★The Tapeworm
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Cassette only – limited edition of 100 copies – written and produced by David Burraston. Recorded at Noyzelab, 2014-2017. Random artwork, generated using seed number 0xAF30F0843192FC4, by Matthew Petty.
After a happy chance meeting at an event in t…
A Can of Worms
TTW#100 is A Can of Worms. On 29 September 2017 The Tapeworm celebrated its centennial edition with a concert, a cassette and apparel. The concert took place at London’s IKLECTIK Art Lab – for full disclosure, click here for juicy details. Edition of…
Damo Suzuki’s Network featuring Château Laut – Ausland
The legendary Can vocalist Damo Suzuki drops this super limited cassette with his Network group and guest collaborators Château Laut. Made up of two thirty minute recordings, “Ausland” is a meditation on long-form sound experiments that we all kno…
Tokyo Sex Destruction
Pharoah Chromium, named after a song by the band Chrome, is a project by German-Palestinian musician and sonic performer Ghazi Barakat. He has released albums on labels such as Grautag, Deep Distance and Labelle69 and has collaborated with Günter …
Spire - Live In Bergen I.XI.MMXIII
Recorded on 1st November 2013 as part of Bergen Kirkeautunnale, Norway. Featuring BJNilsen and John Beaumont's 'Black Death', a new project using voice (tenor) and electronics; Charles Matthews's repertoire includes performances of organ pieces by Ar…
Dark 80ies
CM von Hausswolff used to co-run DS Art Gallery and the publisher/record company/organizer Radium 226.05 in Göteborg, Sweden, during the 1980s. Meanwhile he was also a part of the duo Phauss with Erik Pauser as well as engaged in the rock bands Blue …
Outside Broadcast
Graham “Dids” Dowdall has been active on the outer limits of music for several decades. Starting out as drummer in Manchester cult band Ludus he then worked with Eric Random & the Bedlamites and spent several years recording and touring with Nico.…
Destroying Symmetry
A unique figure in the international noise and industrial music scenes, Osman Arabi is a composer, producer and sound designer from Tripoli, Lebanon. His work elicits images of desolate industrial landscapes and shamanistic rites. From his beginni…
Birdsongs
Sharon Gal is a vocalist, artist, performer and musician – voice / electronics / free improvisation / collaborative group compositions / field recordings / radio / mixed media. She performs solo, and in regular collaboration with Steve Beresford, …
Schamprozessionen
Michael Muennich was born in 1980 in a South West German border town close to France. Relocated to Hamburg in 2004. Founded Fragment Factory in summer of 2009 as a platform to publish the own and friends' musical (or non musical) effusions. Recent…
Amulet
Oren Ambarchi live recordings assembled on Cheryl Cole's iPhone at her house in Winnipeg. Not really, but it's that's how I first misread the description. Amulet actually presents two iPhone recordings assembled at Chez Cole, Winnipeg, July 2013 by t…
Automatic Music, Volume II
Automatic Music: Volume II' is the mesmerising follow-up to John Chantler's self-released first volume, originally released in 2011, the same year as his 'The Luminous Ground' LP was charted in The Wire's annual top 50. Two extended pieces for synthe…
Moved by magnets
Stunning release from Cristian Vogel and SØS Gunver Ryberg as SGR^CAV for The Tapeworm. The label informs us that "Their compositions encourage the listener to observe and explore the resonances of a powerful musical awareness" and 'Moved By Magnets'…
Infinite Hum
Intense, squally noise drones from Dublin's Where Is This, his first for The Tapeworm. To date Mark Ward aka 'Where Is This' has released a slew of his own recordings on his Bored Bear label, along with countless others by the likes of Black Orgasm, …
Live flux
Limited edition of 150 copies. Recorded live in London (analogue modular synthesiser, computer, radio). Illustration Allon Kaye. 'Phil Julian has been an active part of the experimental music underground since the late 1990's recording numerous works…
Fleshpile thematic
It should probably come as little surprise that Dale was partly responsible for compiling the brilliant '&c.' album by Leslie Winer, with whom he shares a similarly soporific style of articulation and minimalism, albeit perhaps from a more contempora…
Classical Landscapes
Cassette only, limited edition of 150 copies. Composed and recorded by Gastón Arévalo, using and processing instruments such as viola, guitar and sampler, alongside field recordings made in Paris. Biography : Gastón Arévalo is a multidisciplinary …
The Collapse Of Ether
Cassette only, limited edition of 200 copies. Voice and piano: Chris Connelly. Piano recorded at Chicago Trax Studio, May 1990, engineered by Keith Auerbach. Vocals recorded May 2012 at Engine Studios, Chicago, engineered by Sanford Parker. Produc…
Infernal Furniture
Infernal Furniture is a collection of piano sonatas, backed with a version -- "Infernal Dub Furniture" -- where the recordings are subjected to the studio effects of delay and reverb, changing the surface and meaning of the music. The piano pieces…
Ammo A Mass A Mat
She lay, naked, draped across the piano, her nipples still erect from her recent encounter. Globules dripped onto the keys, lying like translucent mercury pools, somewhere between solid and liquid, defying definition. She might be asleep; she migh…