Rubber Cage
Second LP from The Work, seldom seen for sale nowadays, with dense compositions, high quality, powerful recordings that explore the fringes of rock; pop fragments, hypnotic repetitions and highly evolved arrangements coupled with a fine exploration of sonorities and techniques, this has a strong and unique musical fingerprint, always surprising while retaining its centre in performance. Besides collecting what could arguably be their finest songs, this disk displays the group's unusual sense of …
I Hate America
rare original first 7" by the British underground pop/prog/jazz/avant-garde label WOOF Records, that was originally set up by Tim Hodgkinson and Bill Gilonis; the music is art rock at his best, not reliant on melody, with touches of jazz, loads of avant-garde noise, and moments of just general wierdness.
Slow Crimes
Rare original Japan edition (comes with an insert) of this brutal post-punk meets Canterbury and electronic debut LP - Bill Gilonis and Tim Hodgkinson formed the work after Henry Cow, bringing along Rick Wilson, Mick Hobbs, Chris Cutler and future Hat Shoes vocalist Catherine Jauniaux on 4 tracks. The album is a series of songs in unusual structures with a harsh outlook on life, edgey and on the edge of rock form then and now. Recorded between September 1981 and January 1982 at Cold Storage Stu…
Sticks and Stone Will Break My Bones But Names Will Never...
The No Neck Blues Band, adrift in the ozone-tinged air of lower & upper Manhattan for nearly a ghost decade, stood at a fork. To one side lay the path to continued avoidance of human contact, and lifetimes of hemeretic improvisational events. To the other side was the trail into a kind of new free-pub-fat-rock dynamism, attaching the head of Lou Gare to the body of Martin Stone. Which way they would go was never predictable. The myriad recordings & performances that No Neck produced during their…
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Yedo Gibson (tenor saxophone & Eb clarinet), Veryan Weston (piano), Marcio Mattos (double bass & electronics), Martin Blume (percussion). This quartet, named after a Brazilian animal, contains two musicians who grew up in Brazil over 30 years apart, and one each from Britain and Germany. However, improvised music is an international language in which they are all fluent. The three seasoned improvisers are joined by a newcomer who does not sound at all like a novice. Their improvisations range fr…
No Doughnuts in Hand
The third of Minton's doughnut reduction series features 37 solo vocal improvisations. This showcase for his remarkable vocal talents follows on from A Doughnut In Both Hands (Emanem 4025) and A Doughnut In One Hand (FMP 91), his previous solo outings. 52 minutes.
Rimmed Records
Vinyl records physically reduced to just the outer rim, packaged in silk-screened recycled record covers. Playable at your own risk. Edition of 100.
Space Elements Vol. 1
The third in Rafael Toral's Space Program series of releases - his long-term research project launched in 2004, through which he has unearthed an innovative approach and a complete re-thinking of how electronic music is conceived and experienced. Using custom experimental instruments, Toral performs electronic music concerned with 'phrasing and swing' and performing strange melodies with physicality, movement and gesture in flux.' 'Space Elements Vol. I features Rute Praça (cello), Margarida Gar…
Week-end at Burnie\'s
Another vital instalment in no-fi's growing and collectable vinyl catalogue, this 7' sees massachussets' freestyle kraut funketeers sunburned hand of the man condense their name and a whole album concept into 7' of vital vinyl. side 1 is inhabited by the murderous bossa nova of Ôsmokescreen', with its loping bassline and trapped-in-a-box vocal paranoia. then flip over for 7 more unhinged instalments, through the found-sound and minimal psych of Ôthe queen of midnight', the faux cult frenzy of 'j…
Live On Conan Island
The ultimate East coast - West coast soundclash as Oregon's Yellow Swans and Brooklyn's Mouthus present a smouldering document from their onstage interactions on their Fall 2006 US tour. The sound of Mouthus's splat&clatter percussion and sheets of severely altered guitar and voice noise paired with Yellow Swans' raucous axe-mangling and sublime noise processing make for a gargantuan oil tanker of sound that can't avoid enveloping the listener. ÔLive On Conan Island' is a range of monstrous cave…
Ouarda (the subtle art of phyllorhodomancy)
Ouarda (The Subtle Art of Phyllorhodomancy) is currently only available as a double vinyl set with a view to release on cd-dvd at a later and as yet unspecified date. Andrew Liles' latest offering has taken nearly three years to hit the shelves and almost as long to create. Recorded in London, Paris, and Sicily, 'Ouarda (The Subtle Art of Phyllorhodomancy)' is a travelogue that refuses to stay stuck in any one place for any extended period. The music herein is as diverse as the array of guests i…
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Limited to 500 copies. another vital instalment in no-fi's growing and collectable vinyl catalogue, this 7' sees the head-on collision of two major acts in the european noise circuit. norway's jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of lasse marhaug and john hegre, best known for their Ômetal machine music' death metal concept album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more noise-oriented work. marhaug is a major figure in international noise, well-known for having…
The Harmony of Contradictions
Jack Wright (alto saxophone, soprano saxophone) with Alban Bailly (acoustic guitar). Extended techniques are relied on heavily as the duo investigates their instruments, eventually leading to a singular output.
Live Bootleg
Edited by Yvan Etienne. Bilingual edition (English-French) 13 x 17 cm (folded poster cover). This publication provides an overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, featuring three essays and an interview, as well as a specific project (a collection of radio memories submitted from around the world), installations views, the artist's Museum of Instruments, and descriptions of the performances recorded on the included audio cd. Brandon Labelle is musicia…
Abovensen...
Sven-Ake Johansson (voice, percussion) with KNM Berlin. 'Polis, Wachs und Pomade' (2000), 'Abovensen... (2002), 'Einen staubigen Klang finden' (1998).
Vol. 1
Axel Dörner (trumpet), Zoran Terzinc (piano), Jan Roder (bass), Sven-Ake Johansson (drums). Recorded in 2005.
The private language problem
Electro-acoustic compositions performed on a variety of handmade and sculptural instruments. The compositions vary from filling large rooms with a continuous wash of sound to the heady pans of pure electronic tones. One of the most active experimental music performers on the East Coast for the past decade, John Berndt began his musical career by composing wildly abstract electro-acoustic and conceptual tape music in 1978 at the tender age of 11. His first compositions in this mode premiered on t…
Shortcut
Phil Durrant (computer), Bertrand Denzler (tenor saxophone) and Burkhard Beins (percussion, objects). Recorded on November 28 & 29, 2006 by Christophe Hauser at La muse en circuit (France).
The Light That Is Felt - Songs of Charles Ives
Charles Ives composed nearly 200 songs throughout his life. Wiley Hitchcock, in the thorough introduction to his 2004 critical edition 129 Songs, described the Ives song canon as the contents of a kind of scrapbook or commonplace book or chapbook, or even a desk drawer. Into such a receptacle Ives tossed irregularly, if not casually, his reactions Ñin the form of songsÑto memories, personalities, places, events, discoveries, ideas, visions, and fantasies in his life.' Whether popular tale or per…
Le journaliste
Anne-James Chaton (voice, electronics) with Andy Moor (electric guitar, radio, electronics). Le journaliste consists of 8 pieces and is a part of a series of 100 portraits iniated by Anne-James Chaton... Most of these portraits have become large posters. Le journaliste is a journey into the texts and columns of a newspaper and radio broadcasts of a single journalist selected by Anne James. The world news, the politics, headlines, the stock exchange figures and the weather are all explored and tr…