neutrino
2007 release ** "Here is a record that sounds so retro that it seems modern and obsolete. Be Invisible Now! is the musical project of Marco Giotto from Treviso, a guy with a past in various bands, a collaboration with With Love and a passion for vintage instruments from the 70s. Neutrino, his first record, is played entirely with deliciously old-fashioned analog instruments. Vintage Roland and Korg keyboards, tube synthesizers and theremins at full blast. The result is a cosmic kraut journey wit…
6¡fskyquake\'003
'6¡Fskyquake is an audio composition designed in 2001 but explored conjunction with the american sculptor Banks Violette's solo shows in summer 2007. Actually, two shows at two different galleries, Barbara Gladstone & Team, running simultaneously for the duration. The interaction of sound and Violette's work revisited concepts touched in prior collaboration of loss, absence, residual energy of a missed evocative experience. The composition was captured at a recording session during the installa…
Tape Works of Kuniharu Akiyama. Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol. 006
Kuniharu Akiyama (1929-1996) was well-known as a music critic, mainly of modern and contemporary music. However, his career was not only in the music field -- he was also a very well-regarded avant-garde artist (he especially related to the early Fluxus movement). This release consists of his three unknown tape music pieces. They are very strange. Excerpt from the liner notes: "'Environmental Mechanical Orchestra' (1966) was made for an exhibition called 'From Space to Environment,' carried out …
nightly
"With Nightly, Ateleia's James Elliott artfully evokes the humid Krautrock of Popol Vuh within a whirlpool of lush minimalism, nimble electronica and digital psychedelia. It is a voyage up a primeval river of sound within a steaming jungle of invisible detail -- where the ultimate destination is forever out of reach."
Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight
Possibly the best currently available recording of Terry Riley's solo saxophone/organ/time-lag accumulator improvisations (for just the organ/time-lag, make a b-line to “persian surgery dervishes”), recorded in concert in buffalo, ny in the waning days of the 1960s.A perfect prime-era challenged-fidelity recording; a better accompaniment to your daily 6:20pm post rush-hour zone-out i’ve yet to hear. overall, tonally, this is much darker & brooding than other riley, making it something of anomaly…
Reed Streams
This CD represents the first album by Terry Riley, originally released in 1966, as well as the first recordings Riley made using his two personal Revox reel-to-reel tape machines (or 'Time Lag Accumulators') later heard on his groundbreaking Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight. In 1966, Terry Riley was performing hypnotic keyboard studies in his loft, and later, such venues as the Electric Circus. Reed Streams, Riley's debut record, offers a rare glimpse into his early trance musi…
Ohm+ : The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948 - 1980
met with critical acclaim, this award-winning box set celebrated the composers and inventors who led the electronic music revolution. Five years later due to continued demand from passionate aficionados (eBay sales at $150, etc.) we're now re-releasing the Special Edition OHM+ containing a bonus DVD with over two and a half hours of performances, interviews, and experimental video. Three CDs (42 original music tracks from 1948-1980) packaged in a deluxe fold-out digipak, slipcased with a 112-pag…
Jean of Arc
Tony Conrad is a founding father of 'minimalism' and a giant in the American soundscape. The indefatigable Conrad kept busy during the Revolution Summer of 1968. In addition to his reunion recordings with John Cale (documented in the Cale set New York in the 1960s), Conrad starred in Ira Cohen's legendary film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda and made extensive solo recordings, including 'Joan of Arc', available here for the first time. One of Conrad's personal favorites, it's a long piece for…
Ein schwärzeres Schwarz
The two tracks featured here are a further development from the Die letzte Musik vor dem Krieg 7" (DS70) using the new work with piano sounds and it's one of the best works of Organum yet in our opinion. Edition of 500.
then, silence
Then, Silence is dedicated to Morton Feldman and Luigi Nono. The experience of listening to their music has changed my understanding, my way of hearing, my thinking about, and my creating music so much that my own work would simply be unthinkable without it. Dedicating Then, Silence to them is my modest Thank You to Morton Feldman and Luigi Nono, expressing not only my admiration, but also the sadness their untimely parting causes me.
