New Arrivals
20 Years Of Dischord
An unuasual inclusion for the soundohm catalogue, but this boxet is totally essential, even if more related to punk that avantgarde...It's a triple CD and book in box inc download code on Dischord, an awesome compilation expalains to the novice listener how DC hardcore changed from faster than light anthems to the very progressive post-whatever sound that typifies the Dischord scene today. Forget about how Dischord never soldout (which, by the way, they haven't) and just listen to some of t…
In The Court Of The Crimson King (5CD/1DVD
Recorded over a period of 10 days in August 1969 & released on October 10th of the same year In The Court Of The Crimson King stands as one of the defining albums of British rock music & one of the finest debut albums of all time. Described at the time as "an uncanny masterpiece" by Pete Townshend, the album has achieved legendary status over the years. It is the only studio document of an extraordinary year in the life of King Crimson; a year that began with the group's first rehearsals …
Insect Dilemma/Disallowed
This is the brand new project of Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls). Recorded in Cairo in October 2012, both tracks on this 7 inch are not found on the new Invisible Hands self-titled album and exclusive to this 45 rpm. Side one is a fully orchestrated version of two Alvarius B tracks, one of those tracks, Insect Dilemma, was included on Sun City Girl's classic 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda album from 1996. Side B, Lili Twil, is a cover of a Moroccan folk song from…
Magnedisk Recordings Of Gfrenzy Songs
Liars - Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross - return in 2010 with their boldest and most exhilarating record to date. Sisterworld was written and recorded in Los Angeles by Liars and Tom Biller and is an invigorating summation of their career so far. Building on the back-to-basics approach employed by previous album, Liars (2007), Sisterworld is a dense art-pop thrill from start to finish. The expanded 2CD version comes with a second CD of remixes and reinterpretations of all 11 tracks…
Silent Movie
silent movie documents the only known live performance of the alias of the new blockaders at no fun fest. the dvd holds only silent footage and one must spin the vinyl to hear the sound while witnessing this futile destruction. dvd features additional commentary by g.x. jupiter-larsen.
Clearlight Symphony
Spacey is a good description for this classic french band, with Gong and Lard Free members, centered around Cyrille Verdeaux who plays Grand Piano, Mellotron, organ and synths galore. This is the strictly-limited special deluxe box set containing these five classic titles (CT 632-636CD) covering from the lush droney electronic and Canterbury inspired early works to the late 70s influence of Eastern music that would become prominent on their releases. Each reissue with elaborate miniature paper s…
The Harvest Years 1969 ~ 1974
This 5 Disc Set set covers the years Kevin Ayers was signed to the legendary Harvest label, 1969-1974. The albums included in this release: Joy of a toy (Released Nov 1969) debut solo album from Kevin Ayers, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London. Was inspired by a gift from Jimi Hendrix – a Gibson J-200 guitar, which Hendrix presented to Ayers after Soft Machine supported The Jimi Hendrix Experience on a tour of the US. Amongst the bonus tracks is Singing a Song in the Morning which featur…
4/23/03 / 4/25/03
Originally released on CD in 2004, this new edition of 4/23/03 is now pressed on two slabs of American vinyl pressed by United Record Pressing and housed within a handsome two color silkscreened gatefold jacket bearing artwork replicating that from the album's CD incarnation. The album, from an edition of approximately 700 copies, presents the entire contents of the original CD version plus a 'new' additional track from the original record¬ing sessions. All copies of the 4/23/03 2xLP are …
Faults
Seefeel is one of the most emblematic British bands of the beginning of the 90s. They formed the chore of the first round of what was later called (British) post rock together with bands like Bark Psychosis or Disco Inferno, performing a sound that came straight from shoegaze influences with layers of evocative distortioned guitar sounds with elegant electronics that moved into different territories through their initial EPs to achieve a completely new sound many tried to imitate once the…
Ersen
Sixteen schizoid slices of Arabesque Funk Rock from the silver-tongued chameleon of the electric Anatolia Pop Movement. Featuring LES MOGUL, ZAFER DILEK, KARDASLAR and members of the BARIS MANCO BAND. "Yo Ersen music is ridiculous dope!!!! I'd love to flip this!!!!!" —Oh No (Stones Throw).
