Organ
Tip! *99 copies limited edition* Taking immense pleasure in unveiling the exquisite vinyl reissue of Jun Konagaya's seminal solo album, titled Organ. Originally presented in 2012 on the CD digital medium, this opus marks Konagaya's inaugural solo venture, distinctly departing from his earlier collaborative endeavors under the monikers Grim and White Hospital. A prodigious figure in the Japanese noise and industrial landscape, Grim left an indelible mark in the 1980s with its dark, luminous allur…
A Falling Sound
"A recording of a piano tuning session was the starting point for a series of different pieces, all of which question the experience of measurement. These two pieces, "about a thousand years" and "a falling sound", for piano and cello, are a new stage in this process. If the music results from a work of measurement - that of the piano as a territory and of its different acoustic regions, both the voice of Pandit Prân Nath, which gave rise to the playing and scordatura of the cello, and the bass …
In Real Life
Black Truffle present In Real Life, the latest in a flurry of releases from Berlin-based guitarist and composer Julia Reidy. Having drawn acclaim for solo performances on 12-string acoustic guitar that bridge microtonality, 'American primitive' stylings and classic minimalism, Reidy’s recent releases have utilised an increasingly broad sonic palette, fleshing out guitar-based composition with electronics, field recordings, and – most strikingly – heavily auto-tuned vocals.On In Real Life, Reidy …
LACE
Tip! There’s music inside of lace stitching, and electro-acoustic composer, improviser, and harpist Zeena Parkins has spent years finding it. Her lace pieces use images of lace as musical scores for ensembles to play, building webs of sound that emerge from its contours. LACE is a boxset of artifacts including an LP of two of Parkins’ multi-movement works, “LACE I.” and “LACE II.,” presented for the first time on recording. The pieces were performed by percussionist William Winant, electronic mu…
With pats on the head, just one too few is evil one too many is good that's all it is
Tip! The heavyweight trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and Oren Ambarchi return with their 12th and most epic release to date, the triple LP With pats on the head, just one too few is evil one too many is good that's all it is. Documenting the entirety of their final performance at the dearly departed Roppongi home of Tokyo underground institution SuperDeluxe in November 2018, the music spread across these six sides splits the difference between the guitar-bass-drums power trio moves and experim…
Skandinavisk & Maskeret
2023 Stock, few available. Comes in transparent PVC cover. Slip stamed 'Antikvarisk' Inner label design differs from original release. Limited edition of 40 copies.
Piece For Corroded Digital Audio Tape
*Limited edition of 20 copies.* Audio constructed with analogue Function Generator, and Panasonic SV 3800 DAT Recorder. BASF 15 minutes master tape, physically altered.
Kodemusik 1
*Limited edition of 25 copies.* Second volume of the Kodemusik series of limited edition releases containing repurposed or "upcycled" morse code training records. Each release has two records that can be mixed together and eg. slightly pitched differently. This way complex syncopated rhytems can arise, as well as new verbal meanings contained in the code sequences. Jonas Olesen is a renowned Danish composer and sound artist. Born 1979. Formerly lecturer in electronic composition and history at t…
Zwosch, Zwosch & Zwosch
Tip! 200 copies. Comes in a beautiful gatefold sleeve, designed to our house style by Rutger Zuydervelt. Liner notes by Guy Peters. Live concert at Festival DME - Lisboa Incomum, recorded by Mariana Vieira and Jaime Reis on the 30th July, 2021. Title inspired by Kurt Schwitters. Mastered by Dirk Serries.
Hunt At The Brook Again / Hunt At The Brook With Neil Metcalfe
Tip! In Vital Weekly 1397, I reviewed a CD by Dirk Serries, Benedict Taylor and Friso van Wijck they released on the Portuguese label Creative Sources Recordings. Now, the Portuguese entered Serries' label New Wave Of Jazz. The improvised music scene is small but very busy. A trio consisting of Carlos "Zingaro" on violin, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello and José Oliveira on percussion. They played on July 30, 2021, in Lisbon and for the title, they took inspiration from Kurt Schwitters. I think the…
The God Bear Archives II
*90 copies limited edition* During the year 2021, Charlemagne Palestine entrusted us with numerous archives recently found on audio cassettes dating from the 70s and 80s. After a long process of listening and selection, we are pleased to present the second volume of these archives to you.
