La Disparition
** Glass mastered CD. 6-panel digisleeve (coated 350gms cardboard). Matte finish. Text by Xavier Veilhan. Designed by Mote Studio ** Inspired by Georges Perec's lipogrammatic novel “La Disparition”, written without the use of the letter e. The music score and its interpretation reflect constraint as a process. The score is dedicated to Reinier Van Houdt. — Score and photography by Bruno Duplant. Renato Grieco plays double bass and baroque double bass. Recorded by Renato Grieco.
Narayan
** Edition of 300 ** Wildly unexpected and crushingly good turn of drone metal from Tape Loop Orchestra’s Andrew Hargreaves and collaborator ‘Metal’ Dave Rothary, with artwork by illustrator of the grim, John Powell-Jones. Narayan commit a pair of monstrous tracks years in the making and left to marinate in the vault until the stars aligned. With lockdown finally bringing the world to its knees and their pace, the time has finally come for ‘Narayan’ to seep out; presenting one side of claw-hande…
Losing Circles
** Edition of 200 ** Marcia Bassett and Thomas Dimuzio create a mind-bending synthesis of sound and place on their debut LP Losing Circles. Get ready for a head trip, the album is a sublime manifestation of sound interference, texture, and ultra, low-end synth waves that literally penetrate the listener's body. The pair bonded over their Buchla systems, first meeting at Thomas's radio show, Frequency Modulation Radio at KFPA, Berkeley, California where they had their initial improv jam. Their se…
Trying to play Nothing
A recording of Samuel Beckett’s “Text for Nothing #8” read by Jack McGowan 1958 (used without permission) is burned to a CDR with 99 index points. A Sony Discman in shuffle mode attempts struggles to play the disc. Electromagnetic signals of struggling CD player mechanics are recorded, edited and collaged into two pieces.
Joe Colley is a visual artist and composer based in Sacramento, CA. He investigates audio phenomena, using field recordings and electronics. He also records under the name Cra…
Sounds Passing Through Circumstances
** First pressing of 200 with artwork by Tiny Little Hammers ** Astral Spirit presents Sounds Passing Through Circumstances by Jayve Montgomery: Saxophone, Flute, and effects & Nick Turner: Mellotron and effects. Written and recorded by Montgomery and Turner in the spring/summer of 2020. Mixed by Drew Sullivan and Nick Turner. Mastered by by Drew Sullivan at SDS Studio (WA). Artwork & Layout by Tiny Little Hammers.
North of the Future
** First pressing of 200 cassettes on White shells ** Music for constructing a new localized reality, North of The Future is a document of sonic purging by Gryphon Rue and Merche Blasco, recorded under conditions of straitjacketed stasis and thick idle air. Seeded in a deep yearning to sound together and disrupt the external circumstances, the collection charts non-idiomatic improvisations bound to deformations of time and place.
The shimmering Super Tender introduces us to North Of The Future’s…
Labyrinthe de Violence
The venerable Alga Marghen returns with "Labyrinthe de Violence", their new release of previously unreleased recordings by Luc Ferrari connected to his Atelier de Libération de la Musique experience, this time sprawling across two stunning LPs. Capturing the four soundtracks conceived for the Galiéra Museum installation in Paris, we encounter the composer imbued with politics and social concern, in a dramatic atmosphere like he's rarely been heard. Absolutely astounding and as historically impor…
Reading The City
** Edition of 300 ** Oracle and AudioMER. are honoured to announce the release of a new LP; Reading the City with music by oracle, Laszlo Umbreit & Mira Sanders. In 2019 oracle invited artist Mira Sanders to interact with their practice through her writing. Due to the corona crisis, their shared working time couldn’t happen in the planned way: “The writing project was originally planned as an exchange while travelling together one week on the Buratinas boat, navigating on the canals and rivers s…
Eighteen Movements
‘Eighteen Movements’ is a collection of recordings captured at live performances between 2017 – 2019, now brought to vinyl for the first time. On a meditative outing of rich textures, ambient soundscapes, tribal rhythms, field recordings, and ritualistic atmospheres, Parisian artist D.K. is engaged in full flight mode, illustrating the project’s aptitude for deep transcendence. Chronicled in the moment, alternating between rhythm and repose, momentum and aviation, 'Eighteen Movements' sees D.K. …
Avatar Blue Vol.2
Spencer Clark is back with Vol.2 of his eco-friendly extravaganza Avatar Blue. It’s life on earth as you never heard it. The story goes like this: Spencer Clark wanted to do a soundtrack for the yet to be made Avatar 2. And if you know Spencer’s work, you’ll know that he engaged on this mission reading material that influenced the rich and crazy imaginary world of Avatar. If you think about it a little bit, something like Avatar could have really come out from the mind of Spencer Clark. But it d…
Soliloquies 1984-1994
** Edition of 150 ** A selection of 12 compositions that reveal the more intimate side of Paul Chain’s multifaceted artistic personality: electronic music. Closely connected with “Opera Decima”, “Dies Irae” and “Emisphere”, these tracks were performed by Paul Chain between 1984 and 1994. Never Officially Released Digitally Remastered From The Legendary “Relative Tapes”.
