In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni
This LP shows the band doing their improv feedback guitar drone in a more precise way than before. Of course it’s still related to NZ music : Surface of the Earth, The Dead C and all guitars projects from there, but also to guitar noise minimalism from the USA, Glen Branca, Tony Conrad et.al. but also salutes the godmother of French experimental music Eliane Radigue.
Time Flies When You Are Having Fun
The Dictaphone is the solo project of Jérémie Morin. back after 3 years of recording hiatus, the French DIY synth artist delivers another fine album of electronic drone and abstraction.
How To Improve Your Relaxing LP
Experimental DIY synth krautrock noise, polyrhythmic contemporary post-punk from France.
Mariachi
Absolutely stunning solo electric guitar improvisation captured in the moment of pure focussed solo improvisation. If you were to buy one solo guitar album year make it this one.
Probables
On his first solo LP, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy (the spectacular drummer of Pneu, Binidu, la Colonie de vacances among many other projects) explores a feild between contemporary music, minimalism and sound art.
Still
**2021 Stock. Edition of 400** Rotorelief presents Still by Honeymoon Cowboys. Dark and gloomy sounds from the Wild West with great passion and a touch of joy. The Honeymoon Cowboys are a Belgian rock band formed by Antonio Palermo (guitar) and Klaas Hoogerwaard (drums) of ex-Siglo XX together with Tom Van Troyen (vocals), Kris Dries (bass) and Thomas Francois (keyboards).
The Bit
The Bit is the second recorded collaboration between Aidan Baker (Nadja / Hypnodrone Ensemble), Simon Goff (Jóhann Johannsson / Hildur Gudnadottir) and Thor Harris (Swans, Shearwater, Thor & Friends). Following on from 2017’s Noplace album, The Bit treads a similar path in terms of the recording process as the trio spent a day improvising at Voxton Studios in Berlin whilst on a European tour. The result was then edited and moulded into six hypnotic tracks that ebb and flow with beauty and ease.
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Where the Dusk Has No End
* Edition of 200 * After "September Winds", Giuseppe Verticchio/Nimh and Daniela Gherardi are back as Twist of Fate with their newest offering entitled "Where the Dusk has no End". Sounds and atmospheres constantly bordering shadows and light, in a sort of infinite twilight where thin rays of sun violate the looming darkness, drawing landscapes with fragile and indefinite contours, sound watercolours swaying through Ambient, Shoegaze and 'drumless Post Rock', alternating atmospheres - now darker…
From Somewhere Invisible
**Third pressing on black vinyl.** Edited and mixed between Montreal and Paris, From Somewhere Invisible summons the fever of experimentation and the powerful sound of the game coming together in the service of a luxuriant and psychedelic drift. Synthetic brass meets hammered rhythms, string electrics with cracked electronics, saxophone cries and laughter at a pulsing and seminal bass. Created in 2012 by multi-instrumentalists Frédéric D. Oberland and Stéphane Pigneul, Oiseaux-Tempëte (Storm Pet…
Live at Atelier 210, Mar. 27th, 2018
**200 copies** SoundShots presents a live recording by Going taken on March 27th, 2018, at Ateliers 210 in Brussels.Going is a Belgian based group that has a skeletal line up which packs a big punch: 2 drummers, (João Lobo and Mathieu Calleja), and 2 keyboards / synths / fender rhodes + plenty of electronics (Giovanni Di Domenico and Pak Yan Lau). The sound that they come up with could be loosely post-rock, but also closely allied to improvised, experimental and minimal music. Their universe is …
Aux Pieds de la Nuit
Aidan Moffat gets woozily sinister on his first album as Nyx Nótt. "Au Pieds de la Nuit" shows an artist drifting steadily into newer and more esoteric places. This is night music, make no mistake about that.
