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Exploring Gongs Culture In Southeast Asia, Mainland And Archipelago
Tip! *In process of stocking* 'Gongs have played an integral role in the mythogeography of Asia. This is not music that aligns with national borders or ideas of homogenous populations, let alone racial stereotypes and exotic clichés. What connects all of these tracks is a simultaneous feeling of entrancement and social cohesion. Communal and collaborative, its form is hypnotically repetitious, melodies and rhythms spread out among the players using the technique of hocketing in which a flowing l…
Pianisme
Intimate, minimalist, classic piano album. Sylvain Chauveau on Pianisme: "Piano always had a central
role in my discography and this selection of short pieces showcases what
might be my musical signature: quietness, slow pace, long resonances, a
close as possible to silence. Music to be played at night."Pianisme
is a collection of unreleased and out-of-print piano works composed and
recorded since 2004. Most of them are part of soundtracks for feature
films by French director Sébastien Bet…
The Tears of Nietszche
Following their recent Difference and Repetition, A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze 2LP/CD this limited 7'' edition features The Tears of Nietszche on side A with Richard Pinhas as guest musician and Vecteur d'abolition on side B with the voice of Gilles Deleuze. Formed in Paris in 1989, Palo Alto released his first album (a cassette) on the Italian label Old Europa Cafe in 1990. The year 2020 is therefore an opportunity to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this first stone, the founder of …
Prismrose
Prismrose is a nearly wordless collection of six pieces for electric guitar, all given real time to breathe and mutate. It’s an album that documents what an electric guitar sounds like in David Grubbs’s hands — with Eli Keszler dropping by to pummel some drums — now that we’ve stumbled into the year 2016.
Leichenschrei
Re-edition of the SPK masterpiece first out in 1982; close to 40 years are gone, but the energy of 'Leichenschrei' is still very high! An absolute highlight in industrial culture and music. Leichenschrei was the second album by the Australian industrial group SPK (Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv). Their debut album, Information Overload Unit, explores a brutal industrial noise sound and places Leichenschrei as the stepping stone towards the group's synth based and rhythmical material that wa…
Thread Of Light
'I became acquainted to Joe Fonda’s musical creativity in 1998, precisely on November 6th at a concert of the Fonda/Stevens Group at Bunker Ulmenwall in Bielefeld, Germany. Along with some friends, I was curating the club‘s jazz program since 1996 at that time. After the enthralling show in 1998 Joe was a frequent artist at our club as his music was immensely inspiring - full of enthusiasm and playfulness. On November 8th 2003 there was Satoko Fujii Quartet playing a show in Bielefeld. On this e…
Aurora
"After the first edition back in 1992 on Cthulhu Records, and the OEC re-edition in 2003 here comes the 3rd edition of this very seminal album! As for the first re-edition, to the album was added one unreleased exclusive track recorded during the same first Aurora recording sessions but never used on any album nor compilations. This album is to be considered a pioneers opera of neo-folk cabaret which has influenced many artists. A very controversial and politically incorrect album talking about …
Oktober
"Finally here comes a re-edition of this great Ain Soph album! This new edition comes with a completely new designed artwork and an additional 3" miniCD containing a new audio track recorded in 2008 + a video track! The comeback of the Roman masters with the Aurora follower album : Oktober. A unique blend of Italian cabaret and true Italian folk songs. All is sung in Italian with Ain Soph's usual acoustic instrumentation and their typical keyboards... Songs in the way of Aurora but with an addit…
Finis Gloriae Mundi
"Long time in the making. 16 years after Oktober and 26 after the seminal Aurora here comes a new chapter in the Ain Soph cult discography. Six surprising and very mature tracks. Sounds range from Velvet Undergound'isch Psychedelia to Dark-industrial, from European Cabaret to Beating-Danceable rhythms, from Crooner songs to Esoteric-Ritual... But most of all the entire album has this unique "magic and spiritual" feeling that only Ain Soph can create. Special guests: Vocals on "Ombre nel Silenzio…
The Illusion of Power
* Limited Edition 300 copies * The re-release of the two re-mastered tracks available on the very limited 10" Lathe-Cut Vinyl released for Contrastate first live appereance in Italy on october 12 2019 at OEC's historical venue Congresso Post Industriale. Plus 4 brand new and unreleased tracks. Brexit: a dark tunnel driven by fear and past anger and the desire for war against the other, or a symbol of Europe’s popular imagination breaking free from its disaffection to re-invent itself. Is the rea…
Via (LP)
