New Arrivals
Istanti Per Volare Via
**Limited edition of 300** The inner journey of Lorenzo Fortino brings to mind many example of minimal and contemporary music, verging on sophisticated ambient electronics textures. A pleasant experience all in all, a tender scenario and a truly looking-forward album with a real taste for harmony and arrangements. A lifting experience for a mature young composer." - Luca Collepiccolo
World Speaks
** Edition of 300 ** World Speaks is the new album by Piotr Kurek. It consists of seven vivid paintings. We are greeted by processed voices. A bit later we listen to a fine reed solo, while an organist performs a meditative melody. Hints of a human presence, but World Speaks sounds uninhabited. Instead we enter a glassy reality where the simulation is at play. And where nothing seems what it is: are we witness to the choreography – or the rocky seashore?
“At that time I was playing with various…
Feelings
Feelings was written and produced by Ekin Fil amidst the months of anxious tension that 2020 laid upon us, taking around 1 year to manifest in its final form. Yet underneath the opaque veneer of swooning drones, timeworn chords and verbal lamentations, glimpses of sanguinity and optimism flicker through the fabric of the work, mirroring the perpetual state of uncertainty and isolation we collectively faced that year, suspended between months of dissolute ambivalence and minute, optimistic spurs.
Disposofónicos: Acumuladores de Objectos Sonantes
Tip! An incredible new release, years in the making, has surfaced out of Portugal that celebrates experimental composition, inventive instruments and contraptions and the art of photography. The limited edition set (only 500), Disposofónicos: Acumuladores de Objectos Sonantes, is out via the good people of Sonoscopia, a cultural association in Porto. The project under the artistic direction by Gustavo Costa and Henrique Fernandes comes with this gorgeous book, housed in a sleek outer box, and th…
Läuten der Seele
**200 copies limited edition** Behind the mysterious name 'Läuten der Seele' comes the eponymous solo debut-album from Christian Schoppik, half of the confidentially acclaimed experimental dark folk duo Brannten Schnüre from Wurzburg (DE). The record is composed of 12 abstract audio collages based on transformed sampled loops from German 50’s Heimatfilme features -a popular domestic genre involving rural settings, romantic tone and simplistic morality, centered on love, friendship and family- j…
Works for Piano
"The piano was the favourite instrument of Morton Feldman (1926 – 1987). “What is the difference between an orchestra and a piano? A piano has pedals”, he once said. The three works on the CD – Triadic Memories (1981), For Bunita Marcus (1985) and Palais de Mari (1986) – are iconic of Feldman’s compositional trajectory. Firstly, because of their length. The first two pieces each last almost an hour and a half, Palais de Mari 25 minutes. Furthermore, the limitation of the musical material is stri…
Krypta
The Swiss composer, sound and video artist Jannik Giger lifts the veils and creates access to the usually rather hidden, private worlds of music making on this album Krypta. The rage, teachings, interjections and body sounds of the mostly already deceased world-famous conductors are embedded like relics in the morbid-ritual accompaniment of the fictional orchestra.Can the ex-patriarchs one day be resurrected? At least they are brought to speak in a new way in their own requiem, come to unusually…
1. Keintate / Eine Letzte Art Chansons
Friedrich Cerha, whose monumental Spiegel cycle and his completion of Alban Berg's Lulu have secured him a place amongst the most eminent composers of our time, celebrated his 95th birthday on 17 February 2021. This album presents two of his lesser known very typical Viennese works, featuring chansonnier HK Gruber. While somehow in the tradition of the local music played at the Heurigen, both pieces dig deep into the musical and spiritual soul of Viennas folk and art music. This extraordinary …
Syriarise
**2021 stock** With Materiali Sonori Arturo Stalteri released the CD “Syriarise," a work combining two different artistic approaches: an electronic suite with minimalist and ethnic influences and a section dedicated to the piano. This was the first in a long series of projects with the Tuscan record label, which considers Stalteri as one of its most representative artists.
