Music For Laboratories
**200 copies, tip!** Music For Laboratories is a project by Orlando Lostumbo - a Roman double bass player and composer - who, for this work, has chosen the moniker of Spheric. For the realization of Music For Laboratories, the artist has been inspired by his working environment, a research institute - the Istituto Superiore di Sanitá - where, for over thirty years, he has been working as an employee at the internal library, one of the most important in the biomedical field in Italy. The ongoing …
Cimora
Over the last decade multi instrumentalist Tomás Tello has been developing his own personal music style based around an exploration of the guitar and his intense personal investigation of traditional Peruvian music - in particular Andean culture which he grew up with. Now operating out of Tavira, Tomás has been functioning like a psychic musician, a well tuned antenna picking an unique sound universe where, among others, sounds of native instruments (quenas, drums, charangos) and experimental el…
Szc Zcz Cze Zec Eci Cin
"A trio comprised of Thomas Lehn (analogue synthesizer), Ivar Grydeland (guitar, guitar banjo) and Ingar Zach (percussion). All three come from the improvisation field and here you can find them in full form, treating their instruments with care and trust, bending and breaking the things at hand. The trio offers a very dynamic set of music, going from soft introspective parts to loud, vicious strokes. Their instruments sound usually unlike what they are supposed to sound, save, perhaps, for Lehn…
Moov Spot
As after the first Musica Genera Festival here goes the release from the 2nd edition. First performance together by Dörner, Fuhler and Noetinger gives to the listener an unexpectable approach to the electroacoustic improvisation. Sounds of acoustic, analogue and digital instruments form together unique amalgamat of micro details, quality and energy.Axel Dörner: trumpet, computerCor Fuhler: analogue synthesizer, linguaphonesJérôme Noetinger: tape recorder Revox B77Recorded on May 22nd 2003 during…
Structure of Water
**60 copies, tip!** "Oxygen, water, bubbles, outflows, movements and bends of water, the dance of round bubbles that replace each other. They fly around stretching and thickening. Such is the structure of water. Water is another level of consciousness inaccessible to human understanding. To understand the water you need to merge with her and become her."Music: metra.vestludDesign: KmerlRecorded at Yekaterinburg, Russia
Heavy Space Records - Anthology Volume 3
**80 copies** This is the third and final volume in the Anthology of Clayton Noone's (aka CJA) Heavy Space Records, which released 25 limited edition lathe-cut 7"'s between 2013-2017. It includes the following artists / tracks:1-2: Our Love Will Destroy The World - Raven Brazen 7" (2015 / Edition of 25 copies)3-4: Witcyst - Even More Power 7" (2015 / 25 copies)5-6: Dean - Cobra 7" (2015 / 20 copies)7-8: Psychick Witch - Bullshit Western Mysticism 7" (2015 / 20 copies)9-10: Furchick - Yeahnah 7" …
Heavy Space Records - Anthology Volume 2
**80 copies** This is the second volume in the Anthology of Clayton Noone's (aka CJA) Heavy Space Records, which released 25 limited edition lathe-cut 7"'s between 2013-2017. It includes the following artists / tracks:1-2: Vlubä - New Mutation 7" (2014 / Edition of 20 copies)3-5: Rupert Hunter - Shreds 7"EP (2014 / 20 copies)6-8: The Futurians - Spacies 7"EP (2014 / 20 copies)9-10: Patrick O'Brien and Karl Von Bamburger - The Salt of the Earth The Salt of the Sea 7" (2014 / 20 copies)11-12: Fabi…
Aries
**75 copies** Another entry in Polonius' Last Transmythological Acrobats Series by the mysterious aggregator Seif Gaber. Players on this release include Matteo Pennesi, Luigi Monteanni, Seif Gaber, Lorenzo Rivosecchi, Giancarlo Brambilla. Recorded June 2019 at Standards, Milan, Italy.
