Elision
Edition of 300. Pinkcourtesyphone reaches out and touches someone… in this case an international call with Dutch harpist extraordinaire, Gwyneth Wentink. Wentink weaves her magic on the triple harp a replica of a harp from around 1600 made of 3 rows of strings instead of the more common single row. The effect is a multi-timbral coalescence of mood, a conversation between layers. Pinkcourtesyphone thoughtfully folds, manipulates, and merges the gossamer resonances of the strolling fingers of Went…
Fahl
2014 release, edition of 300. “The three pieces of ‘Fahl’ are the results of a never ending recycling
(not remixing!) of one and the same structure recorded deep in the past.
That means recycling of recyclings of recyclings… With ‘Fahl’ the
series comes to a temporary end to be continued sometime. The idea
behind this esthetic strategy is the question: why further on creating
genuine music? Our recent digital and analog tools enable us to derive
nearly every sonic event from nearly every o…
Elusive Balance
Ozmotic is a multidisciplinary artistic project, deeply fascinated by the dynamics of contemporary society, by architecture, cities, and vast uncontaminated spaces. Ozmotic creates world sounds characterized by an intense tonal variety and a refined rhythmic research. The interaction between electronic music and digital visual art in real time is an essential trait of Ozmotic's aesthetic. Having previously collaborated with Fennesz, Murcof, Bretschnider, and Senking, Elusive Balance is their thi…
Invisible Threads
Mark Van Hoen on Invisible Threads: "In mid-2016 I did a brief tour of the west coast with Philip Jeck, Simon Scott, Daniel Mensche, Lee Bannon, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Pye Corner Audio, and Marcus Fischer. The music of all these great artists and the experience of playing these shows with them all informed what would become Invisible Threads which was primarily composed and recorded in the latter half of 2016. I had not played live at dates in such a dense cluster for many years, and the exposure t…
Semper Liber
Semper Liber consists of a series of duets featuring Marcus Davidson, Hildur Gudnadottir, Mike Harding, Charles Matthews, Clare M Singer, Maia Urstad, and Anna von Hausswolff
and are drawn from recordings made at Spire events since 2009. Mixed by
its curator, Mike Harding, at the Völlhaus, and mastered by Mark Van Hoen,
this powerful four track collection -- to be played as one piece --
explores the sonics of the mighty organ in all its thundering glory.
Warning!: Extremely low frequencies …
The Bird Was Stolen
Based in Düsseldorf, Germany, Strafe Für Rebellion, or Strafe F.R., is a long-term collaboration between the artists Bernd Kastner and Siegfried M. Syniuga, which started in 1979. After a long period of hibernation, The Bird Was Stolen
marks their return to Touch following four previous releases in the
'80s and early '90s. From their early connection with the local scene,
centered around the Ratinger Hof in Düsseldorf, Strafe went on to
develop a unique and influential form of sound sculptur…
Nightrunners
Edition of 500, initial copies on super limited red vinyl and cut at D&M. Art and design by Radek Drutis - the man behind those ace Madlib sleeves** In 2010 Brad Rose (Digitalis / Charlatan / The North Sea / Ossining) and his wife Eden Hemming Rose (Foxy Digitalis / Mass Ornament) indulged their pop instincts to beautiful effect on Mechanical Gardens. For anyone familiar with the duo's work it was a radical departure from their experimental devotions and duly picked up a healthy amount of accola…
Odd Doubt / Johnny Leech
Edition of 150 copies. Granny13 opens with Nicola Ratti's 'Odd Doubt'. With the use of a modular system and tape loops, a broken rhythm is obtained by parallelism between single sound signals as LFO one or processed tapes. On the second side, Giovanni Lami's 'Johnny Leech' is made with a small bunch of equipment, just a chaotic hand-made synth (cacophonator) and a memoryman, working mainly on static electricity and leakage current in the synth used without any kind of power supply.
