Unlit Trail
Recorded over the course of three Autumn nights on the west coast of Sweden at the end of a tour in 2018, Fletcher Tucker’s Unlit Trail is a record of ritual, and an invitation to enter a ritual domain. Composed in the wake of Tucker’s intricately arranged LP Cold Spring, Unlit Trail decomposes and subsumes several songs and sonic elements from that previous work – offering them resurrection in a minimalistic and Plutonian habitat. An uncanny territory populated by trembling leaves, breathing or…
Winter Songs
8mm Records’ latest - Gate’s "Winter Songs" - gathers three long form works of hazy fuzzed out guitar drones from the The Dead C’s Michael Morley, that amount to engrossing meditative expanses at the borders of ambient music, minimalism, and stoner rock. Inward looking and delicate, while bubbling with fury and life, it stands among our absolute favorite releases from one of the most interesting artists working today, and rides high among the best albums of the year so far.
R18-16
Tip! **20 copies only** In the last few years, italian sound artist Holy Similaun has released innovative and impressive material, making up an intimate and personal composition approach. Following the Aphex Twin-blessed "En To Pan" and its latest album "Ansatz" the artist presents "R18-16", its first release as xpedient. Previously appeared on Entangled Visions' inaugural compilation, xpedient's sound lies somewhere between a Basic Channel-inspired dub techno and a world covered by futuristic d…
De Nederlandse Cassette Catalogus 1983-1987
** Hardcover Edition ** In late 1983, Frans de Waard published the first edition of De Nederlandse Cassette Catalogus, listing all known, independently released cassettes in The Netherlands up to that point. No images, no descriptions, just a list. In the following years, three more editions were published and then De Waard ceased producing these booklets. This book contains all four catalogues, along with a 100-page selection of 'source material, articles from Vinyl, Muziekkrant Oor, De Nieuwe …
Wondersound, Discovering Weird, Wild and Wonderful Music
** The book's quire of 50 images is printed in glorious full colour. Buyers will also receive a unique full colour bookmark, designed by Alfred Boland, as well as a free download code for Freek Kinkelaar's version of The Residents-song 'Boy In Love’. ** For over thirty years, Freek Kinkelaar has been writing about music for publications such as Vital Weekly and renowned international magazine Record Collector Magazine. He has contributed liner notes for releases by labels such as Cherry Red, and…
Stand Closer When You Have Something to Say
Stand closer when you have something to say documents two separate elaborations upon a single physical space: a studio in Los Angeles, California with concrete floors and large, wooden firehouse-style doors that face a moderately busy street. Tasting Menu—a trio of multi-instrumentalists Tim Feeney, Cody Putman, and Cassia Streb—give attention to the room by rubbing its surfaces; opening and closing its portals; allowing its natural resonances; and moving about it spatially, left to right and fr…
Opera Decima
Tip! 30th Anniversary Edition 2CD Digipack 4 Panels PVC Slipcase. Paul Chain's true masterpiece, the hypnotic “Opera Decima - The world of the End”, has been released on both a double CD and on a boxset of three LP's in late 1990, and it was out of print for decades. P. Chain "evil" minimalistic ambient attempts to shape sound itself using overlapping organic drones and electronic noises to create internal harmonies.
Zomia Vol.1
Kink Gong is back with his unique take and re-interpretation of the music he’s been recording and documenting for years in the South East Asian highlands. Zomia Vol.1 takes the conceptual idea of ZOMIA, proposed by James C Scott in The Art of Not Being Governed, an Anarchist History of Upland South East Asia, to construct its very own mythological soundscape inspired by a semi- utopic region where state rules don’t apply. Zomia might be (almost) gone but Kink Gong is keen keep its spirit alive b…
Pseudacusis
Music composed & mixed by Anthony Pateras. Tape part recorded and assembled at Gold Tony Love’s Audio Hell, Castlemaine, Australia. Perfromance recorded by Tomasz Kubiak live on 27th September 2019 at the 17th Sacrum Profanum Festival in Małopolska Garden of Arts, Kraków, Poland. Festival curated by Krzysztof Pietraszewski. Pseudacusis was commissioned by the Musica Sanae project by In Situ Foundation (Sanatorium of Sound Festival in Sokołowsko) in collaboration with Michał Libera, Phonurgia (La…
Omen
I associate Christer Bothén with a Maestro. I look upon him as a Maestro. A true MAESTRO. Of music. Of Life. A Maestro needs pupils. And pupils need a Maestro. To be given perspectives on Music and Life. It works both ways. It is a sharing of ideas and previous experiences. In order to make music NOW and onwards. In order to live. This is old school. And this is the way it works. And HAS to work. The true mechanics of artistic work and a creative way of living. We learn from other people. From t…
No Options
***60 copies*** "No options" is a collaboration between electroacoustic trio Eventless Plot and bass clarinet player Chris Cundy. On the first part, field recordings are interrupted by unique harmony combinations produced by bass clarinet tones, electromagnetic mic and electronics. On the second part, noise and concrete sounds create the substrate for Chris’ bass clarinet sounds, emerging and highlighting extended techniques such as multi-phonics, circular breathing and micro tonality.
