Shama
An awesome new release by Girolamo De Simone, a talented composer that emerged from the "new avant-garde" scene, which arose in Naples in the 70s around his maestro Luciano Cilio, of which he plays several parts in the legendary Dell¹Universo Assente CD. The pieces presented here are intimate and introspective miniatures, full of melancholy and sweet decay. Blending acoustic and electronic particles, De Simone creates a fascinating osmotic process of endless beauty.
I can\'t take my head to see higer...
'I can't take my head to see HIGHER becouse the sky is landing over my neck' is the the third and last cd of the "Trilogy of the voice". The work is dedicated to two artists: Angus MacLise and Jackson Pollock and inspired by their individual researchs; only two tracks for about 50 minutes. "I don't take..." is, first of all, a cd that it talks of love and it's dedicated to all lovers. This cd is been used and conceived for an installation in "Circolo degli artisti" in Rome called: "Mumu goes rou…
The Stones Know Everything
The Stones Know Everything is a mammoth two-cd offering from experimental fellers Gianluca Becuzzi and Fabio Orsi (try saying that with a mouthful of Pringles while drunk) and surprisingly the duo manage to keep up the quality for the entire duration. Interestingly though the two discs sound very much like separate entities, the first being a more melodic collection of tracks reminiscent of Fennesz or more recently Ateleia, and the second being where the two flex their experimental muscles, forg…
California Ax
Up to this point Sissy Spacek have only released 4 proper albums, all of which could probably be squeezed together onto one cd. What we have in this release is 4 new full length albums recorded throughout 2007. Tinsel Dripping Ink (disk 1) is 26 tracks in 45 minutes covering all territory from grindcore, noise, electro-acoustic improv, musique concrete, noisecore, and electronics. It's primarily made up of new work, but also roots through the cutting floor for the best bits that didn't make it o…
Dislocation
This is to be the definitive handling of the Hafler Trio legacy, completely approved and overseen by the Hafler Trio personally. 'Travel! It's the drug of the common man! why, it keeps the wheels of industry flowing to make sure that he has a home to come to, earned and paid for by his labours! why dont you, the rich, privileged, indulge in a journey that (trust me) money can't buy! and send a postcard to your friends! X marks the spot!' Originally released by Staalplaat as a cassette in 1986 th…
Hyo- shin Na: All the Noises
Ocean/Shore 2 (2003) is one of a series that are studies on the use of diverse materials and on the coexistence, within a piece of music, of various instruments. As in the meeting and interaction of water and land, these instruments can have fundamentally very different characters (piri and violin, or clarinet and cello), yet shouldn’t lose their basic nature in the interests of harmony, or even beauty. On first hearing, one might consider All the Noises in the World (2006) to be a piece of trad…
Sensitive-Lethal
Sensitive-Lethal is Thurston Moore in deep basement cosmosis. Investigations into acoustic guitar as noise instrument as well as noise-amp discussion for a hopeful and bright blackness. Childhood dreams of noise essayed with photos of unsuspecting innocents running from noise weirdo (front cover) and texas blues albino drug zap. This is the story told in drone meditation and sweet slice.
Archipelago
Some islands stand on their own. Others group or scatter themselves in archipelagoes; some in the open sea. Archipelagoes are often volcanic. Double- bass is, at times, also a volcanic body, yet, one with an unobtrusive, relentless and massive quality. Possibly , at times, a body deep enough to contain memories of several lifetimes and invisible maps of human stories, Scattered melodies, sounds born along mid-ocean ridges or sub- liminal hot-spots. The Swiss double-bassist Nina de Heney is…
Live at No Fun Fest 2007
Full No Fun 2007 Live sets from each Giffoni and Dilloway recorded to the best possible quality. Total tape loop and contact microphone mangling from Dilloway, heavy analog synth destruction from Giffoni. Limited to 350 copies.
