New Arrivals
Live à Metamórfosi 2019
Recorded live in Paris in 2015 (not sure wht the title says' 2019' but...) here we have an new LP from France, the legendary trio (hurdy
gurdy, bass, drums) of Yann Gourdon, Mathieu
Tilly, Jeremie Sauvage, founded in Valence back
in 2005. Over the last 14 years they've been delving into the dark folds
of drone and experimentalism, collaboratively breathing new life into
these territories or sound. An expansive universe of rhythm and
tone, at times flirting at the outer borders of Tony
Conrad's l…
Plus or Minus Two
Plus or Minus Two compiles 4 songs from Kansas City wave pioneers Short-Term Memory’s first cassette album, Every Head Needs Cleaning, with with a song each from their last cassette release Cinema Mind, and their digital retrospective, Flub Dub and Other Love Songs. This EP focuses on the group’s prescient dance-floor DIN-sync workouts which share sensibilities with contemporaneous early Detroit experiments by Juan Atkin’s Cybotron, Ron Hardy’s visionary Kikrokos tape edit, Shoc Corridor’s exten…
O Esquadrao Da Morte
Exact reproduction LP by Le Vieux Renard Records of this sensational album from the mid 70s. From the golden archives of the Brazilian library, here comes the mighty soundtrack of Carlos Imperial blaxploitation movie 'Esquadrao da Morte'. Written, arranjed and composed by the genius of Zé Rodrix and performed by his band 'Agência de Mágicos', this is a mostly instrumental masterpiece, a perfect meeting between North American '007' moods and Brazilian Funk.Fantastic artwork by artist Benicio. Hig…
Construcao
If you've ever been wondering which album to get by Chico Buarque – this is it! The record's a stunning batch of sophisticated sides, done in collaboration with Roberto Menescal, and with help from Jobim and MPB4! The album builds on the style of Buarque's excellent late 60s songwriting, and adds in some of the more complicated approaches to arrangement that were being developed in Brazil at the end of the 60s – in a way that pushes Chico's work to the next level, and which makes this record sit…
Os Catedraticos 73
Far Out Recordings presents a reissue of Eumir Deodato's Os Catedraticos 73, originally issued in 1973. One of Brazil's most prolific artists, Deodato has participated in the creation of over 450 albums, racked up 16 platinum records, won a Grammy (and received two more nominations), and sold over 250 million records in the USA alone. Over the course of his career, he has written for, arranged music by and played with artists including Frank Sinatra, Tom Jobim, Kool & The Gang, Earth, Wind & Fir…
Above All Dreams
2019 Small repress. Abul Mogard's first new solo album since 2015’s Circular Forms, a staggering suite of widescreen landscapes painted in self-built modular synth strokes. Hugely recommended if you're into Alessandro Cortini, early OPN, Coil, Brian Eno... Above All Dreams is Abul Mogard’s beautifully absorbing new album for Ecstatic, deploying six longform pieces for the most expansive solo release by Mogard to date. Taking into account its intangible divinity and cinematic quality - the result…
Gasworks
Gasworks by Gerald Fiebig collects his sound installations, radiophonic compositions, and live performances relating to the former gasworks in Augsburg-Oberhausen. They were created between 2010 and 2016, some in collaboration with colleagues EMERGE and Christian Z. Müller. Among the compositional materials of the album are processed recordings of the sounds of gas and industrial machinery, stories told by a former gasworks employee, and live improvisations in the echo chamber of the large gas t…
Nightingale Cities
Outstanding release. Five years in the making, David Rothenberg’s Nightingales in Berlin project includes a book, a film, many live concerts, and this double CD, including a 20 page color booklet of stills from the film and music not available in any form online. Here’s what Rothenberg says about the project: “I used to make interspecies music largely on my own, seeing myself as some kind of individual explorer seeking out musical ideas with creatures we can’t even talk to. But in recent years I…
Holy Water Whisper
Limited edition of 100 copies. Fluids flood the entire audio spectrum (20 to 20k). A solid state which is simultaneously and continuously changing.All tracks produced on a Nord Modular G1. One track, one patch; no additional effects or over-dubbing.
The Royal Garden Covered in Ash
Limited edition of 200 copies Mastered by Jacques Beloeil. Music by Fabio Orsi and Brian Pyle Recorded in Taranto, Italy and Manila (CA), USAFabio Orsi is an Italian producer and photographer. Born in Naples, he cites the field recordings of American folklorist Alan Lomax as a primary influence. Brian Pyle is from Northern California. He is a founding member of Starving Weirdos and also records as Ensemble Economique.
