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Ian Hawgood & Wil Bolton – Transparencies
CD, SaleEight years into their collaboration, Wil Bolton and Home Normal main-man Ian Hawgood have finished their first full-length album. Transparencies is a tender release full of intimate interplay of instruments and sounds: Bolton and Hawgood are perfectly suited to one another, sharing a subtle melodic approach. Released on Home Normal in a limited edition of 500 CDs.£3.00 -
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Altars Altars – Small Hours
CD, SaleA half an hour continuing the mastery of ambient haze lifting off magnetic tape and peacefully drifting into you consciousness. Four tracks on this cd, two long and two short. A mix between sparkling light dancing across the water surface and becoming mesmerized by a wonderfully droning moment in natural existence. All four tracks are very different but combine exceptionally well making Small Hours way to short in time of play - Lost in a Sea of Sound£3.00 -
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James Murray – Killing Ghosts
CD, SaleThis comes in our 4 panel reverse board card package in an edition of 500. In the spring of 2014 my wife and I stayed at a remote log cabin in the Black Mountains. Anne was taken ill from the moment we arrived and barely left the bed all week. I’d packed a laptop, small midi keyboard and portable hard disc recorder, and resolved that if we weren’t to have a break together I’d at least salvage something from the trip. I’d spent a lot of time around then thinking about how haunted we are by our lost loved and not-so-loved ones. About how these ghosts can be more than just absences, that they can actually exist in some real sense as shadows cast by our fears and regrets. The horse-whisperer who owns the cabin told us when we arrived of the local belief that up in those mountains the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest. From the first nightfall to the very end of our stay I felt like the atmosphere in that place was charged, agitated somehow, like everything was on the verge of cracking.£3.00 -
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Tobias Hellkvist – Kaskelot: Reissue + Remixes
CD, SaleOne of Tobias’ little known releases appeared on our little sub-label Tokyo Droning back in 2011. ‘Kaskelot’ was a four-track E.P. that was incredibly popular in Japan, and coming housed in locally-sourced packaging, it was one of the highlights of this six-release label that was re-opened just after the Tōhoku earthquake. Being incredibly limited as a Japan-exclusive, the album has long been sold out. We are so happy that we will be releasing the updated edition of a personal favourite release of ours, and one that has continued the fine work Tobias had published for Home Normal with his revered ‘Evolutions’ in 2010, and his follow-up ‘Everything Is Connected’ in 2012. We had discussed a reissue of sorts for many years, and over a number of emails back and forth (and a good old chat in London when Tobias performed at The Vortex for us in March 2013), we came up with a list of remixers to expand on the original pieces which have since been remastered. - Ian Hawgood£3.00 -
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Ian Hawgood – Love Retained
CD, SaleThis release marks my first and last solo release on the label I founded with my friend Ben many moons ago, and also marks me fully stepping down from the label after returning for a bit in 2016. This album has been designed by Christian Roth who has been a dear friend for so long, and along with another great friend in Jeremy Bible, they helped the aesthetic of the label right in those early days. I am so happy and proud of what we have achieved between us, and thank you all for listening and supporting our work. - Ian Hawgood£3.00 -
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Mere – Mere III
CD, SaleGlass-mastered CD with: insert to front featuring photography by Peter Nejedly / obi credit strip / hand-embossed printing / unique vintage large format negative / extra download code slip / packaged in a vintage glassine bag£3.00 -
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Mere – Mere II
CD, SaleGlass-mastered CD with: insert to front featuring photography by Peter Nejedly / obi credit strip / hand-embossed printing / unique vintage large format negative / extra download code slip / packaged in a vintage glassine bag£3.00 -
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Giulio Aldinucci – Goccia
CD, SaleGlass-mastered CD with: insert to front featuring photography by Peter Nejedly / obi credit strip / hand-embossed printing / unique vintage large format negative / extra download code slip / packaged in a vintage glassine bag£3.00 -
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Various Artists – Rough Imaginary
CD, SaleOn April 15th 2016, we hosted a rare live event at London Fields Brewery with ISAN, Paco Sala, A New Line (Related), and R. Elizabeth. Prior to the concert, the artists came together to create a wonderful collection of rare unreleased and live works that flowed beautifully together and inspired us to create this album in celebration of the coming together of such great artists and friends on a truly wonderful night. We are incredibly proud to present this collective work, 'Rough Imaginary'. - Ian Hawgood£3.00 -
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The Cray Twins – The Pier
CD, Sale£9.00The Cray Twins are fascinated by how audio systems, electronic and acoustic, are like human systems, and have set out to find the borders areas on this album, regions where things are no longer the same, where sound or the perception of it changes or breaks down. It’s a collabora- tion irregularity, in order to find the edge.
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Kouhei Matsunaga – Drawings
Book, Deluxe, Sale, VinylHardbound, cloth bound book with 7" vinyl. Stunning! Kouhei Matsunaga's 'Drawings' is a book and a 7" vinyl record. The book is the first ever major showcase of his drawing skills. Here, smiling horses meet floating people in a strictly minimalist, slightly psychedelic black and white ink world. The hardcover book is cloth bound, 88 pages, 40 drawings, a few words and lots of space. The four track 7" vinyl single accompanying the book, credited to his alias Koyxen Mattsunagnen, takes Matsunaga's music a step further towards a more dance oriented approach, as with his minimal techno project NHK and the recent NHK'Koyxen material released by the PAN label, whilst still clearly and firmly rooted in contemporary, experimental music.£12.00 -
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Jessica Curry – Fields Were the Essence (Deluxe)
3", Deluxe, SaleAvailable only in a limited fine art edition of 80 copies. Each of these pastoral beauties comes housed in a vintage 3.5” film can. Included in the can is an artified, 3" mini CD hubbed to the inside of the lid, a set of 4 round hi-res photographic prints of Jessica’s walking locale, copies of her original score for the piece, twigs gathered on her walks, and a mini textual scroll, all nestled on a bed of moss. Each can itself is hand stamped on the outside, covered with photo and credit info, and verbiage hand typed on an antique typewriter. Befitting the music to the extreme!£26.00 -
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Orghanon – Retrospectre (Deluxe)
CD, Deluxe, SaleDeluxe version: comes in a modified anti-static bag strung with a 100 year old children’s game tag. Each individual package contains a uniquely mysterious, relabeled antique 5″, 78rpm record (not with music from this album on it, but quite seriously spooky when played at incorrect speeds, as we have found out ourselves), a vintage, mounted 1940’s photograph of a “freak” from an antique album of “freak show” ephemera, with original hand typed description of photo under credit sheet on backside. The cotton sleeved, factory pressed disc design is inspired and taken from a scan of one of these strange old records! In essence… a vinyl / CD combo!£38.00 -
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Orghanon – Retrospectre
CD, SaleOrghanon is a project founded by Sergio Calzoni, Italian producer and musician active since the nineties in various musical outfits (Alma Mater, Act Noir, Colloquio). Orghanon’s manifesto is to produce music with a strong cinematographic appeal, making use mainly of electronic equipment with sparse notes of acoustic instruments and electric guitars. Orghanon aims to blend melancholy with silence, depicting stark yet deeply emotional soundtracks for imaginary places. “Retrospectre”is a very personal exploration of childhood memories relived as ambient music soundscapes. Compared to the previous Orghanon’s work, making this album involved a more intimate and spontaneous approach during the writing process, with a more instrumental beat-less feel, and tracks enriched by the contributions of several guest musicians, performing parts of violin, viola, cello, harp and clarinet.£12.00 -
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Jobin / Perletta – Mirror Neurons
CD, SaleMirror neurons represent a distinctive class of cells that fire both when an animal executes an action and when it observes another individual performing the same action. Discovered by Italian neurophysiologist Giacomo Rizzolatti and his team at the University of Parma while doing a research on the neural representation of motor movements in monkeys, the precise function and influence of these neurons has become one of the most important topic in neuroscience. They have been linked to many behaviours and abilities, from empathy to learning by imitation and language acquisition, as well as implicated in conditions such as autism and other brain disorders. These findings suggest that the mirror neuron system plays a key role in our ability to experience empathy. Initiated by sound artists France Jobin and Fabio Perletta, Mirror Neurons is a media-project investigating the notion of empathy and physical distance. The entire album is the result of extended sound files exchange between Montréal (Canada) and Roseto degli Abruzzi (Italy). Each of the pieces is based on rough sounds and their consequent re-working, listening and reaction, processing and imitation. The ongoing process helped the artists to draw inspiration in terms of stimuli for the act of composing itself in two very distant cities, different climate, time zones and languages.£7.00 -
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Robert Crouch – Organs
CD, Sale, STAFF PICKSThe three works comprising ‘Organs’ were selected and edited from a year of recordings developed in collaboration with choreographer and artist Julie Tolentino in 2014. Three separate projects were documented through audio recordings of performances and rehearsals, as well as related field recordings. Each piece recalls a matrix of encounters between a specific body (or bodies) within a unique context, conducting and responding to sounds, both electronic and organic. The interplay of the soft tissue, sinew, bone and blood of the body-organ, pushing against/within/outside the sustained tones and synthetic expressions of the techno-organ. Each organ exists simultaneously alienated from, and an extension of, the other. ‘Somniloquy’ was constructed using a recording of Tolentino “playing” the broken organ in preparation for the performance ‘Process(ion)X’ at the Church of the Epiphany. ‘The eyes of fire’ is based on a recording from Drive Your Cart And Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, a nine hour performance with Julie Tolentino, Stosh Fila, and Robert Crouch at the San Francisco Art Institute, curated by Tania Hammidi. ‘The Propaganda of History’ was developed from a series of recordings made during rehearsal sessions with Tolentino and Mark Steger, with additional field recordings£7.00 -
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Robert Curgenven – Climata (2xCD)
CD, SaleGatefold 2 x CD… ‘Climata’ is a new work by composer and sound artist Robert Curgenven comprised entirely of site-specific recordings captured in 15 of James Turrell’s Skyspaces, spanning 9 countries. Each of the individual recordings, with their quiet & slowly changing microtonal interventions made in-situ, interrogate and offer a specific document of weather, location and duration framed by the architecture of the Skyspace – a frame that blurs the distinction between interiority and exteriority – while allowing the physicality of the Skyspace to be subtly rendered audible. Turrell’s Skyspaces are a specifically proportioned chamber with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky and outside world. The Skyspaces can be autonomous structures or integrated into existing architecture. The aperture can be round, ovular or square – each with its’ own “piece of sky” beneath an ocean of air. These variously shaped apertures let in and frame not only Turrell’s famous light but also sound and its medium, in this case air.£10.00 -
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James Murray – Eyes to the Height
CD, SaleDeluxe six-panel digipak… Eyes to the Height is British composer James Murray‘s full return to Ultimae Records, a tender and intimate ten chapter story reflecting the fragile beauty of life and loss, memory and function. Delicate rhythms, blurred atmospherics and crystalline melodies gleam and glisten on the many facets of this modern ambient gem. This is a considered, heartfelt collection of sonic poetry from one of electronica’s most unusual voices – entrusted and dedicated to ears and hearts in this world and beyond. James Murray’s seventh solo album follows the recent release of the Ghostwalk EP, featuring remixes by Martin Nonstatic and Kinosura.£8.00 -
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Federico Dal Pozzo – Untitled TeVeT
CD, SaleElegant handmade sleeve with cover album in polaroid format inside the eco packaging... “Untitled TeVeT ” is an acousmatic composition generates from the freezing sound of the 380kg ice cube development, and it consists of a space-time continuously evolving score based on the interpolation of granular synthesis and extreme resonances. The work is made up of 2 connected and continuous movements which evolves for a total of 59 minutes. The first movement is about the sound of space travellers and extreme resonances of the icecube; the second movement is the sound of the freezing by a 380 kg ice cube and its granular and rezo synyhesis.£7.00 -
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øjeRum – He Remembers…
CD, SaleøjeRum is the audio project of Danish visual artist Paw Grabowski. On ‘He Remembers There Were Gardens’ he uses a slow moving organ to create an alternate soundtrack to Chris Marker’s beautiful slideshow-like time travel film La Jetée. Those familiar with the film with have no difficulty in recalling the flashes of a destroyed world, the status of the museum, and the moment on the platform. Even if you haven’t seen the film, the breathing of Grabowski’s organ will conjure similar images and moments. It fluctuates between the drifts and falls and the throb and hum of a person lost in time and place.£7.00 -
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Endless Melancholy – Music for Quiet Mornings
CD, SaleEndless Melancholy is the solo-project of self-taught musician, Oleksiy Sakevych. “Music For Quiet Mornings” follows a couple of self-released EPs and is an album recorded at home aimed at creating a nice soundtrack to the various quiet moments of your life.£7.00 -
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Tomonari Nozaki – Triptych
CD, SaleTriptych sees Forwind end the year on a high with the hugely well received Credence, Decadence and Concession EP’s merged into a fully actualised spectacle with our final physical release of 2016. Keeping the much deliberated sequencing of the original productions intact, Triptych extends and completes the original vista with a freshly tailored closing piece ‘Coda’ that brings Tomonari’s opus to completion. After the increasing intensity of the first 60 minutes the new composition adds the final waypost to the lush and epic audio landscape as it dissolves into the ether with something that is both splendid and graceful. A fitting finale.£10.00 -
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Poppy Nogood – Mood Paintings
CD, SaleImprovised as snapshots of hope, ecstasy, turmoil and longing, mo od paintings by New York composer Poppy Nogood is a self-portrait in four parts. Each movement is a space to live in, a world to breathe – a temporal extension of feelings felt at one particular moment and a tale of cyclical rebirth that mirrors the nature of self-reflection. Inspired by the work of William Basinski , Lawrence English , Pauline Oliveros , Sean McCann, Labrador , The Necks , Bing & Ruth and Gustav Mahler , the most essential aspect of mood paintings is its static central structure and dynamic exterior. Mood paintings is Poppy Nogood ’s second album for Preserved Sound, and the follow-up to Music for Mourning.£7.00 -
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Michel Banabila – Sound Years
Sale, VinylTransparent 175g heavy weight vinyl LP in full color cover. All tracks composed by Michel Banabila except: ‘Radio Spelonk’ by Banabila & Van Geel. ‘Yarra’ by Banabila & Zuydervelt. A1. Close To The Moon (previously unreleased / 2016) A2. Earth Visitor (from Earth Visitor / 2016) A3. E.T. (from Traces / 2007) A4. Gorlice (from Live in Gorlice / 2014) A5. 47 Voice Loops (from 47 Voice Loops / 2013) B1. Stone Bridge (from Hilarious Expedition / 2005) B2. Niki Jumpei (from Gardening / 2012) B3. TAPE (mix 3) (from Bouwwerk / 2010) B4. Shortwave (from Hilarious Expedition / 2005) B5. Radio Spelonk (from Music for viola and electronics II / 2015) with Oene van Geel B6. Vuka Vuka! intro (from Songs from Vuka Vuka! / 2005) B7. The Turtle Came Back (from Gardening / 2012) B8. Yarra (from Travelog / 2013) with Machinefabriek£8.00 -
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Daniel Mackenzie – Every Time…
CD, SaleOutside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in a limited edition of 150... Daniel W J Mackenzie produces works of noise, drone and conceptual composition under his given name and the more studio focused project Ekca Liena, and is an active performance collaborator in numerous groups. He has appeared internationally, exhibiting sculpture, multi-channel tone work and sound collage, and explores various approaches to performance. He presents on eilean rec. his fifth complete solo release under his real name.£9.00 -
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Omrr – Music For The Anxious
CD, SaleOutside : glossy paper / inside : thick paper card & glossy paper / digisleeve : white paperboard / sealed (like old book) & hand numbered / CDr in a limited edition of 160... Omar El Abd aka omrr (born 22 September 1983) is a self-taught musician, guitarist and sound artist based in Cairo, Egypt. Omrr’s sound is based on glitch, noise, micro-sounds, sampling and field recording. He uses a variety of instruments and software to create dynamic and dense sonic landscapes. Music For The Anxious was created between 2015 and 2016, it’s a year’s projection of intimate encounters, imaginary stories and unnecessary drama. All songs were improvised and created while being recorded.£9.00 -
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Sustainer – Medicina
CD, SaleOutside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in a limited edition of 130... Alex Alarcón from Barcelona, composes electronic music under the name Sustainer. Recently he recovered his interest in using and processing acoustic instruments, using old recording devices, found sounds recorded over the years, and amplified objects in his work and he’s trying actually to stay in a non-computer environments. Since 2003, his works have been released in multiple formats on labels such as Italic, Thinner, Room40, Tessellate recordings.£9.00 -
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Moss Covered Technology – Speicherbank
CD, SaleOutside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in a limited edition of 130. After 3 albums on his solo project “Boomruin” (Bmrn), Greig Baird started around 1 year ago a new solo project under the moniker : “Moss Covered Technology”, here his first work.£9.00 -
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures 4
CD, Sale“Part of the charm of “Piano Textures 4” is its intimacy and I feel like I am inside the piano at times. It feels like the whole album purposely holds back from going for a full melodic approach though and so some people who are less likely to get lost in mood pieces, may not find what they’re looking for here. Sanfilippo though has created an excellent mood piece for those who do want to get lost in an audio mystery as new layers of piano are unveiled – and if you have your imagination with you – you can wander off anywhere”£8.00 -
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Bruno Sanfillipo – Urbs
CD, SaleThe title Urbs derives from the prominent incorporation urban sound environments, recorded by Sanfilippo in urban environments such as train stations, streets, bars and other public areas to explore the boundaries between the textural sounds which surround all of us day to day, and the nature of composed sound art such as music. These “real world” sound textures merge with more traditional electronics such as synthesizers and samplers, leaving no doubt as to the composed and “intentional” nature of these soundscapes. Gentle and evocative, subtly textural and transporting, Urbs is something we genuinely expect to become a long-term favorite among Hypnos releases.£8.00 -
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures 2
CD, Saleby Paul Jury · Morpheus Music Delicate piano atmospheres with subtle electronic support. Bruno Sanfilippo presents here a series of very beautiful compositions that feature an ‘Steinway D grand piano’ recorded during the night hours. Smooth electronic washes and drones are laid down in gentle layers forming light, hazy expanses within which the master instrument luxuriates. The piano playing is mostly of an understated, unhurried melodic form calling to mind the purity and tranquil grace of Satie, touched with delightful melancholy and haunting airy wistfulness. Spacial structure is masterful, creating an incredibly enchanting ambience, the arrangements seemingly having the meandering freeness of improvised playing whilst at the same time obviously exhibiting the kind of harmony and refinement that comes only from painstaking crafting and control£8.00 -
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures 1
CD, Sale“Simple and elegant, mesmerizing and haunting. I absolutely love turning up the volume, and letting every hypnotic and melancholic note weep gently through the night. For the lovers of Max Richter, Eluvium, Rafael Anton Irisarri, and Zbigniew Preisner. I highly recommended this gem! Headphone Commute”£8.00 -
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Auralspace
CD, SaleThis CD is presented in a matt laminate digipak 6 panel with spot varnishing... Bruno Sanfilippo is a classically trained musician and composer. His focus alternates between the exploration of minimalist piano concepts and electro-acoustic music. 71 min. practically continuous flow. The gentle whistles flows effortlessly on a soft carpet of electronics textures, slow spiraling in increases-decreases, creating a recording not to be missed by those who are curious and by those who love to fly far away on the wings of surreal environment.£8.00 -
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Nmls – On & On
CD, SaleThe Nmls’ debut album combines elements of refined IDM, glitch, downtempo and ambient. The artists draws from the aesthetics of the electronic music of the ’90, bringing them to a more contemporary framework of IDM-related genres, with rich supply of original melodies. The album features a remix created by a renowned Russian producer Monokle.£9.00 -
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Abate / Uggeri – Beyond Time
CD, SaleTRS are very pleased to be bringing you their exceedingly pastoral and evocative November release from Italian artists Maurizio Abate and Matteo Uggeri. This collaborative release is an electronically treated, guitar centric affair that incorporates field recordings, voiceovers and a general neofolk ambiance that takes you back beyond simpler times to a simple place from whence we all came. Mysteriously elegant beauty with a particular Italianate feel and a timeless love of the artists’ pasts and history with all its nostalgic appeal and overwhelming memories. TRS067 will leave you dreaming of personal histories of your own!£10.00 -
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Various – Starseed
CD, SaleMatter spreads through space like a cosmic code traversing the universe inside solar windblown motes of space-dust or interwoven into encoded beams of starlight. Explore this cosmic migration through the stars and the origins of life, as the artists on STARSEED evoke the patterns and frequencies of the universe. Every man and woman is a star. Chris Bryant and Don Tyler (together known as Ascendant) have started Synphaera Records out of need for a suitable platform to release their own music; however, soon it became clear to them that more artists could fit into the roster. The ethos: high quality ambient and downtempo electronica with retro characteristics and modern execution. And of course, delivering a strong V/A compilation is an excellent way to present the world their vision. Diving into Starseed is the best way to get to know the label and its sound and style, and for many it will be the start of a love relationship.£10.00 -
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Max Ananyev – Communication
CD, SaleEach piece on Max Ananyev’s album Communication is dedicated to a particular object or phenomenon – the magnetism of water, the energy of different trees, the effect of the moon on the human psyche – all the things we don’t understand, but that we easily feel. For Max, the word “communication” relates to how he perceives the world and his direct contact with the objects in it. Communication uses a range of acoustic instruments and electronic textures to create a sound full of acceleration, deceleration and pauses. At the heart of Max Ananyev’s music is the idea of the variation of dynamics and lack of a stable tempo in composition that mimick the unpredictable processes that occur in nature. “There is so much rhythm and tempo in our daily lives,” says Max, “it sometimes seems to me that our metronomic lifestyles deprives us of a certain freedom and means of expression.” Born and raised in Obluchye, 8,000 kilometers from Moscow on the border with China, Max Ananyev is a Russian composer and sound producer based in St. Petersburg. Communication is his first album on Preserved Sound.£7.00 -
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Covarino / Incorvaia – Perugia
CD, SalePlaying with total freedom from any predefined structure, Covarino/Incorvaia entered a studio in Granada, Spain, with just one rule – to play strictly live, not use any studio trickery such as overdubs or editing, and just see how the music would evolve. The result is an instrumental ambient-rock album that takes influences from artists such as Tortoise and The For Carnation. After a break of 14 years without playing music together, Francesco Covarino (drums) and Alessandro Incorvaia (guitar) met for five days in a rehearsal room in their hometown of Perugia in central Italy during Christmas 2015, where they improvised and recorded demos of what would become their new album – Perugia. Several phone calls later, they went into the studio in April 2016 without having played together in four months. Covarino/Incorvaia get together when they can to play music, mostly as a duo or sometimes with the help of a bass player. Perugia is their debut album.£7.00 -
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Noemienours – Songs From The Life…
Sale, VinylSlo-fi XVX lullabies. Save the bears, wherever they are. Stories about the life of bears. Limited edition of 100 copies.£4.00 -
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Ten – Yukon Youth
CD, SaleThe new nine-track album from ten was inspired from a two-week trek across the grand and extraordinary landscapes of Alaska. Leeds-based artist and musician Dominic Deane started recording the album in late 2014 with long time collaborator, producer and engineer Ross Halden of ghost town recordings, with mastering by Tim Hann. After a short hiatus from other projects, the record was finally completed over the summer of 2016 and a third ten album was born. The new ten album takes its title and theme from Jon Krakauser book Into the Wild, a true and tragic story of the late Chris McCandless who in 1992 travelled alone into the Alaskan wild. Deane states that the new album was partly influenced by this story and expresses the new record captures a sonic journey that evolves isolation, beauty and harshness. The new ten album Yukon Youth contains nine tracks (45mins) of moody, dreamy and textural soundscapes that shift unpredictability like the Alaska landscape.£7.00 -
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Drawing Virtual Gardens – Heartbeats…
CD, SaleLimited copies available as elegant handmade sleeves with cover album in polaroid format inside the eco packaging... “Heartbeats of a premature image” is the 4th official release of Drawing Virtual Gardens, solo project of David Gutman, member of the dark ambient combo Tropic of Coldness. The sonic material is fully obtained by playing, processing and looping the electric guitar, David Gutman preferred instrument. The field explored is the development of a magmatic and cohesive flow where the sound itself becomes an instrument, complete in its esthetic body and textured on sub harmonic ritmic patterns.£7.00 -
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Richard Scott – Several Circles (2 x Vinyl)
Sale, Vinyl2 x 140g vinyl with A4 art insert print by John Powell-Jones and a Risographed Photo... Recorded between 2013 and 2015 in both Manchester and Berlin, this vital new album is a combination of instant, improvised performances and highly structured acousmatic compositions that have been, in Richard’s own words, “microscopically edited, constructed, layered and mixed over many hours in the studio.” Far from being a dry, academic exercise, Richard’s music shower the ears with delicious and incessantly changing sound pools. The album is a vibrant and exceptional portrait of Richard’s voice as a musician, unencumbered by restrictive themes or fixed compositional techniques, instead offering an all-encompassing view of his practices that, through their very intuition, sound cohesive. It’s an entry in to the already auteristic cannon of Cusp Editions that will surely be held in a pride of place.£15.00 -
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Ghost – The First Time…
CD, SaleThis is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm green-grey cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 190 gsm saffron yellow cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card... The First Time You Opened Your Eyes showcases (ghost)’s atmospheric side to a fuller extent than in any of his previous releases by presenting an epic ambient journey with duration of something more than 34 minutes. The complex glitchy beats are left behind and only beautifully evocative soundscapes and calming atmospheres remain. The album captivates the listener with its lush instrumentation and warm palette of multiple layered emotional textures of resonant synths and droning feedback as indistinct dreamy vocals emerge somewhere in the distance. An impressive album, highly recommended for devotees of Deaf Center, Brian McBride and Eluvium.£8.00 -
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Panoptique Electrical – Disappearing Music For Face
CD, SaleThis is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm pale brown cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and two inserts with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 190 gsm reddish-brown cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card... Disappearing Music For Face is another outstanding release from Panoptique Electrical that generates many emotional reactions. It’s a collection of eleven brilliant compositions of gentle piano with small touches of minimalist electronic beats, echoing keys and soft swells of heavily reverbed drones. The beauty of this album will truly captivate the audience of both ambient pioneers like Brian Eno and Harold Budd and artists like A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Labradford and mid period Hood recordings.£8.00 -
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Ben Rath – Forgiveness
CD, Salehis is a limited edition of 150 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 240 gsm grey cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 160 gsm light blue cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card... Forgiveness is his sixth full-length album and first for Sound In Silence. The album’s eight tracks were recorded at home, combining over-lapping layers of acoustic guitars and electronics. Borrowing textures and sounds from cinematic post-ambient and drone composition and adding some emotional motifs of soothing post-rock and fragile shoegaze, he creates a wonderful sound collage, full of heartwarming soundscapes and restful harmonies. Forgiveness is a profoundly touching album that will appeal to anyone moved by the music of artists such as Eluvium, Fennesz, Stars Of The Lid, Wil Bolton and Yellow6.£8.00 -
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Daniel Mackenzie – Glass Permanent
CD, SaleLimited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm brown cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 190 gsm beige cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card... Glass Permanent, his third full-length album under his real name, consists of six compositions of melancholic and cinematic soundscapes with a total duration of 40 minutes. This is a deeply personal and emotionally restful album with a taste of homemade experimentation, which focuses on the physical and technological manipulation of acoustic instruments such as piano, zither and glockenspiel and sound sources like voice and field recordings. Beautifully arranged, these minimalist compositions easily slip between modern classical and ambient drone, being probably Daniel’s finest work so far. The mastering of Glass Permanent has been done by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave), giving a great depth and warm feel to its sounds.£8.00 -
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The Declining Winter – Endless Scenery
CD, SaleThis is a limited edition of 450 (a first edition of 300 which is now sold out and a second edition of 150) handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped white recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and credits. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card... Hushed, drenched in reverb, vocals, loops of nostalgic guitars, largely acoustic ones, piano, melancholic organ lines, droning ambient synths and minimal drum beats, combine with jazz infused percussion, chiming bells, field recordings and samples of echoing hammered dulcimer and gentle violins, played by Joel Hanson and Sarah Kemp (Lanterns Of The Lake, Last Harbour) respectively, both Richard’s bandmates in Memory Drawings, to form a quietly impressive album, full of muffled melodies, great warmth, wistful melancholy and pastoral organic feel. The beautiful atmosphere of Endless Scenery will instantly sound familiar and comforting to all fans of Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis, Disco Inferno, Labradford, Low and of course Hood.£8.00 -
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Thee Koukouvaya – Witches’ Jelly
CD, SaleThis is a limited edition of 115 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped black cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and a transparent paper insert... Thee Koukouvaya is the conceptual aural sister city to Vilandredo, Rethymno, on the island of Crete. The group’s architects, based on the East Coast, introduce themselves with the 28-minute Witches’ Jelly, an epic ambient journey built upon three movements packed with glacial drones, layers of modular synthesizer, and generative digital sequences. Both ominous and celebratory, Thee Koukouvaya engineer inhuman otherworldliness steeped in sci-fi paranoia. The result is a deliberately damaged music, generating a sonic liminal space between the organic and the mechanical.£8.00 -
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Julien Demoulin – Loose Ends
CD, SaleThis is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible CDr copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped green cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and two inserts, with the tracklist and credits, printed on transparent paper... Loose Ends, his first full-length release under his own name, is something more than a proper debut album. It’s a wonderful collection of eleven tracks composed and recorded during the last ten years. These tracks were a good occasion for Julien Demoulin, when he wanted a breather from Silencio, to collaborate with some of his friends, including Bernold Delgoda (Silencio), Christophe Bailleau, Nicolas Saez (Anorak, Finish Yor Meal!), Luis Solis (Bacanal Intruder), Davy Van Den Bremt (Quniunb), Isabelle Casier (Pollyanna) and David Martin, who has also done the mastering of the album. Compared to his previous, more ambient, releases, Loose Ends has a more upbeat vibe with a clear focus on rhythm and melody. A great mixture on the border between dream-pop and electronica, combined with elements of ambient and post-rock and a must-have for fans of Manual, Lights Out Asia, Epic45 and July Skies.£8.00 -
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Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains Vol 1 (2 x Vinyl)
Sale, Vinyl75 minutes of the finest Serein selections pressed on black wax. 2xLP. Vinyl sleeve is printed on the reverse (uncoated) side for textured goodness... Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains Vol 1 comes to the popular and shiny compact disc format. The sleeve is printed on the reverse (uncoated) side for textured goodness that you’ll want to touch again and again. You might even like to encourage your friends to touch it. The more observant among you will have noticed that the cover for the CD edition is slightly different to the vinyl cover. Every format is special. Down in the mouth and wound up after your daily commute? No more! On your next trip by shuttle or train be sure to bring with you this seasons ‘must have’ record for travel. These carefully selected pieces will calm the mind and soothe the spirit making your journeys as pleasurable as can be. Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains – the only travel companion you need. Not going anywhere? No problem, let the music guide your imagination instead – with Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains, leaving the relative safety of your home is optional.£16.00 -
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Aukai – ST (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylIn a lot of ways, Aukai’s self-titled debut is the sound of Markus Sieber bringing his career full circle. Having spent part of the ’90s playing rock music in East Germany, the composer/multi-instrumentalist then shifted his focus to acting, only to have music creep back into his life after a mind-altering move to Mexico. Aukai was born of his desire to create music that could work in tandem with film, video, theater and the visual arts. The compositions on the album also grew out of Sieber’s love affair with the ronrocco, a plucked string instrument from Argentina that Sieber first discovered through the music of film composer Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel, Brokeback Mountain). Aukai may draw initial comparisons to the work of ambient instrumental masters such as Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Goldmund/Helios, but ultimately it is a CD that belongs in a category all its own—a beguiling collection of autumnal acoustic soundscapes dappled with subtle electronic touches.£15.00 -
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Aukai – ST
CD, SaleIn a lot of ways, Aukai’s self-titled debut is the sound of Markus Sieber bringing his career full circle. Having spent part of the ’90s playing rock music in East Germany, the composer/multi-instrumentalist then shifted his focus to acting, only to have music creep back into his life after a mind-altering move to Mexico. Aukai was born of his desire to create music that could work in tandem with film, video, theater and the visual arts. The compositions on the album also grew out of Sieber’s love affair with the ronrocco, a plucked string instrument from Argentina that Sieber first discovered through the music of film composer Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel, Brokeback Mountain). Aukai may draw initial comparisons to the work of ambient instrumental masters such as Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Goldmund/Helios, but ultimately it is a CD that belongs in a category all its own—a beguiling collection of autumnal acoustic soundscapes dappled with subtle electronic touches.£10.00 -
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Hidden Rivers – Where Moss Grows (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylThis vinyl edition is a DMM cut pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl... Away from the concrete towns and cities there is a place Where Moss Grows. A place walled with limestone, of dell and cave, forgotten railways and Hidden Rivers. This music is a document in sound of journeys through this place, the sylvan valley. Treading a path worn by his forebears, Hidden Rivers (Huw Roberts) takes a left into the trees with debut solo album, Where Moss Grows. Better known until now for label curation at Serein and his work with Otto A Totland as Nest, Huw’s growing obsession with synthesizers and drum machines takes his solo work into uncharted territory. With barely an acoustic instrument in sight, Where Moss Grows is a personal and thematic album which confidently reveals his future intent.£13.00 -
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Mytrip – Filament (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylLimited to 220 copies on black vinyl... Following last year’s Mytrip highly appreciated vinyl debut Empty, the Bulgarian ambient / drone artist is back with a long-anticipated full-length album. In Filament Mytrip is delving deeper into his raw and complex soundscapes. This time they are enriched by tense melodies, blurry rhythmic patterns and organic field recordings. Breathing on the thin borderline of ambient, drone and dub, Filament is Mytrip’s most emotionally and musically varying release so far. The record was written to be experienced live, thus it carries the signature aural harshness of the artist’s recent works. Combined with Mytrip’s immense love for drifting sonic environments Filament is an atmospheric, but intense story about birth, growth and self-awareness.£10.00 -
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Richard Scott – Several Circles (CD)
CD, SaleThe album is a vibrant and exceptional portrait of Richard’s voice as a musician, unencumbered by restrictive themes or fixed compositional techniques, instead offering an all-encompassing view of his practices that, through their very intuition, sound cohesive. It’s an entry in to the already auteristic cannon of Cusp Editions that will surely be held in a pride of place.£8.00 -
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Legiac – The Voynich Manuscript
CD, Sale4 panel matte finished digipack... After last year’s sophomore release, The Faex Has Decimated, on Tympanik Audio, the Legiac project is back, but this time on the Russian based Dronarivm label, where the new album feels more at home. This time, the electronic duo of Roel Funcken and Cor Bolten take on a more meditative approach to their mildly glitch-infused, modular explored sounds, weaving in ambient textures, field recordings, and vast soundscapes. Titled after an early 15th century hand-written and illustrated codex, named after Wilfrid Voynich, the mysteries within this cryptic album can only be unlocked upon subsequent rotations, offering it up as a soundtrack to an enigmatic place, existing somewhere within imagination of these two prolific artists. The Voynich Manuscript slowly transforms its listener from a seemingly ordinary habitat, to a day-dream haze, to kaleidoscopic illusion – a sonic environment you thirst to visit once again.£7.00 -
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Visionary Hours – Footfalls Echo
CD, SaleCombining strings, guitar, vocals, flute and clarinet, Visionary Hours creates slowly evolving pieces full of space and gently revealed micro melodies. Using genuine tape delay created through a Revox B77 reel to reel tape recorder played by Richard Formby (Spectrum, Mogwai, Dakota Suite), as well as other tape effects to create warm swathes of sound that underpin the melodies, the result is an album that sits somewhere between the acoustic-ambient and modern-classical genres.£7.00 -
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Fatih Tuter – Opfermut
CD, Sale4 panel digipak CD in limited edition of 200... Istanbul, Turkey born and raised, resides in Heidelberg, Germany, electronic ambient music producer Fatih Tuter returns with his second album on his own label Unknown Tribe. Fatih previously released music on Silent Season, Shoreless Recordings, Baum Records as well as his own label Unknown Tribe. Written and Produced by Fatih Tuter Mastered at Circuit Room by Ismail Genc Artworks by Nivi Jasa Unknown Tribe 2016£10.00 -
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Machinefabriek / Petit – AAA Vol. I
Sale, TapeC12 cream cassettes with black print, supplied in clear cassette cases with full colour printed artwork. Limited edition of 100... Following on from the hugely well received EP series by Tomonari Nozaki, Forwind begins a new audio adventure with the first instalment of our new cassette and digital series, ‘Angry Ambient Artists’. Vol.1 kicks off the series in uncompromising fashion featuring two intense outsider cuts to add some scares to those simmering summer nights.£5.00 -
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Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains Vol 1
CD, SaleOrbital Planes & Passenger Trains Vol 1 comes to the popular and shiny compact disc format. The sleeve is printed on the reverse (uncoated) side for textured goodness that you'll want to touch again and again. You might even like to encourage your friends to touch it. The more observant among you will have noticed that the cover for the CD edition is slightly different to the vinyl cover. Every format is special. Down in the mouth and wound up after your daily commute? No more! On your next trip by shuttle or train be sure to bring with you this seasons 'must have' record for travel. These carefully selected pieces will calm the mind and soothe the spirit making your journeys as pleasurable as can be. Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains – the only travel companion you need. Not going anywhere? No problem, let the music guide your imagination instead – with Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains, leaving the relative safety of your home is optional. On volume one of this new series, Serein presents the work of some of the finest musical tour guides in the known universe. You may be familiar with some of these names – many have sailed with us before, while others are notable for their esteemed work with other agents. Remember, there's no such thing as economy class when travelling with Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains.£9.00 -
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Lanzo – Gratitape
Sale, TapeThe third of three tapes now in stock from San Diego’s Scenic Rythms. Limited edition of 30 cassettes.£6.00 -
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Hidden Rivers – Where Moss Grows
CD, SaleThis CD edition of Where Moss Grows is a four page digipak with clear tray and artwork behind... Away from the concrete towns and cities there is a place Where Moss Grows. A place walled with limestone, of dell and cave, forgotten railways and Hidden Rivers. This music is a document in sound of journeys through this place, the sylvan valley. Treading a path worn by his forebears, Hidden Rivers (Huw Roberts) takes a left into the trees with debut solo album, Where Moss Grows. Better known until now for label curation at Serein and his work with Otto A Totland as Nest, Huw’s growing obsession with synthesizers and drum machines takes his solo work into uncharted territory. With barely an acoustic instrument in sight, Where Moss Grows is a personal and thematic album which confidently reveals his future intent.£8.00 -
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Aitanna77 – Patterns For Smartness
Sale, TapeThe second of three tapes now in stock from San Diego’s Scenic Rythms. Limited edition of 25 cassettes.£6.00 -
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Astral – Mondhaze
Sale, TapeThis is the first of three tapes now in stock from San Diego’s Scenic Rythms. Limited edition of 30 cassettes.£6.00 -
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Ian Martin – Clairvoyant
CD, SaleKnown for his diverse releases on labels such as Bunker, Panzerkreuz, Further or Shimmering Moods Ian Martin has developed his very unique own brand of electronic music. To categorize his music is difficult which adds an immense appeal to his approch on his releases. Clairvoyant is no exception to this. It is an uplifting and beautiful album based around three of Ian’s favourite synthesizers: Waldorf Microwave I, Ensoniq ESQ-1 and Korg M1. Ian describes this album as an emotional collection of tracks with a lot of fantasy. This description sums it up very well and diametric. is very pleased to be able to present this album. Please join us and dive into the fantasy world Ian has invited us into.£8.00 -
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Florian von Ameln – Rvvr
CD, SaleOutside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in limited edition of 130... Florian von Ameln is a musician and sound artist from Nuremberg, Germany. He has been released on various labels, mainly in cassette format. He presents on eilean rec. his fifth album.£9.00 -
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Ned Milligan – Continental Burns
Sale, VinylThe third album by Ned Milligan and the first to reach an audience beyond family and friends, Continental Burns is the result of getting reacquainted with the act of making music and diving into the experience of creating short films. Limited to 100 LPs, comes with a two-sided insert and download code... Composed primarily over the summer of 2014, Continental Burns was created with two sides in mind. The first five tracks (which also score the video of the same name) share a certain kinship; the sixth complements what came before while departing from it at the same time. A lot of this music came out of Ned’s longstanding interest in repeating figures and loops of both musical and traditionally non-musical sound sources. In contrast to the suite of songs on side A, the B side is taken up by “The Station in Spuyten Duyvil,” an extended reworking of a track that first appeared on Rambler, Ned’s 2005 debut. Entirely composed of processed melodica, it proudly bears the influence of long-form works by Jim O’Rourke, early Rafael Toral, and Stephan Mathieu. Mastered by Sean McCann.£14.00 -
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Brambles – Charcoal
CD, SaleThis is the brand new CD edition of Charcoal featuring artwork from the vinyl reissue. It also includes the bonus track featured on the vinyl release - a reworking of In The Androgynous Dark by Nest. This is undeniably a night-time album, it has that still, peaceful quality to it, the same you get when you walk down a deserted street at night. And despite the slow pace, the music rarely seems melancholic - there's a sense of contentedness which pervades the album from beginning to end. Mark seems very at ease with life and there's a similar spirit to the music, it is deep, thoughtful and optimistic - in the words of Donal Whelan (who mastered the final album), "it's like being wrapped up in a warm blanket". Even the slightly more sinister "Deep Corridor", which plunges you to the depths of the ocean, has that "cosy catastrophe" feel to it. I can't help but think of Blade Runner and Vangelis when I hear it.£8.00 -
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Imaginary Forces – Visitation
Sale, VinylImaginary Forces returns to Fang Bomb with “Visitation”, a collection of dark, menacing rhythmic noise and crumbled techno that predate the recent releases on Halcyon Veil, Bedouin, Entr’acte and his Basic Rhythm album on Type. Deep and ominous with a grimy, industrial edge, Visitation also features the spoken word of long time Imaginary Forces collaborator Closed Circuits.£11.00 -
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Paul Baran – The Other
CD, SaleThe Other is Britain, Student protests, Riots, Neo Liberalism, Fear, Nationalism, Haiti, Chess, Geopolitical sum games, Potlatch, Celebrities, Obama, The Shoah, Love, Reflexive Impotence, The Wheel, Inversion, Tarkovsky, The Zone… At least if you ask Paul Baran himself. To others, it might as well be an equally challenging and diverse collection of electro-acoustic atmospheres, rhythmic experiments, and theoretical manoeuvres, not without a touch of funk. The Other was composed by Baran and recorded together with Werner Dafeldecker, Axel Doerner, Lucio Capece, Sebastian Lexer and many others in Glasgow, and in STEIM studios in Amsterdam, over the last few years.£9.00 -
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John Atkinson – Asasin In Lege
CD, SaleLimited to 200 in four-panel gatefold sleeves and comes with a download code... The soundtrack to the investigative documentary Asasin în Lege by John Atkinson (of the long-running Brooklyn experimental rock ensemble Aa) is the inaugural release from Florabelle, a New York-based label for experimental music and media founded by Ned Milligan. Debuting on Romanian and Moldovan national TV in November 2014, Asasin în Lege (Killers Inc.) investigates the assassination of an influential Russian businessman, tracing a barely-underground war between Kremlin-connected businessmen and bankers fought with brigades of assassins for hire. The soundtrack’s eight instrumental compositions combine field recordings with dense digital textures to establish an atmosphere that is alternately luminous and menacing, giving the sinister proceedings an otherworldly air. The album was mastered by Andrew Weathers (of Full Spectrum Records).£10.00 -
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Machinefabriek – Colour Tones
CD, SaleDelving ever deeper in the science of his art, this is Machinefabriek's take on what might be the most common sensation of all - the colours around us. Originating from the exhibition Colour Tales, held at the WM Gallery in Amsterdam in 2011, these tracks are based on ideas from a series of Intriguingly visual and original short stories on the theme of colours, written by Latvian writer Imants Ziedonis. The result is an album of meticulously crafted drones with depth, details and a sense of adventure. Soundscapes for an audience of careful listeners. Close your eyes. Can you see the colour you are listening to?£8.00 -
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Paul Baran – Panoptic
CD, SalePartially inspired by the writings of the theorist Jeremy Bentham and the concept of globalization, and assisted by Werner Dafeldecker, Ekkehard Ehlers, Keith Rowe, Andrea Belfi and a list of other fine collaborators, Paul Baran has created "Panoptic" - an attempt to soundtrack the lives of creative people affected by such concepts as underclass, surveillance and the dangers of mass consensus. Baran intends "Panoptic" to be a collection of electro-acoustic atmospheres that underscore these concepts, without resorting to blind polemic. And as for the sound of it all - think electro-acoustic, minimalist, idea based, experimental fusion, conceptual improvisation with contemporary song structures.£8.00 -
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Broderick / Machinefabriek – Blank Grey Canvas Sky
CD, SaleThis beautiful collaboration features two of the most prolific talents from the current experimental scene, both with reputations of leviathan proportions. For this release, Machinefabriek, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Peter Broderick, based in Berlin, Germany (although constantly on the road) set out to push each others limits, and to explore new areas within their own creativity. The resulting album is a delicately crafted one, with Machinefabriek and Broderick virtuosically combining instrumental compositions, drone, and heartfelt soundscapes with song structures and vocals. Or as Peter Broderick himself put it: "We tried a lot of different things on this album, pushing ourselves to explore new areas... And for me the result is the collection of music I feel most proud of so far."£8.00 -
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Jasper TX – Singing Stones
CD, Sale£8.00Singing Stones is the fifth album proper from Jasper TX. Over almost 60 minutes, we are told a heartfelt story of windswept islands in past times, a small community surrounded by the dark sea. It’s a story of sadness, of being left behind, a story shrouded in darkness and death, but not without a glimpse of light – in hope of a possible reunion.
