Philipp Matalla lives and works in the triangle of Halle, Leipzig and Berlin, in Germany. He has previously released music on labels such as Optimo Music, KANN and Kashual Plastik. His new album on Meakusma delves into some of the themes that have so far defined his work, this time increasing the tension between moments of musical harshness and flickers of introspection, ease and downright beauty. Matalla aims not for perfection, instead deploying the listener's sense of imagination. His work to…
*In process of stocking. 2023 stock* I Don't Want To Be An Individual All On My Own relates the powerful yet incomplete impressions of a childhood memory. The story takes us to a garden party where Genevieve, turning 8, and her mother, are celebrating their birthdays with friends and family. Various characters will come into focus during the evening as young Genevieve moves between her childlike world and that of the adults. We discover the people around her as she experiences them in a new ligh…
Tip! *In process of stocking* Christine Abdnelnour and Andy Moor have explored the notion of hypnagogia or ‘Unprotected Sleep’ to drive their process for this improvised album, delving in their own experience and memories. Unprotected sleep is commonly defined as an altered state of consciousness that occurs beyond the proper or intended time of waking up, not sleeping in your own safe bed, or even sleeping without a blanket. Being slightly out of phase, one is vulnerable, fragile, but the mind …
*In process of stocking. 2023 stock* "Gottschalk’s works and if you are looking for new-to-you works, this album would be a welcome one to the audio library. The title work of the album starts an eerie flicker of sound from hollow trills that swell to the orchestra’s entrance with a similar character and trills echoed. As the first movement continues, Parisi’s aptitude for both conventional and contemporary techniques are apparent with technical passages sounding effortless as he spans the range…
12 cassettes housed in black wooden 12" x 12" box set + Book + Poster Marco Corbelli’s artistic journey began in the early 90’s. Under the pseudonym of Marco Rotula, he started to release a series of fanzines in a very limited edition. The first was “The pleasure agony”, followed by “Sick” and “Murders”. Desires, pleasures, hate, and disgust are laid out and displayed for us to inspect. The aesthetics of these first fanzines were very sophisticated and the content deals with topics that will fo…
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* After a few years, Maninkari returns to Zoharum with a new, already third studio album for the label. "Un Phenomene De Reliance" is a kind of concept album, it's something like a suite, consisting of four separate compositions. There are no spectacular twists or unexpected musical revolts here. The duo of Charlot brothers continues to follow the path chosen by them, masterfully developing the formula they developed years ago. We are dealing he…
*30 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* The new Jarl album is the Sixth on Zoharum. Like previous album Hyperacusis and Phonophobia, released in 2021, it deals with the human psyche. This time by turning inwards. Like often with Jarls sound the album has a sort of a psychedelic electronic sound.
Mind Rotation has 5 parts dealing with the human psyche. A rotation of the mind. The first two parts mind variation and mind dimension are among the brightest Jarl has ever recorded with arrp…
*30 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* The latest album of Brandkommando, one of the most important Polish Power Electronics projects released by Zoharum. As in the case of previous publications, here we are dealing with a kind of concept-album referring to a specific topic. 1989 is dedicated to testimonials of history that took place in that year in Romania, when the oppressed community opposed the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, leading to the capture, quick trial …
*200 copies limted edition. In process of stocking* After a longer break, we return to the GT Archive Series, in which we release those Genetic Transmission materials that were previously released mainly on quite fragile CDR media which are practically unavailable today. So far, eight regular titles from the extensive discography of Tomek Twardawa have been published.In the next installment, with number 9, we present the album "News From Wormland", which was originally released in 2002. In many …
*100 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* The concert album of the Polish Power Electronics project, recorded during the 20th Wrocław Industrial Festival, contains an interesting performance, more selective, stronger and more powerful versions of songs known partly from his debut. "Deform" brings a huge dose of raw electronics meat, enriched with emotional charge ranging from excitement to anger, even stronger means of communication that accompanied the creator during the performance.…
*300 copies limited edition.* We present a new studio album from Gintas K. The artist in cooperation with Michelle O'Rourke and Emily Aoibheann composed and recorded music for Performance "Sorry Gold". In order to best present the subject and character of this interdisciplinary art, we will use the words of the author herself: "If aerial is the dance of industrial technology, what will the dance of biotechnology be? This new work reinvigorates performance as a living and speculative environmenta…
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* "Artwork 51" is the second album for Zoharum, a group formed by musicians known from the Rapoon, Pas Musique and Promute projects (also previously released by our label). The intercontinental trio consistently continues and develops its formula of psychedelic electronics, using quite similar instruments and sound objects. Just like on the "Welcome to Graceland" album, you can hear echoes of music close to the achievements of Cluster, Deuter or…
*100 copies limited edition.* On the latest album, Robin Storey once again invites us to a musical journey closer to the exotic world of the Orient, sparkling with many delicately woven miniatures, based on fragments of melodies, heard as if in the deep sleep phase, when sounds and images reaching us from a distance gently fill the space, giving the impression of an integral part of it. Out of nine tracks filled with tribal rhythms, vocals and a wide palette of colors, an extremely coherent, sli…
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking. 2023 stock* Harmony of Struggle is a Polish Power Electronics project founded in 2020 by Neithan (Whalesong, Nothing Has Changed, Lugola). His compositions can be described as hypnotic and extremely deformed with various effects industrial tracks. The main lyrical themes are: war, control, domination, manipulation.The CD and tape will be released in co-operate with Old Temple.