The Magnificent Void
** 2021 Stock ** Hearts Of Space Record presents The Magnificent Void, a Magnum Opus of pure oceanic sound and Steve Roach's most sophisticated atmospheric work to date. The final track "Altus", Latin for both "high" and "deep", says much about this work. The most demanding and textural of Roach's work, it has more in common with 20th century avant-garde than other genres. A chilling and beautiful continuous flow of harmonic sound-worlds. Melody and harmony are present throughout in a surreal pl…
A Pink Sunset for No One
With each successive release, the self-sustaining universe that is Sarah Lipstate’s output as Noveller pushes outward. Her instrumental sound—built from guitar loops run through pedals—has evolved well past its drone-anchored early incarnation. That relied on layers of distortion to create meditative spaces that enveloped the listener; more recently, synths and percussion have entered her sprawling compositions. A Pink Sunset for No One is ruled by a newly epic sense of scale and narrative. For …
Six Gun Shots - Deconceptualize 2
** Edition of 100 ** Corvo presents Six Gun Shots - Deconceptualize 2 by Stefan Röme. Six shots ring out in a deadly rhythm – in my memory. For this sound piece, a sampled gunshot from the sound library freesound.org was arranged in a sequence of six in Audacity. The individual shots differ in filtering and in their relation to each other in time. All six shots are repeated in the beginning and end. Each shot opens up a different drone, processed with the free audio software »Paul’s Stretch« so …
Post-Human Folk Music
** 2021 Stock ** Maurizio Marsico is one of the most extrovert, versatile and prolific musicians on the Italian scene. Always fascinated by artificial sounds and the interaction between man and machine, Marsico is an emblematic example of those musicians who - despite being born in an academic environment - deal with modernity and technology. During his career he has been able to range from austere experimentation to typically 80s Italodisco, from collaborations with RAI programme to cosmic elec…
Poison Is (Not) The Word
The third entry in the 12"/MLP subs series. In early September 2011, Theme, the Poland/UK-based group centered around Lumberton Trading Company's very own Richard Johnson (ex-Splintered, Husk, etc.) and Stuart Carter (ex-Splintered, The Fields Of Hay, ex-Heroin, etc.), went into a Budapest studio with their good friends Zsolt Sörés and Jean-Hervé Péron (aka Art-Errorist of influential German group, Faust) for two whole days. The main piece, entitled "Poison Is (Not) The Word," pays witness to Th…
Vinyl On Demand Box Sets bundle
This bundle collects the three recent Box Sets released by Vinyl-On-Demand, contents are the following:
- Muslimgauze "Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88" (11 CD Box)- Clock DVA "Clock DVA - Horology - Anthology Vol. 1-3 - " (15 CD Box + T-shirt)- SPK "S.P.K. Dokument - Recordings 1979-1983" (7 CD Box + T-shirt)Muslimgauze "Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88" (11 CD Box)
CD01 Opaque (1983)CD02 Kabul (1983)CD03 Hunting Out With An Aerial Eye / Hammer & Sickle (1983 / 1984)CD04 Buddhis…
Horology - Anthology Vol. 1-3
**Epic 15 CD box set, coming as a deluxe book-like folder, compiles all the Clock DVA material previously issued by Vinyl-On-Demand on the three vinyl-only box sets Horology, Horology II and Horology III. Includes t-shirt.** With bands like Cabaret Voltaire leading the way, Sheffield, in the north of England, has long been known for pioneering the hybrid zone between punk and electronic music during the late 1970s. Among the first of them all was Clock DVA, founded in 1978 by Adi Newton from the…
Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88
**Epic 11 CD box set, coming as a deluxe book-like folder, compiles the earliest material from Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze dating back to 1983 and up to 1988. It includes a whole raft of mindblowing productions that will surprise and inspire anyone with even just a vague notion of what the sound of Muslimgauze was really all about.** For years, Vinyl-On-Demand has offered a special level of devotion to the legendary solo ventures of the Manchester, UK, based artist Bryn Jones, better known as Mus…
Griots
Gerald Cleaver's second electronic album, jointly released by 577 Records sub label Positive Elevation and Meakusma. It sees Cleaver further exploring the depths of electronic music offered by his hometown Detroit, combining those influences with his personal musical background as a jazz drummer.