Volume 1
Musical seed from the febrile imagination of composer / bassist / freer-than-free alto saxophonist Stefano Scarella (ex- Promenade), nurtured by the twin talents of rosenwinkelite / chorinho zealot Mario de Simoni and Nornthern Irish multi-instru/mentalist Joel Cathcart.Hybrid, exploratory instrumental music. Merging and melding. Titling and retitling. Punk meditation. Oedipal jazz. Accidental body art. Space shuttles out to launch.Stefano Scarella - bassMario De Simoni - guitarJoel Cathcart - d…
Hold You Up
For their first album in five years, Zelienople turns on the current time with a record of low key decaying songs wrapped in hypnotic, driving rhythms.
Tlamess (Sortilege)
**Orange vinyl, includes poster** Tlamess (Sortilège) is Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack composed for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim (Festival de Cannes' 51st Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, BFI London, ADF Argentina, Geneva GIFF, Rome Medfilm Festival, Marrakech International Film Festival). Combining hypnotic feedbacks and synthesizer orchestral work, drifting ambient with shamanic beats, the Tlamess (Sortilège) original soundtrack was…
Les Mémoires d'un Ventriloque (Chansons 1981-2018)
Les Mémoires d'un Ventriloque ("memories of a ventriloquist") is the long-awaited anthology of Pascal Comelade's collaborations with singers, recorded between 1981 and 2018, and featuring Robert Wyatt, PJ Harvey, and Jac Berrocal, among many others. Almost all tracks are rare, have only been released on CDs or compilations, have been re-worked by Pascal Comelade for this release, or have never been released before. French-Catalan musician Pascal Comelade, born June 30, 1955 in Montpellier, began…
Scenes From the South Island
Expanded reissue of New Zealand guitar pioneer Roy Montgomery's rare and revered full-length debut, Scenes From The South Island, originally released in 1995 by West Coast experimental / space rock label Drunken Fish. Recorded on both coasts on a pair of Tascam 4-tracks, the album is alternately wistful, windswept, skeletal, shredded, and strange. Solo guitar figures flow and fray through echo and empty space, evoking loss, long roads, and low-lit landscapes.Montgomery's own memories of this era…
I Drew a Fish Hook, and It Turned Into a Flower
**CD version, 200 copies** "Iikki’s latest dialogue is a conversation between Los Angeles-based photographer Jake Michaels and musicians Stephen Vitiello and Molly Berg. Michaels is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and he’s also involved with ‘The Look’, an ongoing series that blends fashion with street photography. Six years on from their last release, Stephen Vitiello and Molly Berg’s I Drew a Fish Hook, and It Turned Into a Flower is a benevolent and playful listen. The pair met i…
I Drew a Fish Hook, and It Turned Into a Flower
**300 copies** I Drew a Fish Hook, and It Turned Into a Flower is the result of a dialog between the Los Angeles photographer Jake Michaels and the musics artists Stephen Vitiello and Molly Berg initiated by IIKKI between May 2019 and October 2019. The complete project works in two physical imprints: a book and a disc (vinyl or CD). it should be experienced in different manners: the book watched alone, the disc listened to alone, the book and the disc watched and listened together.Jake Michaels …
Mark Hollis
**180 gram vinyl** Following the sad passing of Mark Hollis earlier this year we all collectively turned back towards the impressive career arc of his band Talk Talk. Lesser referenced was his self-titled solo album released in 1998, which is now available again on vinyl.Despite being released as a solo album by Hollis, it was originally intended to be credited to Talk Talk, under the name Mountains of the Moon. A beautiful and haunting work, this album picks up where he left off with Talk Talk'…
Distance
Originally released on VHF as a CD at the end of 1994, this was the second Flying Saucer Attack album, compiling 5 tracks from impossible to get 7" with 20 mins of previously unreleased (and good) material.Similar in blend to the band’s first LP (also newly issued in the USA on deluxe vinyl), the songs hang together as a collection that improves on the individual singles. The two proper singles that make up half of Distance - Soaring High b/w Standing Stone and Crystal Shade b/w Distance were in…