In Sara, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Men And Women
Long out of print, beautiful remastered digipack edition with extensive booklet "This uniquely original work for voice and electronics is dated 1972. The voice part is read with as few inflections and breaths as possible and the voice activates electronic sounds that respond with inflected sounds. The musical effect is that of an internal voice stimulating involuntary ideas and feelings offering a profound musical exploration of the relation between the physical nature of the voice and social/la…
Underneath the surface
Since the very first notes, this music appears to be about memory, decay and subversion. It is a deep investigation on the ability of sounds to freely attract or reject each other, in accordance with their own nature and disposition, and still maintain their meaning. Combining dense, multilayered sheets of synthetic sounds, treated bass, electronic percussion, the six tracks reveal their non-architectural principle as the music develops through warm textural details, reverberations, underlying m…
Mag Magazin 6
Obscure early tape, very thought to find nowadays: this tape is rich with texture and dynamics that make for a stunning listen, its details are intricate resonation and transformations of the sound sculptures in the environment
23/20
This is the double LP version, featuring a full colour gatefold cover, full colour inner sleeves and 180 Gr. heavy vinyl ! "More than ever, fringe culture methods and cutting edge acoustic science mate for the generations of endless layers and bursts of sonic pleasure: voices and drones clans across plans and peaks, fishing for universal tremors and sensorial catastrophes... iconic translations of lost symbols flow like pathogenic lava into temporal sequence and weather forecasts become performa…
Spilt
Nate Young airs two of his alter egos on this great split LP: Demons, featuring Steve Kenney (oh you know, Steve Kenney - he's in those well-known beat combos The Pterodactyls and Isis & Werewolves.... No?) and Hatred, which combines Young once again with Kenney, but this time with the added presence of Spence Bryant. The Hatred side sounds like the motor on your turntable is continually breaking down, as if some perpetual Technics power-down effect was causing all manner of primitive pitch-slid…
LMJW
Beautiful new collaboration between John Wiese and Lasse Marhaug. Two tracks of harsh and heavy noise for 10 minutes of music, recorded in Oslo in January 2008. Limited edition one-time pressing of 200 copies. Highly recommended.
The Empty Quarter
Recorded earlier in 2007 in Michigan 'The Empty Quarter' is the latest chapter in the ever growing (and ever changing) Hair Police story. This is a band I am well and truly smitten with, after hearing their truly seminal 'Constantly Terrified' album I was a convert and went looking for anything and everything the band had put their name to (which is a lot, trust me) and they rarely disappoint. Each limited slab of wax has positioned them somewhere a little different and the bar is raised again j…
Totaled And Stranded
Awesome release: recorded in a hotel room after we totaled out tour vehicle and became stranded in the worst snowstorm in Ohio history†Beatty, Connelly, Tremaine. Artwork: hand cutted black cardboard, Xeroxed recycled paper, raw paper inner sleeve. The B side is screenprinted by Serimal. Limited edition in 500 copies. A 1-sided album of piercing vocals, walls of guitars, precise heavy electronics and thundering drums. A fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electron…
Anthology Box
'Accident de chasse', 'I'm... I come... I was...', 'Schiluuk', 'Stable', 'Electrocoagulation tapes', 'Les victimes sont dangereuses', 'Moll', 'Lost in karrack', 'Early tracks', 'Live with or without audience', 'In death we trust!' (extract), 'Program T.4' (extract), 'Drug' (revised), 'The prehistoric tapes'. The best way to enter into the world of brume aka Christian Renou, French composer of musique concrete.
Ecstasy Shorewed Its Petals With The Full Peal Of The Bells
'Last summer, while in Paris, I was given a beautiful small bell as a gift. it has been a constant sounding companion ever since. At times, during my travels, I would shake it to bring certain spirits forth, and at times it would ring on its own, living in constant motion in my pocket or my bag. As with some of my earlier works with single sounds (the lamp, chair, splint series and the tea cups in winter couplet) I wanted to see what such a simple singular object could generate, as well as if so…
Stars Of Ice
Last copies. All sounds generated and-or organized by Steve Roden at the Bubble house, nov-dec 2008. Sound sources: the chinese Christmas Carol stars of ice, from can old 7 record; the song snow from the 78 set songs from the first grade reader; and various other objects and instruments. The poem is the lyrics to stars of ice, with numerous words erased.
