New Arrivals
Vent
Matthew P Hopkins has established himself as a formidable presence in the experimental circuit courtesy of a diverse range of projects including Naked on the Vague's debased rock, Half High's blurred dreams and Four Door's take on techno. Penultimate Press is proud to reissue Hopkins' second solo effort originally issued as a micro edition self released cdr. 'Vent' proposes a Frankenstein assemblage of the awry ambience heard on the recently acclaimed 'Nocturnes' lp merged with a more extreme t…
Impasse
Impasse is a sideways journey into the archives of London based artist Luke Younger, aka Helm. Originally conceived six years ago in the wake of a Birds of Delay tour, an edited version of Impasse saw the light of day as a mini cdr on the low point label in 2008. This expanded re-issue has the two original tracks remastered along with two other pieces from the same sessions that remained unmixed and unreleased until a couple of years ago. Impasse is somewhat of an anomaly in the Helm canon when …
Music and Words 2
Music and Words 2 is the much-delayed second instalment in an ongoing series of archival documents of Adam Bohman's early work. As with the first volume, this CD is divided into two separate areas of his work. Adam is probably best known as an improviser, playing prepared instruments and objects, but the music here uses little of these purely-improvised techniques. On this CD, the musical sections consist of idiosyncratic lo-fi songs alongside short collage pieces and other experiments, recorded…
Came to Call Mine
Came to Call Mine is a deluxe new art book by visionary musician artist and writer Graham Lambkin. Playing out like a children's book for adults 'Came to Call Mine' features 50 all new colour illustrations coupled with corresponding texts. Over a year in the making these works are intrinsically detailed forays on the pencil-to-paper, mind-to-hand alliance. With only residual traces of human activity we explore a world of noxious environments; a nuclear windstorm singalong of joyous mutations …
Kang gling meeting
A DVD + 45RPM single by Vincent Epplay around the Kang Gling instrument. Recorded in Germany and France in 2013. Like a new procession music made with these bones trumpets used in Tibetan music. Gunter Schickert is a German musician who has played with UFO, Klaus Schulze, etc. Jac Berrocal is a well known French musician. Ghazi Barakat has played as and also with Brezel Göring, Felix Kubin, etc. Vincent Epplay recorded and mixed the tracks and released the movies on the DVD with the help o…
Signature
Refraction without the appearance of colour.' Virilio is the sound project of Dimitris ‘KU' Papadatos and Corinna 'Cosi' Triantafyllidis. The duo launched their experimentations in 2008 initially recording their Skype improv sessions under the moniker Cassettine & KU. The Virilio project, launched in 2010 and it has been their main common vehicle in covering their sonar explorations and experiences in electroacoustic music and subtractive synthesis. They have performed in various occasions from …
Slipping control
Slipping Control derives from the text piece “Tztztztzt Î Í Í…” wrote last year by Ben Vida (and published as a book by Shelter Press). Composed to act as a score, a sound piece and as raw data for electronic control source, “Tztztztzt Î Í Í…” became the intrinsic element that tied some different pieces of art made by Ben Vida and presented at the eponymous show at AVA Gallery (NY, USA) in april 2013. 'I was interested in the rhythm of speaking, interested in using the voice to create rhythmic p…
Mr. Jolly Fucker / Tweet Tweet Tweet
Limited edition repress of this great single by the Notts duo who're now garnering well-deserved attention for their manic blend of punk'tude, crude beats, frazzled electronics and insightful yet acerbic wordplay. 325 only, in clear vinyl and different amended sleeves to the now sold out first pressing.
