Het Lichte Lied
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN IN FLEMISH, A LANGUAGE ALMOST NOBODY UNDERSTANDS!!! Gerard Herman was invited by "VTI Brugge" (a school for offset printmaking) to create an artist book the students would have difficulties printing, or at least it should be "complicated" or something… Gerard in turn invited Dennis Tyfus, who was intensely reading the interview series "Die zomer van Tien Om Te Zien" written by Mathias Danneels for Primo Magazine. Together Gerard Herman and Dennis Tyfus disin…
Resin Drones
A grin, a comb over and a staring contest into a toilet that refuses to flush, and most importantly a jolly good -but rather slowed down- time! Rodger Stella, a known downer from the upper shelf of Macronympha, where rusted metals lay next to a box of Methadone and a big jar of green water, where "Dolophine", Rodger's stinky dolphin, is trying hard to find his way out, and where I wouldn't have expected an acoustic guitar. Most recordings on this lp are indeed made with a piece of wood with six …
Loss
The 2nd EP by Moon Zero (London-based Tim Garratt) 'LOSS' is the result of a year spent working out how to play Moon Zero live and then going on to play concerts. Using a wide range of instrumentation such ad drawbar organ, bass synth, vocals, fx processors and guitar pedals, Loss was written & recorded over 2 days at St George in The East Church in London, October 2013. Whereas 'Tombs' was more concerned with exploring melody in an ambient space, 'Loss' is looking at pulse and movement i…
Tombs
The 1st EP by Moon Zero (London-based Tim Garratt) 'Tombs' is, especially for a debut, a bold and confident musical statement, which reimagines the possibilities of processed organ and vocal sounds in a live context. The opener 'Dalyan' builds from slowly wavering layers of sound into a crumbling, decaying wall of fuzzed-out, peaking noise, which in turn builds again into ever-moving blocks of chopped loops and feedback, absorbing the listener completely into Moon Zero's musical space. A …
Musiques concretes 1970-71
Brocoli is pleased to announce the release of seven early works by Michel Chion, the celebrated musique concrète composer. Composed before he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1971 his characteristic style and sounds are already present. The abrasive electronics and sanctity in Blanche prefigure 1973's Requiem; Sonatine and Train de pianos are based on prepared piano improvisations; Habanera and L'Oiseau en Cage evoke La Ronde, and Le Ciel Tremble is the composer's first…
Splintered Instruments
While looking back to an extensive period of creating music with his ambient project “Sketches for Albinos” Matthew Collings felt the urgent necessity of starting with a completely different approach to music, as the ambient aesthetic didn’t match any longer with new ideas burgeoning in his head. He wanted to create a more direct sound to involve a much grander and more dangerous range of emotions. The composition process of “Splintered Instruments” came out of personally reckoning with tw…
Silence Is A Rhythm Too
Matthew Collings is a Scotland-based composer. Not only being a solo recording and live artist, he collaborates regularly with artists from all kinds of fields including musicians, dancers and filmmakers. He’s responsible for several installations using custom-made software, which have been exhibited at Burning Man Festival in San Francisco or Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts. His work for films includes a specially commissioned live score for Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent classic, ‘The…
Tiento de las Nieves
Shipping on Monday "Love is life’s snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight—whiter and purer than snow itself. What is life without love? It is like this ice—a cold, bare, rugged mass, the wind driving it and rending it and then forcing it together again, nothing to cover over the open rifts, nothing to break the violence of the collisions, nothing to round away the sharp corners of the broken floes—nothing, nothing but ba…
Early Nights
Early Nights can be seen as a music box of musical and nocturnal atmospheres. Belgian musician Jean D.L. guides us on this album through a collection of fragments and pieces of recollection collected over a period of seven years. The music, both recorded live and at home, meanders between improvisation, experiment, drone and ambient guitar, exploring the places where it originated. Jean D.L. develops a universe at once intimate and noisy, made of hazy soundscapes. Jean D.L. has worked sol…
Divine Music for Sleeping + Field 1987
Grim is one of the primal projects in the history and the realms of Industrial Music in Japan. Originally founded in early 80's as a solo moniker by Jun Konagaya, one half of the founding member for WHITE HOSPITAL, as well as a mastermind of the label Eskimo Records."Divine Music for Sleeping + Field 1987" features the best kept secret material on 10 tracks in total, strictly selected from two cassettes "Divine Music For Sleeping" and "Field 1987" both contains initially released on Eskimo Recor…
The death of the grey wolf / Resurrection of the king
Joel Danielsson is a Stockholm based artist, known for previous cassette releases as Victor Eremita on Black Horizons, O on Styggelsse and his own label Cuniunction, and also for compilation appearance as this real name moniker on "Hour Of The Wolf" released by Freak Animal Records, as well as painter/various artists. "The Death of the Grey Wolf / Resurrection of the King" consists of 2 long tracks of evidence for profound exploration of the meta physics of alchemy. Composed with clank of metal,…
Antropocen
"Antropocen" is highly conceptual full-length album from the Swedish master of audile concrete ARV & MILJÖ, a solo project by Matthias Andersson based in Gothenburg. Antropocen is a Swedish term of Anthropocene emphasized for the current geological epoch by a Dutch-born German atmospheric chemist Paul Jozef Crutzen. This album contains 8 tracks of monotonous concrete industrial with dense noise edge, a total sonic engrave casting a bleak shadow of an era we as all mankind breathe and survive.
