New Arrivals
Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe - Fragments of Music,
"Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe is a powerful and often ignored recording from the Albert Ayler catalog. It is a prophetic statement dealing with guilt, confusion, sorrow, and hopes of redemption. A powerful rhythm section of Bobby Few on piano, Stafford James and James Folwell on bass, (Folwell on electric fender bass), and Muhammad Ali on drums manage to take a backseat to the prominent vocals of Ayler's business associate and girlfriend Mary Parks, listed on the record as Mary Mar…
Blue Blew It
Keijo Virtanen: guitar, vocal, mouth-harp, maraca. Alex Reed: ukulele, bass, drums, volcas, c5, omnichord, organ, samples, backing vocals. All music recorded at Keljo, Jyväskylä, Finland
Adventures In Object-Hood!
**Edition of 75** Lovely new release by Cameron Stallones, the well-known American musician and producer, mostly known as Sun Araw. "In translating the captured audio signals to the human aural spectrum, there is some noticable loss of fidelity, howewer the melodic information has been preserved to a remarkable degree. Please enjoy these sounds from the gamma quadrant!"
Instead Of Rain I Bring A Hat
Instead of rain I bring a hat is a long-distance collaboration between the UK’s Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear, Gospel Of Mars, duo with Alan Courtis) and Norwegian Erik K Skodvin (Svarte Greiner, Deaf Center, B/B/S). It developed gently, taking its full form over the space of nearly 6 years.The project began with e-mail exchanges of fragmented sounds and ideas – on the piano, cello, drums, harp, vocals, homemade and electronic instruments. Their experimental correspondence eventually blossomed a…
Impressões De Uma Ilha (Unguja)
A site-specific recording sporting a straightforward approach that i’ve grown to love in the works of Gonçalo Cardoso. An album of modern day exotica, a genre i usually pretty much dislike, yet Cardoso steers his vehicle easily aside the trapdoors and potholes. Combining found sounds, sparse playing and field recordings he creates a world that both invokes Treasure Island, and An Essay On Exoticism. Indeed questions are raised. But especially certain emotions are shared. Cardoso acts both like t…
I Nastri Ritrovati
**Available in an extremely limited pressing of 300 hand-numbered certified copies, one time pressing. This is a special non-profit publication for historical, scientific and educational purposes** Not so long ago, Italy’s remarkable movement of musical minimalism remained almost entirely unknown. Stretching from the 1970’s through the late 80’s, it rarely sounded like anything else - taking a remarkable range of cultural influences and ideas into its midst - a body of creative hybrids, reformin…
La Vie Electronique Volume 1.2
Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician that needs very little introduction. In the late sixties & early seventies he was a member of several iconic bands such as Tangerine Dream, The Cosmic Jokers and Ash Ra Tempel before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across five decades. Collaborations were numerous and highlights include working with Steve Winwood, Brian Eno and Alphaville… just to name a few.Klaus Schulze’s proto moog-syn…
Time Actor
Time Actor was the result of a collaboration between legendary Crazy World & Kingdom Come visionary Arthur Brown and German synthesizer and ambient genius Klaus Schulze, recording under the pseudonym of his alter-ego Richard Wahnfried. "Richard" is the name of Klaus’ son born in 1979, and the first name of the German composer Wagner. “Wahnfried” is the name of Richard Wagner’s house, from the German “wähnen Frieden fand” (that his search and hopes will findpeace). The album was a unique fusion o…
Jazz Liisa 18
The final part of the Jazz Liisa series sees the extraordinary cult percussion artist Edward Vesala lead a 9-piece ensemble. Recorded in 1974, shortly before the recording of his legendary Nan Madol album, this is a rare chance to hear Vesala live on air during his early creative period.
It’s Just Us Starving in the Land of Plenty
Interlocking stories unfolding in a nonlinear way, about several characters connected by disorientation, desolation, isolation, mystification, starvation, alienation, hallucination, transformation and love. Or, a reflection on the human condition in the era of a globalization devoid of any cultural meaning. The first issue we have released – also known as “Casscomics #1” – which marked the beginning of our production (Aug. 2015), is the eponymous concept album in which are told – in quite a dysf…
When Apples Battle Gravity
When Apples Battle Gravity is a radio opera; a concept album about different characters discussing the failure of communication and being outsiders. It’s about consecutiveness of reactions and the attempt at creating empathy. The complex narrative thread, made of juxtaposed and superimposed excerpts of simultaneous conversations between various characters is interrupted by “songs”, which act as comments extempore. Concrete soundscapes and intimate ones lead the listener in and out of the mind of…
Trace Of Voices
A beautiful album of minimalist pastoralism from Japanese composer Masaya Kato, entitled Trace Of Voices. It’s piano based ambiances, with its obscure samplings, field recordings, and overall Japanesesque tones, are the perfect accompaniment to these long, relaxing mid winter evenings!Digipak version , in an edition of 150 copies.
