New Arrivals
Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity
Beautiful new collaborative work from Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch between Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem and American filmmaker & guitarist Jim Jarmusch. Jarmusch's previous collaborations with Wissem have not prepared the eager listener for the expressivity and emotional depth of his playing on these duets. Respectful of one another's space the pair weave layers of melody and waves of feedback while acoustic guitar and lute wrap together with a subtle depth expemplifying an austere u…
Dieter Tapes
Lettera 22 is the duo of Matteo Castro and Riccardo Mazza, two men on the forefront of the flourishing Italian noise & experimental scene. “Dieter Tapes” is a sordid collage of desolate audio, repurposed and destroyed in the struggle of man versus machine. Lettera 22 use extreme textures and dynamics to build up high levels of abusive tension, only to send them crashing down in a cacophony of broken beer bottles and urban scrap, leaving behind a skeleton of seething silence and tape hiss. A seed…
Counting Keys
Most composers who use mathematics to construct music do not intend it to be heard. Tom Johnson does. When he performed his piano cycle "Counting Keys" in Cologne in 1986 he began each piece by counting out its structure in numbers so that the audience could follow the logic of the music. A particularly appreciative member of that audience was John Cage. One might wonder what the famous advocate of indeterminacy could find interesting in this exactly determined, highly predictable music, until o…
Bitche Session
Musical expression comes in many forms and shapes, something that also applies to what we refer to as “experimental” music. That particular music receives its name usually because of its exploration of unusual shapes, colours, structures, etc, but sometimes it ends up even surrendering itself to entirely new languages and the possibilities those bring with them. It’s a taste of the latter that we find in this particular recording by the American Michael Johnsen, and Frenchman Pascal Battu…
Mimus / Skua
This split-in-two-sides cassette pairs two greek artists’ responses on the subject of birdsong. Some time ago Nicolas Malevitsis (of absurd fame) asked them to contribute a piece each, on the sole premise that the work would be based, or derive from, bird sounds. Unan (aka Chris Chondropoulos) brought back a curious collage work called ‘mimus’, built from the sounds and textures of scratchy vinyl culled over time by the artist from athens’ record shops. Focusing on structure and reflecting avian…
Le Mystere Jazz De Tombouctou
This is the second reissue from the Mali Kunkan label on Kindred Spirits. One of the rarest (that we know about) Malian records, Le Mystère Jazz de Tombouctou gets its first-ever reissue, with remastered audio and restored artwork. For fans of Kanaga de Mopti and the Super Djata Band. Kindred Spirits are proud to present to you this true West African gem. In 1977, the Malian government funded a series of LPs through its Mali Kunkan label. This series highlighted some of the great Malian orc…
Known Testimonies On The Unknown
"Known testimonies on the unknown" is based on how you can relate, adapt and use sounds or languages of unknown places , in this case, unknown found sounds, known but forgotten sounds and field recordings of people talking a language I do not understand.
Persuasive Barrier
Three Legged Race is the ongoing, ever-evolving project of Robert Beatty, a Lexington, Kentucky-based multi-media artist and founding member of noise band Hair Police. 2012 has been a busy year for Beatty, as he's provided his personal brand of visual art for countless excellent albums, and has also released new audio works (the outstanding Wrong Element 12" on Acoustic Division is essential). Persuasive Barrier is the debut full-length album from Three Legged Race, recorded over a period o…
Squadra Omega
LP (with extra 7") limited edition: Squadra Omega is a psych/avant/kraut rock collective with former and present members of the Mojomatics, With Love and Be Maledetto Now! devoted to free improvisation, psychedelic jams and mind blow ups. It is said that all empires are built upon the ruins of previous empires. It is said that destruction breeds construction. In times of deadlocked aesthetics and stylistic stagnation the time is nigh for a destruction of the old and the construction of the new. …
Anyway Your Children Will Deny It
After excellent reviews and endless touring all over the world, supporting bands like Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu and Sic Alps, the Italian weirdos Father Murphy are back with a brand new album titled “Anyway your children will deny it”. It is the latest, boldest installation of an ongoing series of albums investigating the band’s favorite themes: life, death, love, religion and even more death. For this album, the Italian trio comprised of Reverend Freddie (vocals, guitar), Chiara Lee (vocals, ke…
The Golden Undertow
The Golden Undertow opens with the gaunt “Dead Starâ€Â, a short and intense song with just few guitar notes and his voice. Both when singing accompaining himself with sparse guitar notes (“A Forest Journeyâ€Â, “My Shipâ€Â, “Fiveâ€Â) or creating gentle psichedelic epicness with the effort of friends on violin, drums and other instruments (â€ÂBonoboâ€Â, “Drugtime Familyâ€Â) Rella prove to have learned the lesson well with an inspired album that s…
...and He told us to turn to the Sun
Finally available on vynil! The acclaimed album from this unique trio who garned attention from Michael Gira, Dream Magazine, Pitchfork and Julian Cope is finally ready after their latest US tour. In two different versions, standard black and clear red vynil. Get it. Now.
