★Iikki
Mythologies
** 300 copies ** "Very ponderously, I approach the review stage of this box-fresh drone-log by Masaya Ozaki and Kaito Nakahori, and it’s the release that’s made me sit up and think the most in now my 209th site article. There are intriguing sounds dotted and masked all over it, like the strange scrapes of Entropy that seem to mirror the dredging of a beer barrel. Has the liquid of life dried up already? Surely not…if you’ve ever heard Catalog Des Arbres on the Touch label you’ll be familiar with…
Lowlands
**500 copies, 2019 stock** Lowlands began when Ester Vonplon traveled to Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean in summer 2016. She sailed the ice-clogged seas of the Arctic Ocean on a three-masted sailing vessel, to capture the impressions of the calving glaciers and melting ice. This journey in the Arctic Ocean was the perfect beginning for Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer to compose and record Lowlands. Ester Vonplon (1980) lives and works in Castrisch, Switzerland. She studied photography in Berli…
Alveare
"Alveare, a collection of electroacoustic music by Italian percussionist / composer Andrea Belfi, is part of a collaborative multimedia project with photographer Matthias Heiderich. Inspired by Heiderich’s pictures of the modernist housing complexes put up in Italy after World War II, the LP’s five tracks were composed and played between 2007 and 2016. As befits Belfi’s status as a percussionist, all are firmly set on a foundation of rhythmic drumming or percussion work, often wrapped in an atmo…
Stills
Danny Clay' Stills is the debut release of the art / music imprint Iikki, a sister to the Eilean record label, and is an impressive album that is not to be missed.The music of Stills follows on from his Ganymede release for Hibernate – an album that was certainly one of, if not the, best release from Clay to date and certainly one of the strongest minimal electronic / ambient releases of 2015. That album was built around Clay’s manipulations of the first few bars of a Schubert piece and his atte…
Cut Off
Cut Off is the result of a dialog between the photographer Dmitri Markov and the composer / musician Aries Mond initiated by IIKKI, between October 2017 and December 2018. The complete project works in two separate physical imprints: a book and a disc (vinyl or cd).After his first works based on field recording, Aries Mond has started to work with music instruments in 2012. Mostly focused on piano. His first album has been released on eilean rec. in 2018 and Cut Off is his second album. Aries Mo…
Pequenas Melodías
300 numbered copies, 180 gr black vinyl, spot varnish on 350 gr paper heavy sleeve. Pequeñas Melodias is the result of a dialog between the photographers Albarrán Cabrera (Angel Albarrán & Anna Cabrera) and the composer / musician Federico Durand initiated by IIKKI between December 2017 and August 2018. Albarrán Cabrera are the photographers Anna Cabrera (b. 1969, Sevilla) and Angel Albarrán (b. 1969, Barcelona) who work together as a collaborative duo based in Barcelona. "There is a gap between…