Constellation Of Tragedy
Constellation Of Tragedy is the sixth full length album from Japan's LSD March. Apt comparisons are often made of LSD March being a cross between the Velvet Underground and Les Rallizes Denudes. Constellation Of Tragedy is their most well recorded and refined album to date coming to a climactic close and featuring leader Shinsuke Michishita playing guitar, theremin, musical box, bass, harmonium, & harmonica. Recorded by Richard Horner at Snowflake Sound in Saporro Japan. Cover artwork by Darryl …
Under Milk Wood
The new LSD March album Under Milk Wood is their first full length since 2007's Constellation Of Tragedy for Important Records. With grace (in the rock sense), style, humor & the perfect touch of heavy riffage this tremendously unique and original recording is a classic of the new Japanese underground. Recorded at Black Snowflake Studios in Japan, Under Milk Wood is a fascinating ghostly rock album full of clean untreated restraint and a grounded calm compliments of Takahashi Ikuro's drumming. I…
All Are Guests In The House Of The Lord
With so damn many records pouring out, there are precious few artists who strain against sagging shelves and actually merit the “must hear” designation. One of them for me is Kevin Drumm. Widely known “guitarist” and relentless disassembler of technique, expression, and expectation, Drumm has recorded seminal solo records (first on Perdition Plastics, then the epochal Sheer Hellish Miasma), tussled in some notable duos (with, for example, RLW with Ralf Wehowsky), and even shown up to upend some …
Superstitions
Amazing early P. Bastien tape Pierre Bastien (born Paris, 1953) post-graduated in eighteenth-century French literature at University Paris-Sorbonne. In 1977 he built his first musical machinery. For the next ten years he has been composing for dance companies and playing with Pascal Comelade. In the meantime he was constantly developing his mechanical orchestra. Since 1987 he concentrates on it through solo performances, sound installations, recordings and collaborations with such artists as Pie…
L\'Enorme Tragedia
rare original tape by LA 1919 (aka La 1919 Spontaneo) were a Milanese avant-progressive band that first started life in September 1980. Their sound is electronic-based, but still consists of traditional rock-band instruments, such as electric and bass guitar (with assistance by clarinets and saxophones on later releases). Mostly though, the band uses keyboard effects and tape looping, combined with a Frippian and Frithian guitar sound, supplied by Margorani (much more evident on their second an…
Manifesto Rumorarmonico Post Futurista
Vinyl compilation devoted to "Luigi Russolo" the father of Futurist music and the first man theorizing that music has to be composed mainly by rumors And not by harmonic sounds! His music was played with an instrument "l'Intonarumori" or "Rumorarmonio" which was invented by himself! Russolo is the forefather and theorizer of the "Electronic music" concept and for sure we can say today that he was the first man playing "Industrial" muzak! For this project we found four artists which are known for…
Aybasi
Maurizio Bianchi/M. B. used gelatinous comglomerates of consubstantial sounds, mixed with discretional eviscerated noises. Antithetic metal crucibles for contemplative adherents.
Bactérie
Maurizio Bianchi has been in the game for a long time. Since the late 70's he has proved himself to be a true pioneer of industrial minimalist tactics making it a goal to "produce technological sounds to work for a full awareness of modern decadence." I strongly believe that the most beautiful music is made through the filters of decay and slow demise. Bacterie is a fine example of this and only a sliver of what Bianchi has done over the last 30 years.
Mectpyo Saisei
A magnetotherapeutic leakage bridled in the impartial passivity of our univocal meditations the second haemodialysis generated by maurizio bianchi and akifumi nakajima, announces the new era of untamed audio-inflammation. both operators have sharpened their pathologist scalpels to intoxicate the aural hemisphere with rhizospheric microorganisms and mononuclear blood-cells. inside the parasite plasmodium of mectpyo saisei the clinical rhythm-impulses by aube and septic piano-fragments by m.b. for…