The Dramaturgy of Decay
Step into the ethereal soundscape of Mark Vernon's LP, "The Dramaturgy of Decay." Reminiscent of early fears surrounding recording technology, the album explores ghostly voices, distorted and elusive. Vernon's sonic cinema mirrors the decay found in ruined films, capturing the essence of disappearing places and voices. Amidst themes of death and environmental destruction, the album maintains a delicate balance with humor and familiarity. Through snippets of reworked audio letters, it unveils a s…
XV XXVII III XXI IX: Variations & Coda
Luka Aron is a German musician and composer of electroacoustic and minimalist music based between Stockholm and Berlin. 'XV XXVII III XXI IX: Variations & Coda' is his debut vinyl release. Apart from his solo work, he is also a member of the trio Minua (signed to Nils Frahm's Leiter label) and the dream gaze band Roomer. His work was previously described as "thick, impasto layers of slow-moving sound that completely command your attention" in The Guardian.
'XV XXVII III XXI IX: Variations & Coda…
Ripari Minimi
“Ripari Minimi” is the second album by Marco Paltrinieri on Canti Magnetici and it is a very different affair from its 2020 predecessor “The Weaver”. Almost entirely instrumental, with the exception of a few tracks sung by Paltrinieri himself, “Ripari Minimi” gathers ten songs that transcend genre boundaries while exploring the tension between song-based composition and musique concrete experimentation. Entirely composed and recorded at home, often in the presence of Paltrinieri’s two children i…
Zound Delta 2
A new piece by minimalist / experimental composer Phill Niblock (1933 - 2024), co-composed and performed by Anna Clementi & Thomas Stern. Intense, menacing layers of thick drones and alien sounds.
Effacing Colours, Barely Dancing
Born in 1974, Giuseppe Ielasi grew up in the south of Italy and now resides in the outskirts of Milano with his family. He has been making music and touring since the late nineties (he tours much less nowadays). He mostly plays solo, but also in Bellows (with Nicola Ratti), Rain Text (with Giovanni Civitenga) and in duos with Enrico Malatesta, Kassel Jaeger, Andrew Pekler and collaborates regularly with film-maker and photographer Armin Linke (also editing his films). He has released (short) rec…
Integral
“Integral” marks the second collaboration between German electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens and sound artist Fabio Perletta. The album follows 2017's “Deflections”, released by German label aufabwegen. Recorded by Fabio Perletta and Asmus Tietchens, respectively at Tokonoma Studio, Roseto degli Abruzzi, and Audiplex Studio E, Hamburg, between October 2022 and August 2023. Artwork by Fabio Perletta. Mastered by Okko Bekker.
New Series 1
*200 copies limited edition* Brandnew offering on Knotwilg from Paul Toohey, member of Surface Of The Earth, NZ guitar dronemasters by excellence. The successor of the Series 4 lp from 2020 is a natural evolution leaning more forward towards SFOTE. Rawer guitar sounds drifting against all tides into a melting plot of emotions opening up a range of sounds familiar not only to previous outputs but also into a brighter optimistic drone-culture. Pure bliss and joy to be able to release to be able to…
Series 4
*2024 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Paul Toohey, from Surface Of The Earth returns with a brand new hard hitting drone LP. Previous output on Fusetron and Corpus Hermeticum was a long time ago. But this release will nicely team up with reissue plans from his outer outfits on fi: Thin Wrist Recordings.
