Sleep of Reason
I fell into a deep sleep of reason Everything broken and hence when I woke up from that deep sleep of reason it all made sense A Unique Artistic Partnership. This project represents a distinct and carefully considered artistic endeavor. Developed by Mark Springer (Rip, Rig and Panic) and Neil Tennant (The Pet Shop Boys), it combines a suite for piano, quartet, and quintet with vocals, accompanied by lyrics offering thoughtful introspection. The collaboration explores the intersection of divergen…
Orbweaver
Leaping from a twig, a spider lays a strand of silk in the open air. Intuitively, it traces a design, reactive to its environment but guided by something deeper. As it works towards the center, something resembling a home emerges, intricate in its design and inevitably imperfect. The web comes to represent the creature’s creative response to the world and its needs within it. Artmaking and music- making emerge from a similar nerve: through the impulsive drive to create a space for one’s self, cr…
Wüste
2010 release ** "Former Mayhem front man Maniac, whose band Skitliv has proved to be a surprising departure from the Black Metal genre for which he was best known for over 20 years, has formed a side-project with Vivian Slaughter, bass player/vocalist with the Japanese all-girl band Gallhammer, Skitliv's guitarist Ingvar Magnusson and experimentalist Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound). Unlike Skitliv, which is a noise/doom amalgam, with Maniacs vocals still firmly rooted in Black Metal, Sehnsucht i…
The Crooked Pool
2008 release ** Numbered edition of 120 copies. "The Crooked Pool compiles two discs of hitherto unreleased folk-magic from March 2007 to March 2008. It was recorded among cliffs, moors, streams and woods while seeking convocation with the genii locorum of the Yorkshire moors. The Crooked Pool contains eleven psychogeographic explorations with harmonium, recorder, flute, psaltery, violin and guitar. 80 minutes of feral drones, wordless hymns, death dirges and quiet rustic meditations."
Figures
2006 release ** "On this album, in 12 songs presents relaxed sort of dark folk rock from France. From first minutes, music full a melancholy and romanticism, will transfer you deeply, to the farthest, warm, and probably for a long time the lost memoirs. Where it will want to come back again and again... Guests musicant Eric Roger (ex-Sol Invictus, Gae Bolg)."
Gehörgänge
2002 release ** "Psygram is Siegfried Fischer (voice, accordion, samples, percussion) and Dirk Grützmann of Temps Perdu? who is responsible for real time audio processing, electronics, loops and engineering. The group started around the same time as Temps Perdu?, with the music focused on surreal ambient-industrial soundscapes and hypnotic live improvisations in a studio setting with influences of electroacoustic music. "All our music is recorded in those magic moments where emotions, dreams and…
Noise And Fury (Noise Music Festival June 15-17, 2000)
2001 release ** "HXA from Chelyabinsk was formed in 1987 by Lev Gutovsky, a graduate of Ural State Conservatory. His ensemble was arguably the only professional musical act in the USSR dedicated to creating music for absurdist theatre and postmodernist happening. By the end of the 1990’s, HXA shrunk to a trio of Lev Gutovsky (voice, electronics), Sergey Belov (trombone, electronics) and Olga Leonova (voices) increasingly focused on modern improvised and electro-acoustic music. Lev Gutovsky is cu…
Deep Komis
2010 release ** ""«Deep Komis» by Vazhes, the project of Russian anthropologist and documentary director Sergey Gabbasov, is dedicated to authentic ethnic music of the Permian Komis. This album was made with Rapoon, Northaunt and Fanum. It dips into the hidden and secret world of ancient and primordial nature, of secret and mysterious rituals. On the fanciful turnings of the forest path we will meet authentic ethno music of the Permian Komis, Nordic ambient, ethno-industrial, dub. Interweaving l…
Emiszyn
2005 release ** "Emiter Arszyn is a duo of musicians searching for new sounds. The musicians improvise electroacoustic, spatial sound structures, they do not shy away from trance post noise improvisation or post rock moodiness. The dialogues of drums and guitar are embellished with electronic and electroacoustic explorations. The upcoming album will contain, next to electroacoustic improvisation or electronic preparations, a dynamic improvised groove, computer noise next to guitar melodies, ever…
We Come For An Experience Of Presence
*2025 stock* We’re beyond thrilled to present ükya, the first band ever on our label which does not feature any member from Nakama! Ah, how we delight in the smell, taste and – not least – sounds of fresh blood! Jokes aside – we still consider them family, as two of them have attended The Nacademy in the past. ükya (always written with a small ü) is an up and coming Norwegian trio playing music in the field of improvised and open form music. Dangerous as individuals, lethal as a band!
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Play Piano And Sounds
2011 release ** "Laurent Pernice and Laurent Perrier bear very similar names. But the closeness between the two artists goes beyond mere coincidence. Both are ex-members of Nox, the mythical rock industrial French band of the 1980's. Since then, they have built a true personal and artistic complicity. In 1997, Laurent Pernice quits Paris to live in Marseilles, South of France, where Laurent Perrier visits him regularly. In 2005, on occasion of one of his visits, Perrier is invited to listen to P…
An A-Bomb To Wake Up
2006 release ** ""Their newest full length appeared hot on it's heels, containing the band's most perplexing material so far. The nine tracks here keep it very loud and very heavy, and completely instrumental in contrast to the minimal use of vocal sounds on their debut. Each song is a super complicated tapestry of dense angular math-rock riffs, lopsided rhythmic patterns, and paranoid sounds of unknown origin that will all of a sudden come together to form a beautiful Slinty passage or a creaki…
Music From Hi-Fi Sessions
2005 release ** Improvised music sessions, made using 4 custom turntables, edit scratched vinyls played in forced locked grooves, hand made phonograph, microphone, delay pedal, environmental feedback, mixer. Recording and mastering on PC. All Tracks sounds exactly as it was recorded.
Frogs
2005 release ** "“The Frogs” is our most recent project. It is the second installment in the “Fauna” series coming step after “…for electronics and birds” (to be released in May 2003 by Stateart records). As it says in the title this album is dedicated to the frogs and represent our collaboration with singer Victoria Hanna. We met Victoria, amazing vocal artist from Jerusalem, a couple of years ago and from the very first time it was obvious for us that we'll do something together. We played sev…
Lime
2010 release ** "Mugstar's third album (and second on Important Records) maintains the power and heaviness of the sonic assaults laid out in their previous releases while extending musical maneuvers and textures into new territories. Sunburnt Impedance Machine moves through driving riff passages with soaring guitars and a voice recalling touches of early Pink Floyd before locking into a repetitive keyboard and drum driven outro. Serra is an extended voyage through a shimmering Krautrock landscap…
The Quiet Sun
*100 copies limited edition* "Composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies and composer and bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause make music rooted in observation. Timbres across percussion and string instruments gradually meld into one; pitches gently float into consonance after bristling in dissonance. With The Quiet Sun, their debut duo album, the two musicians present two pieces that survey their nuanced approach to sound as it grows over time. The album, recorded at Issue Project Room, presents two wor…
Chelsea Town Hall
A 1985 live performance from the Velvet Underground’s cult icon!
When the Distance is Blue
'When the Distance is Blue' is Macie Stewart’s International Anthem debut. The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser describes the collection as “a love letter to the moments we spend in-between”—a letter realized via an intentional return to piano, her first instrument and the origin of her creative expression. Here Stewart creates a striking and cinematic work through collages of prepared piano, field recordings, and string quartet compositions, one that gives shape to …