Kaleiding (music for a performance by Lily&Janick)
Kaleiding is the debut show of the contemporary circus company Lily&Janick. It's a play between light, reflections and new perspectives onto partner acrobatics. With a long mirror that lays on the floor, images are getting created that hypnotize – like watching an everyday life situation through a kaleidoscope. This distorted reality invites into a decelerated world where up is down and down is up. Kaleiding is a movement based show working on the border between dance, circus and visual arts.
The Divine Punishment
Huge Tip! On June 30, 1986, the same day that Diamanda Galás's The Divine Punishment was released, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Georgia's so-called sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick, criminalizing consensual sex between men. At the time, about 15,000 people were known to have died of AIDS in the U.S. alone, with little government acknowledgement besides suggestions to quarantine homosexuals on island colonies. By the end of 2021, the number of AIDS deaths globally would excee…
Strange and Sacred Noise
** 2021 Stock ** John Luther Adams is an Alaskan composer. For Adams, Alaska is not a catalogue of ideas and sounds, instead, Alaska is a provocation. For all of its enormity, Alaska leans inward towards essential qualities and purified forces, and in Adams’ music we find this same sense of space and the same tendency inward towards the purified. His is an intimate and focused music that reverberates in a large place. Strange and Sacred Noise is a monumental work for percussion quartet in 9 move…
All the Way
** 2023 Stock ** All the Way is a collection of radical re-workings of traditional and jazz standards such as “All the Way”, “You Don't Know What Love Is”, and “The Thrill Is Gone” (made famous by Chet Baker). It also includes a solo piano interpretation of Thelonious Monk's “Round Midnight”, and live voice and piano interpretations of the American traditional “O Death” and the country song, “Pardon Me I've Got Someone to Kill”. The album includes both electric live performances (recorded in Par…
At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem
Live at St. Thomas the Apostle documents Diamanda Galás’ volcanic May 2016 performance at St. Thomas the Apostle church in Harlem NY, described by the New York Times as "guttural and operatic, baleful and inconsolable, spiritual and earthy, polyglot and wordless, nuanced and unhinged." The concert, produced by Intravenal Sound Operations and Red Bull Music Academy, was composed exclusively of what Galás calls “death songs”.
Live at Les Ateliers Claus, Apr. 17th 2011
**200 copies** SoundShots presents a live recording by Pak Yan Lau as The Crappy Mini Band taken on April 17th, 2011, at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels.Pak Yan Lau (BE/HK) is part of the Brussels underground crowd. Her music spans different horizons with improvisation and sound as main focus. Taking the extraordinary out of the ordinary and creating little sound mosaics in a minimal, poetic way, while exploring the vast spectrum of sonar possibilities is the best way to describe her path. She is…
Oceans Roar 1000 Drums
**300 copies** "After 10 years of making music together, Oceans Roar 1000 Drums is finally releasing a proper vinyl document of their work. Although their music is best experienced live, this warm recording is the first release in 5 years and genuinely captures their energy and depth of communication. Recorded on a rainy day in the Summer of 2017 this album features the floating presence of Catherine Lamb's "secondary rainbow synthesizer", which is filtering both recordings of the band and envir…
Voice Games
**75 copies** Primarily voice improvisations from the duo of Muyassar Kurdi and Ka Baird, also performing on piano, bells, gong, flute and spike fiddle. Recorded at Pineapple Reality and Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY, between 2017 and 2018, their work focused on typically delicate interweaving of their voices and instruments, with a sense of suspense, humor and joyful mystery.
P V T
**Edition of 500 copies on clear vinyl.** In October 2013, Charlemagne Palestine, Mika Vainio and Eric Thielemans got together for the first time, meeting each other at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, for a 4 day residency and 2 live performances. The music of the residency takes, edited by Thielemans, mixed and mastered by Frederic Allstadt, is now released on Godbear, Charlemagne Palestine’s archival music label.Charlemagne Palestine: piano, voice and organMika Vainio: electronics and live pro…
Live at XIV Congresso Post Industriale
**2020 stock, 300 copies** "On April 14, 2018 Old Europa Cafe and Scenasonica organised the historical OEC label festival in Pordenone, Italy.The venue took place in a medieval deconsecrated Monks church, without doubts the perfect environment for a Phurpa ritual. The live recordings of such ritual was done with high professional skills. Enjoy the full spirit of the ritual music of Bon, the oldest Buddhist tradition from Tibet. Album co-released with Scenasonica."
Chöd Ritual / Grotta Santarcangelo
**2020 stock, 300 copies** On July 7, 2017, Phurpa performed a Chöd / Chod live ritual in Santarcangelo, Italy. The ritual was held inside a cave (grotta in Italian). Chöd / Chod is an ancient practice of cutting through tensions, fears, and obstacles in our life. In Chöd / Chod, we visualize making an offering of our body, which is transformed into whatever is wanted by all beings in all realms. In this vast offering we create and cultivate a flow with everything around us and are in contact wi…