Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture (Book)
*In process of stocking* Primary Information is pleased to announce the release of Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture. Edited and published by Rasheed Araeen and Mahmood Jamal between 1978 and 1979 in the United Ki…
My Niece's Pierced Knees (7")
When visiting Antwerp last summer, Uncle Jim (aka Alvarius B), recorded a rant for the invitation card single that anounces Dennis Tyfus' exhibition 'My Niece's Pierced Knees', opening on October 27th at Middelheim Museum in Antwerp. This card single…
Plays John Cage II
Celebrated Scandinavian experimentalist CM Von Hausswolff pays respect to the great John Cage with this release which includes a homage to Cage’s seminal 4’33”. For his interpretation, the minimalist uses an electric guitar and a faulty amplifier to …
3 Angels / 3 Hjørner
*Transparent purple vinyl. Limited edition of 100 copies.* Installation soundtrack from Martin Erik Andersen's installation 'ALLE LIGE VEJE LEDER HJEM / EVERY STRAIGHT ROAD LEADS HOME' 2006Originally created as an installation for a private home. Mod…
Failands
*25 copies limited edition* Archaic Vaults presents Failands. Double A-side, pro dubbed, unmarked clear cassette.
Composed and recorded by Joseph Johnson Artwork by Severin Black Mastered by Owen Pratt
Conspiracy
** 250 copies limited edition. one sided transparent 7" flexi with postcard artwork** Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010) a prolific poet/ lyricist cartoonist pamphleteer, anarchist and founding fug. This flexi contains a song for are time ... from another t…
Couscous Bizarre
* In process of stocking * Absolute collage hell from the bowels of several known earths. We have worked with the horrible Orchid Spangiafora (aka Rod Carew) before. Back in 2013 we were tricked into doing an expanded 2LP reissue of Rod's 1979 Twin/T…
Descend, Behold
**75 copies, hand numbered** Separated by a ten year period, the five pieces composing this record share the same contemplative, hypnotic and sedative space. We contemplate, we descend, we descend and contemplate, opening a space within ourselves to …
Souffle (film sans images en cinq tableux vivants)
*In process of stocking* Perceptually the Mountain is a source of pleasure, alterity and danger. Acoustically transparent. Souffle (Fr: 'Breathe') is a film without images, conceived of and directed by Luca Garino - an Italian sound artist and compos…
Array / Polar Force (LP + CD with Book bundle)
This special bundle includes the two collaborative releases by Philip Samartzis and Eugene Ughetti recently released on Room40:"Array" (LP)Array expresses the experience of a remote Antarctic research station through the convergence of sound, site an…
Sehr Selten Gehörte Tanzmusik
*350 copies limited edition* Previously unpublished performance of the internationally renowned dance band Selten Gehörte Musik (on this occasion: Christian Attersee, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener) at the closing event of the "Literanover" Festival at…
Glass
* 2022 Repress * Glass is a recording of an inspired live improvisation by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto at the architect Philip Johnson's hallowed Glass House, in the bucolic setting of New Canaan, Connecticut. The structure's transparency and seam…
Chanter
To celebrate composer Charlie Morrow’s 80th birthday, Recital presents 80 minutes of voice-based recordings in his new album, Chanter. While Morrow’s previous two albums on Recital Toot! Too (2017) and America Lament (2020) focused on chamber and ele…
Musique cabalistique (Book)
A gallery of portraits of people listening to a work in progress by Frédéric Acquaviva, laid out like a flip book."Hello, I have been called Frédéric Acquaviva and I have called this music cabalistic music. The purpose of this music is to let the lis…
Du Suicide / The Hovels Of The Rich Or The Rigid Digit
What suicidal man has ever called on his readers to 'rush out of the circus' better than Alphonse Rabbe? It took the writer that he was - historian and journalist, too - to end his life before his only "real" book, Album d'un pessimiste, was publishe…
Vrioon (re- master) (2LP)
Pioneers in their own musical approaches, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, began their exploration of sound in the evocatively titled V.I.R.U.S series in 2002. After more than a decade from the release of the collection's final installment with "Summv…
Sounds from Thailand
Big tip! *250 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* A psychedelic journey into images and sounds, intimacy and sexuality: from the jungle into the city, and back again - Sounds from Thailand is a project six years in the making by sound art…
Guitar Studies I-III
Swiss artist Zimoun is known for creating effortlessly deep and fluid sound works and sculptures. On Guitar Studies I-III he limits his acoustic focus to just one instrument, arguably the most iconic of the modern age. In doing so, he begins a vertic…
Ghosts and Others
'Ghosts And Others is a singular work in the Phill Niblock canon. It’s singular not just in its material content, but also in its methodology and approach. It represents a highly focused exercise in editing, location recording and acoustic observatio…
Viento
'In the summer of 2010 I had the opportunity to visit Antarctica through an invitation extended by the Argentine Antarctic Division. It was nothing short of life-altering, as I am sure anyone would suspect. Upon departing from Buenos Aires for the ic…