Even As We Speak: The Music of David Van Tieghem
The American percussionist, composer, and songwriter David Van Tieghem (b. 1955) is something like a musical equivalent to astronomy’s “hypothetical astronomical object”: while evidence of an irresistible gravitational pull can be felt in deep reaches of the cosmos, its source is enshrouded in darkness, revealing glimpses of celestial power to astute observers. For David Van Tieghem, these observers include a dizzyingly impressive cast of landmark musicians with whom he has composed and performe…
Lake Fire
Loscil (aka Scott Morgan) returns to Kranky with Lake Fire, a nine-track offering of ash-laden sonics that mine the tension within the cycle of destruction and rejuvenation. Lake Fire is the result of a disjointed creative process. Originally conceived as a suite for electronics and ensemble, most of the original compositions were deserted, save for “Ash Clouds,” featuring James Meager on double bass. The remaining tracks were reshaped and remixed, built anew out of the remnants of the abandoned…
Re: Case Studies
*200 copies limited edition* After several solo-releases on the label, we welcome back Taylor Deupree and The Humble Bee for their first collaborative album to date. Re: Case Studies is out on May 2nd and available on vinyl and digitally.
While most collaborative albums are intentional from the start, this one almost never came to fruition and was born rather out of a fortunate coincidence. A few years ago, Taylor Deupree created a series of compositions entirely based on feedback loops, which n…
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Forming Haze [Recordings 1985/86]
"The Crippled Flower was a post-punk band from Düsseldorf - and they arrived late. However, unlike many young, unsuspecting, hairsprayed hopefuls from that time, in 1985 they could sense that the end of their era was approaching. They knew too much to want to take the world by storm. They were four individualists searching their own way. Each of the band members only found their calling after the time that they had spent together – but that's exactly what makes The Crippled Flower still seem rea…
Star Rover
Visionary Walter Maioli and electronic innovator John Zandijik’s 1980s late-night sessions fuse ancient flutes and cutting-edge technology, creating a cosmic soundscape that bridges ethnomusicology, psychedelia, and electronic experimentation.
Seed Solar
2010 release ** Limited edition of 484 hand-numbered copies. "Joint release of Aquarellist and Vetvei labels – new Vresnit album recorded in winter-autumn 2010 in cooperation with Kshatriy, Hladna and Neznamo. Qualitatively new in project creativity a five-part ambient space dedicated to the Culture Solar beginnings and transfiguring seeds disseminating. Vresnit art is turned to research primary being experience, – human consciousness conditions being resonant to the general nature. Sparkling co…
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2003 release ** "Built around three previous Ware singles, the eleven tracks here stay uptempo. While not the first to explicitly craft a record around the concept of driving (or highways, or autobahns), Schmidt conjures up the sleek German design of today by hotwiring its primitive arcade heart and making a driving game out of it. "Quest for Tires" starts off like the Commodore 64's classic Night Driver game, all simple white dashes on a black screen before the bass and distorted patches shift…
Nothing Is What It Seems
2011 release ** "Last effort of 2011 for Gianluca Becuzzi this Nothing Is What It Seems, which is published at the end of the year by Silentes with a splendid graphic based on photos by Stefano Gentile and artwork by Andrea Marutti; Claudio Rocchetti completes the team of collaborators contributing with “sound objects” in a couple of tracks. All the rest (composition, production and mastering) is by Becuzzi. Nothing is as it seems tells us the title, and leads us to think that the sounds we hea…
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[In]visible Fields
2011 release ** "Gianluca Becuzzi is an italian electronic / electroacoustic composer and sound artist active since the first half of the 80’s. He released many albums and performed live around Europe during the last three decades under various names. Since 1999, his artistic production is characterised by a strong experimental imprint and by a clear aesthetic inclination towards abstract forms and micro / macro noises / sounds. He deals with electronic / electroacoustic composition, sound art,…
:existence
2001 release ** Limited hand-numbered edition of 500 copies. "This is the first real CD release from the German Anemone Tube, previously having released a load of tapes, vinyl and CDRs. Originally this was supposed to be Anemone Tubes last release, as Stefan was meaning to stop making noise and to concentrate on his graphic designing. Nonetheless, as the text 'A new beginning " in the inner sleeve of this CD suggests, Stefan has maybe decided to continue with Anemone Tube and apparently is prep…
Rust Voor De Stilte
1996 release ** "Rust Voor de Stilte" means "Quiet before the silence" and is inspired by fading memories and unattainable desires. "Rust Voor de Stilte" is music from the soul that speaks to the heart. Bittersweet strains reminiscent of music box melodies combined with elegant rhythms are just some of the elements that set this work apart from other contemporary ambient releases. Emmanuel Tuts-Schiemsky’s cool mixture of beauty and melancholic grace is a journey through experimental sounds.."
