Orgelbuch
14 five-minute pieces from Eva-Maria Houben's 'Organ Book'. Eva-Maria Houben (organ).
Works for piano
Composer: Eva-Maria Houben. Performer: Eva-Maria Houben (piano). 'the sound of the piano decays. it cannot be sustained. I let it loose time and again. it appears by disappearing; starting to disappear just after the attack. in disappearing it begi…
works for double bass
EVA-MARIA HOUBEN (born 1955) studied Music Education at Folkwang-Musikhochschule Essen and the organ with Gisbert Schneider. Following her exams she taught both German and Music Education at Secondary School. She received her doctorate and postdoctor…
Works for tromba marina
Composer: Eva-Maria Houben. Performer: Hans Eberhard Maldfeld (tromba marina). 'ein liederbuch' 13 songs Ð to be played in free order, all or in small groups, or just a single song. The tromba marina sings Ð and dances. It sings Ð and moves in va…
Era of Manifestations
People of the North may have begun life as a satellite of Brooklyn avant-everything institution Oneida, but it’s increasingly difficult to view the project as anything less than a primary concern. From the raw garage krautrock of 2010’s Deep Tiss…
Skull Sessions
Mazurek finds a challenge irresistible, and this is one of his most exciting projects" – The Wire
Skull Sessions combines two of Rob's groups: Sao Paulo Underground and Starlicker with additional personnel. The band is an international cast of mast…
Navigating by Starlight
"Navigating by Starlight is the elegantly distended fourth LP by a New York band known for its fine taste in bourbon as well as its ability to explore strangely forested nooks of space. Composed of two side-long excursions of heavily bearded impro…
Saturday Night Fever
"Saturday Night Fever takes the concept of the movie of the same name and stretches the night a bit later, the fever a bit higher to the point where the party ends up blending into something much more sinister and wild. What starts out as a disco …
Live at Lons Le Saulnier, 1974
A band formed in France, 1973, by English vibraphonist, guitarist and singer Robert Wood, together with Olivier Didier (ex-Herbe Rouge) on drums and Simon Wheatley on electric bass. Patrick Fontaine (ex-Ame Son and ex-Bananamoon Band) replaced Simon …
Movin Gelatine Plates
2015 release. This album contains previously unreleased versions recorded between 1970 and 1978 by the legendary (slightly experimental) psych/prog unit Moving Gelatine Plates. Edition of 1.000 copies on clear pink vinyl (gelatine colour) in a deluxe…
Almasty
Solo bass played and composed by Kasper T. Toeplitz. Layers of noise full of details like the voice of dead machines !“A purely formal présentation of Almasty would point that it is a composition for solo bass – electric bass, which implies a few ele…
Grand Tour
Tilbury left communist Poland in 1964 and his visits grew rare. He got involved with Cornelius Cardew’s Scrath Orchestra and the AMM; later he went on to become known for his performances of Morton Feldman’s compositions. Meanwhile Zygmunt Krauze, as…
plays Parallel Winter
Voice, guitar and zither by Richard Youngs. Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Richard Youngs.Motto of Populista Winter Triangle came about on 13th of December, 2014. It was a cold and windy day, a classic of pre-winter Warsaw, cold, wet, tran…
Silent Night at the Crooked Forest
Ole-Henrik Moe, viola. Kari Ronnekleiv, violin. Sheriffs of Nothingness is a stringduo consisting of two of Norway's most distinguished artists in contemporary music: Ronnekleiv as a performer and Moe mostly as a composer. Moe and Ronnekleiv won the …
Playing with a Dead Person
When you contacted me about the duos, I thought there is nothing more original than playing with a dead person […] which is curious because Derek Bailey is very much alive, especially when we hear his voice and I feel he's sort of sitting here, in th…
Pianophonie
'Forte e piano' is one of Serocki's lesser known and acclaimed works, while 'Pianophonie' is considered his greatest masterpiece. However, it's worth remembering that 'Forte a piano' and 'Pianophonie' are interrelated. It's difficult to imagine the l…
Pieces of solitude
Natalie Sandtorv is releasing her debut solo album 'Pieces of Solitude' on the 20th of November. Using a voice with an organic interaction with electronics she expresses distinctive poetic sound art characterized by droning tension and intense abrupt…
Melting into foreground
Henrik Munkeby Norstebo, trombone, half clarinet, electronics.Melting into foreground is the second solo album from trombone player Henrik Munkeby Norstebo, and his debut on the SOFA label. The first track is solo trombone. No effects. He is using th…
Solo Books
The 8th release on Silent Water's catalogue (although it shows the 009 number, but that's a story to be told another time) is Pak Yan Lau's magnificent solo effort Books. Divided in three parts, as the three different 10 vinyls that host them, it bri…
Dread Live
Sunn O)))’s feedback architect Stephen O’Malley cranks the amps even louder on his solo vinyl LP Dread Live. This is an extended and extremely loud improvisation for solo guitar (though the colossal heaviness sounds like an army of guitarists). Re…