A House Waiting For Its Master
Recorded and otherwise applied to various surfaces and objects at the G*D facility, Reykjavík, during the glorious winter of 2002- 3, assisted by various woodland creatures and several nymphs. pract .dept. - a: Mxll, b: J. Jóhannsson, c: Bibbi published by Freibank. Unmitigated joy to them: his Hundleyness of Briandom, Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg, and with more tapping feet and folded arms, Thee Ditz, who is responsible for background material visible herein. and on, for that matter. Dedicat…
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.
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 from killing themselves-- Walter & Sabrina makes us fear them and fear for ourselves on “We Sing For the Future.” The title track is a cover of the Cornelius Cardew piece (CC being Walter’s father and huge influence) which sets the stage for a whimsical…
Some Blood Will Stick
Hototogisu is Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards). They've been laying down billowing sheets of Teutonic guitar drone-noise since 2003 with the thickest possible helpings of vocals and electronics. Some Blood Will Stick is a collection of tracks from their ultra-limited self produced label Heavy Blossom. Songs were taken from Swoon Scream (2004) and Awful Symmetry (2005) with one additional track. What makes this disc more than a simple re-release is the ext…
Shots At Infinity 1
This is the companion release to the Tom Carter LP titled Shots At Infinity 2 being released on Important simultaneously. Shots At Infinity 1 (the CD) is comprised of recordings from various basements in the northeastern USA from late 2007. Steering away from the more delicate string environments and modal folk improvisations of previous CDs, the disk features maximum loop delay drone overload stretched over long, densely harmonic tracks, retaining the melodic content and flow of earlier release…
Axiologue / Thermidor One Five
Crafted in their fine tradition, Aufgehoben continue to carve harsh chunks of noise with this, their first departure on 7" vinyl. guitar and electronics sound like neither, while sprawling percussion tumbles across the rotten landscape. The two tracks on this monochromatic record jump right for the jugular, leaving little time for subtlety or reflection. not recommended for antique styluses. There are 524 copies of this picture disc record.
Primo Tempo
2005 release ** "Composition is a manual act. Notes written by pen on the staff. The game (or challenge) is write music for musicians in the flesh - playing, toiling and becoming excited - and then feeding it to a computer. In this record we attend to man-machine and digital-analogic relations in a continuous chasing - and nearly seeking - each other. Opposites unable (maybe) to deprive themself from the other. A continuous process starting from the composition act up to the final mastering. In …
Rimmed Records
Vinyl records physically reduced to just the outer rim, packaged in silk-screened recycled record covers. Playable at your own risk. Edition of 100.
The Light That Is Felt - Songs of Charles Ives
Charles Ives composed nearly 200 songs throughout his life. Wiley Hitchcock, in the thorough introduction to his 2004 critical edition 129 Songs, described the Ives song canon as the contents of a kind of scrapbook or commonplace book or chapbook, or even a desk drawer. Into such a receptacle Ives tossed irregularly, if not casually, his reactions Ñin the form of songsÑto memories, personalities, places, events, discoveries, ideas, visions, and fantasies in his life.' Whether popular tale or per…
Live in Seoul
Two live tracks that document Lucas bleeding and screaming in South Korea. Raw, slabbed noise at his best. 45 RPM Vynil, cover designed by a girl who was at the show and silkscreened with paint and blood by ilcanedicoda. And justice for all! 222 copies.
