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The Silent Season
The Berlin/London duo attain an ever-more amorphous and befuddling sound on their fifth album. Antony Harrison and Leyli have conjured something quite special on their latest Paco Sala album, finetuning their experimental urges for a session that sounds like Hype Williams in high definition. Seemingly orchestrated in the drug-addled downtime after extensive knee surgery, The Silent Season shifts away from Paco Sala’s outsider pop leanings of previous releases in favour of an 11-track collection …
Tetra
"After embracing the virtues of collaboration on their 2009 album +1 (with artists such as Steve Roden, Jan Jelinek and Frank Bretschneider) and the recordings featured on their upcoming full-length album with Stephen Vitiello (Age of Insects on Dragon's Eye Recordings), Mem1 returns to its core. The duo's fourth full-length album, Tetra, was recorded over a brief but intense period of time in Spring 2010. The album is indicative of the ensemble's evolution and high calibre results arising from …
Coquina Dose
**Limited to 100 copies only**Coquina Dose is an album of uncommonly intimate gestures and reflections, many of which are inspired by Josh Mason’s lifelong home of Florida—what it means to live there, other people’s perceptions of it, and its unofficial status a “humidity kingdom.” In evoking this atmosphere, Mason utilizes guitar and tape, which has been so emblematic of his work, but also further engages with new ideas in synthesis, and even the bio-feedback of plants. The processes are fascin…
Napoléonette
First LP in the Matthew Friedberger Solos subscription series. Recorded on the eighth, ninth, and tenth of October, Two-Thousand and Ten, at Key Club Recording in Benton Harbor, MI. Played on a black piano in one room, a smaller piano nearby, and an old piano in the hallway. (Discogs)
96
The poet, producer and visual artist Ramuntcho Matta comes back to music with '96'. 96 – as 96 hours were needed to record this new album. Ramuntcho points out that behind this dazzling recording, years of experience enabled him to achieve the mix of spontaneity and intimacy of the album. He was the man behind the success of Eli Medeiros’ Toi mon toit. As a matter of fact, Ramuntcho Matta likes to put artists in the spotlight, as he has done with Brion Gysin, Don Cherry and many others. However …
Operation Midnight Climax
Making his Peak Oil debut with a full-length inspired by the CIA’s acid-dosing mind control experiments of the late 1950's and early 1960's, Swiss analog synth mastermind Florin Büchel crafts a sprialling, immersive narrative of vital, psychedelic, acid-drenched, murky fugues recorded live to cassette. Whether the disoriented whirling dervish 303 echoes of “Behavioral Engineering” or the meditative dissolution-of-reality via cascading aural fragments in “Mind Control in Marin County”, Büc…
Screen Play (by Ensemble Babel)
EnsemBle baBel has been collaborating with Christian Marclay since 2012. On this double LP we can hear three compositions: Screen Play, Shuffle and Graffiti Composition. Screen Play is a moving image musical score in which found film footage is combined with computer animation to create a visual projection to be interpreted by live musicians. One of the ways that performing a visual score differs from performing tradition musical notation is that the musician cannot read ahead to anticipate what…
I'm So Awake / Sleepless I Feel
The Magic I.D. is a Berlin-based quartet exploring the juncture of song forms with abstract music. The band, consisting of Margareth Kammerer (vocals & guitars), Christof Kurzmann (vocals, g3 & lloopp), Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke (both clarinet), formed in summer 2005 after previously being connected via smaller groupings and projects. The musicians expand song forms through the prism of experimental sensibilities and mesh the two remarkably fluidly. 'I'm So Awake / Sleepless I F…
Roulé
Roulé is the newest split release from two of the finest groups in the Chicago-tronic music scene, Mahjongg and the Chandeliers. The title, “rolls” in French, nods in the direction of the electronic musician Thomas Bangalter. The Chandeliers side, mastered by Dave Cooley (Elysian Masters), presents five of the group’s most thoughtful and realized works, each a microcosm of a world that sounds cooler and more elegant than your own: this is music that you can lay out in your favorite Parisian opiu…
Here Behold Your Own
**300 copies** Mára is the solo project of Faith Coloccia, the hermetic composer, songwriter, and vocalist who has a central figure in numerous projects including Mamiffer and her ongoing collaborations with Alex Barnett. Her arrangements for piano, organ, electronics, guitar, and voice often take the form of deconstructed plainsongs, as elegant variations of a melody that smolder and dissolve into heavy-lidded assemblages of shadow, fog, and echo. As Mára, she continues with her signature aesth…
Up- And Downgrades Pt.1
For his first solo exhibition at Pinkie Bowtie, which ran between 15 April and 7 May this year, Dennis Tyfus has gone back to basics. Using the age-old tradition of the self-portrait, he draws a pathetic yet whimsical tale of daily life and the mundane annoyances that befall him. These inconsequential frustrations are offset by bright and poppy colours, resulting in a deceptively cheerful set of drawings, luring you in.This catalog ue collects all the drawings that were shown during the exhibiti…
Hier! (En u?) "Niemand Wacht Graag" Book + Plexy Lathe Cut 7"
Book (die-cut cover, gilded edges) and plexy lathe-cut single (pro-cut, screenprinted on the non-playing side) in a bespoke cloth-covered box. This edition was produced in conjunction with the work 'Hier rust Dennis Tyfus' — a commission for the '11 kunstenaars tegen de muur' outdoors exhibition in Antwerp that opened on 1 July of the year 2016 at 6pm! This book was presented at Ercola (Wolstraat 31, Antwerp) on the very same night, between 6 and 9 pm, accompanied by a live concert by Rem…
Afraid of Modern Living: World Imitation & Monitor, 1977-198
Available now is the authorized history of the obscure and influential Los Angeles art and music collective World Imitation Productions (WImP).
