Streengs
‘Streengs’ is Nicola Ratti’s fifth solo cd, and it showcases a completely new direction in his work. Using a minimal setup composed of a small analog synthesizer and a delay/looping device, amplified with two audio transducers placed on the strings of a grand piano, Ratti managed to create a very complex and dense soundworld. Every piece was recorded in realtime, during a residency at Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg, in July 2011, allowing the sounds from the surroundings to interfere wi…
Assemblage Blues
As Dan Melchior continues to kick the Medway gutbucket to the curb, he is also willfully absorbing all manner’ve underground cankerous crud along the way. For those endeared to wallet chains and crisp, cuffed jeans, this has been tantamount to heresy. But for thems what’s embraced the sounds of “the new Dan,” said aberrations are as welcome to caustic ears as a cold beer is to a set’ve parched lips. And while last year’s Visionary Pangs LP (released with Das Menace on the S-S label) was a grower…
Pansophical Cataract
John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions) is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and writer who is perhaps best known as the drummer for Oneida. Man Forever, his vehicle for exploring the outer limits of drum performance, was created to overwhelm, to investigate the nuances that bloom in the midst of repetitive music, and to act as a pure sound experience.
Originally based on the idea of creating a sort of punk-infused Metal Machine Music for drums, Man Forever has evolved from a f…
Pink Keys
Seemingly back from the brink, Olde English Spelling Bee makes a very welcome return with a shocking, amazing new album from Alice Cohen. Having only just copped her 'Wild Vines Tenement Shrines' album released in february, we're still digesting her brand new, synth-lush and colourful Pop sound, but the immediate response is all thumbs up. Like that last LP, she's assisted by the ever-wonderful Autre Ne Veut, this time contributing vocals to one track, alongside percussion from Swans/Smog…
Msg rcvd
On msg rcvd, Neptune employ an array of new techniques and methodologies to explore indeterminacy and difficult phenomena such as feedback. Moving away from guitar feedback, this record features amplified drum feedback as well as the introduction of two new ‘feedback-organ’ machines. Developing their career-long interest in arranging and deploying found sounds, Neptune continues to use their sonically peculiar guitars built from pieces of found metal, but add to this new devices to pick and ar…
Xian Orphic
Edition of 500 copies - a new project from Andy Votel and Demdike Stare's Pre-Cert Home Entertainment Label* Pre-Cert's library of second class curios expands again with 'Xian Orphic', a neo-tantric episode of synth collage posited by the enigmatic Shallkross (work it out) at Villa Scott. Its influences are typically far-flung and esoteric, synching kindred spirits from transcendental, nu-religious and metaphysical sound forms with a rich sensuality evoking the private, new age pressings o…
S'approcher s'eloigner s'absenter
In September 2011, Erstwhile producer Jon Abbey was invited to curate two weeks of shows at John Zorn's legendary Manhattan venue The Stone, which he used as an opportunity to invite many of his favorite musicians from Japan, Europe and the US to perform. A second three night festival at Issue Project Room was later appended onto the end, making the AMPLIFY 2011: stones festival a 35 set, 17 night extravaganza in all. Four of those thirty-five sets will now be available in the ErstLive se…
Brame (et autres mouvements d'automne)
Marc and Olivier Namblard did some recordings of deer during the rutting season. Deer bellow and listen. Marc and Olivier work also with the idea of sound trap. They find a place where animals go through, they set up the recording equipment and come back the day after. Beautifull and amazing recordings. Comes with photos from David Hackel et Marc Namblard. Texts in French and English.
