album from 2017.

Shipping from EU: ✅Shipping from UK: ❌"Tides" is Joachim Spieth’s second longplayer which will be released on his own Affin imprint. The album is dividedinto 8 tracks, built by seemingly endless, sensitively interwoven surfaces and creates curves of tension between immersive, melancholic and euphoric moments. Layers of atmospheric sounds create a dense and engaging mood, flowing into a swirl of emotions. This is a re-release of the vinyl album from 2020.

Shipping from EU: ✅Shipping from UK: ✅With ‘Terrain,’ Joachim Spieth presents the fourth long player on his Affin imprint.The follow-up album to ‘Ousia’ (2021), ‘Terrain,’ reflects on the human relationship with nature. The album title is a reference to a musical language that layers Spieth’s music production practices and intimacy with nature.‘Terrain’ was forged in deep solitude.“ It’s an interplay of euphoric flashes and introspection” – says Spieth. The eight compositions take the listener into a captivating cascade of sonic textures resembling internal states fluctuations and emotional release. The tension between the organic warmth and static curves broads tones into liquified roars and empty spaces.Unlike Spieth’s previous albums, ‘Terrain’ holds more intimate gestures and emotional sensibility. Soothing frequencies here are intended to create a state of awareness in the listener. It is a work of conceptual and emotional beauty, evoking a form of spatial imagery that is as grounding as elevating.

Shipping from EU: ✅Shipping from UK: ✅Reshape contains musical interpretations by alva noto, ASC, bvdub, Warmth, Markus Guentner, Simone Giudice, zakè and Głós. The works are related to original pieces from Joachim Spieth's past creative phase and thus form a musical conclusion to the 15th label anniversary of Affin.Reshape is released as 2 x 12" vinyl album and digital formats. All tracks were mastered at Artefacts Mastering Studio in Berlin. The graphic design was realized by Markus Guentner.credits