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Good Cop Bad Cop
Recorded in Liverpool back in 2003, this improvised performance unites two of the UK's foremost improv exponents (Tony Bevan and Paul Hession) with two pioneers of modern free music, the multi-talented guitarist, turntablist and noise artist Otomo Yoshihide and the late, great Derek Bailey.The performance shuffles into first gear during the speculative, tentative first throes of "No Hiding Place/Softly Softly", establishing a ruthlessly abstract sound world from the outset, only to tighten up sl…
New Globe Notes
For the past fifty years, Mike Cooper has been constantly experimenting with live composition, field recordings and free improvisation; in the late 90s he developed a particular kind of contemporary exotica inspired by his trips in the Pacific area; the result is, in his own words, an “imaginary, exotic, ambient soundscape of places that didn't exist”.“New Globe Notes” collects material previously released on Mike Cooper's own imprint Hipshot Records, and is accompanied by a 32 paged bookl…
Split LP
Ensemble Economique and Heroin In Tahiti are an outstanding pairing for a split LP" It’s a well-known story: the bluesmen sold their souls at dusty crossroads back in the old days. Far less is known about a younger generation’s deal with the devil, their affinity towards dark forces and black magic. Their hypnagogic highway to hell and success goes en route Tahiti where souls no longer can be sold because they’re already lost in secret Voodoo rites. The music that springs from having experienced…
European Tour 2009
Special limited edition CD to celebrate the 2009 Tour of Ohio-giants of drone Emeralds and savage noise-makers Pain Jerk. "Ohio's Emeralds cross swords with the fearsome Pain Jerk on the consistently strong No-Fi imprint, contributing one recording each. The two pieces compliment one another beautifully, though you'd imagine the two acts to make uneasy bedfellows: Emeralds' half-hour of blissful analogue motion ('Landlocked') faces off against the grotesquely noisy 'Beserker' (a "noise/voice/akt…
Brokebox juke
Aaron Moore is best known as part of Volcano The Bear, described by The Wire as producing some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record and on stage', and revered for their peerless releases on labels such as Beta-Lactam Ring and Nurse With Wound's United Dairies. He's also one third of Amolvacy (along with Dave Nuss of No Neck Blues Band), and the Paris-based Textile Orchestra. Alan Courtis was of course an integral part of the infamous Reynols, and has been involved …
Week-end at Burnie\'s
Another vital instalment in no-fi's growing and collectable vinyl catalogue, this 7' sees massachussets' freestyle kraut funketeers sunburned hand of the man condense their name and a whole album concept into 7' of vital vinyl. side 1 is inhabited by the murderous bossa nova of Ôsmokescreen', with its loping bassline and trapped-in-a-box vocal paranoia. then flip over for 7 more unhinged instalments, through the found-sound and minimal psych of Ôthe queen of midnight', the faux cult frenzy of 'j…
Live On Conan Island
The ultimate East coast - West coast soundclash as Oregon's Yellow Swans and Brooklyn's Mouthus present a smouldering document from their onstage interactions on their Fall 2006 US tour. The sound of Mouthus's splat&clatter percussion and sheets of severely altered guitar and voice noise paired with Yellow Swans' raucous axe-mangling and sublime noise processing make for a gargantuan oil tanker of sound that can't avoid enveloping the listener. ÔLive On Conan Island' is a range of monstrous cave…
s/t
Limited to 500 copies. another vital instalment in no-fi's growing and collectable vinyl catalogue, this 7' sees the head-on collision of two major acts in the european noise circuit. norway's jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of lasse marhaug and john hegre, best known for their Ômetal machine music' death metal concept album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more noise-oriented work. marhaug is a major figure in international noise, well-known for having…