The Devil Museum
Somewhere between ambient, soundtrack, and an audio play. The tragicomedy and melancholy of a halted art project and a restless mind turning in on itself; as daydreams, farce, and the surreal transform into a blue and beautiful narrative. “In January, 2018, I travelled to Lithuania. I was staying in a small wooden cabin in the middle of a forest and was there to photograph all 3000 sculptures in the nearby Devil Museum. The project was funded by the Mondriaan Fund but two months earlier I’d lent…
Unfamiliar Home
*200 copies limited edition* Daniela Fromberg and Stefan Roigk are multidisciplinary artists working at the borders between acousmatic sound collages, sculptures, installations and graphical scores, often combining different types of media into one single composition. Many of their works deal with fragments of everyday life that are presented in narrative stage-like installations.One such work is "Unfamiliar Home" which began life in 2012 when the house the artists live in got renovated as part …
Soundscape Røst – Spaces and Species Vol I
**300 copies release** Soundscape Røst-Spaces and Species Vol I is a unique collection of field recordings and soundscapes, from the Røst archipelago – 100 km into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Nordland (NO/Sápmi). The album is a careful edited selection of hours and hours of sound material listened to and recorded between 2010 and 2011. The listener will experience a multitude of nature and sea-bird voices/spaces and acoustic moments, spanning from booming roars to the faintest of hums. …
Mahler (In/a) Cage - Casetta di Composizione - A Musical Physiognomy of the Soundscape
The Mahler (in/a) Cage field recording work involves the recording, in situ, from the Casetta di composizione (Composition house) in Dobbiaco/Toblach (Bozen), of the soundscape in which Gustav Mahler composed his last works from 1909 to 1911 and in particular The Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde). The recording session took place over two summer days, from July to August 2020 from 5 am onwards, in the period of the year in which Mahler himself resided in Dobbiaco to compose at the beginn…
Amateur Doubles
Taped largely in a Honda Civic, Amateur Doubles (Kye, 2011) is a portrait of an oft-overlooked domestic stage: the car. Graham Lambkin captures the sounds of a family in-motion as they fiddle with windows, play with toys, bicker, pass traffic, and listen, as the song titles note, to French prog artists Besombes/Rizet and Philippe Grancher. While the set-up at first appears simple -- a car ride taken by the artist and his family through upstate New York -- Lambkin subtly and slyly manipulates the…
Poem (For Voice & Tape)
"I made the basic recordings of Tim Goss's voice during a recent return trip to England. Despite some initial reservations Tim ended up giving an animated and robust reading, drawn exclusively from work of his own creation. These tapes were then transported back to Poughkeepsie, NY, where the project was teased to completion." (Original LP sleeve notes)
Softly Softly Copy Copy
A study in anticipation, Softly Softly Copy Copy (Kye, 2009) repurposes the expectant rumblings of an audience-in-waiting, lifted by Graham Lambkin from various concert recordings of the German kosmische band Tangerine Dream. These bootlegged clips provide a skeleton for various sonic scraps and interludes—including distorted and abandoned fragments from Lambkin’s archive, new recordings on guitar and violin by Austin Argentieri and Samara Lubelski, respectively—that, together, form a compositio…
Irreal
* Glossy heavy cardboard mini-gatefold, with 16 page booklet * Irreal definition is -- not real. "In order to imagine, a consciousness must be able to posit an object as irreal' -- nonexistent, absent -- Jean Paul Sartre Irreal is a selection of recordings from different situations encountered in Austria, Russia, South Korea and The Benelux. The range of sound is as wide as is the emotional impact which slides from the unnerving to the shimmering and gorgeous. Doors, bells, birds, wet snow falli…
The Tower (The City)
First collaborative work between Vanessa Rossetto and Lionel Marchetti. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, designed by Matthew Revert. Six-panel digipak.
