New Arrivals
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Deeper-than-deep field recordings, sub-aquatic drones and microtonal rhythmic flurries from veteran Aussie producer Aaron Cupples, composed exclusively for the award-winning hybrid documentary "Island of the Hungry Ghosts". Cupples, who's worked with Spiritualized, Blanck Mass, Broken Social Scene and others, was eager to reflect the atmosphere of Gabrielle Brady's film. The hybrid documentary follows the journey of millions of migratory crabs on Christmas Island and juxtaposes this phenomenon …
Wendy Carlos: A Biography
This book is the first full-length biography to be written about the American composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos (b. 1939). With her debut album, Switched-On Bach, Carlos brought the sound of the Moog synthesizer to a generation of listeners. She not only blazed new trails in electronic music for decades but also intersected with many aspects of American culture during the second half of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first. Her story features an eclectic cast of chara…
Equator
British post-industrial / ambient group O Yuki Conjugate arrives on Aguire with a vinyl run of their previously CD only 1995 release Equator. Coming four years after their lauded Peyote release, the group split and reformed into their Mk II phase with the two original members Roger Horberry and Andrew Hulme, along with Malcolm McGeorge, Dan Mudford & Pete Woodhead (who later went on to form Sons Of Silence on Leaf Label).
Making use of the emergent technology of the early 90’s, Equator was o…
Paradise of Delusion - 妄想の楽園
** Edition of 300. Duotone insert + offset insert + postcard set Old style / tip-on offset & partially silkscreened jacket with obi ** Shizuka first came to wider attention at roughly the same time as their peers in the Japanese underground – in the nineties, really, when people started to get wise to the surprisingly wide-ranging post-psychedelic sounds emanating from the PSF label, predominantly, and a few other, similar creative cells. During that window of opportunity, Shizuka only released …
Landscape Architecture
* Edition of 375 on black vinyl. In process of stocking * Beautifully serene and contemplative, ‘Landscape Architecture’ sees classical minimalists Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett describe quizzical scenes on their follow-up to a sterling 2018 debut for Shelter Press, all mixed and self-released on the duo’s Editions Basilic imprint and now available on vinyl for the first time. It’s a suite of blurry dreamscapes made with flutes, piano, hazy environmental recordings, subs and subtle fx, …
Casino Royale
** Edition of 500 ** Produced and Mastered by Chris Malone. Liner notes by Jeff Bond and Chris Malone. Pressed on 2x 180 GM Audophile Black Vinyl Quartet Records and MGM present the re-issue of the first official complete vinyl edition of Burt Bacharach’s timeless classic soundtrack for the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale. The infectious main theme performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass is just the starting point of an epic comedy ride that includes such highlights as the unforgetta…
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
** Edition of 500. Pressed on 180 GM Black Vinyl Specially Mastered for Vinyl by Chris Malone ** Quartet Records and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer present a remastered, limited-edition reissue of the electrifying funk/jazz/groove masterpiece score by David Shire (The Conversation, All the President's Men, Retrun to Oz, Zodiac) for Joseph Sargent’s famous classic urban thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo.
