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Innovations began in 2013 being a cooperation between Eluvium’s Matthew Cooper and Tag T. Smith of instrumental post-rock music group Explosions in the Sky. Both had always been close friends and both acquired albums using their particular bands over the Brief Home Ltd. label when Innovations was conceived. Also notably, …

Also called Talvihorros, Ben Chatwin is a Scottish musician who combines electronic and acoustic instruments (including guitars, bells, strings, and organs) into his dark, haunting ambient compositions. His dreamlike parts shun traditional rhythms or melody structures; nevertheless, these are extremely melodic and evocative, recalling suspenseful soundtracks aswell as cinematic post-rock. …

Following death of his wife Louise in 2004, the Lancashire, England-born musician, photographer, and writer Richard Skelton founded the Sustain-Release private press in commemoration of her life. His shimmering, fresh, and cathartic fusion of string-laden ambient traditional music and meditative, rustic folk was also deeply motivated by the landscaping of …