Emerging as creators of collaged and photocopied mail art and
publications in the late 1970s, World Imitation is perhaps best known in
its musical incarnation, the band Monitor, which was active
between 1978 and 1982, with live performances as well as two
self-produced 7" singles and one LP. (The LP was reissued by Superior
Viaduct in 2013.) Afraid…
Curious Aroma
"The comet Kohoutek was first seen near earth by a Czech astronomer in March of 1973. David Berg, founder of religious cult Children of God, predicted its passing would cause armageddon the following year. A more welcoming family, the Sun Ra Arkestra, performed a concert dedicated to Kohoutek on December 12th, just two weeks before it came as close to our globe as it ever would. All of this could be insignificant trivia surrounding the name that Philly-by-way-of-D.C. band Kohoutek chose fo…
John, Betty and Stella
John, Betty and Stella is a collaboration between Krojc and Fischerle, two musicians who feel best wandering around stylistic eclecticism. The record is a radio drama based on vintage audio material for learning English. Krojc and Fischerle cut out textbook roleplaying activities from the source material on old vinyl and processed and adapted the clips. The result is a funny and surreal collage of dialogues, sound effects, and music resembling a series of skits. The recordings are saturat…
The Pyre: Versions Distilled To Stereo
Stephen O’Malley & Peter Rehberg’s KTL find the darkest space between black metal and computer music - or presence and absence - with ‘The Pyre: versions distilled to stereo’; a score for french choreographer Gisèle Vienne. Continuing Shelter Press’s on-going documentation of Gisèle Vienne’s work after Stephen O’Malley’s 2015 score for her ‘Éternelle Idole’ piece, ‘The Pyre’ also sees Gisèle paired with Peter Rehberg for first time since his ‘Work For GV 2004-2008’ album, serving to tie up thei…
Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits.Its rotating personnel, sprung from rock, free jazz, and orchestral worlds, synthesized a distinct sound that troubled genre lines, and with this musical diversity came a mixed politics, including Maoism, communism, feminism, and Italian Marxism.In Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem, Benjamin Piekut tells the band’s story —fro…
Sound American no. 21
The 127-page book was designed by Remake Design (who also created the now iconic Donald Judd: Writings book) and features words by or about Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Ornette Coleman, Nicole Kaack, Bradford Bailey, G. Lucas Crane, Jennie Gottschalk, Ambrose Akinmusire, Mats Gustafsson, Peter Margasak, Terry Riley, Kim Brandt, John Cage, Josh Sinton, Edgard Varése, Marc Hannaford, John Zorn, Matthew Mehlan, Million Tongues Festival, Alex Mincek, Lester St. Louis, and Steve Lehman. Each book is th…
Sound American no. 22 - The Lee Hyla Issue
**500 copies** Guest edited by Shawn Jaeger. Featuring remembrances and appreciations of the deeply missed composer by Stephen Drury, Rhonda Rider, David Rakowski, Bryan Hayslett, Chris Fisher-Lochheed, Eliza Brown, Scott Wheeler, and Ben Hjertmann. As well as articles by or with Jerome Harris, Charissa Noble, Rick Moody, Sam Amidon, Colin Stetson, Claire Chase, Kate Soper, and Eric Wubbels. Also photos from Katherine Desjardins and exquisite corpse from Shawn Jaeger!- Printed using offset litho…
Revenants, Prodigies And The Restless Dead
Revenants, Prodigies And The Restless Dead is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl at RTI in a hand-numbered edition of 500 copies for the world. Included is a free MP3 download coupon and insert.Immune is proud to present a deluxe and limited edition vinyl version of the brand new album from British guitarist C Joynes. This is the second widely available album from Joynes (after last year’s God Feeds The Ravens) and is being released simultaneously on CD by Bo’Weavil Recordings.C Joynes is a mu…