This is a personal album, allowing us a glimpse not only of Dag Rosenquist’s unique musical skills, but also his inner life, his beliefs and his compassion. And by echoing our not so distant history, with »Singing Stones« he actually manages to teach us all a little bit about ourselves. -
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Daniel. T Freeman – The Infinite / Unknowable
Book, CD, SaleA 12-track, 68-minute CD of instrumental music with a 48-page, softcover, 210 x 148mm book of 12 poems and 25 black and white photographs printed on 130gsm coated silk-finish paper with a 350gsm cover... Gong choirs, ragged system violins, rusted electronics, liquid heave resonances, apocalyptic poetry, high-contrast photography: ‘The Infinite And The Unknowable’ is a visceral attempt to explore the fathomless mysteries of the divine. Using a mythical Ballardian sea voyage at its core, it evokes such diverse sources as Andrei Tarkovsky, Arvo Pärt, Tim Hecker, ‘A Book of Silence’, John Luther Adams, Terrence Malick, ‘Under the Skin’, Jon Hassell, ‘Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II’, Laurie Spiegel, Ansel Adams, Richard Skelton, the books of Revelation, Job and Daniel, Swans, John Sheppard and Hieronymus Bosch. TIATU was painstakingly constructed over a six year period from hundreds of layers of played and heavily processed electric violin, percussion and electronics and it includes the final re-worked version of the title track originally used in the devastating closing scenes of the Film 4 / BFI / Studio Canal feature film ‘Catch Me Daddy’. The voice of this instrumental music has been extended by the accompanying debut collection of poetry and photography.£10.00 -
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Giannico / Aldinucci – Agoraphonia
CD, SaleA town square is an open public space commonly found in the heart of a traditional town and used for community gatherings. Based on this basic perspective, it is easy to notice how the soundscape of this living center could represent not only sonically, but also from a cultural point of view, a priceless document. After an open call lasted 6 months to send most interesting audio material concerning the theme of the “square” the samples have been selected and reworked in order to create an ideal symphony of all living squares all over the world. After some months a minor open call was done also to obtain photos about the same theme in order to realize a coherent packaging.£8.00 -
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Unidentified – 001
CD, Sale40 copies, handmade covers, hand numbered: kraft paper envelopes with wallets inside, photo’s, all in a metallic, silver jacket... “The pieces of music that make up this record had been forgotten about, tucked away in the basement of a charity shop in Bideford, North Devon for nearly 30 years. Found amongst a collection of tapes, this cassette was simply labelled ‘001’ . All tracks have been remastered and digitalized, these are the first selection, more to come…. ”£10.00 -
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Cynthia – Between Two Worlds
CD, Sale45 copies, handmade covers, hand numbered: kraft paper envelopes with wallets inside, photo’s, all in a metallic, matte black jacket.£10.00 -
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Aleks – Frame of Reference (2xCD)
CD, SaleA double CD (with digital download codes), highly limited, 105 hand numbered copies worldwide in special hand made covers... Dusty tape sounds, ambient dreamscapes, outsider techno and rainforest hallucinations on this debut album from Aleks. “Deep vibrations and undulating waves of synth drive the melodic pulse of this record, beautifully enhanced by field recordings. Distant beats pull you in, creating a balanced feeling of calmness and energy. Each invites the listener to a session of imaginative introspection. Frame of Reference is a sonic force not be missed, this record will surely enhance your morning commute to work or a late evening under the stars, and everything in between.”£11.00 -
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Tess Said So – Scramble / Fate
CD, SaleAll music composed and played by Tess Said So Rasa Daukus – piano | Will Larsen – percussion Tess Said So is a piano and percussion duo that provide a sound that falls into the interstices between neo-classic and jazz. Most, though not all, of this is rather down tempo, almost ambient, with a touch here and there of a minimalist feel. It's only due to the use of a drum kit that it has a jazz vibe at all, at least to my ear (listen to tracks 4, 7, or 10). Quite mellow overall, and very well done, I don't hesitate to recommend this.£7.00 -
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Saenïnvey – The Path
CD, SaleOutside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in limited edition of 130 copies... Yves-Gaël Jacak alias Saenïnvey is a French ambient/drone music artist who lives between France and Vietnam. Almost all of his sounds are released by some instruments from his own making which give this particular texture in his compositions. His music combine a rich acoustic palette and a refined electronic treatment. His works bring us into this permanent balance between electro-acoustic and drone. He presents on Eilean Rec. his first album.£9.00 -
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Poppy Nogood – Music for Mourning
CD, SaleInfluenced by the neo-romantic emotional minimalism of such artists as Max Richter, Bing & Ruth, Terry Riley and Steve Reich, Music for Mourning attempts to capture the emotions and feelings associated with a sense of mourning or loss via fast, schizophrenic juxtapositions of mood. “I like to restrict myself to a key, a series of notes, a repeating motive and improvise around it to see what comes out,” says Poppy Nogood. “I also believe that truth can come out through improvisation – being forced to make decisions in the moment and following natural instincts.” Having started learning classical violin from the age of three, Poppy Nogood is much more interested in understanding how the violin can be used in his own unique way rather than for technical virtuosity. He’s also obsessed with Romantic music and the idea of conveying a narrative of individual struggle through music, and is looking for a sound that is both tragic and beautiful. “Recording is an integral part of my composition process,” he says “I really don’t know where I’m going until I start recording.” Poppy Nogood is an American composer and violinist. Music for Mourning is his first album on Preserved Sound.£7.00 -
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Dag Rosenqvist – Elephant
CD, Sale6 panel digisleeve placed into cardboard slipcase embossed with a transparent foil... Extremely quiet and violently loud, slowly rising only to moments later bear down on the listener with a wall of distorted sounds. This is the essence of ‘elephant’, the new album by Swedish composer and musician Dag Rosenqvist. ‘elephant’ consists of six tracks, all connected to each other in one way or another. Shards of tracks re-appear in other tracks. Structures, sounds, chord progressions and melodies are revisited and rearranged. Repetition as a means of holding on to something that is already lost. ‘elephant’ is an album built on contrasts. It is an album filled with noise and fury, with distant echoes and subtle vibrations. It is a blind force that can both crush you and embrace you with its fragility.£8.00 -
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Cyril Secq / Orla Wren – Branches
CD, SaleLimited edition of 200 in matte finished 6-panel digisleeve... Branches came into being during a long time planned project between Tui (Orla Wren) and Cyril Secq (member of the band Astrïd). Having worked together when Cyril contributed guitar to the Orla Wren’s previous albums the idea then formed to do something further and even more collaborative. At the same time, Cyril had recorded many guitar parts, as a ‘solo’ project, that had never been released. And they were the basis, the bones for Orla to work, completely free. It’s a duet between acoustic strings and processing, field recordings, edits and organic arrangements. This music is steadily ramifies, growing out of itself like a wild tree. The tunes woven together and untwine again as a branches shaken by the wind. It sounds focused, calm and distinct. Although everything has been done in distant places (France and Scotland) the result sounds like two musicians experimenting in the same room, sharing their background and culture.£7.00 -
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Delilah Gutman / Drawing Virtual Gardens - Charcoals
CD, SaleCharcoals, a interpretation of neoclassical and electroacoustic music by Delilah Gutman and David Gutman (Drawing Virtual Gardens). 65 CDr’s, hand made brown kraft covers, hand numbered, photo’s, envelope with wallet inside. 24bit HD audio£10.00 -
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Adzuki – Radio Sea
CD, Sale“The noise which comes from the radio sometimes sounds like the sound of the sea” 10 tracks of pure meditation and ambient bliss. 65 hand numbered CDr, hand made covers, real photo’s.£10.00 -
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Sapphirine Phlant – Until The Light Takes Us
CD, SaleComes in a brown kraft wallet, outside kraft paper cover (envelope), real photo’s, hand numbered in a limited edition of 50 CDr... “The material was recorded through 2014 under the influence of Norwegian Black Metal, grim moods and wandering in mirk. Some ideas were also inspired by chtonic investigation of H.P. Lovecraft opuses.”£10.00 -
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Robert Heel – Naihehe
Sale, Tape“Naihehe” is inspired by huge caves around the world. Enormous echo spaces, cavernous spaces, versatile reverberation, natural surroundings and heavily modified sound and field recordings: from slowed down bat sounds to water and wind in caves to clicks, noises and slipping rocks.£6.00 -
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Davis / Merzbow – Atsusaku
Sale, VinylAtsusaku is the collaborative output of Gareth Davis (Oiseaux Tempete, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Machinefabriek etc) and Japanese noise mastermind Masami Akita aka Merzbow. A massive wall of sound over two tracks that moves from the shifting low-end structures and the ricochet of howling reeds to the blistering haze of dense white noise and rapid-fire electronic tones. The title Atsusaku, suggests pressure or mechanical compression and it was from this starting point, the idea of Davis’ reed sound being compressed and constrained by the saturation of Akita’s textures, that the album was born. The acoustic sound almost suffocated beneath the sweep of sonic overload, but through limitation and pushing the mechanics of the instrument itself, finding a space to cut through with layers of self-distorted screams. Haihan, a furiously abusive maelstrom of coloured-noise, digital cross-fire and distorted bass clarinet is unrelenting as it searches for moments of pulse within the haze only to move abruptly back into the mechanical barrage of looping textures. Kyouhan is is far more open in its texture, the low-end layers of reeds moving across the sound space as the squall of chirps and mechanical screeches build slowly into a dense mass of reverberated pointillist details.£10.00 -
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Orphax – Time Waves
CD, SaleOrphax is the Amsterdam based musician Sietse van who has been active with music since 1998. Time Waves is his second proper CD release after 34 CD-R, Tape, DVD-R and download releases and various compilation contributions and remixes.£7.00 -
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Modelbau – Four Squared Wheel
CD, SaleModelbau is one of the many names Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek, Goem, Wieman, Freiband, etc) uses for his music. Moving Furniture Records is proud to release the first proper CD by this project after many tape releases and a couple of CD-R’s.£7.00 -
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Daniel K. Böhm – Carrier
CD, SaleRecorded and mixed by Patrick Murphy. Mastered by Patrick Murphy and Dean Terry. Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in limited edition of 150.£9.00 -
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Phi Bui – Unnoticed Moments
CD, SaleOutside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr in limited edition of 150... Phi Bui is a composer, beatmaker and producer currently residing in San Francisco, CA. His influences stem from musique concrète, ambient, classical, hip-hop, and lo-fi idioms. Sonic pieces were formed using acoustic instruments, đàn bầu, a 4-track, and samples from records and field recordings. Eilean Rec. presents here, his first complete LP.£9.00 -
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Nguyen / Cinchel: Movement Of An Old Soul (Deluxe)
CD, Deluxe, SaleLimited edition version comes in an edition of just 65 copies…that’s all that we could scrape the absurdly hard to find materials together for! Each of these beauties comes in a sort of matchbook folded package. The outer antique, hand stamped stiff board folder material is collaged on both sides with beautiful vintage photos, appropriately paired old word cards, worded sections of 100 year old player piano roll paper, and a 3D winking eye! Sewn into each is a modified antique bank envelope, containing on one side a rare, 60’s metal Thorens music box disc with unique song on each (you’ll need a Thorens player!), and on the other, a hand printed and stamped insert on ancient ledger paper, and a factory pressed disc. Each of these oversized, 5” x 6” “matchbooks” comes sealed in a zip locked, smoked, anti-static envelope.£38.00 -
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Bruno Sanfilippo – The Poet
CD, SaleBruno Sanfilippo as “The Poet” paints 11 sonic canvas of exhaustively expressive modern classical minimalism at its most exceedingly exquisite and profoundly poignant. With luminary contributions of kindred souls, Julián Kancepolski (cello) and Pere Bardagí (violin), Bruno’s narrative piano wizardry significantly exhibits in awe-inspiring equilibrium with performing delicacies of his mates. The beauty of magnificently evocative quietudes is in full blossom, immerse yourself into the poet’s tremendously embracing palette of lyrical mastery and sensitive insignias as this might be his magnum opus.£8.00 -
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Maps and Diagrams – Delta
CD, SaleOnce again, Maps and Diagrams produces another harmonic long-player; “Delta” this time for VoxxoV Records, with 12 tracks of hazy-flavoured electronics and defined acoustic distinctions. Conjuring-up found sound and aquatic, multi-coloured melodies, Maps and Diagrams takes us on a journey combining darkness and discordance with illumination and tonality.£8.00 -
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Gavin Prior – All Who Wander
CD, SaleGavin Prior: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Electronics, Field Recordings, Mandocello, Mandolin, MC303. Scott McLaughlin: Cello on Between Breaths. Tuula Voutilainen: Vocals on Schoolhouse Coda. Recorded and mixed by Gavin Prior except cello on Between Breaths recorded by Scott Mc Laughlin and Pangolin Blues which was recorded by Liam Mulvaney in Asylum Studios, Bow Lane Dublin. Mastered by Chris Leary at Melograf Mastering. CD in card case with photography and liner notes by Gavin Prior.£7.00 -
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Jim Ghedi – Home Is Where I Exist…
CD, SaleGlass mastered CD in a high quality 4 panel digifile... All music by Jim Ghedi Produced by Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay Engineered and mixed by Tim Hay and Jim Ghedi Mastered by Christopher Leary at Melograf Mastering Artwork by Liz von Graevenitz Layout and Photography by James Beattie£7.00 -
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Toby Hay – Rhayader
CD, SaleGlass mastered CD in a high quality 4 panel digifile... Toby Hay – 6 and 12 String Guitar, Piano, Banjo, Electric Bass, Field Recordings Rhydian Lewis – Drums Peter Scott – Double Bass£4.00 -
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Ales Tsurko – Transliaciya
CD, SaleInfluenced by such composers as Sergei Rachmaninov, Valentin Silvestrov, Morton Subotnick, François Bayle and Iannis Xenakis, Ales Tsurko uses composition techniques from contemporary classical music and mixes them with elements from the non-academic and electronic fields of music, as well as post rock and shoegaze music. Ales Tsurko is a self-taught composer from Minsk, Belarus. He is also the founder of the Society for the Development of New Music, the purpose of which is to develop and promote contemporary classical music. This is his first album on Preserved Sound£7.00 -
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Antonymes – (For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly
CD, Sale10 track CD comes in a six panel card sleeve and 8 page insert... Antonymes music emerges from the adjustments and erasures where music expresses nothing but itself, from the relationship between continuity and repetition rather than of contract and interplay, from secrecy, from quietness, from pause, from thought, from emptiness, from time, from far off, from itself, from where it is set and where it is setting off to.£8.00 -
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Chris Dooks – Accretion Disc
CD, SaleOutside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered / CDr limited edition of 120 / Download code. Dr Chris Dooks [b.1971] is a prolific multimedia artist based in both Edinburgh and Ayr in Scotland. Known equally for his lens-based work, music projects and conceptual art, he can be described as an interdisciplinary artist and post-doctoral researcher specialising in practical medical humanities work and philosophical art processes.£9.00 -
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Himukalt – Conditions Of Acrimony
Sale, TapeSomewhere in the American Southwest may lie a pile of fetid cassettes, the scope and breadth of which might very well match that of the experiments with tape and electronics from Rozz Williams and Chuck Collison. In her terse exchanges with us, she once alluded to a past set of recordings without divulging them; and so for now we have this prolonged electrical cramp that marks the first published recording of Himukalt. The given name we know is Ester Kärkkäinen, and that’s pretty much about her beyond the Nevada return address. This enigma is fitting for her work. exhaustive, claustrophobic, and cryptic, these lacerated (de)compositions address collapsed psychological states that dislocate the body, the self, and the spirit into horror, fear, doubt, hostility. Such have marked the acme for the most virulent strains of power electronics and industrial decay (e.g. Puce Mary, Anenzephalia, Maurizio Bianchi, Maria Zerfall, etc.), and this — hopefully the first of many transmissions from Himukalt — stands shoulder to shoulder next to those giants.£5.00 -
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Seabuckthorn – They Haunted Most Thickly
Sale, VinylThey haunted most thickly. A collection of songs played mainly on an open C tuned resonator guitar & an open A tuned 12-string acoustic guitar. Melodies coming from guitar improvisations, heard in dreams, misheard in reality, all of which continued to invade my thoughts, a driving force for inspiration to record during my time living in Paris. These songs did indeed haunt me most thickly. - Andy Cartwright Seabuckthorn is the solo project of UK acoustic guitarist Andy Cartwright. Releasing 6 albums since 2008 he explores alternative terrains on six to twelve strings, often with minimal layered accompaniments to produce a musical landscape. Cartwright uses the techniques of finger picking & bowing combined with various open tunings to form a well curated mixture of approaches. Falling into the cinematic and soundtrack genres, it’s evident of influences ranging from the traditional styles of Robbie Basho and Jack Rose, to more modern players like Ben Chasny, Zak Riles, and Gustavo Santaolalla with whom Cartwright shares an emphasis on atmospheric and multi-instrumental compositions. Sometimes quietly ambient, often powerfully expressive.£10.00 -
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Twinkle / Endresen – Debris In Lower Earth Orbit (CD)
CD, SaleTwinkle3 have teamed up with Sidsel Endresen, Norwegian singer, avant garde pioneer and ECM recording artist. The result is Debris In Lower Earth Orbit, a graceful, yet precarious dance through the weightless slipstream of orbital flotsam and jetsam. The core trio of Richard Scott (analogue synthesizer and electronics), David Ross (Drosscillator, kantele, mbira) and Clive Bell (shakuhachi and other woodwind) conjured 7 distinct sonic landscapes through an intuitive and delicate interplay first honed on their debut for ini.itu ‘Let’s Make A Solar System’. Sidsel’s singular interpretation of this material narrates a melancholy, stream of consciousness style wordplay. It was David Sylvian who brought the trio into contact with Sidsel and driving alone across the lonesome northwest recalls the first instance the album poured into his ears from the car.£7.00 -
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Twinkle / Endresen – Debris In Lower Earth Orbit
Sale, Vinyl140g Vinyl edition includes 11 x 11″ art insert and print... Twinkle3 have teamed up with Sidsel Endresen, Norwegian singer, avant garde pioneer and ECM recording artist. The result is Debris In Lower Earth Orbit, a graceful, yet precarious dance through the weightless slipstream of orbital flotsam and jetsam. The core trio of Richard Scott (analogue synthesizer and electronics), David Ross (Drosscillator, kantele, mbira) and Clive Bell (shakuhachi and other woodwind) conjured 7 distinct sonic landscapes through an intuitive and delicate interplay first honed on their debut for ini.itu ‘Let’s Make A Solar System’. Sidsel’s singular interpretation of this material narrates a melancholy, stream of consciousness style wordplay. It was David Sylvian who brought the trio into contact with Sidsel and driving alone across the lonesome northwest recalls the first instance the album poured into his ears from the car.£10.00 -
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Lu Katavist – Inburst
Sale, VinylStandard 140g Vinyl edition of 70 and includes 11 x 11″ art insert and obi-strip.... The striking first entry into the CUSP label’s discography comes from Cologne-based sound artist Lu Katavist, employing a variety of synthesizer modules controlled with the Haken Continuum Fingerboard to create a cavernous tapestry of deeply spatial and spectral soundscapes. Katavist’s (real name Luka Höfler) approach to the material derived on ‘Inburst’ has been wholly improvisational, but not in any sense traditional. Rather than acquiring any sort of mastery of the equipment chosen to build the sounds heard, Höfler has opted to adopt an almost automatic writing approach to sculpting the material, which he describes as ‘blurring the lines between creating and listening’. The aesthetic goals behind ‘Inburst’ are two fold; to introduce the Western ear to timbres and melodies more associated with lesser heard xenharmonic scales and to inspire a minds eye landscape for the listener to populate with their own experiences, focusing on scattered and layered frequency bands and melody to create a vibrant and evolving mise-en-scene to paint with.£10.00 -
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Eumig – S/T
CD, SaleCourier Sound is proud to present the Eumig EP, which is a collection of 7 tracks inspired by the chance finding of a 1965 Eumig ‘Electric R’ camera back in 2014. Mechanical and somewhat utilitarian in nature, this object led artist and musician Nick Dawson to record a series of intense ambient drones, like concentrating on the mechanisms within the camera or staring into the sun though one of its rotating lenses. Each track is a unique improvisation, recorded in a single take, using an Arturia MiniBrute routed through a Boss ME70 effects unit and a Strymon Big Sky reverb unit. The track titles make reference to different parts of the camera. Eumig was mastered by the exceptionally talented Ed Rome at www.slamdoorstudios.co.uk and the image accompanying the release is a rubber stamp of the Eumig camera itself, cut by Martin Salway. The recycled sleeve was then hand printed by Nick.£5.00 -
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Lorenzo Masotto – Rule and Case
CD, SaleSearching for equilibrium between classical harmony and the sound of modern music, Rule and Case is a sequence of chords and effects that arrives at the counterpoint between tonal precision and “atonal” freedom – between acoustic instruments and electronics, between the past and present. “Every piece I write comes from a particular moment of my life, an emotion, a meeting, a walk, a picture or a photo that I’ve seen,” says Lorenzo. Lorenzo Masotto’s journey with music began at the age of nine when he started playing piano. Graduating from Conservatorio di Verona, he consequently started studying composition and jazz. Lorenzo also plays in a prog/post rock band called Le Maschere di Clara, directs a male voice choir, writes music for film and theatre, and teaches piano and composition. “I’ve never only thought about writing in just one music style,” he says, “I love all music, and everything I write increases my confidence and ability to write from a wider perspective.”£7.00 -
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Parallelism – Angular Geometry
CD, SaleA soft whisper beckons you to the horizon. Dusk or dawn, a faint rhythm gently takes your hand and guides you into a fluid realm of pulsating sonic drifts. “Angular Geometry” digs deep to soothe and invigorate the listener with engaging waves and invigorating microbeats into a lush natural soundscape.£10.00 -
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Valanx – The Towering Pillars
CD, SaleVeteran Glasgow based producer Arne Weinberg’s latest Valanx album contains a creeping melancholia that seeps through its every pore. Claustrophobic rhythms of uncertain time signatures intertwine with dark drones as bio-mechanical heaves and strains echo throughout.£10.00 -
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Submersion – Abrade
CD, SaleAbrade is the re-issue of a very limited tape/cassette release of the same name; self released by Submersion in 2012. Now made available again on high quality glass mastered CD with additional remixes by Mon0, Optical Frameworks and Valanx. Various layers of field recordings are at the core of Submersion’s work and are complimented by chords and sounds drenched in delays and reverbs. His approach on dub and dubtechno is unique and matched by the care and effort he puts into his sound design and recording process. The additional remixes feature a wide variety of styles and broaden the musical spectrum immensely, but retain the natural characteristics and sounds of the original source material and make this album a beautiful selection of music for dub techno and ambient aficionados.£8.00 -
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Vitaly Beskrovny – Imperfect
CD, SaleSeeking perfection in minimalism, Vitaly describes his sound on Imperfect as – piano, mood, simplicity. “The world is imperfect, and people are imperfect – their ideas and actions. Music can also be ‘imperfect’ – but that does not make it unambiguously good or bad. The relative simplicity of melodies, unusual piano sound, piano playing and emotional states – all this can be called imperfection.” Attaching strips of fabric to the piano strings of an upright piano at the Dnepropetrovsk Conservatory, Vitaly asked the sound engineer to be left alone and recorded the pieces in one sitting. Only after recording the piano did Vitaly understand that the album would be called Imperfect. “To some extent, I always try to reach a certain perfection – at work, at home, or within my daily routine. But when I sit down at the piano – everything is different. I rely on feelings, emotions, and give freedom to the fingers. More than anything, with these nine pieces, I’ve tried to achieve a level of honesty with the listener.”£7.00 -
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Drombeg – Earthworks
CD, Sale‘Earthworks’ is Thom Brookes’ debut album as Drombeg, following his acclaimed EP ‘Notes From The Ocean Floor’ in 2015. A soundtrack for the middle-of-nowhere, the wild landscapes of Brookes’ native Southern Ireland are littered with historic (Tumulus), and geological (Béarra) structures hardened under the relentless elements. Sinuous string melodies, and tender piano phrases reach like sunlight breaking through heavy clouds, blended with electronics and field recordings in careful balance to produce a rich cinematic sound.£8.00 -
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Madeleine Cocolas – Cascadia
Sale, VinylPressed on clear vinyl and in 5mm spined sleeves... Classically trained artist Madeleine Cocolas, originally from Australia, is currently based in Seattle. Her debut album ‘Cascadia’ is a refinement of material produced for her ‘Fifty Two Weeks’ project which saw her create a track-a-week for a year. The intricate arrangements reach the sublime through delicate piano melodies, pulsing synth patterns and backdrops with ambient layers of her own voice and field recordings.£10.00 -
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Siavash Amini – Subsiding
CD, SaleComplete with striking cover photography by Alex Kozobolis, “Subsiding” will be available on glass-mastered CD in digipack sleeves (run of 200)... Prominent Iranian artist Siavash Amini continues a triptych of works with ‘Subsiding’, an album of instrumental ambient drone. His most full and detailed sound to date illustrates Amini’s ability to bring together modern classical composition with that of controlled noise, granular synthesis, and atmospheric soundscape. Both monolithic and micro sound sculptures coexist within a perfect balance, a mix which makes for an all encompassing listen across the audio spectrum, funereal yet uplifting.£8.00 -
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Wolf Maps – Purity
Sale, TapeLimited hand-numbered edition of 100... Following his EP ’Sun Ghosts’ from a few months ago and debut album ‘Landforms’ (2011) is Wolf Maps’ second album ‘Purity’. His most personal work to date crafts layers of guitar tape loops into eight tracks of ambient drones, which with an apparent emotional fragility, envelopes the listener in washes of translucent memory and life-weary noise. As an experienced drone-creator with a large following in the experimental music community, Wolf Maps has reached a new plateau in his work, placing him along side his established peers.£6.00 -
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Modo Koagon – Ebb
Sale, VinylRecord comes with 8-page booklet. All jackets and inserts assembled by hand and numbered, limited edition of 100, includes download code... “An eclectic trove of trinket-collage, field recordings, cling-clang, jazzy sax, synthery and percussive blips and rips; MK’s third release is his first as a solo artist and truly showcases his prowess, bringing sensitively crafted intricacies to the forefront. If peace is what you’re after then sprawl out and jam this ditty biddies!” - Buffalotones Music and Artwork by Modo Koagon. Instruments and Sounds: Field recordings, prepared guitar, contact mics, voice, music box, home videos, kazoo, found objects, portable radio, Yamaha PSR E313, found sounds, theremin, harmonica, effects pedals, Monotron Delay, trumpet mouthpiece.£8.00 -
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Fontaine – Diamond Lake
CD, SaleDiamond Lake was inspired by industrial parks, forest floors, insomnia and the landscape paintings of Ronnie Landfield. Limited edition CDr’s, 50 copies worldwide, hand-made covers with photos and hand numbered.£8.00 -
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Arkadelphia – Islands of Mind
Deluxe, SaleUSB release contains high quality audio files (FLAC); four hours of ambient bliss, outsider techno & electronic sketches all written & produced by Arkadelphia. Highly Limited, 50 copies worldwide, walnut USB, comes with a special brown paper bag with photos and an extra download code for MP3, WAV or FLAC files.£20.00 -
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Limited Liability Sounds – Surrounding Countryside
CD, SaleIt was our reading of an American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, or Life in the Woods that inspired and encouraged us to create Surrounding Countryside. In the narrative the author himself reduces his interest in material economy for the sake of spiritual wealth and by his complete immersion in the world of nature he is able to free himself for study and thought. When not busy with his domestic chores, Thoreau committed himself passionately to observing and recording of the flora and fauna near Concord. He seemed to perceive nature as a fruitful source of excitement. I read Walden when I make my first professional field recordings and sound effects. Surrounding Countryside is an emotional experience I passed through on the outskirts of a big city where I spent a couple of hot summer days recording the world around me as it really is like. Limited Liability Sounds latest enthusiastic response to a fast-changing world of music is a cautious attempt to produce ambient music which is more of a reflection than interpretation of the natural world. I hope this latest record of LLS will be a real treat for all sojourners in civilized life.£8.00 -
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Black Eagle Child – Playing
Sale, TapeBlack Eagle Child is the project of Michael Jantz from Milwaukee Wisconsin. Jantz and Black Eagle Child are in no way unfamiliar names if you’ve been following experimental music over the last 5 years. He has released a number of albums on a slew of great labels over the years (Stunned, Digitalis, Under The Spire, Blackest Rainbow, Space Slave… to name a few). Black Eagle Child’s album titled “Lobelia” and came out on Preservation in 2011 and was met with critical acclaim from Pitchfork among other press outlets. The aptly named ‘Playing’ by Black Eagle Child takes a more playful approach to composition with less focus on the melancholy, while still maintaining some of the nostalgia that comes very naturally and sincerely from Jantz. ‘Playing’ is the perfect soundtrack for spring and summer with it’s circling guitar lines interplaying perfectly over various serene field recordings. A most blissful listening experience.£7.00 -
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Scott Tuma – Hard Again / The River (2 x Vinyl)
Sale, VinylSouled American got the proverbial shaft. It’s a well-known story, but one that bears repeating. Forming in Chicago in the late 80s, the band released four remarkable albums of howling roots-rock deconstruction before losing their stateside distribution when Rough Trade’s American division went belly up. Anachronistic and difficult to classify, these four albums– Fe, Flubber, Around the Horn, and Sonny (now back in print on tUMULt Records)– were largely ignored at the time of their release, and the situation was not helped by infrequent touring and a lack of press savvy. More recently, the band has toiled in near obscurity, releasing two albums on German labels since the mid-90s. In the end, though, Souled American was probably just too arty for a genre that puts such a high value on “authenticity.” Fortunately, the band seems to prefer its cult status. Of course, it’s hard not thinking about what might have been. The more or less contemporaneous Uncle Tupelo (which eventually split into Wilco and Son Volt) was handed the alt-country banner and basked in the spotlight while Souled American quietly pursued their craft in the darkness. “No Depression”– the movement and the accompanying magazine– could have just as easily been called “Feel Better” (the final track on Fe), if given a slightly different set of circumstances.£20.00 -
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Bruce Langhorne – The Hired Hand
Sale, VinylIn 1969 Langhorne was asked by Peter Fonda to score his directorial debut. He decided to opt out of scoring the film in a projection room, instead chose to shoot the film onto a small black and white camera to take back to his home in Laurel Canyon. He would watch the film and play along to it as his girlfriend at the time would record him and play it back, allowing him to overdub Farfisa Organ, piano, banjo, fiddle, harmonica, recorder, and Appalachian dulcimer onto his Revox reel to reel. Bruce's 1920 Martin guitar is most prominent throughout the record. The Results were a uniquely wide and lonesome soundscape. The closest comparison might be Sandy Bull or possibly John Fahey, but nothing of its kind or even of it's time poses a resemblance to Langhorne's minimal masterpiece.£15.00 -
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Michel Banabila: Tapu sampler 2016 (2xCD)
CD, SaleLimited edition 2CD album in a full colour matte finish 3 panel digipak. Compilation of tracks from independent releases on Tapu since 2005.£7.00 -
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Asphodel – Aokigahara…
Sale, VinylLP with tipped-in cover photo, printed at Stoughton Printing Co., red/black vinyl manufactured at RTI. Includes download code... Aokigahara, The Black Sea of Trees is an abstract visual and sonic story-telling which takes place in a forest located in Mount Fuji, Japan. The forest of Aokigahara, has a world-wide fame for the thousands of suicides which took place there and now has an almost mythological statue. The forest is spread all through with ephemera and items such as photographs, letters and instruments left behind by the leavers, all untouched due to respect. almost entire forest is covered with long ribbons people used to be able to return if they changed their mind. therefore, the entire land is embodied with the vicarious objects that depict the sense of memory, loss and hope.£15.00 -
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Ingenting Kollektiva – An Anatomy of Melancholy
Sale, VinylLP with tipped-in cover photo, printed at Stoughton Printing Co., red/black vinyl manufactured at RTI. Includes download code... Recordings revolving around the atmosphere of George Büchner’s Lenz and various melancholies provoked by Robert Burton, the recordings of Krzysztof Penderecki and the idea of Lontano (as from a distance / distant), the textures of Jordi Savall (La Guirnalda de Rosas inspired by a fragment from Saval’s Mare Nostrum) and Ingmar Bergman. Recorded 2010-2015. May pain be my reward.£15.00 -
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Olga Wojciechowska – Maps & Mazes
CD, SaleTRS057 is a stunning collection of electronically treated modern-classical beauties…somewhat dark and moody at times with it’s elegiac violin and haunting horns…yet always elegant and absorbing… Well…it’s the holiday season again, and the little elves at Time Released Sound have come up with something extra special for our year end release. TRS057 is a stunning collection of tracks from Polish composer/violinist Olga Wojciechowska entitled “Maps And Mazes”. These 11 pieces were originally written for various international theater/dance and film productions, and their overall feel reflects this performative nature. Electronically treated modern-classical beauties…somewhat dark and moody at times, with it’s elegiac violin and haunting horns…yet always elegant and absorbing…it’s an absolute honor to be releasing an album of music of this high caliber! This music will take you on a wondrous journey, and will serve as your map through the mazes of your emotions…£9.00 -
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Joe Evans – Elemental States
CD, SaleAs with his previous release on Spectropol (“Septimal” – 2014), with “Elemental States” Evans merges poetic and scientific ideas into compelling music that transcends its extramusical guides. In this case the classical elements are paired with the states of matter and prime numbers, realized with mellow metallic pitch sources and juxtaposed field recordings for the first four tracks, and with synthesis in the fifth. Elemental States is a mostly meditative experience, sonically rich and gently paced, yet full of surprises to the attentive listener.£6.00 -
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Darren McClure – Apperception
CD, SaleDarren McClure is an Irish sound artist living in Matsumoto, Japan. His work focuses on texture, space and atmosphere. Sound sources are both analogue and digital, hardware and software, incorporating found sounds and field recordings to lend an organic, tactile quality to the pieces. His main intent is to create sound to both zone out to and zone into, a balance of widescreen drones and more minimal, abstract ambience. His material has appeared on imprints such as The Land Of, Unknown Tone, Flaming Pines, Symbolic Interaction to name a few. He has also become an in demand collaborator working with artists like Jose Soberanes, Miguel Isaza and Offthesky. He has released solo and collaborative work on a number of labels, across various formats. His music has also been used in conjunction with video work and documentary shorts.£5.00 -
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Post Global Trio – Clouds
CD, SalePost Global Trio is a project between Toni Dimitrov – electronics, field recordings, contact mic, acoustics, Dimitar Dodovski – electronics, synths and Martin Georgievski – guitar, synths, electronics, piano. Post Global Trio is an experience. An experience that you can feel on the journey through distant lands. Inside or outside thyself. Image of clear and subtle soundscapes and landscapes. Enter into the woods. Leave the city behind the horizon. Forget about it… Now enter more deeply. In thyself. And find yourself. The way you were before you have long forgotten. The project is created as a continuity of communication, collaboration, necessity of developing a certain scene. Sound picture of long-term mutual philosophical meditations.£5.00 -
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Xu – Panpsychism
CD, Sale“Panpsychism” is a collection of slightly edited improvisations recorded using guitars, sine wave generator, fx and looper pedals. It is an exploration of the timbrical possibilities of acoustic or electric guitars, in almost no case played in an orthodox way (bowed, prepared, hammered, etc). Reminiscient of Talvihorros this is a 6 track release which varies from the almost noise – then-classic drone of “Blood-streams of existence” to the sinister sounds of “Rise” which wouldn’t be out of place in a horror film, through to the dual centre pieces of “Hive Mind” and “Hive Mind (Reprise), “Panpsychism” is for the lovers of more darker experimental material.£5.00 -
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Ten – Hitherto
Sale, VinylThis release comes in a strictly limited edition of 40 black square 5” lathes, cut by Lathe Cuts and comes in a folded sleeve. Twice Removed is proud to announce the release of Ten’s Hitherto” 5” lathe EP. Ten (Dominic Deane) is a musician and artist who resides in the north of England in Leeds, UK and has making experiment/ambient music since 2009. Ten’s sound combines electronic keys, shoegaze noise and percussion with the acoustic sounds of glockenspiel and strings to create a beautiful cinematic sound-scape that moves from slow, eerie and melancholic to pulsating and optimistic. Ten have kindly supported, Tim Hecker, Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, Esmerine and Lucky Dragons. He has also toured around the UK, European and America. Previous releases have come out on labels such as Murmur, Cathedral Transmissions and Heat Death to name a few. He also appears in groups such as November Fires and Trouble the Dark. The tracks on the lathe contain 2 different slices of Ten’s musical style with the track “Now” exposing the Glockenspiel bright ambient, while “Time” ventures more into guitar based almost country-esque drone.£10.00 -
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Yamaoka – Silent Film
CD, SaleYamaoka is the solo project of Kenichi Oka and was formerly a duo with Yoshinori Yamazaki (the name being a fusion of their surnames). They have been releasing music since 1996 but since 2007 it has been Kenichi’s project. Originally a techno outfit these days Yamaoka are pursuing electronic music with a strong synth, loop based sounds with grounding in Ambient and an almost beat-less stripped down version of Techno. Kenichi creates unique loop based tracks made in real time, without use of computers. Controlled by the Roland MC50 sequencer, Kenichi adds a human touch and “life” feel to his tracks. Following on from recent releases such as “Time to Time” on Databloem, “A Baoa Q” on Disq An, Kenichi Oka aka Yamaoka continues to further his pursuit of Electronic Synth based ambient and beat less almost Techno over 9 tracks on “Silent Film”. Subtleties and variance appear on this album from the loop based “Room Number” to the more techno based tracks like “David” and “Nakagawa” to the Aphex Twin like “Tartarus”. Something for those with varied electronic tastes.£5.00 -
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Odawas – Black Harmony
Sale, Tape'Coming from a period in both our lives where failed marriages, affairs, drug and alcohol abuse and a fatalistic dose of existential dread were leading us into something of a madman’s revelry. The lyrics weave these personal moments in through various fantastic narratives about star-crossed soldiers finding perfection in the desert, Prohibition-era murder and espionage, crime scene investigations in pastoral meadows, and finding soft comfort in the hallucinatory madness of Nebraska. Themes of being lost, betrayal, murder and madness are given candy-coated arrangements of Americana and atmospheric electronics. A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down, as they say.' - Isaac Edwards (Odawas)£4.00 -
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Grant Evans – Brittle
Sale, TapeWith a detached curiosity, Grant Evans drops us into his petri dish of mud, bacteria, and fetid slop. At first, we have no roadmap to the drowning noise that slowly trickles down the throat and presses against the ear drums; but Evans is no sadist. Yes, volatile coagulations and conflagrations abound with malaise at the beginning to each of the side-long works to Brittle — itself a vibrant landmark in the Evans’ rhizomatic back catalogue that slips through harsh wall noise, kosmische explorations, dronologist collage, and the like. But upon the discharge of that initial shard of tooth and blood, Evans tempers the atmospheric pressures and illumines a path by which to proceed. Beacons of monochord guitar. Radiant dispersions of glare and trill. Compacted bowed metal resonance. Interstitial ecological sounds from water, bird, and tree. Exhumed cassette minimalism. And a gasping, pulsing, morphing drone that bends around each of these sound objects. Such is the vivid unfurling of Brittle — a meticulous and wondrous bricolage of the exploded organic. Parallels to be found in Chalk, Organum,Toniutti, and Grzinich.£5.00 -
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Grace Beneath The Pines – ST
CD, SaleThe debut eponymous album by Grace Beneath the Pines takes influences from the raw, methodical emotion of such bands as Codeine, The For Carnation and Slint, fused with the lyrical lightness of Low and Piano Magic. Written with three different formations using three different bass players, each adding their own personality, skill, love and passion to the writing process, Grace Beneath the Pines is a musical journey that takes the listener to different places (musically speaking) through an amalgamation of musical styles and rhythms.£7.00 -
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J Butler – Memory
CD, SaleMemory is that most elusive thing, so certain at a distance, but once examined up close full of holes and doubt. Memories fade, change, are re-written, morph and elide. At once ungraspable, unknowable and always out of reach they are also an essential part of each of us, and the basis of life as we know it. In Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks writes: “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” This album with its delicate twists and turns, its unexpected returns and re-workings is J Butler’s meditation on the ways we remember. From the slow unfolding of Float, to the hazy repetitions of the title track and the insistent tug of Ephemera this is an album which you won’t forget.£7.00 -
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Chandeliers – Artifacts
CD, SaleImaginative music from Chandeliers (19 years old, living in Detroit/USA) trying to capture the deep sadness and nostalgic feeling of abandonment…£10.00 -
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Light Sleeper – The Goodbye…
CD, SaleThe Goodbye That Keeps On Giving is about memories, the past and goodbyes. The kind of memories that just don’t seem to fade and learning the importance of saying goodbye, in an attempt to find balance between holding onto memories, living in the present and looking forward to the future.£10.00 -
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Silk Saw – Imaginary Landscapes
CD, SaleComes in a lovely sleeve with gorgeous illustrations by Grisha and vinyl-like inner sleeve. Limited to 500 copies.... After 9 years of silence, here’s the 11th album from the unclassifiable Brussels-based duo. With their usual tamping drums (just mention the two parts of “The Decision to Exist” or “Same Area”, led by a ferocious 808), a regular bass guitar hammering, some bare minimum poor voices, threatened violins, skinbound flute and oboe here and there, a distorted furious piano everywhere and finally some tiny cautious optimism (the extra-human guitar in “Enough Slaps”). The whole is carefully assembled in order to obtain an accurate picture of life on Earth. “Pain” and “Pleasure” are different aspects of the same mental construction.£8.00 -
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Lyken / Dove – Mirror Lands
CD, SaleAs usual TRS055 will come in two distinct versions. This is the lovely digipak version in an edition of just 100 copies. Both versions come with a factory pressed picture disc... For our 55th release we at TRS are very pleased to be bringing you this soundtrack to the film, “Mirror Lands”, by Mark Lyken and Emma Dove. Working in sound, music and film, these two regular collaborators are Scotland-based artists with a mutual interest in relationships to place and the complex interactions between humans, nature and industry. In their work they are drawn to revealing beauty within the ordinary and the musicality of the environment. This soundtrack is a lovely combination of minimal pastoral piano infused arrangements, industrial and natural field recordings, voice overs, and evocative electronics.£9.00 -
The Doubling Riders – Garama
CD, SaleThis is the beautiful digipak version in an edition of just 150 copies. It comes with an inside pocket and a 4 panel booklet... For TRS054 we are extremely excited to bring you what is our first re-release. This is an absolutely lovely, and criminally under heard beauty from Italian group, The Doubling Riders, entitled “Garama”. Originally released in 1991 on the fantastic, Italian Il Museo Immaginario label, this is a wonderfully evocative album of old school, synth infused ethno-ambiance of the highest caliber. A concept album of sorts, it references the ancient Saharan kingdom of the Garamantes, who lived in what is now central Libya. Eerie, melodic, mysterious…please discover the wonder of Garama for yourself after all these years…£11.00 -
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Zander One – Emerald Awaking
CD, Sale“Inspired by the thick haze of the Ohio summer, Emerald Awakening explores the sonic realms embodied in the incandescent vapor hanging over the Cuyahoga Valley. As the awakening of spring permeates into every corner of the atmosphere, warm pads begin to take shape and form, backed by the gentle rhythm of the valley coming alive once more. Organic melodies layer the cloudy sky, through sun and storm, with a culmination of the gentle transition to autumn.” This album includes two remixes from Coppice Halifax and Shea McGilvray.£10.00 -
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Artificial Memory Trace – Amfibion
CD, SaleAmfibion takes the listener into a rich, bizarre and disorienting world, a biological melting pot of the uncanny, the bewildering and the awe inspiring. Comprised of treated field recordings of frogs taken during excursions in the Brazilian Amazon from 2007 to 2011, Amfibion is largely based on mating songs, and Artificial Memory Trace treats them in a manner which underlines the humid fecundity of this ecological wonderland. These pieces froth and foam, drip and slide from crashing crescendo to an eerie throb in the blink of an eye. There are croaks, shimmers, pulses and drones, sounds come together suddenly, and end just as abruptly. The sound world of Amfibion is a complex one, a place where life, death and reproduction intermingle like frog calls in the night, without beginning, or end. An unforgettable journey.£7.00 -
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Arash Akbari – Vanishing Point
CD, SaleIran’s Arash Akbari’s Vanishing Point nestles into inbetween places, revelling in the indistinct, the delicate and the mysterious. Bringing together field recordings taken from northern Iran, guitar and electronics, this is a late night album, an album which soothes, a set of sounds to think to. This is an album which lingers in the margins of consciousness, it conjures images gently, caresses them and ever so slowly lets them fade from view. With last year’s heralded Cracked Echoes on the excellent French label Soft Akbari established himself as an emerging talent within the ambient scene. With Vanishing Points he cements his reputation as one of the genre’s most exciting new talents.£7.00 -
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Corder Ritger Yantis – Possession
CD, SaleThree sonic heavyweights have come together to compose the dark drone beauty Possession. Released in time for Valentine’s Day, this EP has no easy endings, only endless destructive cycles played out in a ruined universe. Inspired from the minds of US-based musicians Jason Corder (offthesky), Cody Yantis and Carl Ritger (Radere), they have birthed a doom drone space centric scape of obsession, madness and despair. From the gripping unfolding of the opening track Ascension, to the mind travel of A Viscous Tear and the majestic denouement of the 20 minute closing piece Wrath to Wraith, Possession will hold you in its chilly grip to the very end.£7.00 -
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Valiska / Zenjungle – A Changing Light
CD, SaleBorn out of a collaboration stretching from Vancouver to Athens, A Changing Light centres on change, dislocation and uncertainty. From different time zones, and very different cities Valiska (Krzysztof Sujata) and Zenjungle (Phil Gardelis) have carved out an album which celebrates change, nuance and noise. ”We hope that the listener will be as uncertain about where they will find themselves from track to track as the image that we had in our minds,” the pair explain. From the gorgeously gritty Derive to Gardelis’ blissful sax work on Nightwinds this is a special collaboration.£7.00 -
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Specta Ciera – Overwintering
CD, SaleOverwintering was inspired by watching animals leave Boston. As the weather turned cold it also became a lot quieter. As Devin Underwood, who releases as Specta Ciera explains: “Birds leaving the area for warmer climates created a sense of abandonment and isolation, the lack of song birds, buzzing and chirping of insects changed the atmosphere of my surroundings entirely. With “Overwintering” I wanted to try and harness those feelings of the deepest, coldest moments of winter as the first snows settle in and slowly with it, the deep freeze develops.”£7.00 -
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Ross Baker – Two Suns Were Visible…
CD, SaleInspired by vast empty spaces from military training sites to churches, Two Suns Were Visible in the Sky presents a vast panorama filled with joyous signs of life. From the opening sweep of ‘International Debris’ to the melancholic tones of the all too brief ‘Some Early Hour’ and the wistful ‘Farewell, Swifts’ this is album full of emotion. Baker said he was inspired by the emptiness of abandoned spaces because he felt they were so desolate you could almost see the sun rise again before it had set. With ‘Two Suns’ Baker might just have succeeded in bringing some extra light into all our skies.£7.00 -
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Sara Forslund – Water Became Wild (Deluxe)
CD, Deluxe, SaleThe limited edition version of “Water Became Wild” comes in an edition of only 63 copies. They are a beautiful hinged and lidded box with a magnetic clasp decorated in a white rose pattern rubber stamp that wrap all the way around. Each box is covered with beautiful photos of Sara taken by Lisa Ljunggren. Inside each box is a 3D diorama of Sara, contained under glass, and made up of actual leaves, moss and branches from the forest in which Sara is portrayed in the photos. Also included in each box is an accordion style hand worked 8 panel fold out insert with all the lyrics of the album, actual pages from Sara’s journals, Sara’s hand typed and signed Swedish poems, bits of her pipe tobacco and actual lipstick smudges… all in all a bit over the top and quite special and personalized!!£45.00 -
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Tiny Leaves – A Certain Tide
CD, SaleOver a misty weekend in winter, composer Joel Pike aka Tiny Leaves, gathered a few of his favourite musicians deep in the Shropshire countryside. Together they laid down A Certain Tide, the anticipated second full length album from Tiny Leaves. The album captures a special moment in time, recorded over a few hidden days. It was here that the tracks were played live for the first time and the resulting recording carries a hopeful, fresh and intimate sound. The album became a whole, threaded through piece by piece, making it play almost as one long song. Pike says “A Certain Tide explores the meeting of the sacred and the ordinary, it speaks of hope in the turbulence, tells of the dance of the beautiful within the simple.” Building on the success of his debut album, he has created a work which feels much bigger in scope, size and feeling. From Pike’s minimal duets to fuller ensembles, A Certain Tide promises to engulf the listener in a deluge of heavenly song.£7.50 -
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Anne Garner – Be Life
CD, Deluxe, SaleThe limited edition (of 200) CD comes in a custom handmade heavy card sleeve individually rubber-stamped with Anne’s original artwork and containing a hand-stitched 12-page photographic lyric booklet and glass-mastered full-colour disc. Anne Garner’s fourth album is a beguiling blend of alternative pop, spectral lullabies and tender neo-classical arrangements. This dreamy, eerie and unashamedly beautiful collection of vocal-electronic crossover works represents the patient distillation of raw life experience into something subtle, ethereal and sublime. The album follows Remaking the Pearl, Magic & Madness and the acclaimed Trusting a Twirled World.£10.00 -
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Hakobune – Vitex Negundo…
CD, Sale1. Daisuke Matsusaka – Cease To Effect 08:08 2. DJ Nobu – Saying This Once 07:31 3. Katsunori Sawa – Brief Respite Desertificate rmx 05:05 4. Dalhas Umai – Cease To Effect 07:23 5. Constellation Botsu – Brief Respite 02:09 6. Miclodiet – Cease To Effect 08:31 7. Guilty C. – Brief Respite 04:50 8. Taishin – Saying This Once 07:16 9. Foodman – Cease To Effect 03:48 10. Koba – Brief Respite 08:55£5.00 -
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The Laborer – The Changing Tide
3", Deluxe, SaleLimited to 90 copies. Hand lino stamped. “The Changing Tide” is a two disc set, housed in a matchbox style kraft box and containing unique flood overlays of ariel photographs from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Measuring hints of the sea change, both physically and though metaphor, via pastoral piano, rumbling field recordings and clipped electronics with The Laborer. Additional musical contributions by Elsa Hasselgarde (violin & vocal).£7.00 -
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thisquietarmy – Anthems for Catharsis (CD)
CD, SaleAnthems for Catharsis marks the follow up to thisquietarmy’s last full length studio works “Rebirths”, a representative collection of reworked tracks that have defined his purgative live performances. Between back-to-back tours in Europe & Asia and the release of live drone documents as well as collaborative works with Noveller, Aidan Baker/Hypnodrone Ensemble, André Foisy/Locrian, Syndrome/Amenra, thisquietarmy’s Eric Quach went back to the drawing board in his Montreal studio, at the end of 2014. Within the repetitive genre of ambient and drone, thisquietarmy constantly evolves and tries to incorporate new additional textures and structures into the music – for instance, think of the kraut rock shoegaze of “Resurgence”, or the post rock doom of “Hex Mountains”. However, in other to start fresh and shed skin from exhaustive influences, Quach strips his music down to the black bones. Anthems for Catharsis sounds very focused but also very very dark, not unlike a ritual cleansing or a detoxification. In dismantling his sound, thisquietarmy almost struck a black metal vein, resulting in a dark and brooding ice cold oozing of his signature drones.£9.00 -
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thisquietarmy – Anthems for Catharsis
