\'Live @ Sensational Fix
On June 17, 2008, the exhibition Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix openedat LiFE in Saint-Nazaire, France, with a focus on their multi-disciplinary activitiessince 1981 collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers,and musicians, as well as other works selected by the band.As part of the exhibition project, My Cat Is An Alien performed on stagewith their long-time collaborator Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals OnPlanet Ghost, Black Magic Disco, Z ev) singing Japanese, Michael Mo…
split LP
Hand-numbered limited edition of 300 copies, Razen and Sheldon Siegel split LP in a gorgeous mix between eastern raga and experimental free jazz... HELDON SIEGEL side features a 25-minute long recording of our live set in cc netwerk in aalst, 16th of januari 2010.
LUNA ATROCE / SOLEIL AMER : 4-WAY SPLIT
Hot on the heels of Kraak's Meet The Philly Elite 4-way split, another excellent compilation EP that bundles Asmus Tietchens/Conrad Schnitzler-styled melancholy synth work from Kohn, slow-burning electro-psych from the always amazing Peaking Lights, wiggy outer space keyboards from Alien Radio and some happy/sad psychedelic pop from Ducktails. Packaged in a fold-out poster sleeve."One year after the ‘Meet the Philly elite’ 7” we finally release a fresh 4-way split. This time Köhn and Alien…
Mr Harris
Max Harris captures the first recordings The Dead C ever made, back in January 1987. Each side displays a different and uniquely raw version of "Max Harris"--reinterpreted both times by a group who can truly say they have never played the same song in any form the same way twice. Anyone who doesn't own one of the original 21 cassette tapes made of these recordings will be hearing them together for the first time. Yes, they've never been on vinyl before, so maybe one can even say this is …
Harry Smith
New LP - first ever vinyl - from this great west coast drone group with a magical sÇance in tribute to occultist, archivist, artist and visionary film-maker Harry Smith, performed as a live soundtrack to his films. Mile-deep tones that you could swim in flux through intricately populated blankets of brain-cushioning foo with that classic aircraft-hangar-filled-with-white-light feel. Edition of only 300 copies with paste-on art.
Infant
last copies, Toy-psychedelia, what a precocious three-year-old might come up with if (s)he had a penchant for the Canterbury scene. Fun to listen to, not sure about the ultimate value. Beautiful cloth cover
Nascosto Tra Le Rune
Tsunami Edizioni is glad to announce the release of "Nascosto Tra Le Rune" (Hidden Among The Runes), the official biography of the controversial and legendary British group DEATH IN JUNE.The book has been written by long time music journalist and DIJ fan Aldo Chimenti with the help of Douglas P., and is a huge 420-pages-long effort which offers an in-depth analysis of themes, connections, historical and personal events related to the story and opus of DEATH IN JUNE (with three whole chapters dev…
Narki Goes Into Orbo
A mysterious 1981 cassette masterpiece from Narki Brillans (The Homosexuals) from the It's War Boys catalogue available now on LP. Remastered from the original tapes by Narki himself! There are more than half a million piece of space junk floating above the earth, and of all of them, there's only one or two that I'd rescue for the benefit of the human race. You know, when you think of all those dreadful Time Capsules and other vainglorious and redundant trivia - if you are someone of a discerni…
Stories From The Vacuum
A truly ethereal pairing from Italy. While MCIAA has already established a massive offering in all formats, this 7"is Valerio Cosi's first vinyl appearance proper. His side is dominated by free jazz sax loops and trance vocals, with moments of twinkling percussion and electronic euphoria. An amalgamation of improv styles pulled off in a way only Valerio can. On the flip is a beautiful example of the lush guitar ambiance, wordless vocals, and alien space toy sound effects that the Opalio brothers…
Popcorn
a follow up to last years' la bamba drama compilation, which annoyed the shit out of everyone that ever put it on, and made in conjunction with the ue popcorn night(mare), a night where over 30 people played a live cover version of gershon kingsley's banger from 1969!this double comp is the sweetest cherry on the cake, it should have been a single lp, but in a over-enthausiastic mood i kept inviting people (thinking noone would actually send something in). the versions vary from literal covers t…
time slime
some creatures have too much energy, too much energy even to be caught on a picture, by the time the machine sez click floris vanhoof already ran off, cutting and glueing 56 meters of lurid 8 and 16 mm film together to create a cluster of filmloops all playing at the same time and interacting with a slimeball of thick synth/tape madness! a full time member of stoner ensemble R.O.T., though solo-soundwise very different, a full time visual artist and a full time body and synth builder/connaisseur…
i'm a 7 inch single 7
The german hero of prankart, weirdo live shows, and real head scratch records is back with a single about a single..limited to only 200 copy's (handnumbered),this single comes in a stencil printed cover design with elvis face on it.lay out by kevin apetown and ready to be filed under "seriously weird!
