You & You
DNA burst onto NYC's underground scene in the late '70s and recorded their lone single at Ultima Sound (the same studio where Suicide made their first album) in May 1978 just weeks prior to the pivotal No New York sessions with Brian Eno. Featuring the original lineup of Arto Lindsay (vocals/guitar), Robin Crutchfield (keyboards) and Ikue Mori (drums), You & You is DNA's indelible debut that perfectly captures the anti-movement of No Wave: clearly defined and purposely oblique with traditional r…
Ghost
“The story of this album began with the idea of composing my response to Melodie – one of the Louis Andriessen’s pieces dedicated to Frans Brüggen. At first, I searched for information on the circumstances in which Louis Andriessen’s specific composition was created. As it has quickly turned out, however, I’m not so much interested in these circumstances any more. I have realized that this piece is a presentiment but also a goodbye. A farewell to the spirit of community. The community whic…
Populista Box
A lovely 3cd box collecting the latest Roginski efforts on Bolt records. "An imperial person complained to Mozart that there were too many notes. A merely imperious trumpeter said pretty much the same to John Coltrane. Here’s a kind of answer. Polish guitarist Raphael Roginski, perhaps most widely known for his work with the Shofar trio, slows up and spaces out Coltrane’s music, unwinding some of those much covered test pieces – “Equinox”, “Countdown”, “Mr PC” – and taking them almost to stallin…
Sometimes
“Sometimes (harmony series 1)”, realization for female voice and three electronics players by Colectivo maDam. This piece was, as the title indicates, the first of the 34 pieces that would eventually become the harmony series. in this and all the other pieces in the series, i attempted to create the conditions for a harmonic situation without giving any actual notes. the main stimulus for this was swell piece (for Alison Knowles) (1967) by James Tenney (one of the postal pieces). i had reaso…
Plays Henry Purcell
Raphael Roginski, guitar. Olga Myslowska, voice, synth. Sebastian Witkowski, synths. “I feel a very intimate relation with English culture thanks to my admiration to the music of the 60s. But then there is also William Blake’s Albion, Benjamin Britten and the myths. I have been puzzled by why do I constantly hear the same thing in the music of Bert Jansch and Led Zeppelin, Joy Division and Dead Can Dance. And then in the music of PJ Harvey and Traffic. And in Henry Purcell too, and in John …
More Chamber Events
Antoine Beuger (flute), Christoph Nicolaus (stone harp), Burkhard Schlothauer (trumpet, bass drum). Before starting the event series in 1995, I had been occupying myself with nonrepresentational minimalist painting, in which, rather than representing anything from the objective world, the artwork itself becomes an entity, an object of the world. Would it be possible to realize such a degree of abstraction in music? In this series of compositions for solo instruments each sound by itself is c…
Seven Miniatures on El Hadji Sy
Alienated voices. Crackling noises. Abstract sounds of unidentifiable origins … these are just some of the sources that Zorka Wollny, visual artist / composer from Krakow (whose work a.o. has been presented at CTM Berlin or ICI London), and her Austrian partner Christine Schörkhuber - freelance sound artist, video maker and musician with residencies in St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Valparaíso, Buenos Aires a.o. – apply to create seven acoustic miniatures that are based on and inspired by pai…
Ssingggg Sschlllingg Sshpppingg
Our favorite shaman comes back with a new solo album. This awesome full length album by Charlemagne solo has been recorded especially for idiosyncratics. It has been brilliantly engineered by our long term associate Fredéric Alstadt (Angström Studio) and mixed by maestro Aymeric De Tapol. The artwork is an original collaboration between Charlemagne Palestine, labelboss Yannick Franck and Frau label designer Helena Dietrich, immortalized by photographer Laurent Meurice. It comes with a colo…
Listening to the Footsteps of Living Ones Who Are Still on the G
This is a duo album by Toshimaru Nakamura, a mixer player based in Tokyo, and Martin Taxt, a tuba player living in Oslo. Instead of a conventional tuba, Taxt plays a custom-made “microtonal tuba” capable of producing microtones. In this album, Nakamura incorporates Taxt’s tuba sounds in his mixer through a microphone instead of playing his usual instrument, the no-input mixing board, which does not take in external sounds. The project started with the concept of Nakamura processing the tub…
vlan_vloila
A beautifull record from two Swiss masters of electronic music. Like an imaginary landscape full of pulses, resonances, ghostly voices and nice noises! Günter Müller, ipods, electronics. Norbert Möslang, cracked everyday electronics. Recorded April 10, 2016, cave12, Geneva.
