The Quiet North
Back in 2006, Lasse Marhaug released an album with Joachim Nordwall from the Skull Defekts and Johannes Helden called When The Ice Is Leaving, Scandinavia Is Burning. With a title like that, the album should have been all fire and brimstone of Nordic…
Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics (1918-1955)
fantastic CD of recordings made between 1918 and 1955 assembled and annotated by Ian Nagoski. This compilation contains 24 tracks from Bali, Burma, Cameroon, China, England, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Java, Laos, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Sp…
Lalienation
Audio CD extra, 6 panels digipak with 16 pages booklet including essay by Marion Saxer on music on ercklentz / Neumann. Translated by William Wheeler. 'Sabine ercklentz plays trumpet and electronics and Andrea Neumann plays inside piano and mixing de…
If You Want To Fuck The Sky, Teach Your Cock To Fly
Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture) armé d'électroniques maison et autres oscillateurs, Korg 800DV ou Revox (!) est accompagné de la voix de BB soit Brigitte Bordelle, qui crie quand on la chatouille et qui crie aussi quand on la cogne. If you want to fuck…
S/T
This follows NHK's sold out 12" on Raster Noton. This is Important's final release in a 4 record series featuring the work of the enigmatic Japanese artist Kouhei Matsunaga. NHK began in Osaka in 2006 between Kouhei and Toshio Munehiro. Their prev…
Walküren am Dornenbaum
This three year-long collaboration begun in 2006 when Korber and Wehowsky embarked on intense recording sessions in Eggenstein, where the latter resides, lasting several days. The output from these sessions forms the basis of this work, augmented by …
Invisible ear
Two decades ago, saxophonist John Butcher abandoned his doctoral pursuits in theoretical physics to pursue a life in improvised music and has since become one of the genre’s leading instrumental and structural innovators. Butcher’s pursuit of exte…
A field for mixing
'Richard Chartier's monochromatic aesthetic has come to define an audio culture surrounding minimalism. His craftsmanship, working predominately with sounds that exist at the edges of perception is a powerful, albeit subtle statement about notions of…
Antikythera mechanism
Pressing #01 in an edition of 250 copies on 200 gram virgin white vinyl. A new solo LP from this New Zealand expiremental icon. An album comprised of throbbing guitar and tape loop improvisations recorded throughout Australasia. The LP also includes …
This is no fun acid 02
'In the beginning there was Roland's founder Ikutaro Kakehashi and an arsenal of computer controlled analog jock boxes designed specifically to outmode the trad rock (read: human) rhythm section... the circuitry was so tightly wound however, so roote…
Value + bonus
'Combining CD player demonstration test signals, 24 bit digitally recorded improvised freeform analog pedal-electronic noise, direct to HD computer generated and recorded noise, flashbacks from the 1980s of 303 and 909 noise assaults including free-s…
Tima formosa
'Black Truffle presents a stunning document of the debut meeting of international trio Oren AMBARCHI, Jim O'Rourke and Keiji HAINO. Recorded live at the Playhouse, Kitakyushu, Japan in January 2009, Tima Formosa retains a mysteriously alien atmospher…
Piano mechanics - Large piano magnifield
This album was co-produced by gordon monahan and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 'Large piano magnified' was commissioned for the CBC radio program Two New Hours by executive producer David Jaeger. Recorded and produced at CBC Radio, Toronto, …
Carliol
'John Butcher: tenor or soprano saxophones - plus feedback, motors, embedded harp speaker. Rhodri Davies: pedal harp, lever harp with embedded speaker and electric harp, aeolian electric harp. John Butcher is one of the leading sax players on the …
Skulls CM von Hausswolff & The Sons of God descending the Silver
The Skull Defekts is back with a new limited edition vinyl lp.500 copies pressed. Cover by Fredrik Soderberg. This time, we are dealing with two unique collaborations. The first one is a live recording from Fylkingen, Stockholm where The Skull Defekt…
3 : 1
The cracked, pinched, squeaked, and scraped sounds of the twin trumpets of Mazen Kerbaj and Birgit Ulher and the damped, scrubbed, and rasping sounds of Sharif Sehnaoui seem surprisingly familiar these days. Now that so many players have incorporated…
Helbzeit
We enter an open landscape, rich in impressions, and then leave the beaten track. Here and there we notice something that merits closer inspection. After a shorter or longer pause, we venture a little in another direction. We might simply take the da…
Teeming
'Magda MAYAS and Christine ABDELNOUR SEHNAOUI both play acoustic music that is diametral, a space they conquered by changing the traditional ways of their instruments: modern alchemy. Together they express a strong physical experience. MAYAS is a ma…
The Atrocity Exhibition
Amazing experimental film with music by Jim Thirwell (Foetus). J.G. Ballard once said that the Atrocity Exhibition had been considered his only ‘unfilmable’ novel. Until Jonathan Weiss' feature adaptation of this infamous work of experimental fiction…
Sleeping beauty
Reissue of LP originally released on Élevage De Poussière in 2002. Solo Voice Recordings by Junko Hiroshige (Hijokaidan). Recorded by François Dietz at Studio CCAM, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, October 2002. "Such a fucking poetry of the gap, something ve…