Silvia Kastel
Silvia Kastel is an Italian musician and radio host based in Berlin, active in the Italian underground since her teens. Her solo and group work covers no wave, industrial, dub, extreme electronics, free rock and improvisation. She is best known for the album Air Lows on Blackest Ever Black and for Control Unit, her duo with Ninni Morgia. Kastel founded the label Ultramarine, which put out her own first release, Love Tape. In Control Unit she handles electronics and voice. Her album The Gap was partly inspired by night walks through Berlin.
The Gap
**numbered edition of 25 copies** Silvia Kastel is an electronic artist and underground chanteuse from Puglia, Italy, currently living in Berlin, Germany. Since 2009 she has released several albums with her (now ex-) group Control Unit, albums in collaboration with Smegma and Factrix, as well as releasing a couple of solo albums. The Gap was previously released on cassette in 2016 on the German Label Noisekölln Tapes and is now for the first time released on vinyl as a full LP by Des Astres d’Or…
Brand
“Brand” is the new trio of Gary Smith (guitar), Silvia Kastel (voice and synth), Ninni Morgia (guitar). On this recording Gary Smith produces the playing for which he’s considered a master of avant guitar: multiple layering, complex grainy textures, dense counterpoint, influences of birdsong. Fused with the guitar of Ninni Morgia, which floats between minimal movements of primordial electronics, pre-war slide blues and Hendrix-esque feedback. Over, and blending with them, Silvia Kastel’s moaning…
Two Couples
“Two Couples” is the collaboration between German artists/performers Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Baer and the Italian musicians Ninni Morgia (guitar) and Silvia Kastel (synth and voice).Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Baer are known for their provocatice, neo-dadaesque, often extreme art and performances and have previously worked with Smegma, Thurston Moore, John Wiese and many others. They have performed and exhibited all around the world and are part of the NY collective NO!Art Movement.Ninni Morgia …
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Live In Edinburgh
In April 2011 the two couples formed by Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer and Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel ventured for a tour in the UK; it was the first time they played together but their shared common visions, attitude and general craziness actually gave life to an inspired team. Every show was different; in Edinburgh, they decided to perform a piece originally written by Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel, Jericho, that Papa Baer liked. So before the show, the group pre-recorded a tape in a big …
Love tape
A concept tape packed with unconditional love to whoever hears/buys/does whatever with it.C30, white shells with watercolor labels by SK; each tape is unique.Edition of 60; also comes in a numbered limited edition of 9 with different covers, each one featuring an instant picture of/by Silvia Kastel.