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Rezo Glonti – The Diary Of The Second Officer
CDHere’s a new release from Georgian sound artist, Rezo Glonti’s. This lovingly crafted ambient voyage is a sort of imagined audio diary of a Second Officer…of a ship?… of a plane? We’re not sure, but Rezo himself lived this voyage himself, traveling about the world with his recorder, laptop and keyboard….and the resulting sounds and atmosphere we bring to you here with this release will sooth your own stay at home selves! Well…until it is time for you yourself to fly!£10.00 -
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Isnaj Dui – Abstracts On Solitude
CD, SaleIsnaj Dui is Katie English, based in North London, UK. Her work in the past has graced labels such as Home Normal, Smallfish, Rural Colours and her own imprint FBox Records. One of her most recent and on-going projects is called Duodecim, a subscription based album that has seen a track released each month since September. It will eventually result in a CD which will be ready this August. With a history of recording and musical study that spans back to 1995, Katie’s current sound is characterised by her use of flute, particularly the bass flute. This is generally a rarely used instrument but is used frequently throughout her work as a defining feature. Add to this a few home-made instruments and electronics and you have the very distinctive sound of Isnaj Dui, a project that has been active since 2004. Katie has performed live alongside the likes of Library Tapes, Nils Frahm, Konntinent and Simon Scott amongst others and in venues such as The Foundry, National Portrait Gallery and The Union Chapel.£5.00 -
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Damian Valles – Nonparallel (In 4 Movements)
CD, SaleNonparallel (In Four Movements), is composed and arranged entirely from samples from the recordings of avant-garde Western classical composers and computer music released by the Nonesuch label in the 60s and 70s. In working with the material, Valles wanted to enter into its very lineage, to forge a dialogue with it, to both extrapolate something essential from it and contribute to its legacy by using it to create an original work some three decades later. Divided into four movements, it is a nuanced album of subtle complexities that took roughly three years to complete.£5.00 -
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Marielle V Jakobsons – Glass Canyon
CD, SaleIt’s been a little while since we’ve last heard from Oakland-based sound artist Marielle Jakobsons in a solo capacity, but that’s certainly not to say she hasn’t been busy. Last year saw full-length outings by her two duo projects, Date Palms and Myrmyr, and already in 2012 works with Bay Area drone ensemble Portraits and trio recordings with Helena Espvall and Agnes Szelag have been released. Her last major solo outing (under the nom-de-plume Darwinsbitch) came in form of the dark, complex Ore, released by Digitalis in 2009. With Glass Canyon, Jakobsons presents her first major work under her own name, a decision which perhaps offers a bit of insight into her compositional intentions on the album itself. Jakobsons sought to strip down her creative process to primarily just synthesizer and violin as a way of focusing, as she puts it, “on where two timbres meet.”£5.00 -
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Nils Quak – Long Forgotten Days
CD, SaleNils Quak is a sound artist, writer & journalist living in Cologne, Germany. Under his own name as well as under various other monikers he releases music on labels such as Progressive Form, Kitty Yo, Distance Recordings, Audiobulb, Clothbound Recordings and many more. ‘Long Forgotten Days Under A Dust Covered Sky’ is the first of two wonderfully dusty sounding albums by Nils for NKR. The second will be released in July.£4.00 -
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Fugenn & The White Elephants – Archetype Zero
CD, SaleFugenn & The White Elephants is the solo project by the Japanese artist, Shuji Saito. Making dance music since 2004 as a DJ and artist under the name of “SOMA”, he represents a new generation of up and coming beatmakers in Japan right now and is widely regarded as one of the leading lights of the new electronica scene there at present. As a member of “Trench Warfare” (an underground party crew in Chiba), he regularly performs lives in Tokyo, Kyoto, Shiga and Nigata. In 2008, he changed his project name to “Fugenn & The White Elephants” and remixes with “Headphone Science”, “Koen Park” and more have been a success not only in Japan, but beyond as well. In April 2011, his 1st album was released on the famous Japanese electronica label “PROGRESSIVE FOrM”. He also recently participated in YMO’s tribute album “YMO REWAKE”. His long-awaited 2nd full album “Prays” was released on May 5, 2012 on PROGRESSIVE FOrM. His NKR debut ‘Archetype Zero’ consists of some of his earlier, harsher work which Ian Hawgood (the curator of NKR and a longtime friend) fell in love with when they first met back in the day.£4.00 -
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Studiocanoe – Soothe
CD, SaleStudiocanoe is Temujin Doran, an audio-visual artist based in London. He likes to play piano, guitar and old toy instruments, and record interesting sounds whilst he is travelling. He is the brother of a genius. ‘Soothe’ was one of the first records we received which helped to found the ethos of NKR – namely, to release beautiful, soulful music no matter what the genre. Whilst I have to be careful about saying such things, ‘Soothe’ is my wife’s favourite record across the labels to date and is actually the most listened on my old iPod. So there you go. This is the first in a series of audio-visual collaborations with Tem over the coming years. Thank you - Ian Hawgood£4.00 -
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offthesky vs Kinder Scout – The Curio Collection
CD, SaleKinder Scout are the trio of Jason Corder, Ian Hawgood and Danny Norbury. Their first release was a Japan only release on the awesome Preco label in 2011. ‘The Writing Life’ was actually their first album as a trio together, but in fact their second work. Using live takes from Ian and Danny, Jason composed their first fully fledged collaborative effort to critical acclaim, with nobody quite sure whether to define it as post-classical, jazz, ambient or a pop variant of all of the above. Their first work together was before the trio fully formed which stemmed from initial collaborative pieces between Jason and Ian, Ian and Danny. ‘The Curio Collection’ is actually their first album in a way then, but their second release now. Due out on Home Normal in 2012, the release is actually offthesky (Jason) vs Kinder Scout as Ian and Danny appear predominantly across the entire album which Jason made from 2009 – 2011. Both albums have been mastered by their dear friend Miles Whittaker.£6.00 -
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Mere – S/T
CD, SaleMere is a new project that began as a soundtrack and continues as an experimental, dark-ambient jazz group. Guitar, drums and bass clarinet provide an intense and improvised journey into the abyss. The trio first came together to work on a soundtrack for a Dutch TV documentary called ‘Visserman’. Having known each other for some time this was the first time they had combined together to write music and the name Mere comes from the Dutch word for ‘more’. Each member adds a different influence to the sound, the modal finger picked guitar playing of Thomas adds a sense of movement while Gareth takes both folk and free jazz ideas to play against Leo’s free rock influenced drum work. The tracks were recorded all in single takes with just a quick discussion of outline and tuning as a basic guide. Gareth Davis records on Important, Miasmah, Sonic Pieces, Dekorder, Home Normal etc. Collaborating with Machinefabriek, Steven R. Smith, Scanner, Frances-Marie Uitti, Ryan Teague, Elliott Sharp, Ian Hawgood and the like. Leo Fabriek releases on Digitalis, Home Normal etc. and is also the drummer with the noise rock band Julie Mittens.£5.00 -
