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Superficie
Superficie is the first album of the collaborative project between Maurizio Abate on electric guitar and Alberto Boccardi on electronics and percussions. The first raw elements of the work were recorded during a 6-days studio sessions in January 15, the materials then has been processed with the support of Gianmaria Aprile across Spring. Alberto produces electronic textures and lean effective rhythmic patterns through the use of modular and analog synth and acoustic drums, while Maurizio transfi…
Mensch Mensch Mensch
Berlin based composer-performers Liz Allbee and Burkhard Beins team up for some electro-acoustic explorations, utilising synths and field recordings, trumpet and percussion. Informed by their musical backgrounds ranging from industrial / noise via musique concrete to free improv, the two players create interactive fields of an imaginarchic nature. Many lesser oddball talents make the proud boast that they will invite you into their strange mental world and amaze you thereby. Allbee not only make…
Arcana en Cantos
2010 Release. Anahita is the first release from the duo of Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Cellist Helena Espvall (Espers) a first vinyl edition fully remixed for wax from the cd masters that first appeared on a ltd cdr from deserted village in 2006. plaintive semi abstract vocals strain and wind over ecclesiastical notes held so long that your head becomes the organist’s domain. Rarely have vocal harmonies been this ethereal or perfectly held. Not the glottal gymnastics of Joan la Barbara but rat…
Honey Ant Dreaming
Honey ant dreaming is the third full-length album by this Italian combo, following the release of the 7 inch split-series they shared with Yannis Kyriakides, Oren Ambarchi & Steve Roden. The music on this album is muscular, dreamy, evocative and occasionally percussive: this is an initiatory journey inspired by the strength of the Honey Ant Mural painted in 1971 by Papunya’s aborigines, an immersive trip through six tracks, created with a blend of guitars, electronics, percussions, beats and vib…
Kaspian Black
Nikos Veliotis - After an initial involvement in the Athens pop/electronic scene during the late 80s as a founding member of In Trance 95, Veliotis later turned to the experimental field (working primarily with cello & video). Since the late 90s he has pushed the boundaries of sound and image using unorthodox cello techniques,silence and multilateral abstract visuals. Collaborations include Cranc (with Rhodri & Angharad Davies), Looper (with Martin Kuchen & Ingar Zach) and Mohammad (with Ilios &…
Beasts In The Garden
Beasts in the Garden is the seventh full length record by Midwest visionaries Spires That In The Sunset Rise. Since 2010, STITSR have operated primarily as a duo consisting of long time members Kathleen Baird and Taralie Peterson. After releasing two lush, string based albums Ancient Patience Wills It Again Part 1 and 2 in 2012 and 2013, STITSR have returned with a definitively new direction inspired greatly by two years of exploring improvisation with members of the free jazz community in Chica…
Coma
Outstanding!!! Karl Bosmann is a German post industrial electronic innovator. On this LP and Art edition release he works with a curetronic modular system ,a mopho and his Korg MS-20. The Coma theme, while stimulating an outpouring of electronic and sampled creativity, has its origins in a close friend’s post motorcycle accident coma from a few years ago. Karl describes the long drawn out process of observing the coma as both awful and yet fascinating at the same time. The album tracks show the …
33 Chatsworth Rd
Dinked (Large centre hole) 7” vinyl in card picture sleeve, recorded at 33rpm. C Joynes records 4 tracks based around field samples taken from across Africa and South-East Asia. Stunning crunchy electric guitar blues, plays out like something by Ignatz with the distotion toned down. Extremely limited pressing of 250.
Flexible Pooling
**Strictly Limited White 7" flexi disc with bonus 18 minute track download redeemable from the label - 30 minutes total** Northumberland's Alt.vinyl serve a spectral flexidisc spin-off from :zoviet*france: and Fossil Aerosol Mining Project's 'Patina Pooling' (2014) album. Presented on the perfect, malleable format for their rusted ambient ruminations, 'Flexible Pooling' embraces the flexi disc's infidelities, using its proneness to erosion to convey an ever-changing meaning to the music …
Lapidary
2010 Release. Alt.vinyl is pleased to be releasing this collaboration of two of the US’ free folk/ experimental luminaries Marcia Bassett from zaimph and double leopards on guitar and electronics...and Helena Espvall of espers on cello and electronics. A killer cut first recorded in Philly in late 2008 and now mixed specially for vinyl by patrick klem (the man behind many a 3 lobed release) and sounding like a knife wrapped in silk. Coruscating drifting harmonies that will appeal to the im…
The Midnight Doctors
2013 Release. Although a live show is now on the horizon, The Midnight Doctors was initially conceived of purely as a recording project- a collage of styles and approaches, not definable by any of its individual constituent parts- which include scored pieces, structured improvisations, (mostly) loving pastiche, cut-up jams, hi-fi & lo-fi textures, electroacoustic flourishes, both studio and home/location recordings.