Season Of Risk
Colour photocopied sleeve. Edition of 325** Arresting Americana Doom and etheric grunge from the edge of civilization. Since sacrificing their Mythical Beast, Corinne Sweeney and Jeremiah Cowlin abandoned Philly for the wilds of Coyote, New Mexico, living off the grid and conceiving the low sunken sound of Ether Island. "A Side opener “Season Of Risk” corrals a mud-flood of thick tectonic shred over a buried beat, Sweeney’s vox tearing through in hot red flashes like a prairie flash fire …
Parsons' Blues
Six Organs goes stomping wordlessly into the next phase with heavy gravity boots on. This is full-bore, petals-to-the-metals Six Organs, featuring Ben Chasny backed with his erstwhile bandmates known as Comets on Fire
Triptyque de l’oeil
This album, Yôko Higashi's fifth as hamaYôko, features a triptych of pipe organ improvisations recorded at St Augustin's Church in Croix Rousse, Lyon. Higashi likens these tracks to a 'an old painting of a foggy landscape'. They are augmented by two silent passages and a fourth track, Panthere d'Erebos. Edition of 300 copies.
Vergezichten
Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek is a master of self-made sound and time-stretching, sensitively handling organic recordings and samples on countless releases, and regards preset sounds in an organ or a cheap keyboard as a tonal find, as a part of the cacophony of everyday life. These bontempi-rhythms plus the computer-stretched sounds of saxophone (Espen Reinertsen) and voice (Mariska Baars) are the base elements of "Vergezicht 1" and "Vergezicht 2." It is stunning how Zuydervelt man…
Sporing Promenade
Our first album "Sporing Promenade" was mostly produced in Canada during our stay in the second half part of 2007. While strolling in the vast forest, we made a lot of recordings in the environmental sound by handy instruments, such as kalimba, flute, pitch pipe, also various objects such as nuts, stones that we found on the way, as well as our voice. Then we made 'spontaneous compositions' with instruments such as viola, zither, melodica and effect pedals at home, along with the impression…
Electronics
The Zeitkratzer label releases a limited 3CD box documenting international avant-garde soloists ensemble Zeitkratzer, and their collaborations with groundbreaking electronic musicians spanning nearly a decade. This set collects all three previously-released Electronics recordings (ZKR 004CD/ZKR 005CD/ZKR 006CD), made in Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Austria with non-academic electronic musician Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto), electro-acoustic composer Terre Thaemlitz, and legendary Japanese…
Delusion Of Hope
With an eldritch terror that could just as easily be from another dimension as the darkest ocean comes the latest release from Ural Umbo, Delusion of Hope. Feedback and melody barely escape from the murky crevices, tinged with a sense of grinding tension. Sharp, acidic percussion slices through the blackness with violent urgency, while electronic blasts and organic drones entwine and ensnare. Some dim instinctive memory vaguely resurrects a shadowy scene wherein black drums roar madly, and monst…
Untitled #305 (seven nights)
56 hours audio mp3 - SD card release. Artist numbered self-edition. 100 copies. January 2013. 'Seven ghostly nights of expanded time and occult sonic space. Venturing into deep realms of audio subtlety and ambiguity. Open to the hearing creativity, sleeping patterns and dreams of the listener. A piece that blurs the limits between composition and sound environment.' Release format: mp3 44kHz/128kbps files in SD-HC card. Label: artist self-released, home-made, one-by-one-replicated, unlimi…
Surviving The Garden Of Hate
"Copper Glove, the new project from Baltimore's Door (formerly Earth Crown; who shared splits with Secret Abuse and Kites on past Arbor releases), shows a further progression of his one man industrial-noise synth unit. In opposition to his former work, Copper Glove is more mindful of composition; utilizing tone generators and processed synthesis and vocals, to present a dense cut up analog form of industrial concréte. Door's nihilistic optimism carries itself with a sense of effortlessne…
Shoals (Edition)
Shoals (Edition) is a companion release to Taylor Deupree’s 2010 full-length CD Shoals. This limited edition 7” record has a shortened version of “A Fading Found” (from the album) on Side A and a B-Side called “Sere.” While the 7” format only allows for brief works - and in this case extracted from much longer compositions - Edition creates intimate and physical vignettes into these highly acoustic and tactile recordings.