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Rion
CD, SaleRion are Ian Hawgood and Ryo Nakata, although both veterans of the scene this is their debut outing as a duo. Inspired by the magic of low light periods and the quietude of a summer spent in the countryside, Fireflies, is an album of organic, magical and hazy presence. Ian Hawgood has immersed himself in musical projects for longer than he cares to remember; in recent years he has released through the likes of Experimedia, Dragons Eye and his own Home Normal label as well as through several netlabels. Ryo Nakata hails from Sapporo, Japan and records under the name Ryonkt. He runs the Small Fragments label and has had EPs and albums out on labels such as Smallfish, The Land Of, Resting Bell and Twice Removed. The album also features vocals from Rie Mitsutake (Miko). Fireflies was recorded over a two year period. Ryo recorded layers of drone guitar at home while Ian spent about a year gathering field recordings in parks and the countryside, as well as recording instruments such as Rhodes, church organ, harmonium, guitar and double bass in music shops, churches and so on. The idea was to keep the album fresh, improv-like and just quite unique in approach. All these elements were recorded to a small multitrack cassette and then multi-layered onto reels, no software or laptops were used. The cover photograph is by renowned ambient artist Fabio Orsi and acts as a beautiful juxtaposition to the theme of the album. On first viewing it is a decayed, urban environment, and yet the image has a beautiful magic to it.£6.00 -
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Given – Piano Improvisation…
CD, Sale310 gsm folded card sleeve in a clear plastic wallet… Debut release from Italy’s Dona Basile who records / performs under a variety of names and styles. This release is an album of Modern Classical Piano matched with Electronics and Beats.£3.00 -
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Mote – Frames
CD, SaleComes in recycled card sleeve from Guided Products with attached artwork… I’ve composed Frames in the last 60 days of 2012. At the time I was still in my hometown, so all the songs were basically written in my bedroom with laptop, keyboard and earphones. In a certain sense, this EP is something that comes way before what Mote is: in fact, lately its completion convinced me about the path to take with this project. I haven’t really planned anything about it, the whole year has been fairly troubled and my mood kept on waving daily so ultimately i’ve ended up with a huge amount of semi-improvised material written in scattered/sleepless nights. Every time it felt like pulling something out of my head and placing it in a frame so it could firmly stay there. With no lyrics or straight references in the music itself, what i see in them stays implicit and as a consequence, the journey between the songs is always personal for the listener. As a totally untrained musician i’ve always been extremely unconfident about what i write: yet today i think that this is the biggest limitation that i’m fighting against. Taking my first compositions out of that bedroom after all of this time represents a big challenge, it took me quite a while to accept it. I wish these frames will show something to the listeners and, hopefully, that they’ll find more feelings and colours in them that i could even except.£4.00 -
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Various – Water Mountain (2 x CD)
CD, SaleSprawling hand-numbered edition of 250 copies double CD set from this international super-group… Gatefold, die-cut outer cover / hand screen printed on 300 gsm cardstock… On a personal note, I remember vividly when Hitoshi Kojo told me with excitement about a transhumance through UK with the specific purpose in mind of doing sessions with some of the great drone masters over there, namely : Colin Potter, Jonathan Coleclough and Paul Bradley… Retrospectively, I think I was as stirred as him. The resulting collected material has been shelved for years (7 actually !), and I began to fear this estimable musical heritage could get lost…this was not taking into account Hitoshi Kojo’s sense of perseverance. It is now available in a splendid handcrafted ltd edition sleeve with cut-out made by patient graphic virtuoso designer Hitoshi Kojo himself – even before any listening, already a beautiful physical object to behold. Most probably there have been a considerable volume of editing ahead, and an intense compositional shaping process searching for paths within the vertiginous sonic matter before reaching this radiating amalgam. Rather than splitting the work in as many distinct collabs, the choice has been to mould it in a six long parts confluential movement distributed on 2 CDs£10.00 -
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Chantal Acda – Let Your Hands Be My Guide (CD)
