New album by Brume (Christian Renou), who is a prolific French musique concrete composer/sound organizer who has been releasing CDs and cassettes worldwide. Renou is remarkable because he engages in elaborate concrete compositions without the academic pretension that surrounds much of the work in this style. More info later. Xerxes was the King of Persia in 500 B.C. and could be considered today as a symbol of « blitzkrieg ». His aggressive instincts allowed him to defeat the Greek army in a qui…
180-gram red/green coloured LP in deluxe heavy-duty sleeve. Numbered edition of 300 copies. Previously unreleased album by German trio Sand, recorded in 1972. His First Steps is a forerunner of Golem (ROTOR 006CD/LP/BLU-LP/PIC-LP), the legendary 1974 album from the cosmic and psychedelic genius that is Sand. After the split of P.O.T., the early Sand submerged as a threesome in the basement of Claudiusstrasse and built up an alchemical assembling shop, where they resurrected the archetypical Gole…
Tip! French producer and composer Synalegg is back to OOH-sounds with the startling second (and final) installment of his inventive Computer Series. In an exploratory generative experiment, he developed a Pure Data patch capable of autonomous composition. Each activation produces unpredictable and immersive sonic environments that reflect the structural complexity of the patch. Synalegg aimed to subvert the tyranny of the composer, liberating music from the influence of individual taste and deli…
“Friction” is a compression of the two first official tapes of Brume, “Frikture” 1985 and “Le jour du cochon” 1986/87, also including an unreleased that closes the end of side A of this vinylic reissue. A very experimental period, electro-ethnico-indus orientated because Brume went from “all analogical” to the first numeric tests, electroacoustic, to make an hybrid synthesis until today with the computer.
Rotorelief 20th anniversary Special Offer. **Jac Berrocal’s first remarkable albums in fully remastered form on 200g vinyl, contained within a beautiful box and individual metallic covers and 24 page, deluxe book** Every serious fan of avant-garde jazz knows that, for a great many years, France was a central axis for the global scene - a safe haven and source of support for countless visionary voices from the United States and other points abroad. Until recently, what has remained relatively und…
The long-awaited colored vinyl release of all of Yoshiko Sai's albums has been announced!! Sai Yoshiko was one of Japan's most representative singers of the 70s. In response to popular demand, all of the masterpiece albums that were reissued in 2021 and immediately sold out have finally been reissued on limited edition vinyl!
Following on from the first album, Yuji Ohno participated as an arranger, further supporting the musical elements in this world of Sai, which is reminiscent of the mysterio…
P-Vine is delighted to announce the release of one of Japan's most coveted albums of the 70s, "Mangekyou" by singer-songwriter Yoshiko Sai. Produced in 1975 by Master musician Yuji Ohno, the album features Yoshiko Sai's superbly crafted songs and crystal clear voice over Ohno's lush, funky sound and breezy arrangements. A strong buzz has been growing around the album over the years and original copies now change hands for large sums of money. This is the first time "Mangekyou" is available outsi…
A droony ambient join venture between Le Dictateur and artist/musician/fashion designer Canedicoda, one side Lp released for the exhibition Aero Invisible Giants, Canedicoda at Le Dictateur, february 2011. Edition of 200, spectacular packaging with white vinyl, screenprinted foldgate, poster and photo.
VIORUPEEEEIHEAN is the translation on audio medias of multiple sound performances generated by various tactics of pragmatic approach of the ineffable that testify on the emergence of monstrous voices and hermetic entities through the creative process. VIORUPEEEEIHEAN is a heterogenous creature possessed by sound spectres.
Exploring sound through improvisation, collage, voodoo magic, electric tribalism, and ancient Chinese medicine, Color Rabbit's "Awarenessness" is intended to bring you to the isness of the Now Here. With it's folky psychedelic space travel soaring from the influential roots of Haitian dirt stomp and ambient Tuvan throat drone it, if given full attention, will send you on trips untraveled."
Tracks 1, 3 & 7 Solo live action recorded at Vastavirta-klubi Tampere, during the tour with Paavi, Mark Boombastik and Jack The Rapper. Track 2 inside a rock underneath an orthodox cathedral in Helsinki. Tracks 4 & 6 with Reverend Washington, real time tape manipulations by A.D. Track 5 epic 4-track piece recorded in the sauna department of the Avarus practice space in Turku. CDr and folded paper cover packaged in a plastic envelope.
"Your Purple Breath" by Stefan Kushima is a psychedelic journey through twisted guitars, raw noise, and hypnotic loops. This lo-fi, experimental album blends acoustic ballads with acid-warped vocals, creating a hypnotic, shamanic atmosphere that captivates listeners looking for a unique, immersive sound experience.
Ø+yn offers a compelling sonic journey with "La canción del ciempiés / Quise ser búho," blending intricate rhythms and evocative melodies. This release showcases innovative experimental sounds that captivate and inspire. A must-listen for fans of boundary-pushing music and rich auditory experiences.
