Thames
Thames presents diverse sound interactions along the River Thames that surprise with their musicality. As we travel from central London to the river’s furthest estuary, it feels like we’re travelling back in time. We hear the sounds of nature and industry in competition, from the pitched, quasi-musical sound of Tower Bridge lifting up, to the marsh frogs of Allhallows.
...The New Humanity
RIYL: Sounds emanating from a dimly lit basement, watching science documentaries on mute, mumbled conversations on a subway train, self-taught circular breathing techniques, etc. Stunning!
Antonin Artaud
**100 copies** In hardbound embossed special package (like previous edition in this series), numbered & signed. The work of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, was a great inspiration and stimulant for me when I started out as a vocal performer. His pioneering writings on theatre gave me the freedom to venture much further into madness on stage, while still being perceived as authentic and powerful. In Artaud’s French writings short frag…
Nach Else Laker-Schülers Tragödie Ich & Ich
**50 copies** In hardbound embossed special package (like previous edition in this series), numbered & signed, with an original work by Hartmut Geerken. DVD with the recording of the radio-play from November 1994
Ali Baba Visits Marrakech
**100 copies** Embossed boards with mounted colour plate on front panel (hardcover), 21,5 x 16,5 cms., a book, stiff wrappers, (24) pp. stitched with 15 colour plates. the sound of marakech. Limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies each with two original collages by Herman De Vries. Audio-CD by Herman de Vries, Field Recording from Marrakech. Photographs of walls, signs, scenes
The Proposal
**2020 stock** Edition of 300. Amalia Ulman and (legendary) Carles Santos’s four-part “The Proposal” textures the other tracks nicely thanks to the combination of Ulman’s joking narrative on artistic production and Santos’s taut piano composition. One of the formats created for the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, is the new vinyl series, ‘Anthem’ where artists and musicians are brought together in an environment and testimony to collaboration and sharing. Los Angeles based artist and …
Vertical Music Batch 01-03
A special bundle to introduce a new and quite promising label from Milan, Italy. Curated by Ludwig Berger, Vertical Music is a home for non-linear music, deep mapping, and the long now.
Self-care (Special edition)
Visionary, challenging and beautiful, pushing the potentiality of organized sound incrementally ahead, Vanessa Rossetto's 'Self-care' is unquestionably one of the most engaging releases we've heard so far this year. A bristling expanse of environmental texture and incident, slowing building across its duration into a moody sonic space of startling psychological depth.
Self-care
Visionary, challenging and beautiful, pushing the potentiality of organized sound incrementally ahead, Vanessa Rossetto's 'Self-care' is unquestionably one of the most engaging releases we've heard so far this year. A bristling expanse of environmental texture and incident, slowing building across its duration into a moody sonic space of startling psychological depth.
Montparnasse
**Small repress soon available** First reissue of this enigmatic and sought-after Japanese rarity from the 80's, originally released on the cultish Unbalance label (run by Naoto Hayashi and Jojo Hiroshige of Hijokaidan fame). Comprised of cut-up and collaged recordings from various unspecified French movies intertwined with the occasional spoken word segments ~ all seemingly recorded using a cheap-o cassette player making for quite the lo-fi work. A walk in Paris somewhere between the 30's and t…
Italienische Stucke (Art edition)
**Special edition of 50 numbered copies. Includes signed photograph (13x18 cm) and reproduction of the score of "Liquid Piece“ (245g linen-stock, 29,7 x 42 cm) handcoloured with china ink by Christina Kubisch, signed & numbered.** Sound is almost always at its most thrilling, whether in practice or source, when it can not be easily defined. This is the liminal zone within which only the bravest and most ambitious among the avant-garde dare to tread, constantly pushing forward into unexplored zon…
Italienische Stucke
**Edition of 300. Also available as a 50 copies special Art edition** Sound is almost always at its most thrilling, whether in practice or source, when it can not be easily defined. This is the liminal zone within which only the bravest and most ambitious among the avant-garde dare to tread, constantly pushing forward into unexplored zones which are yet to be claimed by the known. Of those artists who have taken on such a task, it is hard to call to mind any as important as the German composer, …
Siberia / Sirens
Two incredible sonic artworks by Susanne Skog’s work within sound art and composition has its roots in narrative art forms, experimental radio, radio drama and documentaries. Her artwork evolves from her own recordings from around the world, sonic material which she turns into new shapes and expressions, frictions and correlations, often considering movements and spatialisation as a vital element. Siberia is based on recordings from a 205 hour / 9288 kilometer trip by train from Moscow to Vladiv…
Am Grabe (At the Grave)
Am Grabe (At the Grave) is an ongoing audio ritual executed by Stefan Fricke and Alper Maral. Since 2015, they have been visiting the graves and burial grounds of composers from various eras in order to record the sounds and noises present. Each sequence is a pure field recording, serving as a memento of a bit more than 4 minutes in length. After having been compiled for a series of radio programmes, selections from Am Grabe here appear on audio media for the first time. This edition commemorate…
Outlaws in Language and Destiny
**2019 stock** Recordings by Joana Escoval of insects singing in the Costa Rica rainforest and a 180º orthodontic X-Ray in Lisbon, 2013-14. Pressed Mono at 45rpm on clear acetate and encased in a double-sided poster with two found photos: each presenting a child and a bird, both in Amazonia and in Sweden.Joana Escoval examines
how everything is entangled and connected. This is the reason why
Escoval’s sculptures can not only be perceived as appearances in their
raw, authentic state but as dis…
Vampir-Cuadecuc
**130 copies. Art Edition** Carles Santos was a multi-disciplinary artist, perhaps best known outside of Spain as a composer of scores for his lifelong collaborator, radical Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella. Made in 1970 during the final years of Franco’s dictatorship, Vampir-Cuadecuc is an astonishingly creative assault on the regime and, arguably, Portabella’s most influential work. Filmed behind the scenes during the production of Jesús Franco’s Count Dracula (1970), Vampir-Cuadecuc is a hig…
Liri Sm
Liri SM is a word play between ‘liri’, the Albanian form for ‘freedom’, and ‘SM’, the widely used short form for ‘sadomasochism’ (which is a paradox of freedom). They melt together in the form of ‘lyricism’ (lirismo in Italian). Yet the first letters of ‘SM’ also hint at the Italian form ‘senza male’ (without harm, innocuous). The idea is to explore the concept of freedom as something that sometimes scares, or rather terrorizes, petrifies people. Our daily freedoms are often a form of content, a…
Giardino Forico N°1 - Napoli
The Giardino Forico is a way of giving back a place, a knowledge, a humanity through our languages. It is the result of a vital artistic process, we listen and observe the space and we speak it.
Rodhaette/Ruinmusik
Two previously unreleased works from the late Danish composer, musician, publisher, artist, and Fluxus actionist Henning Christiansen. "Rødhætte" (1985) is a rendition of Little Red Riding Hood featuring Ursula Reuter Christiansen as narrator. All the hallmarks of Henning's unique approach to music/sound appear as the tale goes deeper into the depths of animalistic frenzy. "Ruinmusic" (1984) inhabits the last breath off the piano housed within the former Marienborg Manor. Prior to the destru…
Sound_Shifting
CD comes with a 90-page catalogue released on occasion of the exhibition Sound-shifting by Möslang/Guhl at the Chiesa San Stae as part of the Swiss contribution to the 49th Venice Biennal 2001. During the preparations for their installation on the occasion of the 49th Venice Biennal in the Church San Stae in Venice, the Swiss artists Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, also known as the band Voicecrack, the artists did a series of video takes. This painterly series constitutes the main bulk of this a…