CD, SaleCurrently based in Belgium, Dutch-born Chantal Acda (b. 1978) has worked under the Sleepingdog moniker since 2006, making three acclaimed albums that closed on the ‘With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields’ (2010) album for which she collaborated with Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid, A Winged Victory For The Sullen). They toured the UK and Benelux with Low in 2011. After all this, it was time for her first real solo record. Playing in various formations had made her conscious of the patterns that we all, as humans, share in. So, she sought out kindred spirits with whom she might record an album filled with freedom and intensity, and who were conscious of the patterns we so often fall back on.£6.00 -
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Antonymes – There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay
CD, SaleFeatures a 6 panel card sleeve and 8 page booklet with beautiful images of the North Wales landscape by Richard Outram and texts by Paul Morley… Ian M Hazeldine records under the alias Antonymes, hailing from Hawarden, a small village in North Wales, whose most famous inhabitant was William Ewart Gladstone. He creates atmospheric melodies, using various pianos, celesta, strings, church organ and field recordings, and has had releases on Soundcolours, Cathedral Transmissions, Hidden Shoal, Time Released Sound and Rural Colours.£7.00 -
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Martin / Berg – Day Has Ended
CD, SaleAaron Martin & Christoph Berg’s split called “Day Has Ended” is a piece of quiet, intimate music, interfused with daylight and covered by a soft mist of evening dreams. This album spans the course of a day until the point where night falls. The first part, created by Aaron Martin, is a water-colour, cool and delicate. The twinkling sun reflected itself in a slow river, transparent silvery clouds sparkle and brush the heads of drowsy trees. The closer to the middle of the album, the lower goes the gentle shadow, saturating. In the second part – Christoph Berg’s one, water-colour turns into gouache. The sound becomes more full, more sensuous, it comes in waves, like breath of a sleeping man. Just close your eyes, be all ears and you’ll feel – the night is not silent. Sweet tune of twilight and darkness full of echo, humming blue, vague voice of the strings and clear gleaming of bright stars in a velvet sky – that is the night. It’s a perfect and severely sincere work, slightly bittered with melancholy. Aaron Martin is a very talented multi-instrumentalist from Topeka, Kansas who has releases on such labels as Experimedia, Preservation, Under The Spire, Sonic Meditations. Christoph Berg is composer and sound artist currently living and working in Berlin focusing on fragile acoustic chamber music compositions. Also writes electro-acoustic music as Field Rotation. He has releases on Facture, hibernate, Denovali Records, Fluid Audio.£8.00 -
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Hybernation – Object Studies – Metal
CD, SaleStuart has been recording and sampling objects since the start of his Hybernation project in 1999, after becoming tired of familiar electronic sounds, plug-ins and presets. Early tracks, such as on Snow Cover (Rednetic Recordings) and Interduvet Yarns (both released in 2007) used objects to create beats and rhythms, that as a drummer, Stuart could not recreate using just four limbs. As he delved further exploring the resonant tones of objects, these increasingly became melodic and textural components. This can first be heard on tracks from ‘E2 & E8’ (Cotton Goods, 2010) where Stuart combined them with location-based recordings, and on ‘Thirty’ (FBox Records, 2012) a recording of a live performance using 30 donated objects. Object Studies takes this a step further by using just one object to create each track. Sounds produced by objects are usually a by-product of their usage, so by concentrating and reducing them down to a resonant form tiny characteristics can be discovered. Stuart uses these to form a musical, harmonic response, turning the sound into something more purposeful and accessible. In this first collection, all of the sounds are made from metallic objects or components.£7.00 -
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Various – Vernacular (2 x CD)
CDThis compilation collects a gathering of 15 sound artists from 11 countries. Released as a double CD compilation album with a 16-page booklet, V.A. / VERNACULAR connects the past and future of theelectronica, ambient, and experimental scenes, using the locality of each artists country as the theme… 1-1 –Hior Chronik Sketches Of You 1-2 –Steve Roden If Here, Not There, If Not There, Then Here 1-3 –Yui Onodera Blue Planet Sky (For 21st Century Museum Of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa) 1-4 –Janek Schaefer Rest In Peace Knowing The Sound Of Angels 1-5 –Kenneth Kirschner July 10, 2012 1-6 –Simon Scott Adventurers Fen 1-7 –Tu M' Tenebrae 2-1 –Federico Durand Magnolia 2-2 –Dale Lloyd Extra Ordinary, Extra Regular 2-3 –Jos Smolders Vangsaa: Revisited, Reduced 2-4 –Yves De Mey Local Fracs 2-5 –Kim Cascone A Spectacle Of Malleable Glass - Alchemisphere Three 2-6 –Troum Welcen 2-7 –John Grzinich* Animate Structures #2 (Wires, Wind, Snow) 2-8 –Lawrence English Breaking Clouds Apart£8.00 -