Sale, VinylAnthems for Catharsis marks the follow up to thisquietarmy’s last full length studio works “Rebirths”, a representative collection of reworked tracks that have defined his purgative live performances. Between back-to-back tours in Europe & Asia and the release of live drone documents as well as collaborative works with Noveller, Aidan Baker/Hypnodrone Ensemble, André Foisy/Locrian, Syndrome/Amenra, thisquietarmy’s Eric Quach went back to the drawing board in his Montreal studio, at the end of 2014. Within the repetitive genre of ambient and drone, thisquietarmy constantly evolves and tries to incorporate new additional textures and structures into the music – for instance, think of the kraut rock shoegaze of “Resurgence”, or the post rock doom of “Hex Mountains”. However, in other to start fresh and shed skin from exhaustive influences, Quach strips his music down to the black bones. Anthems for Catharsis sounds very focused but also very very dark, not unlike a ritual cleansing or a detoxification. In dismantling his sound, thisquietarmy almost struck a black metal vein, resulting in a dark and brooding ice cold oozing of his signature drones.£12.00 -
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Jim Haynes – Scarlet
Sale, TapeJagged bursts of strobe lights. Cackling radio signals bristling with interference. Sawtooth patterns of tactile noise. Torn flesh. Scabbed wounds. These are some of the building blocks to Jim Haynes’ Scarlet. This crucible of unkempt rhythm and noise-pulse turbulence was decomposed and sutured together from the various sources of electromagnetic and psychic detritus into an unstable mutation of sequential error. The eight tracks of Scarlet stand as vastly radical and obsessive variations on the theme of repetition through trauma. Each of the tracks may have begun with the same system of building blocks, but quickly spiral into disparate orbits, time-lag accumulation, tunnel-vision mania, schizoid detours, amplified seances, and teleological endgames. This strategy of rupture and release was first noted on Haynes’ 2012 album The Wires Cracked, but has become all the more unhinged here on Scarlet. The analog tone generation and shambolic futurism harken to an earlier era of industrial immolation, with Haynes’ echolalia of Le Syndicat, Mika Vainio, and Martin Rev stridently tracing and electrically bleaching the forms of those antecedents without the benefit of drum machine, sequencer, and whatnot. Bruitisme, indeed.£5.00 -
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Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson – So Long
CD, SaleA journey through time, perhaps, for a daydreamer floating in a small boat amidst the radiant hues of a midnight sun. That daydreamer in this instance is the Icelandic artist Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, best known for his electro-surrealism in Stilluppsteypa. He has long been an artist of extremes and absurdities — mania fueled performances, wildly scribbled drawings, and Haflerian audio shock-therapy, on one side; and on the other, a profound meditation on austere shape, form, and mood cast through similar media. Sigmarsson will intermingle these sentiments in slippery juxtaposition and assemblage, with beguiling, haunting, and / or charming results. So Long aligns itself firmly within that latter aesthetic of crypto-minimalism which began to germinate some 20 years ago. At that time, Stilluppsteypa was a trio who had recently eschewed their art-punk trappings, drunkenly scheming to corner the market at Documenta with deconstructivist drone and 21th century circuitry. Sigmarsson would find himself in his own studio, crafting sympathetic works to Stilluppsteypa; but these were directed inward as wounded, naked, and vulnerable concoctions reflective of Sigmarsson getting lost in his own little world. So Long quietly simmered in his head over the years; and with the completion of this album, we now have a sublime gesture of polar impressionism flecked with hallucinatory ambience, Vaseline-smeared crackle, and hauntological displacement. This album had originally been planned for release through the impeccably curated Intransitive Recordings, but that publishing house shuddered its doors before this could see the light of day. Sigmarsson self-released a condensed version of the album on the artbook / cassette If You Have Any Questions, Let Me Ask. The Helen Scarsdale Agency is delighted, honored, and humbled to publish this dronescaping threnody in its full radiance and blur.£7.00 -
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Adrian Lane – Branches Never Remember
CD, SaleEvolving as a reaction to the initially recorded melody of each piece, Branches Never Remember adopts the same symbiotic process Lane uses when painting – layering parts up, cutting them up and moving them around, until the finished result is achieved. Indeed, a painter by profession, Lane often works on music and paintings simultaneously. Employing a combination of age-old instruments (alto and baritone bowed psalteries, acoustic guitar, violin, banjo, zither, glockenspiel, piano) but constructing the pieces in a way that could only be achieved with modern technology, Branches Never Remember takes influences from Early music, folk, world and contemporary classical, ambient and electronica. Lane thinks of the pieces as a kind of ‘contented melancholy’, although admits that the addition of frame drum, played by Wil Proctor, changes the mood with an almost heroic feel at times. Branches Never£7.00 -
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Adverb – JADI
CD, SaleJADI by Adverb – a musical story inspired by numerous events and moments that we’ve experienced, and people that have affected us throughout our life time. Every track has an individual character and mood, illustrating a variety of feelings. JADI is an autobiography told with sounds, its a memoir to be continued…£7.00 -
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Bengalfuel – Rapalyea
CD, SaleBengalfuel have crafted another glorious collection of ambient synthesizer mysteria, ranging from celestial awe to their signature haunted solace. Lush pads avalanche to form a sonic terrain like cinematic future landscapes, embracing calm desolation over busy layering; the tracks are direct yet majestic in stature. Only in the final piece does this quiet world begin to teem with life and does so as if riots have broken out, seemingly everything that was held back is unleashed in a massive fury of factory-powered beats and melodic firestorms: an immense atmosphere capping off a most splendid musical journey, in many respects among Bengalfuel’s very best.£9.00 -
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Benjamin Finger – Motion Reverse
CD, Saleith the dust only just settling from the release of the delicate ambient textures of “Pleasurably Lost” on Eilean Rec. in april, Benjamin Finger returns with “Motion Reverse” on Shimmering Moods Records. Coming from someone in an apparent state of creative overdrive “Motion Reverse” is a surprisingly singular and coherent body of work that comes off as a bit of a side mission for an artist that has made “Onward!” his very own artistic slogan. “Motion Reverse” escapes the possible limitations implied by such a guiding imperative and sees an artist that, in accordance with the title, perhaps steps back a bit and completes a puzzle envisioned from pieces and patterns scattered around in his previous work. The result is a refreshing and nicely scheduled departure from Finger’s overall artistic journey, I soon and very readily referred to it as “the dirty dub album” and that is indeed how I like to quickly sum it up in my mind tenfolds of listens later. There is a playful hands-on approach at work here, immediately evident on the opening track “Vocal Limited”, where Finger creates melodic and rhythmic patterns by performing a vocal sample through time variations on what appears to be a tape delay. The following two tracks – “Frontal Waves” and “Dubstore Light” – mirrors each other and form a hypnotic, shimmering and pulsating dub-suite on their own that sounds like the classic dub of Basic Channel psychedelically reimagined, with the ghost of early Seefeel chanting in the background. “Childish Tape” is a playful interim with a sample of a child in joyous self discovery before the first half of the album is summed up and dissolved in “Black Hat”. The second half of the album is more neatly organized in melodic pieces, still with a strong foundation in dub. “Sunny Echoes” and “Spacecore Dust” have – titles aside – a nice nocturnal feel to them, both with a lovely reminiscence of stuff we used to find on releases from labels like Skam and Source back in the nineties and the latter admittedly being an Autechre tribute. The album then closes with two tracks – “Bright Exit”, that sounds like a subtly sung phonetic blues about the massive and grand finale of the drone-like massive synth washes of “Dream Logic”. The artwork is done by Benjamin himself and the Super 8 mm stills are from his visual work: «Loops The Loop», which was screened at Smith ́s Row Gallery in the UK and at Cinema Neuf in Norway 2013.£9.00 -
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The Classical – Diptych (Deluxe)
CD, Deluxe, SaleLimited deluxe version, in an edition of just 65 copies comes in the form of a “Time Sensitive” hardcover book… embellished with clock parts/faces/hands on the outside, and collaged inside with antique, blue tinted engravings of Greek and Roman statuary that have been modified with gears, springs and other horological workings, in a pseudo steampunk fashion. Each of the initial 50 copies has wooden edging, vintage wooden instructional musical note blocks corners, and comes with factory pressed disc and hand printed insert in a mounted, midnight black envelope.£35.00 -
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The Classical – Diptych
CD, SaleAs the first release on our “sub label”, Time Sensitive Materials, we are very excited to be bringing you this full length album from soon to be notorious San Francisco potents The Classical, entitled “Diptych”. The Classical is vocalist/songwriter Juliet Gordon, and insanely talented, and at times avant jazz drummer Britt Ciampa. Let’s see, hmmmmmmm…the wayward daughter of Nico, having an early Birthday Party hosted in the modern haunted house of Scott Walker? Opaqued window shades by John Barry? With it’s absolutely original sounding jazz tinged swampy post punk martial vibe, and it’s heavy drum sound and beautiful noirish vocals, it may be at times not for the easily challenged, yet is completely accessible to those like us with discriminating tastes! As with TRS projects, the Time Sensitive Material releases will also be coming in two versions. This is the digipak available in a a first pressing of 150 copies.£8.00 -
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Upon Contact Reworked
CD, SaleUpon Contact Reworked is a collaborative work from Bruno Sanfilippo that features some of the most highly acclaimed artists from the electronic music scene including Francesco Giannico, Olan Mill, Leonardo Rosado, Jorge Haro, Quivion and Hior Chronik in which an original piece written for piano is re-envisioned by each artist.£7.00 -
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Celer – Jima
Sale, VinylStashed Goods stock is on sea blue vinyl... 100 units on sea blue vinyl and 200 on milky clear vinyl. Limited edition of 300 copies worldwide. Launched in 2005, Celer is the work of Will Long, an American musician, educator, writer and photographer living in Japan, who also curates the Two Acorns label. Initially a duo based in California with Danielle Baquet, Celer has continued as a solo project since 2009, releasing music on numerous esteemed labels, such as Home Normal, Infraction, Spekk, and/OAR and many more. In addition, Will has collaborated on projects with notable artists such as Machinefabriek and Hakobune. A decade into his recording career, Celer arrives at the shores of the Los Angeles based label I, Absentee for the remarkable new full-length, “Jima.” The album contains two pieces, each occupying an entire LP side; one side plunging into the depths of melancholy, while the flip side contrasts with a blissful crescendo. It stands as a crown jewel in the prolific career of Celer, showcasing an artist at the height of his craft. A meditation on existence and conscience, the LP is meticulously assembled and packaged at the highest quality possible by both artist and label.£14.00 -
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Ieva – Lueurs
CD, SaleHandmade Copies – – Outside : Glossy Paper / Inside : Thick Paper Card & Glossy Paper / Digisleeve : White Paperboard / Sealed (like old book) & Hand Numbered. Limited edition of 120... Ieva is the solo project by Samuel André (born in 1978), a self-taught French sound & video artist living in Kyoto, Japan. He founded and curated Pollen Rec. Since his last solo release in 2012 and his last collaboration with Hakobune, he presents on Eilean Rec. his new release : ” Lueurs “.£9.00 -
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Srapa / Vtol – Joyful Breeze / Ramzan (2 x Vinyl)
Sale, VinylThere is a hidden track inside this release. To reveal it you need two turntables (or ability to play two digital files in one go) and synchronization skills. Double 180g LP, packed in two disco-sleeves with transparent plastic slipcase with ziplock. Limited to 300 copies. Vtol is the project of Dmitry Morozov, Moscow media artist, musician and engineer of strange sounding mechanisms. In the mid 00s Dmitry started to use actively his DIY and Circuit Bent instruments for his own music projects, as well as making instruments for other musicians and media artists. He is the first batch producer of music and video synthesizers at the post-Soviet area. Besides making music and instruments, Dmitry creates audiovisual art installations and promotes Circuit Bending and DIY Electronics in Russia by means of lectures and workshops. Papa Srapa is a contemporary visionary, analog synths shaman and sound artist. His name is Eduard Srapionov. His DIY music instruments have no analogues in this world and are constantly changing for better. He calls himself no composer, neither musician nor inventor. He doesn’t use many words, calls himself Papa Srapa and his music — “Experimental electronic”. He lives and works in Rostov-on-Don.£15.00 -
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Brinstaar – Testarossa
Sale, Vinyl320 numbered copies on black 12′ vinyl packed into gorgeous holographic jacket... Testarossa is third studio album by Brinstaar. He says that this album is dedicated to redheaded blue-skinned Goddess. This work is reflecting Brinstaar’s deep and emotional chase for the elusive moment of infinite bliss that keeps him alive and conscious. While using mainly processed guitars for Infotswetock and synths for Mielisss, Brinstaar uses a lot of acoustic instruments and field recorded sounds in Testarossa now, thus creates much more intimate compositions. Of course, his specialty mesmerizing synth parts and precisely constructed guitar timbres are still here too.£14.00 -
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Brinstaar – Infotswetock
CD, Sale'I was creating Infotswetock using my guitar and some pedals, you can hear a synth I used in some tracks, it seems to be Polivoks as far as I remember. I had nowhere to play at that time, so I grabbed up my stuff and get it to the work office, and play the music when I had a break (and by the way, I want to say thanks to all colleagues and owners for the great patience they paid to me). I made a creation process in the way of playing with hardware for a while to the moment I got sound I liked, then I get myself deep into sonar meditation. I improvised until I had my mind completely off, then I push the record button and get a condensed and intensive version in a right state of mind. Every track holds a several lines recorded in this way. For 2 years, while I was working on the album, I made hundreds of tracks, then I started to collect the coolest ones of them… then I dreamed a name Infotswetock, and that is how it was born.' - Brinstaar£4.00 -
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My Home, Sinking – Sleet
Sale, TapeLovingly reel-to-reel mastered by Ian Hawgood, the album unspools its vintage heart from an audiocassette presented in craft paper and letter-pressed cover designed by Giacomo Vianello and realized by Marco Brunello at Cartiera Clandestina. Coming with dried brambles in a small pergamino paper bag. Hand numbered envelopes. “Sleet” is a pastoral fable with a resolutely vulnerable core – a ’60s folk narrative echoing through modern classical and ambient music. Enrico Coniglio evokes the cadenced ghosts of My Home, Sinking with the aid of Natalia Drepina, Katie English, Peter Gallo, Piero Bittolo Bon and Giovanni Natoli. The fading Morriconian memories of “Sleet” evolve through a languid structured homage to Italian songwriters, embellished by weaving flute, cello, vibraphone, duduk and drums, like a prayer for human tragedy to a deaf and distant cosmos. The story of a young virgin woman and a miraculous gift is reinterpreted amongst the cobwebs of fragmentary mellotron, orchestral samples, pads of noises and manipulated field recordings.£5.00 -
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[Bolt ] – 03 (CD)
CD, SaleThe follow-up to their meanwhile sold out record ( 0 2 ) and a stream of collaborations presents the drone-duo in a grown-up, elaborated heavy darkness soundwise. Where once the distorted-to-the-max walls of sound were all over the place, a more ambient-esk eagerness to experiment comes into play. This progress suits the diversity of the record pretty well. But it’s still highly recommended to play this one at health-risky volume.£8.00 -
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[Bolt ] – 03
Sale, VinylThe follow-up to their meanwhile sold out record ( 0 2 ) and a stream of collaborations presents the drone-duo in a grown-up, elaborated heavy darkness soundwise. Where once the distorted-to-the-max walls of sound were all over the place, a more ambient-esk eagerness to experiment comes into play. This progress suits the diversity of the record pretty well. But it’s still highly recommended to play this one at health-risky volume.£13.00 -
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Biblo – Moved
Sale, VinylMinimalistic segments culminating in a rich and deep sometimes even dark, melancholic and very gritty composition. A hauntingly beautiful voice that seems to be coming from the beyond, guiding you through a soundscape that easily could have been a collaboration between Andy Stott and Julee Cruise mixed with a spark of experimental dub and ambient music. The album comes on transparent vinyl in a fullcolored sleeve & includes a download code.£12.00 -
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[ Bolt ] / Petrels – Split
Sale, VinylComes in a full-coloured 10″ sleeve including a download code.... Bolt & Petrels share wax on the first 10″ in Aentitainment history. Who would have imagined that their meeting on the Halfplugged Festival may lead to this? [Bolt], our very own rising stars on the international drone-firmament and Denovalis’ Petrels come together on shiny, black vinyl with one exclusive track each. Wrapped in a fullcolored sleeve this Split has a duration of more than 20 minutes what should have been expected as you are familiar with the tunes by these artists. [Bolt] sneak in gently, swaying in expansive, melancholic ambiences before the distortion rolls in… Petrels on the other hand take all the aural space needed by assault delivering one of the densiest compositions you may have heard in a long time.£8.00 -
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Fossil Aerosol Mining Project
CD, SaleIt is “like stowing away on an ageing freight train as it winds its way from the balmy American South to an unnamed permafrost north.” That’s the premise of this album, which recalls everything from William Basinski (in its use of slightly decayed analogue tapes) to Chris Watson’s field recordings, to the KLF’s 1990 ambient trans-American odyssey Chill Out. Fossil Aerosol Mining Project are a shadowy collective who have been around since the early 1980s, long time associates of :zoviet*france, but for all the reminders it invokes and the ostensibly familiar topography it covers, this is an album, an experience like no other, 51 minutes of remote beauty and disquieting bliss. As with their previous work, and hinted at in the cover photography of grassed-over, long demolished industrial complexes, Fossil Aerosol Mining Project are preoccupied with cultural debris, the ghostly outlines and traces of abandonment and obsolesence that abide on the landscape. This is evident on ‘Transparency Of Limestone’, over which the voice of some former human presence – a guide, or instructor to a mining facility reverberate and drift. ‘Systems Clock’, with its ticking motif, like a ghost train clacking along the railroad divides, is similarly unnerving. The centrepiece of the album, however, is the 21 minute ‘Ice Falls/Taking On Water’. It contains the full gamut of 17 Years In Ektachrome motifs – smudgy, near-abstract intimations of small towns submerged to make way for giant dams, endless, barren, scorched plains, the clank of old pulleys and the creak of lovely weather vanes, the desultory trickle of rusty brown water, sepia tints and sonic mirages of an America that once was. It refuses to decay into absolute extinction, lingering in faded photo archives and distant memories, still able to yield the occasional, silver glimmer. Archeological ambient, you might say. All the listener need do is bed down like a hobo in a slow-moving carriage across the thousands of miles of terrain covered here, enjoy the slowly shifting view in all its deceptive permanence and awesome emptiness, as the mercury level drops on the thermometer.£8.00 -
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Cristal – Homegoing
CD, SaleJ. Anthony, G. Darden and R. Donne (Labradford, Spokane, ex-Aix Em Klemm) journey through simmering electronic, wide-screen vistas to seismic, swelling and undulating soundscapes. From the shifting-sand textures of “Yoke” (replete with deeply moving, melancholic cello sifting through the ether) and “Streaming Wisdom,” to the ever-so-slightly somber tones of “Dead Bird,” Homegoing is a wondrously thought-provoking, uplifting aural adventure—a technicolor travelogue of things possibly lost, possibly not. File alongside latter-day Biosphere, Deathprod (especially both Helge Sten and Cristal’s attention to the minutest sonic detail), and the later, electronically based Zoviet France releases. Pour a glass of your finest tipple, sit back and be transported to a very special dimension. Cristal’s Homegoing has it all, and more.£7.00 -
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TimeDog – The Fragile Present
CD, SaleTimeDog is a moniker of multi-instrumentalist and experimental composer Pete Burton. His music is an organic and personal journey. Improvisation and long live takes are critical for his sound as a means to translate aspects of the human condition as directly as possible. The variation and diversity in themes and styles found throughout this album is a direct result of this compositional process. His music is largely made in his Glasgow based studio on a variety of hardware analogue and digital synthesizers, guitars, piano and a multitude of percussion instruments with field recordings also woven into some of his pieces. The opener takes the listener into a digital dreamscape, improvised in one take, leading us into the epic ambient excursion of “The Pilgrimage”. The music then darkens in mood with the bowed guitar-driven “Ancient Tales” brooding ominously before a shower of hailstorms marks the begining of “Fear of Change”, a Cage inspired avant-garde bed of chaotic percussion traversing through haunting piano structures (recorded in the piano carrells of a local library). “The Gateway” offers us exactly that, through its guitar-led, poignant melody we find ourselves bathed in the warmth of “Beyond Love”. From there the album leads us through multiple dimensions of sound including the wall of percussion in “Let Them In”, the melancholic looped field recordings of “Conversations”, the counterpoint guitars in “Counters” and the drones of “Soul Mother”. Finally we’re back in the piano room with a delicate and beautiful piece that reminds us that our presence in the present is always fragile.£8.00 -
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Macheteoxidado – Viento De Las Montañas
CD, SaleRain is pouring from dark clouds, and there is a harmonica which sounds trapped at the bottom of a well. The ground is waterlogged and can accept no more. Water floods down the slope, towards a valley. There is in fact a well at the bottom of this valley, and you are going in. The well leads to a tunnel. You’d light a match but you were drenched in the storm. The sound of something distant thrashing echoes toward you. You walk in a direction you hope is opposite to the source, and towards a sound you hear in the wind rushing through the tunnel. This place is unknown, but not hostile. Curiosity is the word. You come into a room that is lit not by fire, but fluorescent fixtures somewhere you cannot see. This is the lobby of a labyrinth. There is a hole in the stone ceiling, all the way up to the sky. Some rain falls through and cascades into a fountain in the center of the waiting room. You are called by a cloaked receptionist and led through a door. You enter a long passage way, a catwalk suspended over an abyss. There is a different kind of light in here. You are going to the other side. You have to crawl on your way across, grab the edges, because of the wind blowing across the path. A soft purple glow comes up from the endless altitude of this cavern. It doesn’t seem like the worst thing to let yourself go, but you keep crawling.£8.00 -
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Various – Dendrology
CD, SaleThe next Ology incarnation, this time as Dendrology, took place on 1st November 2014 in the Barn at The Railway, Winchester. We are pleased to announce that the following artists joined us: Robert Curgenven, known for his work with organ, feedback and resonance; Plurals, the Brighton-based drone improv group; the extremely talented improvisational violinist Jennifer Allum; and finally Stereocilia, with a mix of guitar and live looping techniques. All in all another fascinating night of experimental music!£4.00 -
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Various – Fluviology
CD, SaleRecorded at an Ologies gig upstairs at the Railway in Winchester on 23rd July 2014, featuring the ethereal majesty of Delphine Dora and Sophie Cooper plus field recording artist Sebastiane Hegarty and our very own Joe Evans.£4.00 -
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Aidan Baker – Half Lives (2 x CD)
CD, SaleHalf Lives is the Gizeh Records follow-up album to Baker’s acclaimed 2013 album Already Drowning. While that album was built around the guest vocals of female singers – including Carla Bozulich, Jessica Bailiff and Geneviéve Castrée (O Paon) – Half Lives comprises two separate but interconnected albums and Baker’s loose concept was that they would bridge the more abstract/experimental and song-oriented natures of his work. Both albums were recorded in August 2014 in Berlin and are the product of initial extended improvisations that were then arranged into coherent pieces – ‘constructed’ rather than ‘composed’. In these senses, parallels can be made with artists such as Bark Psychosis, Low and The For Carnation, for whom experimentation with texture and timbre has never been a reason to abandon the song form. Where these two albums differ is in their sonic pallettes. Mountains Sweat Clouds is based around the electric guitar whereas As I Walked On Dead Earth features primarily acoustic guitar. However, any sense that this might provide an easy separator is quickly erased by Baker’s supreme skills at arranging and layering his material, featuring extensive use of organ, synths, percussion, field recordings and vocals. His curiously dispassionate yet emotional vocal is actually one of the strongest elements to the albums – conceived once the music was complete, it provides the thread along which the pieces flow. Taken together, the two albums that comprise Half Lives are further evidence of Baker’s expressive, shapeshifting sound.£8.00 -
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Western Skies Motel – Prism
CD, SaleWestern Skies Motel is the solo project of Danish guitarist René Gonzàlez Schelbeck. Exploring the intimate nature of the classical guitar, the thirteen pieces on Prism unfold around a theme of balancing light and darkness, uncovering an undercurrent of reflections on solitude in the creative process. Relying on a variety of open tunings, mantric repetitions and droning strings, Western Skies Motel seeks to create a timeless space where the guitar becomes the lens in which the nuances reveal themselves. The album also sees Western Skies Motel experimenting with the 3rd bridge technique, pioneered by such experimentalists as Fred Frith and Keith Rowe, to create porous harp like timbres that weave through the album, offering a lightness and transparency to the restricted sonic palette of the collection.£7.00 -
Drawing Virtual Gardens – Six Weeks Were… (Deluxe)
CD, Deluxe, SaleDeluxe limited version comes in an edition of just 70 copies. It comes in the form of a corner hinged booklet of industrial engravings, hole punched pages from vintage children connect-a -dot books, hand colored children’s books, and other antique paper ephemera…all meant to convey both the feeling of the hospital as a machine itself of sorts, and the childlike essence kept within. Each booklet comes in a hand stamped/worked envelope that is covered with a 120 year old machine shop engraving, under which lies the childlike doll herself! Pictured on the factory pressed disc is an image of the door behind which she was born.£35.00 -
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Whetham / Canned Fit – Elephant in the Salon
CD, SaleSimon is a well-known UK experimental sound artist with releases on labels such as Cronica Electronica, Flaming Pines, Line, Rural Colours, The Helen Scarsdale Agency to name a few, while Canned Fit aka Christine Schörkhuber, a Vienna based sound artist has appeared on digital various artists compilations. This is her first physical appearance. The sound artist Christine Schörkhuber works with a fragile yet powerful setup consisting of self-built electronic analogue interfaces, sonorous everyday commodities and her voice. The performance is trembling between subtle crunchy sounds, song fragments, noise-fields and penetrating drones. Christine Schörkhuber and Simon Whetham met in early 2013 through mutual friend Luis Toto Alvaro where the three of them performed collaboratively in a darkened room in Quillota, Chile. It was there they realised that through very different means, they were producing similar and complementary results. Following the concert they discussed the possibility of collaboration, face-to-face, rather than file sharing. The opportunity arose while Simon was in residence at Villa Waldberta, Feldafing, Germany through February and March 2014. Christine visited for two weeks for the duo to share time and exchange ideas, which led to a number of intensive and extensive recording sessions during which the artists pushed each other to create a work that is uncharacteristic of their solo activities.£4.00 -
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Soft Ensemble – A Day in the Park…
CD, SaleThe soft ensemble is a three piece musical project. It all started early 2014 when L.J.Wegrzyn and G. Bojanek made some music together for a release that never happened. The recordings were collecting dust for a couple of months when they joined up with F.Appel and decided to make some additional sessions. The final result is one long piece of music containing mainly tuning forks, field recordings, found sounds and some guitars. The soft ensemble is an open project which means the line-up could change, grow bigger or smaller or… it doesn’t have to change at all. The current line-up already started working on some new recordings.£4.00 -
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Colbets – and silence
CD, SaleColbets is a Japanese duo of Saitoh Tomohiro from Shreber Harber Mole Flying Wheel who teamed up with guitarist Kari Takemoto to form their ambient minded project Colbets, from Tokyo Japan. Silent music of resounds, time sleeps and warm air. “and silence” is their 5th album following releases from labels such as Twisted Tree Line, Vent and U-cover. Based around Kari Takemoto guitar and Saitoh Tomohiro synthesizer and trumpet, including collaboration with cello James Bryan Parks (aka Holy Kind Of) “and silence” contains five beautiful tracks become a very atmospheric experimental journey. Featuring stunning cover art from Phil Gardelis (aka Zenjungle) This release comes in a printed 2 panel card edition of 50 copies with factory replicated disc.£4.00 -
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Michiru Aoyama – In a Dream
CD, SaleMichiru Aoyama is a 29 year old ambient composer from Kyoto. He studied electronic music in Berlin and the result of that journey led him to ambient music. Fast forward a couple of years and the young producer has managed to showcase an understanding of experimental music that rivals that of already established artists in the genre. His most recent piece, which holds the title “In A Dream” will be a true soundtrack for the ambient aficionado worldwide. The album opener To You, Relax, gently leads the listener into a warm and calm world where the noise of everyday life seems too far to notice and too soft to interrupt. Relaxation seems to be the name of the game and Aoyama sounds like a capable game master. Sparse layers of synths are laid on top of gentle drones and waves of field recordings and the result is a wonderfully serene experience. The music is exactly what it should be and nowhere does it feel like it becomes overly ambitious or eclectic, which does wonders for the consistency of the overall sound. Pure, organic sounding ambient music by Michiru Aoyama for Shimmering Moods Records. Highly limited CD, 100 hand-numbered copies with beautiful artwork in a special package with numbered photos.£9.00 -
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Gallery Six – Gasansui
CD, SaleAmazing floating ambient music on Shimmering Moods Records. Highly limited CD, 100 copies worldwide, with beautiful artwork in a special package... Hidekazu Imashige aka Gallery Six is an artist and composer who lives in Hiroshima, Japan. For his new album “Gasansui” he has crafted a delicate collection of ambient moodscapes which are ideal for relaxation and introspection. Each track is a gorgeous picture come to life where the sound of birds chirping, water dripping or leaves rustling are underpinned by a bed of majestic keys and soothing pads. Green grass or blue water is often subdued or altogether washed out, allowing the music’s form to disappear in mist, as though it is being played from somewhere deep within a painting that threatens to swallow those who look upon it.£9.00 -
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Mytrip – Empty
Sale, VinylA dark ambient / drone project from Bulgaria scattering its music since 2005. Limited to 250 copies on a 7″ black vinyl, they sound warm as death.£3.00 -
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Elian – Cutting up the Sun
CD, SaleThe second release on The Long Story Recording Company comes from American experimental electronic musician Elian aka Michael Duane Ferrell who has been making music for over 8 years with the most recent, “Harrowgate” (Home Normal, 2015) getting glowing reviews from the likes of A Closer Listen and Textura – “Heavily synthetic and electronic in character, Harrowgate is many things: multi-dimensional, chilly, severe, mystical, and even, yes, harrowing. Waves of synthetic sounds ebb and flow whilst percussive noises of indeterminate origin punctuate the streaming flow with their alien presence.” “Cutting up the Sun” is his new album. Elian describes his process of constructing tracks as “I try to create music that’s coloured by beauty, but also by abstract, angular and at times noisy elements. That midway position between what could be called ambient music and noise is where I hope to land. I also try to convey the tension that’s involved with creating art – the sense that total failure is a possibility. In other words, that duality between failure and actually pulling something off. Without that particular difficulty as an artist, I don’t know why I’d even bother to create.”£7.00 -
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M. Ostermeier – Still
CD, SaleStill is M. Ostermeier’s first album in four years. The album features his poignant and at times avant-garde piano style mixed with the spare use of electronics and processed acoustic recordings. Empty space and minimalism figure heavily in Still’s compositions, making for a stark and reflective album.£7.00 -
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Ballerini – Beautiful Ground
CD, SaleThe creation of musical compositions starting from the recorded sounds is an imaginative transformation of the landscape and sound elements that most strongly express the identity of the communities Ballerini came across. This change projects the listener into parallel worlds, transcending the reality we experience in everyday life. Ballerini gives his listeners a work of strong emotional impact and creates sounds a step by step experience alone could produce, showing us a new land emerging from the old land. He mixes the soundscape of Le Marche, synthetic parts of electronic music, Italian ancient keyboard instruments from different periods recorded in the temple of San Francesco in Camerino and at the church of Cossignano, including organs, harpsichords and pianos.£9.00 -
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Leonardo Rosado – Adrift
CD, SaleEvery once in a while real and imaginary stories are the stuff that occupy our thoughts. They populate our dreams at every stage of our biography, they evolve backwards to previous iterations or leap forward to uncharted territories. Adrift was composed trying to capture this set of emotions, images and barely coherent scripts to give a glimpse of my own journey through sensations. The use of sound to convey emotions is perhaps the common denominator in all my work and the search for a universal code language is what I mostly want to achieve. Whether I am successful or not depends entirely on you, the listener, so I leave the scripts open to your own interpretations and I hope I succeed in some way at exposing emotions throughout the 7 pieces that together form the album. - LR£7.00 -
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Richard J. Birkin – Songs For Spoken Words
Sale, VinylLimited to 250 copies. Single-sided cream coloured 12″ vinyl with printed inner sleeves. Comes with free download. .. In its sweet, low-key way, Songs for Spoken Words is magnificent. It’s as if you’re hosting a cutting edge artistic event in the comfort of your own office, living room or train seat. Within a few lines of “Being That Person” you’re hooked. Technically dazzling and emotionally involving.£10.00 -
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Grawl!x – Good Grief
Sale, VinylLimited Edition of 250 copies. Heavyweight black vinyl. Printed inner sleeves and free digital download. Grawl!x’ debut album is a misty dream of melancholic shoegazing and rich soundscapes of compelling tunes. A mixture that ends up as a mature and perfectly executed album which is rounded off with hazy, distant vocals that guide you from the fragile beginning of “Good Grief” to the trembling and moving climax towards the end. There’s a lot to discover in the rich and detailed arrangements of the songs, but even the sparse parts on the album are anxious to please – and they do succeed.£13.00 -
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Tegh / Kamyar Tavakoli – Through The Winter Woods
3", Sale‘Through the Winter Woods’ from Tegh and Kamyar Tavakoli. Both based in Tehran, this collaborative project sees the duo using processed guitars, synths and field recordings to create densely textured pieces inspired by their urban surroundings. Both solo artists in their own right, the duo also work together under the name Artirial but were looking to branch out and try something a bit different for this EP. Having gathered various field recordings they began experimenting with new approaches to shaping sounds and textures, resulting in a diverse collection of pieces. Mastered by Lawrence English, artwork by Katie English.£4.00 -
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The Thomas Family – Dub Variations
CD, SaleA combination of David’s solo sketches, made using a modular synthesiser, and Daniel’s field recordings, taken in Hong Kong, formed the basis for the sessions that became these Variations... What we have here is a foundation document, an ur text, for this year’s most talked about sub-genre ‘extraction music‘. The album was recorded way before the term became common parlance on every street corner and was released way after. Hearing it is as mysterious and exciting as finding a previously missing explanatory introduction to the Voynich Manuscript. A truly essential purchase.£8.00 -
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Heezen – Abandoned Memory
CD, SaleMastered Ian Hawgood, ‘Abandoned Memory’ is published on Feutlab, a label created by Raül Fuentes to release his own work. The artwork is a geometric collage made with found photos, printed digitally on bifold 300 gr/m2 ecological paper (size: 13.6cm x14.2 cm closed) obtained from algae. All copies are numbered... ‘Abandoned Memory’ (Feutlab, 2015) is the fourth album from Raul Fuentes/Heezen, after ‘Golden Flow’ (Inrecs, 2009) and ‘Omiyage’ (LEA, 2012), both recorded using only field recordings, and ‘Secret Speech’ (12rec, 2006). ‘Abandoned Memory’ was recorded and mixed by Raül between 2009 and 2013, using field recordings, guitar, synthesizers, found objects and sounds, as he did in his debut album, ‘Secret Speech’. Among these found objects there was an old and deteriorated Czech reeltoreel tape recorder. With it there was a tape reel in pretty bad condition, with home recordings made in the late 60’s. Memories of their former owners, of which it could be guess or imagine that were Spanish emigrants who in the late 60’s were living somewhere in Germany, thing that brings us to the present southern Europe. Some of these recordings and other sounds produced by this artifact: hiss, hum, distortion, etc, have been part of ‘Abandoned Memory’, where in addition, Raül mixes different analog and digital techniques to create impressionist collages about time and ephemeral memories.£6.00 -
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Fanfare – Primal Intuition
CD, SaleRecordings were taken during improvised session as well as during several meetings of Filip and Jarek. Handmade CDR in limited edition of 100... Fanfare is a kind of platform on which a group of artists, closely or loosely linked, publish their notes related to the exploration of the phenomenon of improvisation in sound and image. We deliberately use the word “note” for the things that we present do not purport to be finished works. Rather, they are moments which capture the excitement and often fleeting states of mind. We move in the dark, often grappling with the awareness of how much more work is ahead of us.£4.00 -
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Filip Zawada – Snow Is A Sun For The Eskimo
CD, SaleRecordings were taken during improvised session. Handmade CDR in limited edition of 50 An Eskimo gets up in the morning and never wipes his eyes off. His dog is blind and that’s why it always follows its own footsteps. In the arctic circle, albinos have black eyes and they never dance because they do not melt. We call those albinos – snowmen. Eskimo changes his pounds into pennies and adopts seven bees who turn out everything he has ever experienced.£4.00 -
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Fanfare – Four furry Animals…
CD, SaleHandmade CDR in limited edition of 50... Fanfare is a kind of platform on which a group of artists, closely or loosely linked, publish their notes related to the exploration of the phenomenon of improvisation in sound and image. We deliberately use the word “note” for the things that we present do not purport to be finished works. Rather, they are moments which capture the excitement and often fleeting states of mind. We move in the dark, often grappling with the awareness of how much more work is ahead of us.£4.00 -
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Danny Clay – Ganymede
CD, SaleMatte finished sleeve and glass mastered CD in limited edition 100... “Ganymede” is the latest full length album from Ohio based composer Danny Clay. Having seen past releases on labels such as Eilean Records, Rural Colours, Heat Death and Audio Gourmet, each release has been very different but with each there is a theme where his music takes ordinary objects, sounds and ideas and re-purposes them in new, weird and wonderful ways. With that in mind, “Ganymede” consists of almost exclusively sounds produced by turntables, utilizing found objects, friction sounds, and lathe-cut records of sine-waves, piano, and music box. Many of these sounds have been further amplified by turntable preparations such as plastic cups with needles, combs, etc. and baby monitors.£7.00 -
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Memory Drawings – There Is No Perfect Place (2 x CD)
CD, SaleComes with bonus remix disc. Packaged in a six-panel cardboard sleeve with insert... There is No Perfect Place is the second full length album from Anglo-American chamber-folk outfit Memory Drawings. Led by the beguiling hammered dulcimer of Morocco-based American Joel Hanson, There Is No Perfect Place features Richard Adams and Sarah Kemp on guitars and violin respectively. The album showcases a wide palette of sounds delving into Talk Talk atmospherics, uplifting ethnic tinged pop, kraut driven experiments alongside Basinski – style piano pieces and glistening examples of the kind of Badalamenti influenced instrumentals that littered their debut album Music For Another Loss (Second Language, 2012). The album was recorded with Leeds based engineer Ross Halden and in Richard Adams home studio in York with guest spots from Florence Fawcett, Gareth S Brown and Canadian multi-instrumentalist Chris Tenz. The first 200 copies of the album comes with a bonus CD containing remixes by Benoit Pioulard, William Ryan Fritch, Pausal, A New Line (Related), Talvihorros and The Sly and Unseen.£8.00 -
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Olan Mill / Keung Mandelbrot – Seismology
CD, SaleSeismology sees the soaring romanticism of Olan Mill combined with the mind-bending noise of Keung Mandelbrot. Between them they have graced labels such as Highpoint Lowlife, Preservation, Facture and Serein and shared a stage with the likes of Svarte Greiner, Kemper Norton, Simon Scott and Isan. In his solo work, Keung Mandelbrot focuses on experiments in guitar manipulation, using effects pedals and samplers to create intense soundscapes that take the listener from immersive drones to twitchy static. Olan Mill is well known for his expansive take on modern classical and incorporates strings, woodwind, piano and vocals alongside his processed guitar. Despite having been friends for years, the pair had never previously collaborated but one weekend they decided to plug in and play. The result is a visceral album that effortlessly combines the styles of these two disparate yet complimentary musicians, moving swiftly from enveloping textural drones to broken fragments of noise and intense rhythmic pulses. Recorded using guitars and numerous effects pedals, many of the tracks are left relatively untouched from the improvised sessions which lends the album a refreshing spontaneity.£7.00 -
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Ben Fleury-Steiner – While The Red Fish Sleeps
CD, SaleLimited edition of 100... This work picks up from where my last work Clearings (Rural Colours) left off but is a much more explicit embrace of the surreal. Rather than just sounds as abstract place constructions alone, I returned more consciously to oceanic sounds recalled from sense impressions and memory fragments. At some point I found myself very interested in something I did a lot in the past–namely allowing for a kind of soundtrack to emerge. I like that the listener is both passive and perhaps curious in a way that might evoke emotions and memories of their own. If I were to choose particular influences I would summarize in this way: What if Tarkovsky and Malick co-directed a remake of The Old Man and the Sea and Nurse with Wound an Alio Die were cast in sonic drag as Santiago. All kidding aside, I feel like this is the most realized of my works to date.£7.00 -
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Shield Patterns – Violet EP
CD, SaleViolet is a lovingly crafted progression from Contour Lines – the highly acclaimed debut album released in the Summer of 2014. The experimentation found there has been explored further to feature samples made from clicking bones, field recordings, heavy drones and a starker approach to production. On first listen the sound is more minimalistic than that debut album but multiple layers gradually reveal themselves over time. Brentnall’s vocals were singled out for particular praise in early reviews and she has refined her vision further here, with her lyrical concerns focussing on the intimacy of bodies (“drip-feeding” and “mouths”, for example) and her voice arranged into swirling loops like those which introduce and underpin final track ‘Monument’.£4.00 -
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Shield Patterns – Contour Lines
CD, SaleContour Lines is the debut album from Shield Patterns. Following on from critically lauded lead single Dust Hung Heavy, Contour Lines carries the listener deeper into their world. Each track is laden with the kind of dark atmospherics most groups take years to unearth. Here, the fragility of Claire Brentnall’s early demos remains, but finds itself imbued with a richness of sound that can only come from studious soul searching and a cathartic creative process. The vulnerability of her intensely personal lyrics is tempered with highly processed strings, subby bass-lines, and ambient passages that brood as much as they shimmer. Lines between aesthetic and content are blurred, so that singer and song are intertwined.£7.00 -
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Sonmi451 – The Limbic System (Deluxe)
CD, Deluxe, SaleDeluxe, limited version, in an edition of just 70 copies, comes as sort of “case file”…something that might be found hanging at the foot of a patient’s hospital bed. Each of these files is made from an antique, art deco photo folder, of varying shapes and sizes. Each file contains a photo of a particular patient, with a vintage glass, brain specimen slide hinged and overlaid on it. Each has stapled in it some papers of said patient…vintage medical forms,handwritten sheet music, original mimeographed poetry sheets, notes from books on the study of the brain, sagittal section diagrams of their brain as well, and other ephemera appropriate to the case. The outer files are hand stamped, labelled and notated. Each contains a factory pressed disc in an inner envelope, in a cotton sleeve.£30.00 -
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Sonmi451 – The Limbic System
CD, SaleThis release is the beautiful digipak edition of just 150 copies... For our 50th release, we are extremely pleased to bring you this latest beauty from returning artist, Sonmi451, aka Bernard Zwijzen. This melodic and crystalline set of electronically treated ambiance is entitled “The Limbic System”, and brings to mind, so to speak, that part of our brains that regulate the creative process, and that are involved in motivation, emotion, learning, and memory. These are perfectly inspirational sounds for those days spent in the studio creating music or art of one’s own…or in dreaming the day away instead! - TRS£8.00 -
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Last Harbour – Caul
CD, SaleCaul is the new album from Last Harbour. Based in the northern English city of Manchester, Last Harbour play music that has a dark, gothic heart yet a sound that is always beautiful and transcendent. After working with producer Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Spacemen 3, Ghostpoet) on two previous albums, the band took time out after touring to build their own studio in 2013. This new album was recorded in that self-created space over a year between 2013-4 and bears testament to a patient and detailed recording process that allowed time for experimentation and careful arrangement.£7.00 -
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Inside Life
CD, Sale“Inside Life” immerses the listener into magnificently expressive modern classical realms, tranquilly minimal, yet exquisitely nuanced, abundantly poignant and delicately filigree, where stirringly pensive sadness is masterfully counterpointed with hauntingly embracing stillness, while intensely evocative ambient subtleties are deliberately permeated by yearning haze. A truly fabulous bravura performance by Bruno Sanfilippo and his guests!£8.00 -
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Bruno Sanfilippo – ClarOscuro
CD, SaleBarcelona based piano player and electronic musician Bruno Sanfilippo is a classically trained musician and composer who has been exploring the borders of minimal piano concepts and electro-acoustic music for more then 20 years. His CD series “PianoTextures“ sets him in a direct tradition of artists as Harold Budd and Brian Eno, combining slow piano tunes with electronic soundscapes. With “ClarOscuro“ he now makes his step into the genre of modern classical music by presenting his first composition work for piano trio. Most of the nine tracks on the album feature Sanfilippo accompanied by spanish musicians Manuel del Fresno on violincello and Pere Bardagi on Violin, while some of the tracks still let the sensitive piano playing stand on its own. With the fragility and beauty of some Arvo Pärt compositions and a high cinematic touch, “ClarOscuro” brings the perfect soundtrack for an imaginary movie.£8.00 -
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Das Sombreros – The Lamp
Sale, VinylDas Sombreros – to rhyme with ‘hair loss’ rather than ‘pharaohs’ – is Pedro Wong and Klaus Patel. The pseudonymous duo develop ‘paranoiac collages’ that layer found and treated sounds with nonsensical, misheard phrases and fleeting moments of musicality. The results can be hallucinatory, sinister, erotic and hilarious – sometimes all at once. Despite the ambient washes that permeate the nine tracks that constitute The Lamp, the music of Das Sombreros could never be consigned to the background. It demands to be listened to, not just heard. However, as with all the best experimental music, the work the listener is required to put in is richly rewarded. In this case, with a series of documents that seem to have been plucked fully formed from the psychologically precarious mind of a sleeping recluse.£10.00 -
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Chihei Hatakeyama – Mist
CD, SaleMist” is inspired from such beauty of fog like phenomena which reflects the thin light to fine mist. Superimposed on the drone of layer, Hawaii Oahu bird cries, coast of sound waves of Bellingham and rain sound in Takao-san in Hachioji has been used in songs. “Nangoku”in the “Mist” has been published as installation work at Super Deluxe in December 2014 by 24chPA system. This album was produced at the request of the fashion brand “MIKU FUKAMITSU”. It is making accessories by the natural materials and colors in concept.£9.00 -
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Federico Durand – La estrella dormida
CD, SaleSometimes at dusk, from the train window, I can see the first star in the sky. Its light is a company that stays by my side during the travel until it gets dark. Then, like a magical presence, the stars, with its shining melody, invite me to dream. “La estrella dormida” (The Sleeping Star) is an album to listen to at sunset, during that moment when the sky changes its color and houses and gardens turn pink, silent and musical at the same time. “La estrella dormida” is an album to come back home.” - Federico Durand Federico is a sound artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since his highly acclaimed 1st album on SPEKK (2010), he has been constantly delivering new materials from Home Normal, Own Records and Desire Path label, most of them sold out quickly. He also released album as Melodia (collaboration with Tomoyoshi Date from Optiope) and Every Hidden Color (collaboration with Nicholas Szczepanik). He uses a lot of fieled recordings which he took in his daily life mixing with guitar, cassette, and the overall impression is always warm and organic just as his personality.£9.00 -
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Chihei Hatakeyama – Winter Storm
CD, SaleChihei Hatakeyama was inspired by his everyday life, world history and season in Japan on this album. Songs of four was recorded in the winter of 2014. Sound source of four songs were made upped from analog synthesizer ” α juno-2” and electric guitar “Fender Stratocaster”. Long time drone music was 71 minutes in total...£9.00 -
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Jeremy Young – Chants Beneath The Bed…
Sale, TapeInspired by the stream that flows through my parents’ town in upstate New York, this piece was written as a descriptive reflection of movement and stillness. I have walked along the banks of this frozen brook in Winter, witnessed its healthy rushing energy in Autumn and savored its pacifying calm in green Spring. Its name suggests imagery of both heat and coolness, and I wanted this to be represented in the mixing. The solemn stillness of the single icey tone and jagged high frequency shards of feedback balance out through Greg’s impressive mastering which seems to have run through the buzzing warmth of analog tubes. The genesis of sound is a square wave frequency, which is then bent and shaped by echoing delay and feedback rhythms and an octave shift, manipulated subtly and slowly to reflect the contours of its wired trajectory. Electronic current mimicks the flow of rushing water through a riverbasin while also conjuring the image of temporal stillness, timelessness.£4.00 -
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Zeitkratzer – Whitehouse
Sale, VinylLimited edition 180g LP, gatefold sleeve inc. download code... William Bennett, the musical mastermind behind WHITEHOUSE and CUT HANDS, has already worked with zeitkratzer at several occasions. 4 years after their first CD (Whitehouse, zeitkratzer records) the critically acclaimed ensemble and the highly influential noise pioneer release their second album. Recorded live at the festival Musique Action in Nancy / France, the new recording goes even further: while the deep bass frequencies – produced by the huge orchestra drum, at some points as well by the beaten bass strings of the piano or by subtones of the horns – made vibrate not only the floor of the venue while on the other hand high piping sounds, amplified violin harmonics, bitten clarinet tones attack the listener. A music with crystal clear or even neurosurgical precision. And one can hear voices all over – distorted from being spoken through a trombone, a French horn, phantom voices in the density of the sounds, etc. No electronic effects are used – it’s pure acoustic power!£10.00 -
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Zeitkratzer – Lou Reed (2 x Vinyl)
Sale, VinylLimited edition 2LP, 180g, gatefold sleeve inc. download code... About 10 years after their first, critically acclaimed performances of Lou Reed’s adventurous album, zeitkratzer presents an audacious new interpretation of this 20th century avant-garde classic. Here, for the first time ever, all four parts of Metal Machine Music played by zeitkratzer on one recording! Seriously “clangorous”! This new version of Metal Machine Music is even more transparent, instrumentally pure and radical than the shortened 2007 release; Live recordings from concerts in Rome and Reggio Emilia, Italy, mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker. A real sound experience!£13.00 -
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Tone / Talibam / Kulik – Double Automatism
Sale, VinylNew York City’s experimental duo TALIBAM! team up with fluxus artist / electronic avant-gardist YASUNAO TONE and trombonist SAM KULIK for a confrontational sonic attack, fired by an array of analog synths and other electronic devices. “Bringing together the most calamitous materials from their home planets of Noise, glitch, and free improvisation, TONE and TALIBAM! are at once the likeliest and unlikeliest of conspirators. Despite making his home in New York since 1971, TONE’s foundational electronic work harkens back to his early days in revolutionary Japanese avant-garde collectives Group ONGAKU and HI RED CENTER, and resonates with his groundbreaking deconstructions of digital CD sound in the 1980s. Meanwhile in the post-art worlds of millennial Brooklyn, TALIBAM! have cranked out their own absurd, profane and unclassifiable improvisational style, bringing their provocations around the world, and proficiently mediating jazz, rock, and hip-hop along the way; trombonist SAM KULIK brings an acoustic element to the mix that invokes the live sonic mixes of MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA. In their collaboration “Double Automatism”, they forge a confrontational new alliance in the transnational history of experimental sound, with the noisiest consequences imaginable.”£10.00 -
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Map 165 – The Fatigue Of Sunlight…
