It’s Just Us Starving in the Land of Plenty
Interlocking stories unfolding in a nonlinear way, about several characters connected by disorientation, desolation, isolation, mystification, starvation, alienation, hallucination, transformation and love. Or, a reflection on the human condition in the era of a globalization devoid of any cultural meaning. The first issue we have released – also known as “Casscomics #1” – which marked the beginning of our production (Aug. 2015), is the eponymous concept album in which are told – in quite a dysf…
When Apples Battle Gravity
When Apples Battle Gravity is a radio opera; a concept album about different characters discussing the failure of communication and being outsiders. It’s about consecutiveness of reactions and the attempt at creating empathy. The complex narrative thread, made of juxtaposed and superimposed excerpts of simultaneous conversations between various characters is interrupted by “songs”, which act as comments extempore. Concrete soundscapes and intimate ones lead the listener in and out of the mind of…
Blue Blew It
Keijo Virtanen: guitar, vocal, mouth-harp, maraca. Alex Reed: ukulele, bass, drums, volcas, c5, omnichord, organ, samples, backing vocals. All music recorded at Keljo, Jyväskylä, Finland
Weld
Faith Coloccia and Alex Barnett return to Blackest Ever Black with their second duo album, Weld; working with synthesizers, effected vocals, raw electrical noise, field recordings, EVP techniques, tape manipulation, and drum machines to create a music at once lucid and mystic. Its songs embody various experiential philosophies and objectives: searching for the sacred in the forgotten and supposedly useless; exploring the meaning of "natural"; listening for the pulse of the ancient; using technol…
Naldjorlak I, II, III
2018 much-needed repress, reduced price! The Naldjorlak trilogy composed between 2004 and 2009. 'Naldjorlak I' for cello. Charles Curtis. 'Naldjorlak II' for two basset horn. Carol Robinson and Bruno Martinez. 'Naldjorlak III' for two basset horn and cello. Carol Robinson, Bruno Martinez and Charles Curtis. Recorded in Paris, June and September 2011 by Daniel Deshays. The recording of 'Naldjorlak I' is diofferent from the first one issued by the label. 'There is no score of Naldjorak and never w…
The World of Arthur Russell
Re-press of this all-time classic... Soul Jazz Records are re-releasing their seminal retrospective on Arthur Russell. Since the initial groundbreaking release of ‘The World of Arthur Russell’ Russell has become the subject of intense media interest. With the recent release of a film about his life (‘A Portrait of Arthur Russell’), as well as a new album of unreleased recordings, (‘Love Is Overtaking Me’), Arthur Russell’s stature as a great artist has grown to is current height. (“One of the gr…
Selected occasions of handsome deceit
"Rel012 is the recorded debut of the trio Nmperign with Jake Meginsky. Pressed on 160 gram copper plate mastered vinyl, Rel012 features Nmperign in an energized, turn-on-a-dime form. Prodded by Meginsky into unnamable, angular textures, the trio is agile and unpredictable, occupying many angles of musical extremes. Rel012 is a one-sided LP cut to 45 for Maximum Dynamic range. Featuring a striking cover, designed by Eli Keszler, printed by Ashley Paul. A light blue fold-over paper is integrated …
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series Vol. 5
"With Earle Brown -- A Life in Music -- Volume 5, Wergo has once again dug up treasures of contemporary music from the 1960s and 1970s. The 3-CD set not only contains one of the first recordings of Charles Ives's 'Concord Sonata by Aloys Kontarsky but is also a testimony to the virtuosity of Severino Gazzelloni who is, without doubt, one of the greatest flutists of the 20th century. In addition, it contains music from the group Sonic Arts Union with the four pioneers of electronic music: David B…
Dishoek
Just before we started to miss Guido Möbius he surprises us with “Dishoek”, his second album, recorded for Hamburg’s Dekorder label. Again featuring a conglomeration of acoustic and electrical instruments (guitar, bass, violin, cornet drums, synthesizer, clarinet among other things.) and a variety of guests, so that one hardly dares to call it a solo album. Still everything is magically held together by one single person. Melodies and noises, styles and individual characteristics, intelligence a…
154
LP version. "1979's 154 represented the final tableau in Wire's Harvest
released '70s triptych and was the first Wire album to be released to a
universal set of five star reviews from the British rock weeklies, thus
it represented the point when the British 'pop culture establishment'
publicly recognized Wire's primacy. '154 makes 95 percent of the competition look feeble' wrote Nick Kent in the NME, 'Wire are achieving a lot of things other--and more recognized--names have been striving fo…
