T.h.i.e.r
Special limited edition CDR for February-March 2015 Europe tour, featuring electronics and field recordings by Rudolf Eb.er. recorded in or around Rudolf Eb.er's house in Osaka, Japan 2012 to 2014, except track 12 recorded under his basement in Dübendorf, Switzerland 1976.
Wellenfeld
The grande finale of 'Extreme Rituals - A Schimpfluch Carnival', performed and recorded live at Arnolfini, Bristol UK on December 2nd 2012. Four leading figures of the international Noise circus team up for a unique performance, solely based on their brainwave activity. Each performer is wearing a wireless electroencephalograph (EEG) headset. The EEG signals sent from the stage are received by soundengineers, transformed from data into sound and processed to emerge through eight speakers …
Quixotism
LP edition.Recorded with a multitude of collaborators in Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA, Quixotism presents the fruit of two years of work in the form of a single, LP-length piece in five parts. Oren Ambarchi's work in recent years has evinced an increasing fascination with the possibilities of combining abstract sonic textures with rhythm and pulse, whether in his drumming with Keiji Haino, the subtly driving ride cymbals provided by drummer Joe Talia in their work together, or the mot…
Behold
Behold is the second collaborative release from Oren Ambarchi and Jim O'Rourke following the 2011 LP Indeed. Ambarchi and O'Rourke seamlessly blend field recordings, electronics, guitar, drums, and other acoustic instruments into a subtle combination of krautrock, minimalism, and classic free flowing electronics. Side A takes the listener into the Fourth World adventures pioneered by Jon Hassell on Fourth World Music Vol. I: Possible Musics (GB 019CD/LP), while the flip seems like an unlikel…
Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments
CD version. Spectrum Spools presents the first reissue of American minimalist composer and electronic music pioneer David Borden's 1981 masterpiece, Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments, a work of the highest archival significance. A radiant achievement in sonic elegance, experimentation, and ambitious composition technique, Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments contains four pieces, each utilizing three players and six keyboard instruments. - Borden was a central figure in the developmen…
Charles Cohen / Robert Turman rersions
Charles Cohen uses his Buchla Music Easel to replay Indonesian hardcore band Senyawa's "Di Kala Sudah." While enjoying a few months in Germany, Cohen conducted a ritualistic tonal re-adaptation, flushing the song through layers of spaced-out, orchestrated grooves. Meanwhile, in the U.S., explorer of the deepest depths Robert Turman smashed Cohen's "Conundrums" into small bits and recrafted it in his own masterful manner. His beaten and edited version displays ability similar to Cohen's, m…
Architectonic
Morphine continues to take us there, this time with a full-length album from Iranian producer, composer and sound artist Ata Ebtekar aka Sote. Architectonic focuses on studies in techno patterns and aesthetics from a maximalist musical perspective, without employing orthodox beats. The focal rhythmic element is achieved with programmed pitched sounds via FM, Physical Modeling and Additive synthesis methods in a modular environment. These aural components that withstand spectral and forman…
Expect Night Work
Morphine continues to expose more destructive electronics from the U.S. underground. Four bare bones tracks from Lack that owe as much to grimy techno as they do to the late '80s industrial pioneers. "The Morphine label has developed something of a reputation for picking out intriguing talents from the USA's experimental underground, be it old hands such as Charles Cohen or newer names such as Metasplice and Madteo. The latest release from Morphine draws from this latter pool with Expect Nig…
Music for Dance and Theater
2014 release. Final part in the Charles Cohen trilogy on Morphine Records. Featuring various works made for dance and theater productions between 1976 and 1988. Eleven tracks in total -- lovingly spread over a double LP and featuring some of the most beautiful material of the series. While in the process of recording and optimizing the old reel tapes for the initial track list, Cohen discovered a master tape that was originally prepared for an extremely limited cassette release on the Gen…
The Equatorial Stars
Totally essential LP re-release for the first collaboration between Robert Fripp and Brian Eno in over 30 years, that nearly equals the effuse beauty of their celebrated 70s works. "Ambient is a spacious, electronic music that is concerned with sonic texture, not songwriting or composing," says the All-Music Guide. That seems reasonable, although I suspect Brian Eno might take issue with the notion that his music is somehow unconcerned with composition. As with most musical definitions (and …
Work 2006-2011
Wall and Rodgers have worked together informally and irregularly for the best part of two decades, but it has been since Wall took the leap into improvisation, roughly five years ago, that the potential for their collaborations to become something more solid has evolved. So the pair have worked together, either just informally in Wall's studio or out playing live gigs since 2006, and they have produced a body of material that Wall has then sculpted into the composition that appears on the CD. Th…
Work 2011 - 2014
John Wall, computer-generated sounds, severe editing, arrangement and composition. Alex Rodgers, voice, computer-generated sounds. This work was compiled from improvisations, independently-recorded fragments and pre-written texts over the specified period. A second edition of Work 2006 -2011 (E114) is also available. Mastered by Jacques Beloeil and John Wall.
