Stories From Organ Safari
Organ Safari is an ongoing project which was started in year 2008 by Lithuanian composer and artist Arturas Bumšteinas (b. 1982). Since then he is traveling around Europe and recording sounds of various organs in churches, concert halls, record stores, streets, music schools and other locations. From these collected recordings artist has built an extensive sound archive which serves as an important source for his various acoustic and electronic compositions, improvisations and collaborations tha…
Casa
2009 release ** "Lucio Capece and Sergio Merce play music together since 1993. They started out as members of a saxophone quartet dedicated to playing early and baroque polyphonic music (Guillaume de Machaut, Perotin, Josquin des Prés, Frescobaldi, J.S.Bach). A few years later they were part of Avion Negro, an ensemble dedicated to play its own music; there they worked on long music structures, combining improvisation and composition. In 2002 Merce and Capece started playing together as a duo. M…
Fifteen Point Nine Grams
2009 release ** "SLW is a multinational group that can claim to include in its ranks some of the most respected voices in today’s improvisation community. The four musicians have worked together on occasions since their first meeting in October 2006 and presented their debut eponymous recording through formed records in early 2008. Fifteen point nine grams picks up from where that album left off, introducing even greater dynamic tension to their ever-tranquil field of sound. Recorded live at the…
Wüste
2010 release ** "Former Mayhem front man Maniac, whose band Skitliv has proved to be a surprising departure from the Black Metal genre for which he was best known for over 20 years, has formed a side-project with Vivian Slaughter, bass player/vocalist with the Japanese all-girl band Gallhammer, Skitliv's guitarist Ingvar Magnusson and experimentalist Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound). Unlike Skitliv, which is a noise/doom amalgam, with Maniacs vocals still firmly rooted in Black Metal, Sehnsucht i…
Dry Lungs V
1992 release ** "Fifth and final installment in a series of industrial noise/experimental albums compiled by Paul Lemos of long-running New York group Controlled Bleeding, released in 1992 by Subterranean Records and Dark Vinyl Records. Features various tracks from Controlled Bleeding and associated projects (Skin Chamber, Fat Hacker and solo works), tracks from a variety of Japanese noise artists including Merzbow, KK Null, Incapacitants, Masonna, etc., plus a variety of other artists and group…
Figures
2006 release ** "On this album, in 12 songs presents relaxed sort of dark folk rock from France. From first minutes, music full a melancholy and romanticism, will transfer you deeply, to the farthest, warm, and probably for a long time the lost memoirs. Where it will want to come back again and again... Guests musicant Eric Roger (ex-Sol Invictus, Gae Bolg)."
Gehörgänge
2002 release ** "Psygram is Siegfried Fischer (voice, accordion, samples, percussion) and Dirk Grützmann of Temps Perdu? who is responsible for real time audio processing, electronics, loops and engineering. The group started around the same time as Temps Perdu?, with the music focused on surreal ambient-industrial soundscapes and hypnotic live improvisations in a studio setting with influences of electroacoustic music. "All our music is recorded in those magic moments where emotions, dreams and…
Noise And Fury (Noise Music Festival June 15-17, 2000)
2001 release ** "HXA from Chelyabinsk was formed in 1987 by Lev Gutovsky, a graduate of Ural State Conservatory. His ensemble was arguably the only professional musical act in the USSR dedicated to creating music for absurdist theatre and postmodernist happening. By the end of the 1990’s, HXA shrunk to a trio of Lev Gutovsky (voice, electronics), Sergey Belov (trombone, electronics) and Olga Leonova (voices) increasingly focused on modern improvised and electro-acoustic music. Lev Gutovsky is cu…
Deep Komis
2010 release ** ""«Deep Komis» by Vazhes, the project of Russian anthropologist and documentary director Sergey Gabbasov, is dedicated to authentic ethnic music of the Permian Komis. This album was made with Rapoon, Northaunt and Fanum. It dips into the hidden and secret world of ancient and primordial nature, of secret and mysterious rituals. On the fanciful turnings of the forest path we will meet authentic ethno music of the Permian Komis, Nordic ambient, ethno-industrial, dub. Interweaving l…
Emiszyn
2005 release ** "Emiter Arszyn is a duo of musicians searching for new sounds. The musicians improvise electroacoustic, spatial sound structures, they do not shy away from trance post noise improvisation or post rock moodiness. The dialogues of drums and guitar are embellished with electronic and electroacoustic explorations. The upcoming album will contain, next to electroacoustic improvisation or electronic preparations, a dynamic improvised groove, computer noise next to guitar melodies, ever…
Like A Tree Growing Out Of A Sidewalk
2009 release ** "In this work Dream Weapon Ritual deconstructs and reassembles the thin substance of dream and vision in a performance-ritual that, moulding together organic electronics and treated acoustic instruments, takes place in an invisible and vague terrain; an unexplored territory, where the borders between song, theatre and installation blur. "Like A Tree Growing Out Of A Sidewalk" started as a multimedia performance with collaboration of visual artist Elisabetta Saiu, whose video, pro…
Music From Hi-Fi Sessions
2005 release ** Improvised music sessions, made using 4 custom turntables, edit scratched vinyls played in forced locked grooves, hand made phonograph, microphone, delay pedal, environmental feedback, mixer. Recording and mastering on PC. All Tracks sounds exactly as it was recorded.
