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Uncle God’s Pag Pag Banquet
Three years in the making, at last we have the stunning new Band Of Pain album. It features contributions from Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles from Nurse With Wound and Jean-Hervé Peron and Jeanne-Marie Varain from Faust, as well as the usual suspects. It is packaged in a beautiful gloss laminated 12” gatefold sleeve with artwork that is unique to this release by Steven Stapleton (Babs Santini). It also features calligraphy by the wonderful Geoff Cox, who is known for his previous work for Cur…
Soliloquy For Lilith
New edition with iridescent foil blocked cover. 3CD box set facsimile of the original vinyl set, contains the entire album plus 40 minutes of previously unreleased music from the original sessions
The Long Shadow Falls
The Long Shadow Falls is Current 93's first-ever CD box-set, and is as beautiful as the moon! This gorgeous, elaborate, boxset consists of 7CDs, plus a 7" single, and a beautiful 48-page art-book. The Long Shadow Falls collects the 41 unknown and redreamt mixes that C93 created for two (long-ago sold-out) lathe-cut 12" releases, respectively titled The Long Shadow Falls and Why Can't We All Just Walk Away?, which were both issued in editions of just 39 copies, cut by The Bricoleur at Bladud Flie…
Aural Anagram 2.0
'Aural Anagram' consists of the original CD (Aural Anagram), the limited edition CD (Anal Aura Gram, which was issued with the first 100 copies of the album) and two remixes by Steven Severin that were issued as a 7" with the Anal Aura Gram LP release. 'Aural Anagram' is a recording based around the art and ideas of the controversial surrealist artist Hans Bellmer (Born: Kattowitz, Germany 13th March 1902, Died: Paris, France 24th February 1975). Bellmer is most renowned for his photographs of t…
IIIrd Gatekeeper
Double vinyl re-issue of Skullflower's epochal IIIrd Gatekeeper album, in heavy matt non-scratch laminated gatefold sleeve. Expanded edition - includes extra and unreleased tracks taken from the recording sessions -- the first time that this album has been available on vinyl for 30 years. In addition to the original LP this definitive and expanded edition includes extra and unreleased tracks taken from the recording sessions. For the first time all the tracks recorded by the band during this pe…
Sylvie and Babs
Deluxe reissue of this '80s classic from Nurse With Wound. Expertly remastered by Denis Blackham. Beautifully packaged in six-panel gloss laminated digipack, with special gloss 12-page booklet with artwork by Babs Santini. Includes a bonus disc of outtakes, previously unreleased material, and remixes from Irr. App. (Ext.) and Andrew Liles.
_"This is the supreme audio minefield. Steve Stapleton and cohorts really outdid themselves with this, the audio equivalent of a ride on a runaway rollercoast…
Salt Marie Celeste – Salt
2023 Restock. A welcome re-release, as an expanded version, of one of Nurse With Wound’s most notable albums. Originally recorded in 2002 by Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter, the piece ‘Salt’ was a limited edition release to accompany an exhibition of Stapleton’s artwork at The Horse Hospital in London. The following year ‘Salt Marie Celeste’ was released as a single 61 minute long piece of droning atmospheric sound that manages to be both minimal and maximal at the same time. A parade of stran…
The Ladies Home Tickler And Other Exotic Devices
* Red with black splatters. Gatefold Cover * An essential historical document for the new and lifelong Nurse With Wound follower. Classic tape cut-ups, radio sludge, surrealism, and abstract chaos. The birth of NWW, a project that is now in its fifth decade. Recorded back in 1980, this expanded collection is the definitive version of The Ladies Home Tickler, originally released in 1993. The NWW line-up for these recordings was: Steven Stapleton - record player, cassette machine, noise; Jim Thirl…
Hole in the heart
* Black Vinyl Edition * On its initial release in 1987 on Broken Flag, Hole in the Heart was a radical reinvention of Ramleh. The band had split in 1984 after two years of power electronics noise assaults and it was assumed this would be more of the same. Listeners were in for a shock though. Gary Mundy, the sole survivor from earlier line-ups was a big fan of the writer Jean Genet and had been deeply upset to hear of his death and had recorded a four track solo tribute called Hole in the Heart …
Radio music (1956)
Four different versions of Radio Music (1956) from John Cage performed by Faust’s Jean-Hervé, Zappi and Steve Pittis who recorded their interpretations of Radio Music independently in 2007 and 2010. They all felt it important to keep to the score as much as possible, given the obvious ambiguities of having to adapt it from Cage’s original 1956 score. These recordings were released as a 10” vinyl EP and sold out instantly, so here they are on CD format with some extras. During “lockdown”, it was …
Agnostic Diaries
The common factor linking these recordings are projects that were never fully realized. The basic recordings started in 2005, however the period of reworking and transformation (2016 to 2017) is more important. All vocal parts and general revisions were done during this period. Agnosticism was the basic idea for the vocal/musical re-working of the pieces with the vocals implanted into the basic pieces, not just as simple overdubs, but inserted in a dialectical confrontation with the basic sounds…
Halogen
First vinyl release of the classic Whitehouse album. Halogen, originally released as a CD on the Susan Lawly label in 1994. Tracks are: "Vulgar" (William Bennett), "Lightning Struck My Dick" (William Bennett/Jim Goodall/Peter Sotos), "Movement 1994" (William Bennett), "Dictator" (William Bennett), "Halogen" (William Bennett/Peter Sotos), and "The Way It Will Be" (William Bennett). Recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago by Steve Albini and William Bennett, December 1993; remastered and cut by No…
Wildwood II
* 2021 stock* Masami Akita exercises his bestial side in a hairily psychedelic follow-up to his Wildwood (2016) CD, also for Dirter Promotions. Wildwood II is dedicated to the Wildwood Trust, who support British wildlife through protecting endangered native species and re-connecting people with the natural environment around them. In both parts Masami Akita a.k.a. Merzbow flashes his fangs and hypercolour fur in a torrent of digital noise that could be said to transcend the boundary between h…
Fini!
