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Frob
Remastered reissue of this killer album. A unique psychedelic kraut/jazz rock/avant album, originally released in 1976, sees a welcome reissue. Formed in 1973 in the German town of Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Frob also included French jazz-fusion guitar player Philippe Caillat in its line-up. The album is shadow-strafing suite of spidery rhythms and inquisitive jazz gestures, effortlessly binding avant instrumental dexterity with cool blue harmolodic sentiment in a timeless style that could feasibly be d…
Flare / Flame
**250 copies on gold vinyl, full tone gatefold cover artwork, includes printed inner sleeves and download code** Erik K Skodvin is most known for his surreal darker compositions as Svarte Greiner or as half of the melancholic induced duo Deaf Center.This collection of the two albums Flare and Flame marks his first musical entries under his own name, experimenting with the soundtrack based sides of Americana and Blues. While his Svarte Greiner albums might dwell on minimal atmospheric darkness, F…
Audioregistratore Due Cavalli
Angelo Bignamini and Cristiano Carosi met on the internet in 2017. They arrange a short tour together in the north of Italy at the end of the same year but play for the first time together in Piacenza some years later and "Audioregistratore" is the result of this live collaboration. In that occasion they improvise supported by magnetic tapes, sinthesizers and various objects. The result is a dynamic and well meshed divertissement, a multifaced recordings full of complicity and introspection, pla…
Both
Second Editions presents Both by claire rousay. Claire Rousay has been exploring the sensitivities of sound always in relation to "the self" and "the other", equally. Her work is always seen as a contribution, as engagement. Recording, collaging and composing become acts of considering, remembering, giving. Therefore music becomes a context, or more precisely, a habitat. But what does it say about this music when the artistic choice goes deeper, when it is not only an urge to express but to find…
Expedition Bahn
Welcome to the curious world of Peter Graf York: a world full of city centre safaris and epic train journeys, Soviet cosmonauts and Oakland rappers, filtered synths and plucked mbiras. It's a wild ride inspired as much by Jamaican dub sorcery as by playful minimalism outta the Pacific Northwest.
Many of these tracks were composed on the hoof - literally en route across sections of the ever-reliable Deutsche Bahn network. As such, there’s a certain travellin-without-moving dynamic across this col…
The Strangest Part of the Dream Is That the Water Was Alive
** 2021 Stock. Edition of 65 ** Ikuisuus presents "The strangest part of the dream is that the water was alive" by Shit Creek. Recorded June-October 2020. Using violin, yamaha PSS-9, casio SA-20, ride cymbal, tambourine, trash, guitar, piano, Max/MSP, samples and more. Painting by Shit Creek, layout by kryptinekäke.
Okinawa Kaidan: Saya No Yume Ha Yoru Hiraku
** 2021 Stock. Limited edition of 186 hand-numbered copies. Full on-body printing cassette housed into a very special handmade glossy cardboard slipcover sealed with two stickers. ** Xn Recordings presents Okinawa Kaidan: Saya No Yume Ha Yoru Hiraku (Saya’s “My Dreams Bloom At Night”) by Saya Kaidan. Performer – Jojo Hiroshige, Junko, Futoshi Okano, Toshiji Mikawa, Okinawa Electric Girl Says. Producer – Jojo Hiroshige.
I Can Wait
** Edition of 100. 2021 Stock ** Oaken Palace Records proudly presents I Can Wait, a new full-length album by Left Hand Cuts off the Right (aka Robbie Judkins), a sombre but comforting, beautifully drifting set of four pieces for zither, melodica, synth and mbira. The quartet of tracks was recorded in 2018 but appears now as a timely sonic missive that absorbs a sense of individual uncertainties amid a collapsing wider world, but provides a response that reaches out to create a haven of calm, re…
Eleven Pieces For Synthesizer
**330 copies** Umor Rex presents Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer, a collection of synth instrumentals by German composer Carl Oesterhelt. Oesterhelt has been recording a mixture of straddling kosmische and classical traditions for years on his own reel tape machine, overdubbing stacks of analogue gear to create a compelling body of work that brings fresh emotional depth and rhythmic experimentation to the syntax of the modern synthesizer. Born in Munich in 1968, Carl Oesterhelt has worked in a var…
Longing for Freedom
Hiski Salomaa began his life in 1891 in Kangasniemi in the Southern Savonia region of Finland, emigrating to the USA after the death of his mother in 1909 - travelling via Hanko, to Hull, Liverpool, Ellis Island, Manhattan, and finally to a Finnish American community in the South Range of Michigan.
