In Fractured SIlence
Original edition of superb early (1984) United Dairies compilation presenting Un Drame Musical Instantané, Hélène Sage, Sema and Nurse With Wound. With original insert and Grrr Records catalogue.
Four Guitars Live
As Bill Orcutt’s most mature and exhilarating LP to date, Music for Four Guitars was a slab of undeniable Apollonian beauty. Its approachability and obvious novelty landed it not only on the year- end lists of every key-pushing codger in the underground in 2022, but also on NPR in the form of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, an ensemble assembled to perform this music and featuring Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish. But while their Tiny Desk Concert gave a whiff of the quartet’s easy…
Tales of Fear Will Forgive Me
This tape is an edit of Emiliano Maggi's live performance at Villa Lontana on 22 November 2022. It includes selected tapes from the artist's personal archive, vocals and acoustic instruments played live by Emiliano Maggi. The title comes from an essay by Clarice Lispector published in the Jornal do Brasil in 1967.
Music From A Room Full Of Synths
We are very happy to present the second installment in our collaboration with SMEM. Dorian Concept spent 10 days at the Swiss Museum for Electronic Music Instruments to record Music From A Room Full of Synths. Even though he doesn't consider himself a "gear-guy," his unique approach led to a record defined by its playful curiosity and free-form arrangements. The entire album was recorded live, with no sequencing or programming involved. Thus, capturing the rawness of the moment, while celebratin…
The Triumph Of The Flesh
Original 1984 picture disc by Whitehouse colaborator Jordi Vall's conceptual project on his label World Satanic Network System. A recording of the Pagan Drums of Calanda.
Locked Grooves
«These highly condensed compositions can be explored like land-scapes: distinct places defined by the forces at play.» - Julian Sartorius
Trunculence
2008 7" compilation of 100 locked-grooves by some 60 artists including Nurse With Wound, in 10" sleeve released in an edition of 333 copies on red vinyl. With insert.
Pillar of Fire / Capernaum
This is the first collaboration between Al Cisneros (OM, Sleep) and David Eugene Edwards (Wovenhand, 16 Horsepower).
Rilievo
"For many years, I collected every new Merzbow release. I stopped when I realised I couldn’t keep up with playing them; some were still in their shrinkwrap after a year. I didn’t keep up with Merzbow’s output in the last 15 years and only heard what I was sent. I had no idea what a collaboration between Merzbow’s Masami Akita and Agencement’s Hideaki Shimada would be like. The latter is a violin player whose first two LPs from the late 1980s are classics with hectic playing and might include som…
Leave Another Day
New Repress. Low-lit, introspective, grey-scale indie from Belgian artist Milan W for Nosedrip’s indispensable Stroom label. Harnessing that tricky to articulate ‘down but not out’ aesthetic that’s so key to the Stroom label, Milan’s beautifully crafted songs seep with a strong feeling of bittersweet heartbreak, sorrow and contemplation. It’s a faultless suite of spindly / spangled indie-pop gems laced with shimmering hooks, warm flourishes of melody and endearingly accented English vocals that…
Hoshi
Hoshi is the 7th album by the worldly Kaakinmaa based sound producer Tomutonttu. This compositional endeavour began with foggy intuitions about freed people in swings, house plants in hanging baskets and people being brought up by wild monkeys. Tomutonttu has been dealing with questions perhaps romantic by nature. Maybe my songs are farming music after all? What does my computer think about my music? Did electricity smell different in the 1980s compared to now? Other smells that could be related…
Agora
Born in Athens, raised in Yokohama, and currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Spends daily life at Ipanema Beach, enduring a heat index over 60°C, cracking coconuts with a pinky, eating the flesh inside, and diving into the ocean—on repeat. Always accompanied by a loyal German Shepherd (definitely four years old).The soundtrack to his bicycle ride near the beach is Baden Powell. Connected with Tetsuya Maruyama, curator of the upcoming tape release, through this very dog. (Both Maruyama and t…
A Record of Living Beings
Audio-visual artist Raimund Wong (Floating World Pictures) and unboundaried composer Suren Seneviratne (My Panda Shall Fly / Soundway) present their debut album on London's ever experimental Kit Records. Interweaving folk, ambient and free improvisation, A Record of Living Beings playfully confronts traditional instrumentation (khæn, shakuhachi, voice, taishogoto, cello) with live tape processing and esoteric '90s software.
The Arolb ensemble began life as Raimund's freeform collaborative radio…
El retorn de l'escolta - A la memòria de Marianne Brull
This recording is the document of the concert that took place on March 15, 2023 at L’Auditori de Barcelona in Sala 04-Alicia de Larrocha.
It is therefore a document as faithful as possible to what happened that day when for the first time Doneda, Ninh and Andorrà were on stage.
Michel Doneda and Lê Quan Ninh, a stable duet for more than thirty years, have set up a space for joint creation based on a radical concept of listening that avoids any extramusical narrative to focus on the conformati…
Solid Layers, Deafening Shapes
2016 release ** "A solo percussion album from Francesco Gregoretti, employing traditional instruments and unusual object to create unique audio environment that use predictable rhythmic elements against capricious approaches, giving his playing a personal style fueled by resonance and natural feedback; an album that balances chaotic and structured environments in riveting ways."
À Chacun Son Dépanneur Cigares Cubain
2002 release ** Andrea Martignoni offers us a work that can be listened to like a film somewhere between documentary and fiction, whose hero is the repairman.
Overtones-Instrumental: Flowers (Pianos And Voice)
1990 release ** Michael Vetter was born in Oberstdorf in the Allgäu region of Germany, and received a conventional school education. He adopted the recorder as his preferred instrument, and began experimenting in the late 1950s with its timbres and techniques, such as multiphonics and microtones. He inspired composers such as Louis Andriessen and Rob du Bois in the Netherlands, Sylvano Bussotti in Italy, and Mauricio Kagel and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany to use the instrument in their compo…
Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed's infamous Metal Machine Music returns for its 50th Anniversary. The most notorious album in rock history returns – Remastered, Revisited, and Still as Radical as Ever
Transients I/O
*2022 stock* Transients I/O, the debut solo release from Andreas Kühne, captures a hidden city at the edge of the Earth. Based on field improvisations recorded from 2018–2020 in Murmansk (the largest city above the Arctic Circle) the two-part electro-acoustic album uses the sounds of objects across Murmansk to speculate on the identity of this remote city – and how its young inhabitants adjust to living there.
For Transients I/O, Kühne recorded site-specific musical improvisations with objects i…