New Arrivals
Wired Lab CV Session #1
Limited edition black chrome cassette + 16 page booklet, offset printed on Munken Lynx Rough, 100 gsm, black ink."Russell says that what he does isn't music and has nothing to do with music. Dave is of a similar mind in that he doesn't give a fuck. M…
The Vancouver Soundscape 1973 - 1996
Long out of print, few copies available: This project is a double-CD and booklet "Soundscape Vancouver" which includes most of the original recordings published in 1973 by the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University in its landmark study …
So Beautiful, It Starts To Rain
In a country and a musical domain where you have someone like Evan Parker, it’s difficult for any emerging sax player to establish himself, but John Butcher managed to do it and with his own personal style, very different from Parker’s. Now, he’s one…
Lost Highway
Lost Highway is the 1997 French-American neo-noir-horror mystery film written and directed by David Lynch. The film’s score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti with additional music by Barry Adamson, however Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails was respo…
The Synthetic Elements
Crisis of Taste is thrilled to offer ‘The Synthetic Elements’, a new LP by stalwarts of the outré Avant Garde, Idea Fire Company. For the better part of three decades Karla Borecky and Scott Foust have charted their own distinct course through the…
Mother Dearest / Très Chère Mère
Mother dearest is a story of childhood suffering which poses the questions: is the young narrator a girl or a boy? Is his brother human? Is his father a busy scientist or an idiot hermit? Is his mother a simple (and happy) narcissistic pervert? Très …
Ida Con Snock
An album of new Hurley songs and older, classic compositions from the great American folk outsider, all arranged and performed beautifully at Levon Helm's Woodstock studio. Ida Con Snock has to rank as one of Michael Hurley's most slick sounding ente…
S U R V I V E
Back in stock, the 2012 debut full-length from Austin-based electronic quartet S U R V I V E is available once again with yellow and black alternate artwork. A fresh U.S. repress is in high demand for this modern classic, as the band enjoys a recent …
Kwangkay: Funerary Music of the Dayak Benuaq of Borneo
Numbering less than 1000 people, the Dayak Benuaq from the Eastern Kalimantan region of Indonesian Borneo still practice many of their traditional ceremonial customs. This album of field recordings presents the music associated with the kwangkay, the…
Duo Exchange
A replica reissue of a legendary, sought-after album, a worthy and historical addition to the collections of all fans of avant-garde duos. Rashied Ali and Frank Lowe's Duo Exchange LP from 1973, originally released by Survival Records. From Thurston …
Rise
"..to shape a new consciousness, one in which cooperation triumphs over domination, and humility before nature's complexity challenges technological hubris. to move on and leave the religious, materialist and supremacist phases behind us. most dimens…
South Africa recordings
Raw field recordings. Immersion. Listening beyond sound. Nature speaks languages. we can “hear” them, but do we listen, do we try to understand? floods, tornados, land erosion, global warming, et cetera - these are but the most obvious examples of na…
selective memory / perception
An hour long piece consisting of classical instrumentation and orchestral arrangements using cello, violin and piano, plus recordings of wind, broken urban creatures, intimate situations, insect and amphibian sounds and mutations thereof, transmogrif…
Seek
Maurizio Grandinetti is tirelessly exploring the possibilities of the acoustic and semiacoustic guitar, and «will fearlessly employ any technique, any instrument, to manifest the necessary sounds», as Elliott Sharp describes Maurizio Grandinetti’s op…
Est un chemin, loin en sombre
Joëlle V. aka Erle (voices) and Eric L. aka Fels (drums). Talweg is a duet that seeks to explore the darkest side of sound and music. Talweg tries to create links with the most creative aspects of our archaic past. The path to the deepest valley. Lim…
Wtc 9/11
Steve Reich composed WTC 9/11 in 2010 in homage to the victims of the attack on the World Trade Center, September 11th, 2001. First performed on March 19, 2011 at Duke University in North Carolina by the Kronos Quartet, WTC 9/11 would be played for t…
Eternal beyond
My Cat Is An Alien (Roberto & Maurizio Opalio) together with Joëlle Vinciarelli (Talweg and La Morte Young)."All began in Spring 2015, when outsider instantaneous composers MCIAA traced a new magic triangle on a map between their hometown Torino, the…
The Complete Sony Recordings
This massive box set offers perhaps the definitive and most comprehensive collection of Philip Glass’ work ever assembled. The Complete Sony Recordings is the first ever release of Philip Glass Sony Classical recordings together in a limited-editio…
Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth
**limited repress, gold vinyl edition** First reissue of Hastings Of Malawi's classic masterpiece Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth, originally released on the Papal Products label in 1981. Hastings Of Malawi were Heman Pathak, David Hod…