Voix
First Ever Official Reissue Remastered from the Original Master Tapes!I talian avant-garde and film composer Egisto Macchi (1928-1992) produced a large and largely forgotten catalog of astounding music during the 1960s and 1970s. At the crest of that incredible body of work stands Voix, an LP of intense contrasts; haunting, dissonant choirs collide with dexterous ‘musique concrete’ manipulations and other worldly soundscapes, while guitars buzz and strings scrape violently. The world of V…
Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata
Finally available on CD, “Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata” is the debut album of the band of the same name, then better known by the acronym T.A.C. The LP was originally published in 1983 as the first release of the defunct Azteco Records, a label run by the band itself. Founded in Parma in 1981 by Andrea Azzali, Simon Balestrazzi, Giorgio Barbuti, Fabio Cortesi and Giampaolo Terenziani, in its first incarnation the band used to crossbreed rock and experimental music, combining tape-loo…
Terminal Velocity
Jon Mueller and James Plotkin first combined forces on Physical Changes, scorching the leading LP side of Mueller's 2009 multi-format collaborative investigation. Forging Mueller's blistering percussion and rolling hills of drums with Plotkin's searing guitar and melting electronics, a sturdy alloy was formed. When both musicians were asked to perform at the Utech Records Music Festival in June 2011, at which they appeared as a duo, the pair spent the proceeding days spontaneously unfurl…
La Lumiere Parfumee
Second edition finally available...This is a gem! The second album by Elodie, the duo project of Timo van Luijk & Andrew Chalk. While the debut album 'Echos Pastoraux' ( La Scie Doree) had the sentiments of a homely sketchbook memory,'La Lumiere Parfumee' is a new collection of eight pieces, bringing a more elaborate repertoire with delicate acoustic and electronic arrangements in an impressionistic pallette of pastel shades and shimmering opalescent rays. Packaged in handmade mini LP styl…
Frozen By Blizzard Winds
The two sonic masters joins forces for an extraordinary collaboration project recorded live at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo. Features Marhaug on computer and Drumm on analog synth and guitar.
Kraakgeluiden
Series of improvised music-performances involving acoustic & electronic instruments, was started in 1999 by a group of musicians in Amsterdam. They perform in combinations, which include musicians w/ whom they have never performed before.
Split
Much time has passed since the release of "Can't Illumination" in 2003, and Anna Zaradny and Burkhard Stangl meet yet again, now on each side of a vinyl record on the Bocian Records label. There were, however, many various encounters in various circumstances in between those two official events, and one of them is shown in the photos on the cover. This is hardly a chance meeting as the two compositions have more in common than it might seem at first sight. Take the misguiding beginnings, f…
Aurora
Original copies from the Eighties.
Cambridge Street Records was created in 1985 by Barry Truax as an alternative to commercial publication that specializes in computer and electroacoustic music by Canadian composers. Each Cambridge Street Records production is personally supervised, both artistically and technically, by the composer and features the musical use of new audio technology such as digital sound synthesis, multi-track recording and digital signal processing. The first two releases in …
Black Original Remix
Japanese heavy rock band Boris are at the height of their creative powers. Their fans (including Lou Reed, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails & Portishead, to name a few) know it. They composed the soundtrack for the Japanese Academy Award winning film "KOKUHAKU" & Jim Jarmusch asked them to soundtrack his latest film, "Limits Of Control". The band's dramatic evolution as been a hot topic for discussion amongst fans both old & new in Japan & abroad. The new 12" remix single "Black Original" expan…
Live In The House Of God
Recorded in an empty, deconsacrated church sometime in summer 2003, this LP is another installment in an on-going series of records documenting the weird life of Jennifer Gentle in the foggy plains of Northern Italy. Basically the sound of JG's mainman Marco Fasolo going wild with an old, battered electronic piano and a bunch of sound effects, Live at the House of God is a side-long improvisation sharing the same spirit of those 20-minutes keyboard freak-outs Sun Ra used to record in the late Si…
Ways Of Meaning
Ways of Meaning, Kyle Bobby Dunn’s new full-length album and the second release for Desire Path Recordings, is a treatise on the resonance of memory; an attempt to harness the finality of meaning as a shared experience.
