Superficie
Superficie is the first album of the collaborative project between Maurizio Abate on electric guitar and Alberto Boccardi on electronics and percussions. The first raw elements of the work were recorded during a 6-days studio sessions in January 15, …
first
SELA. is 21-years old Devante Tillis from California. The enigmatic producer operates in the aural wastelands somewhere between cloudrap, leftfield R&B, and a loose approach to footwork. He did beats for Kitty, Main Attrakionz, and Japanese songstres…
Crepuscular Hour
Crepuscular Hour is an epic, hypnotic one-hour piece for three choirs, three pairs of noise musicians, and church organ, to be performed in a cathedral or similar location with musicians surrounding the audience. The room fills with sound in an in…
Werktag/Chessex/Buess
Werktag / Chessex / Buess takes its roots in the Zurich based trio Werktag, initiated in 2012, and to which Alex Buess and Antoine Chessex are now both bringing their own contribution.Wertag (Tobias Gerber, saxophone; Rafael Rütti, piano; Sebastian …
Tie the stone of the wheel
Fascinating combination of two uncompromising saxophonists. Seymour Wright grew up listening to Evan Parker's radical reshaping of the saxophone and both develops and deconstructs it in his own playing. Together, the two interrupt and augment each ot…
Muddy Ditch
Sebastian Lexer (piano+) and Steve Noble (drums and percussion) first played together in the winter of 2011 and what seemed like an unlikely, even oppositional, pairing quickly proved itself to be an extremely well-matched one. Noble\'s sharp vertica…
Kore
'Kore' is a natural advancement of Reinhold Friedl's earlier composition 'Xenakis [a]live!' (released 2007 on Asphodel) - a homage to the French-Greek composer Iannis Xenakis. The piece is conceived for nine amplified instruments demonstrating Zeitkr…
Stockhausen - Aus den Sieben Tagen
Third collaboration between Keiji Haino, one of the most prolific artists of the Japanese experimental / noise scene, and the critically acclaimed ensemble Zeitkratzer who enthuse with stunning interpretations of Stockhausen compositions. Available a…
Bagpipes and blackberries
Adam Bohman : unamplified objects. Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg : voice.Recorded at Oxo Studio by Adrian Northover on 18th July 2014. Edited and mastered by Adrian Northover. A senses stimulating meeting, recorded in central London's former slaughter h…
F.E.R. (For Eliane Radigue)
The composition began at home studio in September 2013 and then in 2 weeks residency in September/October 2014 at the GMEM in Marseille with the technical support of Jérôme Decque, then recorded in October 2014 at GMEM concert room in real time & fin…
Live at the Jolt Festival Basel
- 2014 release - JOLT-Festival Basel is an interdisciplinary art and music festival that took place November 7.-13. 2011 at Galerie Stampa und Gare Du Nord in Basel, Switzerland. The festival was curated by Daniel Buess and James Hullick in the spir…
Le Mal Des Ardents
** Recorded in 1987 on cassette tape (private release). Limited numbered Edition Clear Vinyl 108 copies (with an insert) ** Le Bal Des Ardents is a mini-LP reissue of a strange cassette based on the terrifying historical event about the French King C…
The Seismic Bleats Of Quantum Sheep
“The secret album from The Pink Dots created in the Spring of 2015, and the sister release to “Five Days“. It’s due out on vinyl through the Spanish Abstrakce label in February 2016. Extremely Kaleidoscopic and as far out as the Dots may have gone in…
On Foot: Brooklyn
From February 21 to May 21, 2012, Craig Shepard walked everywhere he went. Each of the 13 weeks, he composed a new piece, and wrote it down. Each Sunday, he led a silent, cell-phone free walk to a different location in Brooklyn and performed that wee…
SIMEON
A sinus tone disappears gradually as silences are inserted into it, which grow - over a duration of 20 minutes - in both number and length. In each case, a silence of 10 minutes is added to the end of this process.
dialogues with environments
All works on this CD were performed and recorded in live concert situations.The recordings have been left unchanged for this CD project, as i wanted to focus on the way these pieces interacted with the particular environments they were played in. Wh…
Vokal / Instrumental
Six songs (1976) for voice, violin, clarinet, piano, cello, harp, and guitar; based on poems by Jean Gebser (1905-1976). The philosopher conveys his core ideas in lyrical language, where form, linguistic rhythm, inflections of speech and mea- ning be…
11 Microexercises
Microexercises were started when the Miniaturist Ensemble asked for a piece with no more than 100 notes in it. Having enjoyed making one such piece, I went on to make 21 more (and then a second collection, Grete, with an additional 14). Instrumenta…
drei, 1-21
Three separate recordings where each musician follows hiw own very minimal score. Sound and silence. With Johnny Chang (violin), Sam Sfirri (melodica), Jürg Frey (clarinet).
das wetter in offenbach
2014 release ** Thomas Stiegler and Hannes Seidl's 'das wetter in offenbach' (2010) is a radiophonic work mixing field recordings in the city of Offenbach with sine waves.