New Arrivals
Obsolete Systems
Recordings of ambient music proliferate like cancer cells, and many merely consist of the innocuous burblings and the banal meanderings of stunted imaginations. Obsolete Systems by Red Math (Nashville, Tennsessee producer Lance Dibblee) delves deeper and soars farther out than the work of most musicians working in the beatless realm. Dibblee began as a drum & bass producer in the ’90s, but his recent output is eons away from the uptempo propulsiveness of that style. Reference points for …
Where All Is Fled
Double LP version. "Steve Hauschildt's new album is his first since the late 2012 release of Sequitur. Although Where All Is Fled sonically harkens back to his earlier albums such as Rapt for Liquid Minister and Tragedy & Geometry, it slowly becomes apparent that it is also a divergence from those recordings. Both the artwork and the music on this new work were heavily inspired by surrealist landscape paintings, early alchemical emblems, and recurring visions Steve had from dreams. The resul…
Tape #4
**never before released archival material from Chicago's answer to Germany's 70s kosmische/electronic scene, longform excursions of minimal synthetic music reissued for the 1st time** VCSR existed between 1978 and 1984. They weren't a band or a group so much as it was a collective. They never had an official release but recorded over 60 reels of tape from which cassettes were mixed down for their own use or to give to friends. They were to be the first record on the Waxx Traxx label with Al …
Liquid Liquid Bundle
Bundle includes Liquid Liquid's three classic records (self-titled, Successive Reflexes, and Optimo) in their original 12-inch format as well as an archival LP of rare recordings by the pre-LL bands, Liquid Idiot and Idiot Orchestra.
Liquid Liquid emerged from New York City's vibrant Downtown scene in 1981. Formed by drummer Scott Hartley, bassist Richard McGuire, vocalist Sal Principato and marimba player Dennis Young, the group cut their teeth in underground clubs and street art circles bef…
Hide Before Dinner
Hide Before Dinner is an extraordinary LP from a group comprising Carla dal Forno (Tarcar), Samuel Karmel, and Tarquin Manek (Tarcar,LST). Deeply drugged, synth-daubed death-folk and DIY electronics of the highest order; acutely psychedelic, inscrutable but emotional, sunken but prone to soaring, with flashes of horror too. Beautifully conjures the mirth and murk of childhood summers... a relatable surburban gothic... grazed knees, hide-and-seek, nettle-stings. Trampled flowerbeds and failing l…
Cycles
Ulrich Krieger is a German-born saxophonist and composer notable for his involvement in the groups Text of Light and Metal Machine Trio. His work involves what he calls Ôacoustic electronics' or amplified acoustic instruments processed through effects and feedback loops. Cycles ranges from saxophone-controlled feedback walls of free-noise to the meditative sounds of sine waves.
Dans L'Herbe
Montreal-based sound artist Anne-F Jacques utilizes the possibilities of degraded technology and incidental sound to create mechanical resonances out of tape assemblage, rotation devices, and DIY amplification systems. With an emphasis on technology versus nature, dans l'herbe centers on the mechanical rumble, field recordings and discarded sounds of the current industrial age.
Profuse, Comfortless And Antique
A key figure among the burgeoning Worcester, Massachusetts noise scene, Seamus R. Williams crafts crude electro-acoustic sound collage made of murky tape loops and low-end electronics. Profuse... emits a cavernous sound of static debris, magnetic atmospherics and barren frequencies that all shift in unison.
Corrugated
An intricate collage of manipulated found and appropriated sounds taken from a series of concrète reel to reel tape experiments recorded throughout 2012 and 2013 in White's hometown of London.
From A Soundtrack To The Anabase...
A Handful of Dust is the duo of New Zealand noisemakers Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. Incorporating elements of drone, spoken word, minimalism, improvisation and utilizing everything from violin to toy telephone, The Dust crafts a genuinely unique style of free-form music. 'From A Soundtrack To The Anabase Of St-John Perse' a tape originally released via Russell's own Corpus Hermeticum imprint nearly two decades ago finds the duo under the influence of the 1924 poem of the s…
Magnetic Detritus
Edition of 150. Sold out at source ! Magnetic Detritus presents the work of eight artists exploring various approaches to contemporary tape-based music. Through the interplay of collage, electronics and tape manipulation, this set provides a brief glimpse into a vast and evolving form. Packaged in a reel to reel box with paste-on artwork. Featuring: Darksmith, Lea Bertucci, Dog Lady Island, Matt Krefting, Sterile Garden, Aaron Dilloway, Evenings, Gordon Ashworth.
