Arctic Summer
"The richness of these recordings cannot be overstated." — A Closer Listen
Dé-Coll/Age Musik
A seminal figure in the history of 20th century avant-garde, yet sinfully overlooked, Wolf Vostell unleashed ideas - those running wild through his debut LP Dé-coll/age Musik, which remain a slap to the face, more than half a century after they were set into play. A founding member of Fluxus, an early instigator of Happenings, an innovator of video art, Vostell was equally one of the most radical and irreverent practitioners in sound that the world has ever known. First released in 1982, …
Pound To Stone
Looking for something out on the Chilterns, Philadelphian Christian Mirande persuaded Loiners Kieron Piercy and Anna Peaker to join him on the search. Guided by a hallucination of a Victorian cave full of grape lights, three friends venture into the heart of Tory weekend wreckage and found Pimms fueled madness and bunting choking out the working class. It produced 8 tracks of concrete, processed field recordings and acoustic flourish tracked in a cottage; glued with vari-mu compression and deep …
River Transcription
Gently lay your palm on the warmed belly of a flat stone, and skim your humming thoughts across the murmuring divide. The opposite shore is a shadowed encampment of slowly stirring shingle. Autumn effervesces and spreads in a calm blanket of diffused musk, looping around two shallow mouthfuls of sunshine. A stave is transcribed along the tilted stasis of shoreline - silence holds a seance in the clay and the river intones its folly in electric bursts, ingesting the fretted, lemony light, and uns…
Creep (Sound Object)
Creep is a noise box with metal on one side and coarse sandpaper on the other. The box is equipped with a contact microphone and produces frightening horror sounds.Creep is a limited edition d.i.y. sound object. The box is handmade and not subject to industrial manufacturing standards.
Theatre
*150 copies limited release* “It's music where nothing happened. It's the kind of music somebody might write in Adelaide, Australia. Nothing happened.” - Morton Feldman
Theatre is De la Catessen’s second venture into the archive of Jon Dale. Originally released in a tiny CDr edition of 50 copies on Tristes Tropiques in 2019, Theatre now reappeares in an edition of 150 glass-mastered CDs.
Theatre sees Jon Dale eschewing the hearthwarm drones of his previous album on de la Catessen, Last Blues, an…
Firecracker
it was during the workshop session of acoustic taiyuan: a native soundscape project, more precisely, on aug. 2nd, 2021, that the original recording made by my grandma had been fossicked off from a m size carton of a few hundred cassettes.
as distinguished from taping one’s own unaccompanied singing, which used to be a fad and the outputs of which one would still occasionally dig out in flea fairs, this recording registers a long period of firecrackers cracking with uncontrollability that mumbles…
Ninulla + Gran Trotto (2LP Bundle)
* The two recent Holidays Records releases in a special discounted bundle. Edition of 100 copies * Lullabies wrote and sang for, with, and by their son Arion. Composed and recorded by Jonida Prifti and Stefano Di Trapani. Produced by Antonio Giannatonio and Acchiappashpirt. Edited by Antonio Giannatonio. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Cover artwork by Re Delle Aringhe. Jonida Prifti: vocals, toy keyboards. Stefano Di Trapani: gears, field recordings, Casiotone, piano, vocals. Special vocals: Arion…
Gran Trotto
Edition of 100 copies. A travel diary, in sound. Ezio Piermattei: tapes, field recordings, voice, harmonica, organ, bells, objects, piano, etc. Recorded in Tallinn, Scanno, Helsinki, Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Vilnius, Rosello, Brighton, Campo Imperatore, Jūrmala, Barreiro, Ortona, Budapest, Civitella Alfedena. Many thanks for their contributions to: Mamma, Nonna, Barbara Gileno, Emiliano Tenaglia, Angelo Barbati, Paola Marcocchia, Felice Sciorilli, Meridiana Barbati. Unintentional appearances: …
Ninulla
Edition of 100 copies. Lullabies wrote and sang for, with, and by their son Arion. Composed and recorded by Jonida Prifti and Stefano Di Trapani. Produced by Antonio Giannatonio and Acchiappashpirt. Edited by Antonio Giannatonio. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Cover artwork by Re Delle Aringhe. Jonida Prifti: vocals, toy keyboards. Stefano Di Trapani: gears, field recordings, Casiotone, piano, vocals. Special vocals: Arion. Includes "Ai miei figli e ai miei nipoti", a poem by Dania De Vincenzi.
