★Regional Bears
Beautiful One Day, Perfect The Next
Homespun cassette label Regional Bears moves away from its preferred format with a debut vinyl release from Philadelphia-based sound artist Christian Mirande. Previously releasing works on labels such as Hanson Records, Recital and Vatrine, his work is often characterised as textural or atmospheric and deals with themes such as memory, loss, and faith.
Beautiful One Day, Perfect The Next is a tale of two halves and employs Mirande’s trusted instrumental and compositional repertoire of magnetic …
The Aubergine Dream
Performed with Nell Peto on the occasion of her 12th birthday. Also features appearances from Amelia Borg, Christine Borg, Alfred Schnittke, Edward Lawrenson and Rialzu. Recorded at Cafe Oto, London on the evening of the 4th august, 2017 during the 2 day event "Fuck you wheres my sugar". Two nights around the themes of depression and hysteria curated by Lucy Stein and Mark Harwood. Thanks to Shaun Crook for recording.
Live Aboard The Sinking Ship
Sold out at source, few copies available. " Karla Borecky and Scott Foust have always wanted to do a live piano duo set, so they set one up aboard a sinking ship! They did two 40 minute sets with songs from The Island Of Taste, Music From The Impossible Salon, Lost At Sea, Postcards, The Synthetic Elements, and our as yet unreleased new LP, The Light That Never Ceases To Fail. They also did a version of Karla's The Still Life (mit radio) and a few new pieces. Everyone seemed to have a good time …
Not Even A Hint Of Darkness
Alec Livaditis is an improvising cellist, currently residing in Athens (Greece), where he regularly performs in solo and duo settings. Using the cello as a sound object, his music is concerned with space, pattern, timbre, and texture. He first appeared on the scene with Clear and Cloud, an LP released on Kye Records
Double Goocher Shop
Double Goocher Shop is the debut release by the duo of Renato Grieco and MP Hopkins, recorded on the island of Syros in Greece. Two nocturnal rascals have woken in the dead of night to touch all your things and move your furniture just a fraction out of place. Eventually these deranged intruders tumble on out of the house to take a sinister romp down passages and and and streets… Double Goocher Shop is the sound of mumbled directions given amongst trespassing removalists. It features the track ‘…
Can We Win
Shots Bring It In. Due to weather, noise complaints, lack of time, artistic choice, or some combination thereof, Shots’ myriad instrumentation moves indoors. On Can We Win the characteristic outdoor resonance of previous releases is replaced by a tighter, more enclosed environment. The sound sources remain varied as ever, but the running water, somnambulistic percussion, and rupturing metal in play are enfolded in an intimate domestic acoustic space, making for a considered and engaging listen.”…
2018: Recent Amelioration of Lingering Proprioceptive Issues (Ta
Nice tape from the reliable Guido Gamboa, who also runs the excellent Pentiments label. Two side long tracks, both with long titles like the tape itself. "My original approach was that of a fairly standard concrète bricolage that has characterized my previous work. I found upon listening back that the resulting semiotic content of the sounds used were not far from suggesting the type of peripheral agitations that buttress a well-hidden fragility of temperament at any given time: respiratory tics…
Benzedrine Bonanza
Where spring LP Omelette Of Disease was an orgy in painfully hard driven feedback, and the early summer cassette Overdrive focused on rumbling low-end, Benzedrine Bonanza brings a live all-at-once approach. Not unlike Schakalens Bror's earliest cassette excretions, yet now more refined and with the energy of his later live shows successfully transferred to tape. Fully fledged free form guitar noise in a league of its own.
Public Announcement Program
Delirious, drippy wormhole from the new family band of Gothenburg free music.."No info on this other than 'Pig is a family band' and 'Recreational abstract dream music' scrawled haphazardly on the inside spine of the gaudy j-card. The music declaration is fairly accurate. (I can't say much about 'family band'.) It seems to be a collage of some parts played and some, especially the voices, sampled. Things come and go in a very dream-like manner. Some percussion, some drones, a lot of things that …
Kallt Kaffe
Dan Johansson, Matthias Andersson, and Erik Nystrand blasting all the way off as they’re known to do, guaranteed to please the throng of superfans. "Heinz Hopf is a trio of Matthias Andersson, Dan Johansson, and Erik Nystrand. You have seen all these names before in these pages. Heinz Hopf is a Harsh Noise project for sure. The emphasis is on feedback, amp/mic abuse style. There are a few more or less subdued moments, but for the most part, this is Noise City. I cannot get all that enthused abou…
Highway / Nightmare
Nobuo Yamada is a Japanese experimental/noise artist, known to me from his side project Artbreakhotel, and some collaborative works The New Blockader, Toshiji Mikawa etc. Highway / Nightmare is the 2 long compositions that are included to this beautiful cassette. Here, Nobuo managed to create a very interesting soundscape, probably improvising with various materials. A very charming work, of a quite acousmatic work that will got your attention.
Embedded
AMK & Willie Zarate bring you a noisy collection that steals liberally from Leonard Cohen, Witold Lutosławski, Borbatomagus and Gary Numan, combining it with overzealous use of string instruments, record players, distortion boxes, junk electronics and birds.
Engines Of Desire
Since the early 80s, Blackhumour has been stubbornly dedicated to an
investigation of the cracks which exist in common speech practice and
the vacancy of the signifier. Vocal event is mined for stochastic
determinism and glottal smut. While affinities exist, it would be difficult to categorize this
material as sound poetry, despite a focus on voice, breath and the
subtle diversion of linguistic intent. What is it. Repetition and
magnification direct the incremental units of a sound which m…