Game Mechanics for Voices: The Place of Landscape
With ‘Game Mechanics for Voices: The Place of Landscape,’ Aske Zidore explores composing for four voices (SSAA) by introducing game mechanics and turn-based strategies. The recordings consist of three movements, performed live by vocalists from Norwegian ensemble Trondheim Voices at the Øra Studio in Trondheim, March 2023. The piece uses game mechanics as notation systems; wooden games, including card, board, and tile structures, serve as the foundation for transforming rules into musical instru…
wræżlivøść
*200 copies limited edition* wræżlivøść involves intense emotions, messages, memories and experiences, blending contrasting styles beyond conventional genres. From post-romantic piano to radical electronic sounds, the final shape of the album was formed in the last two weeks of August, when Kamil Piotrowicz combined recordings made over the past year: from a noise-ambient session in New York, through home recordings in the village of Strzeń near Warsaw, to the recording of his graduation concert…
Incendies
"Incendies" is a piece that sings the jolts of a world on battery. Just as we watch a fire with fascination, its beauty and its destructive force at the same time, one can listen to analog signals enriched with saturations and give birth to the space created inside a stereophony. Or meditate on the carbon footprint of the same action. And for your information: the number of megafires will increase by 30% by 2050 (according to a report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) which also d…
And Yeah So (1981-1985)
Corbett vs. Dempsey presents And Yeah So (1981-1985), the first ever compilation by Splat! Emerging amid the primo froth of the British post-punk era, Splat!'s lineup included vocalist Dave Parsons, the mastermind behind Ron Johnson Records. The band released its only 7-inch single as the label's maiden record, going on to follow up with a 12-inch EP. These (plus one track on a compilation) were the sum total official output, but the band was active and made loads of fantastic, high-octane, ofte…
Requiem for the Snake of Maidan
Holidays Records is on fire! Hot on the heels of their recent incredible vinyl releases of the Italian sound artist and musician Ezio Piermattei’s “Gran trotto” and the duo Acchiappashpirt’s “Ninulla”, they return with one of their most important and captivating releases to date: Hartmut Geerken’s “Requiem for the Snake of Maidan”, a mind-blowing body of archival recordings from the 1970s, made on a stony ridge in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan, encountering the artist locked in a sprawl…
The Days of the Week / Chinese Wisdom
** Edition of 150 copies ** Pak Yan Lau: dismantled toy pianos, wind up toys, popping candy, bow, toy spring reverb, Buddha Machine, Tamayura bell, Japanese iron wind chimes, electronics, voice. Recorded and mixed at Outlau’d Studio, Brussels, in August 2020. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Cover illustration by Eleusi.
Rex / Extremum
Rex / Extremum probably marks a new direction for the Swedish tape loop and synth trio Organ of Corti. The tension is still there but the sound is clearer, more separated and hi fi in the most lo fi sense. This is things falling apart, and for you deeply into bad vibes. Two tracks. The Mississippi river on the cover. Just can't go wrong.
Organ of Corti is Dan Johansson (Sewer Election), Mattias Gustafsson (Altar of Flies) and Joachim Nordwall (iDEAL). They have a common interest in repetition, h…
Dumb Tangerine Dream
Rounding out the first twenty releases on the label, right back where we started, Krim Kram HQ all-time favs, the inimitable Bren't Lewiis Ensemble. Dumb Tangerine Dream collects four 3" CDRs originally released during those apocalyptic years of 2019 to 2021 in micro editions of 25 copies each. No longer only available to the die-hard freaks and doomsday cultists, now ripe for the masses.
Dumb Tangerine Dream presents a somewhat different side to the group from that of Hand Signals, consisting o…
Text Pieces + Compositions for Prepared Strings and Objects
New collection of Adam Bohman's signature cut-up found text pieces and intricate close-mic'd improvisations with homemade stringed instruments and small objects. Guaranteed to get your mouth watering and head spinning. While the ordinary well-adjusted citizen is liable to whitey within 30 seconds, those of us with stronger constitutions will be unfazed by the regressive babbling state you may find yourself in. Hold fast, you are one joyous step closer to enlightenment.