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Tom Carter & Robert Horton – Nyida Days
CD, SaleLimited edition run of 200 copies for the world… Following on from previous collaborations between Robert Horton and Charalambides Tom Carter on fine labels such as Important, Preservation and Digitalis, Carter and Horton come back to Blackest Rainbow (both we have previously worked with but not as a duo) for their first duo recording in a while. The 3 tracks result in combinations between outsider improvised trips and swirling head drones created via a wide array of instruments and non-instruments. Carter takes hold of the guitar, ebow and lap steel with Horton’s every growing army of sound making objects described here as boot loops, boot, vortex, cassette player, minidisks, vibrator, computer, sine waves, voice, sex machine, organ, construction and beats to name some. Carter and Horton create a wild sound that is almost deconstructed and rebuilt through the 3 tracks, it sounds great and like no one else…£3.00 -
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Cremaster – Live at Audiograft
CD, SaleHand numbered limited edition of 200 presented in a letter pressed 4 panel sleeve resting snugly in recycled brown envelopes… A twenty six minute slab of immaculately improvised electronics from sonic terrorists Alfredo Costa Monteiro & Ferran Fages, recorded live at Modern Art Oxford in March 2012.£5.00 -
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Kim_Nasung – Places
CD, SaleThere are the places where we can not get. Or we can only if our imagination helps. Mysterious images, dreamy shapes, reminiscences and unrecognisable traces. Sometimes we can sense them, so close to us. We can understand them the way we understand old pictures of people whom we never met. People whom we only know from the stories. Those seemingly cold and remote worlds and events, covered with the fog which steels the colour… Those worlds create the chain of extraordinary cycles. They lead to nowhere besides themselves. Pulsating and imaginary places. Discover them. Stalk them, immerse in the “Places”…£6.00 -
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Joe Evans – Ecliptic Plane (CD / DVD)
CD, DVD, SaleThis release is available in limited edition 100 x CDr & Data-DVD using high quality Aquaguard (matt) or Watershield (gloss) discs (depending on availability). The covers are made from recycled card. The video is released as a data file to ensure the highest possible quality is available… The Music: I think it’s safe to say that space, and more specifically, the sun and planets, have been the inspiration behind a large number of musical projects over the years. While this work deals with some of this familiar subject, it does so with the emphasis on time and particularly by how it is marked by movement within the solar system. The piece “Ecliptic Plane” was initially conceived as a gallery exhibit exploring the synchronicity of the planets and their moons. Once it was finished, it became clear that any release would need to be expanded to include a more complete picture of the solar system. Each track then came about through a combination of examining the properties of the subjects and a series of mathematical music experiments conducted in parallel. The tracks “Ecliptic Plane” and “Resonant TNOs” extensively use the data from the planets, their moons and other objects to create their rhythms and harmonies. In the case of “Resonant TNOs” the musical scale was derived directly from the frequency ratios of the orbits of the titular objects themselves. Whilst “Approaching/Receding Sun” and “Oort Cloud” are essentially impressionistic in nature, they are the results of mathematical experiments that have links with their subjects through mood and metaphor.£6.00 -
David Newlyn – Ruins
CDThe second in a new series from Time Released Sound comes from David Newlyn, entitled “Ruins”. Like the Taskerlands release, the music on this release comes in the form of two long 20+ minute tracks. With the usual finesse that David shows on all his work, he brings us here an absolutely stunning blend of neo-classical beauty featuring laptop, keyboard, guitars, minidisc and field recordings. This is headphone music for sure…it’s delicate yet insistent flow, and depth of ambient nuance is in fine keeping with David’s previous release on Time Released Sound of last year, “Brittle”. Newlyn has such a fine touch with all that he has at hand… and he never ceases to amaze!£10.00 -
Taskerlands – S/T
CDNew loveliness from Time Released Sound… The exceedingly lovely, psyche tinged ambient folk on this release is from the duo of Michael Tanner (Plinth), and David Colohan (United Bible Studies)… with help from several well known friends. Together these five friends have created two long tracks, each 20+ minutes of melodic and spatially meandering, instrumental psyche folk bliss. With Michael and David both on somewhat treated guitars, and with the accompanying bass clarinet (Sean Mac Erlaine), piano (Kerrie Robinson) and frequencies by Richard Moult filling in the beautiful spaces between, this release promises to take you well across the fields of pastoralism and into the forest glades of your deepest dreams!£10.00 -
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Cycle 440 – The Cartography of Shifting Planes
CD, SaleThe latest release from duo Cycle~ 440 via Twice Removed Records. This is their second album following on from “The Geography of Collapsing Structures” and comes in a run of 100 copies in slim line case with printed sleeve.£3.00 -
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The Rustle of the Stars
CD, SaleHoused in a 6 panel digipack with silver text and graphics… 450 km from the arctic circle, ‘The Rustle of the Stars’ is a phenomenon of austere beauty, a barely audible noise that occurs when the draught from human breath causes multiple collisions among the ice micro-crystals in the air. Some words about this record from Richard & Frederic: We met on tour when performing in Europe with our respective bands Glissando and FareWell Poetry. We had beautiful times, drinking and talking our common grounds whilst some simple ideas formed in our minds: to compose an album together. To imagine a musical passage through the North Pole explorer diaries. To ask some people and some friends to participate. To record the project in a church. To act quickly. We began to work at our homes in November 2010, In Paris (FR) and in Leeds (UK), with electric guitars, a bunch of pedals, piano, dulcimer, organ, crystal glasses, bows and field recordings, sending and adding ideas together to the tracks, trying to find a global organic sound. We met in Leeds two months later at the beginning of 2011 to record in the St Margaret of Antioch Church, using a ‘wall of sound’ process in some of the tracks and arranging / recording the string parts you will hear in the music. We would like to think of this album as a polar journey to the ends of the earth through the arctic sea. We kept in mind the first polar expeditions, Edgar Allan Poe’s Dream-Land, the ships trapped or crushed by ice, the point of no-return, the minds sinking, the attempt on the Pole ending in disaster, the quest of the Northwest Passage, Erebus & Terror, the Mercy Bay, Mangazeya, Charles Francis Hall, Beechey Island, the Midnight sun and the Polar night.£7.00 -
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Mortuus Auris And The Black Hand
