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Nyarlathotep - A Tribute To Howard Phillips Lovecraft
'Nyarlathotep was an earthbound deity in the mythos of writer H. P. Lovecraft. Unlike the other gods in these stories, Nyarlathotep appears in humanoid form and can speak human languages. This being, as an abstract concept, provides a fitting name for an album that brings largely forgotten and mysterious music to human ears. Indeed, this album is a newly remastered reissue that was originally released in 1997 by the KADATH label, and gathers eight offerings of experimental underground music of t…
Tori Kudo At Goodman 1984-1986
Tori Kudo's live recordings from 1984 to 1986 at Ogikubo good-man will be released on 9 CDs by boid/Voice Of Ghost label on May 19, 2021. The cassette recordings of Tori Kudo's many live performances, mainly at Ogikubo Goodman on the eve of the formation of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and shortly thereafter, have been re-recorded on 9 CDs. In addition to a hand-written index and hand-drawn flyers, this gorgeous box set also includes a DVD of "Maher Shalal Hash Baz" as an enclosed bonus.
Tori Kudo beg…
Black Programs Facility
*30 copies limited edition* Black Programs Facility is a project by Zerok label featuring albums from four label veterans: Joel Gilardini, Lars Bröndum, Mombi Yuleman, and Vongoiva
- "Nocturnal" by Joel Gilardini- "Wall Of Darkness" by Lars Bröndum- "Abductee" by Mombi Yuleman- "The Fabric Of Space and Time" by Vongoiva
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Nocturnal
Recorded live at Exil Club, Zürich/CH, 13.06.2022, Montags 915Mixed and mastered at Nowhere Studio, Zürich/CH, 14.06.2022
Joel Gilardini is an experimental guita…
Silent Monuments
*33 copies limited edition* Inspired by a passion for abandoned industrial facilities photography, "Silent Monuments," the new album by Nerthus, takes a step into the desolate aftermath of a postindustrial world, where the remnants of human existence linger in the silent echoes of abandoned factory halls. It invites you to explore a haunting soundscape devoid of human presence. In this vast emptiness, once bustling with the rhythms of industry, now stands as a solemn monument to a bygone era. An…
Stalker - Music Inspired By Andrej Tarkowskij's Movie
*200 copies limited edition* "Stalker" is Eighth Tower's tribute to the cinematic masterpiece "Stalker" (1979) by Russian director Andrej Tarkowskij. Tarkowskij 's second science fiction film after Solaris, "Stalker" is based on a novel by the Strugackij brothers, Arkadij and Boris, renowned authors of Soviet science fiction. The novel, titled "Roadside Picnic," was released in 1971. Tarkovskij adapted the basic literary work, written in the form of dispatches and intelligence reports, inspired …
Al-Azif
*200 copies limited edition* "Al-Azif is the second work of Capricorni Pneumatici. Released on tape in 1987, the album was recorded in an underground location containing a group of vitrified cement tanks that created an extremely deep reverberation and amplification of sounds. The tanks were very large, some with a capacity of 500/800 quintals, others smaller. They had openings both above ground level and below the ground at depths of 5/6 meters. Thus, the sound had a very unique and impressive …
Dreams Deluxe (Early Recordings 1980-82) 2CD
This 2CD delivers a complete overview of the early recordings of the german Kult-Band NO MORE. It is an extended Version of the previous Vinyl-Release (VOD23)38 Tracks recorded between 1980 and 1982 incl. songs from the legendary first two 7" (Too Late & Suicide Commando) and 10" (A Rose IS A Rose) plus material of the first two tapes from 1980 and 1981, Outtakes from the 10", demo versions of "Suicide Commando"
New State of Flux
*2024 stock. 200 copies limited edition* New State Of Flux was conceived by Raffaele Pezzella, head of the Unexplained Sounds network of aural disorientation, after Swedish label Reverse Alignment became a part of the network at the beginning of 2021. The extremely fine work released by label founder Kristian Widqvist from its inception in 2007 and over the next 13 years is a rare example of integrity and quality in terms of aesthetic choices, creating a collection of minimalist and isolationist…
Rare and Lost 70s Recordings
CD version. Ultra-rare recordings by '70s UK avant-rockers Red Square, the missing link between original free-noise practitioners like AMM, Nihilist Spasm Band, and Peter Brotzmann and post-no wavers à la The Blue Humans, Borbetomagus, Fushitsusha, and The Dead C. Named after the early Soviet Constructivists, Red Square is a pioneering free-improvising, avant-rock band. They bridged the worlds of psychedelic rock, noise, and avant-jazz, and many of the techniques and approaches to music that…
Horology - Anthology Vol. 1-3
**Epic 15 CD box set, coming as a deluxe book-like folder, compiles all the Clock DVA material previously issued by Vinyl-On-Demand on the three vinyl-only box sets Horology, Horology II and Horology III. Includes t-shirt.** With bands like Cabaret Voltaire leading the way, Sheffield, in the north of England, has long been known for pioneering the hybrid zone between punk and electronic music during the late 1970s. Among the first of them all was Clock DVA, founded in 1978 by Adi Newton from the…
In the Darkness
** Edition of 500 ** Rediscovering an artist like Paul Chain is a very important moment for the musical culture of old fans and younger rockers who, for age reasons, could not live firsthand the artistic evolution of one of the most brilliant musicians of the entire Italian music scene. "In the Darkness", originally published back in 1986, is the second work of Paul Chain Violet Theatre, a band in which Catena surrounds himself with talented musicians, including some former bandmates at the time…
Cantus Figures Laurus
A boxset compiling the series of inter-related releases that Late Music put out in 2020 - the double album Cantus, Descant, the two disc live set Figures In Open Air, and Laurus, an extended EP of early sketches for the music fully realised on Cantus, Descant.