Growth
*200 copies limited edition CD in 6-panel digisleeve* "This is, by far, the most emotionally moving album I've made in my life so far. I mean for me, when I listen to it. This is most probably because it's the only record I've actually 'played' in real time, although I did it only on my usual and sole instrument, the laptop. It's also the only album that does not feature any other musician. I'm alone. But at the same time, once again, I didn't create any sound, nor record anything. Each song is …
Socha
Czarnoziem is a band created by Dawid Dąbrowski (modular synthesizer) and Michał Giżycki (bass clarinet, saxophones). The duo boldly creates its own independent language, using the possibilities of a wide spectrum of genres - from experimental electronics, improvised music to echoes of free jazz and contemporary electroacoustic music. Czarnoziem's sound became more precise during an intensive process of rehearsals, sessions and concerts, it became expressive and texturally transparent: from stil…
Zephyr
*2024 stock* "We are all three daughters," says Marie-Claire Schlameus, cellist and part of the experimental band toechter. She founded toechter together with Lisa Marie Vogel and Katrine Grarup Elbo. The three musicians are rooted in the classical music tradition. However, they have set themselves the task of revealing and exploring the various facets of their string instruments violin, viola and cello. Their collective desire is to create a dialogue that focuses on the encounter between acoust…
Idiots
Last copies...** Heavyweight high-gloss embossed jackets with metallic Pantone. Each LP housed in polyethylene acid-free paper backed sleeves within consistently designed 12" sleeves for each record ** Adding to its already extensive discography, The Hafler Trio (now just solo) enlisted the help of Wire's Bruce Gilbert for their latest, Idiots. Grim and far reaching, this 2XLP moves at its own pace and draws the listener in with its slow, dark amble. Channeling both the natural and industrial wo…
Rhymes With Water
Much-needed repress. In the vast landscape of American minimalism, Phill Niblock stood apart. Where La Monte Young pursued infinite sustain and Steve Reich explored phase relationships, Niblock carved his own path: monolithic slabs of microtonal sound, built from multitracked recordings of acoustic instruments, dense enough to alter the architecture of any room they filled.
Rhymes With Water – originally released in 2017 and now back in print – captures Niblock at his most elemental. Two extende…
Ultra-Minimal
*300 copies limited release, handmade textile sleeve w/ printed inner* Sylvain Chauveau has been releasing quiet and minimal compositions on various labels for more than two decades. ultra-minimal marks his debut for Sonic Pieces and takes the minimal approach even further, centring on reduction and limitation.
The album was recorded live at Café Oto, London in March 2022 - one of Sylvain’s rare solo concerts and the first time he performed publicly with only acoustic instruments; no machines, n…
Flourescent Standard
*100 copies limited edition* On ‘Fluorescent Standard,’ guitarist Anthony Vine and clarinetist Gareth Davis present two luminous and serene worlds of harmonic sound. The duo entwine sustained tones, glowing with the resonant hues of their instruments, into enveloping and expansive atmospheres. Clarinet sonorities, swelling guitar chords, and tumbling elegiac piano fragments drift quietly through time in elusive cycles that subtly change and expand with each return. Every vibration is interconnec…
Et si c'était le Vent qui avait Raison ?
*200 copies limited edition* Great compilation from French label Fern Recordings. Featuring: Vincent Jehanno, Alice Kemp, BRB>VOICECOIL, Leif Elggren, Jeph Jerman, Yeast Culture, Aliénor Golvet, Anne Gillis.
Suspension Pour Une Perte
*200 copies limited edition* "Suspension pour une perte was created with a gap in time. A first recording of a broken piano was made by chance in 2012. This recording was forgotten for a long time, as its nature was that of a very limited sonic range. But as a premise in my work, limitations are always potential motivations to work with; so I decided to reevaluate it 10 years after, hoping that a new approach of the same recording would offer a quite different perspective.
Sustained and continuo…
Eventual
'Eventual' is the first album by double bass player Gonçalo Almeida and 'knob twidler' Rutger Zuydervelt. It's not exactly their first collaboration though, having released two EPs, 'Doze Ruinas' and 'Jangadas', and being colleagues in Hydra Ensemble (with cellists Lucija Gregov and Nina Hitz). When film maker Lex Reitsma commissioned Rutger Zuydervelt for the soundtrack of his documentary about photographer Koos Breukel, Zuydervelt proposed to involve Gonçalo Almeida. Reitsma agreed and visited…
Snow
*Limited Edition CD in Digipack with Liner Notes.* “Well, it was just as I thought,the pathall but obliterated-We had moved thenfrom the first to the second stage,from the dream to the proportion.And look-here is the line between,resemblingthis line from which our words emerge;moonlight breaks through.Shadows on the snowcast by pine trees”[...]“Every hour or so, my friend turned to wave at me,or I believed she did, though the dark obscured her.Still her presence sustained me:some of you will kno…
( )hole complex (per/formance/eration)
*Limited Edition CD in Digipack with Liner Notes.* “Holey Space, or more accurately ( )hole complex (connoting a degenerate wholeness), speeds up and triggers a particular subversion in solid bodies such as earth. It unfolds holes as ambiguous entities -- oscillating between surface and depth -- within solid matrices, fundamentally corrupting the latter’s consolidation and wholeness through perforations and terminal porosities. For a solid body, the vermiculation of holes undermines the coherenc…