CD, SaleMortuus Auris and his Black Hand is actually a chap called Peter Taylor and this is this alter ego. Not like in a mad schizophrenic way but more in a kind of way that you just have a different name to do things. Eg Hulk Hogan wouldn’t be anywhere near as popular if he he used his reall name of Terry Gene Bollea, so if you’re in the biz I guess you gotta do these things. Limited to 50 copies job and it’s rather lovely. Throbbing, pulsating, spacey sounding drone music with layers of ambience all put together rather well I think. At times it can sound quite celestial and there’s the odd sound in there that reminds me of Philip Glass, but then there’s the odd sound in there which is like the Eraserhead soundtrack ‘n all. It drifts from the beautiful to the ugly (sometimes in the same song) and if you stick with it to the end you’ll discover there are many riches to be had here. I’m particularly fond of all of the spacey sounding noises!£5.00 -
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Doron Sadja – Residuals
CD, SaleLimited edition CD with deluxe oversized sleeve and accompanying prints by the artist… “Residuals” is a four movement, hyper-emotive, ultra-synthetic landscape. Doron’s first solo electronics release since 2003′s “a piece of string, a sunset” on 12k – and it’s in that same realm that his endlessly imaginative sound design shines brightest. Slowly lifting off from near silence into an ethereal vacuum of swirling cacophonies and multi-tonal noise, “Residuals” never lets go. Romantic synthesizer harmonies, extreme frequencies, spectral chord blasts, and ultra-high synthesized feedback combine to form structures so innately organic that it’s easy to forget that a human (or a computer, for that matter) had anything to do with it.£8.00 -
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James Landis – January Dusk
CD, SaleLimited to only 50 copies… Guitar based digitally manipulated instrumental tracks from James Landis. From ambient drones to acoustic sketches with a few beats along the way…£5.00 -
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Steinbrüchel + Cory Allen – Seam
CD, SaleFourteen months and countless folders of audio files later, Steinbrüchel and Cory Allen offer their first collaborative album entitled «Seam». An intensive and process driven work period resulted in an album that integrates the two artist’s individual soundworlds. Each sound was processed and multiplied by both artists, forming a sound archive of individual threads. The compositions were then sewn and stitched together using the collection of the archive. Connecting each composition is an inbetween thread which weaves the album’s tracks together. The «- — – –» audio process was extended into the design and production of the physical packaging. The cover design is based on a system which reflects the track order and the artists’ contributions to the creation of the compositions. Each of the 400 limited edition CD packagings were offset printed and machine stitched in Switzerland. Cover concept and design by ORDNER. Mastered by Cory Allen.£7.00 -
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Philippe Petit & Friends – Cordophony
CD, SaleGorgeous 6-panel digipack… A filmic adventure where luscious string arrangements convey a whole world of emotion, and the organic sound of instruments is never outshadowed by machines. “Cordophone” is a French word which refers to musical instruments whose sound comes from the vibrations of one or several strings. Cordophone shows Philippe Petit playing with string parts by many talented friends in order to create an imaginary world of dense mixtures of electro-folk acoustic instrumentation, post-classical orchestral arrangements filled with collected field-recordings, vanguard soundscapes, manipulations of glass and vinyls.£5.00 -
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Strië – Õhtul (Deluxe CD)
CD, Deluxe, SaleEach of these gorgeous deluxe versions, in this edition of 100, will come in a fused double envelope package, comprised of two 6.5″ square, Midnight Black envelopes. Each of these envelopes will be hand worked/stamped/artified in the usual TRS manner…in one of them will come the black digipak in it’s own translucent envelope, also stamped, and in the other half of the package will come a set of three banded 4″ x 6″ hand printed color prints, on 300lb Moab Rag Natural paper, with accordingly mysterious quotes/Strieisms, and a 4″ x 6″ unassembled jigsaw puzzle also in it’s own translucent envelope featuring, as far as we know, the only somewhat recent picture of Ms Reinhart in existence. Strie is a puzzle..and is being released as such…£25.00 -
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Strië – Õhtul
CD, SaleDigipak version of 250 copies comes in it’s own translucent envelope… Strië is the alter ego of the mysterious and public shy European sound sculptress, Iden Reinhart. Much has been made in the past of her elusive character…it has been said for instance, that she fled the spotlight in European classical music circles to retire to a life of creative seclusion in the countryside….country in particular currently undetermined! This is after living her youth as a child prodigy of some import…and we can state that even after dealing with her personally and quite congenially for most of the last six months, she is as much a mystery to us, at least, as ever! S£8.00 -
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En – Already Gone
CD, SaleAlready Gone is the second full length album from West Coast dream-drone unit En, the duo of Maxwell August Croy and James Devane, following their well-received debut album The Absent Coast (released in 2010 on Root Strata, which Croy runs alongside Jefre Cantu-Ledesma). For their sophomore release, the pair have opened up their tonal palette considerably. While the comparisons that critics made of their first album to the work of Tim Hecker and Stars of the Lid still hold true, Already Gone finds Croy and Devane mining even richer sonic climes. Here, the duo pull back the curtain on some of their source material, a move that allows the diversity of their instrumentation to resonate. On The Sea Saw Swell, Croy’s acoustic koto pings across the stereo spectrum as a looping guitar figure from Devane apparates from the haze of a beautiful, slowly shifting drone. The side-long closer Elysia is likely the duo’s defining recording to date, an epic slow-burner that reaches heights both angelic and cacophonous. Ultimately, it is the harmonious marriage of the organic and the obscured that recurs throughout the album that proves its defining trait, and it is precisely what makes En stand out in the ever-growing field of contemporary drone/ambient musics.£6.00 -
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Wes Willenbring – Weapons Reference Manual
CD, SaleCD comes in a 4 panel wallet in a limited numbered edition of 200… Weapons Reference Manual is the third album by American ambient craftsman Wes Willenbring. As a further progression from his acclaimed debut Somewhere Someone Else and his stunning sophomore album Close, But Not Too Close, Weapons Reference Manual features a varied and richly hued palette of visceral guitar tones, effects-warped textures and achingly beautiful piano work. Immersive and darkly emotive soundscapes, such as droning opener ‘Dreams and Schemes’ and the 15-minute epic ‘Quaaludes’, are counterbalanced by seductively melodic pieces, such as ‘People Disappear Everyday’ and closing track ‘Ashes’. Meanwhile, single ‘Consequences of Recklessness’ is Weapons Reference Manual’s shimmering centrepiece, setting icicles of delayed guitar amid an aching tapestry of drones and feedback. It sets the tone for the album as a whole, perhaps Willenbring’s most complex and satisfying release to date.£6.00 -
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These Shipwrecks – Raw Powerless
