★Monotype Records
Music For Umbrellas
2006 release ** "This is the 2nd album by the incredible Polish Jazz ensemble Sing Sing Penelope, led by drummer Rafal Gorzycki and also including trumpeter Wojciech Jachna, saxophonist Tomasz Glazik, keyboardist Daniel Mackiewicz and bassist Patryk…
Legionowo
2005 release ** "Brasil and the Gallowbrothers Band is the new, second project by the collective after One Inch of Shadow - Dominic Savio, Mirt - musicians known for numerous productions released under the banners of various labels, including the Ca…
Drafts
2007 release ** Dawid Szczesny is a sound artist located in Wroclaw, Poland. His music is mainly based on samples of old vinyl records.
Emiszyn
2005 release ** "Emiter Arszyn is a duo of musicians searching for new sounds. The musicians improvise electroacoustic, spatial sound structures, they do not shy away from trance post noise improvisation or post rock moodiness. The dialogues of drums…
Prace Z Obrazkiem
2006 release ** ""The album contains a selection of pieces I have been working on over the last 4 years. The key is the titular "work with an image", i.e., apart from exceptions that must be found, I drew my themes from outside the territory of music…
Sierść
2007 release ** "Ben Zeen's music is a combination of an analog modular synthesizer, controlled by Theremin antennas and a ribbon controller, laptops as a source of deconstructed, destroyed, processed loops and samples of various origins and used sim…
Thinking Dust
2005 release ** "After a few CD-R releases, Wolfram's "first real album", released by the newly established Monotype label from Warsaw. "Thinking Dust" develops and exceeds the ideas from "Atol Drone" and "Mind Locations" released over the years - a …
Komu Mam To Powiedzieć?
2006 release ** "The Krakow band Bordo, celebrating their tenth anniversary, has given us the album 'Komu mam to pomaga?'. Post-rock, psychedelic, sometimes dark - this is the music of the Bordo group. The term space-rock fits it perfectly. When reco…
Introduction Of "Blue Of Noon"
2010 release ** "The Polish MonotypeRec has become the breeding ground for applied music. Recently, one interesting experimental release after another has been rolling off the press. Some elusive and incomprehensibly intriguing and others within the …
Cold Duck
No relation to the sparkling wine of the same name, Cold Duck is instead a series of nine biting improvisations by S4, an ad-hoc, all-star quartet of soprano saxophone innovators – one British, John Butcher, and the others Swiss: Urs Leimgruber, Hans…
The power of negative thinking
The International Nothing is the Berlin-based duo of clarinet players Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke. The two have been working together since 2000, refining a highly personal language focused on introspective, microtonal textures through st…
Greed
**200 copies on transparent plum colour vinyl in gloss sleevecopies** After being busy in 2018 with three field recording projects, a soundtrack to the popular HBO series Blinded By the Lights and Decaying Land, a companion album for Vanishing Land r…
Seven Miniatures on El Hadji Sy
Alienated voices. Crackling noises. Abstract sounds of unidentifiable origins … these are just some of the sources that Zorka Wollny, visual artist / composer from Krakow (whose work a.o. has been presented at CTM Berlin or ICI London), and her Austr…
Hand That Heals / Hand That Bites
Arriving like the mysterious fully formed monoliths in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is the new album from Warsaw, Poland based artist Aleksandra Grünholz aka WE WILL FAIL. Despite the fact this isn't her debut (that was 2014's "Verstorung"…
Monk Style or Scream
Brought together in 2005 for a performance at San Francisco's venerable The Luggage Store Gallery, Anla Courtis and Thomas Dimuzio are introduced through the raw power of amplified music. Brothers in arms the duo remained in contact and in time be…
Random Soundtrack
"Random Soundtrack" is a kind of extended field recording or sonic Écriture automatique. It's another attempt to search the point where music and found sounds intersect. "Random Soundtrack" is a sort of sister album to last year's "Vanishing Land". S…
Carp's Head
The newest record produced by the group of three – Ghédalia Tazartès, Pawel Romanczuk, and Andrzej Zaleski – is the result of only a few meet ups and a shared passion for music that shapes their perspective. The long play was recorded at the Rogalów …
Twisted Strangers
Wildly surrealist experimental hip-hop group Curse Ov Dialect are back after a 6-year hiatus with their socially conscious, zonked-out new album "Twisted Strangers". Renowned for their non-conformist costumery and political ethos the enigmatic Austra…
The case Against
Big master of tape manipulation, Howard Stelzer builds a few pieces around a feeling of sound deterioration and some falling aprt landscapes.
Howard Stelzer (b. 1974, New York) is a composer of electro-acoustic music. Beginning in 1991 while still a…
The Back Room
Kevin Drumm is a Chicago-based experimental artist and one of the most important musicians in the electroacoustic noise scene. During his career he has worked with great improvisers such as Mats Gustafsson, producer Jim O'Rourke and saxophonist Ke…