New Arrivals
The Balance
The Balance is the fourth edition in the DSW-ARC Series; it presents an outstanding and incendiary David S. Ware concert, in trio with William Parker and Warren Smith. A tenor sax / bass / drums excursion of full intensity from the first note, this suite of spontaneous form was created at NYC's Vision Festival in 2010. Ware had been a perennial at this vital annual gathering since its beginning; this was his first time back since his revered Quartet bid farewell there in 2006, and it was a wholl…
Sparrow Nights
CD version, with 4 extra tracks non available on the LP version. Sparrow Nights is the first studio album from the furious duo of pedal steel player Heather Leigh and saxophone legend Peter Brötzmann.
Their collaboration has quickly gained a well-earned reputation for
their cutting-edge music and frenetic but sensuous playing. Recorded and
mastered in Vienna by Martin Siewert. Features artwork by Brötzmann; LP version comes in a heavy, '60s style tip-on cover."There is complexity in simplicit…
Night Kaledoscope
Alec Cheer's Night Kaleidescope is an incredible modern techno-based score to an underground psychedelic detective vampire indie drama. So there. There is little history here as this is a new release, but this is simply an amazing modern score to a 2017 film one may never have heard about (directed by Grant McPhee). What sets this score apart is its clinical post-modern feel, with influences including Mica, John Carpenter, Brian Eno, Goblin, Fabio Frizzi, even whispers of the 1980s, as well as a…
Bullshit 3 1/4
Ultra limited Israeli reissue (300 only!) of this classic masterpiece of
protest music/freak/funk/psych album from 1970. A mix of freak psych
and avant-garde, full of fuzzed out and distorted guitars, studio
effects, tape loops, tone generators etc. Bullshit 3 1/4 was a quantum leap away from all of Danny Ben-Israel's previous musical endeavours as evidenced by the title's decided lack of commercial potential, the provocative cover artwork and songs that free-formed and furry-freaked all ove…
Wolf City
Distilling the insane sprawl of the "Yeti" and "Tanz" into a more concise, song-based affair, Amon Duul refine their sound without watering it down and turn out one of their best albums (they began this process on the previous quite good in its own right transitional album "Carnival In Babylon". The new formula is clear from the opening bars of "Surrounded By The Stars". Chugging guitars build to ecstatic organ swells. The first side continues in solid form with the appropriately bubbly "Green B…
Lemmingmania
Originally released in 1974, 'Lemmingmania' is a compilation made up of, mostly rare AD II singles. Vocalist Renate Knaup's vocals are astounding, especially when guitarist Chris Karrer jumps in and shares the vocal duties with her. Brings to mind [sort of] like Germany's reply to Jefferson Airplane
Tanz Der Lemminge
There aren't many double art-rock albums from the early '70s that have stood the test of time, but then again, there aren't many albums like Tanz, and there certainly aren't many groups like Amon Düül II. While exact agreement over which of their classic albums is the absolute standout may never be reached, in terms of ambition combined with good musicianship and good humor, the group's third album, is probably the best candidate still. The musical emphasis is more on expansive arrangements and …
Choice Cuts From "Philosophy Of A Knife"
Finally available the soundtrack to one of the most extreme and shocking movies of all tim - within this framework, Shevchenko and Iskanov elaborate an unfathomably mystic sound akin to the movie score, where wicked industrial music meets flickering piano ballads and distressing soundscapesPressed on"Risin Sun Flag" (Solid White Colored Vinyl) – Limited to 400 copiesHoused in a gatefold jacketFirst time ever on vinyl with unreleased tracks, pressed on 2xLP plus a bonus CDIncludes in-depth liner …
Another Life
Another Life is the debut album from Amnesia Scanner, the Berlin-based music duo, performing arts group, experience design studio, and production house, created by Finnish-born Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala. Founded in 2014, Amnesia Scanner's approach is informed by a unique perspective on technology and the way it mediates contemporary experience. System vulnerabilities, information overload, and sensory excess inform their work, which has found a home in both clubs and galleries. Building …
Inter-Dimensional Music
Dead-stock copies of this LP reissue, now long deleted, re-mastered version of the 1975 classic, by the original new age music legend, Iasos. It is NOT the typical sounds of the average new age music found throughout the '80s, it is a trippy, exotic psych sound having roots in '60s West Coast experimental music. A cornerstone of new age music by real new agers. "l find lasos' inter-dimensional music needing new words to describe it. I feel as though I were entering a new world -- a new and very …
La Journee
**50 copies copies, wood engraved hand assembled tape box + wood engraved set of
12 cards** All music, recordings, mixing by Guilhem Lacroux. Concrète and Electroacoustic Experiments circa 1995. The diversity of media (digital, analog, high and low definition), techniques (morphing, cut-up, sequence-play) and writing engines (serendipity, madrigalism) make La Journée the exemplum of an era in full gestural, sensitive and temporal metamorphosis
Civilization
Adele H is the experimental recording project of Italian singer and songwriter Adele Pappalardo. Using just her voice and a Brazilian tambourine to create powerful melodies and hypnotic rhythms that feel primordial and instinctive blending soul and psychedelia.
