2020 has been a terrible year for everyone. However, it has also been the year in which some projects have had time to develop. This is the case of Tactil, responsible for the fourth Antimatter refelease. This new tandem is born from the collaboration between the artists from Madrid, Kawn and F-on. Deeply influenced by projects from 90´s like Porter Ricks, Jetone, Gas or Thomas Köner, "1-4" means the first ep from this duo. Drones, wrinkled textures and field recording meet long and progressive …
Crucial early work from the Japanese master of digital minimalism - like Thomas Köner or Lustmord, but with more bass. Ryoji Ikeda needs no introduction here - the Japanese composer and A/V originator has been impressing the world with his game-changing hi-frequency rhythmic loops and stark monochromatic visuals since the mid 1990s, and has never gone astray. This special Sähkö vinyl EP combines two of Ikeda's most important early pieces, 'Luxus 1-3' from his 1995-released solo debut "1000 Fragm…
** AAA Transfers from analogue mastertapes. Audiophile-grade vinyl – single one-off batch limited-edition pressing. New artwork authentically recreated on heavyweight gloss sleeves. Cut at Abbey Road Studios by Grammy award winning engineer, Sean Magee. Manufactured at Pallas Group GmbH, Germany. Metallic hype sticker ** Through the combination of Dave Pike’s vibes and Volker Kriegel’s exploratory electric, acoustic guitar and sitar stylings, The Dave Pike Set was a visionary quartet with a uni…
** First ever release on 7” 45 single. AAA Transfers from analogue mastertapes. Audiophile-grade vinyl – single one-off batch limited-edition pressing. New artwork authentically recreated on heavyweight gloss sleeves. Cut at Abbey Road Studios by Grammy award winning engineer, Sean Magee. Manufactured at Pallas Group GmbH, Germany. Metallic hype sticker ** For his MPS album ‘Rass’, Monty Alexander returned to Jamaica to turn out a jazz-funk groover. Recorded in Kingston in 1974, the date assembl…
** 180 gram audiophile quality double LP. Gatefold cover artwork features previously unpublished original Blue Note session photos. All Analogue mastering: taken from Rudy Van Gelder tapes; transferred by Grammy-Award winning mastering engineer Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios ** Wallen Bink presents I Don’t Care Who Knows It - The Complete 68’ to ‘70 sessions by Duke Pearson. This collection of performances, previously unissued in their entirety, drawn from five recording sessions from 24 June …
Floating miasmic vapors. A chorus of mystery monks. Flights of Angels. Clouds and swirls of echoes. Weightless sounds that swirl and eddy and carry you downstream on your timeless journey to sleep, to death, to birth? It started with a clap – actually three – recorded as acoustic test tones inside one of the many ancient cisterns beneath Istanbul (Constantinople back then). Philip Blackburn then analyzed and stretched the reverb of the space as it were by an electron microscope that revealed the…
** Edition of 50 ** It begins violently and gets worse. Rattled barely-percussive scrapings, peppered with audio documents at the edge of perception lead to an unignorably painful and persistent crying baby. Eventually she is sped up, synths slide in and it’s over. Tomiris is being born. Club-concrete producer Ratkiller’s Tomiris is a conceptual reworking of the soundtrack to the 2019 Kazakstani film of the same name and it occupies a similar weird mythic space. Tomiris the film is a piece of na…
** 2021 Stock ** William Basinski’s reputation as the foremost producer of profound meditations on death and decay has long been established, but on his new album, Lamentations, he transforms operatic tragedy into abyssal beauty. More than any other work since The Disintegration Loops, there is an ominous grief throughout the album, and that sense of loss lingers like an emotional vapor. Captured and constructed from tape loops and studies from Basinski’s archives – dating back to 1979 – Lamenta…
** Edition of 100 ** The dusty streets of apartheid-era Soweto, 27 July 1987. The politically charged funeral of a young activist who fled South Africa to became a commander in the military wing of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Police await in armoured cars. The funeral is restricted by specific government decree. "The man being buried is Peter Motau, assassinated in neighbouring Swaziland on the orders of South Africa's most notorious government-sanctioned killer, Eugene de Kock, …
** Edition of 100 ** These recordings capture a meeting between Patrick Shiroishi and Paul Zachary, a few days before Zachary left Los Angeles and embarked on a journey across the country. The sounds of Garfield Park echoed while the San Gabriel mountains burned, and Patrick and Zachary intoned a prayer for our shared futures. Recorded on 9 September 2020 at Garfield Park, Pasadena. This shapely tape is a product of The Tapeworm – “…we decided to leave when we got thrown out”.
