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"All that man has undertaken and done until today was: only failure !!!! A New Civilization! urgently!"

*300 copies limited edition* Five early tracks of thundering noise from the finnish noise king. While perhaps best known as being one half of Testicle Hazard, his solo CD albums Bats In The Attic and Moon Over Torrelorca are modern day classics in our book, and we just felt it couldn't hurt to have some the recorded steps leading up to those albums made available in the compact disc format as well. Three rare odds-and ends kind of tracks, and finishing the disc is Keränen's Green Car Crash, orig…

*In process of stocking* "I wrote the texts in this book as a kind of memorial device to re­cordings I made in Zürich between February 5 to March 22, 2020. Though not a direct reaction to the Covid pandemic, the transfor­mation of the city due to restrictions of movement in the public space made these recordings only first possible in many ways. Of course, what immediately became noticeable after the first shutdown of the city occurred was how quiet the normally noisy urban environment had becom…

Bilingual edition (English / Portuguese). 21 x 27,5 cm (softcover), 72 pages (17 color & 15 b/w ill.). 2009. Edited by Octávio Camargo & Brandon LaBelle. Contributions by Ricardo Basbaum, Alex Cabral, Octávio Camargo, Ken Ehrlich, Jennifer Gabrys, Brandon LaBelle, Margit Leisner, Josina Melo, Rubens Pileggi, Ines Schaber. Extending artistic research and work taking place since 2006 in Curitiba, Brazil, the publication brings together documentation and related texts that aim to elaborate on the q…

Neum is a book of drawings, prints and diagrams by eli keszler made in conjunction with the presentation of the neum installation at the south london gallery Ð a large scale piece, occupying a 150 wide by 50 foot tall space made up of 16 overlapped and splayed piano wire, activated by a mechanical system which is featured as part of the group show 'at the moment of being heard'. the book consists of over 65 drawings, sketches and diagrams of various sizes dimensions and medias as well as 3 silk …

A résumé of Lemaître's techniques and style, to be able to read his cryptic hypergraphies.  Lettrist painter, producer of Lettrist works since the 1940s. Lemaître (23 April 1926), Isidore Isou’s right-hand man for nearly half a century, began to distance himself from Lettrism in the 2000s. He still continues to pursue traditional Letterist techniques, but now in relative isolation from the main group.  

The sociological approach, post- liberal economic perspective and post-Marxist, the new social justice, posterity, the reformist exception a t therevolutionary pantheon. The author draws on the " Manifestes du Soulèvement de la jeunesse ", written by Isidore Isou between 1950 and 1966 to inform the current political and economic situation of youth.

While the institutions keep on celebrating dead artists, Editions AcquAvivA is publishing the very first catalog on the work of Aude Jessemin, the most significant feminine Lettrist artist of the Sixties (and Jacques Spacagna’s first wife). Aude Jessemin has accomplished a very important hypergraphic work that has been totally erased from the history of the Lettrist movement. For her 80th birthday, the book dealer Paul Veyssière will host Aude Jessemin and her publisher Frédéric Acquaviva…

For the 10th anniversary of Isou’s death (on July 28, 2007), the Editions AcquAvivA publishes the up-to-now unpublished “Letter to the Great Ones of the World”, which tells a lot about Isou’s strategies at a time when nearly no one was interested in his ideas. Before a flood of academic theses, books and catalogs on Isou (some of them related to the announced Isou retrospective at Centre Pompidou next year), this letter is a good occasion to remember Isou’s so special spirit of creation.

edition of 100 copies. heretic composer, performer and conductor Mathius Shadow-Sky, pupil of Iannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez and explorer of music. MSS reinvents musical systems, creates music instruments, electronic dispositives and new technics of playing. Being a multi instrumentist, he fights against the ghettoisation of musical styles and has created in 1996 the Trans-Cultural Syn-phônê Orchestra, with big multi cultural symphonic orchestras. Visionary of a music beyond segregation of tra…