CD, SaleSun blind. A vast white arc of light that covers and exposes. Stone and skin are turned translucent. The soul of the place is exposed, burnt wide open by the screaming light, and we walk out into this. We step, with skin-burning steps, across crackling stone. In the roadside shrine, green water seethes with velvet stillness. Opposite the sun, the bell-clear blue rings out across the dome of the scalded sky. Midday and it can only get hotter; midday and all is stunned into stillness. And running over the white stone, a single line of blood, a droplet fallen and rolling from the wounded day. Its brilliance against the blank plane of limestone disturbs. All balance is gone and one staggering step is taken, an age between steps, an aching journey through the solid white day, under the clanging sky. Time stretches like a rusty coil, shedding iron dust onto the heat-swimming ground.£9.00 -
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K. Novotny – Gesture & Texture
CD, SaleGesture & Texture by K. Novotny is a meeting of natural field recorded sources, which form the basis of most of the album, with the reprocessing and twisting of those sounds into the whole composition. It’s a kind of a natural-world-meets-technology philosophy where neither one overtakes the other in terms of importance. As the artist says: “It’s a deeply personal record for several reasons, both in the sounds used and the locations that they’re from, and the compositional process itself, which aside from the nature/technology axis also took on a sort of painterly quality in terms of the slow way it was assembled or collaged.”£7.00 -
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William Ryan Fritch – Revisionist
CD, SaleRevisionist’, the latest record from composer William Ryan Fritch (Vieo Abiungo), brings an emphatic close to his incredibly prolific 2014. Just one month after the release of Death Blues ‘Ensemble’—his powerhouse collaboration with drummer and new music ringleader Jon Mueller—Fritch has produced his most focused and dynamic work yet. Energized by the collaboration with Mueller (Volcano Choir), the otherwise self-sufficient multi-instrumentalist surrendered his auterist sensibilities, seeking creative alliances with Benoit Pioulard, D.M. Stith, Origamibiro and Esme Patterson. The results are scintillating. From the elegant minimalism of “Winds” (produced by Pioulard) or the exultant vocals of “Gloaming Light” (performed by D.M. Stith), these inspired partnerships take Fritch’s instrumentation and craft to new destinations, employ new techniques, and further it’s immediacy and appeal.£7.00 -
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Graveyard Tapes – White Rooms
CD, SaleGraveyard Tapes announce ‘White Rooms’, the follow-up to their acclaimed debut. Edinburgh based duo Euan McMeeken (glacis, The Kays Lavelle) and Matthew Collings (Splintered Instruments, Sketches For Albinos) joined the Tribe in 2013 with ‘Our Sound Is Our Wound’. Only the simplest and most elegant of ideas offer this sort of combustive force. McMeeken builds the audio structures and Collings nearly tears them back down again. Of their debut, Textura lauded “McMeeken’s heartfelt singing and piano playing and Collings’ electronic and guitar colourations,” while Incendiary Magazine declared the album “a rare blend of inquisitive dark pop.” The track “Bloodbridge” inspired and was featured in Matty Ross’s enigmatic short film. Where ‘Our Sound Is Our Wound’ confronted heartbreak, solitude and death, White Rooms looks to progress, even repair, restore. Collings assumed the role of primary songwriter, and here the darkly lit, fully curtained spaces of their inaugural record serve not as a wake, but a wake-up call. As McMeeken writes, ‘White Rooms’ accepts “the difficult but essential challenge of finding the incongruent beauty in loss and moving forward as people.” This way the curtains are thrown open, daylight floods in, the colors of the interior come into full view, and we realize that what is left is a blank canvas, ready for our paints.£7.00 -
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Community Of Light – Night Vision
CD, SaleCommunity of light is a collective of artists & musicians working in the post kraut cosmic drone continuum which was initiated by mr. robert fludd and has come to full fruition in the twenty-first century in various forms. specifically; as pursuers of the Light, which is often called Darkness, and a sound we call silence (with a method called night vision). One critic of note has said of the community : community of light reconceives a music that has for a long time been gathered from the invisible and most ancient of all communities, which has been in existence since the creation of the cosmos, and will be with us through the end of time. their music is highly influenced by krautrock, psychedelic, ambient, british folk, electronic and experimental and avant-garde music.£7.00 -
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James Vella – Devourings
Book, SaleDevourings collects a variety of stories – each its own piece but bound to the next by a broader, unifying theme: being enveloped, devoured, by a moment, an encounter, a political situation, an emotion – which connect with absolute potency. Be they over a handful of paragraphs or a spread of pages, these short – and shorter – stories linger with a palpable resonance. Devourings travels to many destinations, encompassing several scenarios and introducing myriad protagonists – and, frequently, antagonists. ‘Esthers’ follows a snaking murder plot set in 1940s Argentina; the malevolent machinations of ‘USS Passumpsic’ play out on a late-1950s Pacific. ‘The Lamb Opened The Fox’s Throat’ takes place in a fantastical ancient Arabia, a place of magic and little mercy. Geographically and chronologically divergent dramas are connected by a consistent, compelling tone.£5.00 -
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Atay Ilgun – Enuma Elis
Book, SaleAlso spelled as ‘Enuma Elish’, Enûma Eliš is the Babylonian creation mythos named after its opening words (incipit) which means ‘when on high’. It’s about thousand lines recorded in Old Babylonian on seven clay tablets. Here on this chapbook, the term ‘when on high’ is re-worked as poems about life, creation, death and eternity. Following a vague sequence, it starts covering meditations on flowers, stars, life and the idea of most absolute beginning and ending, but till the end poem itself finds remedies in the everlasting harmony of incarnation and fragments which has no beginning or ending.£2.00 -
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Aidan Baker – Passing Through
Book, SaleIt all starts from a famous maxim of uncertain authorship – Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – and from a trope that is also a neurological phenomenon – synesthesia, the description or perception of one kind of sensation in terms of another. Smelling words, seeing sounds, hearing colours. Aidan Baker deliberately and skillfully plays with such figures, applying them not only to sensations but also to artistic techniques. The poems in this collection are about artworks that use other media than words – paintings, films and songs by a selection of such artists as Man Ray, Wim Wenders, John Coltrane, and Francisco Goya, among others. Each poem is at once a personal response and a dialogue with the artist, with Baker acting as author, spectator, and mediator. In this sense, besides playing with different senses and media, the collection entwines several literary genres and techniques: fiction and critical essay, poetry and prose, description and narration.£5.00 -
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Templeton / Armstrong: Extensions (Vinyl / DVD)
DVD, Sale, VinylRelease comes with a digital download coupon. Each copy from Stashed Goods comes with a limited edition postcard, 20 different postcards in all. Sound artist Mark Templeton and filmmaker Kyle Armstrong have collaborated on a film/record released as a 12” LP and DVD in tribute to Canadian media visionary Marshall McLuhan. The audiovisual elements include both original and sampled film and audio inspired by the media visionary. The LP and DVD was mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi and pressed on 140g vinyl. 2015 marks the 104th birthday of Canadian visionary Marshall McLuhan. With each passing year the revelatory nature of his prophetic vision becomes more evident. The global village is becoming a distinct reality in this technological age. McLuhan’s ability to predict the full impact of technology and media on our culture decades in advance is unprecedented. And his deep concern and warnings to us in these drastic changes in civilization are rarely heeded as we head full-steam ahead past the point of no-return, the consequences which are increasingly self-evident.£12.00 -
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Fischerle / Micromelancolie – Moulding
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 75 c34 produbbed and imprinted cassettes. Pro printed double sided J card and download code. Decaying Winter drones loops and found sounds from the collaboration of Fischerle & Micromelancolié.£4.00 -
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MonoLogue – The Sea From The Trees
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 75 c43 produbbed and imprinted cassettes. Pro printed double sided J card and download code. Ambient synth drone movements courtesy of Marie e le Rose’s MonoLogue project.£4.00 -
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Hakobune – Vitex Negundo
CD, SaleThree gentle guitar improvisations… meditations, enriched with Ambient loopsets and delicate sound layers from tape. Takahiro Yorifuji sets up the right mood to calm down. It’s all that easy, the main thing is, the casette player’s working fine, the fingers will find the right notes all by themselves. Enjoy laid back listening.£4.00 -
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The Child of A Creek – Quiet Swamps
CD, SaleQuiet Swamps is a 10song experimental/folk/ambient/shoegaze record I’ve recently sung, written, composed, performed and recorded with acoustic guitars, electric guitars, piano, electric piano, organ, acoustic and electric processed loops, synthetizers, field recordings and percussions. Mixed and mastered in a recording studio near home, Quiet Swamps is my 6th record in the “folk” field and I could say it’s a new step for my musical journey, which runs and explores different roads and different directions if compared to what I’ve done with music up to 2013 (prev stuff is more folk oriented). Mid tempos, open atmospheres, evocative moods and crooked melodies.£4.00 -
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The Child of A Creek – Hidden Tales…
Sale, TapeHidden Tales and Other Lullabies is a 6song completely instrumental ambient/abstract/electronic/postrock record I’ve recently written, composed, performed and recorded with synthetizers, piano, field recordings, acoustic and electric guitars. Mixed and mastered in a recording studio near home. I have a particular love for this record and for its dreaming touch, gloomy sounds, circular waves, reverbs and echoes, various processed field recordings (paper, glass etc..)£3.50 -
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Ormonde – Cartographer/Explorer (CD)
CD, SaleOrmonde are Anna-Lynne Williams (Trespassers William/Lotte Kestner) and Robert Gomez, and Cartographer/Explorer is the Seattle band’s second album, following on from 2012’s Machine which garnered keen praise on both sides of the Atlantic for its delicate acoustic songwriting. Individually, the two members of Ormonde have impressive CVs: Williams toured with Damien Rice, Feist, Broken Social Scene and Explosions in the Sky during her time in Trespassers William (Nettwerk Records) and also co-wrote and sang Hold Tight London on Chemical Brothers’ Push the Button album. Gomez is a respected producer/multi-instrumentalist who has worked with John Grant, Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe and was previously signed to Bella Union. Ormonde however, is where the two locate their shared vision, and it’s a spellbinding place to spend some time.£7.00 -
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Ormonde – Cartographer/Explorer
Sale, VinylOrmonde are Anna-Lynne Williams (Trespassers William/Lotte Kestner) and Robert Gomez, and Cartographer/Explorer is the Seattle band’s second album, following on from 2012’s Machine which garnered keen praise on both sides of the Atlantic for its delicate acoustic songwriting. Individually, the two members of Ormonde have impressive CVs: Williams toured with Damien Rice, Feist, Broken Social Scene and Explosions in the Sky during her time in Trespassers William (Nettwerk Records) and also co-wrote and sang Hold Tight London on Chemical Brothers’ Push the Button album. Gomez is a respected producer/multi-instrumentalist who has worked with John Grant, Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe and was previously signed to Bella Union. Ormonde however, is where the two locate their shared vision, and it’s a spellbinding place to spend some time.£10.00 -
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Thibault Jehanne – Eskifjörður
CD, SaleEskifjörður is an Icelandic town settled along the East fjords, still between two lively environments. The film relates without images, these spaces became entities. First, it’s the awakening of the earth, living, breathing : an entity sometimes hostile, extends into the landscape to overwhelming the rest. Men are discreet. To remain, they go from the land to the sea, and from the sea to the land, but also to die. The sea is nourishing, bountiful and generous, but it keeps with it these souls and reject these bodies, buried.£6.00 -
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Toy Bizarre – kdi dctb 071
CD, SaleGhosts echoes, specific filter and binaural tools build by Bernard A following instructions by PEK (ItCAN). Original DSM (Das Synthetische Mischgewebe) recordings given by Guido Hübner 1997 or (1998?) Limited edition of 100.£6.00 -
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Phoenix York – Godspeed Phuong
CD, SaleGodspeed Phuong consists of 8 pieces created in the seclusion of his studio located in the eastern townships of Quebec, Canada. The songs range from moody atmospherics, not far from post-rock at times to a space set between ambient and proto-orchestral, they reflect more the urban angst or a satellite in perdition than the countryside settings in which the songs were crafted. The primary instrumentation here is a guitar, a modular synth, a sampler and an array of found sounds. The music itself could be called ambient “with an edge”.£7.00 -
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Steve Roden – Flower & Water
CD, SaleFlower & Water began with an offer to work with the first Dragon’s Eye release – a flexi-disc with a recording of George Winston playing a blues piano composition called “Medley: Bread Baker’s Stomp” – as source material. Since I am not a true remixer, I decided to modify the track via physical manipulation. Most of the material began with cutting up some of the flexi’s and taping back together in ‘wrong’ ways. I then played (or tried to play) the broken records that had been taped back together, and also putting objects onto the surface of the record while being played with a cheap record player that had a small built-in speaker. In many ways I felt like I was building a series of temporary sculptures, as I wanted the experience to be physical – similar to the use of hands in making bread from scratch.£7.00 -
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Richard Youngs – Red Alphabet in the Snow (CD)
CD, SaleRed Alphabet in the Snow is a solo album by the extremely prolific but highly talented Richard Youngs. Two 17-minute pieces, in which Youngs layers acoustic guitars, banjo, cifteli, bass guitar, electric lead guitars, electric violin, epinette des vosges, shakers, sitar, swanee whistle, tambourine, triangle, 12-string guitar, ukulele, and his own voice, build up a meandering instrumental, acoustic, and even psychedelic mix. Each side of the album is made up of various compositions woven together with instrumentation, but which seem to flow seamlessly into a rich and resonant whole. Recorded in Krakow, Poland, and at home in Glasgow.£4.00 -
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Richard Youngs – Red Alphabet in the Snow
Sale, VinylRed Alphabet in the Snow is a solo album by the extremely prolific but highly talented Richard Youngs. Two 17-minute pieces, in which Youngs layers acoustic guitars, banjo, cifteli, bass guitar, electric lead guitars, electric violin, epinette des vosges, shakers, sitar, swanee whistle, tambourine, triangle, 12-string guitar, ukulele, and his own voice, build up a meandering instrumental, acoustic, and even psychedelic mix. Each side of the album is made up of various compositions woven together with instrumentation, but which seem to flow seamlessly into a rich and resonant whole. Recorded in Krakow, Poland, and at home in Glasgow, the release comes as a 180g vinyl, in a handmade, recycled card sleeve and insert, hand stamped and numbered on the back, and limited to 250 copies.£11.00 -
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North Side Drive – Snow / Sea / Sky
CD, SaleSnow // Sea // Sky is an EP by North Side Drive, the moniker of artist Jonathan Pearson, and continues the elements-based theme of his previous two EPs. Using piano and electronics, “Snow” is full of textures, clocking in at over ten minutes, and sets up the rest of the EP beautifully. A fast, staccato piano line slowly builds, with piano chords and electronics, falling into ambient noise; only for the piano line to re-emerge. “Sea” is a much more modern-classical melody, gentle, and leads the way to a more robust “Sky”. The album comes as a pressed CD, in a handmade, recycled card sleeve and insert, hand stamped and numbered on the back, and limited to 150 copies.£7.00 -
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Siavash Amini – What Wind Whispered To The Trees
CD, SaleFull length modern classical drone masterpiece from Iranian Siavash Amini. In ‘What Wind Whispered to the Trees’ Amini references characters from Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ and ‘The Devils’. Conveying a sense of loss and of longing from opening track, the album unravels chapter by chapter holding the listener in a dark, dense and poetic tale, as if translating Dostoevsky into musical form. The raw string melodies, fine tonal auroras and contrasting heavy drones are expanded and deepened by stunning mastering from Lawrence English. Glassmastered CD in matt finish digipack sleeve and clear tray.£9.00 -
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Pinkcourtesyphone – A Ravishment of Mirror
CD, SaleLos Angeles, a city of mirrors, twinkling lights, noir history, and deep secrets is the new home for Pinkcourtesyphone. This third full album explores Hollywood dreams and deception… meant to be slowly sipped. We all pretend but in Hollywood pretending is its dark sustenance… a plastic organic unity ready to enfold and repackage you.£6.00 -
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Tess Said So – I Did That Tomorrow
CD, SaleI Did That Tomorrow is a collection of pieces about initiation and reaction, travel and stillness, simplicity and mutation. The sound world of piano, percussion and electronics, engineered at Will Larsen’s Recliner Studios in Melbourne, shifts through organic, improvisatory, imperfect patterns, playing with the idea of movement in light, space, and liquid, usually resolving – though not necessarily tonally – for a sense of agreement. Tess Said So is the creative partnership of musicians Rasa Daukus and Will Larsen. Adopting a pop sensibility to a classical format, Rasa and Will write and perform all their own material. More like a band than a traditional classical ensemble, they are influenced by a shared interest in new music and blurring the lines that define musical genre.£7.00 -
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Lost Trail – An Elegy And A Mirror
CD, SaleLost Trail’s “An Elegy And A Mirror” is on the Twice Removed Editions Sub label. Lost Trail is the ambient/drone/shoegaze/experimental noise project of husband-and-wife duo Zachary Corsa and Denny Wilkerson Corsa. Based in the mysterious small city of Burlington, North Carolina, The Corsa’s utilize lo-fi and obsolete recording technology in their music, aiming to capture a sense of atmosphere and landscape in both man-made and wild environments. Working primarily with second-hand analogue equipment, their work is a vivid patchwork collage of damaged cassette loops, field recordings, primitive percussion, layers of ethereal guitar drones, wailing feedback and static and skeletal traces of antique piano and organ. The themes of Lost Trail’s work often include a sense of the otherworldly or supernatural, as well as strong ties to nature, human calamity, and a fascination with the concept of passionate belief systems. The songs themselves are raw, broken, minimalist, imperfect, flawed, emotionally resounding and chaotically unpredictable, all composed in the spirit of reckless, heedless improvisation.£4.00 -
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Saito Koji – Guitar Loop is My Life
CD, SaleSaito Koji’s “Guitar Loop is My Life”. Saito Koji was born in Fukushima, Japan in 1978. He uses guitars, keyboards, some effects and field recordings to create delicate minimal sound collages and improvisations. He cites three primary influences in his approach to experimental music: Otomo Yoshihide, Derek Bailey, and the sublime visuals of Kaoru Abe. Since 2004 Koji has released works on the Japanese Magic Book Records, Kesh Recordings, SEM label, Stereoscenic, Somehow, Resting Bell, Gears of Sand Recordings. Last heard on Twice Removed with his long form collaboration with Sima Kim (“Light and Gravity”), “Guitar Loop is My Life” is a 6 track 60 minute album with his fondness of loops explored over 10 minutes per track which allows for extension and focus in his loops. This release comes in a Guided Products recycled card sleeve with 2 lots of photographic artwork. 25 have 1 image on the cover and the other as an insert, while the other 25 have those images reversed. The insert is hand stamped on handmade Mulberry paper made in Thailand. This release is limited to 50 copies.£4.00 -
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Mathieu Lamontagne – Recivides
CD, SaleMathieu Lamontagne’s “Recivides” is on the Twice Removed Editions sub label. Mathieu is also known as Arbee Monkey and has appeared on labels such as Recycled Plastics, Somehow, as well as Net labels such as Pertin _Nce, Relaxed Machinery and others. He also collaborates with other artists such as Specta Ciera, Bleupulp and others as well as being in groups Allumettes and Anachronic XP. “Récidives is about things that change. Those things that change slowly, subtly. One day, you wake up and realize that fall is near, that somebody you love is quietly moving away from you. Only yesterday, my son was born, now is going to school… Récidives is about slowly moving melodies, sounds. Evolving sounds, Evolving people.” This release comes in an edition of 30 copies with each copy coming with a custom postcard and individual recycled magazine paper sleeve.£4.00 -
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Ross Baker – Periphery
CD, SaleRoss Baker “Periphery” (TR024), Released September 1, 2014 in a Guided Products recycled card sleeve with attached art, handstamped cd-r and a random series of card. Limited edition of 50. “Periphery” is the follow up to “Two Suns Were Visible in The Sky” on the Flaming Pines label and the recent Middlemarch “Wolf Hall” release on Time Released Sound. Described by Ross as “a mini album containing material recorded at the same time as “Two Suns…” which were deemed too personal or too claustrophobic to fit that record’s vast scope”.£4.00 -
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Emil Klotzsch – 14 Arten Den Regen…
CD, SaleEmil Klotzsch has appeared on some of the finest net labels such as One, Autoplate, and 12rec to name a few. “14 Arten…” is a soundtrack to the film of the same name and features music made on a ruined piano to accent the story of a boy who locked himself up in a room for 5 years. The release also comes in a Guided Product sleeve with a cut cover (like the Zenjungle “Leaving Stations”) with a double sided insert and a retro original photographic slide. It is also limited to 50 copies.£4.00 -
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Kevin Verwijmeren – It’s The Colour…
CD, SaleThe album comes in a lovely 4-panel digisleeve with cover photography by Julien Lambrechts and inside photography by Jan Van Der Kleijn / Professionally duplicated CD-R / Edition of 100 copies. Soft Corridor’s seventh release is the debut album by Kevin Verwijmeren : “It’s The Colour Of A Cloud Covered Sky”. When you look out of a window while you are travelling… When you just stare at the landscape that is flashing by… When you are not thinking about what you see but more about what you feel… That’s the feeling Kevin Verwijmeren wanted to evoke with his debut album “It’s the colour of a cloud covered sky”. He composed and produced the music by searching for melodies and patterns describing this inner state…£8.00 -
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Lost Trail – The Afternoon Vision ( 2 x 3″)
3", Deluxe, SalePresented in a jackdaw style format, this release charts a youthful vision of spectrums, doors, birds and soil content. Each copy of this hand stamped release will come with two soil survey maps from the USDA, a Soviet-era computer punch card and soil composition triangles and associated prophecy data. Paper stock used (quantities differ per jackdaw): Cyclus Silk 300g: Soft white board. At least 50% recycled, FSC certified Cyclus 160g: At least 50% recycled, FSC certified Martello 250g: At least 50% recycled, FSC certified Limited edition of 130£8.00 -
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Pausal – Along the Mantic Spring
Sale, Vinyl180 gram pressing. The sleeves were made by a bookbinder and the result is a very heavy tip-on style gatefold sleeve and then finished with an OBI strip. Color version is sold out on pre-orders, the black vinyl is still available. This is the new full-length LP from Pausal. Layer upon layer of guitar-based ambient with a bit of modern classical worked into the mix. Pausal is a duo from the U.K. consisting of Alex Smalley (Olan Mill) and Simon Bainton. This is their 4th full-length album (there are also 2 eps to their credit) and is the follow-up to the ‘Sky Margin’ LP (Own Records) from last year. Pausal exists in a sub-genre of ambient lead by guitar-based drone ambience as well as layer upon gentle layer of more guitar, bells, piano and environmental recordings. It invites deeper listening into the composition itself. A composition built in restraint, a discernable set of hazy layers, and careful construction revealing a recording of rare beauty. “Modern classical ambient”, a slight-return to the denser and more reverb-drenched places of their earlier work but with the benefit of hindsight.£14.00 -
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Loren Dent – Anthropology (2 x CD)
CD, SaleAnthropology Vols. 2 & 3 features 25 tracks and over 140 minutes of all new material. Housed in a 6 panel digipak with cardstock slipcase. Design by Loren Dent & Timothy O’Donnell. Massive new double CD from Loren Dent. Over 3 years in the making, Anthropology Vols. 2 & 3 continues from Anthropology Vol. 1 CD (INFX 034) and the Anthropology Extras (INFX 032 FD). Epic sweeping ambience with layered drones punctuated by piano interludes. The intonation that is created is of an orchestra that has been somehow slowly suspended and released, gradually yielding a symphony of sound.£10.00 -
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Orla Wren – Soil Steps
CD, SaleFollowing swiftly on from 2013’s ‘Book Of The Folded Forest’ (Home Normal) and ‘The Blizzard That Birthed Her’ (Facture) the new Orla Wren album ‘Soil Steps’ finds the ever itinerant tui divesting himself from his usual cadre of musical collaborators and travelling, solo, into the Spanish wilderness with a tent and a portable recorder. Recorded during months of wandering isolation in the Iberian fastness, a process only concluded when our hapless traveller contrived to break an ankle (high in the Sierra Nevada and minus any painkillers, a logical point at which to call time), ‘Soil Steps’ shifts focus from the enveloping ruminations of ‘Folded Forest’ to the more Spartan and spacious tones of the field recording discipline. Orla Wren devotees will not be disappointed, as tui refines and reduces his atomistic approach to composition in order to reveal its luminous essence. Inspired by and taken almost entirely from the natural sounds emanating from his chosen environment; recordings of insects, snakes, street musicians, the movement of warm wind through bamboo on a dry river bed and broken only by Eva Puyuelo’s occasional narration of tui’s words (suggestive that a handful of thoughts could last all day).£7.00 -
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Italian resonances – Dronegazers?
CD, SaleLimited edition of 100 CDr... The title of the work is “Italian Resonances | Dronegazers?”. It is an eight track album made by a seven artist collective composed by electroacoustic ambient musicians with a particular bent for drone music. Work has been commisioned by Fabrizio Garau from “TheNewNoise.it” , an italian webzine focused above all about alternative, experimental music. The artists involved in the work are : Enrico Coniglio, Alberto Boccardi, Easychord, Attilio Novellino, Cristiano Deison, Giulio Aldinucci, and Francesco Giannico.£7.00 -
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David Newlyn – Good Luck
CD, SaleThis is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped black cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper Sound In Silence is happy to announce the return of David Newlyn, presenting his new album Good Luck (Enigma). This is his second release on the label after the, already sold out, collaboration album O.S. with Yellow6 back in 2012. Since 2006 his releases have appeared on labels such as Mobeer, Cotton Goods, Symbolic Interaction, Tokyo Droning, Time Released Sound, Hibernate Recordings and on his own October Man Recordings and Cathedral Transmissions. On Good Luck (Enigma) he offers ten new tracks in about 43 minutes, shifting from electroacoustic ambient to minimal neoclassical. Knowing perfectly how to use his devices, including computer, keyboards, cassette tape, guitar and loop station, he creates a beautiful chilled out collection of sounds which appeals to all fans of atmospheric and cinematic music.£7.00 -
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TRDLX – Dystopia
CD, SaleGlitchy textures swirl around the temples while addictive beats thump the temples. Soundscapes crawl beneath a barbed wire of dense and complex patterns. Dystopia is the first album of Paris based producers Boris Haladjian and Thibault Csukonyi. Within a constant state of flux and tension, the sound waves delve into incisive electronic and organic textures, ranging from IDM to sound-design or gorgeous ambient layers. Trdlx is the project of the Parisians Boris Haladjian and Thibault Csukonyi. Oscillating between heavy fractured beats and abrasive textures, their sound is similar to a complex hybrid electronica, nourrished of dense rhythmic patterns and immersive ambient layers. Largely influenced by trip-hop, IDM and drone / ambient, Trdlx’s music is engraved in a dark melancholic cinematic universe in which each composition can be seen as a singular story.£8.00 -
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Daydreamer – Camus
CD, SaleTRS043 is the feature full length album from Russian duo, Daydreamer. Entitled “Camus”, it is an homage of sorts to the great French existentialist writer of the same name. Like the band name suggests, it’s a dreamy mix of melodic post rock ambiance, and serves as a sort of soundtrack to the road movie that Albert Camus lived… and died on…£7.00 -
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Richard Ginns – Fall, Rise
CD, Sale‘Fall, Rise’ documents an experience during a winter trip to the Alps in France. “Inspired by a snowstorm/whiteout I was alone and the weather was turning fast, the snowstorm completely took over and visibility was next to zero. Far from home, cold, tired and in fear of my surroundings, the reality of where I was really hit me.” “Stranded, an empty wilderness, surviving against the elements” “A path would lead me home … A voice in the distance, to which direction it was coming from exactly I couldn’t tell … I began to trek knowing my ears would guide me … Bringing me back home!!” “Richard Ginns made this record because he almost died. That’s a rather dramatic way to open an introduction to your album, or a review, but his inspiration for this release was being caught in a snowstorm and whiteout conditions whilst in the French Alps. One might very well make the assumption that the music within the record will be heavy, cloying, dark ambient constructions filled with fear and morbid introspection, but the opposite largely appears to be true, as Richard instead focuses on the details and the minutiae of his surroundings rather than the tenuous situation at hand.” Hearfeel.co.uk£8.00 -
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Joan Cambon – Reshaping…
CD, SaleReshaping the seasons for Kaori’s body”, the second solo album by Joan Cambon (co-founder of Arca with Sylvain Chauveau) was composed of samples from the 4 Seasons by Vivaldi, as well as snippets of sounds produced by the dancer Kaori Ito and some Japanese radio previews. The origin of this album is the composition of the music for “Plexus”, solo dance Aurélien Bory for Kaori Ito (choreographer and dancer for James Thierrèe, Decouflé, Alain Platel, Angelin Preljocaj, Denis Podalydès…), a work based on the following themes: impermanence, strata, Japan, the body, the portrait of Kaori, strings (thousands of son is the scenography of.) Sound material, which should avoid any idea of folklore, was then imposed: 4 seasons (for the idea of impermanence, Preljocaj’s choreography that Kaori had interpreted as the sounds of strings, familiar to all world), the body of Kaori and radio recordings (both traces of contemporary Japan and familiar colours of childhood Kaori.) In the end, eleven pieces form a coherent whole album (among which are the four major music shows.)£5.00 -
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Akamatsu – Infi(ni)me
CD, SaleElectronic music and electro-acoustic, eyeing both to school Warp ancient times (Autechre, Plaid), but equally in the kraut-rock (Can …), the German Silky Pop (Notwist, Mr John Soda …), minimal music (Erik Satie, Nils Frahm…)£5.00 -
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Sontag Shogun – Tale
CD, SaleSontag Shogun’s immense debut full-length album, “Tale”, compiles three years worth of composing and directed textural improvising, molded into nine concise musical statements. They have been experimenting with songform and traversing nostalgic emotional territories, quietly honing their craft alongside collaborators across disciplines such as video, film, dance, performance and poetry. Primarily making use of a grand piano, field recordings, tapeloops and digitally treated vocals, the trio has discovered a unique niche that straddles identifiable genre boundaries. Repetitions of phrases, digitally glitched-out melodies, superimposing practice takes with studio takes. Call this album modern classical, ambient, new age, Sontag prefers their own nomenclature: lullanoise.£8.00 -
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Sashash Ulz: The Dual Orienteering (2 x 3″)
3", SaleStamped and printed on corona 250g (100% post consumer waste, de-inked). Sleeve design by Phantom & Son Intl. Limited edition of 100... An appreciation of personal navigation around cities and the countryside with The Dual Orienteering EPs by Sashash Ulz. This two disc set is housed in recycled kraft boxes and contains: two 3″ CDR, orienteering maps of familiar places, cartography filmstrips, personalized adventuring routes and a compass to find your way. Disc one : The Rural Part (Length: 21:33): Live processing during thunderstorm Disc two : The Urban Part (Length: 21:00): Cobbled reactions in the cityscape Sashash Ulz is from Petrozavodsk, Russia. He lives near the big lake and makes records. Sometimes he goes to Dacha with Lena Kot Kot, where they swim with the ducks.£8.00 -
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Joe Evans – Septimal
CD, SaleSpectropol Records is delighted to announce the release of Septimal by UK composer Joe Evans. A 46-minute album that will be available as a Digipak CD-R and high quality download, Septimal features fourteen superlative tracks that explore the sonic and expressive potential of the autoharp. Joe Evans writes: “While I initially conceived of Septimal as a study of microtonal harmony, it has developed into something far more complex and personal. The word Septimal, meaning “Pertaining to all things Seven” is not widely used outside of the world of scales and temperaments, where it refers to intervals derived from the 7th harmonic. These intervals are often poor relations of intervals derived from the 3rd & 5th Harmonics, fighting for space on an otherwise occupied keyboard. By removing any notes derived from the 5th harmonic, the space opens up to allow the character of septimal intervals to shine, a coup within the harmonic series, perhaps?£6.00 -
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Meccano / Droomoff – Walking Through (2 x CD)
CD, SaleOn the duo’s second official full-length proper, their art of creating complex sonic worlds truly shines. The album, appropriately titled “Walking Through”, indeed resembles a soundtrack for a daylong exploration of an imaginary national park in all its diversity – forest, rivers and creeks, fields and meadows, abandoned industrial zone and even a visit to a busy trade fair. Richly textural, organically synthetic, generously spiced by multilayered field recordings, with occasional live instrumentation (cellos and flutes) and traces of vocals, it’s a true cinematic feast for the ears and imagination. Subtle electronic pulses and minimalistic percussive work are delicately brought in and out to keep the listener awake; synth pads are delicate and lulling, but never pretty or overwhelmingly grandiose. The mood, the density of sonic fibre and the light/darkness ratio is constantly changing, making the 84 minute long trip a consistent but never a dull listen – sometimes welcoming, sometimes challenging – rounded off with two fantastic longform highlights:£8.00 -
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Vitaly Beskrovny – Movements
CD, SaleVitaly Beskrovny’s third album ‘Movements’ on Preserved Sound, sees him go for the stripped-down piano sound. When he first approached us about releasing Movements we discussed adding strings to the pieces, but decided to go for a much simpler style. The album is a wonderful mixture of Nils Frahm and Yann Tiersen, with just a slight hint of Beethoven.£7.00 -
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A Model Kit – Invention of Love
CD, SaleFirst full-length album by A Model Kit on Hidden Vibes, following his previous “Roads For” EP and “Lights/bay” single. Limited edition of 100, each copy comes with a small printed photo book. A Model Kit is a solo-project of Maxim Popov from Russia, working in the field of ambient electronics and modern classical.£7.00 -
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Jerome Longhi – Sonameon
Sale, VinylIt’s ever hard to find some words about a debut. There’s nothing to compare. Yes, of course, there could be thrown in some names, or it could be mentioned that Jerome Longhi grew up in a musical family and learned playing guitar at seven…started his 1st Band as kid and now ownes a production studio. But is it important that way? Maybe the fact, he was just fed up from guitar music. With the thought, that the broom chamber would fit his sound to leave the domestic fields of Rock for a while.£6.00 -
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thisquietarmy – Rebirths LP
Sale, Vinyl180g white/silver vinyl in PVC sleeve, limited to 390 pieces... “Rebirths” are new recordings (2014) of selected previously released studio tracks that have since been adapted for its live performances over the years. For the uninitiated, “Rebirth” is the perfect introduction to thisquietarmy’s work. For those already familiar, it’s a synthesis of thisquietarmy’s sonic evolution. – TQA£10.00 -
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James Murray – Mount View
CD, SaleEvery copy of Mount View 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. The glass-mastered CDs have been professionally replicated, sleeve and insert are individually rubber-stamped with James’ original artwork and each package is carefully assembled by hand. Please note that as the CD packaging materials are constructed from raw recycled card they are likely to exhibit minor natural imperfections.£8.00 -
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De Form – Out Of Emptiness
3", SaleYou were in a place without any doors, any windows shut in a closed space somewhere in the emptiness. Now you can come out of that place… “out of emptiness”… De Form ambient/experimental alias of Piotr Michalowski. The foundation of this project is to create music in a short period of time, under strong influence. That’s why the form is less important here, the emotions contained in the music are the most important.£5.00 -
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Pjusk – Tele
CD, SalePjusk is Rune Sagevik and Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik from the west coast of Norway – both from small villages close to nature. The sound of Pjusk is inspired by the harsh Norwegian weather and wild landscape. At the centre point of the collaboration between the two is an old cabin high up in the mountains. This is where most of the music of Pjusk is made – framed by snowy peaks and the sound of cold streams. The album “Tele” (the Norwegian word describing frozen underground water) is a natural progression from the album “Sval” released on the US label 12k in 2010. Inspired by the arctic wilderness, Tele is a journey of snow, ice and cold.£9.00 -
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Retina.it – Descending into Crevasse
CD, SaleRetina.it (Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono), is born in the first half of 90’s. This duo, placed near the Vesuvio (Naples), explored all the capabilities of analogic synths since the beginnings, developing an its own idea of sound. The undifferentiated manipulation of sounds extracted from modular and digital synths or objects/environment sound’s recording, leads this original duo to a continuos research of a sonic identity. Retina.it’s music has been released from labels such as Hefty records (US) , Mousikelab (It), Flatmate/Storung (Spain) and Glacial Movements (It). They have worked with different personalities of music business and visual arts, such as John Hughes, Marco Messina, Claudio Sinatti, Gabriella Cerritelli, Giorgio Li Calzi, Red Sector A. Moreover, the deep live-performing activity has led Retina.it to share important stages of International contest (such as Storung, Sonar…) with prestigious artists like Kraftwerk, Matmos, Telefon Tel Aviv, T.A.G.C., Rechenzentrum, Oval, Noto, F. Bretschneider, Plaid, Apparat, Biosphere and many more. “Descending into Crevasse” is a sort of metaphor. An ipotetic journey between the gorges of eternal ices, such as a travel inside ourself researching reassuring corners. A flux of muffled and confused memories, frosted in a wave moving like an algorithm.£9.00 -
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Aidan Baker – Aneira
CD, SaleAidan Baker is a multi-instrumentalist, classically-trained in flute, but best known as a guitarist. Using various electronic effects combined with prepared and/or alternate methods of playing the guitar, he creates music which generally falls within the ambient/experimental genres but draws on influences from shoegaze and post-rock, contemporary classical and jazz. Over the course of the last decade, Baker has released numerous recorded works, both solo and with his duo Nadja, plus various other musical projects, on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Important Records, Die Stadt Musik, and Broken Spine Productions. He is also the author of several books of poetry. Baker has collaborated in-studio and live with such artists as Tim Hecker, Carla Bozulich, Jessica Baillif, Noveller, OvO, members of The Jesus Lizard, and members of Swans. He has also composed for and performed with such contemporary classical ensembles as The Penderecki Quartet, The Riga Sifonietta, and The Monday Morning Singers. Baker has toured extensively around the world and appeared at such international festivals as FIMAV, SXSW, Incubate, and Mutek. Aneira (Welsh for ‘snow’) is one long, slowly changing piece created using only a 12-string acoustic guitar, manipulated and played with different tools, as a sound source in order to make sounds resembling that of ice moving or breaking and of wind or snowstorms. Aidan Baker also wrote a poem about Aneira, that will be inside the digipack.£9.00 -
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Netherworld – Alchemy of Ice
CD, Sale“Sliding notions; familiar frames of source. Chill insinuated breezes capture attentive ear. Strokes gently away the fast-spinning overworld.” – Ews Nsj£9.00 -
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bvdub & Loscil – Erebus
CD, SaleFrom Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and bore from union in love with Erebus. – Hesiod, Theogony (120–125)£9.00 -
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Yair Elazar Glotman – Northern Gulfs
CD, SaleHandmade natural card CD case (limited edition of150 copies)... Yair Elazar Glotman is a musician and sound artist living and working in Berlin. His focus is on experimental electroacoustic composition, sound installations and sound sculptures. In addition, he works as a sound designer and composer for film, dance and video art. His education includes Classical Double-Bass, electroacoustic composition and Art and Media studies, where he explored the gap between sound art and contemporary music. His work has been played at various sound venues including ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, LEAP Gallery, NK and FEED Soundspace. This album is a journey through the arctic gulfs in the north seas . Electro-acoustic composition aiming to find a delicate balance between digital processing and analog electronics, with acoustic instruments and real-world field recordings.£8.00 -
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Way Station – The Ships
CD, SaleLimited edition of 150 in special 7″ packaging… The Ships – is the first album by Way Station. Work on this album was conducted in the period from 2009 to 2013. This music drew inspiration from books and movies about space, people and about great values. Every single track is a story, told by feelings and emotions. When you are immersed in this music – you are fly away from here. “All our thoughts, hopes and dreams hidden inside this blue cover …”£7.50 -
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Nousinthis – End Song
CD, SaleLimited edition of 150 in special 7″ packaging... “End Song” EP is a debut release of Ukrainian post-rock band nousinthis. Wide and explosive sound passages change with quiet tracks full of magiс vocal. Harmony is the one that unites them. Analogies in the music world could be drawn primarily to Sigur Ros, Jeniferever, EF, Radiohead.£7.50 -
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Paskine – Nimrod
CD, SaleNIMROD is Paskine’s debut album. Paskine here continues his experiments with noise and repetition, making his most abstract compositions to date, and adding a strong narrative element with the album’s structure. NIMROD was created with the idea of plunging the listener into a sound storm. It is composed of immersive drones, deconstructed melody, crackles and multiple kinds of noises invading space, blowing, little heavy and repetitive rhythm. The album is structured into nine parts, as kind of chapters; some minimalist, sometimes just the opposite; sometimes melodic, sometimes completely abstract.£10.00 -
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Damian Valles – Exposure
CD, SaleDamian Valles describes ‘Exposure’ as the logical follow-up to ‘Badlands’ (somehow recordings) which was released in a limited edition in the spring of 2013… The six tracks that comprise this release delve further into darker territory and cold, harsh environments. A continuation on the theme of desolation, erosion and annihilation. However, this time around things are further stripped down and bare, leaving more room to explore and dwell amidst the vastness of the surroundings. If ‘Badlands’ was the journey, perhaps ‘Exposure’ is the destination.£10.00 -
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Hakobune – Nebulous Sequences (2 x CD)
CD, SaleSparkles of mist, ebbs of mystery. Tiny shades of colours within a suspended time. “Nebulous Sequences” is the new masterfully album of Kyoto based musician Takahiro Yorifuji who operates under the name of Hakobune. The ripples of dense and elusive drones create a vast and meditative landscape where air and water flow and shimmer together. Using layers of processed guitar, this album envelops and surrounds the body with the beauty of a soothing and nebulous presence.£10.00 -
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Matteo Uggeri – Untitled Winter
CD, SaleLimited Edition of 100 Letter-pressed Jackets... Matteo Uggeri is an Italian musician and sound artist based in Milan. What he’s constructed here is an extremely intimate story line. Matteo is a master of setting a scene and carrying the listener into non-existent interiors and exteriors of his own creation. Reoccurring themes tie the already seamless tracks together culminating into one long meditative piece. Throughout the album a feeling grows of great gratitude for the night time hours when the only gears left turning are those of your own creation.£7.00 -
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Robin Allender – Foxes in the Foyer
Sale, VinylLimited Edition of 350 | Hand Numbered | Clear Vinyl.. Circular melodies adorned with simple samples and loops. Its charm makes a lot of sense given that Allender plays in film composer Yann Tiersen’s live band – Lars Gotrich NPR Music of heart and humanity, as fresh (and refreshing) as a spring lake. – Textura Robin Allender certainly has prowess on his instrument but I found myself drawn to the more woe-some and winsome tracks that inter-weave amongst the track order, culminating with the prettiest song I have heard in a while. In fact, were there a Buddha Box with only the final track “An Uneven Lie” I probably would never leave the house again. – Field Hymns£10.00 -
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Padang Food Tigers / Lake Mary
Sale, VinylIt seems a logical step to follow up Scissor Tail Editions 2012 reissue of Bruce Langhorne’s score to “The Hired Hand” with these two beautifully constructed pieces of music from artists residing on separate sides of the planet. Padang Food Tigers and Chaz Prymek AKA (Lake Mary) both employ similar instrumentations to that of “The Hired Hand” soundtrack. Banjos play the lead role for Padang Food Tigers and Lake Mary as well in building imaginary desolate landscapes. Guitar and piano float in and out. These could easily be heard as companion pieces “Crabbing King Sappling” builds heavy cinematic tension while “White River” acts as a blissful release. Both artists are apt creators of space and masters of turning your repetitive thoughts into wandering nomads. – Scissor Tail£5.00 -
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Jesse Aycock – Out to Space…
Sale, VinylLimited edition of 200. Letter-pressed, hand numbered jackets and artwork by Dylan Aycock at Scissor Tail Private Press. “This music is a little close to home. I’m happy and honored to be releasing my older brother Jesse Aycock’s first vinyl record on Record Store Day. This 7″ will be quickly followed up by a full length record early 2014. The album was recorded at the historic Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The studio was originally founded and opened by Leon Russell in the 70’s and has recently been reopened this last year. The band for this record is made up of some Tulsa players as well as Neal Casal of (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Ryan Adams and The Cardinals, Beachwood Sparks) and George Sluppick of (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Ruthie Foster, Albert King and many more…) I’ve been watching Jesse play live for years and growing up hearing him develop his style in the bedroom next to mine, practicing guitar licks to classic records for endless hours. That being said it’s no surprise that his music and influence has seeped into my subconscious and finds favor at Scissor Tail. It puts into context a lot of my own musical choices and changes over the years. I’m obviously biased but I believe there’s a nostalgia and sincerity that can be heard and felt by anyone who takes time to listen to this quickly collectible record as Jesse has just been picked up as the guitarist for The Secret Sisters. Jesse was featured on the cover of Tulsa People last month and will be playing songs from this album and his previous two albums across the US throughout 2014.” – Dylan Aycock£4.00 -
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Nick Castell – The Water Margin
Sale, TapeLimited Edition of 50 Pro-Dubbed Cassettes. Hand Painted / Letterpressed Packaging. No two alike! “I know people will always assume that I listen to a lot of John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Nick Drake etc. I do listen to all of this and I do love it but there is so much more to the world of music I inhabit. Some of my favourite composers take folk motifs to make ‘art music’, composers like Béla Bartók and Osvaldo Golijov. It is perhaps their approach rather than their music that influences me most. I listen to hours of field recordings from all over the world every week as well as ‘classical’ music from Dowland to Poulenc and 20th Century popular music styles.” This is a beautiful loner folk album that will stand the test of time, no doubt about it.£5.00 -
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Grizzly Imploded – You Are The Way…
Sale, TapeNeapolitan free jazz tornado-hatching is totally my bag and Grizzly Imploded bring the joy in spades; I could listen to this kind of steez all day! This trio is a branch off the Strongly Imploded tree – two of the three members hail from that noisy outfit – and they employ all the latest techniques to melt the faces of their audience. Minimal/maximal guitar skree deftly unloaded like depth charges off the side of a warship. Freely-pummelled drums that bounce off of the floor, on the verge of exploding under the weight of deft arms. Controlled chaos that threatens to seep out of the rusty container holding it all together. Yeah, my heart’s totally into this beautifully-crafted tape – which excels both in audible and visible content – delivered directly inside my tattered cranium courtesy of Scissor Tail Editions.£4.00 -
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Nathan McLaughlin – Karen Studies
Sale, TapeOn the surface, Karen Dalton may seem like an unlikely source of inspiration for the reel-to-reel experimentalist and recent Upstate New York transplant Nathan McLaughlin. Dalton was an undeniably great interpreter of folk songs whose gritty, whiskey-singed voice could add new layers of emotional depth to virtually any song she took on. McLaughlin, as a solo artist, has predominantly explored expansive, slow-building sound pieces using his beloved Teac 3440 tape machine with subtle manipulations and guitar and synth accompaniment. In places, it’s as though McLaughlin appears to be recreating the worn contours of Dalton’s voice itself. In the end, when the banjo notes ring out, McLaughlin has created one of his most original and deeply moving works to date.£4.00 -
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Andrea Ricci – Blend
3", SaleLimited edition of 50 copies, 25 in recycled card and envelope and 25 in white card and envelope... Twice Removed are proud to announce the release from Andrea Ricci called “Blend”. Andrea Ricci born 1989 is a meticulous listener of gloomy landscapes, mountains and small abandoned spaces surrounding him. He loves the plasticity of sound. His exploration into electronic music began in 2009, focusing on the most extreme dark ambient patterns. His approach to composition evolves through synthesizers and carefully stolen natural noises, which help him creating a “modus vivendi”, to combine together the audio around with the idea of sound he has in mind. “Blend” is the release following on from the ultra limited edition “NTSCL” on the defunct Somehow Recordings and features Field Recordings and processed synthesizer to create walls of sound over the 19 minutes of the piece.£3.00 -
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Various – Prototypes
CD, Sale‘Prototypes’ is a collection of uniquely mixed and edited original tracks and outtakes from future collaborative Home Normal releases. Mixed and edited by Aki Sallas, Sif Sandersen, and Ian Hawgood, the work includes unique tracks by Christopher Hipgrave, Sif Sandersen, Ahti Ijäs, Aki Sallas, Miki Laa, Tsone, Uthai Montri, Ian Hawgood, and Maarit Maaja. Over its almost 70 tracks, spread over five CD’s, the ‘Elements’ compilation is a celebration of everything Home Normal represents through friends and artists who have helped to develop the label’s identity. ‘Prototypes’ is a unique glimpse at some long-term projects we have been working on with an eye very much on the collaborative future of the label, working with some new and emerging artists which has always been a firm goal of ours. ‘Prototypes’ is a 250 limited CDR with photography by Hitoshi Ishihara (attic.cc), and design by togoshi + mondül. It is included with all advanced tickets to our show in London on March 21st, 2014 with Gurun Gurun, Gareth Davis, Ithaca Trio, Christopher Hipgrave, Gideon Wolf, and Ekca Liena.£6.00 -
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Butterfly In The Snowfall
CD, SaleButterfly In The Snowfall are a group made up of members from the Rune Grammofon band, Astrïd, and Sylvain Chauveau. Astrïd performed at the HomeNormalism festival in summer of 2013, blowing the audience away with their incredibly organic, transfixing music. Their music has been likened to Laughing Stock-era TalkTalk, which is a very apt description really. Formed in 1997 around Cyril Secq and Yvan Ros, as a guitar/drums duet, Astrïd has stabilized with successive arrivals of the violinist Vanina Andreani (1998) and the clarinetist Guillaume Wickel (2005). Their music takes its roots in improvised music, 70’s folk and jazz, classical and contemporary music, from Ravel to Arvo Pärt. From 2007, the group has lived and worked between Nantes and Marseille (France). They are also well known as common collaborators and performers with Rachel Grimes.£6.00 -
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Rene Margraff – Phasen
CD, SaleRené Margraff lives and works in Berlin. He started Pillowdiver in 2008. Before this he also pretended to be a Japanese girl under the name of Le Mépris. Previously he released on Home Normal with the highly acclaimed Two People In A Room album back in 2011. This is René’s first work under his given name and to say it covers a lot of ground would be a massive understatement. From contained harmonics through to the comedown choral end, ‘phasen‘ is a beautiful play in light refraction and subtle inflection. The frequencies open up, bringing forth shining melody as the light refracts, only to be covered by new objects, diminishing the index into the dimmest of views, a claustrophobic nightmare. Indeed, if ‘phasen’ were a film, it would be a Norman Bates character on an acid- trip journey through a futuristic Tokyo; all neon lights, rain, and well…Blade Runner really. How would that end? When all things go dark, what shards would be left to hang on to? Through glimmers, the faintest of which reach our eyes, we see that light does in fact remain…the index run ragged.£6.00 -
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Vitaly Beskrovny – Life on Paper
CD, SaleVitaly Beskrovny is a self-taught composer from Ukraine. He has been writing instrumental pieces for piano and orchestra since 2005. Vitaly’s second album on Preserved Sound entitled Life on Paper is more ambient than Vitaly’s previous work, and uses sound samples recorded near his house in Ukraine.£7.00 -
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Richard Formb – Sine
CD, SaleRichard Formby is a producer, mixer and artist, and has worked with the likes of Hood, Fuxa, Darkstar, and the Wild Beasts. Sine is Richard’s first album on Preserved Sound, and consists of a 30-minute one-track album created using a modular synth and a Revox tape machine. The end result is a wonderfully rich organic synth drone ambient piece of music. Sine was recorded using a modular synthesiser and Revox B77 tape recorder, and mixed live in one take on 26th May 2012.£7.00 -
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Adrian Lane – Lights Are Very Deceptive At Night
CD, SaleAdrian Lane’s first album on Preserved Sound, Lights Are Very Deceptive At Night is a wonderful collection of short dark piano pieces, modern-classical piano pieces written in the vein of Eric Satie.£7.00 -
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Visionary Hours – The Road to Basho
