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Emotional Rescue delves deep in to the past with the release of the first ever recordings by UK post-industrial, ambient pioneers O Yuki Conjugate (OYC). Recorded in Nottingham in 1983, the EP's four tracks showcase OYC's early sound: a beat-driven, lo-fi that places them alongside the early British electronic pioneers.OYC, celebrating their 35th anniversary this year, are known for their "dirty ambient" sound - but it wasn't always thus. In their earliest incarnation OYC explored a more industr…
The Voyager Golden Record
In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, on a grand tour of the solar system and into the mysteries of interstellar space. Attached to each of these probes is a beautiful golden record containing a message for any extraterrestrial intelligence that might encounter it, perhaps billions of years from now. This enchanting artifact, officially called the Voyager Interstellar Record, may be the last vestige of our civilization after we are gone forever.
The Golden Record tells the sto…
Paradise 94
Astonishing solo debut by acclaimed cellist and composer Lucy Railton. A daring, non-conformist and deviant approach to composition and instrumentation. One side of filigree, multi-layered autobiographical collage-work, the other of raw and phased cello glissandi. RIYL: Mark Leckey, Alvin Lucier, Beatrice Dillon, Nate Young, Valerio Tricoli, Popol Vuh Lucy Railton is a prolific performer who has appeared on countless recordings and collaborations with many important figures in contempora…
Islands of Sleep
Lovely archival work with sublime slices of musique concrète courtesy of Small Cruel Party, aka Seattle composer William Ransone. In his own words, this is “Manipulation of physical objects in acoustic space and a great deal of concentrated activity. Even in pieces involving dense sound at high volume the resultant effect is one of intense calm.”Small Cruel Party's work is focused on the inherent mysterious and beautiful quality of sound itself, with the emphasis on noninstrumental sound source…
Terroir (miniCd)
All source material recorded in Krems, Langenlois, Kalvarienberg at Schönberg am Kamp at, April - September 2016. Recordings made of the terroir, harvest and fermentation during vinification. Original four channel version presented at the opening of Drahtsicht, an outdoor sculpture by Günter Wolfsberger, 9 October 2016. BJ Nilsen Is a sound and recording artist. His work is based on the sound of nature and its effect on humans. He primarily uses fieldrecordings and electronic composition as a wo…
(Échos)
(ÉCHOS) is not a documentation about a festival, it is not a compilation or a remix album. And yet some of these things and more are infusing through the 15 tracks of the record. But mostly, (ÉCHOS) is the interpretation of a place and moment in sounds, an essay in alpine electroacoustics. It includes contributions by Bear Bones, Lay Low, Jean Bender, Pôm Bouvier B Joaquim Brissaud, Clara De Asís & Laura Vazquez, Golem Mécanique, Homnimal, Piotr Kurek, Stephen O'Malley, Léo Maurel & Julien Desai…
Ex Nihilo
Editions Mego’s 250th release continues its ongoing legacy of cross-pollinating and perverting various threads of radical 20th Century music whilst concocting and properling further ideas into the nebulous region where we currently reside. With Ex Nihilo, Editions Mego resumes it’s enduring relationship with long term collaborator and stalwart representative of the labels aesthetic with a new release from London’s most charming deviant occupant, Mr Bruce Gilbert (formerly of Wire, Dome etc…
Five Fertile Exchanges
**Limited and numbered to 150 copies** Little known outside of his native Australia, Peter Blamey has been recuperating discarded electronics into artworks for more than a decade. As Douglas Kahn writes in his sleeve notes here, he belongs to an artistic tradition unique to Australia that trades sound and energy. Having cut his teeth in an extensive exploration of disposed motherboards, Blamey has more recently worked with photo-voltaic cells, homemade electromagnets and rudimentary turbin…
Rien ô tout ou linéaire un
Born in Montreal in 1940, Guy Thouin is a true original. He played drums in a variety of small bands prior to enrolling at Montreal’s School of Fine Arts where he studied sculpture and refined his understanding of the contemporary art world. By 1965, he had acquired a taste for all things experimental. Around then, he turned to collective improvisation – an experience that led him to explore free jazz and other forms of experimental music. He helped cofound Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec (1967)…
Unieqav
Unieqav is the new album by Alva Noto and latest edition in the Uni series - an outlet for his more rhythmic and dancefloor-oriented work. The Uni series began when Alva Noto was booked to play live at the club UNIT in Tokyo, and had to adapt his sound accordingly for that environment. Unieqav is a continuation and development of the concept of Alva Noto's 'Unitxt' and 'Univrs' albums, and completes the third part in the trilogy, whereby each record is both unique and part of the bigger p…
