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The New York Composers Orchestra: First Program in Standard Time
Acoustic jazz recording featuring Holcomb's eleven-minute title-track, Lenny Pickett's ten-minute Dance Music for Composer Orchestra, Elliott Sharp's eight-minute Skew and Horvitz's nine-minute Paper Money and an eleven-minute composition by Anthony Braxton.
New Music for Four Guitars
*2022 stock* An amazing collection of works by Loris Chobanian (Sonics), Walter Hartley (Quartet forGuitars), Lejaren Hiller (Metaphors), William Ortiz (Abrazo),Stephen Funk Pearson (Mummychogs (Le Monde)) and James Piorkowski (The Struggle of Jacob), performed by Buffalo Guitar Quartet.
Mass/Seven Pious Pieces
*2022 stock* This collection of two tonal works by composers known for their non-tonal compositional style is a fine example of contemporary approaches to sacred choral music. Salvatore Martirano’s Mass is a setting of a traditional Latin Mass whilst Donald Martino’s Seven Pious Pieces sets religious texts by Robert Herrick. The vocal writing is masterful with transparent textures and flowing contrapuntal lines.
Sound Forms for Piano: Cage/ Cowell/ Johnston/ Nancarrow
Works by John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, Ben Johnston and Henry Cowell. Performed by Robert Miller, piano.“...in the past, the point of disagreement has been between dissonance and consonance, it will be, in the immediate future, between noise and so-called musical sounds.” — John CageThe most characteristic features of American music are its eclecticism and innovation. The works presented here are perfect examples; their only common feature is that they were written for a piano altered in some w…
2017-2020
"2017-2020 is a box set of five original albums by Merzbow released on Slowdown Records. Since 2018, Merzbow has been running an archive series on the same label that contains mainly unreleased and unearthed material from the past, and while each series is organized according to production period and musical concept, this box is a collection of original albums produced individually. However, this box is a collection of original albums produced individually, and each one has a very different musi…
Double Beat Sequencer
"The fourteenth series of the Merzbow archive series, which began in 2018 and focuses on unreleased and unearthed material, is a collection of unreleased recordings from 2014 that were performed with a sequencer in the background: Double Beat Sequencer Vol. 1, Double Beat Sequencer Vol.2", "Double Beat Sequencer Vol.3", "Double Beat Sequencer Vol.4", "Double Beat Sequencer Vol.5" and "Double Beat Sequencer Vol.6". Double Beat Sequencer" is a boxed set of all six of these works. The sequencer use…
Horizon
"The thirteenth series of Merzbow's archival series, which began in 2018 and focuses on unreleased and unearthed material, includes six albums recorded between 2011 and 2012: Insect 801, Kumo No Zettaichi, Sugamo Flower, Bit Blues", "Kotorhizome", and "Gman+". Horizon" is a boxed set of these works. In 2011, Merzbow released "Dead Zone" on the Ukrainian label Quasi Pop Records, which focused on the radioactive contamination caused by the nuclear accidents in Fukushima and Chernobyl, and also rel…
Drum & Noise
"The 12th series of the archive series, which started in 2018 and focuses on Merzbow's unreleased and unearthed recordings, includes "Drumorph", "Ensemble Drums", and "Arijigoku (Test Mix)", which contain recordings from 2008-2009, when Merzbow developed a style that incorporated drum performance. Arijigoku (Test Mix)", "Red Brick", "Groon Lesson", and "Pi-Eggplant". The boxed version of these albums is called "Drum & Noise".Masami Akita was originally a drummer who was greatly influenced by psy…
Overcome
**Edition of 199. Deluxe gatefold cover** Atrax Morgue has been one of the very few names to inherit the sound and annihilating effect of the power electronics school of the early 1980s. He remains faithful to visceral (anti)sounds, no structural enrichment, no attempt to improve: the skeleton of nothing, the absolute point of no return, the representation of non-being, the apology of learning, the most total desert. Overcome comes out for the first time on vinyl by Slaughter Productions in 1999…
Monolithic Blasphemies
Concrete Threat are a sinister and ultra-grim two piece project from Sweden who formed in 2006. The men behind the wall are Christian Fagerström & Hannes Hellman that since them first cdr have created some of the most unforgiving, bleak and nauseating HNW and shadowy black Harsh Noise you\'ll ever have come across.
