Starlight
Julius Smack engages in a dialogue with a fictional AI assistant to create an album using the prompt, “Make an album that tells the story about the origins of Julius Smack.” Starlight emerges as the imagined response, envisioning a world where beauty and violence intertwine, and memories and dreams are excavated to craft stories.
In a near-future Earth, where artists are among the planet’s last inhabitants, a symbiotic relationship has formed between humans and AI—each relying on the other for n…
Decomposition: Fox on a Highway
While working a job that required frequent drives between Philadelphia and a remote warehouse to sort furniture, Brendan Principato, the artist behind the project Saapato, noticed a fox on the side of the highway that had been struck dead by a car. Its vibrant red coat stood out against the asphalt. Day after day, the fox remained there, gradually transitioning from serene lifelessness to an unrecognizable state, a haunting reminder of nature’s cyclical processes. This encounter sparked a year-l…
Greater honeyguide
Fraufraulein, the San Francisco duo of Billy Gomberg and Andy Guthrie, are master world builders. Their work is immersive — it wraps around you like a warm coat, guiding you deep into a trance-like state. Time moves in slow circles, folds in on itself, and unspools like caught fishing line. It’s tempting to say Guthrie and Gomberg construct a new reality with their work, but I think they’re revealing the contours of familiar territory, gluing together a complicated mirror more than constructing …
Drafts
2007 release ** Dawid Szczesny is a sound artist located in Wroclaw, Poland. His music is mainly based on samples of old vinyl records.
Conversations
2017 release ** "Following his critically acclaimed Paraphrases album from 2012 and the more electronic based recordings as Field Rotation, Christoph Berg joins Sonic Pieces with the first new material under his own name in over four years. Conversations essentially expresses contemplation, consciousness and the urge for retreat from the sometimes overwhelming present times. The musician’s genuine approach to minimal chamber music acts as a fading scenario of nostalgia and memory to rely on, sim…
Pinche Madre
2008 release ** Limited to 100 copies. "Pinche Madre is the 2008 creation from Remoteband, released by Russian label Abgurd in a limited edition CDR. To say any more, or try to give further information would be futile. Mainly because there is not much to find, even by scouring the internet there’s no webpage, MySpace or Facebook. Hard to believe in this technological age, but Remoteband has appeared to go off the grid by not even being there in the first place.So what do we have? Well we have…
Garbage
2006 release ** "Featuring: Masonic Youth, Flutwacht, Fever Spoor, OVO, Dr Simple, Maskinanlegg, Screening vs. Zyrtax, GX Juppiter Larsen, Invader From Mars vs. Zyrtax, Bloody Cum vs. Zyrtax, Odal, Nova-Sak vs. Zyrtax, Zwarte Kat.
Wander
2009 release ** "In the Winter of 2000 Beequeen decided not to release drone music anymore. In order to facilitate their need to create music in the ambient field, Wander was formed. Wander uses organ/keyboard sounds as well as environmental recordings to create instrumental sound scapes. "
Voices Without A Sound
2001 release ** "All tracks on this album was recorded live during nightsessions. This album submerges a listener into the space of dream-like images and forms, makes him feel like somnambulist in the full-moon night in some haunted land. Using the treated voice samples intertwined with ambient and meditative structures, NA-DHA builds an unreal hall of sound mirrors reflecting different elements of this illusory world. 8 untitled tracks of wonderfull dream-magik-ambient."
