Where Tremble Heart
Tip! *2023 stock* "Where Tremble Heart is an album of distances. Distances crossed and uncrossed. Entanglements time-traveled. Embodied and speculated spaces. Letters cast and undone. John and I met in Tucson, Arizona in late summer 2019, and quickly developed a highly collaborative friendship. While we didn’t meet until our late 30s, a humorous and provoking caveat is that John and I spent our early youth in small, farming towns in western Kansas, less than an hour away from each other. Distanc…
Hand Signals
*2023 stock* Since reactivating in the wake of the essential 2009 archival BUFMS box set, 'Induced Musical Spasticity', Bren't Lewiis Ensemble have released more than 40 titles of the finest avant ear wonk around. Much of this activity has proceeded with relatively little fanfare. Perhaps the number of releases is intimidating to some, or maybe well-adjusted society simply has little need for (in their own words) "screeches, recitations, injured vocalizations, inexplicable flurries of bleeps, bl…
Potential
Musician, writer and filmmaker, Sunik Kim follows up ‘The Bent Bow Must Wait to Be Released’ (Takuroku 2021) with their second LP - a deadly serious dismantling of the limits of contemporary computer music, delivered with playful dexterity and a touch of slapstick humour, a la Henry Cow. Enlisting General MIDI to create frenetic, vital patterns of dis-organisation made up of gleeful synthetic trumpets, wry orchestral sweeps and brutal key clusters, Sunik Kim explodes a kind of simplistic sound i…
In Pieces - Volume One
*2023 stock . 300 copies limited edition* It's a gathering place of Taumel's collaborative productions and musical encounters with other musicians. In pieces - volume one (Taumel -Eensemble Adapter) in several sessions with the 'Ensemble Adapter'. Recordings were made and combined with additionally produced material. The line-up: voice, piano, drums, keyboards, synthesizer sampler, percussion, guitars, bass, harp, flutes, clarinets, typewriter, loop machine, fx's, banjo, lyre, tape players.
Peanuts
*2023 stock* "Peanuts" is a mixture of location recordings and percussion, and can be seen as a continuation of the music Jazkamer explored on the albums "Timex" (2000) and "Pancakes" (2002); carefully construced transparent sound-surfaces. One track also features turntable surface crackle, which could bring the listener's thoughts back to the "Turntable Surface Fireball" LP (2001). Although "Peanuts" is not a noise record, it could hardly be called ambient music. It might work well as backgroun…
Mountain Diary
*60 copies limited edition* Not to be confused with the sometimes Captain Beefheart clarinetist of the same name, this particular Mascara Snake makes instrumental and atmospheric sound collages, influenced especially by Moondog, Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Luc Ferrari. As the snake sheds its skin Pacôme Genty reveals himself, who you might remember from the just as enigmatic La Non-pareille lp he released last year with his duo Des édens (together with Antoine Cortes).
Performances
A follow-up to the duo's LP, CCTK Music (2021, Gilgongo Records), Performances features three sets from James Fella and Gabriella Isaac, from Gilgongo Records' 15th Year Anniversary celebration in Phoenix, AZ -- December 2019. Like the event, the record starts with a recreation of the second side of CCTK Music, using six reference lacquers of CCTK's A-side as source material to make a live collage. Following this are solo sets from Isaac (using her laptop as a feedback loop/sound source/physical…
Through Mazes Running
Edition of 100. Crystal-clear vinyl. Tip-on jacket. The second collaborative album by Drew Daniel (Matmos, The Soft Pink Truth) and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek), "Through Mazes Running" builds turbulent complexity from a real time cage match of no-holds-barred signal processing. Cross-multiplying tape manipulation and software, each processing the other into a writhing feedback loop, creating a volatile ouroboros of sound. Cut at 45 RPM for maximum fidelity.