CD, SaleSuperb release from These Ship Wrecks whose previous releases were “Leda” (Frosty you Haunt Me) and “Salt, Sulphur, Mercury” (Heartless Robot Productions). It’s a stripped back recording using 1 microphone. Mastered by James Plotkin in a slim line case, double sided sleeve in a limited edition of 100.£3.00 -
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Thisquietarmy / Yellow6 – Death Valley (2xCD)
CD, Sale“Death Valley” is the most ambitious BF release so far. After its vinyl releases, this gollem sees its CD edition released at last. This mini gatefold sleeve with a 8 pages booklet 2 CD set consists of previously released “Death” and “Valley” re-united, with the addition of 3 bonus tracks: an outtake, a small live recording and a remix by Fear Falls Burning.£7.00 -
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Wastelanders – Cosmic Despair
CD, SaleWastelanders second release finds Dean Costello (also of Harpoon and Diatribes) exploring the unfathomable depths of Cosmic Despair. The 53 minute epic expands and contracts, drifting on through a woefully auspicious expanse of ambient, vocal-less guitar and organ suites. Textures condense and grow, gradually coming forth, and as the album unfolds it builds in depth and dimension. Waves of spacious flotation accompanied by trolling, lulling bass frequencies lead us head first into the glorious abyss. Mastered by Andy Nelson at Bricktop Recording.£5.00 -
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Julien Demoulin & IA – The Bay
CD, SaleA tribute to both a great friendship and the mist-mantled San Francisco Bay Area, “The Bay” is a sprawling forty-minute drone piece recorded and produced in 2009 and 2010 over the course of several journeys between Oakland, California and Brussels, Belgium. Guitar and vocal drones, environmental recordings and flute merge to form an emotional travelogue at the grey boundaries of the dreaming and waking worlds…in celebration of reminiscence, before a darkling dawn, deep under the skies of water…£5.00 -
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Glockenspiel – Enspiel
CD, SaleUsing tapes, electronics and guitars through chains of effects, Adrian Dollemore’s fundamentally earth-ground chords and astrally-projective processing paint a rural tonality with a bristling white afterglow. Glistening arpeggios rise and fall against gurgling analogue electronics, washes of processed cymbal and ethereal drone filigree. Pro pressed CD packed in a card slip case which was designed by Steve d’Enton.£3.00 -
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Cock & Swan – Stash (Deluxe CD)
CD, Deluxe, SaleThe CD (Not a CD-R) (Limited Edition of 100) comes housed in a hand-aged linen cloth bound book. The linen cover is backed with archival mulberry paper and bound over high quality and heavyweight archival book board. Cover art is printed to canvas and stitched. The interior is lined with hand made banana bark paper, lokta and mulberry paper. Each limited edition is hand numbered… Through the hypnotic fog that is the music of Cock and Swan lurks a strange energy, feeling one part sinister and two parts innocent. Yet, it reveals itself in subtle uneasy layers of blissfully haunting melodies as you clamber further into the dank outlands that entrench their sound.£12.00 -
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Cock and Swan – Stash
CD, SaleCD housed in a reverse print sleeve with matte CD art / 320K MP3 Download / 5 Bonus tracks from Cock and Swan / Bonus remixes from Part Timer and Vieo Abiungo… Through the hypnotic fog that is the music of Cock and Swan lurks a strange energy, feeling one part sinister and two parts innocent. Yet, it reveals itself in subtle uneasy layers of blissfully haunting melodies as you clamber further into the dank outlands that entrench their sound.£4.00 -
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Abiungo / Monro – Thunder May Have Ruined the Moment (CD/DVD)
CD, DVD, SaleThe CD and DVD (Limited Edition of 500) come housed in a 7”x 6” custom book-style case, featuring debossed imagery and text on the exterior. The interior features 16-pages of stunning full-page spread imagery, along with poetry penned by Fritch. Each edition is numbered by hand. Also includes 320K MP3 + DVD File Download plus 4 Mastered Bonus tracks… William Ryan Fritch (aka Vieo Abiungo) returns with a gorgeous fifteen track follow-up to 2011’s And the World is Still Yawning. Trying to classify Fritch’s sound by genre has become almost futile. He effortlessly weaves together a huge breadth of earthy beat-laden experimental, classical, and folk. This is the third full-length for Vieo Abiungo, and this newest installment comes in the form of a CD and DVD release titled, Thunder May Have Ruined the Moment. Fritch enlisted the help of award-winning film director, Pete Monro (Days Together) to create several short experimental films for the DVD. The films offer up thick psychotropic visuals and hazy moss grown memories that seamlessly meld into barrage of twisted imagery and nature based decay. Though the music may sound at times like the product of electronic instrumentation, the entirety of the film and accompanying album’s music was created strictly using acoustic instruments played entirely by Fritch, and recorded primarily using analog tape machines. At times tranquil, tortured, or trembling with quiet joy, Thunder May Have Ruined the Moment is an album of light and shadow, the human experience given voice.£8.00 -
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A-Sun Amissa – Desperate in Her Heavy Sleep
CD, SaleA-Sun Amissa is a new project formed out of Leeds, UK by members of Glissando. Built on the foundations of the unknown, a project that encompasses minimalist drones, modern-classical movements and avant-garde tendencies. Richard Knox (Glissando / ‘The Rustle of the Stars’ / Of Thread & Mist) & Angela Chan (Glissando / ‘The Rustle of the Stars’ / Ten / Tomorrow We Sail) began forming initial ideas in the Autumn of 2011, moving away from the piano-led ambience of previous outputs. Long-time friend Owen Pegg was soon invited to join the project as the pieces developed to enable the songs the depth and intensity they require. The trio produce a dense, drone-like atmosphere accompanying evocative, melodic string sections and intertwining guitars. The live show features sections of the recorded output combined with improvisation to unlock new movements and progressions in the music. The subtle, considered textures and the hypnotic interaction between players and instruments provide an intense live performance.£4.00 -
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Troy Schafer – Evening Song Awaken
CD, SaleHand-numbered & stamped limited edition of 200…. Recital presents its first “classically” inspired program. I have come to enjoy classical music more and more over the years, finding it to be perfect background music for drinking, cooking, or relaxing in style. Although this album isn’t exactly background music, as it is bold and often intense with emotion, it carries a poetic quality which is as warm and whimsical as my favorite symphonies.£5.00 -
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Radiant Husk – Micromegas
CD, SaleHand-numbered & Stamped limited edition of 200… Seeing Matthew Erickson perform live is an impressive experience. The sound he gets by blasting his saxophone through his Fender Twin literally shakes you to the core. Erickson has a great ear for experimental music; exercising tasteful timing and restraint, which I am finding to be more and more important. Whether performing in the sax-guitar duo Sudden Oak, or solo as Radiant Husk, his sonic presence has earned the respect of many.£5.00 -
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Konntinet – Closer Came The Light (2 x CD)
