Un sisma mentre ci voltiamo di spalle
Union Editions presents Un sisma mentre ci voltiamo di spalle by Devi Tensione. Composed by Francesco Castrovilli. Additional production/arrangement by Lapo Sorride aka Kinked. Recorded between France, Turin, Bari. Mastered by Luciano Lamanna at Subsound Studio, Roma.
Mios
In 1989, pianist and composer Yumiko Morioka put together a group of diverse street musicians and semi-professional players for a project that would come to be called the Synergetic Voice Orchestra. Inspired by Yumiko’s love of different musical cultures from around the globe, the band drew on influences from India, Ethiopia, Mali, Korea and China to create an album that merged these sonic identities with more traditional sounds from the southern Japanese city of Okinawa.
Having released her sol…
Organic Shelter
** Edition of 50 ** Invisibilia Editions presents Organic Shelter by Andrea Penso. Enviromental tape loop music to dream them as forest-ravaged ruins. One long track, 32 minutes.
Andrea Penso (Italy, 1985) is a sound maker, already active under different aliases (with some albums under Denovali records). He is part Canti Magnetici collective and run the micro-label Kirlian recordings by his own. From 2011 to 2015 he worked inside Black Moss records.
Initiale / Quanno Nascette Ninno
** Edition of 150 copies. Pressed on classic black vinyl in hand assembled sleeve, including insert with texts ** Invisibilia Editions presents Initiale / Quanno Nascette Ninno by Maria Valentina Chirico. Cover photo by Sophie Anne Herin. "The music of Initiale is based on the verses of poet Rainer Maria Rilke and inspired by the melody of a carillon I owned as a child. This melody created a connection with the invisible and accompanied me into the world of dreams. Quanno Nascette Ninno is a son…
Folk Tapes
** Edition of 100 copies. Gold print on high-quality natural cardboard. 2021 Stock ** A collection of dreamy, ambient-folk songs composed in solitude by Maria Valentina Chirico. Her arrangements include tape loops and field recordings created by Andrea Penso (a frequent collaborator who was originally part of Canti Magnetici label and is now active as Invisibilia editions), the voice of her 11-year-old friend and collaborator, Marta Arbarello, and bass by Michele Anelli, a charismatic figure in …
Nightmark
** 2021 Stock. Vinyl edition of 250 copies pressed on 180 gram clear vinyl. Each copy is risograph printed and housed in a thick PVC sleeve ** Craig Tattersall made quite a name for himself by offering a series of consistent releases on his own imprints Cotton Goods and Other Ideas. After more than 5 years of silence, he is finally back with 2 new full length albums: Daymark and Nightmark. Both albums are made around the same time and can be seen as complementary odes to these different and oppo…
Bortom Reven
** Numbered edition of 250 copies. Transparent Blue Vinyl ** Cold crushed electronics and tape noise by Ideal faithful, Altar of Flies, returning to his native Swedish label with a 3rd album of possessed and unsettling tonal abstraction and psychoacoustic isolationism. Known to the reaper as Mattias Gustafsson, Alter of Flies is the Mjölby-based sound artist’s most prolific alias, responsible for dozens of tapes and LPs for Chondritic Sound and White centipede Noise beside his trio of turns for …
Signaler
Clamor from inside the earth as it's being excavated, punctured, deconsecrated. Sputtering and whirring of failing machinery. Menacing layers of magnetic decay, iron turned to dust through the erosion of repetition. The amplified obscenity of the mundane, the indelicate hunger of a gravitational hollow. Separated from the comforts of familiarity by a thick, lusterless film. Signaler can be all of these things and more. A new album from Mattias Gustafsson's long-running Altar of Flies project, ho…
Aestum
** Limited Purple Vinyl. Wide front-back artwork and inlay print by Emma Pryde ** Aestum’s self-titled debut album is an in-depth journey into supreme and tranceformative soundscapes. Oscillating around the apex of spacious power ambient and drone, the compositions recorded during 2020 combine monolithic electronica with decaying fantasies and slow-motion euphoria. The imagination for the album was inspired by the idea of panortosia (universal reform) as described in old scholar books devoted to…
Kagiroi
I met Sugai Ken a few years ago in Tokyo, outside the Dommune radio studios. His personality and music, a very special brand, touched me. His music is a coded vision of a dream world. A trade that is progressive yet traditional - in the most positive sense of the word. Recently out of the blue, Sugai San sent me a collection of personal field recordings he made of folklore groups and public performances in Tokyo, Toyama, Kanagawa, Kyoto, Tottori, … The close listener already knows that Sugai San…
Cymbalom Solos
There are constellations within the grooves of Cymbalom Solos. Innumerable points of light, rendered audible in glowing, radiant sound. There are entire worlds too - undiscovered, yet familiar -- both terrestrial and celestial. There are moments of quiet comfort and exultant discovery. And all of it conjured by one man with a handful of ancient and invented instruments, recorded mostly-live, with precious few overdubs. Michael Masley has been a fixture of Berkley, California, since he arrived fr…
Naomi
** 2021 Stock ** ‘Naomi’ - the debut album by Portuguese duo HRNS - flickers gently between vulnerability and security, between being here and being there. This is music for contemplative, tired moments, when the immensity of space seems most striking. And as planes continue to fly over our heads, we all slowly drift further and further apart. But not everything is lost; perhaps our paths will cross again one day.
