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Detriti
2007 release ** Re-issue of 1993 album. "Detriti was founded in 1984 as a trio: voice (Tomaj), Drums (Mauro) and bass (Mario) and continuing with this training for some years. then continuing in the form of a duo (vocals and drums) until 1989, when Hector comes as a bassist. Detriti were essentially a hardcore punk with a markedly distinctly free jazz. Music angular, frenetic, caused by improvised but composed and performed with rigorous technique, singing screaming fast or mumbled to the limit,…
Motum
2018 release ** "Claudio F Baroni returns to Unsounds with Motum, an album featuring three recent compositions for electronic quartet, organ and string quartet. The thread connecting the works on Motum is – nomen est omen – motion and movement. Baroni explores this central theme in concept and sounds, in his inimitable layered, open and dynamic style. Motum takes the listener on a path from the very origin of sound as air in motion to hitherto uncharted territories. The music originates in myria…
Mantra
2014 release ** "Composed in 1970, Mantra, for two pianos and ring modulation, was one of the decisive turning points in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s career. The 70-minute piece not only signalled a break with the text-based intuitive works, relying heavily on improvisation, that had come to dominate his output towards the end of the previous decade and a return to fully notated scores, but also introduced the idea of melodic formulae, the “mantra” of the title, which Stockhausen would eventually dev…
Frozen Niagara Falls
2025 stock "America's most prominent noise figure, Dominick Fernow has for the better part of two decades helped shape and reinvent the genre with a stream of works under the Prurient moniker. A project unlike any other in the realms of experimental, ambient, and noise, Prurient continually mutates from one incarnation to the next. Fernow often treads a fine line between harsh noise extremity and atmospheric beauty -- his massive, layered walls of sound may be comprised of piercing feedback, tor…
Homage
2005 release ** Cardboard sleeve. "This project is the product of over thirty years of musical collaboration and personal friendships. The three of us met in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early seventies and worked together in many contexts, exploring improvisation and new music. When I moved to New York in 1983, there was a brief hiatus, and then, on hearing a composition of Mel Graves played here, I asked him to write me a piece. This led to my premiering many works of his and making sever…
Reach Out To Touch
2016 release ** Cardboard sleeve. "Guitarist and improviser Riuchi Daijo holds the bi-monthly live performance series "Shield Reflection" at Ftarri, Tokyo. In this series, Daijo usually performs with the same guest musicians three times in a row. In the three concerts from October 2015 to February 2016, his guests were Keitetsu Murai (electro-acoustics) and Tetsuro Fujimaki (drums). This CD consists of two pieces performed on December 20, 2015, and February 21, 2016. Daijo plays electric guitar …
Five Nights
2006 release ** "If cutting-edge music presages the course that society will take, then this release from Trio Tarana indicates that at some point we will be heading down the right path. Percussionist Ravish Momin leads a trio of musicians with diverse ethnic backgrounds with the stated purpose "of sharing their unique Asian-American musical concept and identity with different audiences, worldwide." With Five Nights, recorded live at Washington DC's beautiful Freer Gallery of Art amidst their ex…
Paw Music
2010 release ** Cardboard sleeve.
