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Stroke by stroke
2011 release ** All the recordings were made at home in Athens between June 2010 and April 2011. No electronic effects, overdubbing or processing used. Ambient noise from several parallel events taking place in Greece at the time of recording has deliberately not been removed. "On Stroke by Stroke, the windows in Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga’s house are thrown open; you can hear the streets of Athens enlaced in her apothegmatic pieces for a radically prepared and refashioned zither. Knowing this…
Sustains
Amnon Wolman - composer, was born at Jerusalem Israel, 1955. He has written more than fifty pieces which include symphonic works, vocal and chamber pieces for different types of ensembles, film music, music for theater and dance, and works involving computer generated or processed sounds. His music is recorded by Wergo (Germany) and the Stanford University Press (California, USA), and published by the Israel Music Institute. He is now the head of the electronic music department at Brooklyn Colle…
Glassine 1
"Glassine I" was recorded live at the Ambient Ping in Toronto in 2006 and can be easily described as an organic space ambient, with very strong references to Pink Floyd (Ummagumma), Popol Vuh, Ashra Temple, Jackie-O Motherfucker, O Yuki Conjugate, AMP and Flying Saucer Attack or "Fourth World" ambient music! Four tracks of pure vibrant multi-layered psychedelic drone music from Aidan Baker & Co! Now, close your eyes, listening to "Glassine I" and start for your trip, even without the intake of a…
Scheer
2021 release ** "Between 2009 and 2011, Swiss percussionist Christian Wolfarth released four 7"s presenting eight short examples of his playing. Utilising purely acoustic methods, they varied between remarkably electronic sounding drones to clattering asymmetrical rhythms with quite a range in between, and showed the process of Wolfarth finding a voice in what was already a widely researched area of sound. Scheer is a new solo disc of two pieces that consolidate those experiments in extended wor…
The Bagatelles vol. 3
Volume three of the recording of John Zorn's renowned Bagatelles, chosen from the more than 300 works that the American conductor and composer created in a span of three months at the beginning of 2015 and later compiled into a book. In this performance, the experimental band Trigger tear through fifteen of the collection's most wackiest and chaotic pieces.
Telyn Wrachïod
Cildraeth Sienco is an improvisation based on an amalgamation of the notation and structure of Angharad Jenkins’ Brandy Cove with the alternative string tuning of ‘Cywair yn Nghywair y Wrach’ from Robert ap Huw’s manuscript."Ceimion wrachïod cymwysYn siarad bob teimlad twys""Precise, angled braysSpeaking every profound feeling."From a cywydd requesting a harp by Huw Machno fl. 1560-1637
Lonely Hymns and Pillars of Emptiness
*2024 stock* The debut release by Slovenian musical polymath Iztok Koren, best known for his work in avantefolk outfits Širom, Škm banda and Hexenbrutal. Made in the heat of 2020’s lockdown, Iztok transmutes the intensity of the period into 6 pieces that sensitively unfurl over time. With various stringed instruments and field recordings in hand, he weaves his interests in Slovenian mysticism, ancient Chinese divination texts, his family and his new found love of nature, revealing an intimate sn…
......t
Sonically, the Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH distort the club context they work from by rendering functionality with an exceptionally refined and idiosyncratic palette. As logophiles, they contort the little descriptive context they afford audiences by imploding language into splintered and barely comprehensible character sequences. The impression is that each is the result of mutual process-driven experiments. This is all true of '......t', their new album and debut recording for Northern Electronics…
Sonidos Y Modulaciones De La Selva
Italian sound artist Marco Shuttle debuts on Astral Industries with AI-39. Alluring and evocative, ‘Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva’ is a journey deep into the Amazon rainforest, seeking to capture its power and vastness, but also a rumination on the problem of its impending destruction.