Le Domaine Musical 1956... 1967
"For the occasion of Pierre Boulez' 90th birthday on 26 march 2015, Universal Classics France present a revised and enhanced version of the former edition celebrating his years at the helm of paris' legendary "Le domaine musical" concerts. Initially presented in two volumes, the recordings are now assembled in a single 10cd set, documenting the history of the domaine musical with a mixture of live concert recordings and studio sessions based upon the performances in the Théatre Marigny in Paris,…
Long Gradus
** 4xCD edition, housed in a rigid outer slipcase Box with a 16 page booklet, with 16 tracks and features all 4 interpretations of Long Gradus, spread across 4 discs** A new longform commissioned work for any ensemble of four similar instruments. The definitive string quartet version of 'Long Gradus' is available as a 2LP and CD, and the collection of all four arrangements (strings, woodwinds, brass & organ, choir & electronics) is presented as the 'Long Gradus: Arrangements' 4CD set.
'Long Grad…
2000-2003
Tip! This is a boxed set of six consecutive CD releases from November 2017, re-edited in chronological order from the "G.R.O.S.S." CD-Rs that recorded live performances in the 2000s, the mature period of Aube's activities. Aube is a noise project by Akifumi Nakajima, born in Kyoto in 1959.Since the 1980s, he has been using synthesizers and other devices to create small-scale sounds as a hobby. In 1990, he was in charge of the music for the installation "Water 1990" by the artists Soichi Arichi a…
Galaxie
Decca Records presents a limited edition 13CD Box dedicated to the composer Pierre Henry, entitled Galaxie, gathering 33 works including 14 unpublished - composed between 1958 and 2017. This edition of 13 CDs represents, with Polyphonies (released in 2017), the essence of Pierre Henry's work, highlighting his prodigious inventions, his work as a composer and his attachment to his masters.
CD 1Le Voyage (1962)Prisme (1973)CD 2Variations pour une porte et un soupir (1963)Hugosymphonie Gouttes deau…
Hot Rats
2017 release. Hot Rats was originally recorded in 1969 and is a predominantly instrumental album that Frank Zappa described as "a movie for your ears." The sound is largely jazz fusion based with extensive soloing, eschewing the satirical vocal performances and musique concrète of earlier Zappa releases. There are many notable musicians featured on the album, including drummers John Guerin, Paul Humphrey and Ron Selico, a teenage Shuggie Otis on bass, electric violinists Don "Sugarcane" Harris a…
Composing While Black. Afrodiasporic New Music Today (Book)
Composing While Black presents unique new perspectives on Afrodiasporic contemporary composers active between 1960 and the present, a period that academic inquiry, concert programming, and journalistic accounts have largely ignored up to now, particularly in Europe. This interdisciplinary essay collection engages with opera, orchestral, chamber, instrumental, and electroacoustic music, as well as sound art, conceptual art, and digital intermedia, revealing Afrodiasporic new music as an intercult…
The Musical Legacy of Karlheinz Stockhausen: Looking Back and Forward
Karlheinz Stockhausen was one of the most influential and prolific composers of the twentieth century. His legacy extends far beyond his extensive catalogue of musical works to his achievements as a pioneer of electronic music, as a writer and thinker on music, and as a teacher. In this volume, various aspects of Stockhausen“s legacy are discussed, including his influence on the creative work of others, and the influences he likewise derived from some of his closest associates. Central theoretic…
Process and Form: Selected Writings on Music
Gottfried Michael Koenig (* Magdeburg, 1926) collaborated intensively with Karlheinz Stockhausen in the 1950s in the Electronic Music Studio of the WDR in Cologne, where he himself also produced several landmark pieces of electronic and serial music. He moved to the Netherlands in 1964 to become the artistic director of Utrecht University“s Studio for Electronic Music, which in 1967 became the Institute of Sonology. Under Koenig“s supervision, the institute played a pioneering role in the develo…