New Arrivals
Silver wooden Box
** Numbered edition of 184 copies, deluxe wooden box** 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 A5 format. The first was “The pleasure agony”, followed by “Sick” and “Murders”.The aesthetics of these first fanzines were very sophisticated and the content deals with topics that will follow Marco Corbelli throughout his artistic career: sadism, schizophrenia, insanity, murder, psychosis, necrophili…
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The debut album from Chicago duo Cleared is now out in stores and available for immediate shipping via mailorder. Pre-order copies shipped a few weeks ago.Cleared is the duo of Steven Hess (member of On w/Sylvain Chauveau, Haptic, Ural Umbo, Locrian) and Michael Vallera (recordings for Catholic Tapes, Reverb Worship). The project is meant to focus on sound selection, repetition and patience as central elements of composition. Percussion, electronics, field recordings and other experiments are…
...For Some Reason That Escapes Us
**200 copies** "It could be a forgotten music, unearthed from the vacuum of nonusage, reincarnating into a musical form sounding obscure and nevertheless familiar, human. Vilhelm Bromander and Fredrik Rasten materialize resonant sound with double bass, guitar and subtle vocal shadings. The music puts just intonation on display and explores its potential in improvised as well as composed music. On ...For Ssome Reason That Escapes Us, the instrumental and vocal sounds entwine into a collective bod…
usure.paysage
Usure.paysage combines the strongest particles of Bernier's kaleidoscopic oeuvre: an expressive mix of lively field recordings, tiny and massive electronics and sparkling relocations. The docker barks out aloud, the little insect crawls through the 19th century woodworker's atelier, forgotten voices vanish and the rest is no silence. This is truly some of the finest musique concrète ever to be released on vinyl - very charming.The antiquarian aesthetic of a fastidious watchmaker mingles with …
Calypso
Calypso’ finds ambient original Gigi Masin at his most gassed and sunlit - even dicing with drums - in a typically lush album inspired by a mythical Greek island. “The LP is inspired by the mythical Greek island of Ogygia and its alleged real life counterpart Gavdos – also known unofficially as Calypso – a place of extreme beauty, which upon visiting had a profound effect on the musician.
“Gavdos gives you profound sensations in every corner, as here you can find enchantment, mystery, the getti…
The Sounds of Pseudoscience
**30 copies, 5th Year Anniversary Limited Edition, includes 10 never published before pseudoscience illustrations, tip!** Nikolaienko's full length release is a playful and intriguing archive of sounds influenced by the works of electronic music pioneers and experimenters. The album acts as a tribute to early-electronics' golden era, playing out as a requiem, pondering the theme of nostalgia through warm analogue, space-aged sounds. For the artist, it’s an odd and ironically funny sound document…
Mechanical Keyboard Sounds: Recordings of Bespoke and Customized Mechanical Keyboards
Mechanical Keyboard Sounds: Recordings of Bespoke and Customized Mechanical Keyboards is made and recorded by the master of this modern art, Nathan from Taeha Types. Yes, this is actual typing sounds on amazing future/retro/cutting edge keyboards, every track and keyboard different. Listen and weep, or sleep, or something to this incredible and unique listening experience -- the first mechanical keyboard album ever. For the last few years a small scene has been growing: the mechanical keyboard s…
The Internecine Project
Unreleased masterpiece by Roy Budd, the master of British 1970s scores. Composed and recorded in 1974, The Internecine Project is a truly classic Roy Budd score, released here and now on vinyl (and on any format) for the very first time. And it's worth buying just for the totally sublime track called "Mr Easy". Coming from the peak Roy Budd period -- post Get Carter (1971) and pre Diamonds (1976) -- this score neatly bridges the two with Carter-style hypnotic, jazz-driven cues and superb Diamond…
The Last Five Minutes
Following an input by Marco Pandin, Alberto Carozzi recorded four minimal pieces on electric guitar, improvising on the concept of playing as less as possible. The four pieces then became five with the collaboration of Matteo Uggeri, who added tribal beats and weird samples. He then mixed the whole album, entitled The Last Five Minutes, an invitation to manage tension through patience.