Live
* Edition of 200 * Convergence was formed in 1976 (and disbanded around 1980), with written music for the ensemble scarce, improvisational sessions became more frequent. Their first few concerts at The Music Gallery had a somewhat haphazard and random mix of students, some of whom didn’t quite get the notion of free improv. Recorded live at the Music Gallery in September 1979, their instrumentation includes trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, home-made instruments and toy instruments, which p…
Globe et dynastie
Bo' Weavil is totally psyched to have the opportunity to release the second album by Reines d'Angleterre. This time a thoroughly studio affair. Reines d'Angleterre is a fascinating collaboration between avant outsider musician Ghédalia Tazartès and two electronic botanists, èlg and Jo aka Opéra Mort. This LP covers more of the wild ground the band started with on 'Les Comores' released back in 2010, but going further into a musical terrain that defies definite descriptiona slow trip into wizards…
Neue Volksmusik
he zeitkratzer project Neue Volksmusik (new folk music) is more of a reflex to, rather than a reflection on folk music. This is because the ensemble does not play specific music with any sense of distance. On the contrary, zeitkratzer is taking possession of folk music in its essence. This means that they continue a tradition which folk musics all have in common: constant transformation. No form of authentic folk music can ever be about conservation as a fixed medium, destined for a museu…
Copal Flow
Like the strong scent of copal brings ancient memories and visions, each track here depicts a scenery and involves the listener directly, totally. Introduced by the obscure night of "Notturno", like in a wood, crowded with spirits and animals, you're guided through 9 gates, each one opening on a different space and time. As if the purpose was to awake the slumbering ancestral memory of man, this record is fundamentally based on the dualism of elements strictly relating to the human being: "voic…
Solar ipse # 09
Magazine, 64 pages A4 format (Italian Language), with overviews, artciles and interviews on Bbz Bz Ueu, Luminance Ratio, Saba Saba, Martello, Ludmilla Spleen, Giorgio Salomon / Acrobati Liquidi, Giovanni Lami, The Star Pillow, Patrizia Oliva, The Barnacles, Dubit) Speciali (Stefano Giust: ten favourites) and 128 records reviews
Love God, Love One Another
Black Humor was an experimental rock band from San Francisco in the early 80's. (Not to be confused with "blackhumor," alias of noise artist Frazer Hall.) They released just one, very hard to find LP on Fowl Records in 1982. Only 1,000 records were pressed, each with unique handmade covers: thick slabs of paint, collage, parrot feathers, dirt, whatever else happened to be laying around their Tenderloin flat. Many of these have since gone for high, collector prices or ended up in oblivion.…
A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond: Captain Beef
A treasure trove of archival articles and interviews with the great one. Hard to find. This book compiles tons of articles interviews, and press clippings about Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. It contains 40 separate pieces of writing, including Lester Bangs original reviews of Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off, Baby, interviews and articles from such diverse sources as Rolling Stone magazine, ZigZag, Hot Wacks, and New York Rocker, and transcripts of interviews from Late Night W…
Voyage a l'ombre
A necessary vinyl reissue of Voyage A L'Ombre by Ghédaliza Tazartes. Voyage A L'Ombre was originally released in 1997, as a limited CD on the France-based Demosaurus label run by David Fenech, a frequent Tazartes-collaborator. With tracks featuring Pambin Thullal, Syeta Choir, and Yumi Nara. Hot Releases. Label: 'Ghédalia Tazartes combines an orchestra and a pop group in one person. his voice shifts constantly from child to woman. completely unique, his music is unbelievable. You can't miss that…
Ideal world (1)
7' vinyl. Edition of 100 copies. Transparent vinyl. B/w cover. Released in June 2012. Dave Phillips, based in Zürich and steady collaborator of the Schimpfluch Gruppe, is working with the extreme. This fine piece of vinyl, his first for Joachim Nordwall's iDEAL Recordings label, is a great, odd, harsh and beautiful experience. Humanimalism, psycho-acoustics, voice and body sounds. Honest stuff. And in your face. This is the first in a series of ten 7's by Dave Phillips on iDEAL. 'it's when…
Scandinavian parts (immersive live salvage supplement)
The size of the stage, position of the equipment, monitor position and height, hall architecture and acoustics, capacity and attendance, temperature and humidity, and sound level (dB) or Leq Meter limiting all varied from event to event. Each of the final recordings documents the performed audio output, each hall's acoustics, the audience's reaction, and their proximity to the recorder, all from an onstage position, while retaining the auditorium's spatial impression. Recordings failed, or…
Islands In-Between
A new series of vinyl-only releases, "from the archives." Islands In-Between was originally released on cassette in 1983. Indonesians often use the name Nusantara, meaning "the islands in-between," when referring to the archipelago that forms their Republic. This LP covers only some of the cultural activity on Java and Bali, the best-known islands out of the 13,700 counted by statisticians, so it is not intended to be in any way definitive. The selections are more like musical postcards of …
Son Of A Bitches Brew
Double vinyl version limited to 500 copies. Son Of A Bitches Brew is a true electric jazz record from the Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO. Rooted in the sound of Miles Davis' electric era this record melds jazz, funk and psych with AMT's synth swoops, space whispers and cosmic acid vibe. Tsuyama Atsushi replaces Wayne Shorter on soprano saxophone. Cotton Casino rejoins & AMT goes all in. The only joke here are the titles. Recorded at the Acid Mothers Temple between December 2011 th…