★Joy De Vivre
Lemon Squeezy
Intimate songwriting fades into sound deconstruction. The most gentle and songish JDV release so far....
Circular Cages Of Graded Tin And Rusted Wind
Last sonic gift left from a great artist....
Obscured Focus
ISoD is the most recent arrival in the adventure in sound started by Gerritt Wittmer more than 20 years ago. In this dazing mixture of industrial and avant-garde - which anticipates and completes an imminent full length album - he drags all the previous syntax, technical and conceptual armory - as well as his heavy emotional tones - into a sonic result of shining modernism and implacable sharpness. Meant to be a tape only release.
Policies Of Satisfaction
"A kind of old school stab at straight ahead harsh noise tape but trying to keep some of my personal glitchy bleeping computer influence". I sincerely think that there can be no better words than what Jacob Winans wrote to describe these flaming tracks that he produced in the summer of 2024. Policies of Satisfaction has been mastered by Grant Richardson.
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Following last year’s “the Inner Room” Freddy Ruppert continues to explore false cinematic world building within these five tracks that are exclusive to this split cassette. Focusing on heavily manipulated samples, this time he brings textures to the forefront, in a blend of creeping ambient noir, synthetic realms, and hazy atmosphere. Although very often simply filled with the most basic vocabulary of the harsh noise canon, the releases - sometimes criminally obscure and limited - of Josh Stewa…
Samling / Collezione Vol.1
"If you are familiar with the two names here you are probably right about what to expect from this tape. Francesco sent instruments and field recordings from Italy and Jonas mixed them with more music, sounds and tape acrobatics." - JDV
Murder In Blue
Not that droney as often but circular, grainy, dreamy melodious doodles from Scotland's finest Fraser Burnett…. Might ring in your head just like a summer hit!
Rosume
Italian sound artist Ezio Piermattei returns with a new tape. Atopic sound reality made of voice, tapes, unrecognizable guitars, post horn, organ. Stratifications through subtractions, autobiographism wrapped in abstraction, musique concrète and idiosyncrasies transcoloring in tones of contemporary darkness.
Hverdag
Fragile yet intense compositions for acoustic instruments and field recordings. Recorded on tape and carefully dubbed from the original cassette master.
Handmande Paper Pipe
Handmade Paper Pipe is the collaborative project of Danish improviser Claus Haxholm and eclectic Italian sound-maker Renato Grieco. These two set pieces are the result of mutual manipulation of each other's voices and archival materials. Not many words were spoken during the process and the result covers a many topoi of modern experimental palette and noteworthy is the presence of low frequencies that sometimes even touch the territories of a hypothetical abstract vocal dub.
Passione Farfallina
Awesome tape! A side project by A Spirale band, first release for the label Joy de Vivre, the Aspec(t) snuff/jazz, their second work after the first one by the Belgian label FFHHH, harsh-noise and electroacoustic research.