New Arrivals
Still
Limited 2LP, clear vinyl. Night Sea is honoured to present their first LP to the Silent Season family. The album is the culmination of a two-year journey playing with the relationship between sound, repetition, and impermanence. The slowly evolving musical landscapes of Still are an invitation to slow down and explore the ever-changing facets of one's experience
Playing Piano
"Playing Piano features a partially deconstructed upright player piano prepared in the spirit of John Cage. This fully mechanized 1920’s player piano is animated by a motor and pneumatics (as opposed to being played by a person). A perforated paper roll, the physical translation of the musical score, controls the mechanized elements.
The preparations to Playing Piano include various machines which strum and press a pie plate against the strings, whistle using the air of the pneumatics and amplif…
Ring Road Ring
**in process of stocking** "This album features sound recordings of the low-level vibrations pulsing through the megastructure that is the Coventry Ring Road. Built between the 1950s and 70s, it was a key part of the plan to rebuild Coventry after the devastation of World war II. The Ring Road was intended to keep traffic out of the city centre and form the basis for a radical vision of a modern pedestrian-focussed city. However, politics, economics and the contingencies of history combined to p…
DeeWee Sessions Vol. 01
**180gr LP + 48-page book in a clear PVC bag, to be released in early June 2020** "David & Stephen Dewaele (aka Soulwax/2manydjs) have always been fascinated by collecting instruments and recording gear. Their passion hasn’t been born by completism: simply every new item inspires a world of possibilities. The one item that always eluded them was the EMS Synthi 100 —a huge and rare analogue synthesizer, of which there were only 31 ever produced, that can create a near infinite array of sounds.Sho…
Dance With an Idiot
A fresh new studio album by powerful Russian Free jazz band BROM, now with a fourth player (guitar and electronics). Press about their last album (Sunstroke, Trost):"It is a reverent and thoughtful performance, with powerhouse electric bass at its core, leading to a fast and furious conclusion." - Jazzandbluesblogspot"Moscow based power jazz trio BROM are a group that push against musical boundaries and allow such diverse genres as rock, noise, free jazz and improvisation to leak into their ever…
Xerrox Vol. 4
Alva Noto returns to his much awaited Xerrox project with Vol. 4, the fourth installment of the five-piece intended series based on the concept of digital replication of source material.
W.W.W.
Burnin Red Ivanhoe in their most fertile phase of existing from 1969 till 1972, were one of Danish finest groups from this period. Their innovative and powerful mixture of Psychedelic and Progressive Rock along with mild experimental or Jazz influences gained some international recognition in Germany, UK and the U.S.. Comparisons might be drawn to Traffic, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Colosseum (Dag Erik Asbjornsen).W.W.W. from 1971 was the band's third album with an unchanged line-up. It was the…
Burnin Red Ivanhoe
Burnin Red Ivanhoe in their most fertile phase of existing from 1969 till 1972, were one of Danish finest groups from this period. Their innovative and powerful mixture of Psychedelic and Progressive Rock along with mild experimental or Jazz influences gained some international recognition in Germany, UK and the U.S.. Comparisons might be drawn to Traffic, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Colosseum (Dag Erik Asbjornsen).Their eponymous second album from 1970 was recorded in London with famous DJ John…
Weiss Der Teufel...
Weiss der Teufel (1971), the first Rufus Zuphall album has gradually gained legendary status. All tracks were recorded live in the studio, resulting in a raw and unpolished sound. The side-long title track developed into a very twisted and frenetic flute solo! Some people regard this track as one of the finest moments of German rock. Weiss der Teufel is a great album, typifying the raw-edged, largely instrumental early progressive rock. Here it comes with original album sleeve cover art and inse…
Voices Of Haiti
**2020 repress** Fantome Phonographique present a reissue of Maya Deren's Voices Of Haiti, originally released as a 10" record in 1954. Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-American filmmaker and one of the most important voices in avant-garde cinema of the mid-20th century. She was a muse and inspiration to such up-and-coming avant-garde filmmakers as Curtis Harrington, Stan Brakhage, and Kenneth Anger, who emulated her independent, entrepreneurial spirit. Throughout the 1940s and '50s, Deren a…
Dadarottenvator
**199 copies, in process of stocking** "Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music. The moniker of Japanese artist Masami Akita was born in Tokyo in 1979. Inspired by dadaism and surrealism, Akita took the name for his project from German artist Kurt Schwitters's pre-war architectural assemblage The Cathedral of Erotic Misery or Merzbau. Just as Schwitters attacked the entrenched artistic traditions of his time with his revolutionary avant-garde collages, so too would Akita chall…
Y Live!