Chairs Missing
Presented as an 80-page hardback book -- the size of a 7-inch, but obviously much thicker. If Pink Flag proposed an almost cut and paste approach to deconstructing rock history, the Wire's Chairs Missing proposed something more radical, a definite futurism with much less influence from its antecedents. Chairs Missingwas at once more stark and more lush than its predecessor and has exerted its own influence on the course of cultural history, having laid down one of the earliest (if not the earlie…
A Turn of Breath
Deluxe reissue with a bonus LP of unpublished material housed inside a gatefold sleeve, and an instant download dropped to your account. Recital here presents the premiere LP by vocalist Ian William Craig
(b. 1980, Edmonton). Ian, a trained opera singer, delivers an elegant
balance between theatrical and ambient sentiments. A Turn of
Breath combines the essence of a choral LP from Angel Records or
Deutsche Grammophon with the spontaneity of experimental
home-recording. This collection hold…
Homotopy To Marie
**Silver & black and silver & white vinyl edition of 300** 'Homotopy To Marie' is the fifth album by Nurse With Wound, originally released on United Dairies in 1982. The album is a step on from the Dadaist rock of 'Merzbild Schwet', with much use of tape manipulation and classical avant-garde techniques, using keywords including unsettling, volatile, eerie and nocturnal to describe the feel of the album which combined tape edits with resonating gong tones and disembodied children's voices to cre…
The Maadi Sessions
100 copies on clear vinyl. "I visited Egypt for the first time in October 2016, spending a week there, and I went back for a longer period the next February. Both times I stayed at Sara and Alberto’s place, a couple of friends who have been living in the Maadi district of Cairo for about a year. The first impact with the city and its inhabitants was definitely strong: I had trouble in defining the energy which pervades the streets 24 hours a day and the feeling of perpetual movement one gets fro…
Malophòros / Mondi Di Pietra
Backwards Records presents the new Lay Llamas release: the new 7" in gold-coloured vinyl by Lay Llamas, moniker behind which the Sicilian musician and composer Nicola Giunta is hidden. The single will contain two tracks: on Side A Malophòros composed together with the shaman singer Alfio Antico - former collaborator of Fabrizio De Andrè, Tullio de Piscopo and Vinicio Capossela - at frame drum and voice. The piece sounds like an improbable mixture between the Nuova Compagnia Di Canto Popolare and…
Fun House Mirrors
Fun House Mirrors is the 4th album by Almagest!, the 2nd under the Almagest! moniker being the first 2 releases credited to founding members Palumbo/Tomasini. After four years the band comes back with a new sound far from the piano driven pieces of the previous Messier Objects (Tourette Records 2013) and manifesting itself into 5 long electric richly textured and arranged, as the title suggests conceptually and sonically distorted cinematic compositions made of the fabric of sensual and disturbi…
Aida
Continuing their ongoing series of reissues of music by Derek Bailey, Honest Jon's Records present a first vinyl reissue of Aida, originally released on the guitarist's own Incus label in 1980. Expanded for this release, the present version of this masterwork adds two hitherto unreleased gems recorded solo for Charles Fox's Radio 3 program Jazz in Britain, in the same few months of 1980 as the stunning original performances. The phrase "in the moment" is often bandied about with reference to fre…
Piano Music
Georges Aperghis is probably still not much associated, by the public that internationally attends performances of his works, with music for solo piano. Music-theatre – of an uncommonly original kind, with extended vocal techniques much to the fore – has usually been his stamping ground. The concerns that his operas and other music-theatre compositions have embraced – often focusing around a highly individual approach to words and to all aspects of language, developed with great musical sophisti…
R,R,R
Recorded at Ftarri, Tokyo, 28. Limited edition, 200 copies. Lovingly recorded on acoustic guitar, his improvisations have the spiky quality associated with the elder statesman of the freely improvised guitar, as well as some John Fahey touches here and there, but Masubuchi's lines sound as though coated in oil, possessing a slipperiness and liquidity that peeks back at Japanese traditions
Der Bau
Margarida Garcia developed since the 90s a simple, melodious, slow and melancholic language for electric contrabass. She moves well beyond contemporary improv praxis with a coil that runs deep into the contemporary psychedelic underground. She worked and recorded with Loren Connors, Marcia Bassett, Thurston Moore, David Maranha, Gabriel Ferrandini, Mattin, Björn Schmelzer and Manuel Mota, et al.