Two Kings
Hand-numbered edition of 250. First record of the mysterious duo Two Kings (Ian Humberstone, founder of Folklore Tapes and Malcolm Benzie). Somewhere, lost in another plane of existence, a banished king searches in vain for his kingdom. This is King Herla, a man stricken by the spells of an unruly dwarf king and destined to ride the stormy skies for all eternity. But on All Hallow’s Eve, when the boundaries that separate his world from our own are somewhat porous, our protagonist spies his oppor…
Petals
"On Petals, the pair’s haunting folk music comes into sharper focus while broadening their sonic palette. Spoken word meets chanted incantations, gently fingerpicked acoustic guitar is placed alongside spindly piano melodies, the creak of floorboards in the background mirrors the creak of fingerprints dragged across guitar strings. Woven throughout are bursts of tape-recorded radio static that reveal hardly distinguishable voices while MacDougall sings of equally fleeting phenomena. Winds, breez…
It Deel III
*300 copies limited release* It Deel is the multi-year project of the Kleefstra Bros together with Popfabryk; production house for Frisian pop culture.For It Deel III the Kleefstra Bros have entered into a collaboration with the Belgian multi-instrumentalist Karen Willems. Together they worked in the Thomaskerk in Katlijk on new material that was released on vinyl by Moving Furniture Records.
The Kleefstra Bros are poet Jan Kleefstra and guitarist Romke Kleefstra, both also members of Piiptsjill…
Performs Monument Maker
The debut recording from the duo of multi-award-winning Scottish author David Keenan and Bruce Russell, the guitarist from the greatest underground rock band of the late 20th century, New Zealand’s the Dead C., was recorded live in Christchurch, NZ, as part of the Word festival in August 2023. A series of live improvised settings that pair readings from Keenan’s monolithic and critically-acclaimed modernist masterpiece, Monument Maker (White Rabbit 2021), with guitar and electronics from Russell…
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.
IJsschots Veenlaag Mist
*200 copies limited edition* We’re delighted to announce the triumphant return of Steve Marreyt, aka Edgar Wappenhalter. Here he reverts to making gritty reverb-drenched folksongs. But the poetic and electronic elements from his previous album remain – they’re just incorporated in the songs this time. It makes ‘Ijsschots Veenlaag Mist’ probably Wappenhalter’s most balanced work thusfar. Songs like ‘Hallusineren’ or ‘Vogel rok diamant’ prove he’s one of the best intuitive songwriters around, wher…
Memorex
The London-based electronic musician Luke J Murray aka Stonecirclesampler and the award-winning writer Travis Elborough have combined forces on a new collaboration to be released on The Tapeworm label under the title 'Memorex'. Luke J Murray is a man of many musical aliases, releasing and performing variously as: Superior Grime London Blue DNB-like South Sand Dynamics Luke Marblex The In 2.5G Label White Dark Rainfall J Escape NCR London The From Cracks In Concrete 900Cold Liquid DJ Pulp Grime M…
the blacksmiths, the flowers
Reading Group is thrilled to announce a new album from the celebrated trio of Fred Moten (voice), Brandon López (double bass), and Gerald Cleaver (drums). Following the release of their 2022 self-titled debut album, also on Reading Group (RG23), the trio has been developing their improvisatory language in concerts across North America and the UK. While growing from their first album’s perpetually restrained simmer, their infamous live shows explore a propulsive, relentless, and massively energet…
George-Washington-Hotel
*Rare original copies from 1980* Obscure ‘Broken Music’ record by German visual artist Martin Rosz (1945-2022) published by himself in 1980. In 1978 Rosz received a grant to work at the PS1 in New York (nowadays part of MoMA). This recordings was made in NY in September 1978 by the artist. Part diary, part poetry, collaged with field recordings and background music. Text is read in english.
