Project For A Revolution In New York
The first Bruce Russell solo release Project for a Revolution in New York sees our man truly alone on the first side, messing with a guitar over a looped drone accompaniment. Remarkably subdued and dare I say, relaxing. Side two has Tom Lax (Siltbreeze main-man) and Paul Toohey (Surface of the Earth) helping out with percussion and electronics in a very free collaboration where what doesn't happen defines the tension of the piece as much as what does. There's always been a tension between noise …
Noise Music: A History
Noise/Music looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch electronica of today. It situates different musics in their cultural and historical context, and analyses them in terms of cultural aesthetics. Paul Hegarty argues that noise is a judgement about sound, that what was noise can become acceptable as music, and that in many ways the idea of noise is similar to the idea of the avant-garde. While it provi…
Fever
Aiaiai, there we go again, 2 years ago it started and now it seems too late to ever stop it.. where is this gonna end, is of course an interesting question.. after a whole night long LA Bamba party (which is seriously a bigger aural torture than any noise gig), a lp with only La Bamba cover versions, a whole night long Popcorn and a accompanied comp lp, it's about time to abuse Eddie Cooley and John Davenport's Fever! on september 3rd 2011 the Fever night is happening on a boat in oostende, and …
Record Store Record
If you cant come to our shop, then maybe our shop can come to you. no, this is not a collection of in-store performances, there are no bands or artists trying to impress you with their skillz and technique - this is a collection of location/environmental recordings made inside our record stores, just the sound of regular everyday customers looking at records, talking about records, buying records - oh yeah, and record store owners boxing up records for mail-order customers - audio verite, sound …
Live at the Rothko Chapel
Mural's lush and inviting sound-world incorporates a wide range of percussive, harmonic, and timbral effects and suggests the vastness and mystery of time, as do Rothko's paintings. With Jim Denley on flute and saxophone, Kim Myhr on acoustic guitar, and Ingar Zach on percussion, the trio created a site-specific and improvisational work relating to, and inspired by, the Rothko murals in the Chapel. Recorded at the Rothko Chapel, March 4, 2010. (metamkine)
Installation for 300 Speakers, Pianola and Vacuum Cleaner
John Wynne's untitled installation for 300 speakers, pianola and vacuum cleaner is at once monumental, minimal and immersive. It uses sound and sculptural assemblage to explore and define architectural space and to investigate the borders between sound and music. There are three interwoven sonic elements: the ambient sound of the space in which it is installed, the notes played by the piano, and a computer-controlled soundtrack of synthetic sounds and gently manipulated notes from the piano itse…
The Sound of Insects
'The Sound of Insects' is the Soundtrack for Peter Liechti's film with the same title without the narrative voice. The movie is Peter Liechti's documentary account of a man alone in the wilderness, committing suicide by starvation, and the subsequent decay of his mind and body. Norbert Möslang's original score for 'The Sound of Insects' received the Cinema Eye Award for Outstanding Achievement in Composing at the 2011 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking and the Swiss Film Award 2010 for …
Things That Happened
Joke Lanz aka Sudden Infant creates an unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic vocals, using contact microphones, prerecorded soundloops and noises. The result is abrupt Musique Concrète juxtapositions of spasmodic gibbering and a battery of disorienting electronics. It's a fragmented field of sound that comes to its own autonomy!' Two great live recordings which shows more the competence of Joke Lanz then the most studio recordings ! Termite Club, Leeds, England (Live 2004-08-21). R…
Hustler Power Electronics Convention
You must live in tokyo to be able to follow the immense output of the soundburrier that is Masaya Nakahara, aka Violent Onsen Geisha, most of his work doesn't make it out of Satou Dan's Tatsunoya bar in Shinjuku, not because no one wants it, just because the tokyo noise scene seems to gather there late at night to forefil their pork anus - chicken paw needs, and Nakahara's last 40 cdr's were the ideal soundtracks for this ritual. the old skool dead pan electronics, plunderphonics, parodies, nois…
Les Anges Du Peche
There are the most incredible encounters. Behind the one I had with the two guitarists of Sonic Youth lies the amazingly sharp eyes of a journalist, or more accurately a musical historian of our times, who recognised the spine of an album on which I appear, from a photo in a magazine. of an interview w Thurston Moore. Thurston is sitting in front of part of his immense record collection. This was enough to prompt a meeting prior to the group taking the stage in Marseille and opened the door to a…
Canephora
a duet of acoustic guitar (played by elliott sharp) and bass clarinet (by gareth davis). the latter we know from his various collaborations with rutger zuydervelt, also known as machinefabriek and sharp is a long term mainstay of the new york improvised music scene. recorded in a single day, april 5th 2010 at sharp's own studio, this is a meeting of two like minded musicians: open and gifted with the talent of fine improvisation. two different instruments, one with a more short attack and the ot…
Works 1977-79 (Friends Edition)
**Friends edition limited to 99 copies. Comes in black box with silver imprint and includes an additional numbered single-sided
bonus LP housed in stickered plain black sleeve** French artist and autodidact Ghédalia Tazartès who is born in Paris in 1947 is a true nomad spending more than 30 years within musical practice and experimentation. Ghedalia is the orchestra and a pop group all in one person: the self is multitude and others, freely connecting the sounds, the rhythms, his voice, his voic…
Freeman Etudes - Books 1&2
Amazing CD of Cage's Freeman Etudes with the amazing performance of Marco Fusi.
