New Arrivals
Deutsche Frau
Palminger, a word genius from hamburg, presents his view about german women who break the legs of horses (men) and keep their pain awake. a regressive-masculine paranoia scenario of terrifying dimension, accompanied by a real orchestra score composed by max knoth. palminger's tongue is full of sore, his mind is constantly alert. (label info)
Ten canisters of pressurized tetrafluoroethane over three weeks
Limited edition red vinyl 7", 100 copies. Two pieces for hand-held gas horns realized at the Music Research Centre, University of York, November 2008. Recorded using two Neumann U87 microphones and a Shure SM58 on custom-rigged pendulum.
Dance Pop
Chart smashing 7" from the Olde English Spelling Bee camp, dropping the debut from Brooklyn's hugely tipped Greatest Hits. Aside from having one of the best names ever, this band also make some of the most f**ked up pop music we've heard all year. Think Autre Ne Veut doing a guest spot on The Hitman And Her presented by Pete Waterman and James V/VM in a Michaela Strachan mask, and you're almost there. The PWL-production line groove of 'Danse Pop' is our favourite, while 'Make You Mine' s…
the pleasance & the purchase
Coppice (Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer) is a Chicago-based duet of bellows and electronics. Since its formation in 2009 they have produced original compositions for stage, fixed media, and performed installation settings, with a focus on adhering textural attenuation, processed gradation, the contours of instrumentation, and their multiple aspect highlights.Their variable instrumentation departs from bellows and reed instruments (accordion, pump organ, shruti box, harmonica), custom electronics (…
skls
S K L S are Joachim Nordwall & Henrik Rylander, the key members of Swedish noise-rock band The Skull Defekts. That’s their debut release under the name S K L S, which seems to be a kind of side-project for darker, electronic minimalistic sounds. As opposed to the full guitars & drums line-up of The Skull Defekts follows the traditions of motoric Kraut-style (Can or Neu! — like), S K L S is defenitely oriented mostly on spacey-psychedelic-electronic-meditation of Cluster or Popol Vuh. It’s…
Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An
This is the long-awaited vinyl re-issue of the timeless Nurse With Wound debut release from 1979. Described by Sounds at the time as a record that "makes The Faust Tapes sound like Carousel," nothing has changed to alter this view over the last 30 years, and to say that this work is the "Sgt. Pepper of the avant-garde" would not be hyperbole. The special box edition will consist of: the double LP, which will be a 2LP set with the extra track "Strain, Crack, Break" (never previously available on …
Dort Ist Der Weg
Latest from these blackened doomdrone soundscapers, once again demonstrating that these guys definitely don't let any sort of genre classification define what they do, cuz what they do here is let their krautrock freak flag fly, whipping up a gorgeous chunk of hazy, rhythmic psychedelia, a reinterpretation of a classic Popol Vuh jam (from 1976), which does indeed channel the same sort of brooding, blissy mesmer, a dreamy, dark dirge, hypnotic and hazy, spidery guitar melodies over simple …
Stand up comedy
Alessandro Bosetti‘s music for the last decade has documented the de- and re-contextualization of the human voice through a variety of means. Il Fiore Della Bocca achieved this through the natural alterations of ‘normal’ speech exhibited by the voices of individuals with speech impediments, such as stuttering and phonetic disorders. Africanfeedback did so through vocal mimicry of contemporary music and through a simple ignorance of the languages his subjects were speaking (often Dogon). T…
Deserted Islands of the mediterranean
special gallery edition artists book, issued for the 2009 exhibition held at Villa Romana (Florence), a research project on the deserted island of mediterranean by visual artists Amedeo Martegani, Armin Linke, Giulia Di Lenarda, Giovanna Silva and the sound artists Giuseppe Ielasi and Renato Rinaldi. A lavishly b/n illustrated catalogue contains a exclusive 7" with music based on field recordings of the islands, very few copies available
Vibractions, 1978 - 2012
Vibractions, a sound installation and performance by Ferruccio Ascari, was conceived and created in 1978 within a program of sound installations organized by the center for visual arts Sixto/Notes (hich included site-specific works by Giuseppe Chiari, John Duncan, Walter Marchetti, Gianni Emilio Simonetti, along with contributions by representatives of the most radical researches of those years: Ant Farm, BDR Ensemble, Chris Burden, Paul Mc Carthy, Fredrick Nilsen, Barbara Smith, and Demetrio St…
The Terrifying Realisation We Might Be Wrong
Second 7" release for Dirty Knobby takes us on another diversion through a hellish landscape peppered with brittle discordance and fuzzed out string burn, courtesy of an old cheaply produced Indian 'banjo', or bulbul tarang, which had the wooden keyboard removed, a contact mic attached and then thwacked repeatedly with a screwdriver head. The track evolves from this nightmarish scenario into something utterly transfixing, again created using a contact mic, rubbing on a table top and fed through …
Last Days vol. II
september 2009 release ; excellent (if painfully brief ; could really use an lp-length recording of this stuff !!!) single of ghostly guitar passages (recorded in harlem, usa, no less) from italian artist stefano pilia ...two mazzacane-connors-esque figures, drenched in amp-buzz (incidentally, the only way we could solve the ages-old 33/45 dilemma was to run the 60-cycle ground-hum through a frequency counter) ; impeccably channeled & gorgeously presented ... highly recommended !!! (MIMAROGLU)