Frequencies
Edition of 200. This is the last release in the series of Nicolas Bernier’s worldwide
acclaimed and Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica awarded project
“frequencies”. The piece frequencies (a / archives) is a composition based on sounds
from the scientific archives of Rennes 1 University (France). This
impressive collection of antique scientific apparatus includes one of
the few remaining "Grand Diapason" built by Rudolph Koenig circa 1880.
The two gigantic forks of the Grand diapason can gen…
You & I Are Earth
'You & I are Earth' begins with the sound of a woman talking. She
recalls memories of being a young girl during the London Blitz fire
bombings of World War II. She speaks calmly at first, with memories of
the event slowly creeping up on her. These impressions soon become
illustrated through Vanessa Rossetto's own collage of mechanized cacophony.
Eventually, they develop into her signature Feldman-esque flowing-out of
strings.
The woman’s voice belongs to none other than Rossetto’s mother,…
Afrotheme / Percussion Blues
**Edition of 350** Two crazy rhythmic cuts by Paolo Ferrara, sourced from the super-rare library LP, “Ritmico”, on Flower Records. Afrotheme is a deep afro-jazz funky track with powerful bass lines, hot percussion, and psychedelic wah-wah guitars. Percussion Blues, on the flip side, blends African and Brazilian sounds with a unique samba groove, and a Fender Rhodes which is the icing on the cake. This is also the second of a new Four Flies 45s series, properly designed for DJs, producers, and wo…
Acceptance Is Not Respect
Ramleh's Gary Mundy has been rather prolific in recent years with his solo Kleistwahr
project. As with his main concern, there's a deep-seated interest in
pushing the parameters where certain sonics can fall into a seismic
vortex of sheer overload yet remain tethered to a knowing sensibility
where greater power can be derived from simply holding back. Since the
incredible This World Is Not My Home album in 2014 Kleistwahr has
embarked on a single-handed mission to not only take such possi…
Misericordia
2017 Edition. Misericordia was recorded in Italy on Sept 2015 and is a collaboration between shamanistic Bon spiritualists Phurpa from Russia and experimental drone and field recordings Italian act Mare Di Dirac, fronted by Lorenzo Abattoir.The overall album drowns you in a meditative tantric soundscape consisting of Alexey Tegin’s deep gutteral vocal vibrations (rgyud-skad) or ‘tantric voice‘ and Lorenzo Abattoir’s dark ambient field recordings and sound effects. Organic sounds are produced by …
Pursuit Of Pleasure
2012 Edition. Pursuit of Pleasure is the second album release by legendary Power Electronics duo Sutcliffe Jugend for 2012. It has also been 4 years (in 2008) since their last album release on vinyl format (Sutcliffe Jugend/Prurient ”End of Autumn“).Overall, Pursuit of Pleasure demonstrates the maturity of Sutcliffe Jugend as an experimental outfit who has redefined themselves through creative manipulation of sound textures. From their progressive redevelopments of careful structured organic ele…
The Air Seller (1967) LP
Shukai presents its debut release -- music for television film The Air Seller by Victor Vlasov, which has never been released before. Recorded in 1967, the same year as the film was broadcasted on Soviet television. The Air Seller, directed by Vladimir Riabtsev, is a black-and-white film based on the eponymous sci-fi novel by Alexander Belyaev, first published in 1929. What is "Shukai"? Shukai in English means "to hunt" or "look for". Shukai focuses on bringing back to life the lost tapes from '…
L'Appendino 1849
100 copies only. Limited edition LP with individual trifold poster colour cover. Music assembled from original tape recordings dated 1979-1980. Sounds from several acoustic sources, magnetic tapes, environments. In Giancarlo Toniutti own words: "A jumble from within very old materials, tapes (1979-1980) comprising musical intentions, in their own way, read and reread, built and rebuilt, hung and hung back up. With no epenthesis. In a continuous stream of small precarious and chiseled magmas, sou…
Carillon
This LP documents two compositions that are part of Olaf Nicolai’s work Carillon: Isabel Mundry’s Outisde In, a piece for 15 cowbells, and Carillon, the field recording of a freeform composition created by 15 grazing cows.Carillon was conceived for Museion in Bolzano on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the new museum building. The first step was the production of 15 cowbells especially for this purpose. Each cowbell is different and has its own unique sound. Nicolai had commissioned the c…