Hyper
** restocked** Le Révélateur – multimedia duo of visual artist Sabrina Ratté and composer Roger Tellier-Craig – return with Hyper, a bold stylistic leap that represents their most experimental and conceptually rich work to date. Having already begun to move away from their trademark analog synth panoramas, Hyper goes even further in expanding the digital abstractions that first bubbled to the surface on 2014’s Extreme Events. Gone are the hypnotic arabesques and Berlin School melodicism that cha…
Fall of Saigon
Fall of Saigon was born in 1981 when Florence Berthon (Vocals), Pascal Comelade (Organ, Synthesizer) and Thierry Den (Guitar, Vocals) met at a concert in Montpellier, France. They chose to the name the project Fall of Saigon after a song by UK post-punk act This Heat. They self-released their debut EP in 1983 citing Nico & The Velvet Underground, Suicide and James Joyce as influences. At the time the band formed, Pascal Comelade was an accomplished musician with instrumental sketches composed fo…
En Forme !!
Vinyl reissue! While still in Etron Fou Leloublan, Ferdinand Richard released his first solo-album in 1981. Expect a unique blend of dadaist jazz, art rock and new wave, inviting Ferdinand in the club of the untypical singers chaired by Frank Zappa and Albert Marcoeur.
Andante Plumbeo
Umanzuki is a three-piece act based in Florence, Italy whose sound and aesthetics are in constant metamorphosis: moving from a former psych free- rock mood, evolving into an increasing dissolution of structures, they are now completing their ascent and reaching an even more abstract form of ambient. Wrapped in dark, synthetic matter, with this 30 minute-long improv session Umanzuki penetrate into the fields of a dilated and deconstructed ambient sound. Recorded in Florence during March 2015 and …
Inventing Masks
Originally released in 2013, Error Broadcast re-issued ‘Stunt (Appendix)’ just recently (ebc028). After a hiatus of three years Inventing Masks is a new moniker the producer uses to publish his self-titled debut LP. ‘Inventing Masks’ comprises six concentric but slightly out-of-balance sound sculptures, equally inspired from generative composition, ambient music, and hip hop. "Inventing Masks can stand alongside some of the greatest loop-based records of the sampledelic era. Put a vocalist on to…
I Don't Remember Now / I Don't Want To Talk About It
Very necessary reissue of the minimal wave holy grail: John Bender’s self-released debut.
Vixit
** small restock, totally sold out at source ** A masterpiece, tiny edition of 200 copies only. Following on from his astonishing "Miseri Lares" on Pan, here we have an uncompromising, poetic and unexpected culmination of Valerio Tricoli tireless experimentation over the past few years. Valerio Tricoli is one of the first name that springs to mind when the talk turns to current analogue synth, reel-to-reel tape fetishism and electronics. And somehow he led the way in transforming the nowadays ex…
Unreleased tapes 1977-1979
Early unreleased tape recordings from 1977 to 1979. First part in small series of limited triple vinyl boxes, featuring all early Etant Donnes recordings, in a super limited edition of 90 copies. Etant Donnes are French brothers Eric & Marc Hurtado who take their name from the Marcel Duchamp peep-show like art exhibit of the same name. The duo have been releasing music since the late 70s, several with big name guests including Genesis P-Orridge, Alan Vega and Michael Gira. The brothers Hurtado…
Breadwoman & Other Tales
Sensational!!!! Breadwoman & Other Tales are the collected recordings of a language arising. It is the sound and document of Anna Homler divining speech, lyrical fragments, and melody for music composed, mixed, and engineered by Steve Moshier. It’s 1982 and Anna is driving an ocean blue classic Cadillac to meet renowned poet and playwright Deena Metzger in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles. Passing a non-descript desert patch where tall wheat and mustard flowers grow, Anna opens her mouth and sings in…
Framtiden ar ett svavande skepp, forankrat i forntiden
2016 repress. Subliminal Sounds presents a vinyl reissue of Agarnas Tradgard's 1972 debut album Framtiden ar ett Svavande Skepp, Forankrat I Forntiden, a rare and totally flipped-out psychedelic underground space rock masterpiece from Sweden. This incredible album was a radical exploration of the new possibilities opened up by creative use of the recording studio as an instrument, in a similar vein to Faust and other German experimenters, while also pulling in folk and medieval influences.The ba…