After taking to writing and performing songs as a young boy, Salomaa saw a demand amongst the growing Finnish immigrant set for music performed in their own language, and indeed in the Finnglish diale…
1010 Days and Nights
* Edition of 50 * These ten four minute minimalistic, repetitive, electronic drone pieces invite you to calm down and listen closely. Each of these tracks has a focus on sound and its different qualities such as: pitch, timbre, texture, duration and location. Notes and synthesizer sounds are selected so that their combination creates a harmonious drone with few simultaneous, simple and repetitive elements. Preset synthesizer sounds are sustained to reveal this inner life of each combination. In …
The Beginning of Nothing
**100 copies** In just a few years and with a handful of releases, the Canadian producer better known as Yves Malone has earned himself a reputation. In The Beginning of Nothing he continues working with many layers of analog synths and a keen sense of drum machines to create atmospheres and textures extracted from late twentieth-century collective fears of a dystopian future. Created as a sort of score to an internal elegy, Yves Malone creates soundtracks of the daily fear, regret, and resignat…
Odeyalo
* Edition of 200 12" Turquoise Colored Vinyl. Hand-numbered. * "Odeyalo" is a Russian word that means "blanket". This blanket is made from many rags. It's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, but the main thing is that you can cover yourself with this blanket. Foresteppe is the musical project by Egor Klochikhin, artist and history teacher from Russia. Foresteppe's music is a constant experiment with the sounds of tape cassettes, acoustic instruments, field recordings and electronic…
Visions Imagination 2016-2019
* Edition of 70 copies * These are a (re)collection of tapes et hard-disk tracks. Recorded on-the-fly along meetings in the studio, between 2016 and 2019. No overdubs. Sébastian Durand on bass, synths, percussions and Pascal Nyiri on voice and flutes.
Syncopated Soundmirror
**75 copies** "Concrete" sounds and sequences recorded with delay / looper pedals, then built around more layers / details mostly with cassette loops and sampler. The aim was to create the space which is quite simple and elemental but dense, intensive and organic. Some may found reference points to Zoviet France, Nocturnal Emissions and other early '80s industrial bands. All sounds by Stuart Chalmers and Edward Sol, spring 2018. "Many of the artists covered by Vital Weekly know each other and ma…
Une Rose
** Edition of 65 ** Ikuisuus presents Une Rose by Beyt Al Tapes. Layers of dark lightness. Airy sounds combined with a de-constructed organic weaving. A vanishing point in constant extension.
Keijo Sings Woody's Songs
** Edition of 60 ** Keijo plays Woodie Guthrie's songs. Recorded between April 2019 and October 2020. All instruments, effects & voice by Keijo.
Along the Sun and the Rain
**60 copies** Based in Jyväskylä, Finland, Keijo Virtanen is somewhat of a legend in the whole finnish psych scene (on the same level as Pekka Airaksinen - in fact the two have collaborated before). He’s been working on music for ages but his work has only been starting to get attention during the last few years. This artist’s music is unlike any other, it is often based in ambient and drone and incorporates weird traditional folk instruments from around the world just as much as electronic inst…
Pond
** 2021 Stock. Sold-out at source ** 6th CANT release - recording by Katya Shirshkova "The Pond", homage to the work of the same name by Ben Patterson.
Katya Shirshkova: When I was 8 years old, Ben Patterson came to Irkutsk. They told me to show how I play Bach, and I did. Poorly. I also decided to play improvisation, unintentionally, I just got upset and played - I always liked to hold the keys and listen more. Ben liked it. He showed me a trick with a coin, I was scared. And dad became an hono…
Opacity and Oblivion
Yet another incredible offering from one of the most exciting artists working today, Sloowtapes’ latest cassette from Louise Landes Levi - "Opacity & Oblivion" - takes deep dive into her multifaceted world. Joined by Ash Martin and Dok Gregory on various acoustic and percussion instruments, as well as Kelvin Daly on a number of his own custom made instruments, Levi’s poetic utterances and Hindustani tinged vocals weave the etherial, mysterious, and ritualistic into a delicate, droning and percus…