New Arrivals
Hectic Shakes
Alter follow on from the bilingual dark ambient theatricals of Liberez with this four track EP from veteran Hamburg producer Christoph De Babalon. As an affiliate of Digital Hardcore, Fat Cat and the recently founded V I S, CDB has tirelessly explored the intersections of breakcore, illbient and drum and bass. His work is at once uncompromising yet stylish – broken, punishing rhythms collide with dreary, doom-laden melodies and those eerie in-between spaces of vintage Unit Moebius or Deutsch Nep…
Exquisite Angst
If you're gonna go out, go out like a muthaf*cker". A Colourful Storm presents Exquisite Angst, a collection of Christoph de Babalon's most hardcore, abyssal and mutant creations of his haunting past. A blown-apart, mangled depiction of muck, grime and breakbeat-drone, its tracks parallel the timespan and isolated madness of the If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It (CFET 016LP, 2018) recording sessions. Bleeding, darkside breakcore/jungle reconstructions that draw no comparison; there's a reason why…
Oyiwane
Sweet and sublime recordings from Elementary school group in Northern Niger from the 1980s. All-girl group accompanied by their instructor on the acoustic guitar, recalling Guinean folk and early Ali Farka Touré. Troupe École Tudu takes their name from a small neighborhood of Agadez, Niger. In 1985, the city hosted a musical competition between various schools. École Tudu, lacking a choir, sought out a young Tuareg guitarist Kader “Barmo” Balla to create a new style of music. The guitar was new…
Zerzura
Original soundtrack recording to the film Zerzura, the first ever
Saharan acid Western, telling the story of a nomad’s search for a magic
city of gold. Evoking the desert journey with free form guitar
improvisations, the soundtrack is a meditation on the mysteries of the
Sahara. Composed by writer and actor Ahmoudou Madassane, the
instrumental score takes the familiar Tuareg guitar tradition into new
directions, transforming desert blues into ambient soundscapes.
Recorded in studio while w…
Elemente
LP version. Includes CD. Elemente -- album number seven from the third incarnation of the legendary krautronic project Kluster/Cluster springs a surprise with a minor sensation: sequencer lines. Using an array of exclusively analogue instruments, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Onnen Bock, and Armin Metz have recorded eight tracks which, at one and the same time, are intrinsically hypnotic and sublimely beautiful. In principle, Elemente was created in much the same fashion as earlier Qluster albums: the…
Shared Meanings
individually stamped edition of 400 copies. This sampler 12” includes Mumdance & Logos’ massive
‘Teachers’ alongside zingers from Nkisi,Peder Mannerfelt, Caterina
Barbieri and Space Afrika. On a dance tip, Mumdance & Logos pay
tribute to a Chicago convention on ‘Teachers’, listing a roll-call of
influential UK artists, DJs, labels and clubs in a style most famously
deployed by Daft Punk, while Nkisi comes fiercely correct with the
swingeing Congolese techno rolige of ‘Kinega’, and Peder Ma…
Niko Karlsson & Topias Tiheäsalo
After a long hibernation, Anoema Recordings is back with a fantastic
split LP of fresh Finnish music. This time we bring joy to the world via
six beautiful acoustic six string exercises by two Turku-based masters
of guitar: Niko Karlsson and Topias Tiheäsalo. Niko plays both guitar
and banjo and has a background in pop, folk and various types of
experimental music. He is probably best known for his 2017 solo album
Valosta valoon on American Feeding Tube Records. Topias has studied
classic…
Spinhouse
Edition of 50 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Anna Schimkat (b 1974) is a Darmstadt born media artist and trained sculptress, living and working in Leipzig, Saxony since 2006. The first side of this release documents one of Schimkat's site specific sound installations, one of her main fields of work during the past years. »Spinhouse« is based on a 4-channel live installation, which took place in Dresden in 2014. The piece was created from and with the inherent sounds of the office build…
Without a Song
Original 1980 LP, few copies available and of course long out of print. Recorded in January 1980, almost one year after Free Soap, Vol 5.
Without a Song seems instilled with a new sense of humour and adventure.
