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Cold Tape
101 Copies. Recorded in the autumn of 1980 and originally issued the same year on Andrew Cox's YHR Tapes in the United Kingdom, Cold Tape marks the moment Maurizio Bianchi's music first crossed the Channel into the British industrial underground. After a feverish run of self-released cassettes that spring and summer under the MB name, working from his home in the Mantuan town of Pomponesco, Bianchi entered into correspondence with the small network of European cassette imprints that had begun to…
Industrial tape
This is where it begins. Recorded in May 1980 and self-released the same year as catalogue number 01, Industrial Tape is the founding document of the MB project, the first cassette Maurizio Bianchi issued under his new name after closing the Sacher-Pelz chapter. Working alone in his home in the Mantuan town of Pomponesco, twenty-four years old, equipped with little more than an analogue synthesiser, a tape machine, and a small bank of effects, Bianchi laid down four pieces that would set in moti…
Voyeur Tape
101 Copies. Recorded in July 1980 and issued shortly thereafter on Andrew Cox's YHR Tapes with the catalogue number YHR 005, Voyeur Tape was the first MB cassette to cross the Channel into the British industrial underground, preceding by a matter of months its companion Cold Tape, which would follow on the same imprint as YHR 006 before year's end. Together the pair formed Maurizio Bianchi's decisive entry into the small mail-order network through which European industrial music was circulating …
Nuances De Spleen
*50 copies limited edition*
Completely handmade packaging.
The edition consists of:- sleeve cover (13.5x13.5 cm.) in black cardboard (thickness 200 grams), on the front of which is attached a figure printed in color on canvas.- 6-fold cover (13.5x13.5 cm. approx. closed, 40.5x13.5 cm. approx. developed), printed in color (200 grams paper)- cdr with printed surface, in black envelope. In the cd envelope is attached a cardboard envelope (12x6.5 cm. approx., cardboard 200 grams thick) which contai…
Phonemissions
Tip, very special package! *36 copies limited edition*
Reissue of a tape made by M.B. in 2013. Probably this is the most experimental side of Bianchi. It was recorded as a live improvisation in the stairs of a building in the Industrial Zone 1 in opera. Here M.B. is alone with his voice, tubular effects, mechanical percussions. The package is completely handmade with wire mesh, with an industrial sculpture made of corrugated pipe, tongs, screws and metal pieces, assembled to the wire mesh with e…
Zyklusters
*36 copies limited edition*
Handmade packaging.The CD-R is contained in a 14x20 cm embossed black cardboard envelope. A sticker is attached to the envelope.The envelope has a hole closed with a piece of white satin ribbon holding three steel washers (rings/clusters).Inside the envelope are:- a black envelope containing the black vinyl-like polycarbonate CD-R. The CD-R is printed- a full-color bi-fold cover- a bookmark- a sticker
The Second Death
*42 copies limited edition* Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover.The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size. (closed) and 39x15 cm. (developed).Inside there is also a little bookmark. Based on Revelation chapter 21, verse 8.
Decanemia
*36 copies limited edition*
Reissue of a tape made by M.B. in 2021. Over 50 minutes of hypnotic ambient sounds, as bright as light refracting in waterfalls and mosaic stones!
Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover.The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size.The edition is accompanied by a postcard featuring a reworked collage by M.B.
Arkeomene
*42 copies limited edition* Composed By, Performer, Recorded By, Artwork – Maurizio Bianchi. Layout – Antonio Benini. Mastered By – Pharmakustik.Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover. The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size. (closed) and 39x15 cm. (developed). Inside there is also a little bookmark.
January 2016
*30 copies limited edition*
Celebratory release for the tenth anniversary of the first track, released digitally only.This edition is entirely handmade.The CD-R is contained in a plastic sleeve with a frozen look, sealed with metal staples.A polyester print is attached to the front of the plastic sleeve.Inside the plastic sleeve is a paper sleeve containing the CD-R and a small insert with liner notes.The envelope and insert are printed on special high-quality lined paper.
