New Arrivals
Memory Game
* CD in 6-panel wallet, designed by Denise Burt, including a booklet with lyrics and liner notes by the composer * Memory Game is both a look back at a pivotal point in Meredith Monk’s storied career, and a richly layered portrait of how vocal music, under the guidance of an indefatigable master, can play with our expectations in poignant and compelling ways. What emerges is a suite of songs that flows with a remarkable narrative cohesion, stemming in large part from the composer’s willingness t…
Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020. Lydia Mancinelli Legge Marcello Maloberti
Xing presents the artist record Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020. Lydia Mancinelli Legge Marcello Maloberti (Hammerings. Cool Writings 1990-2020. Lydia Mancinelli Reads Marcello Maloberti), second release of the XONG series. Italian actress Lydia Mancinelli, stage and life partner of the avant-garde author Carmelo Bene, reads the “written voices” of Martellate, a collection of impulsive written fragments by the visual artist Marcello Maloberti. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and …
Didone
** 12” LP edition of 300 copies with cover artwork and booklet featuring illustrations by Ettore Tripodi ** In September 2019 Alessandro Bosetti was invited by fellow composer and curator Riccardo La Foresta to create a new work for a newly created ensemble as part of a residency program hosted by Centro Musica in Modena, Italy. The very first encounter took place on Skype – kind of a prediction of the forthcoming physically distanced pandemic times. The first, straight-to-the-point question Bos…
Songs from the Shore
In Japanese folklore, Afuma indicates a time of day marked by spiritual or mysterious encounter. In Latin, one who inhales. Together as Afuma, Stefan Tcherepnin, and Taketo Shimada breathe sepulchral energies into the brooding, cosmic fringes of guitar-based song vernacular. Tcherepnin’s baritone and Shimada’s lap steel guitar intertwine, smearing across world’s-end horizons that propel Tcherepnin’s ragged, foreboding vocal delivery and its lyrical portents of departure, of life’s vessel unmoore…
Incomplete
No Rents Records presents Incomplete by Jim Haynes. Describing his work through the pithy phrase, "I rust things", Jim Haynes (b. 1972) is a California based artist who has developed a vocabulary of decay that he has applied to photography, sculpture, installation, and sound. He has exhibited internationally at institutions such as The Exploratorium (San Francisco), WestSpace (Melbourne, Australia), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Eyedrum (Atlanta), Diapson (New York), and The Lab (San Francis…
Lower Hope Reach
Another sublime installment from Dean Brown’s Little Skull. This 5 track 10” moves through minimal, naïve, folk/chamber territory on into darker, more twisted waters. Hand-made covers and inserts featuring three different lino-cut images. Each record comes with three inserts on transparent stock and features one of those images on the cover. Therefore there’s three variations of outer sleeve design. No requests!
No-Go
Eric Random is a British pioneer of post punk electronica. Born in 1961 Eric soon joined the Buzzcocks’ road crew. At the age of 17 he became a third of a group called The Tiller Boys, the other two being Pete Shelley and Francis Cookson. They played their live debut in 1978, supporting Joy Division at Manchester’s Factory club. For Pete Shelley The Buzzcocks were his main concern, so The Tiller Boys soon fell apart. Eric founded Free Agents with Cookson and soon met Richard Kirk and Stephen Mal…
Menial Disorders
The Industrial / experimental project Alien Brains was founded by Nigel Jacklin in 1979 while he was still at school in Oundle, near Peterborough, in the UK. Menial Disorders was their first release on Deleted Records. The cassette album includes recordings made in the school physics department using sound generators and a ‘loopotron’ which had been lent to Nigel by one of Billy Bragg’s bandmates (Billy Bragg’s Punk band, Riff Raff, were based in Oundle at the time) as well as their first live a…
Synopsis Seriation
'Synopsis Seriation,' Hecker's latest release with Editions Mego, draws upon current research in machine listening and music information retrieval, where the 'ghosts in the machine' are unsupervised, engineered operators designed to extract auditory features from a signal. The album advances a general research programme Hecker initiated through various projects. In 'A Script for Machine Synthesis' (EMEGO 226, 2017), the third chapter in the trilogy of text-sound pieces in collaboration with Reza…
L'Étoile Au Front
Klanggalerie presents L'Étoile Au Front by Étant Donnés. Etant Donnes is a French duo named after Marcel Duchamp's last major work. The group consists of brothers Marc and Eric Hurtado, born in Morocco and working mainly as performance artists and musicians. L'Etoile du Front was the band's third album, dating back to 1982 and originally issued on French Bain Total label.
