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Mishakosmos: The Music of Misha Mengelberg (Book)
The first official book of Misha Mengelberg compositions, hardcover and professionally spiral-bound, 250 pages, featuring more than 75 pieces of Misha's music ready to play or otherwise engage with, designed for fans, teachers, students, and especially the performing musician. Curated and collated by Michael Moore, the list of tunes includes Blues After Piet, Peer's Counting Song, the Rollos, Gare Guillemins, Samba Zombie, Who's Bridge, and lots more, check the sidebar images for screenshots of …
47 Songs Humans Shouldn't Sing
2008 release ** Eugene Carchesio's renown as a visual artist has unjustly eclipsed his extraordinary output as a soundmaker. Since the mid 80s, the Brisbane artist has steadfastly proliferated a sack full of barely released cassettes and cdrs under the D.N.E. moniker.Twenty years ago, he emptied his wallet to press 250 copies of the appropriately titled LP 47 Songs Humans Shouldn't Sing'. Then compact discs arrived. The local pressing plant closed and the master tape went with it. Copies were ci…
12 December 2007
2008 release ** Limited edition of 120 hand numbered copies. "12 December 2007 is a live recording of Dorothy Geller (From Quagmire) alias Dora Bleu and Alexandre St-Onge (Shalabi Effect, et Sans) taken in Montreal at Zoobizarre on that date. Several of the songs are inspired by the film The Night Porter (1976). The live event itself was called "Music on Dark Screens." St-Onge's dark, minimal and lush double bass is a perfect compliment to Geller's unconventional and minimal song structures. The…
Jungle Reaction
2007 release ** Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies. "A bright and almost poppy sounding mix of processed sounds and vocals backed up by light electronic rhythms. For the most part it's got me thinking of bands like Lucky Dragons and High Places, that sort of psychedelic electronic-augmented indie sort of sound, but the comparisons don't seem totally apt as the four tracks often flirt with more overt electro-pop sounds too. Props to 'em for having a pop at something out of the ordinary a…
Gma
2007 release ** Limited edition of 250 hand-numbered copies in a card sleeve. "Russian project Erthad, originating from Kazan, exists since late 90-ies, but until now still hasn't made any official releases and preferred to stay in underground, recording music only for himself and his friends. We have been endeavouring to change this situation for a long time and now we're glad to present this wonderful disk to your attention. "Gma" was recorded in 2002 with the use of voice and software noise s…
Dishoek
2005 release ** "Just before we started to miss Guido Möbius he surprised us with “Dishoek”, his second album, recorded for Hamburg’s Dekorder label. Again featuring a conglomeration of acoustic and electrical instruments (guitar, bass, violin, cornet drums, synthesizer, clarinet among other things.) and a variety of guests, so that one hardly dares to call it a solo album. Still everything is magically held together by one single person. Melodies and noises, styles and individual characteristic…
CSW 14_03_2015
2016 release ** Established in 2013 and currently having over 50 floating members, the Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra acts as a resource for musicians to meet and work in a large improvising ensemble, or in smaller units within a larger context. Spontaneous music making is our remit, but on occasion, scores both regular and graphic may be used as well as visual cues presented by visual artists. The orchestra is a chance for people to develop a deeper understanding of the relationship of sound and…
Meshes
2009 release ** "Two improvisations-one live, one without audience-by an Anglo-French trio of new voices from trombonist Forge, electronics artists Julian and cellist Papapostolou. The music is quiet and spacious....there is a wonderful sense of slowness to the music that suggests each sound, every contribution comes only after careful consideration."
