Marina Herlop's most ambitious work, self-released: one unbroken body of music built on the Hero's Journey, with orchestral brass for the first time and gamelan recorded in Bali.
Ten tracks of dark, slow-motion dub by Ravenna photographer and field recordist Adriano Zanni, built from delays, reverb and recordings of abandoned places, from Pripyat to Craco. Limited grey vinyl on Bronson Recordings.
Telmegiddo, recorded in February 1983 at the Mectpyo Studio, was Maurizio Bianchi's last tape decomposition before his long hiatus. Mercium reissues it on CD, remastered: two parts of about 25 minutes.
Maurizio Bianchi with P.U.M.A. (Luca Valisi and Monica Calanni Rindina): ten pieces of drones, synths, field recordings and voice titled after THX 1138, Eraserhead, Stalker and other dystopian films. CDr, 100 copies.
Split in two doses: Uncodified (Corrado Altieri) and Mademoiselle Bistouri (Claudio Frassine) spank each other across two mini CDrs of noise and power electronics. 48 handmade copies, each with a coloured paddle.
Maurizio Bianchi's N.E.S.W. (Negativity-Enmity-Spurn-Worse), first issued by Lona Records in 2014, back on CDr: four long tracks that rotate the points of the compass, almost seventy minutes. 30 copies.
Maurizio Bianchi's Erthion, first issued by Young Girls Records in 2010, back on CDr: eight tracks titled after verses of the biblical Lamentations, about an hour, mastered by Pharmakustik. 30 copies with mini poster.
Maurizio Bianchi's March-Ex, first issued by Lona Records in 2009, back on CDr from BeTon Raw: five tracks, about an hour, with the voice of Yoko Ishimoto Kamimura and mastering by Siegmar Fricke. 30 copies.
Two sixteen-minute pieces of anenoises and choictronics recorded by Maurizio Bianchi as M.B. in 2017 at the Emoptyc studio in Opera, with artwork built on photos of anechoic chambers. 30 copies on BeTon Raw.
Maurizio Bianchi's Kathamenja, first issued by Lona Records in 2011, back on CDr from BeTon Raw: five tracks, close to seventy minutes, with the original preface printed in the package. 30 copies.
Sacher-Pelz, the 1979 solo project that preceded M.B., in a CDr reissue of L.E. Cherz Pas, first out on TIBProd. in 2010: four long pieces, about an hour of music. 30 copies in a black envelope.
Maurizio Bianchi's Carcimetrio, first issued by Simple Logic in 2006, back on CDr: four long pieces named after tumours and growths, over seventy minutes, mastered by Siegmar Fricke. 30 copies.
Tip! When Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson passed away in 2010, he left several projects in different stages of completion. In 2014, seven of these tracks were assembled by people close to him and released as Time Machines II on a limited deluxe memory stick. The edition sold out almost immediately and has since become a collector’s item.
Despite its title, Time Machines II is very different from Coil’s 1998 drone classic. More varied in sound, it recalls instrumental Coil works such as The Restitu…
Scanner reworks an hour of Nurse with Wound material into six pieces named after homeopathic remedies: radio static, processed voices and squeaky guitars in an echoing maze. Double vinyl, the fourth side etched by Babs Santini.
F.J. Ossang's MKB Fraction Provisoire, recorded in ten days in 1993 with Jac Berrocal: machine loops, typewriter-speed poetry and noise'n'roll. Remastered 2023, deluxe CD with lyrics booklet.
Nurse With Wound's 1979 debut, newly mastered from the original 1978 source. Metallic purple gatefold sleeve, purple particle effect vinyl limited to 300 numbered copies. Three long pieces of collage, drones and studio improvisation.
The 2021 remaster of Fripp's 1980 album, one side of Frippertronics and one of Discotronics with David Byrne, Busta Jones and Paul Duskin, with almost half an hour of extra material.
The 2021 David Singleton remaster of Fripp's 1981 Frippertronics album, on CD for the first time in decades, with three extra tracks found during the work on the Exposures box.
The Frippertronics residency of July and August 1981 in New York, on CD with a DVD carrying the same material in 24/48 hi-res stereo and DTS-HD surround, in digipak with slipcase.