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Tokyo 1972
Tip!  *2022 stock* Some of the best recordings from Sydney's vibrant exploratory/spontaneous music scene ever released. Teletopa was “one of the earliest recorded examples of improvisation in Australia“. The trio was formed in Sidney in 1970 by Peter…
Numinal Entry
** Edition of 300 ** This is the second release from the Halatern, Etc. label, run by Keith Connolly (of NNCK/No Neck Blues Band fame). Tom Carter requires no introduction (those who are curious are encouraged to visit the historically rich wholly-ot…
Ultra-Red: 10 Hypotheses on 10 Preliminary Theses on Militant Sound Investigation
2014 release ** "UltraUltra-red, 10 hypotheses on 10 preliminary theses on militant sound investigation is a CD+booklet, the final act of a workshop. The 6 month process led to the creation of a database of sound-fields and texts-recorded tracks deve…
Red One
After the last If, Bwana (Al Margolis) release on Pogus the large-scale double cd E (and Sometimes Why), this brand new If, Bwana recording is a little more intimate. This release consists of six smaller works for one or at most two instruments - wit…
Denser materials
Performed by Cory O’Brien using snare drum, amplified plexiglass and analog synthesizer. Recorded in Spring/Summer 2013, Washington, DC.
Revue instrumentale et electronique
Gerd Kühr is a synonym for combining complexity and simplicity, modernity and “tradition”. Revue instrumentale et électronique - spatial composition for an instrumental ensemble and recorded sound in six movements – manage to cross and unite great va…
Bloody Language
* Limited edition of 100 copies on clear green vinyl. Silkscreened cover * Bloody Language is the new Control Unit single and represents a new phase of the band after exploring various forms of improvisation and after they has experimented with a lar…
Multiple
A cloud of quick gray motion, a presence in the forefront, then rapid withdrawal. A dazzling cloud, swirling, drawing together to the thinnest of waists, then wildly twisting in pulses of enlargement and diminution, a fluid choreography of funnels, r…
s/t
Niagara are pushing modern house music in yet another direction. Their debut introduces one to their own unmistakeable balance between tropical psychedelia and danceable electronica.The Lisbon based trio's unconventional song structures rely on a str…
Benandare
Performed and recorded by Enrico Malatesta, August 2013. Skin instruments and metal objects. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Enrico Malatesta (1985) is a percussionist active in the field of contemporary music and his personal research is aimed to exten…
Nouveau saxhorn nouveau basse
The tuba player and composer Robin Hayward has introduced revolutionary playing techniques to brass instruments, initially through the discovery of the 'noise-valve', and later through the development of the first fully microtonal tuba in 2009. In 20…
Spectral Arrows: Sidney
** Edition of 200 copies ** In "Spectral Arrows", Marco Fusinato arrives at the venue when it opens for business, sets up his equipment facing a wall and proceeds to play for the whole day until the end of business hours. Fusinato presents himself he…
Terzo Mondo
Terzo Mondo (Third World for the ones unfamiliar with italian) was recorded in roughly five months, after researches and several attempts to give a follow up to 300mq, a mix of fractions of sound recorded, chopped, chewed, sampled and put in ferme…
Burmese Days
Over the past several years, Vienna-based composer / producer Peter Kutin has been working intensely at the little-explored junction between sound art and journalism / documentation. Focusing on sonic experiences in extreme or exceptional conditions,…
F23M-12: Field With Figures No. 1 - 4 / Rush!
Christian Kesten & Mark Trayle duo: F23M-12: Field with Figures No.1-4'. Annette Krebs solo 'rush!'. This is the second split disc in the Berlin series of CD's. The first half of the CD is a meeting of long-time Berliner Christian Kesten (voice) with…
Voicing Through Saussure
Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras have collaborated for decades, creating a diverse body of sound performances exploring ties between language and the mind. Here everything is coming from materials found in the work of linguist Ferdinand de Saussur…
Abandon debit
2013 release ** "Chrs Galarreta (Peru). Very active in the South American experimental scene since 1995. Founder member of the independent label and association Aloardi. The sublime and the uncertainty are present in his actions, he gets them using b…
Still and Moving Lines
Pogus is absolutely delighted to offer this new release by Alvin Lucier, three of which are previously unrecorded. The overwhelming feeling that comes from Still and Moving Lines, a new Pogus disc featuring four compositions by Alvin Lucier performed…
Blikken van MSS Prijzen issue 1
After a short break after the monthly Mss Meestered zine, this is the first issue in a new series of visual and aural travel reports, mostly because the author would forget what happened on these travels otherwise.. This first issue was made in icela…
Furamingo Josei
** Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl *+ This hidden gem - likely recorded sometime in the mid 2000's around the time they made "Qvaris", according to what NNCK's Pat Murano remembers - is another astonishing output of Harlem's seven-member free-fo…