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Oker is an acoustic improvising quartet based in Oslo, consisting of Adrian Fiskum Myhr on bass, Jan Martin Gismervik on drums, Torstein Lavik Larsen on trumpet and Fredrik Rasten on guitar. The music combines material from expanded instrumental techniques with open tonalities and deconstructed grooves. It can be described as rich textures in gradual change, but also as responsive and spontaneous. The ensemble balances between airy gestures and dense collective blocks of sound.
Oker is ma…
Un Esercito di 5 Uomini
“Un esercito di 5 uomini” (The Five Men Army) is a western movie directed by Italo Zingarelli in 1969, dating back to the golden age of the so-called Italian ‘spagetti western’ genre; among the protagonists we find a Bud Spencer whose popularity would have dramatically increase only the following year, thanks to the legendary “Lo chiamavano Trinità…”.
The soundtrack has been composed by Ennio Morricone and directed by his historic companion Bruno Nicolai, and sees the participation of I …
Squadra Antigangsters
“Squadra Antigangsters” (The Gang that Sold America) is one of over ten films produced between the ‘70s and ’80s in which the actor Tomas Milian plays the role of Police Marshal / Inspector Nico Giraldi, probably the most famous character out of the typical Italian detective films of that period, which were in practice Giallo movies with a strong comedy component. The film is set in the United States, and the soundtrack sounds very American, starting from the first two songs, interpreted …
All Sorts Of Heroes
From the shrapnel of the unlikely collision point where Mancunian post-punk royalty collides with sci-fi cinema and art house animation, this obscurity shines a new light on the Northern DIY era providing disc detectives with a whole new punk funk perspective. Recorded in 1976 by Invisible Girls' Steve Hopkins and Martin Hannett for a stop-motion animation called All Sorts Of Heroes, this hard-edged funk instrumental theme reveals another side to this versatile production team joining the h…
Nature
Mule Musiq present the first vinyl reissue of Fumio Itabashi's Nature, originally released in 1979. The legendary Japanese jazz pianist's first solo record ever, Nature was recorded at Nippon Columbia's first studio in Tokyo from March 13-15 in the year of its release. It features Itabashi making feverish love with the piano and he shares the studio with the great bass players Hideaki Mochizuki and Koichi Yamazaki, drummers Kenichi Kameyama and Ryojiro Furusawa, soprano saxophonist Yoshio Oto…
For This From That Will Be Filled
Metallic color artwork. Includes eight-page 12x12" booklet and download code; Edition of 500. For this from that will be filled is the debut album by Clarice Jensen, artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME). The album explores the variable differences between acoustic and electronic sound as well as depiction of the simulated and the unconscious. It was originally conceived as a collaboration between Jensen and the artist Jonathan Turner as an audio-visual work,…
More Selections From The Devotional Tapes 1982-1995
Unofficial release. Few copies available. A collection of the best Alice Coltrane ashram tape recordings not included on the ‘Ecstatic Music’ comp, culled from all four original releases 1982-95 leaning heavily (as the Luaka record itself does) on 1987’s ‘Divine Songs. Incredible audio quality
General Zhao Zi Long On Horseback Saves His Master
Limited to 250 copies. LP with insert. Fine collection of pre-1950’s songs taken from Chinese 78rpm records. An otherworldly compilation of Chinese operas and folk songs from old scratchy 78RPM records, featuring such legendary early/mid-20th century artists as Mei Lan Fang, Bai Ju Rong, Fong Yim Fun and many more.
Misztériumok
Misztériumok is the third full-length record - their first on three:four - of Italian duo Amuleto, composed of Francesco Dillon and his cousin and three:four’s artist Riccardo Wanke. Following the route of previous releases this new album emerges as the fusion of composed and improvised forms and moves between contemporary and electronic music mixing acoustic, electronic and real world sounds. The music takes shapes from a progressive disclosure of sonic material that gradually manifests i…
Hardscore
C.P. reproduction of this obscure early 80s affair between the GRM-aligned French Composer Michel Redolfi and venerable Free Sax proponent André Jaume. Featuring easily the worst cover imaginable (hence its appearance in the maligned 199.x serié) this two-part suite is actually a hidden gem of rogue Acoustic-Electronic interplay & tight, blocky Concrète moves, heavily featuring Redolfi's Synclavier interjections.