flaming creatures tour cdr
published the very last second before leaving on a italo tour with BIRDS OF DELAY, FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE and HEATSICK, a insane tour set up by SIMONE OF HUNDEBISS RECORDS in italy!basically this is a half bootleg of the vom grill cdr on chocolate monk, + a live recording and a short intro. the usual ice cream blubber dipped in mother's milk and papa's zalf: vocals, tapes and thrown out bagger. limited to 69 copies and packed in a left over stencil printed cover DT made over 8 years ago. aiaiai."
Improvisations January 1997
** Edition limited to 240 copies with sensational full colour gatefold sleeve and breath-taking inside cover painting by Jean-Marcel Busson. ** An improvised music acid trip for instruments, voice and electronics by the GOL orchestra and the now defunct Telinga Ensemble navigating on the darkest waters of psychedelia. Five long tracks recorded 14 years ago in an icy flat in Pigalle, Paris with Ravi Shardja (bass guitar), Olivier Maurel (cello, objects), Emmanuel Quentin (guitar, prepared guitar)…
Puppet Island
** Double LP in full colour gatefold sleeve, issued in an edition of 280 copies. ** This is the Menstruation Sisters 2LP brand new effort, titled “Puppet Island” is a cabaret nightmare number of carnival hell disappearance, a prevocal natterings, no-fi/low-wave crash/bash masterpiece
Day 13. The green hell of the jungle stretches around us at all sides. Ifeel like I am being driven mad by the constant suffocation of its hotand terrible embrace. Everywhere, awful vegetable life fights forsupre…
Drums Between The Bells
Gatefold 2LP version. "Pairing prickly electronics with live drum patterns, Eno dumps great globs of blotchy machine -- malfunction into the mix. Holland's poetry is interlaced courtesy of [a] monotone voice...the combined effect makes the whole undertaking sound like a wild William Gibson fantasy come to life." --Pitchfork "Brian Eno first came across the work of Rick Holland in the late '90s during the Map-Making project; a series of collaborative works between students of the Royal College, t…
Here's Sunshine
This is another lost private-press gem, from a Texas singer/songwriter who is remembered for “looping, melodically through often surrealist lyrics with a strong Tim Buckley influence.” Another description drops the always-intriguing “downer” folk tag on this record, calling it “stark, edgy real-people loner vibe, reverb, acoustic instrumentation, occasional hand percussion, piano, harmonica, as that off-the-chain Texas feel that approaches solo Roky Erickson territory.” The record label, Backbea…
Only
Pieces by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Hanns Eisler, Giacinto Scelsi, György Kurtag, Frederic Rzewski, Henri Pousseur, Théodore Botrel, Rudolf Siecynski, and Sephardic songs. Performed/interpreted by vocalist Marianne Pousseur. "I like to listen to music in places that haven't been designed for it. I like when music mixes in with noise. Only came from a very personal desire to open the doors of my musical world to the concreteness of daily life, to tear down the fictional barriers between places a…
The Great White Silence
As a soundtrack, The Great White Silence probably exceeded everyone's highest expectations, as it manages to be sublime and deeply emotionally resonant without ever becoming too forceful. In fact, it may very well be a masterpiece, though I won't know for certain until the film gets a US release. As a decontextualized album, it is a bit flawed solely because it has been removed from its intended purpose as part of a larger whole. There are a number of passages that I absolutely love, but they…