New Arrivals
Bilia
Bilia derives from the work of percussionist Enrico Malatesta. The release consists of five wooden balls (3,5 cm Ø) carved from different woods. Enrico’s very own sound comes from a horizontal approach to the percussion instruments that are, in his practice, a space for movement, where every action is also a form of exploration and listening as well as an exercise in imagination.
«Percussion instruments are round-shaped, and I utilize this simple notion as a starting point. I often apply fricti…
Freie Aerophone
Freie Aerophone is based on Matija Schellander’s solo pieces for double bass, The Drill and Matija Schellander, that make extensive use of indistinct low pitches resonating a space, and sound projections by circular movement of the performer with the instrument.
In the Hornbostel-Sachs musical instrument classification (Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1914), the freie aerophone is an instrument in which the vibrating air is not contained within the instrument itself, for example a siren or a bullro…
Antilogy
Drawing from notions of "bad poetry" as the critical undoing of normative taste, Antilogy brings together works by the Brazilian artist and poet Alex Hamburger.
Central to Hamburger's practice and engagement with poetry is a focus on writing as the expression of a performative disruption and playful reworking of semiotic systems. With references to Fluxus intermediality, Brazilian concretism, experimental music, and sound poetry, Hamburger's work dynamically collapses the distinctions between fa…
East Of The Sun
* 2021 Stock * Instant Composers Pool presents East Of The Sun, a series of live sessions performed ICP Orchestra. Recorded March 18th, 19th, 20th 2014 by Kasper Frenkel, Electric Monkey Studio, Amsterdam. Mastered by Frank van der Weij. Artwork by Han Bennink. Photographs by Francesca Patella. Graphic design by Piet Gerards Ontwerpers. Thanks to: Cherry Duyns, Emma Fischer, Huub van Riel. Michael Moore clarinet, alto sax; Ab Baars clarinet tenor sax; Tobias Delius clarinet tenor sax; Wolter Wie…
Restless In Pieces
* 2021 Stock * Instant Composers Pool presents Restless In Pieces, a studio session performed by ICP Orchestra. Recorded October 21 & 22, 2015 by Kasper Frenkel, Electric Monkey Studio, Amsterdam. Mixed and Mastered February 9th, 2016 by Micha de Kanter, Mideka Music, the Hague. Ab Baars clarinet, saxophones; Michael Moore clarinet, saxophones; Tobias Delius clarinet, tenor saxophone; Thomas Heberer cornet, trumpet; Wolter Wierbos trombone; Mary Oliver violin, viola; Tristan Honsinger cello, voc…
Goede Reis !
Instant Composers Pool presents Goede Reis !. All music composed by Oscar Jan Hoogland and Han Bennink except Hornin’ In, Epistrophy and Ugly Beauty by Thelonious Monk, Peer’s Counting Song by Misha Mengelberg, Aanhanghuis by Oscar Jan Hoogland, Rhythm Three by Cor Fuhler and Fleruette Africaine by Duke Ellington. Recorded & Mixed by Marc Schots at Bimhuis, Amsterdam August 13th 2020. Artwork by Han Bennink. Photo artwork by Pieter Boersma. Graphic Design by Emma Fischer.
Flute and Bass
Kairos presents Flute and Bass, a Bernhard Lang's composition performed by Manuel Zurria on Flute and Dario Calderone on double-bass. Recording Date: 4 Nov 2018 & 16 May 2020. Recording Venue: tudioZ, Amsterdam/Netherlands. The work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957) is difficult to fit into any one musical category. His oeuvre references a wide variety of musical styles and genres, ranging from free jazz and improvisation to hip hop and DJ culture. The three works on this release show…
PM016 - 2020 Remaster
* Edition of 300 * Arbitrary presents the 2020 remaster & CD reissue of PM016 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen, re-mastered by Kassian Troyer, with cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson. Originally released as limited edition C30 tape on Plant Migration Records in 2014, the four pieces on Nielsen’s first solo release are based on short orchestral and percussive samples manipulated by various synthesizer modules and effects processors. Variations are created by emphasizing different f…
In This Lingering Twilight Sparkle
* Edition of 500. Pink vinyl, with printed inner sleeve * ‘In This Lingering Twilight Sparkle’ finds Mark Leckey stitching together a fantasy travelogue made up of found sounds, spoken word and dismantled tunes like some hallucinogenic mixtape; part audio diary, part YouTube session taking in fairytale folk musics, iMessage notifications and gothic horror that will make you question... stuff. “In the Age before These Times I’d been reading lots of folklore about Fairies, and Changelings and the …
Monkey Cop
Sploosh Records presents Monkey Cop by Martín Escalante and Teté Leguía. Suspects: Lolo, Kevin Salkeld, Nicole Remy, Sam Weinberg, Tomas Orrego, Camilo & Alex Ángeles, The Weez. To protect and serve.Martín Escalante: sax violenceTeté Leguía: bass extortionChristian Blandhoel: sketches & coffeeErick Baltodano: mappingJacob Felix Heule: aural schematics
Snowcone
** 2021 Stock ** Caracol Carnívoro make nightmare music on acoustic instruments. The modified alto saxophone and double bass make for an extremely unbalanced duo with a twisted sense of humor. Both natives of Los Angeles, Martín Escalante and Oliver Steinberg met online through a craig's list want ad. Martín has lived most of his life in Guanajuato, Mexico, working on film and photography jobs, while Oliver lives and works as a professional musician in LA. Their music is cathartic, ritualistic, …
Torn Ham 01212019
Sploosh Records presents Torn Ham 01212019 by Caracol Carnívoro. Mastered by Weasel Walter. Art by Ian Steele.