Favorite encores
A split CD of works by Noah Creshevsky (4 tracks) and If, Bwana (3 tracks). While on the face of it this may seem a somewhat odd pairing, the pieces recorded here comment on and highlight each other. And an aural adventure is indeed in the offing. Trained in composition by Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luciano Berio at Juilliard, Noah Creshevsky has taught at Juilliard, Princeton University, and Brooklyn College. He was director of the Center For Computer Music (1994-2000) and is currently Profes…
Dreamers of Pearl
Joseph Kubera, piano. Michael Byron (b. 1953) was a pupil of James Tenney, and later, of Richard Teitelbaum. The body of music he has composed over the past thirty years has been harmonically rich, rhythmically detailed, and increasingly virtuosic. Dreamers of Pearl (2004-05) evinces a sensitivity for the sound of the piano, a sensibility of extended playing-listening, and an interest in repetition and change through gradual and seemingly clandestine processes that transform and extend what we h…
The Vilnius Explosion
This new label start with a record 'The Vilnius Explosion' by great Swedish multi-instrumentalist Mats Gustafsson (baritone and slide saxophones, alto fluteophone), who gave a memorable performance on 9th February 2008 together with the leading contemporary Lithuanian jazz musicians - Liudas Mockunas (soprano, tenor and baritone sax), Eugenijus Kanevicius (bass), Marijus Aleksa (drums) and Arkadijus Gotesmanas (drums).
s/t
Deconstructing the music we know as rock, just leaving the essentials - a chord, a phrase, a simple drum figure - and repeating it till something else appears... Swedish duo Sheriff works with limited material and creates a world of their own. The intimate recordings create a restrained atmosphere where every beat on the guitar strings and strike on the drums is heard and vital to the whole. Their use of repetition suggests a link to minimalist composition, but is totally outside the academic wo…
Orgelfärger
In the living room of a small house in Dalarna, the Swedish countryside, Sagor & Swing has recorded this timeless music evoking the surrounding landscape - the forests, mountains and lakes. Moody and simple melodies with echoes of old Swedish folk tunes and the nature in the paintings of John Bauer. Some years ago, Eric Malmberg was given an organ from legendary Swedish organplayer Bo Hansson, one half of the 70’s drums/organ duo Hansson & Karlsson. This organ was the very one used on Hansson’s …
Allt hänger samman
The myth of Sagor & Swing tells that they are children of nature that grew up in the forest. That they at an early age built their first instruments and isolated from the noise of civilization invented a music of their own. What we know for sure, however, is that they make wonderful organ music and have been doing this for some time now. This is their third album, “Allt hänger samman”. The woods have thickened. The melodies have become more intricate and the idyllic scenes now have a darker tone…
Orgelplaneten
Just half a year since “Allt hänger samman” and the fourth album from Sagor & Swing, “Orgelplaneten” (“The Organ Planet”) is here. The energy has been turned up quite a bit. This more energetic side of their sound has been showing a whole lot during their concerts, but this is the first time that it has been captured on record, as a document of how the duo have sounded live. It also stands out from their three earlier records by adding Moog and accordion to the usual setup of organ and drums. A …
Verklighet & Beat
This is the second solo release from Sweden's Eric Malmberg, former songwriter and organist for the now-defunct Sagor & Swing. Featuring guest musicians such as Goran Kajfes, Lars Skoglund, Johan Berthling, Cecilia Österholm and legendary organist, Bo Hansson.
Cadillac Sitting Like a Ton of Lead
the trio of prolific free drummer Alex Neilson, former Charalambides/Scorces member Heather Leigh and The Wire contributor David Keenan, create unity only to then destroy it, represents the absolute apex of their twin guitar/drums incarnation, with two side-long improvised psychedelic blues that combine the kind of epic string-muscle of Fushitsusha, Ohkami No Jikan, Kousokuya and Rallizes Denudes with a sublime avant-garage sensibility and massive pockets of time-killing freedom. Further ampl…
Hasardi
For their second official CD release (after a handful of cassettes and CD-Rs) this Helsinki quintet of horns, guitars, drums, and vocals forsake any sense of live atmosphere by mashing four years of recordings into a disorienting, rude collage of over the top takes on multiple forms of extreme music. More early 90s, Bad Vugum-damaged rock than 00s Fonal psych-folk, Hasardi is a tangent of the punk/hardcore continuum that veers wildly and often into free jazz, noise and just general weirdness. Ha…