The way to go out
Three mysterious, shimmering chamber works by the Australian composer Newton Armstrong, performed by Plus Minus Ensemble and Séverine Ballon (cello) "In 1990 I was studying composition at university. I basically wanted to be Stravinsky. Chris Mann took an interest in me and I started spending a lot of time at his house, drinking tea and talking. He changed my mind about a lot of things and introduced me to people who were making music that excited me. The Melbourne experimental scene was thrivin…
All English Music is Greensleeves
Five pieces by the radical young Belgian composer, Maya Verlaak, impeccably performed by Apartment House, and the soloists Sarah Saviet (violin) and Mark Knoop (piano)"Subversion has destructive connotations. However, subversion can also mean reversing a current standard: being subversive can be anything that challenges an existing system. My approach to subversion doesn’t destroy current standards, but it uses the standards to create, while developing solutions to its own characteristics and p…
Live At Willisau, 1993
NoBusiness presents Live at Willisau 1993, a new set of recordings by Juozas Milašius / Tomas Kutavičius / Dalius Naujokaitis and Lithuanian Young Composers Orchestra recorded live 26th August, 1993 at Willisau Festival, Switzerland. Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios. Design by Oskaras Anosovas.
Juozas Milašius - guitarTomas Kutavičius - pianoDalius Naujokaitis - drums
Lithuanian Young Composers Orchestra:Vytas Labutis - saxophones, cymbal, clapping, tramplingVilija Naujokaitienė - vocal,…
Anthemoessa
* Edition of 100. Housed in High Quality folded card stock silk screened * I’m thinking of following a river up and up stream until it becomes just a little trickle on a bare hill. I’m thinking of the time I climbed into the attic of my church when I was a kid, and found a disassembled pipe organ, and we took the smallest pipes with us and blew into them like whistles that made golden tones, but then we lost them or threw them away and then felt bad about stealing from church, but also ruining t…
Threnody for Judas Iscariot
* Edition of 100. Housed in high quality folded card stock Silk Screened. * Spit-tested veterans of frontal-lobe extermination, Key of Shame’s Pat Murano (Decimus, NNCK) and Mark Morgan (Sightings) discharge focused algorithms of unease and decay in split-second intervals on their third LP, Threnody for Judas Iscariot. A sly codicil of dim textures and gestalt arpeggios, Judas Iscariot shudders itself open and stays gaping, bum notes skittering and splitting out of the electronic backwash like e…
Fourteen Years
Fourteen Years is the first of three 10" comprising Charlotte Courbe's third album. It marks her return to Honest Jon's after two decades. Recently, Charlotte joined Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, singing and playing scissors. Her recording "Born To Lie" featured prominently in the TV series Killing Eve. After a cancer diagnosis last year, Charlotte felt the urge to produce and release new music. "It became like a vital thing." "MRI Song" and "Planet Ping Pong" were recorded during chemothe…
Gritty, Odd & Good
A new weird, pseudo-music compilation curated by avant-garde experimental composer and audio artist Francisco López. As far as creation itself is concerned, big cities do not manifest anymore as the catalytic cultural centers they used to be. Their iconic status as hip locations seems more symbolic than real. The combined mighty forces of neocapitalist gentrification and telecommunication / information decentralization might have generated a substantially different landscape of geographical cult…
Black Burst Sound Generator
In analog video technology, a “black burst” is a reference signal for synchronizing video sources: an imageless video pulse in the nanosecond range, during which the video image remains dark. Darkness also reigns in the sound world of Black Burst Sound Generator, a project by Brigitta Bödenauer and Susanna Gartmayer, whose initials add up to BBSG. It is a darkness that stretches out around us as the brittle electronic sound impulses by Brigitta Bödenauer resound and fade, while brightly illumi…
Children Of God
Lovingly and completely remastered from original mixes in 2020 to great sonic effect. First time on vinyl in centuries. Includes remastered Feel Good Now contamporaneous live album download. Originally released in October 1987 on the Mute subsidiary Product Inc, ‘Children of God’ is a brand new remaster of the album and is packaged with a bonus live album, ‘Feel Good Now’. By 1986/7 Swans had run its course with the physical assault of sound that we had employed previously for the most part. I w…
Figures In Open Air
**2CD Edition** A supplement to 'Cantus, Descant', 'Figures In Open Air' offers almost three hours of live recordings and variations. For nigh on 3 hours, the set documents Sarah Davachi in mesmerising form in live settings between Berlin, Chicago, Vancouver, and L.A., imbuing a range of vintage pipe organs and synthesisers with her unique magick alongside some additional players on strings, wind and voice here and there. As anyone who has witnessed Sarah performing live will surely attest, her …
Amplifier Worship
Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like “explosive” and “thunderous” barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billow smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts, earning legions of zealous fans along the way.