Vomir is one of the most un-compromising & respected artists with in the Harsh Noise Wall scene. The man behind the bag is Frenchman Romain Perrot and since the project start in 2006 …
Structured Suicide
** Deluxe vinyl LP version. Limited edition to 299 copies **The 1990s were a fascinating moment for music and new idioms of experimental music began to bubble in the underground. While often belonging to highly localized scenes and thus overlooked by a broad listenership in the moment, many of these gestures have proven to be profoundly important and influential and have left an indelible mark on the musical landscapes that have followed in their wake. Particularly notable among others C.C.C.C.'…
Hepatopolitika
**199 copies** Japanese sound artist Kimihide Kusafuka, better known as K2, originally came onto the scene in 1981, in order to explore the possibility of noise. The activities at that time were only the creation of cassette works and actions in the world of mail-art with no live performance. A few years later, he suspended his music activities to concentrate on his studies and returned in 1993 after having just graduated as a Pathologist.K2 perceives no alteration between the act of making nois…
Wrist
Paolo Bandera founded in the mid-eighties with Eraldo Bernocchi the colossal collective post-industrial Sigillum S. In 1993 he created his solo project Sshe Retina Stimulants, devoting himself to sharpen the edges of concepts and noise extremes. Andrea Chiaravalli started with Iugula-Thor in 1992 and from his first release on Minus Abens Records titled The Wheel Of The Process he collaborates with Paolo and Eraldo. Their prolific cooperation culminates with Writs CD, released by the trem…
Valkoinen Kohina
Valkoinen Kohina mean White Noise and is the second document of cruel era and throes of death. After the focus on Japan with Ten Jin now dedication to the pain through the filth and blood comes from Finland. No remorse, only violence through six acts proud of their standards.:CHLOROFORM RAPIST::EDGE OF DECAY::SILENCE OF VACUUM::SICK SEED::SNUFF::UNCLEAN:All acts contribute exclusive tracks for the album. Compiled and directed by Pekka PT. Cover collage by Ewan Aparicio. Mastered by Cristiano Ren…
Middlefield
Caen is a solo project of Gordon Ashworth (Concern, Oscillating Innards). Caen is based on simple tape loops of melodic sounds, expanded into minimal and lo-fi vignettes of crude, textural drones, each piece recorded late at night. " Middlefield" is a collection of material spanning 2003-2013, previously released on cassette by Ekhein, Gutter Rash, Iatrogenesis, and Monorail Trespassing.
What Is Dadarotator
**Edition of 100** The Dadarotator (Produktion) was Paul Hurst. Originally from Tasmania (Cannon) and Australia (Glover and Hurst) they formed Produktion when they moved to London in 1978. In London they opened Produktion Hair hairdress salon where they cut "supercuts" while playing Industrial Music all day. Produktion also made super 8 films, animations, fanzines and tapes. Some of their obscure tapes saw them collaborating with artists such as John Duncan, Merzbow, Club Moral, Toshiji Mikawa …
Atomique Mörder
Limited edition of 100 copies in digipack. Second re-issue of this rare M.B. tape from 1980. The tape was only distributed in a handful of copies in 1980 and was later bootlegged on LP format in a truncated form in the 90s. Remastered from original tape. Cover images are 1980 artworks by M.B
1983
Metal box edition limited to 100 numbered copies, with remastered audio. The box set also includes 2 fanzines. Swastika Kommando was Pietro Mazzocchin from Bassano del Grappa, Italy. In the early 80s Pietro Mazzocchin was very active in the industrial/noise scene. He put out several cassettes under different moniker: Swastika Kommando, The New Sadism, Observation Clinique and also as Lyoto Music togheter with Pierpaolo Zoppo of the legendary Mauthausen Orchestra. Some of his tapes were published…
Lyoto Music
First official CD repress of one of the most extreme cassettes coming out of Italy in the 80s. Rmastered edition. Lyoto Music was a terrific collaboration between Pietro Mazzocchin (The New Sadism, Observation Clinique and Swastika Kommando) and Pierpaolo Zoppo (Mauthausen Orchestra) which flows into a unique cassette published in 1984 by Aquilifer Sodality. Mastered from original master tape kindly provided by Andrea Cernotto with the full permission of Pietro Mazzocchin. “As far as I remember,…
Muu/Nh 31.4.1982 / Menses 30.2.1982
First ever official CD re-issue of Maurizio Bianchi two albums recorded in 1982. "When in the summer of 1982 I bought a device for the echoes, my twisted idea was to transform pre-recorded sounds into something inaudible and shocking, while keeping intact the original intensity. And so I proceeded to transform Menses and Moerder Unter Uns in two bloody clumps of foggy echoes and dark reverberations. Thus they were birthed the two works in question, which came to light in very few copies, only fo…