More Impossible Futures
It seems that Bocian Records only releases 7"s these days and that they have a soft spot for improvised music from down under. Following Sean Baxter's 7" from a month ago, here is Robin Fox, an improviser from the world of electronic music, playing l…
Rurokura and Eastern European folk music research volume 2
Robert Piotrowicz is one of the most prolific artists in the Polish experimental and improv music scene. As an instrumentalist and composer he works most often with Anna Zaradny, Burkhard Stangl, Zbigniew Karkowski. Other collaborators in recent year…
split LP
A split album by two masters of 'loud drone music' with an entirely electronic background. Piotrowicz already surprised us with 'Lasting Clinamen' on CD (see review in Vital Weekly 621), and this is now continued with 'Clinamen 3', also recorded usin…
Untitled LP
Restock Terrific moody album by guitarist Manuel Mota, experimenting with solo fingerstyle guita. Ultralimited edition, 150 copies only
A fonte de aretusa
Latest collaboration of the acclaimed minimalist portuguese musician David Maranha with the talented free-form drummer Gabriel Ferrandini in a 42 minutes of a virulent organ+drums out-jazz drone improvisation. “A fonte de Aretusa” is the convergenc…
In A Flash Everything Comes Together As One
March 2011 release: phenomenal new power trio moves from a group that easily rivals Fushitsusha or Seijaku in intensity of attack. Here Haino is mostly featured on guitar and vocals with occasional forays into lapsteel (!) and air synth while O’Ro…
From slaves to warriors
Ultra-limited tape release by this italian minimal synth & drum machine duo, another side project by Ottaven/Canedicoda, abstract dread sounds with elements of clinical drone and throbbing frequencies to a more introspective ambient chaos
Civiltà Paleospaziale
Italian minimal synth & drum machine duo, another side project by Ottaven/Canedicoda, abstract dread sounds with elements of clinical drone and throbbing frequencies to a more introspective ambient chaos
Running
Lovely single, by Ottaven/Canedicoda, not only a musician (ex With Love, bluid, ok no and billions of other projects, actually playing with nastro mortal, ww), Ottaven is well known as a fundamentalist silkscreener under the moniker of Canedicoda.
Forbidden Planet
The original soundtrack to this science fiction movie, recorded in 1956. This was the first all-electronic score for a commercial Hollywood film. An all-time classic of experimental electronic music. 'If you want to study the history of electronic…
U
a lovely project by Silentes records, a series of 26 cassette tapes centered around the interpretation on silent sound....Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet. Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to…
K
a lovely project by Silentes records, a series of 26 cassette tapes centered around the interpretation on silent sound....Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet. Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to…
V
A lovely project by Silentes records, a series of 26 cassette tapes centered around the interpretation on silent sound.... Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet. Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an u…
B
a lovely project by Silentes records, a series of 26 cassette tapes centered around the interpretation on silent sound....Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet. Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an…
The Deep Path
A monumental album featuring three impressive tracks in which Z'EV (mythical avant-garde experimental artist, percussion master and world wide performer), collects and exhibits brave and incredible sonic solutions, mixing and alternating enormous,…
Usa
Archival release documenting the 2009 USA tour of Peter Rehberg and Marcus Schmickler under the R/S moniker. Real time extreme music improvisations recorded at Lampo in Chicago and No Fun Fest in New York City. 'USA' is the second full length rele…
Lacunae
Sound and video artist MPLD works in a world of sentiment and detachment, creating a Lost & Found aesthetic uniquely his own. Lost are the old Kodachrome slides which make up the foundation of his work. Found are the feelings of misplaced memories th…
weekend
On this cassette are two days of ambient sound recordings, each originally about twenty-four hours long and sped up to play back at about 128 times the original speed. The recordings were made in my studio, which is located in West Baltimore City…
untitled, (magnetisms)
First collaborative project between Pierre Gerard (Belgium) and Andy Graydon (Germany/USA). Invited by winds measure to produce a work for cassette tape, the two artists focused on the the particular materiality of this sound technology, once so comm…
Repas froid
An extraordinary combination of culled found and taped fragments juxtaposed against drums, field recordings and mystery noises, sound loops, birdsong, keyboards and emanations of his own throaty drones and voice propelled by hypnotic, ritualistic …