Bwa Ba Baw Boi
*2024 stock* Dwarf Lift Dwarf is a two-headed cerberus with crumpled masks of celestial rascals. His chirps sound like the call of a freshly deconditioned post-Hawaiian pizza. One mouthful leading to another, creepers and castrated quarterbacks arch perilously over putrid swamps where the spoils of a lucid duty-free tourist languish.
The intentions are clear: to emerge virtuous from the winter of 2020, accompanied by the priest of priests Flavio Bagnasco le Cremovo, aka Cremyeuse, on the double-…
Decay Music n.8: I Hate All the Words
“I hate all the words” by Luca Scarabelli and Michele Lombardelli’s Untitled Noise, the eight instalments in the celebrated Die Schachtel’s “Decay music” series, is a concept album composed of three tracks designed to explore the remote and hidden depths of psyche: Misery, the awareness; The Time, the suspension of disbelief; and Heaven, the existential atonement through detachment. The sounds and the voice proceed alternately, overlapping, where each, in its progression, asserts itself autonomo…
Moot!
Repress of the stunning debut from Moin - experimental art rock/post-punk group made up of both Raime members and percussionist Valentina Magaletti. A serendipitous conversation brought the project to life. Moot! allowed the group to re-appreciate the recording process, using a combination of live recording and studio techniques. The album spans psych, alternative rock and post-punk mixed with their signature electronics and sampling practice.
The record was made as an experiment, to be enjoyed,…
Air Drain
*Limited to 100 copies* "On the solo bagpipe release "Air Drain" Henry Birdsey (Half of Tongue Depressor) creates deep, haunting pieces that entrance the listener. Simple forms that evolve with breath and time."
Automatic Popular Music
Inside Automatic Popular Music there are two people sitting in a room, their backs to each other. One plays a piano with no particular attention to detail and tuning of the instrument, and another, sitting behind him, claps his hands on his own legs. They do not see each other, they never look at each other, they can only listen to each other, look around. The room is large enough, it is daytime, there are four windows through which enough light enters to illuminate the objects and furniture wit…
Infinity Ditch
*Limited to 70 copies* "Electric Shahi Baaja and Gaz recordings from southern France. Pushing out towards the reaches of stringed-instrument technique. Playing with structure and typical/a-typical sound. Based in tradition processed to confuse." - Sound Holes
Lidless Hinge
*Limited to 100 copies* "This is the good stuff. Metal objects and lap steel guitar. Inhale deeply" - Sound Holes
Sore Forest West Coast
*Limited to 100 copies* "Al Jones and Zach Rowden played a series of gigs down the west coast of Canada & the US last year. Here are a couple of those tape mangled sets." - Sound Holes
I Used To Be An Improviser
*Limited to 60 hand-numbered copies* "Ali Robertson used to be an improviser but he's not anymore. Ask him for the score for this tape so that you can play along at home." - Sound Holes
Sticky Vanity
*Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies* "This is the first recording in 10 years after a hiatus of activities asBurried Machine, and also be the first release under my real name, Shin Chida. This is a collaboration release with Tom Karlsson who is a Swedish artist and also experimental musician, for the second time since my last release as Burried Machine in 2013, Stoned Mirror." - Shin Chida
Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis
The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs -- 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis,’ 1987’s ‘Locust Abortion Technician’ and 1988’s ‘Hairway to Steven.’ The period during which these records were first issued parallels the Buttholes’ transition from being weirdo Texas outcasts to becoming internationally recognized smut-kings of the American underground. In 1985 they were still the sole p…
Locust Abortion Technician
The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs -- 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis,’ 1987’s ‘Locust Abortion Technician’ and 1988’s ‘Hairway to Steven.’ The period during which these records were first issued parallels the Buttholes’ transition from being weirdo Texas outcasts to becoming internationally recognized smut-kings of the American underground. In 1985 they were still the sole p…
Hairway To Steven
The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs -- 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis,’ 1987’s ‘Locust Abortion Technician’ and 1988’s ‘Hairway to Steven.’ The period during which these records were first issued parallels the Buttholes’ transition from being weirdo Texas outcasts to becoming internationally recognized smut-kings of the American underground. In 1985 they were still the sole p…
Îl!es
Augustin Soulard is a French composer, sound artist and sound engineer born in 1992. His practice is grounded in experiments in modular synthesis, computer music, sound design and live performance. Trained in algorithmic music and computer composition, Soulard studied with Yvan Etienne and Bastien Gallet. He later met Fransisco Ruiz de Infante and became a member of « Blue Sky ». His research focuses on diverse modes of sonic phenomena, the ambiguity between the synthetic and the organic, and me…
Music for a Bellowing Room
Big tip! Sarah Davachi returns with “Music for a Bellowing Room”, the first ever release of her audio / visual collaboration with the artists and filmmaker Dicky Bahto, originally commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Sprawling to an incredible three hours of sublime, minimalist drone - composed for tape loops, synth and delay - that draws the ear toward microscopic shifts and details, we've adored every second of this truly monumental work.
Fatbergs
"Rubbish Music embody the elevating and transformative action of imaginative involvement with discarded materials. In the process they give audible expression to our ability to resist pessimistic resignation and to realise creative redeployment. Long may they recycle!” — The Wire
Persistence of Sound presents the second album by Rubbish Music (Kate Carr and Iain Chambers), the duo upcycling waste into immersive electroacoustic music. “As we go about our daily lives, malodorous monsters are const…
Rebelòt
Angelo Bignamini is a musician and sound artist from Italy. His musical research focuses its attention on the relationship between sound and its deterioration. For this purpose he uses analogue devices (especially tape recorders and feedback) as the main tools for manipulating digital sound. He recently returned to the acoustic guitar as an implement for inner investigation through improvisation on open tunings. His works are published by independent labels all around the world. Angelo Bignamini…
Aigue - Marine
De L’Angle Mort Trio is Claire Bergerault, Patrick Charbonnier & Lionel Marchetti. The three musicians collaborate for the first time as a trio. Their music explores new aspects of electroacoustic music, combining improvisational musical techniques with live electronics and dance music forms.
“Aigue – Marine” consists of three compositions based on voice, electronics, accordion, and rhythmic elements. Claire Bergerault, Patrick Charbonnier & Lionel Marchetti improvise in a spontaneous way, creat…
Futurist Antiquarianism
Nocturnal Emissions, masterminded by Nigel Ayers, have been on the cutting edge of new music since the 1970s. Ayers has been described as a Guerrilla Sign Ontologist, cutting-up and pasting the contents of the human psyche. With a background in avant-garde art, his work has grown from audio visual installations through underground video works which changed the shape of British television. In the early eighties Nocturnal Emissions hit London with a barrage of seminal funk; pioneering the use of s…
Dessus oben alto up
Marionette presents 'dessus oben alto up', the first collaborative recording by Andrea Belfi and Jules Reidy. Hailing from different ends of the globe (Australia and Italy) but both longtime residents of Berlin, Reidy and Belfi’s approaches have much in common, bringing together compositional precision and electroacoustic rigour with improvisation freedom, the immediate gratifications of rhythmic pulse, and an overtly lyrical sensibility. Working together during a residency at the sound studio o…