New Arrivals
Discon
Since its formation in 1984, there have been several distinct phases of Kapotte Muziek in which the group changed. The group commenced as a duo of Frans de Waard and Christian Nijs, and operated as such until 1987 when Nijs left and started to learn to play the guitar. Then followed a phase in which De Waard actively searched for other musicians to contribute sounds to be used as source material. In 1993 a new phase commenced when the group were invited to play a series of concerts in the USA. I…
Samling
Originally compiled as a two cassette release by Archivio Diafònico in 2016, now reissued as a double CD for optimum playback at your next MRI scan. Samling documents the earlier, "noisier" years of Arv & Miljö, collecting all compilation appearances from the project's inception in 2010 up to 2015. The project has since moved to a more ambient sound, having recently completed a stunning tetralogy of seasonal themed LPs (Svensk Sommar I Stilla Frid, 2018; Himmelsvind, 2020; Ensam Är Nattens Rymd …
It's Not Quite That Inventive (Sixty Years with Broken Music)
The album, featuring Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc and Opening Performance Orchestra, includes Knížák's 1973 private recording Broken Music, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of Broken Rebroken, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra. The album comes with a comprehensive booklet that includes an interview with Milan Kníž…
Pithovirii
Glacial Movements is proud to present the soundscapes of Canadian artist Aidan Baker. His first appearance was with the song "Beneath the Ice" on "Cryosphere", the first and only compilation of the entire catalogue. Then in 2013, with "Aneira" (Welsh for 'snow') composed exclusively for GM, through the use of the 12-string acoustic guitar. Pithovirii is his new concept album, which was in part inspired by Vladimir Sorokin's novel Ice Trilogy which in turn led to reading about the Tunguska meteor…
Datu
*2024 stock* “‘Datu’ is the name given to the ruling head of a clan or tribe during ancient, pre-colonial times of the Philippines. Colonization, cultural amnesia, and the reshaping of Philippine culture throughout generations have me and countless others almost completely disconnected from our roots. With no knowledge of what stories exist in the physical reality of my bloodline, the concept behind this album is my way of reconnecting with my ancestry in the spiritual realm of the creative flow…
Love Nature
*2024 repress* Rare and rich contents from 1970s Japanese jazz which is now gathering global attention, originally released on Terumasa Hino's private label Love Records and distributed by a Japanese major label. Representing "Ode To Workman" from J Jazz : Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1969-1984 released on BBE, in his session with local NY musicians, Love Nature along with three other reissues are so important pieces in 1970s independent jazz. The fourth and last work form Terumasa Hino's Love Re…
A Part
*2024 repress* Recorded on 29 September and 1 October, 1970 at TSC Japan. Rare and rich contents from 1970s Japanese jazz which is now gathering global attention, originally released on Terumasa Hino's private label Love Records and distributed by a Japanese major label. Representing "Ode To Workman" from J Jazz : Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1969-1984 released on BBE, in his session with local NY musicians, Peace And Love along with three other reissues are so important pieces in 1970s independe…
Parayellowgram
“Parayellowgram” is a collaboration between M. Sage & Zander Raymond. Raymond is a visual artist & synthesist based out of Chicago and Sage is a musician & educator in Colorado. Their duo work is dewy and lush; trickling modular synths dance among piano, clarinet, field recordings, violin, percussion and baritone guitar. Exhibiting patience and measured thinking, 'Parayellowgram' adeptly crafts pastoral environments through intricate details and skillful variations, enhancing the repetition with…
A La Maison Live
Edition of 30. Limited edition professional archival-quality, Grade-A CDr cover empty chair comes with copy of the performance poster (mini-size). . Images, words, and actions blend and transform space into an immersive environment of rhythm, color, light, and signal distortion created by Marcia Bassett and Ursula Scherrer. A La Maison Live, audio documentation from 2022.03.19 recorded at à La Maison Residency, Paris, as part of the Maison d'hôte monthly program. At the closure of their residenc…
Covering The Surface
Recordings from a multimedia installation with live/sounds performance by Marcia Bassett, Ursula Scherrer and Sergej Vutuc at The Film Gallery, Paris 3.22.2022. Performing schematic gestures printing to light transmission. Overlay Actions Parallel Projections. Visual Marking Variations. Illuminated Light Exchange Form. Expanded Performing.
