Stroma-Konkret
This is the second collaborative album from Maurizio Bianchi and Siegmar Fricke following their Muitnelis disc, which I have yet to actually hear. Stroma-Konkret is a pretty heavy slab of minimal industrial though. The disc comes from the Russian industrial/ambient label Monochrome Vision, and like other releases from the label, the disc is packaged with black and white artwork and includes liner notes on the artists and the music contained inside. According to the liner notes, this album…
Loopspool
a CDr with recent MB works, representing the radicalization of the fragmentary approach in Maurizio Bianchi's music. A cosmic journey!
Nervo/Hydra
First issued as a limited private tape in 1981.2010 re-issue of 500 copies on Kubitsuri Tapes (Japan).
NH/HN
The Italian sound experimentalist/ industrialist Maurizio Bianchi/M.B. needing not any introduction comes here reissued. "NH/HN" is one of M.B.'s earliest tapes, recorded and released back in September 1980. Not to be confused with the "Nervo/Hydra" tape (1981) which was ilegally reissued by several labels which wrongly entitled them as this one. Synthesizers, radio transmissions, concrete noises and weird vocals are the elements used on this recording by M.B to create a parallel reality …
A M.B. Iehn Tale
The brand new release of Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.). Similar to his early experimental bionic – industrial masterpiece like The Plain Truth, Armaghedon, Endometrio and Carcinosi, this album presents eight decomposed tracks with slow, obscure and meditative music… Cold atmospheres and reverberating piano… Really one of Maurizio Bianchi best work to date!!! Dedicated to all the meditative people who is living in the environmental paradise.
Kathamenja
Depurative decomposition for electro-metabolic apparatus, originally secreted during the second half of 6030 Annus Mundi, then definitively flowed on 6034 Annus Mundi'In the informal medicalese, "kathamenja" is the synonymous for sanguiferous menstruations, gory menses, bleeding period, but the self-regulation of veritable sparingness infringes the obscurantist prototype for melanotic legalization. The halogen inspiration dispraises every particle of this conveyer opus, until the cankerous anae…
PU 94
Here at last is a deserved and “rightful” CD re-release of this fantastic collaboration created in 2007 by Maurizio Bianchi and Craig Hilton. Until now this recording was only made available in a very limited CD-R edition. Extremely dark atmospheres, restless and dramatic… Sharp masses of metallic noises cleave pulsating substrates of low frequencies, mixed with magmatic agglomerates of more processed sounds of an unrecognizable nature… Moments of stasis and apparent quietness… Handfuls of…
Mene Teqel Farsin
Storms of cosmic energy, boiling and gurgling electronic fluxes, sonic masses made of monolithic and impenetrable drones, visions of smoky afterdeath landscapes, scorching and infernal… A neverending tunnel with no way out, a sense of deep anguish, of desolation and resigned impotence that lead the dark journey from the beginning to the end of this hallucinatory path. The sound quality and the sharpness of details are absolutely insuperable, they will offer you a “wrapping” and emotionall…
Neurotransmitters
Crashing, cascading sounds, like thunderous storms. A perfect example of industrial droning ambient. Releasing collaborations since 2006 this is the 5th work they've done together. An amazing album consisting of two long tracks dealing with Drone and Dark Ambient/ Noise.
I.B.M.
A true experimental music classic by Maurizio Bianchi, originally released as private cassette in early 80's and then later bootleged on tape. This is the very first official re-release on CD of this incredible sound-material!!! This is the most intense M.B.: raw and experimental! Released on 1:1 high quality new generation CDr -> same quality and 99% same 'look' of a glass mastered CD. Digislim package.
Oidiconeg
re-issue of an obscure tape from the 80s originally titled Genocidio 20.Limited to 500 copies on Kubitsuri Tapes (Japan).
