Music For Peace and Harmony
Hiro Ama turned to an obscure 1980s Japanese synthesiser called the Waraku – literally translated to “peace and harmony” – to craft an album that blends electro-acoustic textures and warm melodies, while drawing on classical romanticism, spiritual jazz and electronic music. The album features collaborations from British singer Keeley Forsyth and flautist Gail Tasker. “A lot of things are fragile and chaotic at the moment in this world, and I wanted to make music to soothe my mind and heart. Mode…
Where The Sidewalks Are Safe For The Little Guy
NM is very, very satisfied to announce 'Where The Sidewalks Are Safe For The Little Guy', a new release from tape recordist, conversationalist and punk music vocalist Mark Groves (Index Clean, Red Wine and Sugar, Voice Imitator) as Absurd Cosmos Late Nite.
Folded Volume 33
NM presents a new work from Naarm/Melbourne producer Rita Revell, 'Folded Volume 33'. Her flawless, uncategorisable self-release ‘Depozit’ (2022) and subsequent live shows led us to virtually demand more material from this largely mysterious, protean sound assembler.
Strata
*2024 stock. 30 copies limited edition. A little cardboard box containing three mini CDr some stuff and fictional samples.The inside is filled with coconut fiber, dry grass, and paper. Check if there are some limitations in your country for receiving this kind of stuff. The whole package is assembled by hand!*
Stratifications of landscapes, concepts, and microscopic events among the horizons of the soil and the gases of the air. A parametric, digital, and generative study, delving into the strat…
Lashes
Hysterical Love Project’s modern dreampop classic finally comes to vinyl after appearing on numerous EOY lists in 2023, gliding with a shimmer of trip hop and shoegaze downstrokes you should consider essential listening if yr into a.s.o.’s standout debut, or classics from HTRK, Dubstar, Ulla
Stoned in Stockholm
ICR distribution present a new Nurse With Wound LP, a live recording from Stockholm 2016. This live set was recorded in Sweden in 2016 and features Stapleton, Liles, Waldron & Potter. The chilly ambience of the performance perfectly reflects the icy conditions at the time of the shows. Remastered by Colin Potter. A limited edition of 500 only, numbered.
Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permitted
40th anniversary edition of this seminal work by the multi-talented musician and producer Carlos Perón. After the release of “Impersonator” and the score of the film “Die Schwarze Spinne”, “Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permitted” is his third album released in the beginning of 1984. While still being an active member of Yello, it was around the start of the recording of “You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess” that Carlos met the American musician Chris Lunch in Hamburg. He invited Chris to Zuric…
The Ortho-Project
Returning to the unreleased oeuvre of the master of cybernetic sound Roland Kayn, frozen reeds hereby unveils a new high watermark for longform electroacoustic composition, unfolding across 15 CDs in a luxurious gold-stamped boxed set.
Neurotransmitters-Sphere-Music
*200 copies limited edition* "Neurotransmitters-Sphere-Music" is Jarl’s sixth album on Reverse Alignment, following on from 2021’s CD release "Spectrum Confusion". And once again Karolina Urbaniak has masterfully created the cover artwork, as she’s done for the five earlier Jarl releases for Reverse Alignment. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that help nerve cells communicate with each other. Referring to this concept, "Neurotransmitters Sphere Music" consists of four pieces showcasing …
One Day
*2024 stock* In the summer of 2007, Jones visited Foster in South Korea and did a series of shows there and in Japan, both as their duo English and in other combinations. In Tokyo, they made time in their schedule to spend a day recording with Nakamura, and “One Day” documents the results, as captured by recording engineer Taku Unami at Kid Ailack Hall. Three lengthy improvisations showcase a unique collective aesthetic, dense and organic, pointillistic but rough, focused but not overly polished…
Anguilliform
Original cassette (tracks 1-6) by EE Tapes (ET36, 1996).CD reissue + bonus "Sound Effects Library 22" (tracks 7-21) by EE Tapes, Belgium and Tribe Tapes, USA.Mastering by Grant Richardson, Hex Audio Labs.
Kosmoloko 3
We are delighted that Kosmoloko 3 becomes a reality on Galakthorrö’s 30th birthday. The concept hasn’t changed: Kosmoloko 3 is still a label sampler. Like its predecessors, it features only artists from the Galakthorrö label. No leftovers, no duplicates, no rehashes, ten tracks of exclusive material, no title has been released in any form before. Karl Runau’s contribution comes as a surprise after countless years with no signs of life. As a colleague from the early days of Galakthorrö, his contr…
Amer Armor
The debut EP Kelc’h-Lizher is now followed by Mode In Gliany’s first full-length album Amer Armor on Galakthorrö. The unique synth wave of Boris Völt is freed from all exhilarating characteristics. The minimal wave pleasures of the early days are making way for that melancholy that is inherent in the music of Mode In Gliany anyway. Nourished by Boris Völt’s deep connection to his home on the north coast of Brittany. Instead of blood, the cool water of the seas flows through his veins, cold wave,…
Sore
The third album by Da-Sein fits seamlessly into the duo’s previous sphere of work. A gloom-ridden sound panorama, packed full of pulsating bass frequencies, swathes of feverish synths and noise-rhythms, spreads itself out before us. The voice of Kas Visions combines the manifold creative streams of Da-Sein to a cohesive whole. No matter how cold and unemotional the voice is, on this album it’s often the last human signal before the blackness absorbs the listener’s soul. Power electronics violenc…
Schmerzportrait
Sühne Mensch has no musical past history. This is seldom in times when a trace is left behind early, even if it is merely digital. But this debut album is in no way the work of a beginner. The brain behind Sühne Mensch has collected many experiences even if primarily from other musical fields. Now he impressively channels all his knowledge into this very different music. Schmerzportrait is incredibly rounded and mature, complex yet compact, fitting in perfectly with the Galakthorrö style, but po…
1982
I stayed in Iwate, where I was born, for a few days and created some sound materials using limited materials and old media. Over ten years ago, Iwate was devastated by the Great East Japan earthquake. Many old things that remained in my memory became rubble, dismantled, and new scenery was there. I bounced every song from “1982” straight onto an old tape recorder.
This album that comes out of my interest in sonic "degradation and rebuilding". I treated the guitar and synthesiser in a lot of new …
Tropical Church
I was waiting for the bus to arrive at the stop when the rain started pouring. I quickly escaped into a chapel nearby, and that’s where the idea of this album came to be. Inside the chapel, I was reminded of the scent of Mauritius, where my father was from, and the pillars of dampen woods mixed with the ritualistic frankincense. The rain continued to hit violently on the metallic church roof as the road outside grew overwhelmed with angry drivers, honking their way through, their frustrations ec…
Tránsitos Sónicos - Música electrónica y para cinta de compositores peruanos (1964-1984)
Tip! This compilation offers a first overview of the early works of electronic and tape music created by Peruvians between 1964 and 1984. This period marks a technical and aesthetic evolution that allows us to understand the development of electronic music in the Peruvian context, from an initially internationalist model to a more situaded one. The first phase occurs in the 1960s, when many composers migrated outside Peru in search of advanced training and access to knowledge and infrastructure …
Two Cycles
Billy Bultheel's debut solo album is an ambitious distillation of the composer's,' sprawling litany of influences and his unique approach to site-specific composition. A compilation of pieces created between 2016 and 2023, the album is a forceful testament to Bultheel's expansive performance practice and collaborations with cutting-edge visual artists like Anne Imhof and James Richards. Drawing inspiration from industrial music and metal as well as medieval and baroque polyphony, Bultheel devise…