Weather Music
Weather Music features music controlled by the weather and performed on instruments built by Quintron & NYZ.
Diskretion. Funktionsmusik Für Verrichtungsboxen
*300 copies limited edition* Hematic Sunsets are gone - here come the Statische Musen. A new outlet by Asmus Tietchens for musical endeavors that are more formlular or genre based The four long-form tracks of Diskretion explore "ambient" in the broadest sense of the term. Dense layers, slow dynamic progression, moody atmospheres. Asmus Tietchens was born in Hamburg in 1947. Since 1975 he has been working as an independent musician; in 1980 he released his first solo record Nachtstücke. After p…
Ultra-Materials
Andrew Black, who hails from one of the UK's post industrial North West Milltowns has a sensitive feeling for space and its acoustics. Having trained as a designer and operated within the realms of architecture and public space, it was only natural to extend his interest to manipulating field recordings.
The six pieces collected on Ultra-Materials provide an insight into Black's highly sensitive minimalism: they stand for a subtly meandering mediation on room acoustics and place, which are man…
a path with a name
Atte Elias Kantonen is a composer and sound designer based in Helsinki, Finland. “a path with a name” follows well-received releases on Mappa and Active Listeners Club, and finds Kantonen expanding the scope of his dynamic and idiosyncratic practice. Here, he places his listeners within an auditive diorama, affording them myriad views of the microscopic landscapes contained there within. An oneiric narrative is established from the opening track, in which a heavily treated voice proposes a dialo…
La Prise Electronique
"There's a pleasant perfume reminiscent of Air emanating from the music French artist Fabien Guiraud presents on his third album La Prise Électronique (The Electronic Plug) particularly in the filmic element they both share. In the last ten years, diligently clocking up his 10,000 hours with bands like Chateau Marmont and Cargo, Guiraud's work has progressively found focus in music for film, latterly as a member of Odd Collective. The fourteen tracks here represent a snapshot (like a faded Polar…
Cosmic Harmonics
Fourth World music made with an arsenal of drum machines, synthesisers and a guitar. A vividly evocative hour of continuous improvisation charting mythical worlds, nature and counterculture. Recorded live in London, July 2019. Reworked in 2021. Numbered edition of 100. Includes a risograph insert with artwork by Eddie Ruscha. An edited excerpt of the Cosmic Harmonics liner notes by Anton Spice: "Eddie Ruscha makes music with an airbrush. He paints with a theremin. He sees colour where others hea…
Sirens
Eight years after its original release in 2015, and sold out upon release, Umor Rex finally presents a vinyl repress of Sirens, by Kara-Lis Coverdale and LXV. This new edition is limited to 500 copies and comes with revised artwork.
Inspired by the link between seduction and violence, Sirens comprises a series of timbrally vast anamorphic pieces that poise the voice as a newly imagined tool of multiplicity. Processes of sample manipulation, signal processing, routing, and source design inform in…
Minerals
With the trio all hailing from the Pennine moorlands just above the manc sprawl, Jon Collin & Demdike Stare’s shared musical expression understandably reflects a parallax purview that follows leylines between lusher nooks of the inner city and windswept, barren landscapes. Never ones to play it straight, the Swedish Nyckelharpa - a sort of hybrid viola/hurdy gurdy - is deployed deep into a mix of oblique soundscaping, seeping into a swirl of field recordings, screwed spoken word and phosphoresce…
Dolphin
Strut presents an exclusive new collaboration between UK jazz keyboardist Greg Foat and Venetian ambient / electronic maestro Gigi Masin on ‘Dolphin’. Recorded remotely during 2021-2022 the album took shape in the form of mutual compositions, gradually developed and embellished online. Final recording sessions took place at the majestic Chale Abbey Studios on the Isle Of Wight with Moses Boyd (drums), Tom Herbert (bass) and Siobhan Cosgrove (flute, clarinet) adding elements to several pieces. T…
Coil
DiN label boss Ian Boddy follows up his 2020 studio release “Axiom” (DiN64) with another vinyl album length slice of vintage electronic music synth heritage. Whilst there are many focusing in on the world of possibilities of modular synths to the detriment of form and composition Boddy uses his 40 plus years of experience to create six succinct slices of analogue warmth and emotion. The title track which opens procedures is a case in point. Boddy crams into its seven minutes more drama than many…
Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996-2003)
‘Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996-2003)’ is a new in-depth compilation of works by Japanese musician Dream Dolphin.