Mikael Lind – Unsettled Beings
CDThe title of Mikael Lind’s latest album, Unsettled Beings, is a reference to his restless self. Mikael is Swedish, but has lived and worked in Iceland since 2006. The interesting thing about his new release, is that all the people involved in realizing the music are also foreigners living in Iceland. Paul Evans from Greenhouse Studios played the violin and also mixed the album. Ryan Karazija, who is doing very well in Iceland with his band Low Roar, lent his vocals to four of the tracks. Alex Somers from Riceboy Sleeps, producer of several important new musical acts in Iceland, mastered the album. The basic idea of the album is a core of several different pianos accompanied by a lush pattern of violins. The pianos are of varying character, and their melodies often intertwine in a poly-rhythmic fashion, giving the listener the option of letting different melodies compete for attention. Ryan’s vocals add warmth to the songs, ornamented with Paul’s violins – sometimes in a call-response aesthetics.£10.00 -
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Routine – Sì
CD, SaleSì is the first release by Routine. Recorded between 2000 and 2013 and composed by 2009, this work sprout by love for organic, raw, electroacoustic sounds and the merging of the typical song structure with musique concrète.£5.00 -
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Ennio Mazzon – Xuan
CD, SaleEnnio Mazzon is a sound artist who works in the field of experimental electronica. His background in engineering and his interest for maths, physics and programming languages are conveyed into the development of infrastructures of digital tools that he uses for audio processing and live improvisation. He is the founder of the label Ripples and he is part of the project Zbeen£7.00 -
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Rosati / Saguto – Gridshape
CD, SaleGridshape is an intersection of heavily distorted violent sounds with points of kinetic aural quietness through the interaction between digital electronics and guitars.£7.00 -
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Mysterybear – Oscillation
CD, SaleAnalog Path bring us this CD from composer/musician Dave Seidel aka Mysterybear. He attended Simon’s Rock College from 1974 to 1978 where he was the first person to receive a BA from that school with a Major in Music Theory and Composition, and after playing in a number of experimental and avant garde projects he is now making music purely from non modular analog electronic instruments. ‘Oscillation’ is two pieces of monotone synth noise. Track one is a single synth buzz for a solid 35 minutes long, pretty hard stuff to take in really but very interesting all the same. Track two, entitled ‘Transpiration’, has a little more variation though as the buzz fades in and out with a slightly different tone. This is purely for the hardcore aficionado of electronic music and not just for the casual ambient listener!£5.00 -
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Sparkling Wide Pressure – Stream Returner
CD, SaleLayers of shifting, shimmering synths are joined by echoed, unintelligible vocal loops; industrial drones give way to gentle tropical guitar…it’s all rather gentle and patient and sleepily detailed stuff. I have had a hard time reviewing it because Phil kept resetting the internet router, so this write-up has ended up rather brief but I listened to the whole thing and it was most pleasant.£5.00 -
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Ikebana – When You Arrive There
CD, SaleIkebana, in Japanese, is an art of flower arrangement. Unlike conventional flower arrangement, it often focuses on other areas of the plant, such as its stems and leaves, rather than its blooms, and lays emphasis toward the shape, line, form of the arrangement. Ikebana is about minimalism, about beauty in space, and about calmness. And so does the music of flau label’s latest signing, the Japanese female duo Ikebana. Ikebana is made up of 2 wonderfully talented female artists, maki and en. Their unique music is infused with a strong sense of Shoegaze and Ambient, but in a very much stripped-down form. Phases of minimal guitar noise floating through the space of sounds, like a wavering light in darkness, with deeply reverbed female voices drifting in to create a calm universe between a dream and the reality. Unlike the current style of psychedelic/drone music for overseas, Ikebana’s music is about minimalism, about beauty in space, and about calmness, just like the art of flower arrangement of Ikebana itself.£7.00 -
