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10 Scenes & 1 Dream
*100 copies limited edition* Released September 21, 2024. In A5 resealable bag.
La Poupée Vivante
Four mouvements of electro-acoustic and vocal poetry projecting luminous shadows of a decadent fin de siècle. Performed by Timo van Luijk, Frédérique Bruyas and Arlette Aubin. Edition of 300 copies with printed inner sleeve.
Nestor's Nest
Rob Mazurek graces the Keroxen Records waves with a genre defying album of field recordings, modular electronics, trumpet harmonies and spirit call chants. An unstoppable force his first recordings in the early 90’s Rob Mazurek has been at the forefront of experimentation and adventurous improvised music for most of the last 4 decades. The American composer, cornetist, and visual artist has been developing his own style of improvisational music with a myriad of collaborators, too many to list bu…
Pruning
On his Discrepant debut Memotone aka Bristolian Will Yates collects some unreleased recordings under a most aptly titled name - »Pruning« - following a healthy stream of releases for such esteemed labels as Black Acre, The Trilogy Tapes or Soda Gong. Considering the process of pruning as a practice of selective removal, the album takes its name at face value never falling into a mere collection of tossed off material or random B-side assemblage, making it a cohesive listen throughout its dispara…
Flow of Adhisthana
Prajñāghoṣa's debut ambient album on Into The Deep Treasury is a narrative, a musical poem, an attempt to share the story of a transformative odyssey — an outer and inner journey marked by higher aspirations, spiritual growth, and a profound connection with the world.
Traces Ephemeres
Beautiful album from Andrew Chalk and Timo van Luijk, from pastoral snaphots to some oriental dreams. Eclectic ensemble of 18 instrumental arrangements invoking an epic and existential soundtrack determined by the power of momentary destiny and reflective sentiment. Guest appearences by Jean-Noel Rebilly and Tom James Scott
Clarté Déserte
*300 copies limited edition* New 10 track studio album by Andrew Chalk and Timo van Luijk, recorded 2020-2021 at Impression Lointaine and Kulta Saha. "Forth unobserved I wentIn darkness and security,By the secret ladder, in disguise,In secret, seen of none,Oh night more lovely than the dawn!Lost to all things and myself,And, amid the lillies forgotten,Threw all my cares away"
The Tale Of Genji
Another favorite from the Haromi Hosono canon. This was the score for the first animated adaptation of The Tale of Genji, a sprawling piece of 11th century literature written by noblewoman Shikibu Murasaki, considered by many to be the first modern novel in recorded history. (Isao Tomita later write his own symphonic adaptation of the story.) The anime was directed by Gisaburō Sugii, and while it only covers a small part of the epic storyline, the score is highly ambitious. Unlike much of Hosono…
Medicine Compilation From The Quiet Lodge
Double LP edition. A classic from Haruomi Hosono’s late ’80s and ’90s abstract electronica period, Medicine Compilation From The Quiet Lodge is a sublimely inviting ambient album with touches of acid house, downtempo pop, and ethereal trip-hop. Standout “Laughter Meditation” opens up the album with gorgeous zither and kalimba from Laraaji, a peaceful 4-to-the-floor beat, and spoken word. Medicine Compilation from the Quiet Lodge features ultimate ambient music that invites listeners to another w…
Electroacoustic Music
This CD presents two of the less often heard, most extreme and hardest to categorize sides of Roger Reynolds. The music for Ivanov is collaborative, utilitarian music for the theater. Versions/Stages is abstract experiment, music inspired by the desire to investigate compositional phenomena. Both are works seemingly far removed from Reynolds’'s concert music, and, additionally, they reveal yet another facet of the composer, his quarter-century contact with Japan. The only instructions that Tada…
Whispers Out Of Time / Transfigured Wind II
If composers born in the 1920s deconstructed the classical tradition and destroyed the foundations of "normal" musical practice, it was left to the '30s generation to build a new universe amid the rubble. No one has participated more assiduously in that venture than Roger Reynolds (b. 1934). He has infused into avant-garde music a perspective cognizant of the extra-musical world. It seemed surprising, yet fitting, that in 1989, Reynolds nabbed the usually sedate Pulitzer Prize for music; he was …
Riflessioni Di Un Anonimo Di Provincia
*36 copies limited edition* Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover. The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size. Insert is a b/n printed poster (25,20x29,50 cm. about) with all the text.
