New Arrivals
Re-Recorder
*Edition of 100* This release initiates a series of propositions between Bonnetta and Hamann exploring film sound design as a relation of anecdotal music. Each side is composed of location recordings, musical fragments, foley, in-studio recordings, outtakes, and sketches gleaned from various re-recording processes. In the absence of images, these sound propositions reflect on the possibilities of a particular form of ‘aural cinema,’ of fictional spaces constructed from the reordering and recasti…
Oh! Uomo
*Edition of 70* Oh! Uomo (Part I) “What I love are not the pieces, but the repetitions, the protractions; to proceed slowly on my way, to come back, back to the same thing, being a litany, litany as life, to stay long there before ending, not willing to make music of a man – and above all of a composer, and and above all of a westerner – but rather music of a sparrow, a quite indecisive sparrow perched on a branch, a sparrow trying to call a man…” (H.Michaux) "Oh! Uomo (Part I)" is a composition…
Burnish
Kali Malone and Maria W. Horn's XKatedral label deliver an incredible album of empyrean chimes and subterranean drones from out-musick duo Tongue Depressor. It’s an in-depth exploration of tuned percussion and just intoned drone that comes highly recommended if you’re into the work of Tony Conrad, C.C. Hennix, John Cage, Philip Corner and Michael Ranta - or if you’re into church bells, gamelan, or Popol Vuh's earliest meditations. Floored.
On The Darkest Day, You Took My Hand & Swore It Will Be Okay
‘On The Darkest Day, You took My Hand and Swore It Will Be Okay’ spawns out of reflections and realizations from the past year. The musical pieces themselves teeter between anger, anxiety, and hope, usually turning to distortion and noise. These were often an attempt to make sense of the happenings around the world. At times this process was a way to soothe my own frustrations with life at a standstill. A big influence on this album was watching events unfold online. Technology made it incredibl…
Not An Elegy
Tip! First pinging our radar with her ‘Headflush’ album for Catch Wave back in 2019, Leila Bordreuil has a tactile, extreme approach to the cello, one that focuses on its visceral aspects in a way that mimics the most spirited, fraught and melancholy human emotions. Despite the complex nature of her playing, you can trace Bordreuil's lineage back to Arthur Russell’s defining ‘World Of Echo’ in methodology and spirit - Leila plays with no processing or effect pedals, everything stems from the pla…
Hong Kong Score
For their third release, after a few years of hard diggin’ and historical researches, they went deeper with Hong Kong Score, an introspection into the music in the chinese Cinema industry. A selection of tracks from Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, specially produced for movies and illustrations. The result is a compilation of 12 totally unknown gems sung mostly in mandarin and cantonese, from real deep instrumentals, Hip Hop breaks, Ethio style crazy drums, to heavy Bass à la Alain Goraguer (S…
Anagnorisis
Robert Hughes, composer and author, is a graduate of the University of Buffalo (now SUNY Buffalo) and composition student of Aaron Copland, Carlos, Chavez, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Lou Harrison. He has written for symphony orchestra, chamber ensemble, voices, performance art events and a wide variety of media, including twenty film scores and a large body of electronic music. His compositions include commissions from the San Francisco Symphony, Cabrillo Music Festival, Oakland Symphony, Arch Ense…
Music For The Kama Sutra
*2022 stock* Robert Hughes, composer and author, is a graduate of the University of Buffalo (now SUNY Buffalo) and composition student of Aaron Copland, Carlos, Chavez, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Lou Harrison. He has written for symphony orchestra, chamber ensemble, voices, performance art events and a wide variety of media, including twenty film scores and a large body of electronic music. His compositions include commissions from the San Francisco Symphony, Cabrillo Music Festival, Oakland Sympho…
Solar One/The Watts Towers
Other Minds is excited to bring you an EP of two archival works from Bay Area composer Charles Boone. Both pieces take their inspiration and titles from man-made landmarks across California. Solar One from a monumental power station near the desert city of Barstow, The Watts Towers from Simon Rodia’s outsider art masterpiece in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. In much of his work, the composer seeks to create sonic landscapes that are simultaneously static and dynamic. Certain elements, ha…
Som Desorganizado 2019
*300 copies box set* Som Desorganizado is an annual meeting promoted by Sonoscopia, gathering ideas and sounds from innovative sonic explorers. It is based around open presentations and discussions of artistic works, collaborative efforts and new directions in music. From a broader perspective, Som Desorganizado is also a reflection on the meaning of sound, and how it can be organized into musical artifacts.Box Set:- 2 CD's- 138 Illustrations by Ilan Manouach / Microworkers (12x12 cm)- 6 Photos …
