The Hole In the Landscape
**250 copies on white vinyl, 2019 stock** NNA is thrilled to present The Hole In the Landscape, the latest full-length album by Tsembla. Based in Turku, Finland, Tsembla is the solo alias of musician Marja Ahti, a frequent collaborator of the Kemialliset Ystävät musical collective and one half of the electro-acoustic duo Ahti & Ahti. As Tsembla, Ahti creates vivid, imaginative compositions of sound and rhythm using electronics and treated samples of recorded acoustic instruments, objects, voices…
Configurations
Shasta Cults' Important Records debut is not to be missed. A self-titled Shasta Cults will be available later this year, also on Important Records. A ship sinks beneath the silver mirror of the sea-top, temple gongs ring through an empty valley, industrial machinery sputters, heaves, lurches forward, stops, falls apart... These sound events may be the most acute musical referents of Shasta Cults, the music project of Canadian synthesizer technician Richard Smith. Using obsolete electronics, Shas…
Retrospektywny (Retrospective)
Akuphone presents a compilation of Wladyslaw Komendarek, the Polish genius of synthesizers. This selection comes from tree albums released between 1987 and 1990, a very important political and social period in Poland, marked by the last convulsions of communism. Komendarek’s music offers a unique patchwork of synthesizer sounds, “art of noise” and cosmic flights far beyond the realm of conventions that dominated the Polish electronic music scene at the time. It brings a weird mixture of electron…
Let Night Come On Bells End The Day
**Second Edition of 500 LPs Three art prints of photographs by the artist Digital download coupon, containing extended final track**Recital present the newest record by Canadian composer Sarah Davachi. Currently working on her PhD in Musicology at UCLA, her trajectory has been unorthodox. Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, which, if you've never been there, doesn't really scream "avant-garde" (Calgary is the rodeo capital of the world). It is important and interesting that she chose to study esoteri…
Patagon
**500 copies** Juan Manuel Cidrón, from Almeria (Andalusia), is a legendary Spanish synthesist who started in 1985, a veteran of analog electronic sounds. His early influences were the Berlin School of the seventies (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, etc.) and the American Minimal music. Before Patagon, Cidrón has released nine albums in limited editions on his own label Extraradio."Juan Manuel Cidrón has always been into music... As a child he fell in love with a radio that had flashing lights - …
Sylva
**CD included** Kranky veteran Benoît Pioulard (né Thomas Meluch) has created his first full-length for Morr Music, complemented by a linen book of Polaroid SX70 photographs from more than two years of environmental explorations. The music on Sylva and its 84-page visual companion bear the beauty and strange shapes of nature: desert rock formations and colorful leaves, restless waters and peculiar plants. Meluch’s dreamy ambient drones and saturated lo-fi pop embody the impressionist sensation o…
The Heat Equation
**750 copies** The Heat Equation is a 100pp book and CD set showcasing a new photographic work by Joséphine Michel alongside a live recording of Mika Vainio's final performance in the UK, featuring all new material intended for his proposed 2017 solo CD for Touch.Following their previous collaboration on Halfway to White, Michel and Vainio had been planning a second production, and in March 2017, Michel visited Vainio in Oslo to show him the first examples of the photographs she had been taking …
Sounds From Phantom Islands
Faitiche presents a new album by Andrew Pekler: Sounds From Phantom Islands brings together ten tracks created over the last three years for the interactive website Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas.With his 2016 album Tristes Tropiques, Pekler created a highly unique cosmos of ethnographic sound speculations. Sounds From Phantom Islands continues and simultaneously expands this concept: finely elaborated chordal motifs float like fog over fictional maritime landscapes. A masterpiece of contempora…
Panthalassa
**130 copies, 2019 stock** Panthalassa is the second official release of Davide Bartolomei, an artist / musician based in Bologna (Italy). Bartolomei has developped his personal language after a first period of noisey experimentations. In his musical output he tries to explore the hidden possibilities of the interaction between strings and circuits.With Remote, a collaborative work with Emanuele Magni, he started to move in the realms of deep meditative music. His second effort goes further in t…
All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains
**300 copies** All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains is the result of a dialog between Nieves Mingueza and the musicians The Humble Bee and Offthesky initiated by Iikki, between October 2018 and June 2019.The complete project works in two physical imprints: a book and a disc (vinyl/cd) that can be experienced in different manners... Tthe book watched alone, the disc listened to alone, or the book and the disc watched and listened to together.Nieves Mingueza is an experimental and independent…
Touch Dissolves
