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Aunes
Aunes is a rare solo album from peripatetic Australian cellist-composer-performer Judith Hamann, presenting six pieces recorded across several years and countries. Developing the collage techniques and expanded sound palettes heard on their previous releases, Aunes makes use of synthesizers, organ, voice and location recordings alongside the dazzlingly pure, enveloping tones of Hamann’s cello. The record takes its name from an old French unit of measurement for fabric, varying around the country…
Swamps/Things
Over the last decade, Kassel Jaeger, the moniker of the Paris-based composer, writer / theorist, producer, and director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), François Bonnet, has meticulously sculpted a body of multidisciplinary work that rests at the forefront contemporary electronic and electroacoustic practice. He will release his new album ‘Swamp/Things’ on Shelter-Press.
Rigorously experimental without sacrificing the intimacies of self, his efforts as a composer and musician extend …
Image Langage
*In process of stocking* 'Felicia Atkinson’s music always puts the listener somewhere in particular. There are two categories of place that are important to Image Language: the house and the landscape. Inside and outside, different ways of orienting a body towards the world. They are in dialogue, insofar as in the places Atkinson made this record—Leman Lake, during a residency at La Becque in Switzerland, and at her home on the wild coast of Normandy—the landscape is what is waiting for you when…
Shifted in Dreams
Franco-Swiss composer François J. Bonnet, aka Kassel Jaeger, returns to Shelter Press with his new solo album, Shifted in Dreams. Over the years, Bonnet has been working closely with Shelter Press on different projects, whether as a musician (Zauberberg, Swamps / Things), a theorist (The Music To Come) or as Director of parisian institution INA GRM (SPECTRES, Recollection GRM, Portraits GRM). The common axis of all these actions is the exploration of the deep causes of music, its own potential a…
Halos of Preception
"'Halos of Perception' was inspired by Lerkenfeldt's encounter with a member of Cave Clan, an Australian "urban exploration" group who probe abandoned forts, drains, bunkers and tunnels, searching out places that most people ignore or purposefully avoid. Her friend would travel underground to visit a small room and read alone by candlelight, prompting Lerkenfeldt to consider how sound travels through concrete tunnels, and how people used to put on underground shows. She recreates this nervous at…
Deathstar
Since 2017, Deathstar has been a project about the microphone — in Marina Rosenfeld’s hands, a void, a mirror, an unruly instrument of transformation and mediation. This music is heard in traces, through thickly amplified silences punctuated by momentary eruptions of noise or a voice at the threshold of intelligibility. The sculpture at the center of the action—a plexiglas orb housing a 7-microphone array originally installed as part of an exhibition the artist mounted at Portikus, in Frankfurt …
Trances
Trances, Jules Reidy’s follow-up to the celebrated Music by Jules ReidyMixed by James GinzburgMastered by Stephan MathieuArtwork by Florian & Michael QuistrebertPhotograph by Camille BlakeDesign and art direction by Bartolomé Sanson (2022), takes place in between states, tracing a kind of restless movement in search of—or is it away from?—a center. The twelve tracks shift between fragment and epic, returning to familiar phrases between forays outward into uncertain expanses. Through its explora…
Requiem In The Sun / Re-Musick / Demise Symphonika
This is the first in a series of various compilations to come with a focus on the 80’s japanese Minimal/Synth/Wave and electronica. While Japan is very known for the Japanese Noise (almost as Germany is known for NDW (Neue Deutsche Welle) or 70’s Kraut (Progressive).Electronic Music this aspect of the 80’s Japanese Music Culture still seems to be less explored and exposed to the interested listeners. In the early 80’s you had several outstanding labels such as Vanity releasing great artist…
Trilogie 1979-1988
Erick Moncollin, Mastermind behind ADN’ Ckrystall and famous for his great and extremely rare Synth/Minimal-Wave-Records on Lp and 7“ has finally digged into his archive and provided VOD with the long awaited for collection of the 10 year A-D-N-Trilogie. All tracks are from 1979-1988 -- including the mythicals sessions of the "Museum-ep", the "Rock Noire" mini-album, as well as tracks from "ADN'La Catastrophe" and others rarities. Members will recieve a 4 Track 7“ Bonus that includes the hits D…
Drive-Five vol. 1 en 2.
