New Arrivals
Pathogenesis # One
Pathogenesis # one consist of two tracks of Marco Corbelli included in two compilations released on its own label Slaughter Productions. The track on the A side is called ‘'Evisceration/Sek.5 pt.2'' and was originally published on Extreme Pleasures Vol. I (Slaughter Productions tape SPT049), while the track on the B side is titled ‘'A practical use of razorblade'' and was published originally on Beating The Meat (Slaughter Productions tape SPT008). The vinyl release is accompanied by a de…
Autofagia
N. is a project from Italy devoted to the most obscure-evil side of power electronics sounds and concepts. Close in a total nothingness and nihilism, N. created minimal violent sound texture to express his exasperate no-sense of existence. Here the genial work of an autistic mind, closed for the rest of living beings … ‘' from original liners note. Reissue comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen front artwork on black cardboard 4 LP box set with separate covers in a deluxe silver silkscreen …
Bangkok
Balanced dynamic monotony with subtle nuances and layered sound production. Clear and detailed constructions in an oblique and dense environment halting to the breaking point of suffocation. Near static insistent walls and compositions where audio shreds, erupts, buries, tense, hammers and feedback. In-your-face abrasive tracks with voiding atmosphere. Focus on panning of left/mid/right channels. Heavy use of mid-to-low end frequencies. Spoken word material consists of honest conversation…
Embryo's Rache
Despite being released only a year after their debut - in 1971 - Embryo’s Rache hows the band progressing significantly towards the ethnic/world-rock fusion that would come to be their stock in trade. Though still firmly in the jazz/krautrock realm, the album contains deep Eastern flourishes that separate them from the standard progressive crowd. A stunning album from Christian Burchard’s Munich group reissued here with a bonus track, “Back To Africa”, recorded live in 1973
Electronic Vol. 1
Mordant Music beautifully join the dots between the hauntological zeitgeist and original library music with the first of two vinyl reissues of seminal tape music by Tod Dockstader. Born 1932 in Saint Paul, Minneapolis, Dockstader majored in psychology and art but would go on to explore his interests in painting and film as an apprentice editor in Hollywood. This led to a job as a sound engineer in 1958, employed at Gotham Recording studios, where he started meticulously composing during l…
Live at Tusk Festival 2013
An incredible document of an incredible set - the first-time trio of Oren Ambarchi, Neil Campbell and Mick Flower was a truly transcendent thing to behold at TUSK Festival 2013. Now you can hear it on vinyl too. Mixed and mastered by Joe Talia. Illustrations by Karen Constance (front) and Graeme Ross (back). "It's the clash of the improv-rock titans! Antipodean outsider guitar god Oren Ambarchi joined forces with Vibracathedralites Michael "Michael Flower" Flower and Neil "Astral Social Club" Ca…
Sirene (Selected pipe organ works 1983-2014)
Drone vanguard Robert Curgenven returned to his ancestral home of Cornwall to put together the visceral, yet contemplative Siréne, a gorgeous drone works massively recommended if yr into Kevin Drumm, Eliane Radigue, Jason Lescalleet, Janek Schaefer. Mastered & Cut by Rashad Becker, Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, April 2014.16-foot pipe organs recorded in Cornwall at the churches of St Paul (Ludgvan), St Winnow (Towednack), St Uny (Lelant), St Wyllow (Lanteglos), St Cyrus & Juliette (St Veep). Un…
Untitled
MINDBLOWING! The tracks on this CD were recorded between 2005 and 2006, yet the music seems to have surfaced from another time - completely isolated from influences of the current era. Dimpflmeier also seems to be an "assistant" to the unique and arcane instruments that he helped manifest. As he has stated, his instruments seem to be "autonomous - their own masters"... However, that is not to say that it doesn't require a form of mastery to successfully "collaborate" with such strange ins…
Prisma Sonoro
LP version **A Mythical Italian Library session from Ennio Morricone's Guitarist and Whistler beautifully reissued and including liner notes by Jonny Trunk** Exquisitely crafted psychedelic lounge music, basement bossa and Italian mood music by the guy most famous for whistling on classic Morricone records. Remastered from original tapes and reissued for first time on vinyl with replica sleeve. "Undoubtedly one of the central figures of 1960s/70s Italian film music, Alessandro Alessandroni…
Jack Ruby