CD, SaleVisionary Hours creates mainly instrumental music. Combining the sound of strings, guitar, voice and clarinet, he creates slowly evolving ambient/modern-classical pieces, full of space and gently revealed micro melodies. This technique has been refined on The Road to Bashō, an album inspired by the famous Japanese wandering poet, Matsuo Bashō, released on Preserved Sound in 2012.£7.00 -
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Visionary Hours – Still Point
CD, SaleStill Point by Visionary Hours has been long in the making, but is finally here. This album builds on the idea of using loops, but is much more organic and melodic than the previous The Road to Bashō, using flutes, clarinets, and strings to create an acoustic ambient-classical album.£7.00 -
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Unconditional Arms – Kinship
CD, SaleKinship was written by Jeff Wright for the birth of his son Owen, and can be compared to other acts as Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Mogwai, and The Appleseed Cast. “New life is a beautiful thing, something that one is eager to share with the world … Love overflows on this release, especially in the dialogue of ‘First Look’, but it doesn’t overwhelm … ‘The Family Tree’ possesses a similar sense of ebullience. The peaceful finale, ‘Rest’, implies something that new parents don’t encounter often; but in this case, if Jeffrey can get it, his rest will have been well-deserved.”£7.00 -
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Adrian Lane – The Answering Smile
CD, SaleThe Answering Smile is the second album on Preserved Sound by Adrian Lane. Featuring instruments including alto bowed psaltery, baritone bowed psaltery, violin, acoustic guitar (bowed and plucked), mandolin, zither, percussion and laptop, The Answering Smile is part contemporary classical and part medieval in its influence and sound. This album is for fans of Jozef van Wissem, Stephen Micus (ECM Records), James Blackshaw, and Brethren of the Free Spirit.£7.00 -
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Faures – Continental Drift
CD, Sale“It let them float and drift, break apart and converge. Where they broke away, cracks, rifts, trenches remain; where they collided, ranges of folded mountains appear.” – Hans Cloos Continental Drift came about from an idea inspired by Alfred Wegener’s book The Origin of Continents and Oceans. Fuzz Lee (elintseeker) is a believer in the romantic notion that a person is truly shaped by the landscape and environment the person is in. A person’s personality and character in daily life, because of the environment that he or she is in, will also be expressed naturally in musical form. With that in mind, what would the results be when three individuals from three different continents with their own unique approach and style to music making are made to work together? René Margraff (Pillowdiver) from Germany and Samuel Landry (Le Berger) from Canada were specifically invited by Fuzz to join him in this musical experiment. The tracks are made in a 3-way ‘triangular’ process. Each musician has to come up with two tracks or samples, pass it on to the second musician from the next continent to work on and once that musician is done, he will then pass the tracks on to the third and final musician from another continent who will do the same. The tracks can only be worked on once for each musician. If you replace ‘continents’ with ‘sound’ in structural geologist Hans Cloos’ quote about the continental drift theory, the creation, mixing, layering and other working processes of the samples and tracks are not too dissimilar, “It let them float and drift, break apart and converge. Where they broke away, cracks, rifts, trenches remain; where they collided, ranges of folded mountains appear”. These 6 tracks are the ‘trenches’, the ‘cracks’, ‘folded mountains’ and ‘rifts’ in musical form.£6.00 -
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Birdt – Place For One Day
CD, SaleBirdt, a wonderful group from the Netherlands who make incredibly wistful and tender folk, with a hint of electronic. The group is made up of Janne Mansens on violin and second vocals, Sascha Schmitt on accordion, our very own Gareth L. Davis on bass clarinet, and led by the very talented Bardt van der Dennen on guitar and vocals. It always surprises people when they find out that Home Normal is not just an ambient label, with a strong love for really excellent songwriters, harsh noise and electronica when its right. The focus has and will always be good old organic music after all, and at the very root of the birdt full album debut ‘Place For One Day’ is a beautifully organic and free spirit.£6.00 -
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William Ryan Fritch: Leave Me Like You Found Me (Deluxe CD)
CD, Deluxe, Sale– Glass Mastered CD housed in a panoramic 7” x 5” heavy stock, reverse printed case. – Featuring artwork throughout by world renowned Brazilian artist/illustrator João Raus. – 14 Song Mini-Album on a download card, containing 28 minutes of original music not found on the CD. – Double-sided Art Card Print featuring original artwork from William Ryan Fritch and Jamie Mills. Deluxe packaging featuring the work of renowned visual artist João Ruas, a 14 song mini-album on a download card with half an hour of brand new original music unavailable anywhere else, and a double-sided card print of original artwork from William Ryan Fritch and Jamie Mills.£9.00 -
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William Ryan Fritch – Emptied Animal
CD, SaleArtwork by world renowned artist/illustrator Joao Ruas. Glass Mastered CD housed in a Japanese style heavy stock, reverse printed case. Limited to 250 copies... Emptied Animal, the debut release from William Ryan Fritch, is an overture to the surrealist Psych-folk of his upcoming LP Leave Me Like You Found Me. This 10 song EP, full of more music and ideas than most long playing records, is comprised of five new songs featuring his honeyed, expressive vocals over bold, panoramic orchestration and five equally sumptuous and engaging instrumental tracks all showcasing a unique sense of orchestration and texture. The breadth and scope of this album’s instrumentation and arrangement belie the seemingly incomprehensible fact that every sound was played live, recorded, and mixed by Fritch in his home studio. After more than a decade of slowly refining and honing his DIY, no budget, maximalist aesthetic, Emptied Animal with it’s new, evocative sound palette is a statement piece for a solo artist who has continually strived to make music larger than his modest means. Those who purchase the physical album will receive four exclusive bonus tracks derived from the Leave Me Like You Found Me sessions.£6.00 -
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Wegrzyn – Volksmusik
CD, Sale”Volksmusik” is a debut full length release from Wegrzyn. Three short piano loops processed, edited and arranged into three lengthy ambient pieces. There was no other sound material used during the making of this album but those three loops. Recorded and mixed in one week, ”Volksmusik” was inspired by a rather sad event in artist’s life. Eventually sadness gave way to a bunch of other feelings. Most of them very positive and uplifting. And those feelings combined with childhood memories of a number of summers spent in a beautiful place in the countryside with the most loving people, became the foundation of what would be released as ”Volksmusik”. Those people are no longer there. The place had changed almost beyond recognition. Recording took place a long way from the landscapes and imagery that inspired the music. But still.. in a countryside. Very different though. The artist limited himself to the use of piano sounds only which helped him to stay focused on the possibilities of manipulating that sound. Through heavy audio processing a simple chord or even a single note would lead him to discovery of some interesting soundscapes and spaces. On the other hand, a rather short time spent on developing the pieces, made the initial feeling of nostalgia present throughout the record. Lukasz Wegrzyn was born in 1979 in Poland. As a teenager he featured in a number of guitar oriented indie/rock/noise bands. In 2009 Wegrzyn started making music on his own as slept. Strongly influenced by all sorts of images and sounds he now happily records under his own name.£6.00 -
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David Newlyn – Disintegrating Suburban Dream
CD, SaleWith his solo project, David Newlyn has been creating atmospheric, textural music since 2007. Known to Hibernate fans for a collaborative EP with Yellow6 back in 2011 he has also had numerous works released on labels such as Cotton Goods, Time Released Sound, Tokyo Droning and Flaming Pines. Based just outside Durham city, David combines electronics with guitars, keyboards and fretless bass to create hazy melancholic pieces. His latest album, ‘Disintegrating Suburban Dream’ sees David’s love of exploring and photographing derelict or abandoned places translated into a series of twelve impressionistic studies that focus on time and place. Alongside the markedly more acoustic instrumentation than his previous work lie spur of the moment field recordings made simply on a phone or camera, making a feature of the hiss and grit generated by these recordings. A celebration of dereliction, David Newlyn’s latest work succeeds in drawing the listener through its crumbling corridors as distant, decaying melodies act as a backdrop to ghostly chatter through a layer of fog.£7.00 -
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Rivulets – Stars In Aspic
Sale, VinylRivulets is US songwriter Nathan Amundson. He has released albums on Important, Chair Kickers’ Union and O Rosa Records, as well as numerous EPs, split releases and compilations. Since 2000 Rivulets has toured extensively across the US and Europe, gaining fervent acclaim for his achingly fragile, minimal song-craft. This is Rivulets’ debut solo vinyl record, and the first physical release since 2011. Trome Records has been a fan of Rivulets’ achingly fragile song-craft for years now, so we’re really pleased to be able to bring you this beautiful record. ’Stars In Aspic’ on the A side is full-band languid Americana which rocks out towards the end, augmented by Nathan’s distinctive vocals that hit you somewhere in the chest. ’It’s Here’ on Side B hails from the opposite end of the Rivulets sound palette, with a deep, brooding late-night guitar ambient drone. As ever with Nathan’s work, both tracks on ‘Stars In Aspic’ sound bruised yet searingly honest, the effect of which seeps into the listener and stays there. Artwork is from the photographer Christy Romanick [http://christyromanick.tumblr.com] who has previously contributed sleeve art for Rivulets, Windy & Carl, thisquietarmy, Windsor For The Derby and Infinite Light Ltd among others. Limited black vinyl with thick black card inner sleeves and hand-stamped labels. Essential.£3.50 -
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Charles-Eric Charrier – Petite Soeur
Sale, VinylCharles-Eric Charrier is a French bassist and pianist mining the remote seams of music between post-classical, jazz, acoustic blues and ambient. Hidden or distant those seams may be, but all the richer for those who take the time to seek them out. Echoes of innovative artists like Earth, Anouar Brahem, Bohren und der Club of Gore, Chet Baker or even Malian musicians such as Ali Farka Toure and Tinariwen sometimes appear on the horizon, only to disappear at the next turn. Charrier’s music as band-leader on ‘Petite Soeur’, his first release for Gizeh Records, is endlessly yearning and searching, pushing and pulling at the basic fabric of bass, piano, drums and guitar. Repetition, space and a sublime understanding of how instruments speak with each other are the key fundamentals in this album. Witness the patient guitar that opens ‘No Closed To Be’, taking its own sweet time before first acoustic bass and then percussion fall into line behind. And the narcotic, late-night jazz of the title track with drums, piano and Fender Rhodes slurring around Charrier’s steady bass pulse. Or the gradual build of ‘Instant/Moment’ into a sustained, pulse-like drive before pausing, exhausted by the sun on the plains, and then collapsing into a mesmerising swirl of woodwind, organ, piano and bowed drones. ‘Petite Soeur’ may be all-instrumental, but we can hear Charrier’s voice as clear as a bell. It is defined by empathy and clarity. In its own way, this is soul music.£8.00 -
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Various – Hope
CD, SaleAs suggested by its title, Hope’, embodies a concept of positivity and the alleviation of strife through the creative translation of emotion into sounds sent to soothe (and) images formed to inspire. Artists were asked to create compositions that reflected their interpretation of the term Hope, producing varied yet cohesive results with a profound resonance. 50% of the profits are donated to Toybox, a charity providing aid, shelter and support for homeless children in Latin America, the majority of which are estimated a life expectancy of around four years on the street. Coupling all of this with the CD’s bespoke artwork and carbon neutral manufacture provides a consumable and tangible product that serves to aid a constructive cause through the medium of music. Ishq – Forever 10:51 2 Snakestyle – Hopeful 6:32 3 Field Rotation – Regenzeit 8:21 4 James Murray – Fingersand 7:11 5 Iambic – Turn The Seasons 2:19 6 Bersarin Quartett – Was Uns Bleibt 4:39 7 Playb – Acoustics Of The Piano (Plucked) 6:34 8 Halogen – Sunriser 5:23 9 Ben Beiny – Start Again 5:02 10 Iambic – Flags 4:18 11 Digitonal – We Three 4:57 12 Hol Baumann – Time To Change 5:05 13 Ben Beiny – A Part Of You 2:45£7.00 -
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Porya Hatami – Shallow
CD, SalePorya Hatami is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/minimal, his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field recordings. On Shallow, Porya has masterfully sculpted three pieces that are rich in tone and effortlessly relaxed and spacious. The album was mastered by M. Ostermeier. Cover Photography by William Keckler.£7.00 -
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Le Chat Blanc Orchestra – Three Flats Too Minor
CD, SaleStamped black bottom CDR, A7 white envelopes, three 5″x7” prints. Handmade. Edition of 100... “Three Flats Too Minor” is the 2nd full-length album from Le Chat Blanc Orchestra and 2nd release on TQA Records (first one was their EP “Theories sur la danse in 2007).£8.00 -
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Sequences – As The Dust Reveals All
CD, SaleStamped black bottom CDR, A7 white envelopes, four 5″x7″ prints. Handmade. Edition of 100... Sequences is a manifest of soundscapes that are captured and created in the ether between light and darkness; where the light began, the darkness will end. In the ashes of this project, we find a sole member who will represent the sound of a hidden world, buried within ourselves.£7.00 -
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Mains de Givre – Mort
CD, SaleStamped black bottom CDR, A7 white envelopes, three 5″x7″ prints. Handmade. Edition of 100. Mains de Givre is a guitar/violin-centered ambient project involving self-taught experimentalist Eric Quach and classically trained musician Émilie Livernois-Desroches, from Montreal. Quach is widely known for the experimental drone/shoegaze work he’s produced under his thisquietarmy alias and also is the founder of the post-rock band Destroyalldreamers. Livernois-Desroches has played violin since she was seven years old and has been a part of various chamber music and symphonic orchestras. She also performs/performed with a wide variety of bands in styles ranging from pop to post-rock to medieval folk-black metal such as Le Diable aux Corsets, Sugarshack, Les Bâtards du Nord, Marie-Mai and Profugus Mortis. So far, they’ve released one album called ‘Esther Marie’ in 2010 on Textura (Canada) which was nicely received, as well as an EP “Insomnie à l’Ail” on TQA Records (Canada) & several tracks on various compilations. ‘Mort” regroups works from the last recording sessions in 2010 & 2011. It might be the final release for this project.£7.00 -
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thisquietarmy – Live in Sao Paulo (DVD)
DVD, SaleThis is the complete thisquietarmy live performance that took place at Centro Cultural Sao Paulo in Brazil on June 23rd, 2013. The concert marked the end of the TQA Brazilian tour where he performed 14 shows through May & June 2013 to promote the split LP with Sao Paulo-based band Labirinto released on Dissenso Recordings. For this “homecoming” Brazilian gig, thisquietarmy performs a special encore with two members from Labirinto: Muriel Curi on drums/electronics & Ricardo Pereira on bass. The DVD compiles and crossovers video footage by Claud Peer & Rodrigo Florentino with thisquietarmy’s live visuals and the live soundboard audio recording from CCSP. The whole thing was entirely edited & mastered by Eric Quach back at TQA.HQ in Montreal, Canada. The DVD includes 4 live photographs of the performance by Daniel Moura, and the package was designed, printed, hand-cut and assembled by Eric Quach/TQA Records. The DVDs are silver/black DVD-Rs, burnt as NTSC and should work on all new DVD players and DVD-roms.£7.00 -
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Michel Banabila – More Research…
CD, SaleThis is the follow-up to ‘The Latest Research From The Department Of Electrical Engineering’ (2011) . Sounds/ instruments that are used : EXS 24 sampler, found objects, fluorescent tube sounds, refrigerator sounds, plug sounds, ring thing modulator, korg monotribe and monotron, michael norris plugs, omnysphere soft. synth, pulsaret software, webSDR recordings, tape noise, kaoss pad, logic pro.£4.00 -
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Andrew Johnson: a new line (related) (2 x Vinyl)
Sale, VinylA New Line (Related) is the latest venture from Lancashire-based Andrew Johnson (Hood/Remote Viewer/Moteer). Utilising tools from the early days of home produced underground dance music (such as SK5 sampler keyboards and vintage drum machines) Andrew has unearthed a beautiful album of downbeat, lamp-lit techno, industrial grade ambience and sonic experimentation which at times recalls early Warp Records, Gescom and raw, 313 area Beatdown House, as well as the more modern breed of electronic and techno travellers such as Actress, Mark Fell (Late Period) and even Theo Parrish (The Slow Sound Of Your Life). Despite (or maybe because of) the antiquated sound sources, these tracks pull and tug at the emotions. Rattling drum machines pick out rhythms while underneath, carefully played warm synths and a mesh of samples slowly emerge, introducing melody and texture into the pieces. All culminating in a spacious, evocative and unhurried work. As well as the more beat-driven tracks, there are moments of intense stillness (People Kissed Underneath Me), Steve Reich-esque, gamelan style hypnotic nodders (Repetition) and probably one of the most beautiful tracks you’re likely to hear this year (Great Palaces).£12.00 -
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Listening Mirror – The Heart Of The Sky
CD, SaleFull colour digipak… The Heart of The Sky’ was inspired by a trip that Jeff made with his family to a lake called Tequesquitengo in Mexico. The sounds and atmosphere of the lake and it’s surroundings form the backing to three of the four compositions of slow drone, loops, and reverb drenched guitar on the album. The fourth track ‘ Mixtli Sleeps’ is an interpretation of the Mexican equivalent of Romeo and Juliet – the sad and beautiful story of the princess Mixtli and her prince Popocatepetl, with beautiful, haunting vocals by Alicia Merz. ‘The Heart of The Sky’ was originally released on cassette, in 2011 by Bathetic Records. It sold out pretty quickly, and ever since, Jeff has been asked to make it available again, but in a more accessible format. So here it is, on CD, in an expanded edition that includes remixes by Wil Bolton, Sleeper, and Leon Muraglia. Listening Mirror was discontinued in 2013, but Jeff and Alicia have continued to work together under the name ‘Snoqualmie Falls’, and have already released a sold out EP, with one album complete, and another in the pipeline.”£5.00 -
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Machinefabriek – Attention, the Doors are Closing
CD, SaleAfter making the music (with Aaron Martin) for his pieceHide And Seek, choreographer Iván Pérez asked me to score his workAttention: the Doors Are Closing!The piece was made for Ballet Moscow, as part of their collaboration with Korzo (The Hague), for the Rusland-Netherlands year 2013. Before Ivan went to Russia to start working with the dancers, I made hours of raw material, mostly based on recordings of drums (which I found fitting with the concept of the piece). The last three weeks of the working process I joined Ivan in Moscow to work intensely on the music, while he was dealing with the finishing touches of the chreography. Each day the piece grew, and sound and movement got closer together. Attentiondeals with human relations in all its aspects, and especially how these function in a Russian society. It’s a very physical performance that draws from agression, humilation and intimacy in equal parts. The score enhances this, making it a very intense and at times intimidating work. The cd comes in a slim cd-single-style jewelcase and is mastered by Joe Panzner.£7.00 -
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Absent Without Leave – Faded Photographs Remixes (2 x CD)
CD, SaleThis is a limited edition of 500 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped white recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert printed on nice fabric paper… Absent Without Leave is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist George Mastrokostas, based in Athens, Greece. To date, he has released three full length albums, four EPs and six split/collaborative releases on labels such as Distant Noise Records, Unlabel, Chat Blanc Records, Awkward Silence Recordings, Thisquietarmy Records, Three:Four Records, Duotone Records and many others. Occasionally he has done some selective live shows around Europe and has shared the stage with many talented artists, including 65daysofstatic, God Is An Astronaut, Port-Royal, I Like Trains, Jeniferever, Arms And Sleepers, Piano Magic, Manyfingers, and others too. Faded Photographs was originally released in late 2010, including guest appearances by Port-Royal, Stafrænn Hákon, Epic45, Millimetrik and members of Hood, The Declining Winter, Eksi Ekso, Plumerai and Tupolev amongst others. The album received really great reviews from many magazines, webzines, blogs and radio shows worldwide and was promoted with the first ever Absent Without Leave European tour in spring 2011.£8.00 -
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Glottalstop – Woodsmoke
Deluxe, Sale, VinylThe record is mastered by Brassica. Available in a limited run of 200 copies, the record features artwork screenprinted across the inner sleeve, and a 2-colour screenprinted card jacket, sewn edges and protected in a heavyweight PVC sleeve. Purchases of the vinyl also come with a free download code… Woodsmoke is the debut release from Glottalstop. Sourced almost entirely from a collection of tape recordings dating back 20 years, the two long-form tracks that make up this LP are an exercise in slowbuild tension, unsettling claustrophobia, and dense textural collage. This distorted tape assemblage is tied together with additional improvised cello and electronics, never standing still, but letting each sound explore its full potential before moving on. In terms of reference points, the record perhaps harks back to the early tape work of Arthur Lipsett, or more recent offerings from Daniel Menche and the unclassifiable output of Akira Rabelais. But really we’re struggling for comparisons. Woodsmoke, like the mysterious building depicted on the artwork, is out on its own, in the middle of the woods, and it’s getting dark…£12.00 -
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Andree / Mason – Call, Response
Sale, Vinyl“Call, Response” was conceived of as a long distance musical conversation between Josh Mason and David Andree. A single take of material performed by one artist was recorded to magnetic tape and sent to the other with the restriction that accompaniment be recorded in real time as well, closely simulating a live performance. Over time, as the players learned more about each other and their methods, an overarching quality to the body of work developed from their shared sensibilities. The call and response format allowed the voice of each artist to be present, interacting and intersecting, within a murky atmosphere punctuated by melodic fragments and moments of clarity.£8.00 -
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Good Night & Good Morning – Narrowing Type
Sale, VinylNarrowing Type, the first full length album in Good Night & Good Morning’s five year history, is an exploration of the darker side of nostalgia, texture, and delicacy. Recorded entirely in home studios between Chicago and Milwaukee, Narrowing Type retains GN&GM’s vibraphone and guitar core but uses the addition of drums while detouring into sublime realms of static and noise to leave you with deconstructed yet thickened pop music heard and felt through a haze of fog. Limited 12” vinyl mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k). RIYL: Grouper, The American Analog Set, Stars of the Lid, Low, Jesu.£8.00 -
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Moult / Colohan – Hexameron (CD)
CD, SaleStandard digipak version comes in an edition of 200 copies, and is a collaborative, industrialised collage between the great artist Gustave Dore and Colin Herrick Hexameron is a collaborative effort between Richard Moult, and David Colohan… both of whom play with the brilliant neo folk group, United Bible Studies, and each of whom is involved with numerous other projects either on their own, or with others. This is a profoundly and deeply felt imagined soundtrack to the remote places of pagan pilgrimages, early Christian Hermitages, and the wanderings of the ancient wastelands of their unique heritage. This beautiful interplay of piano, electronics, and treated guitar work will take you across these ancient vistas and into the religious wilds of a Europa long gone.£7.00 -
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A Veil Of Water – Reminder
CD, Sale“Reminder” is the debut album by multi-instrumentalist Rune Trelvik, under the moniker A Veil Of Water. “Reminder” represents the culmination of a two year long journey through a tumultuous relationship. This album travels through the feelings of initial attraction, infatuation, love, hope, nostalgia, and the subsequent loss of the entire bond. Self-taught in piano, drums, guitar, and bass, Rune has drawn inspiration from a wide array of musical styles utilizing essences rather than direct influences by the bands and genres he appreciates. Experimental in nature, A Veil Of Water has been mostly associated with post-rock and neoclassical styles, yet remains faithful to its re-occuring melancholic theme. In short, A Veil Of Water tries to capture fleeting sensations, momentary glimpses, and feelings of longing, producing a musical representation of his internal world.£6.00 -
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Andrei Machado – Catarse
CD, SaleCover art by Jamie Silveira (The Album Leaf) this is a stunning 8 track Neo Classical release that comes in a printed card sleeve and factory replicated disc… Twice Removed is proud to announce the release of Andrei Machado”s “Catarse”. “Catarse” (translated to English means Catharsis) is Andrei’s third album, but first as a physical product. Andrei Machado is a composer from Brasília, Brazil. Composing ‘Catarse’ was a constant search for the essential. A search for quiet, serenity and peace. A search for less.” Andrei’s previous releases were “Lacuna” (2008) and “Étant” (2009) and both came out on the Brazilian Sinewave net label. His influences are neo-classical music and minimalist artists like Peter Broderick, Bosques De Mi Mente, Max Michta, Goldmund and Michael Andrews. “With a soft touch and a mix of elegancy, Andrei Machado blends beautiful soundscapes with heartbreaking melodies, giving you, at the same time, the feeling of freedom and anxiety. And it’s definitely something a human being should experience.” (The Siren Sound).£3.00 -
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Andreas Brandal – Seance
CD, SaleThe release comes in a recycled cardboard gatefold sleeve with Andreas’ artwork attached and a handstamped cd-r. It is a limited edition of 50 copies… Twice Removed is proud to announce the release of Andreas Brandal’s “Seance”. Andreas Brandal is a prolific Norwegian musician who has been active since the late 1980’s and has appeared on many releases as either a solo artist or as part of a duo. Labels that Andreas has been on include Smalltown Supersound, Basses Frequencies, Stunned, Sweat Lodge Guru and many more. His music covers such genres as Noise, Electroacoustic, Ambient, Drone and Experimental styles. “Séance” is an 8 track release which has a filmic theme to it with music that would not be out of place in a Science Fiction movie with an Industrial and occasional ominous feel to it.£3.00 -
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Benoit Pioulard: Hymnal Remixes (2 x CD)
CD, SaleThis one is stunning, designed utilizing two beautifully toned photos taken by Tom Meluch. The double disc album comes housed in a perfectly worn heavy stock Japanese style CD wallet including matte printing on the disc faces as well. Mastered by Carl Saff… Seattle-based Benoît Pioulard has become a stalwart of Chicago’s kranky imprint over the course of four full-lengths, the most recent of which is Hymnal. Lost Tribe Sound is pleased to release Hymnal Remixes, a compendium of interpretations, constructions, reductions and destructions. On Remixes the roll call includes: Fieldhead, Loscil, Field Rotation, William Ryan Fritch, Graveyard Tapes, Part Timer, Cock & Swan, Brambles, Segue, The Remote Viewer, The Green Kingdom, Squanto, James Murray, Zachary Gray, Widesky, Radere, Ruhe, Window Magic, Benoît Honoré Pioulard£7.00 -
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Ulises Conti – Atlas
CD, SaleAtlas collects what could be considered Ulises Conti’s most distinguished recording works throughout his 10-year solo career. The selection reveals a great sound display that generates musical spaces and landscapes of a beauty that is unusual in today’s scene, which stresses the timbral element (piano, French horn, viola, lap steel, etc.) This is only a brief sample from his productions as a musician, because his work also expands on other disciplines such as film, visual arts, dance and theater, as the composer of soundtracks, installations and other sound research projects. He is one of the Argentine composers with the most potential and international projection considering his powerful and inspiring work.£7.00 -
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Cuushe – Butterfly Case
CD, Sale“Butterfly Case” is Cuushe’s brand new breath-taking 2nd full length album, coming four years after her beautiful debut “Red Rocket Telepathy” and the subsequent “Girl You Know That I Am Here But The Dream” EP. While Cuushe’s debut album put more focus on field recordings and found sounds, in “Butterfly Case”, you can see her moving graciously from her dreams into reality, expressing herself with delicate analog tape, distorted synths, drum machines, looped guitars and her signature feathery vocals. This wonderful album is co-produced by flau label mastermind aus, with Geskia at the mastering helm. These astonishing new songs allow us see a new vision, an imagination from Cuushe that we’ve never seen before. The balearic guitar-house track “I Love You”, which is one of the most popular tracks from the album, has already been receiving raving reviews from the press both in Japan and overseas, while the ambient-ish R&B take in “Hanabi” is a wonderful reminiscent of Cocteau Twins & early 4AD meet soul music. Cuushe’s uniquely beautiful voice, and the delicately beat-driven music that was masterfully produced in “Butterfly Case”, has undoubtedly unfolded a new exciting dimension in dream pop music. by Tim McGregor & Wei Yuen, mu-nest.£7.00 -
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Atom Eye – The Otolith Sessions
Book, CD, Deluxe, SaleCD release with a limited edition, 50 page book complete with beautiful images and texts eluding to the recording materials, machinery, processes and personnel. The book also encompasses an audio cookbook with recipes for you to create your own experimental audio loops and soups. The culmination of a year’s worth of sound experiments with machines of a bygone era, The Otolith Sessions sees Elsie Martins ‘Atom Eye’ project realise it’s most ambitious and complete work to date. A meticulously programmed full length as opposed to a collection of tracks the album develops and unfolds with a palpable sense of purpose and adventure over the albums six storied compositions. The visceral nature of the beautiful but abstruse music is no fluke but a deliberate result of the unhurried nature of the albums writing and production process. The Otolith Sessions was mixed & co-produced by James Aparicio (Liars, Spiritualized) and features guest appearances from regular collaborators; award-winning percussionist Pete Lockett (Björk, David Holmes, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lee Scratch Perry, Primal Scream) and Mute Artist, Composer and Producer Simon Fisher Turner (whose work includes soundtracks for Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, The Last of England, The Garden and David Lynch-produced Nadja).£20.00 -
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Ithaca Trio – Music For Piano & Patience
CD, SaleIthaca Trio is Leeds based artist Oliver Thurley. He is one of our favourite artists, with notable releases on Hibernate and Under The Spire, as well as his highly praised split with Machinefabriek ‘Par Avion’ in 2010. He is currently studying a PhD in Composition at the University of Leeds, UK. ‘Music For Piano & Patience’ is a beautiful two piece album based on piano loops run through reel-to-reel. It was mastered on degrading 1/4” reels.£6.00 -
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Wndfrm – C60 / Tmkutekt
CD, SaleWndfrm is Tim Westcott, from Portland, Oregon. This is our first release with Tim, although we go way back now after his cloudburst moniker produced the excellent Resting Bell release ‘Katedra’ in 2008. ‘c60 / tmkutekt’ are two long-form compositions he created with grant funding from the Canada Council for The Arts. The source field recordings for “c60” were obtained exclusively from within the “Biosphere Museum of the Environment”, which at the time of recording was located in the geodesic dome in Parc Jean- Drapeau, Montreal. Indeed all the sounds used in these two compositions were derived from field recordings obtained during a visit to Montreal, Canada, in the early summer of 2011. The work was greatly inspired by the performances and atmosphere of the MUTEK Electronic Music and Digital Arts Festival.£5.00 -
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Maps and Diagrams – In Circles (CD)
CD, SaleConceived in part as a follow up to his extremely well received 2011 album, “Get Lost”… this too is an absolutely classic, languid mix of melodiously flowing and organic electronica of the highest caliber. The standard, printed digipak version of this release comes in an edition of 200 copies with a factory pressed replicated disc.£6.00 -
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Maps and Diagrams – In Circles
CD, Deluxe, SaleThis, the deluxe version comes in an edition of only 70 copies. Each of these hand altered black digipaks comes collaged, punched and inlayed inside and out with antique, ornate silkscreened Spanish cork wallpapers…even the spine! Like the digipak itself the black, double sided hand printed and punched textual insert has had all edges blacked out as well. The digipak itself comes in an extensively hand stamped, hole punched, inked and diagrammed translucent envelope…also included in each is a 75 year old page of hand drawn and written diagrams and text. While Get Lost was all about the maps… In Circles is all about the diagrams…in your mind!£25.00 -
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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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Darren Harper – Rising Sea
3", SaleImprovisational studies for Fender Telecaster and Ableton Live. Reflections on the ever changing landscape of our planet, and the sea-change events that are in motion… W/P Darren Harper Autumn 2013 Mastering by Jason Corder (part one & two) Photo Darren Harper Aug/2013 Nye Beach, Oregon For Isabella & Rowan£4.00 -
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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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Juppala Kaapio – Alpen Ocean
Sale, VinylThis release is a limited edition of 250 copies… Alpen Ocean is the final recording of Carole Kojo (Swiss) and Hitoshi Kojo (Japanese) that they left behind as Juppala Kaapio, whilst resident in Switzerland. The sound sources are rather familiar instruments and materials for us such as voices, handmade instruments, viola, organic materials and field recordings. However, the style has evolved to a hybrid of our early style: an intense harmonic drone music that has appeared in RAINBOW MASK, and another phase which might be termed as a cosmopolitan ethnic music, that has been archived in later recordings such as OWLORA MUSKARIA and ANIMALIA COROLLA. The overlaid harmonies of a murmuring of trees, howling skies, roarings of the ocean and the gradual transformation that is accompanied by melodies may remind you of migratory birds travelling across the sky on a lost ancient continent, or the dream of sea animals that are in eternal slumber in a ridge of mountains. This piece would be one of a high-water mark by Jüppala Kääpiö who have looked for sound which resonates throughout time and space, whilst regarding a life-size reality that is rooted on the earth. Since the move to Belgium where is a foreign county for both of us in 2011, we are investigating a passage to our next chapter in the new environment.£12.50 -
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Raising Holy Sparks – For Fran…
Sale, TapeLimited edition run of 50 copies… ‘For Fran, Etched In Glass & Water’ is a new album from Irish musician Dave Colohan, under the name Raising Holy Sparks. Colohan is a founding member of the respected avant-folk collective United Bible Studies and the Deserted Village label. Raising Holy Sparks began in 2011, after Colohan retired the Agitated Radio Pilot name under which he’d been recording since 1993. The project sees Colohan and a rotating crew of friends exploring music informed by Hasidic mysticism and the landscapes of rural Ireland, achieving an ecstatic outpouring of drone, folk song, and free jazz in the process. ‘For Fran, Etched In Glass & Water’ is the third album from Raising Holy Sparks to see a physical release. Recorded in Ballymahon, Co. Longford during April and May of 2013, it features Colohan on accordion, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp, harmonium, Hohner Organetta, melodica, shruti box, trombone and sampled Mellotron. The results are more serene than much of Colohan’s recent material, coalescing into a long-form ambience where echo and memory are key.£5.00 -
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Bastian Void – Phonics
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 75 c36 produbbed and imprinted cassettes. Pro printed double sided J card. Warm daylight, myself at age 8, sitting in computer class. Circuits and pine trees. Views out various bedroom windows. The research laboratory down the street. Atari in the basement. Wood paneling. Office buildings. Power generators sitting in the forest. Light shapes cast on walls. Science class. Old computer games. Leaves and educational video tapes.£3.50 -
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Sima Kim – Whatever
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 75 c26 pro-dubbed and imprinted cassettes. Pro printed double sided J card… Delicate post-classical piano ambience from South Korean musicologist Sima Kim. Includes re-workings from Wil Bolton and Hakobune.£3.50 -
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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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Chantal Acda – Let Your Hands Be My Guide (Vinyl)
Sale, Vinyl180g heavyweight LP comes in a beautiful matte finished sleeve with black inner paper sleeve stamped with the Gizeh logo. Currently 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.£8.00 -
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N(13) – Prora
Sale, VinylOriginally released in 2009. Pure guitar drones. With passion. A simple method with minimalistic device. Two songs focused on the heart of matter. Keep it low. At this point a classic! Vinyl will come with a 12-page photo booklet including liner notes by Tobias Fischer and Inke Arns. Mastered by Dirk Serries.£12.00 -
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EAU-DC – Nr2
Sale, VinylWith Nr2 Jens Fischer and Thorsten Polomski developed 8 Songs moving between the relaxing moods of electronica. Just mixing up their favoured elements, adding more restrained, but sometimes pretty hasty beats and analog sounding fx’s this time, their 2nd recording expands ambient to not-just ambient. 100 copies will include a big sized poster with conceptual artwork according to the sleeve. Artwork/ design by Dominic Rechsteiner.£10.00 -
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Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf – Kindspechleber / Kall Tra
Sale, VinylOn Kindspechleber Mirko Uhlig offers a set of real disturbing tracks somewhere between musique concrète and cold ambient layers. The added CD Kall Trä presents reworked sound collections from the vinyl and with this four completely new songs. As they complement this work as whole, these recordings shouldn´t be withhold. A release which shows once more that Mirko Uhlig is just a versatile experimental musician. Comes in a very appealing coverartwork by Robert Schalinski.£12.00 -
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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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Depatterning – The Huddled Tone (Deluxe 3″ box set)
3", Deluxe, SaleEach copy of this hand stamped release comes with images from abandoned villages, a vintage Saskatchewan postage stamp and a single, out-of-print Canadian penny predating the second Brian Mulroney term. Housed in a recycled kraft box, all paper has been printed on 100% recycled material… Researching the loss of rural communities with a reissue of Depatterning’s long out of print “The Huddled Tone Eps”. Includes a soundtrack to Elysia Bourne’s film “The Elevator at Parkbeg”, featuring Andrew Lee (In Media Res) and Ronan McGrath (Sxa Ormbjüment). As the urban population of the 20th century grew, the need for small town services declined. Worthless crop prices. Rail line decommissioned. The mine’s closure. Farm consolidation. Land becomes fallow. Town becoming a widow. These recordings trace the remnants of communities that at one time were places of growth and promise.£8.00 -
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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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Loci – Into Blindness
Sale, TapeFirst edition of 99 cassette, spraypainted black hand-scored & cut black & white J-cards / hand-cut black & white inserts / black & white Gilded Peradam logo card… Out of the darkness, straight Into Blindness. These two side-long tracks represent the very first meeting of minds and clashing of sounds that birthed LOCI. Recorded entirely live with no overdubs or edits, Into Blindness slips effortlessly in between droning, breathy stretches of pure black and seething climaxes steeped in the throes of chaos.£4.00 -
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Machinefabriek – Vergezichten
Sale, VinylMusicians like Rutger Zuydervelt have a special relationship with presets – sounds, rhythms and samples that are inbuilt to keyboards or synthesizers. Presets are the opposite of individualism in music, they are commodities, sounds off the peg. Self-respecting musicians never use them, or perhaps use them precisely because they shouldn’t. Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek is a master of self-made sound and time-stretching, sensitively handling organic recordings and samples on countless releases, and regards preset sounds in an organ or a cheap keyboard as a tonal find, as a part of the cacophony of every day life. He uses the chugging of a Bontempi rhythm box or preset strings like field recordings, with the same calm and matter-of-factness as the murmur of ventilation or the hum of a refrigerator. These Bontempi-rhythms plus the computer-stretched sounds of saxophone (Espen Reinertsen) and voice (Mariska Baars) are the base elements of Vergezicht 1 & 2. It is stunning how Zuydervelt manages to produce depth and meditative calm with this supposedly soulless material. Never-ending expanses and the mechanic rhythms overlap and start shifting, slowly and imperceptibly before the beat gets nervous, starts to stumble to finally come to a standstill with the slowly swelling bass. The track is held in suspense, rattling and rustling. Ghostly squeaking breezes in, then another stop with a soft beat of the drum. Slowly, the track builds itself up again with filtered grooves and prolonged notes. On Vergezicht 2, the Bontempi-rhythm sets in again, after seven minutes of rising and subsiding expanses and the breezy, ethereal soprano, this time slowed down alongside warm basses and single notes from the piano. Then a momentary halt, almost too beautiful and too clean for this track. Soon an ominous siren call floats above the euphony and restores order by friction. This subtle irritation is part of a complete acoustic pattern. It is not possible to imagine Machinefabriek’s music without the irritiating moment, the doubt turned into sound. The Dutch word ‘Vergezicht’ means view or panorama. And it is a wide acoustic panorama opened by Zuydervelt here that reveal presets in new light.£7.00 -
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Machinefabriek – Colour Tones
Sale, VinylOne sided white vinyl record (as used in the Colour Tales exhibition) in a simple sleeve. The package includes a download code for the music in digital format, including the 12 minute ‘Mosaic’ (which is not on the lp itself). Tracks 1-5 were recorded for ‘Colour Tales – an artistic research into the quality of colour’, a project and exhibition by Lesley Moore, curated by Anthropologists in Art, inspired by Imants Ziedonis’ book Krasainas Pasakas (Coloured Tales). Mosaic was initially a study for a live performance at the opening of the exhibition.£6.00 -
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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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Karina ESP – A Single Moment, Repeated
3", SaleKarina ESP is the solo recording project of Chris Gowers. Centered around exploring guitar-based textures, recordings vary between slowly formed melancholic ambient, experimental drones and blurred melodies. Karina ESP has been released on a number of labels including Morc Records, Hibernate, Airborne Virus and Evelyn, and has played live in venues across Europe and the UK, sharing the stage with Jessica Bailiff, Tara Jane O’Neil, Wouter van Veldhoven, Drekka and Plinth. Ongoing collaborations have also come to fruition, resulting in releases with Caught In The Wake Forever, Isnaj Dui and Circle Bros. Chris Gowers is also active performing, writing and recording with the bands Signals and Rome Pays Off, and runs The Remains Of My Estate record label. With A Single Moment, Repeated Chris wanted to capture those brief moments of beautiful clarity that communicate something wordless.£4.00 -
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Offthesky – Exit To Anywhere
3", SaleOffthesky’s postcard ep “Exit To Anywhere” is a ‘diary’ collage of his recent travels in Europe with bits recorded in London, Halifax, Berlin and Bern.£4.00 -
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Isnaj Dui / Offthesky / Orla Wren – 85%
3", Sale85% is a collaboration between Isnaj Dui, Offthesky and Orla Wren. All three artists appeared at the Homenormalism show in London at the beginning of August 2013 where it was discovered that they shared a love for 85% dark chocolate. We hinted that an ep should be recorded on that basis and next thing Orla Wren pulls out his iPad and starts recording Isnaj Dui’s flute, Offthesky’s guitar and a load of other random instruments. A little while later the ep was finished…£4.00 -
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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 -
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Jared Smith – Fjall
Sale, VinylLimited edition 12” white vinyl. Jared Smith is a musician, photographer, and programmer living in San Francisco. In his third release, Fjall, meaning “mountain” in Icelandic, he provides a stripped down departure from his previous albums. Whether it’s the melodic rapping of a flagpole in front of Hallgrímskirkja church, the hollow clatter of a loose street-tile along Bergstaðastræti, or even the warm, comforting sound of coffee brewing from within flat in Reykjavík, He is able to find the music in the micro and the mundane. Fjall explores the fear that disables enjoyment of beautiful moments, the fear of repeating mistakes, the fear of what a new path will bring.£10.00 -
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Melodia – Saudades
Sale, VinylSaudades is the debut by Melodía, the duo of Federico Durand and Tomoyoshi Date. Fede is a musician who lives in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Born in San Paulo, Brazil, where he lived until the age of three, Tomo currently resides in Tokyo, Japan. They both share a profound passion for music. They both released a solo album on Own Records in 2011 and a few months later (Spring 2012) went to Europe for a common tour where they first met and where they decided to record an album together which was mastered by their friend Stephan Mathieu.£10.00 -
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Rudi Arapahoe – Double Bind
3", SaleA numbered limited edition 3″ CDr of 100… Double Bind is the second release from Rudi Arapahoe; the EP continues from where the album Echoes From One To Another (2008) left off, shifting the artist’s language into an increasingly bleak and abstract superstratum. The term “double bind” was originally coined by Gregory Bateson and his colleagues in the 1950s, in an attempt to elucidate the interpersonal interactions that were perceived to precede and maintain schizophrenia. The theory is now used to discuss a variety of complex relationships. Rudi has applied the theory to the relationships that define his world and voiced the findings as music. A face in the mirror, an intimate partner, a public face, a professional face, opponents in business, friendships, the relationships that make up a life; come together to speak, confound and contradict one another. The resulting music, Double Bind, rings out as complex, knotted chords that represent our lives in society.£4.00 -
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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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Rezo Glonti – Late Night Diving
3", SaleThe old and the new, and the personal and political collide in Rezo Glonti’s EP Late Night Diving, which explores the history and contemporary reality of his post-Soviet home Georgia. Inspired by old wedding footage found during a trip to rural Georgia, Glonti decided to write a piece celebrating joy and renewal in the face of oppression and despair. ”It was really inspiring and beautiful,” he said of the footage, which was shot in 1985. ”I realised that despite the regime and the banning of certain things, people were happy and happiness and joy is universal and timeless, no matter when you live and where you live.”£5.00 -
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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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Drape – An Idea And Its Map
Sale, VinylEdition of 400 copies. Black vinyl, 180 Gram pressing. Gatefold sleeve + OBI strip. Purchase of LP will include a download code of the album… Drape is an ambient duo comprised of Ryan Gracey and Spencer Williams. They have been crafting soundscapes since 2004. Their debut, ‘dream words’ (Gears of Sand) saw a limited CDR release in 2009. It was well received and garnered comparisons to Stars of the Lid, early 70’s Tangerine Dream as well as late 80’s space ambient. Their follow-up was an interesting pairing on cassette – a split w/ experimental artist Odd Nosdam. ‘An Idea And Its Map’ marks a refined leap forward in Drape’s sound. While less space music, there is certainly more expansion. It is a smudged and blended orchestra of drones on the opener ‘Solo in High Dreary’ and those drones are split apart in slow-motion – eventually revealing a single guitar tone. Moments of sublime resonance as on ‘The Visible The Untrue’ anchored by piano, and notes that float, seemingly carried in on a breeze. All is not as it seems with an undercurrent of ground swelling, oscillating air – somewhere in the distance there is a storm assembling. Ebb and flow between light and dark – silver lined black clouds converge on the B side opener ‘fanfare for lake flies’. The strings, guitar, siren calls are assembled and plastered to one another. A thick blanket of overwhelming beautiful cacophony results. The album’s close is as much filtered white noise as it is heavenly chords. The dual slow-motion treated guitar present thoroughout ‘An Idea…’ diverges between pools of dissonant feedback, howls of wind, and melodic drones.£10.00 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Bailleau / Demoulin – Outshining Memories
CD, SaleHand printed paper sleeve version… A collaborative release from musicians Julien Demoulin and Christophe Bailleau entitled “Outshining Memories”. This is an unfolding and languid mix of spatial and organic synth work and overlaid electronic treatments often bubbly and shimmering, slightly rumbling at times and shifting into moodier but still overall warm vibes spacey stuff with an endless and beautiful echoey ambiance. Best to listen to out on the prairie under the stars at night particularly when the synth gives way to twang and the moon rises full…£6.00 -
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Sarah Hughes – Accidents of Matter or of Space
CD, Deluxe, SaleSarah Hughes’ ‘Accidents of Matter or of Space’ is a limited edition of 100 archival CD-R’s mounted on an 11×14 letterpress score produced by Milkfed Press in Alameda, California. A complementary informational sheet includes credits, track list, and an essay by Dominic Lash. This release brings together a solo zither improvisation recorded in a disused transmission station in mid-Wales with three realizations of the 2011 composition (can never exceed unity), performed by Rhodri Davies, Patrick Farmer, Jane Dickson, Neil Davidson, and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga… In what has become an oft-quoted passage, the British composer and improviser Cornelius Cardew wrote that “it is impossible to record with any fidelity a kind of music that is actually derived in some sense from the room in which it is taking place – its shape, acoustical properties, even the view from the windows. What a recording produces is a separate phenomenon, something really much stranger than the playing itself, since what you hear on tape or disc is indeed the same playing, but divorced from its natural context”. This text is usually cited as evidence of the artificiality of recorded improvisation and the superiority of “the real thing”, the live concert happening in real time. I love “the real thing”, but it seems to me that recorded improvised music at its best deliberately exploits the strangeness to which Cardew refers. We are not forced to choose between either experiencing the “natural context” (if one is there in the room when the improvisation is taking place) or having no inkling of it (if one only hears a recording of the improvisation later). Rather the recorded sounds can give greater or lesser hints as to the nature of that context, depending on the way the music is recorded, and the particular sensitivities and sensibilities of each listener. These hints can be accurate or misleading in any degree and any combination, and the activity of the listener’s fantasy in relation to these hints comprises one of the great pleasures of listening to recorded improvised music.£10.00 -
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Chen Brothers – Ally
CD, SaleThe Chen Brothers’ «Ally» is a limited edition of 50 archival CD-R’s in recycled, hand-made packaging designed and printed by Jeremy Chen with sound by Jonathan Chen… Several years ago, my brother Jeremy and I began discussing the possibility of a collaborative project. Our initial idea was just that the collaboration would have something to do with the creation of an album: I would be responsible for the sound, and Jeremy would be responsible for the visual. As our discussion continued, we decided that Jeremy would design the sleeve before I would make the music, reversing the way recordings normally proceed. Thus, Jeremy would determine all the visual content of the sleeve, including the track names and times, and I would create the music to fit these parameters. This turned out to be a difficult task for me. I wasn’t used to accommodating a time frame in such a specific way as a composer. I made several versions of a couple of the tracks, but I didn’t feel like they were right. Meanwhile, the sleeve, which had the year 2006 printed on it, was missing its well past due CD. I had put the project aside for a couple of years when I decided on a different approach. I decided that maybe my brother was the composer here and that I was the performer/improviser. He had determined the track times and the instruction to me was to “do something within that time.” I treated each of the times as a stopwatch score with the instruction being to start and stop within the given time frame. Within that given time frame I improvised on electronics, in this case feedback. The recording was made at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY.£6.00 -
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Coppice – Epoxy
Sale, TapeThe prolific Chicago based duo of Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer have produced a steady stream of increasingly impressive music for a few years now. This cassette sees Coppice focus less on the electronics and bellows their releases have normally involved, and instead turns the ear back on the recording process itself. The duo played a number of improvisations with various guest musicians, and captured the performances using a tape deck modified to play back and record at the same time. Exactly how this process works isn’t quite clear, but the end result is two pieces of strange, hauntingly oblique music that completely disguise the voice, cello, guitars, etc that are apparently embedded in there somewhere and replace them with a smudged blur of intriguing, strange activity. It’s more a kind of immediate, acoustic musique concrète than improvisation in its natural sense, full of murky but vastly contrasting colours and a wide range of dynamics.£4.00 -
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Coppice – Pied
Sale, TapeSince late 2009 we have developed compositions using a modified boombox – a tape loop machine that records and plays back simultaneously. Sounds that enter it are released within seconds, sounding gentle feedback. Our first compositions using this boombox and a shruti box marked the beginnings of our collaboration as Coppice, and a phase of up-close entwinement of both instruments in decidedly quiet gestures. Since then, we have expanded our dynamic palette and range of instrumentation to include more bellowed instruments, custom instruments and other electronic processes. Last Fall, we began imagining what has become Pied, a composition for tape, pump organ and the boombox. Its form contrasts the tapes’ fibrous processing with the more tabular appearances of microtonal pump organ transpositions – performed quietly but loudly amplified to bring out interferences and resonances by means of the original microphone techniques. On one hand, Pied is a stark display of our sounds as solo artists, but in a borderline duet: five pump organ sections (recorded in Summer 2011 at Fljótstunga, Iceland) alternating with their boombox mediation and trails.£5.00 -
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Jeff Gburek – The Watermark
CD, SaleFirst conceived as the stain of water on paper. Irremovable. The identify of a particular action. Irreversible. Then the tracing of that action, in this case a melodic fragment or tone cluster, with painstaking exactitude, to create a forgery of the accident. Form born from seeming chaos or which reveals a kind of coherence that underscores the cosmos. It’s all right. It’s all wrong. See-saw in your playground. Next thought of as the manner the signature is added to what I do without my knowing it. In what I do. In each case, some little detail that marks out and yet implies the agent. A way to remain, yours truly. Thirdly, the color of water itself and the color of now. There is the place where I make this. It’s not the physical apartment but the space machine that I call Villa dei Misteri. Let’s call a studio. I have been receiving rare but welcome visits and a few of these tracks are the result of such meetings.£6.00 -
