Crepuscular Elixirs
Tip! After releases on Ginjoha, Ikuisuus, Mappa and Nonlocal Research such as Collision and Coalescence and Squirlich Stroll, the German/Finnish duo composed by Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin) teams up with Artetetra, bringing to light a new sonic wizardry. It has been six years since Grykë Pyje (forest ravine in Albanian) stretched out their high sensitivity feelers for the first time into the greatest of outdoors to bring us fascinating, multilayered soundscapes and intro…
I Keep My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Sparkling Water
From the tranquil waters of High Falls, NY, Gryphon Rue's latest work weaves ceramic flute, field recordings, and sounds from three continents into extended environmental abstraction. Moving beyond "miniature trances," this immersive album channels Curran, Hassell, and Behrman's legacy.
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*250 copies limited edition* After the stunning LP on Auf Abwegen a new work by the German/Swiss drone dreamteam, thematically based on the adventureous Apollo 13 mission (April 1970), when the three astronauts circled around the moon several days...=> an absorbing, cinematic space drone-drama in five chapters, different moods and changes, going deeper and deeper... (feat. samples from Dead Voices On Air). Bu.d.d.A. (short for "Bund des dritten Auges" = League of the Third Eye) is the duo of Eme…
Parasite
2009 release ** "The works of Antanas Kučinskas collected on the album "Parasite" are based on the method of re-composition, i.e. processing material with a strong historical and stylistic identity using techniques that are completely "alien" to him. I am talking in particular about sampling, loops and scratches, which make up the aesthetics that Kučinskas himself called "parasitic music". I am an omnivorous parasite: my works feed on existing music and develop at its expense until the complete …
Like Music To Their Ears Vol. 2
2004 release ** "This is a compilation from the French label Mechanoise Labs and, as it says in the subtitle, it’s ‘an international gathering of extreme electronics’. These extreme electronics are often presented in a noise form, but it’s not only about that. Some of the tracks, by Cutman (from France), Control (from USA) and others, are like a harsher noisy side of (post)industrial. Sometimes there’s use of talking samples or the noise atmosphere is building up with voice shouting in Cutman’s …
Into The Void
2005 release ** "Into the Void is a reflection upon the history and the recent changes in the Krakovian neighborhood of Kazimierz. The center of this meditation is the seemingly contradictory development of the last few years, which shows the attempts to re-animate Jewish culture. This piece is an attempt to reverse the seasons from summer to winter in the 700-year-old Jewish district of Krakow. What struck Meissner at first sight, was the glaring contrast between the rich, the rise of the mater…
Decay And Demoralization
2005 release ** "MAAAA's "Decay and Demoralization" comes at you with 6 tracks well over 60 minutes in length. This stuff is harsh and without a doubt the most extreme band coming out of Poland's underground today. Decay and Demoralization includes tons of power electronics and bizarre recordings that create an odd, otherworldly atmosphere stuck in a white noise frenzy. Banging metal, shrieking, dying, the cover of this album should say it all. These guys like to take the energy of punk rock and…
Nowhere Campfire Tapes
2005 release ** "Third release under the pseudonym Punck for Adriano Zanni, an artist active in the Italian electroacoustic scene since the first half of the 90s. After his debut "Mu", released in 2002 on cd-r support, follows the 3-inch "A Movie Without Images" on the Ctrl+Alt+Canc label, a small netlabel founded by Zanni himself and dedicated to the diffusion of experimental sounds that, among other things, also includes in its catalog Ovo di Bruno Dorella and Sinistri. "Nowhere Campfire Tapes…
Tone Redust
2006 release ** "There are a lot of spontaneous and “fortuitous” sounds from casual urban life in that music on the face of it. But it is impossible to be sure that these sounds are on the background of other elements or these sounds serve themselves as a background for something main… There are also some naive and unaffected chords played on acoustic guitar as well as some clinking and iridescent synth waves & gentle drones. Generally speaking, any tunes, any beats. But, on the whole the struct…
White Zombie
2016 release ** "Paul Roland’s obsession with the 1931 film White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi, a true cult of voodoo cinema, led him in the 90s to write the basis of what should have been the film’s soundtrack, rewritten by Roland. It was mostly instrumental music, with songs and choirs that depicted the slavery of these men reduced by the mad scientist to zombies, automatons to increase the workforce in the factories. A rather current theme, outside of metaphor… Talking about it one evening at…
Breathing
1996 release ** "In deference to this age of “environmental consciousness”, “Breathing”, says the insert, is “recycled and/or scavenged” pieces that once inhabited another form. The composer is Al Margolis, who appears on electronics, tapes, effects, piano, sampled flute, vocals, wind, cello and strings. He is joined by didjeridu, oboe and organ. The album beds itself in deep wind or breath like sounds, with an electronic, industrial, and dark edge."
Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir / Voile D'Orphée
1994 release ** "A beautiful batch of spare electronics from this mad French genius! Titled "Variations Between A Door & A Sigh" – the piece is exactly that. One track will evoke strange creaking door sounds, the next will have a breathy, sigh-like quality – and then the whole thing starts all over again. Maddening, but wonderful in its own way! "
Lunz
2011 release ** "Lunz was the second collaboration of the German electronic music legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster, Harmonia) and Grammy-nominated American composer/producer Tim Story. Lunz was the culmination of the composers’ 25-year mutual admiration and friendship, and the beginning of a prolific partnership that spawned six acclaimed albums, audio art installations and live concerts across Europe and the US. When Lunz originally hit the record shop shelves of London, listeners knew of…
Dorje Ling
1992 release ** "Since 1975, David Parsons has made numerous trips to India to absorb the culture, study the music, and record performances by indigenous artists. In addition to producing three albums of Tibetan ritual music, in the Sacred Ceremonies: Ritual Music of Tibetan Buddhism series, the composer and synthesist has translated the essence of his journeys into the lush, yet, profound soundscapes of Himalaya and Yatra, two critically acclaimed albums of original music. Dorje Ling, was inspi…
Sierść
2007 release ** "Ben Zeen's music is a combination of an analog modular synthesizer, controlled by Theremin antennas and a ribbon controller, laptops as a source of deconstructed, destroyed, processed loops and samples of various origins and used simultaneously as an effects center for other, external sound sources, prepared instruments and field recordings. The laptops are equipped with numerous controllers - knobs, touch, light."
X
2016 release ** ""X" as the unknown, "X" as a reference to time. "X" as a definite position between possibility and contingency. The album X by the Swiss band Strøm works with remix as a method, explores the potential of the origin. Or the result's? The work on the concept album started with an improvised piece by Gaudenz Badrutt (analog synthesizer) and Christian Müller (contra bass clarinet and live effects). In a process of intense live sampling by Badrutt and Müller the starting material was…
The Laughing Torso
2008 release ** "Splendid debut of Testing Vault, project of dANi/Alvo, already active as a collaborator in other releases of the Italian industrial undergrowth, and produced by our own Final Muzik. The Laughing Torso makes no secret of its influences, above all the primordial industrial of the 80s in its less aggressive and more meditative expressions, those closest to certain ritual music accompanied by the use of the voice in the form of recitations / spoken word, but also the more shady Coil…
Ianurek 5.0 X 100
2010 release ** "The Album “Ianurek 5.0 x 100″ represents a metaphysical world made for interact with the listener. Shapes and colors fill the mind, bringing the listener in a condition where the contours are outlined by the various points of union between the tracks. The record born from a subject/form focused in the foreground, characterized by a plasma contortion. This movement becomes the pulsating heart of the tracks, and the concept need to be found between the interaction of the sounds, e…