20th Anniversary Box Set
Edition of 300. All signed and hand numbered by Angela Seo and Jamie Stewart. Body of the box is cut from sturdy foam created for Swarovski, outer casing is made from core colored Italian paper (680 gsm). Lyrics book is printed on Munken paper (90 and 160 gsm)
This box set includes:
- 16 full length audio cassettes (15 regular Xiu Xiu albums + 1 special compilation of 7” singles, covers and deep cuts from Xiu Xiu's bandcamp). - Pocket size lyric book (186 pages) with lyrics to all 15 Xiu Xiu alb…
Polonius
Edition of 350 copies. Pressed on 180g vinyl, including insert and sticker by Luca Salvatori. Aleatory. Rhizomatic. This is the beat broken free of metrics and binary quantization. The beat, with its bindings shattered, charging loose onto the dancefloor and subsuming it in a storm of gnashing teeth and whirling steps and ecstatic free dance, ecstatic free play. The beat, set free to grow in infinite folds and spores and to be carried in endless fractal blooms across the four winds, from dimlite…
Eternal City
Tip! Three pieces spanning free improvisation, noise and extended saxophone technique by long-time collaborators Jason Kahn and Ulrich Krieger.
Kalt
*70 copies limited edition* Rubies flicker in and out the redounding dark smoke of urban imagery, circles of deep space ignited with fiery psychedelic mists. Ride on shadowy golden manes in fleeting bands upon the winds of Yokujitsu.
Ensemble 1: Al Jadi
*2024 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Kinematik spent the best part of 2020 under lockdown, trying to come to grips with Lebanon's and the world's new realities, battling societal, economical and sanitary hurdles and obstacles. In October 2020, upon receiving an invitation from Irtijal Festival in Beirut to perform in its 20th edition, the former trio evolved into a full-blown ensemble, comprising a total of 6 musicians - the core line-up of Anthony Sahyoun, Rudy Ghafari and Akram Hajj was jo…
Sam's Enchanted Evening
Sam's Enchanted Evening is a Residential version of a one man show in cabaret format. It stars Randy Rose as Sam, who shares stories and songs from his life that have the most meaning to him.
The first public performance was a shorter experimental production entitled So Long Sam, and included a small string orchestra at the Berkeley Art Museum. A year later the first workshop performance took place, with the players now consisting of just Sam and a piano player. In spring of 2012 another set of …
Once You'll Touch The Sky You Will Never Return To Dust
Once you'll touch the sky you will never return to dust’ is the fifth studio album by Roberto Opalio, “the more sinister half of My Cat Is An Alien” according to Byron Coley.
Sea Songs
This is the 3rd appearance of Odesa-based Hennadii Boichenko (ex-Indirect) on Muscut, after his contribution as a part of the Indirect band (Ab Pharmacy / Waltz - 2014, Ode To The Sea - 2016 with Nikolaienko). 7” single, “Sea Songs,” - is a record mixed and tape mastered by Dmytro Nikolaienko. This is also the first episode of a newly started series of analog production chain releases with master reel tape transfer to lathe cut (the label has only been sending digital master files to the record …
The Sky With Broken Arms
*2023 stock* CD in 4-panel, full-color gatefold digisleeve. Cover artwork and foreword by Roberto Opalio. Design by My Cat Is An Alien.
‘The Sky With Broken Arms’ is the brand new studio album by My Cat Is An Alien which officially opens the duo’s 20th anniversary in 2018–a year rich of exciting projects, collaborations and releases. Brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio have been active as radical instantaneous composers since the beginning in early 1998, their work always characterized by the w…
A thousand tiny mutinies
Following on from his widely praised work for piano, percussion and large ensemble ‘The Horror Of The Avant Garde(S)’ in 2023, NM is pleased to announce the release of Melbourne/Naarm bassist and composer Joseph Franklin’s debut solo album, ‘a thousand tiny mutinies’. Franklin is led here to ‘a thousand tiny mutinies’, a voyage of unhinged polyrhythmic expression and textural investigation. A paean to the systematic deconstruction and rebuilding of the tools of formal training throughout his car…
Pianoon
"The Piano’s been one of the instruments Limpe Fuchs received an academic education for when attending the Music Academy in Munich during the early 1960’s. In the early 1970’s Friedrich Gulda, the world-famous classical pianist, who was eager to leave behind the orthodoxies, limitations and restrictions of the classical music world, got to know Limpe and was inspired by her fearless approach towards music. They started improvising and performing together and their musical dialogue lasted until t…
Et si c'était le Vent qui avait Raison ?