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Quarry House – Those
CD, SaleNumbered edition of 50 copies in clay sleeve. Recorded in January 2009 & January 2011 in Springfield, MO£8.00 -
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Raglani / N.N.N. Cook – Split
Sale, TapePro-duplication and imprinting in black ink on clear shells with gold foil liners. Edition of 200 on high bias tape… On the A side is a new track commissioned specifically for close/far recordings. Sig. to Ether Error seems to channel a distant astral oratorio. Slowly your mind’s eye is activated and begins to build its own temple. Reconciling the synthetic with the organic, Raglani coaxes a state of concord between himself and his circuitry. On the B side the primary sound source is an electronic unit, the Meridian Box, custom designed and built by Joseph Kramer. It consists of six oscillators with independent pitch controls and electrodes controlled by body resistance. Otherness Figments immediately sweeps you into its current, enveloping your body with hum and crackle. Punctuated by blasts and tears in time, jarring moments begin to smear and stretch. As you pan across your barren destination, mirages dance across the landscape. Abruptly, your Dionysian journey ends in repose.£4.00 -
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Alberto Boccardi / Lawrence English
Sale, VinylThe idea of the split comes from the recording sessions in the summer of 2012 that Alberto realized with the chorus of classical and contemporary music Antonio LaMotta. Alberto sends Lawrence all the material leaving him complete freedom in manipulation. In A side Alberto develops a path in three movements, where each part is independent but at the same time connected to the others; the sequence evolves as inevitable. Lawrence said about his tracks: “This is what I’d like to think of as Land Music. Perhaps sharing something with the perspective scale of Land Art, in which a massing of micro elements create a marco feature, these small sounds when transformed etch out contours and long envelopes of shape across the air. The pieces breathe with a kind of uneasy familiarity. Sounds of the human world and the natural world co-exist at equal states of transformation.”£10.00 -
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Ratio / Ambarchi – Split
Sale, VinylLuminance Ratio share another vinyl with an international musicians. While the first volume involved the American musician/artist Steve Roden, this second volume features Luminance Ratio, with a psychedelic piece of music between free-folk and ambient, and the Australian artist Oren Ambarchi with a song mixing the usual warm frequencies of his guitar with a unique and evocative vocal part.£5.00 -
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Heidi Harris – Cut The Line
Sale, VinylPressed on 140g standard weight black vinyl in recycled cardboard jackets, with full color printed front/back artwork… “The most piercing element of Cut the Line is its use of repetition. As the title indicates, Harris’s fourth full length presents the process of separation. This presentation is deliberately calculated and refined: Harris’s goal while writing was to “create songs that covered as many different perspectives as [she] could imagine.” Whether it is lyrically, such as the playful vocals in “Oh My,” or instrumental, such as the dynamic riff in “Maple,” perspective is accomplished through repetition. In both cases, the consistent repetition and intentionally subtle variations lend an encompassing ambience to beautifully unembellished tracks. Harris intended to build on the loose “in the moment” style of recording she had done in the past with this release. There are certainly still moments of lively and disorienting experimentation, but the music never seems out of reach. “Carved In” contains a very pop influenced vocal melody that eventually gives way to a free flowing, liberated harp section – an instrument in which Harris experimented with here for the first time. Overall, Cut the Line is grounded in amicably layered vocals and very fitting minimalistic production. Harris also called on a variety of artists to fill out the album, including Teletextile and Inner Ocean’s own Cory Zaradur, Porya Hatami, Sima Kim and Joaquín Mendoza Sebastián. Cut the Line is an accomplished and thoroughly structured album that still manages to capture the energizing feel of a relaxed impromptu performance.”£10.00 -
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Banabila / Erker / Machinefabriek / Zenial
Sale, Vinyl12-inch 140 gram vinyl. Handnumbered limited edition of 250. Comes in a full colour matte sleeve. Artwork with kite aerial photography by Gerco de Ruijter… Banabila & Erker & Machinefabriek & Zenial is a limited vinyl release showcasing some of Banabila’s diverse collaborations along with a few new tracks. Tracks earlier released are “Deep in the Forest” (from “Route Planner “) and “More Signals from Krakrot” (from “The Latest Research From The Dept. of Electrical Engineering”). “Crowds”, however is an excitingly different version than the one known from the Sum Dark 12 release. The two new tracks are the opening track “Ill Rave” (with Machinefabriek) and the delicate “Drops”. B-E-M-Z.clearly demonstrates Banabila’s versatility. But then – most of his albums do! The impressive artwork is also very much worth mentioning: it’s taken from a collection of kite aerial photographs by Gerco de Ruijter£6.00 -
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Thomas Bel – To Dye Every Night
CD, SaleA release from Mr. Thomas Bel. Rain, voice, guitar and reverse romanticisms. Presented with a deceptively simplistic language, minimalistic, yet sublimely scuttling across the floors of silent seas. perhaps yearning for love and cruelty, a slowly growing blindness, impossible memory.£6.00 -
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Lopez / Sigurta – Erm
CD, SaleThis is a split album comprised of two very different tracks, which are nonetheless built around the same original material. The tracks could be described as a suite, divided in movements, of around 20 minutes each, which allow for the specific characteristics of the two musicians to emerge. Sigurtà delves primarily into drone-based territories drawing sonic landscapes oscillating between the ethereal and the concrete, often harboring a beat whereas López works with and within the minutiae of sound, penetrating into the most intricate textures and creating rhythmic patterns with glitches and fragments of sound, while keeping to a well defined and steady musical path. The Sigurtà / López split sees two generations, two worlds and two different approaches to music coming together on one single album.£6.00 -
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AIPS – Postcards From Italy
CD, SaleThe Italian Archive of Soundscapes (AIPS), is a collective of sound artists formed in 2010 by Alessio Ballerini and Francesco Giannico in order to document the changing face of the Italian soundscape and to promote the ecology of sound through a variety of workshops, soundwalks and soundmap projects covering different Italian cities including Taranto, Bisceglie and Rome. Taking their cue from Gianmarco Del Re’s column on Fluid Radio, which profiles the most interesting sound artists and musicians currently operating within the Italian electroacoustic scene, Giulio Aldinucci and Attilio Novellino translated the Postcard from Italy project into an album and a live event.£7.00 -
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Gideon Wolf – I Am Wolf
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 75 c40 produbbed and imprinted cassettes. Pro printed double sided J card… I am Wolf is a departure from my debut album Paper released on Fluid Audio last summer. The modern classical elements of my previous album (piano and cello) have been replaced with vocals and a more dynamic use of electronic beats and ambient textures. The contrasts of hard and soft are starker on these tracks and the ambient elements are holding together what might spill over into chaos at any moment. At the outset of this album it was clear for me that I wanted to go further with the treatment and use of my voice which I had begun to explore on my first album and to see where writing lyrics and singing would take me. On I am Wolf the voice or song is used primarily as an instrument, and although it often threatens to come forward I’ve rarely allowed it to break free from the other repetitive elements of the music. Neon Marks is probably the only really recognizable song on the album but even so all the tracks here have been informed or created around structures and ideas that began at one stage with the voice. If Paper had been about movement and traveling through urban spaces, then I would say that this album represents traveling at night and the darker imaginary spaces these nocturnal worlds create.£4.00 -
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Lost Harbours – Wooden Wires
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 75 c30 produbbed and imprinted cassettes. Pro printed double sided J card… The Southend-On-Sea duo Lost Harbours join the Chemical Tapes family with ‘Wooden Wires’ 6 tracks of heartbreakingly haunting experimental folk for the soul.£3.50 -
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Ben Steed – From Here You Can See Everything
CD, SaleThis release is a handmade package using recycled card sleeves made by Guided Products with a nice 310 gsm card cover and insert and is a numbered edition of 100 copies… Ben got in touch with the label just after he had started a crowdfunding drive to help produce this album. A preview of some tracks via Soundcloud led to the interest in releasing it on Twice Removed. Ben describes himself as a “Psychonautic composer from the realms of the internet” rather than a musician and this is evident in the scope of his music which covers a variety of genres such as Ambient, Modern Classical, IDM and others with a very strong soundtrackesque feel which is highlighted by his collaborations with Dan Donahoo on both this and his previous album “From Atop A Frozen Summit”£4.00 -
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Chris Dooks – 300 Square Miles of Upwards
Sale, Vinyl12” blue vinyl with pearl-‐finish colour card inner and outer sleeves, photographic montage and essay. Layout by Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek). Comes with download of album plus bonus HD film and additional items… This record features loops of Scottish accents from Ayrshire to Aberdeenshire, as well as pieces for ‘broken piano’, Korg Monotron and spoken word reflections on the night sky. Initially made for Chris’s PhD and as a ‘gift’ for Galloway Forest Park in South-‐West Scotland, the record be easily divorced from academia and its background into a genre that is somewhere between ‘the radio ballads’ of early BBC radio documentaries and a soporifice xperience in what is a massively luxurious vinyl + download package.£8.00 -
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Mary Lattimore – The Withdrawing Room
Sale, VinylHeavyweight black vinyl with cover design by Chris Koelle… Seek solace. Be still and drift. Withdraw and be there. There. Inside. A chair awaits. A beginning built from an ending, from leaving, from afar. In times such as these, The Withdrawing Room is a safe haven to leave behind all that weighs heavily and surrounds us. We remark how comfortable the chair is, how exquisite the view is outside the window, the aroma, the breaths to be taken as you become aware of the minutia all around you and the sounds emanating from Mary Lattimore’s harp, warming your feet, your hands, your heart. Breathe. Previous collaborations have seen Mary matching wits with such esteemed luminaries as Thurston Moore, Meg Baird, Kurt Vile, Ed Askew, Fursaxa, and Jarvis Cocker. But for this debut work, Mary sequestered herself in a room, much like this one, to kindle three distinct works for keeping the listener company as he or she enjoys the view. The nuanced notes of the harp strings sing and reverberate amid subtle electronics courtesy of Jeff Zeigler on the 24-minute long piece “You’ll Be Fiiinnne;” “Pluto the Planet” meanders at a slow and steady pace as the sun makes its way across the sky and the gentle plucks of the silk and steel resonate within, beyond; the closing chaos of “Poor Daniel” charts a recklessness that embraces the listener as he or she quietly makes their way out of the room to tackle the world anew.£12.00 -
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Chronovalve – Trace Of Light
CD, SaleComes in a new 4 panel thick card package designed by Christian Roth and Ian Hawgood, in an edition of 500… Chronovalve is the ambient music project of Mike Engebretson. For those that don’t know the work of this amazing artist, we’ve known him since his (sadly missed) Smallfish days. The connection with Smallfish Records (see Isnaj Dui, bvdub…and really, a huge amount of what we have put out and one of the main sources of inspiration for the label) continues as Chronovalve was a key component of the Smallfish realm. Smallfish was an incredible record store and highly regarded label based in east London. I happened to live right opposite the store for a year. It was here that I gained my real music education into more minimal / ambient work, going daily to the store to see what new music they had on offer. After Smallfish sadly closed its doors a number of years ago, many of the artists on the label went off to release some wonderful work. Perhaps the best known of these would be bvdub, Celer, and Isnaj Dui of course. However, one of my favourite artists from the Smallfish days seemingly went under the radar, and that was Chronovalve. Now, some 5 years after discovering this wonderful artist, and after not releasing anything in that time, Chronovalve is finally back. We are thrilled that we are able to carry on the Smallfish torch, even if it is in a small way. His work has always been wonderfully melodic and textured, but ‘Trace of Light’ develops further with its choral tone, and haunting (even angelic) melodies and structures. It may well have taken its time to get here, but we are so glad that it finally has.£4.00 -
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Shelling – S/T
CD, SaleShelling are Aya (vocal) and shota (guitar). Aya’s voice like a movie on the surface of the water. Shota’s guitar sounds have reflecting Sadness. “Shelling” hangs between ambient and Shoegaze. 01. Floating Area 02. If i’m you 03. Labyrinth 04. 8 Bright,Moonlight 05. Over 06. Milky Way 07. Drive to Siberia 08. Endless Beautiful Days 09. CAVE 10. Labyrinth Remix by chihei hatakeyama 11. 8 Bright,Moonlight Remix by Hakobune£8.00 -
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Opitope – A colony of kuala mute geeks
CD, Sale“A colony of kuala mute geeks” is made up of 6 songs. Many guest electronic musicians are involved including… Asuna, Carl Stone, Christophe Charles, Christopher Willits, Hans Reichel, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Tagomago, Taylor Deupree, Tetsuro Yasunaga and Toshimaru Nakamura. １．Askococo and Opitope ２．Christophe Charles, Tamaru and Opitope ３．Christophe Charles, Christopher Willits, Taylor Deupree, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Toshimaru Nakamura and Opitope ４．Carl Stone, Hans Reichel, Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Opitope ５．Tagomago and Opitope ６．Asuna, Yusuke Date and Opitope£8.00 -
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Chihei Hatakeyama – Alone by The Sea
CD, SaleChihei Hatakeyama was influenced by Fudaraku-tokai. It is a form of the ascetic practice of sacrifice performed in medieval Japan. A monk undertaking this practice would set out to sea in a small, single-sailed (but oar-less and rudderless) boat in the hope of arriving at the southern paradise of the Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokitesvara; Guanyin; Kannon). The fudaraku tokai was carried out over twenty times between the eleventh and seventeenth centuries. Chihei Hatakeyama used only one sound file for making this album.£8.00 -
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Bjerga / Micromelancolie – Momentum
CD, SaleTwin, extended drones, smooth, minimal but bumpy with data coursing just beneath their skin and executed with great aplomb. Sindre Bjerga is a multifaceted sound artist amongst whose impressive discography can be unearthed gems of both dark and lighter ambient, while Micromelancolié is Robert Skrzyński, who is also Microdepresja, and who belabours “no-input mixing board, old VHS tapes, classic analogues and field recordings.” This is their second collaboration. “Towards Water” begins with fluorescent bulb buzz in the empty hallway leading down to hell and the thousand voices murmuring are distressing, a torture of one thousand cuts. It quietly shears against the ears and furrows the brow. Surprisingly, the dark, low undertone that stealthily emerges is majestic, almost comforting when in other contexts would be decidedly creepy. On the title track, a miserable piano is left out in a field, under skies in which clouds of iron clash. But “Momentum” gets more complicated, a stream of consciousness churning through coaxial cable, visited with the same, low, dull, ultimately maddening white noise and muffled, mundane chatter. Despite the unwelcome company, Momentum is gorgeously desolate. One must admire the restraint the duo commands, elegantly and perversely amplifying its ghastliness. - Igloo£3.00 -
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Monolyth & Cobalt – De Lieux
CD, SaleLimited edition of 100 copies presented in 4 panel digipak…£3.00 -
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Loscil – City Hospital (Deluxe Edition)
3", Deluxe, SalePresented in a jackdaw style format, this release charts the unsteady memories and shifting surroundings of protagonist Bill Plantagenet as he recovers from an alcoholic-fueled breakdown in the City Hospital. Based on Lowry’s own self admission to New York’s Bellevue in the 1930′s, our observations are presented through maps, photographs and postcards from the era, a sort of “psycho-geography”. Paper stock used (quantities differ per jackdaw): Cyclus Silk 300g: Soft white board. At least 50% recycled, FSC certified Cyclus 160g: At least 50% recycled, FSC certified Martello 250g: At least 50% recycled, FSC certified£8.00 -
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Loop Collections 9: Dark Side Of The Audio System
CD, SaleLimited to 150 copies… Very tender and quiet piano loop collection. Tape loop on broken recorder with hiss and flutter via prepared tape. In memory of Yawata Masami.£5.00 -
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Stenorette – Cyan
Sale, TapeLimited cassette edition packaged in hand-stamped, 100% recycled chipboard packaging – includes tape, and vellum printed insert (with extra download code)… 02 [Cyan] is the second of a planned six-part series of cassettes documenting the Stenorette recording sessions in 2013. The tracks included are edited versions of two 45 minute pieces originally recorded in February 2013. Edits were to shorten the pieces only, no additional sounds were added.£3.50 -
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Stenorette – After The Parade
Sale, TapeLimited cassette edition packaged in hand-stamped, 100% recycled chipboard packaging – includes tape, and vellum printed insert (with extra download code)…£3.50 -
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Moon Zero – Tombs
Sale, TapeBlack cassette in clear cases with cover art inlay, limited to 50 copies… Recorded onto an 8-track at St George In The East Church in Shadwell, London last October, ‘Tombs’ is the debut release for Tim Garratt under his Moon Zero moniker. This four track EP introduces Tim’s approach to noise-drone, incorporating melody and structure, delivered through processed instrumentation and filtered electronics. ‘Tombs’ is, especially for a debut, a bold and confident musical statement, which reimagines the possibilities of processed organ and laptop sounds in a live context. EP-opener ‘Dalyan’ builds from slowly wavering layers of sound into a crumbling, decaying wall of fuzzed-out, peaking noise, which in turn builds again into ever-moving blocks of chopped loops and feedback, absorbing the listener completely into Moon Zero’s musical space. Yet the real power of the EP is in the fact that Moon Zero’s compositions include all of the elements included above, without ever attempting to sound ‘like’ other noise / ambient / drone artists – the entire EP flows seamlessly from form to form, constituting of some of the most unashamed and fresh takes on musical ideas that are so often presented as tired, genre-defining clichés. A remarkable listen.£4.00 -
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Yannick Dauby – Hares & Bells
CD, SaleHand numbered edition of one hundred, handmade package with tipped in inkjet print… A release from Mr. Yannick Dauby, a homage to young hares and their fascination with bells!£6.00 -
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Arthur De Eriomém – Drowned by Voices
CD, SaleHandmade packaging and tipped in inkjet print. Numbered edition of 100… Arthur De Eriomém – Drowned by Voices, Somewhat Rather Slowly. New version of the 2011 Drowned by Voices, recomposed Avril 15th 2013 with analog delay and fender twin reverb. Computer used only for editing. Title inspired by David Toop’s Sinister Resonance.£6.00 -
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Bad Braids – Supreme Parallel
CD, SaleEdition of 200; CD with full colour face, jewel cases with 4-panel inserts with full colour art by Sarah Guck. Recorded by Paul Christian & Megan Biscieglia, mastered by Paul Christian, layout by Silas & Amanda…£5.00 -
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Valiska – A Day as a Blade of Grass
CD, Sale200 limited edition digipak CD’s… In his 24-minute opus ‘A Day as a Blade of Grass’, Krzysztof Sujata glides effortlessly through the shared spaces of ambient, noise and modern classical to craft one of the defining works of his rapidly expanding oeuvre. Delicate piano phrases and trembling guitars hold the piece together, sliding in and out of view across its six sections under punishing waves of feedback and static. But for all of the noise and jittering experimentation that skitters through the mix, Sujata is most infatuated with those slivers of light in the darkness that give space to reflect. It’s in those moments when the truly human elements of his music are brought to the fore and the connections between the fragments are made in the mind of the listener. To dissect the essential fabric of sound is a difficult enough task, but doing it with such care and devotion marks Valiska out as an artist in complete control of his craft. With its emotional resonance and sonic verve, ‘A Day as a Blade of Grass’ is a captivating and transportive piece from one of the most highly respected figures in contemporary ambient music.£5.00 -
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Various – Fogbound
CD, SaleLovely 4 panel digipak that comes with 8 photographic postcards… Contributions from the following artists: Hakobune Porya Hatami Celer Darren Harper Tomoyoshi Date Chihie Hatakeyama A Bleeding Star£4.00 -
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Stafrænn Hákon – Prammi
CD, SaleThis is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped blue recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on glossy photo paper and two inserts, with the tracklist and credits, printed on nice fabric paper…£6.00 -
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Atlantis – Electra’s Discovery
3", SaleVery limited edition of the new Atlantis EP – packed in hand-stitched cork sleeves – comes with a selection of different, hand-stamped card and paper inserts.£5.00 -
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Ian Hawgood & Friends: Wolven (2 x Digipak CD)
CD, SaleHibernate would perhaps not be where it is today without ‘Wolfskin’ by Ian Hawgood, our inaugural release back in 2009. Wolfskin referenced a series of nightmares Ian had as a child, focussing on elements of dreams and violence by marrying beauty with the harsh. 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, Dragon’s Eye and his own Home Normal label as well as through several netlabels. Increasingly, Ian has been collaborating with other artists – including Jason Corder (Offthesky), Tim Martin (Maps and Diagrams), Danny Norbury, Ryo Nakata (Ryonkt) and Clem Leek.£6.00 -
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Darren Harper – Awaken My Heart…
CD, SalePhoto inlay printed on traditional Japanese rice paper is included / Limited to 150 copies… Darren Harper met the analog recorder. Reflections on loss, surrender, hope, and indifference. Experiments for ReVox A77, Fender Telecaster, Piano, Field Recordings, and Ableton Live. All tracks W/P by Darren Harper 2012/13 Photo: Barker Reservoir, Nederland, Co. Autumn, 2012 by Darren Harper. Mastered by Seth Chrisman. 01. Upon The Edge Of An Imaginary Sea, I remembered How Things Once Could Be (4:52) 02. Still (4:02) 03. A Breath, Release (7:08) 04. Pastorale Loop (6:52) 05. Meander; Between (6:28) 06. Submerged; Alone & Revealed (5:04)£6.00 -
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Alexandr Vatagin – Serza (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylJust in time for valeot records 5th anniversary, co-founder and label head alexandr vatagin presents his third solo album “serza”. in combining the analogue and tender atmosphere of “valeot” (2006) with the harsh, yet subtle digital electronics of “shards” (2008), “serza” is attesting to a consequent and traceable development towards maturity in sound and structure. featuring a huge spectrum of common as well as unusual instruments, it takes you on a thirty minute trip full of delicate melodies, pushing drums, gentle noise, swirling celli, warm vibraphone chimes and sweet piano tunes. The album features friends from all over the world including martin siewert (radian, trapist), hideki umezawa (pawn), james yates (epic 45, pattern theory), fabian pollack, giulio aldinucci, all tupolev members and patrick pulsinger, who provided several self-recorded synth samples. Serza is presented live either by alexandr vatagin (cello, synth, laptop) solo or as a trio: alexandr vatagin (bass, nordlead, laptop), martin siewert (guitar, devices) and david schweighart (drums). Born in ukraine in the early 80ies, vatagin moved to austria in the beginning of the 90ies, and only started to make music another decade later. he plays in tupolev and port-royal and founded the project quarz, which recently released its first album on cronica. he has collaborated with b. fleischmann, stefan nemeth (lokai), steven hess (pan american), philippe petit (strings of consciousness), bernhard breuer (elektro guzzi, metalycee), alexander schubert, kutin (dirac), nicolas bernier and many others and played concerts all over western, central and eastern europe. his solo works and works he was involved in were released on valeot records, morr music, cronica, n5md, mikroton, moozak and many more.£8.00 -
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Alexandr Vatagin – Serza
CD, SaleJust in time for Valeot Records 5th anniversary, co-founder and label head alexandr vatagin presents his third solo album “serza”. in combining the analogue and tender atmosphere of “valeot” (2006) with the harsh, yet subtle digital electronics of “shards” (2008), “serza” is attesting to a consequent and traceable development towards maturity in sound and structure. featuring a huge spectrum of common as well as unusual instruments, it takes you on a thirty minute trip full of delicate melodies, pushing drums, gentle noise, swirling celli, warm vibraphone chimes and sweet piano tunes. The album features friends from all over the world including martin siewert (radian, trapist), hideki umezawa (pawn), james yates (epic 45, pattern theory), fabian pollack, giulio aldinucci, all tupolev members and patrick pulsinger, who provided several self-recorded synth samples. Serza is presented live either by alexandr vatagin (cello, synth, laptop) solo or as a trio: alexandr vatagin (bass, nordlead, laptop), martin siewert (guitar, devices) and david schweighart (drums). Born in ukraine in the early 80ies, vatagin moved to austria in the beginning of the 90ies, and only started to make music another decade later. he plays in tupolev and port-royal and founded the project quarz, which recently released its first album on cronica. he has collaborated with b. fleischmann, stefan nemeth (lokai), steven hess (pan american), philippe petit (strings of consciousness), bernhard breuer (elektro guzzi, metalycee), alexander schubert, kutin (dirac), nicolas bernier and many others and played concerts all over western, central and eastern europe. his solo works and works he was involved in were released on valeot records, morr music, cronica, n5md, mikroton, moozak and many more.£6.00 -
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Attilio Novellino – Through Glass
CD, SaleAttilio Novellino is an Italian soundartist born in Catanzaro in 1983. He started to make music under the moniker of “Un vortice di bassa pressione”, under which he has released “Anonymous said” (2009, Inglorious Ocean), a mainly electronic-ambient work with some post-rock echoes. He also curated and contributed a track to “Underwater Noises” (2010, Ephre Imprint / Lost Children), a compliation album about the theme of water, which contains tracks by 15 Italian artists. A one-track Ep called “Lost Days” will be released in January by Small Doses. Attilio is also a member of Sentimental Machines. Through Glass emerged from thoughts about the power of the light filtered through glass: as the light, so the sound can be reflected in a thousand directions, giving rise to previously inaudible material, with a mysterious and intense charm. Attilio Novellino explores the intersection between noise, dissonance and melody, with a physical and emotional approach to his compositions, aiming to create an unconventional and uncontrollable beauty. Guitar, electronics, deep basses, field recordings, piano and harsh distortions are used to build dreamy and melancholy soundscapes, to draw floating layers and to launch drone textures that become noise, streaked by misty romanticism, characterized by a pronounced emotional side that combines post-industrial visions, deep-sea creature lights, nocturnal glows, blurred pictures and old memories. Over the last years, Attilio Novellino has performed at festivals and art events such Flussi Festival and Diagonal Jazz / Diagonal Visual, playing, during the last edition, a fully improvised set with Ahleuchatistas, as a duo with his live partner Leastupperbound.£5.00 -
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Kutin – Ivory
CD, SaleDigipak CD… ‘Ivory’ is the third solo-record by Vienna-based ‘soundworker’ Peter Kutin. The guitar is the instrument that creates / triggers most of the sound we can hear on this record, real-time transformed by Peter’s laptop. Only for three tracks other instruments were used additionally: a viola, a korg synth and a double bass, the latter being played by Matija Schellander on the sparkling ‘after the plague’ (#4). ‘Ivory’ developed while Kutin was writing music for old silent movies for the Austrian film-archive. Somehow one can still hear the filmscore, the cinematographic idea within the music. The album offers sounds that will thrill our ears, allows journeys through different sonic spaces, creates pictures inside the listeners head; ‘world without end’ might be the only track that almost reaches the format of a ‘pop-track’, while most of the other tracks want and need you to listen closer. The minimal final anthem ‘lonesome monster’ seems to move only in its spectrum, not in metrum. The partial-tunes sing the song. A piece of music that stretches time, positioning itself somewhere besides Stars of the Lid’s orchestral style.£5.00 -
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Various – Seismology
CD, SaleLive experimental music – 27th April 2013 – The Railway, Winchester. Limited to 50 copies… 1. Grohs – Untitled 2. Seth Cooke & Dominic Lash – Live at Cafe Kino, Bristol, 9th January 2013 3. Pausal – Fruition 4. John Chantler – Tone Works Seismology is the second music event to be staged by The Ologies. It will include acts ranging from remarkably original analogue synthesis from John Chantler (Café Oto), classically influenced ambient artists Pausal and live improvisations from Seth Cooke (Bang the Bore) & Dominic Lash, among others. TheOlogies are Joe Evans from Runningonair Music and Matt Poacher from Mountain*7 & The Liminal. As a joint project, The Ologies was started to introduce something different into the geographical area where they both lived. Despite its size and the presence of a university and an art college, Winchester has relatively few music venues and very little in terms of catering for experimental music – The Ologies series was set up to counter this. The Ologies does not favour any particular genre of music but instead aims to host highly contrasting work, both within and between each event.£4.00 -
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Mark Templeton – Jealous Heart
Sale, VinylMark Templeton presents Jealous Heart, an album which reimagines the story of his sound in an approach that is both staid and deeply emotional, re-orienting what is offered and what is held back through a myriad of smeared stringed instruments, fragmented horn phrases, tape loops, and found-sound-driven explorations. Templeton’s music is always difficult to truly classify, which is part of its charm. It is way too dense and detailed to qualify as ambient in a traditional sense – instead developing itself into a highly organized, spacious clutter. It is electro-acoustic music that hearkens to tape machines and misused instruments of yesteryear, viewed whole-heartedly through the prism of ultra-modernity, of an awareness of what has transpired in-between.£9.00 -
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Zen Lu – River
CD, SalePhysical edition of the “River” EP limited to only 50 copies. Handmade, numbered cardboard ekopack, handpainted by artist Ben Bojanek… Zen Lu is an experimental electronic musician, sound artist, new media artist, events curator living in Shenzhen (Guangdong, China). Zen Lu’s minute, meticulous and minimalist digital music style as well as events organized by him and his label have played a major role in bringing a new wave of artistic activities to Shenzhen and changing the cultural landscape of the city which has been long considered a cultural desert. During the whole 2012 he was busy coorganising the biggest autumn festival in Shenzhen, called “ChoP Festival Polish Experimental Music in China”. After the busy time Zen finally had some time to start thinking about his new album. He came back to his hometown, where he grew up, and recovered the memories from his childhood creating an amazing EP called “River”£4.00 -
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Virlyn – Man Asleep
CD, SaleLimited Edition run digipak of 100 copies… “Man Asleep” is an electronic experiment with a wide variety of instruments. The idea is to deform and reform the classic sounds of various instruments and vocals and to reuse them in an electronic and atmospheric setting. With an emphasis on experimentation the original musical output of the instrument is reshaped and distorted beyond recognition. A second constant is the use of housemade sounds and field recordings, varying from recordings from nature (rain, fire, footsteps in snow) to the use of selfmade wooden and plastic sound reproducing equipment. These field recordings and homemade sounds infuse the soundscapes with a more tangible and less elusive sensation.£6.00 -
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The Fractal Skulls / Adam Willetts
Sale, Tape70 c40 electric blue cassettes in yellow library cases. 3 colour, double-sided risograph sleeves designed and printed by James Hines… Fractal Skulls is a High Wycombe, UK based master of the kosmische. His side of the tape follows on from a full length on Subexotic and cassettes on Blue Tapes and Reverb Worship. Unashamedly mellow, ‘Telepylos’ melds the highest regard for the likes of Terry Riley & Cluster with a hint that we should be questioning everything. Adam Willetts is from Christchurch, New Zealand. Over the last few years he has been quietly releasing a slew of clever electronics for imprints such as Fictitious Sighs and Dungeon Taxis. ‘Sandyford Lines’ marks a step into the minimal. Super focused synth action comes to the fore whilst brushing aside any sense of melody, recalling the tinkering of early electronic experimenters Raymond Scott and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Both chaps have skilfully acquired the knack of using repetition to move you forward into new spaces.£3.50 -
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Betacicadae – Mouna (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylClear vinyl in handmade printed sleeve and insert. Individually numbered edition of 100, each one-of-a-kind. Includes download code for bonus material. Painstakingly constructed by multi-instrumentalist Kevin Scott Davis during more than two years of spiritual struggle and rebirth, ‘betacicadae: mouna’ is a lush, transcendental narrative in sound. It is a cohesive whole that employs a broad spectrum of textures and extends far beyond formula like “drone” or “field recordings.” The sounds absorb, project, embrace, and comfort the listener in imaginary geography—surreal, dreamlike spaces beween earth and otherworldliness. ‘mouna’ is an intimate personal statement, but also a universal musical narrative of redemption. Source material for each track began with field recordings: a farm in Oregon, a rainforest in Hawaii, different cities. An array of acoustic and electronic sounds were generated from scratch: instruments included guitars (electric, bass, lap steel), wood flute, vibraphone, harp, violin, percussion, synthesizers, effects pedals, and digital software. Elegua Records is proud to present this debut release by betacicadae. Beginning with photographic images by Davis, the design, printing, and construction of the album’s physical editions are approached with the care and depth of feeling that the music deserves. Taking the label’s handmade DIY approach to limited editions a step further, clear vinyl and compact disc editions of 100 will include one-of-a-kind screen printed, stamped, and individually numbered inserts and transparencies. The physical editions will also include a unique download code with access to high-quality digital files of the album and bonus material.£9.00 -
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Betacicadae – Mouna
CD, SaleHandmade printed case, insert, and transparency. Individually numbered edition of 100. Includes download code for bonus material. Painstakingly constructed by multi-instrumentalist Kevin Scott Davis during more than two years of spiritual struggle and rebirth, ‘betacicadae: mouna’ is a lush, transcendental narrative in sound. It is a cohesive whole that employs a broad spectrum of textures and extends far beyond formula like “drone” or “field recordings.” The sounds absorb, project, embrace, and comfort the listener in imaginary geography—surreal, dreamlike spaces beween earth and otherworldliness. ‘mouna’ is an intimate personal statement, but also a universal musical narrative of redemption. Source material for each track began with field recordings: a farm in Oregon, a rainforest in Hawaii, different cities. An array of acoustic and electronic sounds were generated from scratch: instruments included guitars (electric, bass, lap steel), wood flute, vibraphone, harp, violin, percussion, synthesizers, effects pedals, and digital software. Elegua Records is proud to present this debut release by betacicadae. Beginning with photographic images by Davis, the design, printing, and construction of the album’s physical editions are approached with the care and depth of feeling that the music deserves. Taking the label’s handmade DIY approach to limited editions a step further, clear vinyl and compact disc editions of 100 will include one-of-a-kind screen printed, stamped, and individually numbered inserts and transparencies. The physical editions will also include a unique download code with access to high-quality digital files of the album and bonus material.£5.00 -
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The Mistys – Stalking / Drawers
Sale, VinylThis little baby comes in a super limited 7″ pressing (200 copies) and we have a feeling they will not be around for long! Comes with a Japanese style ‘Wrap around’ cover and black/white photo booklets. Mistys are the first signing to The Boats new label Other Ideas and ‘Stalking / Drawers’ will be it’s debut release! We want more Mistys music please Andrew. This stuff gets me and Jess moving around the room!£3.50 -
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Aidan Baker – Already Drowning
CD, SaleCD – 4 panel digipak … Already Drowning, a song-cycle inspired by various myths & folktales about female water spirits, marks something of a departure for Aidan Baker. While still retaining his trademark sense of ambience & texture, the tracks on this album are much more structured & song-oriented, embracing a minimalist post-rock, slowcore style & featuring a different guest vocalist on each track. Aidan Baker is a multi-instrumentalist, classically trained in flute, although his primary instrument is the guitar. Using various electronic effects combined with prepared &/or alternate performance methods, Baker creates music which generally falls within the ambient/experimental genres, but draws on influences from shoegaze & post-rock, contemporary classical & jazz. Over the course of the last decade, Baker has released numerous album, under his own name, with his duo Nadja, & with various other group projects, on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Important Records, Broken Spine Productions, & Robotic Empire. He is also the author of several books of poetry. Baker has toured extensively around the world, appearing at such international festivals as FIMAV, SXSW, Unsound, & Pop Montreal. Baker, originally from Toronto, Canada, currently lives in Berlin, Germany.£5.00 -
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Forest City – Peloton
CD, SaleHandcrafted, handstamped & hand-numbered package limited to 250 copies for the world… After being signed to the same label half a decade ago (Stilll Records), the French prolific experimental artist Christophe Bailleau hooked up with the person behind Swedish folktronica duo a Perfect Friend; drone artist C-J Larsgården (Ondo, Yrsel) and indie-folkster Thomas Jonsson (I’m Kingfisher). Eventually they started the recording process of Peloton, intense both in mind and action before reaching completion, positioning themselves in an experimental yet accessible landscape.£7.00 -
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Territoire – Mandorle
CD, SaleComes with 8 pages lyrics booklet… Territoire, the new project from Olivier Arson after The Folding and the Point, bring together a constellation of alternative Spanish artists to offer a stripped, ambient creature that roams around a panoramic post-rock. After 3 years of obsessive recording sessions of a music made of skin and steel, more physical, organic and narrative, he achieves his most personal work as well as his most collective thanks to the collaboration of a constellation of musicians from the alternative spanish scene, and that now concludes with the release of “Mandorle”, an elusive and addictive mystery. Eight scenes, silent or narrated in french, that shift between dark drone ambient, a singular, creeping pop concerned with articulating silences and physical gestures which Taylor Deupree, founder of the 12k label, in charge of mastering, has perfectly respected, and a variable post-rock leaning towards the elastic tension of jazz or exploding in outbursts of kraut-rock.£6.00 -
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Yousei Suzuki – The Scene From A Frame
Sale, TapeHoused in screen printed hand numbered Bradpaks in Edition of 100. No two copies alike… Yousei Suzuki is a young steel string guitarist from Osaka Japan. ‘The Scene From A Frame’ is the follow up album to his release on Senri Records last year entitled ‘Broken Woods & Some Prayers’. A continuation of his experimentations with broken guitars, zither, and piano. The songs on this album were all recorded either live or in one take. Suzuki’s compositions are sometimes full, fluttering bustling tales told with ringing steel strings- but they’re also sometimes sparse, songs scraping together shy offerings that tiptoe in, and with their presence loop slow & solemn incantations ’round us, calling for blessings by makers unnamed. In some tracks like “Full Moon Strings” and “Broken Woods,” these petitions are deconstructed and, growing hopeful in their clarity they burst into a sedated, stumbling kind of laughter. There is a purity here that perhaps can only be found in the oblations of someone hailing from the opposite end of the earth. We hear Suzuki’s words for a bit on “What Visible,” the only track with vocals, but as most of us will never speak Japanese we can only listen to his melody, his strain, his pitch and be left with an understanding of whatever wordless reflections emerge from our own mediations on these delicate tones. – Melody O’Hearn£4.00 -
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Exit to Exist & Creation VI – Antigravity
CD, SaleComes in a folded 310 gsm card sleeve with hand stamped cd-r attached by hub and placed in a clear plastic wallet in a hand numbered limited edition of 50 copies… This is a collaborative release from Creation VI who is based in Ukraine and has appeared on labels such as Dronarivm, Cae-sur-a and others, while Exit to Exist comes from Belarus and is a member of the group Nemertis. The release is a 4 track 36 minute release made up of guitar soundscapes and some electronics, added field recordings and some tiny details like broken violin sound.£3.00 -
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3+ – Your Small Story
CD, SaleComes in a folded 310 gsm card sleeve with hand stamped cd-r attached by hub and placed in a clear plastic wallet in a hand numbered limited edition of 100 copies... The release covers music from 2001-2013 and covers such ground as Ambient, Acoustic Guitars and Glitchy Electronica in a way that is wholly Japanese in it’s sound. Features 12k recording artist Moskitoo on several tracks.£3.00 -
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Silencio – Floods
CD, SaleLimited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped dark green cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper… Silencio is a musical project, presently based between Brussels, Belgium and the north of France, created by Julien Demoulin in the early 2000’s and focused on exploring themes such as absence, memory, distance and sleep. Having released four albums so far, with the help of his friends Bernold Delgoda, Nicolas Lecocq and Lénina Epstein, his music is a mix of ambient, post-rock and electronic. Floods is the fifth album of Silencio, including 12 tracks that are simultaneously warm and cinematic, reminding the sound of Stars Of The Lid, Labradford and Eluvium. The album was originally released in 2010 as an unofficial 10-track cdr in an extremely limited edition of 40 copies, just for friends and some fanatic listeners, and is now released officially by Sound In Silence with new artwork, including two bonus unreleased tracks and being, for the first time, properly mastered by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave). Floods is a collection of wistful and melancholic melodies played by Demoulin, Delgoda, Lecocq and Epstein using guitars, synthesizers, electronics, bass, drums and percussion.£6.00 -
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Max Wurden – ST
CD, SaleLimited numbers on this one. 50 to be precise…. Come in a 4 panel clear tray digipak along with 7 photographic postcards on think card stock taken at locations of the field recordings used in the album…. Are you with me, or are you lost? That’s partly the question we can ask of Max Wurden’s mind and audience, and it’s surely an open question of the artform he is persuing on this very fine release from the Ambientmusic label. “Or Lost” is comprised of a dialectic sequence of sounds, ordered like poetry, sounding like poetry in motion – more of the structured love sonnet with a variation in stanza, written like a relationship with the stars… How does Wurden defy blandness, then? He has several means to create euphoria, on the other hand. Through textural synchronicity with the sounds of a lake (“Is” especially), bubbling under the table, its metal legs withstanding “The” power of fluids, and what copes less competently with electricity at back of the bass, that causes the crackles throughout, he also experiments with track in/out styles, “Fulfilled” inviting of high pitched chirruping cuts, yolky noise to close. If you have rules of lunacy, you’d be forgiven for breaking too many eggs to make an omelette. If you have Wurden’s rules, you break no more eggs than required, making the perfect weekend fryup music and music with transcendentally introspective longevity as well. The Ambientmusic label writes that Max Wuerden is looking for “Finding”, “the perfect moment” and this winter, with all it’s blustery weather forecasting haphazardness, is likely the best time in history for a release so perfect to arise from the snowy Narnia door. – Highly recommended!£4.00 -
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Ingenting Kollektiva – Fragments Of Night
Sale, VinylGorgeous gatefold 4 panel with heavyweight wax… Ingenting Kollektiva is comprised of Diane Granahan, Kirston Lightowler, Tarrl Lightowler, and Matthew Swiezynski, and is a homage to the films of Ingmar Bergman and Sven Nykvist. The Kollektiva recordings are meditations on the quality of light, sound, and atmosphere, as well as realizations of the various forms of ‘nothingness’ captured by these two masters. Christmas of 2009, the Kollektiva found themselves surrounded with many recordings from the year 1969, including: Miles Davis & Teo Macero’s In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew, John Surman’s Way Back When and How Many Clouds Can You See?, and Extrapolation (with John McLauglin), Bert Jansch’s Birthday Blues, Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day (recorded December 1969), Fairport Convention’s Unhalfbricking, Jan Garbarek & Terje Rypdal’s Esoteric Circle, King Crimson’s In The Court Of The Crimson King, Scott Walker’s Scott Walker 4, Holger Czukay’s Canaxis, plus many more. With this in mind, they recorded some songs in the Lightowlers’ barn during a rainstorm, and later added recordings from Northern California and Los Angeles. The editing process then became something similar to Macero’s work for Miles Davis. The recording has been issued as a long-play record with a gatefold sleeve and photographs by Tarrl Lightowler. Thanks so much to Taylor Deupree for bringing many layers & hidden sounds to life in these recordings.£10.00 -
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Tidal – Being Still Being
3", SaleLimited edition run of 65 3″ CD-R’s on hand stamped recycled packaging…£3.50 -
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A-Sun Amissa – You Stood Up For Victory…
Sale, VinylLimited Edition 180g Vinyl: Come with download code, printed postcard and other printed inserts… A-Sun Amissa is a project formed out of Leeds, UK in 2011 by members of Glissando and The Rustle of the Stars.. 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, Tomorrow We Sail) began forming the initial ideas in the Autumn of 2011, moving away from the piano-led ambience of previous outputs. New album ‘You Stood Up For Victory, We Stood Up For Less’ sees A-Sun Amissa moving in a more dense direction, the drones are heavier, the sound thicker and with the added bass-clarinet of Gareth Davis there a new slightly darker jazz element now to the music. The music was conceived initially as two drone guitar pieces, following that, work was done on the composition and atmosphere of the tracks adding the bass-clarinet, viola, vocals, field recordings and piano. The finished works produce an unsettling but hypnotic listen with melodies moving in and out of the mix throughout these two pieces.£9.00 -
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Hivver – Don’t Try
CD, SaleLimited edition of 30 hand numbered copies. Each copy comes in a recycled magazine paper sleeve with handstamped cd-r, insert and antique photo…£3.00 -
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Oliwa – Naturalia
CD, SaleEdition of 50 hand numbered copies in 310 gsm card sleeve. Each copy coming with a free badge…£3.00 -
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Fabio Orsi & Pimmon – Procrastination (CD)
CD, Sale“When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.” – John Locke Procrastination haunts us. Even the most studious amongst us occasionally finds themselves trapped by a lingering daydream or escapist vision; one that absorbs us and removes us from the moment. But procrastination often masks a industrious subconscious flow. I posit, procrastination is a disconnected deep-thinking, a sub-dreaming, a hidden imagination that trickles in the deepest caves of our brains, which eventually join the conscious rivers of our mind. It’s procrastination that is to blame for the tectonic elegance heard on the debut collaborative effort from Italian musician Fabio Orsi and Australian laptopper Pimmon. After discovering a mutual admiration for their respective outputs, the two decided a collaboration was in order. Before long, Orsi passed Pimmon a set of recordings Pimmon felt “were, in my mind, fully realised”. Considering them as finished pieces, Pimmon was flummoxed as to what he might bring to the collaboration and he entered, as he calls it, “a zone of procrastination”. A deadlock ensued, as Pimmon ploughed through other projects unsure of how to resolve the question of the collaboration. 18 months had passed since the pair first exchanged files and Pimmon, whilst on break along the picturesque Margaret River found himself revisiting the files. Suddenly procrastination broke and the deadlock of directionlessness evaporated. The subconscious trickles had formed rivers and the rivers pounded together creating a tidal wave of sonic ideas that saw Orsi’s files transformed in quick succession. The source recordings shattered through a web of Pimmon’s processing devolutions, re-arranged and re-edited to reveal an entirely new perspective on Orsi’s sonic matter. – Lawrence£4.00 -
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Cody Yantis – Place & Distance
CD, SaleLimited edition run includes a bespoke photo on soft paper that slips into recycled sleeves… “Place & Distance” is an album of raw fragments. Carefully prepared and recorded, it’s orchestrated in a way that disguises that this is actually an album of live electronics and improvisation. It is a work of sensitivity, varied and organic. Listening, one feels that much terrain was traversed in the process, and, yet, upon arriving, it’s as though the sounds have always existed. It is an album of traumatic surprise, in which sounds gather only to quickly, and sometimes violently, break up. There’s an irony in the way in which acoustic sound is dealt with so forcefully and abstractly. This is an album of multiple selves, as though many are improvising all at once, resulting in a kind of Zen dialogue between Yantis and the listener. All music by Cody Yantis, Recorded in Archuleta County, Colorado (Summer & Fall 2012). Mastered by Sean McCann. Photograph by Tiffany Clendenin.£5.00 -
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William Ryan Fritch – The Waiting Room
CD, SaleFor five months, director Peter Nicks embedded himself and his crew in the emergency room of Highland Hospital, a large public hospital located in Oakland, Calif., and filmed the hundreds of patients who entered the facility every day in need of care, as well as the overburdened staff of nurses and doctors attempting to deliver quality treatment in difficult conditions. The Waiting Room turns Highland’s ER into its own self-contained universe and keeps its focus entirely on the men and women who populate it. It’s a small-scale story that — captured through Nick’s intimate and transparent lens — speaks volumes about the larger problems facing American healthcare. The emergency room is understaffed and underfunded but the film is remarkably policy-free. There are no title cards or celebrity voice overs, no calls for action, no heavy-handed visual or musical cues suggesting the audience laugh or cry. The footage alone is enough.£6.00 -
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Jüppala Kaapio – Animalia Corolla
CD, Deluxe, SaleFunky packaging design with this one: Includes screen printed belly bands wrapped around thick green gatefold card that has an inner card which CD rests inside… Love it! Most of us are living in an urban world, dominated by constant noise and contagious stress. Our ears are conditioned by this aggressive environment and have often lost the ability to perceive another discreet world surrounding us. It might be hidden but also swarming, vivid and incredibly musical. We are all able to prick up our ears to some birds chattering together, the wind shaking leaves, toads singing serenades or old spirits telling us their immemorial adventures… Since its creation in 2006, Jüppala Kääpiö has tried to substantiate what they were hearing and feeling from animals, plants or even minerals that they met in their living places in different countries and during travels in different continents. “Animalia Corolla” is a record of feasts of spirits gathered from the whole world. Their songs, dances and conversations about the synchronicity of their dreams have been transcribed in this album. Jüppala Kääpiö is a Swiss and a Japanese duo. They settled in Brussels in Belgium in summer 2011 after staying in Switzerland , Canada, Mongolia and Japan. The life in multicultural/lingual situations naturally gave to their music a style which might be called cosmopolitan folklore music.£10.00 -
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Various – Tiny Portraits
CD, SaleTiny Portraits – Sonic postcards from Australia’s lesser known places. An all Australian compilation with tracks by Michael Terren, Kate Carr, Broken Chip, Seaworthy and Matt Rosner, Camilla Hannan, Tom Hall, Gail Priest, Anonymeye, Dan Whiting and Shoeb Ahmad. From power points to a sedge and a working harbour, Tiny Portraits offers a sonic postcard from some of Australia’s lesser known places. Featuring some of Australia’s best known experimental and electronic artists, Tiny Portraits presents tracks celebrating small towns like Wesley Vale in Tasmania, alongside aural portraits from Australia’s most populous cities of Sydney and Melbourne. The brief for each artist was to explore a small and specific location which held meaning for them.£6.00 -
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The Green Kingdom – The Blue Heron
3", SaleEach 3" cd comes in a handmade sleeve and contains a statement from the artist… The Great Blue Heron, such an elegant and majestic creature. Fortunately, they also happen to be indigenous to Michigan- though it’s quite a rare and special event to happen upon one. We are lucky enough to have an area near where we live which is now a protected Rookery for Herons. Watching such a large bird with an impressive wingspan fly overhead almost takes you back to prehistoric times. One realizes how truly unique and precious these creatures are, and how we must make every effort to maintain adequate habitats for them to flourish. With this piece, I tried to capture the scale, elegance and mystery of this magnificent bird. – The Green Kingdom, Shelby Township Michigan, USA£5.00 -
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Darren McClure – The Black Kite
3", SaleEach 3" cd comes in a handmade sleeve and contains a statement from the artist… Black kites are a familiar sight and sound above Naraigawa, a river near my home where I often go for walks. The kites fly between the surrounding mountains and the river looking for food, probably fish and mice, and have a distinct cry. I do a lot of field recordings along this river area, and so included environmental sounds as well as the sounds of the kites themselves in this piece, as the two are so connected in my mind. These field recordings were made in the summer of 2012 and this piece was put together in the following autumn for the Birds of a Feather series.£5.00 -
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Tomonari Nozaki – North Palace
CD, SaleWonderful full length from emerging Tokyo composer and producer Tomonari Nozaki. He may not be the only artist to have forsaken the convenience of producing his music on a macbook but there haven’t been many we have heard who have produced such a thoroughly captivating sound from their old reel to reel tape units and analogue equipment in recent times. ‘Tomo’s’ hugely immersive sound feels like opening an old dusty wooden box and hearing a frayed melancholy soundtrack to somewhere standing outside of time and the concerns of the world. It manages to be remote and indefinable in parts but has such spirit and warmth it’s hard not to let yourself become completely absorbed. Tomonari has been previously released under his UNKNOWNjp. alias on the Slovakian Label Soun Records. ‘North Palace’ sees him make his physical release debut, the first of hopefully many more. Anyone who has been following the forwind story so far will know we don’t go for bluster. Hand on heart this is genuinely sublime stuff.£6.00 -
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Peter Broderick – Ten Duets
