New Arrivals
tellKujira
tellKujira was born in autumn 2020. Since then it has self-produced a series of artistic residencies, focusing on improvisation and collective writing, instant composition, timber, prepared instruments, alternative tunings. It is in this process that a flexible musical path was born, in a continuous search for structure, open to contamination and which aims to discover a unique blend composed of abstract soundscapes, at times ambient, poly-rhythms, industrial timbres. A versatile blend, which do…
血と雫 Je Prie pour que la Goutte ne Tombe pas
* ltd to 400, black vinyl, color silkscreened jacket with obi (white, dark blue), inserts and a postcard * Je prie pour que la goutte ne tombe pas (I pray that the drop does not fall) is the first international release by Japanese trio Chi To Shizuku. While they have released five albums and a 7” in Japan, their spectral, haunted rock songs haven’t yet reached a much wider audience overseas. With this album, then, a live recording taken at Koenji HIGH, Suginami, Tokyo on 23rd November 2021, the …
Lo Becat
Opening a glimmering window into the brilliant scene currently percolating in Strasbourg, France, Morc Records returns with “Lo Becat”, their first offering from the stunning creative duo of Lise Barkas and Lisa Käuffert. Rendered on two bagpipes, intertwining elements of traditional French folk with the tactics, ideas, and approaches of experimental music, the resulting sounds unfurl a singular iteration of intoxicating long-tone minimalism that leaves you riveted to the core.
Éclipse des Ocelles
An absolutely stunning debut by Roxane Métayer - reissued in a limited edition of 150 vinyl copies by Morc Records - 'Éclipse des Ocelles' is the perfect European counterpoint to Henry Flynt and Tony Conrad, and so much more. Combining field recordings and vocal interventions with thick modulating violin drones, percussive and textural playing, and subtle processing, it's emotive, stunningly beautiful, creatively brilliant, and not to be missed.
Military Arms
Irma Krook, a sound artist based in Gothenburg, made her debut with "Military Arms." Primarily recognized as the bassist and original member of the death pop avant-garde group Makthaverskan, Krook has created four tracks of sublime beauty within the privacy of her own residence. Since creativity is sometimes the result of limitations, recording from a Masthugget apartment further reduces the choices. By using her phone to record her voice and an iPad to create all of the instrumentals in GarageB…
Like Swimming
* Housed in gatefold sleeve with OBI style spine cover, includes 20 page booklet (lyrics, photos, ephemera, artwork by Mark Sandman, liner notes, and credits). Inner sleeves printed Light In The Attic advertising. Red Vinyl * Modern Classic Recordings, an imprint of Light in the Attic Records, proudly announces the deluxe vinyl reissue of Morphine’s 1997 album Like Swimming, marking the very first availability of the title on wax.
The album has been lovingly remastered by Pete Weiss at Boston’s …
The Night
* Housed in gatefold sleeve with OBI style spine cover, includes 20 page booklet (lyrics, photos, ephemera, artwork by Mark Sandman, liner notes, and credits). Inner sleeves printed Light In The Attic advertising. Purple Vinyl * Modern Classic Recordings, an imprint of Light in the Attic Records, proudly announces the deluxe vinyl reissues of Morphine’s final two studio albums: Like Swimming (1997) and The Night (2000), marking the very first availability of both titles on wax.
Each album has be…
Indian Tapes
*Dead stock copies coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage* Limited and numbered first edition of 300 copies, signed by the artist. This incredible triple LP box contains the masterpieces of the percussive art of Andrea Centazzo. Realized in 1980, this album took Andrea Centazzo at the peak of his percussionist career.Indian Tapes is not, as one might be led to think, an album inspired by the music of native Americans (which consists mostly of simple monadic and …
The Complete Recording Vol. 1 - Velocities
*Dead stock copies coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage* Andrea Centazzo, LaDonna Smith and Davey Williams met for the first time in December 1978. An exquisite and celebrated example of improvised music.
Duetti Duets
* Dead stock copies coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage * Great drummer Andrea Centazzo and multi-instrumentalist Guido Mazzon recorded together in Italy in 1976 and released their album that year.
Protocol
*Dead stock copies coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage* Studio recordings of this amazing trio. Henry Kaiser and Toshinori Kondo would like to dedicate this album to the spirit and memory of Aquirax Aida, 1946-1978. All tracks are free improvisations; heard as played.
Omaggio A Pier Paolo Pasolini - II° Concerto Per Piccola Orchestra, Soprano E Voce Recitante
*Dead stock copy coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage* Pier Paolo Pasolini's lyrics in Friuli dialect from the collections "Poesie Dimenticate" (Società Filologica friulana, Udine, 1976) and "Tal cûr di un frut" (Edizioni Friuli, Tricesimo, 1953) are edited by Luigi Ciceri. All lyrics used thanks to the courtesy of professor Andreina Ciceri. Digitaly mixed and recorded in Bologna april 1987/august 1988.
Percussion Interchanges
* Dead stock copies coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage * Incredible recordings of the trio of Andrea Centazzo in collaboration with David Moss and Alex Cline.
Fragmentos
* Dead stock copies coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage * Stunning radical impro session three Italian heavy weighs of the genre, recorded in 1975. Percussion, Drums, Synthesizer, Sistema Ictus 75 by Andrea Centazzo, Saxophone [Soprano, Tenor] by Maurizio Giammarco, Double-bass, Piano by Bruno Tommaso
Kent Carter Solo With Claude Bernard
* Dead stock copy coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage *Amazing live recording of multi instrumentalist Kent Carter. Paired in a few tracks with Claude Bernard on alto sax and Michala Marcus on flute.
Solo De La Passion Selon Sade
* Dead stock copy coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage *Compositions by Sylvano Bussotti played by percussionist Andrea Centazzo, recorded in 1982.
Moot
Dead stock copy coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage Studio recordings of this incredible trio of Italians Andrea Centazzo and Giancarlo Schiaffini together with British sax legend Lol Coxhill.
U.S.A. Concerts
* Dead stock copy coming from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage * The Italian imprint, Ictus, was founded in 1976 by percussionist and composer, Andrea Centazzo, and his wife Carla Lugli. Running for just under a decade, until relaunching during the mid-2000s, the label produced a couple of dozen highly highly celebrated releases, the majority of which loosely fall under the banner of free jazz. Ictus’ second batch of releases from the label’s historic archives logica…
Fake Sleep
Words as mirrors in a framework of clatter shape the arches to Voice Actor’s pavilion. Surrounded by offerings of flowers, a construction is shown. The unusual compact scale conforms to tiny standards for intimate listening. All is half-height, so the visitor has to enter on hands and knees. From the verandah a crumbling, overgrown statue can be glimpsed, pointing at the pond nearby. The water is framed by a soundfence of endless space nobody can leap, a tree branch repetitively dips into it fro…
Minna Tanoshiku Shonen Knife
After K Records founder Calvin Johnson found a copy of their official debut from Zero Records ‘Burning Farm’, in a record crate, he would release it in the United States, where it found its way to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The resulting tour (and some of the greatest moments in rock music history) is now the stuff of legends! Recorded and released exclusively on cassette in 1982, Minna Tanoshiku Shonen Knife was the first ever release from Shonen Knife. Of the 89 total copies ever manufactur…