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Uguisubari
Faitiche present the launch of its new Acoustic Surveillance Series. Each 7" vinyl single in the series presents a historical system for acoustic surveillance, beginning with Uguisubari by Jan Jelinek's field recordist pseudonym G.E.S.. The pieces feature recordings of uguisubari -- special floors in Japanese temples and castles. The nightingale floor was a popular acoustic warning system. It was very simple: when someone stepped on the floorboards, the nails holding them in place rubbed against…
Love from the Sun
This jazz recording is considered as the 'magnum opus' of master "drummer extraordinaire'', composer, arranger, producer, and leader Norman Connor's in a career that has spanned 4 decades. This recording is what many will consider the debut of the legendary vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater who has since gone on to a brilliant career. Connor's put together an all-star group with Herbie Hancock and Onaje Allan Gumbs on piano and Fender Rhodes, Dr. Eddie Henderson on trumpet/flugelhorn, Carlos Garnett …
Solo For Chair and Feedback Circuit
Joe Colley is a visual artist and composer based in Sacramento, CA. He investigates audio phenomena, using field recordings and electronics. He also records under the name Crawl Unit and he is the founder of the label Povertech Industries. The self-explanatory 'Solo For Chair and Feedback Circuit' was recorded live at SOMArts San Francisco, California, in 2016.
Tony Conrad
Wendy & Luke is a project that involves veteran German musician Albert Oehlen and younger French artist Luke Calzonetti. On the programmatic 'Tony Conrad' they make use of electric violin on the first side and explore more improvisational territories on the flip.
Australian Sun
What about Harry Merry? Harry Den Hartog is a talented singer and songwriter from Rotterdam in the Netherlands where music drew his attention from a young age. At the age of eight he got his first piano lessons and in the '90s he started to compose his own music using several keyboards like Casio wk3500 and Roland E-86. His music is quite pleasant, flashy and a little bit crazy, with his tracks having an absolute mastership of the pop formula. On this 7" single released by Meeuw Muzak, Harry Mer…
Trying to play Nothing
A recording of Samuel Beckett’s “Text for Nothing #8” read by Jack McGowan 1958 (used without permission) is burned to a CDR with 99 index points. A Sony Discman in shuffle mode attempts struggles to play the disc. Electromagnetic signals of struggling CD player mechanics are recorded, edited and collaged into two pieces.
Joe Colley is a visual artist and composer based in Sacramento, CA. He investigates audio phenomena, using field recordings and electronics. He also records under the name Cra…
Music of Southern Laos
Music of Southern Laos, subtitled Provinces of Champasak, Attapeu, Sekong and Saravan. One part of Akuphone's collection of Laotian music. Includes liner notes in English, French, and Japanese and a download code. Akuphone presents a collection of recordings of various musical practices from the Laotian provinces of Champasak, Attapeu, Sekong, Saravan, Luang Namtha and Phongsaly. These documents are a perfect introduction to the traditional music of South Laos minority groups. Popular modern mus…
Aicha
* Small repress available* We are celebrating our tenth release by bringing the label full circle, right back where we started from. We're excited to announce that we've once again worked with the Gania family of Essaouira to bring you another reissue of the music of the undisputed King of Gnawa music, the late Maalem Mahmoud Gania. It feels like the perfect time to release this spiritual music, specifically played to heal and to cure us of our ills, as the world is in the grip of a viral pandem…
Julie
New single taken from the recent series of pop videos created by Sam Meringue of Outer Limits Recordings (aka Matrix Metals, Flashback Repository, Yoga, 90210, The Sweethearts, Foxy Baby, Explorers, etc.). 'Julie' is an epic Brit-pop track about love/suicide/reincarnation & 'Plastik Child' channels early-'80s E.L.O. with its funky shuffle and layers of synth-washes. Super addictive stuff
O.T.R. And U.T.R.
* Limited edition of 157 copies (of which only 100 are for sale) with unique hand made collages on every cover * In Steve Roden's onw words: "a few years ago, my mother gave me a small stack of 45s of some of her favorite songs as a kid; chuck berry, the platters, and others. when i began to listen to the records, i was not only excited about the music, but the surface-scuffs from my mother¹s repeated listening over the years of wear and tear.the source for u.t.r. and o.t.r. is a recording of '…
Lalaland Symbiose
**300 copies** G.A.M.S. are Andi Stecher (drums / percussion) and Guido Möbius (feedback). Released at the same time of their self-titled album, the Dadaist no wave track Lalaland Symbiose - featuring Felix Kubin on vocals - is available as a 7" single that includes a remix by the Berlin based Italian producer Unprofessional.
