Metaphor of Metamorphosis
*2023 stock. 200 copies limited edition* This is one in a trilogy of live recordings made at Ftarri, Tokyo, documenting some of guitarist/improviser Tetuzi Akiyama's outstanding performances of 2021. The CD releases feature covers drawn by artist Shigeo Mizuta. The two tracks on this CD, each around 25 minutes in length, were recorded at Akiyama's duo concert with electronics player Leo Okagawa at Ftarri on June 21, 2021. Okagawa is known for releases on overseas labels of many collage works usi…
Live At Ftarri
Tip! *2023 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Yoshiki Ichihara (synthesizer) and Naoki Nomoto (computer, synthesizer) are musicians based in Tokyo. Ichihara first performed at Ftarri, Tokyo, in February of 2021, and the following November he invited Nomoto to play a duo concert there. The performance was so terrific that the two agreed to collaborate again soon, and gave another duo concert at Ftarri on January 23, 2022. This CD includes two 30-minute pieces performed at that second concert. Wha…
Material
*2023 stock* "On their second album Material, originally released on Sky Records in 1981, Moebius & Plank ventured far, far away from the double coordinates of the Harmonia world and pop music cosmos. Amazingly, they did not find themselves floating in space, but made an exemplary landing, avoiding getting caught between a rock and a hard place. Material saw them generate a form of genre-busting electronic music, more radical than anything one might have expected to come out of Germany, not even…
To Live
American indie label File 13 Records released what was already Martin Rev's sixth solo album in the autumn of 2003. The previous year, Rev and his musical partner Alan Vega had struck out in a new direction on their "American Supreme" album and Rev's solo works continued in a similar vein. If "Strangeworld" from the year 2000 actually felt more like a timeless abstract of Martin Rev's entire spectrum of musical influences, "To Live", three years later, introduces more contemporary elements, incl…
Sailboat Galiola Nuria’s Unfinished Logbook
Tip! *100 copies limited edition* Pentiments gladly welcomes the preeminent Serbian sound artist, writer and director Arsenije Jovanović back to its proceedings with the premiere of a powerful new work produced in his 90th year. Being preceded by a body of now classic radio productions as well as involvements with the films of directors like Terrence Malick, Sailboat Galiola Nuria’s Unfinished Logbook is apropos in taking on the dense and confluent form of a partial recollection of the voices o…
End of Life
Latest LP for Darksmith of California on Second Sleep. Darksmith of California (Tom Darksmith) combines wilting electronics, floppy turntablism and sun-baked cassette protocols and destroys them in a claustrophobic void
The Drum Is The Shaman's Horse
** Edition of 344. Pressed on 140g black vinyl mastered by James Plotkin ** With the death in 2020 of long-standing occasional third member Peter Stapleton (percussion/electronics), A Handful of Dust has regrouped as the core duo of Alastair Galbraith (violin, guitar, cello, piano, drums) and Bruce Russell (guitar, electronics). This new set of live-to-four-track recordings from January 2022 is the first album to be wholly recorded "in the studio" since 1995's Towards a Soundtrack to the "Anabas…
Down On Darkened Meetings
Black Truffle is pleased to announce Down On Darkened Meetings, the first solo release on the label from the quietly prolific Giuseppe Ielasi. Recorded at Ielasi’s studio in Monza outside of Milan over two days in February 2022, the seven pieces presented here continue the renewed exploration of the guitar that marks much of his solo work over the last few years. Emerging in the late 1990s as an improviser working primarily with prepared acoustic and electric guitars, the instrument became less …
Next Mix
ErikM & dj sniff - Next Mix23.5.2023 / Next Festival Records. For this release, Next Festival Records dives deep into its archive to unveil a collaboration from Next Festival 2009 – one of the highlights of that year's festival – a tape by French musician, composer, visual artist and improviser ErikM & Japanese musician, curator, instrument designer and producer dj sniff. 13 years on, the sounds on 'Next Mix' still resonate, channelling the frenetic energy of free jazz, the looseness of plunderp…
Corpse
*100 copies limited edition* Shame File Music and Albert’s Basement follow up the critically-acclaimed 2022 reissue of seminal Melbourne band Ad Hoc's Distance cassette with the band's obscure barely-released (perhaps six home-dubbed copies) live cassette Corpse - available digitally and on a limited edition of 100 cassettes from September 2023 (pre-order now). Differing dramatically from Distance, Corpse captures the trio presenting a wall of almost self-playing instruments live to a bemused Cl…
Pmxper
Pmxper is a new collaboration between the artists Pavel Milyakov (aka Buttechno) and Perila (real name Aleksandra Zakharenko). They will debut live at the influential Berlin Atonal festival in September. The music has elements of spoken word, electronics, guitars and drums, and has the same feel, flow and freedom as Young Marble Giants' classic album Colossal Youth.