Regno Di Pianta
2004 release ** "Third Reutoff album, initially released in 2000 as a CDR limited to 100, has been finally re-released by Ewers Tonkunst. Being the darkest, gloomiest and most industrial album of the project, Regno Di Pianta has become one of the most sought after Reutoff release during last few years. Dense and sombre dark-ambient intertwined with noises and sprinkles of voice and cello samples stand in ones light leaving nothing but eternal dusk of the misty reign of suffer and solitude - the…
Il Sonno Del Sogno
2001 release ** "Italian act Runes Order (Claudio Dondo) started in 1988, and have released more than 30 releases in 3 decades. Here they present an evocative mixture of cold beauty and melancholic grace. Introspective, meditative, deep-hidden emotions, resulting in a classic Darkwave / Dark Ambient album. "Il Sonno Del Sogno" (the sleep of a dream) is the music from a performance of Element/i - Trapobana, which premiered in in a short and experimental version at the Teatro dell'Acquario of Cose…
Untree
2008 release ** "The minimalism that Andrea Sartori had proposed to us some time ago, rich in live sound objects, field recordings in tune with ambient, returns deprived of the connection with the dancefloor in this beautiful album by Mou, lips!, a sonic creation by Andrea Gabriele. The proposal inevitably hooks up with the sandy drifts of Boards of Canada in the very hot incipit Non è colpa mia! to then move on to a meditative journey made of acoustic guitars (for INstruments), trumpets and cla…
Third Segment
2009 release ** "Composed and recorded between the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, Third Segment emphasize even more on the basic idea of 3eem: electronic rhythmic structures, alteration of sound sources, textures of saxophone and guitar between minimal riffs and short glimpses into improvisation, a sort of tribal rite making its way, overlapping between the certainty of live sound and its deviated interpretation. In Digipak."
Fragments Of War
2006 release ** "One of big personality of slovak/czech electronics. Ergo's main project will be out on audio carrier under our shield and so will introduce yours new production that maps roots of old ebm in combination of modern elements and dance electronic. Experienced vocals and athmospheric elements are the strong part of this material. Something for more dancely tuned listeners, which doesn't fear of agresive escapes of energy."
Destructive Forces
2006 release ** "Debut of young czech project Anhedonia/ destructive forces, which is comming with technological soundtracks full of industrial bandages, supernatural athmospheres, which are over laping with hybrid rytmical structures and beautiful electronic. Unreally developed and inteligent item. Music that enchant and don't let breathe out.Project that is echo of sound of bands as Gridlock, Flint Glass, Polygon. Technologic revolution in the world of pulsating generators and noncomercional b…
Yugen
2019 release ** "Ten years after their first collaboration (“Into”, Silentes, 2009) KK Null and Deison are back together with “Yugen”*, a new work exploring darkness and controlled chaos thru deep and dense sounds. Pulsating and fractured electronics are mixed with an eerie atmosphere of clunks, broken tribal drums and hovering electronic tones."
We Bring Light
2011 release ** "Extreme and uncompromising electronic stimulations, vibrations and synthetic pulsations floating off, disturbing buzzes and algorithmic waves in expansion, fragmented and deconstructed Synthetic Chaos... But also hints of hypnotic unfinished musical sketches, clips of embryonic melodic sequences, fragments of human voices, oscillating electronic pads, distorsions, improbable synthetic clones of nature sounds and noises... An intransigent work of disturbing and destabilizing elec…
Quiet Songs From Misty Places
2011 release ** "Frail and delicate ambient atmospheres, clusters of rarefied piano notes lying on discreet drones, soft and evanescent clarinet riffs, suggesting and catching natural sounds... Light and ethereal pastel-coloured musical plots... Eight tracks, one hour of suspended and quiet sonic passages, flowing like discreet background, or to listen/see in a passionate mood, dreaming in silence, lying in gloom... Wonderful ambient stuff from these two Russian artists in the same vein of some …