New Arrivals
Choses clandestines
Keith Tippett piano & prepared piano. Michel Pilz bass clarinet. Paul Rogers doublebass seven strings. Jean-Noël Cognard drums & percussion. Unprecedented encounter between two talented free-improv musicians and two equally marvellous melodists: Keith Tippett on piano, prepared piano and Michel Pilz on bass clarinet. The quartet could be described as a union between two partnerships and is completed by Paul Rogers' unique playing on his seven-stringed double bass and Jean-Noël Cognard's atypical…
Drum-machines
Drum-Machines, the 2nd recording made and produced under the label Percussions de Strasbourg, marks an important turning point in our approach, that of the 4th generation of our ensemble. At the junction between contemporary and electronic music, Drum-Machines was created following a process of dynamic composition: the performers first proposed sound materials on two research residencies and then eRikm ensured the composition, the music production and mixing.Commissioned by Percussions de Strasb…
Bloody Sirens
** Limited edition of 200 copies ** On Sunday 3 October 2015, London-based choral ensemble Musarc spent the afternoon at Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp to perform and record four pieces by artist/composer Neil Luck. These sessions were expertly captured, engineered and mixed by Bert Aerts.This record was launched on 11 May in London as part of Odradek, a three-day concert series of experimental music, performances and talks organised by Musarc.
Al Cinema Con Piero Umiliani
**Available on late April. Limited edition of 300 copies only** Sonor is proud to announce the reissue of one of the true rarities of Italian discography out there and an absolute grail of Italian Film music. Originally released in 1968 on the legendary RCA Italiana SP 8000 series (promo-only) on only 100 copies, here's an Impossible jewel by maestro Piero Umiliani that contains various themes from original scores of the '60s - "Il Comandante", "Extraconiugale", "Tutto Il Bello dell'Uomo", "La B…
Grid of Points
Not long after recording her 10th album, Ruins, Grouper (Liz Harris) traveled to Wyoming to work on art and record music. She found herself drawn towards the pairing of skeletal piano phrasing with spare, rich bursts of vocal harmony. A series of stark songs emerged, minimal and vulnerable, woven with emotive silences. Inspired by the idea that something is missing or cold, the pieces float and fade like vignettes, implying as much as they reveal. She describes them as small texts hanging in spa…
Shunter
Shunter, the new album by the Berlin-based duo Driftmachine, is their most ambitious work to date. Although instantly recognizable, featuring their trademark Kosmische and Avant-garde sounds, it also presents a new journey into abstract and hallucinatory worlds. Filled with eerie textures, their electronic visions are darker and more vaporous than ever.Driftmachine's fourth album (also the fourth one for Umor Rex) offers a new perspective on their ample sound spectrum and systemic narratives. Sh…
String Figures
A multi-platform production that explores the overlap between the digital and the organic through field recordings of Inuit throat singing may sound, on surface level, to be something that is a rather niche. However, Zoe Mc Pherson’s exploration of this world on String Figures is a deeply rhythmic, immersive and forward-thinking piece of electronic-leaning music that remains just as danceable as it does experimental. The album is fundamentally one of duality, exploring the traditional and the co…
Die Milchstrasse Flockt
While the production of bohemian drips’ latest release – Iván Paz’ Visions of Space [BD007] – was dedicated to the exploration of virtual space in a physical context, the label’s next binaural in-house production reaches out to new recording ethics.Die Milchstrasse Flockt [BD008] marks a turning point in the label’s history, as a group of Berlin based artists got together only for this record: The quintet consisted of Ruth-Maria Adam, Alexander P. Jovanovic, Inox Kapell, Josefine Lukschy and Ale…
Instant Music
Instant Music is the trio of Bernd Schöll (Bass, Vocals, Rhythm), Mike Hauer (Guitar, Synth, Percussion) and Marion Siekmann (Vocals) from Munich, Germany. They formed in 1980 after meeting through mutual friends attending the local art and graphic design school. The trio were dissatisfied with their surrounding musical environment. Inspired by the Velvet Underground, Kraftwerk, and Giorgio Moroder, they set out to create their own brand of Neue Deutsche Welle fusing Dada, disco and Krautrock.Ov…
Schleissen 5
