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*150 copeis limited edition* Recorded at "Dei Suoni" event, as unique track, splitted in two parts for the cassette release. Limited edition of 150 hand-numbered copies. Comes with an original polaroid.
*150 copeis limited edition* Recorded at "Dei Suoni" event, as unique track, splitted in two parts for the cassette release. Limited edition of 150 hand-numbered copies. Comes with an original polaroid.
*150 copeis limited edition* Recorded at "Dei Suoni" event, as unique track, splitted in two parts for the cassette release. Limited edition of 150 hand-numbered copies. Comes with an original polaroid.
"The music of Toshio Hosokawa invites us on a poetic journey of knowledge he has made throughout his life by bringing the cultures of East and West into dialogue.” - Paco Yáñez
*200 copies limited edition* 'Yö näkyy' comprises of 2 longform pieces where a minimalistic approach takes a central place. Short snippets and longer waves gradually go back and forth and slowly build up spaces where the listener can settle in easily. The touching softness of his work does the trick again and depicts the unique voice of the artist.
Olli Aarni is a sound artist living in Helsinki. He graduated in the Masters of arts in 2016 while he was already releasing his first work through l…
*100 copies limited edition* Reissue of Olli Aarni's Dauw debut and the very first release on the label at all: 'Kimalle'. Originally released in 2014 as a super limited cassette edition. Olli Aarni is a sound artist living in Helsinki. He graduated in the Masters of arts in 2016 while he was already releasing his first work through labels as Sunshine LTD, Cotton Goods, Preservation among others. Throughout the years, Aarni has performed his music worldwide and held residencies at acclaimed plac…
*50 copies limited edition* Dunkelfelder is another entry in DRNTTCKS‘ (pronounced [droʊn əˈtæks]) ongoing series of directly recorded live jams – after tapes on Hungary’s Beach Buddies, Austrian Feathered Coyote, German noise institution Grisaille and British Industrial Coast, they return to their home turf Otomatik Muziek for the label’s last release. As all other entries in this series, Dunkelfelder was improvised on the spot and recorded in one take. It's a very much loop-based duo improvisa…
A historicist approach of music genres. Recent journalistic discourses have announced "the end of music genres", while common sense tends to perceive the latter as imposed categories, restricting the freedom of both artists and audiences In contrast to this preconceived idea, this special issue of Volume! draws on a historicist approach of the phenomenon to discuss the formation and development of music genres such as disco and dance, traditional music, heavy metal, dungeon synth, urban music, i…
*200 copies limited edition* In 2022, Gillies Adamson Semple made a pilgrimage to the Valère Basilica in the Swiss Alps to play the oldest functioning pipe organ in the world. Built in 1435, this unique instrument is the centrepiece of this sensitive and stirring 6-track release, tracing the elemental themes of spirituality, anatomy, ecological collapse, and the nature of listening in its glacial minimalist drones. Drawing inspiration from the long-form compositions of Sarah Davachi and Kali Mal…
Joëlle Léandre and Lauren Newton have been performing together for nearly 30 years, having met in the mid-1990s in Paris. Throughout that time, they have always favored exploring the textures of music that are not arranged conventionally but rather are scattered, diffused, and dispersed through layers of sound. The voice’s high notes forge a variety of color fragments, while the low notes of the double bass create substance and depth. These two components remain inseparable as the sound settles …
Eschatology, a belief in the imminent end of the world, is as old as time itself. Long before our present fear of ecological catastrophe, our coda was advocated by various theologies and philosophies, from early Dharmic religions to the Millerite movement. The Dutch band Nadagen echoes those apocalyptic seers of old, spreading prophecies about our last days in the small number of songs that they recorded. ‘Nadagen’ translates to something like aftermath or twilight years, which reveals the exist…
*200 copies limited edition* Eight pieces of free vocal improvisation by the duo of Jason Kahn and Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, who have been working together since 2015. "I Smile When the Sound Is Singing Through the Space" is their second release and was recorded during Jason Kahn's one-month artist residency in September 2023 at Ting Shuo Hear Say in Tainan, Taiwan.
Tip! Espontaneamente se Tenta: Aventuras Sonoras de Djalma Corrêa is an album of deeply exploratory pieces by legendary percussionist and composer Djalma Corrêa. This double-LP set features previously unreleased recordings that cover a wide range of sonic experiments, revealing an unknown side of the prolific and groundbreaking Brazilian artist. Most of the tracks on this album were digitized for the first time – directly from the original tapes – and were compiled in collaboration with Corrêa j…
6Cd box Discs in Vinyl replica sleeves with a 36-page booklet all held in a clam-shell box. Colosseum came together in 1968, the brainchild of virtuoso drummer Jon Hiseman and saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith (who had played together in the Graham Bond Organisation and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers). Teaming with bass guitarist Tony Reeves and keyboard player Dave Greenslade, the line-up of the band was completed with the recruitment of guitarist and vocalist James Litherland. Their debut album, ‘…
2024 Stock. Japan release only. ** The electronic duo Thorax-Wach, consisting of the musicians Olaf Kraemer and Frank Dieckmann, gained notoriety in the early 1980s in the circle of the Berlin Geniale Dilettanten. The albums “Barely conceived – already in fashion” and “You’re still doing way too well” established them as pioneers of the techno genre.
After an impressive break of 40 years, the artists got together again and, as lovers of Franz Kafka, decided to record an album about the last year…
2024 Stock. 300 copies limited edition. Japan release only. ** Felix Kubin began his musical career in the early 1980s as a twelve-year-old as part of the duo Die Egozentrischen 2, together with Stefan Mohr, who was one year younger. Since then, the Hamburg multi-talent, born Felix Knoth in 1969, has made a significant name for himself in the alternative German music scene both as a solo artist and in diverse formations such as Klangkrieg, Liedertafel Margot Honecker, CEL and many others, and ru…
2024 Stock. 300 copies limited edition. Japan release only. ** The Berlin electro duo Period was formed in 2016 in collaboration between Andreas Reihse (key member of the cult neo-Krautrock band Kreidler) and guitarist Thomas “Prof” Winkler. In 2019, the three-part 12″ series, sparingly titled “1-3”, was published by Indie Weltschrei Verlag. In the same year, Cosima Pitz released the cassette album “4” in a limited edition of 50 copies, which of course sold out within milliseconds. On August 25,…
2024 Stock. 300 copies limited edition. Japan release only. ** The name of the duo Thorax-Wach, which was founded in 1980 together with Frank Dieckmann, comes from the context of the morgue in which Olaf Kraemer worked at the time. Between 1980 and 1981, with the help of two Korg M-20s and a microphone, a handful of MCs celebrated in the underground scene were created, as well as self-released vinyl records on their own label, Schnellschnitt, which the duo, which had since relocated from tranqui…