First released in 1998, catalog staple Amplifier Worship will see its first-ever reissue with minimalistic album art f…
Absolutego
Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like “explosive” and “thunderous” barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billow smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts, earning legions of zealous fans along the way.
Originally released in 1996, Boris’s 60-minute 13-second debut “single” Absolutego will see an officially remastered re…
The Eternal Soundcheck
Starfuckers: one of the most elusive and provocative Italian experimental rock bands of the '90s. The title of this new and previously unreleased album comes as a quote from Lydia Lunch when at one of their concerts, she commented: “It sounds like an eternal soundcheck”. Recorded live between 9th and 10th of April 1999, "The Eternal Soundcheck" consists of just one sound portion from a six hours long concert held at "Link" in Bologna, one of the most important Italian underground clubs of the ti…
Of The Air
* Edition of 100 * Of the air was recorded in April of 2015 in Charleston, SC on an 1890 tracker organ. Linkages between stops and the slider chests that open the ranks of pipes to control timbre are mechanical. As a result, pulling out a stop slowly brings in not only a new timbral layer, but does so in way that causes the new sound to slide into the correct pitch. This allows for a microtonal pitch world. During the recording process I was stuck by the way holding down a diatonic cluster while…
Filaments
* Edition of 100 * For Filaments, I used a 1968 Heath EUW-27 sine generator to create a series of overlapping tones that were recorded to tape. While being played back, I added a lower frequency sine wave run through a ring modulator and slowly rode the pitch shifting dials in real time, improvising alongside the playback. "Filament I" is broken up into three controlled parts, Part I is led by the interaction of the first grouping of tones, Part II is led by subtle shifts in the ring mod, and Pa…
Chapter Eleven
Wow! **4xCD, over 4 hours of music. Co-Released by Hanson Records and Helicopter** Easily one of the most essential releases of this year, Hanson and Helicopter Records stunning 4 CD box set, reissuing Robert Turman’s visionary 1988 release, Chapter Eleven, reveals its creator as one of the most important and neglected artists of that decade, while foreshadowing the work an entire generation of experimental artists that would emerge over the coming years. Truly staggering in scope and creative a…
Behold
* Edition of 250 * Originally planned for release in conjunction with their appearance at the (now cancelled) Pitchfork Festival, we've decided to release Behold early to celebrate what would be Moondog's 104th Birthday! Behold features four tracks that didn't make it onto the original (and now OOP) Snaketime LP but are from the same magical night at the Hungry Brain in Chicago a few years ago and are just as essential as well. All Compositions by Louis Hardin (A.K.A Moondog). Arrangements by Du…
Little Flower
* Edition of 100 * Recorded in Indianapolis on Sunday, April 16, 2017 and Sunday, April 21, 2019. Performed by Landon Caldwell: piano, synthesizers and Mark Tester: Arp Odyssey, field recordings. Layout & Cover Art by Jaime Zuverza.
Jeb Bishop Centrifugal Trio
* Edition of 175 * Recorded at zentri-fuge, Berlin, on September 8, 2019 by Tito Knapp. Mastered by Mikey Young. Performed by Jeb Bishop: trombone, Antonio Borghini: bass, Michael Griener: drums. All selections freely improvised.
So Glossy and So Thin
* Edition of 100 * Recorded live at the Hungry Brain, Chicago on June 10, 2018 (track 1) and September 29, 2019 (track 2). Performed by Keefe Jackson - tenor/sopranino saxophone, Jim Baker - piano/synthesizer, Julian Kirshner - drums. Engineer: Bill Harris.