There's No Solution
*42 copies limited edition* Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover. The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size.
Animal
*300 copies limited edition* Over the last decade experimental composer Ash Fure has refined a music practice that eschews the conventions of composition and notation, favouring visceral sonic experiences in which sound is sculpted, thrown and felt. “Without language, people presume music is abstract,” she notes, “but I actually don’t feel it as abstract at all. I feel it as a really concrete and physical phenomenon.” With a PhD in music composition from Harvard and as Associate Professor of Son…
Ascension
*180 copies limited edition* Venice Affair seeks only to give humans a look into their own lives, history, suffering, and peace, all while providing a backbeat sprinkled with sexuality, romanticism, and especially entertainment. The concept of “Ascension” is much larger than a description of upward motion; it is the human description of our evolution from four to two, from caves to high rises, from child to elder, and from stardust to flesh. This collection of songs has been in the works since 2…
Porno Incubo
*170 copies limited edition* As is now a well-established tradition, when 7 appears in the catalogue number it is the turn of handyman Asymmetrical. The title takes its inspiration from a tag that appeared in the bathroom of the historical Knick Knack Yoda after one of the (in)usual nights, and is a leap in time, a project born from the layering of different sessions that took place between 2018 and 2020 and only sees the light of day today. 7 is also the number of inches of PVC on which this do…
Future Travel
Long out of print in its original, 1981 LP version from Street Records, Future Travel, has now been released again, remastered for digital media, by New World Records (80668-2). All the music composed and performed by David Rosenboom from this historic album is included, along with a new version of And Out Come the Night Ears, which was first introduced on an LP from 1750 Arch Records in 1978. One of the first albums composed almost entirely with a digital synthesizer, Future Travel, features th…
Audio Combine
restocked: The music comprising John Bischoff’s new CD ‘Audio Combine’, just released on New World Records, is beautiful, fascinating, thoroughly enjoyable. Philip Perkins’s engineering and production values are superb.The five tracks on the disc are diverse, representing Bischoff compositions from 2004 to mid-2011. The third track ‘Local Color’ evokes traditional chinese zhong bells, but also especially calls into question the ‘who’ of music performance [in asmuch as some of the bells are compu…
Nyc 1960-1963
Recordings of works by Joseph Byrd, student of Morton Feldman and John Cage and frontman for The United States Of America, are finally available by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble via New World Records.Byrd collaborated with a number of Fluxus artists in the 1960s, and also formed Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies, recording psych-rock album The American Metaphysical Circus in 1969. This release, Joseph Byrd NYC 1960–1963, recorded by contemporary music ensemble ACME, includes new recordin…
Ghost
Ghost is the ninth studio album by New York-based Black Swan, who employs an arsenal of analog recording devices and methods to blur the line between reality and memory. Inspired by musique concrète, ambient, and dark drone traditions, the twenty pieces in this continuous suite capture the experiences of a spirit navigating the physical world it left behind. The dimensions of each movement come from careful consideration of the overall narrative: some are brief vignettes, while others are given …
Canticles Of B-Sides
2025 stock "Initial recordings for 'Canticles Of Bliss' started in October of 2019 at my home studio located just south of Indianapolis. At the start of 2020 I continued recording songs off and on up until late April where I then took a break and then picked up the guitar again in July. I used an electric guitar for the recordings while utilizing very little effects and a loop station. Quite a lot of the tracks I made ended up not making it on 'Canticles of Bliss'. As such, these eight selected …
