Matta
2007 release ** "In April 2007, Ramuntcho Matta went to Tokyo to play with Mama Milk, a Japanese duo, and came back with hours of live recording done by Romain de Gueltzl. From this meeting of three different instruments, accordion, double-bass and guitar, above which Ramuntcho sometimes sings, a unique music was born, mixing jazz, tango and the new music in a movement which is both Zen and sincerely contemporary. SometimeStudio decided to publish these recordings in order to share these moments…
All At Once At Any Time
1994 release ** "Recorded live in May 1994 at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, All at Once at Any Time features two members of the Dense Band, drummer David Moss and guitarist John King, and an experimental DJ largely unknown at the time: Otomo Yoshihide. In the course of the next six or seven years, the first two names became less and less heard, while Yoshihide arose as a leading creative force in avant-garde music. The trio's music is made of fragmented bits of…
My Right Of Frost
2012 release ** My Right of Frost draws sound signs from electronic circuits rewired and made unstable up to the feedback’s critical point. The sequences proposed are totally improvised from the point of view of the musical value of the sounds, and tonally unrepeatable. Across and beyond the concept of circuit bending, My Right of Frost operates constantly on the verge of oscillators and filter’s collapse, extemporizing electronic paths that diverge to form a macro-sign, i.e. the artwork.
Million Ways To Spend Your Time
2006 release ** "This compilation is dedicated to the 5th birthday of Ukrainian indie-label Quasi Pop. CD feautures absolutely new & exclusive tracks from the main label-mates (Andreas Brandal, Biblioteka Prospero, Peel Off The Bass, Jørgen Knudsen) and a lot of "special birthday stuff" from labels's old & new friends from different countries. Enjoy our surrealistic blend of weird pop, organic noise, neo-psychedelic, electro-acoustic, garage folk & processed field recordings!" (label info) Great…
Euterpe Sequence
1998 release ** "Second release by Wales based duo. 17th century inspired ambient sound that varies from droning transcendental stillness to guitar and effects noisescapes bordering on the works of Merzbow and Total."
Komu Mam To Powiedzieć?
2006 release ** "The Krakow band Bordo, celebrating their tenth anniversary, has given us the album 'Komu mam to pomaga?'. Post-rock, psychedelic, sometimes dark - this is the music of the Bordo group. The term space-rock fits it perfectly. When recording the album 'Komu mam to pomaga?', the artists chose twelve songs from the fifty prepared ones, which gave an hour of material. The crazy music is accompanied by equally psychedelic lyrics, or rather phrases repeated over and over again, such as …
The Haunting Triptych
2010 release ** "Truly intriguing is the fusion of intent between Pietro Riparbelli (K11, Radical Matters) and Philippe Petit (Bip_HOp, Strings of Consciousness) who develop three pieces of menacing and dense dark ambient that bring to mind the best releases by Lustmord and Nurse With Wound. As mentioned, "The Haunting Triptych" is divided into three parts and each of them appears as a work plan interlocked with the others but arranged on a different angle. "Residual Spookiness" has the merit of…
Chroma
2007 release ** "Split over seven tracks 'chroma' is a beautiful swarming forty five-minute suite of pieces. A warm, almost angelic hue of sound radiates from 'chroma' giving it a pure, optimistic feeling that only fades with the last dying notes. Weightless and saturated in it's waves of sound, all you have to do is listen.."
Music For Stanford
2004 release ** "Dexter George Morrill (1938-2019) was a composer, trumpet player, and professor of music best known for his collaboration with jazz saxophonist, Stan Getz during the premiere of 'Getz Variations for tenor saxophone and tape' (1984); a Morrill composition which merged jazz improvisation with computer-generated sounds. In his early years, he studied trumpet with Dizzy Gillespie at the Lenox School of Jazz, and later composition with Leonard Ratner and orchestration with Leland Smi…
#freakinmeout
2025 stock "Strange music by Clubsoundwitches, but there is something in there that I found very captivating. Maybe this is the new dance music?" – Vital Weekly #1237
Composition No. 12.5 (Compilation II For Improvisers, Jazz Ensemble And Electronics)
1999 release ** "An outstanding record that demands a place in any comprehensive collection... some of the most vivid and creative improvisation/composition fusions in recent times... wholly individual mixtures of realtime improvisation and writing that cheerfully filches from all post-bop and compositional areas, yet which depends as much on the colour and intensity of the individual improvisations"
Dō Ya Sa´ Di Dō
1992 release (RARE) ** "Anna Homler (Los Angeles, 1948) is a performance artist, vocalist and composer whose vocal acrobatics fall halfway between Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson. She started out in 1980 with performance art and around 1985 began to focus on the human voice and invented a language of her own. Her first triumph was the phantasmagoric album Do Ya Sa' Di Do (AMF, 1992), featuring Ethan James, Steve Moshier, David Moss and Bernard Sauser-Hall. She fully revealed her surreal perso…
III
1992 release - hand-numbered edition of 500 copies with fabric cover ** "A curiosity from Portugal. 9 pieces pursuing unusual sound and odd structural arrangement. Half minimal, half beyond it. Unusual packaging. Very Limited."-Chris Cutler
Linea D'Ombra
1993 release ** "Linea d'ombra is the CD from more than twenty years ago with which the author inaugurated his personal journey as an interpreter-composer on the border between the languages of jazz, classical music and rock. At the time, Roberto Verti wrote about it in the presentation of the CD: “A musician with a cult background who moves between the moods of the new age and the high craftsmanship of the academy, between the La Scala scene and minimal, jazz; plays with flutes and combines t…
Acrid Acme (Of) P16.D4
1989 release (RARE) ** "The acRID acME [of] P16.D4 might be the most well known work, no doubt due to the unique approach taken for the first segment: in 1987, the P16.D4 dredged recordings from the 1981 punk incarnation and placed them in a completely different context. As a result, "Maba 4. 12." and "Rotting Outscratched" reveal their initial forms, the former with the occasionally perceptible fragment of punk thrash sipping out unscathed from the abused tapes, and the latter allowing a hint o…
At Close Quarters
1993 release ** "A selection of live recordings from the These Records shop, London."
Dos D'Ânes
2009 release ** "Hacking away on a homemade system and twisted electronic tools, eRikm and Noetinger gleefully activate levers, tactile screens and joysticks with the utmost concentration. Doneda makes the air shake with acoustic vibrations. Together, they give free rein to their audio tricks, buzzing, interference, constructive feedback, electro-shocks, concrete slipping, hazed quotes, white noise, saturations and incisive scratches."
Handbook For Mortals
2025 stock Thought these were long gone, but hey, not so fast! Originally released in 2013, this was Letha's 1st foray into the vinyl game AND her 1st under her own name (as opposed to Tretetam, which she'd been using since 2008). 'Handbook' is a lovely sound pastiche of everyday day life turned inside out. Both ambient & disturbing, her sound distillations are wondrous & hypnotic respites in this suffocating modernity. FFO; Moondog, United Dairies label, John Bender. Very last copies.
Whispering Ln.
Hidden Harmony is proud to present the first full-length LP from Estonian composer and keyboardist Volodja Brodsky. The six compositions on ‘Whispering Ln’ were entirely recorded during Brodsky's trip to the USA in 2018-2019 and showcased his passion for the transformative power of minimalism as an art form. The follow-up to his keyboard duties on psych funk/rare groove Estonian outfits Estrada Orchestra, Centre El Muusa, Misha Panfilov Septet, on ‘Whispering Ln’ Brodsky reinventing himself as a…