★The Trilogy Tapes
Le Jardin Des Plantes
Anton Lukoszevieze, cellist, composer and interdisciplinary artist, founder of Apartment House. Le Jardin des Plantes, in four parts, for cello and electronics. A place in Paris and a novel by Claude Simon. Memory spaces, a source, a scrying of time.
The Butterfly Drinks the Tears of the Tortoise
Written and produced by CS + Kreme.Cello on 'Master of Disguise' by Yuki Nakagawa (Kakuhan).Tarawangsa on 'COTU' by Teguh Permana (Tarawangsawelas).Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker.Photography and design by Will Bankhead.
Salt Water
Sold out at source. Klara Lewis and Yuki Tsuji's collaboration builds on Tsuji's singular guitar playing and Lewis's resolutely explorative soundscapes. Salt Water is their debut album. Klara Lewis is a sound sculptor and loop finder. She has spent the last decade creating albums equally tender and brutal for Editions Mego as well as in collaborations with Nik Colk Void, Peder Mannerfelt and now Yuki Tsujii. Lewis has presented her audiovisual work at festivals such as Sonar, Mutek, Dark Mofo an…
Tollard
The Trilogy Tapes welcomes Memotone, the well-known producer from Bristol, with his new album. Throughout "Tollard", Memotone forges a distinct path between plugged-in jazz and experimental abstraction with the use of warm, natural musicianship, unconventional production choices, and rapid cut interstitial sounds.
Croon Harvest
A cassette version of ‘Croon Harvest’: a performance-installation for voices, field recordings, and white noise by composer and conductor Jack Sheen.
Station To Station To Station
Sparse, drum centered, dubbed out Electronica excursions by CZN, an acronym which stands for for copper, zinc and nickel the raw path of materials used by percussionist and sculptor Joao Pais Filipe, composer and drummer Valentina Magaletti (from the great Tomaga) and producer Leon Marks. This is ritual music for the whole family. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu.
Solo For Cello
The Trilogy Tapes’ first CD presents a studio recording of Jack Sheen’s Solo for Cello, a 35’ work written for Anton Lukoszevieze, the cellist, artist, and Director of the group Apartment House, renowned for their recent recordings of John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Jim O’Rourke, amongst many others.
“Jack Sheen’s Solo for Cello and fixed audio is an extended exploration of the resonant body of the cello, but also a kind of flickering, glitchy and incessant ‘moto perpetuo’, of extreme intensity…
Mirvariates
Tip! Metasplice return an absorbingly elusive, minimalist shadow of their former, noisy selves with ‘Mirvariates’ for Will Bankhead’s The Trilogy Tapes Following a slight hiatus and a canny rethink of their sound, Metasplice’s first new studio album in five years, Mirivates defines the Philadelphian duo’s acute inversion from noisy roil to shimmering lower case sounds across seven tracks embracing negative space as a vital new part of their music. Gauging by the skinny, barely-there aesthetics…
Luxury Variations
Tip! Mixed and produced by Leon Marks Mastered by Alex Gordon at Abbey Road, London. Czn presents complex interwoven forms plenty of small grooves throughout here and there, scattered throughout polyrhythmic passages. Built in density, this a trance-enducing and hypnotic masterwork. Czn stands for Copper, Zinc and Nickel the raw path of Materials used by percussionist and sculptor Joao Pais Filipe turned into gold for this compelling drum and percussion album recorded in duet with composer and d…
>(decrescendo)
Japanese “noise” masters The Gerogerigegege go quiet on the super limited vinyl edition of their 2019 tape for Tokyo clothing label Cav Empt, delivered via TTT. Showcasing the flip side to their abject noise and playful cut-ups, ‘>(decrescendo)’ sees them ditch the noisy extremity for 40 minutes bathed in pastoral new age ambience and riddled with iridescent, melodic lines of thought that will probably mess with preconceptions of what they’re about (unless you’ve really delved into their catalo…
Uguisudani Apocalypse
"This record is a soundtrack for Uganisudani. Uganisudani is JR Yamanote line running in Tokyo and has the fewest number of users per day but, the deepest." This announcement on The Gerogerigegege Facebook page seems to describe the concept behind Uguisudani Apocalypse as some kind of "soundtrack" relating thematically to the "dangerous" Uguisudani Station in Tokyo which serves "the smallest number of commuters per day on the Yamanote Line operated by the East Japan Railway Company". "Siq city-…
World In Action
"Recorded across East London, South-East Kent and Snaresbrook Crown Court during what is described as 'the UK media's attempt at divining integrity from the orchestrated turbulence of Brexit', with the record setting out to 'juggle the documentation of this particular moment with the desire to discern motivation from despair'. World In Action takes in field recordings, woodwind freakouts and percussion from Valentina Magaletti amongst other elements." --The Quietus
Tres Precieux Sang
*2017 repress* Terrific record! Eight charged, intimate meditations by Julie Normal and Olivier Demeaux, playing a rickety ondes Martenot and an old church harmonium. Gripping, detailed, stately improvisation -- a bit like the ùrlars in classical bagpipe music -- which nervily mixes the sternly doom-laden with precarious, other-worldly wonderment. (The ondes Martenot is an amazing twentieth-century instrument -- beloved by Messiaen, for example, and Varese. The theme-song of Star Trek is a voca…
Psychic Driving Tapes
Totally necessary vinyl edition of Aaron Dilloway's 'Psychic Driving Tapes', recorded in 2009 and originally only available (and now dead hard to find) on a 2011 cassette via his notorious Hanson Records. It's pure swill, smearing over 50 minutes of noize crud and sampledelia into the crevices of both sides so that you can finally own and become acquainted with a modern classic of its genre.
"Coruscating cut-ups yanked still dripping and yowling from the belly of the beast. Dazzling and i…