Daecade
Limited edition purple vinyl. only 39 copies. Gatefold sleeve. Track duration not on sleeve or labels. ** "Daecade"...that is ten years of Daal. These two sides of the vinyl contain the best sound moments of the group, a project free from schemes and styles, an anarchic and visceral project, sometimes melancholic and dark, sometimes elegant and romantic! For the occasion of the tenth anniversary was composed a song specifically for this vinyl: "Daecade (nt)" a short instrumental that summarizes …
Soothing Sounds for Baby, vols. 1-3
* Limited edition of 750 individually numbered copies * The legendary proto-minimalistic Soothing Sounds For Baby series by Raymond Scott were pressed in limited quantities and have been out of print for almost over a decade. Due to high demand, Music On Vinyl in cooperation with Basta Music now release a limited edition of 750 numbered copies on coloured vinyl: orange marbled vinyl (LP1), yellow marbled vinyl (LP2) and light blue marbled (LP3) vinyl. The 3 records are housed in printed innersle…
Spume & Recollection
Punctual like a Swiss watch, Driftmachine presents a new album that once again astounds and delights. We know their trademark: solid mechanical percussions, forceful bass and melodies systematically built around circular patterns. "Spume & Recollection" is the sixth Umor Rex album by the Berlin duo, and what better way to celebrate the label's 15th anniversary than with a new record from the masters of labyrinthine cables and patches. Regarding "Nocturnes" (UR 2014), their debut album, we descri…
Selected Works 1985-2005
Ground-breaking percussive ambient recordings to induce altered states of consciousness through ecstatic dance. Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors were a world unto themselves. Despite featuring an extraordinary cast of musicians (with credits including Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Milton Nascimento and much more) and selling hundreds of thousands of albums, the music of Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors remains largely unheard beyond their sphere. Conceived as live, improv…
Lux
Wavey, dystopian industrial-electronic tripscapes from NON and Hyperdub affiliate and multi-disciplinary artist Venus Ex Machina. F*ck Cyberpunk 2077, this is cyberpunk 2021. She's made an AI opera, been involved in various art projects and composed for film, now Venus Ex Machina has deployed her debut full-length - a sprawling dystopia of decaying industrial beatscapes, squealing noise, drones and disorienting sound design. "Lux" isn't just a collection of odds and ends, it's a narrative univer…
Catherine Cherie
**Deluxe edition, includes poster and sticker** "Catherine Cherie is a Spanish/German coproduction flick from 1982. Typical 1980's b-movie stuff but with super nice music by Austrian cult musician Gerhard Heinz. Catherine Cherie soundtrack is totally flashing us at Private Records at the moment because when dubbing the master tapes a lot unknown songs showed up. All in all we come about 17 songs including 2-3 bonus songs. Many songs are very long for a soundtrack production and ranging between 3…
Palav Aed
Wake Dream is proud to present Palav Aed, the first full length album by Amsterdam/Tallinn based Estonian musician Ruutu Poiss. Recorded over the course of seven years from 2012 to 2019 in various home studios in Ruutu Poiss’ home town Tallinn, the tracks on Palav Aed were all made revolving around the same equipment constellation, the album sounding as coherent as it sounds timeless. Having released several 7”s, 12”s and EPs on Levels, International Major Label, Rets Records and being featured …
The Story of the Dolls
**Deluxe edition on coloured vinyl, includes poster and sticker** Vagienna returns with a new 1980's porn soundtrack. This time the journey leading us into a tropical paradise. Gerhard Heinz dropping many mega nice cosmic synths sitar disco and psychedelic movie scores again.Composer Gerhard Heinz, the unknown Austrian legend. Born 1927, he composed 136 soundtracks, mostly to sleazy movies like "Josefine Mutzenbacher", "Ehepaar sucht Gleichgesinntes", "Insel der Tausend Freuden", "Babystrich im …
Numero 95: Virtual Experience Software
Numero serve up this glorious ode to software generated soundscapes that emerged in the 90s after decades of brown corporate banality. In part helped along by access to the internet, the PC revolution also allowed for these vibrant sounds to emerge. Described as "the soundtrack to the screen saver fever dream we're all trying to climb back into" Numero 95 is a wistful and whimsical ambient collection with pastoral shades, smooth jazz and new age overtones and proto-vapourwave gems.
Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age 1989-1996
Music From Memory are excited to announce a special compilation that they’ve been working on for some time now; MFM053 – VA – Heisei No Oto – Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996). Compiled by long-time friends of the label, Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato, Heisei No Oto delves into a world of music released almost exclusively on CD and brings together a fascinating selection of discoveries from a little known and overlooked part of Japan’s musical history. The last ten or so years h…