La messe de terre
A two-part audio-logo-visual Liturgy. Created on August 28th 1996 at the Video Art festival in Locarno. This DVD edition is dedicated to Jean-Patrick Lebel. 'Figurative but non narrative fresco, La Messe de Terre superposes, without mixing them up, the everyday world, the 'here below', a world where the earth is crossed or riddled by water, and the latin text of the catholic mass. This text, chanted or shouted, is made comprehensible by French subtitles and optional English subtitles. The whole …
Kaleidoscope
The idea for the Kaleidoscope works came from the composers' memories of playing with the prismatic toy of the same name as a child. The toy, of course, consists of colored beads in a tube of mirrors, whose reflections generate complex symmetrical patterns that change dramatically in density and texture as the tube is turned. With these pieces the aim was to emulate such dynamic spatial activity through sound, distributing fragmentary materials in space and immersing the listener in a rich and e…
Empty orchestras
Peter Orins project could be called an accompanied solo. The drummer has designed an electronic device autonomous enough to influence him in his play in an almost unpredictable way. Therefore a kind of dialogue is established between the musician and the electronics where the usual roles are reversed: the drummer offers an insistent and repetitive form, transformations and random treatments performed live cause the disorder conducive to improvisation. Magnified timbres or on the contrary disturb…
Object subject to change
Object Subject To Change' is Henrik Rylander's fourth album for iDEAL but the first since 2009. Rylander is king of hypnotizing, focused feedback drone with razorsharp noise and monotonous pulse. Music that feels as comfortable in academic worlds as in filthy basements. Henrik Rylander was the drummer of the provocative, sweaty and chaotic garage rock band Union Carbide Productions (1987-1993). After a few years focusing on his visual art (photography) he started experimenting in sound and espec…
We Thought We Could Change the World. Conversations With Gérard Rouy
One day in 2008 an old friend of mine came to me and said, 'I want to make a film about Peter Brötzmann, do you want to be part of it?' What a question! He didn't know that much about (free) jazz and freely improvised music but from the late 70s on, he had been very much attracted - as we all were - by the graphic work of most of the Free Music Production records, a lot of them being worked out by Brötzmann. He also knew that I had been one of Brötzmann's great fans and I had been acquainted to …
Kartacz
If I were to look at the ideas promoted by the Experimental Studio against Ma e Instrumenty's practices, I would refer to the concept of music which is - for certain reasons - 'impossible' studio electronic productions, preparing instruments, using and editing tapes - all those practices once broadened the perspectives of the art of sound. However, the 'unreachable' sound combinations produced by Ma e Instrumenty could also be considered as an attempt to overcome the 'impossibility' in music. Ho…
Polygamy
In all respects, Andrzej Biezan (1945-83) was an original and creative composer. His main means of expression were intuitive creation based on general assumptions and well balanced improvisation respecting proportions typical of traditional narrative. According to Biezan's approach, music that is written down is 'music about music'. True creation is only possible in the present moment - neither in the past nor in the future. It is an activity performed in real time. Any reference to the r…
Songbook 5
In May 2013, Disembraining invited Mattin to Australia to conceive a series of works addressing the question What is not music? The question refers respectfully to the long-running Australian experimental festival What is Music? reframing it as negation in order to investigate -What sounds remain impossible to assimilate? What isn't music ? Mattin responded by creating the 5th edition of his songbook series: an ongoing work that uses 'improvisation as a way or exposing structural clichés in pop-…
Becs
CD edition: the last time Fennesz released an album on Austrian label Mego it was 2001 and the name of that release was 'Endless summer'. Now, in 2014 Editions Mego is extremely proud to release the conceptual follow up that landmark of abstract pop. Bécs (pronounced 'baeetch') is Hungarian for Vienna and is the first full length Fennesz solo release since 2008's 'Black Sea'. Eschewing the more drone orientated works of 'Black Sea', 'Bécs' returns to the more florid pop mechanisms as dep…
Figueroa Terrace
**Singular 35 minute piece of analog modular composition** "Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and installation artist based in Berlin. Since 2006 his main instrument, both live and in the studio, has been the Serge analogue modular synthesizer. Acoustic phenomena such as sound reflections, infrasonic vibration, otoacoustic emissions, and highly directional projections of sound have been an important part of his work since the early 2000's. In the winter of 2011-2012 Ankersmit was invited by …
Holocaust
Ultralimited, comes as transparent red vinyl. Re-issue of industrial music's 'holy grail', released back in 1984 on Eskimo Records. Not much is known about this obscure Japanese band, White Hospital are a duo, Jun Konagaya of Grim and Tomo Kuwahara of Vasilisk. In the early 80s Jun formed White Hospital together with Tomasada Kuwahara. They released one album called “Holocaust” in 1984 and a 7″ “We Wish You Are Merry X’mas”. Kuwuhara moved on to Vasilisk, while Jun released a number of solo r…
Mkwaju
Re-issue of Japanese tribal/industrial pioneers, released back in 1988 on Eskimo Records. Originally recorded and mixed in Tokyo from December '87 to May '88, now remastered with additional bonus track. Comes as transparent blue vinyl.