Kew. Rhone.
Released in 1977 the songs on Kew. Rhone. engaged lyrically with three interrelated themes: Omen (the reading/interpretation of signs), Nomen (the power of names, the pros and cons of identity), and Numen (the spirit in matter, the numinous). This illustrated exegetical memoir likewise engages with those themes in an experimental reading and interpretation, an attempt to name and identify some of Kew. Rhone.’s sources, and to invest the material with something like a ‘spirit’.Kew. Rhone. would n…
Mellow My Mind, a Sloow Tapes discography
Chronicling the first 10 years of Sloow Tapes, Mellow My Mind gives an overview of all the tapes, broadsides, lp’s and booklets published so far. From Keijo’s desolate avant/acid folk moves to Fursaxa’s spiked organ drones with a short detour by way of Ira Cohen’s Akashic Records. Fully annotated with detailed information about the tapes, promo texts, reviews and a few texts written especially for this publication by Bart De Paepe, Matthew Parry and Louise Landes Levi.
The Horde
Transistor formed in 2009 when Franck Vigroux was performing in NYC where Ben Miller led several projects. Vigroux was in a creative transition suggesting a stripped down electro-industrial sound with the latter as lead singer. Miller had sung in many bands before but never solely as a lead singer. The new challenge was intriguing. Shows were set up with Vigroux’s sub-bass and extreme frequencies blowing more than one PA system. They struck up an overseas collaboration releasing a self-titled EP…
Swimming in Light
Double bass, bass guitar, analogue synthesizer, vibraphone, piano, percussion, field recordings.It’s the Australian composer’s 6th solo album since his debut, Ink On Paper (2008) and possibly the strongest demonstration of his innovative extended technique, deployed in two subtly contrasting yet equally hypnotic sides. Using rapid bowing technique to paradoxically generate ostensibly static, sine wave-like tones, coupled with analogue synth, vibes, piano, percussion and field recordings, Majkows…
Eclipsed
Bremen return with Eclipsed, a double LP of glacial electronics, strung-out drone-punk, and smoldering space-rock minimalism. Following the release of their self-titled debut on Skrammel in 2013, the Swedish duo of Jonas Tiljander (Brainbombs) and Lanchy Orre (Brainbombs, Totalitär) joined the Blackest Ever Black fold in 2014 with Second Launch (BLACKEST 033LP). If the mood of that record was brooding and stygian, its monochord intensity unfaltering, then Eclipsed, this equally sprawling set, co…
Tres Precieux Sang
*2017 repress* Terrific record! Eight charged, intimate meditations by Julie Normal and Olivier Demeaux, playing a rickety ondes Martenot and an old church harmonium. Gripping, detailed, stately improvisation -- a bit like the ùrlars in classical bagpipe music -- which nervily mixes the sternly doom-laden with precarious, other-worldly wonderment. (The ondes Martenot is an amazing twentieth-century instrument -- beloved by Messiaen, for example, and Varese. The theme-song of Star Trek is a voca…
Ophelia
Three years after their Rock-Opera Odyssea, “an incredibly cinematic and charged post-rock experience” (The CD Critic) and “a success from start to finish” (A Closer Listen), indignu [lat.] is back with a new album. Ophelia, the latest sonic journey was privately released by the band in late October 2016 on vinyl. Indignu [lat.], recently referred to as “the apotheosis of Portuguese post-rock” (Post-Rock Essentials) has been roaming their country for 10 years now, but also venturing outside Lu…
I Hate Even Numbers
Parallel universes mangle and mash into a superheated cloud of galactic debris and non-recyclable plastic. After a slew of genre-confounding 7" releases, Our Love Will Destroy The World unravels his own history of nearly everything in this, the mere third full length offering under his world destroying moniker. Smearing the already dotty line between twinkle-toed rave music and excoriating drone cacophony, I Hate Even Numbers weighs in like a three-legged gargantuan in a one-man morris dance. Bl…