* 2021 Stock * Introducing the debut collaborative release from sometime Nurse With Wound/Current 93 member, Andrew Liles and Jean Hervé Peron of Faust. Neither of these artists needs any introduction and all expectations are overtaken with this incredible album. Here is something that sounds like both a Krautrock album and also like nothing else you can imagine. Its twists and turns keep surprising and thrilling you several listens on from the first. The words "classic" and "masterpiece" would …
Trippin' Musik
* Limited supply, don't miss this much needed repress** From the label: "Due to issues with the coloured vinyl pressing on some copies of this set, we have finally agreed with the pressing plant to get replacement copies in 180g virgin black vinyl. We also have a limited quantity of the complete box set in black vinyl available for sale. These are expected to arrive around the middle of December."
Following from the reissue of NWW’s ’Soliloquy For Lilith’ boxset, ‘Trippin’ Musik’ relays the most…
From Dust We Came... To Dust We Return
**2020 stock** Noah Howard should need no introduction. The American alto saxophonist was born in1943 in New Orleans, who moved to Europe in 1968, and eventually settled in Brussels after living in Paris and Nairobi. He was a member of the avant-garde jazz movement of the 1960s and, amongst many influential albums, made the seminal Black Ark album with Arthur Doyle in 1969. This album came about as a result of Justin Wiggan’s love of Howard’s music. 5 years after Howard’s death in 2010, Justin w…
The Swinging Reflective II
Follow up to 1999's The Swinging Reflective album. It features an array of Steven Stapleton's favorite releases that are either his own remixes of other artists, collaborations, or have been co-written with individuals who have worked extensively with Nurse With Wound. All tracks are remastered and some have been slightly or comprehensively remixed. Features: ColinPotter, Faust, Freida Abtan, Graham Bowers, David Kenny, Band Of Pain, Andrew Liles, Christoph Heemann, Aranos, Sunn O))), Lynn Jacks…
Colossus
Limited to 300 copies, the LP is packaged in a high gloss laminated sleeve and has a printed lined inner **Dirty Cantaloupe coloured edition** Andrew Liles 'Colossus was initially released as a download project that consisted of 50 tracks all of which were 50 minutes long. It was completed on 11th March 2019, Liles' 50th Birthday. Part One and Two of the download version combined are over 41 hours of music. The songs are extreme, simple, complex, mellow, angular and often surreal adaptations o…
A Clockwork Orange (An Imaginary Soundtrack To The Book)
This record is an "imaginary soundtrack" to Anthony Burgess's book. It is NOT IN ANY WAY to be confused with Kubrick's superb score to his excellent film. This was originally issued with appalling artwork and unfinished masters by a company called "Dressed To Kill". It is finally now finished and properly remixed/remastered. Orange and mauve vinyl.
The Celebration Of The Lizard / March Of The Myriapoda
After over a year in preparation, we are delighted to announce the new split Merzbow/Band Of Pain full length picture disc LP. Ltd worldwide to 1000 copies, this beautiful picture disc vinyl LP features a side by each of these artists. Merzbow, well established as THE pioneer of the Japanese noise/avant-garde scene and Band Of Pain, leaders in a slightly darker experimental world, who were once described by Terroriser magazine as being 'what Wagner would be doing if he was alive today!' The full…