New Arrivals
I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die
"I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die" is the 4th soundtrack from Stockholm-based visual artist Johanna Billing. The underlying 15-minute film installation is playing in Ostia, Rome, and formulates the utopia of free access to informal learning environments.
A group of young children is leaving the parental dinner party in a restaurant and starts to explore Ostia: ancient ruins, beaches, streets, green backyards and parks. The runaways gain access to an elementary school and discover a storage spac…
Pulheim Jam Session
This vinyl record is part of the exhibition Keeping Time, April 11 June 12, 2016 at Villa Groce, Genova, Italy curated by Ilaria Bonacossa. In cooperation with Hollybush Gardens, London, Kavi Gupta, Chicago and Laveronica Arte Contemporanea, Modica.
"Getting stuck in traffic is a frustrating waste of time. So, watching a video of an orchestrated traffic jam on a country lane for 20-odd minutes might seem like a tedious and annoying thing to do in a gallery. There is, however, some method i…
Stimulus Progression
Eleven field recordings of some of the last remaining MUZAK sound-systems operating in Helsinki, Finland. Recorded in public locations, such as restaurants, malls and parking garages by local film-maker/artist Mika Taanila. These sonic snapshots – ”films without film” – can be seen as a dry contemporary film-take, a variation on the "city symphony” genre in the documentary film tradition. The recordings are site-specific, each track mapping a genuine muzak listening spot in Helsinki. Minimal pro…
Tube Dust DroneBrückenmusik 1995–2015
A long space with a long history: for 20 years, "Brueckenmusik" has invited the cream of international sound art crop to wrest new artworks from the acoustically over-saturated environment of the aging Deutzer Bridge. The works created there are as unique as the space. Over the years the festival has established itself as one of the most prominent and longest running sound art series in Germany. For its anniversary, the book offers a documentary look back at the entire series with celebratory …
Moenai Hai
"Having basically dropped off the face of the earth fifteen years ago, Juntaro Yamanouchi gives Moenai Hai a sense of enigma: some contextual food for thought, and some inconclusive ideas. The sudden, low-hype release of Moenai Hai leads one to believe that The Gerogerigegege’s creative driving force is conflicted, but dedicated, presenting something that needed to be said, but not how Yamanouchi might normally say it. It’s sorta futile to outline The Gerogerigegege’s typical modes of communicat…
Dracula
There is not much to say about the music composed by James Bernard for the Dracula Hammer Films. Everyone knows what we are talking about here. And this version is probably the definitive edition. The new revised artwork includes a rare picture of the late Maestro, taken from his estate's private collection. The complete recordings remastered from the original analog tapes. Master and sound restoring done by Roberto Zamori at Film Music Art Studio.
Scott 4
From the 2013 remasters taken from the original analogue tapes Back to Black is proud to present Scott Walker’s fourth album. This was his first record to be entirely filled with his own compositions. Songs were credited to Scott Engel and the mood became even more reflective. Here the influence to come into play was Ingmar Bergman - and the album opens with the song – The Seventh Seal – his version of the film in five minutes. For many the highlights of this album are Angels of Ashes and Boy Ch…
Through Mysterious Exotic Barricades: Asian & African
Philip Corner (b. 1933) studied composition with Henry Cowell and Otto Luening and musical analysis with Oliver Messiaen. During the 1960s and '70s he was an active member of Fluxus, a founder (along with James Tenney and Malcolm Goldstein) of the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble, the resident musician and composer for the Judson Dance Theatre, and co-founder of Gamelan Son of Lion (with Barbara Benary and Daniel Goode).
Corner uses a variety of scoring methods, and in his word:"Along with tha…
New Feeling Come
Finally, Ectoplasm Girls's long awaited second album is here!!! The Stockholm duo of sisters Tanya and Nadine Byrne is making an unique blend of post techno, industrial and esoteric pop. This is truly honest, dreamy, dark, evoking music and the heart of their power is their ability to go from light to dark in an instant, or deliver both at the same time, something only artists like Coil has done as freely before. Pulsating stuff, ambient soundscapes, deep hopelessness, comforting lights. …
Plays Sudden Infant'
Joke Lanz travels down memory lane! Two decks a mixer and a dozen of old Sudden Infant vinyls to spin, scratch, manoeuvre, loop and juggle into a narrative new composition. Recorded and mastered by Rashad Becker in Berlin, this album combines Joke Lanz' unique turntablism and intuition for mutant-body-dramas peppered with a great sense of humour from the rhythms of amplified faders and his own breath to spoken interjections of Bryan Lewis Saunders' dream lyrics. You can dance, you can cry, …
This Bitter Earth
This is the completing release to John Duncan's masterful 'Bitter Earth' LP (iDEAL129). Here, Duncan is covering songs by Gladys Knight ('This Bitter Earth'), Pere Ubu ('Final Solution') and Jule Styne ('I Fall In Love Too Easily'). Beautiful versions by one of the most important conceptual artists of our time. Edition: 200.
