More Moondog
*2024 stock* Continues the NYC street performer's exploration of minimalist composition & field recording, mixing percussion & sparse melodies w/ piano solos, street sounds, & monologues. Surprisingly accessible despite it's avant-garde nature, bridging the gap between the familiar & the bizarre. Another all out masterwork from one of 20th century America's most unique minds.
Sprokkelhout
**Numbered edition of 25 copies only** Bart de Paepe has released several solo albums of psychedelic soggy murkiness on Vohu Manah, Beyond Beyond Is Beyond, Kerm whistling through the leaves and branches adjusting in/out of focus at random as we drift between reality and perception. Some of his resonance wood can be enjoyed in Ilta Hämärä (with Timo van Luijk), Wendingen 1918 (with Raymond Dijkstra), Bombay Lunatic Asylum (with Koen Vandenhoudt and Louise Landes Levi), Fort Bedmar (with Dave Col…
Bottling House
When the quartet of Luke Martin, Gabriel Salomon, Klaus Janek and Andy Graydon gathered to record an afternoon of sessions in Andy's studio, it was both the result of years of cultivation and an afterthought. Klaus and Andy had been long-time, and now long-distance, collaborators since their shared years in Berlin. That city was also where Andy was introduced to Gabriel at one of his solo performances by their mutual friend, the painter Paul McDevitt. Years passed, and cities. After meeting and …
The Light Moves Between
William Selman is an artist based in Portland, Oregon who has previously released work on Mysteries of the Deep, Hausu Mountain, Digitalis, and his own Critique of Everyday Life label (co-managed with Chris Miller aka Gunnar Haslam). This album is a response to a combination of influences including Selman's own film works, urban Portland and the wildernesses of the Pacific Northwest. Using collages of field recordings, synthesisers and acoustic instruments, this release may appeal to fans of Ber…
Asas Terrenas
Mariano Melo, aka Marian Sarine, is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist based in São Paulo, specialising in percussion and drums. Known for his drumming with the band Deafkids and his solo work as Sarine, Mariano's latest album, “Asas Terenas,” features his first recordings under this name. The album began with organ themes recorded with Felipe Pato at the end of 2019, with additional instruments added throughout 2020 and 2021. As Sarine himself says, “Asas Terenas” is a sonic mixture that moves t…
Due scritti imperfetti
Tip! "Due scritti imperfetti" contains three compositions meticulously put together by Giancarlo Toniutti, Deison and Massimo Toniutti. The location chosen for this collaboration was primarily the recording studio in Udine where, in a two-year timespan, the authors met to discuss, compose, record, trim, listening back, sifting out sounds and adapting their electro-acoustic mixtures.The music or rather 'musics' that emerged during this progress, represent different versions of ongoing experiments…
Two Solo Pieces
Rare original 1977 release of breathtaking solo music for flute and organ by composer and member of the Philip Glass Ensemble on Galss' private Chatham Square label. EDP pressing.
Anahit / Mikka / Mikka “S”/ Strung Out
Absolutely essential 1976 ambient/modern classical compilation of solo violin music by three legendary composers.
Solo Music
A Shadar milestone of electric minimalism, a great copy of the original Philip Glass 1975 LP for your aural pleasure.
Music in Similar Motion / Music in Fifths
Original 1973 first press of the second LP issued by Glass on his own Chatham Square label. A dizzying and glowing hypnotic mass of classical minimal avant-garde.
Music With Changing Parts
Original 1971 first pressinng of Philip Glass' 2LP masterpiece on the composer's own semi-private Chatham Square label.
Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord
CD Edition. Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus. Originally debuted in 1976 at the festival Brouwer's Lattice at Stockholm's Moderna Museet, The Electric Harpsichord has steadily mystified fans and students of Western minimalist music for its implacable, transformative qualities, and the long-hel…
Lactamase 01 (10")
Limited edition hand-numbered split 10" with the odd pairing of minimalism master Tony Conrad with the wonderful Legendary Pink Dots' Edward Ka-Spel. Complete with all inserts.
The Japanese Room at La Pagode / May (2x7")
Unplayed mint copy of rare first edition limited to 500 copies with bonus disc and folded poster sleeve of split EP shared by the master Tony Conrad and his pupils Jim O'Roure and David Grubbs.
Four Violins 1964
Rare first pressing with poster of this 1996 LP on TOTE presenting a 1964 recording of Tony Conrad's astonoshing classic piece. A triumph of minimalism.
Goodbye Monsters
*300 copies limited edition* Roberto Musci, born in Milan in 1956, studied guitar, music and electronic instruments. From 1974 to 1985 he traveled the world studying African, Indian, Arab and Oriental music recording ethnic music “in the field,” studying and collecting ethnic musical instruments from all parts of the world. His self-produced debut album, “The Loa of Music,” is a seminal work of staggering originality and extraordinary beauty in which field recordings, musique concrète, electroni…
Padre, fammi partire! (a tribute to Franco Battiato)
“Padre, fammi partire!” (Father, make me leave!). Franco Battiato, orphan of a father, sings this verse in "Da Orienta a Occidente". He declaims it solemnly and decisively. More than a request for a blessing, it is a declaration of intent. The force with which this prayer is recited admits of no weakness, no compromise and no obstacle. To leave is necessary. The volcano is there, showing the way. The power of this phrase reflects the impatience of a hawk that, tied to the arm of its falconer, wa…
Delirium Room
Encoder returns to his electronic deliriums with a new minimal, claustrophobic and voyeuristic work. Recorded on July 2, 2024 in San Rocco al Porto. Improvisation in the Bedroom using 3 microphones outside the window, electric bass - looper - sampler.Mastered by Angelo Bignamini
Hardstone carvings
*Dubbed on reused ferro tapes* Reveries; an apartment and it's lonesome inhabitant. Field recordings and reamps through lousy computer speakers. The livelyhood and sounds of tape running around different objects, chatting radios and the fiddeling of a diverse array of small talkative machines. All recordings were made within the same weekend, being alone in my apartment. Edited, cut apart and put back together.
Bring forth the moon
*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* A collaboration between accordionist K. Vidar, recorded and edited by J. Folke with onset from Vidar's solo accordion concert in a water tower in Brønshøj. Recordings are made the day prior to the concert, and subsequent on the staircases of the conservatory on Rosenørns Alle. Edited and processed throughout the summer 2024.