In this album Shuttle sees the continuation and further ripening of an ongoing creative process, utilising both audio and visual documentations as source material. On this occasion most of the field recording…
D-R
*150 hand-numbered copies limited edition* Laaps is proud to present "D-R," the latest album by acclaimed Japanese sound artist and composer Akhira Sano. "D-R" marks Sano’s return to the label, following his celebrated 2023 release on IIKKI. "D-R" is a masterful exploration of minimalism and ambient soundscapes, continuing Sano’s tradition of crafting deeply immersive and contemplative works. The album invites listeners into a world of subtle textures, delicate harmonies, and intricate sonic de…
The Pavilion of Dreams
2025 repress. For five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde. Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by abstract expressionist painters as by John Cage and Morton Feldman. In his work, Budd brought delicate, slowing-moving melodies to the foreground – creating a new musical language based on “eternally pretty music” and smooth surfac…
Depli
It's probably safe to call Mr. Andre Almuro an unsung hero. And while his scantly available catalog certainly provides reason why, its contents offer ample argument to the contrary. Not long after the conclusion of his apprenticeship to Pierre Schaeffer, he began crafting in what could easily be called the Almuro aesthetic: sparce pieces built from limited sound elements, often timbrally altered percussive sounds, slowly paced and coated thick in reverb and tape echo.While Dépli does not quite m…
Red Hot Ice
Dunmall continues his run of very special releases on Discus Music. Working with a nine piece group centered around his Birmingham based colleagues, and which includes double keys and electronics, Dunmall delivers a swirling mix of spacey big band music which breaks down into atmospheric and exciting open ended improvisations from time to time. Paul considers this to be a milestone release, and one which is unlike anything else in his extensive discography. Edited and produced with respect, love…
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A beautiful smartphone-size book of often surreal finger drawings made on an outdate smartphone.
The Apocalypse Will Blossom
Yesmissolga Records is proud to present its debut release with a stunning piano performance by Charlemagne Palestine. The Apocalypse Will Blossom brings Palestine's recorded work thundering into the 21st century. Working in the lower registers of the piano, as he did in the late '70s, this intensely powerful live performance is unlike anything previously released by Palestine. Recorded by Christoph Heemann in Aachen, Germany at the Ludwig Museum in 2000 on the occasion of the 1000 year celebrati…
The Wrong Echo
2010 release ** "Canadian sound artist Steve Bates works with hi- and lo-tech instrumentation and equipment to produce a restrained, delicately abstract electronica. ”Everywhere Little Explosions” encapsulates his methodology: a two-note piano motif is looped and fed through distorting baby monitors and computer software until it becomes a sort of psych-fuzz mantra. Bates favours sounds that confound the ear by occupying the exact midpoint between the synthetic and the natural, such as the digit…
DeepSpeeD / KeitaiDenwaChudoku
2005 release ** DeepSpeed is Yoshinori Tanaka, a Japanese musician active from the year 2000. Ran japanese Off Black record label. Mostly known for his Bastarbation project. 携帯電話中毒 is a Japanese noise project that used mobile phones as a baseline. It previously had a second member (around the time of their first CD on Dotsmark), one would operate mobile phones whilst the other would use effect pedals.t 06 of pure lo-fi (ocasionally monolithic) bizarro noise!!! Soundscapes to set up Absurd's cent…
Ear Wash
2003 release ** "Crazy free noise, controlled chaos & vocals in usual Sudden Infant's Childish-Industrial style."
Sudden Infant / Bill Kouligas
2007 release ** Cardboard sleeve. Probably one of the frenziest & craziest Sudden Infant' recordings. Recorded live at the Gluerooms, London, on may the 20th, 2004, stands for me as one of joke lanz most intense and unique sudden infant recordings I came across to this day besides his already classic ones! sharing this disc w-his recent "partner in crime' Bill Kouligas (those who caught up w-the recent dec 06, uk tour know what am talking about), also member of the bizarre greek duo of family ba…
Together We Shall Melt Mountains With Our Blood
2005 release ** Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies in tri-folded cardboard cover. "Intense drone from Portland, OR experimental musician Daniel Menche. A single piece of dissonant, rumbling drone whose sonic depth, volume, and intensity slowly ebb and flow over the course of 49-plus minutes."