New Arrivals
Landscape Suicide
Landscape suicide is the fifth tape produced by Artetetra, protagonists are Nicola Tirabasso (already in VHS for the same label with "Soundtrack for Acarino Galaico") and Valerio Maiolo (Sex with Giallone - Trovarobato / performer in the electroacoustic ensemble led by Francesco Giomi) the two of the artists, in their new production, propose an essential deconstruction of the languages already used in the most known and classic popular music history like field recordings, spoken word, drones, co…
Tapes von Unterwegs 1971-1976
Like his literary fellow traveler William S. Burroughs, who made tape experiments a few years earlier, German beat writer Jürgen Ploog (born 1935) began experimenting with tape recorders in the 1970s. Due to his career as a transcontinental pilot, Ploog was constantly on the go. The material on this LP was recorded and edited by Jürgen Ploog on different flights between 1971 and 1976 on a portable tape-recorder. Final selection, montage and editing by Robert Schalinski. Limited to 500 copies.
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Sock-Tight
"Mike Watt is simply the best bass player in the world and one of a guy. Used to play in the bands Minutemen and firehose and jamed in econo on stage with everybody from Sonic Youth to Flea. Raymond Pettibon is he best cover artist in the world and a damn good painter indeed. He draws his characters and settings in a very significant black style, giving them a laconic and nostalgic feeling, also by adding found and original created lyrics along, which are not causaly meant to be fitting. A…
Libya Tour Guide
Limited edition of 500. Originally issued as the third LP in the limited-edition Tandoori Dog box set (1998), Libya Tour Guide is reissued here as a standalone CD following corresponding editions of the box's first two discs, Jaagheed Zarb (2008) and Tandoor Dog (ARCHIVE 013CD, 2013), and again the increased space of the CD medium has allowed for the inclusion of previously unreleased material from the original tape. Although a version of "Rebiana sand sea" originally surfaced on the 1998 Mel…
Abyssinia Selasie
Limited edition of 500. Although Bryn Jones's work as Muslimgauze certainly counts dub among its influences, rarely is that influence treated as directly or centrally as it is on many of the tracks found on Abyssinia Selasie. A rarity among the material Jones left behind after his death in 1999, this release features previously unreleased material that Jones had titled, unlike many of the tapes he had submitted but hadn't gotten around to preparing for release. The opening title-track alon…
Izlamaphobia
Edition of 500. Izlamaphobia starts with an aggressive blast, "Hudood ordinance." With a rhythm track consisting of extremely tweaked and processed electronic beats and bleeps and only the gentlest of Arabic string instruments deep in the mix to relate things to a more familiar Muslimgauze sound, the song sets the general mood for the rest of Izlamaphobia. This said, Bryn Jones's specific talent was such that even without that, this would still sound like him, his trademark care and obses…
Life on the Inside
Limited edition of 300, already sold out at source. David Toop's environmental beauty Life on the Inside is the audio companion (created and recorded in 2015) to French sculptor Pierre Besson's 2014 exhibition D'objets noires et de Choses carrées (Black Objects and Square Things). This 34-minute ambient track was diffused inside of the sculpture and has never been published before. An excellent addition to the David Toop discography and a must for any wide-ranging ambient fan."Musician, write…
Cindy, Loraine & Hank
The legendary Berlin-based art collective Column One come with a new double album, entitled "Cindy, Loraine & Hank". This was in the works for almost 10 years and it is their first album since anniversary box set "No One" from 2011 and "Antiphona" 10" vinyl EP from 2013. For this recordings, Column One were René Lamp, Robert Schalinski, Jürgen Eckloff, Andrew Loadman with Nada and Rasmus Schalinski plus a host of guests including Reinhold Friedl and Zeitkratzer Ensemble. This double album presen…
Mahler Remix
Mahler Remix was recorded live at RadioKulturhaus, Vienna, in May 2011. This recording is mostly based on samples taken from Gustav Mahler's symphonies. The performance also includes an early version of "Liminality' from the bécs album, released in 2014 on Editions Mego (EMEGO 165CD/LP). Mahler Remixed was a commissioned work performed together with the visual artist Lillevan. The piece was only performed live three times, at RadioKulturhaus in Vienna, Carnegie Hall in New York City, and Borusan…
Yoiking with the Winged Ones
Immersive field recordings of traditional Finnish chants, or Yoiks, sung by Ánde Somby, recorded and edited by Chris Watson. “Yoiking is the ancient chanting practise of the Sámi People - the indigenous peoples on the top of Europe. Yoiking originates from time immemorial - legend tells that it was the faires and elves of the arctic lands that gave yoiks to the Sámi People. Yoiking was an important element of the religious rituals in pre-christian times and has survived both christianity, imperi…
Click sur On, circonference parallele avec les sons
A piece for voice and electroacoustic with Thomas Hilbert, electroacoustic music and Iris Lancery, text and voice. An electroacoustic poem in tribute to the soundscape.A journey through the ear and the listening.
