New Arrivals
Zeitfrei
In the album Zeitfrei the mesmerizing timbre of the classical soprano voice of Maraile Lichdi interweaves with an acoustic and electronic world of sound. The songs are characterized by the concept of the ambivalence of the temporal in music. In the lyrical, sketch-like texts, always vague and associative, the topics of transience, vanity, disorientation, loss of control, alienation, farewell, sorrow and finally the invincibility of time but also the resilience of man, are reflected in polarising…
Mahler (In/a) Cage - Casetta di Composizione - A Musical Physiognomy of the Soundscape
The Mahler (in/a) Cage field recording work involves the recording, in situ, from the Casetta di composizione (Composition house) in Dobbiaco/Toblach (Bozen), of the soundscape in which Gustav Mahler composed his last works from 1909 to 1911 and in particular The Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde). The recording session took place over two summer days, from July to August 2020 from 5 am onwards, in the period of the year in which Mahler himself resided in Dobbiaco to compose at the beginn…
Time Deferred
Psychedelic visions, blackouts, and blinding lights reveal an unusual, sick, and feverish musicality. (…) Hospital-like beeps transmit a subtle uneasiness, as electrodes applied to the brain draw bewildering tracings. And while Athanasia represents the idea of immortality in Greek mythology, here the gods come back from the dead only to ensure us an existence nurtured by the freezing rays of a black sun. - Massimiliano Busti, Blow Up
Les Problèmes Urbains
Terrine is back is the Tanzprocesz/Bruit Direct Disques two-headed team. New 12" vinyl for your greatest pleasure. Synthetic melancholy, homage to French party songs and improvisations without parachute. All packed in a colorful sleeve.
7 Poems And Some Tinnitus
Hsia Yu is a legend in Taiwan’s poetry scene. She is one the most influential figures of youth subculture for decades. Under several pen names such as Li Gedi, she is also one of the top lyrics writers in the Mandarin pop music scene. She publishes her poetry only on her own independent label. Yan Jun is a Beijing based musician and poet. In later 90’s and early 00’s he was a key figure in China’s underground rock scene as music critic. Since early 00’s he works on the margin of music with field…
Bottom
*2022 stock* Field recording at basement carpark, studio reassemble. End of 2004 to early 2005, Kwanyin Records released its first titles. As sub-label of Sub Jam it had already 10 years running. Few month ago Goh Lee Kwang, the active improviser and experimental musician from Malaysia, proposed to release his Bottom as last release of Kwanyin Records. This is a recording with no climax, no artistic conception, no history and no answer. Yes, that’s it.
Anti Social Realism
*In process of stocking* Anti Social Realism (2012: Bilbao, Stockholm, Lausanne). Mattin in collaboration with Oier Iruretagoiena, Marcelo Expósito, Germán Navarro, Santiago Mostyn and members of the audience at LUFF festival. Length: 116’30”; all-region; subtitle in French, Spanish, English and Chinese
1) Nobody Answered, Club Le Larraskito, Bilbao, February, 11th February 2012; 24’28”2) The Audience Is Not The Mother of Self-Invention, Index, Stockholm, 29th September 2012; 59’39”3) An Audienc…
Truth, Exercise For A Listener
*In process of stocking* The score for ‘Truth, exercise for a listener’ comprises a catalogue of options for a musical performer. In four parts each focusing on a different facet of our faculty to listen, it offers open ended material for the performer to deal with; sounding actions, silent actions, still actions, moving actions, interpretative actions. All can be selected, combined, omitted or extended at will. Multiple exercises can happen simultaneously. In a general sense the piece is an at…
噪音 Noise
Tip! *2022 stock. 215 copies edition* 2 discs great compilation of noise makers from China on Sub Jam's sublabel Kwanyin and Tenzenmen.