Jesse Ward – GuitarOliver Steinberg – BassMartín Escalante – Sax
Knuttel House
Sploosh Records presents Knuttel House by Jun Numata, Martín Esclanate and Yuji Ishihara. Paintings by Aron Briggs Mastered by Skaset. Layout by Nicole Remy. Special thanks to Akira Saito. Recorded live at Knuttel House on 06/07/19.
Jun Numata: guitar, electronicsMartín Escalante: saxYuji Ishihara: drums
Ftarri
Sploosh Records presents Ftarri by Riuichi Daijo, Martín Escalante and Yuma Takeshita. Recorded live at Ftarri on 06/08/19. Special thanks to Toshimaru Nakamura. Art and design by Everardo Felipe. Mastered by Skaset.
Riuichi Daijo: guitarYuma Takeshita: electro-bassMartín Escalante: sax
Martín Escalante and Eloe Omoe
Sploosh presents "Martín Escalante and Eloe Omoe". Art and layout by Ron Regé, Jr. Mastered by John Hegre. Thanks to Skaset.
Martín Escalante - SaxSam Rowell - BassTim Leanse - Drums
Succession of Timbres With one Partial in Common
Sébastien Roux pushes Max Neuhaus' concept of succession of timbres to a new height in a drastically systematic composition. In 2016, Sébastien Roux presents Succession of timbres with one partial in common as part of the exhibition Max Feed – Work and Heritage of Max Neuhaus, organized by Daniele Balit at Frac Franche-Comté. The title refers to and summarizes two sentences written by Neuhaus in the text that accompanies the drawing, and thus immediately reveals the influence of the Southwest St…
Thèses/Voix
* French Edition * A collection of texts by Alessandro Bosetti, between theory, poetry and score, all of which breathe in concert with a series of sound projects and often focus on the voice from different angles and perspectives.
Alessandro Bosetti (born 1973 in Milan, lives and works in Marseille) is a composer and sound artist who focuses is in the fringe area between spoken language and music, working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing te…
I Belong To A World That's Destroying Itself
* 2021 Stock * Ironic Records presents I Belong To A World That's Destroying Itself (Aka Revenge) by Annette Peacock. Recorded simultaneously live at various studios in New York, 1968. Annette Peacock gets it right again. In the lyric booklet here she writes "This is my first record. It was the right album, in the wrong century." Startling but true. An earlier version of I Belong to a World That's Destroying Itself was released as Revenge by Polydor in 1971 - the same year as her classic I'm the…
No Love is Sorrow
ESP Disk presents the third solo album 'No Love Is Sorrow' by Buck Curran (of the duo Arborea). Buck Curran - vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, Ebow, piano. Adele Pappalardo - additional vocals. Dipak Kumar Chakraborty - Tabla on Blue Raga. Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering, Montreal. Album cover photo and layout - Sarp Tuncer.
Namely
If an artists’ work is a composite of influences from others, Beth Anderson’s Namely inverts that notion, creating a work from the names themselves of her influencers. The album consists of 65 short pieces, each using the name of one of Anderson’s varied influences as source material. Anderson applies a generative procedure to each name to create a text-sound poem that is performed as a vocal piece by the composer.
The collection of names reveals the intermedia nature of Anderson’s work — from t…