Musica Para El Fin De Los Cantos
In recent years, the vinyl reissue has emerged as major aggregator of change - the means to discover and appraise the lost histories of remarkable musics from across the globe. Among the most striking and neglected of these, are the sounds which rose from the Spanish underground during the 1980’s and 90’s. Long coveted by collectors - this movement, washed in strange structures and ambiences - mistakenly tied to broader gestures of New Age, is only beginning to receive the attention that it has…
Sottrazione
**Edition of 300** Luciano Lamanna 'Sottrazione' hems to the shadows with suggestive, half-heard mutters and the silhouettes of writhing, druggy rhythms illuminated by flashes of Carpenter-style synth and splashed with salty guitar distortion. A masterwork in fluid, groovewise techno reduction and atmospheric rendering
Symphony for an Intergalactic Brotherhood
**Edition of 300** The Star Pillow is the drone-ambient project of italian guitarist Paolo Monti. The project started in December 2007 with the aim of researching expressions and relations between sound, space and human emotions. The new album is composed of three improvisations, recorded and mixed at home by Paolo Monti himself. As the title suggests, the sound is an ever evolving series of guitar drones that seems to ascend above the terrestrial atmosphere, in search of other civilizatio…
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Robert Rental was the stage name of Robert Donnachie (1952–2000), a British pioneer of post-punk, DIY, and industrial music. Originally from Port Glasgow, Scotland, he moved to the south of England with Thomas Leer in the late 1970s where he met Glenn Michael Wallis. Glenn was recording music with the group Heute and leaving to start his solo projects NKVD and Konstruktivists. Both were heavily involved with Throbbing Gristle and the Industrial Records crew.
In the Summer of 1979, Robert invited…
For Leena
Lullabies For Insomniacs presents ‘For Leena’, a collection of unreleased pieces composed between 1991 & 1998 by Dino J.A. Deane for the choreography of dance works by Colleen Mulvihill.Dino J. A. Deane began his professional career, at the age of nineteen, as a musical arranger and multi-instrumentalist (trombone, flutes, keyboards, percussion). He worked in funk bands around Los Angeles before moving to San Francisco in the mid 1970’s, where as an improvising artist he became involved in the d…
Preludes #1
Lullabies For Insomniacs brings you the debut release from the enigmatic duo Garland. A project which emerged years ago and subsequently developed and transformed through overseas exchanges. The two friends that have been collaborating for some time now via long distance working methods. Exactly how these recordings were assembled we’re unsure but the result is more than satisfactory. Whirring, mechanical club warm up plods and downtempo influenced skits make up the bulk of the album with o…
The Encyclopedia of Civilizations vol. 1: Egypt
The LP is the first volume on "The Encyclopedia of Civilizations", a collection of split LP's just started at Abstrakce where selected artists offer their own insight into fascinating ancient cultures. In this volume music is inspired by ancient Egypt and comes with a 10-page booklet with images and texts explaining historic facts. The texts written by Juan Ruiz -an Spanish archeologist and researcher- in a half scientific/half poetic way rounds the music and transports you to the Ancient…
Sur Les Autres Mondes
Egyptology is a Parisian duo is made up of Stéphane Laporte (Domotic) and Olivier Lamm, two musicians who have been active since the late 90’s in the French post-electronica/avant scene. Sur Les Autres Mondes finds its title and a fitting visual inspiration in a publication by French astronomer Lucien Rudaux (1937, Larousse) in which he imagined the landscapes of other planets in our solar system through scientific descriptions. Partly composed for a performance at the prestigious Louvre m…
Présence Absence
Présence Absente is Saåad's third release with Hands in the Dark, after Orbs & Channels back in 2013 and Deep/Float the following year. Based on the French duo’s 2017 live setup and improvised sets, this new album is the quintessence of their music: raw, deep, murky, fascinating. The band's sound and experimental songwriting have matured over the course of their albums, and with this new offering we feel that they have truly blossomed both in form and in content. Their brand of experimenta…
Ricochet Screen
Ricochet Screen is the first proper LP from New York based Tint (aka Zane Morris). Encompassed as an overview of his solo recordings dating as far back as 2007, Ricochet Screen unfolds as a storied arc on the obsessiveness of composition, conception and mechanism. Culled from ad hoc recordings in vacant industrial buildings, lunchroom cafeterias and bedroom studios, the record functions as a meditative associative collage regarding a rebounding from omnipresent glass monitors, intrusive s…