"There’s an impressionistic worldview behind this music, as if the listener is dri…
Kannazuki
** 2021 Stock. Limited edition CD housed in a digipak and obi strip ** 'Kannazuki' - the traditional name for the tenth month of the year in the Japanese lunar calendar - is a truly unique moment, a glimpse into a one-off improvisation of a quartet of musicians (Haco, Takako Minekawa, Dustin Wong, Jára Tarnovski) which took place in Tokyo in 2017. Recorded by Hideaki Hayashidani at Nanahari, the moment is described by the musicians as a “musical adventure”, a “translucent entanglement”, and a mo…
Everyone is Here
** 2021 Stock ** At the core of 'Everyone is here' lies Kajsa Lindgren's usual process, defined by one simple question: “How can you make something of your own by manipulating time and space?” The Swedish composer joins Warm Winters Ltd. after recent releases with Hyperdelia (WOMB, 2018) and Longform Editions (Undercurrents, 2019). This album's 20 tracks are based around archival recordings that Kajsa stumbled upon in her parents' old basement and around memories of places or sounds from her chi…
Radiant
** 180g vinyl, incl. uv gloss art insert, edition of 250 copies ** Concentric Records presents Radiant, the third compilation of its introductory release trilogy. Featuring music by Aswa, Holovr, Max Loderbauer, Petre Inspirescu, Supply, The Waves, William Selman, the album evokes luminous, iridescent and ethereal sonic spaces - a journey that overcomes struggles, spinning upward towards the light.
The album opens with calm, bright and assertive tonalities, evoking mental spaces prone to explora…
Loops & Pieces
** Edition of 100 ** Dauw welcome Spanish based artist Jason Kolàr to the label with his new work Loops & Pieces (2017-2020). It’s a prelude to his new full-length album coming in October 2021 through Dauw. Three years after Stroom TV released his debut album Modified Perspectives, Kolàr now offers a documentation of sounds he has been working on in the period 2017-2020. According to Kolàr, this tape is full of vaporous drafts transforming into solid forms with the help of time and distance. Com…
Sale Quanto Basta
Deluxe LP Gatefold. Edition of 250 copies ** Welcome to Paolo Angeli's sixth release for ReR Megacorp (2013) now in Vinyl deluxe edition! It's an extraordinary collection of pieces that explore the full range of his highly modified, extended and prepared Sardinian guitar. And although it's just him and electricity, it seldom sounds like fewer than three people playing. There are twelve fine compositions, each as crafted as a short novel, and beautifully recorded. Paolo's is a music that pretty m…
Four Walls Full of Sound
** CD / 4 Pages Digipack + Booklet ** Four Walls Full of Sound is an electronic interpretation of the works of Phill Niblock by the Prague-based group Opening Performance Orchestra. This studio version, recorded at the re-set studio, was preceded by a live performance at the 2017 Ostrava Days Festival of New and Experimental Music. The cover was designed by Jaroslav Buzek and the booklet includes essays by Kurt Gottschalk and Petr Ferenc. Sound designer Stephan Mathieu took part in shaping the r…
Nuova Abduzione
** Limited hand-stamped green and purple C44 cassette ** How can knowledge be increased? Probably with small leaps into the void, starting from our own certainties but throwing ourselves headlong into the probabilities. The leap into the probable is an abduction: an extraordinary gesture that has been carried out for millennia, but abduction is nothing without empirical verification and this is done only by looking closely, bridging unimaginable distances, analysing samples, sending probes, proj…
II
The four Scottish-Irish musicians Conor Dalton, David Donaldson, Greame Reedie and Ian Maclennan are Island People. After their highly acclaimed debut from 2017, they have now finished their second album with the simple and consistent title »II«. Compared to their debut, »II« sounds more mature and complex. The arrangements unfold like the long tracking shots of an early Antonioni film - time seems to stand still, circling the moment. Impressionistically, one feels transported into the Scottish …