Trial And Error
Game of Patience is one of the few groups in South East Asia region dedicated solely to the creation of free improvised music. Unconstrained by any given tradition, they draw influence and techniques from both the Asian and Western experimental music traditions. Performing with a focused intensity complimented by mercurial group interplay, they create sharp sweeping shards of improvised noise-jazz, creating textures combining extended techniques and electronics with elements of free jazz, electr…
Warm Glove
Luca Sigurtà has been composing electronic music since the early 2000s; Warm Glow is a great step forward in his compelling and very personal musical journey. On Warm Glow, Sigurtà's emotional electronic noise is mixed with slow-paced rhythms and delicate flows of analog synth. It's an original sort of trip-hop-noise-ambient, marked by remarkably melancholic melodies and beautiful digital and analog sounds. With a passion for silence and noise, Sigurtà has previously released on Fratto9 Und…
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Leslie Winer is an artist and author living and working in France. Earlier releases include Witch (recorded in 1990, released in 1993), & That Dead Horse (recorded in 1994, released in 2010), Always Already (2011), and the retrospective compilation Leslie Winer &c. (WHO 003CD, 2012). She has collaborated with Jon Hassell, Bomb the Bass, Mekon, and her words and voice were heard on a track on CI by Diamond Version (Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender) (2014). As of 2015, she is co-editor and co-execu…
Clarinet and String Quartet
Saltern returns with a gorgeous new recording of Morton Feldman's Clarinet and String Quartet (1983) performed by Anthony Burr (clarinet), Graeme Jennings (violin), Gascia Ouzounian (violin), Che-Yen Chen (viola) and Charles Curtis (cello). This performance highlights Feldman's interest in notation by treating the slight differences in intonation and rhythm literally and specifically. Recorded by Tom Erbe in the living room of a friend of the musicians. Edition of 400. Housed in jackets print…
Fusees
“Fusées” isn’t the first collaboration between Thomas Bonvalet and Jean-Luc Guionnet, their first joint effort “Loges de Souffle” appearing on Be Coq last year. The same label also put out a vinyl edition of “Fusées”, but now Sarah Hennies’ label Weighter Recordings has thankfully stepped in with a CD and download release for the rest of us. Although the two artists are primarily known for their attachments to a particular instrument (guitar for Bonvalet, saxaphone for Guionnet), these in…
Sorcerer of Sound
"Sorcerer of Sound" or "S.O.S." is a concept album by Justin Wright of Expo '70. A collection of analog improvised experiments that harken back to the early days of private press releases. LP to be released on Polytechnic Youth late Summer. Cassette version will be presented in hand dyed outer shells in an edition of 50. Long-term devotees to Wright’s recording career will no doubt dig that although aspects of the recording equipment and improvised approach here may alter slightly, the …
Down To The Bone
Just 10 years ago, Down to the Bone was released by Les Disques du Soleil et de L'Acier - a Depeche Mode acoustic (piano, clarinet, cello, viola) tribute album on which Sylvain Chauveau went back to singing after several years exploring intrumental landscapes. 11 tracks that the musician reclaims in the sober style he is known for leaving just the bare bones of the originals. With the Nocturne ensemble, Chauveau redefines the contours of these hits we all know to provide an intimate and highly p…
Celadon
A work of slowly evolving beauty that gradually unravels its meditative design. Recorded in 2013 in the mausoleum of Norwegian sculptor and painter Emanuel Vigeland (1875-1948) in Oslo, a recording space that is famous for its acoustics and its long and full-sounding reverb. These three tracks utilize both the delicacy and the power of acoustic instruments and human voice in relation to the unique recording space. Otherworldly and eerie but also with a great primal expressive force. Perfo…
Sentimental Something
Pinkcourtesyphone sends you a Sentimental Something from the depths of its obsessed heart. A sonic love note of smudged ink. Joined by the otherwordly Evelina Domnitch, friend and former cover model and vocalist on the acclaimed 2014 Description of Problem CD, which also featured contributions from Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kid Congo Powers, AGF, and William Basinski. On the central core, "Tears of Modernism," Miss Domnitch wields her dark magic on theremin, weaving a mournful kiss on the envelope fr…