Sale, VinylFormat: 12-inch vinyl Edition: 250 Track list: 1. Piano & Toy Piano 2. Travel Guitar & Thunder Machine 3. Viola & Laptop 4. Shaker & Kalimba 5. Pump Organ & Hand Bells 6. Violin & Mouth 7. Mandolin & Theremin 8. Field Recorder & Postcard Weevil 9. Nylon Guitar & Violin 10. Banjo & Piano This stunning collection of songs were originally release on cassette tape in 2009. It sold out quick and now a remastered version are released on vinyl by Vintermusik. Its limited to only 250 numbered copies, on black vinyl with a folded sleeve.£9.00 -
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Rainbow Valley / Wind In Willows – Split
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 75 c40 produbbed and imprinted cassettes. Pro printed double sided J card. Includes download code… The UK (Rainbow Valley) and Russia (Wind In Willows) unite. Each side dedicated to the artists vision and an overall aim to complement the others work has resulted in 2 tracks from each artist, conjuring emotive synthesiser landscapes. Rainbow Valley invokes slow burning euphoria, the sound of healing. Wind In Willows soothes the senses, warm ethereal drones emerge from the fog. Two contemporary psychedelic ambient artists at the peak of their therapeutic powers.£4.00 -
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Ben Fleury-Steiner – Clearings
CD, SaleLimited CD edition of 150 comes packaged in a gatefold card… Delaware (USA) based Ben Fleury-Steiner (Infraction, Low-Point, con-v, Mystery Sea, Gears of Sand, Hypnos and Secret Sounds) is an experimental/ambient sound artist drawing from both electronic and acoustic sources including electric kalimbas, small modular synthesizers, guitar drones and effects pedals. Ben’s sound always embraces a sense of a “somewhere”, sonically, always warm with tons of layers and subtle details. “Clearings” for Rural Colours became a way for Ben to let go of his anal retentiveness in his studio and start a fresh by embracing sound spaces inspired by nature as they evolved in real time. Three tracks make up the album, Wind-Up Bird’s Lament, Parallax, and Glade.£6.00 -
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Grzegorz Bojanek – Live in May
CD, SaleLimited CDr edition of 30 in a hand-painted, hand-numbered recycled paper cover: Includes a bonus track called “a year later” which cannot be downloaded. This track was recorded in Cafe Belg exactly one year later, in May 2012. One of the 30 original square photos with the ship on the horizon – hand-numbered. Another insert individually typed on an old typewriter. Every one is slightly different than the other one because of the small, unintentional mistakes. The recycled paper cover is hand-painted and stamped with small letter stamps…£7.00 -
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Linear Bells – Winter Haze
CD, SaleCD digipack with artworks from Peter Nejedly in a limited edition of 100… Winter haze was composed and produced over a period of 6 months whereby it was practised over improvised sessions followed by processing all the materials with the use of guitars, organ and field recordings. Winter Haze is part of a new series “RIVER LOIRE”. The pre-sequel started with [ EX KISS ] and a follow up of SUMMER HAZE. [ Winter haze ] is about loneliness, time passing, and frozen thoughts with the idea of keeping River Loire in mind.£6.00 -
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Orsi & Pimmon – Procrastination
Sale, VinylLimited run of 250 copies on heavyweight 180grm wax: “When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.” – John Locke Procrastination haunts us. Even the most studious amongst us occasionally finds themselves trapped by a lingering daydream or escapist vision; one that absorbs us and removes us from the moment. But procrastination often masks a industrious subconscious flow. I posit, procrastination is a disconnected deep-thinking, a sub-dreaming, a hidden imagination that trickles in the deepest caves of our brains, which eventually join the conscious rivers of our mind. It’s procrastination that is to blame for the tectonic elegance heard on the debut collaborative effort from Italian musician Fabio Orsi and Australian laptopper Pimmon. After discovering a mutual admiration for their respective outputs, the two decided a collaboration was in order. Before long, Orsi passed Pimmon a set of recordings Pimmon felt “were, in my mind, fully realised”. Considering them as finished pieces, Pimmon was flummoxed as to what he might bring to the collaboration and he entered, as he calls it, “a zone of procrastination”. A deadlock ensued, as Pimmon ploughed through other projects unsure of how to resolve the question of the collaboration. 18 months had passed since the pair first exchanged files and Pimmon, whilst on break along the picturesque Margaret River found himself revisiting the files. Suddenly procrastination broke and the deadlock of directionlessness evaporated. The subconscious trickles had formed rivers and the rivers pounded together creating a tidal wave of sonic ideas that saw Orsi’s files transformed in quick succession. The source recordings shattered through a web of Pimmon’s processing devolutions, re-arranged and re-edited to reveal an entirely new perspective on Orsi’s sonic matter. – Lawrence English£7.00 -
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Nite Lite – Megrez
Sale, VinylPhonography, or field recording, could perhaps be imagined as a sort of spectrum. At one extreme are the documentarists, who strive to capture, with the utmost fidelity, the sounds of things as they are ‘in real life’; at the opposite end sit those who use recorded sounds simply as materials for expanding their sonic palette, with no concern for fidelity or recognisability. Between these two poles, however, stretches a wide and ambiguous middle ground, and much of the recent music that I find interesting or engaging happens here. “Megrez”, the new release on Desire Path Recordings from Portland-based duo Philip and Myste French, falls into this uncertain in-between region, though it disappears into the foliage well before we get to see where exactly it lands.£10.00 -
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Alex Durlak – Seconds
Sale, VinylThe album has been pressed as a single-sided 12” on white vinyl. On the blank side of the disc, an excerpt of a short story written by Algernon Blackwood in 1906 has been printed in black ink. The discs fits inside a custom made jacket that features a pocket made of translucent paper to allow the disc to be viewed while inside the jacket. On the front side is a full colour photograph taken by the artist. EPIC!!! Seconds is the third and final piece in a series of recordings made by Alex Durlak in March 2010. The first was released as Catalyst (2010) on the Rural Routes series and was followed by Lowing (2010) on the Audio Gourmet net label. All three feature Durlak’s guitar playing being processed in realtime using granular synthesis techniques and were recorded in single improvised takes; a minimal approach that makes for a deep and complicated sound with little reference to its original source. Seconds is an ever changing narrative through a dark and open space, perhaps a walking tour through an abandoned factory with it’s machinery left running or the soundtrack to a time lapse video of steel being cut under an electron microscope.£10.00 -
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Dooks / Machinefabriek – The Eskdalemuir Harmonium
Sale, VinylRed vinyl LP w/DL and full colour card insert & exclusive download only EP… The Eskdalemuir Harmonium is a full-length site-specific collaboration between Chris Dooks and Rutger Zuydervelt who is best known by his Machinefabriek moniker. The project is orientated around a landscape home to a vast Tibetan Buddhist temple and megalithic stone circles. The resulting album and supplementary digital package are a fusion of ‘folktronica-concrète’ homages to a dying American harmonium – currently disintegrating in a farmhouse near Lockerbie, Scotland. The album, made over a twelve month period, includes a five minute radio documentary. In addition, Dooks’ essay and photographs of the year-long process have been stitched into a full colour montage designed by Zuydervelt – who also works as a respected graphic designer. The record itself is lovingly pressed on bright red vinyl. Much as one visits a sick relative in a care home, The Eskdalemuir Harmonium is a form of ‘sonic palliative care’. It spills into the glitch territory of Stefan Betke’s work as Pole, while at the same time it follows a sonic ethnographic tradition akin to ‘The Radio-Ballad’ (formed by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger). It was constructed via a delicate bricolage process where spoken word, field recordings and music form more than the sum of their parts. When Dooks composed and began to arrange the pieces on the record, which also forms part of his work at The University of The West of Scotland, he was aware of the dangers of being too close to a project, and needing a sense of social communion on the project, he contacted Rutger who agreed to co-produce the record with Dooks, giving the project a capricious and variable flavour. The digital download of this album also includes an supplementary EP entitled Non-Linear Responses of Self-Excited Harmoniums composed from additional material from the same sessions.£10.00 -
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Sublamp / Giovanni Lami – Split
Sale, TapeEdition of 50 hand-numbered ferrik cassettes.. A spontaneous first meeting between two young artists resulting in forty minutes of experimental music covering a wide spectrum of drone sounds. From granular synthesis and walls of guitar distortion to Jerusalem’s filed recordings and dark soundscapes, this release continues Felt’s catalog in an unpredictably cool way. The idea for this project came during a conversation with the Italian musician/photographer Giovanni Lami (b.1978) about a possible release and I quickly brought to the table the idea of inviting Ryan along for a split release. Los Angeles based Ryan Connor (b.1979) under the alias ‘Sublamp’, who has been delivering top drone sounds since 2008, was then asked to join and this album came to life. It was really interesting for me to see those two artists interact as their music careers are surprisingly parallel but in the same time so distant. The tracks they created for this split provide a great opportunity for us to get some insight into their techniques and style, and to document those two promising artists at their artistic take-off. I would like to leave the invitation open for Ryan and Giovanni to come together again in a few years for the second part of this split; it will be really exciting to see how their sound has evolved. – Felt£3.00 -
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Software Wolf – Spit & Image
Sale, TapeEdition of 50 hand-numbered ferrik cassettes… I would like to stress how great collaborating with an artist like Quinn has been. It took us months to complete this project and I haven’t met a better, more open or positive person to collaborate with. We would critique each others work, pushing the project in a totally new and unexpected direction within a 5 minute conversation, but in such a smooth, cooperative and positive way that it was hard to remember that there had ever been an argument in the first place. I believe these experiences are reflected throughout the project musically & visually. I discovered Software Wolf uploaded on a lonely Soundcloud profile with a couple of followers and two or three odd beat-driven songs. At first I was really confused. Who made these awesomely weird tunes? It took some effort, but after several messages and emails their creator was found. The album took some time to get compiled. Quinn and I tried our best to pay close attention to detail throughout the project. The idea of focusing the visual aspect of the release on Korea came a bit after we started the project. Quinn is located in Korea, for now, and both of us are really interested on the modern history of this troubled place. It made total sense to touch the subject somehow.£3.00 -
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Analepsis / The Last Tram
Sale, TapeThis is a split release featuring the work of two young, Berlin based sound artists: Preslav Literary School (aka Adam Thomas) and Will Gresson. The former, originally from the UK, has toured his multi-layered tape collages throughout Europe, sharing stages with the likes of Aki Onda, Machinefabriek, Gudrun Gut & AGF, Anton Bruhin, Leif Elggren and Sudden Infant. The latter, a New Zealander, forms half of NZ/Italian drone duo Fausto Maijstral and works extensively on exploring the relationship between urban infrastructure systems and the residents affected by them. Gresson’s side captures the feel of a cold winter in a bustling city, recorded on a bedroom floor late one evening it ebbs and flows but never quite strays from the cover of night. If you listen close enough you can hear the sound of an ambulance rushing by, there for a moment and then forgotten to the city. Thomas’s side is no less evocative – a live collage of old tapes and spoken word recordings mixed in realtime alongside an unintrusive synth part.£3.00 -
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Darryl Burke Mahoney – Untitled
Sale, TapeCassette format with risograph printed artwork in a limited edition of 100 copies… The sounds found on Darryl Burke Mahoney’s first release are reminiscent of his hometown in Lachine, Quebec where the spectre of industry looms upon the lower avenues and the dormant factories present a rich palimpsest. There is expansive decay, a resistance to gentrification, as though suburban teenagers crawl inside these crumbling spaces to waste away the years. A happenstance of sounds seep from these abandoned, commercial properties: water trickling through a concrete ceiling, the fumbled rhythms of a broken air conditioner, a stripped bolt scuttling through a tin pipe. Even the lights of Mahoney’s samplers gleam through a veneer of impenetrable dust settling among the nocturnal emissions of traffic lights and the asthma of train-whistles in the distance. There is a curiosity to revisit this document, to witness the exquisite dissolution of its interiors. Items previously observed will suddenly seem moved or misplaced. Still, other machinery will be immovable but ever-changing. A story written in a corrosive language, an impermanent literature.£4.00 -
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Depatterning – The Woodlander’s Index (3″ / DVD)
3", DVD, SaleThe Woodlander’s Index EP is a unique release on Wist Rec with all 100 copies being made of a different species of wood, no two alike. Are you a oak man or a yew lass? Hardwood or soft? Should trees be considered a crop? Each copy of the Woodlander’s Index will also contain: – a 3″ CD – a 3″ DVD with foresting videos from Joshua Rogers (HBO, NASA) – an individualized “woods of the world” fact card – wise words from Philip Larkin Not enough? Well, for every copy sold a tree will be planted in the Atlantic Forests of Brazil as part of the Nature Conservancy project “Plant a Billion Trees”.£8.00 -
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IO – Flamenco Abstractions
CD, SaleHandmade, individually numbered edition of 300… Electro-acoustic artist David Font and guitar virtuoso Jose Luis Rodríguez have taken flamenco music into a bold new realm of performed deconstruction, offering a live dialogue between a primordial tradition’s multi-layered history and the crackle and hum of our 21st century digital soundscape. Rodriguez’s lush, polyrhythmic patterns and ornate chords provide the project’s whole cloth, while Font tugs and pulls at the strands in real time, deconstructing, altering and re-introducing Rodriguez’s expert playing as both rhythmic counterpoint and delicate washes of electronic echo and fuzz. The duo’s work expands the state of the art for both electro-acoustic technique and flamenco tradition, creating a fluid new musical dialect. They create experimental music that works on its own terms—not for novelty’s sake, but in search of beauty and transcendence in the moment. The results are hypnotic, strange, and surprisingly elegant. All of the recordings are realized in real time (i.e., no overdubs), allowing the artists’ affinity and decades-long experience to shape the music through a process based more on intuition and sensitivity than fixed design: electronics radically transform acoustic guitar, hand claps, and finger snaps to create intuitive feedback structures able to express a sensitivity that approaches the telepathic.£5.00 -
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Oh, Yoko – Seashore
CD, SaleClassic Maxi-single case, with a glass-mastered compact disc. Edition of 500 copies… Seashore is the debut release by Oh, Yoko, the duo of Rie Mitsutake and Will Long. Rie Mitsutake, as Miko, has released full-length albums on labels such as Plop (Japan) and Someone Good (Australia). She has toured in Japan and Australia, and also collaborates with many other artists. Will Long, as Celer, has released music on labels from North America, Europe, and Asia. He also operates his own label, Two Acorns, and record store, Floor Sugar. Together they create nostalgic pop, using retro electronic and acoustic instruments, to create something pure for a more simple life. Seashore is a single from Oh, Yoko’s forthcoming debut album. It also features an instrumental b-side mix by Terre Thaemlitz, and a remix by DJ Sprinkles.£5.00 -
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Shinobu Nemoto – Flowers
CD, SaleShinobu Nemoto is experimental sound artist residing in Japan. Recorded using only acoustic guitar, then laid down on to reel to reel which removed noise reduction. For a dream of childhood. Dedicated to Haruka… Some signs. May have forgotten for a long time. He wanted to compose for alpine plants.. Our heart vibrates. All life is vibration, inorganic matter vibrates, too. It is the same in the alpine low oxygen concentration and even in space. This album penetrates your heart like flowers that grow slowly. Then a fragrance blooming all around as it surrounds you.£5.00 -
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An Moku – Mononocle
CD, SaleComes in a beautiful high quality DigiPack. Limited edition: only 100 pieces with bookmarks of Botanical Prints 73 x 162 mm… “Mononocle” is about transforming sounds and wooden noise. Hum, thunk and clunk. It is like listening to repeating sounds in different ways. Dominik Grenzler (aka An Moku) is a musician and sound artist with a spot for experimental and ambient soundscapes. Born in 1977 in Gdynia. Raised on a soundtrack of bubbly 80’s synth pop and early 90’s guitar music. Playing e-bass in several bands in Germany’s former coal-mining hub, the Ruhr district, from 1993 to 1995, he gained experiences in a wide variety of musical genres. This is followed by numerous performances with supporting acts for Whitney Houston, Joe Cocker, Marla Glen with Daniel Denecke amongst others from 1998 through to 2001. After a three-year creative break and thanks to his old friend Benjamin Maciej Pawlowski aka bnibs he finds his way back to electronic music.£6.00 -
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Smokey Emery – Quartz EP
Sale, VinylPressing of 300 on thick 7″ black vinyl, heavy art cardstock duotone b&w “disaster” collage fold-out covers by Smokey Emery himself… Smokey Emery’s Quartz EP is a bona fide document of sonorities from the purgatorial regions. Distorted and catchy tape loops that take you from the inter-planes of the mind to the carnival, where the festivities seem at once sinister and endearing beneath the changing light of sooty reverb and effectual tape hiss. These deceptive washes of underwater tones falling in and out of tune are placid enough to meditate to though also project a menacing, even premonitory air. Unlike many drone kingdom tape-loop albums, there is also enough substance and subtly here to sharpen your mind against – just when you think you’ve been listening to a stable phrase for 30 seconds you perceive, buried in the glowing embers and vapor, a yawning organ concerto or an analogue gear malfunction rescued into exquisite loop patterning. Over continuous listens a depth of elements continually rise from the initially dark and watery abyss to the grey-scaled and disorienting surface. This music is as much evocative of the sharp winter cold as it is the mirages of summer heat, the murky deep as much as the smoggy zenith, and the charming mechanics of dusty analogue gear as much as a honed sense of intuitive craftsmanship directed toward allaying arrangements of saturated sonic material. Quartz reads the ambiance of the nether world through the split light of the celestial sphere. So much wickedness and tenderness.£3.00 -
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Grzegorz Bojanek – Remaining Sounds
CD, SaleModern Musique Concréte at it’s best: Expansive, lush yet gritty, this collection of experiments with breath, woodwinds, bass, and microscopic found sound is moving, odd, and comforting. Nine deeply compelling tracks by Warsaw based composer Grzegorz Bojanek…£5.00 -
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Banabila / Machinefabriek – ST
CD, SaleOne thing I noticed living as a ‘buitenlander’ (‘foreigner’) in The Netherlands was a marked tendency for artists of all stripes to collaborate with each other. Indeed, it seemed that the tradition of the lone artist wrenching out art from the depths of his isolated studio-bound soul was very much a thing of the past. Yet what was evident among the Dutch artists I encountered also seems to be increasingly true elsewhere, and not only among the arts: consider the difficulties of awarding Nobel Prizes, which are limited to a maximum of three recipients each year, in an age when most scientific discoveries are the result of collaborations between large teams of people. As the world becomes more and more complex (or perhaps, as we become more and more aware of the world’s complexities), the ability of one individual to produce a meaningful aesthetic statement or scientific innovation single-handedly is correspondingly diminished. Artists and scientists alike are learning to collaborate out of necessity. Rotterdam residents Michel Banabila and Machinefabriek are perhaps exemplary of this collaborative tendency, both as frequent collaborators with other musicians — Banabila with Scanner, Mete Erker, and noted Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, Machinefabriek with, well, almost anyone you’d care to mention — and also as contributors to film, theatre, dance, installation, and architectural projects. Their first, eponymous record together demonstrates this shared aptitude for cooperation, their respective approaches blending so seamlessly that it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. It could be argued that the album is too dramatic and too flooded with ambient warmth to be a Machinefabriek record, and also too playful and fluid to be credited to Banabila alone, yet the overall impression is of the workings of a single entity rather than the juxtaposition of two different styles. Although electronic sound sources predominate, with a fair few field recordings thrown in for good measure, the ‘acoustic’ appears privileged over the ‘electro’ in that I could almost describe the air pushed by my speakers as syrupy, so full and weighty is the sound. Highs are piercing and lows throbbing, yet never irritatingly so; this is music that is strongly present, without being overbearing. The album is self-released by the artists in CD and download editions. The idea that “two heads are better than one” may not be new, but if putting it into practice is increasingly the norm, for Banabila and Machinefabriek it is an approach that has reaped rich dividends. – Fluid Radio£6.00 -
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Micromelancolie – Gravity Boat Editions
CD, SaleComes in unique recycled magazine sleeves with antique postcard insert… Poland’s Robert Skrzyński is a visual and audio artist who has done work for Monotype, Already Dead, Bocian and others. He also has a long standing collaboration with Norways Sindre Berga. The cd-r includes remixes from Sima Kim, Benjamin Dauer, Problems that Fix Themselves and others.£3.00 -
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Various – Woven
CD, SaleLimited Edition cd-r of 100 hand numbered copies… Four Australian artists from different states – Micheal Terren (WA), Tim Bass (VIC), Kate Carr (NSW) and Anonymeye (QLD) together as a sampler of contemporary Australian Experimental music.£4.00 -
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Fontaine – Delays
CD, SalePrinted cd-r in a full colour cover card in an edition of 100 copies…£3.00 -
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Talvihorros – And It Was So
CD, SaleTalvihorros is London based composer Ben Chatwin’s study of guitar and electronics. Numerous techniques are used to coax a myriad of sounds from both acoustic and electric guitars. Home-made and vintage electronic equipment are used to loop, process and manipulate improvised material into dense and dark sound collages. What started out as a personal challenge to make an album in 7 days grew into something else entirely. Over a year in the making, and expanding his trademark guitar sound with drums, strings, bells, organs and synthesisers, ‘And It Was So’ features contributions from fellow label mates Field Rotation (violin) and Petrels (cello) along with tour partner Jordan Chatwin (drums/percussion) and long time collaborator Anais Lalange (viola). If last years album ‘Descent Into Delta’ was reminiscent of plunging into the murky depths, his latest offering ‘And It Was So’ evokes the expansiveness, dynamicism and density of the cosmos . Attempting to find order in chaos is something Talvihorros has been striving to achieve over the past three albums and he has never balanced these elements so beautifully.£6.00 -
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Philippe Lamy – Slowfast
CD, SaleLimited edition run that includes 3 inserts with fragments of Philippe’s paintings… A man is walking across the desert with memories of the sounds where he has come from, of what he has left behind. Crossing the arid landscape, he listens to those sound images, he is haunted by them, he superimposes them on the present and brings them with him toward the future he is making for. Step by step, he uses this confrontation to reinterpret his memories and to finally attempt to grasp the music of the desert. Debut CD by Philippe Lamy (Nowaki, Audio Gourmet etc), painter and plastics technician, teaches the plastic arts to the school of architecture of Toulouse (France). He has exhibited his artwork across Europe. He began to work with sound too around ten years ago, feeling that his paintings and music resonate together. His careful attention to texture and detail is something he has carried over from his experience as a painter and has transferred into his work with sound.£6.00 -
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Nils Frahm – Screws
CD, SaleNils experienced an unfortunate accident which saw him fall from his bunk bed located directly above his studio, which resulted in a broken thumb. But through inspiration from his fans and after a gentle walk and talk through the park with a close friend, he decided to deal with the situation in the only way he knew – playing his piano. With four screws surgically placed inside his thumb, he started recording with his remaining 9 fingers, what later resulted in 9 intimate piano recordings.£5.00 -
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A Winters Gift
CD, SaleIf your in or around the London area on Saturday 15 December I urge you to attend what is going to be a very special night of music! If you can’t make the gig then buy the CD anyway as it’s a great compilation and supports a fantastic cause… All tickets purchased include a limited edition CD (will be shipped immediately) containing unreleased material from the artists playing on the night plus others including Offthesky, Hakobune, Strom Noir, Simon Bainton, Field Rotation, Caught In The Wake Forever, Antonymes, Good Weather For An Airstrike, Wil Bolton, Listening Mirror, Jonatan Nästesjö and Autistici.£5.00 -
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Two People In A Room – Endless Bummer
CD, SaleLimited edition of 150 copies… Two People In A Room is the project of Berlin based duo Michelle and René, the latter also known as the ambient solo artist Pillowdiver. Formed in 2009, Two People In A Room create their music using guitar which is then manipulated extensively through the use of effects pedals and signal processing. But one of the things that separate them from others is that it’s not solely feedback and drone as melodic elements get thread into the music’s dense fabric£5.00 -
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Alec Cheer – Low Summer Sunlight On Water
Sale, VinylBeautiful 180grm heavy vinyl in 3mm matt finished sleave decorated with photographs by Sally Chisholm & Alec Cheer… Low Summer Sunlight On Water is the vinyl debut of Alec Cheer, and features 11 tracks of improvised piano music and found sounds. Recorded in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow and in the family home in Portessie. Mastered by Ruaraidh Sanachan (Nackt Insecten/Moon Unit). Released by Alec Cheer on his own Macrowhisker imprint. The album is dedicated to the memory of Sally Chisholm, Alec Cheer’s mother, who past away suddenly in September 2011. “I had been going to the Mitchell Library for the past couple of years to play the pianos they have in the rooms up on the 4th floor. I’m no piano player, I couldn’t play you a tune that you would know, I just love the sound of the notes harmonics and the sustain. I’m really drawn to the mystery and the feeling of limitless possibilities I get sitting in front of the piano. I’m interested in honest sounds, and the piano has a sound that is very real, when your playing it you a get a great sense of the physical structure and weight of the instrument. My approach was to sit at the piano, place the zoom recorder on top, press record and see what happens. Each piano has it own sound, My mother’s piano for example has a bassier sound and is in a bigger room which gives it a lovely warm texture. The sound the piano produces to me is meditative and enriching and I hope that tranlates in these recordings.” – Alec Cheer, Nov 2012£7.50 -
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Mind Of Mirrors – Check Your Swing
Sale, VinylOver the duration of Mind Over Mirrors’ “Check Your Swing”, these dense Indian pedal harmonium fogspheres, fizz like a cherry cola bottle springing a leak on a pottery wheel. Amped with tribalist percussions (“Mound Building”), strategic somnambulism (“Second Nature”), and a canny knack for recouping the archer’s phrase, creator Jaime Fennelly blames destiny for the moonlit sky, with Hands In The Dark label symbolism, whereas he’s actually closer to a sonic satellite. Likening himself to Quosp and Nova Scotian Arms sonically, MOM makes a killing on wheat flour, filtering through his tunes, up to closer highlight “Steady Miller”. Commencement “Breaking A Jam” bubbles with a raw energy that doesn’t dissipate. It enables me to wish, making a fresh word for this ‘in flux’ state: “rekinetics”. Meaning: ‘registration of an appropriate meaning or action through energy’. Pulse on “Check Your Swing” remains a steady 88bpm or so, with employed feints, and slipstreaming of different sonic measures, with capacity restraints. It’s where Mind Over Mirrors lets the grooves just chug it out like a cardiovascular sushi that he produces best results. Reasoning for the paradoxical somnambulism working is MOM’s records sound lost in hypersleep, having only muscularity to quantify reality, with a heavy undertow of stylus sleepydust. “Pass Into The Driftless” resonates fields of wholeness for this LP, also a great playlist ender. Simply put, “Check Your Swing” is well worth your money. – Fluid Radio£8.00 -
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Yuri Lugovskoy (2 x CD)
CD, SaleDouble digipak release including a disc of remixes from the likes of The Humble Bee (Craig Tattersall from The Boats) and Mugwood (Antony Ryan from Isan) plus loads more… Yorkshire-based Home Assembly Music follow up that ace Northerner album with Yuri Lugovskoy’s new LP, backed with remixes from The Humble Bee, Tokyo Bloodworm, William Ryan Fritch, Strategy, Chessie and more. Ukranian, Lugovsky’s original disc, much like his one for Moteer, is concerned with minimal, meditative practice, yielding eight fuzzy, dusty pieces of looping melody and seeping filter adjustments thru to canny subbass movements and windswept modulations. Remix highlights appear from Mugwood with their mottled ambient swoon; a cutely creased and folded re-arrangement from The Humble Bee aka Craig Tattersall; and Tokyo Bloodworm’s doomy, creaking surprise hitting the vibe somewhere between Burial, Cuushe and Raime.£5.00 -
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Hitoshi Kojo – High Tide Mirror
CD, SaleInner resonance of planets… harmonies made from the distances between planets… melodies generated by their circular dances… Our bodies can become a receiver of cosmic music when we connect our roots to certain places on earth. However the electromagnetic field on the surface of the earth is unduly interfered nowadays. So our sympathetic ability is heavily oppressed by the violent moiré. First, shall we let ourselves synchronize with the flow of the earth’s fundamental magnetic field, immerse ourselves into the tonal dance with the sun and the moon? Then each of us will spontaneously begin to oscillate a unique vibration according to our character. It is the fundamental tone that becomes part of the universal harmony, and the first step to participate in the circular dance of the celestial orbs.£7.00 -
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The Boats – Ballads of the Darkroom
CD, SaleBallads of the Darkroom is the third and final part of the Ballads trilogy. And it is from the darkroom: this is a collection of images half-developed and others left floating in the sink. The album collects alternate versions, outtakes and remixes from the stellar Ballads of the Research Department on 12k. So, the good news is that while it may be the end of the Ballads trilogy, it is never the exit of the research department for The Boats. For those who have enjoyed the series thus far, Darkroom is a fitting denouement. Once you hit play it takes all of 8 seconds and that first atomic drop of tape hiss to realise we are in Boats land. From there, the “The Ballad of Bb” develops for a little over a minute and then disappears into the ether. It’s reminiscent of those slices of melody that are pastiched together to make Research Department, but this one is just that, a slice and nothing more. And that’s not a bad thing – 90 seconds of Boats loveliness is still enough to grab you by the heartstrings. “The Ballad of Underachievement” and “The Ballad for Underachievement” are other negatives that were never exposed. But, again, neither piece feels incomplete and that sense of feeling complete despite their brevity really does highlight the workmanlike construction of Research Department.£7.00 -
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FareWell Poetry – Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite
CD, Sale‘As True As Troilus owes its title to Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (act III, sc .2). In this work, Troilus embodies denial, he does not want to see his lover for what she really is. Despite the fact that she is ‘as false as Cressida’, he remains resolutely faithful in his love, desiring to be the superlative lover. ‘True swains in love shall in the world to come / Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhymes, / Full of protest, of oath and big compare, / Want similes, truth tired with iteration (…) / Yet, after all comparisons of truth, / As truth’s authentic author to be cited, / ‘As true as Troilus’ shall crown up the verse, /And sanctify the numbers.’ Unflinchingly wrestling with denial, As True As Troilus combines two antithetical energies : elucidation that puts into perspective/expounds upon the complex afflicting Troilus, and enchantment that champions over lucidity in order to access a full experience, deeper than any rational knowledge. The film finds its answer in an overwhelming radiance: images that radiate clarity, visceral logic, symbolic readability, and graphic splendour unfurling in symmetry and duplication.£5.00 -
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Sleepingdog – With Our Heads In The Clouds…
CD, SaleOnce upon a time in the days of the Belgian Franc, Chantal Acda made the acquaintance Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, and the two became fast friends through a mutual love of disco bowling, and 1970′s Danish scary movies. They first collaborated with vocals together on the infamous last track, ‘The Struggle’ on Mr. Wiltzie’s 2004 ‘The Dead Texan’ (kranky) Now, over the course of 10 years, this strange friendship has slowly developed into a musical collaboration which at this point is a rarity for Mr. Wiltzie, because of his notorious slow burning output for his deservedly or unlawfully, but undeniably legendary Stars of the Lid. For their new release, ‘With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields’, these two have somehow gone back in time to capture the sound of glacial moving, dark cough syrup pop music. Mr. Wiltzie has manipulated his trademark Stars of the Lid sound of haunting ambience, deconstructing, and funneling it through the beautiful voice, and song compositions of Chantal Acda. Together, Sleepingdog have gently abducted these gaseous tones, and choruses of pacific tree frogs into some beautifully crafted melancholic orchestration that reminds us all that we exist in a world of strangers, drifting only two feet apart.£5.00 -
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The Colossal Ithaca Trio – New Music from the Delta Quadrant
CD, SaleOriginally released back in 2010 New Music was a series of unheard, unreleased or otherwise unknown compositions by the mighty Leeds based trio. It was also released in a severely limited quantity of just ten hand-made editions. New Music From The Delta Quadrant sees the album re-released as a larger edition with the tracks having all been reworked by the Ithaca Trio and remastered by Lawrence English. Established in 2009, The Colossal Ithaca Trio is the project of Oliver Thurley, a composer based in Leeds, UK. The trio project encompasses a collage of compositions, soundscapes, improvisations, field recordings, manipulations and experimentations recorded by various members of the Deus Ex Machina Arkestra and associated sound-propagators.£5.00 -
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Hardwick / Jørgensen – Split
Sale, VinylLimited edition vinyl LP packaged in a full colour matt sleeve… Nottingham-based guitarist and owner of Low Point, Gareth Hardwick, contributes a single nineteen-minute piece which is quite possibly his most fully realised and dynamic work to date. Sixteenth February Twenty Twelve sees Hardwick continuing his mission to explore and distort the pre-conceived notions as to what an electric guitar can sound like, while embellishing and developing his signature long-form drone techniques. The resulting track is a constantly shifting progression of deceptively complex melodies and phrases that are at once subtle and minimalistic, while enveloping the listener in an ever-evolving wash of sounds, textures and gently percussive elements. Contained within the piece are moments that are reminiscent of the early electronic experimentation of Klaus Schultz and Phaedra-era Tangerine Dream. Yet it avoids any form of misty-eyed nostalgia by maintaining an individuality that leaves one able to discover new and hitherto uncharted sonic territories, allowing the mind to wander freely while still remaining firmly rooted in the here and now. P Jørgensen, from Copenhagen, Denmark, is a composer, musician and sound artist whose work spans film, theatre and music ensemble. Jørgensen presents Four Pieces For Moreschi – a suite of four decidedly different pieces of processed musical interludes and field recordings. Leaning almost towards a musique concrète sound, Jørgensen’s work here is comprised of four very distinct parts of a larger whole. Beginning with dense, almost engine- like sheets of sound, Four Pieces could almost be some kind of sentient machine that organically grows as it progresses over time. Glassy and bell-like textures move into breathy and atmospheric zones, finally giving in to gentle and subdued melodies – a mere whisper of what came before and all the while maintaining a textural fragility which keeps the listener holding ones breath in anticipation of what is to come. Taken as a whole, this release is something of a juxtaposition – a collection that sounds that it may have been born both of nature and of artifice. A reflection of our times perhaps, or the soundtrack to a future that has yet to be written. Either way, it is a beautifully satisfying record and one which demands repeated and uninterrupted listening.£5.00 -
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Hara / Umezawa – Jigokuhen
3", Book, SaleWistbook 009 / Edition series. 100 / Format. 3″cd and novella… A murder mystery by one of today’s finest crime writers, “Jigokuhen” takes place in a declining coastal city whose once thriving harbours and shipyards now house a shadowy criminal underworld. Drawn into this world when the son of the city’s mayor is killed, a jaded middle-aged detective finds himself distracted by a beautiful unemployed dockworker who spends each day walking aimlessly along the shore, and whose mysterious past may just hold the key to solving the crime. Throughout the novella, these two characters act as allegories of the dingy concrete metropolis and the wild untamed sea that borders it, City and Nature constantly approaching and withdrawing. The plot reaches a climax with a shootout in a warehouse, but the action plays second fiddle to the relationship between the detective and the dockworker, which remains ambivalent and by the end of the novel remains unresolved. Quiet, yet intensely evocative, “Jigokuhen” is a literary tour de force.£6.00 -
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David Newlyn – Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook
3", Book, SaleWistbook 008 / Edition series. 100 / Format. 3″cd and novella… This botano-philosophical treatise is a classic of Renaissance scientific literature. Delicate, minutely detailed sketches of flora and fauna litter the pages, attesting in their exquisiteness to the wonder and beauty of a world viewed under the microscope for the first time. Accompanying the drawings are Alberic’s handwritten notes on taxonomies and classifications, designations of anatomical parts, therapeutic and practical uses, and allegorical meanings. A sober yet reverential tone is retained throughout, and the book ends with a sublime canticle praising the Divine Creator “who deigned in His Infinite Wisdom to bestow such Marvealous Complexity on even the Smallest of parts”. To read this book is to feel the lost intellectual and religious fervour of a prior age.£6.00 -
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Glissando – The World Without Us (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylHeavy-weight wax that includes download code and sexy looking prints… It’s been four long years since Glissando released the critically acclaimed ‘With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea’ and the duo finally return this November with a new record ‘The World Without Us’. The new material bares Glissando’s trademark of ethereal voices and tip-toing piano melodies but the overall sound is richer and more expansive. Epic swells of strings and guitars sore above the drones and field recordings to create an intense yet fragile noise. The dynamics of the new record are also apparent and through the use of an array of guests there is a new depth and ambition to Glissando that portrays the songs in their truest form. ‘The World Without Us’ moves slowly between dark shadows and into more hopeful territory throughout, it’s not afraid to be silent when the moment arrives but it’s also capable of enormous, echoing, choral and string crescendoes in one subtle movement. Since Glissando’s debut in 2008 Elly May Irving and Richard Knox have experimented with countless different live set-ups and members ranging from simple, more immediate shows as a duo through to a 7-piece group. Never tied to a specific ideal of how to play the material, it enabled the group to tour heavily for a couple of years in the UK and Europe whilst recording a follow-up album but inevitably this process took it toll. Knox began new projects; ‘The Rustle of the Stars’ (with Frederic D. Oberland of FareWell Poetry) and later A-Sun Amissa (which also features regular Glissando member Angela Chan) which weighed heavily on the amount of studio time he could commit to Glissando.£8.00 -
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Silencio – Gone EP
CD, SaleFollowing their first, critically acclaimed album for three:four, Silencio are back with the “Gone” CD ep, co-released in a limited edition with Eglantine Records, Julien Demoulin’s own label. This ep features the title track, two remixes by Bruno Fleutelot and Ken Camden, as well as two exclusive tracks recorded during the “When I’m Gone” sessions. 1. Gone (4:14) 2. Gone (Bruno Fleutelot Remix) (4:20) 3. Redwood Fog (5:10) 4. Gone (Ken Camden Remix) (4:22) 5. Only Now (7:12)£4.00 -
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Good Weather For An Airstrike – Lights
CD, SaleThis is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped dark brown cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper… Good Weather For An Airstrike is an ambient/post-rock project by Tom Honey from Winchester, Hampshire in the UK. Taking the name from the Sigur Ros masterpiece Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása, Tom started the Good Weather For An Airstrike project in 2009 influenced by artists like Sigur Ros, Stars of the Lid, Eluvium and Hammock. The idea of the project was to create a collection of relaxing sounds which would help Tom alleviate the issues caused by suffering from tinnitus, which causes a ringing sensation in the ear and can often result in difficulty sleeping. He is also member of Damn Robot! and Sleepless Dreams and has previously released his Good Weather For An Airstrike albums & EP’s through Hibernate Recordings, Rural Colours, Bad Panda Records, Sonic Reverie and his own Hawk Moon Records. Lights is Honey’s most accomplished work to date, demonstrating a progression in his talent and skill in composing. Following on from last year’s well received Underneath The Stars album, Good Weather For An Airstrike has expanded his sound to create Lights, a blissful album combining processed guitars, dreamy strings, piano, synths, banjo, drums, lulling drones and subtle field recordings. Lights is a substantial release full of wonderful soundscapes that mix perfectly ambient, electronic, post-rock and neo-classical sounds.£6.00 -
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MayMay: And So I Place You In The Setting Sun
CD, SaleMayMay is Laurel Simmons. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Simmonsʼ debut solo album, “And So I Place You In the Setting Sun” is a gorgeous, quietly powerful mediation on the acceptance of transition. Simmons is no stranger to creating pastoral, evocative music, having exercised her considerable vocal and instrumental skills as a member of beloved Portland chamber-folk darlings Loch Lomond, as well as collaborations with a variety of other well-regarded acts, including international touring with peers such as Alela Diane and Rauelsson. MayMay began during Simmonsʼ first winters in the Pacific Northwest leaving her homesick for the deserts of her native Arizona and the closeness of generations of family she left behind. MayMay is named in homage to her Arizona roots, in particular her grandmother Barbara Mae May. “And So I Place You in the Setting Sun” is a remarkable record, willing to experiment with the tension between ambiance and rhythmic texture, while nostalgia and eloquent melodies arrange themselves into dynamics that are compelling yet wanting. The instrumentation blooms and fades like seasons through artful arranging and listeners come away with the notion of how triumphant the heart can be. The collision of Simmonsʼ somber, ethereal vocals with lyrics permeated by images of sunlight and evocative themes of the process of letting go results in a record that truly sticks with the listener.£5.00 -
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MayMay – MayMay EP
CD, Salebackyard. Recorded during the fall and winter of 2008 in Portland, Oregon, MayMay’s E.P. tells us a history through the sounds of fingerpicked nylon guitars, haunting vocal melodies and beautifully crafted string arrangements. With quietude and warmth, Laurel’s compositions flow full of emotivity and a natural sense of restraint. The music of MayMay transports us to a world in which we can dive to the bottom of the sea, ignoring the pressure of the water above us.£5.00 -
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Sylvain Chauveau – Abstractions
CD, Sale“I’ve been remixing songs by other artists since 2001 and it’s something I always like to do. This year, in collaboration with the Flau label, I’ve decided to compile my favourite remixes and to release them on one CD. Most of the time, I like to transform very much the original songs. I try to bring them into my own musical atmosphere. For example, on Agoria’s techno song “Heart Beating”, I kept nearly nothing of the original music but I replaced it by orchestral parts that I had recorded with a 40-strings orchestra for the film by HR Boe “Beast”. Anyway, I always want to keep faithful to the original melodies. On this selection of remixes, I kept the original vocal parts. Some remixes are made out of songs that I’ve done myself (“Dernière Etape Avant le Silence”, “A_”) or with my band Arca with long-time collaborator Joan Cambon (“Attractions”, which inspired the title of this EP as “Abstractions”). Those remixes are another side of my musical work that had never been compiled before.” – Sylvain Chauveau£5.00 -
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Liz Christine – Sweet Mellow Cat
CD, SaleSweet Mellow Cat is a nicely arrenged showcase of liz christine’s work over the last few years. Subtle and delicate, sometimes verging’ on the abstract yet still instinctively melodic, her music is in fact a kind of sound-movie, or audio-text, constructed from a personal sound vocabulary and syntaxe developed by and for herself, where each sample has it’s own place on the narrative structure. Usually assisted by f s torres (aka kkfs) or the mysteriuos madamme f, Liz is basically using her own obsession (movies, old jazz divas and, of course, cats) to build sound-sculpture-books.£6.00 -
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Chihei Hatakeyama – Norma
CD, SaleChihei Hatakeyama’s music doesn’t change radically from one release to the next, yet that doesn’t prevent it from making a strong impression each time a new set materializes, whether it be on kranky, Room 40, Hibernate, or Home Normal, to cite a small number of the labels on which his music has appeared. And though it lodges itself comfortably within the ambient-drone soundscaping genre, Hatakeyama’s sound is so distinctive and personalized that it’s always immediately identifiable as his and his alone. This latest collection, recorded in various locations between 2008 and 2012 and the premiere release on the Japan-based Small Fragments label, is as fine a representation of Hatakeyama’s work and style as one might wish to find. The hour-long Norma features six pieces, two of them fleeting vignettes (“Rigel,” “Betelgeuse”) but two others meditations that unfold with becalmed deliberation for twenty minutes at a time. “Benetnasch” breathes peacefully for twenty-one minutes, its slumber punctuated by whistling washes of glimmering, high-pitched tones and other interruptive sounds, most of them so subtly woven into the mix when they arise they could go unnoticed. The other long-form setting, “Merak,” cultivates an even more placid and ethereal aura in its slow-motion, cloud-like drift. By comparison, “Mizar” is slightly blurrier, as if its suspended guitar flickers and organ-like tones are being diffused through a translucent scrim, while nature-based field recordings figure more prominently in the brief, Nakano-recorded “Rigel” and “Betelgeuse.” Though no instrumentation is listed on the release (aside from a note relating to electric guitar), the Tokyo-based sound artist is known for producing work using electric guitar, vibraphone, piano, and field recordings as sound sources and for using software to shape the material, much as does in this case, into softly glistening streams of serenading splendour. – Textura£7.00 -
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures 3
CD, SaleHad a listener’s only exposure to Bruno Sanfilippo come about through hearing his recent Hypnos recording Urbs, said listener would have identified him as an exceptionally refined sound-sculptor working in the electro-acoustic ambient field. But the classically trained Sanfilippo also issues minimalist piano recordings, of which Piano Textures 3 is a particularly impressive example; it’s of course the third in a series (the first issued in 2007 and the second 2009), which can be purchased separately or in a lavish box set as a complete collection. It’s a luscious album of many moods—more often than not melancholy, though not exclusively so—that finds his reverberant piano playing augmented with electronic tinting and outdoors field recordings (bird chirps, water sounds). During the beautifully sad fifth, Sanfilippo adds chamber string textures as complements to the lilting piano patterns. Sometimes such additions aren’t necessary, however, as the piano playing would captivate perfectly well on its own without the accompanying sounds. The fourth setting exudes a bright, dance-like air that’s Debussy-like, while the seventh pairs strums of the piano’s inner strings with cascades that sparkle like rainfall. Sanfilippo’s shimmering piano sound suggests that he might regard Harold Budd as a kindred spirit, even if the latter’s style (especially on his early ambient classics) is gauzier. Though Sanfilippo’s been recording music for more than two decades, there’s nothing jaded about the playing on Piano Textures 3, nothing to suggest that it’s merely one more release to add to an ever-growing pile. Instead, Sanfilippo invests the eight untitled pieces with deep feeling, and the listener is often taken aback by the elegance and beauty of the material. There’s some hint that the settings are largely rooted in improvisation; if so, the recording impresses even more because its harmonious pieces present themselves as formal compositions of distinct melodic character rather than directionless musings. – Textura£7.00 -
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The Hole Punch Generation
CD, SaleThe Hole Punch Generation album showcases the sophisticated sound of this band. Each track soars and glides across manipulated electronics, shoegaze guitar riffs and the unique outpouring of Balthrop’s falsetto vocals. The pure emotional rawness of the tracks shines through – each one with a simple message tackling the existential issues about life, love, loss and decay. From the pleading outstretched message of the opener “Don’t Go” the listener is introduced to the mindset of young men who are in touch with their emotions, in touch with their needs as human beings and who demonstrate an intense empathy with their friends, families and lovers.£3.00 -
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Glissando – The World Without Us
CD, SaleIt’s been four long years since Glissando released the critically acclaimed ‘With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea’ and the duo finally return this November with a new record ‘The World Without Us’. The new material bares Glissando’s trademark of ethereal voices and tip-toing piano melodies but the overall sound is richer and more expansive. Epic swells of strings and guitars sore above the drones and field recordings to create an intense yet fragile noise. The dynamics of the new record are also apparent and through the use of an array of guests there is a new depth and ambition to Glissando that portrays the songs in their truest form. ‘The World Without Us’ moves slowly between dark shadows and into more hopeful territory throughout, it’s not afraid to be silent when the moment arrives but it’s also capable of enormous, echoing, choral and string crescendoes in one subtle movement. Since Glissando’s debut in 2008 Elly May Irving and Richard Knox have experimented with countless different live set-ups and members ranging from simple, more immediate shows as a duo through to a 7-piece group. Never tied to a specific ideal of how to play the material, it enabled the group to tour heavily for a couple of years in the UK and Europe whilst recording a follow-up album but inevitably this process took it toll. Knox began new projects; ‘The Rustle of the Stars’ (with Frederic D. Oberland of FareWell Poetry) and later A-Sun Amissa (which also features regular Glissando member Angela Chan) which weighed heavily on the amount of studio time he could commit to Glissando.£5.00 -
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Fieldhead – A Correction
Sale, VinylHeavyweight black vinyl with black inner sleeve. Includes a free download code… ‘A correction’ is the new album from Fieldhead and it builds on the love of melody, brevity and dusty atmosphere found in his previous releases – they shook hands for hours (Home Assembly Music 2009) and riser (Gizeh 2010). Fieldhead’s music has always drawn heavily from his surroundings, with previous work taking much from the moors and towns around his former home of Leeds. In July 2010 Paul left these familiar surroundings for a new home in Canada, and the widescreen landscapes of his adopted home have shaped Fieldhead’s music into a more expansive and emotive form. The familiar tape hiss and scratchy, decaying atmospheres remain from his previous work, but with a correction Elam has combined them with a deeper understanding of space and place. The album appears minimalistic on first listen, but a correction is a record that slowly unfurls over time. Clouded melodies ride on a distant but almost constant pulse that brings the vast landscapes in and out of focus throughout the album, an approach that never allows the listener to get too comfortable, and one that sets apart Fieldhead’s music from many other safer artists within the genre. The violin of Elaine Reynolds (The Boats / The Sea) is central to a correction, adding warmth to the desolate northern atmospheres of the album, as well as providing the centrepoint of the record’s emotive peaks. Previous comparisons of Fieldhead’s work to William Basinski, Machinefabriek and Grouper are definitely justified, but Paul’s work is undoubtedly more direct and concise. It’s fair to say that Elam’s previous outputs have already made his name in the ambient / drone field and a correction should further enhance his reputation as someone who can seamlessly marry soundscapes and melody to form an affecting and timeless piece of music.£8.00 -
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Listening Mirror – On The Passing of Chavela
CD, SaleVery nice limited edition CD that come in a fold out panel… ‘On The Passing of Chavela’ is a meditation on loss. The atmosphere continues to push and pull against itself as the music progresses. It’s very much in the spirit of South American ambient. It also feels feminine, sultry and as red-hot as her fiery spirit and red poncho she so famously adorned. The music is her love of tequila, and the trickling splash as it hit the bottom of the glass. The bottle tinkles against the glass in a melodic pool of liquor. Full of sensuality, and possibly a hint of lust, the Spanish guitar played soulfully on, accompanying her song. An absence of singing – via the voice – does not mean there is an absence of vocalisation. The dusty drone herself sings with a concealed spice that is only just vaguely scented on the Mexican streets, rising from the swirling clouds of drone. – Fluid Radio£6.00 -
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ThisQuietArmy – Bleeding Mess
Sale, VinylLimited to 300 copies: 7″ vinyl includes mini abstract fold out poster… ‘Bleeding Mess’ is a singular release in TQA’s abundant discography. After a couple of full lengths and collaborative projects, this canadian Stakhanovite chose to develop his musical universe on a smaller format. This 7″ was recorded last summer at TQA hq in Montréal and it’s made of two cover songs. TQA keeps exploring sonic atmospheres and gives a new life to SLOWDIVE’s song ‘Bleed’ and to THE RADIO DEPT’s song ‘Messy Enough’. This new life relies on complex feelings, on both calmness and darkness. While the spirit of the original songs remains, the sound and the personnality of TQA is recognizable in these two tracks. This release is a great demonstration of shoegaze and post-punk influences on TQA’s music, as mentionned on the cover no synths were used for these songs, only guitars, voices and drum programming.£2.50 -
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Various – Phrenology
CD, SaleAfter the success of last year’s “Music Lab”, Running On Air label decided to expand the number of acts and shift up to a larger venue, The Railway. The aim of the concert was to present a diverse group of artists experimenting in areas ranging from field recording, noise, electro-acoustic and synthesis. All of the artists have released work on notable labels including Hibernate, Denovali, Somehow Recordings as well as Runningonair. Track List: Joe Evans – Patching Isnaj Dui – Not everyone Appreciates Literalism Dishwasher Petrels – Onkalu Pascal Savy – Out Of The Shadow Places Grohs – Vere Joe Evans – Approaching Unison£4.00 -
