EVOL
"EVOL" was Sonic Youth's fourth album, significant for one fairly obvious reason: the addition of Steve Shelley behind the kit. Steve joined the band in mid 1985, and this is the first album he plays on. EVOL also features the first real "guest appearance" on a Sonic Youth album -- Mike Watt, who contributes bass to "In The Kingdom #19" and the non-LP bonus track "Bubblegum". "Shadow Of A Doubt" became their second music video. At some point circa June 1985, after the first European Bad Moon Ris…
Ipotesi
Another great italian avantgarde progressive rarity from 1972! Complex and excellent album, with classic moments, jazz-rock influences in the Canterbury vein, acoustic parts, sudden rhythm changes and complex arrangements, in a few words everything we love from vintage italian prog! "Part of the charm of the Italian progressive rock is undoubtedly due to its inner presence of many bands who were able to release just a single LP, often overshadowed by the 'big' names: therefore, the album and i…
Home of the Blues
Kye is proud to present Home of the Blues, the latest LP by Dan Melchior, and his sophomore effort for the label following 2012's now legendary Excerpts (& Half-Speeds). For Home of the Blues Dan agreed to undergo a series of exercises aimed not only at destabilizing his natural songwriting process, but also testing the durability of the blues idiom when placed under stress. As one would expect, Dan met the challenge with aplomb, hoisting the project beyond some one-dimensional art-school pr…
Heureusement Que le Sang Seche Vite
5599 is a new duo featuring France's electronic improvisation giant Jean-Marc Foussat on EMS Synthi AKS and current golden boy Augustin Brousseloux on electric guitar and alto saxophone. Heureusement que le sang seche vite features 3 tracks where guitar and saxophone interplay with analog synthesizer to create psychedelic, dense and textured soundscapes of aggressive noise onslaughts and moments of bliss.
Born in Oran (Algeria) in 1955, Jean-Marc Foussat played in several experimental rock g…
Modern Journal of Popular Savagery
Porest's fourth long-player, Modern Journal of Popular Savagery is a damning collection of parallel realities told in song and sound. Following 2006's masterful Tourrorists, MJoPS pits post-globalized hate pop, cabalistic text-to-speech drama and violent tape music against soapbox anthems and swirling barbed-wire psychedelia -- sometimes within the same track. The result: a terrifying and ridiculous audio shakedown that both avoids and completely indulges the inherent trappings of art and po…
Pas Encore Mort
Costes has caused me so much trouble. Even today, 25 years after the last time I performed with him, I still have a hard time booking shows because he has not mellowed as I have and the venues are afraid, because of my past association with him, that there will be piss, shit, violence, genitalia, racial tension, cops, etc. Costes has caused himself so much trouble. He's been taken to court five times over his art, received countless death threats. When's the last time you can think of tha…
Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus)
Recorded across two nights in 1981 at New York's legendary Performing Garage and originally released in 1983 on cassette, Symphony No. 1 has been remastered for vinyl and reissued for the first time as a heavyweight 180 gram 2LP set in a deluxe gatefold jacket. The limited edition pressing features additional liner notes written by Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) alongside the original notes by Jon Pareles (The New York Times) and now includes photos by Paula Court (New York Noise). The ensemble …
Koch / Kocher / Badrutt
This release documents a concert recorded on May 2nd 2014, at the record shop Blutopia in Rome, and was part of a short italian tour. All three musicians have been collaborating for many years in different formations (duo Badrutt-Kocher, duo Koch-Badrutt, …), but they teamed up for the first time as a trio for this occasion. Recorded by Carlo Cimmino and mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Kocher / Manouach / Papageorgiou
This album is the first recorded artifact of the collaboration between Jonas Kocher, Ilan Manouach and Dimitris Papageorgiou. Their musical backgrounds, as a whole, demonstrate a hybrid of origins, ranging from classical music, to jazz and traditional music. It is from the depth of these different musical landscapes that their project drives its unique and authentic personality, never succumbing to the easiness of crossover music, but allowing improvisation to shape the moment, creating a music …
Principium 2.1
years and years of summer whine, begging and massages, Remörk has finally committed to an LP! Remörk is the name under which Kris Delacourt hides his synth madness, home-made instruments and secret jewels; not just some squirky synth bubbles: we're talking huge wah wah glass pots driven by bike pedals, magnets that react to lightning whilst spinning around, deformed church organs etc.For this debut LP Remörk re-collaged the recordings of an installation he made with 12 vinyl records, six tu…