*200 copies limited edition* Great compilation from French label Fern Recordings. Featuring: Vincent Jehanno, Alice Kemp, BRB>VOICECOIL, Leif Elggren, Jeph Jerman, Yeast Culture, Aliénor Golvet, Anne Gillis.
Electronic Music
*2024 stock* This album recorded in 1967 by the Electronic Music Studio (EMS) of the University of Toronto exemplifies early experimentations in electronic music. It was the first studio of its kind in Canada (founded by Dr Arnold Walter) and the second in the North American Continent. The abstract songs are eerily captivating. Liner notes include explanations of how the songs were created, as well as biographical information on the members of the EMS.
Häxan (Cinema Paradiso Vol. I)
*2024 stock. 300 copies limited edition* The first volume in a series of live, improvisational & spontaneous scores to silent and obscure movies by the ever morphing RAIC (aka the Richmond Avant Improv Collective), who settled on an 8 piece ensemble for this recording...
Samuel Goff - Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Keyboards, ElectronicsAbdul Hakim-Bilal - GuitarErik Schroeder - Alto Saxophone, Percussion, Keyboards, Sampler, Theremin, Electronics, Flute, WoodwindsZoe Olivia Kinney - Cello, VocalsLa…
Nations Of I
*2024 stock. 250 copies limited edition* The music on this album sprang out of my work for the Magam project and consists of 3 suites –2 of which have, in earlier stages, been used for a butoh and a dance performance respectively– that cover the distance from aleatoric to improvised to composed music... What I like most about it is its playfulness.
The album title was initially inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's concept of "a nation of two" (in "Mother Night", 1962):“[...] 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴…
Olive
*2024 stock. 100 copies limited edition* "My name is Francesco Covarino (Perugia, 1979). I live in Granada, Spain and teach Italian. I play the drums in a duo called Covarino/Incorvaia, with which I've released two albums: "Perugia" (Preserved Sound, 2016) and "Granada" (whitelabrecs, 2017). Olive is my first solo release, and it features 16 short drum improvisations, recorded in a big room in an industrial area in Granada, with trucks maneuvering and machinery noises happening right outside the…
Suspension Pour Une Perte
*200 copies limited edition* "Suspension pour une perte was created with a gap in time. A first recording of a broken piano was made by chance in 2012. This recording was forgotten for a long time, as its nature was that of a very limited sonic range. But as a premise in my work, limitations are always potential motivations to work with; so I decided to reevaluate it 10 years after, hoping that a new approach of the same recording would offer a quite different perspective.
Sustained and continuo…
Plays A Word For Wind
Christina Carter, David Menestres and Andrew Weathers
Recorded at Tablelands Center for Bio-Regional Art, Shallowater, TX, March 30, 2022.Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Weathers at Wind Tide, Littlefield, TX
5amSky
Skyler Rowe - Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone, Sam Wagster - Pedal Steel, Drum Machine
featuring:
Chelsea Bridge - Violin, ElectronicsMatthew Lux - Bass VIAndrew Scott Young - Bass Guitar
Your Music Encountered in a Dream
Remember hearing music while dreaming, fully confident that you’ll be able to reconstruct it once awake? Music that, as it turns out, you were the sole witness. In retrospect, why ruin the experience by something so vulgar as hearing it a second time, much less having to share it? We don’t mean to alarm you, but David Grubbs and Liam Keenan have returned from the dark side of the pillow bearing Your Music Encountered in a Dream.