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0 – Sonando
CD, Sale0 is a french band directed by Stéphane Garin (percussion), Joël Merah (acoustic guitar) and Sylvain Chauveau (acoustic guitar, glockenspiel), whose line-up can change for each project with the addition of regular guests. The trio of Merah, Garin and Chauveau have spend two years composing, recording and mixing the seven pieces of the Soñando album (dreaming in Spanish).This chamber folk suite is entirely played with acoustic instruments (guitar, glockenspiel) and small pieces of metal collected by Stéphane Garin for their special sound and tuning. In quiet spaces, this repertoire can even be performed without any microphone or amplification. The result looks like an original mix of rhythmic patterns assembled togetehr like the pieces of a puzzle.£8.00 -
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Machinefabriek – Stroomtoon II
CD, SaleIn December 2011 I recorded the album Stroomtoon, which was released by the French Nuun label the year after. The music was constructed using recordings from improvisations with a setup that I was trying out for upcoming live performances. It’s the same setup that I still use nowadays, mainly consisting of an old Phillips analogue tone generator and a selection of effects units. When making Stroomtoon, it felt like moving into new territory that was worth explore more. While that album is very layered, subtle and considered, I wanted to try to capture the roughness and spontaneity of my live performances. I recorded more material, picked out the best moments, and edited them without adding too much post-production. When the labels Fake Jazz and Superior Standards asked me to release material on a few lathe cut singles, I knew this would be perfect for the music I was working on. simple, to the point vignettes with the ideal playing time for the 7-inch format. After making six Stroomtoon tracks and having them released on three extremely limited lathe cuts, I realized what a shame it was that they were so limited and that they weren’t gathered on one medium, like the first Stroomtoon album. With the extra value of having them in better sound quality then the lathes, I decided to compile them on this DISC, adding two other tracks that were previously released on lathe as well, my personal favorites Kreupelhout and Toendra. Stroop appeared on the compilation Antibothis 4. These extra tracks fit nicely with the other material on this CD. Then there’s the art of Rebecca Norton that’s gracing this cd sleeve. Rebecca got in contact when I was working on the music. Browsing her website, I was immediatly grabbed by her ‘The Affine(s): Small Paintings’ series. Their spikey, concentrated shapes struck me as perfect visualizations of the Stroomtoon II II material. That’s when all fell into place. – Rutger Zuydervelt, Rotterdam, January 2013£8.00 -
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Banabila / Machinefabriek – Travelog
CD, SaleMatte laminated four panel digipak… When Michel Banabila and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) finished their first collaborative album, it felt like they were just getting started. Suprised by how fluent and natural their collaboration went, it was obvious that this wasn’t over yet… While ‘Banabila & Machinefabriek’ was quite an abstract affair, its successor ‘Travelog’ is lighter, playful and rhythmic. Some moments might recall the mighty Tape, while others showcase motoric krautrock influences and subtle hints of African rhythms. All in all, this album clearly radiates the joy of its creative process and sees Banabila and Machinefabriek on the top of their game. ‘Travelog’ comes housed in a full colour digipack, graced with photography by Michel Banabila, designed by Rutger Zuydervelt. It’s released by Tapu Records, in collaboration with Lumberton Trading Company.£7.00 -
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Strongheart
CD, SaleA heartwarming record by multi-instrumentalist, songwriter Matthew Anderson’s new project Strongheart. Heavily recommended to fans of Sigur Ros, Steven Wilson, Shearwater and anybody who is interested in the underground gems around U.S or any kind of artful music. Here at Wounded Wolf Press we’ve been long friends and in contact with Matthew Anderson even before this press were in existence, collaborating and making guest appearances on each others albums. For instance the drums on Svefn Plural’s ‘Skyhook’ (Except ‘Polaroid Girl’) were by Matthew and Atay did play guitars and mellotrons on his previous project Noble Dust. Package comes in six variations, differentiating in photograph on the cover -each is a crop from the original by George Anderson-, in ivory sleeve alongside with two informative cards within.£8.00 -