The record mutates and exaggerates various absorbed inspirations from th…
Bottle breaking heart leap
Limited dition of 250 on 180gm black vinyl. An essential document of this endlessly creative improvisational pairing...Californian Gino Robair and Londoner John Butcher first played together on a 1997 recording session in Oakland, California. Since then they have worked extensively as a duo, periodically expanding to form trios with Matthew Sperry (bass), Miya Masaoka (koto), Derek Bailey (guitar), Thomas Lehn (synth) and, most recently, The Apophonics with John Edwards (bass). Robair also …
Patina Pooling
**2x180g vinyl wrapped in weathered and laser-etched reclaimed steel sleeve. Packaged with artefacts salvaged from a burnt-out American warehouse in the '80s. Weighs a ton and looks incredible - but be warned the rust does spread. Edition of 350 copies** 'Patina Pooling' is a haunting "call and response of residue and hybrid" between Newcastle's industrial pioneers, :zoviet*france: and like-minded, Illinois, USA-based sound scavengers, Fossil Aerosol Mining Project. It marks F.A.M.P.'s fi…
Pedwar
‘Pedwar’ is a comprehensive retrospective covering Welsh harpist musician Rhodri Davies’ career from 2002 to the present day. Presented in a beautiful deluxe vinyl box set, the set contains three completely remastered versions of the ‘Trem’, ‘Over Shadows’ and Wound Response’ LPs, alongside the new LP ‘An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance’, all of which are on coloured 180g vinyl and housed in screen printed quality card sleeves, featuring original artwork by Jean Luc Guionnet.
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An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance
Stunning!! Davies settles obsessively on tumbling phrases, arpeggios and articulate rhythms, turning them over and over, letting them develop only within strict limits, as though this fine, prolific and adventurous musician is freshly discovering a harp that has been there all along.' Julian Cowley, Wire Magazine, October 2014. Limited edition of 500 of which 250 are only available in the Rhodri Davies 'Pedwar' 4 LP box. Pressed on 180gm vinyl and housed in a hand screenprinted sleeve with …
Hen ogledd
180gm LP limited to 250 copies. Between them Rhodri Davies and Richard Dawson are busy people. Playing festivals across the UK, Europe and the US; with their last solo albums (Wound Response and The Glass Trunk) both receiving huge critical acclaim, and serially collaborating with prominent figures across music's counter culture. Hailing from Newcastle, Dawson:Davies: Hen ogledd is the new good buddy duo-project between pioneering harp-fiend-legend-dangerman Rhodri Davies and rebel singer-painte…
Ancient faith
In limited edition of 250 hand branded wooden box. Atom Earth Mother: A solo project from one half of Zoviet France Dedicated to the White Goddess and inspired by the prehistoric antiquities in Northumberland, primarily the enigmatic and beautiful 'rock art' that are known as 'cup and ring' marks, a form of symbolic language 4500+ years old, whose meaning has been lost in the mists of time. Utilizing digital and analogue equipment and production technique, location recordings, found sound…
7.10.12
a minimalist repress of this classic release from 2012 which sold out globally in ONE day! Review: Six months after the release of the limited edition '7.10.12' vinyl boxed set, alt.vinyl and :zoviet*france: are making the music from the album more widely available in a more conventional form. Retaining the original 7-inch, 10-inch and 12-inch vinyl formats, the three discs are pressed in standard black vinyl and packaged together in plain black sleeves.
Wound Response
Already sold out at source ! Ltd edition of 350 LP. 'Wound response' is the third solo harp release by improviser and harpist Rhodri Davies following his albums 'Trem' (2003) and 'Over Shadows' (2007) on the Confront Label. Moved by the diverse and vital music scene in the North East of England this is a weighty departure for Davies. wound response is loud, distorted and forms an attempt to work with rhythm and pitches in an open and fluid way. The album comes pressed on heavyweight transl…
Red Sugar
Restocked, reduced price 'winter family are the brooklyn based duo of ruth rosenthal and xavier klaine. alt.vinyl is proud to release this double vinyl ltd edition edition (300 copies only) of their latest intensely atmospheric work. artwork by franz vesolt, layout by fabien lehalle. audio mastering by patrick klem. review: a rare and unique audio worldview expressed by the singular approach of brooklyn based duo ruth rosenthal (spoken words) and xavier klaine (harmonium, organ etc..). fro…