A World Out Of Time
Both words in Eternal Tapestry's name say something about their music, but it's the first that's key. This Portland band's expansive psych rock sounds like it could go on forever, and most of their releases have in fact been culled from longer, open-ended improvisations. The way they slowly build these jams-- adding parts, increasing volume, and cresting in unison-- you get the feeling they're always playing, and their records are just glimpses of an endless stream.For A World Out of Time, Etern…
Psychic Psummer
"Hello, I’m Trip Maker and I want to tell you about CAVE. CAVE formed in Columbia, Missouri sometime around 2004. Early outings were decidedly free form and jammy. Many people passed in and out of the bands ranks from show to show. It wasn’t the same band twice for a little while. Eventually, songs were written and a shared vision became clearer, resulting in the HUNT LIKE DEVIL EP. I played my first show with CAVE at Apop Records (when they were still in Columbia) on a bill with Rotten Milk vs…
Punk Authority
Following the devastating one-two punch of Man with Potential and Pro Style for Type Records, Pete Swanson returns to his deformed warehouse techno sound with Punk Authority. After leaving cornerstone US noise duo Yellow Swans, Swanson made it his mission to pull apart the techno genre by the seams. This four track stomper for Software Recording Co. is by far his most damaged solo offering to date. With a sly nod to Police Academy, 'Punk Authority' launches into a barrage of debauched, regr…
Collection 009
This amazing early Merzbow work (reissued for the first time) comes from the legendary 10 tape set Merzbow - Collection. Originally self released as C46 cassette, Collection 009 contain some previous studio and live sessions & raw-material. This earliest music was made with recorded tapes, audio feedback, percussion, metal and other acoustic instruments as source. All sounds were mixed by Masami Akita at Lowest Music & Arts Studio, Machida, Tokyo in 1981 and Kiyoshi Mizutani played several instr…
Cease to Exist
Before starting the complex and compelling production of many records and tapes in the early eighties under the M.B. trademark, Maurizio Bianchi was documenting the new music scene writing essays and reviews for independent magazines. It was August 1979 in Milan, Italy and his sound was strengthening when he felt the time had come to prove his desire for something new. So he started his first solo project, under the name Sacher-Pelz. He assembled a concrete equipment and during the following few…
Slashers are lurking from behind the corner
<< I release this tribute to Koji Tano aka MSBR with the precious help of some friends / collaborators of the artist, to remember one of the most important figures of the Japanese noise scene >> Included on record RICHARD RAMIREZ, K2, GOVERNMENT ALPHA, SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS , THE HATERS and MACRONYMPHA each with unreleased track made for this release. The record has been pressed on 140 gr black vinyl with black label and black inner sleeve and comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardbo…
Venus
Recorded by Maurizio Bianchi as Sacher-Pelz, between October and November 1979, Venus is the second self-produced tape of 'musique concrète'. “The term “ concrète ” comes from the latin “concretum” which means ”condensed, hardened, coagulated”, and applying this concept to the sonorous framework, the final result is to obtain a dense, curdled, clotted sound in which every liquid particle has been transformed into a compact structure which evokes atavic dissonant fossilizations. Tracks remastere…
I Vizi Morbosi Di Una Giovane Infermiera
Atrax Morgue is anxious and psychotic side of the electronic noise. With the help of a analog synth, Marco blows up emotions and delusions, cutting out the hard way inspired portraits of phobias and deviations. Originally released on cassette under the title of ‘'Nursery Crime'' in a special box limited to 50 copies and later reissued on cd-r in very few copies with the title ‘'I vizi morbosi di una giovane infermiera'', is one of the most introspective and deep Atrax Morgue' s works. ‘'A vision…