New Arrivals
Sextet
While touring Europe in autumn 2017, Minami Saeki (voice), Wakana Ikeda (flute), Yoko Ikeda (viola), and Taku Sugimoto (guitar) visited Switzerland and joined up with Swiss composer/musicians Stefan Thut and Manfred Werder. This CD is a recording of five pieces they performed at the concert venue Theater Delly in Solothurn, Switzerland, on October 9, 2017. Thut played cello, and Werder used glockenspiel and typewriter. Each of the five musicians other than Saeki provided a composition of his or …
Electric Powered Music Concert
This is the 2nd CD release commemorating the 6th anniversary of Ftarri,
the CD shop in Suidobashi, Tokyo. In recent years composer Masamichi
Kinoshita, cello player Tomoki Tai, and composer/computer musician
Takumi Ikeda have departed from their usual musical activities to hold
“Electric Powered Music” concerts–periodic improvised music performances
featuring electrical machinery and devices. These three plus guest
Takuya Harashima (biwa, flute, voice) performed together in an Electric
Po…
Trio and Septet
This is the 3rd CD release commemorating the 6th anniversary of Ftarri,
the CD shop in Suidobashi, Tokyo. It documents a concert held at Ftarri
in June 2018, featuring Beijing-based musicians Zhu Wenbo and Zhao Cong.
The first set was an improvised performance by Zhao Cong (electronics,
objects), guitarist Takashi Masabuchi, and alto sax player Masahide
Tokunaga (25 minutes). In the second set, a septet consisting of these
three musicians plus Zhu Wenbo (buzzer, clarinet, whistle), Yuma
T…
The Ruins
From the ruins of hours of multi-channel recordings created during his residency at EMS Stockholm, Francisco Meirino has created a definitive statement of time and discovery. Inspired by the Serge and Buchla modular synthesizers, he felt as if he were standing before ancient ruins, familiar yet unknown. After allowing these recordings to sit and decay over time, he discovered, when he finally came back to them, that all that was left were the pieces and ruins of sonic archives. The end result is…
Today is Horrible
**Theatrical harsh noise stalwart, Peter J. Woods displays a tightrope of
finesse and bravado. Dynamic work ranging from sound art, spoken word
and power electronics in a miraculously short span. Milwaukee’s finest** Recorded between 2014 and 2018, Today is Horrible chronicles the sonic elements from six different performance pieces written and performed by Peter J. Woods during that time. Although these recordings rely on Woods’ usual palette of sounds (sine waves, crumbling static, obscured …
Chamber Electronic Music
Sub Rosa presents Gilles Gobert's Electronic Chamber Music. Musical genre: trans, hybrid, crossbred, mongrel, whoreson, mixed, unclean, intricated, blended, interracial, bastard, harmonized, bouillabaisse, pandemonium, disorder, bewilderment, muddled, disarrayed, tangled, distraction, shambled, discorded, abashed, fuzzy, foggy, plaything, rejoicing, orgasmic, thoughtlessness, salad, undisciplined, inordinate, coded, slanged, talk, privacy, nearness, disobedient, unruly, confidante, imperfect, ta…
Unusual Sounds
Double LP version. "In the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required. Though at the time, the use of such records was mostly a cost-cutting maneuver for productions that couldn't afford to hire their own composer, the industry soon took on its own life: library publishers became major financial success…
The Air Around Her
This record documents music made by two women — one American and one Korean — who have both made a profound impact within experimental music. Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument has been a long-term life-work of incredible ambition and dedication. It is immediate, exciting and inspirational. Okkyung Lee has completed rewritten the possibilities for the cello in solo and group improvisation whilst maintaining a steadfast defiance to the many attempts to contain her work within pre-defined genr…
Silo 003
Founded in September 2015, Silo is a collective of young artists. The Silo project concentrates both a label of contextual and experimental music as well as a publishing house practicing both lead and digital. Its fields of research, experimentation and dissemination are therefore inherently multiple, local and dispersed, poetic and political. The collective Silo organizes each year, during a month, time of meeting and residence within the place of which it bears the name.
Silo 001
The label offers to the artists involved in the project the possibility
to gather and experiment a unique sound setting. Inside a large concrete
silo, the sound endlessly twirl sand spins around.
A narrow door made of cast iron gives access to this cylindrical space
where everything is surrounded by a red glowing darkness.The sound
experience is intro-spective and utterly physical.These moments of
residenciesunfold as timeless wanderings within the circovonlutions of
this vibratile space
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Guts Magnet Sea
Chik White is the moniker of Darcy Spidle, jaw harpist,
tape collagist, non-institutional locally-sourced field recordist, and
founder of the OBEY Convention festival. Spidle was part of the Canadian
crust-punk scene in his younger years, but he eventually evolved
towards more adventurous sides of music. In 2009, after obtaining a
collection of jaw harps, his musical output took its most dramatic turn.
