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Palo Alto
* First Release. Includes 12-page 8" x 8" booklet with photos, essays and credits, as well a 12-page 5.25" x 8.25" replica concert program by the Palo Alto High School International Club, and 16.5" x 10.5" replica concert poster. * Palo Alto is a pre…
L'Arca di Noè
L'arca di Noè, 'Noah's Ark' is an album by the Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato. It was released in 1982 by EMI Italiana. During the first weeks of 1983 Battiato sold about 550,000 copies of L'arca di Noè.
One year after the success of the a…
Little Flower
* Edition of 100 * Recorded in Indianapolis on Sunday, April 16, 2017 and Sunday, April 21, 2019. Performed by Landon Caldwell: piano, synthesizers and Mark Tester: Arp Odyssey, field recordings. Layout & Cover Art by Jaime Zuverza.
Jeb Bishop Centrifugal Trio
* Edition of 175 * Recorded at zentri-fuge, Berlin, on September 8, 2019 by Tito Knapp. Mastered by Mikey Young. Performed by Jeb Bishop: trombone, Antonio Borghini: bass, Michael Griener: drums. All selections freely improvised.
So Glossy and So Thin
* Edition of 100 * Recorded live at the Hungry Brain, Chicago on June 10, 2018 (track 1) and September 29, 2019 (track 2). Performed by Keefe Jackson - tenor/sopranino saxophone, Jim Baker - piano/synthesizer, Julian Kirshner - drums. Engineer: Bill …
June Holiday
**CD version** "A sublime trio set from drummer Charles Rumback – a record that has us really appreciating the special touch the leader can bring to a date, as this album may also be one of the best that we've heard from pianist Jim Baker in years! B…
Foreign Experiences
Foreign Experiences was commissioned by Performing Artservices,
Inc. (1993) with funds from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. The
opera was premiered by the Robert Ashley Ensemble at the Festival d'Avignon in 1994. This realization is a duet …
Di Lumi e Chiarori
**250 copies** "Backwards is really pleased to present the new Fabio Orsi release. This time Fabio offered a monumental work: eight long tracks contained in a huge box set with four compact discs. Musically it stands on the new course of the artist: …
Silt
**100 copies** K. Mulhern is a poet, filmmaker and sound artist based in NYC. Silt looks at the swath of human time, vantaged before history and after apocalypse. It is built from field recordings, synthetic sounds and lyric.Mastered by Christophe Al…
The Golden Path
**Edition of 300. Czn presents complex interwoven forms plenty of small grooves throughout here and there, scattered throughout polyrhythmic passages. Built in density, this a trance-enducing and hypnotic masterwork.** Czn stands for Copper, Zinc and…
Returning Two
Tape Loop Orchestra’s ambient concrète aesthetic coalesces clammy choral swells and bombed-out, buried percussion in the second of a new two-part project following 2019’s ‘Interiors’ series. The second part of TLO’s current cycle comes down from the…
Shutting Down Here
Shutting Down Here is a special work. Symbolically, it covers a period of thirty years, between two visits by Jim O'Rourke to the GRM, the first, as a young man fascinated by the institution and his repertoire, the second, as an accomplished musician…
Leaving Everything To Be Desired
**Limited Edition. Emboss, matte laminate sleeve, with insert card** The follow up to Pinkcourtesyphone’s previous collection of negative mood music ‘Indelicate Slices’ has arrived and it is even more of a sonic banquet than its predecessor. ‘Leaving…
Dedicated to Dieter Roth
**Edition of 75 copies, wrapped in printed Schmid drawing, sealed with black rubberband** Visual and sound artist Eric Schmid improvising for an hour on an electronic piano. Schmid’s trampled notes and chords leak out of a big broken faucet on Dedica…
Papers
Sean McCann, Recital label head, on Papers (April 2020): "In addition to the musical objects she creates, Sarah Davachi is also immersed in the theoretical issues that surround her practice. This twin engagement began in her youth in Canada, studying…
Etrusca 3D
Etrusca 3D is a new band that merges two current Audio and visual artists from the 21st Century, Francesco Cavaliere and Spencer Clark. The album is the first to be released by Spencer Clark's label Pacific City Discs, as a subsidiary and in collabor…
Sasanami
* Hand numbered Edition of 250. Printed on 350 gm paper, transparent inner. Matt laminated outer sleeve + selective UV varnish * "Sasanami" is the result of a dialog between the Japanese photographer Yamamoto Masao and the Japanese musician Uchida Ak…
A Sonic Womb: Live Buchla Performance at Lapsus
* 180 grams LP + Limited Poster * Suzanne Ciani is a true electronic music pioneer. The five Grammy nominated Italian-American neoclassical composer is unquestionably one of the greatest minds that contemporary music has ever witnessed. After an inc…
Harpist
**100 copies** Pentiments introduces the fourth addition to its slowly growing catalogue, this one by contemporary New York based artist Derek Baron. Listeners will have the pleasure to witness a total ferment of detrital percussive palettes creating…
Mara
* Picture disc edition of 300 copies * Maja S. K. Ratkje is at the forefront of the musical avant-garde. Her music is bold, original and it is meant for sharing. At its heart lies Ratkje’s own voice, an open door to her individual musicianship and a …