Edition of 40 copies. Counter Culture Chronicles is proud to announce the release of a previously unreleased recording featuring Beat Generation poet Jack Micheline performing a complete reading in Erie, Pennsylvania, 1983. This intimate documentation captures the raw energy and spontaneous spirit that defined Micheline's legendary performances. Recorded during the height of Micheline's creative period, this rare tape presents the poet in his element—delivering his trademark blend of street-wise…
The Abstraction Years 1979-81
During 1979 and 1981 and after running punk-orientated Bands with his Brother Derek for 3 years (Those Nervous Surgeaons, Nervous Surgeons & Half Nervous), Adrian recorded about 6 tapes with almost 6 hours of wonderful atmospheric and powerful minimal/synth-music that no listener can escape from without experiencing wonderful feelings and emotions. His first two tapes from 1979 (From the Silent Days and Absolutely Safe) were only given to friends (for lack of contacts and a still to be es…
Black Dwarf Wreckordings 83-85
Un-Kommuniti (sometimes also called Un-Kommunity or Thee Un-Kommuniti) was an early to mid 80’s project run by Tim Gane with support of Joe Manning, Vince "Van Hire" Adams & Dave "Smut" Smit and Pete Levy.Nowadays, Tim Gane is a well known for his highly prolific band/project Stereolab and his participation in the band Mc Carthy in the late 80’s. During the early to mid 80's-cassette-culture and lead by Tim Gane, the group was running their own Tape-Label "Black Dwarf Recordings" (also called "W…
Club Moral 1981-86
Compilation of early Club Moral, DDV, Etat Brut & The Parts-Tracks from 1981-1986. Club Moral was founded by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK) and Danny Devos (DDV) in Antwerp on January 1st, 1981.The framework to this incredible Box-Set is mainly based on selected tracks by DDV from "4 Sept" (CM02) and "A Sound Atlas of Venerology" (CM18), Club Moral's "Mit neuen Waffen" (CM03), with additional compilation tracks and live recordings by Club Moral. Furthermore Etat Brut's complete "Geometrie d'un …
Recordings 1977-1982
A deluxe 3LP box set, "Vía Láctea – Recordings 1977-1982" compiles the groundbreaking electronic and experimental works of Vía Láctea from 1977 to 1982. Featuring remastered tracks, a limited edition shirt, and exclusive materials, this release celebrates the band’s innovative legacy within the underground music scene.
Quartz Mirliton Cassettes
Biggest Tip! Quartz-Mirliton Cassettes has been among the most obscure of 1970s experimental music labels. This forthcoming VOD release, presented in two boxes, throws light on this mysterious cassette venture, its context and associated recordings. Closely associated with the London Musicians Collective, Quarz was launched by Paul Burwell and David Toop in 1977. Produced in tiny editions with handmade covers, the cassettes largely documented live sessions and field recordings made by a close ne…
Earth Interval
Lucky restock, last (few) copies around ** 300 copies. 140gr Audiophile pressing. Including printed inner sleeve housing a Nagaoka anti-static record sleeve, plus an original insert that functions as Obi. Comes with a large Photographic booklet including extensive liner notes, rare archival photographs, biographical essays on composer Doris Dennison and dancer AA Leath, and historical documentation of this pioneering 1956 percussion work* The discovery of Doris Dennison's score represents a genu…
Beyondddddd The Notessssss
Tip! In the depths of Geneva’s Fonderie Kugler red-lit-boudoir, stand four grand pianos surrounded by divinities. The two elder Erard brothers are tuned down a quarter tone lower than their neighbours, a twin pair of gleaming and valiant Yamaha’s. Charlemagne and Seppe both sit facing each other, managing the 428Hz tuning from the tip of their left hand, while the right hand controls the conventional 440Hz machine. This four-piano fantasy was born a few years ago, when these two gentlemen met ar…
The Zebra Paradox
*2025 stock* Setting the stage for The Zebra Paradox requires building anticipation and intrigue on the inside of the listener before they even hear the first notes. To accomplish this an imagined transference of information must bloom like a deep inhalation of sonic spores. If categories can be applied to explore how concepts are played out in this music and throughout the album, perhaps think of displacement, confusion, time distortion and derangement. Otherwise the listener might choose to tr…
Possibility and prejudices from within a cup
The essence of conviviality. You take a punch, soft as a sock at the end of a jog, but that isn’t the real point here. Even poorly brewed fuel can become a cherished experience when shared in good company, highlighting that at its core, the communal experience lies not in the quality of the beverage, but in the connections it fosters. And so, by evidence of this striking piece of truth, even the occasional misstep in the infusion process can't diminish the warmth and camaraderie that fills the m…
Hidden Eyes in a Ghost Jungle
*150 copies limited edition* Lay Llamas is a project founded and run by Sicilian composer, musicologist and graphic designer Nicola Giunta since 2012. A project, not a band, but an open project. A musical project distinguished by a style that mixes psychedelia, krautrock, afrobeat, dub and cosmic music. A hypnotic, hauntological and tribal sound, with strong influences from artists such as Can, Sun Ra, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Duul and the Italian masters of “library music”.
Nicola Giunta is also the…