august
12k presents the latest solo work from Italian composer Giuseppe Ielasi. August is the 4th full-length cd from Ielasi following his critically acclaimed debut Plans (Sedimental, 2003) and the stunning Gesine and s/t (Häpna, 2005, 2006).August takes a more linear approach to Ielasi’s composing with sounds stretched like like layers of gauze forming a thick, soft blanket. Utilizing piano, hammond organ, guitars, dobro, synthesizers and shortwave radio, Ielasi creates deep, warm drones and suspende…
Seuchengebiete 3
original, long time deleted edition of 500 copies, a static massive drone work, with a repetitive material that evolves/distortes/returns one piece uses an orchestral source that is looped etc etc and another is a fairly simple synth pattern that changes over time
Seventh Ruined Hex
A further step out in Birchville Cat Motel's ruminations on time space distortion featuring the additional mystikal talents of fellow gravity destroyer, Matthew Bower (Hototogisu-Sunroof!), Seventh Ruined Hex presents like a lonesome planet, occassionally struck with super-sized fragments of space detritus, but for the most part just hangs around, spinning on its axis and doing fuck-all. Strangely emotive for 'a buncha noise'. Like the deepest love, its warm yet tenuous, and filled with the ever…
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music vol. 5
Sub Rosa presents the fifth volume of the highly-acclaimed and successful Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music series. This installment highlights pieces illustrating a technique (Claude Ballif's "Points, Mouvements"), a country ("Shur, Op. 15" by Alireza Mashayekhi), a studio (Helmut Lachenmann at the IPEM), and historic (François Bernard Mâche's "Prélude"), and radical ("Spectrum Ripper" by Masonna/Yamazaki "Maso" Takushi) works that have ripped apart ancient definitions. All this organized …
Valley of fire
Valley of fire contains three brand new finely crafted songs on side one, and on side two, a twenty minute classic psychedelic, dirt road journey. The record represents two equally facinating aspects of jomf sonwriting, and musical arrangement. Over the years, jackie-o motherfucker have spent equal time writing and arranging classic American folk and blues, and long, free-form compositions, drawing comparisons to 1960's and 70's ensembles like Ash Ra Temple, Amon Dull... Valley of fire begins wi…
America Mystica
America Mystica is a collection of four live recordings, made under varied circumstances, ranging from the quiet and comfortable setting of the WFMU free form radio recording studio, to the live theatre environment at the cube cinema in Bristol, England, where the group was recorded in concert performance. The line-up includes Montreal musicians Fluffy Erskine and David Bryant, as well as long time JOMF members T. Greenwood and Brooke Crouser. Also appearing on these recordings are Jeff Mooridia…
Flags Of The Sacred Harp
“Why don't you go down, old Hannah/Don't you rise no more”, era il canto che gli schiavi neri intonavano nelle piantagioni, supplicando il sole cocente (Old Hannah) di non levarsi più. I Jackie-O Motherfucker riadattarono questo traditional ai tempi di Fig. 5 e ora dopo sette anni da quel disco, si ripresentano con un nuovo lavoro completamente costruito sulla figura del Sacred Harp Singing, una primordiale forma di gospel a cappella. Viste queste premesse, Flags of the Sacred Harp, si ma…
Morgendämmerung
This vinyl only release by Ora features two hauntingly atmospheric tracks from their rare "New Movements In G" release (150 copies) originally released on Darren Tate's own Gnome Records label in 1998, and were not included on the two Ora retrospective CD compilations "Final" and "After The Rainfall" (both on Colin Potter's own ICR label). For these recordings Ora were: Darren Tate, Colin Potter, Lol Coxhill, Daisuke Suzuki on the A-Side 'The Sun Sheds A Golden Tear', and Darren Tate & Colin Pot…
Sinkende Schwimmer
beautiful Asmus Tietchens / Thomas Köner CD with droning soundscapes all over - produced by legendar Okko Bekker, long out of print
I Was There / That Would Be
Aawesome “industrial” saw-blade, this one representing the Icelandic scene. Hafler Trio, now residing in Iceland, offers this new track exclusively for this release, which is more ambient than their older releases. Stilluppsteypa, natives of Iceland, give us a more experimental track, which by the way was produced by Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio. White vinyl, released on September 20th, 1996 in an edition of 500.