.... And Take The Black Worm With Me
*2023 strock* As a founding member of Dublin experimental folk group Lankum, Ian Lynch explores submerged leylines of music and song. Forging a musical path that is all at once dark, mysterious and foreboding, but ultimately transcendental. His new solo project One Leg One Eye sees him taking a fresh approach to musical arrangement culminating in a sound that is more rooted in the raw aesthetics of second wave black metal than contemporary folk. The project was born across 2021, a period in whic…
Night-Time Birds
Debut album by Akane, a new bedroom solo project by Tenerife's Carolina Machado - best known for her role as drummer and singer in space rock psychedelic outfit Gaf y La Estrella de la Muerte. Cooked and slowly matured over the last couple of years, Carolina opens up her heart to present an intimate collection of dreamy avant pop songs under the banner title Night-Time Birds.
With various nods to David Lynch’s dreamlike imagery and weird americana landscapes, Carolina gracefully merges her own lo…
Goldblum
Goldblum is the self-titled debut by Marijn Verbiesen (Red Brut) and Michiel Klein (Lewsberg, Geo). This vinyl edition is a re-issue of the cassette released on Het Generiek in 2020. The duo creates lo-fi sound collages working with flea market cassettes, tape-loops, keyboards and vocals in both English and Dutch.
Goldblum started out as a live act, improvising with random tape-loops to often messy but glorious results. The six tracks on this tape however are carefully constructed to create a mi…
Paisajes Imaginarios
*2023 stock* Paisajes Imaginarios is a collection of piano-based and lo-fi sonic frequencies made with tape manipulation. The idea was to create something that transports the listener and helps instill reflection and enable retreat from everyday life.
The Whorls
While listening to Malvern Brume’s new cassette tape for Kashual Plastik, the author of these lines reasoned about scripts for notorious movie opening scenes. Those impressive ones, that suck all in into the whirlwind of a celluloid story, brightened by a touch of evil. The London based experimental producer’s art tempts you into a veiled domain, where the notes between the notes, the sounds underneath the sounds create characters of their own, stretching the story into each listener’s very own …
Your Event Is Our Rehearsal
An iris opens: in the near future, electrons and light will flow freely, and corporate computer networks will eclipse the stars. Despite great advances in computerization, oppressive heat slows progress. It's time now. Let's move to the rendezvous point. Some minutes ago, our brains were hacked into a data-line. They vibrate in a sublime blend of wave abstractions, Le Théâtre Du Chêne Noir jazz, sliding folk blues, otherworldly reverberations, gut instinct electronica, and droning psychedelia, c…
Looted Lagoons
Everything makes me dream… Id comes to life achromatic, briefly thoroughly illuminated by light. Instantly colors leak from above and slowly darkness covers the spreadsheet with all that many allegorical, symbolic, mystic shades. Noble, good, useful, mean, unnecessary, common, and beautiful. Mélancolies du voyage, floating in an ocean of mixed ratios.
Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* "'Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom' is the new LP from Glasgow-based music originator Wormhook. The music therein, we understand, emerged for highly personal therapeutic reasons; nevertheless to describe it as ‘idiosyncratic’ would do a disservice both to Wormhook and to the concept of idiosyncrasy. While the record is certainly a profoundly unique, irreplicable creation, its music is nevertheless based on a viscer…
Form & Feeling
Nein Rodere is the moniker of the Berlin-based music maker and visual artist David Roeder. Having played in bands for more than 20 years - often times making improvised music with other “non-musicians” - Roeder was trained in painting and psychodynamic art therapy. This multifaceted background underpins the complex humour and multiple dimensions of meaning (and double meaning) that bubble below his work. The body of solo efforts that has slowly emerged over the last five years brings to mind the…
Fallin
*In process of stocking* Georgian artist Ani Zakareisvili layers crackly Basinski-esque piano loops with crunch-fried vocal snippets on her charming debut release. Proper hypnagogic gear for fans of Harold Budd, Erik Satie, or The Caretaker.