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Treefingers – Op.I
CD, SaleTreefingers is a solo project of Atay İlgün focusing on ambient, drone-based and industrial music. It wanders through sounds of minds under the confusion of micro-cosmos and universe, supernovas with vivid details of elemental clouds, dreamy lands where giant machines were meant to be natural belongings creating beautiful forests. It does these with a zen like beautiful and very beautifully crafted soundscapes which simply deserves to be experienced in an enverioment where it’s sounds can live in. When it lives it gains the capability to slow one’s metabolism to turn the listener inside for an hour of healing , both physically and mentally. Package design is a reworked one of the first edition which was mostly designed by Alper Yıldırım. Photographs by Alper Yıldırım. Contains the bonus track ‘The Summit’ which was solely available from the mrsvee’s website.£8.00 -
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Miaou – Bring The Lights EP
CD, SaleThis is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped green recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and two inserts with the tracklist and credits… Miaou are a band based in Tokyo, formed in 1999 by Tatsuki Hamasaki and sisters Mayumi & Hiromi Hasegawa out of a university project and a shared love for music. To date they have released four albums, one remix album, two EPs and one split EP (with Below The Sea) on labels such as Thomason Sounds, Teto Records, Preco Records and Noon Records and have collaborated with artists like Ben Cooper (Electric President/Radical Face) and Ben Holton (Epic45). They have played live across Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Ireland and UK and have toured with Epic45, Below The Sea, Tracer AMC, Art Of Fighting, Radical Face and Not Squares. Miaou have also contributed to various compilations and have done remixes for the likes of EF, Not Squares, Masha Qrella and many others. On Bring The Lights EP they present five new captivating tracks, blurring once more the lines between post-rock and electronica. The perfect combination of wistful guitars, swelling synths, fender rhodes, glockenspiel, samples and glitchy beats, alongside with instruments like piano, cello and flute, results in about half an hour full of warm and blissful melodies. The finishing touch on the dreamy sound of Bring The Lights EP was applied by the mastering of George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave), bringing to mind the best moments of The Album Leaf, Epic45 and Mum.£8.00 -
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Threethings – Antecedent Conditions
CD, SaleLimited edition CD of 150… Threethings is the solo project of Ben Worth (b.1979), who spent the first three decades of his life in England before moving to Toronto, Canada in 2010. He first picked up a guitar as a teenager and has been playing around with home recordings in one form or another ever since. From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the band Kontakte, who during that time put out two full albums and an EP on the Drifting Falling label, and shared the stage with bands such as M83, Epic45, Six by Seven, Vessels and Fuck Buttons. Threethings started as a project after Ben’s move to Canada, where he found that he had more time to explore sounds that interested him – playing with pedals, processing and manipulating guitar loops, and combining the results with field recordings, contact mic textures, and other found sounds. Antecedent Conditions features six tracks built up in this way from a base of processed guitar loops and the incidental sounds that were captured along with them. Additional sounds, textures, and instrumentation were added as the tracks were slowly sculpted into their final form – all the while trying to find something beautiful/hopeful in the imperfect and accidental nature of the original recordings. The cover features an extract from a painting called Locust Limb by the Toronto based artist Jessica Rode.£7.00 -
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Graveyard Tapes – Our Sound is Our Wound
CD, SaleGorgeous 6 panel re-issue… Many of you are already familiar with this year’s well-received album from Graveyard Tapes. The Deluxe Book Editions sold out in record time. With artwork this excellent from illustrator Jamie Mills, we couldn’t help ourselves in producing a Second Edition of this debut album. Taking much of the art from the original and translating it into a 6 Panel Matte-Print CD Wallet, the Second Edition is more compact than the Deluxe. Yet, it still captures the beauty of the illustrations in a more affordable design. For those that didn’t get a chance to grab a copy of this album the first time around, it is a beautiful piece of work. The Graveyard Tapes music is one of the most evolving, surprising, and emotional releases we have had the pleasure to release!£8.00 -