A Pale Shelter
100 copies limited edition "A Pale Shelter is the kind of record that stops you dead in your tracks without actually really doing very much to create a sonic blockade. It ebbs and flows, glides and meanders through constant refrains, slowly pulling you deeper into thickly textured, minimal waves of ambient, chimes twinkling somewhere in a distant background, echoes of melody creating centerpieces to the arrangements. It's a classic example of what makes Past Inside the Present's output so mesmer…
The City Spoke To Me
*60 copies limited edition* Granny Records presents The City Spoke To Me by Deli Kuvveti. Mastered by Derya Susman. Design & Artwork by Yorgos Vourlidas. Written and Produced by Derya Susman.
A Sequence of Moments in Time
*80 copies limited edition* Granny Records presents A Sequence of Moments in Time by France Jobin. All sounds recorded in Montreal including the Korg Poly 800, The Buchla 200 at Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm.
The Place I've Been Missing
Poised and heartfelt, ‘The Place I’ve Been Missing’ feels like the culmination of Alessio Natalizia’s almost two decades work as a producer, songwriter, prolific collaborator and label founder, bringing together ostensibly disparate stylistic elements gathered on his travels over the years. Comfortable in both colourful pop and downcast modes, here these two ends of his repertoire come together in a way that’s perhaps eluded him in the past, marked by the passing of time and the joyous - and the…
Music From The Living Monument
Carmen Villain follows last years ‘Only Love From Now On’ with this new full length exploration of soporific, slow-moving ambience and disembowelled dub, a score she composed for a contemporary dance performance by acclaimed Choreographer Eszter Salamon. Simply put, it’s one of the most captivating things we’ve heard this year; all luxurious texture-cycles in possession of a delirious, dreamlike quality that hits a rarefied spot somewhere between Aphex Twin’s ‘Selected Ambient Works Vol.II’, cl…
Utopia Or Oblivion
‘Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment. Humanity is in a final exam as to whether or not it might qualify for continuance in the Universe.’
Issue 78: Spiritualized - The Spaceman Reissue Program (Magazine + 7")
We've had Jason Pierce in our sights since the announcement of the Spaceman Reissue Program, which sees the re-release of VIP editions of Spiritualized's first four albums, including 'Pure Phase' and 'Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space'. Jason has always been a high quality interviewee and we found him in terrific form, happy to chat about whatever we threw at him and serving up a cracking Kraftwerk tale along the way.
We're nothing without great stories, which is handy because we hav…
Bamboo From Asia Plus
*First analog LP reissue of a collection of film music works by Takashi Sekiguchi, who is linked to Hiroshi Yoshimura, Inoyama Land, and other renowned catalogs" Originally released from “Crescent”, the label of Sound Process Design Inc., founded by Satoshi Ashikawa, a pioneer of Japanese environmental music. First analog LP reissue of a collection of film music works by Takashi Sekiguchi, who is linked to Hiroshi Yoshimura, Inoyama Land, and other renowned catalogs! “Bamboo From Asia Plus” was…
Tape Hymns
*100 copies limited edition* Tape Hymns is a mesmerizing amalgam of sounds carefully crafted by frequent collaborators zakè and City of Dawn. The warm hiss of analog tape as the foundational structure of these arrangements brings forth pastoral mediations with becalmed, atmospheric intent. Tape Hymns mix echoing sonic tones, slow-drifting sounds with immersive low-end frequencies. Rather than linger in the imperfections of media, the duo pursues an attention to fidelity that forces them to get t…