Urantia
*2022 Stock.* Urantia (19th Hour from Klang, 2007) is for Soprano and Electronic Music. The electronic music element is derived from 3 extracted layers from Cosmic Pulses (The Stockhausen Edition no. 91), specifically Layers 16-18. This CD features the soprano vocal of Kathinka Pasveer, rec. 2008. As a bonus, the electronic music is also presented without the soloist part for rehearsal.- Stockhausenspace.blogspot.com
Leva Leva: Litany of the Portuguese Fishermen
With its new project focusing on the songs of fishermen in Portugal, the FLEE platform attempts to combine in-depth anthropological research with a hybrid contemporary and artistic reflection on an important facet of Portuguese social and cultural history.
Through working songs from the 1940s, 60s and 80s recorded in the Algarve region, the project attempts to document the history of these fishermen, the nature of their hardships and often exploitative conditions, as well as their gradual encoun…
Alkisah
*2022 Stock. In process of stocking.* The new album by critically acclaimed Indonesian duo Senyawa is being co-released by 44 different labels worldwide, and School of the Arts presents a Russian version on cassette. It features the full album as well as two extended remixes: Moa Pillar’s 14-minute heavenly ambient and a 24-minute poisonous drone collage by Ivan Zoloto.
Senyawa’s music combines extended vocal techniques of Rully Shabara and homemade instruments built and played by Wukir Suryad…
Juxtaposition II (Blitz Opposition)
Tip! *2022 Stock. In process of stocking.* A turbulent quartet of Oslo-based improvisers brings the house down with two voices, bass, guitar, and drums ⏤ RIYL free voice, skronk, jazz negativity, dub effects, Naked City and Painkiller.
Vocalist Agnes Hvizdalek delivers a unique form of glossolalia (think Monk, Eye, and animal sounds) backed up by noise-rock-influenced axe-grinders from the band MoE: Guro Skumsnes Moe herself on electric bass and voice and Håvard Skaset on guitar. Utku Tavil punc…
Vocal Studies #18
Volume 18 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series by Cia Rinne. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Text and voice Cia Rinne 2018. Sound work and editing Sebastian Eskildsen.
Vocal Studies #17
Volume 17 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series by Brandstifter & Diurnal Burdens. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Recorded by Brandstifter in Mainz + Norden 2021. Edited and mixed by Ross Scott-Buccleuch in Wigan 2021.
Vocal Studies #16
Volume 16 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series by Waas. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Recorded in Belgrad November 2021.
The tail of the tiger
In 1977 an obscure Italian private label issued a record that sounded like it came from outer space. A long and dense trance-inducing drone of sustained notes, rich with overtones and harmonic embellishments, coming from a space so vast and unexplored that seemed almost of non-human, even electronic nature
For Cathy
Sarah Defrise dedicates her first new music album to the American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian. The disc features exclusively a capella pieces which were written for Cathy by some of the most prominent composers of her time. Berio's Sequenza III, Cage's Aria and Cathy's own Stripsody have become new music "hits", but For Cathy also presents lesser-known repertoire such as Henri Pousseur's Phonème pour Cathy, Bussoti's fragment from Passion selon Sade and Entretien, a piece for electronic tape c…
Hockets For Two Voices
In just over ten minutes of recorded music, Los Angeles-based composer, artist, and instrument designer Meara O’Reilly can communicate a daunting breadth of creative possibility. That’s no mean feat in today’s soundbite-obsessive world, but it’s part of what makes Hockets for Two Voices such an unusual and compelling addition to the hypermodern canon of new music. Hocketing refers to the practice of splitting a melody across multiple parts, often in very surprising ways. While the form dates ba…
Neutral Love
** First pressing of 200 cassettes on Red Tint shells ** Amirtha Kidambi and Matteo Liberatore’s duo of voice and guitar creates improvised aural landscapes that are glacial and highly evocative, unfurling through dynamic gestures that are at once spacious and restrained. Juxtaposed against the frenetic pace characteristic of the New York improv scene, the pair applies the compositional aesthetics of Morton Feldman or Pauline Oliveros to a free environment. The project is set apart from Kidambi…
All the Way
** 2023 Stock ** All the Way is a collection of radical re-workings of traditional and jazz standards such as “All the Way”, “You Don't Know What Love Is”, and “The Thrill Is Gone” (made famous by Chet Baker). It also includes a solo piano interpretation of Thelonious Monk's “Round Midnight”, and live voice and piano interpretations of the American traditional “O Death” and the country song, “Pardon Me I've Got Someone to Kill”. The album includes both electric live performances (recorded in Par…
At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem
Live at St. Thomas the Apostle documents Diamanda Galás’ volcanic May 2016 performance at St. Thomas the Apostle church in Harlem NY, described by the New York Times as "guttural and operatic, baleful and inconsolable, spiritual and earthy, polyglot and wordless, nuanced and unhinged." The concert, produced by Intravenal Sound Operations and Red Bull Music Academy, was composed exclusively of what Galás calls “death songs”.
Arachnesound
** Edition of 50 with a 16 page booklet text by Angela Dimitrakaki ** Arachnesound is feminist sonic technology. It stands for the principles of women-weaving-futures, network building, sonic cyberfeminist attempts to retell historical narratives. arachnesound is an audio collection with 36 compositions around Greek language, sound and feminisms. It is centered around women writers, poetesses and mytholgies to interpret women’s lifes and realities with radical composition. Field recordings, elec…
Vocal Studies #15
Volume 13 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series by Anna Otta. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jenny Thiele and Irene Novoa in 2021.
Vocal Studies #14
Volume 13 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series. Edition of 50 numbered copies. P.D.A.D (Voice, Object). H.U.G (Live Electronics, Mixing). Recorded 23.01.2021 at Killesberg.
Vocal Studies #13
Volume 13 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series. Edition of 50 numbered copies. The recordings of found and (self-)made human and non-human voices were made in the years between 2010 and 2020 by Peter Strickmann: including fieldrecordings of frogs, kids, adults, ports and traffic in Berlin, Kiel, Antsiranana, Dong Mo and Hanoi, various workshop recordings of animated objects and manipulated water and documentations of air- and water-driven sound installations.
Vocal Studies #12
Volume 12 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Derek Piotr (1991, Lublin, Poland) is a sound artist, vocalist and composer whose work deals mainly with sampling the human voice.
Vocal Studies #11
Volume 11 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Kai Welf Hoyme is a german contemporary artist working with time based media, sound / audio, photography, space and performance. His interdisciplinary work circles the fields and relation of space / place, body, memory, language and personal and collective imagination.
Vocal Studies #10
Volume 10 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Pat Moonchy is a unique singer/musician whose work is well worth exploring for any listener seriously interested in experimental music as well as underground music. Mastered By – Todd Tobias. Recorded By – Lucky Liguori.