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Spectral Arrows: Sidney
Spectral Arrows: Sidney presents Marco Fusinato’s durational guitar and electronics performance, channeling the intensity of Sunn O))) and the conceptual rigor of Alvin Lucier.
New Lost Knowns
New Lost Knowns is a hallucinatory solo statement by Twig Harper (Nautical Almanac), fusing noise, tape collage, and electronic psychedelia in the tradition of Wolf Eyes and Aaron Dilloway.
Die Singende Sternlaterne / Folklore Des Weltalls
Planam very proudly presents you "Die singende Sternlaterne / Folklore des Weltalls 1982" by Die Welttraumforscher. This record includes the first time LP edition of the mysterious swiss electro-dada artist's second cassette as well as previously unreleased material. Issued in conjunction with Christian Pfluger first comprehensive retrospective "Ein Sommer in der Wirklichkeit" (i.e. "A Summer in Reality") at Kunsthaus Langenthal and the corresponding monograph "Songs, Signs, Explorations" presen…
Bruxelles
Bruxelles unites GOL, Mik Quantius (of Embryo), and Dave Nuss (No-Neck Blues Band) for a wild, improvisational journey blending art rock, krautrock, and avant-garde experimentation.
Untitled
** Extremely limited 3x8” lathe records box, made in a run of just 90 copies, including previously unpublished recordings with individual sleeves in silk-screened box. ** Psychedelic scrapings from NNCK (No Neck Blues Band) members Pat Murano (Decimus) and Jason Meagher (Coach Fingers) in a beautiful art edition. Three 8"s, six sides of ostensibly distant, alien transmission somewhere between Zoviet France making a noisy cup of tea with The New Blockaders and Ekoplekz playing morse code melodies…
Holiday for Sampler
** One-time pressing edition limited to 250 copies. ** In April 2011 Giuseppe Ielasi and Andrew Pekler met for a three day recording session at Pekler's studio in Berlin. In a comfortable atmosphere and with a minimum of preparation, the two artists endeavored to find common musical ground through their shared interests in sample manipulation, layering the texture and improvisation. Some months later Ielasi auditioned the recordings and then mixed down his favorite passages. To a few of these se…
Alpes
Alpes is a visionary collaboration between French ensemble GOL and the legendary Ghedalia Tazartes, merging ritualistic chants, electronics, and improvisation in the spirit of Nurse With Wound and Brigitte Fontaine.
The Kermes Infestation
** 6LPs with individual silkscreened sleeves in a hand-coloured and silks-creened heavy box, in a numbered edition of 145 copies only. ** PLANAM proudly presents K-Salvatore “The Kermes Infestation” 6LP box masterpiece. This is the first ever available edition as the elusive self published triple tape on Sound@One was originally released in 1996 in an invisible edition of just 10 copies. Pre-dating the glorious “Four Impossible Puns” double LP on Siwa these recordings represent one of the most s…
Improvisations January 1997
A double LP of acid-drenched improvisation, Improvisations January 1997 finds the GOL Orchestra and the now-defunct Telinga Ensemble navigating the outer limits of psychedelic sound and collective creation.
Puppet Island
Australian supergroup with Oren Ambarchi, Brendan Walls and Nicholas Kamvissis.
Herzschlag Erde / Verdunkelt die Sinne
** Edition limited to 350 copies including a large booklet with sinister photos, surreal drawings and lyrics in German and English. ** Right on time for its 30th anniversary, “Herzschlag Erde”, cassette debut album of Die Welttraumforscher, is being re-released in a collaborative effort between the labels Planam and A Tree In A Field. The new, limited vinyl edition includes a large-format, 20-page booklet as well as the previously unreleased follow-up album, “Verdunkelt die Sinne”. Die Welttraum…
Visitation
A rare collaboration, Visitation unites French turntablist eRikm and electroacoustic pioneer Luc Ferrari for a masterclass in musique concrète and sonic collage, echoing the legacy of Pierre Schaeffer.
Decimus 2
** Silkscreened edition of 250 copies ** PLANAM presents you the new Pat Murano solo project of abrasive atmospheric aggressions. Founding member of No Neck Blues Band, Pat Murano also established the K Salvatore highly enigmatic duo in the mid 1990s together with Jason Meagher (also of NNCK fame and more recently head of the Black Dirt Studios) as well as the black Malkuth beast.
Decimus has existed as an entity for some years, privately kept secret in the abyss of New York darkest creation. Av…
Exercices d'improvisation
** Edition limited to 350 copies, includes an insert with the complete score by Luc Ferrari. ** Luc Ferrari conceived this work in 1977 as a sequence of seven individually or collectively improvised exercises for tape and any instrument or group of instruments. Never performed before, "Exercices d'improvisation" have been released by the GOL collective and issued now on LP by PLANAM. The seven exercises follow each others in a suite of growing intensity where GOL acoustic and electric instrument…
Gol & Charles Hayward
A remarkable meeting of minds, Gol & Charles Hayward unites French experimental collective GOL with Charles Hayward (This Heat), fusing avant-rock, electronics, and ritual percussion.
Handcut
** Edition limited to 250 copies. ** Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti, two musicians from Italy with an extensive solo activity, started the Bellows project together in 2006 and released their first CD in 2007. Their second release, an LP available now on PLANAM, was recorded in november 2009 in Tübingen, Germany. Quite different from the first, this new project was developed around the simple technique of cutting/destroying and amplifying vinyl records with contact microphones, creating new gro…
Instant Coffee!
Instant Coffee! is a playful, genre-defying romp through experimental pop, noise, and improvisation, with Instant Coffee channeling the DIY spirit of The Residents and the irreverence of Half Japanese.