Nonmenabsorbium
Prolific Swiss electronic composer Francisco Meirino (Misantropic Agenda, Entr'acte, Antifrost) and Basque country’s most prominent experimental musician Miguel A. Garcia aka Xedh (Crónica, Idealstate) team up and go for the rawest yet most carefully built electronic experimentation. No-input mixer, modular synth, field recordings & magnetic fields find themselves at the core of this true gem of radical electronic music, savvily handcrafted with by two experts of the genre.
Organ Sonatinas And Drones
'Sonatina no. 1' (2016). 'Sonatina no. 2' (2016). 'Sonatina no. 3' (2016). 'drones' (2014). Carson Cooman, organ. Eva-Maria Houben has been performing works for the organ for more than 30 years. As she is related to the “wandelweiser-group” of composers, her compositions are published by “edition wandelweiser”, Haan. Her list of compositions up to now includes works for the organ, piano, clarinet, trombone, violoncello and other solo instruments, works for voice and piano, for wind and chamber e…
A Hint Of An Emotion
Beat Keller (Electric Guitar) Philipp Bowee (Electric Guitar) Recorded in Mellingen and Winterthur, Switzerland Recording: Philipp Bowee All tracks are composed (2014-2016), mixed and mastered by Cem Güney Special thanks to: Antoine Beuger, Sylvia Alexandra Schimag, Beat Keller, Philipp Bowee, Gil Sansón, Jeremiah Runnels, my wife and mother and to everyone who made this possible. 'a bas relief of a talisman' dedicated to Charles Ives 'soft kill incubator' dedicated to Sylvia Alexandra Sc…
Besando El Tiempo
Besando el Tiempo is a piece that was composed in 1995 in the space of four days. It was written in an automatic script that Maria de Alvear uses for many of her pieces. The work was originally composed for the flautist Caren Levine, who also gave it its first performance in Salzau in 1995. 'besando el tiempo' has now been performed several times worldwide by different interpreters. When Maria de Alvear heard the performance by Antoine Beuger, she asked him to give her a recording for herse…
Ephemeral Constructions
University of South Carolina experimental music workshop, Greg Stuart (director). Kallam Ashmore (objects), Brian Bethea (saxophone), Erik Carlson (violin), Eric Dennis (objects), James Easteppe (guitar), Jürg Frey (clarinet), Michael Halbrook (objects), Timothy Hall (guitar), John Kammerer (horn), Aj Karp (objects), Logan Mclean (voice), Lauren Phillips (objects), Brooke Rosenberg (objects), Chris Ruggiero (objects), Jessica Russell (objects), Nikil Sairam (violin), Bailey Seabury (percussion),…
Amos and Sara Sing The Private World of Amos
Sing a Song Fighter and Oma333 proudly present the first ever vinyl release of "Amos and Sara Sing The Private World of Amos" the avant DIY pop masterpiece by Amos and Sara which was originally put out on tape in 1981, and features members of a bunch of iconic British post punk bands such as The Homosexuals, Tesco Bombers and Sara Goes Pop. Powered by a mix of determination and passion we tracked down Jim/Amos and he thankfully agreed to entrust this project into our happy hands. Ever since t…
Azioni/Reazioni 1967-1969
** very last copies** The year 2007 saw one of the most remarkable findings in the long treasure-hunting history of Die Schachtel: the complete set of recordings of the early manifestation (1967-1969) of one of the most legendary improv group of all times, the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. Rescued by the private archives of Mr. Walter Branchi, one of the original founding members – alongside with Franco Evangelisti, Ennio Morricone, Ivan Vandor, Roland Kayn, Egisto Macchi, Mar…
Sleeper
Daniel Menche is best known for his assemblages of visceral, industrial-strength noise. In such head-rinsing recordings as Vilké (2013), Deluge (2003), and Fields of Skin (1997), Menche's compositional directives instigate and exacerbate the physiological properties of anxiety -- increased blood pressure, blurred vision, claustrophobia, panic, disorientation, etc. In the hands of a talented composer such as Menche, noise can be demonstrative, cathartic and even communal. But after three decades …
Bonds of Prosperity
Thalassa is the avant-drone project of Aaron Turner (Sumac, Isis, Mamiffer, House Od Low Culture, etc.) and William Fowler Collins. In his many guises, Turner articulates a chimerical aesthetic that intrepidly explores beyond the scope of sludge, hardcore, and post-rock. In Collins' blackened earth drones, he steadfastly engages in the elemental exploration of the New Mexican landscape that often inspire comparisons to the potency of black metal without the need for a single blast beat. It makes…
Istruttiva Serie
Istruttiva serie is a non-linear path progressing by attempts. A limited number of non consequential exercises about re-elaboration and evocation. The sound material comes from field recordings (recorded in Italy in 2014) and folk guitar. The main purpose is to investigate the constant encounter and collision between field sounds and melody by developing an acoustic stream which aims a perceptual redefinition. As “not completed” doesn’t mean “lacking” every track is here a personal exercise chal…