Automne fold
ollowing his highly successful debut stabil (r-n073), Kangding Ray releases his second full length record on raster-noton, entitled Automne fold. With Automne fold, David Letellier has evolved from the quiet, pristine flow of his debut record to sounds that are raw, dark and organic on this second release. pulsating rhythms become lost in within walls of saturated strings, words are spoken over bowed acoustic guitars, and analog synths collide with urban field recordings. Vocals are a central th…
Deathofatypographer
Death of a typographer is meant to be a snap shot. The release was recorded in a winter week in Berlin. Only the pre-released single plastic star was created in sunny athens. The album contains the original session version of plastic star. The music of death of a typographer carries the special sound of raster-noton - but it is different: the tracks act as focal points, as elegy of an latently flowing stream, a stream that still moves on even when the music has long faded away. The tracks do not…
Unitxt
After finishing the transall cycle and introducing the series of xerrox, Alva Noto makes a move back to his more rhythmic approach in unitxt. It could be seen as a kind of continuation to the transspray ep from 2004. A preview of unitxt concept was already released as a remix track for the björk cd-s release innocence produced by Björk-Timbaland, from her latest album volta (2007). Unitxt was recorded during raster-noton japan tours 2006 and 2007. it was reviewed and edited in berlin early 2008.…
Everydays
Debut collaboration of New York artists and long-time duo partners Alan Licht and Aki Onda, whose combined history connects artists straddling the pop and experimental worlds, including Fennesz, Loren Connors, Takemura Nobukazu, Lee Ranaldo, and Toriko Nujiko. In the past decade their montage-inspired solo work - Licht's permutational guitar and tape pieces on Rabbi Sky and A New York Minute, Onda's field recording recontextualizations on Bon Voyage! and Ancient & Modern - has co-existed with th…
Con Brio
Described as a "strange mechanical ballet for Androids" - " Con Brio " reveals one more time that Conrad Schnitzler, usually described as a " mad-berliner" is first a poet, a sculptor, & a painter...who expresses himself through musical pieces.
Trigger Trilogy
Trigger Trilogy consists of three discs each selected from hundreds of hours of Schnitzler's private recordings. Each represents a one of the few unique approaches that Schnitzler takes to recording, each uniquely identified and defined by Schnitzler. Within each of these recordings one can hear how Schnitzler influenced a generation of artists not only in Germany but the world around and how he's brought those sounds into the modern day. It's also apparent in these recordings that Schnitzler is…
Ringtones
Mirror is the pairing of Christoph Heemann and Andrew Chalk, an accomplished sound and visual artist whose catalogue has seen rapid expansion in recent years. Recorded in 1998, Ringstones presents two long drone pieces of immense beauty and dimension. The liner notes (words by "Sarban" from 1951) speak of a great silence suddenly encountered by a traveller who finds himself alone on the moor. These words find their perfect compliment in these…
Nightwalkers
Newly re-mastered CD version makes available (again) one of Heemann and Chalk's most peculiar, early aural odysseys. For their fifth project, Nightwalkers, Mirror teamed-up with Andreas Martin (Mimir member and multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire) for a set of pieces that could well be their most adventurous and bizarre still yet. The result is an incredibly mysterious series of turbulent and richly spacious explorations that is curiously active, but at the same moment appears suspended in time…
Cellule 75
Back in stock: Irreverent, psychosexual and always fascinating, Ferrari's work manifests itself in texts, instrumental textures, electroacoustic compositions, reportings, films, theatre, etc. It is an honor for Tzadik to release two of his most important works from the 1970s, recorded under the supervision of the composer himself. 'Place des Abbesses,' the first electro acoustic portrait work realized at his home studio in Paris, 1977, is an evocative portrait of a small square between The Sacre…
Sanctus
The first album in a trilogy of new material, Sanctus represents the new architecture of the Organum sound. Recorded utilizing an implicit graphic score, the album is comprised of four discrete parts, each a variant of the others. These are not parts as in a movement or continuation of the composition, but rather four distinct audio canvases that represent a continuum of the elements at large. Composed in the spirit of the early Organum material, David Jackman has resurrected the droned-based, p…
Open Air
The 2nd LP by In Camera (a collaborative project by Christoph Heemann and Timo Van Luijk) in CD version. Open Air features very dynamic live material recorded outdoors, under the moon, in March, 2004. Live improvisation integrating a stream of acoustic elements with continuous modulation. An edition of 400 copies.