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Grzegorz Bojanek – Constraints
CD, SaleLimited edition of 23 hand numbered copies. Also includes digital download code… While exploring SoundCloud I found a very interesting group called Disquiet Junto, created by Marc Weidenbaum. As Mark says: “The purpose of the group is to use constraints to stoke creativity”. When I joined the group the artists were working of the 14th project and I decided to take part in it. It went quite well cause I love to use “less” in order to create “more”. What is more, the artists who create their tracks following Marc’s guidelines are very creative and the comments they leave under the “soundclouds” are deep and honest. In my opinion it is because everybody really listens to the tracks of the other people very carefully and analyses the creative process which is always described under the track. This is really amazing. So far I’ve created several tracks for the Disquiet Junto group and they are free to download from my SoundCloud profile. Still, I wanted to publish them as an album, because I feel that they should exist also in a physical form. So I asked my friend Krzysztof Orluk to make the analogue mastering with his toys to add some warmth to the tracks. I must say I really like the new line of ETALABEL packages but in this case I also wanted to work with constraints while creating the package. That is why I made limited handmade digipacks. They are mostly in black and yellow (I don’t know why but when I think about the group those colors are in my mind). The graphics on the cover was designed by Mateusz Bąkała. I carved a woodcut out of the graphics and “stamped” it into the covers.£5.00 -
Monochromie – ST
CD4 panel digipak version in an edition of 200 copies… An absolutely beautiful, piano centric affair from Monochromie, aka Marseilles based, French composer, Wilson Trouve’.This is ambient melancholy at it’s loveliest… upon hearing them, these wonderfully evocative and plaintive melodies will remain with you throughout the day. Pastoral, emotive and nostalgically treated instrumentation and electronics, that leave a whole lot to the imagination…as all the most beautiful music does. This album is mastered by Wil Bolton as well.£10.00 -
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Porya Hatami – Land & Land Remixes
CD, Sale2 x digipak... Originally released on Somehow Recordings in January of 2012, this second edition of “Land” has been remastered and is co-released with “Land Remixes”. Buy both albums in a combo pack. Porya Hatami’s ‘Land’ explores a vibrant soundscape of hypnotic loops, delicately percussive chimes and manipulated field recordings to evoke the sensual, blissful minutiae of the natural world and of the life that both inhabits and interprets it. Fundamentally delicate and yet insistently, breathtakingly complete, Hatami’s keen ear for microscopic levels of sonic detail allows the album as a whole to sketch a wide-screen vision of nature at work. Buried deep within the gauzy, feather-light haze that permeates the album is a deep-seated sense of purpose – the insistent, bubbling loops underpinning ‘Autumn’; the porcelain synth washes of ‘Sea’; the disquieting crackles and squeaks of ‘Bug’. It’s an album obsessed with both stillness and movement, and the contradictions inherent in occupying those two modes of being lie at the heart of the record. Thematically profound and tonally complex, the album charts a course through a fragile natural world, constructing an exquisitely intricate tone poem from the manifold sounds of the earth and its transitory inhabitants.£10.00 -
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Hovering – Nektarios Manaras
CD, SaleFrom the Greek island of Chalkis comes a very special debut by Nektarios Manaras celebrating magical sea life, the ancient Metéora rock pillar complex of monastries and dancing flowers. Glistening with gorgeous instrumentation, Hovering is a languid album full of fantastical imagery and whispered half truths. As the music plays, whales slowly submerge and monks scale the rock face to pray while the earth floats its way around the sun. It is an album to soak in on sun-dappled days, as the sun sinks beneath the sea and everything for that one moment seems perfect. As Manaras puts it: “The main idea is that everything in the universe and earth is floating in such a beautiful way. That is the feeling I’m trying to capture with my music.” And he certainly has.£6.00 -
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Be My Friend In Exile – The Silence, The Darkness
CD, SaleSecond full release from the UK’s BMFIE following from his last release, an EP on Twice Removed Editions. This is a 4 panel digipak with factory replicated disc in an edition of 100 copies…£5.00 -
