Acre Loss
Acre Loss is a collaborative project which brings together musician Mark Templeton and filmmaker aAron Munson to create ten musical compositions accompanied by ten short films. Guitar, banjo and a host of sounds from both home and outdoor-based field recordings dominate the musical aspect of Acre Loss while Munson's use of Super 8 and 16mm film with overtly modern cinematic processes find the best of different times and technologies. Folk-leaning, yet wholly otherwise-sounding melodies aurally e…
II
All heavy with warmth & mystery, Ulaan Khol returns with another round of vertical incantations aimed at the heavens. As Ulaan Khol, STEVEN R. SMITH (Hala Strana, Thuja, Mirza) creates dense tapestries that revel in the eternal & infinite. The bursts of tones & grip on formal structures can compare to the best of Hototogisu or Handful of Dust, though filtered through an ample dose of Ash Ra Tempel. Supreme while discreet, these songs carry a sense of unnerving calm & optimistic gloom, often with…
Curse of Midnight Mary
Recorded between his eight volume "Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations" LP series & the folk albums he would make w/ Tom Hanford & Kath Bloom, these 9 pieces meld those distinct forms. Singing in a trance like moan, he reforms the Mississippi Delta blues on his acoustic guitar w/ flashes of melodic hooks & a percussive guitar style that erupts into boogie-woogie riffs & other world spirituals.
For The Whole World To See
Classic proto-punk from 1970s Detroit. Raw with little polish, the record showcases the organic power relationships within the trio of brothers. The Hackneys were first influenced by soul & funk music but it all changed when they saw Iggy and the Stooges. Inspired by The Who, Alice Cooper & Led Zeppelin; the brothers finally see their first full length release, remastered & ready for the world to hear.
Individuellos
Released in 1980, is the 3rd & final release from these German proto-punk/Krautrock legends. Ranging from ambient to sound collage to motorik synth & guitar workouts,Êthis is a fine feather that is reissued here domestically for the 1st time ever!
End Of Autumn
A live collaboration from SUTCLIFFE JUGEND (KEVIN TOMKINS and PAUL TAYLOR) and PRURIENT (DOMINCK FERNOW of Hospital Productions) recorded April 19, 2006 in Tunbridge Wells, UK. Features lyrics appropriated from death poems by Japanese monks. Beatuiful gatefold packaging designed by Fernow with photography by LINDSEY WATKINS.
Matricaria
Tara Burke (FURSAXA) & cellist Helena Espvall (ESPERS). A beautiful, laboriously created, floating affair of skeletal organ drones, ceremonial singing, & subtly frantic instrumental accompaniment that conjures up a natural woodland romp & stomp.
It Had Been An Ordinary Enough Day In Pueblo, Colorado
For folks familiar with AMM, this one really doesn’t need much by way of introduction. However, as an entry point, it serves up (relatively) short digestible tracks that illustrate the organic genius of AMM. By the time they recorded this album, this was AMM’s third incarnation. By no means the groups most decisive or challenging work, the songs clearly demonstrate the various shades of free improv mastery that give the group it’s perrenial status as one of the finest examples within the genre. …
Underground
Amazing live + interview DVD with a total duration of almost 4 (four!) hours!!! Underground is a film by Delphine Sanchez on the French Darklight label, that offers an in-depth overview on todays cold musicand alternative-scene. The DVD (in PAL) is divided in a live-part (2hours 40 minutes) and includes excerpts from liveperformances by Gaë Bolg, Suicide Commando, Tamtrum, Violet Stigmata, Von Magnet, Norma Loy, OlenK, The Breath of Life, Frustration, Jabberwock, Jacquy Bitch, Hide and Seek, Col…
The Ark and the Ankh
In the culturally turbulent mid-1960s, the visionary, otherworldly musical being we have all come to know as Sun Ra formed a brief but tight bond with the late storyteller, activist and poet Henry Dumas. The Ark and the Ankh is a vintage 1966 document of dialogues and meditations between the poet and the musician set to the fervent musical experiments of the Arkestra recorded live at the legendary downtown New York club and haven for the insurgent black music scene, Slug's Saloon. The Ark and th…
It Is Forbidden
This is the third and last entry in the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival, The Sun Ra Trilogy, produced by John Sinclair in agreement with the late Alton Abraham. This time the year is 1974 and the program of the evening includes some of the Arkestra'a greatest hits plus one number never recorded before, It Is Forbidden. This performance has never been released. 2001 release.
