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Ouarda (The Subtle Art of Phyllorhodomancy) is currently only available as a double vinyl set with a view to release on cd-dvd at a later and as yet unspecified date. Andrew Liles' latest offering has taken nearly three years to hit the shelves and almost as long to create. Recorded in London, Paris, and Sicily, 'Ouarda (The Subtle Art of Phyllorhodomancy)' is a travelogue that refuses to stay stuck in any one place for any extended period. The music herein is as diverse as the array of guests i…

Limited to 500 copies. another vital instalment in no-fi's growing and collectable vinyl catalogue, this 7' sees the head-on collision of two major acts in the european noise circuit. norway's jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of lasse marhaug and john hegre, best known for their Ômetal machine music' death metal concept album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more noise-oriented work. marhaug is a major figure in international noise, well-known for having…

Jack Wright (alto saxophone, soprano saxophone) with Alban Bailly (acoustic guitar). Extended techniques are relied on heavily as the duo investigates their instruments, eventually leading to a singular output.

Edited by Yvan Etienne. Bilingual edition (English-French) 13 x 17 cm (folded poster cover). This publication provides an overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, featuring three essays and an interview, as well as a specific project (a collection of radio memories submitted from around the world), installations views, the artist's Museum of Instruments, and descriptions of the performances recorded on the included audio cd. Brandon Labelle is musicia…

Sven-Ake Johansson (voice, percussion) with KNM Berlin. 'Polis, Wachs und Pomade' (2000), 'Abovensen... (2002), 'Einen staubigen Klang finden' (1998).

Axel Dörner (trumpet), Zoran Terzinc (piano), Jan Roder (bass), Sven-Ake Johansson (drums). Recorded in 2005.

Electro-acoustic compositions performed on a variety of handmade and sculptural instruments. The compositions vary from filling large rooms with a continuous wash of sound to the heady pans of pure electronic tones. One of the most active experimental music performers on the East Coast for the past decade, John Berndt began his musical career by composing wildly abstract electro-acoustic and conceptual tape music in 1978 at the tender age of 11. His first compositions in this mode premiered on t…

Phil Durrant (computer), Bertrand Denzler (tenor saxophone) and Burkhard Beins (percussion, objects). Recorded on November 28 & 29, 2006 by Christophe Hauser at La muse en circuit (France).

Hardcore improvisation. Extreme, sharp and filled with burning energy - No More Music (at the service of capital). This is a beautifully painful record recorded in Oslo, Brussels and Strasbourg in early 2006 by the duo of  Argentinian Lucio Capece on saxophone, often feedbacked through a mixer and Basque computer improviser/feedbacker/ destroyer and thinker Mattin, both based in sunny Berlin. "Universal Prostitution" moves in the wastelands between extreme reductionism, noise and focused improvi…

“And I pulled the word 'and' from my beard" is the new  work from Portland based cut-up genius ID M Theft Able. 55 minutes of pure sonic madness: lo-fi, trash, collage, crazy found sounds, unexpectable chaos. Totally undefinible! Extrasized cover, edition of 200.

File under: cosmic fear noise. Daryl Groetsch blessed us with two slow jams for modular synthesizers. The first track is a mammoth, while the second one is a drony excursion into outer space. Packaged in 12" X 5" optical bag silkscreened by canedicoda. Edition of 200.

New Zealand's best known secret, Duncan Bruce recorded these 2 gems in 2006, and they're finally released on 8mm. this is the music i love: weird, dreamy, exotic, loud and completely out-of-its-center = free. New Zealand and Afghanistan has never been so close. 111 copies.

Punk rock from the year 3000. For who's already familiar with the band from Dunedin, NZ, you know what to expect: primitive drums, walls of guitar feedbacks, synth-weirdness and vocals dialled directly from Saturn. Amazing. 100 copies, silkscreened.

By using the simple equation of invitation + imitation = invocation-to-putrification, we bring forth the flakey yellow mountain called 'Urine Cakes'. Its one half 'covers' of peeinmyfacewithsurgery and one half brand new original PIMFWS discharge. Urine Cakes cd-r is a dark and undead fantasy-for-a-laugh until the invitation requires a more specific and profitable open ended disaster.  Listen up!  It has nothing to do with the expectations implied by 'covers' in fact there seems to be absolutely…

Nihil is me is Andrea Giotto, top notch guitarist of the punk band With Love and free time jammer with such a variety of projects like maledetto/ottave, ok/no, be maledetto now!, just to name a few. 'Is me' is his first effort under this new moniker, and it's a beautiful sound poem for bells, guitars, vocals and fields recordings. Intimate and deep. Comes in a beautiful digipack edition designed by Nico Vascellari and Canedicoda and printed by il Canedicoda.

