Desert: Guitar Solo For Reel-to-reel Tape Recording
Mamer first became known as a dombra virtuoso and a modern master of Kazakh folk music. Over the years, he has evolved into a prolific and versatile artist, working across the boundaries of both tranditional and contemporary music. Mamer leads seven band projects: IZ, Bande, Mekrop, TAT, Mask, 51-Rayon, and Kunakar. He has released over 30 records, presenting a diversity of distinct styles including folk, ambient, industrial, noise, improvisation, and drone music.
“Every Mamer is brand new”. On…
The Wringing Cloth
The final album of Henry Birdsey’s (Tongue Depressor) textured and immersive country laments project, Old Saw. This final document highlights the range of the project’s vision, evading easy categorization.. Some of the most direct and emotive music yet from Birdsey.
Answers
Tip! Benjamin Bennett has worked as an improvising percussionist for 10 years, touring North America and Europe as a soloist, in various ensembles, and ad-hoc collaborations. He developed a unique approach to percussion which took the lineage of free-jazz, free-improvisation, Berlin reductionism, and extended technique playing as its foundation. In searching for an expanded sonic palette, and more fluid movement between various techniques, he distilled the drumset into a small collection of drum…
Sprut
1995 release ** Limited edition of 499 hand-numbered copies in oversized cardboard sleeve. "Sprut "Progetto Numero 1" creates a new soundscape and texture by overlaying a saxophone solo on top of a rock band,he is "superimposing... "plagarism" an schizophrenia/"schizophonia". Tzadik Records made a re-press of this CD as part of its composer series, adding "Progetto Numero 2", and "Progetto Numero 3". under the title guise, Sprut by Italian composer Giustino Di Gregorio."
Wobblement
*100 copies limited edition* Hali Palombo is a composer and multimedia artist from the American Midwest. She works primarily with found audio and field recordings, creating careful compositions from a wide variety of disparate sources. Wobblement is an album featuring chaotic yet organized compositions crafted from heavily distorted voice, electric guitar, piano, sounds from the Warner Brothers sound library, and various field recordings taken at Midwestern points of interest.
Hush, Suzanne
*50 copies limited edition* Using everything from turntables to skipping CDs, field recording, piano and sampling, Me, Claudius captures the musical and rhythmic events that exist in the most unexpected places in our environment. Me, Claudius is an experimental musician living in a village in Southern England. She has released music on Dinzu Artefacts, Bezirk Tapes and Linear Obsessional. ‘Hush, Suzanne’ is a volume of live tracks where a stack of 7” singles are sampled, scratched and needle-dro…
The Suddering Years
*100 copies limited edition* G Lucas Crane returns with a huge slab of new sound work drawn from the last two years of vibrating sonic gristle and swollen sound jelly, producing the new righteous gibberish adjective of ‘suddering’. All things can now confidently sudder, and may god have mercy on us all.
G Lucas warps, mashes, unspools, hacks, grinds and morphs his archive of cassettes and manipulated field recordings into a tapestry of lovecraftian horror-audio, where ghosts speak in machine lan…
Omni
First time meeting of Sam Wenc (US/pedal steel + objects) and Stefano Grasso (Milan/percussion + recorder). The record is one take, broken into 10 tracks, exploring the boundaries of the rhythmic grid, never quite landing inside it, but hovering on its perimeter, through extended technique, melody, and disharmony.
It Had Been An Ordinary Enough Day In Pueblo, Colorado (LP)
Fantastic 1979 recording by the duo of Eddie Prevost and Keith Rowe under the AMM III moniker. Original 1979 edition on Japo.
Newfoundland (CD)
One of the best ever recordings by the mighty AMM, here composed of Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe and John Tilbury. Original 1992 CD on Matchless Recordings.
Laminal (3CD)
Superb 1996 triple-CD set on Matchless Recordings presenting 3 exceptional full live recordings spanning 25 years (1969-1994). AMM: Cornelius Cardew, Christopher Hobbs, Lou Gare, Keith Rowe, Eddie Prevost and John Tilbury in different combinations.
Musica su Schemi
A testament to one of Italy's most radical musical experiments, now available in this carefully crafted limited edition for a new generation of adventurous listeners.
I Lost Myself In Finding You
Erototox Decodings proudly presents "I Lost Myself In Finding You," a mesmerizing new album from the international trio Rasha Ragab, Christoph Nicolaus, and Lucio Capece. Released November 4, 2022, this recording is a unique confluence of voices, tradition, and modern sonic investigation, designed to captivate the ear and spirit alike
- Rasha Ragab: Egyptian performer renowned for her evocative vocal presence, blending singing with Sufi poetry and texts.- Christoph Nicolaus: Innovator of the sto…
From Scratch New Discantus Quintet
"From Scratch New Discantus Quintet is a 60 minute long piece for two horns (Soprano and Tenor sax), double bass, a percussion set (bongo-drum kit), one electronic instrument (analog synth) and piano. Depart from the subharmonic scale, present through 10 stable sustained tones that act as a Cantus firmus, in the way composers Pérotin or Léonin worked in the XII century, initiating what is technically considered ‘counterpoint’, yet in this case, from scratch.
This Cantus firmus acts as a context …
Recordings from the Åland Islands
In 2017 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled together to the Åland Islands (an archipelago that is host to around 6,500 islands) in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. They headed to the islands with the intention of helping two friends (mother/daughter duo Jannika/Sage Reed) barn raise a small inn named Hotel Svala in Kumlinge (a municipality consisting of a small group of islands and a population of about 320). The idea was that, once completed, Svala would host artist residencies…
Undertow
*70 copies limited edition* Eventless Plot, the renowned experimental duo from Thessaloniki, proudly announce the release of their latest cassette, Undertow. Known for their genre-defying sound and meticulous sonic craftsmanship, Eventless Plot continue their tradition of pushing the boundaries of contemporary music with this immersive new work. Undertow is a two-part suite (Part A, featuring Marco Paltrinieri, and Part B), unfolding through a spacious interplay of analog textures, modular synth…
Guitar Solos (LP)
Original 1974 UK edition of the first solo album of adventurous guitar explorations by Henry Cow member.
With Friends Like These (LP)
Original 1979 LP on Metalanguage, the first encounter by the two giant guitarists.
Outside Pleasure
Original 1980 LP on Metalanguage of adventurous solo guitar explorations. Never fully re-issued on either LP or CD.
Aloha (2LP)
Original massive 2LP set with gatefold sleeve on Metalanguage from 1981 of adventurous guitar explorations featuring Magic Band's John French a.o.. Never fully re-issued on either LP or CD.