Wal Phur Nag Po
Phurpa is the phenomenal musical collective from Moscow, founded by Alexey Tagin exploring authentic ancient ritual music of Bon, the pre-Buddhist tradition from Tibet. This album proves another ultimate sacral embodiment of their thoroughgoing performances grounded on genuine Bon tradition theoretically and practically, and yet reinterpret solemnly and unambiguously, with 5 chapters of title track "Wal Phur Nag Po" and also the keynote of their programme "Mu Ye". Playing traditional Tibetan rit…
Vital 1983-86
GRIM is one of the primal projects in the history and the realms of Industrial Music in Japan. Originally founded in early 80's as a solo moniker by Jun Konagaya, one half of the founding member for WHITE HOSPITAL as well as a mastermind of the label Eskimo Records. "Vital 1983-86" delivers 11 tracks of cryptic studio & live recordings produced in 1983 - 1986 and initially released on Eskimo Records in 1987 confidentially. Each track straightly correlates with "Amaterasu", "Folk Music" and also …
Omnichrom
Andy Votel, Sean Demdike and Suzanne Ciani deploy the second in a proposed trilogy of limited vinyl excursions documenting sessions carried out in different configurations and locations last year. Edition of 500 copies, artwork by Andy Votel and Andy Rushton Once again mining a rich source of archival material, tape works and improvised recordings, Andy Votel’s Neotantrik tap deep into the subconscious with a highly visual trip into the furthest reaches of psychedelic ambience. Following on from…
Valley Girl
Restocked - the exotic, alien tone of 'Valley Girl' marks the welcome return of Oakland, CA's Madalyn Merkey, whose previous release, 'Scent' was one of 2012's most spellbinding ambient/electro-acoustic charms. As a student of the famous Mills College, Merkey's work is understandably rooted in academic process and research, yet also inspired by the agriculture and rolling landscapes of the surrounding region. However, we'd be inclined to liken them to images of martian landscapes in '70s s…
A Song For Echo
According to ancient mythology, the woodland nymph Echo was fascinated by the handsome Narcissus, and wished to lure him into marriage. Unable to say anything on her own, her voice could only repeat the last words said, and this act was not enough for the arrogant Narcissus. Heartbroken, Echo fled deep into the forest, her body turning to mountain stone. Her soul is often considered to be the faint reverberation of the wind, still calling out for her lost love. A Song for Echo's central c…
The Ultra Sonic Perception
Considered to be one of the pioneers of Psychoacoustics, Eric Siday is also acknowledged as a key name in the growth of 20th century electronic music. An important figure in the development of the Moog Synthesizer, Siday's compositions were a testing ground for Bob Moog ideas, in turn shaping the technical advancement of the instrument. An early experimenter of Musique Concrete and extended technique he inaugurated these concepts into the world of television scoring and advertising. Sligh…
Ghost Notes
Ghost Notes is the third album from Nottingham-based musician Dan Layton, aka Apalusa. Whereas Apalusa’s previous release, Obadiah, was a dense, murky affair, filled with apocalyptic imagery and impenetrable layers of sub-sonic dirt, Ghost Notes is an altogether different animal. Recorded in Nottingham during the summer of 2013, Ghost Notes saw Layton employing a ‘composition by subtraction’ approach. Starting with layers of guitar drone, granular synthesis, field recordings and manipulate…
Music for Alien Ears
LP version. "RECORD OF THE YEAR: Martin O'Cuthbert: B.E.M.S (Esoteric Records) 'Seriously, when I played this record, an object on the wall started to vibrate very quickly, and I have witnesses to prove it. Martin O'Cuthbert is either a very evil person (just listen to the record) or a total fool (just listen to the record). Probably be big in Japan, and at a guess I'd say the whole thing comes off a Yamaha organ cos no synthesizer could sound that bad, could it?'" --John Lydon (PiL), New M…