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Christer Bothén is a main character in the Swedish improv, jazz and world music scene. He studied music in Mali and Morocco in the 70s and collaborated w Don Cherry. Bothén has been active in bands like Bitter Funeral Beer Band, FIRE! Orchestra, Mats Gustafson NU Ensemble, Spjärnsvallet and Bolon Bata. We are very proud to work with him on this exclusive vinyl LP release.
Bitter Earth
Bitter Earth is the much anticipated, long-in-the-making new album from John Duncan joined by a broad cast of adroit collaborators; Oren Ambarchi, Jim O’Rourke, Smegma, Chris Abrahams, Joe Talia, CM Von Hausswolff, Eiko Ishibashi, France Jobin - all written in dedication to Mika Vainio (who, for avoidance of doubt, is not dead!). It's a remarkable suite of cover versions - from The Gun Club to Nina Simone and Iggy Pop - and original material by an arch experimenter who continues to explore unfa…
Unfit
RM is Italian mastermind of bad vibes Riccardo Mazza. The man has a free approach to his music, with no interest what so ever in the device used as a source. RM is dark, meditative harshness. The intent is to submerge the listener with a gloomy, ancestral mood. This is truly capturing, ambient and pulsating electronic music with nods to both minimal techno and industrial music. iDEAL is proud to release this great work of brilliance. Also, for info lovers, Mazza is half of industrial filth duo L…
Protest Music
Dense, roiling drone show from Joe DeNardo, who’s best known as Growing but, adopts the Ornament moniker to signify something altered from his usual practice. It starts out with a folksy sort of dissonance and soon starts to curdle and keen in fascinating formations.Joachim Nordwall of iDEAL says: Protest Music is the first release by Ornament, the recent project of Joe DeNardo from the band Growing. Ornament began playing shows in late 2012 around the New York City area, and recorded this album…
Sacree Obsession
Masterpiece!!! ""Sacrée Obsession", the new album from the australian percussionist extraordinaire Will Guthrie, comes out of his continuing research into repetition, the ritual, physicality through volume and mass, and complexity through the development of simple ideas. combining pulse and rthymic ideas with melodic and pitch based textures he has succeeded in making truly unique music. obsessive development of minimal material is not new in will guthrie's music, from his brutal tribal l…
Unlearn
**Edition of 300 copies on this incredible album from Tanya Byrne, sounding somewhere between Beatrice Dillon and Wold** Ectoplasm Girl, Tanya Byrne, returns to iDEAL with the uncanny, ten-stage solo noise hypnosis of 'Unlearn'. Arriving a year on from her sister, Nadine Byrne's incredible 'A Different Gesture: Collected Soundtracks 2011-2012', this suite reprises the repetitive trance states of their 'TxN' album, but at an enervated, slower pace and with more atonal, abstract textures in…
Idealism Volume one
"idealism is a new lp compilation series presented by Ideal, compiled by Joachim Nordwall. showcasing artists with a clear and strong vision, some already working with the label, and some related ones and some future collaborators. The musical world is where we are used to find ideal - experimental analogue synth based stuff, usually surrounded by shadows and unease. On the first volume, we meet swedish king of filty tape music - Altar of flies who released his mind expanding self titled lp on i…
Purple Melters
Invasive psychoacoustic acid killer from EVOL for the sympathetic freaks at Sweden’s iDEAL. Continuing a pursuit of altered states induced by pure frequency manipulation, ‘Purple Melters’ is the fourth work in a series that started with ‘Proper Headshrinker’ (Editions Mego, 2013), a series which will also see a release on Diagonal later this year. Essentially, it’s acid house without the house, drilling down to the 303’s micro phase variations and psychedelic sleight-of-mind conjuring a sense of…
Lap dance / Table solos
On December 14th, 2011 - Mats Gustafsson played an amazing solo concert at our table at Bar Brooklyn in Stockholm. He was supposed to play a "real" concert but bastards didn't care much for that so he ended up playing at the head of our table. Someone spilled a full beer over his merch that was on that table, and we were all overly excited, of course. Jean-Louis Huhta recorded it on his Zoom, and this is an excellent document of today's leading free jazz magus. Limited to 200 copies. Tran…
Cut And Bleed (Sounds From Ehtiopian Metal & Korean Gongs)
very very few copies restocked, act fast! Ideal label once requested a cassette to percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love, and with the help of Lasse Marhaug he recorded a rich and dynamic album, far from his typical crude approach, this one is intense and meditative. \"The title says it all. We asked Paal Nilssen-Love to make us a cassette release. He called his pal Lasse Marhaug and his tape deck and he recorded these two pieces over at Paal\'s place in Oslo. It ended up being simply amazing, dee…
A Different Gesture (Collected Soundtracks 2011-2012)
