Night through. Singles and collected works, 1976-2004
Reissue. Essential 3xCD collection of Singles by New York City guitarist Loren (nee MazzaCane) Connors, one of America's most unique and challenging voices. Night through.spans four decades of Connors' recordings from the earliest acoustic session and first solo 7 - Ribbon o' Blues on St. Joan - to rare Singles issued by Table of the Elements, Road Cone, Father Yod, Menlo Park, Gyttja, Union Pole, and others, to his late 90s band Haunted House and recent acoustic recordings. Overall, three and h…
The air in the sand
Loren Chasse is a member of the Jewelled Antler Collective, and his solo work on The Air in The Sand is nothing short of extraordinary. Via a series of sweeping atmospheres, and brooding at times almost melodic deep tones, Chasse edits together densely layered field recordings to conjure up nostalgic feelings of a windswept oceans and cold barren beaches without ever explicitly referencing either. With shifting, gradually building drones and white noise arranged carefully in swells between cicad…
Worms organising archdukes
Extended concert recordings from Rotterdam and Brussels provide a contrast to their equally fine previous soprano saxophone & piano duo CD Boundless (Emanem 2021). There is also a short track on which Weston switches to chamber organ. 79 minutes -- previously unissued.
Boundless
A fine sequence of shortish soprano saxophone and piano duos reflecting the moods of two exceptional improvisers on a winter's day. The first time they have appeared as a duo on record since 1978, revealing their playing to be more adventurous than ever. 70 minutes.
Alone and together
Improvised unaccompanied soprano and sopranino saxophone solos of the usual high standard, plus duets with STEVIE WISHART (violin & hurdy gurdy) and MARCIO MATTOS (cello & electronics). All recorded in concert. 70 minutes - previously unissued.
L’incandescence de l’étoile
L'incanDescence De l'étoile is a Musique Concrète piece based on the everlasting universal (re)cycle. It is it's own modulator, oscillating at immense speed, almost standing still. The composer has interpreted and given an auditive representation of these cosmic forces, melted together in a solid musical gesture , perpetuated on a little disc. Captured time, but where to next? L'incanDescence De l'étoile is a great example of the fine craftmanship of Marchetti, it's been composed up to it's most…
Disambiguation
Limited edition of 500 copies, CD in full colour paper sleeve.Disambiguation [46:25]'Disambiguation' is the third CD from the duo of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kaspar T. Toeplitz. It features one ongoing stream of grey, heavy and disturbing noises. It contains blocks of solid and almost material sounds, causing a physicality and urgency to the music which is rare to find these days. ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI Composer and performer of contemporary music. Was bom in Cracow - Poland but emigrated; as a,, teen…
In : : tension
About I n : : t e n s i o n : 'Since a very young age, I have always been attracted to journeys and traveling to places not known to me. Last year, I watched a film from Mongolia about a dog. Once the dog dies, its soul is free to travel and wonder through landscapes and memories as a disembodied spirit. Each part of I n : : t e n s i o n : . is part of a longer journey, where you can hear, sense and discover different memories that a wandering soul revisits. Percussive, intimate, visceral, ritu…
The Lowest Form Of Music
Long out of print huge box, The Los Angeles Free Music Society was a complete screwball fringe music collective that peaked in the true heart of darkness -- America in the mid 70s. They self-released LPs, 7"s and cassettes in the dawn before real independent distribution and the myth that surrounds those sacred pressings has in recent years become feverish. Mixing pure sonic weirdness, musique concrete, free improv blare, fringe-noise-nonsense and much more, the musicians involved with LAFMS cre…
Structural films
Rare selection of Kren films, spanning works from 1957 to 1979. Kurt Krens achievements with regard to the montage of short cuts in his early works was many years ahead of the rest of the (film)world, in both form and content. Kurt Kren was a pioneere: an avantgardist in the classic and best sense of the word. A filmmaker who knows how to think in images like few others in this trade, and who realized these images in films that are among the 'most beautiful' and 'most important' in cinematic his…
Action films
Though undoubtedly a collection of avant-garde works, it’s tempting to view Kurt Kren’s “action films” as documentaries. A series of collaborations made between 1964 and 1967, these ten assembled shorts find the Austrian director working primarily with the performance artists Günter Brus and Otto Mühl. Each piece serves as a recording of their actions – funny, confrontational, shocking examples of body art that should be vaguely familiar to most – yet addresses them in Kren’s own distinct manner…
Document 1 - 1999/2003
3 years of live electronic improvisation from the Kraakgeluiden series of improvised music performances in Amsterdam. Appearing on the CD are over 30 musicians including Jaap Blonk, Cor Fuhler, Gert-Jan Prins, Anne La Berge + Marko Ciciliani.
