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On Bare Ground
*200 copies limited edition* Red Brut’s third album, "On Bare Ground", is a sonic tapestry woven from the final threads of her Rotterdam existence. Entirely composed of soundscapes captured during her last two years in the city, the album evolves into a poignant farewell as its creation mirrors the passage of time, culminating in a profound departure from her life there. “On Bare Ground” is a sculptural work blending its lo-fi with haunting melodies, field recordings, and ethereal soundscapes. U…
Wayward Acorn
*50 copies limited edition* "Wayward Acorn" is a new album by Tim Olive and Savvas Metaxas, out now on Coherent States. This collaboration exemplifies co-creation, as each artist reworks the other's source material through their own creative lens. Specifically, parts 1 & 2 feature a broad palette of tools (electric guitar, radio, modular synthesizer, field recordings) employed by Metaxas to craft his trademark sound over the years, with Olive's concrete and collage logic enriching the textures i…
"The Art of K7" vol.#2
*50 copies limited edition* According to the general rule of exponents, any number raised to the power of 0 equals 1, with the exception of 0 raised to the power of 0, which is an indeterminate form. The expression 0 raised to the power of 0 arises when we have no quantity to multiply by itself zero times. In simpler terms, it represents the empty product. The empty / nullary / vacuous product refers to the result you get when you multiply no numbers. But apart from 0, any number raised to the p…
Signs and Accuracy
Big Tip! *Limited to 70 hand-numbered copies.* "Signs and Accuracy" is the first collaborative work between Jon Wesseltoft and Niklas Adam and the austere title sets the mood from the start. The composition process as well as the interaction between the two artists, constitutes something new for both of them. The signs possess accuracy; they are a unified whole, materialized and executed within a singular and unexplored surrounding space. "Signs and Accuracy", out now on Coherent States, is musi…
Delphi
*50 copies limited edition* The Delphi was one of the greatest silent movie cinemas of Berlin. It was in operation since the late 20s, it shone in its own golden era, was bombed during the Second World War, was closed and then reused as a warehouse; its walls faded, its floor grew mildewy and its facade today does not indicate anything about what once went on the inside. The interior itself maintains a faded echo of its former glory and its integration in this century’s 20s makes it a hidden gem…
Etudes De Rien
* Edition of 200 copies, black vinyl * The New Blockaders are unique in the history of music and art. What, in our opinion, stands supreme in TNB’s 40-year existence is a passionate execution of their anarchistic and unconventional stance. In a biographical reference, TNB are often cited as pioneers of Noise music but for TNB themselves Noise music is not just an assault on tonality but a complex language of communication. From Luigi Russolo's 1913 Art Of Noise manifesto to TNB’s T.I.C. manifest…
Freie Kassettenkultur
*60 copies limited edition. 2022 stock* "Free-Culture" is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify the creative works of others in the form of free or open culture without compensation to, or the consent of, the work's original creators, through various forms of media. "Freikörperkultur" is a German naturism movement. "Freie Kassettenkultur" is the true essence of all of the above in cassette format. So somewhere between the New Carrollton’s “If He's An Ass Here He Wo…
I Know Nobody Asked For It But Still
*60 copies limited edition. 2022 stock* An interesting thing that usually happens while discussing about sound art, especially referring to whether field recordings can be defined in terms of music, is that either the other party will understand exactly the topic of the discussion, or they will not get it at all. But, despite the possibility of both cases equally engaging in the conversation, the joy of interacting with people that belong in the first category is always greater, since you do not…
Histoire de l’Art
*In process of stocking. Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies.* In the fall of 2018 a close friend of Harold Schellinx registered as an undergraduate student in art history at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne UFR3. As French is not her mother tongue, she recorded the many live-lectures she was attending with a dictaphone application on her iPhone, so as to be able to eventually re-listen to, all or parts of, some of them. During these lectures a substantial fraction of the students took no…
To All My Hideous Children
*In process of stocking. Limited to 30 hand-numbered copies.* "Το All My Hideous Children" collects some of Alice Kemp's emphatically uncanny rites of evocation. Stripped of conventional music interpretation, "To All My Hideous Children", out now on Coherent States, is music from a different world; A sound art work soaked in a dark, raw & disturbed experimental intensity that exhibits Kemp's dream state connection to nature. An audio documentation of eerie recitations, shadows, eroded sounds, fi…