Trouble
Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve. "'Every time I hear their recordings, I'm reminded that they are one of the greatest rock bands to ever pick up a guitar and attempt to play it wrong. Listening to The Dead C causes me to think differently. It brings up emotions with which I'm otherwise unfamiliar. It strikes to the essence of my being and reveals what otherwise remains hidden. I take solace in knowing that one out of every thirty of you reading this know exactly what I'm talking about.…
Enfances à Dunois le 8 janvier 1984
Daunik Lazro, alto saxophone, Joëlle Léandre, bass, voice, George Lewis, trombone, toys. Recorded at Dunois in Paris on January 8, 1984, by Jean-Marc Foussat.
Austral Soundscapes
A double CD loosely following on from their ‘Trajectories’ release. This is further work from the recordings about a trip Phil Mouldycliff and Colin Potter made to Australiato play some music at the Horizon Planetarium in Perth. A piece of music to 'accompany a simulated trip through the universe created by Carley Tilet using SkyScan in the 18metre full-dome project space'. 'Universal' makes up fifty-two minutes of the first disc. On the second disc one finds two further pieces, 'Auspex Australi…
Juarez
Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and visual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Widely celebrated as a masterpiece—arguably the greatest concept album of all time—his spare, haunting 1975 debut LP Juarez is a violent, fractured tale of the chthonic American Southwest and borderlands. Produced in collaboration with the artist and meti…
Romanzi nell I
Romanzi Nelle I is a stunning new work by Italian sound poet and artist Enzo Minarelli (b.1951). Romanzi Nelle I takes inspiration from the sacred work of Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291), the Jewish mystic and father of linguistic permutation. This edition fully documents the piece, containing audio, video, and literary content. It is rare to get to examine a composition so closely, and I have found to it be an important exercise. Enzo's years of work as a performer and curator come to shine he…
The Guardian
Reissue of the 1982 LP by Chicago street musician, bluesman, actor, storyteller and truth seeker known as Little Howlin' Wolf. Wolf is also a true outsider, whose wrenching soulfulness and fire-brained intensity have been captured in a breadcrumb trail of confounding and intentionally obscure self-released records.
In the late 1960s Wolf -- born James Pobiega in 1950 -- was already a saxophone wailing fixture at the legendary Chicago hangout, Maxwell Street Market. By the mid-1980s he rele…
Morning Glory
At the time of its original release in 1973, Morning Glory, seemed a surprising departure for saxophonist John Surman. It seemed to owe more to the music being made by Miles Davis, Weather Report andTony Williams' Lifetime in the USA or Ian Carr's Nucleus and Soft Machine in the UK than it did to the often abstract, free but determinedly acoustic music that Surman had pioneered up to that point. Hindsight tells another story. Morning Glory stands as both a consolidation of his work to date and, …
Focus on the centre of your skull
Saturn And The Sun's second album is called 'Focus On The Centre Of Your Skull' and is a deep thing zooming in to mess with your mind. Heavy, psychedelic electronic music that draws fuel from 80's industrial stuff as swell as minimal techno and probably some dub too. Extremely limited to 200 copies, this new album by ex-Union Carbide Productions member and sound artist Henrik Rylander and iDEAL label boss Joachim Nordwall. Together they has also served time for more than a decade as slaves…
Ali Zarin
With the massive amount of material Bryn Jones had left in the vaults when he passed away in 1999, it's hard to truly assess his progression, stylistic or otherwise, over the years. And his reasons for choosing to release one tape's worth of material over another's were sometimes as mysterious as anything else about his work as Muslimgauze. But upon stumbling onto the material found on the undated tape known as Ali Zarin, it's hard not to wonder how it would have been received if it had bee…