Hurt
**numbered edition of 25 copies** Marc Hurtado (1962) is one half of the French Group Étant Donnés. For Des Astres d’Or he made an Album consisting of two Music Pieces and two Paintings, paired together as a Diptych. Paintings in Oilpaint and Knife-tear on Canvas. Each Painting measures 40-40 Cm. Signed by Marc Hurtado “MH”. Each copy is different.
La Décorporisation de la Réalité
**numbered edition of 40 copies** "I often wander in huge empty Buildings. I realize I once squatted this Building and lived in it for a while, but I completely forgot about it. Now I’m here, the Rooms are a bit filthy and covered with Dust. The same Dust there was when I first came here. There’s still the old Machines from the previous Factory and the Content of their Storage, abandoned. Months later, after having forgotten about my Home again, I return and realize it’s been evicted. I feel a b…
Affen-theater
**numbered edition of 40 copies** Reïssue of Raymond Dijkstra's Affen-theater (Le Souffleur, 2005) with original Artwork. Affen-Theater is an early Le Souffleur Period Raymond Dijkstra Work from 2005, opening a new Artistic Direction in his Œuvre, with a high Focus on an expressionist Style of Playing Harmonium, experimental frotting and scratching of Glass Surfaces with different Materials, sometimes combined with manual Tape Manipulation and rudimentary Delay Effects. The Key Element in these …
Stark
**numbered edition of 40 copies** New works by John Duncan recorded using shortwaves as a sound source. Recorded and mixed at Pieve del Pino, Sasso Marconi (Italy). Original handdrawn self-portrait by the artist, in a UV luminous sprayed gatefold record sleeve that the artist set on fire. Numbered, dated and signed edition, each copy is different.
Muzikë Muusika
**numbered edition of 40 copies** "Little by little, the mass turned like a slimy and forceful nausea, a kind of immense influx of vegetable and thundering blood. And the small fibers trembling at the edge of my mental eye, broke off with a vertiginous speed of the tense mass of the wind. And all the space trembled like a sex organ which the globe of the burning sky was battering." Wendingen 1918 is dedicated to the Dutch Architectural Magazine ‘Wendingen’ from 1918 and the Work and Life of Anto…
Kunst In Gebreke
**numbered edition of 25 copies** Composed and mixed by Raymond Dijkstra & The New Blockaders. LP in Softcover Black Normal LP Cover. Original Collage Artwork by Raymond Dijkstra and Richard Rupenus. Signed by the Artist. Each copy is different.
Pana Pakshinaaam
**numbered edition of 25 copies** "I was in a Bus full with People... The Ceiling of the Bus was from an old victorian House... richely ornamented Stucco which was about to fall down upon us... Outside the Bus there was a Fairground Caroussel and Lots of playful Animals were running around... We were driving... I looked outside and marvelled at the fantastic old Jugendstil Architecture of Madrid... I was discussing this with the Woman next to me... Later we would walk Outside. I was hungry. We w…
Prima Materia
**numbered edition of 25 copies** "These Pieces are the Result of a long Process which lasted ten Years or more. I’ve been in Touch with Jon off and on, exchanging Music for each to work on. Working on Tracks and leaving them to rest. On the Surface, nothing much happened. The Music was somewhere filed up, almost forgotten. We didn’t make music together for Years to come. Then early 2018 there was a sudden Breakthrough. The Pieces now published on this LP are the Result from this... I strongly s…
Xerox
**numbered edition of 25 copies** "Modelbau is not Frans de Waard’s latest in a series of names used to create music, but it is indeed the latest one for a solo vehicle. Each of the names, and that includes my own name, stands for something particular, an idea, and something not found in the other monikers I am using. Modelbau is, like Freiband, not a proper German word (it should be Modellbau, but I thought that looked ugly) and as such is probably already a lo-fi name, and as such also very pe…
Grommend, Blaffend, Brommend, Donderend, Spugend, Fluitend
**numbered edition of 25 copies** "These crude Electro-Acoustic Works I made during the Course of 2015 when I was experimenting with some 1950’s electronic Devices I had just acquired. Brüel & Kjaer Tube Filters and Oscillators, Philips discrete Oscillators, a modular solid State Vocoder, Rohde & Schwarz UBM Tube Feedback Filters, Krohn-Hite Tube Filters, EMT 140 Tube Plate Reverbs, AKG BX20 Spring Reverb, Tapedelays, etc. The Music shows the rudimentary electronic Treatments done and the acoust…
Till Und Fritz Auf Reisefahrt Nach Klopstockland
