Chioma SuperNormal. The Dark Album
This Opus Magnus, its unrelenting poetry, its lucidly structured composition, its incredibly elaborate arrangements, cannot be grasped with terms like Rock Opera, Musical Play, Oratorio, or Horror Show. Doubtlessly, all of this is part of it somehow,…
Sadness & Life
An older great release performing the never ending circle of life and death, made of narrative passages combined with weird rock elements and detailed textures of modern composition. Recorded 1996.
Chioma Sings Tales Of Danny Dark
A vibrant mixture of avant-rock, modern composition, jazz and experimental electronica, this mysterious album has been circulating for a while now and deserves to be heard.Put together by Walter and Horace Cardew (sons of Cornelius), and featuring th…
Walter & Sabrina Play Pop; Walter & Sabrina Play Classical
Like a chorus of eunuchs standing over you on your deathbed sending you off to hell with jews harp and squalid tunes from children’s plays—or like outtakes from a Diamanda Galas Mass, in which the choir tries to have fun with the libretto to keep fro…
Loose Community
Otomo Yoshide (turntables, guitar) is active on a worldwide scale in such fields as free improvisation, composition, and film music. On a trip to Seoul in May of 2002, Otomo made a studio recording with Seoul musicians Park Je Chun (percussion) and M…
Studio Rehearsal 1979
A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth. These are all regular pressed CD releases. Were not sure why, how or whatever. This one is limited to 200 copies. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs. Long out of print, only 1…
Live May 25 1975 Yaneura
A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth. These are all regular pressed CD releases (not CD-Rs). Were not sure why, how or whatever. What was the question again? This first one was apparently originally r…
Woman From the Warm Grass
When Robin Scott's electro anthem "Pop Muzik" hit no.1 in the US in 1979, few could have guessed that his debut had appeared on an obscure English underground label, Head Records a whole decade earlier, with backing from psychedelic legends Mighty Ba…
The Legendary Me
Long prayed-for reissue of this classic 1970 UK folk stunner that's a missing link both in the Wizz Jones oeuvre and in the guitar-freedom music of the prime era. The Legendary Me was Wizz Jones' second studio album, originally released by the obscur…
Gariga
A new album by A Sprirale produced by Italian impro music network Setola di Maiale, consisting in Massimo Spezzaferro (drums) Maurizio Argenziano (guitars) Mario Gabola (reeds). Gariga is low, soft-leaved scrubland and represents a regressive stage d…
Inroads : New And Collected Works
Divided into 2 discs, "Paved" contains his more peaceful & ambient pieces & "Unpaved" which represents his noisier, psychedelic side. The tracks that comprise of this DCD confirm Montgomery's place is the canons of drone rock & avant folk while also …
Fantasma Parastasie
Vinyl Format. Fantasma Parastasie sees the pairing of Aidan Baker, of the Ambient Doom band Nadja, and Tim Hecker, two of Canada's brightest musicians in the world of abstract electronic music. This release, divided in seven movements, blends togethe…
thirty thirty
The second release on Presto!? is a fascinating work from Greg Davis (who seems to have been remarkably quiet in recent times) along with Steven Hess. I have absolutely no idea of the background of the piece at the moment, but I can tell you it's a r…
Spectral Hand
John Wiese is one half of Bastard Noise, Sissy Spacek and frequent collaborator with the likes of Sunn 0))), Wolf Eyes and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth). Two new tracks between his more "pure" harsh noise work and an ambient space drone sound. Limited…
Complexion
It's been doing the rounds as a CDR for yonks now, but Sunburned Hand of the Man's 'Complexion' has now got itself a full-fat release that'll bring its odd-ball charm to a much wider audience. On the back of 2002's debut LP 'Headdress', 'Complexion' …
s/t
Studio collaboration recorded and mixed by DR. ID. himself at Smegma's Portland studio during Metalux - Giffoni summer tour. Total weirdness full on psychedelic improvisation in the classic smegma style, amplified by giffoni's arsenal of unmatched ap…
Cacophony: 1979-1981
Double CD archival overview of this obscure Australian band from the late 70s. They released 2 7" in 1979, including the legendary debut Instant Classic, which was a strange combo of primitive punk and dub. Those singles, plus the later LP from 1981 …