New Arrivals
Long Decay And New Earth
Jiyeon Kim is Seoul-based musician and sound artist. Over the past decade she has devoted her time to developing a vocabulary based on field recordings and format-specific sound making, with close-listening deeply embedded in her practice.“This cassette is a document of a performance and its rehearsal, in Seoul, December 2019. The piece performed was a “decomposition” of a previous cassette release of mine, “piano mixtape”. "For this live show I employed two distinct techniques. Firstly, I took …
Matheus Segundo Matheus
Born in Rio in 1940, Helio won a guitar from his father at age 12.After working in sugar mills or as a sales clerk in record stores, he started performing at Rio nightclubs (like Plaza) and São Paulo.
In 1975 he signed to RCA Victor on which he released his first LP, "Matheus Segundo Matheus"
With arrangements by Oberdan "Black River" Magalhães, Zé Rodrix and Chiquinho de Moraes with participation of Azymuth as a support band withg a total of 128 musicians involved in the recording.
Elevation
Born in Paris, raised in Vienna, resident in Ibiza, saxophonist and composer Muriel Grossmann embodies the borderless, pan-continental energies of contemporary European jazz. Her music emerges from the lineage of European jazz that’s absorbed the progressive music of Coltrane, Dolphy and Sanders.
Today, she cites players such as Illinois Jacquet and Lester Young in the same breath as the masters of the avant-garde, and her playing marries the directness and eloquence of the older generation with…
Migrations
**300 copies** Recorded in Holme Fen nature reserve, Cambridgeshire, with two JrF contact microphones on 22nd to 25thMay 2020. The long lines of wires and wooden posts stretched across the sunken landscape of the Fens follow the man-made drainage canals and rivers for hundreds of miles. Bowed, plucked and struck by natural phenomena (strong winds caused by climate change) and indigenous flora, reveals dynamic sonic intra-events and hidden acoustic ecologies.
A. Red Square 14’ 14”Field recordings…
Swamps/Things
Over the last decade, Kassel Jaeger, the moniker of the Paris-based composer, writer / theorist, producer, and director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), François Bonnet, has meticulously sculpted a body of multidisciplinary work that rests at the forefront contemporary electronic and electroacoustic practice. He will release his new album ‘Swamp/Things’ on Shelter-Press.
Rigorously experimental without sacrificing the intimacies of self, his efforts as a composer and musician extend …
Seamons
Chra is the artist moniker for Austrian Christina Nemec (Bray, Shampoo Boy). Seamons is the latest missive in her ongoing exploration of suffocating abstract audio. At once designed and falling apart Seamons is rough and crude, a stumbling and staggering electronic expedition where nothing presents itself explicit in intent. It’s a tense obscure record that teases you into it’s peculiar vortex from it’s suggestive nature of exploring the enigma beyond it’s haunted facade.
VICIOUS WATER REGIMES s…
Arba, Dak Arba
Frédéric D. Oberland and Irena Z. Tomažin’s »ARBA, DÂK ARBA« was conceived as the soundtrack for the eponymous installation piece by the French artist Fanny Béguély. First presented as part of the group exhibition »Panorama 21 - ›Les Revenants‹« at Tourcoing’s Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains in December 2019, Béguély’s chemically painted photographs focused on humankind’s propensity for self-examination and its attempts to probe the mysteries of the past, present and future. Ob…
Miscellanea
**150 copies, black vinyl** Miscellanea – originally released in 1969 on cult italian label Sermi SR Records (home of famous composer such as Bruno Nicolai, Francesco De Masi, I Marc 4 and more) – is the debut of composer Luigi Zito, an in-demand session player and music director throughout all the seventies. An extremely brilliant music library with lots of jazz licks, descriptive and improvisational themes composed with a multitude of instruments, including the famous whistle by the one and on…
Threesome Slitting
**In process of stocking. 300 copies white label 45 RPM 12".** Live collaboration between these titans of harsh noise. Recorded February 2014 at Dead Audio studio, in Houston, Texas. Double sided offset printed DIY style pasted covers, including A4 insert, plus fliers from live events taking place surrounding these sessions. Mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering for maximum fidelity. Absolutely brutal record, you know what to expect with this one.