Keep Your Soul Young
On her debut album for Past Inside The Present, Lela Amparo reaches beyond her accomplished ambient guitar work to create a sonic environment that incorporates a vast array of elements, including IDM and Trip-hop rhythms, sweeping orchestral arrangements, and understated, poetic vocals. Keep Your Soul Young is built on a confident rawness and worldliness, influenced by Amparo’s upbringing in the American Southwest, subsequent years of international travel, and a life-changing love that led to he…
From The End Of Time
Across the entirety of From the End of Time, the new album by Black Swan, an eerily desolate wind forms the base layer for swells of disembodied choirs, haunting piano, mangled tapes, and scores of other unplaceable, vividly textured sounds. According to the artist, its environment “is meant to evoke the aftermath of a collapsed society,” but does so while pulling every possible vestige of beauty from the ruins, with the reverent melancholy of a classical requiem. Like previous album Ghost (2024…
The Box
2025 stock "The Box" is a collection of the earliest and perhaps most cherished recordings by UK producer Dennis Huddleston, better known as 36. Written between 2005 and 2012, it compiles the albums Hypersona (2009), Hollow (2010) and Lithea (2012) into a 6LP boxset, alongside a bonus LP of exclusive and unreleased tracks titled Orphans. Originally written as a triptych, The Box showcases an incredibly eclectic, deeply emotional range of tracks, bridged together by that optimistic melancholy, wh…
Requiem Per Barbara La Marr
*40 copies limited edition* Uncodified composed his Requiem for the silent film actress and Hollywood star who died of an overdose in the early 1930s. Industrial music with a sad and refined touch Mini CDr art edition. The package, completely handmade, is made up of a shaped and folded cardboard. The folded and closed package forms a completely ivory white envelope, when opened it forms a mourning memorial that resembles a tombstone. The closed envelope is wrapped in a black satin ribbon holding…
Memento, Tributo A Gottfried Benn
*36 copies limited edition* Tenth chapter in the serie Memento.This one is dedicated to Gottfried Benn, 1886-1956 Completely handmade packaging. The card is contained in a black envelope measuring 12x9 cm. about. The black envelope is in embossed cardboard (300 grams) with a leather-like effect, and is closed by a withe ribbon on which the coupon with the copy number is inserted, and a small plastic flower. Rectangular-shaped 3"CDr. The figure on the coupon is an Image of Gottfried Benn, printed…
Memento, Tributo A Giuseppe Ungaretti
*2024 stock. 36 copies limited edition* A dark industrial track made by Omicidio underlines one of the most intense poem of Italian poet Ungaretti: Inno Alla Morte (Hymn To Death) Completely handmade packaging. The card is contained in a black envelope measuring 12x9 cm. about. The black envelope is in embossed cardboard (300 grams) with a leather-like effect, and is closed by a withe ribbon on which the coupon with the copy number is inserted, and a small plastic flower. The figure on the coupo…
I Know Your Voice, but It’s Hard to Find in the Crowd
*200 copies limited edition* "I Know Your Voice, but It’s Hard to Find in the Crowd" is a concept album centered on the use of the voice. What shape does the voice take when conveying an emotion? The compositions in this work are made up almost exclusively of voices—an extensive spectrum of voices that sing, speak, whisper, processed through Auto-Tune, or emerge from WhatsApp messages, VSTs, analog and digital keyboards from the ’80s and ’90s, field recordings, and samples from films, TV, and Yo…
The Power of Eternal Love
*200 copies limited edition* Continuing the luminous path forged by his previous CD, “The Visions of a Dream Traveller”, Like the Snow returns to paint vast cinematic soundscapes that breathe with emotional depth, shifting seamlessly between disruptive, majestic crescendos with thunderous orchestral impact and more introspective passages of nocturnal intimacy. These darker, at times brooding atmospheres are delicately pierced by fleeting luminescent textures, gradually dissolving into serene amb…