Canyon's album 'Fever,' released on the Ikuisuus label in 2008, is an obscure freak folk record characterized by its enigmatic and experimental soundscapes. The album merges traditional folk elements with unconventional textures and moods, offering a captivating auditory experience for listeners who appreciate rare and avant-garde folk music.
Muuttuvat Kasvot is a Finnish post-punk band known for their dark, dreamlike sound that blends cold post-punk tones with warm synthwave influences, creating a nostalgic and cinematic mood. Their music evokes a sense of longing and melancholic beauty, inviting listeners to immerse themselves in an atmospheric and haunting auditory experience. The band has been recognized for its ability to combine these contrasting elements into a unique soundscape.
"Blue Mongolians’ self-titled album delivers a captivating blend of psychedelic rock and experimental sounds, weaving together rich textures and hypnotic rhythms. Released on ikuisuus, this record showcases the band’s unique ability to merge vintage influences with a modern edge, creating an immersive auditory journey that feels both timeless and fresh. Each track invites listeners into an atmospheric realm where intricate melodies and dynamic instrumentation unfold, making it a standout releas…
Mutantea is Anla Courtis (Reynols), J.Koho (Kulkija, Aan, Vapaa, Keijo & Free Players) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton, Aan, Last Night On Earth) – recorded early 2006 in Helsinki, at the night time, in the middle of darkest winter, after the show in gallery, just before going to sleep. Three electric guitars, with differert effects and styles to play, together in this mass, which gave us this wave called ‘Mutantea’. Includes also arts by Bart de Paepe (Sloow Tapes).
This gig was organized by Mental Alaska club, as a part of Manse Danse festival. Other artists at the same evening were Rulla, Hinageshi Bondage and Schizoide.
This album was originally released on CDR by Ikuisuus (IS-001) in 2005. First copies (around 35-40) came with a hand-painted disc in a hand-painted cardboard sleeve. The main edition was around 150-200 copies. Album was released digitally in 2011 by Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam (OM-41), and it was available at Free Music Archive over…
"Caveat Emperor" by Zanzibar Snails is a 2010 CD release that includes a collection of tracks showcasing the band's unique sound. While specific descriptive reviews are limited in available sources, the album is recognized for its distinctive style and contribution to the band's discography. The title itself suggests themes of caution and warning directed towards authority or leadership, which may be reflected in the music's tone and lyrics.
J. Tolvi Semiband's "Oleilua" is a captivating album blending rich instrumental textures with vibrant rhythms. Drawing from diverse influences, the music unfolds with a dynamic and soulful energy that invites listeners into a deeply immersive soundscape. The album showcases the band’s artistry in combining traditional and contemporary elements, creating a unique and engaging musical journey.
H.S. Tuominen's album "Talvi," released in 2018, is a collection of ambient and experimental compositions that evoke the serene, chilly atmosphere suggested by its Finnish title, which means "Winter." The tracks blend minimalist piano pieces, subtle electronic textures, and gentle soundscapes to create an immersive listening experience that captures the mood of the cold season with delicate nuance. The album invites listeners into a reflective and introspective sonic journey, characterized by it…
Renato Ciunfrini and Bob Marsh's album "Rosa" is an evocative musical collaboration that blends rich instrumentation and emotive melodies. The album showcases their talents in creating atmospheric soundscapes with a poetic and introspective mood. "Rosa" is notable for its delicate balance between experimental textures and melodic accessibility, offering listeners a deep and immersive experience in contemporary music.
"Burning With Your Old Joy In The Terminal Sun" by Harps Of Fuchsia Kalmia, the project of Salvatore Borrelli, is an avant-garde, psych-folk work blending melody and drone. It features five radiant tracks that create a unique soundscape characterized by acoustic guitar, Celtic drone harp, dulcimer, and various folk instruments. The music evokes a dreamy, introspective atmosphere with a haunting beauty, reflecting emotional depth and a delicate balance between light and shadow. This album stands …
2003 release ** "T.A.C. is a group of sonic alchemists who fuse synthetics, strings, acoustic instruments and treatments into a tapestry of psycho/ambient soundscapes filled with hypnotic atmospheres and synthetic incantations. It is surreal, cerebral and unique "cosmic" music of a new sort. T.R. was recorded in the same sessions of "Waiting for the Twilight" and include 14 new exclusive tracks..., a sort of "Waiting..." twin album."Twilight Rituals" is the complementary twin album to "Waiting F…
Deep and wrapping digital soundscapes, dotted by micro-noisy granular material, resonant fields where time and space humble themselves in a single perceptive continuum. Contemporary, abstract, minimal, cold, intense and evocative drone music.
