★Second Sleep
Library's Bells
Eight tracks of field recordings and reel to reel loops. Mercury Hall is the solo project by Second Sleep label founder Matteo Castro, one of the most relevant figure in Italian noise scene. With this solo project, Castro delivers long excursion of concrete music in honor of european artists from '60. "La ripetizione di una stessa cosa non apparirà forse a nessuno come possibile origine di perturbamento, ma, in base alle mie osservazioni, sono certo che questo fenomeno, in determinate condizioni…
Grand Piano
Failed plans generate frantic electroacoustic responce. Edition of 100 Lettera 22 use extreme textures and dynamics to build up high levels of abusive tension, only to send them crashing down in a cacophony of broken beer bottles and urban scrap, leaving behind a skeleton of seething silence and tape hiss. A seedy and voyeuristic recording, akin to witnessing a beating in a dark alley.
Electronic Execution Vol. 1
Concived as a selection of jams of free form and linear electonic ideas, Electronic Execution pretends to dissolve (to execute) the prosaic world of images in invisible and ancestral soundscapes.RM is the last incarnation of Riccardo Mazza, important underground personality from regional scene of Veneto where our curator Nico Vascellari was born and raised. Mazza has been member of projects such as A Flower Kollapsed, Lago Morto, Orfanado e Lettera 22. His debut under his new moniker RM, Curren…
Heteronormativ Musik For Att Starka Medelklassens Sjalvbild
If the term "noise" still makes sense in 2016 it is thanks to figures as Tommy Carlsson and his project Treriksröset.Since the beginning of 2000s Tommy had offered some of the most inspired harsh noise ever heard. Simple and complex at the same time the sound of Treriksroset is pushing the boundaries of the genre, and except the pure harsh noise output he can also experiment with low-key electronic or dig with static frequency studies as he did in a series of cassette releases together with Sewe…
Vixit
** 2016 restock ** A masterpiece, tiny edition of 200 copies only. Following on from his astonishing "Miseri Lares" on Pan, here we have an uncompromising, poetic and unexpected culmination of Valerio Tricoli tireless experimentation over the past few years. Valerio Tricoli is one of the first name that springs to mind when the talk turns to current analogue synth, reel-to-reel tape fetishism and electronics. And somehow he led the way in transforming the nowadays experiments in sound manipulati…
Body Text
First proper album for the duo of Giovanni Donadini and Matteo Castro. After a couple of tapes and a split with Exoteric Continent the italian duo have finally find their shape, removing all the instrumentation and focusing only on the possibility of the 4 tracks recorder. Body Text offer 6 tracks made only by tape loops, playing with speeds and pauses the duo play a mix of mechanism and Field recordings, tails of beats and degraded tempos creates minimal and sinister compositions.
Kennedy Pantheon : Alte Meister
Claudio Rocchetti is one of the key figure in the european experimental scene. An enthusiastic traveler and a deep resercher, Rocchetti had created his strong sonic universe made by fragile melodies and electro acoustic incursion. Kennedy Pantheon : Alte Meister is a time travel made by field recordings, stolen tales, historical documents and interviews, the composition is vivid and filmic, mixing real memories and fictions combining sounds far meaningfully and in time. The result it lies not in…
Primorje/Exoteric Continent
Four dry beat explorations for Arnau Sala's project, a piece for tape loops and dub echoes for the Italian duo Primorje.Arnau Sala’s Exoteric Continent project began in 2010, and allows him to experiment with structured and sequenced abstract sounds. Sala connects the dots between dub and deep techno, to musique concrete, ambient, and the electro acoustic sounds of Bernard Parmigiani in unusual new ways – and he does not shy away from political commentary and social context. After his material r…
Punti Sulla Curva I
First two chapter in a series of releases based on field recordings. A stunning collection of nature interventions and humans observations. Edition of 100 each. Massimo Carozzi since 1994 concerned with the relations between sound and image, sound and script, sound and literature, sound and space. Carozzi has created sound design for theatre, documentaries, short films, installations. He played and collaborated with Sinistri, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, Starfuckers, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Margar…
Punti Sulla Curva II
First two chapter in a series of releases based on field recordings. A stunning collection of nature interventions and humans observations. Edition of 100 each. Massimo Carozzi since 1994 concerned with the relations between sound and image, sound and script, sound and literature, sound and space. Carozzi has created sound design for theatre, documentaries, short films, installations. He played and collaborated with Sinistri, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, Starfuckers, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Margar…
General Tempo
Second full length for the duo of Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro. Two long compositions that, while presenting the usual elements of the duo, made of tape works and field recordings, move forward, in a path in which the skeleton of the pieces is built on sounds of mechanisms and engines, manipulated through reel to reel, tape machines and digital effects. Tense and dynamic, the traces of this work move between a careful observation of the landscape and those repetitive, somehow …
We all mutate around the mountain
Louis Johnstone's Wanda Group project is on continuos evolving, a continuo research, aimed at expanding each time its borders. The result is a complex work, both musically and emotionally. We all mutate around the mountain is a dense march where the memories, the common sounds around us, are manipulated and rearranged to create a new story that draws liberally from real life. With his vocabulary and moods it has gone away forcefully, taking place in an abstract and timeless territory…
Moviments/Oposicio
Barcelona's Arnau Sala Saez (Veiled, Anomìa) offer four side of foggy and minimal industrial slabs for analog synth and magnetic tapes tension, exploring the territory which is constricted between ambient soundscapes and dry beat research.
Civilization year
Late night electronic for smokers, tape music for stolen conversations and field recordings.
Pola-Expeditionen
Primorje is a new project of Giovanni Donadini and Matteo Castro. Two oblique tracks of concrete loop and damaged rythms.
Civil Music
Primorje is a new project of Giovanni Donadini and Matteo Castro. Circular electronic and modified drum-machines, processed through tape-echo units.
Abandoned Geography
A long, single track developing the relation between geography and drugs, the various interaction and how they changed the environment. Following up the immense Dyslexic Action 4xCS set, the duo consisting of Matteo Castro and Francesco Tignola is back with the 18-minute long one-sider Abandoned Geography. Elevating and absolutely lovely broken noise from the combined efforts of Napoli and Conegliano. Matteo Castro's Lettera 22 coming to mind when it comes to the fidelity and execution of…
Patagonian Field Recordings
Carlos Casas is a filmmaker and visual artist from Barcelona. His work is a cross between documentary film, cinema, and contemporary visual and sound arts. In 2001 he started a trilogy of works dedicated to the most extreme environments on the planet, Patagonia, Aral sea, and Siberia, with a particular interest on how humans relate with the territory they occupy. These tracks comes fro…
Current logic
First release for the new solo project of Riccardo Mazza (Lettera 22) working with a singular mix of claustrophobic tones and spectral samples.Started as a simple study about rythm, the project has gradually integrated the use of field recordings and reverberating drone sounds which add to the compositions a deep, gristle and dramatic feel.
Tetraptych
Adam Asnan is a London based composer-performer of musique concrète, acquiring an MA under the supervision of Denis Smalley in 2009. Adam’s work promotes the aesthetic potential of fixed (recorded), amplified sound, and the instabilities of a medium; the auditory ‘image’ subject to intervention, or the exposition of its artifice.Tetraptych is his first vinyl release and consist of four short pieces of circular and pulsating sounds, vibrating objects in equilibrium over a wise work of field rec…