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Birch And Meadow – Butterflies And Graves (Deluxe CD)
CD, Deluxe, SaleDeluxe version comes in an edition of 100 copies. Each of these is comprised of a hinged, modified/collaged/printed 5″ reel to reel tape box. The cut out lid is collaged with pages from a 100 year old book on Lepidoptera, with the cut out forming a sort of an ancient and tattered specimen box, and revealing a two sided, quadra folded 5″ x 19″ print. Printed on Moab rag natural 300# paper, one side is printed from a detailed 3 dimensional scan, and the other is stamped with butterflies, each hand colored with leaves and flowers. In the box and beneath the print, comes the factory pressed disc in picture sleeve, and a hand numbered textual insert, all on a bed of mounting material…£20.00 -
Birch And Meadow – Butterflies And Graves
CD32min beauty from Birch And Meadow entitled “Butterflies And Graves”. Birch And Meadow are David Wenngren (Library Tapes), and Swedish singer songwriter Sara Forslund. Alongside David’s spare and lingeringly lovely electronic treatments, Sara vocalizes an emotional soundtrack to an imaginary film featuring Nico and folk legend Shirley Collins, fighting over the man who has left them both and stolen their harmoniums! This is a somewhat dark and meditative… languid and eerie … and breathy and beguilingly melancholic affair indeed.£10.00 -
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Fibreforms – Treedrums
CD, SaleOne-time numbered edition of 300. Includes two previously unreleased tracks from that early era… Long before KILN turned to the sunset-soaked textures of Dusker (2007), they made music as fibreforms. Treedrums (1996) documents their transition from live performance trio to sound-art synergists, balancing symbiotic instrumental spaces of kit-drums and treated guitars with lost & found sound to evoke moments that are at once invigorating and tranquil. Seventeen years later, Treedrums is presented here as an economized, re-amped, remixed, and properly restored archival edition of this once buried treasure of sonic curio.£10.00 -
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Eluder – Through Horizon
CD, SaleJapanese style mini-lp gatefold sleeve – printed by Stoughton. Features printed inner sleeve. Design by Timothy O’Donnell. Images by NASA. Edition of 400 copies…£8.00 -
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Minadeo / Brown – Wood Land
CD, Sale‘Wood Land’ features deluxe packaging with a perfect bound booklet of 28 pages, matte digipak, housed in a slipcase… Wood Land is a story of a nameless worker caught in the mundanity of placid bureaucracy. Wood Land is a story of buried towers and subtle rebellion. Wood Land is a story of unsubtle rebellion and totalitarian overthrow. Wood Land is a story of deep space awakening and astronaut spiders. Wood Land is a story of return and reconciliation. Wood Land is a story. Scored by Joseph Minadeo and written by Curt Brown with imagery by both. Sonically, ‘Wood Land’ was an extension of Joseph Minadeo’s first foray into ambient – ‘sounds from a photograph’, a ‘Pearl’-esque LP of Lanois affected piano and placid drones. ‘Wood Land’ extends that premise and gives a hazy nod towards Noto and Sakamoto’s collaborative soft digital clicks and sustained piano. Airy atmospheres are constructed with multiple piano layering plus guitars dissolving into despondant organ, synth sequencing and minimal drum padding. Slow cadences of hope and light are countered with ominous sonatas. Indescernible Vocals, courtesy of Gabriela Kropf, are mixed into the mellotron choirs. Joseph Minadeo is a composer behind the former Akron, Ohio (now Los Angeles) based Patternbased label. He is also a member of the post-rock outfit Low in the Sky. He recently moved to California to dig deeper into art and music. Curt Brown is an Akron, Ohio based artist and is a co-founder of Rubber City Noise, a collective that runs a record label and arts space in Akron. Current projects include Black Unicorn and Cane Swords among others. Several tracks from ‘Wood Land’ were used in the global collaborative documentary film ‘One Day on Earth’ (along w/ Sigur Ros, Beirut, Cut Chemist and Mum).£8.00 -
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Monos – Age & Transformation / Aged & Transformed