2005 release ** Since 1999, Kinetix is Gianluca Becuzzi, electronic composer and sound artist active since the first half of the 80’s. He writes: “The artistic production of Kinetixis characterised by a strong experimental imprint, by the interest into the expressive possibilities offered by the digital technologies and by a clear aesthetic inclination towards minimalist forms and micro noises/sounds.” (from the website) Really, the music sounds like a study about a representational work of mini…
CD re-issue of the first instalment in the new "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN. This Volume I sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and his all-star ensemble TEXT OF LIGHT (here featuring Alan Licht, Dj Olive, Ulrich Krieger and Tim Barnes). Their track "033103 Paris" has been recorded live at Centre Georges Pompidou in 2003 and mixed in dual mono by Ranaldo & Licht at NYC Echo Canyon …
CD re-issue of the third installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. The Vol.III sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Japanese cult musician and dark shaman Keiji Haino. Imagine a cosmic bomb exploding in your brain, and you'll have an approximate idea of this collaborative release. So, dear new-weird-america's hippy, you'd better keep your ass away from this total blast!.. n…
2008 release ** CD re-issue of the fourth volume in the ongoing "Cosmic Debris" series of split ART-LP releases set up by the Opalio brothers, aka My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA), on their own Opax Records. This time the space improv duo from Torino, Italy, shares one side of the vinyl with Swedish radical saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, whose twenty-year career boasts collaborations that range widely over the contemporary improvised music world, from masters of the free jazz such as Peter Brotzmann, De…
A state of mind between sleep and consciousness, where the past gently glides over the future, weaving it's self into the unknown. An unfamiliar place, surrounded by things you recognized and things you do not. Birds in flight, sprinklers, quiet humming of machines, echoing voices blended with strains of haunted melodies that remind you there is a vast world outside your door in a state of constant change.
A state of mind between sleep and consciousness, where the past gently glides over the future, weaving it's self into the unknown. An unfamiliar place, surrounded by things you recognized and things you do not. Birds in flight, sprinklers, quiet humming of machines, echoing voices blended with strains of haunted melodies that remind you there is a vast world outside your door in a state of constant change.
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…
Hassu Pelle (Funny Clown) from Tampere, Finland was active only a couple of years at the first part of 2000s. This hilarious quintet was formed by Pelle Eloton, Pelle Svanslös, Ulkomaan Pelle, Pelle Jätkä, and Apupelle who was involved with the recording session. Hassu Pelle’s self-titled first and only record was originally released by the band members themselves with the edition of approximately only 30 copies. Hassu Pelle played some mind-boggling live shows for the handful of people mostly j…
2006 release ** Cardboard sleeve. The project Uton was started by Jani Hirvonen in Tampere, Finland in 2001. Uton is a spirit, which has no form, but which can take a form if it likes; usually in a sound - which can be found from the Uton releases. The sound and energy is produced and manifested with the help of human; collaborating with our earthly vibrations. From the beginning the sound has been strongly experimental and improvised, but the methods of doing has been changed between the album…
Gigging with a varying and often an extensive group, Kheta Hotem has visited the studio with a somewhat stripped basic essence. This release is a collection of sense-filling presentations starting with a ritual-like bowl ceremony, which leads into results closely related with free jazz and ethnomusic. In their gig brochure the group claims they continue the more than 1000 years old musical tradition of Komutia, where the musician acts as a mediator between the world of sounds and everyday existe…
Latest from Albany guitar duo whose six string damaging has often shred the guitar beyond recognition. For this outing, however, Century Plants plug in, and allow their guitars to be guitars. Psych raga, melting icebergs of roaring drone, metallic strum and clang, oceanic melody and even a helping of pastoral song melody separate this from previous smash ups. Hardiman and Hare create these hypnotic states from the ground up, building their sound out of pure improvisation. Oh yeah, the guitars do…
Rhythm Kingz made its first appearance in 1982 playing a couple of gigs in student parties. After hibernation of about 25 years the name was dug out again for naming a line-up which concentrates on blues-based improvization. All the songs on this CD are recorded in impro sessions in 2008: The principle has been that nothing is agreed about songs in advance but the songs have evolved from a tiny idea or a riff played by somebody, and all the other players have followed. Also the lyrics have beed …
The band was formed in 1999 when ST 37 founder Carlton Crutcher and his wife Sharon began seeking a magical, improvisational musical outlet. The band has stayed true to this vision for 9 years of live shows, studio recordings and numerous musicians. All of the recordings on 777 were recorded in 2007 and represent a peak for Book of Shadows as a live band as well as a studio band. For this CD, Sharon on vocals and Carlton on keys, are joined by Eric Archer (Numbers on the Mast) on guitar/electron…
Born in New Zealand, currently residing in London England, Peter Wright has spent the past decade or more producing limited release recordings of drift-guitar space walks of mesmerising beauty. Desolation Beauty Violence is his third CD release proper, after Distant Bombs (Last Visible Dog, 2004), and Yellow Horizon (Pseudoarcana, 2005). Recorded in London, spring 2003 along with Yellow Horizon, Desolation Beauty Violence is a very personal take on environment and landscape. Peter Wright uses a …