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Hanazono
Satomimagae entrusts listeners with Hanazono, a compendium of miniature beauty, a sonic globe enclosed with subtly resonant energies. Satomi’s fourth full-length arrives as an invitation to revel in your immediate and imagined surroundings; to make t…
Duo / Timing
** 2021 Stock ** Meeting at GOK Sound studio in Kichijoji, Japan in front of a small audience, Swedish baritone saxophonist Mats Gustafsson (The Thing, Fire!) also performing on flutephone and live electronics, and Otomo Yoshihide (Ground-Zero, Regen…
Who Knew That So Many Blues...
A singular record, measured with a mastery of self and patience that’s utterly arresting in its stoic elegance and sound sensitivity. Keiji Haino plays Gamelan...
Shi wo Haramu Koe
** 2021 Stock ** This recording was designed by Yasushi Utsunomiya, a brilliant engineer, using the newly proposed "Autonomulti" method. The DVD contains eight independent channels: the sound of the duo Nanaentai performing on the third floor of the …
月蝕
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents 月蝕 by Vehiyd. Clear cassette shell with glued on pink labels on both sides. Single-sided, 4-panel foldout J-card with a Vanilla Records stamp on the reverse. Numbered with a stamp on both…
Reflexive Universe
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents Reflexive Universe by C.C.C.C. Live Recording at MAYA in Kobe 15/09/91. Electronics – Mayuko Hino, Synthesizer, Voice – Hiroshi Hasegawa.
Refugee / On The Move
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents Refugee / On The Move by Dislocation. Edited 1991. Included Live Recording at Shinsake Gallery (May 18, 1991). Numbered (stamped) edition. Edited By – Dislocation. Electronics – T.Okazaki…
Portuguese Man-Of-War
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents Portuguese Man-Of-War by Monde Bruits. Performer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Monde Bruits. All material performed recorded & mixed 1991 July.
Flamenco Party
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents Flamenco Party by Suigin-Lamp. Recorded at Shinjuku Ongakukan April ‘91. Bass, Sampler – Kumiko Yamamoto. Guitar, Vocals, Sampler – Kazuhide Kawata. Violin, Guitar – Kosei Yatani. Trackli…
Shocks! Shocks! Shocks!
** Comes in a snapcase with a numbered cassette has no label and a numbered j-card with different address stamp from 1st press. ** Violent Onsen Geisha's 91 debut for Vanilla. This is the mega tape wich kicked open the gates of fame for Violent Onsen…
Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come
** Fine Art Book, Ltd. to 750 copies ** Hardcover book printed on Munken Print Cream 115g/m2 // 96 pages, 24cm x 22cm, 93 photos // Logo, slot and circle embossed // Matt laminate + selective varnish // Hand-numbered, hand-stamped **  "Flowers Bloom,…
Telquan
** 2021 Stock. Glass-mastered CD in hand-stamped, recycled chipboard cover ** Minimalist Chilean guitarist Cristian Alvear and Tim Olive first played together in October 2016, doing three concerts in Japan, Alvear returning to Japan in October of 201…
Brother of Divinity
** 2021 Stock. Glass-mastered CD in hand-stamped, recycled chipboard cover ** 845 label leader and sonic explorer Tim Olive uses magnetic pickups and electronics in this meeting with radical living room concert sound artist, poet and improviser Yan J…
Faune
** 2021 Stock ** Fellow Canadians, Montreal's Ambiances Magnetiques collective member, turntablist and electronics artist Martin Tetrault meets Japan-based electronic explorer Tim Olive performing on magnetic pickups, in their first album despite hav…
Boro
** 2021 Stock ** Recording in Saskatoon in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan the day before their performance at the Sounds Like Festival, audio explorer Tim Olive brings his magnetic pickups in a first meeting with Doreen Girard performing on a …
Nice You!
** 2021 Stock. Glass-master CD with recycled chipboard cover, hand-stamped ** After a performance in 2019, Kobe-based Canadian sound artist Tim Olive and Calgary percussionist, experimenter & Bug Incision label leader Chris Dadge recorded these two s…
naar​/​voor
Recording in Kobe, Japan in 2014, the duo of Jin Sangtae, organizer of Seoul's long-running dotolim concert series and who gainfully employs cast-off computer hard drives as sound sources, and Tim Olive, who uses electro-magnetic pickups to give voic…
63​-​66
** 2021 Stock. Glass-mastered CD with letterpress cover by Ben Owen/Middle Press ** Recording in Brooklyn in 2014, this collaboration between Tim Olive and Ben Owen presents four tracks of electronic improvisation using shortwave radio, oscillators, …
Lowering
** 2021 Stock. Edition of 100. Glass-mastered CD in hand-stamped, recycled chipboard cover ** Like mad scientists of sound, sonic explorers Tim Olive and Cal Lyall met in a Tokyo studio in 2012 armed with hydrophones, magnetic pickups and electronics…
Kaze No Shisha
Studio Mule present a reissue of Eitetsu Hayashi's Kaze No Shisha, originally released in 1983. Spiritual leaning rhythms come from none other than Eitetsu Hayashi, one of Japan's most renown taiko drummers, a percussive instrument that is deeply roo…
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