Brutalism Live At St. Gertrud
Following on from our audio visual experiences in St. Gertrud’s church in cologne, this album contains eight excerpts from live sets, specially produced for the unique space of the building designed by Gottfried Böhm, in an attempt to capture its architecture and sound. Since 2015, our goal has been to establish a format at the interface between pop and club culture, as well as "academic" electronic music, in which media art, visuals, sound installations and dance performances play a central rol…
Amethyst: New Sounds From Moon Glyph Records
Moon Glyph is pleased to present a compilation of new, unreleased tunes from established veterans of the label and newcomers alike. Staying true to Moon Glyph’s transportive aesthetic, “Amethyst” spans across abstract genres from ambient, psychedelia, jazz, electronic, fourth world percussion and more. Across its 17 tracks, you’ll hear Cole Pulice’s hypnotic overlapping saxophones, Vic Bang’s intricate arrangements of micro samples, IE’s patient desert landscapes and Starbirthed’s shimmering cel…
Emerald: New Sounds From Moon Glyph Records
Moon Glyph is thrilled to share “Emerald”, a new collection of unreleased works from both established artists and newcomers to the label. True to the label’s transportive aesthetic, the collection spans the sonic landscapes of ambient, jazz, experimental, electronic, psychedelia, minimalism and more.
Over the course of 13 tracks, the compilation weaves together sounds like Anagrams’ delicate interplay of guitar and saxophone, Oval Angle’s plucky, playful electronics and Lia Kohl’s improvisationa…
Sonic Journey Through New Life
2006 release ** "A stylistic close to Selected Ambient Works - Aphex Twin. Music inspired by the birth of a new life. A clear canon of minimal music and the electro-acoustic school of noise generation. However, all this is atmospheric and muffled, so characteristic for Spika. The atmosphere of the album is definitely calm and although there are motor fragments, the compositions transport the listener into a distant, forgotten world - so close to each of us."
Monolake
2005 release ** "The nearly seventy-minute live recording documents the ambient collaboration of Origami Galaktika with the Berlin project I:Wound and a lesser-known Norwegian, calling himself Inderst Elia. The basis of the sound skeleton is made up of psychoactive drones, which are then supplemented by a wide range of differently modulated rhythmic sequences and especially the most diverse field-recordings - human voices, the noise of city streets, sounds from nature, but also the growl of car …
Cone Of Silence
2002 release ** Spanish electro with minimal rhythms and psychedelic ambient structures.
Lux
Another foggy day in Yorkshire. A steel grey sky. Raindrops tracing one another down the windowpane. Kirk Barley sits in his studio and assembles compositions from scraps of found sound and live instrumentation. Melodies swell, withdraw and repeat like waves. Time slows. Accelerates. Slows again. The light bends, tweaked at the edges. Twisted by rhythms that never quite resolve.
Written, recorded and produced by Barley in Yorkshire in early 2024, Lux picks up where 2023 LP Marionette leaves off,…
II
*100 copies limited edition* “It's rare that I'm able to give an album my fullest recommendation without trepidation. (...) Bersarin Quartett is one such album. There's nary a misstep, every potential danger has been avoided and smoothed out to present the optimal audio experience for your dollar. (...) Something this good can't possibly be real." The Silent Ballet (8.5/ 10)
Almost all reviews concerning Bersarin Quartett’s self titled debut album chorused this paean. Four years later he’s back …
III
*100 coipes limited edition* Melancholia. Longing. It is difficult to speak about these moods or states of the mind without invoking stereotypes. In ancient medicine, melancholia was considered to be one of the four temperaments, matching the four humours. In fact, melancholia, meaning "black bile" in Ancient Greek, was thought to be caused by an excess of this very body substance. By contrast, in more modern interpretations, literates and Freudians relate many variations of longing to the one p…
Solo: Observed
1989 release ** "Stefanie Schwedes began her artistic career in the 1980s with the Becker Lehnhoff music project. Sound installations were created using tape recordings and later digital sampling. The artist has developed this basic working method further and transferred it to the image. She explores human-nature relationships in photography, drawings, spatial and sound installations."
Love's Song (Limbo)
Love’s Song (Limbo) is a collaborative LP from artists Reece Cox and Liza Lacroix. This 10 track LP is a release version of a 90 minute soundtrack composed by Cox for the occasion of two solo exhibitions by Lacroix in 2024 - the first at Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany and the second opening shortly after at Magenta Plains, NY. In each exhibition the piece was installed within a locked closet and played at high volume as if emanating from the stereo of an inconsiderate neighbor, acting as an inte…