de schepper 7"
this year PIERRE ELITAIRE turns 50, about time for the oldest dj in antwerp to have his own 7" out!!!! in the 80's pierre and daniel (aka cassis cornuta) were the first and only weirdos in town buying and deejaying ACID HOUSE! they would play it on radio centraal, would always have the newest and strangest stuff and quickly started playing live acid themselves after getting a bunch of 303 roland basslines and 606 and 808 drummachines!a mountain of twats started copying these genuine acid freaks …
Advent
Jagjaguwar is now proud to reissue this very important work on vinyl as well. Advent became a true underground success story, a critical darling, with Alan Licht, for example, putting it on his 'minimal top ten list' in the publication Halana. 'It is a record by an intense young man,' writes Richard Youngs, in an essay packaged with the record." Kinda amazing to have this record back on vinyl, in the year 2006. Originally recorded in 1988, it features Richard on electric guitar, piano, oboes and…
Moondog and suncat suites
By 1956, the early New York street recordings of the great Moondog had reached British shores. His primitive percussive sounds struck a new nerve with many artists and musicians, none more so that fine London jazzman Kenny Graham. So inspired was he by these extraordinary recordings that he decided to bring together a band of top notch session men and pay his very own musical homage. The result is this exceptionally rare and unique 1957 album of Moondog covers (Moondog Suite) and Graham’s…
An unrhymed chord
an unrhymed chord is a deceptively simple piece. from the score we see that each performer picks a single sound, sustains this sound for one to fifteen minutes in each half of the piece, and that amplitude is inversely proportional to duration. it does not seem like much in the way of instructions for a piece that lasts just over an hour. however, after I started making a realization I quickly realized how dynamic the situation the piece presents actually is. I had never heard a music quite li…
Klavierstücke I-XI / Mikrophonie I & II
Beautiful double CD set, containing a mindblowing Mikrophonie version... Mikrophonie is the title given by Karlheinz Stockhausen to two of his compositions, written in 1964 and 1965, in which “normally inaudible vibrations . . . are made audible by an active process of sound detection (comparable to the auscultation of a body by a physician); the microphone is used actively as a musical instrument, in contrast to its former passive function of reproducing sounds as faithfully as possible” (Stock…
Tidings / Amesthyst Waves
Trying to put the last 15 years of music into context, you’d be hard pressed to get anyone to agree on a single thing. If anything, this period has been a collective convergence of all things cool-sounding: naïve experimentalism, academic composition, art-rock synthesis, electronic nihilism/flagellation, and, well, everything else. Mark McGuire could muddy anyones interpretation of the contemporary canon with his buddies in the triadic mega-unit, Emeralds, his collaborative outings in Sun Wa…
Love him v.1
n the wild sampling black forest that daft giraffe commonly referred to as Okapi (www.okapi.it) struts about tuning a more than 100 elements orchestra, all of which ruthlessly plundered, to celebrate the notorious Kyrgyz composer Aldo Kapi (1896-1952) of whom the more recent works (1927-1952) in between break-NOT-core, experimental turntablism and bubble-gum audio are presented in this 12" volume 1.
Chora / Quivers
Chora is the British duo of Rob Lye and Ben Morris. Their music is a gorgeous mix of psychedelic free-form improvisation and ecstatic free jazz, with hypnotic percussion, cymbals, bowed instruments, eerie reeds, and an overall ritualistic, shamanic vibe. Quivers are guitarist Ninni Morgia and upright bassist Jordon Schranz, joined here by drummer extraordinaire Mike Pride, a Milford Graves student who has played with Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Nels Cline and Keiji Haino among others. Their impr…