The Next
Pacific City Sound Visions greets wonder again, this fall, to bring you a third vinyl release from the late 80's early 90's experimental/industrial european scene. Another special release on Spencer Clarks incredible label. Big Tip on this! Limited to 280 copies. After Vox Populi!'s "Half Dead Ganja Music" and Frank Dommert's "Kiefermusik", we have a hand picked compilation by the Hamburg artist Maat. Maat is a solo project by Dorte Marth, who created two secretly powerful and underappreciated r…
Path of the Wind
Edition of 200 copies. The unprocessed field recordings of Eisuke Yanagisawa were made all around Japan (2014-17) using Aeolian Harps (a stringed wind harp). On his fourth solo record since 2009, Path of the Wind includes seven tracks with a run time of over forty minutes, each named after their location or single subject as titled. Kyoto-based Yanagisawa is an ethnographer and filmmaker as well. "The Aeolian Harp (also called Wind Harp) is a string instrument that is played by natural wind. It …
Live Aboard The Sinking Ship
Sold out at source, few copies available. " Karla Borecky and Scott Foust have always wanted to do a live piano duo set, so they set one up aboard a sinking ship! They did two 40 minute sets with songs from The Island Of Taste, Music From The Impossible Salon, Lost At Sea, Postcards, The Synthetic Elements, and our as yet unreleased new LP, The Light That Never Ceases To Fail. They also did a version of Karla's The Still Life (mit radio) and a few new pieces. Everyone seemed to have a good time …
Not Even A Hint Of Darkness
Alec Livaditis is an improvising cellist, currently residing in Athens (Greece), where he regularly performs in solo and duo settings. Using the cello as a sound object, his music is concerned with space, pattern, timbre, and texture. He first appeared on the scene with Clear and Cloud, an LP released on Kye Records
Can We Win
Shots Bring It In. Due to weather, noise complaints, lack of time, artistic choice, or some combination thereof, Shots’ myriad instrumentation moves indoors. On Can We Win the characteristic outdoor resonance of previous releases is replaced by a tighter, more enclosed environment. The sound sources remain varied as ever, but the running water, somnambulistic percussion, and rupturing metal in play are enfolded in an intimate domestic acoustic space, making for a considered and engaging listen.”…
2018: Recent Amelioration of Lingering Proprioceptive Issues (Ta
Nice tape from the reliable Guido Gamboa, who also runs the excellent Pentiments label. Two side long tracks, both with long titles like the tape itself. "My original approach was that of a fairly standard concrète bricolage that has characterized my previous work. I found upon listening back that the resulting semiotic content of the sounds used were not far from suggesting the type of peripheral agitations that buttress a well-hidden fragility of temperament at any given time: respiratory tics…
Public Announcement Program
Delirious, drippy wormhole from the new family band of Gothenburg free music.."No info on this other than 'Pig is a family band' and 'Recreational abstract dream music' scrawled haphazardly on the inside spine of the gaudy j-card. The music declaration is fairly accurate. (I can't say much about 'family band'.) It seems to be a collage of some parts played and some, especially the voices, sampled. Things come and go in a very dream-like manner. Some percussion, some drones, a lot of things that …
Highway / Nightmare
Nobuo Yamada is a Japanese experimental/noise artist, known to me from his side project Artbreakhotel, and some collaborative works The New Blockader, Toshiji Mikawa etc. Highway / Nightmare is the 2 long compositions that are included to this beautiful cassette. Here, Nobuo managed to create a very interesting soundscape, probably improvising with various materials. A very charming work, of a quite acousmatic work that will got your attention.
Embedded
AMK & Willie Zarate bring you a noisy collection that steals liberally from Leonard Cohen, Witold Lutosławski, Borbatomagus and Gary Numan, combining it with overzealous use of string instruments, record players, distortion boxes, junk electronics and birds.
