New Arrivals
Matthew J. Rolin
**250 copies** "We're excited to release the debut solo LP by Matthew J. Rolin, currently a resident of Columbus, Ohio. Rolin cut his teeth with garage and psych outfits in Cleveland, appearing on vinyl by Shoreway and Nowhere before he found himself adrift and wandering in the direction of Chicago at the end of 2016. Matthew had always been a fan of Jim O'Rourke's brilliant Bad Timing LP (Drag City, 1997), and when he caught a set by Ryley Walker soon after arriving in the city, he decided to t…
On Holiday With... The Lloyd Pack
**250 copies** "The Lloyd Pack is a project the prolific Dan Melchior has taken in a variety of directions. The band has been composed of various people, sometimes it's large, sometimes it's small, and the music's nature has always been unpredictable. On Holiday, recorded at various places and assembled in Raleigh, NC, is one of the Pack's small format efforts. For most of the music the only players are Mr. Melchior and vocalist Russell Walker (of the Pheromoans, among other bands). They are som…
Italienische Stucke (Art edition)
**Special edition of 50 numbered copies. Includes signed photograph (13x18 cm) and reproduction of the score of "Liquid Piece“ (245g linen-stock, 29,7 x 42 cm) handcoloured with china ink by Christina Kubisch, signed & numbered.** Sound is almost always at its most thrilling, whether in practice or source, when it can not be easily defined. This is the liminal zone within which only the bravest and most ambitious among the avant-garde dare to tread, constantly pushing forward into unexplored zon…
Volume Three
**2020 stock** "This third collection of Martin Zeichnete's secret work for the DDR's athletic elite comes in two parts. First, a running program (Tracks 1-3) at 164BPM finds Zeichnete at his most hypnotic, particularly on the motorik, rolling Jenseits des Horizonts. This set ends with the elegiac Für Seelenbinder, a song dedicated to Olympic wrestler and communist hero Werner Seelenbinder. Particularly exciting is the second part (Tracks 4 - 10), a soundtrack to a lost animated film UCR obtaine…
Cassiopeia
**250 copies** Two unreleased tracks from the critically acclaimed album sessions, limited 10 inch! Two groovy tracks from reed player Ville Vannemaa's Cassiopeia album, with him on this date is vibraphonist Panu Savolainen, Kasperi Sarikoski on trombone, Heikko Remmel on bass and Jaska Lukkarinen on drums. First time on vinyl.“… it’s the new album by Finnish saxophonist Ville Vannemaa, Cassiopeia, that has us swooning and reaching for the replay button.”- UKVibe
Andersabo
**CD version** Building on nearly a decade of friendship, with an evolving creative partnership spanning roughly half that time, Swedish / Australian synthesist, John Chantler, and Danish saxophonist, Johannes Lund, return with Andersabo, their second outing as a duo.An intricate, thrillingly unbridled blast of carefully controlled sonic anarchy, pushing at the perceptual boundaries of conversant sound, Andersabo captures the collision of two sympathetic, but often radically different, creative …
Atlantis
Following closely on the heels of his ravishing solo album Tomorrow is Too Late, Stockholm-based synthesist and improviser John Chantler switches gears to unleash the stunning second album by his trio with saxophonist Seymour Wright and drummer Steve Noble, Atlantis. Chantler is well-known for his solo electronic work, which frequently explodes richly layered ambient soundscapes into visceral explosions and thrilling physicality, to say nothing of his imaginative experimentation with the organ, …
Control Voltage Project
Control Voltage Project is a long running project of Alper Maral and Mert Topel. Alper Maral is one of the most significant sound discoverers around Turkey through auditory and academical researches he has made about experimental electronic music. Mert Topel is a versatile musician, one of the most important keyboardist for many artists in popular music in Turkey. He has released his first solo album Serendipity in 2017.Control Voltage Project is named after the electric signals which are used f…
Mort Aux Vaches
**2LP Limited Edition 125 copies. Transparent Blue Vinyl.** First time on vinyl, brand new mastering, and new cover design (a 1974 drawing by Charlemagne Palestine). This is the first release in the 'GodBear' series, a project consisting in the re-issue of existing works and production of unreleased material by Charlemagne. In partnership with the Charlemagne Palestine Foundation. It’s hard to believe now, but until the mid-1990s, many of the most important figures American musical minimalism - …
Avatar Blue
