E2-E4 Live in Japan
2024 Stock. Beautifully made Japanese CD (made on "SHM" material) and DVD. Recorded live in August 2006 at the Metamorphose Open-Air Festival, JapanComposed, performed and mixed by Manuel Göttsching. Since its initial release in 1981, Manuel Göttsching's masterwork 'E2-E4' has become a milestone in electronic music and the 2006 concert marks its first ever live performance that you can retrieve here on CD and DVD.
Foam
*2024 much needed repress* Ulla returns with ‘Foam’, a surprise new album unlocking variants of ambient pop and looped jazz/dub styles coiled inside a glitched matrix that reminds us of Huerco S’ ‘Plonk’ as well as Ekkehard Ehlers fractal treatments and those incredible, smudged and disneyfied edits of Celine Dion released earlier this year by elusive outfit Romance. It’s an absorbing, quietly significant album for 3XL, on its most substantial release to date.
Responsible for one of contemporary…
Midnight Colours
Longtime enthusiasts of ambient music have much to celebrate as Rafael Anton Irisarri's cherished out-of-print cassette, "Midnight Colours," returns in a meticulously remastered edition and makes its inaugural debut on vinyl. The significance of this album's announcement is accentuated by its historical resonance, coinciding with the same day in 1952 when the world bore witness to the first-ever test of the hydrogen bomb. "Midnight Colours" is far more than a mere album; it's an exploration of t…
Hjirok
Hjirok is a mythical figure, conceived as a fictional character by Iranian-born Kurdish singer and artist Hani Mojahedy. Together with versatile music producer Andy Toma of Mouse On Mars, she combined a variety of sounds collected during their joint travels to Iraqi Kurdistan and elsewhere with heavily processed recordings of Sufi drum rhythms and setar melodies. The result is a driving, dubbed-out, and deeply intricate soundscape that perfectly sets the stage for Mojahedy's extended, unconventi…
The Castle II
“The Castle II” is a collection of works composed and recorded by the Japanese artist Tomo Akikawabaya between 1986 and 1989. An album filled with obscure atmospheres, hypnotic rhythms, electronic melodies, experimental interludes and the unique and mesmerizing voice of Akikawabaya.
Since the release of the album “The Castle I” in 1984, Tomo Akikawabaya became disappointed with the music scene in Japan and thought that the only way to continue as a musician was to release his music abroad. After…
Industrealism
*200 copies limited edition* After working with Space Streakings, the early version of Kairai-Bunch," which was formed as a robot battle performance group, and Raichu, a unit he formed with Chu Ishikawa, Ikuo Shimizu continues to work solo under the name Kairai-Bunch, and has now completed his first collection of sound sources. Created through the use of a number of self-made instruments, which could also be considered musical weapons, the mechanical sounds they emit when flickering, rotating at…
The Electronic Sound Report
Tip! He has held many events in Tokyo underground, and has various faces such as guitarist of HUH, VJ play, collage production, and duo with Shizuo Uchida. This is his second entry in this series. This time, Terada's approach is "rhythm," with a minimalism reminiscent of the 90s sound school and electronica, but with a touch of kitsch here and there, as is typical of Terada, whose humor is one of his charms. The nine rhythm tracks are cool, hip, and relaxed, with subtle and tricky changes in a c…
Chant To Life, Ode To Death
An ambient piece by the Spanish artist. Entitled "Hymn to Life, Ode to Death," it begins with beautiful, fragile harmonies. The field-recorded sounds, composed of binaural recordings, create the illusion of a journey of rebirth from life to death and death to life. The sound of winged insects flapping their wings as if symbolizing death, and the flow of water as if representing the root of life. It is a deep ambient work that reminds us once again of the parallels between life and death that com…
Spectral Evolution
After a two-decade interlude, Jim O’Rourke’s Moikai returns with Spectral Evolution, a major new work by Rafael Toral. Making his name in the mid-1990s with influential guitar drone platters like "Sound Mind Sound Body" and "Wave Field" (both reissued by Drag City in recent years), Toral has never been one to rest on his laurels repeating his past glories. In the early years of the 21st century, Toral laid the guitar aside, along with the focus on extended tones that had defined much of his musi…
Habitat