CD, Sale‘Closer Came The Light’ is the follow-up to Konntinent’s ‘Opal Island’ for Home Normal. It was recorded in the mad London heat of summer 2010, most of it improvised single-take recordings. We hope you like it. – HN Harrison has a deft touch with composition and production – and, while the majority of tracks sit between 8 and 18 minutes, nothing feels overlong, there is a real variety in mood and structure across the album, and the subtle developments within tracks keep the listener engaged throughout. Naturally, with this album being released on Home Normal, you would expect it to come highly recommended – and it does. – Fluid Radio£5.00 -
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Listening Mirror – What’s Wrong With Miracles
CD, SaleLimited edition hand stamped release in recycled handstiched and stickered sleeve with card insert… Featuring 3 long form tracks of Ambient/Drone based experimentalism for one half of listening Mirror, Jeff Stonehouse. Listening Mirror have appeared on notable imprints such as Hibernate, Heat Death, Audio Gourmet, Rural Colours and Bathetic to name a few. The process…. Equipment used: Squier Stratocaster guitar. Audition semi – acoustic guitar. Korg Kaossillator. 18″ Oscillating fan, Ribbons. Recording method: Ableton Live 8 Suite running on Macbook Pro. Recording techniques: ‘The Boat Has Sailed’ drone was achieved using the earth hum and harmonics of the Audition guitar. Percussive bass were recorded through the pickups of the same guitar and then chopped, stretched and looped. ‘It’s In The Trees’ and ‘Storm Train’ guitar parts were recorded by attaching ribbons to an oscillating fan and allowing them to strike the strings randomly. All tracks written between October 2011 and February 2012 by Jeff Stonehouse.£5.00 -
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K Wilson – Otherworld
CD, SaleLimited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies… “Otherworld” is the debut release (besides a limited tape cassette) by K Wilson, using guitar, field recordings & percussion. Recorded in early 2012 in Western Australia. Field recordings taken from tall blowing grass and the sea. Cymbals+percussion have been pitch altered & slowed down. Most the album is ambient guitar+loops, delays etc, with all recordings done on a digital portable recorder.£4.00 -
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Konntinent – Kiruna (Vinyl/CD)
CD, Sale, VinylA limited edition vinyl pressing of 200 that includes a CD version of the album, plus a postcard with download code… Konntinent is the solo project of London based musician Antony Harrison. Both as Konntinent and through his other project names Arev Konn and Paco Sala, Antony has a discography that lists Home Normal, Sonic Pieces, Humming Conch and Symbolic Interaction as labels he has worked with. His live performances have meant he has been able to share the stage with artists such as Machinefabriek, Ian Hawgood, Simon Scott, Library Tapes, Jasper TX, Danny Norbury, Boduf Songs and Talvihorros.£6.00 -
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Max Bondi – Convolution
CD, Deluxe, SaleLimited edition run of just 120 full glass-mastered CDs, coming in a thick card gatefold sleeve, each one screenprinted in two colours, individually numbered and sewn together, enclosing a fold-out double-sided screenprinted insert. The latest record on Tartaruga is the second full-length from Max Bondi. A departure of sorts from previous work, the album is an exploration of constraint, limitations, and repetition. Fragments of sound fold in upon themselves, constructing subtle patterns and melodies which overlay, interfere and diverge, varying from dense clusters of pulsing frequencies to torrents of cascading electronic notes. This is uncompromising machine music, but with a melodic edge, rhythmical but irregular, ‘electrical’ rather than electronic. The record develops over the course of ten tracks, each one building up on top of the previous in successive waves.£7.50 -
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Ryan Teague – Field Drawings
CD, SaleBristol-based composer Ryan Teague is one of an increasing number of artists, from Efterklang to Portico Quartet, Ólafur Arnalds to Nils Frahm, successfully operating in the fertile margins between chamber orchestration and electronic processing. This, Teague’s third album of delicately poised, wordless instrumental fare, focuses less on the sweeping, bowed string phalanxes that have characterised his previous releases and errs instead toward the dulcet timbres of glockenspiels, xylophones, marimbas, piano and pizzicato plucking – or electronic approximations thereof. It’s tempting to label this kind of thing ‘minimalist’ – tempting, but wrong. For while Teague is happy to play with the tuned percussion sounds and polyrhythms so beloved of Steve Reich and the New York minimalist ‘school’, he is clearly less concerned with matters of rhythmic complexity or anything as arid or theoretical as ‘phase shifting’, preferring the emotional tug evoked by the enmeshing of simple, contrapuntal melody lines and the glowing properties of modulating major-to-minor chord sequences set against pretty, arpeggiating note clusters.£6.00 -
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The Green Kingdom – Prismatic (2 x CD)
CD, SaleWe are very happy to finally get our hands on the limited edition version of this album that comes with a bonus remix CD from the likes of bvdub, The Boats, Part Timer, Insecto, H.A.M., Yuri Lugovskoy, Northerner, Fieldhead, The Declining Winter and Inch-time. These artists take the original compositions into some unexpected and exciting new musical territories… Say no more! Mike Cottone (The Green Kingdom) utilises a similar musical palette as can be heard on last year’s acclaimed ‘Twig And Twine’ CD and once again ‘Prismatic’ is expertly mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k/Line).£7.00 -
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Fieldhead – They Shook Hands For Hours
CD, Sale‘They Shook Hands For Hours’ is the debut release from Paul Elam and takes the minimalist, glitchy, low end rumble of Machinefabriek, Phillip Jeck and The Caretaker but contains arrangements that are concise, structured and almost pop orientated in their brevity. The dusty, grainy textures can be reminiscent of Khonnor’s textbook 2005 album ‘Handwriting’, but in this case the ambient cinematic drones of Stars of the Lid and Labradford replace the ghosts of lo-fi pop. It is no wonder that the artist divulges his number one influence as tape hiss, but in no way should it be taken that this is a minimalist or avant-garde work. The melodicisms are notable from the opening ‘This Train Is A Rainbow’ with its Labradford style guitar twangs through to the echoes of Aphex Twin’s dusty loops on ‘I’m Fond Of Maps’. The warmth of ‘real’ instruments is always audible, particularly violins which swoop and soar in the wide open landscapes of ‘He’d Found The Sea’, recalling Manchester acoustic-electro favourites The Boats.£6.00 -
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Coppice – Vinculum (3xCD)
CD, Deluxe, SaleLimited edition triple CD set: Hand-embroidered pouches housing random CD’s from Coppice’s sonic artifact archives… Vinculum is a growing archive of sonic artifacts and the first official release by Chicago-based duo of bellows & electronics Coppice (Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer). Sounds are recorded and reduced to highlight some aspects at the expense of others. Each recording is released on its own single-track CD-R with an inscribed catalog number. Currently, the project is being made available as a unique hand-made, hand- embroidered pouch containing several different discs selected at the time the pouch is filled. The listener is encouraged to play the discs simultaneously on repeat from multiple players when possible.£10.00 -
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Peters / Roden – Not A Leaf Remains As It Was