Teatro Satanico doesn't need any introduction. If you follow the wastelands of noise and post-industrial musick, you'll already know that this is one of the most talented and unique groups Italy has ever had. This new album is another step forward into TS' pagan journey into the lands of (post) modern witchcraft, and marks a new phase in their personal approach to electronic composition. The album consists of 8 tracks, 40 minutes of heavy cut-up - hi-fi dynamic noise, with lyrics that will remin…

Aka: Friends from all over the world united. Side A opens with three new enchanting songs from Matthew Mondanile's Ducktails, Argentina's Vluba provide smoke and sulphur to the same side. Gang Wizard's piece is called 'the Shed' and it's pure claustrophobia melted on a tape, while Golden Cup and Pumice's contribution is a romantic piece recorded live in Rome. 4 bands, 3 continents, 2 sides, 1 spirit! 100 copies. Silkscreened. Numbered.

Following the tradition of great basement recordings on 8mm, Minnesota's Maths Balance Volumes and Baltimore's Sejayno share the tape for this nicely packaged split cassette. Six shots full of mysterious vibes and smoked abstract atmospheres are provided by MBV, while side B is one long suite for handmade instruments, percussions, voices and god-only-knows-what-else, from the fenomenal project of Peter/Ciat Lonbarde, Severiano Martinez and C Garhart. Both bands are incredibiley inspiring on this…

A special trans-communication action recorded at Galeria Fornello (Prato, Italy) during the night before the show.

The Art of forced locked grooves! Black Metal meet Noise experimentalism, on turnatble, speackers and prepared vynil played in forced locked grooves!

Noise gestalt music. A multidimensional unedit concept album realized with 12 pulsing sculptures of sound layers and hypercinetc ambient drone, produced by Kinetix. A very special edition arranged in a jewel case, composed as 4 different inserts and 2 different possibles front-covers.

Improvised sessions, made using a ephemera custom-turntable and a unique edit scratched vinyl played in forced locked grooves, Environmental microphone feedback, mixer. Recording and mastering with an hard-disk-recorder. Recording setup: mixer and microphones in a large room, during necromantical sound operations.

Esoteric Audio Recording sessions with a ephemera soundsculptures + 5 mysterious video loops as unique document of the places involved as recording locations. A special Sound-package for a private experience of the acoustic phenomena. Listen this sounds in your hands... Improvised sessions, made using a ephemera custom-turntable with two stylus and edit scratched vinyls played in forced locked grooves, Environmental microphone feedback, delay, mixer. Recording and mastering with an hard-disk-rec…

A concept album focused on the esoteric side of electromagnetic activities (ITC, EVP and Trans-Dimensional phenomena) all around us. 'Collapse' features sound sources or signals by: Bad Sector, Clausthome, Galerie Schallschutz, Gruppo Psicofonico Di Grosseto, Pietro Riparbelli / K11, SSIM-EL and Strange Attractor. This second edition is limited to 211 copies with the bonus CDR 'Camera Sonora' featuring sound sources by: Massimo Magrini (Bad Sector), Clausthome, Galerie Schallschutz, Marcello Bac…

A collaborative opera focused on the esoteric side of electromagnetic activities (itc, evp, and trans-dimensional phenomenas) all around us. An orchestra of recorded audio phenomenas, selected by different authors with many different receiving instruments as sources materials, elaborated and recomposed by Pietro Riparbelli / K11 for the final captation: “Radiodrama”. Source materials by : BAD SECTOR, STRANGE ATTRACTOR, MASSIMILIANO VIEL/SSIM-EL, CLAUSTHOME, GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ, MARCELLO BACCI -…

Noggin with Eric Ostrowski : guitar or violin, and Michael Griffen : violin. Recorded in 1995 and edited in 1996. Eric Ostrowski is a freely-improvising musician and experimental filmmaker based in Seattle, WA. He played guitar and violin as one half of the legendary improv-noise duo of Noggin from 1993-2006. He has been concurrently developing his hand-made film style. Michael Griffen (died last January) was the violinist in Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live and played in the noise duo Nogg…

Name: YELLOW SWANS (Often prefaced with a changing 'D' word; changing to reflect the constantly evolving nature of the music, dialogue between the music and those hearing it and naming it.) Members: Pete Swanson (formerly a member of Mur*der) and Gabriel Mindel Saloman (formerly a member of Boxleitner). Origins: First show in December of 2001, in Portland OR. Current Location: San Francisco-Oakland CA Musical Approach: Improvisational music, primarily using electronic instruments and processing,…

The recordings of Loren Chasse and Michael Northam begin and end with the great outdoors. Yet, the well-documented wanderlust of these two kindred sound artists is only part of the equation. Field recordings of wind, water, and stone intertwine and hybridize within private rituals of droning psychedelic ragas that return as a folklore reiterating the mystery of the natural world around us. Through his numerous contributions to the multi-faceted Jewelled Antler as well his solo work, Chasse has l…

1996 reissue. The first in our new series called Swedish Underground Archives. The series will focus on classic yet mostly unreleased recordings by known and unknown to mythical Swedish progressive/psychedelic groups from the 1960s/70s. First out is the best ever recording from the legendary Trad Gras & Stenar (Trees Grass & Stones) recorded at the first ever Swedish outdoors summer hippie festival in 1970. The sound is just amazing: a stoned lysergic wall of acid guitars jamming away and never …

The return of C.C.C.C. to Cold Spring (after their outstanding album 'Flash' in 1996).This is also the first album from C.C.C.C. in 10 years! This cult Japanese Noise group is made up of Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, YBO2, South Saturn Delta), Mayuko Hino, Fumio Kosakai (Hijokaidan, Incapacitants), and Ryuichi Nagakubo (Tangerine Dream Syndicate). An absolutely essential album for those with a penchant for extreme Japanoise. Just under 45 minutes of music.