Sensate
Sensate, recorded between 2009 and 2014 with prosumer music equipment, exploits the heavy- handed engineering of various hardware and software synthesisers, samplers and sequencers. Edition of 200 copies. Mastered by Jacques Beloeil
Brendan Dougherty is a Berlin based musician/composer/producer. Originally from Philadelphia he moved to Berlin in 2002. He co-founded the noise band Idiot Switch and dirty ambient duo Charrd and currently plays drums in Transmit, a side project of Tony Buck (The Ne…
Musique Pour le Reve et l'Amour
Outstanding!!! Before appearing in his works as a musician, Ariel Kalma seems to reveal himself as a philosopher; a solitary explorer of higher and deeper consciousness. Influenced by his relationship with Indian classical music, he transfigures the acoustic-ecstatic dimension typical of the tanpura raga by modulating synths and horns. The work reissued here originally appeared on two different cassettes in 1981 and 1982, but is ideally one unique project. With Musique Pour le Rêve et l'Am…
Four Organs/Phase Patterns
This classic minimal music album is now available again on vinyl for the first time since the 70s. In recent decades Steve Reich’s music has been presented internationally at major venues, performed by high-profile musicians including the Kronos Quartet, guitarist Pat Metheny, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. But in 1970, when the music on this LP was recorded, Reich’s audiences gathered in museums and art galleries to hear his work interpreted by the composer himself and a group of fri…
Negativ White 2
2012 Release. Negativ White 2″ is Papiro’s second output in cooperation with Roy and the Devil’s Motorcycle’s Markus Stähli. Similar to “Rev” (TREE028) this is a live-recording, which was done during a rehearsal for a gig – they were booked for a Rockabilly Night [sic!]. The instruments are kept rather minimal: a drum machine, a synthesizer and synthetical moaning (as a result of pairing a VCS3 with a Formant Filter) are woven into a dubby something. The synthesizers squeak and hiss as one might…
Rev
2010 release. In early 2009, Papiro met with Markus Stahli (of Roy and the Devil'€™s Motorcycle) to rehearse for an upcoming show as the support act of New York avant-gardist and Suicide instrumentalist Martin Rev. As an opening, he chose a piece reminiscent of an Indian raga. Despite its eastern mood, he wanted it to produce a disturbing and nervous atmosphere. The rehearsal was actually supposed to be as a three-piece, but no date could be found for the third man, Michi Zaugg. They decid…
Information Pollution
180-gram LP. Includes printed inner sleeve. Like some ingenious combination of John Cage's chance operations and the numbers station data stream captured on The Conet Project, Strategy's Information Pollution immerses listeners in baffling sonic waters. It's a riveting work that converts the enigmatic effluvia of shortwave and dispatch radio chatter into thrumming, static-riddled clouds of ambience. An undercurrent of unease wafts through Information Pollution's four lengthy tracks, as barely au…
Color Attic
"Bulbs is a band that I like so much that I started a record label to rep their work. I put out their Light Ships album in 2008 because I was so impressed with how futuristic their music was. They've remained active on their own terms since then, releasing a number of micro-editions of their music including a few incredible tapes (Sky Listening, Moon Episodes) and a few splits (a 12" with Mouthus (IMPREC 255LP) and a 7" with Wobbly). Generally Bulbs' music does not sound like the guitar/drum ins…
Osorezan / Doh No Kembai
Their transcendental debut, from the lendary Geinoh Yamashirogumi, a music collective formed in Japan in 1974. Their approach psychedelic music with from a rather Krautish point of view and their first album from 1976 about which I write this review is rather a collage of strange noises, screams, a few rhythms patterns and wide open structures that seem to be borrowed from late 1960s psyched out free jazz. And you can bet, this is an ever flowing freak out but definitely an intense and mi…