CD, Sale2 x CD: Each CD is packaged in a card stock envelope and then housed in a mini-lp gatefold Stoughton sleeve with matte finishing and spot gloss lettering. Designed by Timothy O’Donnell. Darren’s work has always been that of a drone eccentric — and proof positive of that is the micro-editions released since 2003 on his own Fungal Records. True modern-day psychedelia, drawn out drone excursions, electric guitar scraping & expansion, synth noodling harbored into small private recordings for the chosen few. The limited number of those exposed to Darren’s view –which was NOT intended to be exclusive — just small updates as to where/what was happening with Darren in terms of gear, mood and circumstance. There is an inherent feel that little editing takes place – just captured recordings with the reel-to-reel on. Tate has worked extensively with other collaborators – Andrew Chalk (together known as Ora), Colin Potter (as Monos), Paul Bradley, Andrew Liles, Ian Holloway to name a few. Collectively a solid block foundation of great U.K. drone artists. In a collaborative setting, there may be a bit more judicious editing employed for better (or for worse) depending on where one sits in appreciation of refinement over improvisation. Which brings us to “Age & Transformation”. Two tracks, both around the half-hour mark and presumably recorded in one take each. The first track (Untitled) contains all elements of what makes a Tate recording effective- gentle guitar scraping, echoed city recordings, air vibrations oscillating an overall nocturnal hush that shrouds the whole piece. The second track (again, simply “Untitled”) is undoubtedly one of Tate’s finest solo moments. A defining impressionistic recording from the middle of the night. It opens with the sound of a freeway – a very distant light traffic flow filtered through the forest. A lonesome organ sonata, languid chords with silence in between weave in and out at various points throughout. Tate sitting by the window capturing the sounds of the freeway, voices – haunting arias both human and industrial. The 2nd disc is a reworking by Colin Potter. Extracted from the quiet of “A&T”, the first track “Aged” is an encapsulation of the entire recording with the small dervishes, organ melodies and drone wrapped up in an almost tidy nine minutes. The second “Transformed” – is over 40 minutes of water tower acoustic sustained tones, layered subtle guitar hum – a perfect complimentary refinement on a classic ambient improvisation.£8.00 -
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Celer – Discourses of the Withered
CD, SaleThis is where it all began in a sorts for Celer. This was their first properly issued release (after a handful of achingly rare CDR releases). One of our favorite all-time acts. Originally released in 2008, remastered 2012 by Chihei Hatakeyama. All music by Will Long & Danielle Baquet-Long, featuring each of the tracks on the first issue, with an expanded version of “The Separation of the Two-phased Apple Blossoms” and includes a previously unreleased track “Retranslating the Upside-down Mountain” which was from the ‘Discourses…’ sessions. Cover image is a photo by Danielle, and a re-design by Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek). Reissue is in an edition of 500 copies.£8.00 -
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Celer – The Everything And The Nothing
CD, SaleSublime, album-length track of ambient drones from the wonderful Celer. In its 71-minute duration ‘The Everything and the Nothing’ slowly transitions between glowing tones to symphonic bliss-outs and darker zones of bass subduction to ghostly drifts£8.00 -
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James Murray – The Land Bridge
CD, SaleThe Land Bridge comprises seven heartfelt reflections on patience, devotion and loss. Delicately balanced electronics, keyboards, piano and guitar carefully combine to chart a territory personal to us all. This is a place of sparse, graceful motifs: an intimate, essential experience for sensitive souls who feel and listen deeply.£7.00 -
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L’air Mort – Television Dream Suite
CD, SaleL’air Mort is the musical identity of three mysterious members all hailing from Terra Australis. Drawing from a diverse range of influences such as film soundtracks, found sounds, instrumentation and field recordings, their music weaves together a spectral haze of sound. Television Dream Suite is L’air Mort’s first outing; combining found sounds, degraded vinyl and cello into an album that recalls moments of modern classical composition, haunted soundtracks and electro acoustic experimentation£6.00 -
Bailleau / Demoulin – Outshining Memories (Deluxe CD/Booklet)
CD, DeluxeLimited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies... Each one comes in the form of an 8" x 5.5" machine sewn booklet. Each unique booklet has a cover made from an antique 8"x 10" b/w negative still…sewn in between the folded and sewn film still is a selection of original artwork pages, antique diagrams and wallpapers and other ancient paper ephemera. Each book is then gone through and scribbled in, stamped and otherwise artified. Sewn into the center of the book is the cotton sleeve that holds the factory pressed disc. Each booklet comes in a hand stamped translucent envelope.£30.00