Vocazione
CD Edition. A beatiful reissue of Enzo Carella's first album released in Italy in 1977, whose original edition usually sells for crazy prices on the second-hand market. This undervalued piece of work was perhaps too avantgarde during the time of release to get the full attention it deserves.Carella was an Italian singer-songwriter who is best remembered for his 1979 major hit Barbara, which is the opening track on Barbara e altri Carella, his second album. All songs on this release are written b…
E2-E4 Live in Japan
2024 Stock. Beautifully made Japanese CD (made on "SHM" material) and DVD. Recorded live in August 2006 at the Metamorphose Open-Air Festival, JapanComposed, performed and mixed by Manuel Göttsching. Since its initial release in 1981, Manuel Göttsching's masterwork 'E2-E4' has become a milestone in electronic music and the 2006 concert marks its first ever live performance that you can retrieve here on CD and DVD.
Foam
*2024 much needed repress* Ulla returns with ‘Foam’, a surprise new album unlocking variants of ambient pop and looped jazz/dub styles coiled inside a glitched matrix that reminds us of Huerco S’ ‘Plonk’ as well as Ekkehard Ehlers fractal treatments and those incredible, smudged and disneyfied edits of Celine Dion released earlier this year by elusive outfit Romance. It’s an absorbing, quietly significant album for 3XL, on its most substantial release to date.
Responsible for one of contemporary…
Midnight Colours
Longtime enthusiasts of ambient music have much to celebrate as Rafael Anton Irisarri's cherished out-of-print cassette, "Midnight Colours," returns in a meticulously remastered edition and makes its inaugural debut on vinyl. The significance of this album's announcement is accentuated by its historical resonance, coinciding with the same day in 1952 when the world bore witness to the first-ever test of the hydrogen bomb. "Midnight Colours" is far more than a mere album; it's an exploration of t…
Hjirok
Hjirok is a mythical figure, conceived as a fictional character by Iranian-born Kurdish singer and artist Hani Mojahedy. Together with versatile music producer Andy Toma of Mouse On Mars, she combined a variety of sounds collected during their joint travels to Iraqi Kurdistan and elsewhere with heavily processed recordings of Sufi drum rhythms and setar melodies. The result is a driving, dubbed-out, and deeply intricate soundscape that perfectly sets the stage for Mojahedy's extended, unconventi…
Industrealism
*200 copies limited edition* After working with Space Streakings, the early version of Kairai-Bunch," which was formed as a robot battle performance group, and Raichu, a unit he formed with Chu Ishikawa, Ikuo Shimizu continues to work solo under the name Kairai-Bunch, and has now completed his first collection of sound sources. Created through the use of a number of self-made instruments, which could also be considered musical weapons, the mechanical sounds they emit when flickering, rotating at…
The Electronic Sound Report
Tip! He has held many events in Tokyo underground, and has various faces such as guitarist of HUH, VJ play, collage production, and duo with Shizuo Uchida. This is his second entry in this series. This time, Terada's approach is "rhythm," with a minimalism reminiscent of the 90s sound school and electronica, but with a touch of kitsch here and there, as is typical of Terada, whose humor is one of his charms. The nine rhythm tracks are cool, hip, and relaxed, with subtle and tricky changes in a c…
Chant To Life, Ode To Death
An ambient piece by the Spanish artist. Entitled "Hymn to Life, Ode to Death," it begins with beautiful, fragile harmonies. The field-recorded sounds, composed of binaural recordings, create the illusion of a journey of rebirth from life to death and death to life. The sound of winged insects flapping their wings as if symbolizing death, and the flow of water as if representing the root of life. It is a deep ambient work that reminds us once again of the parallels between life and death that com…
Funeral Gongs Ceremonies in Ratanakiri, Cambodia
Tip! Those recordings of Gongs Orchestras were made during Funeral Ceremonies in two Kung villages and one Jaraï village in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia by Laurent Jeanneau (Kink Gong) in 2003 and 2004, at a times when jungle had not been replaced by rubber plantations. Focusing on funeral's ceremonies, those hypnotics pieces are intense and haunting harmonics sonic experiments.
"Adventure brought me to south-east Asia, not academic research. I was based on and off in Banlung, capital of Ratana…
Spectra Ex Machina: A Sound Anthology of Occult Phenomena
"Have a gramophone in every grave..." --James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) The anthology Spectra Ex Machina brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology through the exploration of spiritualism and haunted houses (Vol. 1); musician mediums (vol. 2); experiences of extrasensory perceptions (clairvoyance, psychokinesis, etc.) and electronic voice …