We are everyone in the room
"Two improvising laptop trios, Stilluppsteypa hailing from Iceland and Chicago's TV Pow, met for the first time in the fall of 2000 and embarked on a week-long tour, captured in part on this recording. As in most successful examples of this genre, the musicians mesh into a whole wherein individual accomplishments are impossible to quantify. The range of sounds and depth of detail produced by this sextet are remarkable, from the quietest clicks and rattles to deeply sonorous hums and ratchetings,…
Neue Welt / Lenity
After the release of his debut album in June 2015, Le Millipede is back with a 7" single with "Neue Welt" and "Lenity".
The newcomer to the A-Z of instruments of Le Millipede is the clarinet.
Together with Le Millipede's characteristic percussion, it sets the
basic structure of "Neue Welt". Two melodies of piano and bass trumpet
join in to a euphoric, dreamy tune, only to be shaken up profoundly - or
should we say challenged? - by the second debuting instrument, a
ukulele.
Lenity is melanch…
El anillo invisible
Active since the early 90’s in sound art and image, Iios has been exploring the extremes of sound and image derived phenomena. Through constant change in his sound palee touching and surpassing the limits of the sound spectrum ILIOS advocates for an anti-career. Some of Ilios recorded output has been regarded by the media as: “The sound of death” or “The most enervating record imaginable”. More than 300 live shows, lectures and workshops in 30 countries in: Asia, South + North America, Europe, …
Dry Hip Rotation
Lovingly remastered repackaged and re-released avant-garde classic from 1986. We are extraordinarily happy to announce the re-issue of one of our all time favourite albums. Peter Hope, singer in "The Box", Cabaret Voltaire collaborator, chanteur extraordinaire, has recorded an album full of the most unique and strange sounds with "The Jonathan S. Podmore Method". This band consisted amongst others of Jono Podmore who nowadays records with Kumo and collaborates with Can's Irmin Schmidt; Alan Fisc…
Sinergia Elettronica
Sinergia Elettronica, the conjunction between Jooklo and Metabolismus orbiting around the museum of weirdness of Degenfeld (Germany), had always been characterized by instant and unpredictable music, therefore their releases being put out as flashes of the moment, as sparkling and quick. Not the case of this one, the first recording appearing on vinyl, which has been sitting under an old piano for a few years before actually seeing the light of day. Three long pieces of prog-delic angular abstra…
Europa
A moody and tunnelling epic fuelled by exotic drums, Middle Eastern horns and cosmic synths that build to a thrilling climax, by by Asaf Samuel and Katzele, two of the founders of Tel-Aviv's 84% Creativity collective. This 2XLP album, Europa, is dedicated to and inspired by events in 2015 & 2016, which saw the spectre of global crisis come knocking at Europe's doorstep.During this time, more than a million migrants and refugees fled their homes in the Middle East, Northern Africa, sub-Saharan Af…
Lisa Says
This LP captures the transcontinental collaboration between artists Mattin and Richard Francis with sounds recorded in Stockholm, Berlin and Auckland, NZ. The mixdown portrays the current state of affairs in improvised noise noise: filtered gritty sound blocks flow and float with no seeming direction when sudden breaks puncture the structure and create something like a melody. Well, almost. The music is accompanied by a text insert that documents a skype conversation between the two artists dis…
Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre Volume 2
LP version. Housed in a Stoughton, "tip-on" jacket; First ever vinyl reissue. "Following the reissue of the entire recorded output of South London-based experimental act This Heat and its successor, Camberwell Now, Modern Classics Recordings holds the lens up to a special split album created by one of the driving forces behind those groups - drummer Charles Hayward - in collaboration with Italian musician Gigi Masin, whose looping, rhythmic, electronic compositions have seen his cult following g…
Melpomene
Dan Melchior has become an unlikely 21st century experimental music icon. As the forms, signifiers and 'experiments' of the last several decades have become increasingly codified, one naturally begins to ask the question what the term in a contemporary setting means to the listener. If the performer and the audience both know what to expect before, during and after a record or performance, can it be considered an experiment? At the start of the century, Melchior was known in NYC as being a studi…
Exmagma
*sold out at source* Exmagma's eponymous first album, recorded in 1972 and released in 1973, reminds a lot of late '60s Soft Machine. Others compare the album to Wolfgang Dauner's output or tracks by Et Cetera. Exmagma's music goes beyond jazz and rock, using a wealth of effects and electronic gadgets. This reissue comes with a replica of the original 8-page insert and sticker.
