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Selected Improvisations From Golha, Pt. I
Tip! A collection of stunning Persian-tuned piano pieces cut from Iranian national radio broadcasts made for the Golha programmes between 1956 & 1965... Morteza Mahjubi (1900-1965) was a Iranian pianist & composer who developed a unique tuning system for the piano which enabled the instrument to be played in all the different modes and dastgahs of traditional Persian art music. Known as Piano-ye Sonnati, this technique allowed Mahjubi to express the unique ornamental and monophonic nature of Per…
Wounds Of Love: Khmer Oldies, Vol. 2
A second volume of late 50s and early 60s Cambodian slow rock, pop and R&B tracks - following the first volume's featuring as compilation of the week on Lauren Laverne's BBC 6Music show. From the late 1950s onwards a music scene developed around Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, inspired by the prevalence of imported rock & pop records arriving in the country from US & UK and also chanson and bolero records from France & Latin America. This collection documents some of these early home-grown slow r…
Wounds Of Love: Khmer Oldies, Vol. 1
From the late 1950s onwards a music scene developed around Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, inspired by the prevalence of imported early rock & pop records arriving in the country from US & UK and also chanson and bolero records from France & Latin America. This collection documents some of these early home-grown slow rock, pop & rnb 45 recordings from the early 60s, prior to the further embrace of US psych & garage rock-orientated sounds in the mid 60s and into the Vietnam war era.
Skrag--
*Limited, numbered edition of 50 copies.* 'After the passing of Keith Brewer last year, I talked with Peter Zincken of Nihilistic Recordings about what happened. Taint was among the first noise projects I discovered and I’ve been faithfully following wherever Keith went. This journey turned out to be highly rewarding as Taint and later Mania became a great source of inspiration. In 1989 Keith released his first tape as Mysogyny on Big Body Parts in The USA and Nihilistic Recordings in the EU. Th…
Captive
*Limited, numbered edition of 100 copies.* New York City-based Kjostad is the moniker of Stefan Aune, who is also involved in Form Hunter and Breaking the Will, in addition to running the New Forces label. Capturing highly personal sounds focusing on northern Minnesota, Aune adds layers of electronics and magnetic tape, weaving an organic tapestry of man-made and natural sonics. Captive explores the physicality of organic sound and the productive tension that arises when it is captured via analo…
Suicide Souvenir
*Limited, numbered edition of 75 copies. Comes in a handmade slipcase and a numbered insert.* 'After a random discovery on Bandcamp I kept returning to the dirty, rhythmic synth noise of Something Vile. An unknown project to me at the time that turned out to be the brainchild of Alex Ford, a restless soul spinning his own web in a dark corner of the noise, industrial & power electronics scene. Operating his label, Deathbed Tapes while using different monikers for his own musical output. For his …
Seeing Trip’le
*Second edition of 50 copies* Dave Gilden & Richard Ramirez created Slave Labor in 1993. With this project they performed live in Houston at Deadline's Noisefest in the same year. Also, at this festival Gilden debut his project simply known as DEPRESS (not long after to be renamed Depress/Regress). Gilden & Ramirez continued to work together in Black Leather Jesus & Lingula. Although troubled as an individual, Gilden's work shows what an impact his legacy has left us as part of the American nois…
Full Circle Reworks
*150 copies limited release* Foam and Sand is the ambient soundscape and visual project of award-winning composer and conceptual artist, Robot Koch. Inspired by the composer’s daily habit of meditation, ideas for the project started to take shape during the lockdown of 2020, growing organically under the radar until Full Circle was officially announced in 2021. Using tape recordings of slowed-down pianos, modular synths, and other sonic sources, Full Circle is a collection of 16 warm and organic…
Vivification Exercises I
* Limited edition of 225 cassettes with hand stamped covers * Ka Baird’s Vivification Exercises, a recording for piano, voice, and electronics that references an invigorated consciousness, is primarily based on a presentation at Roulette’s Brooklyn theater in May of 2018. The event added to Baird’s history of performances that embrace the physical and visceral, though the musical, provocative sounds this time exorcised from both her body and the piano’s. Written, performed, produced and mixed by…
Live at Commend, NYC
*300 copies limited release* Live at Commend, NYC documents an evening under the spell of Carlos Niño and a cast of new and familiar friends and cosmic collaborators including Laraaji, Surya Botofasina, Photay, and Will Logan. Performed and recorded at Commend, the once and future gravitational center of RVNG Intl., on November 16, 2021, Live at Commend, NYC transcends format for serene, celestial sound.
