Goetia
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.
Demonolatry
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…
Radiodrama - Colapse
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…
Radiodrama - Colapse + Camera Sonora
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 -…
Space Needle
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…
Deterioration
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 Otolith
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…
Chaos Is The Cosmos
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.
Abnormal Songs
Originally issued on cassette on the R.E.P. label in the '80s in very limited quantities, then re-issued on a 10 CD-R box set entitled Makoto Kawabata early works 1978-1981 (ltd. ed. 100 copies only). "This is a music that I originally composed for a play called Alice in Nakedland. The play was some erotic expressionist nonsense, sort of like Alice in Wonderland and Dr. Caligari's Crime added together then divided by two. My script was used, but my music was rejected by the other staff members."…
Hiro Yanagida 1971 (2nd Album)
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…
Primitive Expression
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…
Polytheistic Fragments
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…
Visitations I + II + Thirties
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
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. …
Doorbells
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…
Favorite encores
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…
Dreamers of Pearl
Joseph Kubera, piano. Michael Byron (b. 1953) was a pupil of James Tenney, and later, of Richard Teitelbaum. The body of music he has composed over the past thirty years has been harmonically rich, rhythmically detailed, and increasingly virtuosic. Dreamers of Pearl (2004-05) evinces a sensitivity for the sound of the piano, a sensibility of extended playing-listening, and an interest in repetition and change through gradual and seemingly clandestine processes that transform and extend what we h…
Fabrikraum
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.
Habitat
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…
Live Young, Die Fast And Leave An Exquisite Corpse
"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.…