A War Of Decibels
Tip! *2025 stock* The fourth release on Flatlines is ‘A War Of Decibels’, a 43 minute audio essay by Berlin-based artist Nik Nowak. Nowak is most well-known for his large-scale sound installations, especially Panzer (2011) and the Mantis (2019), dramatic and beautifully constructed sound systems installed on tracked vehicles which have hosted a range of DJs over the years such as Dj Rashad & DJ Spinn, Scratcha DVA, Ikonika and Kode9.The audio essay builds on the themes of his 2020 interdisciplin…
I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite
** Collector's edition of 35 copies, each accompanied by a foulard-kite designed by the artist **
Xing presents the new LP I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite by Francesco Cavaliere, fifteenth release of XONG collection - artist records. I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a composition by Francesco Cavaliere, part of his Abyssal Creatures project based on an ensemble of concave blown glass sculptures that recall transparent creatures far from human representation: beings that inhale sound and …
Seize the Means of Complexity
Tip! *20 copies limited release* Xing presents the LP Seize the Means of Complexity by Mattin, ninth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. The collector's edition consists of 20 copies, each accompanied by a different polaroid - credit card size - portraying fragments from the social media universe.
Seize the Means of Complexity, the new record by Mattin is a call for all social media users of the world to unite: …
Mediterranean Music-Water + Schafe Statt Geigen (2LP Bundle)
* The two recent Henning Christiansen releases in a special discounted bundle * A brand new and much needed vinyl reissue of “Schafe Statt Geigen / "Verena" Vogelzymphon”, as well as a never before released work by Henning Christiansen entitled “Mediterranean Music-Water”. Truly remarkable immersions into the sonorous world of one of the 20th Century’s most visionary creative minds - issued in very limited vinyl editions of 250 copies, with a 20-page photographic book, and 350 copies with a 16-p…
Mediterranean Music-Water
**Edition of 350 copies, 16 page book. Previously unreleased! ** Less than a decade ago, the legacy of the Danish multi-disciplinary artist and composer, Henning Christiansen (1932 - 2008), had fallen into obscurity and remained almost entirely out of view. Outside of a small but dedicated following of sound-art fans and scholars, he ranked among the most obscure figures in experimantal music. Thankfully, over the years since, due to the devotion of a small number of labels, his work, in the for…
Schafe statt Geigen / “Verena” Vogelzymphon
**Second edition of 250 copies, 20 page photographic book** Henning Christiansen was an incongruous mirror for the paradoxes of 20th century creative practice. He gave his context what it demanded - visionary and singular work, but was so radical that almost no one knew what to do with him, forcing him into the position of an outsider. Of all the composers working within the cradle of Fluxus, his work falls among the closest to its primary intent, destroying hierarchy, orthodoxy, and categorizat…
Sound Anthology (LP)
From the celebrated imprint, Recorthings & Zona Archives, comes “Sound Anthology”, the first ever full length dedicated to the output of Maurizio Nannucci. Gathering sixteen pieces created between 1966 and 2013, the collection is an absolute revelation, blurring the boundaries between musique concrète and noise and unveiling one of Italy’s great journeymen of experimental sound practice lingering in our midst.
