New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks
GHSTING
Tense from the first note and decisively uncompromising ‘GHSTING’ is the debut collaboration by Polish artists Alex Freiheit and Aleksandra Słyż, an incredibly unique piece of work that mixes fiction, spoken word poetry, theatrical antics, dense synthesis, acoustic ensemble and dark landscapes all set within the backdrop of a sinister Eastern Europe hotel. The resulting sound is menacing, humorous, harmonious, tumultuous, and at times quietly erotic. Alex Freiheit, a poet and vocalist, is widely…
Päiväkahvit
When the trio of Sontag Shogun gathered at Laura Naukkarinen's home on the Finnish island of Kimitoön in the summer of 2019, they had not the slightest inkling that the world was about to change irretrievably with the onset of a long-predicted pandemic the following year. By the time their collaborative album, Valo Siroutuu ("The Light Scatters"), was released nearly two years later, the intimate and reflective nature of the work they had created together had taken on new meaning, resonating pow…
Tropic of Taurus: Dwarfs of East Agouza in Shenzhen
Recorded at the 8th Tomorrow Festival, B10 Live, Shenzhen. May 25th, 2024
Alan Bishop – Vocals / Bass / SaxophoneSam Shalabi – Electric GuitarMaurice Louca – Keyboards / Electronics / Beats
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Corbett vs. Dempsey is delighted to announce the release of the self-titled debut CD by the international quartet The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.
The highly democratic foursome works in the productive netherworld between genres, where genres go to die. Integrating noise, jazz, electronic music, and pure mania, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters does not sit passively waiting for something to happen; in highly focused free improvisations, they take the proverbial bull by the horns with …
Contrefaçons
Tip! In September 2023, at the Hiventy laboratories in Joinville-le-pont - formerly Pathé - we recorded the film restoration (image and sound) and development processes. Following the mechanical and digital processes, we listened to and interviewed the technicians to understand what goes into restoring a film. How do you restore a film to its original state? To do this, we need to get close to what viewers of the film could perceive in the cinema. The way we look at and listen to a film has evol…
Carnival Squatters
At the beginning of 2024 I found myself on a trip up to North-West with my fellows Virginia and David (of Jooklo fame) in their legendary green Scudo van. I was ready for whatever adventure and trying to up-lift my friends from an uncomfortable situation they had at that time in a small town of the Ruhrgebiet named Moers, where they were temporarily based. The mood of the road that week was of rebellion, feeling of fixing injustice, and consequently the strenghtening of belief in underground bro…
On Separation
The link between sound and memory is vivid in Heather Stebbins’ mind. On the Washington, DC-based composer and sound artist’s new album On Separation, echoes of past selves reverberate into the present, years dissolving into a gauzy translucence that hovers between the music’s genesis point and the listener’s ears. What began as a reintegration of dormant musical practices slowly shifted into a meditation on the nature of nostalgia itself, a prodding at how the brain relates to the pain and plea…
Interspazio
A listening zone, a space between spaces, an interspatial environment. Micro concrete sounds and digital processing. Sounds and project developed in 2024 during a residency at NUB Project Space, featuring the collaboration of Abo Abo and Demetrio Cecchitelli. The two artists first met in 2018 and, in 2019, released an album for Biodiversità titled 2:2.
An Asura In Spring
*200 copies limited edition* Musician Ken Ikeda lived in New York and London for many years. Since his return from London in 2020, he has been based in Tokyo. Renowned British improviser, drummer and percussionist Roger Turner has been active on the music scene since the early 1970s. The two musicians performed together several times when Ikeda lived in London.
Turner toured Japan in the summer of 2023 and performed with Ikeda at Ftarri, Tokyo, on August 19. This CD documents the two duo perform…
Night Seen from a Gap in the Night
*400 copies limited edition* An exhibition of paintings by artist sasakure. was held at Ftarri, Tokyo, from September 3rd to 30th, 2023. During that period, three concerts with live painting by sasakure. were held at Ftarri. The first concert, on September 9, was a duo performance by sasakure. and pianist Fumi Endo. (A painting by sasakure. graces the cover of Endo's solo album "Cold Light in Warm Blue," released on the Hitorri label in 2023.)
