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.
Space Elements Vol. 1
The third in Rafael Toral's Space Program series of releases - his long-term research project launched in 2004, through which he has unearthed an innovative approach and a complete re-thinking of how electronic music is conceived and experienced. Using custom experimental instruments, Toral performs electronic music concerned with 'phrasing and swing' and performing strange melodies with physicality, movement and gesture in flux.' 'Space Elements Vol. I features Rute Praça (cello), Margarida Gar…
Week-end at Burnie\'s
Another vital instalment in no-fi's growing and collectable vinyl catalogue, this 7' sees massachussets' freestyle kraut funketeers sunburned hand of the man condense their name and a whole album concept into 7' of vital vinyl. side 1 is inhabited by the murderous bossa nova of Ôsmokescreen', with its loping bassline and trapped-in-a-box vocal paranoia. then flip over for 7 more unhinged instalments, through the found-sound and minimal psych of Ôthe queen of midnight', the faux cult frenzy of 'j…
Live On Conan Island
The ultimate East coast - West coast soundclash as Oregon's Yellow Swans and Brooklyn's Mouthus present a smouldering document from their onstage interactions on their Fall 2006 US tour. The sound of Mouthus's splat&clatter percussion and sheets of severely altered guitar and voice noise paired with Yellow Swans' raucous axe-mangling and sublime noise processing make for a gargantuan oil tanker of sound that can't avoid enveloping the listener. ÔLive On Conan Island' is a range of monstrous cave…
Ouarda (the subtle art of phyllorhodomancy)
Ouarda (The Subtle Art of Phyllorhodomancy) is currently only available as a double vinyl set with a view to release on cd-dvd at a later and as yet unspecified date. Andrew Liles' latest offering has taken nearly three years to hit the shelves and almost as long to create. Recorded in London, Paris, and Sicily, 'Ouarda (The Subtle Art of Phyllorhodomancy)' is a travelogue that refuses to stay stuck in any one place for any extended period. The music herein is as diverse as the array of guests i…
s/t
Limited to 500 copies. another vital instalment in no-fi's growing and collectable vinyl catalogue, this 7' sees the head-on collision of two major acts in the european noise circuit. norway's jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of lasse marhaug and john hegre, best known for their Ômetal machine music' death metal concept album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more noise-oriented work. marhaug is a major figure in international noise, well-known for having…
The Harmony of Contradictions
Jack Wright (alto saxophone, soprano saxophone) with Alban Bailly (acoustic guitar). Extended techniques are relied on heavily as the duo investigates their instruments, eventually leading to a singular output.
Live Bootleg
Edited by Yvan Etienne. Bilingual edition (English-French) 13 x 17 cm (folded poster cover). This publication provides an overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, featuring three essays and an interview, as well as a specific project (a collection of radio memories submitted from around the world), installations views, the artist's Museum of Instruments, and descriptions of the performances recorded on the included audio cd. Brandon Labelle is musicia…
Abovensen...
Sven-Ake Johansson (voice, percussion) with KNM Berlin. 'Polis, Wachs und Pomade' (2000), 'Abovensen... (2002), 'Einen staubigen Klang finden' (1998).
Vol. 1
Axel Dörner (trumpet), Zoran Terzinc (piano), Jan Roder (bass), Sven-Ake Johansson (drums). Recorded in 2005.
The private language problem
Electro-acoustic compositions performed on a variety of handmade and sculptural instruments. The compositions vary from filling large rooms with a continuous wash of sound to the heady pans of pure electronic tones. One of the most active experimental music performers on the East Coast for the past decade, John Berndt began his musical career by composing wildly abstract electro-acoustic and conceptual tape music in 1978 at the tender age of 11. His first compositions in this mode premiered on t…
Shortcut
Phil Durrant (computer), Bertrand Denzler (tenor saxophone) and Burkhard Beins (percussion, objects). Recorded on November 28 & 29, 2006 by Christophe Hauser at La muse en circuit (France).
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…
Le journaliste
Anne-James Chaton (voice, electronics) with Andy Moor (electric guitar, radio, electronics). Le journaliste consists of 8 pieces and is a part of a series of 100 portraits iniated by Anne-James Chaton... Most of these portraits have become large posters. Le journaliste is a journey into the texts and columns of a newspaper and radio broadcasts of a single journalist selected by Anne James. The world news, the politics, headlines, the stock exchange figures and the weather are all explored and tr…
Universal Prostitution
Hardcore improvisation. Extreme, sharp and filled with burning energy - No More Music (at the service of capital). This is a beautifully painful record recorded in Oslo, Brussels and Strasbourg in early 2006 by the duo of Argentinian Lucio Capece on saxophone, often feedbacked through a mixer and Basque computer improviser/feedbacker/ destroyer and thinker Mattin, both based in sunny Berlin. "Universal Prostitution" moves in the wastelands between extreme reductionism, noise and focused improvi…
And I pulled the word \'and\' from my beard
“And I pulled the word 'and' from my beard" is the new work from Portland based cut-up genius ID M Theft Able. 55 minutes of pure sonic madness: lo-fi, trash, collage, crazy found sounds, unexpectable chaos. Totally undefinible! Extrasized cover, edition of 200.
Deadly Space Missions
File under: cosmic fear noise. Daryl Groetsch blessed us with two slow jams for modular synthesizers. The first track is a mammoth, while the second one is a drony excursion into outer space. Packaged in 12" X 5" optical bag silkscreened by canedicoda. Edition of 200.
Black Cross, Red Crescent
New Zealand's best known secret, Duncan Bruce recorded these 2 gems in 2006, and they're finally released on 8mm. this is the music i love: weird, dreamy, exotic, loud and completely out-of-its-center = free. New Zealand and Afghanistan has never been so close. 111 copies.
Untitled Space Junk
Punk rock from the year 3000. For who's already familiar with the band from Dunedin, NZ, you know what to expect: primitive drums, walls of guitar feedbacks, synth-weirdness and vocals dialled directly from Saturn. Amazing. 100 copies, silkscreened.
Urine Cakes
By using the simple equation of invitation + imitation = invocation-to-putrification, we bring forth the flakey yellow mountain called 'Urine Cakes'. Its one half 'covers' of peeinmyfacewithsurgery and one half brand new original PIMFWS discharge. Urine Cakes cd-r is a dark and undead fantasy-for-a-laugh until the invitation requires a more specific and profitable open ended disaster. Listen up! It has nothing to do with the expectations implied by 'covers' in fact there seems to be absolutely…