"A Different Gesture (Collected Soundtracks 2011-2012)" presents soundtracks to four films by the Swedish visual- and sound artist Nadine Byrne. This album consist of four beautiful, esoteric, ambient pieces composed especially for these films. In 2011, together with her sister Tanya Byrne as Ectoplasm Girls, she blessed us with one of that year's strongest albums. Deep, occult, drone pop with industrial influences. Chris Carter loved it. The Wire Magazine loved it too and ranked it as on…
Stallgewitter
Lovely collaborative work by Daniel Löwenbrück and Marcellvs L. on Ideal Recordings, edition of 300 copies. 45RPM LP for maximum sound quality. Composed of field-Recordings captured in Thailand, Iceland, and UK. Mastered and cut by Andreas 'Lupo' Lubich at Calyx, Berlin. Marcellvs L. (b.1980) is a renowned Brazilian Video- and Sound-Artist currently living in Berlin and Seydisfjödur, Iceland. His particular and radical production attracts attention by the intensity with which it associates philo…
Altar of flies
All compositions by Mattias Gustafsson: magnetic tape, field recordings & electronics, recorded to tape 2012-2013. Altar of Flies is back on iDEAL with this new, untitled album, his first since 'Permanent Cavity' (2010). Mattias Gustafsson's industrial, Mjölby-style musique concrète is deeply personal and even though the music is often sparse and minimal, it always contains restrained energy explosions and psychic tensions. This, his fifth proper LP (and a long line of nice releases on hot label…
Yeah
Restocked Side A: recorded and mixed in 1993 by John Duncan and Jim O'Rourke at Christoph Heemann's studio in Aachen. Final mix in 2013 by Jim O'Rourke in Tokyo. Side B: Stay alive recorded live with Oren Ambarchi and Joe Talia on 9 March 2013 at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo; mixed by Joe Talia.
YEAHJim and I worked fast and furiously in Christoph Heemann's studio to record this, working in shifts, day and night, three days later had it all but finished -- then Jim said 'Let me do just a couple of t…
Object subject to change
Object Subject To Change' is Henrik Rylander's fourth album for iDEAL but the first since 2009. Rylander is king of hypnotizing, focused feedback drone with razorsharp noise and monotonous pulse. Music that feels as comfortable in academic worlds as in filthy basements. Henrik Rylander was the drummer of the provocative, sweaty and chaotic garage rock band Union Carbide Productions (1987-1993). After a few years focusing on his visual art (photography) he started experimenting in sound and espec…
Matter transfer
Limited to 300 copies. Hand numbered. All tracks composed at The Castle, 2006, and pre-mastered at La Hacienda, 2008, by Carl Michael von Hausswolff. Recorded at Frgfabriken Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden, in connection with the exhibition Matter! by Carl Michael von Hausswolff (12-channel audio composition) and Anita Gordh (visuals), 2006, curated by Jan man. Matter Transfer (model 4 and 5) was installed 2009 in Stavanger, Norway, within the series Enter…
Ideal world (1)
7' vinyl. Edition of 100 copies. Transparent vinyl. B/w cover. Released in June 2012. Dave Phillips, based in Zürich and steady collaborator of the Schimpfluch Gruppe, is working with the extreme. This fine piece of vinyl, his first for Joachim Nordwall's iDEAL Recordings label, is a great, odd, harsh and beautiful experience. Humanimalism, psycho-acoustics, voice and body sounds. Honest stuff. And in your face. This is the first in a series of ten 7's by Dave Phillips on iDEAL. 'it's when…
Scandinavian parts (immersive live salvage supplement)
The size of the stage, position of the equipment, monitor position and height, hall architecture and acoustics, capacity and attendance, temperature and humidity, and sound level (dB) or Leq Meter limiting all varied from event to event. Each of the final recordings documents the performed audio output, each hall's acoustics, the audience's reaction, and their proximity to the recorder, all from an onstage position, while retaining the auditorium's spatial impression. Recordings failed, or…
If You Want To Fuck The Sky, Teach Your Cock To Fly
Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture) armé d'électroniques maison et autres oscillateurs, Korg 800DV ou Revox (!) est accompagné de la voix de BB soit Brigitte Bordelle, qui crie quand on la chatouille et qui crie aussi quand on la cogne. If you want to fuck the sky, teach your cock to fly Ñou si tu veux un frère, dis à ton père de baiser ta mère Ñ ou quand les cons voleront, tu seras chef d'escadrille Ñ est un excellent disque de bruits divers et variés avec moults rebondissements dynamiques, cut-u…
Duo box
Our Swedish hero of sublime saxophones, Mats Gustafsson, performs in three different duo constellations, spanning over three 7″ singles, all collected in a limited 99 copies box of wonder, on Kning Disk KD003-005. Mats collaborates with Fred Lonberg-Holm, Luca Tommaso-Mai and Leif Elggren, resulting in both electric, eclectic and sensational sounds; spanning over one 7″ single per collaboration. Two of the three singles has been previously released on Kning Disk in limited editions. The third co…