Superficie
Superficie is the first album of the collaborative project between Maurizio Abate on electric guitar and Alberto Boccardi on electronics and percussions. The first raw elements of the work were recorded during a 6-days studio sessions in January 15, the materials then has been processed with the support of Gianmaria Aprile across Spring. Alberto produces electronic textures and lean effective rhythmic patterns through the use of modular and analog synth and acoustic drums, while Maurizio transfi…
Kenosis
Reduced price. The result of a long period of study and retirement in a house in the Bologna countryside in the first three months of 2018, Kenosis renews the meeting between Stefano Pilia and Massimo Pupillo (already together on several tours of ZU and in the Zu93 project, together with David Tibet). A Greek word of Gnostic derivation (literally meaning "emptying"), Kenosis is the result of a process of composition that saw the two musicians move away from their usual writing methods and from t…
Der Abgrund
"Der Abgrund is the last act of an unsolved theorem which must remains the same. It's the arcane enchanter of a denied truth since mimesis of itself, as not manifested manifestation that nevertheless perseveres on its concept of form beyond the form. It's omnivalent hypostasis of a prismatic Maurizio Bianchi who is annulling himself and reinvents between a climate and the other without solution of continuity, today in symbiotic communion with Frequency In Cycles Per Second. "Der Abgrund" is an o…
dekadenz
An unusual, very nice release for Maurizio Bianchi/M. B. playing a decadent piano using sostenuto and damper pedals effects. Ultra limited edition of 100 copies
Thou Shalt Boogie!
Formed in 2003, the Oslo-based trio Bushman's Revenge (named after a type of mouth-searing hot sauce) are upfront about their love for the progressive rock of Cream and Jimi Hendrix, the galactic jazz of Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Sharrock and Alice Coltrane, plus the raw power of Black Sabbath and The Pixies. Thou Shalt Boogie! is their sixth album for Rune Grammofon, a relationship that began with 2009's You Lost Me at Hello (RCD 2083CD/(RLP 3083LP). Its velvety, warm sound was captured at…
Electric Komle - Live!
Recorded during a show at the Storyville jazz club in Molde in May 2012, this could very well be Bushman's Revenge's finest recorded effort during their 10 years as a band. Bringing new meaning to the concept of loose but tight, they blend the freedom of jazz with the energy of rock in the most convincing of ways as they race through numbers from all their previous four Rune Grammofon albums, taking no prisoners along the ride. Drummer Gard Nilsen and bassist Rune Nergaard are just as comfortabl…
Earth Liver
New full-length from San Francisco based Common Eider, King Eider. Themes, instrumentation, and vocal decay is stretched out even more dramatically by this mysterious band of outsiders. Genres bleed into each other and smear reality as elements of drone, doom, neo-folk, and black metal deliver a harrowing and somber reality of loss and emptiness. Silence weaves in and out of vocal arrangements, violas, and guitars creating unease throughout the entire listening experience. Four new pieces, plus …
Gemina
Beautiful brand new album by Osvaldo Coluccino (of Die Schachtel fame) who truly straddles the ever flimsy boundaries between classical and electronic music in a prodigious series of mixed duets CD (violin and piano, flute and piano, violin and viola, G flute and guitar, violin and cello, Bb clarinet and tenor saxophone, cello and piano, trombone and electronics). Very Higly Recommended!!
John Cage Meets Sun Ra: The Complete Concert
If you were going to envision the ultimate avant-garde meeting-of-the-minds jam session, who would you pick? Even the most hopeful fan of strange and innovative music couldn't have seen this one coming: on one afternoon in 1986, at Coney Island's dilapidated freak show, space-age avant-jazz genius Sun Ra met avant-garde "serious music" composer John Cage in an unforgettable performance. You couldn't imagine two figures more opposite. Cage was known for his unusual approach to composition, using …
Nell'attesa Del Tuo Prossimo Respiro
Waiting for your next breath is a double photographic book that includes four different photographic stories by Stefano Gentile and Monica Testa, whose shots have as object of investigation the landscapes of abandonment. Those that once were spaces for social relations (cinemas, parks, hospitals and so on), have now become temples of ruin: marginal, forbidden, dangerous, inaccessible. However, without indulging in the simple 'painting of ruins' so dear to Piranesi, they draw from the decadence o…