Form the Other Side of a Landscape
The six tracks that compose this record were taken form a seven-hour performance that took place in November 2023 in the Louvre-Lens Museum in France. This album crystallizes a process where multiple timelines and possibilities coexisted, distilling them into a linear sequence. This album involves transforming a live act that embraced a fluid and expansive understanding of time, into an object that can be played in identical loops. The live performance was reimagined, translating temporalities w…
Il Divano dell'Orecchio
Taking a deep dive into some of the most important works ever created by the Italian avant-garde, Alga Marghen returns with a much needed and long-overdue brand new edition of their towering 5LP collection, “Il Divano dell'Orecchio”, dedicated to the work of Walter Marchetti. Gathering the composer’s seminal work for Cramps, issued between 1974 and 1989, and a host of archival material, scores, texts, and photographs, it’s an unprecedented dive into this truly singular voice, issued in a brand n…
Remix Ready Mix
Huge Tip! Hand-numbered edition. Remix Ready Mix reimagines the soundtrack to artist Lucy Raven’s immersive film installation Ready Mix (2021), commissioned to inaugurate the new Dia Chelsea exhibition space in New York. Created in collaboration with the composer Deantoni Parks, Remix Ready Mix merges field recordings from a concrete and gravel plant in central Idaho with nonsynchronous sound arrangements
This record is a series of cuts: component extractions from the admixture of sounds that co…
Sounds Like Work
*150 copies limited release* Sounds Like Work, a long-lost soundscape composition by South Australian composer and scholar, Chester Schultz, is made available by De la Catessen Records, for the first time since its private cassette release in 1978. Drawing from material recorded in late 1976 in the workplaces of members of the Maylands Church of Christ congregation, subsequently edited at the electronic music studio of Adelaide University in early 1978, Sounds Like Work has an oddly contemporary…
Harkening Critters
Forms Of Minutiae presents 'Harkening Critters', the label’s second non-profit compilation of field recordings and soundscape compositions highlighting, this time, the incredible variety of animal signals.
Haut les Vaches
*150 copies* Haut la vache is a record of sound exploration, a testimony to twilight contemplation, and by the way, the second field recording album by collectif_sin~. After Tour de Transmission (2016), a recording of celestial flutes created by the wind rushing through a metal structure at the top of a Pyrenean peak, we now head to Switzerland, where the tinkling of cowbells forms infinite landscapes for the ears, a metallic wave swaying over the green grass that you can listen to on side A, wh…
Frogs, a Selection of Field Recordings
Tip! *Much needed Repress!!!* About 10 years ago I tried to contact Dutch artist and scientist Felix Hess, when he was still alive, but never got a reply. Years later, in 2022, I was talking to Frans de Waard, who told me he was administering the sound archive of the late Hess together with Mark Poysden. Together we started working on an album to celebrate his life and many accomplishments. It includes selections from all the highly collectible Frogs releases from the 80's and 90's, while the ar…
Der Vogel Turlipan
*80 copies limited edition* For more than two decades Oliver Peters has been working as Evapori, with releases on Entr'acte, Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien, 1000füssler, as well on his own now defunct Antiinformation imprint he used to run with his close collaborator Nicolas Wiese since the early 2000's. Following his 2020 LP "Dia-Logos", "Der Vogel Turlipan" is Peters' second work for Fragment Factory, which is based on a poem of the same name by East German writer Peter Hacks. It tells the story…
azotea / me with room
"In the building where Gudinni lives there's a large rooftop with several obsolete parabolic antennas, their dishes taller than me pointing in several directions. one late afternoon when the sun was getting lower in the sky we installed 3 pairs of microphones in different spots on the rooftop. we started making sounds moving around the space, as if getting closer / moving away from an imaginary audience scattered around us, from each other, from the traffic of cars, dogs and airplanes." - Anne-F…
Sonic Topologies / Gotthard Transect / Garden of Ediacara
This bundle includes the following items:- Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies - Sonic Topologies (2LP, clear vinyl)- Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies - Gotthard Transect (2Tape in special box)- Ludwig Berger - Garden of Ediacara (LP)Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies - Sonic Topologies (2LP, clear vinyl)"How many ways are there to listen to a place? “Sonic Topologies” presents a wide range of sonic research in Zurich’s urban landscape—underground and above ground, underwater …