Based on the …
Sound and light
* 2021 Repress * The first full-length book dedicated entirely to the work of La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela. Includes essays and analyses by Mitchell Clark, Henry Flynt, Kyle Gann, Catherine Christer Hennix, Ben Neill, Robert Palmer, Terry Riley & John Schaefer with an introduction by the editors & writings by the artists.La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela have been pursuing their art for more than three decades. Together, they have created large-scale works for light and sound of many hours' d…
Jazz in the 1970s: Diverging Streams
* Hardback cover edition * Breaking through pervasive misconceptions, Jazz in the 1970s explores a pivotal decade in jazz history. Many consider the 1970s to be the fusion decade, but Bill Shoemaker pushes back against this stereotype with a bold perspective that examines both the diverse musical innovations and cultural developments that elevated jazz internationally. He traces events that redefined jazz’s role in the broadband arts movement as well as the changing social and political landscap…
America Señores Naturales
** Artist book. Hardcover, 64 pages, 37 B&W illustrations, 16 color illustrations. ** America Señores Naturales retraces the history of one of Lothar Baumgarten’s most famous site-specific interventions from 1984, Señores Naturales, and uses it as a point of departure to explore some of the key concepts that have shaped his oeuvre. In a newly commissioned essay, “Ground, Map, Floor: The Site and the Subject of Lothar Baumgarten’s Señores Naturales”, author Joanna Vickery-Barkow retraces the imp…
Designer Time
Reptilicus (Guðmundur I. Markússon and Johann Eiriksson) met industrialist extraordinaire and only constant member of The Hafler Trio, Andrew M. McKenzie, in 1991 when he was visiting Iceland with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff. This was the beginning of a fruitful collaboration which lasted for several years. During this period, McKenzie moved to Iceland where he lived for over a decade, having a considerable influence on the Icelandic experimental and electronic scene, among them artists s…
South Pacific Migration Party
* Edition of 200 copies. 140g clear vinyl with printed inner sleeve + extensive booklet * Peter Zinovieff (b. 1933, d. 2021) founded the revolutionary Electronic Music Studios in 1969, and devoted much of his earlier life to the art of sound. The studio developed many synthesisers including the famed VCS3, AKS and the Synthi100, and financed the world's first computer controlled electronic music studio in Putney, London. It is difficult to overstate the effect that Zinovieff's work has had on co…
Vertical Music Batch 04-06
**70 copies** This bundle includes the following tapes:Nicola Di Croce - Hearing Voices (Vertical Music 04)"Craco is a small town in southern Italy, completely abandoned after a landslide in 1963. Since then, plants and animals slowly started to take over the ruins, creating a suspended atmosphere magnified by distant echoes coming from rural production and imaginary voices." Nicola Di Croce is a Venice based, musician, composer, architect and scholar. His main research deals with the relation…
Orbed Porches
Cult of Riggonia is a psychedelic collective from Macon, Georgia, building from a mixture of Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band’s spastic attitude, Animal Collective-like blunt surreal imagery, a Gong approach at multilayered composition and the rhythmic chorality of central-African music. The project is pure oozing waves of textures and superlunary snappy melodies as just expelled from the primordial stew. Singing full texts in a language of their own invention and known for the energy of th…
Java Scripts
Jung Deejay is the solo endeavor of NYC's Randy Riback. Originally focused on his first-ever solo project Jung Hardware in 2017, he changed his approach the following year to focus on more "dated" sounds akin to an obsolete MIDI studio. After two solo releases under the moniker: “Wave Idea” on Lillerne Tapes and “7 Sketches for Akai Sampler” on Beer on the Rug, JD returns with a new cassette to accomplish his ideal three-ouvres on alluring sample patterns and naive, native digital imagery. On Ja…
Ruigoord Fiery Tongues
* Limited edition of 20 copies * edition which comes in a cardboard box and is limited to twenty copies. Coming with an explanation about the recordings - of readings at the festival by Armand, Ira Cohen, Louis Lehmann, Hans Verhagen and Simon Vinkenoogand - Ruigoord with a special thank to Hans Plomp and Yvonne van Doorn organising poetry and spoken word events in Ruigoord for decades and hopefully decades to come. This tape is not only a tribute to the five Ruigoord Trophy holders (all artists…
Swlwcted poetry and the Allen Ginsberg 1995 interview
Limited edition of 70 copies presenting Nina Zivancevic a great writer and according to the recordings a great narrator and interviewer. Comes with insert of a photo taken at the time.
Living Midnight
**imited edition of 175 copies** Toronto-area saxophonist Colin Fisher, best known for his group I Have Eaten The City, with his collective quartet of NY players Daniel Carter on tenor, alto & soprano saxophones + clarinet & flute, Brandon Lopez on upright bass, and Marc Edwards on drums & percussion, for three extended and exploratory improvisations of exemplary creative insight. This might be the only we've seen with Fisher as a leader – but the set's got a quality that will certainly have us …
Contractions
** First pressing of 200 with artwork by Tiny Little Hammers ** Recorded over the course of 2019 by Don Forks at Palliative Studios. Dedicated to Steve Dalachinsky 1946-2019. Michael Foster: saxophones, Ben Bennett: drums, percussion
Ten-Room Banquet
The acoustic situations presented in Ten-Room Banquet were constructed by hybridized processes. Their constituent matter explores relationships between an idea of synthetic and of « picked up reality ». Field recording, « sound-designed » spaces, performative situations, synthesizers, analog and digital studio manipulations... are used to experiment different approaches to audio perception. Through concrète compositions, a poetic narrative unfolds, from nervous collages to smoother sequences. Ta…