★Hinterzimmer
Ember
"First tape release for Hinterzimmer Records as well as for Herpes Ö DeLuxe, coming in time to a short tour celebrating their 15th year of existence. Ember consists of two side long tracks (both around 18 minutes). Absolument Pas is a complex, multi-part composition and has already been released last year on a split-LP with German band S/T in an edition of 100 copies only. Fur Wahr is a slowly evolving psychedelic track they already recorded a while ago but never found an appropriate possibility…
Mahlzeit
All in all Mahlzeit is a collaborative release, but in a special way as some tracks were created by Ralf Wehowsky (of P16.D4 fame) using sounds by TITO and vice versa, but some were just done by one part of the project, assimilalting suggestions from the other part. It mixes electroacoustic composition, early electronic music and bizarre Kraut-era avantgarde.
Sous les etoiles
We are proud to release - four years after his first longplayer on Canadian imprint 'Manufracture' - Kiko C. Esseiva's second album 'Sous les étoiles'. The electro-acoustic-musique conrète compositions he has constructed during the past years are brilliant soundpieces that remind sometimes on Luc Ferraris electro-acoustic works but also the very narrative nature of some older Nurse With Wound albums. The way he mixes (almost) melodic elements into a complex structure of well arranged sounds and …
Ghost Time
Ghost Time is Ken Hyder, Z'EV, Andy Knight. Ghost Time is a unique trio, fusing tastes of ambient and drone with spices of neo-folk and jazz into Dead Jazz. A true witch's stew where everything is of the moment. Recorded live and direct from the Ghost Time. The lineup is unusual too. English pocket trumpeter Andy Knight is flanked by two drummer-percussionists, Z'EV from the USA and Ken Hyder from Scotland. As a group they allude to traces of greatly diverse influences and traditions. Bas…
Equilibrium
PRSZR is Pure (Peter Votava) and Hati (Rafal Iwanski & Rafal Kolacki). PRSZR (pronounced pressure) combines the eerie, computer generated sound world of Austrian electronic music veteran Pure with the archaic, outer-worldly spaceyness of Polish duo Hati's percussion play. Multi-layered syncopatic polyrhythms alternate with gong-based drones, both built on top of computer-generated loops and pulsating patterns. Melting acoustic with electronic aesthetics in a unique way, the trio explores …
Drôles D'Oiseaux
Kiko C. Esseiva is a composer with Swiss and Spanish roots who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. He creates electroacoustic sound pieces that are, not unlike those of the French master of the genre Luc Ferrari, warm, non-academic and colourful, spreading a humanity and richness that is far away from the sterility of a lot of today's electronic compositions. He creates very diversified atmospheres which combine acoustic instruments, noise, human voices, field recordings and static sheets of …
Fog tapes
Following their mystical, dark and haunting self titled debut album on Utech Records (home of Aluk Todolo, Horseback, Final, Skullflower, Runhild Gammelsaeter, James Plotkin...), Ural Umbo return with their follow-up release, an even more dense, forward-thinking, nebulous post doom record. An organic and hypnotic mixture of lurking electro-acoustics, atmospheric black metal approaches, epic drones, slowly evolving melodies, doom mantras and an overall psychedelic atmosphere.
The finishing line (Film music volume 2)
Second full-lenght album from rashomon (aka Guapo founding member Matt Thompson). Inspired by public information broadcast The Finishing Line (1977), the record is a sonic re-imagining of the film as haunted meditation on the power of memory, drawing the listener into a claustrophobic sense of unease and mounting horror. An amalgam of library music, 1970s prog soundtrack, musique concrète and spectral jazz
The Bern project
The Bern Project presents six new compositions that Chatham recorded in Bern together with Swiss musicians Julian Sartorius (drums), Mago Flueck (electric bass) and Beat Unternhrer (trombone). The best parts of many hours of recordings were mixed, edited and complemented by Hinterzimmer's Reto Mder and became some kind of the first Rhys Chatham album with band since 1987s Die Donnergötter...
Minenhund
Music created through the use of old, modified, Lenco turntables, modified and manipulated in countless ways. But it has more in common with the anti-electronica of Pan Sonic or the early minimalism of Steve Reich, than to other experimental turntablists.