★Ini.itu
Frogoroth
Dave Phillips, Yannick Dauby, Slavek Kwi & Sylvain van Iniitu. Black pools of swamp ambiance through foul forms of metal distortion in the anuran kingdoms. Edition of 250 numbered copies. The ensemble adheres to the rgyud-skad tradition of Tantric overtone chanting. The ritual Tibetan instruments as used by the ensemble include: dunchen, gyaling, silnyen, bub, damaru, kanling, nga, shang. P
Cryptonesia
ini.itu is releasing a new vinyl LP, composed by Wíeman ( Roel Meelkop and Frans de Waard ). Roel Meelkop studied visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is a member of Goem, Kapotte Muziek and THU20. In the last couple of years, Meelkop has focused on solo works in composition and installation work. Frans de Waard is making music since more than 25 years under many aliases and in different line-ups, the most well-known being Kapotte Muziek, …
Tone
ini.itu is releasing a new vinyl LP, composed by Masayuki Imanishi. Masayuki is a Japanese sound artist using paper, a microphone, a radio, field recordings, various objects and any other things which catch his interest. He has collaborated with Leif Elggren, Kouhei Matsunaga, Vampillia, The Body and many others. . This LP “Tone” was built using radio, paper, tapes, debris and other objects. It is based on an experimental approach that aims at repeating the dismantling, rebuilding, amplification…
Recovery suite
David Ross plays here a customized analog oscillator, baptized drosscillator. Among others, he has worked in the past with Evan Parker. He is also known as the drummer for the instrumental combo Kenny Process Team. He has previously released another critically acclaimed duo album with Clive Bell, 'Mystery Lights / Nightflower'. Clive Bell studied the shakuhachi (Japanese flute) with Kohachiro Miyata in Tokyo. In 2005 he took part in the British Council Beijing project, Sound & The City, alongsid…
Escarpments
Kraig Grady is a composer and a sound artist. He has been described by David Toop as an Ethnographic Surrealist. Born in California in 1952 (of Ojibwe Indian ascent), he is now residing in Australia. It is our desire to represent here the various ways in which both the music and the escarpments of Anaphoria form bonds in a variety of settings. Widely recognized by even recent immigrants, Anaphoria is known as a place where the land just feels different than other places. To capture these sensati…
Cassetopia
Anla Courtis was born in 1972 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a founding member of Reynols. With an impressive release catalog and tour history, he has collaborated among others Pauline Oliveros, Lee Ranaldo, Jim O'Rourke, Eddie Prevost, Otomo Yoshihide, Phill Niblock, Makoto Kawabata, Mats Gustafsson, Toshimaru Nakamura, Gert-Jan Prins, Rudolf Eb.Er, Tetuzi Akiyama and Okkyung Lee. Through extended techniques, prepared sound, tape manipulations, processing of field recordings, live electroni…
Rekkez
Limited edition of 250, with full color 23 by 33 poster designed and painted by G.Loli. Mutamassik (= tenacity in Arabic) is the musical avatar of Giulia Loli, who merges Egyptian percussions with hardcore breaks. The result, sometimes dubbed Sa'aidi hardcore & Baladi breakbeats is a mutant, syncopated form of instrumental hip-hop. The history of Giulia Loli herself is marked by fluid borders, being born in Italy of an Egyptian mother, moving to the United States in her childhood, staying in Egy…
A big circle drawn with little hands
A big circle drawn with little hands was created from a box of things sent to Steve Roden by label owner Sylvian, who runs the ini itu label. the box contained everything from newspapers, coins, wooden toys, pamphlets, plastic objects, plastic bags, broken airline headphones, notes, a bottle opener, a noise maker of wood, a small electronic toy shaped like a butterfly that offered tones and animal noises, cardboard, a fan, and other things. i also used a banjo in the first track, and my voice in…
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Artificial Memory Trace is the long standing musical project of Slavek Kwi, who was born in Czechoslovakia, lived for 14 years in Belgium, and since 2000 has been based in Ireland. Slavek has been making music for more than 20 years under the label Artificial Memory Trace. His works are precise combinations of restructured (mostly) environmental sounds, where the notions of perception, sensation, cognition, and ultimately reality are questioned, notably through the use of musique concrète techni…
