Israel Suite / Dominante En Bleu
Gatefold LP version. Includes download coupon. Sommor Records present a reissue of Rupture's Israel Suite / Dominante En Bleu, originally released in 1973. Rupture was born when famous French songwriter Boris Bergman (France Gall, Dalida, etc.) decided to record a conceptual album about the history of Israel. He approached ace drummer and singer Sylvain Krief (Airto Fogo, Michel Fugain, Aznavour, Clark Terry, Bud Powell, etc.) and soon, other musicians joined: Jean-François Jenny-Clark (Don Cher…
Cheval Retreci
With australian drummer Will Guthrie and japanes vocal heroine Junko, Cheval Retreci make an analogic noise, dense and strident, using korean and indian flutes. Result is somewhere between musical noise and improbable shamanic ceremonie.250 copies + 50 original painting
Music In Eight Octaves
A multi-octave delirium at the summit of sonic density. Recorded in 2005 in Melbourne, Chris Abrahams and Anthony Pateras multi-tracked 4 takes in each octave of the piano, superimposing them over each other to create a kaleidoscopic maelstrom pianistic energy in its purest form. Best known as the pianist from The Necks, this is a distinctly different outing for Abrahams, exploring a more maximalist energy and aesthetic than usual. As with all Immediata releases, Anthony Pateras interviews h…
The Slow Creep Of Convenience
The Slow Creep Of Convenience is a single extended work presenting the pipe organ and electric violin as a unified timbral force, producing exquisite and hypnotic sensorial phenomena over 50 minutes. The follow up to their critically acclaimed Entertainment =Control, Slow Creep furthers the duo’s spectral investigations in a different instrumental context. Glacially moving through diverse harmonic fields, the organ and violin perceptually fall away to create a unique psychoacoustic sound-w…
Echi Armonici da Antico Adagio
**few copies back in stock** For fans of the Italian avant-garde, few names inspire the loyalty and devotion offered to the percussionist and composer Lino Capra Vaccina - a perfect emblem of the country’s extraordinary movement of musical Minimalism. He first gained note as a member of Aktuala, a project which laid the groundwork for a entire generation of practitioners following in their wake - creating a hybrid of rock, avant-garde, and ancient musics, while incorporating a diverse numb…
Antico Adagio
*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 pressure, simply following the path your art was showing you. After a classic artistic journey and an experimental stint with Aktuala and other brilliant fellow musicians (like Franco Battiato, above all), Lino Capra Vaccina, near the end of the 70s, recorded Antico Adagio. It was an amazing album, anticipating countless future…
Endless Latino
** Edition of 301 copies ** An extremely rare and sought after 1983 cassette of wasted psychedelic-lounge by Amos & Sara , aka The Homosexuals’ bassist (Amos) and mysterious U.K. D.I.Y. phenomenon Sara. This is seriously deranged material. Sara hollers out-of-tune drug-anthems above the repetitive drum machine as Amos (barely) slaps out some Latino jams in the haze of debauchery driven by the washed-out synth permeating their evening’s soundtrack. There is a lot of banging and a lot of phased vo…
The Lower Depths
There was a time, not far outside of recent memory, when one of musical Minimalism’s great voices had disappeared into the ether, leaving only two remarkable, but largely unobtainable, albums behind - hints toward what had been. When Charlemagne Palestine reentered the world of music during the 1990’s, following roughly two decades of silence, he was possessed by a remarkable fire - performing and recording widely, seemingly making up …
Improvisation - Part 1 & 2 (Lp) + Part 3
** edition of 200, silkscreened cover** During the mid-1970s, a group of art students at the Bigakko school in Tokyo, working under Takehisa Kosugi, the renowned Fluxus composer, violinist, and member of Group Ongaku and The Taj-Mahal Travellers, came together as the free improvisation collective East Bionic Symphonia. They recorded a single album - their graduation project, released in 1976 under the title Recorded Live, before going their separate ways. While largely overlooked at the ti…
Serbian War Songs
Zeitkratzer and its special guests Svetlana Spajic (voice), Dragana Tomic (voice) and Obrad Milic (voice, diple, gusle) present traditional Serbian songs from and about World War I. Within its 20 years of existence, Reinhold Friedl’s ensemble Zeitkratzer has proved its interpretatory mastership on a wide range of fields such as contemporary / avant-garde composers, electronic artists, industrial underground – and, probably most surprising on this list, also in traditional music / folklor…
Raft
Mike Cooper's output of the past half century has been described as "post-everything". It's a fitting phrase really when you consider he has been at the beating heart of so many critical musical moments; from the development of the blues touring circuit in the UK, through the growth of the folk scene and into the explosion of free improvisation that came to define a generation of UK musicians. Amidst it all, working at stitching these disparate forms into some kind of de-territorialized z…
Extracts
"The first word that came to mind on playing Extracts was understatement, with an almost oriental minimalism and profundity on display. At times I was forced to check whether sounds were coming from the speakers or from outside. However, this is a far cry from the Radu Malfatti school of implied music since it is very much about close group interplay. Simon H. Fell's sonorous bass is of particular note, underpinning, colouring and giving the proceedings a kind of still, stately authority. Likewi…
Demons!