**300 copies, 2019 stock** "With its ability to deliver both thick melodic lines as well as enveloping harmonies, the cello is a natural choice for artists looking to create a mood of tranquility. Over the course of his recording career, Aaron Martin’s knack for using the instrument to generate mournful tones, disquieting harmonic undercurrents, and the unwinding of melodies has opened up a world of nuance to a series of striking solo pieces.That being said, there’s an argument to be made that M…
Orbit
**300 copies, 2019 stock** "Orbit titles the intersection of bassist / composer Scott Worthington and Italian photographer Renato D’Agostin. Worthington’s minimal approach to sound, like D’Agostin’s to image, reveals the hidden complexities of interaction between bodies and the contexts of their transit. With an atmosphere that recalls the self-refractions of Stephan Micus, A Time That Is Also a Place fleshes out the flute of Rachel Beetz like vanes to a feather’s shaft, funneling into a quill h…
Mythologies
** 300 copies ** "Very ponderously, I approach the review stage of this box-fresh drone-log by Masaya Ozaki and Kaito Nakahori, and it’s the release that’s made me sit up and think the most in now my 209th site article. There are intriguing sounds dotted and masked all over it, like the strange scrapes of Entropy that seem to mirror the dredging of a beer barrel. Has the liquid of life dried up already? Surely not…if you’ve ever heard Catalog Des Arbres on the Touch label you’ll be familiar with…
Lowlands
**500 copies, 2019 stock** Lowlands began when Ester Vonplon traveled to Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean in summer 2016. She sailed the ice-clogged seas of the Arctic Ocean on a three-masted sailing vessel, to capture the impressions of the calving glaciers and melting ice. This journey in the Arctic Ocean was the perfect beginning for Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer to compose and record Lowlands. Ester Vonplon (1980) lives and works in Castrisch, Switzerland. She studied photography in Berli…
Alveare
"Alveare, a collection of electroacoustic music by Italian percussionist / composer Andrea Belfi, is part of a collaborative multimedia project with photographer Matthias Heiderich. Inspired by Heiderich’s pictures of the modernist housing complexes put up in Italy after World War II, the LP’s five tracks were composed and played between 2007 and 2016. As befits Belfi’s status as a percussionist, all are firmly set on a foundation of rhythmic drumming or percussion work, often wrapped in an atmo…
Stills
Danny Clay' Stills is the debut release of the art / music imprint Iikki, a sister to the Eilean record label, and is an impressive album that is not to be missed.The music of Stills follows on from his Ganymede release for Hibernate – an album that was certainly one of, if not the, best release from Clay to date and certainly one of the strongest minimal electronic / ambient releases of 2015. That album was built around Clay’s manipulations of the first few bars of a Schubert piece and his atte…
Photophonie
Since their launch in 2017, the Paris based imprint, Transversales Disques, has done the seemingly impossible. Not only have they carved out an entirely singular place in the contemporary landscape of reissues and archival releases, but they’ve raised the bar. Largely focusing on previously unreleased recordings and works, one after another, they’ve built an astounding catalog of efforts by seminal artists like Bernard Parmegiani, Philip Glass, François Bayle, Ennio Morricone, Igor Wakhevitch, a…
Scanning
A pioneer of electronic, computer, and instrumental avant-garde music, for the majority of his life, the German composer Roland Kayn remained one of the great unheralded figures in the landscape of 20th century sound - a founding member of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, who delved into singular territories entirely his own. Fortunately, in the last few years, in part due to the release of his monumental work, A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound, by Frozen Reeds in 2017, and Die S…
Volume Massimo
**Transparent turquoise vinyl** On his stellar debut LP for Mute, Nine Inch Nails keyboardist and formidable solo artist, Alessandro Cortini taps into a poignantly melodic yet ascetic vein of his prized, gauzy style. Volume Massimo, combines his fondness for melody with the rigour of experimental practice that follows on from 2017's universally acclaimed album Avanti. Eight tracks of deftly arranged synthesizers saturated with sonic artefacts and luscious pop sensibilities.Surely well known to y…
An empty bliss beyond this world
**2019 edition pressed on silver vinyl**. An Empty Bliss Beyond This World’ is perhaps The Caretaker’s most coveted and cherished venture into the haunted ballroom of the subconscious. It fetches a lot of moldy dough on the 2nd hand market, hence this new edition will be welcomed by many who’ve only picked up The Caretaker’s frayed thread since this album was first released in 2011. Redefining ideas of “ambient” music on its release toward the start of this decade, the deeply unheimlich feel an…