Since then, he has released a string of tapes and records on seminal
underground labels…
The Sea Within
Composed by Maarten Van Cauwenberghe, Elko Blijweert, and Bjorn Eriksson, The Sea Within is a thrilling ménage à trois of acclaimed soundscape artists. As it's already given away by the title, their first collaboration comprises the original scores to The Sea Within, a contemporary-dance performance by Voetvolk, the company of Van Cauwenberghe and dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez. The Sea Within is Voetvolk's second record, after 2017's Bring It To Our Senses, which comprised the original sco…
Bring It To Our Senses
Hand numbered edition of 500 copies with colour printed inner sleeves. Pressed on heavy 180 gram black vinyl, download code included. Bring It to Our Senses contains all music scores originally written by Maarten Van Cauwenberghe for Voetvolk / Lisbeth Gruwez’s triptych of the ecstatic body: a trilogy of dance performances, comprising It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend — 2012, AH/HA — 2014 and We’re pretty fuckin’ far from okay — 2016. All three performances and their corres…
Beside Herself
Michele Mercure often dreams of music, and in her waking life, reclaims
fragments of these fleeting, floating melodies in her compositions and
sound art. Beside Herself, an anthology of Mercure’s self-produced and
distributed cassettes released between 1983 and 1990, collects these
dreamlike passages and lo-fi nocturnes, preserving the qualities of
discovery and intimacy surrounding their genesis. Mercure’s sound is a porous electronic art that overlaps ambient,
abstract, and industrial se…
Monokultur
200 copies. Black vinyl, white cardboard sleeve with postcard attached, stamped white labels, insert. Plays at 45rpm. One of my most cheered moments this year was sitting drunk on my living
room floor when someone put on an unmixed version of 'Lindholmen -
Stenpiren' out of nowhere. Right there and then the most jaw-dropping
amalgamation of the first bunch of Rough Trade 7"s, Berlin Super 80 and
Gothenburg 2018. Monokultur is a new duo that consists of Elin and
Julius from Skiftande Enheter…
Continent
200 copies. Black vinyl, white cardboard sleeve with postcard attached, stamped white labels, insert. Plays at 45rpm. Two new tracks from Canada's Korea Undok Group.
Continent is a record about memory, time and identity, and marks the
first non-reissue vinyl output from KUG. The title track, and a-side of
the record, concerns memory and its disintegration over time. Throughout
our lives, we encounter far too many people, places and things—so many
that it will always be completely impossible…
Path of the Wind
Edition of 200 copies. The unprocessed field recordings of Eisuke Yanagisawa were made all around Japan (2014-17) using Aeolian Harps (a stringed wind harp). On his fourth solo record since 2009, Path of the Wind includes seven tracks with a run time of over forty minutes, each named after their location or single subject as titled. Kyoto-based Yanagisawa is an ethnographer and filmmaker as well. "The Aeolian Harp (also called Wind Harp) is a string instrument that is played by natural wind. It …
Double B
Following up on his remarkable Triangular Trade, sound artist (and operator of the Every Contact Leaves a Trace imprint) Seth Cooke offers with Double B another richly investigated, purposeful work looking into the sonic artifacts of the unresolved dissonances in constellations of history, politics, and media. Through his no-input field recording technique, Cooke brings into consideration the materiality of the inscription devices, a sort of sonic ghost hunting that rewards investigative listeni…
Live Aboard The Sinking Ship
Sold out at source, few copies available. " Karla Borecky and Scott Foust have always wanted to do a live piano duo set, so they set one up aboard a sinking ship! They did two 40 minute sets with songs from The Island Of Taste, Music From The Impossible Salon, Lost At Sea, Postcards, The Synthetic Elements, and our as yet unreleased new LP, The Light That Never Ceases To Fail. They also did a version of Karla's The Still Life (mit radio) and a few new pieces. Everyone seemed to have a good time …
Double Goocher Shop
Double Goocher Shop is the debut release by the duo of Renato Grieco and MP Hopkins, recorded on the island of Syros in Greece. Two nocturnal rascals have woken in the dead of night to touch all your things and move your furniture just a fraction out of place. Eventually these deranged intruders tumble on out of the house to take a sinister romp down passages and and and streets… Double Goocher Shop is the sound of mumbled directions given amongst trespassing removalists. It features the track ‘…