** Edition of 100 ** Both tracks produced by Robin The Fog at The Sticky Shed, Penge during lockdown 2020. Side A features a recording of a wine glass. Side B is created entirely from closed input sounds of the tape machines themselves. One take, no edits, no overdubs, no artificial FX. Mastered by Steven McInerney. A.H.M.F. and long live the Wyrm.
"Robin The Fog is a sound designer, radio producer, audio archivist, educator and occasional DJ based in London. His work falls under the broad term …
** 2021 Stock ** Solo is a solo album by American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell which was recorded in 2003 and released on Mutable Music as a three CD set. Disc one, titled "Tech Ritter and the Megabytes," is the most varied and interesting of the set. Released by itself, it would have a claim as Mitchell's best solo effort ... This CD offers a compelling balance between composition and improvisation, long and short, abstract and melodic. The second disc, titled "Solar Flares," is entirely de…
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Artur Schnabel: String Quartets 1 & 4; Sonata for Cello. Performed by The Whitman String Quartet, A Freelance String Quartet, Joel Krosnick, Cello. All recordings were made at the Clinton Recording Studios, Inc., Studio A, in New York City. Produced and engineered by Paul Zinman. Edited, mixed and mastered by Paul Zinman at SoundByte Productions, Inc., NYC. All edit choices: Paul Zukofsky. Pre and Post-production supervision: Paul Zukofsky.
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Shapey - Riegger - Piston - Crumb - Sollberger - Berger. Ralph Shapey: (1921-2002) Evocation For Violin, Piano, And Percussion; with Raymond Desroches, percussion; Publisher: Theodore Presser Co. Wallingford Riegger: (1885-1961) Sonatina; Publisher: E. B. Marks Music Corporation. Walter Piston: (1894-1976) Sonatina; Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes, Inc. George Crumb: (1929-) Night Music Ii; Publisher: C.F. Peters, Inc. Harvey Sollberger: (1938-) Solos; with …
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Roger Sessions: Duo for Violin and Piano, Sonata for Violin; Peter Mennin: Sonata Concertante; Easley Blackwood: Second Sonata. Performed by Paul Zukofsky, violin; Gilbert Kalish, Easley Blackwood, pianos. The Sessions Duo for Violin and Piano and the Mennin Sonata Concertante were both recorded at Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, NY in 1971. They were engineered by Horace W. Grenell and originally released as part of the Desto set "Music for a 20th Centu…
** To be released in mid/late October 2021 ** This box is the first virtually complete collection of Faust official studio releases from the years 1971-1974. In addition to the debut album, it includes the 1972 album So Far, the legendary 1973 Virgin UK release The Faust Tapes ("Some chose to play frisbee with the LP, others said it changed their lives" as Jean-Hervé Peron noted), Faust IV and, for the first time ever, the mythical, so-called "Munich album" Punkt, which Faust recorded at Giorgio…
** EN/RUS, Golden Edition ** Notes on Other Music, a book collecting photographs, essays, interviews and conversations with artists who have performed at Stockholm's Edition Festival for Other Music since its inception in 2016.
Essays:Eliane Radigue — Occam Ocean (by Kate Molleson)Sarah Hennies — GatherFrançois Bayle — For an Invisible Music, an AcousmoniumFrançois J. Bonnet — AfterwordAnnea Lockwood — Sound Streams (by Louise Gray)
Interviews:Leila Bordreuil (by John Chantler)Terre Thaemlitz (b…
** 2021 Stock ** Released under Bernd Witthuser’s name, this was actually the first collaborative effort with his partner in-crime Walter Westrupp (their infamous “W&Ws Pop-Cabaret”). An enchanting collection of acoustic folk songs, albeit with a touch of black humour, on the subjects, you guessed it, vampires, nuns and death based on texts by Baltus Brosel, Heinrich Heine, Novalis and Thomas Rother… Simple and haunting melodies with a spellbinding cosmic touch. Limited to 500 copies – Gatefold …
** 2021 Stock ** OHR presents Trips & Träume by Witthüser & Westrupp. All tracks written by Bernhard Witthüser, Walter Westrupp, Bernd Roland. Bernhard Witthüser - guitar, vocals, mandolin. Walter Westrupp - guitar, vocals, zither, percussion, flute, trumpet. Renee Zucker - vocals, percussion, flute. Bernd "Curny" Roland - bass, vocals. Gille Lettmann, Rolf Ullrich Kaiser - producers.