Split
First split LP in a brand new series of collaborations, pairing artists
working on the fringes - or not at all. This first split pairs
Brighton's Blood Stereo's tape gonk with Hair & Treasure's farm life loops. Blood Stereo are Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance,
a British institution, the sound complete immersion for people who
don't immerse easily. Idiot twins Burchill and Slim may behave as though
they own Sussex, but Constance and Nyoukis are immune to their
surroundings, making livid e…
Rebetika
Andy Moor (guitar) and Yannis Kyriakides (computer) lovingly deconstruct and reassemble their favorite Rebetika music in a set of nine pieces that encompass a wide scope of musical vision. This is an unusual and original take on the so-called "blues" music of the Greek diaspora of the early 20th century. This live set was recorded in 2006, first released as an exclusive download for the UK-based Seven Things download-only label, released on CD by Unsounds in 2010, and is now available on vinyl f…
Null/Void & End
Collective act from Sweden with previous releases on Northern Elctronics, Funeral Fog and Kalligrammofon, they mix their own blend of kraut, ambient, space-age electronics with a strong mystic touch. Null/Void & End features two brand new 20-min-long jams.Includes unlimited streaming of RÅD KJETIL SENZA TESTA - Null/Void & End via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Chuchoter Pas De Mots
CD comes with a 12 pages 8” booklet with paintings by Richard di Santo and photos by Stefano Gentile. Edition of 250 copies. Tomas Phillips is a composer, novelist, and teacher whose sound work focuses on improvisational performance and minimalism through composition. He began composing electronic music in the early 1990s, releasing limited editions under such monikers as Sea Optic, Lisbon and Eto Ami (with Dean King), and has since created music for installations and collaborations in dance an…
Another Day In Fucking Paradise
Frith returns to his deep roots in this improvising trio with the classic lineup of guitar, bass and drums. Playful, intimate, and bound together by a dark and delicate interplay, the group reminds us what listening is all about. After a lifetime of experience across almost every field of musical endeavor, Fred stretches out in the company of two stalwarts of the vibrant Bay Area music scene who have their own stories to tell. Fred Frith writes about his Trio: "When I proposed this trio I had no…
Mefite
Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by SEC_ between 2014 and 2015. Voice by M.DellaMorte. Words from Peter Liechti’s film “The Sound of Insects”, inspired by M. Shimada’s book “Diary of a mummy”. Premiered in Napoli as a live multichannel diffusion for several radios and speakers, with live voice. Thanks to Stefano Perna for radio broadcast technology and to M.DellaMorte for inspiring the concept.Mefite is an Italic Goddess venerated in central and southern Italy, especially in the Irpinia Re…
Quiet Novosibirsk
From August 31 to September 10, 2014 Swiss musicians Jonas Kocher and Gaudenz Badrutt teamed up with St.Petersburg-based saxophone player Ilia Belorukov for a series of seven concerts in Russia. For this trip, they were accompanied by photographer Lucas Dubuis. All travellers documented their journey intuitively, collecting all kinds of audio and visual material. The result is a varied approach to this project: a 32-minute film on DVD, a series of photographs, a short and fragmented tour diary b…
Crooked Dances
Penultimate Press is proud to present the debut vinyl release from Derek Baron. From Chicago, IL, now residing in Queens, NY Baron’s work muses on the interior and exterior via explorations of history, memory, listening, domestic ambience and the collective understanding of sound as amorphous matter. Crooked Dances presents a series of Erik Satie’s piano works as played in a flatshare with various interruptions by those who also contribute to the electricity, water and internet bills. It compris…
Korea Undok Group
After a run of extremely under the radar cassette releases, Penultimate Press is proud to present the first vinyl collection of works by the Winnipeg outfit Korea Undok Group. With more hiss than a valley of snakes the various monikers here cover the gamut of contemporary practice traversing industrial decay, rhythmic pulse onwards to piano etudes and fractured possession. All these forms come debossed with the signature destroyed tape aesthetic which makes these sharks so lonely.180 gram vinyl…
For Tentou Mishima
Kazuo Imai (born in 1955) studied with Masayuki Takayanagi and Takehisa Kosugi, and has been performing improvised music since the 1970s. While his principal instrument is the guitar, he also makes extensive use of viola da gamba, electronics, everyday items and natural objects, freely performing music born of myriad sounds. This album is comprised of five pieces from Imai’s live performance on the final day of a solo exhibition by graphic artist Tentou Mishima (who died in 2012), held at the ga…