Experimental / Abstract

2010 release ** "The Polish MonotypeRec has become the breeding ground for applied music. Recently, one interesting experimental release after another has been rolling off the press. Some elusive and incomprehensibly intriguing and others within the slightly more common frameworks. The first category includes the new collaboration between Olga Magieres and Tetsuo Furudate. Olga Magieres was born in Russia in 1955, but has lived in Denmark since 1971. Here she became a classically trained pianist…

Snoopy is hard to follow up. The same brilliant musicality is lavished on Orange — a combination of unmistakably original, skittering drum programming, startlingly fresh instrumental interjections, creepily invocatory voices, and dubwise treatments — giddily imbued with the dark arts of ritual and seance. But Orange is more gripping, focussed and urgent, more intense and ambitious. Next level. Its first quarter presents a trio of forays in suspense.  Bassline squares up like an epic psych-funk g…

Tip! 100 copies limited edition. Housed in high quality card stock with art silk screened by Alan Sherry at SIWA Printing * Tom Carter & Pat Murano - two adepts of improvisation again alight their paths with esoteric flame. The emotional tenor of their masterful double LP release 4 Infernal Rivers is maintained: frightful urgency blends with a kind of poised resolve, the auditory version of a thousand yard stare from an aloof predator. The guitar based sonics in evidence here on Songs of Éliphas…

Tip! *200 copies limited edition* "Yesterday it started to rain… The smell of damp tarmac rising up through open windows, a smell which is uniquely evocative for us all depending on our individual histories: a suburban pavement, a school playground, a basketball court. The rain cut through a band of low pressure that had been lying over the city for days, pinging rhythmically off metal, causing rolling tyres to hiss and spit. The music that soundtracked this meteorological shift was the debut fu…

*100 copies limited edition* Ross Manning is a contemporary new media artist from Brisbane, Australia. He focuses on alive instrument practises, kinetic and sound composition. He is is an obsessive creator of systems that are driven by their own logic, exploring the rhythm and the recycling energy of them. Manning’s new album is a collection of four new works created by his kinetic sound sculptures, sometimes solo, sometimes in concert with each other. The effect is of being in the room with the…

1992 release - hand-numbered edition of 500 copies with fabric cover ** "A curiosity from Portugal. 9 pieces pursuing unusual sound and odd structural arrangement. Half minimal, half beyond it. Unusual packaging. Very Limited."-Chris Cutler

yan jun: voiceaxel dörner: trumpet recorded 3rd of january 2017 in berlinmixed by yan junmastered by axel dörner sind

Statische Musen is the follow-up project to Hematic Sunsets, operated by Hamburg musician Asmus Tietchens.

1993 release ** "A selection of live recordings from the These Records shop, London."

Māpura Music is a collaborative and spontaneous music making program for people living with disabilities set in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland. Its facilitator, Stefan Neville (of Pumice etc.), has been active in the New Zealand underground for over thirty years, personifying an Aotearoa DIY sensibility that effortlessly links melodic song formats with open-ended experimentation.  On surface level, this collection of improvised group jams verges towards the latter, but soon structures of a playfully…

**100 copies** Danny Clay: metal bells, combs, paper, broken light, piano, music box, marbles, cassette tapes, pebbles, plastic bells, small percussion, transducers, wooden blocks  Matt Atkins: chopstick on drumhead, crowd murmur, drum filled with seeds, dry plant leaves, homemade banjo strings, jingle bell stick, karma piano, large bell, marbles in drum head, newspaper, piano notes on cassette tape, ping pong ball in drum and saucepan lid, plastic packaging, push flute, sheet of paper, small an…

* Edition of 100 * Tsss Tapes presents Agua Viva, a new Daphne X cassette release. The album is composed of experiments and interactions performed with water on various materials: polyester, metal, skins. Sounds have been captured with Blazej's LOM's (mikro)Uši binaural microphones. Recorded in Montseny, 2019 and released on September 4, 2020. Mastered by Francesco Covarino.

