The Rita

*300 copies limited edition* One of the first The Rita releases, out in 1998 on Labyrinth Recordings in an edition of only 50 copies and highly sought after. Finally this special album is going to be reprinted into CD. One of the early albums where Sam started his adeventure into Noise, or better said: the very  Harsh Noise subgenre known as "Harsh Noise Wall", a  the term coined specifically for its sounds. This reissue is dedicated to Isabella and Sister Angela. The recent related OEC cassette…

*100 copies limited edition* The Rita / Winter Rose split tape on Phage Tapes.

On this split cassette, Sottana & Calze’s The Gloria and The Rita collide in a sharply focused post‑industrial ritual. Trifurcated contact mics, woolen stockings and monophonic chants meet the Canadian project’s obsessive “canes” study, pressed onto dual‑color shells as a rare Canadian/Italo‑Norwegian collaboration built for XXI Congresso Post Industriale.

On Metal Machine Music: Power To Consume Vol. 1, a coalition of noise heavyweights channels Lou Reed’s most infamous album into a new crucible of feedback, tape rot and industrial grind, where extremity becomes form and chaos is sculpted into brutal, hypnotic clarity.

Pushing boundaries and redefining sonic experimentation, Gabi Losoncy and The Rita join forces for a striking new CD, “Flyers & Blues.” This uncompromising release offers a visceral audio experience, with each track composed entirely using NHL regulation hockey sticks and pucks, performed and recorded indoors. Heralding a union of physicality and sound, both Losoncy and The Rita channel the intensity and unpredictability of the rink, translating it into pure auditory form. The result is a raw, t…

A new chapter in The Rita's singular trajectory - an artist who, despite his widespread appreciation, continues to be alone on the forefront of radical and challenging exploration of harsh sound. "The Alceste" is a return to a more layered technique, but still continuing to pursue the minimal, almost percussive sparse crackle of the recent “King Richard III” process recordings - but now in rapid-fire clusters, conjuring McKinlay's muse the 2-Stroke Engine more vividly than ever. Source recording…

This monograph presents the visual language inseparable from the higly influential sound project of Sam McKinlay, pioneer of the "harsh noise wall" with the multidisciplinary entity The Rita. Correlations presents some of the images and documents Sam McKinlay finds most definitive in his practice. The monograph is designed to provide a cohesive understanding of the artist's creative trajectory, as well as illuminate The Rita's uncanny process that visually, conceptually, and historically 'connec…

*300 copies limited edition* Vice Wears Black Hose (V.W.B.H.) is a collaborative project by 2 monsters of the American Noise, P/E, HNW scene: Sam McKinlay aka The Rita and Richard Ramirez aka Black Leather Jesus. Project name was inspired by the Italian "Giallo" movie "Il Vizio ha le Calze Nere" (Italian translation of VWBH) released in 1975 by Tano Cimarosa. No need to describe sounds as you know exactly what to expect. If you need more words you don't need that CD.

Tip! *2023 stock* New Forces is happy to announce a 2xCD edition of the monumental "Magazine" by The Rita. This 2-disc edition is fully remastered by Grant Richardson, and includes the tracks by Treriksröset and Werewolf Jerusalem, recorded using "Magazine" as source material, that were previously only available as bonus tapes in the special edition of the double LP version. Packaged in a 6-panel digipack with old and new artwork by Sam McKinlay, as well as a booklet featuring liner notes by Sam…

*199 copies limited edition* Guns & Harsh Noise Walls! The Rita & Uuincodified meet up for an album devoted to 2 legendary guns used during Warl War II: Sten MK II (British machine gun used by British and Commonwealth forces); Breda-SAFAT (Italian machine gun used by Italian forces). If you need to know more you don't need that CD!

*300 copies limited edition* The Rita and Caligula031 "Self Shop" was first released as a split tape in 2013 by the Italian cult tape-label Nil By Mouth in a limited edition of 180 copies. 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of this album and here we go with the CD re-edition including a third long collaborative track. You know what to expect from those monsters of the Noise-Industrial & HNW scene: this is a sharp and uncompromising harsh noise wall, sounds cutting like a razor inside your brains wh…

*200 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Brand new split LP by two titans of the harsh noise scene. One side long piece by each artist, delivering trademark splintered harsh noise and low pummelling bass rumble and crunch. Please note that whilst there is no digital only release, all copies come with a download code included.