CD, SaleIn 1995 Steve Peters and Steve Roden toured as a trio with singer Anna Homler; sometimes they would vocalize behind her, and they liked the way their voices blended together. They then spent about 15 years saying that “someday” they should record a voice-based project together. Aside from the physical distance between them, the problem was always: What would we sing? Neither wanted to write or sing lyrics. Inspiration came in the form of a book of Japanese jisei – poems allegedly written by monks on their death bed – printed in both English translation and Romanized Japanese. Phonetically pronouncing the Japanese reminded Peters of the technique Roden has used of systematically chopping up the syllables in English texts to transform them into sound poems. Since neither of them speaks Japanese, it seemed like a good place to begin. .£7.00 -
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Cezary Gapik – The Sum Of Disappearing Sounds
CD, SaleMulti-fold out digipak in a limited edition of 222 hand-numbered copies… Born 1963 in Czestochowa / Poland, Cezary Gapik’s formative musical experiences after the punk revolt were the more experimental outings of Public Image Ltd. and industrial pioneers as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. The popularisation of the computer as a creative tool in the mid-nineties gave birth to Gapik’s present extensive style: the isolationist projects of Mick Harris (Scorn, Lull) are as traceable as are 20th century contemporary avant-garde composers (Stockhausen, Xenakis, Ferrari) and masters of minimal music (Phill Niblock, Eliane Radigue).£5.00 -
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Smyth – Sanibel
CD, SaleLimited edition of 100 / 4 pages of photo inlay printed on traditional Japanese rice paper is included. All field recordings & music by Jared Smyth. Every sound recorded / manipulated in Summer 2011 on Sanibel Island, Florida. An aural documentary of a time and place.£4.00 -
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Ourobonic Plague – Post Human Possibilities
CD, SaleStickered and Hand Numbered Limited Edition cd-r of 100 copies in Oyster Shell… Twice Removed are proud to announce the release of Ourobonic Plague’s “Post Human Possibilities”, the third release on the Twice Removed micro label. Following on from Nick’s releases such as the self released “Gaap” and “Spirits//Gremlins” Ep’s, the collaboration with Salamander as “Burnt Vessels” and proceeding the future release on UK label Robot Elephant, “Post Human Possibilities” sees Nick continuing to come up with music that is unique in the Perth underground scene. Recorded in 2011 and self mastered/mixed “Post Human Possibilities” takes us into the dark electronic world of Witchhouse.£3.00 -
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Ryonkt – Troposphere
CD, SaleLimited edition run of 100 copies… Twice Removed records release a limited edition run from Ryo Nakata aka Ryonkt. 6 tracks, 48 minutes long of quality Ambient/Drone wrapped in a sleeve with cover shot by Antony Harrison (Konntinent, Arev Konn, Paco Sala). Ryonkt is the alias for Japanese artist Ryo Nakata’s guitar-drone project. On his fifth album, Troposphere, Ryonkt seems to leave behind the field recordings and gentle melodies and articulations of his previous releases and focus instead on the construction of thick slabs of pulsing, static texture, a subtler approach that makes this release a more demanding listen than one might initially expect. – Cyclic Defrost£3.00 -
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Plinth – Collected Machine Music
CD, SaleBack in stock: Digipak run of 200 copies… This disc contains both remastered versions of the 8 songs that were on the ridiculously limited “Plays Victorian Machine Music” ep, that came out on the Rusted Rail label sometime back, and 7 new songs also created using old victorian music boxes, calliopes, and other wheezing mechanisms. The philosopher, social critic and journalist Walter Benjamin once suggested that the assorted detritus of the 19th Century bourgeoisie – the knick-knacks, toys, trinkets, mechanical amusements, photographs – could, when “blasted” out of their original historical context as kitsch distractions by means of critical analysis, reveal something significant about both their own age and also that of the present. This notion developed into The Arcades Project, an extensive, wide-ranging exploration of bourgeois social history centred around the Parisian arcades.£5.00 -
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Hutch Demouilpied – Otherness (2xCD)
CD, SaleSpecial limited collector edition of 100 copies… Hutch is a composer, musician, sound artist and songwriter who is based in London UK. Her songs and music have been used in film and television projects around the world and she has collaborated with film-makers, animators, artists, choreographers and theatre directors on various projects. As an accomplished musician she plays trumpet and has her own albums released as well as playing as a session musician with many artists. Attended Berlinale Talent Campus 2008 as a composer.£6.00 -
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Nuojuva – Valot kaukaa
CD, SaleThe Preservation label presents Valot kaukaa, the second album from Finnish producer Olli Aarni. Valot kaukaa is the first work for Aarni under a new name, Nuojuva, having previously appeared under the name Ous Mal. As Ous Mal, Aarni’s 2010 debut album, Nuojuva Halava took the early promise of his CD-R releases into a beautiful realisation of a unique sound that evoked both a curious nostalgia and a sense of future pathways, combining classical overtures, narcotic beats and warm atmospherics into blissful song.£8.00 -
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James Murray – Floods
CD, SaleEvery copy of Floods includes a signed insert and comes in a custom designed 4-panel recycled card sleeve. Everything has been sourced as ecologically responsibly as possible here in the UK. Sleeve, insert and disc are all individually rubber-stamped with James’ original artwork and each package is carefully assembled by hand. On the flood plain where James Murray grew up, twin rivers rose each winter fed by rainfall from nearby Welsh mountains. Breaking their banks they swept over pastures and hedgerows, tore at the fabric of the land and isolated remote villages. It was here, in a makeshift studio on high ground, that James began to explore sound using scavenged instruments and homemade electronics. Floods returns to that landscape; an acknowledgment and celebration of the destructive and regenerative power of the waters. It is also an attempt by the artist to reconcile with his personal floods, those mental waters that rise to submerge the will, that can at times be opposed and must at others be allowed to overwhelm.£5.00 -
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thisquietarmy – Resurgence (2 x CD)
CD, SaleThick glossy triplegatefold digipak… thisquietarmy’s newest album Resurgence is arguably his most accessible and varied record since his debut album Unconquered. It reveals another step forward into the extension of his signature shoegaze/drone-based compositions, incorporating many different elements of post-rock, post-punk, psychedelic, krautrock, industrial & doom. As a result, Resurgence is an eclectic blend of gauzy textures and rhythms, a fresh reconstruction of his unique musical style and personal influences, and an adventurous ride from one end of the drone spectrum to the other.£8.00 -
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Alexander Wendt – Unreleased Music For Visualizers
