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Silver Apples Of The Moon
2020 repress. As composer, musician and initiator of the San Francisco Tape Music Center which he cofounded with Pauline Oliveros and Ramon Sender in 1961, Morton Subotnick (born 1933) has propelled the progress of electronic music in several signifi…
Shards of Distant Times
Italian sound artist Giulio Aldinucci returns with his third album on Karlrecords: "Shards of Distant Times" is again a truly masterfully composed and sound-designed ambient masterpiece and a more than worthy follow-up to the critically acclaimed "Bo…
Karl Marx's 200th !
28 artists celebrate the 200th anniversary of the great philosopher and economist Karl Marx with a benefit compilation. Exclusive/previously unreleased tracks by AGF, Aidan Baker, Frank Bretschneider, Natalie Beridze, Schneider TM, Kammerflimmer Koll…
Kozmik Bazaar
**300 copies** After two critically acclaimed albums with the Japanese avantgarde / noise icon Keiji Haino, Konstrukt return with a new inspiring collaborative mind: Ken Vandermark, who for three decades now has been a highly prolific musician in con…
G.A.M.S.
**300 copies** Feedback leads a life of its own. It is an uncontrollable sonic accident, usually ear-numbingly loud but sometimes also delicately ethereal. The essence of feedback is being released from bonds, its path is always one of intensificatio…
Lalaland Symbiose
**300 copies** G.A.M.S. are Andi Stecher (drums / percussion) and Guido Möbius (feedback). Released at the same time of their self-titled album, the Dadaist no wave track Lalaland Symbiose - featuring Felix Kubin on vocals - is available as a 7" sing…
Performs Songs from 'Kraftwerk 2' and 'Kraftwerk'
**500 copies** Not to be confused with the first volume released by Karlrecords in 2017, here comes the second installment of 'modern composition supergroup' - as nailed down by The Wire - Zeitkratzer's re-interpretations of early compositions by ele…
Gnosis
**300 copies** Following last year's Şeb-i Yelda EP under the R.A.N. moniker, Hüma Utku delivers Gnosis, her debut full-length album under her own name; a blend of abstract electronics and ritualistic throbbing beats with field recordings and ambienc…
Chronos
On C.h.r.o.n.o.s., their third album on Karlrecords, Arovane and Porya Hatami deliver five delicate ambient pieces, rich in textures and Zen-like atmospheres. After Organism (2017) and the musique concrete influenced Organism_evolution (2018), Uwe Za…
Shawnee, Ohio
Shawnee, Ohio, the first album by sonic ethnographer Brian Harnetty
on Karlrecords, is an intriguing blend of archive recordings of
interviews with residents of that small town and melancholic
chamber-folk, performed by his ensemble which features…
Terminal Desert
Paul Labrecque (Sunburned Hand of the Man) and Ghazi Barakat (Pharoah Chromium) present two epic cosmic, dystopian tracks where guitars, synths and traditional instruments blend into an anarchic sound system.After excessive years in rock bands like t…
Pleasure-Voltage
Benjamin Finger, James Plotkin, and Mia Zabelka craft a mesmerizing sonic world that buzzes and drones, glitches, and slithers, eventually careening into unexplored musical territory. Pleasure-Voltage was born in the mind (and studio) of Benjamin Fin…
Scattered Memories
On his debut album “Scattered Memories”, the composer, musician and true master on the Iranian spike fiddle kamancheh Saba Alizadeh blends his instrumental virtuosity with spherical electronics, samples of Persian music instruments and field recordin…
Nouvelle Aventure
Distilling sounds from the now 70-year-old archive of the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, the Berlin based electronic artist Hanno Leichtmann presents a stunning album which is remix, collage, and homage at the same time. On his latest work N…
Degradation Loops
Clear vinyl, silk-screened sleeve, 100 hand-numbered copies. Jasmine Guffond follows from her memorably exquisite ‘Traced’ LP for Sonic Pieces with the multi-timbral iridescence of ‘Degradation Loops’ for Karl Records - plotting an increasingly obfus…
Runt Vigor
Audrey Chen's long-awaited new solo album Runt Vigor is an adventurous sonic exploration of the voice, cello and analog electronics. Chen began her relationship with sound through the cello and voice over 30 years ago and in the past 15 years, her pr…
Seb-i Yelda
Karl Records is welcomes a new artist on board; R.A.N. is the dark electronic/rhythmic ambient music project by Hüma Utku, and Şeb-i Yelda is her debut for Karl. Hailing from İstanbul and based in Berlin for a couple of years now, Utku has been a pro…
A Philosophy Warping (Live) LP
Second album by Turkish free jazzers Konstrukt and the Japanese avant-garde/noise icon Keiji Haino, this time recorded live in concert. Celebrating their tenth anniversary these days, Konstrukt have since been creating an impressive catalog including…
Disappearing in a Mirror
LP version. Silk-screened sleeve. Italian sound artist Giulio Aldinucci drops his second album on KarlRecords, Disappearing In A Mirror, is again a truly masterfully composed and sound-designed ambient masterpiece and a more than worthy follow-up to …
Borders And Ruins
KarlRecords presents a repress of Borders And Ruins (2017), Giulio Aldinucci's ambient masterpiece of sublime beauty and sacral majesty which made it onto several best-of lists of 2017. Giulio Aldinucci is an Italian sound artist working in the field…