The Stilling
The 4th album by Drøne, (Mark Van Hoen and Mike Harding), is the 3rd for Anna von Hausswolff’s label, Pomperipossa Records. Featuring Zachary Paul on violins, Charlie Campagna (bass and ‘cello) and Katt Newlon on ‘cello, the strings add lush, warm layers to a darker, edgier sound. Gabi Strong debuts on guitar and the voices of a host of vocalists inc. Claire Belhassine, Celia Eydeland, Bana Haffar, Pepa Ivanova, Nour Mobarak andBrisa Romero.With the trademark Drøne sounds of static, radio voices…
No One's Island
FEN (Far East Network) is a group project made up of musicians from Singapore, Japan, China, and South Korea who play improvised music. It was first started on the suggestion of globally renowned musician Otomo Yoshihide in 2008 for a French festival MIMI. Each member is an artist who works individually on the experimental music scene in his respective country. They have been supporting each other's activities by organizing concerts in their own countries, and this relationship became the motiva…
Falls
Eryck Abecassis and Lars Åkerlund started their Falls project to investigate the possibilities of achieving instability with synthesizers and electronic instruments. With only one dramatic change in their strategy: they employed both the same branded instruments to do that and it worked.Eryck Abecassis is a French musician who has been working in diverse areas of music production: producing his own albums and works for chamber orchestras, theaters, installations and cinema. He got commissions fr…
Tre Giorni e un Mattino d'Estate
**200 copies** Another gem by Fabio Orsi to launch the new decade in the best possible way. A long journey of over one hour that aptly summarizes the whole sound world that Fabio has created during the years. Ambient textures and long electronic excursions permeates these timeless tracks in the best tradition of the Italian ambient master.
To Found
**200 copies** To find again sequences, sounds and samples, previously elaborated for other works and live performances, decontextualizing all of them to create new original material. These are the starting points for To Found, the third release by Corrado Altieri and Gianluca Favaron on a Silentes label, devoted to all-round experimentation and stylistic contamination through the multiple languages of electronic sound. Drone music, post-Techno rhythmic disintegrations, suggestions of the old In…
Distant Brilliance
**100 copies** BJ Nilsen releases his very first 10" vinyl record in a career spanning more than twenty years, and the result is simply a must for anyone interested in experimental electronic music. Distant Brilliance contains two new tracks, namely The Question and The Answer, which were composed especially for this release on 13 and were recorded at Odd Phasing and Echoes, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2019. Packed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with images created by Stefano Gentile, the layers…
Music For Laboratories
**200 copies, tip!** Music For Laboratories is a project by Orlando Lostumbo - a Roman double bass player and composer - who, for this work, has chosen the moniker of Spheric. For the realization of Music For Laboratories, the artist has been inspired by his working environment, a research institute - the Istituto Superiore di Sanitá - where, for over thirty years, he has been working as an employee at the internal library, one of the most important in the biomedical field in Italy. The ongoing …
Cimora
Over the last decade multi instrumentalist Tomás Tello has been developing his own personal music style based around an exploration of the guitar and his intense personal investigation of traditional Peruvian music - in particular Andean culture which he grew up with. Now operating out of Tavira, Tomás has been functioning like a psychic musician, a well tuned antenna picking an unique sound universe where, among others, sounds of native instruments (quenas, drums, charangos) and experimental el…
Porcelain (Original Film Soundtrack)
The soundtrack for Dutch/Belgium/Italian co-production Porselein (Porcelain), a psychological drama by Jenneke Boeijink. Besides the music from the film, the album contains 12 extra outtakes. Rutger Zuydervelt (who mostly works under his pseudonym Machinefabriek) regularly works for film, though mostly for documentaries. Porcelain is his second feature film score, after the Canadian mystery drama The Cold and the Quiet. A common modus operandi for Zuydervelt is to collaborate with instrumentalis…
Lars Fredrikson
First monograph dedicated to the radical Swedish painter, draftsman, sculptor, and precursor of sound arts (audio CD included).
Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use the skills she developed in the artistic avant-garde in pop music, and what in turn drew John Lennon to visual art? Why, in 1980s West Germany, did Joseph Beuys record a pop single and artists such as Walter Dahn, Albert and Markus Oehlen, and Michaela Melián form bands? What role does utopia play in the pop music and art of Brian Eno,…