"In the past two pandemic years we have experienced turmoil that has in a way redefined our relationship towards the human community as such. Our social skills and our ability to share the time and space with others have been seriously crippled, and in some instances made redundant. We have enclosed ourselves in safe spaces, usually in family units, stopped extensive travelling and meetings. The physicality of existence and of being with others changed to encompass different sanitary dispositive…
Oslo’s Deathprod (aka Helge Sten) announces Compositions, his new album out January 27th on Smalltown Supersound, and presents its lead single/video, “Composition 1.” The first new Deathprod studio project since 2019’s Occulting Disk—“a mesmerizing, terrifying, and emotionally nuanced ‘anti-fascist ritual’ of an album” (Pitchfork)—Compositions is the result of an intense period at his legendary Audio Virus Lab studio in central Oslo. All tracks are released in chronological order – in other word…
*100 copies limited edition* For his debut release on Vaknar, Yuto Ohashi dives deep into the digital ether by contrasting a pervasive atmosphere of mechanical blips and appliance clatter with dreamlike, angelic drones, all coalesced by what seems like constant transmissions of nebulous AI dialogue – forming the premise of a natural world submerged in a deep, virtual slumber.
"One of three Japanese ambient / experimental releases simultaneously issued by the Vaagner label last week, Yuto Ohashi’…
*100 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Starting in 2019 with ‘Life In A Shell’, the then new and upcoming Japanese producer yolabmi lay the foundation for a triptych of releases on Vaknar in the span of 3 years, all of which formed an ongoing sonic interrogation with his own past, while also consequentially reflecting on his growth as an composer and individual.
The final stage of this album triptych, ‘For Wind Poetry’, once again underpins the natural world of yolabmi’s past with …
*200 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Brand new split LP by two titans of the harsh noise scene. One side long piece by each artist, delivering trademark splintered harsh noise and low pummelling bass rumble and crunch. Please note that whilst there is no digital only release, all copies come with a download code included.
Brand new CD reissue of this classic Dead Body Love album. Remastered by Grant Richardson from the original master tape, this hour long masterpiece tears though the air space with layers of iron static swirl, and overloaded bass crunch. Not to be taken lightly.
*In process of stocking. 2023 stock* New CD reissue of this collaboration originally released on Labyrinth Recordings back in 1997. Two long form tracks of Mlehst material remixed by Joe Roemer of Macronympha. A long missing piece in the discography of both artists, finally available again. Remastered by Esoteric Audio Renovations with new, updated artwork.
*In process of stocking. 2023 stock* Macronympha and Mlehst. Following on from the recent 'Macrosonic' CD reissue with a new album under the Macrosonic moniker (Confused? You should be!). Three tracks of harsh and spacious electronics, dense drones and multi tracked madness to create a constantly evolving audio sensory overload. Utterly immense and inspiring by two sonic masters.
*2023 stock* Brand new material featuring four abstract tracks of drones, audio collage, musique concrete and abstract electronics. Slowed down industrial soundscapes, clangs and clock like chimes bouncing around your ear pipes.
*In process of stocking. 2023 stock* CD reissue of this long out of print cassette, originally released on the legendary Mother Savage Noise Productions in 1996. Two long form tracks of Mlehst material remixed by Joe Roemer of Macronympha. Remastered by Grant Richardson and featuring new artwork by All Brentnall.
*In process of stocking. 2023 stock* CD reissue of an early Mlehst tape released on Smell & Quim's Stinky Horse Fuck label back in 1995. The first track 'Everything I Touch Turns To Shit' was released on The History Of Mlehst - Chapter 5 but this reissue brings together the full album in its original form. Ranging from musique concrete, drones, tape manipulation and noise to fry your melon. Remastered by Grant Richardson and featuring new artwork by Al Brentnall.