Pal Toth aka én: electronic devices, objects, contact mics, voiceQuentin Rollet aka Q.: alto sax, mic, feedback, voiceZsolt Söres aka Ahad: viola, analogue synth, objects, contact mics, feedback, voice+Jozef Cseres aka HEyeRMEarS: additional voice on "Paw Lesson" and "The Real Paw"
Farben Raum
2008 release ** Cardboard sleeve. "Sun of the seventh sister is a collective of artists-musicians from Australia and New Zealand ranging in number from 10-25 players. Their rack of instruments is pretty immense including multiple drummers, electrified chordophones, horns, vocals, oscillators, electric guitars and pretty much everything they can put their hands on. This hord of nomad musicians reminds me of the nomadic artists of the middle-ages with everything that this brings to mind, the madne…
Tipping Point
2012 release ** Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies in folded cardboard sleeve. "MIE Music is very excited to announce the first release in its new CDr series 'Tipping Point' by the Birchall/Cheetham Duo. Andrew and David met when they performed as part of Rhys Chatham’s G3 ensemble in Manchester early 2011 which MIE put on. Since then they have developed a sound exploring the deconstruction of rock music within the wider context of free improvisation. Both musicians are committed to the explora…
A Morphology of Wonders
** Edition of 300 ** Timelash is the freshly erupted synthesizer & SFX duet of Embassador Dulgoon (Nonlocal Research) and Corum (Psychic Sounds / Million Brazilians). Together they reveal new sound forms by playing with primeval motifs contrasted sharply against unfolding futuristic developments. The result is a simultaneous listening experience of ancient and alien settings told through their unique rhythm of language by mood-driven atmospheres, exotic tones, and electrifying sci-fi Cumbia jolt…
Arctic Summer
"The richness of these recordings cannot be overstated." — A Closer Listen
Static Disposal
Legendary 1976 Private Press Rarity Documents Oklahoma's most uncompromising Proto-Punk visionaries, this trio produced art-damaged outsider rock influenced by Stooges, Beefheart, and Velvet Underground
Kneel For Truth
"Kneel for Truth - اركع للحقيقة”, the 12” single by Egyptian artist Abdullah Miniawy, is finally available.The vinyl is the second release of a limited edition series curated and conceived by Chiara Lee, freddie Murphy and Davide Quadrio as audio catalogue for the temporary exhibitions hosted at the museum. This second output is released within the exhibition “Trad u/i zioni d’Eurasia”
Co-Existence
** Hand numbered edition of 250. Silscreened see-trough cover ** Co-Existence is a piece composed by sound artist Shigeru Ishihara (Dj Scotch Egg/Scotch Rolex) during his artistic residency at MAO, Turin's Museum of Asian Art, inspired by the temporary exhibition Buddha10 - A Fragmented Display on Buddhist Visual Evolution curated by Davide Quadrio and Laura Vigo held at that time at the museum. The artist acoustically explored the natural reverberations that characterize the museum and an anci…
Raspberry / Pornographic Poem
** Original copies of this rarity. Few copies available, still sealed ** John Giorno’s first album, self-released in an edition of 700 copies in 1967, features a dozen or so fellow luminaries from the New York avant-garde. Among these are Robert Rauschenberg, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer and the poet and singer Patty Mucha, who had been a member of the pre-Velvet Underground art-rock band The Druds along with Andy Warhol, on occasional vocals, and La Monte Young, on saxophone. When the disc was r…
The Vitamin B12
More catchy than Dlin Dlon Cowboy. The Vitamin B12's music maintains an ingenious home-made sound in a refined bric-a-brac of experimental sound explorations, adventurous and successful juxtapositions and playful melodies and structures. This set presents 24 kaleidoscopic miniatures, like the images which adorn the cover, assembled with amazingly gracious do-it-yourself pop sensibility, groovy lounge tendencies and a passionate curiosity for noise and sound modification. The history of The Vitam…
Stroke by stroke
2011 release ** All the recordings were made at home in Athens between June 2010 and April 2011. No electronic effects, overdubbing or processing used. Ambient noise from several parallel events taking place in Greece at the time of recording has deliberately not been removed. "On Stroke by Stroke, the windows in Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga’s house are thrown open; you can hear the streets of Athens enlaced in her apothegmatic pieces for a radically prepared and refashioned zither. Knowing this…
Sustains
Amnon Wolman - composer, was born at Jerusalem Israel, 1955. He has written more than fifty pieces which include symphonic works, vocal and chamber pieces for different types of ensembles, film music, music for theater and dance, and works involving computer generated or processed sounds. His music is recorded by Wergo (Germany) and the Stanford University Press (California, USA), and published by the Israel Music Institute. He is now the head of the electronic music department at Brooklyn Colle…
Glassine 1
"Glassine I" was recorded live at the Ambient Ping in Toronto in 2006 and can be easily described as an organic space ambient, with very strong references to Pink Floyd (Ummagumma), Popol Vuh, Ashra Temple, Jackie-O Motherfucker, O Yuki Conjugate, AMP and Flying Saucer Attack or "Fourth World" ambient music! Four tracks of pure vibrant multi-layered psychedelic drone music from Aidan Baker & Co! Now, close your eyes, listening to "Glassine I" and start for your trip, even without the intake of a…