The Echoing Shell
With their collaborative duo debut, Dean Spunt and John Wiese invite you to experience the frenzy of percussive space and discreet sound found inside The Echoing Shell.
Sonic Rituals 声响仪式
*2022 stock* Sound Artists Mei Zhiyong from China and Dave Phillips from Switzerland did a tour of China in July 2014 titled “Sonic Rituals”. They travelled through 17 cities playing 19 concerts. The red thread of the film is the subcurrent that talks of feelings, atmosphere, travel, friendship, sounds, passion and of ceremony - of the rituals that are part of the performances, that are the performances and that are part of the greater language of sound and of travelling with sound. Director Mei…
Nido
**Edition of 100** "Recorded with a 4-track cassette recorder in c/ Natalio Rivas 7, Granada, Spain, on the nights of June 23rd (Nido i) and September 21st (Nido ii), 2018. Electric guitar, toy instruments, recordings of my daughter playing in Las Mimbres, Granada. The two tracks were meant to be some sort of lullabies, some music my then-2-year-old daughter could fall asleep to." - Francesco Covarino
Utsuho
**Edition of 150** Recorded by Yoshiyuki Suzuki. Mastered by Francesco Covarino. Released March 21, 2022
Night Calls
Second Sleep presents Mercury Hall's latest release Night Calls. Mercury Hall is the solo project by the label's founder Matteo Castro, one of the most relevant figure in Italian noise scene. With this solo project, Castro delivers long excursion of concrete music.
Le rêve, l’ombre et la vision
Seven sound-paintings inspired by the poems of Finnish writer Eeva-Liisa Manner and the paths of the Deep North which revolve around the boreal circle, those lakes, shores, cliffs, fjords and large forests inhabited by other lives, other presences than ours. Le rêve, l’ombre et la vision is constructed from field recordings of natural phenomena at various open sites: echo in a wooded valley, geyser, cliffs rocks, glacial lake sculpted by a forgotten glacier, fire, landscape after freezing rain, …
SOL OP - Music For Midified & Modified Pipe Organs
*300 copies limited edition* SOL OP is based on a collective composition for unconventional pipe organs made by the three Danish composers and musicians Jonas Olesen, Anders Lauge Meldgaard and Sandra Boss. On three mobile, midified and modified pipe organs,the trio has constructed a musical universe inhabited by animals, humans and machines. SOL OP is based upon an exploration of the organs' more alternative sonic features. Incorporating the full instrument in the compositions – including the a…
Objetos Musicais - Homage to Walter Smetak
Tip! Objetos Musicais is a collection of 13 sound pieces created by artists from South America and Switzerland, who work in an intermediate zone among the craft of luthiers, visual arts and experimental music. Their works evoke the visionary ideas of Walter Smetak, a Swiss composer who lived in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil). Smetak was a pioneer of musical experimentation in that country and developed, in the 60s and 70s, a musical poetics that was captured in two seminal albums, Smetak (1974) and In…
Music Will Ruin Everything
*300 copies limited edition* "the very reason i initiated this project was vanished in time. however, it’s not very long time since it has suspending into this “physical object is dying” and “society is dying” situation. and it’s long enough to coming back with ideas of “connecting objects and bodies over language” and “connecting an outer territory”. so i have diving back to the files again, starting editing and translating, inviting few more physical entities and fortunately yihao joined as de…
Respiran
**Edition of 100** Recorded and edited in Salsipuedes, Córdoba, Argentina between 2019 and 2020. Mastered by Francesco Covarino
Yu Yan Lao Gong
**Limited edition of 75**
Zhu Wenbo: language laboratory cassette player, tape Yan Jun: scissors, sticker, tape Recorded by Yan Jun in Studio h, Beijing, July 16th, 2020 Mastered by Francesco Covarino. Released November 8, 2021
Boca de Piedra
**Limited edition of 75**
Daniel Bruno: trombone, electronics Javier Bustos: experimental lutherie, electronics Recorded by Eric Kamatsu at Estudio El Cubo, Buenos Aires (Argentina), on November 11th, 2019.Mixed and mastered by Daniel Bruno and Javier Busto. Released January 11, 2022
Body/Dilloway/Head LP
This record is a head-on excavation of temporal fallibility, a collaboration between Kim Gordon(Sonic Youth, Body/Head, Free Kitten et al. and Bill Nace with Aaron Dilloway former member of Wolf Eyes or in innumerable other contexts.
Reticence / Resistance LP
"Reticence / Resistance" is the eighteenth Pelt album and the first since 2012. It was mastered by James Plotkin. Pressed on 140 gram 12 in Virginia by Furnace and housed within a gatefold jacket bearing new design elements from the band's Patrick Best. As a part of the Three Lobed Recordings 20th Anniversary series it features an OBI strip bearing an essay about the LP by Aquarium Drunkard's Tyler Wilcox. Edition of 700
Terminal Velocity
Lars Lundehave Hansen has been working with ephemeral drones and physical music for the past 20 years - as a soundartist, enthusiastic promotor of and dedicated performer in these fields. First pressing of Terminal Velocity on 180gr blue vinyl. Limited edition of 300 copies with liner notes by Jan Sneum.
Phantoms LP
Eddie Ladoire, composer and plastic artist, meets Pierre Bastien, an emblematic figure of the french experimental music scene to compose the soundtrack of an original choregraphy made of edited old movies of dancers from all times and spaces.
Hegemony of Delete
Hegemony of Delete is electronic music in dialogue with the real rhythms of work and leisure. As Co La, Matthew Papich courts the minor distractions and interruptions typically seen to dilute workflow or artistic process. With or without an audience—in the studio and in performance—his music subtly works the room, not unlike those comedians who semi-secretly draw their momentum from crowd “interruptions.”
The six songs of this 12” bear the marks of Co La’s working method, to which the title refe…
Rarities (Volumes 1 & 2)
Lindsay Cooper was a rare and extraordinary woman; at home in rock bands (Henry Cow, National Health), Jazz ensembles (Mike Westbrook Orchestra, Maarten Altena Octet) Concert Halls (Concerto for Sopranino Saxophone and Orchestra, Songs for bassoon and Orchestra); she also founded the Feminist Improvising Group, scored feature films and wrote for television, dance, radio, theatre, contemporary ensembles and orchestras - as well as being highly respected as a virtuoso performer on several instrume…
Oltreorme
Four beautiful pieces for acoustic objects, performed, recorded and assembled by an Italian composer whose reputation has soared in recent years after previous CD releases on Col Legno, Neos and Another Timbre . Oltreorme is Coluccion's second work for acoustic objects (no musical instruments, electronic devices or post-production treatments) and suggests a new direction in Coluccino's music, engaging with notions of silence more closely and explicitly than in his previous compositions. M…