★Absurd
Repeated In An Indefinitely Alternating Series Of Thoughts
*250 copies limited edition* Nokalypse is Themistoklis Pantelopoulos (1982). Based in Athens, Greece, he has been making electronic music for the best part of a decade. Initially producing beat-driven and ambient work (as a solo artist and as a member of several bands), he abandoned rhythm and melody in 2006 following a prolonged and deepening exposure to various experimental, improvised and classical musics. Pantelopoulos also established his label, Triple Bath, that year.
The two compositions …
Cylindre. / .oeur (S+C)
*200 copies limited edition* blanco estira nuestro (+), hermana Hélice is Socrates Martinis’ (1984, Athens, Greece) third pseudonymous project, following nixilx.nijilx and Hélice Pied. This installment, composed in 2006–7 using found sounds and objects, focuses on the sounds and sights of a distant aeroplane, the vanishing drone of which Martinis’ finds to be particularly beautiful . The subject of planes was first explored in Aputi (released by Authorised Version, 2005), the final section of wh…
Terra incognita
Terra Incognita is a documentation of Antoine Chessex's live stuff recorded in Berlin and in Asia. 2 sax / electronics blasts, capturing as much as possible of Antoine’s live energy and atmosphere. Harsh Noise pieces with only very little recognizable sax-playing. Comes in a nice fold-out cover with full colour artwork inside. The record is basically a 12″ on one side and a 7″ on the other.
Striked accidentally to do a 1sided LP of Antoine's work a couple of months ago. Turned out to be no more …
Ashtray Navigations, Stellar Om Source, ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE - STELLAR OM SOURCE
How do siamese twins arrange their love lives?Recorded at Ashtray Navigation's basement in Leeds - November 2007 Phil Todd, Melanie Delaney, Bill Kouligas, Christelle Gauldi. Total lo-fi psychedelic sound. Classic UK underground filth. Limited to 300 copies.
Remnants From Paradise
An amazing new CD by the german composer Werner Durand, whose drone style is characterized by its subtle, gradual alteration of pitch which leads one to loose a sense of "time" and draws one deeper and deeper into the sound itself. "The name Werner Durand might not be very well-known, which is a great pity. His claim to fame has nothing to do with his real music: he played flute on Muslimgauze' 'Mort Aux Vaches' release. But Durand's background is with improvisation and wind instruments. As far …
Berlin
Axel Dörner: trumpet. Computer? mattin: computer. Nice duo of feedback, cut-up, walls of silence.. 'Anti-music' ?