Over the last few decades, the romantic piano music of the not-so-distant past has slipped into a repetitive role, selling us everything from lifestyles and cars to coffee and package vacations. Its usage in cinema has been ubiquitous, so Zakareisvili's "Fal…
Another Night In Peru
The first new album from Florida based audio composer Wave Temples in almost 6 years. A synthesized soundscape of distant waves and deep ocean trenches. Sounds that evoke tropical nights and distant sunrises, quietly portraying a horizon between the turquoise tones of the sea and the shimmering coral-red burning streaks of the sky.
Thorn Valley
*In process of stocking* “Let me fly you home. We can talk on the way”
Thorn Valley is a 20 song assemblage of various transmissions from the ever diffuse and widening DIY underground, released to mark the four year anniversary of World of Echo.
Νεκροαστικα
*Limited Edition of 120 copies* A hallucinated vampire woman wanders in an ill-famed square in the city, in a basement, a mad shaman tries to revive a man with macabre botany experiments, gangs of chaos-worshiping thugs challenge each other with machetes in the city center, a teenage party turns into a bloody orgy, a clandestine radio station transmits sound frequencies that drive people crazy ... these and many other oddities you will find in the mysterious cult-movie entitled "Nekroastika", sh…
In Another Land Pt. 3
*In process of stocking.* "This is the third and concluding part of the trilogy "In Another Land“. It is not the dialectic synthesis of its antagonistic predecessors, it is just one of three equivalent antipodes that could have been released in any order. Mostly percussive and constantly transforming structures are weaving their net through both sides of this album. Processes of convergence follow moments of decay, high event density alternates with moments of quiet, aimless meandering. A furthe…
Dick And Stewart Original Soundtrack
*2022 stock. a single sided 12' inch LP. UV printing on the reverse side.* Dick and Stewart is a series of short animations set in either Britain’s dismal past or the Britain that’s soon to come. It's hard to tell nowadays, isn't it? Either way, just imagine what it would be like if childrens’ TV programmes were written by George Orwell or Franz Kafka. Or the government itself. The stories follow the adventures of the eponymous Dick and an eyeball, which is all that’s left of his best friend, St…
The Thetford Beast
Motoring up to Norwich from London, it would be difficult to miss Thetford Forest, the vast wooded wilderness that follows a large section of the A11. Planted between the world wars to ensure a plentiful timber stock, today it's a managed park attracting picnickers and hikers. But there's another side to this wood that most day trippers would probably be unaware of...
Concretism's Chris Sharp can often be found walking in Norfolk's Thetford Forest as he has family over that way. It was on one su…
Transformational Salt
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* Slugfuckers sole full-length 'Transformational Salt', originally released in 1981 and now back on vinyl, is an absorbing slab of Australian DIY, dense with thought and fury. The album brings together reprobate dub poetics and thug-drubbing spite in a mangled collage of post-punk disjunct and proto-industrial churn.
Sleep Researchers
*2022 stock. 40 copies limited edition* Sleep Researchers is about a journey, which I haven't finished yet so I don't know what it sounds like. My father reads a few lines, Betsy sings into a walkman and over the microphone of a toy casio. I bought a new Portastudio which has the buttons stuck, so when I get it running I record it in Ableton. I like the way the sounds blend together on that old machine. I like to think of these tracks as sounds that will accompany moments. audio photos.
a ma…
Bain D'Etoiles
*200 copies limited edition* ' t Geruis is a discreet musician from Belgium, working in the field of ambient, with a grainy texture from some lo-fi recordings. This is his third solo release on a label but coming from his first works (recorded between august 2020 and march 2021). His words on Bain D’Étoiles below: "This album is about searching for wonder. Stories that give a sense of adventure. A vague memory of a discovery, something that lurks in the forest. The night falls over you like a wa…
Freundliche Kreisel
"Emerging from Lower Franconia's hidden reverse, Johannes Schebler, known as ambient-poltergeist "Baldruin" and surreal folklorists Christian Schoppik & Katie Rich of "Brannten Schnüre"-fame have puzzled and amazed outernational audiences from the stranger end of the avant/lo-fi spectrum in recent years. The trio is now collectively dreaming as "Freundliche Kreisel", reaching for terra incognita rather than common ground on their most bewildering and accessible outing to date. Arch-pontifices of…