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S.1.W / Tracteur Directrice De L'A.S.M.A.
* Edition of 200 * New frequency challenges in this new dub flavored album by Paris' singular and mysterious Unglee Izi. 2 side-long tracks of sharp and meticulous digital sound architecture covering a wide spectrum of sonic precision and melodic beauty.
Rai Sidi Bel Abbes
A selection of 8 songs covering the period from 1979 to 1989 by one of Rai’s softest voices. Wah-Wah driven, mid-tempo guitar based early Rai from the city where Rai’s ‘harder’ form was conceived. Sad romantic songs about lost loves and other sorrowful tales.
The Great Unlearning
**500 copies** Ramleh return with The Great Unlearning: four rocking sides with downbeat electronic leanings making a complex and bold follow-up to 2015’s Circular Time.«All the years combine; they melt into a dream… I don’t know where we may be up to now but I’m fifteen, it’s September 1984 and I’ve taken an absurdly oversized packaged Ramleh tape into school and the kids are laughing because there is a track called Fistfuck and they are laughing harder and calling me mental when they have a th…
Tqaseem Mqamat El Haram 2016-2019
**300 copies, red vinyl** Debut LP by 1127, Cairo’s darkest prince who has translated your deepest and sickest thoughts into an electronic narrative reminiscent of a krokodil induced Tim Hecker composition.«I enjoyed listening to this album – it’s beautiful, provocative and driven by a thoughtful balance between density and isolation. The clutter of elements tells a precise story, clarified by chaotic fusions and spontaneous, tangential ideas of sound. The 'pressure' of the thing feels important…
A-Mu-Kia (fur Future)
**300 copies, green vinyl** (((vlubä))) present A-Mu-Kia: a new cosmic drone ritual (and first on LP). (((vlubä))) is an Argentinian paranormal art project founded by Müriscia Divinorum and Aphra Cadabra. Since their initiation in 2001, their ritual, cosmic, drone and free music has been documented on recordings issued on diverse labels around the world (Chocolate Monk, Ikuissus, Pseudoarcana, Foxglove, Phase!, RootDonLonie, Musik Atlach, Buh… etc) and have appeared on numerous compilations, sp…
Venom
Sister Iodine’s Venom is a pure and raw, energy-powered album performed like an audio exorcism. Each track contains its own intense physicality to radiate sound illuminations of light inside of darkness. Venom is a powerful album of potent spells that Sister Iodine have conjured and captured as sonic shamans. French noise scene spearheads, Sister Iodine return with their sixth album; ‘Venom’. Active since the Nineties, Sister Iodine which involve Erik Minkkinen, Lionel Fernandez, and Nicolas Maz…
Werecat Powers of the Crossroads at Midnight
The continuation of the Skullflower audio trilogy concerning the Darkness of Aegypt: the shadow stuff from whence dark dreams come. The Triad: dark, light and the animating serpent power are delineated by the Egyptian Gods Set, Horus and the Apep serpent. The second parting of the ways, lord of the crossroads, the double horizon, the xroads of day and night, the mauve zone, the death posture. We brought back: a twilight mechanism, and hymns to the charnel ground, ashes, jackals and the bulto hya…
Horizon Capiton
"What is Normal Music?” That was the title I chose for an article some years ago and despite the fact that I was searching something else, it was difficult to find anything better to start these lines about “Horizon Capiton”; the new LP by French musician Olivier Brisson. Monsieur Brisson lives in Lille and has been involved not only with sound experimentation but also with psychiatry. The latter is not just a detail but an important fact here: this is a work about frames and boundaries. But who…
Music For Zeitgeist Fighters
New album by the much revered solo project of Gary Mundy (Ramleh / Broken Flag). 2 pieces of intense, emotional and purgative electronics miles away from audiophile realms." Welcome to 2017. I’m laughing because I’m thinking of music and I’m thinking of death. Welcome to the Captagon, the room is dizzy and moving. The DJ’s turntables are on fire and the heat hits me full on as I walk onto the dancefloor. Distorted sounds like the bass rumbles or high frequencies are moving from one wall to anoth…
The Black Iron That Fell From The Sky, to Dwell Within...
