Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984
Experimentation in early electronic music in the Sahara from the singular Mamman Sani. Dreamy organs and droning melodies reinterpret ancient folk tradition into sublime fantastical soundscape. Never before released recordings from the very beginning…
Rivers And Streams
Lubomyr Melnyk is a Ukrainian composer and pianist who has pioneered 'Continuous Piano Music'. Classically trained and greatly affected by the minimalist movement in the early 1970s, he has developed his own unique language for the piano, named af…
Raised Coils Of The Giant Serpent Of Eternity / I Heard Only The
Opening the album with a harmonious set of gently spiraling tones, Daniel Menche’s piece “Raised Coils of the Giant Serpent of Eternity” offers only this brief moment of serenity before a headlong dive into a cacophonous abyss of darker dimensions…
Operation Midnight Climax
Making his Peak Oil debut with a full-length inspired by the CIA’s acid-dosing mind control experiments of the late 1950's and early 1960's, Swiss analog synth mastermind Florin Büchel crafts a sprialling, immersive narrative of vital, psychedelic…
Saturation
Poland’s Bocian reunite with zeitkratzer ensemble to present a difficult but hugely rewarding piece by influential Polish composer Zbigniew Karkowski, backed with Reinhold Friedl’s personal tribute to Ianis Xenakis. Both sides contain important, dema…
Curious Aroma
"The comet Kohoutek was first seen near earth by a Czech astronomer in March of 1973. David Berg, founder of religious cult Children of God, predicted its passing would cause armageddon the following year. A more welcoming family, the Sun Ra Arkest…
No Nihilist Spasm Band In Mulhouse
The nihilist spasm Band began in the summer of 1965 in London, Ontario as an informal kazoo band of friends making a soundtrack for a film by the late artist Greg Curnoe. We soon built new, louder electric instruments. We played noise music because w…
Delicate Tension
Personal Injury is pleased to present R. Stevie Moore’s classic 2nd album Delicate Tension, originally released by Stevie’s uncle on HP Music in 1978. Delicate Tension is regarded as an absolute highlight of RSM’s massive disc…
Rabbit Eclipse
Rabbit Eclipse is the second full-length recording from the legendary Ksiezyc following on from their self titled debut from 1996. The Moon never went away. The 2013 the Penultimate Press re-issue of Ksiezyc’s timeless debut exposed the band to a lar…
Antico Adagio
**Lucky restock, few copies available** Deluxe CD edition containing both albums. Before an aberrant idea of progress and workaholic ethic ludicrously sped up our daily lives, even in the hectic city of Milan it was possible to play slowly with no pr…
The Wonderful World Of Well Sounding Voltage And Projected Light
Floris Vanhoof about the dvd: "this disc documents how my projections, which began as experimental films with soundtracks, evolved into live music performances and investigations of persistence of vision and perception itself. however it is meant to …
Unstopable
A new self-released casette from this unpredictable belgian artist. Both sides of this tape were made by doubling live studio recordings in stereo. You can also unplug one speaker to hear the original recordings.
Floris Vanhoof, filmmaker and musici…
Night Dolls With Hairspray
Damn! This is a fun record. James Ferraro returns with probably his most consistent and ridiculous LP to date: 'Night Dolls With Hairspray'. This one sees our man Ferraro exploring the inner sanctum of the teenage psyche with a collection of track…
Deining
Mini album, CD, self released by Machinefabriek, November 20, 2015. 200 copies. The Dutch word 'deining' (pronounced 'dining') translates to 'heave' and also 'commotion'. For 'Deining', I asked violinist Anne Bakker to bow each string of her instrum…
Amorphous spores
Unusual sound work from the Japanese duo of Takahiro Kawaguchi and Utah Kawasaki (Astro Twin), using self-made instruments and electronics to create unexpected sonic emissions that follow curious paths that are separated by periods of quiet or textur…
Thirty
Originally released as a 3 CDr set on Inyrdisk to commemorate 30 years of If, Bwana, and now available on manufactured CDs, this triple disc gracefully spans 3 and 1/4 hours of riveting musique concrète and refined experimentation from Al Margolis. …
Brittle
With a detached curiosity, Grant Evans drops us into his petri dish of mud, bacteria, and fetid slop. At first, we have no roadmap to the drowning noise that slowly trickles down the throat and presses against the ear drums; but Evans is no sadist. Y…
Arc
** restocked ** Holotype Editions is pleased to present a new work by acclaimed sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard. Arc was originally commissioned for INMUTE '14 as a soundtrack to Carl Th. Dreyer's silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). In this …
Ereignis
Following Ramifications, a collaboration with Z'EV which resulted in a mammoth two-hour long track of processed Organ recordings, Ereignis further submerges us to Marinos Koutsomichalis' adventurous explorations of single-source sound phenomena. Reco…
Urban Dreamings
This survey of saxophonist Ulrich Krieger’s chamber music illuminates his ongoing penchant, as a composer, improviser, and interpreter, for probing the affinities between the rock and classical avant-gardes. Krieger says of his music: “At the moment …