Successful Utilization of Elements
"[...]Since each of the 19 pieces is a duo, Tungu gives his guests a chance to stretch out, often quietly, the combination often restrained yet mysterious. Starting out with experimental vocalist Sainko Namchylak, we hear her whispered voice surround…
An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing
*Hand-numbered edition of 300. Digipak in resealable poly-bag*
Jacob Felix Heule - DrumsTeté Leguía - BassDanishta Rivero - Voice And ElectronicsMartín Escalante - Saxophone
Recorded, Mixed, And Mastered By Jacob Felix HeuleSeptember 18, 2021 In Oakl…
Toxic Colour
This collection of pieces originates from environmental sounds recorded using 3D ambisonic microphones. The recordings have been deconstructed, processed, and composed into abstract musical journeys that no longer transport the listener to the origin…
The Wind That Had Not Touched Land
Annie A, the one-off collaborative project between Félicia Atkinson, Time is Away, Christina Petrie and Maxine Funke, arrives on A Colourful Storm with an inquisitive, exploratory composition evoking questions of inconstancy and reconciliation, vastn…
Aunes
Aunes is a rare solo album from peripatetic Australian cellist-composer-performer Judith Hamann, presenting six pieces recorded across several years and countries. Developing the collage techniques and expanded sound palettes heard on their previous …
Responses II
"We use the same method of what we did on Responses (Zappak, 2022): being in a place for a whole afternoon, but not playing together. We took turns on recording solo piece, and each session was a responses to the former one. Even the length was same …
Almost Something
‘Almost Something’ is the debut release of the long standing collaboration between artist/dj Laura Not and Andrew Hulme of O Yuki Conjugate. The two pieces cover a musical domesticism, developed around location recordings made in London and Berlin. T…
Blue braki place along
New alias from Alexander Holm. A strangely private sounding document of humming voice, midi harp, feedback and ghostly field recordings. Truly unclassifiable music.
Spilledåse serenader
Strange and beautiful debut cassette from another great friend of the label. One hour of slowly dissolving Music box / tape Music. Ghostly melodies weaving in an out of each other until the tape runs out.
For Translucence
The debut album from Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl has evolved over several years from their initial practice of free improvisation on viola and cello into (for the moment), this: a neophonic orchestral expression. At once stimulating and soothing, For …
New World, Lonely Ride
Michael Grigoni and Pan•American present their first collaboration. The album’s title, New World, Lonely Ride, gestures toward its meditative orientation. The duo offers a series of reflections on the zeitgeist of our present moment, the spirit of ou…
Peace and Pleasure
*200 copies limited edition* In February 2019, multi-instrumentalists Maurizio Abate and Luca Venitucci crossed musical paths as part of an artist residency at Standards in Milan. Over those few days, their respective instruments engaged in a dialogu…
New Relics II
*100 copies limited edition*
Savvas Metaxas played guitar & effectsRecorded between January-February 2024
Mastered by Giuseppe IelasiDesign & Artwork by Yorgos Vourlidas
Tournures Cessent / Tournures Cessent Orchestrales
This composition is a kind of false diary of the year 2015, or rather a real concentration of that year’s memories with very little rationality in its hierarchies, its ordering, or in the connections it makes. The narrative, if one wants to hear any,…
Papotier
Pancrace’s latest double LP “Papotier” is the third panel of a tryptic after “Pancrace” (2017) and “Fluid Hammer” (2019). The ensemble knew at some point from their previous LP they would have to go back to church and repent confronting a Silbermann …
Transportées
300 copies. Marie Guérin (aka Marie de la Nuit, meaning Marie of the Night) is a sound artist. Since 2001, she has been manipulating field recordings, radio archives, traces left on the airwaves by "hertzian ghosts". A mixture of voices, textures, gr…
Music Belongs To The Universe
For Nico Georis, music is a lot like nature: you may actively confront it, or just let yourself channel it. Music Belongs To The Universe, his latest offering, to be released April 4th on Leaving Records, is a searching collection of improvisatory, o…
Borrowed Out Of Time
*150 copies limited release* "Borrowed Out Of Time is the latest album by Kaurna Country artist and writer, Tristan Louth-Robins. It follows a steadily paced run of releases for labels like 3LEAVES (2013’s The Path Described) and his own Studio Mauri…
Eventual
*Lathe Cut, Limited Edition, 66 copies. clear, 180g vinyl* 'Eventual' is the first album by double bass player Gonçalo Almeida and 'knob twidler' Rutger Zuydervelt. It's not exactly their first collaboration though, having released two EPs, 'Doze Rui…
Watering paper flowers and snakes
Open to the Sea was born around the musical experiences of Enrico Coniglio, here playing piano and synths, and of the music wizard Matteo Uggeri who adds his world of samples, noises, field recordings and recorded instruments played by friends. The f…