Black Tupelo
Alex York’s Black Tupelo comments on the obscured line between American folk music and spiritual minimalism. Through sampling across analog and digital media, including vinyl, cassettes, and YouTube, Black Tupelo derives all its sonic material from recordings of Powers / Rolin Duo. In the past, York has primarily sampled jazz musicians, but gravitates towards acoustic drones on this record, which lend to collage and layering. In approaching these samples, York was inspired by a Roscoe Mitchell l…
Hot Plate Only
Honestly Same is an amplified acoustic and synthetic quintet from Chicago. They improvise patient, contemplative and distinctly contemporary music harnessing the sounds of cello, clarinet, electronics, piano, bass, recorder, percussion, synths and accordion. The group is Zachary Good, Lia Kohl, Mabel Kwan, Zach Moore and Sam Scranton. On their second album (and first LP), “Hot Plate Only”, the quintet finds a balance between airy and organic ambience alongside insistent rhythms and dynamic explo…
Red Hair Girl At Lighthouse Beach
Tip! *2024 much needed repress* Making music is trying to start over again every time. It’s a matter of questioning and approaching. It’s never settling for the sound that fills the world around. It’s looking for a door in the sky. And maybe find it, open it, go beyond it. Rod Modell and Gigi Masin, this time together, are offering each other vibrations and insights. The former lives between two lakes, the latter between the Venetian lagoon and the sea. Everyone on their own shore, building elec…
Aloha From Beastview Maul
*300 copies limited edition* "Like the Kolea (aka The Pacific Golden Plover) that migrates from the harsh winter tundra of Alaska & Siberia to the sunny climate of the Hawaiian Islands, Beastview Maul travels to warm & exotic lands not by wing but by sound waves. Hear the cascading waterfalls splash against the rocks below. Is that water or static? The distance between exotic lounge music and avant garde noise is not as far as you might think. Both allow the listener to be transported out of the…
Bill Nace / Emily Robb
Tip! *300 copies limited edition* "Before hitting the road together in 2022 Bill Nace and Emily Robb recorded a tour split — a cassette, limited run of 50 — only to be found at their merch table. Now on vinyl, the split captures a moment bursting with verdient, crisp anticipation. Both artists were then on the heels of significant artistic leaps. Robb was wrapping up the promotional cycle of her first full-length solo record, 2021’s How To Moonwalk, and Nace had recently shifted his focus from p…
Il Vaticano II è stato un errore!
*2023 stock. 20 copies limited edition* ""I repeat, My children, as I have told you in the past, that the great Council of Vatican II was manipulated by satan. He sat there among you and he worked you like a chessboard. What can you do now to recover? It is simple, My children: turn back and start over with the foundation given to you. You must bring respect back to your priesthood. You must bring respect back to your Holy Father...!" - Our Lady of the Roses, May 15, 1976 "
High Life
*330 copies limited edition* High Life is like a mini-album, a short journey or guide. The perfect use of the 7" format, showcasing the range of this inventive duo with each playing their core instruments of violin (Krausbauer) and saxophone (Shiroishi), along with some organ drones and singing.
On the a-side, Bird’s Song starts things off with John’s beautiful pulsing organ swells, while Patrick comes in blustering and quick with a cacophony of notes. The world is waking up. They then set off t…
Escape To Never (Program For Melting)
*2023 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Pengo enters it’s 24th year of existence with a new full-length recording, their 18th. A CD called Escape To Never (Program For Melting). This CD was recorded all in one night this past June in Pengo’s long time headquarters The Bunker in Rochester New York. Pengo exists in it’s own sonic reality. Slowly snaking it’s way through multiple deep international undergrounds, yet always remaining distinctively a singular odd beast.
This CD sounds like a 10 foot…
Lido Scuffle
*2023 stock. 50 copies limited edition* "Lido Scuffle is the first recorded evidence of the Rochester New York based duo Beastview Maul. Beastview Maul is composed of Joe Tunis & John Schoen. Both members of long running (24 years and counting) psychedelic noise weirdo unit Pengo.
After about 10 years of lurking around and playing gigs in the deep underground of Western New York, Beastview deliver their first official release. A woozy attack on the dullards and creeps gumming up the World. The s…