Sss
**Limited edition of 50 cassette tapes with extractable paper crochet holy image on white matte rough paper. Includes digital download**David aka Christophe Clébard, enfant terrible of synth punk scene, plays a crappy synth and a drum-machine to painfully celebrate love, loss and pain. Live, he hooks the audience with a naked performance that reminds of a panic attack you will never forget. If love is a lost battle, why not fight the pain using distorted melodies and intoxicating rhythms? "SSS"…
II
**Limited edition of 50 cassette tapes with extractable paper crochet holy image on white matte rough paper. Includes digital download**Trained pianist, fan of extreme punk and hardcore, drummer of the wonderful Kuunatic, Yuko Araki, with "II", delivers intergalactic noise fused synthscapes mixing pulsating rhythmic sound frequencies and powerful synthetic sonic layers, through her exceptional sound processing sensibility
Mother
**Limited edition of 50 cassette tapes with extractable paper crochet holy image on white matte rough paper. Includes digital download**A long time agitator of the Turin music scene, Mother (solo project of Tommaso Bonfilio of SabaSaba) uses a mixture of tape cut-ups, crooked percussions, stretched voice and some random languishing instruments to convey an album filled with deep sweet and sour darkness in form of perverted songs as if in a collaboration between William Burroughs and Martin Rev.
Hibiscus
**Limited edition of 30 cassette tapes with extractable paper crochet holy image on white matte rough paper. Includes digital download** J. Zunz a.k.a. Lorena Quintanilla - better known up until this point as one half of Mexican duo Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - with her second release ‘Hibiscus’ marks a move on sonically from earlier comfort zones in her work, arriving at a soundworld in which cyclical synth patterns, eerie ambient textures and cathartic vocal exhortations coalesce into a beguil…
Music 4 Strings, Sintetizador, Una Flauta, Agua y Electrónika
*Limited to 70 hand-numbered copies. Yellow cassette with purple imprint. Comes in regular jewel case and fold-out-poster style 150gsm paper covers.* Bardo Todol are Pablo and Nico Picco, an Argentinian duo whose diverse set of musical ideas claim their own territory in the wider area of contemporary experimental music. The use of repetition -a generally common compromise in creating lengthy and abstract compositions- is absent in the various aural incidents that take place in the album, descrip…
A "Therefore" Between Two Non-Sequiturs
* Limited to 70 hand-numbered copies. Green cassette with white imprint. Comes in regular jewel case and 4pp 150gsm paper covers * The music and art of Fleshtone Aura is a thing very much defined and abstract at the same time. It is hard to describe in words but easy to feel. It is an orgiastic and furious sound collage but simultaneously, a minimalist composition in the repeating pattern in which we can easily find ourselves lost to. It is pure musique concrete. It is clearly tape music. It is …
Smoke / An Ally
A hypnagogic narration that evolves in a dream-state, hazy atmosphere intrinsically embodies Dead Gum's thirteenth release. “Smoke / An Ally”, freely curated by the subconscious, evolves on sonic interpretations that emerge from a specific vocal pattern of indelible words. Variations of monad launch a descent to translucent memory fields. Numb listening, ceaselessly transformed inwards, unto the inner light of the night, nearing, until it dims down once again to blackness. Dead Gum is the solo p…
Crease
As listeners, we often fantasize about music collaborations between artists, yet not solely driven by the parameter of "artists we like". Before jumping ahead to any interpretations, we don't just like Danae and Michalis, we like them a lot. But that's not the reason their cooperation is so unique, which is evident on how well they complement each other and communicate in a level of musical language. A simple listening to both solo LPs, [herewith] and Nylon (both on Michali's Holotype Editions) …
USCO Tapes
* Comes with an insert. Edition of 64 * Rare audio recordings by Gerd Stern, one of the original Beats and seminal multimedia artists. Gerd Stern is a poet, artist, and multimedia pioneer whose remarkable life spans 40s bohemia, 50s Beat culture, 60s hippiedom, 70s hip capitalism, and continues today. USCO The sixties can be seen as the USCO era, although USCO (aka Us Company or the Company of Us) didn’t really begin until at least 1963. Stern had began creating mechanical sculptures as a natu…
Poetry Reading Sunyab 1976 (Tape)
** Limited edition of 50 * Recorded by Allen De Loach. A reading by Armand Schwerner, writer of The Tablets