The Minutes Hours / Les Heures Secondes
The Minute Hours | Les Heures Secondes is the sixth album of Belgian solo act Half Asleep. Recorded at home with friends, The Minute Hours | Les Heures Secondes took over a decade to bring to fruition. This is an ambitious album, more spacious and bold than its predecessors, often taking unexpected paths and detours. Built around Valérie’s guitar and piano, Half Asleep's crepuscular acoustic universe is however still very much and recognizably her own. It is here augmented by a textured cello, a…
Even Toned
*30 copies limited edition* "The first time I heard about Takahiro Mukai was through the Err Rec label on which I had published 2 albums.I immediately liked his approach to sound, very pure and very close to the machine, to synthesizers. He seems to ignore the human by becoming one with the synthesis, his tracks do not have titles but numbers that are classified by their recording order. This may seem cold and soulless but it is in fact quite the opposite, because it is in symbiosis with his mac…
Two Butterflies Went Out At Noon
*50 copies limited edition* While taking a nap and it leads me into very, very deep paths of consciousness, transforming our paradoxical sleep into an accumulation of misty layers which sometimes offers clearings of pastoral dazzlement. We go back to the surface then we dive back. We cannot see at a meter like in a fog of physically palpable density which would have the power to transport us without moving. Samuel says about his influences : I’m very influenced by film and visuals specifically. …
Rec.Collapse
*50 copies limited edition* Music & mastering by Konstantinos Giazlas. Pro-dubbed cassette with simple J-card artwork printed on raw paper
Watson Is In Heaven Now
*50 copies limited edition* Watson was my Dog, we had him from a puppy, he chose us and can be heard through out these recordings. If you listen carefully you’ll hear him sniffing microphones, squeaking toys and barking in the garden. All caught whilst recording the different instruments that layers and weave themselves into the palettes that make the up the pieces. I even captured his breathing on my lap the last time he laid there. Some of the recordings started life over 30 years ago and with…
Pale Ravine
*Limited edition of 300 copies* 20 year anniversary CD edition of the now classic debut album by Deaf Center, originally released on Type records in 2005. Full-length album version + 20 minutes of unreleased material from the same timeframe. Released as a 6 page digipak CD with original extended artwork similar to the 2022 gatefold vinyl edition. ‘Pale Ravine’ is the debut full-length realization of Erik K Skodvin and Otto A Totland under the Deaf Center moniker. More recently known for solo re…
Reverie
*300 copies limited edition* After another long period of silence, Deaf Center return with two long-form, hypnotic pieces recorded in an intimate setting. “Reverie” can be seen as a follow up to 2014’s “Recount”, which saw two pieces of music created around their live-sets in different periods. This time, we are treated with a contemporary, raw live performance from October 2024 in Rabih Beaini’s studio, Morphine Raum in Berlin, during the 15th anniversary celebration of Sonic Pieces. This was t…
30 Years
*200 copies limited edition* Stahlwerk 9 is a German post-industrial project that has existed since the 1990s. Its sound ranges from heavily distorted noise soundscapes and epic dark ambient to, especially in recent releases, more experimental electronic music. In contrast to many others in the 1990s scene, Stahlwerk 9 did not attempt to provoke with fascist aesthetics, but instead focused primarily on other historical and political themes. For example, the Russian Revolution of 1905, the French…
Nunc
*100 copies limited edition* 40 Minutes of Composed Auditive Textures, Harsh Ambient and Industrial Soundscapes. Recorded, composed and assembled at Mont Efimer in Barcelona between december and january 2024.
Verweigerung
Wafting and rhythmic patterns, building distortions and rushing soundscapes.tbc Sounds by Thomas BeckHex Vortex Sounds by Henk
To The Moon And Back
Lunatic soundscapes, floating voices, distorted noises, trumpets and marching rhythms.