Mainly arranged for guitar and organ, the six works contained herein offer a look into Dunn’s mind as an artist deeply concerned with time, memory, consequence, identity, and meaning. Each piece, while created from and inspired by very personal moments, represents a point o…
Schraffur for gong solo
Almost one hour of gong solo. A perfect continuum ! An incredible performance. Gong recorded at casa delle masche, piedmont, italy on april 28, 2011. voice recordings at the same location on several days in summer 2011. performed, recorded and mixed by fritz hauser. mastered by martin pearson at platinum one, zürich, switzerland.
What Are The Roots That Clutch
It was a cavernous tone that broadcast from a ventilator duct that inspired Patrick McGinley to begin collecting field recordings and working them into his slow-arc compositions. At the time when he heard that particular tone in that particular city at that particular time, he had no gear to recording device on hand. Over the next fifteen years (and counting) McGinley has eased into a peripatetic lifestyle, wandering the European countryside and forests (but never straying too far from th…
Testacoda
Jérôme Noetinger is an improviser and composer of electroacoustic music based in Rives (near Grenoble), France. He plays Revox, tapes and radio. SEC_ is the moniker of Mimmo Napolitano, an electronic musician and sound engineer from Naples, Italy. He plays Revox, no-input feedback, laptop, electronic devices. Together these two play the kind of improvised electronic mayhem that put Europe on the map. Testcoda features two separate recordings of shapeshifting electronics. One side recorded…
Death Magazine 52
Between 1982 and 1984 Death Magazine 52 played around 20 shows mostly within the Black Country region of the U.K. Sometimes they played under the name Spontaneous Human Combustion which was the moniker they originally started out with. These recordings capture the core group and its floating membership at various stages of their existence. Recordings from the studio sessions and live sets, including playing to a school hall full of teenage girls at 3pm one afternoon, and as the final band to pla…
Hexplore Superfluidity
Stargate is something in between pre-sleep Tetris Effect and Trance music in slowmotion: gated soft synth arpeggios smoothly modulate towards brutal supersawed patterns, disintegrating into ecstatic vocals. You are opening the doors of an Ibizia club at 5 am, the foam is all around and your eyes start twisting, your brain is gently stretched & pitched down. You are locked into the longest build-up ever. Unique, truly inspired, 100% uplifting music from the "Dawn of the Cryonics": watching …
I Vizi Morbosi Di Una Giovane Infermiera
Atrax Morgue is anxious and psychotic side of the electronic noise. With the help of a analog synth, Marco blows up emotions and delusions, cutting out the hard way inspired portraits of phobias and deviations. Originally released on cassette under the title of ‘'Nursery Crime'' in a special box limited to 50 copies and later reissued on cd-r in very few copies with the title ‘'I vizi morbosi di una giovane infermiera'', is one of the most introspective and deep Atrax Morgue' s works. ‘'A vision…
Complete Spiral
Two of the world's most distinguished electronic musicians have drawn upon their shared passion for the sensuality and groove of late '80s / early '90s NYC House to hatch a genuine anthem for unsuspecting and open minds. DJ Sprinkles, aka Terre Thaemlitz, is a now Tokyo-based producer who, among so much other stuff, released the hugely loved, genre-defining "Midtown 120 Blues" album back in 2009. Mark Fell is the South Yorkshire-based sonic genius known for groundbreaking work as half of…
Spirits of the Sun
The Slaves may well have gone and made one of the standout debuts of the year - a layered mass of ethereal vocals most reminiscent of Grouper with a brutal, doom-stricken underbelly that at turns sounds like My Bloody Valentine, Sunn O))) and Slowdive, massively recommended if you're into any of the above and available in a limited edition run of 500, with initial copies on pure white vinyl* The Portland, Oregon duo of Barbara Kinzle and Birch Cooper, aka The Slaves, operate in the void …
Mafarka
"Mafarka" is the first title in a series of vinyl reissues dedicated to Mauthausen Orchestra that Officina Fonografica Italiana is going to release in the next months. An historic project conducted by Pierpaolo Zoppo, Mauthausen Orchestra is - along with Maurizio Bianchi - the name that best marked out the Italian way to Power-Electronics in the early 80s, producing a considerable amount of publications between 1982 and 1986 whose extreme nature had rarely appeared before in music. Distor…