Apertura
Duets for harmonium and whateveraphone. These pieces are starkly out of character for both individuals, but no less excellent.
Two soundtracks for Angela Bulloch
David Grubbs (Bastro, Gastr Del Sol) has a longstanding history of collaboration and interest in contemporary visual arts. Many of his solo albums, for instance, feature covers by artists such as Doug Aitken, Marcel Broodthaers, Cosima von Bonin, Ste…
Belvédère Dans L'étendue
in the memory of René Quinon thanks to Fred Galiay & "Samedi 14" We all are in a house: "Villa Adriana", (René Quinon's house - little village - low mountain - high valley - Ardèche). A bunch of all kind of microphones are deviced in the house and am…
Field recordings
This is a co-release with Tochnit aleph. Recorded by Dave Phillips, january-march 2001 and january-february 2004. These recordings have been equalized, other than they have been left es arecorded. No mixing, no layering, non normalization or compress…
Oramics
Restocked; 2007 release. Daphne Oram is best-known for the design of her Oramics system, and also for co-founding the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1957, but until the release of this material, the only easily-available piece of music by her on CD was …
Legions in the walls
It's very difficult to explain or interpret what my music conveys – so that's why I work hard so that the music can speak for itself - no matter how vague the message or imagery - the energy of what it's communicating is what remains most evident."Da…
Drunk gods
Timestretched whirrs, large insect buzzes, boats bumping into each other in a stormy harbour, muffled mechanical loops, a distressed organ like tone that mutates into a buzz saw before changing again in to a thousand factory horns. These are some of …
The face of vehemence
A much welcomed new release from this American artist who has produced some of the best recordings in the experimental music scene. Although this is a Series II recording, do not assume any of the power that Daniel menche can marshal has been lost. Q…
Animality
The final Daniel Menche's solo drum excursion is one hour futuristic shaman's flight. The Native American drum, both recorded clean and processed beyond recognition, pulses with the primal beat of the earth. Packaged in black, hand assembled, emd.pl-…
Bleeding heavens
Brand new studio compositions from Portland's corporal sound purveyor Daniel Menche. Comprised of deconstructed organ and trumpets. Recorded from 2006 to 2007 at House of Menche.
Flaming tongues
Beautiful densely layered frantic percussions & rhythmic soundscapes, pushing Daniel Menche's work even further into new territories of sound and performance.
Skadha
Sounds compiled and scathed fall and winter of 2003 at House of menche and mixed and mastered at Private Studio Recordings,Portland
Invoker
Sounds compiled and mutated winter and spring of 2003 at "House of menche" and mixed and mastered at Private Studio Recordings,Portland. "...All hell is breaking loose... (Graeme Rowland)" Brainwshed (USA)
Earle Brown Chamber Music
Matchless Recordings presents a collection of early works by Brown, written 1952-64.
The album includes eight tracks performed by Dal Niente projects: Simon Allen - vibraphone, marimba, percussion harmonicas, various sound-producing media; Peter Bev…
Tears
Sachiko M and Ami Yoshida, both from Tokyo, met in 1997 and formed the duo of Cosmos the following year. Sachiko M has developed a unique style utilizing a memory-free sampler, creating pure, piercing sine waves with the device's built-in test tones …
In memory ov John Balance and homage to Coil
CD Compact disc album, cardboard cover, limited edition. '17 french bands from the genesis of industrial, experimental, free jazz musics, for the most part unclassable underground musics, and more recent and emergent artists from the same vein, form …
Hex Vex And The Lavender Mink
Edition of 400 copies.
Hex Vex And The Lavender Mink compiles the group's musical obsessions at the turn of the century, droll Brit drone, the magnificent Arthur Doyle, extremely dangerous onstage pyrotechnics, the fabulous Raymond Scott…
The glass sponge
Coelacanth is 23five's very own Loren Chasse and Jim Haynes. On their debut 23five release,The Glass Sponge, Coelacanth sets textural flutters, squeaks, and scrabblings in motion. These brittle events punctuate the boundless excursions of minimalism …
Two Films
Including the films 'Hashima, Japan 2002' (installation and documentary versions) and 'Al Qasr, Bahriyah Oasis, Egypt 2005'. Plus 'filmmakers in conversation'. 'Straddling the line between documentary and audio-visual meditations on landscape, the Ha…
Solo
Waves of polytonal freedom and poetic beauty... lines of noise clusters and complex patterns... She is sculpting her sounds around a microtonal hub, transforming slow melodies into free improvised structures and drama (...) a new language - with a to…