Dinky Diamond
Modell Doo resurrected! The Austrian cult group who was responsible for the soundtracks for "I was a teenage Zabbadoing" and "Mondo Weirdo" are back. "Dinky Diamond" is an album of half old and half new material. All the classic songs have been re-arranged and re- recorded to fit the 21st century. All the new material is presented here for the very first time. Wonderfully produced and mixed, this is a great comeback for a great band that has been off the scene for far too long. Check out also ou…
The death of rave (a partial flashback)
James Leyland Kirby's near-mythical 'The Death Of Rave' material finally given a proper release - original rave classics deconstructed into hazy, ambient flashbacks* Finally, after years of haranguing, Leyland Kirby finally yields 'A Partial Flashback' 8-track vinyl edition of his 204-track dancefloor elegy 'The Death Of Rave'. Conceived after a visit to Berghain in 2006 where, according to the artist "For me personally something had died"Rave and techno felt dead to me", the monumental and unca…
Zagtel Jaar Mileit / Pulse / Phases
With a sporadic presence on record-breaking level and sparse -and usually unannounced- performances, Ghone returns after several years with his vessel being the 15-minute "Zagtel Jaar Mileit" and his destination the explorarion of the most experimental moments of the project. During the evolution of the monotonous and catatonic buzz, field recordings and sparse noises are gradually added which, without attempting a piecemeal expansion, accomplish the desired sonic stripping of the synthesis. Gho…
Movement
Holly Herndon’s Movement is the debut offering of material by the young musician, modernist, and machinist. Restless for reckless cultural immersion, Herndon left her Johnson City, Tennessee home as a teenager for Berlin, Germany. For several years, Herndon lived and learned techno music as party dweller and performer, eventually returning wide-minded to the States to pursue a Masters in Electronic Music at Mills College. Under the guidance of network pioneer John Bischoff, Roscoe Mitchell, and …
Don’t worry about anything, I’ll talk to you tomorrow
This was the first release on Kevin Wienke's Alluvial Recordings in 1998. At 55 minutes long, this is something that you can completely sink into ...This John Hudak album is filled with tones that work in layers, repeating clusters of some low resolution sound, but which embodies a whole universe and never bores. I've listened to this on headphones, and I was fascinated by the richness of the work, the moving character, the simplicity of the complex work. Just minimalism beauty.
Cloitre
Issued on compact disc for the first time. Originally released digitally in 2014. Thomas Köner and Jana Winderen, recorded live from the cloisters at Evreux Cathedral, Normandy, France by Franck Dubois on June 14th, 2014, as part of L'Ateliers. With thanks to Denis Boyer. Limited edition CD in card sleeve; Remastered by Thomas Köner; Photography by Jon Wozencroft."Cloître, [Winderen's] live collaboration with Thomas Köner from earlier this year effortlessly forges a fiction by bringing together …
Lisbon
Lisbon is a new CD EP by Keith Fullerton Whitman, a document of his live shows after an extensive performance schedule in 2005 in the wake of the acclaimed Multiples CD. As Whitman describes it: 'This recording, captured to hard disk on stage at Galeria Zé Dos Bois on October 4th 2005, is... a single lilting piece of static sine-tone harmonics, squared-off electric guitar haze, clangorous room-tone eruptions, and high-end synth freakouts....'
Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror
The second in Brian Eno's ambient series, The Plateaux of Mirrors fuses the fragile piano melodies of Harold Budd and the atmospheric electronics of Eno to create a lovely, evocative work. In sharp contrast to the exaggerated pieces found on his debut, The Pavilion of Dreams, this record finds Budd delivering sharp shards of piano notes pregnant with meaning and minimal in the best sense of the word. Eno's unobtrusive electronics add a resonance and atmosphere that draw from the ambient textures…
Western Rituals
Duerf's debut full length was born as a concept initially in the mid 00's but the actual recording process didn't start until 2008. It was finally completed in the first half of 2016. The idea was to try to utilize the machinations and aesthetics of noise as acquired tools rather as post-modernist statements in a humble attempt to produce a direct expression of the experience of life in urban landscapes, to reclaim a first-person narration from the overwhelming presence of these colossal constru…
Luxor Necropolitics (2x10'')
Dominick Fenrow's Vatican Shadow returns with a new doublepack for his own Hospital Productions imprint following on from the recent Rubbish Of The Floodwaters 12” for Ostgut Ton. ‘Luxor Necropolitics” was once again produced by Joshua Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv, and the vinyl edition also includes a super rare remix from Female of Sandwell District fame.Clocking in at almost 40 minutes, this is the most substantial Vatican Shadow release since last year’s Media In The Service of Terror LP and f…
The Ultimated Sign Of Burning Death
His legendary first tape finally reissued / Vidna Obmana (stylized vidnaObmana on many album covers) is a pseudonym used by Belgian composer and ambient musician Dirk Serries. The name Vidna Obmana, a phrase in Serbian, literally translates to "optical illusion" and was chosen by Serries because he felt it accurately described the music. Serries created music under the Vidna Obmana pseudonym from 1984 until 2007, when he official retired the name. Vidna Obmana's music has often been described a…
No Strength of Sun
Stockholm-born Bandhagen-resident Michel Isorinne started his solo career with a couple of tapes that mainly consisted of lo-fi ambient music leaning towards the organic and experimental. More known for his part in D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. together with Varg, under which they have produced a dozen releases the past few years, in 2014 he debuted with Varseblivning on the Northern Electronics sub label Blodörn and followed up two tapes (1980 & 2061) on Rimini-based Mixed-Up. More recent fame came from his v…