"Adam Bohman has been oper…
Fierce / Lighten
*100 copies limited edition* The late Hironari Iwata, best known for his experimental work with "Toukaseibunshi", explored even more uncharted territory under the alias "Haiginsha". This long-lost cassette from 1986 has been resurrected with a meticulous remaster, sourced from one of the few remaining original tapes, courtesy of noise pioneer Toshiji Mikawa. The album weaves a striking tapestry of guitar, melodica, recorder, voice and industrial percussion, each element bending and colliding in …
Percussive Resistance
*29 tracks / 29 artists / over one hour* Percussive Resistance is our heeding a call to action. Each piece on this compilation is exclusive to this recording. All proceeds go to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
The Day After "The End Of The World" Party
2024 Stock. Minor signs of wear from long-time storage.
Demonstration Record
Tip! What you see before you, “iffy” cover and all is a solo project from noise-rock pioneer and The Dead C veteran Bruce Russell. Recorded on a mobile phone in the southern summer of 2023-24. This collection of live performances, sound collages, and solo improvisations have been pressed into a black slab with an “unfinished” cover. Bruce Russell, “Mr.Noisy”, the man that’s been “giving rock'n'roll a prison haircut since 1984” is letting us in, providing an “open-house” into the sonic alchemy of…
Hyena
Big-band no-wave from a stack of local instrumentalists as LA performance artist Went sings her lyrics over the top. Noisy, raucous and free!
A Harsh Smoker’s Sonic Compilation
Big tip! A Harsh Smoker’s Sonic Compilation is an audio album featuring thirty-three original tracks in the form of a high-quality, custom-made paper booklet linked to a digital release! All audio tracks are accessible through a link or QR code contained within the compilation/booklet. The hosting page is fully private without any tracking or advertisement. Both MP3 and original audio formats are available to listen to and/or download. It is possible to stream the album using the mp3 player host…
Tilietulum solo version
*100 copies limited edition* Solo. Acoustic but with unexpected sounds, without unnecessary virtuosity but full of surprises. Characterized by cowbells which, however, instead of being played, in the course of the concert are hung from the body and allowed to resonate. Soft, not aggressive. Melodic and full of noise. Dirty; and the dirt is the interesting part of it. An unshouted cry. A rustic in search of shibumi.
Duma
*44 copies limited edition* "We met R Moro for the first time in December 2022, when we had the chance to share the Spettro stage in Brescia. We didn't know each other before and he totally grabbed us with his concert, a dreamy long suite that kept him busy shifting between keyboards, electric guitar, and electronic rythms. After another killer show at Troglobatem Festival 2023 we asked him some material for a release, and about an year later the music reached us.
This tape is R Moro's first r…
Plage
Plage is a power lament of love and loss. It consists of two groups of poems, Seufzer (sighs) and Jauchzer (whoops), read by the author. Charlotte Warsen is a writer and teacher and lives in Berlin.
Na Boca do Alvanel
* Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies. Pink colored c40 cassette with white imprint. Comes in regular jewel case and 4pp 170gsm paper covers. Includes download code. * In a forthright response to the always speculative query, "Which musicians would you like to see collaborate", Coherent States proudly presents the "Na boca do Alvanel" album by David Maranha and Stefano Pilia. Delving deeper, "and why?" becomes clear: Stefano’s extended guitar manipulation and David’s ethereal violin, flute & org…
Antiphonals
Canadian-in-LA electroacoustic composer Sarah Davachi has rediscovered her muse since releasing work on her own label, Late Music. Having explored hitherto unheard realms of enchanting melodic organ and electronics drones on her 2020 album Cactus, Descant, Antiphonals further explores these ideas using a sound palette of Mellotron, electric organ, piano, and synthesizer. Referring to church music sung or recited alternately by two groups in its title — Antiphonal is a studied solo affair in whi…