Reissues
The South of the East
The South of the East is the debut album from Tenggara Trio, comprising of improvisors from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Like previous Lao Ban Records releases it has Yong Yandsen gargling, screeching, skronking and more on the tenor saxophone,…
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 an…
Le Vaisseau Blanc
Recorded December 1980 - April 1983. Fantastic cosmic, space, ambient and experimental music from mysterious French duo Annanka Raghel and Ivan Coaquette (formerly of Spacecraft and Musica Elettronica Viva). Originally released in 1983 as a limited e…
Ikona
Lola V.Stain was a not so typical band formed in 1987 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. They took inspiration for the name from a Marguerite Duras novel. Their music can be described as avant-garde, electro-acoustic ambient with Macedonian ethno inf…
Artists' Voices
Edition of 350 copies. Triple LP with sound pieces by Rita Ackermann, Gerard Byrne, Valentin Carron, Claire Fontaine, Jason Dodge, Giulia Essyad, Sylvie Fleury, Gilles Furtwängler, Mathis Gasser, Marcus Geiger / Heimo Zobernig, Vivienne Griffin & Kas…
Dictaphones
Limited edition of 200 copies. Soberly entitled “Dictaphones”, this LP draws on twenty years of archives recorded by Charles Pennequin on mini-cassettes. Spontaneous recordings of his readings, unpublished solitary monologues, vocal and sound experim…
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 e…
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 be…
The Next
Pacific City Sound Visions greets wonder again, this fall, to bring you a third vinyl release from the late 80's early 90's experimental/industrial european scene. Another special release on Spencer Clarks incredible label. Big Tip on this! Limited t…
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 Impossi…
Not Even A Hint Of Darkness
Alec Livaditis is an improvising cellist, currently residing in Athens (Greece), where he regularly performs in solo and duo settings. Using the cello as a sound object, his music is concerned with space, pattern, timbre, and texture. He first appear…
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…
Can We Win
Shots Bring It In. Due to weather, noise complaints, lack of time, artistic choice, or some combination thereof, Shots’ myriad instrumentation moves indoors. On Can We Win the characteristic outdoor resonance of previous releases is replaced by a tig…
2018: Recent Amelioration of Lingering Proprioceptive Issues (Ta
Nice tape from the reliable Guido Gamboa, who also runs the excellent Pentiments label. Two side long tracks, both with long titles like the tape itself. "My original approach was that of a fairly standard concrète bricolage that has characterized my…
Benzedrine Bonanza
Where spring LP Omelette Of Disease was an orgy in painfully hard driven feedback, and the early summer cassette Overdrive focused on rumbling low-end, Benzedrine Bonanza brings a live all-at-once approach. Not unlike Schakalens Bror's earliest casse…
Public Announcement Program
Delirious, drippy wormhole from the new family band of Gothenburg free music.."No info on this other than 'Pig is a family band' and 'Recreational abstract dream music' scrawled haphazardly on the inside spine of the gaudy j-card. The music declarati…
Kallt Kaffe
Dan Johansson, Matthias Andersson, and Erik Nystrand blasting all the way off as they’re known to do, guaranteed to please the throng of superfans. "Heinz Hopf is a trio of Matthias Andersson, Dan Johansson, and Erik Nystrand. You have seen all these…
Highway / Nightmare
Nobuo Yamada is a Japanese experimental/noise artist, known to me from his side project Artbreakhotel, and some collaborative works The New Blockader, Toshiji Mikawa etc. Highway / Nightmare is the 2 long compositions that are included to this beauti…
Embedded
AMK & Willie Zarate bring you a noisy collection that steals liberally from Leonard Cohen, Witold Lutosławski, Borbatomagus and Gary Numan, combining it with overzealous use of string instruments, record players, distortion boxes, junk electronics an…
Engines Of Desire
Since the early 80s, Blackhumour has been stubbornly dedicated to an
investigation of the cracks which exist in common speech practice and
the vacancy of the signifier. Vocal event is mined for stochastic
determinism and glottal smut. While affini…