Palimpsest
Finally, the long awaited collaboration between Yasunao Tone and Florian Hecker is ready for release on Mego. Yasunao Tone (b. 1932, Tokyo) founded the Group Ongaku in 1960, a group devoted to creating event music and improvisational music. He began participating in the Fluxus movement in 1962, and has been in events and shows in numerous places. Tone also composed a great deal of experimental music for use in films, theater and dance pieces. Since coming to the United States in 1972, he has com…
Music From The Once Festival 1961-1966
With Robert Ashley, George Cacioppo, Gordon Mumma, Roger Reynolds, Donald Scavarda, David Behrman, George Crevoshay, Philip Krumm, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Sheff, Bruce Wise. Ann Arbor, Michigan, seems an unlikely site for the establishment of a major avant-garde festival that would shake the new-music community. Tucked away in America’s heartland, the city is equally removed from the Eastern metropolises whose artists pride themselves on sensing the pulse of the times, and from the nonconformis…
Von Goldabfischer
CD reissue, easily one of the top 5 rarest titles on the NWW list (one just went for over $900 on ebay several months back!), this late 60's debut outing from Swiss madman Anton Bruhin (poles apart from his later tape cut up work) is trafficing in a species of demented fragmentary dadaist songform disembowelment of a very post-Zappa/Beefheart meets Futura Records-sounding sort, though this actually precedes anything from the Futura camp. Nevertheless, it's anarchic spirit is clearly informed by …
Of Beauty Reminiscing
Previous LP release, now available as a new version on CD with a mini-LP style CD & new artwork. "Vikki Jackman (no relation to David of Organum fame) is the pianist that we first met in Andrew Chalk's Goldfall, her impalpable chords and notes a preponderant element of that delicate music. Now Faraway Press issues her solo debut, which comes in a stunningly beautiful sleeve, a time-consumed photo in which little Vikki is portrayed near a snowman. One can't escape memory, which is often all that …
The river that flows into the sands II
The seventh release from andrew chalk’s faraway press, offering a series of five pieces scored for muted electric guitar figures, then mutated well beyond the instrument’s natural range via Chalk’s array of time-altering electronic treatments.
The River That Flows Into The Sands
500 copies only, now deleted. Features guitar-originating sounds. Andrew Chalk has been active since 1985 as Ferial Confine and worked with many associates over the years, such as David Jackman (Organum), Vortex Campaign, The New Blockaders, Darren Tate (Ora), Giancarlo Toniutti, Daisuke Suzuki, Jonathan Coleclough, and Christoph Heemann (Mirror).
Senshu
Faraway Press reissues the early FP release that was a tiny book & CD-R, this time in a gatefold sleeve that compliments the original aesthetic. Remastered CD of three tracks: 'Ukigiri,' 'Koyurugi' & 'Untan' all played by Daisuke & Naoko Suzuki, Andrew Chalk. The first 250 copies will be in a gatefold sleeve.
Time of Hayfield
A new release of material from 2005 which was recorded around the same time as was Goldfall, eight tracks with Vikki playing electric piano once more on the final piece. Time of Hayfield has some different covers that are variations on a theme of yesterday's landscapes; otherwise the albums are all identical, of course.
transference
Christian Renou, the french man behind the project Brume, reworks tracks by german artist Anemone Tube. The result is a mixcture of dense soundscapes, crackling analogue manipulations and occasional outbursts of noise. Underneath the rumbling lies a soft melacnholy, a sense of despair. Comes in beautiful design conceived by Anemone Tube. Limited, numbered edition of 500, comes in special printed envelope in poster cover.
Feldaufnahmen
Feldaufnahmen I is the first release in a series of pure filed recordings by german multi-disciplinary experimental group Column One. The 12 recordings where collected in east Germany in the Polenztal within the mountain range called Elbsandsteingebirge in 2000-2001 with the simplest equipment. The recordings where edited and rearranged by Robert Schalinski in Berlin in 2006. Feldaufnahmen I is a new phase for Column One who have continued to change and evolve in their musical career. The group …
Saisons
This collaborative effort brings us some of the most beautiful and atmospheric instances of composition with nature. The four tracks, some solitary works, some creatied by using field sourcings of the opponent, feature subtle wildlife field recordings, detailed electro-acoustic passages, swelling metallic drones and amplified silences.