Electronic / Experimental

More cosmic psychedelia on Aguirre now. Christelle Gualdi returns with Heartland's Suite, a compelling collection that compiles carefully selected works from the same fertile creative period that produced her acclaimed Trilogy Tapes release. This EP/LP showcases the breadth and depth of Stellar Om Source's distinctive sound, drawing from an expansive palette that spans new age tranquillity and experimental electronic innovation. The album represents a masterful exercise in sonic layering, where …

"Songs is the much-anticipated follow-up to Parisian sound designer and musician Sébastien Roux’s beautiful CD Pillow (Apestaartje, 2004). The simple title of Songs hides a deep work that Roux states is based in mathematics, symmetry (and assymetry) and organized randomness. Songs is a skillfully and beautifully rendered album of gentle and sometimes not-so-gentle acoustic instruments and melodic granular clouds. Each song is titled simply by the instruments that make it, thus stressing the proc…

Anthology One is culled from the first three cassette releases by Voice of Eye; Isolation, Voice of Eye and Resonant Fields / Hot Gypsy Fink Hell, all three Tapes released on thier own Cyclotron Industries Label between 1989-1991 These are the earliest recordings by Voice of Eye. Voice of Eye can be doubtlessly described as the protagonists and godfathers of the special genre of Ambient-Ritual-Music. Their specialty is "organic sound sculpting": a form of electronic ethnic ambient music th…

2004 release ** 3"The different musical experiences of the individual members are evidence of the promiscuity put into play. Valerio Zucca (aka Abstract Q) and Fabrizio Buzzoni, respectively on electronics and guitar, grew up musically in the 80s with the crossover band Nasty Nurses, influenced by Faith No More and Naked City. Zucca will go through the most diverse experiences, from the psychedelia of Disoriente, to the jungle-ambient duo Abstract Quadrant, also active in the cinematographic fie…

Two versions of David Tudor's electronic environment Rainforest, issued commercially for the first time: Version I (1968), made for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company with Takehisa Kosugi, and Version IV (1973), an electro-acoustic environment.

This CD represents a 25-year collaboration between renowned British avant-garde improviser Peter Cusack and instrument builder and sculptor Max Eastley. Cusack and Eastley have made these short episodes together between busy careers recording experimental music alongside artists such as Nicolas Collins, Steve Beresford, and David Toop). With numerous releases on ReR and Incus, the two musicians are mainstays of the British improvised music world, and Eastley is particularly prominent for his wor…

2005 release ** "Edgar Olivier Charles doesn’t exist, it’s the alter-ego of Roger Tellier-Craig, who works as Et Sans, Le Fly Pan Am and Set Fire to Flames. So far so good. ‘Rediscovered music recorded in Montreal between september 2002 and january 2005, it says on the cover and rediscovered are three tracks. In each subtitle, to each track, a name is mentioned: Iannis, Karlheinz and John – so, I’d say Xenakis, Stockhausen and Cage (well, more likely than, say Adams? Lennon?). And maybe Edgar Ol…