Substunce Sans Scrupule
"Substunce Sans Scrupule" is a dream. A hazy dream born in the emptiness between the words of "Igitur ou La folie d'Elbehnon" by Stéphane Mallarmé. A dream that sought Marcel Proust's lost time and constituted the light and the black void between the single frame of Gregory Markopoulos. It is the birth and the destruction of the work of art, primitivism and science. "Substunce Sans Scrupule" is as much Georgios Karamanolaki's automatic writing on the work of Jean-Marc Foussat as Jean-Marc Foussa…
Music 4 Strings, Sintetizador, Una Flauta, Agua y Electrónika
*Limited to 70 hand-numbered copies. Yellow cassette with purple imprint. Comes in regular jewel case and fold-out-poster style 150gsm paper covers.* Bardo Todol are Pablo and Nico Picco, an Argentinian duo whose diverse set of musical ideas claim their own territory in the wider area of contemporary experimental music. The use of repetition -a generally common compromise in creating lengthy and abstract compositions- is absent in the various aural incidents that take place in the album, descrip…
A "Therefore" Between Two Non-Sequiturs
* Limited to 70 hand-numbered copies. Green cassette with white imprint. Comes in regular jewel case and 4pp 150gsm paper covers * The music and art of Fleshtone Aura is a thing very much defined and abstract at the same time. It is hard to describe in words but easy to feel. It is an orgiastic and furious sound collage but simultaneously, a minimalist composition in the repeating pattern in which we can easily find ourselves lost to. It is pure musique concrete. It is clearly tape music. It is …
Glimpses of a Day
** Orange cassette with black imprint. Comes in regular jewel case and 4pp 150gsm paper covers. Limited to 70 hand-numbered copies ** Hailing from different corners of the experimental music world and following 2018’s acclaimed performance at Centro d’Arte in Padova and a plethora of solo releases, Alessandra Novaga and Stefano Pilia return to discography with their very first studio collaboration. Recorded in 2017, "Glimpses of a Day" comprises a series of nine compositions for electric guitar …
Zagtel Jaar Mileit / Pulse / Phases
With a sporadic presence on record-breaking level and sparse -and usually unannounced- performances, Ghone returns after several years with his vessel being the 15-minute "Zagtel Jaar Mileit" and his destination the explorarion of the most experimental moments of the project. During the evolution of the monotonous and catatonic buzz, field recordings and sparse noises are gradually added which, without attempting a piecemeal expansion, accomplish the desired sonic stripping of the synthesis. Gho…
Western Rituals
Duerf's debut full length was born as a concept initially in the mid 00's but the actual recording process didn't start until 2008. It was finally completed in the first half of 2016. The idea was to try to utilize the machinations and aesthetics of noise as acquired tools rather as post-modernist statements in a humble attempt to produce a direct expression of the experience of life in urban landscapes, to reclaim a first-person narration from the overwhelming presence of these colossal constru…
Substunce Sans Scrupule
"Substunce Sans Scrupule" is a dream. A hazy dream born in the emptiness between the words of "Igitur ou La folie d'Elbehnon" by Stéphane Mallarmé. A dream that sought Marcel Proust's lost time and constituted the light and the black void between the single frame of Gregory Markopoulos. It is the birth and the destruction of the work of art, primitivism and science."Substunce Sans Scrupule" is as much Georgios Karamanolaki's automatic writing on the work of Jean-Marc Foussat as Jean-Marc Foussat…
Worms
From 2008 until 2017 Danai Simou has been working on the project WORMS. WORMS is a study on how inflictive memories can affect the present time. A research on sexuality, the human body, fears and desires, either through the use of her own body or over her close surroundings. Shot from the time she was seventeen years old until now. She has used DSLR, mirrorless, compact cameras and smartphones. A hand crafted xerox-printed photo zine with screen printed cover including the same titled project. A…
Smoke / An Ally
A hypnagogic narration that evolves in a dream-state, hazy atmosphere intrinsically embodies Dead Gum's thirteenth release. “Smoke / An Ally”, freely curated by the subconscious, evolves on sonic interpretations that emerge from a specific vocal pattern of indelible words. Variations of monad launch a descent to translucent memory fields. Numb listening, ceaselessly transformed inwards, unto the inner light of the night, nearing, until it dims down once again to blackness. Dead Gum is the solo p…
Concept Bongo
"Concept Bongo"'s completely minimal logic is not exhausted in the fact that it is an album that is only played with bongos. Because beyond this conception, the music we find in its thirty minutes is characterized by a mystagogic feeling which, through an abstracted and repetitive ambience, keeps you totally transfixed, marginally helpless to react to it. References to the musical culture of the percussion instruments are stimuli left to the listener's own discretion: you can understand "Concept…