Tip! * 300 copies, comes with an extensive booklet * Limpe Fuchs’ first solo record came about by accident. Initially, Christoph Heemann invited the famous Anima duo to do a studio record in his home-town Aachen, but Paul Fuchs decided not to join in, so Limpe went on her own – and the recording sessions taking place in late 1986 and early 1987 turned out to become “via”, Limpe’s first solo-record and the (visible) starting point of her ongoing exceptional career as an internationally performing…
Pathophysiology
**2020 stock, 300 copies in six-panels digipack** "First releaset as a tape in 1995, reprinted as a CDr in 2002. Finally, after 24 years, here comes the 2019 CD-Digipak re-edition of this legendary album. For the CDr re-release the tape was completely remastered at Sweet Slaughter by none else than Marco Corbelli and the following were added: 2 unreleased tracks recorded in 1995 + 2 unreleased tracks recorded in 2002. This was and still is best Italian Morgue P/E Industrial. Brutal Synth-Noise b…
Paranoia (Expanded)
**2020 stock, 300 copies in six-panels digipack** "Paranoia standard edition has sold-out and here comes the expanded edition / re-print of one the best, if not the best, Atrax Morgue CD release. To this new edition we have added two alternative versions of the track Il Forcipe di Thanatos which were first released on the 7" vinyl Malaplacenta out on OEC in 2017. The original project dates back in 2007 just before Marco's death. On those two alternative tracks you can hear Marco's voice ranting …
195 Melrose Avenue NW2
Originally released in 1996 on Self Abuse as a limited Music Cassette in 1996. Self Abuse and Old Europa re-released this tape for the first time into CD for it's 25th anniversary. Moreover, when looking through original tapes trying to find the master, Patrick (Self Abuse) found an extra cassette labeled "195 melrose Ave NW" with only 3 songs on one tape side, such tracks wasn't used for the release of the tape. Well, we are going to use such "unreleased tracks" as bonus for this CD re-release.…
Metamorphyses - Expanded Edition
**2020 stock** "Transformation is the key to the psyche. It unlocks the hidden domains inside us and finds the paths to inner wisdom. Metamorphyses is a journey into the deep inner self; a drama of the sublime and trancendental transformation of the psyche through a katabasis ritual presented in six transitional stages slowly moving towards completion. Metamorphyses is the key to the psyche."Hypnotic, introspective and yet more difficult. Being the seventh full-lenght album from Raison d’être, M…
Tales from the Tabula Rasa - Early Works 1988-1991
**2020 stock** "This is not a new album! This does not sound like Raison d'être! This is Raison d'être from another time and world! Tales from the Tabula Rasa presents Raison d'être in its earliest form, when there was no past and only future. This was the birth of Raison d'être and the creative music mind of Peter Andersson. In one way it can be seen as the first particles to the seed that later became the established Raison d'être sound in the 1990's. In the other way it can be seen as the evi…
Sfera
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) was an Italian composer and rather unusual pioneer of electronic music. His works are neither based on traditional techniques nor do they resemble concepts of the 'new music' avant-garde. Since the 1950s he recorded improvisations on the ondiola (an early electronic instrument) to magnetic tape, often in multiple layers. These recordings were then transcribed into scores by his assistants – probably constituting the first attempt at making electronic music heard throu…
Prehistory
Some of you may remember Circle X's corrosive, caterwauling, and unutterably fabulous self-titled EP, which was originally released in 1979 and reissued a little over a decade ago by Jim O'Rourke's and David Grubbs' Dexter's Cigar label. Now the story picks up again with the long-overdue first CD release of Prehistory, Circle X's first full-length album. Prehistory was recorded in 1981 and released in 1983 by Index Records, making them, strangely enough, labelmates with Wall of Voodoo. Circle X …
Harari
The Beaters – Harari was released in 1975. After changing their name, Harari went into the studio late in 1976 to record their follow-up, Rufaro / Happiness. In 1976 they were voted South Africa’s top instrumental group and were in high demand at concert venues across the country. Comprising former schoolmates guitarist and singer Selby Ntuli, bassist Alec Khaoli, lead guitarist Monty Ndimande and drummer Sipho Mabuse, the group had come a long way from playing American-styled instrumental soul …
Nostalgia Por Mesozóica
Tip! **300 copies** Nikolaienko's “Nostalgia Por Mesozóica” is an exploration of "experimental exotica" consisted of synthesized tropical attributes — an artificial landscape isolated behind the glass frame. Reminiscent of recording techniques and sonorities ubiquitous in the 60’s and 70’s, it could conceivably have been intended as a soundtrack for the Mesozoic Era exhibition at your favorite Natural History museum.