"Over two hours, this two-CD is comprised of 30 tracks of Pro-Earth Ocean free-electric trance logos. The music expresses Spencer Clark's desire to mimic the swimming motions of aquatic life, and to project the plentiful life of Earth's ocean into the parallel exotic futuristic world that is Avatar Blue...Spencer Clark, of Star Searchers, is a former member of the The Skaters and has released music with recording artists Lieven Martens Moana, Francesco Cavaliere, James Ferraro, and Jan Anderzen.…
Listening Patterns. From Music to Perception and Cognition (Book
Listening Patterns is dedicated to facing the great diversity of discourses on listening in today's literature and to proposing a possible key of interpretation. The book develops the analysis of listening, in its most general sense, in three parts with the aim of presenting a versatile model which can be used in a wide variety of applications. After setting the discussion on the experience of listening as an eminently epistemological problem, the first part focuses on the examination of theorie…
Sorcière, Ma Mère / The Top of the Left Ear
A more than strange novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers, accompanied by a new musical piece by Nurse With Wound on a 3" MiniCD.Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943) is a German writer and director. Author of short stories, novels and plays, he has developed a literature of the strange close to fantasy and terror. A British music project formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak, Nurse With Wound is an essential figure of experimental and industrial music.
Lea Tanttaaria / Great-God-Father-Nieces
A seminal text (and introduction to some 25000 pages of drawings, collages, autobiographical writings and compositions by Adolf Wölfli), this “short autobiography” of a major figure in the history of Art Brut is accompanied by a mini-CD containing the two interpretations of Wölfli's graphic scores by Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton, Diana Rogerson, and David Tibet), first published in 1986 in the legendary “Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles” LP, for the first time on a seperate release.
Faits Divers / Musique Pour Faits Divers: A Piece Of The Sky Is
On the occasion of the republication of eight texts by Charles-Louis Philippe (1874-1909), Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton & Brian Conniffe) wrote "Music for Miscellaneous: A Piece of the Sky Is Missing", an unreleased mini CD included in the book.
Ci-gît - To Another Awareness
A text by Antonin Artaud illustrated with a 15-minute, Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton & Brian Conniffe) wrote "To Another Awareness", an unreleased mini CD included in the book.
Abécédaire
Foreword by Guillaume Belhomme. Bilingual edition (English / French), 15 x 19,5 cm (softcover), 256 pages + CD. An ABC book with which the pianist, composer and improviser recounts his experience of sound (with the score and recording on CD of an unpublished piece).
Phonokinetoscope
An examination of the complex and subtle world on display in Rodney Graham's film of an LSD-inflected bicycle ride. Rodney Graham's Phonokinetoscope (2001) is a five-minute 16mm film loop in which the artist is seen riding his Fischer Original bicycle through Berlin's Tiergarten while taking LSD, to the soundtrack of a fifteen-minute song (written and performed by Graham) recorded on a vinyl LP. The turntable drives the projection of the film; the film starts when the needle is placed on the rec…
The New Analog Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World
**Hard-cover edition** A meditation on what was lost—and on what is worth preserving—in the movement away from analog music and culture. Although digital media have created new possibilities for music making and sharing, they have also given rise to new concerns. What do we lose in embracing the digital? Do streaming services discourage us from listening closely? In this book, musician Damon Krukowski uses the sound engineer's distinction between signal and noise to examine what we have lost as…
The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America
2017 edition. 'This extraordinary and brilliantly curated book reveals how the tropes of cultured living were disseminated through the universal medium of music decades before the era of 'designer pop.' Revisionary and essential.' wrote Peter Saville, artist and designer; founder and art director of Factory Records. How record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury Americans who longed to be modern. The sleek hi-fi console in …
Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976–2018
**Beautiful hard-cover edition, 300+ pages ** A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound. In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand for instant gratification. Considering sound and listening as foundational practices in themselves leads music into a thrilling new territory: stretched time, wilderness, video monitors, s…