Stainless steel
A superb ode to the importance of the gamelan music for the modern sound experimentations of the Western world. Gamelan music from the Java/Bali areas has always been considered an important source to the development of the experimental music scene, after Debussy experienced the gamelan style at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889. Freiband, being the solo project of Frans de Waard has launched the first LP inspired by the hypnotic expressions of the gamelan music-style. Further expanding in…
Already awake in the night
Mindblowing new LP on ini.itu label, composed by Amelia Cuni & Werner Durand, with David Trasoff. The music on this LP is based on the Hindustani Raag Lalit and its modulation to Raag Todi. Lalit is performed in the early morning before sunrise, Todi later on, after sunrise. Here, they are both played against a background of sine waves tuned to the raag’s intervals and going through subtle phase shifting. The restrained sinewaves tapestry, ornamented with Amelia Cuni’s voice and David Trasoff’s …
Mutations
A vinyl LP, composed by Dave Phillips and illustrated by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger. If we all know Dave Phillips (look into the catalog if you need), Cornelia Hesse-Honegger is a new name. She is a scientific illustrator and science artist, was born in 1944 in Zürich, Switzerland. For 25 years she worked as a scientific illustrator for the scientific department of the natural history museum at the university of Zürich. Since 1969 she has collected and painted with painstaking detail leaf bu…
Rivages sur l'antipode
* 250 copies, hand numbered * Composed on a special request from ini.itu, “Rivages sur l'antipode” (shores on the opposite side of the earth) is his first vinyl LP and is based on similar archival material as the one used by Francisco López in his stunning “untitled #228”. Nonetheless, D'incise (aka Laurent Peter) has achieved radically different results, combining digitally-processed textures, microsamples and humming harmonics rippling out over broken rhythms. He has collaged the least obvious…
whether that will make people want to become archaeologists, we
250 copies. Our first release for ini.itu is a long piece realised by Blindhæð in the first six months of 2008, leaning towards a cinema for the ear' experience, using processed natural sounds that might evoke a not so minimal Steve Roden, a less obsessive Asmus Tietchens, or an extended Iannis Xenakis' Concret pH. The piece is based on an accumulation of layers of sounds which were reworked during quite long periods of time (hence the reference to archaeology), submitted to variations analog an…
Let's make a solar system
TWINKLE³ are: Richard Scott : buchla lightning, analogue synthesizer, sampler, processing - Richard Scott is a British composer and improvisor working mostly with infra-red instruments and modular synthesizers. Closely associated with London Musician's Collective in the early eighties, Richard Scott now lives between Manchester and Berlin, also with an artistic residency at STEIM in Amsterdam. He is a member of Grutronic and the ir trio. David Ross : hawaiian tremoloa,panart hang,kantele,droscil…
Footpaths and trade routes
finally restocked...'ini.itu is releasing the third LP of its catalogue, a 3 tracks album assembled by Kraig Grady under the moniker Anaphoria. 250 copies, hand numbered. Kraig Grady is a composer and a sound artist. He has been described by David Toop as an Ethnographic Surrealist. Born in California in 1952 (of Ojibwe Indian ascent), now residing in Australia where as a citizen of Anaphoria he is responsible for the Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria and one of its most prominent organs, the Of…
untitled #228
250 copies, hand numbered. Ini.itu is releasing the fourth LP of its catalogue, a new work composed by Francisco López. Francisco López is a sound artist who is active since 30 years and has composed an impressive catalogue, strongly consistent and full of nuances. Trained as an entomologist and ecologist, his attention is acutely focused on the natural sound environments. His reflection on the phenomenology of the act of listening has led him to develop of a form of 'absolute musique concrète',…