*2022 stock. Limited edition of 300 copies.* Here comes the next The Rita attack on Old Europa Cafe...This time also coadiuvated in noise-crime by Caligula031, Climax Denial, Lingua Ignota, Ted Byrnes... “I’ve seen some people saying that English National Ballet’s Le Corsaire is so out-of-date it’s risible to see it staged in the 21st century. Sex trafficking, men in black with scimitars in Istanbul, pirates trading slaves across the Mediterranean, rich fat men rubbing their jewelled paws over f…

*Limited edition of 300 copies.* Formed in Texas by Richard Ramirez back in 1989, Black Leather Jesus is for sure one of the more prominent and reknown harsh-noise collectives world-wide. The Rita is the solo project of Sam McKinlay, also reknown for inventing a new noise sub-genere called "Harsh Noise Wall" (HNW). That said, you already know what to expect from such collaboration. This is a 43 minutes long track of pure and violent NOISE!

Sharks and the Female Form. The aesthetics and patterns of a woman’s physical form violently and tragically manipulated in the arts: Painting“You have dared to torture the female who was so certain he would always be adored! You have scourged her, flogged her in all her pride; you have emptied her breasts, creviced her belly, blown up her buttocks, twisted her legs, battered her face! And over it all you have spread a noxious color, composed of all the reds of blood and the greens of putrefactio…

For those who have followed this project over the years, at this point you are either fully on board or perhaps you've abandoned ship. This is not the type of project you occasionally dabble with, it's a multi-verse of escapism for the fanatically obsessed. It's not just about the sound either...all of the myriad themes and imagery as well as the sound source origins are equally important to the entirety of the whole experience. This is elevated art with concealed benefits earned by means of cul…

*Limited to 50 comes along an exclusive black t-shirt in chain-spun cotton with white monochrome print with the original artwork by Sam McKinlay * With his flagship project based in Canada, The Rita, Sam McKinlay has explored and distilled into sound various permutations of obsession and vice for over five lustrums. Though his musical approach has remained more or less consistent, the subject matter inspiring McKinlay's work has periodically shifted through the years, mapping out the constellati…

Crushingly beautiful, conceptual rich, and patent by a deep sense of emotive tension, The Rita’s Bandaged Invisibility is issued as double cassette in a very limited edition of 99 hand numbered copies, housed in a beautiful deluxe wooden box.

** Compilation of the two Womankind cassettes released on Survivalist in 2010 and 2012. Remastered in an edition of 200 copies ** A new compilation featuring the two Womankind tapes by The Rita released on Survivalist in 2010 & 2012. Remastered by Grant Richardson and co-released with Self Abuse Records.

** Remastered by Grant Richardson. Edition of 200 CDs in digipak covers ** Reissue of the classic The Rita's album released on Solipsism in 1998. Featuring new artwork and co-released with Self Abuse Records. A true noise classic.

* Reissue on CD with 8 panel digipak, booklet, includes new material * CD reissue of the long sold-out The Rita LP 'Gamzatti'. Includes an extra 27 minute long reworking of original source material entitled "Gamzatti Stripped". 'Gamzatti' marked the first The Rita recordings utilizing sound sources from pointe shoe work. Pointe shoe preparation and technique by Hannah Sarah Myrberg. This CD reissue is dedicated to her memory. Gamzatti is arguably Sam McKinlay's favourite classical ballet female …

**In process of stocking. 300 copies white label 45 RPM 12".** Live collaboration between these titans of harsh noise. Recorded February 2014 at Dead Audio studio, in Houston, Texas. Double sided offset printed DIY style pasted covers, including A4 insert, plus fliers from live events taking place surrounding these sessions. Mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering for maximum fidelity. Absolutely brutal record, you know what to expect with this one.

**300 copies** "Here we have The Nylons of Laura Antonelli, a multi-item release by The Rita, Sam McKinlay. The version you have here is its third issue. This release is the sound of different models of nylon for legs used according to Sam's own purposes. If filled with a spirit of non-literalism, what is "Laura Antonelli"? Forward movement-wise I think of it as a series of inhibitors of varying volume. You can conceive of silence being the underlying reality on this release, and it allows you t…

2017 Edition. Journey Of The K-Verband (Throat Lure) was recorded in the summer of 2011 and is the second chapter of The Voyage Of The Decima Mas.  The K-Verband was the WWII German frogman equivalent to the Italian Decima MAS; taking example from the Italian frogmen and their missions.  The Rita has used the WWII frogmen theme as representative of the recordings, this time via sound sources from the miking of ocean fishing lures while jigging for Lingcod in the same areas snorkelled for the VOT…

2017 Edition. This is an immersive collaboration between 2 heavyweight practitioners of the noise sub-genre Harsh Noise Wall: An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter and The Rita. Wide-Eyed In The Dark features the ever prolific American noisemaker Richard Ramirez with one of his HNW projects An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter comprising partners in wall noise, Sean E. Matzus, Sarada Holt, James Tallis and Monica Isabel Sanchez. Formed in 1994, Giallo horror-slasher theme takes centrestage in this noise pr…

2015 Edition. The Rita continues his journey through ballet fetishism. Female Statuesque is a complex work of obsessive research on discipline, elite beauty, and suffering in the world of ballet. Monolithic walls of harsh noise with the classic Sam McKinlay (BT.HN, Vice Wears Black Hose, Black To Comm) trademark style. Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies in a cardboard sleeve with insert.