A Name, For Desire
**In process of stocking. 225 copies** Active since 2013 with a multitude of acclaimed cassette releases on Summer Isle, Strange Rules, Clandestine Compositions, and our own imprint; “A Name, For Desire” is the debut V. Sinclair LP and vinyl release. Twelve movements composed of piano, synth, and field recordings display significant growth from the earlier works. Includes a 12 page booklet with photography from V. S
Death Of The Slave
**In process of stocking. 249 copies 7" vinyl in heavyweight pocket sleeve with spine** Death Of The Slave is the debut 7" EP from new Japanese heavyweight Linekraft. The ideas presented on the recent "Engineering Analysis Of Inner Death" LP on Hospital Productions, and cassettes on Zaetraom & Old Europa Cafe are condensed into a veritable 1-2 punch industrial single. Human screaming, distorted vocals, crashing junk and oil drum abuse layered on top of analog synth lines go to further the existi…
Adaptive Emotional Use
**In process of stocking. 250 copies** After multiple lauded album-length cassettes, ‘Adaptive Emotional Use’ is the first true album from Toronto-based Death Kneel. Several years in development, ‘Adaptive Emotional Use’ is a maturation of the project. Exhibiting a markedly harsher sonic palette, Death Kneel takes a turn towards violence and tragedy. Presented in heavyweight 350gsm printed sleeve.
“Death hides the angels it makes in blue skies”
Sixth Mass Extinction
**In process of stocking. Black vinyl lp in embossed sleeve, edition of 300.** Things falling apart - composition for three PA’s (stereo version): the original 6 channel piece was commissioned by bad bonn kilbi festival düdingen switzerland 2018.
Radical hope - live action (studio version): this incarnation of live action was initiated in january 2016 and has developed since. triggered by a broken heart, it’s a critical analysis of subjective behaviourisms, self-reflections, self-criticisms and …
Darkness Over Najaf
**In process of stocking. Edition of 199 copies in pro-printed covers with double sided insert.** This album marks years of evolution of Herukrat's sound from a more basic harsh noise to pulsing power electronics, while continuing the tradition of heavy sampling and up-front and powerful vocals. For me this album is conceptual in two parts, first and most obvious is the focus on the United States Invasion of Iraq in 2003. I vividly remember being 12 years old and becoming captivated during the n…
Onomatopée Suicida
Limited edition of 100 copies on transparent magenta vinyl with A2 poster.** Active for nearly 40 years, Incapacitants are without a doubt one of the best noise groups of all-time. The duo of T. Mikawa and F. Kosakai are legendary for their chaotic recordings and over the top live performances. Onomatopée Suicida is the first new Incapacitants vinyl LP in more than 10 years, and follows their now classic format of a mix of studio pieces with a live performance on the B-side. This group should ne…
Nebula
**100 copies** Rotorelief present La Division Technique's Nebula. Sounds like electronic old school, soundscapes, minimal synth, psych-industrial-ambient, noise synth wave with analog synthesizers, filters, voices and space sounds.
Today, with experimental accents noisy and hovering, integrating voice and textures, analog synthesis, sound recordings of Space, plasma frequencies and processed sounds, La Division Technique proposes compositions with electronic ‘ambient-noise’ themes, developed on …
Sunyab Poetry Reading 12 / 9 / 1969
** Limited edition of 70. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City in 1927. When he was ten years old, his family moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where his love of nature and interest in man’s relationship to the environment developed. Environmentalism, Buddhism and a fierce anti-war stance fuelled much of his poetry, which has won him acclaim since the 1950s and 1960s. After having attended Princeton University, Merwin and his then wife …
Jazz = Sex = Good
** Limited edition of 70. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Simon Vinkenoog was born in Amsterdam in 1928. After having worked for the Dutch publishing house Querido he moved to Paris in 1948, where he started working for the books and publications department of UNESCO. From Paris he launched the Dutch literary journal Blurb, which published Dutch and Flemish writers and poets, such as W.F. Hermans, Hugo Claus, Armando, Lucebert and Paul Rodenko. Vinkenoog’s own poetry saw its fir…
The Acid Files
** Limited edition of 80. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Tune in and enjoy the ride: with an interview with Martin A. Lee, author of ‘Acid Dreams’, then Wavy Gravy speaks about the Green Acid + Ken Kesey on the Perry Lane gang, plus a Dinner with Timothy Leary & G. Gordon Liddyand finally Later in LA with Bob Costas, June 5/6, 1991
(Ben Schot)
The Complete Collection 1980-1988
Minimal Wave is proud to present The Complete Collection 1980-1988, a five LP box set by the highly lauded French group Martin Dupont. The band formed in Marseille in 1980 and consisted of Alain Seghir, Brigitte Balian, Beverley Jane Crew, and Catherine Loy. They were immensely talented with a rare dynamic between them that was likely inspired by a combination of their magnetic personalities, creative vision and the home studio where they recorded. The music they made was colorful, enthusiastic …