This duo CD includes two pieces from that September …
Atwain
*250 copies limited edition* Tokyo-based guitarist/composer Taku Sugimoto and cellist/composer Stefan Thut, who lives in Solothurn, Switzerland, have a long association, performing together when Sugimoto visits Switzerland and when Thut comes to Japan. Their duo CD "Taku Sugimoto / Stefan Thut," which was released on the Ftarri label in 2018, was highly praised. The new duo CD by Sugimoto and Thut, "atwain," documents their performance of a single 39-minute work on the riverside in Solothurn in …
Ruzawi
*200 copies limited edition* Lee Noyes (born in 1977) is a Canadian musician who lives in Sweden. Lance Austin Olsen (born in 1943) is a Canadian artist and composer. The two musicians have been collaborating for over ten years, often performing graphic scores composed by Olsen. In late autumn 2023, Noyes received two graphic scores from Olsen. After carefully considering how best to approach them, Noyes recorded both works at once, on a night in January 2024, using InputLoop sampler and percuss…
Last Breath’s City Looks Kind Heart
*200 copies limited edition* Michael Thieke is a clarinetist and composer living in Berlin. Known for his delicate, deft playing style, he is involved in many projects on the improvised/experimental music scene. Thieke is also known for his work in the clarinet duo The International Nothing, which has released several CDs on the Ftarri label. Beat Keller is a guitarist, composer and sound engineer based in Winterthur (Switzerland) and Berlin. He plays the distinctive "feedbacker electric guitar"…
A Night on the Veldt
*200 copies limited edition* Lee Noyes (born in 1977) is a Canadian musician who lives in Sweden. Lance Austin Olsen (born in 1943) is a Canadian artist and composer. The two musicians have been collaborating for over ten years, often performing graphic scores composed by Olsen. In late autumn 2023, Noyes received two graphic scores from Olsen. After carefully considering how best to approach them, Noyes recorded both works at once, on a night in January 2024, using InputLoop sampler and percuss…
Erasures
*250 copies limited edition* Quentin Tolimieri is a Berlin-based pianist, composer and improvisational musician. He earned a bachelor’s degree in composition and piano from California Institute of the Arts in the U.S. and a master’s degree in composition from the University of Southampton in the UK. He has released recordings on labels including Wandelweiser Records (Germany), pfMENTUM (U.S.), Creative Sources (Portugal) and elsewhere (U.S.). Musician and sound artist Eric Wong, also based in Be…
Red Queen Theory
*200 copies limited edition* Seijiro Murayama is a drummer/percussionist, improviser and composer who has lived in Paris for many years. He continues to carry out tours throughout Europe, and nearly every year he returns to Japan for a time and holds concerts. Murayama has many releases on labels in countries around the world. Attila Gyárfás is a drummer, improviser and composer from Hungary. Along with his activities in a number of groups including Quelquefois and Identified Flying Object as we…
Light Industry International Co.
*200 copies limited edition* Tom Soloveitzik is a sound artist, composer, improviser and sax player from Tel Aviv, Israel. From 2022 to 2024, he lived in Tokyo and performed with many Tokyo-based musicians. From late March to early April 2024, Soloveitzik toured in Beijing and Shanghai, and on March 31 he carried out a recording session with the up-and-coming young electronics player and improviser Sun Yizhou, who is based in Beijing. This CD contains three performances from that session. (The f…
Music For Two Exits
*200 copies limited edition* Jun-Y Ciao (born in 1978 in Shanghai) is a musician whose main instruments are sax and clarinet. Having studied in Dusseldorf and Mainz, Germany, in the second half of the 2000s, he is currently based in Shanghai and Dusseldorf. He has numerous releases on Zhu Wenbo's cassette label Zoomin' Night. Beijing-based Zhu Wenbo is known both for his own performance activities and for running Zoomin' Night, which plans events and releases cassettes. A musician with many conn…
Redux Amalgam
From the silt 2016-2024. Mixed at the Centre for art tapes, Halifax. Mastered by Nick Klein
Vape N Bleed
Double cut live tracks from absolute masters Brainbombs! Enough said.
Side A recorded live at Sonic Protest 2024Side B recorded live at Sonic Protest 2008
Mastered by Nick Klein for PLEN audio.