★Astres d'Or
Sprokkelhout
**Numbered edition of 25 copies only** Bart de Paepe has released several solo albums of psychedelic soggy murkiness on Vohu Manah, Beyond Beyond Is Beyond, Kerm whistling through the leaves and branches adjusting in/out of focus at random as we drift between reality and perception. Some of his resonance wood can be enjoyed in Ilta Hämärä (with Timo van Luijk), Wendingen 1918 (with Raymond Dijkstra), Bombay Lunatic Asylum (with Koen Vandenhoudt and Louise Landes Levi), Fort Bedmar (with Dave Col…
In The Face Of Faceless Eye
**Numbered edition of 25 copies only** Spoken Word and Music by Raymond Dijkstra (Mellotron, Organ, Gong, Oscillator, Percussion, Mixage, Effects) and Louise Landes Levi (Voice, Sarangi), Somewhere in 2019, Somewhere. Text: Henri Michaux.
Tamis
**numbered edition of 25 copies** Gatefold Cover with Artwork by Ragnar Grippe. Signed by Ragnar Grippe. Unpublished Work from the 80’s by the Swedish legendary composer, who had relocated to Paris in the early 70’s to study at the famous Groupe de Recherches Musicales (more commonly known as GRM) founded by musique concrète pioneers Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry and Jacques Poullin. Around the same time, Grippe had struck up a close friendship with French avant-garde minimalist Luc Ferrari. I…
Musique Irritante
**numbered edition of 10 copies** "Between 2008 and 2016, I’ve worked on a Series called Catalogue du Bruit / Musique Irritante, which was published in the same period on 3" and 5" vinyl records on my own imprint Le Souffleur. The Music was an Attempt to break through certain Types of Self-Confinement, by repetitive Behavior. As a Child I’ve suffered from Tics and compulsive Behavior, like blinking with my Eyes, making Sounds with Throat and Face Contortions. I also had to repeat certain Kind of…
Hurt
**numbered edition of 25 copies** Marc Hurtado (1962) is one half of the French Group Étant Donnés. For Des Astres d’Or he made an Album consisting of two Music Pieces and two Paintings, paired together as a Diptych. Paintings in Oilpaint and Knife-tear on Canvas. Each Painting measures 40-40 Cm. Signed by Marc Hurtado “MH”. Each copy is different.
Clarity Cycles
**numbered edition of 25 copies** Clarity Cycles focuses on various sized glass instruments made by Jeremy Popelka in mid to late 2018. They were played by Jon Mueller using various drum, gong and cymbal mallets and recorded and mixed throughout late 2018 and early 2019. The cover photographs were taken by Jeremy Popelka at his studio in Sturgeon Bay, WI, where the instruments were made and the recording session took place. Jeremy Popelka is an artist based in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, USA. Over …
The Blind Month Vinyls
**numbered edition of 50 copies** Bryan Lewis Saunders (born 1969, in Washington, D.C.) is a performance artist, videographer, performance poet, and daily-self-portrait artist known for his disturbing spoken word rants, tragic art performances and Stand up tragedy. On March 30, 1995, Saunders began drawing at least one daily-self-portrait every day for the rest of his life. For 11 days in 2001, Saunders conducted an experiment in which he ingested or inhaled a different intoxicant every day and …
La Décorporisation de la Réalité
**numbered edition of 40 copies** "I often wander in huge empty Buildings. I realize I once squatted this Building and lived in it for a while, but I completely forgot about it. Now I’m here, the Rooms are a bit filthy and covered with Dust. The same Dust there was when I first came here. There’s still the old Machines from the previous Factory and the Content of their Storage, abandoned. Months later, after having forgotten about my Home again, I return and realize it’s been evicted. I feel a b…
The Mirror and the Lamp
**numbered edition of 40 copies** Recordings from 1977, 1980, 1986 and 2000 by Max Eastley: Imagine I Am - Composition with Arc, invented electro acoustic monochord instrument, mixed with sampled Arc played from a keyboard, 1986. Recorded by Dave Hunt, composed and played by Max Eastley. The Violet Well - Installation of motors playing metal rods with changes to the speed of the motors but otherwise autonomous chance combinations, 1980. Recorded at Spectro Arts Centre, Newcastle by Max Eastley. …
Impressions de Meccano
**numbered edition of 40 copies** This Album is a Unicum in the Œuvre of Pierre Bastien... He has always played together with the Meccano Orchestra, in these Pieces however, the Music contains the mechanical Sounds by the Meccano Orchestra only, with the Artist only observing the Orchestra as the sole Spectator in a vast and empty Circus Arena… A wonderful Collection of automated music, pure Poetry of a tiny mechanical Orchestra, fragile and touching in it’s primitive Mechanics... An absolute Hi…
Affen-theater
**numbered edition of 40 copies** Reïssue of Raymond Dijkstra's Affen-theater (Le Souffleur, 2005) with original Artwork. Affen-Theater is an early Le Souffleur Period Raymond Dijkstra Work from 2005, opening a new Artistic Direction in his Œuvre, with a high Focus on an expressionist Style of Playing Harmonium, experimental frotting and scratching of Glass Surfaces with different Materials, sometimes combined with manual Tape Manipulation and rudimentary Delay Effects. The Key Element in these …
Stark
**numbered edition of 40 copies** New works by John Duncan recorded using shortwaves as a sound source. Recorded and mixed at Pieve del Pino, Sasso Marconi (Italy). Original handdrawn self-portrait by the artist, in a UV luminous sprayed gatefold record sleeve that the artist set on fire. Numbered, dated and signed edition, each copy is different.