The A-Side's Jaume-led suite features a quartet w/ Jean-Marc Montera on gui…
Songs of Pat Ament
In 1971, at the age of 25, Pat Ament self-released his debut album, Songs By Pat Ament, in a very limited run for friends and local shops. The album is sparse and moody, conjuring a space not unlike the one that Songs Of Leonard Cohen occupies, featuring Ament on Wurlitzer with a jazz drummer and a guitarist alternating between acoustic and electric. It’s dark and at times forlorn, with meditations on yearning and loss and love. It’s ideal long-night-of-the-soul music. The lyricism evokes …
Botanica
"Botanica" is the first work published by Cristiano Carosi whith his real name. Moving to this new vest there's the idea of "uncovering" unseen relashionships between sound objects, the research of new intersections and combinations through electronic instruments and synthesis filtered by effects and magnetic tapes like a diaphram for a fotographer impressing his film. "With my filters I dose the materials i play, find and record, different elements and couples of sounds, reproduced and …
Green Graves
**Repress, limited edition of 500** Dominick Fernow (Prurient/Vatican Shadow) returns to his most quietly intriguing alter ego for this expansive new triple album, originally made as a limited run 3 x cassette pack that were not made available for sale. Big recommendation if you’re into Coil, Demdike Stare, Brian Eno / Jon Hassell’s Fourth World.
It's a jaw-dropping journey into the heart of dark, rhythmic ambient music from Fernow's most reclusive and unpredictable alter ego, feted for a …
Geschichten Des Lebens
After a series of committed live performances in Germany, Berlin-based producer Liziuz delivers his stunning debut album for Hospital Productions, Geschichten Des Lebens. Presented on two discs with two interpretations of the same epic track with one in ambient form and one in techno form. Geschichten Des Lebens is an album that requires patience with deep rewards. Liziuz is a new name emerging from the contemporary Berlin electronic underground. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Liziuz has i…
Fingerprince: Preserved Edition
Produced with The Cryptic Corporation, and with full access to The Residents' extensive tape archive, this package explores and expands the Residents classic third album and related 1976-1977 material, as well as the album's evolution on the live stage. Including the album restored to its original conceptual running order, plus long-forgotten unreleased material, live-in-the-studio tracks and concert recordings, this is The Residents as we've always wanted to hear them. Remastered, expanded…
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen: Preserved Edition
Produced with The Cryptic Corporation, and with full access to The Residents' extensive tape archive, this package explores and expands the classic fourth album (originally two EPs) and related 1978 material, as well as the album's evolution in the studio and on the live stage. Including long-forgotten unreleased material, live-in-the-studio tracks, rare and unreleased concert recordings and highlights from the extremely rare D*ck S*ab 35th Anniversary CD-R only album, this is The Residen…
Act Of Tenderness
Cindy Lee is the diva alter-ego of singer / guitarist / drag queen Patrick Flegel, the one-time captain of heralded Canadian experimental guitar pop act, Women. In Flegel's working on / as Cindy Lee exclusively over recent years, their songwriting makes a move toward high atmospherics, often achieving a mysterious sweetness rooted equally in beauty and ache. As Cindy Lee's first long-form statement, Act Of Tenderness makes use of antipodal themes to create a living sound: static with grace…
Codex Amphibia
Field recordings realized by Thomas Tilly, December 2016 Guiana. This project comes from a research field session realized with Antoine Fouquet, Research associate at The French National Center for Scientific Research; “Ecology, environment and interactions in Amazonian systems Lab” (LEEISA); and the “Evolution and Biological diversity Lab”. Comprised from unprocessed raw field recordings and interspersed sinewave structures by Thomas Tilly, 2017. Mastered by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening L…
Pianos Quart de Ton
Works for 2 and 4 pianos tuned a 1/4 tone apart, ondes Martenot and cello. Ivan Wyschnegradsky, “4e Fragment symphonique op.38c” for ondes Martenot and 4 pianos (1956), “Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra op.17” for 4 pianos (1930/1936). World premiere recording. “Méditation sur deux thèmes de la Journée de l’Existence op.7” for cello and piano 1/2 ton (1918/1976). Alain Moëne, “De l’ange for 2 pianos” (2015). First performance. Alain Bancquart, “Racines for 4 pianos” (2014). First performance..‘I c…
Front / Killing Realism
Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies. Killing Realism is an electroacoustic composition created from improvised material that was recorded in Thessaloniki and The Hague in 2015. Various percussion sounds, generated from crotales, sound plates, singing bowls, contact mics and bows, are combined with analog synths, electronics and Max/MSP patches.