Severity
*30 copies limited edition C60 high quality real-time dubbing* Kevin Corcoran's release on Taiwanese tape label Karma Detonation.
A side: video works (percussion and field recordings)B side: feedback works (mixer and radios)
Tuokioita
300 copies limited edition "On this LP you hear two kanteles built by the Master Luthier Rauno Nieminen. One of them is a copy of a historical instrument built by the folk poet Ontrei Malinen in 1833. It is carved from single piece of pine, and it has five bronze strings. The other one is carved from a single piece of spruce. Its lowest seven strings are bronze, and highest three strings are English iron. On most tracks the two kanteles are played simultaneously. For me, playing these instrument…
Tuxford Fumble
Magnetic pickups, analog electronics, and consumer detritus (springs, styrofoam, metal sheets, motors, magnetic tape, wood, dental floss) generate evolving/shifting/mutating sound-textures. Born in Canada, currently residing in Kobe, Tim Olive's discography includes releases on BISAD, Caduc, Chocolate Monk, Copy For Your Records, Dasa Tapes, EM Records, Hard Return, Humanhood, Intonema, Kirigirisu, Korm Plastics, Minimal Resource Manipulation, Notice Recordings, Pilgrim Talk, Steep Gloss, Tsss T…
Learn To Talk
* Temporary nice price * Reissue of a true avantgarde-rock classic: Skeleton Crew were the maverick duo of Ex-Henry Cow guitarist Fred Frith and the great late cellist Tom Cora. Formed during one of Frith's early American residencies, Skeleton Crew was a legendary two man crew who somehow - in real time, managed to play all their instruments, cello, bass, electric guitar, violin, vocals - as well as, drum parts dislocated between the two of them. No one sounded like Skeleton Crew, ever. An unpre…
Play at Duke
Few sounds in music are as instantly recognizable as the searching sting of guitarist Bill Orcutt and the cyclical propulsion of drummer Chris Corsano. At the same time, every single performance or recording I've heard by the duo has been markedly different, discovering new paths with a given set of tools. For more than a decade now they've been meeting up to instigate visceral sonic journeys without a map, engaging in elliptical dialogues with one another, but more often conjuring twinned excur…
The Flower School
Since exploding on the improvised music scene a couple of years ago Tennessee native Zoh Amba has found herself engaging with an ever-widening group of collaborators as she tours across the US and Europe. She's forged some enduring partnerships, working regularly with drummer Chris Corsano, bassist Thomas Morgan, and pianist Micah Thomas, among others, but one of the deep pleasures of improvised music is when a first-time meeting produces sparks. Indeed, that's certainly the case with The Flower…
Mesmerizer
Going past musical genres and instead straight towards something more elemental - Selvhenter’s music creates a strikingly direct, physical experience of sound composed of polyrhythms, acoustic and electric melodies, heavy music and improvised beauty. Since forming in Copenhagen in 2010, drummers Jaleh Negari and Anja Jacobsen, saxophonist Sonja LaBianca and trombonist Maria Bertel have forged a unique approach to making music that starts with their instrumental setup: two drummers that interlock…
Spiritual Noise ___ Rinascimento
Huge Tip! *15 CD-R Box Set + 100-page Artist’s Book. Edition of 199 copies* “Spiritual Noise___Rinascimento” (renaissance) took an entire year of self-isolation in My Cat is An Alien's secret HQ called Alien Zone up in the Western Alps to be conceived and created -- between 2021 and 2022, in the midst of a reality still plagued by pandemic, we spent our lives discovering new existential meanings projected into the deepest core of still-unknown space-time dimensions -- flowing through the spiral…
MCIAA XX Anniversary
** Double Color 2LP + 28-page Art Book - "Clear Hypno" & "Black Deluxe" Color Double Vinyl 3-Sided LP. Full-color jacket with 28-page Art Book mounted on cover. Includes QR codes to free download & streaming of full concert video footage, full album and PDF artbook.**Features exclusive art works by Roberto Opalio and Lee Ranaldo, plus pictures of the live performance. Cover artwork and design by MCIAA. This is highly important music and this double album contains the complete concert in its ent…
Re-si-sten-za!