Maariv: Four Pieces Of Electroacoustic Music
Maariv is a collection of electroacoustic solo works composed and produced by San Diego-based musician, Preston Swirnoff. This collection was recorded at his studio, The Habitat, in 2004-2005. Swirnoff also collaborates with Ilya Monosov in primal rock unit The Shining Path and as Monosov Swirnoff, as well as producing heavy analog dub music as Habitat Sound System. Taking 20th century minimalism, ritual drone music, and early electronic and tape experiments as launching points, Swirnoff uses a …
Soundscapes of the inner eye
Performer, Recorded By, Edited By, Mixed By, Music By - Geert Feytons , Timo Van Luyk Notes: Track 1 recorded during 1992 & 1993; mixed on 4-track on 17 January 1993 in Amsterdam. Track 2 recorded & mixed on 4-track 17-18 January 1993 in Amsterdam. Track 3 recorded during 1993, mixed on 4-track on 18 January 1993 in Amsterdam. Track 4 recorded direct to tape, improvisation 14 August 1993 in Brussels. Track 5 4-track recording, dub improvisation 13 August 1993 in Brussels.
Im Schatten Der Mohre
The long awaited CD issue of the long-deleted and sought after fourth H.N.A.S. album. A few months after the original LP version appeared on DOM in June 1987. Jon Carbon (Certain Music) wrote: 'Germany's most bizarre underground terrorists have struck again with an even more surprising blast of avant-weirdness. The group centered around Christoph Heemann and Andreas Martin have created a carefully crafted and most diverse, yet cohesive journey of soundscapes, drones and songs that reminds us of …
Bordeaux TNT
The final release in a trilogy covering the sonic expeditions of the French location-specific electroacoustic trio Afflux (Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet & Eric Cordier). This release summarizes what was initially a 6 hour performance / installation / radio broadcast that occurred at the TNT cultural centre in Bordeaux, France. The TNT centre is situated inside a former shoe manufacturing building. With several hundred meters of cables, the exterior and interior of the building were recorded us…
Galaxy my dear
1978 solo album by Biglietto per L'Inferno keyboards player "Baffo" Banfi. Electronic keyboards influenced by krautrock cosmic music, including one bonus track. Deluxe papersleeve CD edition, gatefold cardboard cover, detailed booklet with vintage photos and original LP labels.
Voci
Finally available again in the usual deluxe papersleeve edition and one bonus track, the debut CD of acclaimed synthesizer Luciano Basso, "Voci" is one of the few (and probably the best) Italian record dealing with electronics, representing an interesting mix of classical-influenced progressive music and avant-garde. The record contains five long instrumental tracks (plus one bonus track, taken from the 1975 recording session), with keyboards to the fore and backing electric instruments.
Musiche Elettroniche
LONG OUT OF PRINT, FEW AVAILABLE An outstanding CD with the amazing shortwave radio experiments and dronology-through-musique-concrete certainly make this an excellent recording, consisting in historic magnetic tape pieces recorded between 1963 - 1969. GELMETTI was born in Milano on April 25, 1926. After a few works composed with the traditional means in the late 50’s he is attracted by electronic music and produce some important works... Beautiful digipack with lots of academic liner notes in G…
Portraits
Philip Glass's A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close is the product of many years of friendship between two important artists of our time. Pianist Bruce Levingston's performance of this new release serves as a tribute to the profound influences Philip Glass and Chuck Close have had upon one another's work. Since meeting in the 1960s in the SoHo Artists community of lofts and studios, Close has continually created portraits of Glass. The piece is a musical depiction of the spirit of Chuck Close and t…
Space solo 1
The LP version of the CD released by Quecksilber in 2007. Limited edition of 500, mastered direct to metal and pressed on 200g virgin vinyl.In 2004, Rafael Toral announced that he was to embark on a long term project, which was to be a multi-facetted work in progress representing his new approach to music. With the release of the first album of the program, the eponymous Space (staubgold 69 cd), he managed to disrupt the notions of avantgarde music even of those who consider themselves well-vers…