Cooks & Devils
2009 release ** "„Cooks & Devils“, a single track culled from a performance at the Kunstverein Göttingen in Summer of last year, shows just how far Ignaz Schick has come. The „Snake Figure Arkestra“, the latest formation to flow from Schick's fantastical fluidum, is centered around an enduring partnership with Marcel Türkowsky but, needless to say, again open to external input and to debate, discussion and critical discourse: The Arkestra has already joined forces with Drone-Surrealist Christop…
Der Ruf
2006 release ** "Five years after the release of Sal Solaris' first album "Outerpretation Of Dreams" on the Austrian label Hau Ruck!, Der Angriff and Indiestate are pleased to present the second CD of this magnificent Russian industrial project. The music of "Solnechnaya Sol" can be called "power ambient" - deep and penetrating, without obvious rhythm or noise, it does not have a calming meditative effect, but a powerful and active impact. The closest comparisons include Reutoff, Stalnoy Pakt or…
For The Tears Of The Land_Prayers From The Outer Space
2011 release ** "For the Tears of Land/Prayers from Outer Space" is a split album by My Cat Is An Alien and their side project, Praxinoscope. It was released in 2009 by Important Records and Elliptical Noise. The album is a concept album exploring the themes of earthly tears and prayers from outer space. My Cat Is An Alien is known for its experimental and avant-garde sound, characterized by free improvisation and "instantaneous composition".
God Blesses Us, Mother Dresses Us
2010 release ** Bedroom synthpop recording alias of Wesley Eisold pre Cold Cave. Expanded CD reissue of the LP released by Art Fag Records in 2009. "This 2006-2008 collection of twenty-four electronic bedroom recordings features previously unreleased songs as well as all tracks from the out of print LP and demo."
No Kidding
2007 release ** "Solo 'noise guitar' side from Mr Michael Yonkers, whose 1968 recording Microminiature Love remains one of the most avant garde garage punk recordings ever to make it to Sub Pop. This is eleven tracks of cranked-up, F/X shredding six string destruction from a guy with a whole lifetime of ferocious electric guitar re-invention already behind him. A wild one."
Solid Layers, Deafening Shapes
2016 release ** "A solo percussion album from Francesco Gregoretti, employing traditional instruments and unusual object to create unique audio environment that use predictable rhythmic elements against capricious approaches, giving his playing a personal style fueled by resonance and natural feedback; an album that balances chaotic and structured environments in riveting ways."
Music for Gallery
Several tapes that were discovered at Aki Takahashi's house and audio sources that have been put on hold until now are being released collectively. The time periods and contents of the sounds vary, and most of the detailed data are not known. Nevertheless, the contents are all very intriguing, including live recordings by Hiroyoshi Suzuki from the days of "Jikken Kobo" (Experimental Workshop), never-before-heard works by Toru Takemitsu, and the strange electronic music of Joji Yuasa. We decided …
Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol. 24: Music for Film Genjitsu
Edition Omega Point presents work by legendary Japanese composer Joji Yuasa - Genjitsu was a film created in 1966 by a director Tetsuji Takechi, known as a legend of Showa eroticism. But this film has been hidden somewhere somehow from the public for a long time. The film’s story focuses around a prostitute and has a strong fantasy literature style to it as one may have guessed from its title Genjitsu (Sun dog; an optical phenomenon that consists of a light source alongside of the Sun in rare cl…
Electronic Works 2
"I’m going to talk about the works in this CD. It includes CIRCUIT I and CIRCUIT III, they belong to the CIRCUIT series”. CIRCUIT II was included in my "Electronic Works vol.1. I’m going to explain for those people who don’t know the "Works vol.1”. In the series of electronic music entitled CIRCUIT, the next work is created using the material from the previous one. At first I burn the precious CD into two CDRs, next I cross them and make new CIRCUIT music by using two CD-J players. Since this op…
Additives
2004 release ** "New interesting italian prog band, with psychedelic-rock sounds. Their CD includes a cover of the Van Der Graf Generator track “Afterwards”, plus other 7 original tracks by Gap Party. This band formed in 1999 and already released several interesting albums over the years."
Torque
2006 release ** "Here’s a superior set of contemporary jazz, blazing straight out of the long and unruly heritage of left-field explorations. Rising trumpeter and composer Groder is here teamed with the eminent saxophonist and flautist, Sam Rivers, plus Rivers’ usual rhythm section of bassist Doug Mathews and drummer Anthony Cole. Together, they whip up a bubbling, effervescent concoction of jagged, free-jazz group improvisations and hard-swinging free-bop that recalls Miles Davis’s mid-’60s ‘ti…