Love's Secret Demise
Originally collated on a demo tape for WaxTrax! records in 1989 under the working title ‘The Side Effects of Life’, these are the raw early iterations of tracks that would become Coil's ‘Love’s Secret Domain’, and arguably one of the ’90s definitive albums. Only a handful of the original cassette are known to exist, and have understandably become important artefacts in their own right, so it’s a massive buzz to finally, physically grasp the album in its entirety, here supplemented by material of…
Incantations For Tape
**Audiophile transparent clear vinyl; Includes CD** Subtitled 'Precocious Noise and Early Electronica Pt. 1' Sound Miracle Recordings presents precocious noise and early electronica part one. A compilation delving into the fascinating world of primal electronica, noise, sound design, industrial, avant-garde and tape-music. This set hopes to be the gateway to a completely new revolutionary sound experience. These are relics with much to say to the contemporary listener as they sound impossibly wa…
Musica Manifesto n. 1
**First ever repress of this seminal work.** LP version, edition of 300 copies on black vinyl. Long considered, with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, to be one point in the trinity of the post-war avant-garde, Luigi Nono was, without question, one of the most important and singular composers to emerge in the years following the Second World War – defining the zeitgeist, taking the his idiom into startling new territories, while standing decidedly apart. Nono’s music infused the avant-gar…
Tsunami
Sommor Records presents a reissue of Benoit Widemann's second album, Tsunami, originally released in 1979. French keyboard wizard Widemann's (ex-Magma) Tsunami
is an incredible mix of electronics and jazz-fusion with
prog/avant-garde/minimal elements, along with treated Minimoog, Oberheim
synths, Rhodes, early computer sequencing plus bass, drums, guitar,
sax. Featuring Jean-Pierre Fouquey (ex-Magma), Jean-Pierre Grasset (Verto), and Jean-Paul Ceccarelli
among others. Widemann on the music:…
Ambient and Experimental Music from Australia And New Zealand 2L
Midday Moon is a survey of ambient and experimental music that emerged from Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1995. These recordings are sourced from a rich variety of micro-labels, private pressings, theatre soundtracks and artists’ personal archives. Curated by Melbourne based DJ and archivalist, Sanpo Disco (a.k.a Rowan Mason), the collection delves deep into the world of outsider music that emerged in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of the twentieth century, as synthesi…
Green Ways
Green Ways documents a collection of live recordings, drawn from in situ performances given in Doon, Dungarvan, Plaistow, Shoreditch, Singö and Stratford across 2018 by Graham Lambkin and Áine O'Dwyer. It celebrates the filíocht of rural and urban acoustic environments with a playful economy of means, and offers a special salute to the rich heritage of Carnahalla.Áine O’Dwyer and Graham Lambkin are multi-disciplinary artists whose work explores the nexus between music, text, illustration, theate…
Vhs
**Limited edition of 100 LPs packaged in deluxe tip-on gatefold jackets**Reflecting the artist's passion for cinema, VHS consists of audio recordings that were produced through an openVhsRecorder using manipulated videotapes. Most source sound is taken from background parts edited from old tapes of obscure and underground cinema. Mechanical memories and the suggestions of past cinematographic sets are converted and re-contextualized in order to explore the expressive possibilities of an archaic …
Lingua Franca-1
LP version; in heavy 350 gram sleeve. WRWTFWW Records present the official reissue of cult album Lingua Franca-1 (originally released in 1983) by groundbreaking Kyoto band EP-4. Straight from the delirious minds of unconventional geniuses Kaoru Sato (who had previously released an album as R.N.A. Organism on legendary Osaka label Vanity Records) and Yuji "Banana" Kawashima, Lingua Franca-1 is a seamless voyage of spellbinding mutant funk grooves, joyful post-punk explorations, synth fantasies, s…
Sympathy Nervous
**Edition of 300 on clear vinyl. Timeless proto-electro/minimal synth/experimental (from Japan, 1980 on legendary Vanity Records) of the highest order ** Minimal Wave is honored to present a reissue of Sympathy Nervous’ pioneering debut album originally released in 1980 on Vanity Records out of Japan. Sympathy Nervous was Yosihumi Niinuma’s lifelong project which he started in his Tokyo living room in 1979. Through Sympathy Nervous, Niinuma was able to channel his energy into what he loved – bui…
Diagonals
**Edition of 300, sold-out at source** Hailing from Paris, Jonathan Fitoussi has been exploring contemporary minimalist musical forms for almost a decade. His recent solo works have been described as a “fusion of electronic and acoustic sounds with melodic textures, colours and emotions in a cinematographic aesthetic style”, all of which is fuelled by his passion for recording, for analogue studio technology and for rare instruments. He’s also audio restoration engineer at Institut National de l…
Alpestres
We are pleased to welcome Parisian Matthias Puech into the HITD fold with his album ‘Alpestres’. A researcher by day, he transforms into a nocturnal narrator of sound travel by night, with his new album taking us on a mythical, magical hike up to the inaccessible heights of the Alps. Puech creates a vast collection of untouched electronica landscapes with modular synthesisers built by his own fair hands. With his various devices, he emulates the sounds of nature and gives sonic form to feelings,…