Kokai
Kishun is a duo: Ishikawa Ko, player of the shō (mouth-organ), and Nakamura Kahoru, player of the gaku-biwa (Japanese court lute). Since 2015 they have used only shō and biwa. Their idea is to bring out the hidden sound in what they call “gagaku without melody.”. Gagaku is the ancient court music of Japan. It is more than a thousand years old. In the Heian period, nobles gathered old songs and dances from Japan and pieces that had come from Korea and China between the 5th and 9th centuries, and …
Prophecy
*328 copies limited edition* Prophecy finds Eye in form familiar to those who've had the good fortune to hear their 2016 album Other Sky, but even more compacted and condensed, a band simmered and reduced to their pure essence. And then the volume increases. Prophecy is a pummeling din of guitar clouds shot through with electronic disruption. Stapleton's relentless motion drives Porteous' icy guitar streams in leaping waves. 'Catch Them' opens the album with Peter's vocals, croaking out from the…
Black Ships
*333 copies limited edition* As Stapleton's illness progressed over his last years, instead of lamenting what doors had closed to him, Stapleton with the truest, highest understanding of what free improvisation suggests, asked himself what doors remained open and walked through them. Stapleton entered a grand tradition of master improvisers for whom changes in physical ability were approached with the same practical acuity that a great improviser approaches their instrument with every time they …
Close Position
The concept is therefore to propose an immersive type of listening, in which the rather extended durations of sustained and seemingly static sounds create a certain tension generated by the anticipation of variation.
The live performance involves the use of samples, as the composed balances require multiple timbral layers to be active simultaneously. The closeness in pitch and the mimicry between instruments highlight the psychoacoustic phenomenon of beating: in fact, our auditory sy…
Aspects Of Memory
Aspects of Memory is the first meeting between Lawrence Casserley (signal-processing instrument) and Emil Karlsen (percussion). Casserley has devoted his professional career to the creation and performance of real-time electroacoustic music, culminating in the development of his own unique device—The Signal Processing Instrument. This instrument allows him to use physical gestures to control the processing and to direct the morphology of the sounds.
Casserley writes: “A key element of the Signal…
Eyre
For their fourth album, and second release on Bead, light.box augments the duo of Alex Bonney (trumpet, electronics) and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (bass guitar, electronics) with a special guest, Tom Challenger on tenor saxophone.The album explores a vast range of textures and dynamics from cinematic ambient drones to delicate timbral and microtonal explorations, from fast-paced dialogues to invasive waves of distortion. The rapport between the musicians has developed over years of playing toget…
No One Notices the Fly
On No One Notices the Fly, Zander Raymond turns marginal sounds into the main event, building fragile songs from scraps, glitches and room tone. Fourteen pieces drift between collage, improvisation and diaristic field recording, inviting the ear to lean closer until the smallest sonic twitch feels like a full emotional weather system.
Soufflements Cardinaux
Soufflements Cardinaux invites the listener into a cartography of breath: Ensemble In(dé)fini map the four directions through extended techniques, hushed noise and prismatic overtones. Winds, strings and electronics trace invisible weather systems, turning each exhalation into a fragile, shifting architecture of sound.
Music From The Death Factory (poster)
Ultra-rare, especially in this condition, 1978 poster often used as concert poster with details hand written on it. This is a previously unfolded blank copy!
Wreckers of Civilisation (book)
Very rare first and only 1999 edition on Black Dog Publishing of the definitive book on COUM & Throbbing Gristle, fully illustrated thoughout. Includes Mute oversize card.
Wreckers of Civilisation (card)
Very rare 1999 postcard, reproducing COUM Transmission's “Prostitution” press release, announcing the forthcoming publication of the “Wreckers of Civilisation” book for Black Dog Publishing.
The Second Annual Report (CD)
First CD re-issue on Mute of the first TG LP, 'the' seminal industrial music release, with two bonus tracks.
United / Zyklon B Zombie (7")
Rare 1980 re-issue limited to 1000 copies on white vinyl with a longer version of the B-side of the classic TG debut single from 1978.
D.o.A. The Third And Final Report (LP)
Original first edition of 3000 copies on Industrial Records of TG's very varied and confrontational second album, one of the fundaments of Industrial music. No calendar nor card included.
D.o.A. The Third And Final Report (LP)
Original 1979 French edition on Celluloid of TG's very varied and confrontational second album, one of the fundaments of Industrial music.
D.o.A. The Third And Final Report (CD)
First CD re-issue on Mute of the second TG LP, one of the fundaments of Industrial music, with two bonus tracks.
20 Jazz Funk Greats (LP)
Very rare original 1979 first edition with poster (included in the first 2000 copies only) on Industrial Records of the absolute classic third TG album, considered "the best industrial album of all time".
20 Jazz Funk Greats (LP)
Rare original 1979 first edition limited to 5000 copies on Industrial Records of the absolute classic third TG album, considered "the best industrial album of all time". No poster.
20 Jazz Funk Greats (LP)
1981 Italian edition on Expanded Music of the absolute classic third TG album, considered "the best industrial album of all time".
20 Jazz Funk Greats (CD)
First CD re-issue on Mute of the absolute classic third TG LP, considered "the best industrial album of all time", with two bonus tracks.