The inception of an audio trilogy concerning the Darkness of Aegypt: the shadow stuff from whence dark dreams come. The Triad: dark, light and the animating serpent power are delineated by the Egyptian Gods Set, Horus and the Apep serpent. Volume one comprises of three received transmissions from the tunnels of Set via the physical envelopes of Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies operating as the occult cell known as Skullflower. The working, the concept and guiding hand comes from Nashazphone, pu…
Vs Abdel Baqy Byro in Cairo
Seemingly tossed-off spontaneity is the intoxicant with which Alvarius B vs Abdel Baqy Byro in Cairo is heavily laced. This 39- minute lenticular collage recalls Tangier-era William Burroughs in its concealment of structure behind a veneer of arbitrary free association, with Alvarius B. delivering his take on contemporary behavioral dementia in a style that veers from the nocturnal yammer of legendary somniloquist Dion McGregor to salty neo-Yossarian ravings to the casual vitriol of a misanthrop…
Mauve Zone
Since 2004, Èlg (Laurent Gérard) has drawn concentric sound spirals made of musical pipes and entrails. He uses an arsenal of instruments and methods, constantly renewed while building improbable bridges between musique concrete and French song-writing, cartoon-like radiophonic creations and cosmic pop as well as lo-fi Dada-esque experimentation with electronic tentacles. Èlg is half of the electronic botanic duo Opera Mort, and a third of big band trios Orgue Agnes (with the members of Ka…
Isis And Osiris
"Sam Shalabi presents Isis And Osiris; a dystopian fantasia for ud ruminations and iterated tape manipulations. Listening to Sam's music or playing with him is always a psychedelic bliss. When Isis And Osiris penetrates my ears I am possessed by an emergent universe where immanence and alienation, abjection and love meet. Nothing will be the same. The transformative effect of Sam Shalabi's cosmology is one of the most joyful and inspiring estrangement I experienced." -- Alexander St. Onge; …
Heureusement Que le Sang Seche Vite
5599 is a new duo featuring France's electronic improvisation giant Jean-Marc Foussat on EMS Synthi AKS and current golden boy Augustin Brousseloux on electric guitar and alto saxophone. Heureusement que le sang seche vite features 3 tracks where guitar and saxophone interplay with analog synthesizer to create psychedelic, dense and textured soundscapes of aggressive noise onslaughts and moments of bliss.
Born in Oran (Algeria) in 1955, Jean-Marc Foussat played in several experimental rock g…
Modern Journal of Popular Savagery
Porest's fourth long-player, Modern Journal of Popular Savagery is a damning collection of parallel realities told in song and sound. Following 2006's masterful Tourrorists, MJoPS pits post-globalized hate pop, cabalistic text-to-speech drama and violent tape music against soapbox anthems and swirling barbed-wire psychedelia -- sometimes within the same track. The result: a terrifying and ridiculous audio shakedown that both avoids and completely indulges the inherent trappings of art and po…
Pas Encore Mort
Costes has caused me so much trouble. Even today, 25 years after the last time I performed with him, I still have a hard time booking shows because he has not mellowed as I have and the venues are afraid, because of my past association with him, that there will be piss, shit, violence, genitalia, racial tension, cops, etc. Costes has caused himself so much trouble. He's been taken to court five times over his art, received countless death threats. When's the last time you can think of tha…
Kahraba
Restocked!! Kahraba is the debut studio album of Islam Chipsy's EEK. Recorded in late 2014 in downtown Cairo, it contains four tracks perfectly representing Chipsy's wild and inimitable artistic spectrum, ranging from the frenzied sound signature technique that brought him his fame ('Trinity' and 'Kahraba') to the band's individual maneuverings of typical Egyptian standards such as the Northeastern Nile delta 'Simsimiyya' in 'El-Bawaba' or Upper Egypt's traditional 'Mouled Saidi' in 'Mouled El-G…
Rock Power
Reissue of an extremely rare and essential Sunroof! CD-R released during a European tour in 2003 on Matthew Bower's own imprint, Rural Electrification Program (REP). On this LP, Bower is joined on guitar by Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra and Flower-Corsano Duo) and the result was once qualified as Sunroof's rock record and its tribute to Neil Young and AC/DC (hence the title). RockPower is a very singular record because it documents a very short time period in the M. Bower/Sunroof! evolut…
Live at the Cairo High Cinema Institute
I saw him at a street party in Giza where a few hundred people had amassed to dance and scream into the night. Flanked by Khaled Mando and Islam Tata, his two drummers pounding furiously asthe signature tone of his synth intensified for almost two hours, Islam Chipsy demonstrated his completely revolutionary take on modern Egyptian Shaabi. The sound was raw and distorted, thevolume was deafening, and the energy was high. Thirty minutes into the set, the trio pulled out blindfolds and put them on…
Kriegspiel
Kriegspiel is the latest sonic excursion by this Parisian free Improvisation duo that feature prominent scene veterans Jean-Marc Foussat (VCS3) and Sylvain Guerineau (tenor sax). The former was responsible for what some consider as one of the greatest French Improvisation LP; the totally twisted 'Abattage' (1983) while the latter has been very active since the early 1970's and has collaborated in the past with the likes of Sunny Murray, Henri Grimes, Joe McPhee or Francois Tusques. Limited to 2…