Sólaris
Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason are two composers used to shrugging off the distinction between experimental sound-art and deeply felt melodies. frost's vast, blackened post-industrial works often crystallize in moments of quiet beauty before disintegrating in pure visceral noise; bjarnason's orchestral music marries brutal modernism to classical aesthetics one moment and soaring ethereal harmonies the next. and yet here, on the tail of two widely acclaimed releases; bjarnason's procession…
Mother Rhythm Earth Memory
"NNF debut (after an EP on 100% SILK) by this Iowa City electronic maximalist. M.R.E.M. is the first purely solo Cuticle release, after working with a series of part-time collaborators, and it's freed him to let loose his wildest and weirdest impulses."
1000 Takte Tanz
Reissue of the landmark album from this legendary Austrian minimal band. Chuzpe combined English lyrics with Viennese dialect, modernism and underground with the Austrian Top 40 of the early '80s. 1000 Takte Tanz is filled with timeless classics of Austrian music history. Pressed for the first time on 180 gram vinyl, remastered by Amann Studios. Includes insert.
Tables and Stairs
How does music happen, and why does it happen sometimes? In June 2010, the TOT1.0 festival took place in Athens, small steps towards a greater affirmation of the small music community that has been blossoming in the hell-hole that is Greece’s capital. As part of the festival, two foreign improvisers (Ferran Fages and Grundik Kasyansky) were invited to take part in the proceedings. While we were at it, we got notice that Robin Hayward also happened to be in town during those days, for unre…
Mimus / Skua
This split-in-two-sides cassette pairs two greek artists’ responses on the subject of birdsong. Some time ago Nicolas Malevitsis (of absurd fame) asked them to contribute a piece each, on the sole premise that the work would be based, or derive from, bird sounds. Unan (aka Chris Chondropoulos) brought back a curious collage work called ‘mimus’, built from the sounds and textures of scratchy vinyl culled over time by the artist from athens’ record shops. Focusing on structure and reflecting avian…
1979 - 1983
Michel Bertier : prepared mellotron, doublebass. Sylvain Bélot : visuals and projections. Rodolphe Blois : tape recorders, editing and mixing of tapes. Guillaume Loizillon : synthesizers, vocoder, tapes. Claude Micheli : synthesizers, sequencer, G.S.S.A (semi-random sound generator, electronic device built by Claude Micheli). A French group who existed from 1979 to 1983 in the field of electroacoustic, audiovisual and improvised musics. the group worked with a multichannel system of 10 loud spe…
Midnight In Space
The third of the experimental electronic releases on the PDU label (along with recent Wah Wah's offerings Elektriktus' Electronic Mind Waves and Roberto Cacciapaglia's Sonanze) was released in 1978 and offered amazing cosmic passages in the purest Gillet Lethman & Cosmic Jokers style, built with piano, synth and even a spice of disco rhythms, plus sensual voices in a Cantori Moderni d'Alessandroni or Edda Dell'Orso feel adding for an exotic touch. Reissued for the first time in a limited edition…
Inward Eye
The edition is limited to 287 and vinyl comes in three different colors: marble orange, marble white, and black. The record is housed in a 12" cloth bag, with front, back and inner fully screen-printed with artwork reproducing a painting by Roberto Opalio. Secret messages are written between the grooves and both sides' center labels, that feature mysterious, full-color portraits of Ramona and Roberto respectively on each side. Each copy hand-…
Fields Have Ears (6)
A 56-minute piece for guitar and electronics. It has had a long composition history, starting from a solo for classical guitar and sine tones (premiered in Munich in July of 2010). It was subsequently performed in Seattle (August, 2010), A Coruña, Galicia (May, 2011) and New York (September, 2011). For each performance a new version was created, incorporating recordings from the previous locations (including parts of previous performances), and other sounds that I began to associate with the his…
Feel Free
The two major focal points in the creation of composer Duane Pitre's Feel Free, his new work for a unique sextet combination, were rhythm and melody. An open yet orderly system intended to produce potentially infinite variations of self-generating rhythm and melody was carefully created for this piece, allowing the sextet musicians to approach these factors in a freer manner. This 'musical system,' combined with the fixed elements of the composition, in turn, spawned a rich foundation of harmony…
The Black Rain
Anoice's first album for Important had a modest (but critically affectionate) impact upon its release. However, sales of the record have been steady & strong since it originally came out in 2006. Now, six years later we're pleased to finally offer The Black Rain, Anoice's reaction to both the darkness & hope that engulfed Japan after the 2011 earthquake, Tsunami & nuclear meltdown. Black Rain was written throughout 2011 and recorded in Tokyo and London. The Black Rain is both a reflection on dis…
Spiral Mirror
Formerly Boy+Girl, AG Davis created an unrelentingly aggressive disk. Stripped-down dark electro-noise sprinkled with some kinder moments… You’ll need to go outside for a minute after this one. Incredible artwork/cover!