"Desire is exploitation," the label notes for this ambitious two disc set proclaims. The demons get in any way they can, through laws that repress or through indulgence that never seems like it will ever be enough. "Demons!" explores the dread that accompanies our facing our own capacity for evil, as individuals and as a culture. Once again, Stephen Moore and Walter Cardew use orchestral and cabaret motifs to propel their horrific tales of sin and revenge. And where better to probe the personal …
Ksiezyc
CD version. Finally here, this hard to classify outstanding Polish record (meaning ‘Moon’) a remarkable and at times extremely thought provoking fusion of modern classical and medieval sensibilities, combining piano, flute, and unique fairy tale inspired vocal experiments written by Remigiusz Mazur-Hanaj. Absolutely timeless and criminally unknown, even in underground music circles. Penultimate Press is proud to reissue the defining statement by Polish outfit Ksiezyc (Moon). The spirit of Ksiez…
Random Numbers Split Series Vol?.?4
Volume number four of Random Numbers Split Series is released. A cross section of the best Italian experimental artists, released in 5 volumes. Each artist has been given the space of a single side C50 cassette, in which they could express their music freely, without compromise. Volume 2 is entrusted to Healing Force Project and Massimo Carozzi. This volume is dedicated to complex textures and mental voyages, soundscapes and rhythmic illusions. Healing Force Project describes his work whit this …
Chaz Underriner Reinterprets Anastassis Philippakopoulos
Performers: Chaz Underriner, electric guitar; Chaz Underriner, bass guitar; Armin Abdihodzic, electric guitar; Greg Dixon, electric guitar; Robert Trusko, bass guitar
Nervoso
** Edition of 250 copies ** Squadra Omega teams up again revealing itself in the shape of a trio composed of -- exactly as for the session which gave birth to Il Serpente Nel Cielo (2015) -- OmegaFrank (drums), OmegaG8 (bass, electronics), and OmegaMatt (guitar, organ, sax, electronics). An improvised session recorded live by Matt Bordin at Outside Inside Studio, where the Squadra goes nervously free -- constantly suspended and harmonically non resolved -- following a trail of skilled atonal jaz…
Live at Elastico
** Edition of 150 copies ** Another wonderful live session by the multi-instrumentalist Maurizio Abate, captured by Ulrich Rois (Bird People) in 2014 during his exhibition at the old location of the art association eLaSTiCo -- in the center of Bologna -- then mixed and edited by Maurizio himself. To be considered a twin release of the Live From The Border EP published in 2012, this single-sided release features a twenty-minute track that builds a ritual and meditative soundscape with the process…
Being Small
Kye is proud to present Being Small, the new LP by Matthew Revert. Lovely collection of Matthew's philosophies, worldviews and wisdom recorded cheaply at his home in Melbourne, Australia. Being Small arrives in a Matthew Revert designed sleeve with matching labels in an edition of 300 copies.Matthew Revert is a designer, writer and musician from Melbourne, Australia. He has developed a reputation as one of the preeminent graphic designers in the small press world, having given his unique touch t…
Seattle Symphony
Kye is proud to present Seattle Symphony, the new LP by Poughkeepsie's Joe McPhee. 'Seattle has become my home away from home, my second city, since first being invited to join trombonist Stuart Dempster for duets in 1984. When the opportunity for a solo concert arose, I learned of the passing of Bill Dixon and Fred Anderson and decided to make the focus of the performance a celebration of the lives, and music, of these two legendary heroes, who both passed away in June of 2010, within 8 …