*2023 reissue* *MCIAA 25th anniversary limited edition of 200 copies* This new 2023 special reissue of My Cat Is An Alien’s landmark album "RE-SI-STEN-ZA!" is intended to open the brotherly duo’s 25th anniversary celebrations. Originally released in 2016, the work well represents the summa of MCIAA's music activity, from their early space toys-era to the latest self-made electronics and string instruments outputs. Featuring two long compositions, the album reaches 50 minutes of pure “Spiritual …
You'll Never Come Back
Reissue of Harry Pussy's Ride A Dove, originally released on Siltbreeze in 1996. "By 1996, with one LP, a handful of 7"s, and a couple dozen gigs under their collective belts, Harry Pussy had thoroughly scrambled the mid-90s scuzz-rock ecosystem. Their acclaimed first LP, described by David Keenan as 'a black hole that devoured genre and flattened any attempt to classify it,' fused Japanese noise, '80s hardcore and post-Ayler jazz into a dense, white-hot ball of punk anger and insanity. The band…
Tsilla
*300 copies limited edition* On Tsilla, Jean-Noël Rebilly and Andrew Chalk pay homage to the late French writer and engraver Cécile Reims. While she may be best known as interpretative engraver for surrealist artist Hans Bellmer, and she also worked with Leonor Fini and briefly for Salvador Dali, Reims’ most powerful and enduring works were made either in collaboration with her husband, the writer and artist Fred Deux (who signed their collaborative work “cf deux”), or by herself. Later works by…
It Goes Without Saying
Pica Disk is proud to present the debut album of UK-born/Norway-based artist Greg Pope, documenting three of his audio works.
Selected Online Tracks & Unreleased Tracks
*30 copies limited edition C60* All tracks by Dawang Yingfan Huang between 2010 and 2017. Previously uploaded on either Soundcloud or the artist's deceased personal blog.
Live
*2023 stock. 30 copies limited edition C90* This recording is an album containing the trio's lives in Hong Kong between 2021 and 2022
Erasing Myself
*2023 stock. 30 copies limited edition C60* Phantasmagoria of sound sculpture, electronics, guitar debris & dance theater. Post-futurist clangor, dada/mbient improvisions, psychedustrial and enchromatic jazz. Throw off the yoke of anxiety and oppression, embrace the eternal Void as primal waveform.
Underpass Sessions
*2023 stock. 25 copies limited edition C30* Both recordings took from underpass gig, Outer Pulsation #25 at Shi-Da Underpass Sept. 24 2022. Two sessions of no-input electronics vs acoustic instruments.
Taipei, Seoul 2019, 2022
*2023 stock. 30 copies limited edition C90* This recording is an album containing the duo recordings of Choi Taehyun and Park Daham. Choi Taehyun and Park Daham first started playing as a duo on May 14, 2013, and have been performing as a duo occasionally. Park Daham, remembering that it was their last concert in Taiwan in 2019, accidentally suggested that we try recording again, and in March 2022, the duo recorded in Taehyun Choi's practice room. I wish all my Taiwanese friends well.
Heresy
*2023 stock. 30 copies limited edition C90* Sun Yizhou (b.2000) currently lives in Beijing and is a conceptual artist, improviser, composer, performer, organizer, and a label operator working primarily with sound. He is also a member of The Impro Committee... He established himself as a sound-based artist and performing artist through self-practice, and became active in Beijing’s underground music scene since 2019. He also started his music tour around the country at the same year.
吉祥寺
*2023 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Collaboration between Ken Ueno: Extended voice & megaphone and dj sniff: Turntable & electronics. Recorded December 20, 2017 at GOK Sound, Tokyo. Recording & mixing by Yoshiaki Kondo.Cover Art: 北山Q男