Live At R.P.M. 01.01.1983
*30 copies limited edition* The CDr is contained in a black cardboard envelope measuring 13x13 cm. about (250 grams thick) with a 10x10 cm sticker on the front. The CDr has a small sticker, and inside the envelope there is a photocopied insert in the format of a mini poster of the dimensions of 20x40 cm. open and 10x10 cm. closed, approximately (paper 80 gr. thick).The only difference in this reissue is the picture on front sticker that is a negative of the first edition
Violichte
*42 copies limited edition*
Reissue of a tape made by M.B. in 2010. Two longs pieces of magnetic minimalism made of loops of viola and hertzian waves. A work dedicated to Italian composer Giancinto Scelsi, father of microtonal music. Usual non-standard handmade packaging made with special ribbed paper, a cutout of a vinyl record, a metallic treble clef, and some inserts. CD-r is in vinyl-like black polycarbonate.
The black-dye vinyl CD-R is contained in a handmade sleeve (approximately 13 x 13 c…
No Peace, No Love (Book + CD)
*Please note that the book part of this edition is available in Italian language only.* "I first listened to Crass in the late summer of 1979: a friend, just back from a trip to London, had brought me a newly released record, "Stations of the Crass", as a present. I had already read about them somewhere, perhaps because of a censorship issue they were involved in, but I had never really heard of them. That was their second album, and it ended up substituting for a long time, to the indignation o…
Music For Bus Stations
*2025 much needed repress!!!* Music For Bus Stations is an astonishing work that pours into the soul of those allowing themselves to be transported in a dimension where sound turns into background noise. Sound becomes part of us, of our movements, our thoughts, our looks and our silences. There is no reason for resistance. Let's be silent. The noise around us is quite good.
"Generative sonic backdrop for bus stations. Designed to enhance space and portray a mod of progressiveness, grandeur, and …
Totem Three
This is the final offering before entering the new wave of the failed future from MMOB. Totem Three journeys from quiet Bardo womb choosing meditations and instrumental mantras to the delusional glee of Kali Yugafied Indian rock. Totem Three is the most diverse and heartfelt of the Totem trilogy. A steady pulsating musical mirror prison expressing the atrophy of our "modern world" through No-Age hallucinations of passionate and unfolding melodies. A blissful mirage filled caravan with no destin…
Över Mitt Ögas Dag
“Över mitt ögas dag” by composer Lisa Stenberg and poet David Zimmerman is a collaborative text and sound work in which both past and future are constantly gravitating towards the present – a “now” as raging as it is inept.
The glacial electronics of Lisa Stenberg slowly grinds through both David Zimmerman’s lyrical segments and the adapted fragments of Vilhelm Ekelund’s ancient grave epigrams, all the while lamenting;
Nej / inga klockor märker ut / döda längre
För allt är onödigt, en avsägelse
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Maquishti
Mexican born, New York-based vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer Patricia Brennan has confirmed the release of her debut full length album Maquishti, January 15, 2021 on the Valley of Search label. The twelve original instrumentals that make up the album were composed and performed solo by Brennan on vibraphone and marimba. Employing unusual performance techniques and occasional electronics, many of the compositions were borne from improvisations created live in the studio at the ti…
Chamber Works 1943-1951
Apartment House presents seven works from John Cage's early period, before he began his systematic exploration of chance procedures. This repertoire captures a transitional moment when Cage had moved beyond traditional methods but before he devised new formal systems—a period when, as pianist Kerry Yong notes, he was "forced to be guided by their instincts and intuition" producing "extraordinary music."
The program balances what Yong calls "simply gorgeous / gorgeously simple pieces like 'Dream'…
Visiting Cloud
What happens when electroacoustic thought migrates into the physical realm of acoustic instruments? Visiting Cloud documents a three-year collaboration between Finnish composer Marja Ahti and Italian ensemble Blutwurst, where two of Ahti's electroacoustic works - Fluctuating Streams (from The Current Inside, 2019) and Chora (from Vegetal Negatives, 2018) - undergo radical transformation into acoustic versions that stretch, deepen, and reimagine their original forms. Initiated by Blutwurst in 202…
Intermission 6
Morton Feldman's Intermission 6 (1953) is a sparse piano piece that typically lasts between 3 and 12 minutes in standard performances. Finnish experimental musician Antti Tolvi has created a radical 72-minute realization that extends the work's meditation on silence and resonance to an unprecedented duration. Tolvi discovered the piece through Philip Thomas's five-CD Feldman Piano box set on Another Timbre, becoming fascinated by Intermission 6 as "the piece which has the most silence in it, and…