Pleasure Pressure
New Forces presents "Pleasure Pressure," Joe Colley's latest LP of expert sound composition. Damaged wires, crackling speakers, and the existential dread of droning electronics are woven together into Colley's trademark juxtaposition of haunting minimalism and industrial wreckage. Never before has Colley's ability to bring to life all that seems broken-down been so prominently on display. Buzzing, hissing, corroded sounds are wrenched from machines that seem on the brink of imminent collapse and…
Around Perception
*131 copies limited edition*
<A presentation, in nine parts, of disjointed fragments>“Real and unreal...concrete and abstract...for the mind and against the mind.”
An audio-visual inspection is provided Playback itselfhowever is recorded as a specific moment Each moveson its own but shifts with some sort of automatedcontrol Try listening for patterns It puts pressureon you and makes you forget all practical learningAn unexamined voice designed to find undetectablerepetition Look around the edges…
Axolotl
The trio Lotto consists of: Łukasz Rychlicki (Kristen), Mike Majkowski (Hailu Mergia Trio, Oren Ambarchi Hubris) and Paweł Szpura (Hera, Wovoka). By publishing two completely different materials at the same time, they can cause considerable embarrassment to listeners and journalists or bloggers willing to pigeonhole and define them.
The basic tracks for the Axolotl album were recorded at the end of September 2021 in Szczecin, and the recording engineer was Adam Sołtysik (Dynasonic). During the s…
Electronic Works
This vinyl release is a 2x12-inch with printed sleeve and inner sleeves. Also there is a a CD insert of all the tracks. Osmo Lindeman is one of the main developers of electronic music in Finland. He was active in Europe, USA and Finland from 50s to end of 70s. In the beginning Osmo Lindeman studied and worked as a modern classical composer. During the 1960s he shifted making electronic music only at his home studio. Lindeman is a Finnish hybrid of Monty Norman, Krzysztof Penderecki and Edgar Var…
Medina Vibrations
"A couple of months before lockdown, the housing block where Tom White lived got covered in scaffolding. Residents were left in a building veiled by translucent white netting for months on end. This composition was made in this specific urban lockdown context: the fridge whirs, birds chirp on scaffold poles, electromagnetic activity & tape loops reverberate on the eardrums, within the home and out into the world. Composed of archive and site specific sounds, spring 2020. Medina Vibrations was o…
Potential
Musician, writer and filmmaker, Sunik Kim follows up ‘The Bent Bow Must Wait to Be Released’ (Takuroku 2021) with their second LP - a deadly serious dismantling of the limits of contemporary computer music, delivered with playful dexterity and a touch of slapstick humour, a la Henry Cow. Enlisting General MIDI to create frenetic, vital patterns of dis-organisation made up of gleeful synthetic trumpets, wry orchestral sweeps and brutal key clusters, Sunik Kim explodes a kind of simplistic sound i…
Damaged Goods
Listen to Location Location Location’s debut, Damaged Goods, and it’s easy to visualize the three musicians sweating it out in the recording studio, locking in on a groove and just jamming. With, it should be noted, occasional breaks to contemplate the basics, then add subtle overdubs: some bit-crunched guitar here, a marimba there, perhaps a harmonized line or a spacey reverb effect. But essentially live, essentially just three guys in a room, giving their all. But that’s not how it went down a…
Sort of
*Limited edition of 500 copies.* In 1972, the left-wing intellectual film critic Uwe Nettelbeck suggested to Anthony Moore that he should write some (relatively speaking) straight songs. He took up the challenge, inviting his old school friend Peter Blegvad over to Hamburg to form the band Slapp Happy. They were joined for a session in Wümme by the young singer Dagmar Krause and Faust as their rhythm section; the recording became the album Sort Of. After getting the band back together for reunio…
Super Single
*2023 stock* All music by Lasse Marhaug and Otomo Yoshihide. Recorded on the 6th February 2011 at Tokyo Superdeluxe. Limited to 300 plates with a big center hole (black labels) housed in an all black cover with gold pantone 876c printed letters.