"With his flagship project, The Rita, Sam McKinlay has, for nearly two decades, explored and distilled into sound various permutations of fetish and vice. He is recognized as the creator of Wall Noise (or Harsh Noise Walls/HNW), but that sound — massive and rich textural layers of relentless, monolithic fields of distortion — was nothing new, in and of itself. It was McKinlay's conceptual intent and the singular intensity of his focus that established it as something novel and profound. One reco…

Pygmalion carved a beautiful woman from ivory and when he kissed his statue’s cool white lips he found that Aphrodite had turned them pink and warm with life. From ephemera, from tulle and satin, The Rita has assembled a fantasy woman; a ballerina, a fairy, a sex worker – violently she is animated into existence as a sonic monolith dense and menacing as Richard Serra’s looming steel. With the double LP set The Lilac Fairy, The Rita reaches an apex of fixation on the dancer’s body. This obsession…

Some time ago a colleague emailed me and informed me that an artist made a short video of herself knitting to The Rita's 'Thousands of Dead Gods.'  I watched the short video and thought it was interesting, but then also noticed that the woman had a link included on her 'Instagram' account for her sculptural works.  I had a look at her work and was instantly taken by the sheer immensity and power of her structures, all exemplary of long hours of labour and provocative patterns behind the material…

'La Vierge de Nurembourg' 4 x 7inch red vinyl with Vomir, Safe, The Rita, Torturing Nurse. Very limited edition (100 copies only).

Escorting is a new massive effort by the Canadian king of Harsh Noise Sam McKinlay, with his most acclaimed creature The Rita who, once again, waves the banner of Uashima, with a luxurious and lustful 3 LP box set dedicated to the world's oldest profession, its leading actresses and enthusiastic johns.For once THE RITA takes a break from its current conceptually driven texture research for returning to its original full-frontal impact, not unlike older works like “Bodies bear traces...”, “Swinge…

For THE RITA, the abstraction and minimalism of the female form has played a major role in the fetishized development of his source sounds and eventual harsh sound manipulations.  Eye shadow and eyebrow pencil pushed to raccoon-like limits and nylon stockings have been used repeatedly in past recordings to personally investigate via harsh sound the abstracted qualities of the aesthetics.  For his latest work utilizing aspects of the female as starting point, THE RITA picks apart the woman's voic…

European tour 7". Two 5 minute studio tracks of processed underwater recordings. Bayonet and diving knife scrapings in a steel basin, recorded closely and then processed to breaking point. Limited edition of 200 copies.

4-way split Lp titled HNW that involved some of the most well known, respected & recognizable names in the Harsh Noise Wall scene: Fouke, Is, The Rita and Vomir. Each artist has contributed with a track for the first audio document in a series of six. As usual the LP comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard sleeve, limited to 100 hand numbered copies w/insert.

A new collaboration with Canadian harsh noise artist THE RITA and Italian harsh noise artist ALO GIRL (Urashima label owner Cristiano Renzoni).  Taking the combined love of both projects for knives, legs, black hose and Giallo films, the two vinyl tracks fill your ears with a solid flow of scratchy and roaring auditory dirt ! The LP comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard sleeve, limited to 147 hand  numbered copies w/two insert. Legs on both sides of the cover by Alo Girl approve…

The second LP in the RRR Foley Artist Series. Another great noise-wall record from The Rita. Two sound sources, one for each side. Because each side is a completely separate sound source, lets consider it a split LP.

Released on Trash Ritual [website], a USA-based label specialising in Harsh Noise/Power Electronics. Limited to 200, released in 2006 - Found this copy at RRR [website] while visiting Lowell (RRRon RRRules) - No need to try to get a copy directly from The Rita, he ain’t got any left - he was with me at the shop, so I checked before buying - but you’ll certainly find one somewhere when you google for it, maybe even get one from RRR. Comes in a black/greyish handsprayed sleeve, with a gory xeroxed…

The ongoing study and execution of harsh noise by driven artists constantly reinstates the medium via different techniques, concepts, and different artist amalgamations for a collaborative work. For myself, working with the different 'warbling' and generative moving lines of modular synth from Carlos Giffoni offered me a chance to investigate many different 'spaces' of tone and line manipulation. The examination and crossing of the different Lines slowly become their own parallel entity as the a…