Frogs
2005 release ** "“The Frogs” is our most recent project. It is the second installment in the “Fauna” series coming step after “…for electronics and birds” (to be released in May 2003 by Stateart records). As it says in the title this album is dedicated to the frogs and represent our collaboration with singer Victoria Hanna. We met Victoria, amazing vocal artist from Jerusalem, a couple of years ago and from the very first time it was obvious for us that we'll do something together. We played sev…
Lime
2010 release ** "Mugstar's third album (and second on Important Records) maintains the power and heaviness of the sonic assaults laid out in their previous releases while extending musical maneuvers and textures into new territories. Sunburnt Impedance Machine moves through driving riff passages with soaring guitars and a voice recalling touches of early Pink Floyd before locking into a repetitive keyboard and drum driven outro. Serra is an extended voyage through a shimmering Krautrock landscap…
Batimarxo (CDr)
2001 release ** Limited edition of 100 copies. "Solo project of Devis Granziera. Batimarxo ("Beat-march") is a Venetian folklore festival. At the eve of March people gather together with drums, rattles and whatever else for making noise in order to awake the sprigtime. Track 1 is an unprocessed field-recording of the 2010 Batimarxo-feast celebrated in Zugliano. Other tracks have been created using that field-recording as sole and exclusive sound source."
Onid + Isil
2003 release ** "The eleven short pieces are called ‘Jam 0’, ‘Jam 1’ up to ‘Jam 10’. Madness strikes here at full force. Distorted rhythms and casio synths, filled up with some distorted singing. I was reminded by some of the stuff by XBXRX or their many off-shoots. Quite raw and punk, but quite nice. Short and sweetly raw. Quite nice."
Touch
2012 release ** "Touch is the new sound work by Tiziano Milani. Published in CDR digipak by Setola di Maiale, Touch confirms Tiziano’s status as one of the best and most appreciated Italian experimental and research composers, especially since, for this new work, he was able to avail himself of the collaboration of musicians of the caliber of Koji Nishio on piano, Hiromi Makaino on objects/electronic percussion/rhythms, Lars Musiikki on double bass/acoustic guitar, Cristian Corsi on tenor sax an…
Lust (1)
Farming, often associated with toil and drudgery, can also be a surprisingly sensual and playful activity. The rhythm of the seasons, the tactile experience of working the land, and the shared sense of accomplishment can all contribute to a heightened sense of intimacy and pleasure. Consider the act of planting seeds. The gentle touch of fingers on delicate seedlings, the anticipation of growth, and the nurturing care required can create a deeply satisfying and sensual experience.
Harvesting, to…
Everything Depends On Us: Zebulon L.A. Live Recording Vol. 1
Imagined by Zebulon and made possible by the artists who answered our call for support during the extended period when our doors were shut due to Covid, this compilation captures just a handful of the many magic moments that have occurred on our stage over the years.
All of the tracks featured on this album were recorded live at Zebulon LA between 2018 and 2020 – with the exception of the title track by Jonas Mekas, which was recorded at Zebulon Brooklyn in 2009. Jonas is posthumously with us in…