Hydrorion Remnants
Embassador Dulgoon is known for his intrepid contributions for the world-traversing experimental science ensemble Nonlocal Society, however the eccentric Chilean multi-instrumentalist points us in a very different direction for his most recent revelation entitled Hydrorion Remnants. Dulgoon delivers a fantastic voyage by way of transportive electro-acoustic elements, roaming crypto-zoological sampling, and soaring synthesized melodies that all work to create a truly unique escapade. Burrowed sys…
Perfect Prey
While stumbling through the Shiek's Bazaar of the Bizarre, I came across
Idaho Joe serenading a flea circus under a rug. Corum hovered nearby
conducting with tea tree oil toothpicks. Fortunately, the tape was
running. The smoke is thick but you can make out some shapes in the
haze. Joe seems to be floating through the same wing of the ethno
forgery museum that Alvarius B called home. There are some seasonings
that taste a little like Tower Recordings with mashed potatoes. This all
comes h…
Its Shape Is Your Touch
Wendy Eisenberg is an extraordinary guitarist dedicated to the
completely unconstrained exploration of music, language and time. Her
work has taken her from conservatory to DIY space to concert hall, from
performing improvised music and punk-metal to writing the quietest of
songs. On Its Shape is Your Touch, Eisenberg turns her gaze to
the guitar in its most absolute, essential form. Having traversed
musical genres as she has, the intricate improvisations she weaves on
this record have as…
New / Rediscovered Instruments Volume 1 (Booklet)
A long overdue, larger, reprint of the 1975 classic pamphlet by Hugh
Davies, Paul Burwell, Max Eastley, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, and David
Toop. A rare look into the maker culture inherent in the 1970s UK
experimental music scene with descriptions and pictures of Hugh Davies's shozyg, the communally blown horn, and more. Preface by David Toop.
Sound American Vol. 1
Finally, the online magazine Sound American is available in a lovable,
givable, carryable, trainable form! We’ve culled our favorite articles
from the first three issues and commissioned some special new works not
found at soundamerican.org for this special book presentation!
This first volume features writing by and about Rick Moody, Ben Hall,
Nate Wooley, Shinkoyo Collective, League of Automatic Music Composers,
Women in Electronic Music, TECHNE, John King, John Cage’s Number Pieces
an…
Tarab
**limited edition marbled vinyl + download voucher** In a handful of improvised albums circumnavigating the troubled waters of the contemporary Mediterranean -Greece, with the eponymous Oiseaux-Tempête (2013), Turkey and Sicily for Ütopiya? (2015), Lebanon with Al-'An! (2017) - the collective Oiseaux-Tempête has stretched its electric arc over musical genres and borders, imposing itself in a river of tours and releases like a wild UFO within the hexagonal indie scene. Navigating instinct, as att…
Quitratue
Self-released edition of 100 copies. Marta De Pascalis (Rome, 1987) is an italian composer living and working in Berlin. Her solo works employ analog synthesis and tape loops, incorporating free playing into steady, repetitive patterns. A slow burning organ drone a la Terry Riley, with building and repeating organ lines that coalesce in a sea of pensive harmonics. Killer album!
Headcrack
Released as a vinyl-only album on Sterile Records in 1986, Controlled Bleeding's Headcrack is a monumental album of industrial-noise meets ambient soundscapes. The original record is hopelessly out of print, and Toronto-based Artoffact Records reissues it with remastered audio and updated cover art for the first time. Essential listening!