The Heart of Nature
**80 copies** The Yorkshire based tape splicer and improvisor Stuart Chalmers has been using found cassettes to create his own sounds since his days playing with Cube Orchestra in Bristol. After moving to north east England, he has focused more on nature and sonic spirits – his latest effort for Ikuissuus has been recorded around various forests, mountains, bothies, shooting huts and old barns. "To truly understand nature you must lose yourself in it, but its then you actually find yourself. The…
Polar Force (CD + Book)
* Matte laminate sleeve, insert card and artist book featuring essays and photographs from the Polar Force project. * From Eugene Ughetti: as Philip Samartzis was preparing to leave for his second Australian Antarctic Division residency, he invited me to lunch to discuss the possibility of collaborating on a new work. He recounted his first experience on the ice, where the surrounding landscapes seemed to articulate avant-garde percussion works of an epic scale. On this visit, he wanted his fiel…
Zapping (Station To Station)
Leo Okagawa is a Japanese sound artist who lives and works in Japan. For this album Leo Okagawa uses field recordings from various metro stations during the quarantine period & sounds by radio stations.
Sofia Says (LP)
* 2021 stock *Edition of 300 copies in red-colored 180gr vinyl, housed in 300gsm reverse board jackets with red inner sleeves, including download code. Three years after the danceable field recordings of her "L'Ange Le Sage" debut LP, the Parisian sound artist, activist and musician Gaël Segalen delivers her third album, "Sofia Says", picking up where her "Memoir of My Manor" cassette stopped. Gaël connects here to a complex mythological entity, Sofia, in a spontaneous mediumnic way - and throu…
A Mirror Holds The Sky (Book + CD)
* Matt laminate and embossed sleeve, insert card, CD and 48 page perfect bound book featuring photographs by Lawrence English, taken on location in the Amazon * From Lawrence English: "In late months of 2008, I had the great fortune to spend some weeks in the Amazon. The visit, facilitated through Francisco Lopez's Mamori Artlab residency, remains one of the most deeply affecting experiences I have had . . . Living in Australia, tropical rainforests are not foreign to me. I would even say I am …
From Afar It Looks Like An Oriflamme (Tape)
Italian sound artist Ezio Piermattei is an active musician since 2010, releasing works under different aliases like Autopugno, Hum Of Gnats, Poisucevamachenille. In 2014 he started releasing music under his real name, through labels like Chocolate Monk, My Dance The Skull, Steep Gloss and through his own Tutore Burlato label.
His “From Afar It Looks Like An Oriflamme” captures some of the most delicate compositions by him. Detailed narratives are mixed with a big variety of field recordings,…
Matanzas
* 2021 Stock * The music on this album is a reflection on living in and listening to the sounds of Matanzas, Cuba. Neil Leonard's recordings of folkloric musicians, interviews, urban surface noise and wetlands were in my ear while composing this work but not heard on the final pieces. What remains is the sensation “after listening,” the stillness and sense of wonder that lingers after hearing Matanzas. This album seemed to compose itself. In August 2016, midway through developing new work for Do…
Musique Inconcrète
** 2021 Stock. Edition of 300 ** After the quickly sold out »Ggràn« cassette, released on Fragment Factory in 2016, we are very happy to welcome back the Italian sound artist Mauro Diciocia aka Torba for his 2nd contribution to the FF label catalogue. »Musique Inconcrète« is the follow-up to »Musica Conventionale«, released earlier this year on his own Edizioni Aaltra imprint, and marks the second installment in a trilogy of related recordings, informally named »Le Musiche«. While being active i…
Arbo X
Tibor Szemző is not only a skillful and experienced Hungarian musician but also a media artist with a vast imagination. His last LP, Arbo X – Csoma Grooves, refers to his full-length film A Guest of Life released in 2006, for which he not only directed but also composed all the music. The film is inspired by the life of Alexander Csoma de Körös, a remarkable polyglot from the 19th century who set out from his native Transylvania to central Asia on foot to look for the roots of the Hungarian l…
Oropendola: Music By and From Birds
* Original 1995 edition, long out of print. * Oropendola: Music by and from Birds weaves together a rich tapestry of music and wildlife recordings from Madagascar, Kenya and Brazil, featuring the songs and habitats of birds from around the world. The booklet provides written information by Douglas Quin about his wildlife recordings and his compositions. It is illustrated with scores and spectrographs. The considerable time and energy spent in the field, obtaining recordings, is an integral part…
Snapshot from the Island
A rare pearl of Hungarian experimental music, Tibor Szemzo’s sublime debut album Snapshot From The Island [1987] is widely regarded as one of the best ambient & minimalist music of the time. Remastered from the original tapes, limited edition