Reime
*Limited to 300 copies* "How can one explain the lasting popularity of the bass clarinet in musical circles from Vienna to Brussels? Perhaps because its frequency range articulates an alternative to conventions of popular music, where "bass" is reserved primarily for rhythmic impulses and the very foundation of the music. Viennese bass clarinetist Susanna Gartmayer's playing can by no means be reduced to just this, rather, it scutinizes the entire sound universe: she can do rhythm and drone, not…
Ma Délire — Songs Of Love, Lost & Found
Myriam Gendron Ma Délire - Songs of Love Lost & Found It has been a while since the release Myriam's acclaimed 2014 debut album, Not So Deep As a Well. The intervening years have brought a smattering of live performances, a bouquet of children, Trump's Pandemic, and much more. For someone who likes to read and ponder as much as Ms. Gendron does, there has been plenty to mull over. Different concepts for a new album were broached, but the seed of Ma Delire was planted when Myriam recalled a paper…
Douzième Journée: Le Verbe, La Parure, L'Amour
Originally released in Japan on the Belgian Crammed Discs label and subsequently re-issued on Made to Measure, Douzieme Journee treads that odd ground combining ambient music with roots in Eno and various so-called world musics, here concentrating on those found in Northern Africa and the Mid-East. This confluence seems to have been in the air at the time as witness similar efforts from Hector Zazou and the Penguin Café Orchestra. Lew and ex- Tuxedomoon member Brown, ably assisted by label mains…
Mr. Manager (Expanded Edition)
Following the acclaimed 2017 vinyl reissue of the Noir et Blanc album, we’re excited to present a special edition of Zazou Bikaye’s second record, Mr. Manager, which only ever came out on vinyl, in 1985. This edition comprises nine additional tracks, including six previously-unreleased recordings, and three which were only included on limited-edition singles. Stemming from the encounter between Congolese vocalist/composer Bony Bikaye, French musician/producer Hector Zazou and modular synth wizar…
The Quest For The Chalice Of Life
Elytheria lies in ruins! Cities are being deserted as people flee in panic from the undead force that rose in the southern kingdom. For generations, the prophecy has been thought nothing more than a tale to fright children. Yet still, a fortnight ago, it proved to be true.It was said that if a king's firstborn son were to die on a full moon, the Lichs would return and lay siege over the rule of the kingdom. And indeed, under their mighty spells the dead have been rising from their graves to wrea…
Kowloon Neon-City (Episode Two)
HDK is proud to introduce you the second episode of "Kowloon Neon City", the immaginary distopic and retro-futuristic anime released in 199X. In this second part, the story moves from the rejected city of Kowloon to its double Olympus. We will discover a world permeated by technology that brings many aspects of our reality forward, to the extreme consequences. Mei and Cheng, once again the protagonists of this story, have to fight for their lives against the global sistem of surveillance. And we…
Новая Земля
October 30, 1961 at 11:30 a.m. (Moscow time) is unleashed in Mitjusicha Bay, island of Novaya Zemlya, the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever built. The Tzar-Bomb had a detonation power of more than 3000 times the power of the bomb thrown on Hiroshima. Its radius of destruction was 35 km. and the fire reached a height of 64 km. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_BombaAfter that test, the world wondered whether to continue the research in nuclear devices. It would have been a dead end lane leading to self d…
Vanexa
Vanexa fights in the 99th year of the Holistic Era in the League of Chrononauts, who protect the good future from the bad one. Vanexa has the power to steal people's shadows, and tonight she wants to steal the shadow of Xiao Xiao, the illegitimate son of the Supreme Manager of the Asian Totalitarian Exchange visiting Moscow-5: she wants to ask for a millionaire ransom and thus finance the hacker-guerilla of the Digital Liberation Front.However, a sniper kills Xiao Xiao before she can carry out h…
A Dungeon In The Tundra
Why have you gone so far, into this desolate and inhospitable land? What can be buried under this frozen earth? The legends of the nomadic peoples, some rumors of the miners, a strange dream, so vivid... the last outpost was a ruined tower dating back to a war no one remembers anymore. Useful for sheltering from the thin wolves, with the eyes full of blood, that mysteriously live in this cursed land. In the dream's vision the access into the earth was like you are seeing it now. The map scrawled…
Across Distances
Incidental Music presents "Across Distances", a new tape edition from Ambienti Coassiali featuring two previously unreleased "Room" pieces from the original "Vol. 1" sessions alongside four new tracks - two of which are available only on cassette. "Across Distances" marks the first release of Incidental Music's "Reflections" series, examining compositions across the passage of time and space. Though the pieces featured on "Across Distances" were recorded over thirty years apart, they feature t…
Functional Stereo Music
Rob Franken was a talented Dutch, journeyman keyboardist of the 70s. Among other things, he is considered the first Dutch jazzman to make ‘good use’ of the Fender Rhodes and synthesizer.These 3 CDs compile a full six vinyl lps worth of previously unreleased commercially music. Much of the music is electric trio, but some sessions use extra percussion and even sax or trumpet. The description below explains what this music is, but it’s much better than simply ‘music for elevators’ and it certainly…