CD, SaleAlexander Wendt’s compositions have been described as “glacial electronic music” and environmental electronic sound, but strictly speaking this albums is not conceived from field recordings. Unreleased: Music For Visualizers assembles 13 silicone based tracks that were composed over a period of several years, and yet the album’s sound is cohesive and organic. The compositions are presented here as a triptych, exploring expansive terrain with Confluence Of Two Rivers, microscopic structures and sound sketches with Trio-Log (based on a collection of 3-letter words) and in form of a live set of about 20 minutes (. : .: ::).£5.00 -
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thisquietarmy – Vessels
CD, SaleMontreal’s thisquietarmy create sublime yet massive walls of beautiful shimmering drone, at times with a near pop sensibility, at others near Industrial in its percussive bombast. ‘Vessels’ explores themes of the sea and man’s struggle with this relentless and all pervasive force, the music a perfect means of expressing both the flat calm and the force 9 storm. Eric Quach, the man behind thisquietarmy, is a prolific artist, and ‘Vessels’ is perhaps his most impactful work to date. ‘The Pacific Theater’ grips the listener in warm drone before slamming them into the rocks with epic percussion. Album closer ‘A Spanish Galleon’ takes a more gentle approach with clean guitar and washes of orchestral strings. The album is presented as a matte digipak CD with glued in booklet.£6.00 -
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thisquietarmy – Aftermath
CD, SaleAftermath is thisquietarmy’s fourth album and first for Basses Fréquences. Partially inspired and in respect to aesthetics by the works of German visual artist Anselm Kiefer, the setting of Aftermath takes place in the post-apocalyptic countryside and revolves around fallen angels as unexploded ordnances. In parallel, the compositions were also inspired by the sounds of crackling tubes and failing resistors captured by amplifiers during the recording process. Drones and melodies were built around these hissing sounds to create moods of tension and transitions from the remnants of destruction. These static interferences thus remained as important compositional elements, as if the whole themed-universe stemmed from a faraway buzz, in which the dawn of a new era reveals itself. With Aftermath, thisquietarmy manages to create the perfect light and heavy post-nuclear winter atmosphere, with a glimmer of hope appearing slowly like sun rays through massive dust clouds.£6.00 -
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thisquietarmy – Blackhaunter
CD, SaleThisquietarmy is the ambient/drone project of Eric Quach, from Montreal post-shoegazer band Destroyalldreamers. His guitar-based sonic experimentations challenge the boundaries of the conventional guitar-drone mould by combining both non-frigid song structure and ambiance together, blending layers of textures over textures, merging faint growing melodies in a beautiful sea of noise & tightening loose ends together. “Blackhaunter” is Thisquietarmy’s sophomore album, which its themes revolve around inner demons and the darker side of affairs. The cleansing ritual is processed in slow-motion throughout six powerful mood-shifting tracks, while struggling deeply between the realms of ghostly dreams and sexy nightmares. Extra spicy agony, martial metronomic beats & haunting suffocation included. Expect to wake up from this deliverance covered in sweat!£5.00 -
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Thisquietarmy – Unconquered
CD, SaleFrom the mellow opening of“Immobilization”, through grandiose “Battlefield Arkestrah” and “The Sun Destroyers”, gloomy “Death of a Sailor”, to closing notes of “Empire”, Eric Quach manages to capture the essence of contemporary alternative guitar experimentation while maintaining disturbing but also captivating aural atmosphere. “Unconquered” presents this musical project as consciously standing among the best artists of this genre, which is symbolized by the guest appearance of Aidan Baker. On the other hand, Thisquietarmy, already on his debut album,looks far into the future and crosses the boundaries, the best sign of which are the clean female vocals of Meryem Yildiz in one of the tracks – something not common in the field of ambient drone guitar music. Eric’s experience in DESTROYALLDREAMERS, numerous live performances, brave open mind and genuine artistic freedom allowed him to deliver his first official debut full-length album in a flawless and extraordinary way.£7.00 -
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Apillow – Leaves Winter Alone
CD, SaleScreenprinted on Arigato Pack sleeves and hand-packaged by Patrick Lacharité, Kit Malo & Eric Quach. Cyan CDR on hub, limited to 200 copies. Apillow is a solo project from Patrick Lacharité – guitarist and sound engineer for Below the Sea. After successfully leading Below The Sea through 3 full-length albums on Where Are My Records and several tours around the world (Europe, Japan, Canada, USA), Patrick Lacharité finally releases a disc of his very own solo work. Apillow carves and crafts four tracks out of the glacial silence, tinkers on an old lonely piano, gently scratches his guittar and processes it through airy effects and mixes it all up with computer-generated percussions to create imaginative and complex build-ups within the minimalism realm. Much like those of Below The Sea, Apillow’s compositions have these very cinematic and melancholic qualities to them, while being light, sunny and upbeat. This could be your perfect soundtrack for the current autumnal season and you’d wish it’d never ends.£5.00 -
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Mark Harris – An Idea of North / Learning to Walk
CD, Sale“An Idea of north / learning to walk” is the latest album from UK sound and visual artist Mark Harris. Back in the winter of 2010 he found himself snowed-in due to a unusual flurry of extreme weather.£3.00 -
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Machinefabriek – Brokstukken
CD, SaleA mini album with 6 short loop based tracks made mostly with guitar, looper pedals and a Korg Monotron. Machinefabriek specially constructed the recordings on ‘Brokstukken’ using off-cuts, sections and samples of fragmented found sounds. The tracks included here develop very slowly and disintegrate intermittently, dropping back into unstructured bleeps and murmurs. The tension built using subtle deep textures and silence is woven masterfully across the 6 tracks. ‘Brokstukken’ is an engaging excursion across the borders into lo-fi noise. Perfectly paced and wonderfully understated.£5.00 -
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Cokiyu – Your Thorn Remixes
CD, Salehe music of Cokiyu borns with Your Thorn Remixes again, superb 17 track full volume album of new material from the Japanese female artist’s 2nd full-length Your Thorn. the remixes features a many international acts like Opiate (hobby industries/morrmusic), Shigeto (ghostly International), Girl With The Gun (new project of Populous), 1000 Names (black acre), A Lily (dynamophone), Praezisa Rapid 3000 (doumen), Tokyo Bloodworm (moteer), Vieo Abiungo (lost tribe sounds), The Remote Viewer (city centre offices), Scissors and Sellotape (cotton goods/fracture). the package also features aus, Turalica, NETWORKS from Japan and the bonus tracks for digital are winner remixes of Noah, 34423, Geskia & Pawn and Polyphonic Parachute from Your Thorn Remix Contest.£4.00 -
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Wenngren / Bissonnette – The Meridians of Longitude
CD, SaleHow long does a moment last? Well, it depends. On the speed at which you’re moving, for example. It is said that a particle in a particle accelerator, as it approaches the speed of light, experiences a corresponding slowing down of time. At such a momentum, a single second lasts the equivalent of many years lived at a more sedentary pace. This effect is called time dilation, and is one of many described by Einstein’s famous equation e = mc2.£6.00 -
