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When Latifa Echakhch was tuning the concept for her presentation at the Swiss Pavilion duringthe 59th Venice Art Biennale, she wondered how it might be possible to alter her visitors’perception of time. She invited Berlin-based drummer and composer Alexandre Babel to comeup with a response to her silent exhibition, held inside a striking multi-room building designedby Bruno Giacometti and originally intended for the display of classical art. Babel assembled fieldrecordings captured at the Pavili…
Also known as a chanson artist in the late Sixties under the name Ted Scotto, French musician Edouard Joseph Scotto Di Suoccio began making incredibly diverse music under the alias Yan Tregger in the mid-Seventies. ‘Space Oddities 1974-1991’ is a spectacular selection of fourteen of his tracks, which span library music to experimental music via disco, pop and funk.
Studio Mule present their third reissue of Fumio Itabashi with Rise And Shine: Live At The Aketa's, originally released in 1977. Rise And Shine Live At The Aketa's was his second release of 1977, and it was recorded at legendary Jazz Club in Tokyo. This album was actually recorded before his first release Toh. "Jumping Board" on side A is a Japanese hard bop classic. Itabashi's cover version of "My Funny Valentine" is very sweet and elegant while the main track, "Rise And Shine", is one of his b…
*2023 stock* A morbid industrial classic haunts new buildings in the bleak form of “Ephemeral Dawn” by Anenzephalia. We take a look at this slow and tense mid-90s document that gives the same necrotic chills today as it did then. Here the dream dies!
50 years ago, Hokkaido-born singer-songwriter Morio Agata released his debut single, Sekishoku Ereji (Red Elegy), an emotive, shuffling piano ballad that (shockingly) sold half a million copies in Japan. While he would never have another Top-40 hit, Agata would spend the next half century issuing a series of idiosyncratic, experimental pop albums. Today, he’s a beloved cult figure, still actively touring and recording in his seventies. In his first decade as a recording artist, Agata released a …
Composed between 2008 and 2011, 'Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete' is a piece made out of 85 HighC/UPIC* sessions and 18 external sounds (recordings of snow falling, bones cracking, magnetic fields and insects). *UPIC is a computerised musical composition tool, devised by the composer Iannis Xenakis. It consists of a digitising tablet linked to a computer, which has a vector display. Interested by Xenakis' approach and wanting to draw the sound before hearing it, Francisco Meirino spent nearly fo…
** Limited Edition 300 Copies ** Andrés Vargas Pinedo is a prominent composer of Amazonian popular music from Peru. He is blind and has excelled as a player of the quena and the violin. He was born in the city of Yurimaguas but he developed as an artist in Lima, for thirty years he has worked as a traveling musician on a street in the San Isidro district of Lima. Throughout his career, he has formed and joined various popular music groups. This compilation presents fifteen songs of his authorshi…
** Edition of 300. White vinyl in screenprinted pvc sleeve ** Zaumne's new album titled Élévation is a multifaceted yet subtle work, an abstract collage that is equally entrancing and immersive. Quoting passages from Baudelaire’s “Flowers of Evil”, the Polish musician promises to elevate the soul and consciousness “Beyond the sun / Beyond the ether”. Yet simultaneously, the artist wants us to stay where we are and focus on the immediate surroundings in search of our personal attachment to the wo…
*2022 stock. Edition of 80 copies.* Granny Records presents Office Swan by Mark Templeton. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Design & Artwork by Yorgos Vourlidas. Written and Produced by Mark Templeton.
Sounds of Africa is the fourth album by double bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik featuring performances recorded in 1962 (with one track from 1961) and originally released on the New Jazz label. This Early 60's Afro-jazz jam with middle-eastern and latin flavours is one of the first in its genre. The album also features Bilal Abdurahman, Andrew Cyrille and Chief Bey. Seminal!
The first volume of San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 introduced the world to a trove of recordings from a little-known hinge point in electronic-music history. Vol. 2 brings to light the rest of tapes—and the rest of the story.
Tip! * Limited edition to 200 copies* comes with printed inner sleeve + 20 page Photo-booklet. La Linea Gialla is a sonic exploration of space and time, consisting of processed field recordings captured by travelling through different Railway Stations across Europe. The Lp vinyl includes a collection of 16 tracks which aim to find a meeting point between the intricate simplicity of puristic sounds heard & recorded in the context of the "Non Places", and how they can be transformed electronicall…
*2022 stock.* Recorded and assembled between 1999 and 2009, “Siege” is the audio-documentation of the activities of cultural terrorist multiple name entity known since the 80’s as Death Pact International a monicker worn as a balaklava by several notorious noisemongers to undermine certanties and spread chaos through heavy electronics tracks, slogans and art-war. For this occasion sounds and words were collected by members of Thee Grey Wolves, Wertham, Con-Dom with the help of other anonymous co…
"A dark comedy or a folk drama about drunk birds, mocking spiders, empty bottles and lost souls. Starring David E. Williams, Lloyd James, Sonne Hagal, Future Whirl, Die Weisse Rose. A strange manuscript, telling a tale about some bizarre characters, found somewhere in a forgotten cellar and hidden by countless broken bottles, was the inspiring spark for this dark comedy or folk drama-as the subtitles suggest-set to music in order to show how love can be a faint illusion and the deepest of all wo…
**2020 stock** "Long time sold-out, finally here comes the re-edition of this cult and seminal album! A stunning blend of the modern soft gothic sound and the timeless chants of Catholic rituals. It is at once a beautiful sound, yet also filled with melancholy. Archaic layers of string sounds, bells and choirs are intermingling with heavy drums and industrial loops creating an unsettling and threatening background atmoshere whilst spleen and sweetness forms the foreground. Prospectus I was the f…
*2022 stock.* Finally here comes the re-edition of a cult and long time sold-out album! "New European Order" was Militia's official debut album in 1996 released by the German record label "Praxis Dr. Bearmann". The band was first discovered by the British noise act Con-Dom, the solo project of Mike Dando. Militia first apearance was a split album with Con-Dom "Scorched Earth Policy" released as a tape in 1995 and re-released into CD format in 2002 by OEC.
Armed with a formidable scrap-metal arm…
*Limited edition of 300 copies.* Formed in Texas by Richard Ramirez back in 1989, Black Leather Jesus is for sure one of the more prominent and reknown harsh-noise collectives world-wide. The Rita is the solo project of Sam McKinlay, also reknown for inventing a new noise sub-genere called "Harsh Noise Wall" (HNW). That said, you already know what to expect from such collaboration. This is a 43 minutes long track of pure and violent NOISE!