In Ataxia…
84100
***60 copies*** 84100 is the result of the collaboration between Savvas Metaxas and Renato Grieco. The two of them met on the island of Syros, during the 2018 Syros Sounding Paths Residency. During their stay there the artists had to pursuit and investigate one or more ideas. Metaxas’ focus was mainly around the story and the sounds of the industrial ghost-past of Ermoupolis, while Grieco’s interest was the in the tape, not just as a format but more as a material and dare to say as a somehow liv…
49 Days - Music for a Transition
***80 copies*** The inspiration for this work came out of a tragic loss. I felt an overwhelming pull to create these two pieces following the sudden death of my father-in-law. In the tradition of the form of Zen Buddhism that I practice there is a ritual that is performed for 49 days following the death of a loved one. During this period the grieving chant the name of Ji-Jang Bosal, “the bodhisattva of transitions,” everyday for an extended time during meditation. The Buddhist mythology of this…
Two Years
**CD Edition** Rolling through life, an open mind like an ocean, an infinite ride that comes furiously crashing to a halt. This is Whitney K’s ‘Two Years’, a deep dive into the Canadian songwriter’s journey through vulnerability, change and ultimately letting his guard down. Whitney K is the wandering stalwart Konner Whitney, a Whitehorse Yukon resident who has spent time in Vancouver, Montreal, Burnaby and Los Angeles. We met the character in 2016 through his intoxicating 4-track recorded manif…
Memory Game
* CD in 6-panel wallet, designed by Denise Burt, including a booklet with lyrics and liner notes by the composer * Memory Game is both a look back at a pivotal point in Meredith Monk’s storied career, and a richly layered portrait of how vocal music, under the guidance of an indefatigable master, can play with our expectations in poignant and compelling ways. What emerges is a suite of songs that flows with a remarkable narrative cohesion, stemming in large part from the composer’s willingness t…
Waterfront
Composed and recorded by Gaspare Sammartano. Sammartano plays walkman, sampler, field recordings, tape loops, found tapes, an old stereo 8 tape abandoned in Punta Rondinella. Punta Rondinella field recordings by Pierluca Ditano. Swimming coach: Donato Epiro. Mastered by Renato Grieco. Tag Design by Alef. Layout by Peppe Frisino. Gaspare Sammartano is an Italian underground musician and sound maker. His solo work is focused on gathering and manipulation of tapes and reflecting on the evolution of…
Sorgente
Sorgente is the first solo album by the Italian Maestro Devid Ciampalini. Recorded in a period of isolation spent in Garfagnana, a geographical and historical area in Tuscany, between the Apuan Alps and the main chain of the Tuscan Emilian Apennines, Sorgente reflects the nature of his genesis and the shapeless character of the watercourses which inspired it. On the footsteps of itineraries traveled in youth, Devid opens a dialogue between the natural elements of these unspoiled landscapes and t…
Didone
** 12” LP edition of 300 copies with cover artwork and booklet featuring illustrations by Ettore Tripodi ** In September 2019 Alessandro Bosetti was invited by fellow composer and curator Riccardo La Foresta to create a new work for a newly created ensemble as part of a residency program hosted by Centro Musica in Modena, Italy. The very first encounter took place on Skype – kind of a prediction of the forthcoming physically distanced pandemic times. The first, straight-to-the-point question Bos…
Deva Ovel
* Edition of 200 * This self-titled LP is the first batch of tracks delivered by the polymorphous sounding entity identifying themself as Deva Ovel. Emerging from the Adriatic coast, the sound of Deva Ovel manifests in a captivating layering of vocal fragments, where text and voice are filtered, altered and stretched through digital and analog processing and melted with intense, yet slowly evolving textures of tape loops and ambient tropes. As a result, these seven mesmerizing tracks compose an …
There Is A Universe
** 2021 Stock ** "Rare private press jazz/space rock album, on reissue wish lists for years.This masterpiece crawled up my spine like a kundalini snake and proceeded to take the top of my head off. Probe 10 are unquestionably linked to a very specifically American form of proto-prog-into-jazz-rock synthesis of the precise sort Elektra Records used to specialize in, from Tim Buckley's Starsailor to David Stoughton's Transformer. Toss in trumpet fanfare laden acid psych straight out of the C.A. Qu…