The "Y Live!" album is an essential addendum to the original release, one that captures all the fierce urgency of The Pop Group's live performances at the time.
Demon
**35th Anniversary, Record Store Day ‘Silver Mask’ edition on silver vinyl** To celebrate the 35 years, since the release of the cult movie Demons by Lamberto Bava, Rustblade presents a limited edition of 499 copies, 45 rpm 7” from the original soundtrack, composed by Maestro Claudio Simonetti. The single features Demon, the main theme from the movie, on Side A and Killing on Side B.
Vertice
Edition of 300 copies. Comes in a bespoke dye-cut sleeve, cover art by Monika Baer. The LP was mastered by Taylor Deupree and includes an essay by François J. Bonnet aka Kassel Jaeger, director of the GRM. New York’s Fridman gallery re-activates its record imprint with this absorbing collaboration between Ben Vida (fresh from his stunning 4 hour 'Reducing The Tempo To Zero’ opus for Shelter Press), and noted composer for dance, Marina Rosenfeld - whose collaborative album with Warrior Queen and …
Sustainable Hours
**Edition of 300 copies pressed on clear vinyl with an insert** Nozomu Matsumoto follows up his stunning HD orchestral // text-to -speech début for The Death Of Rave with this haunting ambient soundtrack originally recorded for Maison Hermès, Tokyo, as a soundtrack for an installation by Nile Koetting. It’s undoubtedly one of the year’s most necessary and strangely apt ambient excursions; a beautiful, quietly heartbreaking trip highly recommended if you’re into 0PN, Sam Kidel, James Ferraro, TCF…
Freedom Power
**In process of stocking** Outstanding and legendary Italian Library originally released in 1976 on the glorious Cometa label on a very limited run. A totally killer album with tones of mental Jazz-Funk and Psychedelic beats. The listener is constantly catched by the incredible music that swings between Psychedelic Funk, Esoteric Jazz and Cinematic/Love themes. Tracks like Love For Sale, Privacy, Metropolis Notte and Dopping 2000 are simply timeless, with a stunning sound that perfectly plunges …
Oiro Pena 2
Tip! **350 copies, to be released on 30.05.2020** Second release from Finland’s finest underground jazz collective, four new tracks in the same spiritual-energetic playful bag we dig! Limited edition 10", comes numbered and with download code insert.
Live at Tenho
**250 copies, to be released on 30.05.2020** Unique duo live recording from 2016 with Finnish drummer Ilmari Heikinheimo and multi-instrumentalist Jimi Tenor, free-floating grooves in an organic / electric mash-up! Limited 250 copy LP with 6 tracks, comes numbered with download code and info on A4 insert."The existence of harmonic resonance will be proved when the minds of these amazing talents speak to each other thru aether."
Kainos
Slowdive’s Simon Scott debuts his new Index project with a visceral new sound that absorbs and transmutes political, ecological and psychic dread into a caustic, dissonant style of drone and textural sculpture for iDEAL Recordings, a worthy follow-up to last year’s The Sacrificial Code album release on the label by Kali Malone.
Televize
"The joyful, tender, almost too tender, but at times extremely intense album entitled Televize was made by the inflamed, wholly focused, at times completely scattered, dissipated and organically chaotic ensemble called the Roman Radkovič Collective. It throws at the listener a threshold music and a poetic experience of the world. If one record can mediate otherness, a music which can never be imagined without first-hand experience, it is the LP with the magical title Televize.It sounds like a ga…