In common parlance the term Infinity Suite refers to a luxury hotel apartment comprised of several adjoining rooms. But my usage of the term here invokes the notion of infinite realities as resonating through dream and memory. An interconnected suite of spaces populated with vivid sounds and images spanning across periods of one’s life. My experience here focuses on the Indian city of Varanasi, but this sense of reality drifting I found there could’ve taken place anywhere. I focused on Varanasi …

Following last year's presentation of Tori Kudo's ceramics at our Brooklyn gallery space, Blank Forms publishes the exhibition's accompanying limited-edition catalog. With images captured on film by musician and photographer Lary 7, Tori Kudo: Ceramics documents the work displayed in the artist's first exhibition in the United States. Designed by Alec Mapes-Frances and available exclusively at Blank Forms, this hardcover art book features thirty color photographs of the vessels with Kudo's comme…

LP version. Japanese bluesman Kan Mikami is nothing less than an unalloyed force of nature; a skin-shredding blast of frozen wind from the poor, rural north of Japan that he calls home. In the late 1960s, like thousands of other Japanese young people Mikami made his way to Tokyo in search of a life different from that of his parents. Since then he has forcefully carved out a space for himself in the culture as a modernist poet, a raging folk singer, an author, an actor, an engaging TV per…

Reissue of this 1999 release and out of print since a long time. Some reviews at the time of release : ' After a tentative opening consisting of damp harmonic scrapes, the piece takes off like a single-engined light aircraft when David Maranha kickstarts his four-motored Piano effect and then starts to tease single notes from the bubbling background with his bow. This is a great and physically affecting slab of sound, where the slightest minimal shift causes tectonic plates to groan. It's gravy …

Joakim Forsgren and Andreas Hiroui Larsson come from diametrically different perspectives on music. Hiroui Larsson has a background in acoustic jazz and non-idiomatic improvisation, while Forsgren has played electric bass in punk and rock groups since his early teenage years. The two being friends since several years, making music gradually became a way of spending more time together. Their way of collaborating began after several years of talking about doing so and sharing and discussing music …

Following his Acoustic Masks, the new record Constellation of Anomaly is Vasco Trilla's 6th solo album, bringing a new palette of sounds with a vast array of percussion instruments played in numerous creative and unconventional ways. Russian Flat bells bowed and played with vibrating objects, a timpani full of wind-up music boxes and spiced up by a transducer speaker, an old zither hit as a drum with two snare drums as resonators, Iranian round bells mixed with gamelan strips, styrofoam and tria…

Nick Forte debuts new project Half Mortal for Hospital Productions. While Forte's previous discography spans the majority of extreme music subcultures, going as far back as 1990, Half Mortal is his first project conceived as 'death metal electronics'. Expansive and maximal yet possessing spaciousness, and with a flair for technical violence, forte is a master of dynamics and uses IDM and the ill-fated death metal intro almost as bookends. Without a shred of retro nostalgia, this record dissolves…

Hospital Productions collect some of the strongest cold-wave pop dirges of a generation with Contrepoison's Discography 2010-2012 survey, wrapping up both his self-released tapes and releases for Dominick Fernow's cherished imprint. Since the late '90s, Québécois musician and noise artist Pierre Marc-Tremblay has been recognized as a vital force in nether musical realms with a palette ranging from hermetic black metal (Akitsa) to the bitterest rhythmic noise (Âmes Sanglantes), and, more recently…

Beyond The End... Eternity was released in 1971 under the Nik Raicevik monicker as Narco NR102. According to www.twoheadeddog.com, "Raicevic is clearly still in the early learning-curve stages," which it a key LP to understand Nik's evolution and setting the path for more evolved works to follow. Besides his musical explorations, Nik was also an interesting painter. His paintings are auctioned from time to time, and are consciousness expanding works influenced by abstract cubism and surrealism, …

Peter Jefferies, a living legend of New Zealand underground music, from his seminal bands Nocturnal Projections and This Kind of Punishment, to his collaborative efforts in bands such as Plagal Grind and Two Foot Flame, is perhaps best known for his solo work on masterpieces such as “The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World” (1990) and “Electricity” (1994), as well as “Elevator Madness” (1996). All of these albums came out on vinyl but one of the best was the singular “Closed Circuit” (2001) whi…