Nothing short of a revelation, the Italian composer Angelo Petronella reemerges after nearly a decade and a half of silence with “Habitat”, a stunning 5CD career spanning box set of works composed between 1981 and 2022. Comprising 27 tracks at the borders of radical musique concrète and electroacustic invention, guided by deft and subtle hand over the decades into total, immersive sound environments - each informing what has been heard and yet to be heard - its totality places Petronella in the …
Traces of Time (A Musical Anthology)
Big Tip! * LP + Zine * Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Emerald Web (Bob Stohl and Kat Epple), was a husband and wife duo who each played both synthesizers and flutes, and were pioneers in Electronic Music and music technology. They created a melodic brew of Fantasy, Space, and New Age music from 1977-1990 on an array of analog synths which were “state of the art” (now-vintage) analog synthesizers including Lyricon 1 Electronic Wind Instrument, Arp 2600, Moog, sequencers and many more, along…
Quadric Surfaces
Viernulvier Records presents its new LP release ‘Quadric Surfaces’ by iconic electronic producer Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal R Moss. It collects the soundtracks Moss wrote for ‘Parallel Spheres’ & ‘Figures in Mynd’, two parts of an abstract animation film by visual artist Gabriela González Rondon. The film premiered in October 2023 during Videodroom / Film Festival Ghent. In her surreal and trippy gem of analog filmmaking Gonzales draws up whole universes of movement and color that seem to shar…
From The Thaw
*50 copies limited edition* Mangled surf-rock samples and washed-up suds of everyday oddities define Shallow Buoy, the newest release from remote duo Stumped. Consisting of Berlin-based Page Swanson and Pennsylvania-confined Adam Buffington, Stumped strain field recordings and borrowed sounds through various analogue and electronic processes, resulting in a sonic puree that's never stodgy.
Issue 109: Ambient A To Z
Turn on, tune in, chill out. We're diving deep into the world of Ambient Music for the first Electronic Sound of the year and we're bundling the magazine with a superb double CD featuring 24 soundscapes from across the spectrum of this fascinating genre. The centrepiece of this month's cover feature is a jam-packed A To Zzzzz Of Ambient encompassing countless artists and records alongside labels, sub-genres, events, installations, books, fanzines, radio shows, concepts and much more. It's an ent…
Aether Gust
Alara Music (France) is releasing the new album of Oxy, the new stunning electronic project by Ivan Pavlov (CoH) and Sasha Galianov (Shortparis).
Schatterau
Here is the debut, self-titled album from Schatterau, a Hamburg and Berlin-based three-piece consisting of Daniel Jahn, Jonas Meyer and Tobias Rutkowski. Having dug out their old 4-track cassette recorder, the group turned it into their primary instrument, spending many hours exploring textures, creating countless tape loops and weaving them into this elegantly crafted inaugural work of 15 miniatures. At times, some of these fully realised, lo-fi ambient tales have a warm dream-like feel to them…
Myotis V
Myotis V is a 34-minute journey to the heart of an amplified percussion device combining organic and electronic sounds.
Anthony Laguerre : Composition, amplification et électroniqueLéa Koster : PercussionsThéo His-Mahier : PercussionsFrançois Papirer : PercussionsEnrico Pedicone : Percussions
10
2023 marks the tenth year of Music From Memory; a decade of groundbreaking archival releases, cross-generational collaborations and long-standing creative partnerships with our ever-expanding community of artists. To celebrate this milestone, earlier this year we asked our roster of artists to submit a piece of music for an anniversary compilation. As submissions gradually came in, we were blown away by what we received and slowly began to piece them together into what was to become “10”. Featur…
Switched On Ra
To pour some out for one of their heroes, the cosmos’ own Sun Ra, Bitchin Bajas simply cut a slice of their own DNA and amplify it! Or something like that: they clearly vibe with Ra in hypno-symbiosis, setting the controls of their analog synths for the heart of Sun. Bonus mixtribute: a heartfelt doff to Queen Wendy C, sythnaut and another mother!
Espoo
*2024 stock* Vladislav Delay‘s EP »Espoo« features two new conceptual, rhythm-intense tracks. Whereas the groove of the opener »Olari« derives from a sound loop which is manipulated by filters and echoes and finally brings forth the intensifying beat, the reverse is done with »Kolari« on the b-side. Starting from an impulsive, staccato beat, a sound carpet is woven by means of modifiers which gradually shape a permanent vacation-like melody, close to Terry Riley‘s minimalistic concepts. Both tra…