What We Talk About: Rea
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: January 2022 — January 2023: A series of Swiss underground music making. 13 artists, 13 months, 13 records of previously unheard music – to be revealed every 13th of course.
What We Talk About: FC GOA
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: January 2022 — January 2023: A series of Swiss underground music making. 13 artists, 13 months, 13 records of previously unheard music – to be revealed every 13th of course.
What We Talk About: Simon Berz
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: January 2022 — January 2023: A series of Swiss underground music making. 13 artists, 13 months, 13 records of previously unheard music – to be revealed every 13th of course.
Split: Les Crosièees Dolori / Awott
*2023 stock. Limited edition* Les Croisere Dolori & Awott (members from The Dreams, Mikhail Mineral, Le Renard, L'atelier d'éveil musical du centre social Raymond Poulidor and an impossible etc…) A International Audio Akellare to celebrate dissidence with Aloardi."Treasures of European subterranean scene...from France and Russia, we met them, some years ago, toutring with Krapooola) and Mouzik (PL) and fall in love with their sound, attitude and their engagement to music. Collaborative handmade …
Bussei
*100 copies limited edition.* Tsss Tapes presents Bussei by Yoshitake Kawai. Recorded in Sapporo and Kyoto, 2020.
Dali Sections 2018-2021
"In 2017 after I finished a tour of Taiwan and returned to Beijing, I left my hard drive on one of those share bikes and it was lost forever. I had close to ten years’ worth of live recordings on that hard drive (I never made any backups). Since then, I’ve made sure to keep recordings of my live performances well organised. To a certain extent, it’s through live performance that I create new ideas. What I regret, then, is that every performance from different phases of my music making life will …
Killed As Time
Conscious Feedback Group (C.F.G.) is a gang of three formed in 2018 by MAI mai, Xu Cheng and Jun-Y Ciao. Improvisation is their way. They use mediums of music, sound, text and performance to explore a non-identifiable style that has nothing to do with fancy illusions.
Eidolon
To understand tuning systems, to peer into the infinity of microtonal compositional strategies, is to imagine a sense of musicality that extends far out beyond the familiar harmonies of the western ear. Iranian composer Siavash Amini, a self-confessed tuning obsessive, has dedicated much of his musical investigations over the past half decade to unlocking new relationships between harmonic events. Moreover, he has sought new timbral relations too and in doing so has honed a particular sonic-aest…
Spalona Ziemia
The trio is a perfect composition for broadly understood improvised music, sufficient in terms of minimum and generally reflecting to the maximum what the musicians want to convey to the listener. In the case of the Wrocław-based trio Marek Otwinowski, Michał Sikorski and Marcin Witkowski, this "width" of understanding improvisation is particularly visible. This is not a classic free-jazz band or even free-improv, because the musicians go far beyond these frames, touching noise, avant-garde, ind…
Hatomatsuri
*200 copies limited edition* Unfettered harsh noise from the legendary Japanese noise artist Masami Akita aka Merzbow. Tirelessly churning layers of distortion are punctuated across two tracks with glistening, jagged feedback and thrashing pulsations that lash at the ears and utterly invigorate the senses.
Anthology Of Electroacoustic Music From Finland
*200 copies limited edition* There is a long tradition of Electroacoustic music in Finland beginning in the 1950’s with the experimentation of tape music. Finland’s first electronic musical instrument the "Sähkövalopiano" or "Electric Light Piano" was built before this in 1894. It was constructed in the Polytechnic Institute (now Aalto University) in Helsinki. Finland also has a tradition of blending archaic traditional music in the contemporary music scene. The Kalevala tradition for example da…
The Elusive Flexure
Helicopter is proud to present the first trio album of Joseph Hammer (Solid Eye, Dinosaurs With Horns, LAFMS), Joe Potts (Airway, Extended Organ, LAFMS), and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek, Strain of Laws).
Plays
Available for the first time as the artists originally intended!
XCIII
More than 25 years after their first partnership, international collaborators Smegma and Merzbow reunite for an all-new album that pushes the conceptual springboard of random composition generation even further. Consisting of two movements spread over 93 tracks, XCIII presents a collage of abstract electronics, unconventional instruments, reel to reel tape manipulation, loops and effects, best experienced in unique combinations on shuffled play.The first movement, Climactic Gruesome Costumes (wh…
Oxmardyke
Philip Jeck sadly passed away at the end of March 2022. But before he died, he was able to work on some audio files sent to him by Chris Watson, who writes: "In 2017 I was recording along the north bank of the Humber estuary and one morning driving back from Faxfleet I was stopped at the Oxmardyke rail crossing. The gates were down. After setting up a microphone array by the tracks for a passing freight train the signalman shouted an invitation to climb up into the gate box to make some more rec…
Mekong
* Edition of 60 * Jungle Gym Records presents "Mekong", a brand new collaborative offering from Scurge & Slow Heat. Jungle-mist drones envelop anxious blood-moon electronics in this fully immersive audio experience, peak improvisation from two of LA's best experimentalists... exclusively from Jungle Gym.Transparent fog cassette with printed shell sticker + double sided J-card in a clear hard case. Hand packaged, unmarked, limited edition run of 60.
Split
* Edition of 50 * Jungle Gym Records presents JGT87, a brand new split cassette from legendary Italian experimentalist Ottaven and Los Angeles-based sound artist R. Pierre. A masterclass in sculptural minimalism and micro-industrial electronics, JGT87 is distant transmissions from the fringes of the void, capturing two of our favorite sound explorers at the peak of their creative powers... as always, exclusively from Jungle Gym.
Examinations
* Edition of 50 * Jungle Gym Records presents "Examinations", official debut of Mitchell Crk. Sifting through shattered industrial rubbish and 3rd-degree-burn ambient, M.C. surveys the bleakest of environments, head tripping into the abyss with no signs of relief in sight... exclusively for Jungle Gym!Stain white cassette with printed shell sticker + 4-panel J-card in a clear hard case. Hand packaged, unmarked, limited edition run of 50.
Empires
*Limited edition of 200 copies.* A research on possible timbral encounters between percussion and electric guitar, aimed to make them indistinguishable. A sound force that generates dimensions and worlds, where the dramaturgical narration does not necessarily have to be present, since the sound itself already tells and describes. The form take second placet in favor of the timbre, that outlines unknown languages, fantastic machines, microorganisms, alien vegetation with new and curious colors an…
SILVA
Bára Gísladóttir is an Icelandic composer and double bassist based in Copenhagen. She is an active performer and regularly plays her own music, mostly solo or with her long-time collaborator Skúli Sverrisson. Additionally, she is the double bassist of Elja Ensemble. Occasionally, she performs as a soloist with ensembles or orchestras, most recently in her own double bass concert, "Hringla," with the Copenhagen Philharmonic. Every sound on SILVA is of the double bass, processed to various degrees…