Four Works is a split full-length album by Linus Hillborg and Theodor Kentros with two pieces by each composer. The music on this record was written and recorded during 2019-2021. Each side of the album begins with a piece for organ and electronics performed by Fredrik Lundqvist. The record opens with Hillborgs Auguries which examines microtonal register shifts and shift changes in register as well as density throughout its 14 minutes. In this piece the electronics act as a shading device outlin…

Fifteen artists revisit the tracks and the cover art of Aksak Maboul's latest album 'Figures'! Ranging from simple remixes to reconstructions and cover versions, these 18 tracks are released on two separate, limited-edition vinyl LPs, as well as on two digital albums. In order to extend the fun (and the metaphor in the title), Aksak Maboul have asked the contributors to also revisit Véronique Vincent’s painting which adorned the front cover of the album *. The participants include experimental …

Fifteen artists revisit the tracks and the cover art of Aksak Maboul's latest album 'Figures'! Ranging from simple remixes to reconstructions and cover versions, these 18 tracks are released on two separate, limited-edition vinyl LPs, as well as on two digital albums. In order to extend the fun (and the metaphor in the title), Aksak Maboul have asked the contributors to also revisit Véronique Vincent’s painting which adorned the front cover of the album *. The participants include experimental …

We are giving you two cover stars for the price of one this month – minimal techno pioneer Plastikman and piano maestro Chilly Gonzales, who have joined forces for a one-off album that is truly special. We've a fantastic seven-inch featuring two tracks by the pair to accompany the magazine too.

The new ES issue, with a superb Wolfgang Flür seven-inch to accompany this issue too. It's pressed on white vinyl and it features two versions of 'Electric Sheep' – a maddeningly catchy tune and a definite highlight of 'Magazine 1'. Wolfgang takes on the role of a friendly android on the track, which sounds like the theme music of a TV advert in some utopian alternative reality. To seal the deal, he winds up with some key facts about sheep. "Earworms, right?" he says. "You cannot get them out!" …

We've got the fabulously outspoken Sleaford Mods on the cover of this month's Electronic Sound, with an exclusive white vinyl seven-inch featuring a previously unreleased Mods track to accompany the magazine.

CD included. Get the balloons up! It’s the 100th issue of Electronic Sound this month and we’re heading into THE FUTURE with a special themed edition of the magazine. We’ve invited many of the leading lights of electronic music to help us explore and examine the possible futures that lie ahead of us. John Foxx, Jeff Mills, Gazelle Twin, Miss Grit, Martyn Ware, J Willgoose Esq and Chris Watson all appear on a panel of artists offering their thoughts on what the world will be like at the end of th…

We have the magnificent Cosey Fanni Tutti on the cover of this month's Electronic Sound and a very special Cosey seven-inch to accompany the magazine. The limited edition record is pressed on yellow vinyl and features a previously unreleased track, together with an exclusive remix.  Our interview with Cosey focuses on two projects stemming from 'Art Sex Music', her 2017 autobiography, both of which have just come out. The first is her superb soundtrack to 'Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And The Leg…

**CD version** Eraldo Volonté is a veteran of italian jazz: he is one of those characters that are always seen wherever there is good jazz to play or listen to. With a difference from many pioneers, however, Volonté has never lost even a shred of his enthusiasm, even if he has been playing professionally for more than a quarter of a century and like almost all of is colleagues, in Italy, has had to adapt and be part of an infinite number of bands playing all types of music. His enthusiasm has ke…

I think that the title of this album is perfectly congenial – ”Metamorphosis” as for “profound transformation in form and structure”. I have known and listened to Guido, born in 1935, for more than 40 years and consider myself as an expert of his impressive musical production since his debut in 1966. Guido is a full-blooded swinger and his playing is firmly rooted in the tradition. Surprisingly, after listening to this record I hear and find a pianist astonishingly original and dynamic playing w…