Tip! *50 copies limited edition. In process of stocking. 2023 stock* "Spectral Evidence (zero193) is a fabulacious piece of untamed, noisy, performance music. Slot this one into your toaster-cassette and you’ll be amazed that only two people are creating this enormous resonating vat of rattlement. Kris Limbach we know from the Emitter Micro label in Berlin. On that label, he’s been involved in some real puzzlers and heavy crunchers of abstract electronic blockery, none more puzzling than the two…
*50 copies limited edition. In processof stocking. 2023 stock* "Naming The Trees (zero192) by J. Surak is a concise art statement, just ten minutes a side on the limited cassette. Apparently produced by a combination of methods: analog synths, patches, treated and prepared instruments, and a humidifier – maybe a field recording of one of these handy domestic beasts, unless he “trained” its limited mind to assist in the performance in some way. Furthermore, it’s got something to do with a dance s…
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Ideas are suggested and quickly abandoned. In their wake chance becomes intention. Clues that reveal themselves upon repeated listenings. This is not background music or audio as utility. Repeated plays will unfold their rewards and spaces yet unexplored. For this is the last piece of graphite. Recorded in the studio, in the woods, and on river banks using analog electronics, prepared objects, bass, double bass, guitar, and tapes, in Hamburg/W…
"If music really is a form of rapid transportation, then I have found my mode of transport. Suspense brings apprehension before something happens. It’s a fact. The next time you’re in a snappy nightclub, tap your foot to the memories of your day fading out under the blue lights. The fiercest way to walk anywhere is on your toes. “Here I am,” you blurt out, but everyone already knows you, because a bass is a foghorn that guides us out of exhaustion. The days are doing a little number on us all of…
*In process of stocking* “Hermit Music is a collection of spontaneously composed pieces for the double bass and bow. From 2017-2019 I played a series of solo concerts in the US and Europe and wanted to capture the music I was creating at the time, so I planned to record in the Spring of 2020. Just before the Covid-19 pandemic began, my life had undergone some major changes and losses, but when New York shut down in March of 2020, I became deeply depressed and couldn’t bear to play my instrument …
Pioneers of live electronics, found sound and urban environment-as-instrument, Musica Elettronica Viva created suites that were as imaginary as imaginative.
Limited Edition of 199 copies. Solmania is a Japanese noise music project founded in 1984 by Masahiko Ohno. The hallmark of this amazing artist, who builds his experimental electric guitars from spare parts, is his freakish ability to use the stringed instrument by generating absolutely unique sounds, both in his live performances and recordings. The guitars used by Masahiko Ohno are multi-neck guitars and harp guitars and take on extremely bizarre shapes, using unconventional body shapes, extra…
“In the afternoon we performed in a rather austere theatre in East Berlin. Then I remember we crossed Checkpoint Charlie that evening to play in a club in West Berlin. The atmosphere was completely different. I felt as though we were living in a black and white spy movie.” Nicolas Fiszman recalls that chaotic day of 13 June 1982. Two outstanding guitarists, Philip Catherine and Nicolas Fiszman, who at the time was only seventeen years old, were taken from one side of Berlin to the other in pouri…
Tip! *Silkscreen printed cover. Edition of 200, hand-numbered on the back cover. Totally sold out at source *Muumiot is an Italian-Finnish sextet, which also features Ho Chi Moon’s Pekkola. Gau Ri Laa is a set of four songs, released on ten-inch vinyl and digitally. V. Genta - eceltric piano & saxophones, T. Kemppainen - double bass, S. Pekkola - saxophones & shrutiboxes, T. Tammi - trumpet, T. Tiheäsalo - electric guitar, D. Vanzan - drums
Killer stuff!
*In process of stocking* 'This album pays homage to being, existing, and becoming Ancestors in the Universe. It is a dialogue between an Elder Griot and a young Jali. The story is about each and everyone that gives life, becomes life and ascends through all of our struggles. It is in the House of Good Spirit, that we present an acknowledgement within the African Oral Tradition which represents who we are. A legacy of sound that will give everyone a message. Ashe.' - Neo Griot and the Afrocentric…
*In process of stocking. 2023 stock* Devin Daniels’ Trio Exposition is a bold yet vulnerable body of work that highlights his unique sense of rhythm and harmony through relatively obscure songs by jazz greats. Joined by bassist Logan Kane and drummer Christian Euman, the lack of a harmonic instrument gives the three musicians space to fully explore and push each other. Very rarely do saxophonists choose this instrumentation- especially as their breakout record as a bandleader.
A further exercise in musical curation, Child Of Nature is our latest sonic confluence of self-released tracks from the loners, hippies and outsiders of the 70s and early 80s. A collection of privately pressed music, able to breathe and be created free from the constraints of heavy handed commercialism, yielding a pure vision of artistic expression. Child Of Nature features ten songs of brooding soft rock and psychedelic folk steeped in melancholia. Some ache for better times or past lovers, whi…
*In process of stocking* Orphan Egg were a short lived group who were formed in 1967 in San Jose California. Their sole self-titled album was released in 1968 on the small independent company Carole Records. Essentially a garage-psych album – in the tradition of future iconic compilation like Nuggets or Pebbles – Orphan Egg was recorded by a bunch of students at Saratoga High School in Saratoga. Occasionally they won the Vox Battle of the Bands, a nationwide competition. They also appeared on th…