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Cokiyu – Mirror Flake
CD, SaleEe-mastered edition with bonus remixes from Ametsub (mille plateaux/progressive form), Tyme. and Geskia (flau). Open up your ears to the new era of Japanese contemporary pop music. We are proud to announce flau’s first cd release Mirror Flake, is the beautiful debut album by the talented female artist cokiyu who hails from Ehime, Japan. As a vocalist, she participated in albums and live performances of aus. Mirror Flake sets a new standard in the genre of bedroom pop. The album instills soft-hearted shoegaze sounds into delicately beautiful melodies which are organically mixed with the graceful use of instruments like toy piano, music box, guitar (by ueda takayasu), and the gorgeous whispery voice of cokiyu that has sparkled in Curveland of aus. Mirror Flake is definitely a must have for the fans of Japanese pop. – flau£4.00 -
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The Boats – Faulty Toned Radio
CD, SaleThe 6th outing onto waters uncharted for the enigmatic Boats. Uncharted waters simply because The Boats refuse to be channeled into the niche so easily assigned to them. Having been kindly approached by aus and the Flau stable from Japan, for a statement of their musical intent, The Boats obliged. True to hearfelt form, they have generously delivered their most accomplished, and highly personal ships log to date. But listen closely, and dont get too comfortable with your dividing fencelines of genres as the horizon is blurred from on the ship’s deck by the haze of distance from familiar isles.£8.00 -
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aus – After All
CD, SaleAfter the huge success of his previous albums “Lang” and “Curvelands”, Yasuhiko Fukuzono (aka aus) quickly became one of the top electronic artists in Japan. And “After All” is the 6th album from his own label flau, following the highly acclaimed “Curveland” which was released on Moteer in 2007. All the tracks are brand new based on the songs he made when he was a teenager.£8.00 -
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Yellow6 – Drifting For The Horizon
CD, Sale7 tracks totalling 63 minutes recorded during 2011. First time on CD (not CDr) for a merry6mas release. 250 copies in stamped card sleeve with full colour insert.£4.00 -
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Yellow6 – Sounds and Moving Pictures
CD, SaleLive in Europe 2011 CD/DVD Set… Recorded live in Europe Spring 2011 at the Live Looping Festival, Antwerp. Additional live recordings processed by David Newlyn as ‘Comatose with the Season (Pts 1-6)£5.00 -
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Kleefstra / Pruiksma / Kleefstra – Deislieper
CD, SaleCD Digipak with booklet edition of 500… The Kleefstra brothers, Romke and Jan are members of the Dutch improv band Piiptsjilling along with Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) and Mariska Baars (Soccer Committee). In 2008 Piiptsjilling recorded its first acclaimed, untitled album and since the brothers have worked and recorded together with several other musicians. Their music invariably involves the experimental guitar playing of Romke in combination with the spoken word in Frisian, an old European minority language by Jan. Sometimes dreamy, melancholic and melodic, sometimes dark, haunting and noisy, but always instant music, both in the studio and on stage.£5.00 -
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Maps & Diagrams – The Town Beneath The Sea
CD, SaleSo there I am sat at work one day, minding my own business, when I get this email, all humble-like and asking if I would mind checking out not one record, but two. The email was from a certain Tim Martin who just so happens to be a co-worker of mine and a very good friend, but who I was pretty sure didn’t play music unless he was drunk and then it was just table banging. Then it slowly dawned on me that it was a totally different Tim Martin - the genius behind the Maps and Diagrams moniker.£5.00 -
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Maps & Diagrams – Lights Will Call On You
CD, SaleIf neurologists could download the sounds of the synapses to a handful of brief, representative MP3 files, what would they sound like? Not the inner voice. Too theatrical, too bent on rehearsing the next speech or recapitulating the last one. Think past that, to the background hiss of capillary blood near the ears: a known quantity, where we shouldn’t reside too long. Further still are the loops and echoes of remembered sounds, voices, and songs, and the way those compete with the macro-lens immediacy of real noises around us, and those noises we create: the hum of appliances. The benign scatting of wind chimes. The clink of glasses. In short, what if we could stream the subjective music of simply being human? What would researchers name the first of these files? The first six minutes of strictly neurological music? How about something like “Her Thoughts Are Her Own?”£4.00 -
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He Can Jog – Norwood, Wisconsin
CD, SaleHe Can Jog is the work of Erik Schoster, a computer musician from Wisconsin. That is about all he likes to say about his work, understated as ever. The truth is he has been one of my absolute favourite artists for a number of years now and his Middlemarch release on the ever wonderful Audiobulb label is still one of the most played in my house.£4.00 -
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Polar M – Northern Birds
CD, SalePolar M is the solo project of Masumi Muranaka who resides in Kyoto, Japan. His beautiful soundscapes are created mostly by electric guitar, and he is also a guitarist for musicians of various genres in Japan.£4.00 -
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Naoto Taguchi – Nostalgia
CD, SaleNaoto Taguchi, originally from Sapporo and currently living in Tokyo, is an audiovisual artist with a strong musical background (having played the piano since his early childhood) who is also interested in programming, photography, design in general and spinning records as a DJ and beatmaking. He locates himself between minimalist electronica, dubmatics and quirky experimental sound. ‘Nostalgia’ is his international debut and shows a wonderful sense of detail in his structures, whilst never betraying his inate melodic progressions. This is one of the most fun but delicately made records we have put out to date.£4.00 -
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Autistici – Amplified Presence
CD, SaleDavid Newman’s work as an artist and label owner has always quietly amazed me and been a source of great inspiration, but his most recent record marks David out as one of the most talented, unique and wild (yes, wild) artists around. Autistici’s ‘Amplified Presence’ is one of the most expansive and deeply imaginative works we’ve heard in a long time.£4.00 -
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Félicia Atkinson – O-RE-GON
CD, SaleO-RE-GON was recorded by Félicia Atkinson in Portland, Oregon at Adam Selzer’s Type Foundry Studio. The album was made on one rainy day in July 2010, when Félicia had already been traveling for 2 months coast to coast in the United States. She was just recovering from a Lyme disease she caught a week before in upstate New York in the deep woods. The sound engineer Adam Selzer showed Félicia all the instruments she could use, most of them she never played before: a fender rhodes, a marimba, and a harmonium, but also some she had used before: a (this time) golden electric guitar and a piano: this is how this day of musical wonder began. Félicia didn’t have any idea what she wanted to play, she had not touched an instrument for two months and wanted the tracks to be completely improvised. So they captured one track in the morning, Grey & Green, and one track in the afternoon: Green & Grey.£4.00
