Gather Love
Elizabeth S., long time contributor/performer with duo Eyeless In Gaza is about to release her first solo album. Happy in the past to remain on the sidelines with her collaborations she is now ready to reveal some of her story. These songs are her personal journey through many stormy years and the development of this work was many years in the making. All the songs were written, performed and produced by her with the only additional contributions being made by Martyn Bates and Alan Trench. In a …
Meiosis
*2022 stock* Ferial Confine is an early Andrew Chalk experimental, somewhat noise-based project. Meiosis was originally released as a cassette on Broken Flag in 1985. You can certainly hear the influence of The New Blockaders and, to some extent, Whitehouse (no shouting, though), but Meiosis is a fine example of what was 'in the air' for a small amount of people scattered around the world at the time. I think the thing that keeps a lot of this music so relevant is the purity and uncompromising n…
Fearceness
An abandoned silence. Dreams of drifting, living a fatefull solitude. Wrapped around a grey and foaming voice, reaping impulse and mass like forgotten beats. Lost to countless days and nights, rocks and soil, sand and stars, in the sadness of being standing apart.
Remember the rising flame from time long ago, a sound thqat shook deeply from the bottim of a boiling ocean. On e voice of Mother Magma, formless lava fashioned a primeval landscape. Ash, smoke and seething seas, a red-hot avalanche ca…
Solitude
"David Jackman’s music, both as Organum and under his given name, is typically characterized by repetition, brevity and a deadpan aloofness. He’s made plenty of extremely short (sometimes one-sided) 7” singles, albums containing multiple slight variations on a single piece, and albums of compositional (if not sonic) minimalism. It’s Jackman’s typical move to provide very little information beyond a word, or sometimes an image. Lately, he’s been predisposed to not even providing an image; just as…
Stilness
Latest missive from the recent wave of D.Jackman releases. This one is sure to please fans of early Organum releases with it’s rolling churning drone industrial electronics. Again, music made by Jackman, in a world conceived by Jackman, sounding exactly like a part of this immense Jackman language. A new staggering piece to this immense ongoing project. A constant flow of wavesCold, light and flourescentCrystallise empty feelingsThe howling echoes of a foxSomewhere in a vast open plainAn asteroi…
Organum Electronics
In the birth of the universeTime stands still amidst a wild and untamable energyRadiant light bathes and purifies solid stone pillarsBoth ancient and modernWild vibrations touch our most innermost core and perceptionOrganum Electronics exists in the clear moment of the presentBut its mysterious compositions lay hidden in a timeless pastModulating oscillations mirror our most fundamental sense of beingAs though a living and breathing entity would Communicating with a life-force and language we ha…
Raven
Raven is the first new Organum album release since that of Sorrow in 2010 (Siren Records) and was recorded in 2017.For the realisation of Raven, Organum was comprised of David Jackman, Alan Jones, and Daisuke Suzuki.The first Organum 12-inch release 'Tower of Silence' (LAYLAH-1985) was a work of multi-layered bowed sound and scraping metallic objects, but there was an innate silence within this wall of noise - as Basho’s Haiku poem echos :“Deep silence, the shrill of cicadas, seeps into rocks.” …
Cluster & Eno
The first of two milestones in ambient music recorded by Germany's legendary electronic pioneers Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius together with Britains music eccentric Brian Eno.
Exploratorium
Swedish experimental outfit White Stains created five highly influential albums. Band members Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert later on went on to form the equally influential act Cotton Ferox. Their improvisational approach and dark musical atmospheres created a following which remains to this day, and which even led to a one-off reunion gig in Gothenburg in 2013 together with long time collaborator Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV). The album Exploratorium is a compilation of…
Defragmental
Cotton Ferox key members Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert have composed, performed and produced groundbreaking music since the late 1980s. After their time in White Stains and several solo projects, Cotton Ferox have been their main mothership. Always producing cutting edge stuff, they have also always made an issue out of collaborating with other interesting artists. In both White Stains and Cotton Ferox, they’ve worked together with industrial pioneer/legend Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Some ex…
Codex Astra - Wand Of Flame
Steven Severin is one of the founding members and bass guitarist of UK’s influential and seminal, Bromley Contingent, punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. His solo work as Codex Astra is a project exclusive to Erototox Decodings and Wand of Flame is the fourth in a set of four series EP’s. Each EP in this series is inspired by quotes from Magician, writer extraordinaire, the inimitable Aleister Crowley.
Codex Astra - Idols Of Glass
Steven Severin is one of the founding members and bass guitarist of UK’s influential and seminal, Bromley Contingent, punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. His solo work as Codex Astra is a project exclusive to Erototox Decodings and Idols of Glass is the third in a set of four series EP’s. Each EP in this series is inspired by quotes from Magician, writer extraordinaire, the inimitable Aleister Crowley.
Codex Astra - Hours Of Gold
Steven Severin is one of the founding members and bass guitarist of UK’s influential and seminal, Bromley Contingent, punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. His solo work as Codex Astra is a project exclusive to Erototox Decodings and Hours of Gold is the second in a set of four series EP’s. Each EP in this series is inspired by quotes from Magician, writer extraordinaire, the inimitable Aleister Crowley.
Codex Astra - Circles Of Silver
Steven Severin is one of the founding members and bass guitarist of UK’s influential and seminal, Bromley Contingent, punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. His solo work as Codex Astra is a project exclusive to Erototox Decodings and Circles of Silver is the first in a set of four series EP’s. Each EP in this series is inspired by quotes from Magician, writer extraordinaire, the inimitable Aleister Crowley.
Joulupukki
"Joulupukki is a stunning electronic artwork by Xambuca, which is the moniker for American multimedia artist Chandra Shukla. Inspired by northern indigenous peoples, Xambuca is in the process of creating a trilogy dedicated to and stimulated by these unique cultures and geographies. The 2014 release Kamuy (Erototox) was inspired by the Ainu people of northern Japan, Sakhalin Island, and the Kuril Islands in the northern Pacific. Joulupukkiis about the Saami people living at the top of the Fenno-…
Yesterday + Today, A Music Of Time
"Vincent Wrenn works with a microtonal system of seven octaves and each octave being divided into 360 notes, with Saturn being the lowest and the sun being the highest octave. That may sound also pretty esoteric, but the six pieces here are excellent studies in what seems to be sine wave like sounds. Each of these pieces appears to have very few variations and when played very loud may burst an eardrum, or destroy your relationship with your neighbour. I would think these pieces are best enjoyed…
Unichtozheniye
Xambuca does not really exist in the material space time continuum. Instead, Xambuca conceptually feeds on the subconscious figment of a host's imagination; a host that has a tendency to encounter its name or symbols in passing by mere coincidence.
Pilgrimage
*Limited edition of 300 copies* A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a physical place of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. On this pilgrimage into humanity’s inner world [ówt krì] continues his exploration of contrasts and counterpoints. It is a journey through abstract spaces that digs deep into our psyche, a film for your inner vision. The s…
Tietoisen Siirtymän Oletettu Toiseus
Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic), offers a deeply personal and emotional record that literally translates to “The Presumed Otherness Of The Conscious Transition”. An appropriate title for a very somber and serious listening.
Phlogiston
Elliott Sharps's release on Erototox Decodings is no different in terms of his ongoing homage to science, entitled 'Phlogiston', aptly named after a substance supposed by 18th-century chemists to exist in all combustible bodies, and to be released in combustion. It’s also his first purely electronic and synthesized record to date.