**Second edition repress** Vasilis Liolios: percussion, tapes/revox A-77, objects, analog modular synth Aris Giatas: piano, prepared piano Yiannis Tsirikoglou: electronics Max/MSP 4 electroacoustic compositions for tapes, piano, percussion & electronics.Composed and recorded by Eventless Plot, May-August 2020. Mastered by Yiannis Tsirikoglou

**Limited edition of 75** Zhu Wenbo: language laboratory cassette player, tape Yan Jun: scissors, sticker, tape Recorded by Yan Jun in Studio h, Beijing, July 16th, 2020 Mastered by Francesco Covarino. Released November 8, 2021

**100 copies** Field recordings from different times and places, a walk through the woods or an exotic place far away from home. Studio-made sounds using instruments, tape loops, reel to reel Revox recorder and digital editing. Otherwise insignificant everyday life sounds. Everything mixed together in a diaristic manner, like seamless notebook sketches. Dominique Vaccaro: field recordings, tape manipulation, stereo looperRecorded between July and September 2018Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

**Edition of 120** Collaboration between Elisha Morningstar and Lorenzo Abattoir. A true gem on Tsss Tapes.

*Edition of 200.* Compilation of Italian adventurous music featuring Andrea Borghi, Fabio Perletta, Dominique Vaccaro, Lorenzo Abattoir, Giovanni Lami.... A true gem on Tsss Tapes.

*100 copies limited edition.* Through its focus on process and materiality, Bias opens the practice of sound ecology beyond the acoustic to consider the audibility of the chemical composition of soil. From scraps of muddied media buried across three sites in Austria, Greece and Italy, Lami crafts a series of melancholy studies which seem to question the inevitable legacy of human culture and industry in the geological strata.

*100 copies limited edition.* Tsss Tapes presents False Currency by Clinton Green and Ian Andrews. Recorded in Melbourne and Sydney using automatic/aleatory systems, 2021-2022

*100 copies limited edition.* Tsss Tapes presents B​ü​k​ü​l​ü​r B​ü​k​ü​lmez by Deli Kuvveti. A collection of sounds that he recorded at home in Turkey a few years ago, and now that he lives far away, in another country, he got his hands on it and has remixed and manipulated them until he got this cassette. There are a lot of sounds household, banging cutlery, taps, the sound of his mother laughing, all of it manipulated until it became almost unrecognisable.

*100 copies limited edition.* Tsss Tapes presents Kroccoli by Manuel Chittka on percussions and electronics. 'Kroccoli is one of the first mutual words of my twin sons Cosmo & Charlie'.

*100 copies limited edition.* Tsss Tapes presents Bizcocho y devenir by Nichunimu.  Benjamín Vergara: trumpetNicolás Carrasco: synthetizer, radioMatías Mardones: percussion

*100 copies limited edition.* Tsss Tapes presents dian qi xia by Taiwanese improvisor Liu Fangyi.

*120 copies limited edition* Tsss Tapes presents For Alvin Kelly by Jeph Jerman.

During hot and mid pandemic August 2021, duo of Daniel Jakeš and Michael Nechvátal, know under their stage moniker of Jasnovidec, went to Pardubice for artist residency at notorious location of Divadlo 29 (Theater 29), key Czech location for worldwide avant garde experimental music and theater. During four long days and nights, the duo went onto several intense recording sessions, on which both Jakeš and Nechvátal played solely just their modular synths setups. On a few of the occasions they wer…

I have two stories behind this beast of a record. The first one is of course the oldest type of story around, the stranger comes to town. The stranger in this story is Zach Rowden. He shows up in Bucharest, once or twice, with his band (or duo if you want) Tongue Depressor. On one of the occasions he meets one of the locals involved in Bucharest avantgard circuits, Laurenţiu Coţac. And they decide to play together. They jam their double and electric basses. And it gets recorded. 23 minutes long …

"Bong Watt is the sound for Oscar Reutersvärd’s drawings. Impossible shapes bent within the conscious as sonic earwigs burrow holes in the frontal lobe. Trying to think about “If It Works, It’s Obsolete” is beyond true abilities. There is no beginning, no destination to get to, only a micro-dose of sound chaos that becomes more familiar with each listen. With many listens in the tank, Walter Wright and Al Margolis (Elka Bong) with Mike Watt create the most subtly gentle entropy. These sounds are…

"Behind the acronym KBD, we find Michael Kimaid (drums and percussion), Gabriel Beam (modular synthesiser and live sampling) and Ryan Dohm (trumpet, sampler, and tapes). This is their third cassette for Eh? Records and the first one I hear. They recorded both sides in concert, the first at The Noisy Attic, Toledo, Ohio, on 27 December 2023 and the second at The Lightbox: Kalamazoo, Michigan, on 5 October 2023. From the information I understand, they play long-form improvisational sound pieces an…