Sort of
Reissue of the 1972 first album by the progressive rock band, produced by Uwe Nettelbeck who also produced Faust. Digitally remastered.
Anicca
The first track on Merzbow's latest opus was recorded at Tin Pan Alley studios, London, on 20th April 2008 - the day after his momentous performance at ULU. Akita created an astounding and very unique 20-minute track, playing freestyle drums over his trademark noise. The final two tracks were created at Munemi House in Tokyo. Another fine example of why Merzbow is the undisputed King of Japanese Noise! 58 minutes in total.
Neveleiland
In 1983 Dutch experimental band De Fabriek released their second album Neveleiland on their private label in a limited edition of a few hundred copies. Consisting of two beautiful and delicate sides of story-telling (in the Moluccan and Icelandic language) set in a droney, outer world landscape, the album was a landmark in the history of Dutch experimental music. Influenced by the Residents (circa Eskimo) and Conrad Schnitzler this album has a somber electronic sound in which the stories become …
Electronic Works Vol. 1
This is the second release in Edition Omega Point's Experimental Music of Japan series, featuring the work of Tokyo composer Haruyuki Suzuki (b. 1962). This CD includes four of Suzuki's electronic works -- the oldest piece, "Concret II," was composed in 1985, and is an experiment in sound and noise. The triptych "Go And Back" series composed in 1996, are like versions of the same screenprinting, but made in different colors. While the MIDI data that comprises the structure of the pieces is …
Italic Environments - Project By Nicola Frangione
another thought to find early compilation by Nicola Frangione, more into droney and electroacoustic vein than the previous, it might reminds the early Franco Battiato music sometimes...highly recommended
Brombron 12: six strings
Korm Plastics is proud to present the eleventh release in the Brombron series. Originally a co-production between Staalplaat and Extrapool, it is now hosted by co-curator Frans de Waard. In the year 2000 Frans de Waard and Extrapool started the Brombron project. Two or more musicians become artists in residence in Extrapool, an arts initiative in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, with a fully equipped sound recording studio. These artists can work in a certain amount of time on a collaborative project;…
Gene packs
Hirotomo Hasegawa : ichiriki, voice, loops. Shizuo Uchida : bass, ichigen, loops. Debut album by a new improvisation group consisting of Hirotomo Hasegawa and Shizuo Uchida. Both have a leather-bound folder full of underground back-story. Hasegawa was the lead singer of seminal early eighties Japanese punk hardcore group Aburadako (Greasy Octopus), while Uchida was a long-term member of Haino's Nijiumu medieval dream-drone unit. The group's instrumentation is highly unorthodox, placing Uchida's …
100 000 Années'
Musique concrète composed in 1990-93. Kitnabudja Town was previously released by Metamkine (MKCD XXX, France, 1997). This is new version assembled in 2007 by Lionel Marchetti. Jean-Baptiste Favory: 'Des sphères'. Electronic music recorded in 2005.Musique concrète composed in 1990-93. Kitnabudja Town was previously released by Metamkine (MKCD XXX, France, 1997). This is new version assembled in 2007 by Lionel Marchetti. Jean-Baptiste Favory: 'Des sphères'. Electronic music recorded in 2005. Compr…
That people don\'t know they are monsters
7-inches vinyl (black). Limited edition 500. Total time: aprox. 10 min. Side A: 'That People Don't Know They Are Monsters'. Side B: 'Bow Heavier My Lord'. You may think it's a ballad, noise, tribal shamanism, folk or acoustic. But it's not really.