'An investigation into some smaller sounds and interactions from this new trio, plus a few excursions into more expansive territory. All of the music was improvised and performed as heard, apart from the coda of the closing track Rotten Star which is a collage. Heartless, Heartless…… / Rotten State edits together, in alternation, parts of two separate longer improvisations. Pat plays grand piano interior and keyboard simultaneously for much of the album, while Johnny responds with sounds from a …

Close your eyes. Open your heart. And allow master of soundscapes and ambience Celer, aka Will Long, transport you to a universe of peace and solitude. The American artist, who resides in Japan, has concocted a new set of sweeping tracks in the new and highly impressive full-length offering 'Sunspots'.

28 page A5 zine. Printed on high quality recycled stock. Potent semiconductor of winter solstice vibes Magic Circle contains photos from two rolls of Kodak Portra 200 film taken at sunrise within the inner circle of Stonehenge, six days before the winter solstice of 2018 and on the morning of the winter solstice of 2019. Some experts believe the rituals connected to the winter solstice to be of greater significance to the Neolithic people of Stonehenge than the summer, as it marked the time afte…

6 issues in bundle. Weird Walk is an ever entertaining journal of wanderings and wonderings around the British Isles. What started as a few friends going for a walk has turned in to somewhat of a cult following that now has an impressive array of contributors discussing everything from folklore to prehistoric monuments to countryside free access to ritual animal disguises. The flavour of each issue is always something that little bit  different and beautiful illustrations sit alongside photograp…

Knitting Factory Records reissue Fela Kuti’s ‘Army Arrangement’ on vinyl, previously only available as part of the Box Set series. ‘Army Arrangement’ is about Nigeria’s attempt at ‘democracy’ in 1979 after more than a decade of military rule.Bill Laswell’s mix of Army Arrangement for the Celluloid label was an act of gross cultural-arrogance. With Fela in jail on trumped up currency-smuggling charges when the time came to make the final mix, the label approached Dennis Bovell. But Bovell was una…

First and foremost, Surrender, Render, End is an electro-acoustic dialectic, unremittingly engaged in a pugilist conflict between art and accident. The Swiss noise-composer Francisco Meirino began working on the skeleton for this piece in 2014 as a multi-channel, modular synth patch, which has been in an ongoing state of modification through public diffusions and private rumination. Meirino posits the album as a metaphysical puzzle of manipulated tape, atonal synthesis, and concrete sound. He is…

Recorded at GRM Studios, Paris, 2015. Edition of 300 copies. "La Gueule Du Loup" explores raw improvisation in a crude, almost cruel manner. On stage the two musicians build musical sets free of pre existing structures or recorded sounds. The electronic matrix arises from the modules and is immediately propelled into the atmosphere. The two unpatched modular sythesizers first suggest a virgin circuit. Patches are built during the performance. Cosmetic memory plays a secondary role here, catapult…

*2023 stock. In process of stocking* After 'As Much As It Is Worth' and 'Engel', Marta & Kim asked me to compose the music for yet another dance/circus performance, 'Our Arms Grew Together'. This release presents an edited version of that score, tailored to the album format. The starting point of the 'Our Arms…' soundtrack was a series of home recordings that Marta and Kim made on my request. As the performance deals with their (romantic) relationship, it made sense to incorporate their daily li…

Originally released in 1972, the legendary Soft Rock "Happy End" album is now back on an analog LP!! Written by Hiro Yanagida, Produced by Takashi Matsumoto, Sons Of Sun's first album will be making its return from the label Fuji!! Keyboard Hiro Yanagida Drums Kiyoshi Tanaka E.Guitar Kazuyuki Nagaoka E.Bass Hideaki Takebe Vocal MAO

Recorded partly at London’s Cafe Oto and Cable Street Studios, 'Live / Studio' represents the debut by established British improvisers Phil Durrant and Daniel Thompson. Moving within and between close textural territories, the duo explores shifting sonic patterns and a dynamic interplay resulting in an intimate listening experience