Game Room - A Tribute To The Great American Loser
*Edition of 200 copies* Les Levine is a naturalized American Irish artist, born October 6, 1935, in Dublin, Ireland. Known as a pioneer of video art and as a conceptual artist working with mass communication. In 1967, he won first prize for sculpture in the Canadian Sculpture Biennial. He designed the cover of the beat poets like John Giorno (founder of Giorno Poetry System). Levine was one of the first artists to work with video and television. His work was to become a precursor to the new gene…
Autumn Fair
Limited edition of 350 copies. Sold out at source To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Recital, we present Autumn Fair. A group LP comprised of 44 guest players (full list below), curated and edited together by Sean McCann. Autumn Fair aptly embodies the feeling of Recital as a record label; the infusion of abstract sound art and sentimental beauty – performed by both younger and older generations of artists. Oren Ambarchi - guitar, Ed Atkins - paper shredder, Jason Bannon - family, Derek Baron …
Miroir
*In process of stocking. 300 copies limited edition* Akousis Records is proud to announce the new release by Cyprien Busolini - viola and Bertrand Gauguet - alto saxophone. Recorded by Christophe Hauser at La Muse en circuit, Alfortville (FR) 2021 September 3
Témoins
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 100 copies.* A series of commissioned works, each connected to a location given to me. The sites were used as recording studios for creating multilayered compositions with minimal to none post-production. All instruments were played on site. Roz was recorded in Roz-sur-Couesnon in April-May 2014, mixed in Nantes in September 2016. Commissioned by the sound art gallery Le Bon Accueil (Rennes), as a workshop with schools from the area of the Mont Saint-Michel. Bruz …
Shadows and Reflections
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 100 copies.* Shadows and Reflections develops from an audiovisual collaboration between Monty Adkins and the painter Andy Fullalove exhibited at Bradford Cathedral in October 2016. The exhibition comprised a series of fourteen paintings and sound that responded to the newly restored altarpiece by William Morris as well as the priceless stained glass windows in the Cathedral made my Morris’s company, which include designs by Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-J…
OBEX
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 100 copies.* To start AMT and Tarab exchanged materials and objects. AMT exchanged a single sound sculpture for Tarab’s collection of small objects. This material exchange led to activity. AMT manually manipulated, Tarab also, but more often than not he placed the sculpture in situations and let them work on it. Once again exchanges took place, this time of audio material. Elements where then selected and arranged and further rearranged; some left untouched and so…
Animais Sintéticos
*Limited edition of 150 copies.* The new record by Tropa Macaca brings together two pieces, Animais Sintéticos and Aerossol, which were previously presented in an exhibition context, at gnration in Braga and at PADA in Barreiro, in the years 2022 and 2020, respectively. Both exhibitions, which took the title of the pieces, presented themselves as immersive installations that allied music to Joana da Conceição's paintings and videos. These two exhibitions are different pacts between the audible a…
Giving Water To The Dead
*In process of stocking.* The four tracks that comprise "Giving Water to the Dead" were composed using sound materials originally recorded for the sound installation Histories of the Present, a public artwork commissioned by the City of Berkeley in 2019. But where the installation was about a melding of practices and sounds into a single gesture, Crouch and Novak wanted to take the opportunity of a split release to exploring divergent paths starting from common ground. For "Giving Water to the D…
Stimmen Aus Himmel Und Hölle
** CD in gatefold carbord cover with booklet ** “Stimmen aus Himmel und Hölle” is a searching work. Search for a new voice. The appropriation of new living and sound spaces. The title “Voices from Heaven and Hell” has multiple meanings that intersect, revealing themselves to our ears. There is the literal meaning, and therefore we hear (and sometime we "see") heaven and hell in sounds, through sounds.There is the meaning of the game (“Himmel und Hölle” is the German name of the "Hopscotch" game …
Synthesizer Evolution
Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back) celebrates the impact of synths on music and culture by providing a comprehensive and meticulously researched directory of every major synthesizer, drum machine and sampler made between 1963 and 1995. Each featured instrument is illustrated by hand and shown alongside its vital statistics and some fascinatingly quirky facts.
Bird and Person Dyning (LP)
At long last, after decades out of print, joining their growing Cramps Records Reissue Series, Dialogo brings us the long-awaited vinyl reissue of Alvin Lucier's "Bird and Person Dyning", the composer's first solo LP. As legendary as they come, and easily among the most important and groundbreaking efforts in experimental music ever recorded, this is Lucier at his most visionary. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies of black vinyl, with fully remastered audio, housed in a sleeve that beauti…
Wendy Carlos: A Biography
This book is the first full-length biography to be written about the American composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos (b. 1939). With her debut album, Switched-On Bach, Carlos brought the sound of the Moog synthesizer to a generation of listeners. She not only blazed new trails in electronic music for decades but also intersected with many aspects of American culture during the second half of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first. Her story features an eclectic cast of chara…
10 Friendship Songs
** Edition of 200. Artist book + CD ** n the year 2018 visual artist Ken Verhoeven presented his Friendship Paintings, a collection best described as “deconstructed designs for friendship bracelets”, at Trampoline gallery in Antwerp. The subject: the friendship bracelet. A wristband infused with meaningful (?) symbols. Symbols crafted thread after thread. One pulls a string, and … friendship happens. Or … friendship is being manipulated by symbolism. Not unlike a fetish. Ken Verhoeven upcycled t…