New Arrivals
Venus
Recorded by Maurizio Bianchi as Sacher-Pelz, between October and November 1979, Venus is the second self-produced tape of 'musique concrète'. “The term “ concrète ” comes from the latin “concretum” which means ”condensed, hardened, coagulated”, and …
I Vizi Morbosi Di Una Giovane Infermiera
Atrax Morgue is anxious and psychotic side of the electronic noise. With the help of a analog synth, Marco blows up emotions and delusions, cutting out the hard way inspired portraits of phobias and deviations. Originally released on cassette under t…
Tebe
La Piramide di Sangue is a seven piece band from Turin who play a middle-eastern influenced psychedelic rock. The project started with the first solo cassette from member Gianni Giublena Rosacroce (clarinet, percussions), a mixture of middle e…
The Dream of Earth
After a long and meticulous preparation, Sarang – a new creature by Simon Balestrazzi and Enrico Marani – debuts on Silentes with "The Dream of Earth". Balestrazzi is best known as the founding member of the historical Industrial / Experimental group…
Homage
Already sold out at source, gorgeous triple LP set - individual, one-colour screenprint jackets housed in rigid white satin-coated slipcase with spot varnish printing. Hand-numbered edition of 800...Presenting a unified whole, the Homage 3LP boxed …
Maria Kapel
Ben ‘Six Organs’ Chasny has been a busy boy lately, largely in his plugged in psych-fuzz mode but also in his ultra-trio Rangda with Richard Bishop and Chris Corsano. For this one, however, he travelled to North Brabant, a place which the liner notes…
Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre
Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre’ is the latest re-issue from Current 93’s highly impressive and startlingly diverse back catalogue. Originally released in 1994, ‘Of Ruine..’ saw Tibet and his stripped back assemblage of musicians delivering an album…
Omnimoment
Gorgeously packaged, gorgeous dronemusik! Hitoshi Kojo is a Japanese sound artist and drone-centric expressionist who has recorded in the past under the moniker Spiracle and performs in the jubilantly psychedelic but still quite droned-out project…
High Tide Mirror
Inner resonance of planets... harmonies made from the distances between planets... melodies generated by their circular dances...Our bodies can become a receiver of cosmic music when we connect our roots to certain places on earth. However the electr…
Eat The Dream: Gnawa Music From Essaouira
This record was originally released on CD as Eat The Dream: Moroccan Reveries On Tinder Records In 1996 (Tinder CD 42825032). Original label out of business/CD out-of-print. Recorded and compiled by Tucker Martine in 1994, the bulk of this album fea…
Hourglass
Savvas Ysatis and Taylor Deupree were at it again in Deupree’s country studio, about two years after the creation of 2007’s The Sleeping Morning EP. They gave themselves one week to see what they could create with the studio as a blank canvas, and th…
The United Sacred Harp Convention - The Alan Lomax Recordings 19
The first stereo recordings of the Fiery choral sounds of Sacred Harp singing! Recorded by Alan Lomax at Corinth Baptist Church in 1959. Over 300 singers performing shape note music, shaking the walls & doors. Very intense & beautiful performanc…
Dabke -- Sounds Of The Syrian Houran
Dabke is the celebratory music and dance found throughout the Levantine Middle East. By the mid-1990s, a new wave of high-energy electronic dabke music had emerged -- to be heard at weddings, parties and cassette-stalls region-wide. New wave dabke…
Drumming for creation
A new series of vinyl and download only releases, from the archives.... Originally released on cassette in 1985, Touch # T33.3 is now available on vinyl. Walo Shatan Gwari: The ensemble, led by Malam Walo, belongs to the Gwari people of Niger Stat…
Islands In-Between
A new series of vinyl-only releases, "from the archives." Islands In-Between was originally released on cassette in 1983. Indonesians often use the name Nusantara, meaning "the islands in-between," when referring to the archipelago that forms their…
Folklor Invalid
**Nikos Veliotis plays the cello in Muhammad, and is also known for doing so solo and in improvisation with others. In May 2013 he recorded his 'Folklor Invalid' in Knot Gallery and Camp Gallery in Athens. As stated by Touching extremes "A solitary, …
The Pierced Heart & The Machete
The Pierced Heart & The Machete is a vivid, unflinching exploration of two annual Vodou pilgrimages in Haiti. The first is for Èzili Danto, goddess of love, art and passion; worshipers from all over the world descend on the southwestern town of Vil…
Modern Art - Sonic Dimensions 1981-85
The Modern Art (sometimes spelled Mødern Art) was a band-project formed in the early 80’s by Gary Ramon, also known for his band-projects WeR7, Mystery Plane, and latterly, Quad and Sun Dial, as well as working with Current 93 and Coil on their "A…
Possession
Seminal horror soundtrack to a banned video nasty, combining minimalist early '80s disco drum machines with sweeping orchestral synths and strings. Includes 12-page booklet of photographs, liner notes and appraisal by Andy Votel and Daniel Bird** …
Secret Beaches / Fata Morgana
t is hard to top Orphan Fairytale's "comets come alive" lp on blackest rainbow, which i consider one of her best works to date and most probably the best record of 2012, therms such as "bummed out", "sad", "melancholic", and "psychedelic" are thrown …