"Ricardo Arias & Violeta Garcia Anagazas, Estatagemas, Jugarreta Y Tretas eh? MC Amazing duo set, recorded in Bogota, Colombia, in March 2020. Garcia plays cello and Arias plays bass balloon. Garcia’s cello playing has plenty of freak register exploration going on, and it’s almost shocking how much sound Arias is able to get from his inflated bladder. You’d think it could be a sort of gimmicky thing to do, but there’s some real majesty going on here. Sounds totally great and it’s a kind of moral…

"Pressure relief..... these are the sounds to listen with caution. dustsceawung is a well used pot on the stove with a locking lid. The broken gauge configured with a crack that looks suspiciously like a smile. A worn rubber gasket creating a seal far past it's expected life by the manufacturer. Still this is not enough. There is no measure to how much force lies within. A hiss escapes, a rattle or knocking comes and goes. The process continues with thoughts of the contents within. In this case …

"Public Eyesore has been releasing improvised and experimental music for over two decades and it never ceases to amaze me how interesting line ups Bryan who leads the label is coming up with. White Wuff is by any means no exception. When I read the liner notes I knew it is going to be a great musical adventure. Beautifully designed and released as a cd with 12 tracks that comprise different moods, travelling through genres. It's a pretty eclectic hybrid of various bits put into one mammoth of an…

Lunchroom PetDavid Samas with Peter WhiteheadGamelan Encinal: Stephen Parris, Daniel Schmidt, Derek Drudge, Kim Nucci, Sophia Shen, Patrick Liddell, Joel Nelson, Maria Siino, Lucas DeLeon Elegy and BardoDavid Samas: invented instruments, voiceTom Nunn: invented instrumentsBart Hopkin: invented instrumentsPeter Whitehead: invented instruments, voice PahoehoeDavid Samas: invented instruments, voiceTom Nunn: invented instrumentsBryan Day: invented instrumentsSusan Rawcliffe: original ceramic flutes…

*2025 stock* Amber is the first release of Jonah Segers. He presents four tracks of which three will take you on a journey through his routines of experimenting with different recording techniques and sound design. The first three tracks are telling each their own story, capturing the realness of daily life sounds which Jonah processes in a world of high contrast and tension.The last track shows a different side of his work, that brings you in a state of high alertness.

The classic 1976 album remastered from the original tapes plus 11 unreleased recordings! Formed in the early 1970s, The Residents have been charting a unique path through the musical landscape for over 45 years. From far-out, experimental curiosities to highly conceptual, multi-album projects, the band has refused to stand still, and continues to move in several different directions at once. Produced with the involvement of The Cryptic Corporation, and with full access to the band's extensive ta…

Volume 3 of Making a Journey to a Bright Nowhere: fifteen members of Eddie Prévost's London improvisation workshop in ensembles from trio to octet, recorded at Cafe OTO, London, on 23 July 2022.

"I was almost seventeen when 'Scum' came out, lurching through my headphones sandwiched between John Peel’s warm gravy groans. It flipped me out. My punker brain, pretty much allergic to anything metal, made a series of damp connections that lodged the chaotic buzzing insect rumble in my mind forever. Thirty-odd years later this record still sounds urgent and furiously angry. It sounds more important than ever. I decided I wanted to do ‘something’ with Scum in late 2023. I listened to the record…

*Dubbed on reused ferro tapes* Music for fictive radio stations. Made as a sound installation that was part of a performance talk about fictive world scenarios. Mostly made with circuit bend radios and found music in a stack of unsorted cassettes.

Strange and beautiful debut cassette from another great friend of the label. One hour of slowly dissolving Music box / tape Music. Ghostly melodies weaving in an out of each other until the tape runs out.

* Limted LP + insert and donwnload code, limited to 300 copies.* John Hubbard, who is also a book designer and based in Finland, had released the sole recordings of the legendary project “Vogelscheiß Und Seine Verrückten Kröten” in 1989 in a limited edition of just 50 copies on his Strength Through Joy label. Now these rare recordings are re-issued for the first time by Art Into Life. In 1988, upon meeting Steve Stapleton while on vacation in Europe, John then went to Aachen and visited Christop…

Glass mastered CD in a gatefold card sleeve, with a separate inner slipcase. Clay Pipe is pleased to welcome back the Tinderstick’s keyboard player David Boulter to the label. Since his Yarmouth LP in 2020, and the spoken word-based Lovers Walk the following year, Boulter has concentrated on his soundtrack work. He has produced scores for documentary maker Volkan Üce’s Displaced – and Tinnitus, a visually striking film by Brazilian director Gregorio Graziosi. He has also released a series of lat…