Take Root
Ultra-limited edition of 105 copies. This material has been substantially reworked from the original digital version. The vinyl (not lathe) sounds simply incredible, with hyper-crisp fidelity and intimidating bass response. This edition also comes with a Venus Flytrap seed for you to grow (grow instructions included in the liner notes). This release will bring years of enjoyment!
Recorded at Solid State Electronics Laboratory Studio, ChicagoSeptember 2019-2020All material re-worked 2022
Physica…
Fantasy Sex + Neuter
This special bundle collects the recent releseas on Discreet Music and its archival arm, Fördämning Arkiv:
Fantasy Sex "Fantasy Sex" (LP)* Limited LP. Two-sided insert with liner notes by Matthias Andersson. Mastered by Lasse Marhaug * Utmarken was a combined venue, record shop and recording space in Gothenburg that existed between 2008 and 2011. A short-lived under the radar hub for outsider art and fringe music, the place quickly became an oasis for an wide variety of local misfits and a hotbe…
Camouflage Body
Initially only available during John Wiese's 2022 North American tour, the latest entry in his ever-expanding catalog of 7"s is now available in wider release.
Vipera Nido Di
Tip! "Vipera Nido Di" is the third solo release by Cristiano Carosi recorded during 2021/2022. For this album he uses synthesizers, prepared tapes, tape loops and analog effects manipulating the sound events into tiles of a combinatory game generating temporary space and language. The album follows a sound collage method where the acoustic objects are coceived and developed like a plastic medium mixing abstract, geometry and surreal portrait.
Macchina Scrivere Figure
Tip! Audio collage recorded in may 2023, tape cassettes, tape recorders, spring reverb, tape echo, no edit, no overdubs, straigh on tape. The digital version is a recording of the tape cassette, no mastering. Comes with a collection of drawings and collages made with an Olivetti Lettera 35 type writer. Each cover is different. Released for promoting concerts in North Europe during spring 2023.
Plays
Available for the first time as the artists originally intended!
XCIII
More than 25 years after their first partnership, international collaborators Smegma and Merzbow reunite for an all-new album that pushes the conceptual springboard of random composition generation even further. Consisting of two movements spread over 93 tracks, XCIII presents a collage of abstract electronics, unconventional instruments, reel to reel tape manipulation, loops and effects, best experienced in unique combinations on shuffled play.The first movement, Climactic Gruesome Costumes (wh…
A Heavenly Touch
Claire Rousay's new album "A heavenly touch" fuses piano, percussion and recordings on the field in a silent and transgressive mix. Originally released on cassette in April 2020 by Already Dead Tapes, this marks its first appearance on vinyl, mastered by Andrew Weathers. Fundamental to understanding the evolution of Claire Rousay as an artist.
Live Electronics
Extremely rare up-close glimpse at Salvatore Martirano, lovingly presented by Nihilist. This box includes full video + cassette of 2 pieces performed by Martirano, totaling 38 minutes, audio has been mastered for highest clarity. Cassettes each dubbed in real-time. Information cards detail the Sal-Mar Construction "considered to be the world's first composing machine" in addition to one of five different SAL-MAR buttons.Two unheard tracks by Salvatore Martirano total time 38 minutes. Amazing vid…
Terra Firma
Nihilist is ecstatic to present 2 unreleased works by Illusion Of Safety! Housed in heavy durable zip-tied vinyl pouches, each cassette dubbedin real-time for highest audio quality. Cover art collage by Dan Burke.
Fantasy Sex
* Limited LP. Two-sided insert with liner notes by Matthias Andersson. Mastered by Lasse Marhaug * Utmarken was a combined venue, record shop and recording space in Gothenburg that existed between 2008 and 2011. A short-lived under the radar hub for outsider art and fringe music, the place quickly became an oasis for an wide variety of local misfits and a hotbed for interesting sounds. The creative, multifaceted atmosphere spawned acts like Ättestupa, Lust For Youth, Street Drinkers and Arv & Mi…