The LP finds CCMC quoting from lounge piano ballads one moment,
whimsical comedy soundtracks the next and then lifting off into a full
force freakout. The dynamics are incredible, with the band achieving the
kind of volcanic volume associated with Japanese noise groups almost 15
yea…
Controlled Death Blax Box
Wooden black box comes with LP, CD digipack and two cassettes plus postcard, insert, business card and sheet with notes in Japanese by Tamotsu Mochida, in 199 copies. Controlled Death is a new project by the Japanese noise legend Maso Yamazaki a.k.a. Masonna. In April 2018 he decided to make a shudder debut with 1st album "Symphony For The Black Murder" . In this LP, Maso Yamazaki tried to commit to the dark side of psychedelia deepest in his own projects history and surprised the fans, but as s…
Negative/Offensive
A project in celebration of the work and influence of mysterious UK (anti) artist noise outfit The New Blockaders as constructed by Houston, Texas black whips and male-on-male noise pioneer Richard Ramirez (Black Leather Jesus et al) and the sadly departed Japanese harsh noise maestro Koji Tano (MSBR). A mail collaboration where each artist would send source materials to be decomposed by each other. Fantastic walls of brutal shard skum splatter taken to points of demented anguish and resultant c…
WBCN Broadcast 1972: Live At Paul's Mall
Miles Davis and his electric group of the early 70s is some of the most innovative and important jazz music ever set to tape. While the studio recordings are amazing, they often pale in comparison to the loose, improvisational and fiery heights that the group could reach in front of a live audience (as was captured on Live-Evil, In Concert, and Miles Davis At Fillmore, among others). This set from September of 1972 is no exception. Recorded just prior to the release of On The Corner, this stella…
Happiness Is Within Sight
A spellbinding ode to love lost, and possibly to be gained, from Belgium’s Annelies Monseré, one of the few contemporary artists to release new recordings amid Stroom’s classic reissue schedule - although you’d hardly tell from the timeless, ghostly quality of her signing and gothic backdrops. Described by Ziggy Devriendt’s (a.k.a. DJ Nosedrip) label as “…a record about a parting of ways. It is dedicated to the one who has been left behind and the one who left” the latest LP from Annelies is unm…
First Flight
Studio Mule present a reissue of Mitsuaki Katayama Trio's First Flight, originally issued in 1979 on Johnny's Disk Record. Johnny's Disk Record is an independent jazz label run by the owner of jazz cafe Kaiunbashi No Johnny, located in Rikuzentakata City in Iwate prefecture, Japan. The legendary label released a string of albums of high quality but down-to-earth music, spanning from modern jazz and avant-garde jazz to left-field pop. Albums such as Farewell My Johnny/Left Alone (1980) and Aya's …
Meta
**Limited edition of 100 copies only on Clear vinyl** Backwards proudly presents the new full length album of Greek great artist Dead Gum. "Meta", Dead Gum’s sophomore studio album, constituted a challenge for its maker. While “Gainer” - its predecessor - hollered for awareness and singularity, this one indulges into multi-layered, ambiguous narratives tracing an impossible duality. With abiding influences that distance him from conspicuous contemporary norms, Panagiotis Spoulos creates a noctur…
All Things Pass & Timescape
Published in February 2018, following Darren Almond's exhibition “Timescape” at Mudam, Luxembourg, from February 11 to May 14, 2017. English edition. Art edition with 56 pages Book (color ill., inserts) + clear vinyl LP + booklet. This catalogue is a visual journey through the artist's show at Mudam Luxembourg. It centers on Almond's series of cosmos-inspired abstract paintings Timescape. Produced in conjunction with the publication, the record All Things Pass highlights the musical dimension of…
Insidious Anthem
Chicago Edge Ensemble is a special project of the finest Chicago musicians dealing in free jazz and improvisation, put together by Dan Phillips. Insidious Anthem is their second album, and first on Trost. Personnel: Dan Phillips - guitar; Hamid Drake - drums; Mars Williams - saxophones and percussion; Jeb Bishop - trombone; Krzysztof Pabian - double bass. "Dan Phillips leads a quintet with muscle and a big Chicago sound and memorable compositions." --The Wire. "Chicago jazz is the complexity of …
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…