Sang
Marc Hurtado, voice and instruments (recorded by Marc Hurtado at Fire Music Studio, France). Z'ev, percussions (recorded by Z'ev in London, UK). Mixed and mastered by Marc Hurtado at Fire Music Studio. Art Direction and photos by Marc Hurtado.
Die Like a Dog
German reedman-composer Peter Brotzmann is, despite an immense catalog spanning over forty years of activity in free music, criminally underrepresented in the format of a "standard" piano-less quartet. From reed-heavy octets and orchestras to the winds-bass-drums power trio, not to mention a long-running trio with percussion and piano, most of the possible formations have been covered. His Die Like A Dog Quartet was the one entry in this instrumental canon in the late 1990s, and produced five re…
New York Box vol.1
"From New York" is a musical jouney into the street of New York divided into three splendid albums:
DAVID MURRAY - Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean ClubNew Year's Eve 1977 gig with Lester Bowie, Fred Hopkins and Phillip Wilson, originally released on India Navigation.
JOHN LINDBERG'S TRIPOLAR - (A)Live at Roulette, NYCString Trio of New York bassist Lindberg, with Don Davis (sax) and Kevin Norton (drums), recorded in sparkling form in New York, 2010
LESTER BOWIE - The Great PretenderGospel-dre…
Split
Split album of the Berlin based artists Shapes a.ka. Niklas Dommaschk (member of Phantom Horse) and Oliver Koch as Melfi. There’s some peculiar mutuality in the works of Melfi and Shapes that add an unexpected kind of conceptuality to that split tape on hand. Both artists work with machines that are older than themselves, and it is obvious that their approach alleges some kind of antiqueness that sets the listener on the wrong track. There’s an inheritable sadness to all of these tracks, friendl…
Two Variations
Two Variations marks the return to Umor Rex of the Los Angeles based musician & producer M. Geddes Gengras, following his two volumes of “Collected Works” from 2013 and 2014. The two pieces here are the result of Gengras’ continuous exercises and obsession with his modular synthesizer, —technique apart—, “Two Variations” is a new statement, the reinforcement of MGG’s prowess in this area, and how through these machines, he is able to build harmonic music pieces, contours between the electronic c…
Re:collecting
Re:collecting is the first collaborative album of Steven Hess (member of Locrian, Cleared, Pan•American, Haptic, and Innode) and Rutger Zuydervelt (also known as Machinefabriek).
Over that past years, Steven Hess has recorded piles of cassettes on an old four-track and classroom desktop tape players, going through a chain of pedals and loopers and then back into the cassette recorders again. Besides his usual drum kit and cymbals, the sound sources include guitar, bass, AM/FM radio chatter and w…
Pharaoh Overlord
Circle’s Pharaoh Overlord is bound to contest all speculations you ever heard of these savant ritualists. What’s clear is that Pharaoh Overlord means the intrusion of the namesake of this album into Circle.It is a forest of fire. Their self-possessed purge from self-referentiality, oddly enough, intensifies the paradox-ridden spree with which Circle have ignited the very building blocks of the band itself into fiction that is ever leaking out into reality-infested horizons surrounding the volupt…
Surfacing
The debut release by Mára, the solo project of Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, Everlovely Lightningheart).Time. Death. Transcendence. These are the allusions and allegories that Faith Coloccia extends through her piano-bloom plainsongs under her moniker Mára. Her elegant and deceptively simple compositions situate at the crossroads of these grand narratives with all of the existential portent of a spiritualist hymnal; yet there is an intimacy to her visions traced in the delicacy of her touch on the p…
s/t
Cassette reissue of the 2010 split LP release. Edition of 50 copies. Custom letterpress packaging, hand stamped & numbered, artwork/design by F. Coloccia. “Music like this cannot merely be described; music like this must be felt. Mamiffer’s debut is a beautiful piece of unremitting dream music, an arc of soft diaphanous emotion wrapped in pieces of classical music and brilliant noise.” -Blog Critics The split LP is a time honored tradition in the realm of underground musics, one which ha…