This latest collaboration by electronic composer John Wall and his old sparring partner, poet Alex Rodgers, gets off to a terrific st…
Energia Nuvola
Restocked, sold out at source, very last copies around....Long awaited first work on vinyl for magic sound artist Francesco Cavaliere. Born in Italy and based in Germany for a long time, Francesco Cavaliere is one of the most unique people working with sounds, words, lights and movement nowadays, developing a totally personal and surreal music through a million journeys in fantastic dreamlands. Energia Nuvola is the fruit of his efforts recorded during over an year (2012/2013), a collection of f…
Minor Differences
André Vida is a Berlin-based saxophonist, composer and lyricist. He has developed a series of practical approaches to improvisation using restrictive outfits, animated graphics-based score installations and self-made instruments. His solo saxophone pieces are a synthesis of these areas of improvisational research, combining body, instrument, song-forms, and voice. In this case the pieces are made in the moment and memory, with shifting time matrices. Over the course of a two-minute walk, some fo…
There
Engrossing debut album from Iranian sound artist, Pouya Ehsaei, sublimating samples of traditional Iranian music to "reveal the rage hidden beneath its melancholia." 'There' was produced in 2010, using fractured and brutally processed instrumentation indigenous to Iran to isolate a palpable feeling of tension articulated with a timbre unique to the artist's background. In the course of its six pieces we perceive a stark and grinding sadness from his aerated arrangements, gleaning elusive emotion…
Ghosts Of Nakhodka
This is a gem of a recording! A new album, the sister of Ghost of Nakhodka in some ways (Siren Records 2009), but entirely new and different material. 'Ghosts' is all played on a monphonic synthesizer and recorded directly to two track tape. Evoking memories of dreamy postcard memories and snapshots of another time and place. Moving in 13 parts to a final conclusion- 'Map of the World'."You may be thinking, there was an album by Andrew Chalk with this exact same title. And you would be correct…
Delirious Elaborations
An outstanding and truly lavishly packaged 4CD-Box collecting 1987-1997 material by the legendary ULTRA (Christoph Heeman, Achim P. Li Khan, Jon Carlson) containg four CD’s each in individual picture sleeves, 16 page booklet, housed in foil-debossed slipcase. Very recommended humourous electroacoustic power electronics.The entire recorded output of the 'classic' Ultra lineup of St Degeneratus (Jon Carlson), Herr Mucke (Christoph Heemann) and Dr Tengelmann (Achim Flaam) along with lyrics, artwork…
Machines that kill people
Finally restocked...OUTSTANDING!!! Dark experimental electronics with ritualistic edges, one of the most important US electronic/experimental LP of the 80s (Mutant Sounds) "Massively unlikely grant-assisted archival reissue of this wild cultic/ritual psych/no wave one-off from Chicago's Ono, their debut LP from 1983, originally released on the legendary Thermidor label: Thermidor released a ton of great shit back in the early 80s Birthday Party, Meat Puppets, Minuteman, Nig-Heist but nothing co…
Lost Themes
John Carpenter has been responsible for much of the horror genre’s most striking soundtrack work in the fifteen movies he’s both directed and scored. The themes can instantly flood his fans’ musical memory with imagery of a menacing shape stalking a babysitter, a relentless wall of ghost-filled fog, lightning-fisted kung fu fighters, or a mirror holding the gateway to hell. The all-new music on Lost Themes asks Carpenter’s acolytes to visualize their own nightmares.“Lost Themes was all about hav…
3R4
In 1980, after three relentlessly creative albums, the members of Wire were at an impasse, unsure of how to push themselves any further as a four-piece rock band. While frontman Colin Newman spent the band's hiatus mining Wire’s knack for intelligent and contorted pop songs, guitarist Bruce Gilbert and bassist/vocalist Graham Lewis joined forces for a series of experimental projects (Dome, Cupol, etc.) where the primary motivating concept was "studio as instrument."3R4, the duo's only LP under t…