Hybrid Noisebloom / Masonna Vs. Bananamara
This bundle includes the newest Urashima vinyl releases:Merzbow "Hybrid Noisebloom" (2LP)Masonna "Masonna vs. Bananamara" (LP)Merzbow "Hybrid Noisebloom" (2LP)**Limited Edition of 299 copies.** When it comes to Japanese noise, few projects have pushed boundaries or risen to a more iconic status than Merzbow. The mutant child of punk and experimental music, the project’s blistering sounds - as singular and wild as they are unique - are among the movement’s most important, definitive statements, c…
Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Hankil, Yuen Chee Wai, Yan Jun, Sachiko M, Yang Ge, Xiao Qiang, Hong Qile, Gogo J, Olivier Heux, Tao Yi, Junyuan
Big Can*In process of stocking* "There was this large, abandoned, cylindrical metal object, maybe an oil tank. In 2009, several people cam to the site and made some noise. They were Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Hankil, Yuen Cheewai, Yan Jun, Sachiko M, Yang Ge, Xian Qiang, Hong Qile, Gogo J, Olivier Heux and Junyuan. The sounds chosen are refreshingly non-obvious, no fist-banging on the interior walls. There are soft clocks and drips as well as a number of sustained sounds–whistling, moaning, keening–that don’…
Noise As A Language
“So the point is that so much words existing, and we get better and better to use them for hiding the truth. You can use sound in the same way, stimulating some nice and warm feeling in middle of chaos, but from time to time we all should stimulate strictness, clearness, intensity, directness, set free some anger to bring up the basic truth of our present. Noise can be seen as the chance to go into the back of things, as a therapy which is able to confront ourselves with others lesser good looki…
I Know How You Frown
*In process of stocking* A brilliant contemporary improvised music work. subtle and flickered. Toshimaru Nakamura is one of the main figures of Japan new impro music. a master of no-input mix border. a philosopher and technician. Nicholas Bussmann is Berlin based musician and improviser. he sets MAX/msp on a high value of random to let computer impro itself.
The Spirit Of Hawkwind
Nik Turner is the co-founder of the legendary space rock band Hawkwind, and was a major creative force during that group's most critically acclaimed and successful period, 1969-1976. His outlandish costumes, improvised sax and flute playing, and general wild man persona became iconic representations of the band, and he would go on to pen some of their most popular songs including "Brainstorm" and "Master of the Universe." With tons of never-before-seen photos, rare memorabilia, and personal reco…
Black Magic
Delve into the dark side of the occult with this special collection of tracks featuring the the voice of the Beast himself, famed occultist Aleister Crowley! All new remixes feature the production talents of witch house artists Ritualz and ∆aimon plus dark synth act NewSlave, Alan Davey's Hawkestrel, internationally renowned instrumentalist Jozef Van Wissem, and lots more! Also features all-new sonically de-noised and remastered versions of the famous wax cylinder recordings Crowley made from 19…
Dossier: 1977-2017
Gorgeous and comprehensive 10CD retrospective of the legendary progressive rock / avant-garde band from Mexico City, Decibel! Compiles all of the band’s studio albums to date as well as live recordings and more! The 10 discs come in individual wallets with a booklet that includes liner notes and rare photos, all packaged in a deluxe clamshell box! The band was influenced by such visionaries as Henry Cow, Faust, Magma and 20th century composer Karlheinz Stockhausen!
Zürich/Lausanne
*2022 stock* "Electronic music pioneers Brainticket release titled Zürich/Lausanne is a two disc set highlighting two concerts from 1983 and 1984. The Zürich concert was recorded at the Computer and Musik Symposium on February 4, 1983 and features three long tracks. Playing that night was Belgian keyboardist Joel Vandroogenbroeck (flute, synthesizer, electric piano), Hans Deyssenroth (electric piano, computer), Willy Seefeldt (electric piano) and Bruno Spoerri (lyricon). The first track “Flight …
Celestial Ocean
*2022 stock* Brainticket have almost completely abandoned the rock orientation that they presented in songs such as 'Waching You', 'Places of Light', 'Black Sand', 'Like a Place in the Sun' and 'Coco Mary', with the single exception being the track 'Egyptian Kings'. Their sound on this album is less striking, less groovy and less immediate and more more spacey and trance-inducing, more electronic and more acoustically eclectic.
Beginning with the song 'Egyptian Kings', the album seems to embark …
Psychonaut
*2022 stock* Psychonaut is more relaxed and has far less electronic elements than either Brainticket's first record, Cottonwoodhill, or the album that followed, Celestial Ocean. Though the record is more straightforward and song-oriented, it still has progressive and experimental elements that keep it from sounding too much like anything else. If anything, the group is not quite focused on any one style on this record, throwing in everything from the ethnic-influenced folk of "Radagacuca" and "O…
Cottonwoodhill
A limited edition re-issue of the legendary 1971 debut album by Brainticket that is widely considered a landmark psychedelic masterpiece!