**numbered edition of 25 copies** Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg is a German Politician active for the Neo-Communist Party KED, Film Director, Writer, Artist and Musician. He is also the Founder of one of the longest existing Industrial / Post-Industrial Music Labels (early 1980’s till this Date); the Legendary Label Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien for which he has released Albums of Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Laibach, Hafler Trio and Werkbund. He has long running Musical Collaborations with Asmus Ti…
The Gap
**numbered edition of 25 copies** Silvia Kastel is an electronic artist and underground chanteuse from Puglia, Italy, currently living in Berlin, Germany. Since 2009 she has released several albums with her (now ex-) group Control Unit, albums in collaboration with Smegma and Factrix, as well as releasing a couple of solo albums. The Gap was previously released on cassette in 2016 on the German Label Noisekölln Tapes and is now for the first time released on vinyl as a full LP by Des Astres d’Or…
Destructieve Verlichting
**numbered art edition of 25 copies** Raymond Dijkstra and The New Blockaders have been collaborating since 2010. This is the first music published of this collaboration. Destructieve Verlichting (Destructive Enlightenment) is issued in ten parts on 5x 8" vinyl records on Des Astres d’Or. Comes in a collage artwork and bolted box / wooden dowel designed by and executed by Raymond Dijkstra. Each copy is different.
Estatico
Tiresia is a new music project by Bruno Dorella (OvO, Bachi Da Pietra, Ronin, Wolfango, Sigillum S...), and Stefano Ghittoni (The Dining Rooms, Double Beat, Outoff Body Experience, Subterranean Dining Rooms, Peter Sellers and The Hollywood Party...). Inspired by the mythological character, both male and female, fortune-teller and fugitive, that has lived multiple lives, Tiresia is also the name of one of the main character in the movie I Cannibali (1970) by director Liliana Cavani. Played by Pie…
Humlebier
"This cassette contains different versions of a kind of static music consisting of humming sound formations. Various parts are combined in constantly different ways and activated or paused at a slowly changing pace. The three versions have different tempos with different characters ensuing. Simple looped motifs repeating themselves form the basis. Some of these are capable of modifying the pitch of each other. I have acted as a musician playing the computer sequencer by changing tempo, allowing …
Racines
Annie Mahtani (UK, 1981) is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist and performer working and living in Birmingham (UK). She studied with Jonty Harrison at master’s and doctoral level at the University of Birmingham, completing her PhD in 2008. Her output encompasses electronic music composition from acousmatic music to free improvisation. As a collaborator, Annie Mahtani has worked extensively with dance and theatre, and on site-specific installations. With a strong interest in field recordin…
Micro-lieux
Nikos Stavropoulos (Athens, Greece, 1975) is a composer of predominantly acousmatic and mixed music. He read music at the University of Wales (Bangor, Wales, UK), where he studied composition with Andrew Lewis and completed a doctorate at the University of Sheffield (England, UK) under the supervision of Adrian Moore. His music is performed and broadcast regularly around the world and has been awarded internationally on several occasions. His practice is concerned with notions of tangibility and…
In the Woods
On Rimarimba’s 1985 album In The Woods, Robert Cox has made his music kit, an odd assortment of new and old technologies, lately fixated on the digital delay, and programming technologies, sing his own song at its most articulate clip. The songs seem more developed, fluent, like mini-suites in some sense. By his third album, it’s clear Cox has recognised just how liberating technology can be – “All these intricate layers of things that I was trying to play, and didn’t have the musical ability to…
Les Archives
Les Archives is composed, arranged, and produced by the elusive Japanese artist June Chikuma. While Freedom To Spend’s reinvented edition bares little visual evidence of its origins in the composer’s name, title, or sleeve design, the album, a whooping gonzo of synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, and a mysterious string quartet, remains as vibrant now as it did when released on Toru Hatano’s Picture Label as Divertimento in 1986. In fact, the music of Les Archives now glows with a different p…
On Dry Land
For Rimarimba’s 1984 album On Dry Land, Robert Cox advances along the terrain explored on Below The Horizon. It’s an enchanting album, one which, at times, seems to comment on its own practice; a picture of everyday life in the hobbyist’s, or part-time musician’s, recording studio. Some moments point towards the tourist-explorer aesthetic that would eventually coalesce under the banner of Fourth World music. Other moments where Cox seems to be channelling an otherness, a kind of hauntological re…