The Schleissen series stands as one of the finest facets of the ever expanding Emotional Response empire, initially kicking off in 2015 with releases from artists such as Harmonious Thelonious, Abul Mogard, Don't DJ and Sad City. Now the series has been fired up once again with the exotic tones of Tomaga, recently found lurking round the likes of Meakusma and Hands In The Dark. It's an exotic live band sound that touches on Fourth world exploration and motorik drive, but certainly with its own u…
Hatred Of Sound
Edition of 200. New record from Darksmith years away from the previous ... well, it is not easy to talk about the records of Tom, even if this difficulty, on the borders with the impossibility, validates the complete success of his work.We are not dealing with an abstract thing, reality is omnipresent in these furrows ... yet it manages to escape any attempt at semantic classification and makes even impossible the definition of an emotional tonality; rather the listening leads back to places of …
Primitive Electronics Brain Dance
Biblioteq Mdulair is an orchestra made of some 15 analogue function generators played by Swiss based artists Emma Souharce and Daniel Maszkowicz. In their concerts they often collaborate with the analogue modular video synthesizer SYNKIE creating a total audiovisual symbiosis with dozens of CTR televisions. This first release is a live performance recorded at Cinéma Nova in Brussels (Belgium): a hypnotic ambient noise evolving towards a magma of colliding frequencies growing in intensity with an…
G.R/S.S
A full length LP by the eminent Australian sound artist Matthew P Hopkins. The first side "The Gallery Rounds" consists of three pieces which were assembled from field recordings made at various art galleries, museums, and other institutional buildings. The raw materials captured at these sites was not focused on particular artists, or kinds of artwork, but rather, on various unintentional combinations: outside traffic and construction work blending with the sounds of videos and kinetic sculptur…
Vain
All analog - no computers or instrument overdubs - The prodigal return of Venezuelan artist Carlos Giffoni to the avant-electronic music scene he was instrumental in shaping with the seminal, hybridising No Fun Fest and No Fun Productions label, which was home to debut releases by Oneohtrix Point Never, and classics from Haswell and Prurient during the late ‘00s to early part of this decade. If yr into 0PN or Keith Fullerton Whitman, this album f u c k i n g r u l e sCarlos’ first new release i…
Face Time
Face Time is the second release from the trio of Oren Ambarchi, Kassel Jaeger, and James Rushford, following on from their 2016 debut Pale Calling (BT 020LP). Recorded at the GRM studios in Paris in June 2017, the record immediately returns to the idiosyncratic sound-world of the trio's first release, a simmering stew of electronic smears, pitched-down animal moans, and mysteriously emotive microtonal organ chords. But before long the record takes an unexpected turn, as sounds that initially ent…
Live At Dreamland
sold out at source, Edition of 150. Cover art Bill Nace. Paste on covers screened by Alan Sherry. Mastered by Mark Alan Miller. Recorded live by Tim Barnes. Twig Harper--electronics, voice. Bill Nace--electric guitar, voice. .
Alien Encrypted Message
Proper lysergic melters from Bear Bones, Lay Low on No ‘Label’ - a sometime home to Jamal Moss, Torn Hawk, Morgan Buckley, among many othersPushing the label’s boundaries for psychotomimetic behaviour, Atlantean Encrypted Message bubbles up from a place usually only visited in the throes of a full blown acid trip. On the A-side, the Belgian artist Ernesto González Rondón tilts in steeply with the warped wormhole of the EP’s title track perhaps meant as gateway as much as a test of the listener’s…
Canaxis 5
Exact LP repro edition. A few months after the foundation of Can, Holger Czukay recorded his first solo album ‘Canaxis’, in conjunction with producer/engineer Rolf Dammers, this album was assembled from thousands of snippets recorded from short wave radio, a long standing obsession of Czukay's which he also incorporated into some of Can's later albums. A refugee during the Second World War, Holger Czukay famously studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in the early ‘60s. That direct exposure to the c…
Il Etait Une Fois Le Diable (Aka Devil Story) LP
**Limited edition of 500 coloured LP** « It's stressfull! It's shocking! It's everything a disturbed mind can imagine! » A zombie wearing a Nazi SS uniform terrorizes the French countryside. Meanwhile, some really weird shit is happening, involving a possessed horse, a pirate boat and a couple of car drivers desperately fighting the evil tearing the land to pieces.No plot needed for the madness to begin, as this movie is filled with the insanity guaranteed to give you psychedelic dreams. Directe…
Soundtracks - 3° Collection / 4 LPs in bundle
All the four new Spettro groundbreaking Soundtrack LPs in bundle!