Witthüser & Westrupp was a German singer-songwriter duo consisting of Bernd Witthüser (29 April 1944 – 4 August…
Synthesizers, field recordings, magnetic tapes together with percussion, various microphones and stringed instruments fill the listening of this musical elegy. In his debut album Heimito Künst takes us inside kaleidoscopic sound visions in which, between references to the darkest and most disturbing kraut sound and experimental sequence plans based on noise polyrhythms, he makes us glimpse wave structures that lead us directly to breathe the author's panic dust . The album was recorded live with…
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Jo Kondo: Hagoromo. Performed By Teresa Shaw, Mezzo-soprano; Tomoko Shiota, Narrator; London Sinfonietta; Paul Zukofsky, Conductor. Written under commission from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and premiered there June 13, 1994. Publisher: University of York Music Press (U.K.) Recorded March 25, 2002 at Abbey Road Studio 2, London, England. Produced and engineered by Paul Zinman. Assistant engineers: Roland Heap, Chris Clark. Edited, mixed and mastered by…
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents John Cage: 16 Dances; Armin Loos: Sonata No.2 for Violin and Piano. Performed by New Music Concerts, Paul Zukofsky, Conductor; Paul Zukofsky, Violin, Michael Torre, Piano. This recording was originally released as an LP (CP2/15) and was a co-production with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Sociètè Radio-Canada and New Music Concerts, Toronto. The original release was supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. The g…
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Milton Babbitt: Septet But Equal; Fourplay; Morton Feldman: Instruments 1; Three Clarinets, Cello and Piano. Perfomed by b, conductor; Composers Ensemble. All works recorded at Studio 2, BBC Maida Vale, Delaware Rd., London, W9, July 20-21, 1997.
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Artur Schnabel: Dance and Secret & Joy and Peace; Sonata for Solo Violin performed by Paul Zukofsky, Conductor and Violinist; The Gregg Smith Singers. Dance and Secret & Joy and Peace by Artur Schnabel were recorded February, 1993 at BMG (originally RCA) Studio A, New York City. Producer: Joanna Nickrenz. Sound Engineer: Jay Newland. Montage: PZ, with Elite Recordings, New York City. Mastering: Soundbyte Productions, New York City. Sonata for Solo Violin…
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Artur Schnabel: Symphonies 1 & 3. Performed by The Bbc Symphony Orchestra; The Prague Symphony Orchestra; Paul Zukofsky, Conductor. Symphony No. 1 by Artur Schnabel was recorded April 26-28, 1994 at Maida Vale, BBC Studios, London, England. Producer: Joanna Nickrenz. Engineering: Neil Pemberton, with Chris Muir, and Graham Petrie-Brown, Assistants. Montage: PZ, with Elite Recordings, NYC. Mastering: Soundbyte Productions, NYC. Symphony No. 3 by Artur Schn…
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Symphony No. 2 by Artur Schnabel. Performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Paul Zukofsky, conductor. Recorded July 18-20, 1988, at All Saints Church, in Tooting, London, England.
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents John Cage: Chorals / Cheap Imitation / Freeman Etudes I-VIII performed by Paul Zukofsky, violin. The original recording of the Freeman Etudes was supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. The generous support of Betty Freeman is gratefully acknowledged. Recording Engineer (Chorals and Cheap Imitation): Paul Goodman. Recording Engineer (Freeman Etudes): Robert C. Ludwig. Editor: Joanna Nickrenz (Elite Recordings, Inc.…
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Morton Feldman: Spring of Chosroes and Artur Schnabel: Sonata for Violin and Piano by Paul Zukofsky, violin; Ursula Oppens, piano. Recorded at the Library of Congress, May 11-12, 1979. Spring of Chosroes is published by Universal Edition, Ltd., and was commissioned by the McKim Fund of the Library of Congress which also assisted with this recording. The Schnabel Sonata for Violin and Piano is published by Boosey and Hawkes, Inc. Recording Engineers: John …
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Morton Feldman: For John Cage by Paul Zukofsky, violin; Marianne Schroeder, piano. This recording was supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.The generous support of Betty Freeman and Paul Sacher is gratefully acknowledged. For John Cage was recorded April 7, 1984 at Sonographic AG, Schlieren, Switzerland. Recording Engineer: W.A. Wettler; Montage: Elite Recordings, NYC; Publisher: Universal Edition, Ltd., London.