Blitz Gazer
Vinyl version: since 1999, DAT Politics is by far one of the most ecstatic electro party bands on the planet. Their remarkably energetic live shows explain the cult-like enthusiasm that surrounds the French electronic combo as they've been touring the world extensively over the years. DAT Politics channel a rough-edged turbo-pop mood through their laptops to create some of the most unexpectedly catchy and lively music ever assembled. The possibility of mistakes and chaos in their hot-wired…
Pinna
Our first release 'The Organ of Corti' was a digital studio recording. We spent a few days at Kleylehof, Klaus's atelier - farmhouse on the border between Austria and Hungary, playing and recording every night. The sound is very clean, because everything is digitally generated and recorded. 'Pinna' was a recording of a concert that we played in a small church in Vienna. It is a microphone recording of a 'real' sonic space : we used 5 or 6 speakers distributed in the space, e.g. one speak…
Little Mornings
FLEXI DISC // CLEAR // 33RPM // SQUARED // 1 SIDE // 1 SONG handmade clear screen-printed cover on holographic paper
Core To The Brave
Hits w/ a shock & never lets up. Composed of what appears to be blown out bass & spastic drum rhythms, these tracks cascade into shimmering loops of distortion, their weight reaching a critical mass that often feels like it's on the verge of ecstatic collapse. Everything is elevated further in & up by that one & only voice, floating over top like a lush wind come down from the mountains.
Trees without Leaves
Yes, it’s true, one of the Holy Grails of Minimal/Synth/80’s-Cold Wave music, the superb Paul Nova is now available again in extended form on a Double-Lp Reissue of Trees Without Leaves. In 1980 Paul Nova started his Minimal/Synth-career with Bizarre Unit which produced just one legendary and sought-after 7"inch 'Dancing/Away from the Screaming Car' in 1981. Shortly after in 1982, he founded his own label Exhibit One Records which released four Paul Nova-Vinyls in three years (two 7", one 12" an…
First Recordings 1978-85 V1.2
The hugely intriguing sound artist and sonic conceptualist John Duncan is subject of a 2nd, sprawling VoD chapter following a first volume back in 2006. Since 1978 Duncan has engaged with a plethora of avant-garde disciplines, amassing a distinguished and exploratory catalogue of sounds on his own AQM and Allquestions imprints, besides many more releases on Touch, Die Stadt, and Planam. He's collaborated with equally inquisitive minds such as The Hafler Trio's Andrew McKenzie, Chris & Cosey, Zei…
Brain Pulse Music
Years of research into the bio-electric output of the human brain have now been harnessed with the creation of a device that allows man to monitor and interface with another's brain using a box that appears to be no more complicated than a guitar effects pedal! Batoh's experiements with this machine are only part of the album; the other tracks utilize traditional Japanese ritual melodies and instrumentation to form a prayer/requiem for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. A dee…
Slime Zone
Slugfield is a trio with Maja Ratkje, Lasse Marhaug and Paal Nilssen-Love. They've been playing for some years, but the first release is available now.