Loops4ever
An astonishing album by Manuel Zurria with music by Alvin Lucier, William Basinski, John Duncan, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveiros, Giancinto Scelsi among others, 2CD in deluxe packaging with 12p booklet... Foremost in my mind was the idea of being able to manipulate some compositions for flute, that were not original or were “extremely free ” in their conception, personalizing them to the extreme with the use of multitrace or electronics. Only a work conceived in this way has led me to reflect on …
Silo City
Edition of 77 copies. includes 77 grooveless 7-inch opaque white vinyl records, plus 2 full-colour inserts, and embossed die-cut cover. First presented as part of null point 7: Decay/Reverberate, Silo City, Buffalo, New York, June 12-14, 2015. Curated by Colin Tucker. Publication (vinyl object and digital) contains 6 tracks, total running time 33:41. Tracks based on recordings done at Silo City during a site visit in summer of 2014 and during the presentations/performances onsite the foll…
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Second in a series of seven. Includes 7-inch embossed front cover with die-cut hole back cover + grooveless opaque vinyl with a burn mark made by a soldering iron on one side + two 7″x7″ full colour inserts + AIFF and MP3 (320 kbps) versions of 5 tracks, 31:18 total. Edition of 77.
Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist. He has a Master’s degree in visual arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, and has performed in Europe and Canada on many occasions. His insta…
Kunstradio
Third in a series of seven. Includes 7-inch embossed front cover with die-cut hole back cover + grooveless opaque vinyl with an off-center hole in addition to the center hole + two 7″x7″ full colour inserts + AIFF and MP3 (320 kbps) versions of 7 tracks, 45:11 total. Edition of 77.
Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist. He has a Master’s degree in visual arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, and has performed in Europe and Canada on many occasions. His instal…
Entangled Visions - Presentation Edition
* Special hand-numbered 'Presentation Edition' limited to 30 copies * Entangled Visions is the inaugural release of the homonym just-born Experimental Electronics label, based in Italy. Eight moments from eight different artists united by the same goals: disorientation and alienation through sound research and experimentalism.
Italian sound artist Giulio Aldinucci introduces the release with "Prima del Mare", immediately marking the concept of this work. Deconstructed rythms and Lanark Artefax-l…
Down With It
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Down With It by James Spaulding (saxophone alto & flute), Pierre Christophe (piano), Raphaël Dever (contrabass) & Mourad Benhammou (drums).
Recorded live in Paris at the Sunside on July 22nd, 2006. ℗ & © 2006 Terronès
Septentrion
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Septentrion by Arnaud Sacase (saxophone alto), Jobic Le Masson (piano), Benjamin Duboc (contrabass) & Antoine Paganotti (drums). Recorded on 15 et 16 december 2003 at Gaël Mevel's à Abbeville-la-Rivière (France)
Midnight Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack In Full Stereo)
*2022 stock* Stelvio Cipriani composed an uplifting score (the film takes place on a Sunday in summer) with a recurring dance-flavored theme with the fantastic voice of Edda Dell'Orso. The score describes the freshness and light-heartedness of three very young friends during a relaxing day at the beach. Unfortunately destiny has something in store for them. They meet three seemingly mild mannered men who are actually criminals who’ve escaped from prison. For them Cipriani creates hard and rhythm…
The Sky Is A Sea of Darkness When There is No Sun To Light The Way
Absolutely Stellar jazz from Sun Ra alongside Luqman Ali (Drums) John Gilmore (Tenor Saxophone, Percussion) and Michael Ray (Trumpet, Percussion). This quartet version of the title song appeared on 1978's 'New Steps' LP. Over on the flip is the 'Alien vocal version' of Somewhere In Space, recorded in 1957.Two expertly plucked out (fully licensed) Sun Ra essentials, presented on a heavyweight (70gram) Art Yard styled 7". Don't be sleeping..!