Gemini
**75 copies** Another entry in Polonius' Last Transmythological Acrobats Series by the mysterious aggregator Seif Gaber. Players on this release include: Ivan Beljin, Linsey Wellman, Seif Gaber, John Peippo, Damjan Markovic, Chris Love, Patrick Bonne. Recorded April and May 2019 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Urban Fossickated Octave
**250 copies** "Beautiful new LP (the seventh, I believe), from this wonderfully abstract outfit, who were birthed in the shadow of Smegma (Portland, OR), but have since relocated to Maine. The foundational members of the band are Grant Corum (keyboards, vocals, tin whistle, vocals) and Suzanne Stone (alto sax, khene, vocals). For this album, recorded by Big Blood's Caleb Mulkerin, they are joined by Caleb himself (tape loops and treatments) and Tom Kovacevic (piano and synth), both of whom play…
Last Year's Man / After Vermeer
"My first deep exposure to Leonard Cohen was the Bird on a Wire documentary by Tony Palmer, which was, against the odds, broadcast on public television in New Zealand around 1974 or 1975. At age 15 or 16 I thought it was too dark. A few years later, in the late '70s, I wanted things darker. The first Cohen LP was very clever but a little too "up." The second was too public and political for me. Songs of Love and Hate seemed more honest, more about personal failure. I liked it, although Cohen ten…
Me and My Students Have Reached Higher Levels
Deep on a mind trip aboard the ISS Kingston, we are floating upon the low-gravity armchairs of its "Disco 3000" cocktail lounge. Brain-dance soundwaves are being distributed by means of the Akuphone, transmitting the psychedelic music of Spiritczualic Enhancement Center. Me and My Students Have Reached Higher Levels presents itself as an obscure and ever-morphing spectral-jazz album. Produced by eight outernational musicians, once originating from Iran, Israel, America, Russia, Romania and Germa…
Tlamess (Sortilege)
**Orange vinyl, includes poster** Tlamess (Sortilège) is Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack composed for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim (Festival de Cannes' 51st Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, BFI London, ADF Argentina, Geneva GIFF, Rome Medfilm Festival, Marrakech International Film Festival). Combining hypnotic feedbacks and synthesizer orchestral work, drifting ambient with shamanic beats, the Tlamess (Sortilège) original soundtrack was…
The Tower of Mirrors
25 years ago, David Shea released a crafty piece of complex philosophical and narrative audio collage: The Tower of Mirrors. Composed and produced in New York City, during September-October 1995, it includes 24 tracks, and features guests such as David Morley on analog synthesizer programming, Dave Douglas on trumpet, Zeena Parkins on piano and prepared piano, and Jim Pugliese on percussions.This is what David Shea had to say about it in 1995: "In 1994, I wrote a work based on the Hsi-Yu Chi nov…
Downwelling
**300 copies, white vinyl** Following Not Waving's stellar recent recordings with Jim O'Rourke, Colin Potter, and Jay Glass Dubs, Downwelling finds him in a striking Pas de deux with alternative rock god Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, QOTSA). It's one of those rare link-ups that truly transcends the sum of its parts, with Not Waving's rolling range of nuanced electronics acting as backdrops for Lanegan's smoky baritone storytelling. Delivered in a husky but pliable voice that has come to define …
Schland Is The Place For Me
**300 copies** Fehler Kuti on the album (Munich, Autumn 2019): "I remember the first time I read W.E.B. DuBois eclectic masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk. The way in which this Weberian scholar flowed from personal account to prose to sociological analysis to music and even political intervention has had a lasting impact on my own work as a cultural anthropologist. It made me understand that as scholars we must use different means in order to give expression to the totality of the lived experi…
Ka:mos
Kɑːmos is the duo of Aino Peltomaa and Nathan Wouters. Aino Peltomaa (FIN) is a vocalist with a radiating sound. She performs widely with medieval, renaissance and contemporary music. In 2018, she directed and performed Ordo Virtutum by Hildegard von Bingen with the Finnish Kaari Ensemble. This medieval, mystic nun keeps on intriguing: her songs are also part of Aino’s project Harmony of the Spheres and her words are sometimes used in the lyrics of Kɑːmos.Nathan Wouters (BE) plays the bass as if…
Repression's Blossom
**300 copies** Aaron Turner's solo debut Repression's Blossom explores the realm of avant-garde and reductionist metal. Avoiding the pitfalls of unintentional monotone, the album's abstract narrative tightropes through viscous noise mayhem and clinical serenity towards the mythical echelons of minimalism with gravity analogous to Kevin Drumm, Caspar Brötzmann and Pauline Oliveros. The drone-supported fragments of exquisitely manipulated audio create a magnificent multi-layered backdrop for Turne…
Scenes From the South Island
Expanded reissue of New Zealand guitar pioneer Roy Montgomery's rare and revered full-length debut, Scenes From The South Island, originally released in 1995 by West Coast experimental / space rock label Drunken Fish. Recorded on both coasts on a pair of Tascam 4-tracks, the album is alternately wistful, windswept, skeletal, shredded, and strange. Solo guitar figures flow and fray through echo and empty space, evoking loss, long roads, and low-lit landscapes.Montgomery's own memories of this era…
Y
Remastered 40th Anniversary version of Y - the highly influential and innovative debut album by The Pop Group, released in 1979. In the same year The Pop Group released their single She is Beyond Good and Evil / 3:38. The album was produced by reggae veteran Dennis Bovell to critical acclaim but low sales figures. Emerging in the late-'70s post-punk era, this militant gang of leftist radical politicos from Bristol specialised in a funk-driven cacophony of sound that was abrasive, strident, and u…