New Arrivals
First and second rites
Cassette only, 250 copies. SavX (Savage Pencil) - electric rooster guitar. Sharon Gal - electric bass guitar, voice, percussion, feedback. Recorded at the SavLab 17/6/2009. Illustration SavX. Thanks to Mario and Luca Cavalli. Meltaot are a bass heavy/improvised Noise duo made up of artist/musician/broadcaster Sharon Gal and artist/writer/musician SavX. After recording together at a session for Pestrepeller (the other band they are a part of) it was decided to take the project one step further an…
Cathode Deafness
Two cathode ray tube televisions , a tape loop and an echo-looper pedal. The intent is to explore through the two televisions the emptied ether due to the shifting of the TV channels from the aerial signal to the digital . The CRT television becomes a deaf machine, an end in itself, a sort of "bachelor machine". The recordings are the result of a series of live improvisations
B
a lovely project by Silentes records, a series of 26 cassette tapes centered around the interpretation on silent sound....Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet. Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts. Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies. And the "B" letter is dedicated to Gianluca Becuzzi
Omissions
Simple and elegant the music of Jonhatan Borges' project needs concentration, both to be played and listened. It simply concerns repetitive and extatic tape loops that don't need nothing more than the simple repetition. You'll find yourself waiting, with the ear tense to discover a subtle change, a single touch that worth the whole record.Edition of 100
Two ants were called
Two 10-minute minimal and dark pieces, exploring stasis and low-end dephts from Greek composer Spyros Polychronopoulos aka Spyweirdos (b.1980). Professionally duplicated c-22. Letterpressed sleeve printed by Ben Owen / Middle Press. Numbered edition of 100 copies.
Solo Voice & Electronics: Memories Of Murder / Always Been A Sto
Massive double album from C. Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core that mops up two years’ (2007-2008) worth of vocal experiments, running from acoustic throat-splurges and hysterical ticker-tape tirades through the sound of breath caressing microphones and physically impossible computer edited body extensions. The whole deal comes with liner notes from Yeh documenting the various strategies and set-ups, connecting sound poetry and 20th century avant garde techniques with current psych/noise practice…
Souls on board
Cassette only - limited edition of 250 copies. Each side is seventeen minutes forty five seconds long.
Live in Rome
Giovanni Donadini is a versatile artist, illustrator, musician, fashion designer Looking at his drawings, serigraphs, clothes, fanzines, his records.. is easy to see how everything is extremely connected by a common thread, a strict consistency and a deep study that affect both his works as his lifestyle.Invited to play in Rome with his solo project, Ottaven, Giovanni consciously leaves home his usual set-up, all the pre-recorded material, his well known machines in favor of a totally impr…
Glossy black fruits
A powerful exemplar of long time electro-acoustic artist, Christian Renou. Glossy Black Fruits was composed in two parts and features contributions from G. Guiggia & Mamma Baer + KHJ.
weekend
On this cassette are two days of ambient sound recordings, each originally about twenty-four hours long and sped up to play back at about 128 times the original speed. The recordings were made in my studio, which is located in West Baltimore City. I was interested in hearing what was too low and slow for me to normally hear, or to imagine how I would hear things if I were an insect. Since sound can give an indication of length (sound travels approximately 1 foot per millisecond), my h…
Dreamachine / Beyond Digital Mix
Palm Wine is a blog run by Simone Bertuzzi started at the end of 2009. It is described as "a possible and distant look at the post-global movement of sounds and imageries, even dazed by alcohol vapours. For this reason, it can take unexpected routes backward and forward, travels in the outer space and depicts a magic conception of distance between past, present and the next world." "Dreamachine / Beyond Digital Mix" is a C60 tape released by Palm Wine after a trip to Morocco attending a…
Collection 4
Limited 150 copies, Early Merzbow works featuring Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani. Recorded & Mixed at Gap Works, Tokyo on 16 June 1981. Remixed by Masami Akita at Lowest Music & Arts Studio, Tokyo. Remastered from Original Master Tape on Jan 2010. Originally Released on Lowest Music & Arts 1982.
It All Falls Apart
The debut release from Polish composer Adrian Aniol, It All Falls Apart, is a slow, fog-enshrouded journey upriver into the mouth of madness. Slow, frigid waves of sound seep in from the misty distance. White noise clashes with subsonic percussive crashes piling on the unease and tension that builds to an appropriately lunatic conclusion. The B-side features a remix of the entire piece by Steven Hess (Locrian, Ural Umbo). No computers were used on the remix. The piece was literally done …
Taking Away
here are two pieces from august 2008 ; built from “playthroughs” -style guitar / synthesizer / computer improvisations recorded april 2008 ; (time crawls when you live in a bubble) ...the “side 1” half is the tail-end of said improv, run through a low-pass filter taking its cut-off frequency from the relative “loudness” of the audio (i.e. the louder it gets, the more high-end it let through) - a nice & simple piece that turned out well (there’s even a bit of “dry” guitar playing at the end there…
W
a lovely project by Silentes records, a series of 26 cassette tapes centered around the interpretation on silent sound....Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet. Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts. Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies. And the "M" letter is dedicated to Under the Snow a duo comprised of Gianluca favaron and Stefano Gent…
LiveGrodor
We had been talking about this tape for a couple years now: a buncha killer livejams by the great Swedish band Den Stora Vilan (which supposedly translates something as ‘The Great Rest’). Long mellow West Coast influenced psych jams (think ‘American Beauty’ era Gratefuld Dead) meets Neil Young with a bit of Trad Gras Och Stenar thrown in. 200
Fundamental Structure
Deceh is an anonymous duo featuring the elusive Eleh. Their edition for the Tapeworm series is "a close study of the harmonic composition of a Hammond organ and a Sruti Box with attention given to the organization of isolated frequencies and the effects of these vibrations on brain activity." Like all of Eleh's work, 'Fundamental Structure' is meditative, and, if you like, spiritual, seeming to slow time itself to a malleable blur and opening sublime temporal portals in the process. And w…
Sound non sound 1
"Sound non sound" is a 15 minutes long session of samples, toy beats and synthetic waves that travels back in time to investigate some of the unexplainable mysteries of the recent Italian past, made of disappearing aeroplanes and exploding train stations by the hand of no one.A deeply describing music that manages to stimulate undefined images and shapes to the mind of the listener.
Infernal Furniture
Infernal Furniture is a collection of piano sonatas, backed with a version -- "Infernal Dub Furniture" -- where the recordings are subjected to the studio effects of delay and reverb, changing the surface and meaning of the music. The piano pieces themselves are drawn from the collection 10 Sonatas Ten (2010). Piano and electronic processing by; composed and produced by Andrew Poppy. Mastered by Zachary James Watkins. Ultra-Red's Dont Rhine writes: "A provocative proposition; Satie meets du…
Ammo A Mass A Mat
She lay, naked, draped across the piano, her nipples still erect from her recent encounter. Globules dripped onto the keys, lying like translucent mercury pools, somewhere between solid and liquid, defying definition. She might be asleep; she might not. It's a special private place which cannot be shared or revealed. Her right hand slowly stroked the keys, as if to play; but there is no need for music now. She has her own sounds playing breezily around her; no need for form. Her fingers h…