"Back when Thurston and I were working on our book about the New York No Wave scene, a key mystery we hoped to unravel was the one surrounding the band Jack Ruby. I knew George Scott had been in the band, along with Chris Gray, but we were never able to nail down any hard info. Lydia Lunch and Rudolph Grey both had blazing memories of their weirdness, originality and power, but no one could turn up anything solid. Time passed, the book came out and -- chuffed by the fact we'd name-checked th…
Wilderness of Mirrors
Wilderness of Mirrors is the new album from Lawrence English. This album has been two years in the making and the first album created since the release of his 2011 ode to J.A. Baker's novel, The Peregrine. It is English's most tectonic auditory offering to date, an unrelenting passage of colliding waves of harmony and dynamic live instrumentation. The phrase, "wilderness of mirrors," draws its root from T.S. Eliot's elegant poem "Gerontion." During the Cold War, the phrase became associated with…
The Pressure Of Knowledge
EVPs From Case File PAW142. Includes Part Six Text 'The Pressure Of Knowledge And The Gravity Of Ignorance For The Collective Essays Relating To Theories Of Electronic Voice Phenomena By Michael Esposito Entitled The Phantom Monographs' PAW PM1006 (2013). Limited Edition of 250
El Poeta del Ruido
Recorded in 1978, the instrumental El Poeta Del Ruido by Decibel could be labeled a prog album but don't expect it to sound anything like Yes! This is more in the spirit of Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Henry Cow, Faust, and Gong, which is to say, quite experimental, a bit dark, complex, and generally highly-structured (though it's also sometimes deliberately disjointed). Classical instruments form an important part of the group's sound, but it is augmented by interesting sound effects and there are e…
Horizon
An amazing live date from Sun Ra & The Arkestra – recorded in Cairo in 1971, with a very transcendent sound overall! Ra and the group are clearly inspired to be working in the shadow of the pyramids – and their music sometimes has Eastern overtones, a bit in the manner of Salah Ragab – their associate in Egypt – yet at other times, things get quite outside and noisy too! The keyboards are especially wonderful – as Ray plays "tiger organ" and moog, in addition to conventional piano – adding in th…
Super-Sonic Jazz
The first album on Saturn! Despite the futurism that the title of the set might imply, the material on this LP is actually some of Sun Ra's earliest, and dates back to the years when the Arkestra was first beginning to make itself heard in Chicago. That doesn't stop the material from being amazing, though, as these prime early tracks really show how strong Ra's vision was, even when it was being applied to material that might look more simple on the surface.
Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat
"In celebration of the centenary of Louis Feuillade's Fantomassilent film series, James Blackshaw was invited by Yann Tiersen to perform a live score to the fifth and final film, Le Faux Magistrat, at the beautiful and prestigious surroundings of the Theatre de Chatelet, Paris on October 31, 2013. Fantomas -- a master of disguise and symbol of terror -- is one of the most popular characters in French crime fiction, as well as a favorite with the avant-garde, particularly the surrealists. Tim Hec…
Synthesist / Re-Synthesist
Probably our favourite release on RVNG Intl comes from metal duo Lee Buford and Chip King aka The Body produced by Bobby Krlic aka The Haxan Cloak for their crushing 4th album, 'I Shall Die Here'. Abetted by Krlic's visceral production, The Body sound more fearsome and physical than ever before, shaping a series of tracks which only seem to get more intense and nightmarish as the trip takes hold. From the funereal trudge of opener 'To Carry the Seeds of Death Within Me' we pass through successiv…
The Nubians of Plutonia
In the late '50s, Sun Ra emerged from big band to modern/progressive big band status, began to employ electronics, and used a more Afro-Centric percussive focus. This recording perfecly demonstrates those qualities, and more. There are several definitive themes from The Arkestra included, such as "Plutonian Nights," "Nubia," "Africa," "Watusa" and "Aethiopia." Dig for this one on vinyl if you can (the cover art is stunning,) but it is nigh impossible to find on Saturn Research. (AMG)
Sonic rivers
Tzadik introduces its new Spectrum series with a very special and exciting new group featuring three of the most creative wind players in new music. Friends and colleagues since the ’70s, these three musicians share a vision of improvisation and composition that is unique, virtuosic and cooperative. Performing compositions and collective improvisations, they sculpt sound and silence with masterly assurance. Surprising yet completely inevitable, this is an essential document of improvisational mu…