** 2021 Repress on Transparent Olive Vinyl ** "A selection of rarities from 2009. Tracks one and six originally released on KGB Nights/Blue Drive CS (Catholic Tapes, 2009). Track two recorded at Issue Project Room, April 21, 2009, originally released on Scenes with Curved Objects CS (Utmarken, 2009). Tracks three and five originally released on Caboladies/Oneohtrix Point Never split CS (NNA Tapes, 2009). Track four aired on Rare Frequency, WZBC 90.3 FM on July 23, 2009, originally released on Sc…
** 2021 Repress in White Vinyl ** "A selection of rarities from 2008-2009. Track one originally released on an OPN/Outer Space split CS (Arbor, 2009). Track two originally released on Ruined Lives CS (Young Tapes, 2008). Track three and four originally released on Transmat Memories CS (Taped Sounds 2008). Track five and six originally released on A Pact Between Strangers CDR (Gneiss Things, 2008). Track seven originally released on Young Beidnahga CDR (Ruralfuane, 2009)." Includes a digital down…
** 2021 Repress on SIlver Vinyl ** "2012's Rifts compiled Oneohtrix Point Never's (aka Daniel Lopatin) first three full albums alongside a crop of rare and out-of-print CDR and cassette material in a deluxe, five LP vinyl box set. Following the success of this sold-out one-time release, we are pleased to present all five LPs for sale individually. Each LP includes a digital download code. Original Russian Mind LP released in an edition of 500 by No Fun Productions, November 2009."
** Deluxe edition on 180gram Red vinyl with Booklet ** Mad About Records is proud to present the official reissue of Mandala. Extremely Rare Private LP 70's Brazilian Jazz Psych, Mandala made only one eponymous album, recorded in 1971 but released only in 1976. A very rare and influential album, featuring future members of Grupo Um (Nazário and Zeca Assumpção who also played with Hermeto and Egberto Gismonti) and Pau Brasil (Nelson Ayres) - two seminal bands from the Brazilian instrumental scene…
** Orange cassette with black imprint. Comes in regular jewel case and 4pp 150gsm paper covers. Limited to 70 hand-numbered copies ** Hailing from different corners of the experimental music world and following 2018’s acclaimed performance at Centro d’Arte in Padova and a plethora of solo releases, Alessandra Novaga and Stefano Pilia return to discography with their very first studio collaboration. Recorded in 2017, "Glimpses of a Day" comprises a series of nine compositions for electric guitar …
** Edition of 500. Double LP on clear vinyl including D side with previously unreleased material ** Often cited as the most classic and groundbreaking of all of 12k’s releases, Shuttle358’s Frame ushered in an era of humanism, melody and organics in the era of Microsound and the Clicks and Cuts movement at the turn of the century. While it was still steeped in digital sound and the magnification of error as intention, Frame somehow managed to fuse emotion into what had become a very structuralis…
** 2021 Stock ** For decades, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy had been well loved by book readers everywhere. Now, New Zealand-born director Peter Jackson is transforming the epic on to the big screen, the first installment, The Fellowship of the Ring had already hit the theaters at the end of 2001. In 1978, there was a rather forgettable animated version of Lord of the Rings. But before Lord of the Rings ever appeared on any type of screen, musicians were recording music inspired by …
** 2021 Stock. Edition of 47 numbered copies in pro-printed cardboard box ** Born from an original concept by Paolo Ippoliti of Logoplasm, this compilation is a collection of seventeen randomized and "unplugged" tracks by aal, Andrea Marutti, Carlo Giordani, Crashcars for the Ravers, Fhievel & Luca Sigurtà, Madame P, Rinus Van Alebeek and Vale. All the artists were asked to create their contributes without using any electrically-powered source/instrument, just like they were experiencing a real …
* Edition of 100 * Tsss tape presents 3untitled by Masayuki Imanishi. Field recordings, contact microphone, objects. Recorded in Osaka, Japan, September 2020. Mastered by Francesco Covarino.
** Edition of 50 Black and White Splatter Vinyl + A3 Poster ** Other Voices Records and Kontakt Audio presents This Death House by Attrition. Old-school industrial live improvisation with overdubs on 4 track portastudio. Recorded at Black Prince Studio, Coventry, England. 1982. Influenced by classic zombie films, "Death House" lends truth to that rumor by delivering forty-six minutes of blackened paranoia-inducing ambiance. Split into two sprawling pieces, "Death House" conjures the grim, unsett…
First-ever American CD edition of this lost classic, recorded "live" during ESP's 1966 New York State College Tour. The "piano harp" credit is Burton Greene's way of noting that he plays inside the piano, directly on the strings – the first jazz pianist to do so on record, taking a page from avant-gardist Henry Cowell's book. In his notes to the original LP, included complete in this reissue, Greene writes, "The tour found people largely unexposed to this music. They were often shaken up. Some w…