Dialling For Smegma
**numbered edition of 40 copies** This LP contains one Side with fantastic new Smegma Material and one Side with superb previously unreleased 1970’s Material. Side A Recorded at Smegma’s Studio 2011-2018, except LSD Bomb recorded Live at Tusk Festival in Newcastle UK 2013. Featuring: Ace Farren Ford (Ace), Donkey Flybye (Fats), Dennis Duck, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Oblivia, Maddy (Guzo) and Al the Anti-Pal (Cheez-it-Ritz). Side B Recorded in Pasadena 1974, except for 3/78 recorded in Portland 1978. Fe…
Muzikë Muusika
**numbered edition of 40 copies** "Little by little, the mass turned like a slimy and forceful nausea, a kind of immense influx of vegetable and thundering blood. And the small fibers trembling at the edge of my mental eye, broke off with a vertiginous speed of the tense mass of the wind. And all the space trembled like a sex organ which the globe of the burning sky was battering." Wendingen 1918 is dedicated to the Dutch Architectural Magazine ‘Wendingen’ from 1918 and the Work and Life of Anto…
Library Music
**numbered edition of 25 copies** The Bohman Brothers are the creators of a unique and impure experimental music. Traces of Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation can be detected, yet ultimately the whole is greater and more arcane than the sum of its parts. As a performing duo Adam and Jonathan Bohman have been operative since 1996 (Adam Bohman is also a member of Morphogenesis and The London Improvisors Orchestra). Their sound art oscillates between states of the …
Kunst In Gebreke
**numbered edition of 25 copies** Composed and mixed by Raymond Dijkstra & The New Blockaders. LP in Softcover Black Normal LP Cover. Original Collage Artwork by Raymond Dijkstra and Richard Rupenus. Signed by the Artist. Each copy is different.
Pana Pakshinaaam
**numbered edition of 25 copies** "I was in a Bus full with People... The Ceiling of the Bus was from an old victorian House... richely ornamented Stucco which was about to fall down upon us... Outside the Bus there was a Fairground Caroussel and Lots of playful Animals were running around... We were driving... I looked outside and marvelled at the fantastic old Jugendstil Architecture of Madrid... I was discussing this with the Woman next to me... Later we would walk Outside. I was hungry. We w…
Down / Up
**numbered edition of 25 copies** The Tenses (Side Project of Smegma) are Ju Suk Reet Meate and Jackie Oblivia Stewart. The Tenses is a Title of a Story in the Book The Dream World of Dion McGregor from 1964. It is a unique Book in that the Stories are not “Written”, but Transcribed from Stories told while asleep! In 2008 we began a new Live Act using Musical Concepts developed with Smegma. The Tenses are a more intimate ”Live” Experiment that is greatly influenced by the Room / Audience “Feel”.…
Prima Materia
**numbered edition of 25 copies** "These Pieces are the Result of a long Process which lasted ten Years or more. I’ve been in Touch with Jon off and on, exchanging Music for each to work on. Working on Tracks and leaving them to rest. On the Surface, nothing much happened. The Music was somewhere filed up, almost forgotten. We didn’t make music together for Years to come. Then early 2018 there was a sudden Breakthrough. The Pieces now published on this LP are the Result from this... I strongly s…
Xerox
**numbered edition of 25 copies** "Modelbau is not Frans de Waard’s latest in a series of names used to create music, but it is indeed the latest one for a solo vehicle. Each of the names, and that includes my own name, stands for something particular, an idea, and something not found in the other monikers I am using. Modelbau is, like Freiband, not a proper German word (it should be Modellbau, but I thought that looked ugly) and as such is probably already a lo-fi name, and as such also very pe…