Play Robert Ashley Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon
Ergo Phizmiz with Alessandro Bosetti, Maciej Cieslak, DJ Lenar, Lula, Julia Zietek. Voices by Ergo Phizmiz and Lula. Piano by Ergo Phizmiz. Guitar by Maciej Cieslak. Violin by Julia Zietek. Laptop by Alessandro Bosetti. Turntable by DJ Lenar. Recorded by Jan Mularz at Ch odna 25, 10th of September 2011. Edited, mixed and mastered by Micha Libera and The Norman Conquest. Produced by Michal Libera. Premiered at Playback Play 2011. Cover art work by Aleksandra Waliszewska. Populista is a CD series …
Slay Me in My Sleep
The Preservation label presents Slay Me in My Sleep, the sixth album from Melbourne's Grand Salvo. Under the guise of Grand Salvo, Paddy Mann has established himself as a songwriter of unique heart and soul with a depth of lyricism matched by warm but widescreen musical vision. 2009's Soil Creatures sealed his reputation, being his most stark and concise statement yet. With Slay Me in My Sleep, Mann has returned to familiar territory, writing a parable as song cycle similar to his epic fairytale…
Everyone Is Not Alive
Reissued limited edition 2 color vinyl of Touch People's debut album from 2 years ago (originally on The Faint's blank.wav imprint). Darren Keen, aka Touch People, records guitars, drums, bass, and keyboards, and then assembles via experimental/modern production that is both visceral and cerebral. The resulting sound bears resemblance to Steve Reich, Battles, Dan Deacon, and Tortoise.
Enthronement By God As The First-Born Of The Dead
Project from Dominick Fernow of Prurient/Vatican Shadow and Kris Lapke of Alberich. "Released first as a limited 4 x cassette box set now condemned to vinyl. Among the trinity of electronic projects of Dominick Fernow's studies in anxiety and fear from the mythic natures of rainforest spiritual enslavement, the info wars of Vatican Shadow and the creator's observation of Christian Cosmos. Lightning drums pound the rhythms for lost souls as the fall from paradise abounds and the trumpets o…
Thousands Raised to the Sixth
The most recent solo incarnation of pioneer Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, Black Boned Angel, et al.), this is the definitive OLWDTW release spanning two discs Crowning achievement in a prolific and highly collectable catalog. Solo project of Campbell Kneale, formerly Birchville Cat Motel, and one-half of Black Boned Angel. Packaged in an oversized 5.5" square folder with two art inserts and music spanning two discs, each in an envelope.
The Shipyard
Tor Lundvall has graced us with yet another remarkable album this year. Previously, Lundvall had introduced himself to Dais with his masterpiece album Sleeping & Hiding and struck lightning twice with the resilient The Seasons Unfold box set and now we are humbled to be crafting the strings with the curation of his most recent effort. The Shipyard was recorded during the dramatic season change-over of '09/'10, during which time Lundvall was immersing himself in portrait studies of local maritime…
The Baroque Atrium
The Preservation label presents The Baroque Atrium, the second full-length album from Seattle's Panabrite. Panabrite is the solo recording project for Norm Chambers, who over a short time has grown a catalog of works showcasing a natural empathy for tapestries of sound that are eclectic, intricate and immediate all at once. Marking new ground in pursuit of pre-digital synthesis, Chambers' work as Panabrite is a shining light among those currently finding inspiration connecting sound explora…
Geri Reig
Geri Reig is Der Plan's debut album (originally released in 1980), but not their first release. An EP, recorded with the aid of an Electric Memo dictation preceded Geri Reig. But the band is not very keen on reissuing this early work. Why did they call themselves "Der Plan," actually? "A concept which has something to do with the capacity of people to think and shape their future" as Plan member Moritz Reichelt, alias Moritz R®, once explained. Der Plan at that time comprised Moritz Reichel…
Coda Lunga - Rushes of India
A double journey into Kerala in India. Ghedalia Tazartes dips himself into the sea of Indian traditions in Kerala, from Katakhali dance and music to field recordings on location. A fantastic journey beyong India, through countries of the imagination. Another genre and cross cultural experience by the French master. (Von Archives)."This record feels like the sound of the world flashing by so fast you can only pick up snatches, playing tricks on your imagination and your memory, hyperreal …