Second Yanagida Hiro album, with Kimio Mizutani at the helm, swirling acid leads, heavy psych moves with at one point even an acidic Elvis joining the trip. Originally released in 1971. Deluxe gatefold sleeve packaging.Keyboard player and prime mover Hiro Yanagida began his musical life in Ground Sounds outfit The Floral, before founding the considerably cooler Apryl Fool in 1968. However, Yanagida is best known for his contributions to the so-called ‘Super Session’ period of 1970-72, during whi…

First release of this archival material by this French rock band, best known for their classic Catalyse album (originally issued by BYG in 1970; CD is Spalax 14823). This posthumous archives release is comprising of Ame Son’s Catalyse period including when they called themselves Les Primitiv’s, some of their recording sessions from 71 and some post-second chapter mid-70’s recordings. Fairly aptly titled Primitive Expression, most of these tracks present on this album are not in their polished st…

Last copies: as a member of SUN CITY GIRLS & co-founder of the Sublime Frequencies label, he's a comfortable traveler in the vast landscape of ethno-musical tradition & renowned for his prowess & mastery w/ the guitar, but the piano playing shows a fluid, meditative style. In a record w/ so many spirits, Bishop fills in the space where necessary & rounds out the feeling w/ catchy tunes. This shows that the divinely inspired Sir Richard Bishop cannot be contained in one form." Fragments is a spec…

New editions of these all-time classic minimalist works, originally issued on the Chatham Square label in the LP era, reissued on CD by New Tone in the mid-90s -- and available again. "American composer and saxophone player Jon Gibson is one of the most important exponents of the American Minimal Music school. He is the only musician to have performed with the three major figures of this school: Philip Glass, Steven Reich and Terry Riley. As a performer Gibson took part in several very important…

Germinal is the result of the first musical meeting between the spanish pianist, Agustí Fernández, and Norwegian percussionist, Ingar Zach. The release is also the first time the label Plastic Strip moves into contemprorary improvisation music, but when it first got these subliminal recordings in hands, genre or style didn't matter. Fernández and Zach had been talking for a long time to initiate a collaberation, and finally the occasion was there during Ingar's visit in Barcelona in March 2006. …

1. Doorbell, feedback, tapes, electronics. 2. Dorrbell, tuning fork, crotale, clarinet, recorder, pitch pipe, bouzouki, guitar, electronics. 3. Doorbell, electronics, toy piano, sitar, tapes. Composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Anders Dahl in 2004-2008. Mastered by Peter Wstberg and Anders Dahl. Seek and you shall find! Ring the bell and Anders will open the gate to beguiling, bewildering pastures where sheep are fed and music is made. Don't be afraid of this wonderful place where life an…

A split CD of works by Noah Creshevsky (4 tracks) and If, Bwana (3 tracks). While on the face of it this may seem a somewhat odd pairing, the pieces recorded here comment on and highlight each other. And an aural adventure is indeed in the offing. Trained in composition by Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luciano Berio at Juilliard, Noah Creshevsky has taught at Juilliard, Princeton University, and Brooklyn College. He was director of the Center For Computer Music (1994-2000) and is currently Profes…

Sound design recorded at National Sculpture Factory, Cork November 2007. Mark O'Leary was born in Cork City Ireland. Being mainly auto didactic on guitar he moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to study at Musicians Institute,from where he later graduated. He has presented his music in 29 countries and has played at some of the worlds top Jazz festivals and contemporary Jazz venues.

Maximilian Marcoll, electronics. Hannes Galette Seidl, electronics. The piece 'Ian W. Coel' is built around the video installation 'MSTM Wall' (Short Time Memory Wall) by british media artist Ian W. Coel (*1952) from 1988. 'STM Wall&rduo' is a video wall, equiped with cameras and set up in a public space, taking pictures of its surrounding in front and behind the wall and displaying these pictures on its video screens. Newer pictures are drawn on top of older ones, which are still visible. So, o…

"Rumble // feedback // electricity. Only sound. The guitar is not dead. It is still humming and I believe in it. Copper wound is copper wound, today and yesterday. Magnets are magnetic, today and yesterday. Wood is wooden, today and yesterday. Electricity is electric, today and yesterday. These things shift in their own time and on their own basis. They are not forced and in my own capacity, I do not force them. The editor's role is Advocate. The rattle you hear, that is the energy and the idea.…