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Continuity
*300 copies limited edition* Eponymous first album by Continuity, the new project of Swedish artist Martin Herterich, whose sonic explorations of memory and imagination have come to full bloom in this atmospheric and elusive narrative of seven intense cityscapes. Martin Herterich previously released music (as Sand Circles, etc) on labels like Posh Isolation, Not Not Fun Records, iDEAL and Irrlicht.
“Have you ever felt like all you want is to go back? Continuity is a sonic narrative, a story arc …
Celestial Shores
The music heard on this album was originally the result of a commission to score the second half of the film Nico/Nico Crying made by Andy Warhol in 1966. The commission was made by Art Cinema OFFoff in collaboration with B.A.A.D.M for a screening of the film together with a live presentation of the score in September 2021 at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The recording presented here was made in the last week of that year and mixed soon after in January 2022. These recordings are essentially li…
Flower Studies
* Edition of 444 copies with download coupon * The hermetic sound world of Australia's Mark Gomes returns. "Flower Studies", the enchanting third album by Australia’s Blue Chemise, consists of eight intimate, delicate and touching ‘études’, reflecting Mark Gomes’ introspective musings on a series of floral studies by 19th-century French photographer Adolphe Braun (1812-1877)
Schouwspel
** Edition of 120 ** B.A.A.D.M presents Schouwspel by Opéra Mort. Originally recorded in AB Salon, Brussels. Graphic Design: Mathieu Serruys & Joris Verdoodt. Thanks to Mich Leemans.
Night Of The Experimental Film IV
** Numbered edition of 90 copies with download coupon. Inlay offset printed in silver ** A contemplative aural journey across the stillness and massive scale of the landscapes of northern Iceland, as captured in Peter Hutton’s painterly film ‘Skagafjörður’.
Night Of The Experimental Film III
** Numbered edition of 90 copies with download coupon. Inlay offset printed in silver and black ** Erik Enocksson in disguise as Onda Tidender, doing what he has always been great at: putting the moving image to sound. On this tape he lends sonic grandeur to two introspective landmarks of subversive cinema: ‘Ai/Love’ by Takahiko Iimura and ‘Fuses’ by Carolee Schneemann. A eulogy to a past counter-culture.
Night Of The Experimental Film II
** Numbered edition of 90 copies with download coupon. Inlay offset printed in silver and red ** Two strenuous sound works by Dan Johansson’s Sewer Election project. Echoing the sonic aesthetics of his ‘Nara’-period, these live soundtracks for landscape movies by Derek Jarman and Peter Hutton identify as sophisticated and brutal at the same time.
Night Of The Experimental Film I
** Numbered edition of 90 copies with download coupon. Inlay offset printed in silver and blue ** This recording is probably the only published documentation of the short-lived Belgian duo Camargue. Accompanying films by Denis Colomb de Daunant and Jack Chambers with amplified violin, electronics and voice, they delivered a stunning live soundtrack, reminding us of early Tony Conrad.
Skin / Glove
Skin / Glove is the second LP by Belgian musician Mathieu Serruys, following the release of his B.A.A.D.M. debut On Germaine Dulac back in 2014. Compiled over the course of a fortnight, the record features material recorded over the past five years: creaks of ice buckling under heat, thick hums like nauseating headaches, plumes of evaporated organ hymns, frostbitten crackles of dying tape loops. These disparate sources are unified by the pervasive corrosion of pain and time, which presses into t…
Franvarande
Frånvarande acts as both the prelude and epilogue to Mattias Gustafsson’s 2017 record Nattmusik, forming a temporal cradle around his B.A.A.D.M. debut. Side A was recorded back in 2012 and originally released under his Ornaments alias, manifesting as the withered, rain-eroded memory of a majestic orchestral lament, with bowed cymbals singing through layers of rust and the sound of children floating in through an open window. It was this 20-minute piece that inspired us to present Gustafsson with…
Film Works
As part of the 2016 festival Night of the Experimental Film, French duo Opéra Mort (= Èlg + Fusiller) performed a live soundtrack for two films that centre on the paradoxical symbiosis of love and death: The Potted Psalm by Sidney Peterson and James Broughton, and Dream Work by Peter Tscherkassky. Both films convey love and death as both direct opposites and kindred concepts, turning to cryptic surrealism, poetic hallucinations and flickering alternations between flesh and ecstatic abstraction. …
On Germaine Dulac
Music & instruments by Mathieu Serruys. Recorded at The Holiday Island between December 2013 and July 2014. Produced by Mathieu Serruys & Joris Verdoodt. Mastered by Jürgen De Blonde. Album design by Mathieu Serruys & Joris Verdoodt.
On Germaine Dulac is the debut LP by Belgian musician Mathieu Serruys. B.A.A.D.M. commissioned Serruys to revisit Germaine Dulac, female pioneer of the early experimental film. Loosely inspired by moods, scenes and sceneries of La Coquille et le Clergyman (1…
F.C. Me Fecit
All music written and performed by Frederik Croene. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Christophe Albertijn – Studio Les Ateliers Claus. Produced by B.A.A.D.M. & Frederik Croene. Recorded under stormy clouds in August 2015 at St. Peter’s church in Gent, Belgium. Organ built by Pierre Van Peteghem (1847-48). Album design by Mathieu Serruys & Joris Verdoodt. Published in collaboration with Grafische Cel / LUCA School of Arts, campus St-Lucas Visual Arts Gent – funded by research unit Image.
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Maar
Maar is recorded in Gent, Malmö and Göteborg during 2015. Organ, field recordings, electronics, guitar, voice and tape works by Dan Johansson and Sofie Herner. Mastered by Linus Andersson at Elementstudion. Original front cover photograph by Giorgio Sommer, ‘pompei impronte’, ca. 1888, courtesy Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Album design by Mathieu Serruys & Joris Verdoodt.
"79 BC: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius covers the ancient Roman city of Pompei with tons of ash. All of its inhabitants die an…
Nattmusik
Composed and recorded by Mattias Gustafsson at Traststigen, Altar House and Lagmansskolan, Sweden, 2015–2016. Magnetic tape, vinyl, acoustic guitar, organ, voice, radio and eld recordings. Mastered by Christophe Albertijn – Studio Les Ateliers Claus. Album design and cover image by Mathieu Serruys & Joris Verdoodt.
According to the theories of Greek/Roman scientist Claudius Galenus (131–216 AD), human temperament has a direct and reactionary link to the world around us. A phlegmatic persona…