Number one
American performance/noise/percussion artist Z'ev, Japanese composer/performer K.K. Null, and field-recording artist Chris Watson (formerly of Cabaret Voltaire and the Hafler Trio) conjoin in a first collaboration for Touch. The idea for this recording, generated by Z'ev, has three elements: 1) to use the structure of the Noh Theatre cycle as the basis for the composition; 2) to consider the initial sound development in terms of developing "characters" which would then interact with one another …
Fertile
Fertile is KK NULL's first album for touch, following his collaboration with Chris Watson and Z'ev [Number One - Tone 24, 2005], which boomkat called 'moving and atmospheric', and The Wire wrote 'a complex dramatic work from a strict economy of means'. KK NULL (real name Kazuyuki Kishino) was born in Tokyo, Japan. Composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of Zeni Geva and electronic wizard. One of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a wider context, one of the great cult artists in experi…
Yokosawa-iri
A former member of Merzbow, Mizutani has been creating his solo work since 1989, delving into areas of electronic noise, structural sound systems of feedback and instrumentation as well as natural compositional arrangements of field recordings. Yokosawa-iri falls into the latter category. All field recordings were made at this Satoyama<pi>, a traditional form of agricultural environment consisting of a mountain, a rice field and a small village where people and nature coexist in harmony. With be…
Gauntlet
Kevin drumm (guitar and noise) and Daniel Menche (organ and noise) recorded Fall of 2006 in Chicago at Uggae's Porta-toilet studio. Mixed and mastered at Stereophonic Mastering in Portland, Oregon. One organ, one guitar, several fuzz boxes and two highly regarded purveyors of american extreme sonics are the savuory ingredients that created Gauntlet. Building on Menche's aural low end physicality and drumm's exacting attention to high frequency detail - the aptly titled 'Gauntlet' is sizzling, sc…
Particles and smears
Grainy flickering, strangulated buzzing, blurred sonic shadows and harsh stridulations. Chicagoan Drumm continues to rethink the electric guitar in terms that suggest the microscopic life of ponds, and he deploys electronics along similar lines. Canadian turntablist Tètreault scatters clicks and blips as he skates the meniscus. Tiny events, inconsequential in themselves, taken together form a viable acoustic ecosystem. (The Wire, Julian Cowley)3
Comedy
Original 1st editon, Comedy is Drumm’s third album, recorded over two years ago. It floated around in a provisional version, entitled Organ, for quite a while and caused a genuine bidding war between labels, at least five of them, which caused our Kevin to retreat in his special endearing way, and ultimately decide not to do anything at all with it. During this hibernation, Organ underwent some changes, being dissected and bisected and now including three electronically generated magnifications,…
Land of lurches
Land Of Lurches is the new release from Chicago’s Kevin Drumm. Two sidelong tracks of diarrheic hailstorms. Land Of Lurches is maximalist diarrhea created in the spirit of true Heavy Metal. That is... it’s ugly, loud, disturbing, courageous, triumphant, and totally fucking POWERFUL! What starts out as a thick relaxing drone quickly turns into a brutal and bloody animal fight. This is the sound of a seal ripping apart a human body while a crowd of 90,000 cheer it on. Kevin is a modern day barbari…
Beauvais cathedral
The long-awaited reissue of KENT CARTER's highly-acclaimed first solo album. As well as some solo cello and double bass improvisations, there are some collages in which he plays nearly all the parts himself courtesy of over-dubbing techniques. Carter had previously been heard with the groups of Paul Bley and Steve Lacy (among others), but such work did not prepare one for the unique music heard in this collection. Three previously unissued items (including a one-man string quartet) have been add…