Direccional o no · El pensamiento modifica la materia sobre la que se asienta
"As far as my artistic memory goes, I have always been fascinated by the boundaries between continuity and discontinuity, between the sayable and the unsayable, between the countable and uncountable; between what can be described completely by an algorithm and what cannot; between precise writing and writing that only manages to approximate any given phenomenon; between directionality and a lack thereof, adirectionality — a conflict that, not without a certain degree of internal struggle, I woul…
Roma Violenta (La Cinevox Si Incazza)
*2022 stock* This album is a musical tribute to a film genre that has recently come back into fashion: the Italian poliziottesco genre. Like "spaghetti westerns", "Made in Italy" cop movies have thousands of fans who consider actors like Fabio Testi, Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Maurizio Merli and Franco Gasparri as real historical icons. "Roma violenta..." contains music found in the original masters of the soundtracks of those films. These tracks, typical of the late 70s and early 80s atmosphere…
Amici Miei (Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film)
*2022 stock* This CD contains the soundtrack of one of the masterpieces of Italian cinema, "Amici miei", directed in 1975 by Mario Monicelli. The soundtrack was written by Carlo Rustichelli, one of the greatest composers of film music. It is built around the main theme, a waltz, and its variations. The jokes of the protagonsti are underlined by a theme that seems to recall Brecht, as well as the famous "Bella figlia dell'amore".
Poliziotto Solitudine E Rabbia
*2022 stock* Stelvio Cipriani has managed to capture the atmosphere of the story, writing a romantic commentary for piano and saxophone, introduced by Poliziotto Solitudine E Rabbia Seq. 1 which, varied with the guitar, will follow the daring deeds of the protagonist. The song is also reproposed in a vocal version during Poliziotto Solitudine E Rabbia Seq. 7 Inside the cd edition of "Poliziotto Solitudine E Rabbia (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack In Full Stereo)" (2012), a Digitmovies release…
Nekro
*2022 stock. 150 copies limited edition* The all new work released by Murder Corporation, which is the musical project of Moreno Daldosso, who started to play as Murder Corporation in 1992, 'nearly as a joke', after hearing heavy metal, punk, hardcore, EBM and then industrial music, and taking inspiration from Merzbow, Boyd Rice, William Bennett and Kevin Tomkin (and yes, I am not sure about that 'nearly as a joke' either).Murder Corporation uses tapes, noises, short waves and distorted voices, …
Neuronale
*2022 stock. 250 copies limited edition* "Ezio Albrile, a young and convinced supporter of an extreme militarism in the 80s, today renowned historian of religions of the ancient world and one of the greatest scholars in the field of gnostic religiosity. Albrile had already appeared musically with Psychopathic Blossom, an industrial/experimental project born among the school desks and composed by two other young Turinese, but that remained confined to a few tapes, without a label, and to some rad…
Splat Tv
*2022 stock. 200 copies limited edition* The DVD is made from previous VHS (1995/96) material which focuses on mutilated bodies and some Nazi film. The bodies are mostly murdered women, in one section the images have been superimposed with effects... or colored washes applied. The sound track mechanical/industrial noises. Murder Corporation obviously exploit violence, in particular sexual violence against women and Nazi violence. All works if taken seriously I suppose involve a critique of human…
Amlux
** Limited edition of 100 tapes, 50 on blue colored version (this one) and 50 on original colored version cover. ** Certainly Amlux is a very cohesive and well-constructed piece; starting more softly than usual, the record slowly builds into the chaotic harsh sound that Merzbow is well known for, but this time adding some actual recognizable music elements (like rhythms), and constructing various surprisingly well-texture soundscapes, that made of this album a more focused and immersive piece th…
Amlux
** Limited edition of 100 tapes, 50 on original colored version (this one) and 50 on blue colored version cover. ** Certainly Amlux is a very cohesive and well-constructed piece; starting more softly than usual, the record slowly builds into the chaotic harsh sound that Merzbow is well known for, but this time adding some actual recognizable music elements (like rhythms), and constructing various surprisingly well-texture soundscapes, that made of this album a more focused and immersive piece th…
Merzbeat
** Limited edition of 100 tapes, 50 Copies with red coloured cover artwork (this one) and 50 Copies with green coloured cover artwork ** A beautiful and distorted dream of drum samples, jazz, swing, noise and bliss, by Harsh Noise giant, Masami Akita (Merzbow).