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"The world is already fallen and the temples are all new again."
Tsubute Mosaic
Merzbow (aka Masami Akita), animal rights activist, writer, and musician, an Iconic figure in International noise scene. Renowned for his pioneering contributions to the noise music genre, Merzbow has solidified his position as one of its most significant and recognizable figures. From his groundbreaking utilization of tape loops to craft expansive industrial landscapes in the late 1970s, to his transition to laptop-generated static noise at the turn of the century, Merzbow has consistently push…
Love Me Tender or I Will Cause Pain
*300 copies limited edition* Rumoured said there will be no more albums and the project is dead. But no, that would have been too easy. Stratvm Terror had just gone underground, hiding for their next terrorising attack. Now they are back after 15 years with their new assault: 'Love me tender, or I will cause Pain'. This album is filled with seven oppressive and depressive weird obscurities to ease or cause you pain, depending on your inclinations.Massive layers of corrosive darkness with occasio…
Dynamo
*200 copies limited edition* Dynamo is a large-scale suspended artwork specifically developed for the atrium of the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020. Created by Daniel Canogar in collaboration with composer / audio-artist Francisco López, and produced in cooperation with the Spanish Agency for the Promotion of Cultural Projects –AC/E, the artwork is composed of sculptural screens that form three interlaced loops.ù
Dynamo is a meditation on the circulatory nature of energy and the synchronizat…
Wormwood
In the early 2000s there were several great (now classic) Evenings releases on labels like Chondritic Sound, Ekhein, Monorail Trespassing and his own Tapeworm Tapes imprint...these have been my go-to late night listening for the past decade. With it's super muddy, snail-paced build ups of hazy lo-fi rumbling drones...it is quite literally the ideal noise for evening listening. He had a way of taking the sound and approach of early HNW and making it more hushed and mellow, as if you were hearing …
Mirror Of Simple Souls
*55 copies limited edition* Recorded in June-July of 2021, “Mirror of Simple Souls” is a selection of acousmatic noise compositions inspired by the writings of 13th-century mystic & heretic Marguerite Porete. The suite’s 4 pieces were produced through an array of analog and digital methods, including sampling/resampling on various 4-track recorders, heavy use of digital and tape cut-ups, and effects processing with Max MSP.
“Sforza Gramsci” is a moniker used by Ollie Turbitt, a Scottish experime…
Symphonies Of Divination
*2022 stock.* “Symphonies of Divination” is the sophomore album of this very promising project from the medieval lands bordering the cold North Sea, Flanders (North-Belgium). Dramatically straying from the neo-folk path of their debut album “Galder”, “Symphonies of Divination” offers dark and bombastic compositions with clear references to Slavonic, German and Scandinavian classical music. Heavy percussion, assiduous spiccato string sections, dramatic horn accents and haunting choirs form the ba…