Improvisation for Dusty Ballz
*50 copies limited edition* Dusty Ballz (UK) and WV Sorcerer Productions (FR) join forces to present two new releases by Beijing-based noise/drone/doom metal group, Ghostmass. In Chinese, “big ghost” is a phrase sometimes used to convey a sense of utter out-of-placeness. If you see a big ghost, you find someone who walks the corporeal world in their own preposterous ways. A big ghost is not a ghost, it does not terrorise, but neither does it belong. It occurred to Li Weisi that this speaks to th…
Hormonic B.C.
Morgan Hall (Greece) brings a hedonistic take to dark ambient on "Hormonic B.C.". Streets lay barren and grey, buildings crumble as time passes. The atmosphere is thickened by the heat, as those left amidst the ruins revel in listless debauchery. A formidable collection of bitter truths published by way of sonic excess.
One Void Ceremonial Program I
Bent Window is proud to present this ritual ambient release from the One Void Collective (Atlanta, GA). Pay attention to the stripped down rhythyms, melting into their surroundings. The trance-like work leading down the paths of the metaphysical. In reference to the recording Häxa Komät expresses the following: "Thematically based on the religious and spiritual practices of animatism and unitary religious experiences via ritual, ceremony, self expression and art. Presented through the lens of th…
Ash In The Room Below (demo)
*25 copies limited edition* Bleak ambient for insomniacs. N.G. - synthesizers.
Intercepted Communications
Mt Borracho's new record 'Intercepted Communications' is a paranormal tour of the United States. Starting off in their hometown of Austin (TX), the duo travelled across the country with their equipment, rigging up to local radio stations and letting their machines tap into these supernatural "hotspots" and recording what came back. With each of the 19 tracks captured in different locations (Salem, Lima, Creedmor, Mercer Island +) and at different days / times, it's a nationwide experiment into t…
Concert à la Cave 12
*100 copies limited edition* "Out there Norwegian guitarist-performer-singer, Gaute Granili, a true prodigy of (de)structured psychedelic song that we have been following since his beginnings, continues his explorations of sweet madness by donning a fantastic collection of strange twisted stretched beads, filled with ghost/haunting folk music, which one has the impression of knowing from who knows where, of lyrics sung in unknown vocabularies and of pop surges deboned by a psychedelic gnome mess…
Selection De 8 Moments
*100 copies limited edition* Selection of eight moments of cybernetic self-hypnosis, observe a tiny point and enter it. Associate sound impressions and abstract emotions, Nocola Henry's laboratory avatar.
Visages Fictifs
*80 copies limited edition* Visages Fictifs (Fictional Faces), five abstract maps following free associations, lines and dreamlike paths. Field recordings mainly from France (Chalon Sur Saône, Veules-les-Roses) and Italy (Val Soana, Castiglion Del Lago) and edited in Turin in 2022-23.Adriano Cava plays with frequencies and electricity to shape ephemeral environments. He is part of the Misto Mame collective, 1/3 of the Riforma label. Mixing and broadcast of 00185fm, Radio Sygma (Wide.Mesh) and Ra…
Infinity Ditch
*Limited to 70 copies* "Electric Shahi Baaja and Gaz recordings from southern France. Pushing out towards the reaches of stringed-instrument technique. Playing with structure and typical/a-typical sound. Based in tradition processed to confuse." - Sound Holes
Lidless Hinge
*Limited to 100 copies* "This is the good stuff. Metal objects and lap steel guitar. Inhale deeply" - Sound Holes
Sore Forest West Coast
*Limited to 100 copies* "Al Jones and Zach Rowden played a series of gigs down the west coast of Canada & the US last year. Here are a couple of those tape mangled sets." - Sound Holes
I Used To Be An Improviser
*Limited to 60 hand-numbered copies* "Ali Robertson used to be an improviser but he's not anymore. Ask him for the score for this tape so that you can play along at home." - Sound Holes
Sticky Vanity
*Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies* "This is the first recording in 10 years after a hiatus of activities asBurried Machine, and also be the first release under my real name, Shin Chida. This is a collaboration release with Tom Karlsson who is a Swedish artist and also experimental musician, for the second time since my last release as Burried Machine in 2013, Stoned Mirror." - Shin Chida
Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis
The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs -- 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis,’ 1987’s ‘Locust Abortion Technician’ and 1988’s ‘Hairway to Steven.’ The period during which these records were first issued parallels the Buttholes’ transition from being weirdo Texas outcasts to becoming internationally recognized smut-kings of the American underground. In 1985 they were still the sole p…
Out Of Practice II
This tape is a weird one. We’re calling it a “covers album”, which in our fried brains it is, but you might disagree. When our first two gigs in 15 years landed on our calendar we wanted to do something unexpected, a ‘live one night only’ kind of thing. We're always improvising everything, but as OOP1 may (or may not) have demonstrated we usually go into our live sets with some kind of plan — a set of moves, themes, approaches, ideas, structures or feelings that we call “songs” but that probably…
Out Of Practice I
Getting back to playing was a whole thing. Neither of us had been playing much music and weren't sure how we'd get back to it since we live pretty far apart and had opted in to playing shows. We always leaned on improvisation in our sets and our last few years were entirely improvisational, so we decided we'd create a few frameworks for playing our live gigs to give us something to lean on. In a sense, "songs" but VERRRRY loose. So here's a tape documenting two very different versions of one of …
Les nœuds lunaires
Tip! "It seems that this morning the moon has swapped its pale coldness for an acid yellow: the journey begins as the night draws to a close. Bodies writhe, given over to some mystical revelation: would have we forgotten that the day was going to rise? Chaos stands there in rare purity, like a farewell to all hesitation. Black celebration. After the introduction, the title track ‘les orvets’ sets the tone: powerful and synthetic waves, like a trip, the rhythm is tenuous and the sounds so thick …
Layers 1975-2004
It is a sincere honor and a privilege for Full Spectrum Records to announce the release of ‘Layers: 1975-2004,’ a retrospective collection of recordings from Texas abstract music legends Onions. An unsung and mostly hidden collective who paved the way for so much of Texas’ sprawling free and experimental music lineages, Onions is the ‘nom de guerre’ of a network of musicians and artists centered around its primary exponent, Dan Clark AKA Lienad Kralc and his musical partner Greg Cain aka Gerg Ni…
Music for Metaal 2024
*Limited edition in tin can with attached razor blade* "For reasons not of general interest, I re-discovered Vivenza’s music last year or so when I got some of the old vinyl and a CD again, and I played these with much enjoyment. I don’t know why Jean-Marc Vivenza never released any new music beyond 1994, but I am sure he has his reasons (a study in esoteric and philosophic movements may be the answer). The exciting aspect of his music was his recordings of machines, which he didn’t link to the …
Incoherent Hypnosis
*50 copies limited edition* Incoherent Hypnosis, recorded live at Down The Hill 2023, was my last solo guitar set before turning to Taishogoto. The music here was one of the final aspirations I had with the elctric guitar at that time. The structure for this set I had been playing for a while and even recording some seperate parts for an album, which never happened. I would like to thank the organisation of Down The Hill for taking a big leap that year in offering a more experimental section in …