Includes 24 page booklet with the english text, as well as the original german version. Very curious editi…
Hell Bank Note (1993 - 1995)
Burning Love Jumpsuit were an Underground Irish band of movie obsessive shut ins who had access to a computer. They were active between 1991 – 2002. A three-piece of proto-edgelords, (D.F. Dresden, Smiley, J. Bassetti) Burning Love Jumpsuit jammed and sampled their way to notoriety in the 1990s, making experimental music that was equal parts thought-provoking funk and stroke-inducing gunk. A penchant for sleazy Americana, obscure movies and exploitative daytime telly inspired a pool of samples t…
Voice for Eternal Divorce
*300 copies limited edition* This CD collaboration was made after we were invited by Joachim Nordwall to play together for the very first time at the Parasoll Festival in Gothenburg.
Twenty-Four Hours (Tape)
*Tip* *Edition of 24* Twenty-Four Hours is one of Stephen Watts’ earliest works, written in the mid-1970s but unpublished until 2022 (via Monitor & Prototype). A prose poem meditating on time, memory, and childhood, this live recording of Watts’ reading (35m) was made at the Steamship, Poplar (London), in September 2022.
Τα Αθηναϊκά
Rekem presents the first physical release by I broke the vase, a project formed by Eva Matsigkou and Nefeli Sani in 2018. The two create musical performances through listening, free improvisation and composition. Central to their practice is the writing and reading of autoethnographic texts, the participation of the body, as well as interactions with space and environment. Most of their work appears in the form of one-off projects, in a constant state of flux that allows them to remain sensitive…
Cesi est Cela
2024 stock. Third volume in MIO's Besombes reissue program (and first time on CD), features recordings made in France between 1972 and 1979. "This 1976 release includes early ballet music that was originally recorded between 1974-1975 for several contemporary ballet groups in Paris. The recording was assisted by Jean Louis Rizet, with whom Besombes was then working in his recording studio. Bonus tracks include two early pieces from 1972 (recorded during his time engineering for Stockhausen, Nono…
The Body Imitates The Landscape
The music on this album originates in the interactive sound installation The Body Imitates the Landscape by artist Adi Hollander: she designed a collection of ergonomic objects that are meant to transform music into vibrations felt through the entire body. Hollander was inspired by the Japanese book Karada by Michitaro Tada about the ‘school of the body’. Hollander and Claudio F. Baroni made a live version of the installation where Baroni’s music, performed by Maze, was experienced live by the p…
Fragments
The album Fragments places Gabriele Tinti's poems and Roger Ballen's images in the context of Massimo Pupillo's sound world, where the inevitability of suffering is expressed through Ballen's uniquely dark recitation.
Mouse Sluts
*2024 stock* Bruit Direct Disques proudly announce our fourth release of 2015 with a new four track 12″ record by Mouse Sluts (Dan Melchior, Graham Lambkin, Letha Rodman Melchior and Glen) playing at glorious 45rpm.
The music contained on this E.P. came about almost by accident. During a period of intense correspondence between Dan Melchior and Graham Lambkin, a story from a Folkestone area newspaper tickled the warped funny bones of the duo and gave birth to some lyrics that were dictated into …
7 Stücke / 1998
*300 copies limited edition* The open spaces in East Berlin that emerged for a handful of years in the 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin wall, have shown to be a fertile ground for musical and artistic experimentators to develop their play and showcase their findings, and to work together in ways that would have been impossible anywhere else. In retrospect, the reductionist brand of improvisation that has become known as Echtzeitmusik (real-time music) seems to overshadow other achievements, t…
Alice in Wonderland
2024 stock. Alice In Wonderland, by Los Angeles, California composer and musician Randy Greif, is a gripping and imaginative telling of Lewis Carroll’s classic story. Using electronics and altered acoustic sounds, along with more traditional instruments, Greif creates a dark and beguiling atmosphere that captures the listener’s imagination. The spoken text is deconstructed into indecipherable phonemes, or laid into rhythmic, musical structures roughly approximating songs. At times, the sonic bac…
Vox Humana: Alfred Wolfsohn's Experiments In Extension Of Human Vocal Range
Have you ever considered what the full range of tone and pitch the human voice is? Have you wondered if there was some latent singing ability that all people were capable of achieving?