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Offthesky / Man Watching The Stars – Afar, Farewell
CD, SaleLimited CD edition of 150 comes packaged in a gatefold card… Afar, Farewell is Offthesky joined by experimental violinist Brendan Paxton aka Man Watching the Stars for what is put simply one of the most breathtakingly moving albums we’ve ever released at Rural Colours. Unlike a lot of albums in the ambient genre this one is far from the usual background music with a variety of instrumentation and the disposition to engage in a more earthly, melodic, stucture. Afar Farewell supplies five gorgeous tracks of slowly evolving melody on a soft bed of processed guitar, molten strings and Offthesky’s deep and quirky signatures. What is most special about “Afar, Farewell” is its ability to enact this kind of ‘being-there’, of being in Nature, even if this turns out to be a kind of mythologised and yearned-for Nature rather than anything concrete. If our stories about the natural environment help make it what it is, then this release contributes to that process with a reverence and absorbed attention, turning high rises into pine trees and mountains into monuments. – Fluid Radio£6.00 -
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The Folding And The Point (Vinyl / CD)
Sale, VinylLimited edition vinyl run of 300 that includes a CD… The Folding and the point is the project of the Envelope Collective founder, Olivier Arson. Creating music from concrete sounds, wind instruments and processed organs. After a four year spell in Iceland, he relocated to Madrid and released his acclaimed debut LP, “Sorger était allé dehors, comme après un triomphe”.£10.00 -
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Sonnamble – Blindlight
CD, SaleInitially released in mid 2011, a remixed/remastered version is now available and sounds better than ever… Blindlight is the second release from London based electro-acoustic improvisers Sonnamble, again consisting of Conor Curran on electronics and software and Peter Marsh on stringed instruments. Again the focus is on Marsh’s lap steel guitar, whose drones, chords and twangs are coaxed into expansive ambient fuzziness or atomised into grains of noise by Curran’s home-cooked software patches. But there’s a spareness and a more pronounced spikiness to the music this time round; it’s still immersive tuff, but more edgy…£7.00 -
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Sonnamble – Seven Months In E Minor
CD, SaleSeven Months In E Minor is a record which unveils its profound beauty with great care, and requires a level on commitment to fully appreciate its depth. This said, the great ease with which Sonnamble arrange the various components at their disposal into consistent pieces and the deep level of understanding between the two musicians makes it a wonderfully enjoyable record. – themilkfactory£4.00 -
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Michael Trommer – The Great Northern Loon
3", SaleBirds of a Feather will be a series of at least 12 three inch cds released as pairs in runs of 100 over the next year. Each cd comes in a handmade sleeve and contains a statement from the artist… ‘The swans are always in my thoughts and give splendor to (my) life. (It’s) strange to learn that nothing in the whole world affect me – nothing in art, literature, or music – in the same ways as do these swans and cranes and wild geese. Their voices and being.” Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The role of birds as muse, as musical guide and inspiration has been well documented in classical music, from Mozart’s pet starling to Beethoven’s birdsong filled Pastoral Symphony and Sibelius’s swan hymn to Messaien’s birdsong compositions. Birds of a Feather celebrates the role of birds in ambient music, and the beautiful fragility of birds more generally. So many different types of birds are struggling to eke out an existence in an increasingly urbanized world, in some cases they adapt and survive. In others like the case of New Zealand’s flightless and critically endangered Kakapo, which has a permanent human support team and whole island dedicated to helping the species recover, even the most drastic measures may come to late. But always birds inspire us with their mastery of flight, their epic migrations, their tragic vulnerability and their against the odds tales of survival.£4.00 -
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David Newlyn – Deterioration
3", SaleDeterioration comes in a handmade sleeve and is limited to 100 copies… An interrogation of the recording process in all its guises lies at the heart of David Newlyn’s new album Deterioration. From micro cassettes, to phones, to cameras David, who is based in Durham, England, took to the outdoors while in Bruges, Belgium to capture the impact the environment and his choice of recording device would have on the sounds he produced. The result is an extremely delicate and brooding album, full of texture and hiss as well as fleeting moments of melodic beauty. Mastered by Wil Bolton the final mix is aptly a blend of tracks as captured on tape and digitally. Newlyn will be a familiar name to many ambient music enthusiasts, with a host of releases to his name, having put material with Hibernate, Time Released Sound and Cotton Goods to name just a few.£5.50 -
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Ancient Ocean / Expo ’70 – Split
Sale, VinylThere are two different approaches to a similar theme on this joint LP release from Sound Of Cobra and NO=FI Recordings. Sonic travellers Expo ’70 (Justin Wright) and Ancient Ocean (John Bohannon) take on a side each, tackling themes of large-scale desolation and the subsequent rush of squeamish creation. Bohannon’s patience balances well with Wright’s overflowing bag of tricks. Whereas ‘Waves In Caverns of Air”s formless febrility seems to seethe instantly with elemental activity, the glueish hum that grounds and surrounds ‘Decomposition Decay’ takes aeons to reach a comparable stage. If we imagine Wright presents the sound of earth developing in space, then Bohannon gives us life emerging on earth.£8.00 -
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Machinefabriek – Elastiek
3", SaleLimited edition run of 100 copies in postcard packaging… I had been thinking of making a long form static drone piece for quite some time, but I just wasn’t patient enough to actually do it. It takes some effort to let a sound be, and not being tempted to manipulate it. Though I won’t call my music very wild, the 20 minutes of ‘Elastiek’ are by far the most continuous I’ve done. And I think it’s best to listen to not as a musical piece, but more as an ongoing ‘state’. Obviously, there’s not much action in the composition, but it’s all in the details. The focus gradually shifts from one frequency to another, causing slow, barely perceptible movements. When I stretched out the piano tone used in this work, I noticed that I was listening to it like I would listen to a refrigerator, or some air vent… not looking for progress in the audio, but diving into the sound, and focusing on different beating frequencies, timbres and tones that are to be found when listening closely. Like dissecting it under a microscope. – Rutger£3.50 -
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The Spaced Goats – We Made Contact
3", SaleLimited edition run of 100 copies in postcard packaging…£2.50 -
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Esther Burns – The Genius Of The Crowd
3", SaleLimited edition run of 100 copies in postcard packaging… « There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace… » Opposed by the great Pope of liberalism Milton Friedman, “The genius of the crowd”, a poem by Charles Bukowski reminds us to be vigilant against the speech from the dominant ideology. The text read by Bukowski is separated into three parts set to music by Esther Burns. The electronics are crossed guitars, old keyboards, piano and other mechanical sounds… Incredibly topicality, the text and its author appear as the flower of the cover: worn and faded, but beautiful, powerful and timeless. The Genius Of The Crowd * Part I – 5:15 * Part II – 8:05 * Part III – 9:00£2.50 -
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Herbstlaub – Remnants
3", SaleLimited edition of 100 copies in postcard packaging… Remnants of sounds, remnants of things or remnants of things already be lost.. All things get lost, eventually. “Remnants” (2012) isn’t an attempt to get grip on this matter, trying to give it a second life or as you can state alternatively: trying to get lost the loss. On the contrary, this release is at the heart of the things which pass constant through us, as every moment renews itself – to become: a new one; to become becoming and to lose itself again, in itself. To make this process tangible harmonious parts are alternated with broken sounds, occasionally sustained with deep, tremblings evoking baselines. Repetitive parts are intensified with pure sounds until they get larger and larger, to eventually cut through you and resulting in an explicitly awareness and feeling of this moment. Music as the phenomenology of loss -to get renewed and to become rigid again- because also music must stop; once. Hence the loss.£2.50 -
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Inner Signal – Extremum (2 x CD)
CD, Deluxe, Sale8 panel white digipak 2xCD audio (CD is pressed, no CDr!) Digipak hand-numbered. HQ digisleeve. 4pp color booklet…£7.50 -
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BOB T.RacKer – The Horns
3", SaleMini CDr audio in a crystal DVD case. Printed cover, inlay and logo card. Album designed bookmark. Hand-numbered…£2.50 -
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Listening Mirror – From Dreams
3", Sale“Listening mirror is the ambient/drone project of Jeff Stonehouse. It has been in existence since October 2009, when it was formed as a duo with Kate Tustain. Kate withdrew from the project in January 2011. Listening Mirror have released material on aReW Records, Somehow Recordings, Heat Death Records, Rural Colours, and now Entropy Records. Future releases are planned for Hibernate and Sweat Lodge Guru. …from dreams… contains two tracks, ‘Black Spring’ and ‘Lifting the Veil of Clouds’. Both tracks are true to the Listening Mirror ethos of ‘using sound as a defence against itself’ in which sounds that would normally seem banal, discordant or unpleasant are stretched and looped, their frequencies and harmonics seperated and recombined and then treated with a variety of effects to form a thing of beauty. To this drone are added field recordings and more traditional instruments such as guitar and piano.£4.00 -
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Jan Linton – Buddha Machine Music
3", SaleMini CD audio (pressed) in a crystal DVD case. Printed cover, inlay and logo card. Album designed bookmark. Hand-numbered… Japan-based musician Jan Linton returns with his first extended-and non Japanese-release for several years, in cooperation with the makers of the Buddha Machine, FM3. Titled “Buddha Machine Music”, it continues the experimental themes and ambient techniques from his collaborations with Leo Abrahams (better known as Eno’s regular guitarist), Richard Barbieri (ex Japan), Beatsystem (Derek Pierce),and his academic work under Dr. Joseph Hyde. Prior to this he released several albums and singles in the avant rock vein, from major and cult labels in Japan. This mini album takes the sounds from Buddha Machines 1 and 2, and morphs them into complete pieces or songs with surprising results, combining them with some live solos of ethinic instruments such as the Chinese Zhongruan, (or, “Moon Guitar”), played by Linton.£2.50 -
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Dmitriy Rodionov – Experience Indoors
3", SaleMini CDr audio in a crystal DVD case. Printed cover, inlay and logo card. Album designed bookmark. Hand-numbered…£2.50 -
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Dmitriy Rodionov Experience 1 + 1 = 1 (Part II)
3", SaleMini CDr audio in a crystal DVD case. Printed cover, inlay and logo card. Album designed bookmark. Hand-numbered…£2.50 -
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Dmitriy Rodionov Experience 1 + 1 = 1 (Part I)
3", SaleMini CDr audio in a crystal DVD case. Printed cover, inlay and logo card. Album designed bookmark. Hand-numbered…£2.50 -
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Lipo – Dark Matters
3", SaleMini CDr audio in a mini crystal DVD case. Printed cover, inlay and logo card. Album designed bookmark. Hand-numbered….£2.50 -
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David Ya – The Time Is Stretching
3", SaleEM.001 is a limited 3″ edition of 100 copies… Music styles are going from deep dark ambient to experimental soundscapes. This first opus is an experimental study of time between inner microcosm and macrocosm!£2.50 -
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Reversed Consciousness (CD / DVD)
CD, DVD, SaleGatefold A5 digifile varnish cardboard. Each cover is an individual galaxy-painting of fluorescent dots which react to black light. 1xPro-CDr “Silver on Gold chrome spray”. 1xPro-CDr “Gold on Silver chrome spray”. 1xPro-DVDr in a colour sleeve (green, red, yellow or blue). All contained within a HQ plastic sleeve. Discs are guaranteed for 100-300 years! All tracks written, recorded, mastered by Dmitriy Rodionov in r/c-studio. Package painted and designed by David Ya. DVD Credits: Reversed Consciousness | Disappearing From The Outside All Musical Instruments: Dmitriy Rodionov. ~ Visual: Dmitriy Rodionov, Gregory Lebedeff. Actors: Dmitry Petrov, Dmitry Zabolotnikov, Dmitriy Rodionov. Operator: Gregory Lebedeff. Editor: Egor Kolenichenko. DVD Authoring, design: David Ya, Neil Tibbetts. ~ Live video recorded 30-04-2009 in Snezhinsk, Russia.£10.00 -
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Various Artists – Instinct
CD, SaleLimited CD-Audio digipak edition to 500 units… Compiled, produced and artistic direction by David Ya. 1. Nexus Sector A/D – Reminiscensor II 3:35 2. Relapxych.0 – City Nightlights (Re-Edit) 13:43 3. Lo – Lava Flow 8:70 4. Lipo – Deus Ex Vagina 6:24 5. The Spaced Goats – Le Jeu 6:05 6. Aum Guy – Morning Breeze 6:17 7. BOB T.racKer – Life For Anything 5:09 8. Lipo – Relax And Swing 6:26 9. Art?NO! – In Utero (Sounds From The Outside) 6:08 10. Silent Flowers Observer – Black Eyed Susan 7:27 11. Akira Club – Sunken Treasure (Come Across Edit) 8:15£6.00 -
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Celer – Rags of Contentment
CD, SaleAvailable for the first time on CD as a limited edition run of 222 copies: Includes photography by Danielle Baquet-Long, and design by Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)… “I remember photos and negatives of sun-scorched Nepal scattered around the floor, notebooks written in randomly and seeming empty, and the evening lights of the outside night that seemed like they wouldn’t ever darken. We drove to Santa Ana over the 405 freeway to record the cars going by, but ended up watching the lights, buying whisky, and sitting the car listening to scratched Joanna Newsom CDRs and Eno’s Discreet Music. When the night was finally asleep and quiet, everything seemed still and the streets seemed dead, except for the swaying palm trees, and the glow from the kitchen light that was never turned off. Even the things that don’t exist anymore are still there, even if they aren’t apparent and obvious as much as they once were”.£6.00 -
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Jesus On Mars – S/T
CD, SaleLimited edition of 170 copies only… The album features 53 minutes of electronic trip-outs, temporal concatenations and expansions; inner-spatial vistas and ferric visions of arcane pulp planetscapes. Packaged in a gatefold-style colour sleeve with cover painting by Thomas Shrubsole. … jerry-rigged nests of wires and plugs wrapped in multicoloured sleeves, potent transcendental devices awaiting the engagement of an active imagination, spreading out below a bird’s-eye viewer, clouds of dust, petrified ripples, gleams of water, crumbling cities, strange figures… the Martian deserts of the Mind.£4.00 -
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Bad Braids – Arrow and Orb
Sale, VinylOriginal 2012 pressing; limited to 500 copies, black 12″ vinyl records with full colour centre labels in full colour jackets with photography by Robert Moses Joyce… Like a secret told between the closest of friends lying in a sea of honeysuckle & bathed by a distant sun; the sad, sweet songs on this album feel as though they should traipse the lips of few and grace the ears of even fewer. Unlike such a secret, Arrow and Orb contains such a powerful brand of melancholy that emotion itself becomes an inverse function, barreling through the tunnels and hills of some distant dreamfield like the magnificent wings of some long-forgotten phoenix. Fire and brimstone meet the will of a suffocating ocean, handing smoldering, quiet passages of vocals and guitar into a whirlwind of bells, whistles, mandolin, percussion, bass, and more.£7.00 -
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Mike Bruno & The Black Magic Family Band: The Willing of the Wisps
Sale, TapeLimited edition yellow c39 cassette shells with black imprinted ink // full colour J-cards // high-bias bin loop mastered tapes // plastic norelco cases with shrinkwrapping // runtime [0:38:56]… A tight-knit family, indeed… the Black Magic Family Band is the warped, doom-ridden ‘backing band’ to singer / sound-crafter Mike Bruno, situated somewhere comfortably between the listening congregation and the sickened scyophants of this heathenly preacher. Though also based in Pennsylvania, the Family Band contains a rotating cast of characters spread out over the greater New England area.£3.00 -
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Bathaus – Arcane|||Cut
Sale, Tape25 translucent green & 25 translucent blue limited edition c40 cassette shells with white imprinted ink // full colour J-cards // high-bias bin loop mastered tapes // plastic norelco cases with shrinkwrapping // runtime [0:49:17]… Sometimes, no matter the content, the sweetest sounds must first be filtered through the darkest corners of the human mind. Culling samples from a society’s lost bits of cultural ephemera, Bathaus manages to break through those secluded borders, delivering, on pinpoints, a dreamy urban delight.£4.00 -
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Steiner – I Remember How We Were Standing
CD, SaleComes in hand folded 4-panel chipboard, handstamped, with full-coloured booklet. Limited edition of 50… We were standing on Chesil Beach, the sound of the waves breaking on the pebbles was overwhelming. We hardly said a word. There was a house. I wondered how it would be living there. We were almost alone. I walked towards the water, which wasn’t easy with the loose shingle. It was quite steep where the water hit the beach and I tried not to imagine what would happen if someone, me, fell down. I looked at you from a distance and took a picture. It was out of focus. The water disappeared between the small stones. I walked back. I didn’t know what to say. There was only the salty air and the sound of the waves . Big clouds drifted towards the sea. A man with a fishing line walked between us. I didn’t know what to say. There was only the sound of the sea.£5.00 -
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Kane Ikin – Sublunar
CD, SaleSublunar is the first full-length release from Kane Ikin who is also known as one half of the duo Solo Andata. Sublunar follows Kane’s solo debut Contrail (7”, 12k 2012) picking up where that EP left off and pushing the boundaries outward in every direction into denser, deeper, wetter and more decayed terrain. The word “sublunar” can be read to contain many conceptual layers important to the album. It is music about moonlight, darkness, the faintest hint of light and shadow…. Moons locked in orbit, repetition, gravity, weight, pressure… Subconscious, subliminal, distant, deteriorated signals, like radio waves lost in a noisy haze of transmission… and about dust, noise and oversaturation.£5.00 -
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Stephan Mathieu – Coda
CD, SaleThe new CD-EP (clocking in at 20 minutes exactly) from Stephan Mathieu is a coda to A Static Place (2011, 12k), created with his highly focused setup of two mechanical-acoustic gramophones and computer. Coda (For WK) is dedicated to the legendary “quiet” pianist Wilhelm Kempff, whose 1927 recordings of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 26 Les Adieux from a double 12” 78RPM set on Brunswick were used as input for an autogenerative process. Mathieu’s process emphasizes the archaic beauty and texture of this early media while using the original tones for the body of this rich extended work that is both hypnotic and grainy; a journey into the essence of sound that can be appreciated on many levels. Mathieu has made this gramophone and computer setup a constant factor for his signature process of late and the work he produces becomes more deep and personalized with each release. The echoes of the past can be heard in these ghostly compositions and Mathieu’s love for not only the process but the original music is clearly seen in his passion for the work.£5.00 -
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Atlantis – The Institute Of Technology
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 75 c30 produbbed and imprinted cassettes. Pro printed double sided J card… oing back to where it all started for Chemical Tapes, Tim Diagram who’s opening salvo for us was his excellent kosmische workout ‘Maps And Diagrams – Red Moon Rising’ returns under his Atlantis moniker with The Institute Of Technology c30. Subaquatic synth soundscapes document the expedition into the deep. From the hazy tranquil moments at the surface to the curious glitched rhythms of the depths.£4.00 -
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Tidal – Olympus
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 75 c40 pro-dubbed and imprinted cassettes. Pro printed double sided J card. Tidal, the UK based Jimmy Billingham’s otherworldly musical project has found a home on a variety of important underground labels from around the globe, we are finally lucky enough for him to join the Chemical Tapes family with his latest work entitled Olympus. Is this a reference to soaring mountain peaks? If so this is the perfect soundtrack. 4 journeys spanning the c40 cassette take us on a trip of psychoactive shimmering ambience, there is a re-assuring warmth to the synth soundscapes across Olympus, keeping the listener engaged and locked into the eternal bliss.£4.00 -
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A Model Life brings Roman Bezdyk’s unique and ambitious style out to play again with instantly familiar loops, mid-bar trips and assorted quirk. Witchcraft and Pornography, the opening track to the album, sets off with an echolalic electric guitar riff, like Hendrix on a merry-go-round, while M’Ling introduces a spaghetti western-esque snippet that repeats catchily, like an over-caffeinated ear worm. Sone Institute offers a soundtrack to a world that doesn’t exist (and perhaps shouldn’t), as in The World is a Confusion, where 80’s electronic beats and honking psychodrama intermingle with a vocal that makes sure we know: ‘the world is confusion, a spiral drawn in the sand…’£5.00 -
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The Doomed Bird of Providence – Will Ever Prey
CD, SaleRecounting stories from the dusty, obscure corners of colonial times, The Doomed Bird of Providence set off on an exploration of early Australian history, darkly probing its more abject and harrowing aspects. The resulting music is brooding, dramatic and heavily indebted to Ennio Morricone, Jacques Brel, Scott Walker and the English Folk Revival. Buttressed by accordion, ukulele, bass, guitar and violin, singer Mark Kluzek rants and laments the death and degeneracy of settlers and convicts alike in this hostile, unrelenting environment. The Doomed Bird of Providence shed light on obscure corners, to mythologise and empower previously hidden stories. And to bring forth all that is disturbing, mysterious and tragic. Will Ever Pray is their debut album – a meticulous creation cleaved from original historical source material, bringing to visceral life the forgotten stories of Australia’s earliest days, bathed in salt, blood and dark-deeds.£5.00 -
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Talvihorros – Some Ambulance
Sale, VinylThick gatefold covers printed on rough cardboard, 180g vinyl, black inner sleeves, free mp3 download code. This is ultraclear vinyl, limited to 150 pieces… Some Ambulance should be the first port of call for those with even a passing interest in where electro-acoustic and ambient music is heading in 2009/10, while I can imagine the uninitiated finding lots to love too. There’s a strong STEVE REICH influence prevalent here, especially the skillful use of slide-rule repetition, particularly found on ‘The Blue Cathedral’ and ‘Etude IV‘. But other tracks take different routes, ‘Death of a Dream‘ paints a bleak MORRICONE-esque picture with its forlorn guitar and solemn atmosphere created using a vibrant tapestry of sounds as its backdrop. While ‘A Rural Place‘ contains a staggered synth-rythmn and discordant effects that reminds me of something THOM YORKE might come up with in his solo ventures. My favourite composition comes in the form of haunting opener ‘Handwriting (Part 1)‘ (and indeed it’s closing part which ends this release) mainly down to the fact I can detect a strong Labradford influence from the way it builds from its grainy beginnings into a vast melancholic dronescape flickered with static and tape hiss. The effect of the whole piece is somewhat gratifying and I can’t help but recall the first time I heard Nelson and co’s seminal ‘Praizision‘ I’ve found myself going back to this record time and time again. It’s endlessly listenable and it packs a surprise with each spin. A bit like Rudi Arapahoe’s 2008 record ‘Echoes From One To Another‘, Talvihorros’ release has come from nowhere and knocked me sideways. It is not an exaggeration to say this is one of my favourite records this year. – Michael Henaghan£9.00 -
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Talvihorros – Music In Four Movements
Sale, VinylThick gatefold covers printed on rough cardboard, thick black inner sleeves, 180g vinyl, free mp3 download code. This is ultraclear vinyl, limited to 150 pieces… With ‘Music in Four Movements’ I set out to compose four long pieces of music that would act as suites rather than shorter melodic songs as I had done on my previous record ‘Some Ambulance’. Using longer time frames afforded the sounds time and space with which to evolve and move. This has led to what could be labelled as my most ambient work i have released but I think also the most intense. Throughout the recording process I became interested in the fundamental ideas of life and death and why people would choose to take their own lives, (reading ‘The Road’ on a day long train back to London from Scotland, hungover after New Year certainly contributed to this). Slowly a narrative presented itself and the 4 tracks started to represent a journey of the final days of someone who has chosen to end everything. I became particularly interested in reading stories about people who drowned themselves in rivers or the sea – a bleak yet strangely beautiful image of someone walking their final walk into the sea became a strong visual influence for the record.£9.00 -
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Fischer / The OO-Ray – Tessellations
Sale, VinylHand numbered in a limited edition of 250, silk screen design on recycled cardboard sleeves, and contain individual high quality download coupon cards including an additional track. Art by Marcus Fisher, mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k and cut by Rashad at Dubplates & Mastering… Marcus Fischer and Ted Laderas (The OO-Ray) have been playing and performing together for a number of years separately and collaboratively. On several occasions, Laderas has been drafted by Fischer’s duo, Unrecognizable Now, to add his unique take on cello to their live performances and recordings. In 2011, Optic Echo commissioned Fischer and Laderas to create an album together. Seeking to bridge Marcus’ delicate multi-instrumental sonics with Ted’s orchestrated chamber-drone, they started with a number of long-form improvisations and shaped them into the wide-ranging pieces on the album. All sounds have been given space to unfold and blossom in a timeline full of contrasts and quiet moments of beauty. Marcus and Ted’s separate and unsynchronized loops evolve and coalesce into transitory patterns that are both breathtaking and imperfect. Within this process of overlapping sounds, larger patterns, or tesselations are revealed to the listener. Tessellations features cello, lap harp, tuning forks, synthesizers, guitar, percussion and analog and digital processing.£12.00 -
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Leedian – Stunting Noise
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 50 numbered copies that come with download insert cards… Coming from Toon, a small Japanese town which belongs to the Ehime province, Hitoshi Asaumi delivers very unexpected sounds when compared to contemporary beat culture. Leedian disguise has been around for two years now and listening through his work one can find it difficult to categorize his music. From extreme noise, he switches fast to melodic pop backed by organic beat, then quickly back to the extreme noise . There is an inevitable innocence deriving from his tracks, mainly with regards to their length. His music feels like an “arranged marriage” of the punk approach to composition with experimental electronic sounds. The result is rewarding and raw sounding. Jazz and electronic influences melting together in a chaotic doom-sounding noise. This album is a collection of his best moments making music as Leedian. While his sound texture remains constant throughout the album, differences in composition alter the mood deliberately from start to finish offering a deep insight into Leedian’s work£3.00 -
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Autistici – Beneath Peaks
CD, SaleAutistici is Sheffield, UK based composer/sound designer David Newman. He has released his work through Home Normal, 12k and Kesh, as well as his own label Audiobulb. His sound is characterised by the attention he pays to tiny detail, right from capturing the sound, carefully developing it and onto the stage where he sets them all together to create a new sound context from several disparate sources.£5.00 -
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Lumerians – Transmissions From Telos: Vol. IV
Sale, VinylLimited edition run of 300 copies in 12″ clear vinyl… Lumerians are garage scholars of the weird. The Oakland-based quintet could be named for Lemuria, the long-lost sunken continent ruled by primitive mystics. But note the spelling: Lumerians, not Lemurians; a clear nod to son et lumiere, the fusion of sound and light that is one of the hallmarks of deep trance and media. Lumerians play droning dance music for the soul you forgot you had – the noise of the billions of switches in your brain shutting off and on in perfect harmony. Two years after their killer album debut-album Transmallinia, Lumerians are ready to unleash a new LP of lost orphan songs called Transmissions From Telos: Vol. IV. Transmissions Vol. IV is a selection of spontaneous music from the Lumerians hard drive catacombs. Side A are fragments of raw stellar ore. Unnamed and unclassified, delivered with a thin protective lubricant to prevent violent combustion in the Earth’s oxygen rich atmosphere. Side B is a trans-dimensional demon love child, imploding with raging love, but too grotesque to live in this world. Left anonymous lest the utterance of his name bring doom to us all. Vol. IV is the firstoffering in a continuing episodic odyssey.£10.00 -
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Spheruleus – The Late Surge of Gold
CD, SaleLimited edition run includes a bespoke photo on soft paper that slips into recycled sleeves… The Late Surge of Gold is the work of British sound designer Harry Towell, under his Spheruleus moniker. Previous releases have graced labels such as Hibernate, Home Normal and Time Released Sound and collaborations that have seen him work with the likes of Pleq and Ekca Liena. Harry also runs the Audio Gourmet netlabel and its new sister label Tessellate Recordings, which specialises in limited edition runs.£5.00 -
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VA – Thank You
CD, SaleLimited cd release. Comes in a folded sleeve printed on recycled paper… All the money from this release will go to the charity ‘världens barn’ (children of the world). Artists who kindley donated there music for this release are: Machinefabriek, Julia Kent, Rachel Grimes, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Jasper TX, Offthesky and Pleq, Sylvain Chauveau, Monolyth & Cobalt, Listening Mirror, Woodworkings, Library Tapes, Anna Rose Carter.£5.00 -
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Baker / Buckareff – Breathing Heavy Breathing
CD, SaleThe breathing heavy/heavy breathing themes are illustrated by the commissioned Aural Diptych series artists Elayne Safir & Meryem Yildiz, translated into a deluxe grey A7 packaging with larger 5″x7″ prints… Berlin-based Canadians Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff, both of doomgaze husband/wife guitar/bass duo NADJA, finally deliver the long-awaited special string-less diptych release. Drones were strictly created from cymbals (Baker) & accordion (Buckareff). Initially released for the 2x 3″CDR Aural Diptych Series, both 20-minute piece were meant to stand alone and played simultaneously together to create a fuller drone ensemble. This stamped 5″ black-bottom CDR contains the two cymbal/accordion piece as well as the mix track..£7.00 -
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Baker / Buckareff – Aural Diptych #7
Deluxe, SalePackaged in the standard ADS smokey blue A6 envelopes with 4″x6″ prints… Berlin-based Canadians Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff, both of doomgaze husband/wife guitar/bass duo NADJA, finally deliver the long-awaited special string-less diptych release. Drones were strictly created from cymbals (Baker) & accordion (Buckareff). Both 20-minute piece on its separate 3″ mini-disc are meant to stand alone and played simultaneously together to create a fuller drone ensemble. A version of that mix is available for download. The breathing heavy/heavy breathing themes are again illustrated by the same commissioned Aural Diptych series artists Elayne Safir & Meryem Yildiz.£8.00 -
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Silent Land Time Machine – I am no longer alone with myself
Sale, VinylGorgeous slab of heavyweight vinyl with printed inner sleeves in a limited run of 500 copies… Silent Land Time Machine’s latest work I am no longer alone with myself and can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude speaks in an oneiric and numinous tongue but is replete with durability and coherence – a rare and intriguing mixture. There exist only subtle threads of aesthetic continuity from the artist’s debut &hope still (TIME-LAG Records), where guitar dominates in the main, with the music shifting its emphasis toward micro electronic assemblages – at times damaged, turbulent, and percussive, at others lulling, plaintive, and melodic – with naïve, organic, and lucidly processed string arrangements woven throughout. All this aesthetic revision is accomplished while increasing the breadth, accessibility, and emotional resonance of his sonic palette.£8.00 -
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Fujita / Harris / Shirley / Thoben / Troyer – Tesseract
CD, SaleSimon Harris (electronics), Jan Thoben (drums, percussion, objects), Kassian Troyer (guitar), Masayoshi Fujita (vibraphone) are members of the experimental improv band Pan Am Scan. Based in Berlin, the group perform with Rainer Kohlberger with live-generative visuals. Ian was first introduced to their work through mutual friends Craig (Moteer) and Yasuhiko (Flau), whom they have previously worked with on Flau and Our Small Ideas.£5.00 -
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Hatakeyama / Asuna – Scale Compositions
CD, Sale’Scale Compositions’ sees the return of Chihei to Home Normal after his 2010 release, ‘A Long Journey’. However, this time he is joined by the excellent Asuna, whose live improv and recorded work I have long admired (‘Flowers’ is one of my all-time favourite records). Anyway, let’s make this more digestible: – About Scale Compositions ‘Scale Compositions’ is made up of two parts: ‘Crown Scales’ and ‘Folk Scales’. ‘Crown Scales’ was recorded in a house in Nishiogikubo on January 20th, 2009. ‘Folk Scales’ was recorded at the SuperDeluxe live venue on January 23rd, 2009.£7.00 -
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Nicolas Bernier – Music For A Piano / Music For A Book
CD, Sale’Music For A Piano / Music For A Book’ is the latest release from Nicolas Bernier. ‘Music For A Piano’ was due to be released after his wonderful ‘The Dancing Deer EP’ back at the end of 2010. However, the project was pulled back, developed further and along with ‘Music For A Book’, presented as a double album in an amazing package designed by Urban9.£8.00 -
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Harper / Smyth – Home
3", SaleHandmade numbered foldout card sleeve in a limited run of 100 copies… ‘Home’ is an album which spans more than 2,000 kilometres, two families and a lifetime of experiences. Darren Harper and Jared Smyth’s collaborative effort examines the spaces they have shaped as husbands, fathers and community members in the two very different towns of Tallahassee, Florida and Nederland, Colorado. Although the two men have never met, they have produced an album that explores the most intimate corners of their lives. Through the sounds of tinkling streams, children drumming, warm guitars and crunching ice, the pair have crafted an intensely personal album, which invites us into the parts of the world they have made their own. This is an album full of warmth, subtlety and power that explores what it means to call somewhere ‘home’. Mastered by: Jason Corder£5.00 -
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Cheer – Street Wondering Memory Recall
CD, SaleThis release is an edition of 150 copies of pro-produced cdr with a digipack cover featuring photograph taken by Cheer in New York… Alec Cheer is a Glasgow based musician interested in playing guitar and other such devices. He has various albums out on various labels. He has been playing in and beyond Glasgow for the past ten-ish years and supported the likes of Six Organs Of Admittance, Grouper, Jozef Van Wissem, Amiina, Dosh, Vetiver, Julianna Barwick, Scott “Wino” Weinrich, Tickly Feather, & Moon Unit to name a few.£4.00 -
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Caught In The Wake Forever – Against A Simple Wooden Cross
CD, SaleCaught In The Wake Forever is the work of Scottish based artist Fraser McGowan who hails from the delightfully lovely town of Paisley near Glasgow. Not long back we released the now sold out postcard ep “Sadness & Static” which was a collaboration between Fraser, Karina ESP and Sheepdog. Also Edinburgh based label Mini50 records last year released his ep “All The Hurt That Hinders Home” which featured remixes from the likes of Library Tapes, Fieldhead and Yellow6. Fraser has been recording music one way or another since 1998 and as part of the band Small Town Boredom he released two albums for the London based label The Remains Of My Estate. Fraser’s recent output has been mostly on a solo basis and with Against A Simple Wooden Cross, we’re very excited and honoured to present the first full Caught In The Wake Forever album.£5.00 -
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Panabrite – Illumination
Sale, Vinyl300 copies pressed on 140g vinyl in heavyweight reverse-printed sleeves… Norm Chambers’ music travels like a deep mental odyssey in a labyrinth of serene echoes. Beyond the sounds, there is the sentiment of peacefulness, a cinematic mosaic of colors, flashing in your mind. Searching for constant illumination, you slowly float in open space… Random sequences of data wandering the sky, quick streams of light buzzing around you, lost in hypnotic corridors leading to new environments, discovering glittering gems… A fantastic trip filled with dystopian drones, analog birds & IDM beats. Get lost in the light. – Francesco De Gallo. Mastered by Seth Christman. Artwork by Aaron Troyer.£6.00 -
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Clark / Camden – Split Series Vol. 4
Sale, VinylThis record has been issued in a hand-numbered edition limited to only 300 copies. The artwork was made by the talented Swiss designer, Rachel Bloch… The idea behind this split was to reunite friends. While in the studio working on his first solo album, Matthew Hale Clark recorded additional tracks for that matter. The first collaboration with three:four records through the :take: & white/lichens split was a success, so it’s only natural that this new record takes part in our split series… to our greatest delight. Matthew Hale Clark and Ken Camden are especially known for their commitment in white/light and Implodes. Here, Matthew Hale Clark gave up stratospheric drones and opted for an acoustic piece. Directly inspired by primitive American folk, SLC Suite is an acoustic guitar track with finger-picking that develops towards more contemporary and cosmic atmospheres, with Jeremy Lemos’ contribution on pedal-steel guitar and shruti-box and, Frank Rosaly on drums. This was beautifully recorded at Soma studios. On the other side, Ken Camden’s tracks have nothing in common with the A side. But he too strays from his usual music making for Implodes by offering two pieces based on guitar with effects. Moisture and Algoma Summer lean towards synthetic-type and psychedelic drones, and their twilight beauty is breathtaking. Although very different in style, both sides are surprisingly and gracefully complementary.£6.00 -
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Lemos / Jencik – Split Series Vol. 5
Sale, VinylThis record has been issued in a hand-numbered edition limited to only 300 copies. The artwork was made by the talented Swiss designer, Rachel Bloch… In a reaction to the collaboration between Matthew Hale Clark and Ken Camden, both active members of white/light and Implodes from Chicago, their friends and colleagues Jeremy Lemos (from white/light) and Matt Jencik (from Implodes) are also releasing a split record for us. Needless to say that sharing two records with members from those bands we love is a huge honor. Jeremy Lemos is a real sound artist. He works on many projects as a sound engineer and contributed more recently with Disappears. The 10 minutes epic Out with the Old is a striking proof of modular drones and loop making. As always with Jeremy, heavy and stormy atmospheres meet bright sparks. Matt Jencik is also offering some drone moments. After an introductory piece (Conservative Fucks), Hollow Bodies’ floating glows seem more in peace than those of Jeremy Lemos, but equally ambient. The ideal soundtrack for daydreaming; if only there was a way to activate the “repeat” function on your turntable!£6.00 -
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Evade – Destroy And Dream
CD, Deluxe, Sale16 x 16 x 0.6cm (Close size). 48.6 x 32cm broadsheet foldout with customized greyboard CD tray… “Losing the absurd, a beautiful haze, the sun and moon as usual, fluctuating into madness” Since 2008, artists such as Kitchen. Label’s very own ASPIDISTRAFLY (Singapore) and Flica (Malaysia) have ventured successfully to Japan, presented music made in the Asia Pacific to the rest of the world. Following in these footsteps, electronic trio Evade have been honing their repertoire of sounds crafted from within their immediate surroundings of the urban pastoral landscapes of former Portugese colony, Macau. In this much anticipated full-length album entitled “Destroy & Dream”, Evade takes on the view of a distant observer, questioning life, the earth, the universe and the values of its living creatures, yet with the consolation of dreams, seclusion and shelter. Evade was born in the summer of 2004. Formed by Sonia Ka Ian Lao (vocals), Brandon L (guitar) and Faye Choi (sound), the trio released their first EP “Evade” in September 2009. Despite the fact that it was released on a small Macau-based label, with the help of Kitchen. Label producer Ricks Ang (who also mastered the EP and this album), the band attracted critical notice in Japan for their inventive and original style of electronic music, described by some as a wayward blend of minimalist electronic and dubstep combined with an ethereal pop sensibility. In August 2010, Evade was invited by Japanese independent music label PROGRESSIVE FOrM to perform at their curated event “New Sounds of Tokyo Vol.6″. Evade has also toured Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, and Singapore, and has lent support to Kashiwa Daisuke, ASPIDISTRAFLY and Flica’s Asian tours.£10.00 -
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Birds of Passage & I’ve Lost – I Was All You Are
Sale, VinylFollowing a run of critically acclaimed releases, New Zealand’s Alicia Merz returns once again under her Birds Of Passage moniker, joined this time by I’ve Lost – the solo project of US based experimental artist Bobby Jones. While Birds Of Passage is something of a Fluid Radio regular, Jones last popped up on our collective radar all the way back in 2010 with the excellent Dissociative Fugue, appearing on Portugal’s Feedback Loop label (incidentally, Feedback Loop’s curator Leonardo Rosado also created a collaboration LP titled The Dear And Unfamiliar with the ever busy Merz, still available from Denovali). I Was All You Are commences with the title track, which at fourteen minutes takes up roughly half the EP’s length. The piece begins with thick ambient textures quite dark in timbre, setting a suitably charged atmosphere until Merz’s vocals join the mix. Indeed, the inspired pairing sees Merz and Jones move firmly into their roles from the opening number, each artists’ strengths complemented by their counterpart. While Jones provides a musical foundation and his work is in a complementary role, it is essential nonetheless and the artist shows both great restraint and a keen ear in order to play just what is necessary to allow Merz to shine.£10.00 -
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Listen To The Weather
Sale, VinylLimited edition run of 100 hand numbered copies resting in yellow paper sleeves with inserts… Listen to the Weather is a web-based project, produced for the Ear to the Earth festival, which uses sound to examine the role water plays in our ecosystem, as well as in our collective psyche. Contributing artists from various international locations begin with weather data from the area they live in and a sample from a song of their choice which references water. The data and samples are then combined to create a soundpiece that is unique both artistically and geographically. Starting with pure frequencies and samples draws attention to the raw data involved in studying our climate but also references the nuanced ways the environment informs our creative practices. Water already means different things to different people – growing up in drought-stricken Cyprus will give you a different understanding of its importance to living in rainy England. But as we respond to rising tides and more extreme climactic conditions it is set to shift in meaning once again. Listen to the Weather aims to explore how water has contributed to our understanding of being human and suggest that these understandings will shift as our climate changes.£12.00 -
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Ekca Liena & Spheruleus – Mapping The Boundary Layer
CD, SaleSurrounded in blossoming serenity, and drenched in raindrops of radio static, we start to descend into the deep, atmospheric mass which Ekca Liena and Spheruleus have carefully covered. Faint static crackles as if from an approaching cyclone, carrying electrical currents in the air as it passes closer and eventually surrounding us. A chime rings out and arises, arriving on a cool breeze and releasing the evolving ambient textures ever outwards on the breath of the air. Like Loscil expressed when he was making Grief Point, Ecka Liena and Spheruleus’ collaboration is shrouded in real ambience.£5.00 -
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C.T.A.N – Broken
Sale, TapeLimited edition cassette run of 100 copies (funky green tape) featuring dark drones, glitchy beats and otherworldly sounds… Passive Aggressive is a new label in the noise scene, combining influences of noise, ambient and experimental with breakbeat, techno and more to create a cutting edge sound, breaking barriers in experimental music as we know it. Side 1: 1. Pass Out 2. Love Constitutes Conformity 3. Living Like This Side 2: 1. Chronic 2. In Your Head£3.00 -
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Tim Bass – I Have Become overcome…
CD, SaleHand numbered limited edition run of 100 copies on 150gm printed sleeve in slim fit cd case… Recorded Febuary to March 2012. Tim Bass – Electric Guitar, Synthesizer, Real time processing. Grace Wood – Photography. Tracklist: 1, The Division Of Two, 2, Suspended Amoungst Lakes, 3, Entirety Of A Pause, 4, Hung From The Fragile Moon, 5, A Pasage Through£5.00 -
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Sketches For Albinos – Days Of Being Wild And Kind
CD, SaleHere’s a beautiful collection of tracks from from Icelandic lo-fi artist Sketches for Albinos (the work of composer Matthew Collings). These tracks were all recorded in various apartments and spaces in Reykjavik, 2004-2010, and collect fan’s favourites from previous download-only releases. A set of beautiful music to comfort on winter nights. ́… on a par with anything that the mighty Sigur Ros have released ́ (Rawkstar.net) ́Surrounding him in an arc which extends around the back of the tiny stage and off both sides stand the seven guitarists he’s acquired for the evening. Seven leads feed into his nerve centre, and as seven hands pick out one drawn-out chord he works his magic; tuning and manipulating the sound and folding it back on itself across a background of quietly ticking electronica to fill the air around him with glacially mangificent sonic sculpture…building like some submerged orchestra. Ambient but definitely not background, when he draws it to a close it’s like being snapped out of hypnosis. Amazing stuff ́ (Manchester Music)£5.00 -
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One Man Nation & Machinefabriek
CD, SaleThis mini album captures the live improvisation Rutger did with One Man Nation (Marc Chia) at the Future Sounds of Folk Festival, at Bimhuis, Amsterdam. A very dynamic concert recording, full of electronic blips, sharp beats and persistent sine waves£4.00 -
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Pillowdiver – Cassette Recordings
CD, SaleHere’s something rather tasty from Pillowdiver that comes in a limited edition run and includes a bespoke photo on soft paper that slips into recycled sleeves… The record is what I guess a bleak update compared to sleeping pills but pushed the formula of guitar/effects only a bit further for me. I assembled all the tracks usually within one or two hours, always starting without any idea what I will record… The set up was Fender Jazzmaster > Delay/Reverb/Distortion Pedals -> 4 track Cassette, no computer processing was involved. The other upcoming record on NKR will have completely different set up: computer only. For me reducing my possibilities, or focusing on certain elements is a big help to create something. – Rene£6.00 -
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Rosary Beard – Halfmoon Fever
CD, SaleIf your looking for beautiful acoustic music then you really can’t go wrong here. Comes in a 6-panel eco wallet presented with photos by Justin James King and artwork / custom text by Leah Koransky… Rosary Beard has been writing highly-detailed, emotive compositions together since January 2010. Halfmoon Fever represents music from the entire two year collaboration. The album was recorded live with no overdubs in sessions between late December of last year through March of this year by Ian White of Swordpaw in a historic ballroom in Troy, N.Y. Mixing for Halfmoon Fever was handled deftly by Troy Pohl (The Kamikaze Hearts, producer of Sean Rowe’s Magic LP) after which the album was mastered to perfection by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering in Brooklyn, N.Y.£6.00 -
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Good Shepherd – Sutra
CD, SaleAvailable in a limited edition hand made and numbered edition of 100 copies… Clocking in at a little over 30 min’s Sutra is a contrasting journey through varied shifts in instrumentation and ideas that merge to form an evolving and exciting soundscape. Sutra navigates the ponderous flow of an isolated temple in Nepal – incorporating sedate reverberations, insightful acoustic-electro guitar, experimental pulses, secretive field recordings and harmonious feedback. Good Shepherd melds field recordings, electronica and lo-fi acoustic guitar into a slow burning, meditative work. – Fluid Radio£4.00 -
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Ian Hawgood – The Shattered Light
CD, SaleStunning new album from Ian Hawgood that comes in a 6 panel digipack in limited edition run of 500 copies… In 2007 and 2008, Ian finally decided to start sharing his early recordings through a handful of net labels. In addition to this he released two split E.P’s on Mobeer and U-Cover. In 2009, he released reworked limited editions on a few close friends’ labels: ‘We Are Better For Being Built This Way’ (Slow Flow), ‘The Great Allure’ (Experimedia), ‘Wolfskin’ (Hibernate) and ‘Snow Roads’ (Dragon’s Eye).£6.00 -
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Simon Scott – Below Sea Level
CD, SaleSix panel digipak with gorgeous artwork… Below Sea Level is the first 12k release from seasoned musician and electronic sound artist Simon Scott. The inspiration behind Below Sea Level, including its music, title, artwork and photography (see accompanying journal) originally derives from Scott’s desire to musically explore the desolate and controversial environment of the Fens in East Anglia, UK. The memories Scott has of visiting this area as a child make this a poignant and highly personal project that explores nostalgic familiarity with a desire to capture the musicality of the landscape. For two years Scott ventured into this former wetland with hydrophones and self-built recording devices to explore the land that is cartographically below mean sea level, trace the devastating history of this environment caused by the drainage of the land, and arrange it into conceptual musical and visual project. Scott has, in the main, eschewed the guitar backbone of his previous releases, preferring instead to capture the timbres and textures of the landscape to form the basis for the seven tracks. His signature reverberated guitar does still surface, the beginning of the album begins with sparse finger picking reminiscent of Laughing Stock-era Talk Talk, but it only adds brief flickers of colour to the central field recordings throughout the album.£6.00 -
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Sonmi451 – Four Peaks
CD, SaleTRS welcome back Bernard Zwijzen, aka Sonmi451. Where previously he took us via the deluxe Star Atlas release into the far reaches of the solar system, he directs us this time towards heights more earthbound, the mountain peaks of the Alps and Dolemites, which closer to home as they may well be, are still unreachable in reality for most of us devoted listeners. With his patented and delicate crystalline electronics, Sonmi451 again delivers the celestial goods we know so well, love so much and have come to expect!£5.00 -
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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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Isnaj Dui & Karina ESP – Slow Forms
3", SaleLimited edition numbered run of 150 copies + download code… Hibernate Recordings kick off a new collaboration series with an ep from Isnaj Dui & Karina ESP. The goal for the series is to get two different artists on our roster to put their heads together to have some fun and do what they love best. Isnaj 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. 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.£3.00 -
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Wil Bolton – Under A Name That Hides Her
Sale, VinylLimited edition of 200: We are very happy to be selling the limited edition first 100 copies that come with a CD, beautifully printed postcard, download code, plus a nice little Hibernate business card… Despite being a difficult subject to put into words, nostalgia nevertheless attracts a great deal of fascination and is something that every individual can relate to. It is often close to the heart of the artist, shaping their identity and aesthetic and providing the inspiration for many a project. We welcome back Wil Bolton to Hibernate with his first vinyl release; we are pleased to present an album that places nostalgia at the heart of its overriding theme. It was conceived when Wil set out to create an album that was inspired by the guitar bands he listened to as a teenager, such as The Cure, The Smiths, The Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine. He strived to transmit his nostalgic recollection of adolescent musical influences into a heavily treated, droned out muffled and crumbling sonic environment. He wanted to create something that sonically presents his nostalgia, sounding submerged or decaying, as if heard through a veil the way memories and images become distorted over time.£7.00 -
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Damian Valles – Nonparallel (In 4 Movements)
Sale, VinylIncludes the LP and download code. First round of orders will also come with a nice poster edition… Nonparallel (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.£8.00 -
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Marielle V Jakobsons – Glass Canyon
Sale, VinylIncludes the LP and download code. First round of orders will also come with a nice poster edition… It’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.”£10.00 -
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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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R. Adams – W(REST)LE
Sale, TapeLimited to 50 copies. Type ii high-bias cassettes with red tinted shells + silver imprint Color insert… Adams’ musique concrète offering ‘W(REST)LE’ merges various traditional religious recordings and tones to create a sonic tapestry celebrating devotion and meditative states. Adams’ first solo release is contemplative one. ‘W(REST)LE’ is an excursion into orthodox religious music and it’s stigmas. Church bells, choirs, and traditional instrumentation are woven together and collide to create new relationships between opposing styles and techniques. While this is his first outing as a solo artist, he is no stranger to meditative practices or the music that parallels it.£4.00 -
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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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Lunar Miasma – Passage To The Unknown
3", SaleLimited edition run of 65 3″ CD-R’s on hand stamped recycled packaging… Lunar Miasma is the alias of Panos Alexiadis. Passage To The Unknown is a lush synth based trip into the cosmos. Think Tangerine Dream fucked on MDMA soundtracking a NASA mission exploring the outer reaches of the galaxy. Dreamy!£3.00 -
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Regular Music – The Work EP
3", SaleLimited edition run of 65 3″ CD-R’s on hand stamped and numbered recycled packaging… Regular Music is an improvisational electronic trio from Portland, Oregon that uses modern synthesis in real-time, as well as analog synth, acoustic drums and percussion for a sense of exploration and sound that is sympathetic in nature to early electronic pioneers, cinematic kosmische, and psychedelic post free jazz acid synth inner space music.£3.00 -
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Dozens – Curving Quest
3", SaleLimited edition run of 65 3″ CD-R’s on hand stamped and numbered recycled packaging… Dozens, are the Montreal duo of Francesco De Gallo (Hobo Cubes) and Ryan Connolly (Sundrips). Curving Quest is a 19 minute smudged vapour trail of guitar and synth.£4.00 -
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Black Eagle Child – Go Around, Again
Sale, VinylBoasting a resume of twenty five releases as Black Eagle Child, Michael Jantz has established himself as a versatile artist capable of evolving with medium and melody. Go Around, Again further establishes Jantz as a formidable talent enabled by his creativity and the ability to transform intricate idea into blissful sound. Born during the recording of Lobelia, Go Around, Again bears little resemblance to its epochal twin. Jantz explains the differences between the two by referencing the clever wordplay of the album title: “It’s a conceptual title playing on the minimalist compositions, repeating patterns, etc.”£6.00 -
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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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Padang Food Tigers – Ready Country Nimbus
Sale, VinylWarm… Embracing… Nostalgic… Emotive. A few words to describe the indefinable, thrown into the wind to pin the immersive atmospheres located within the wax of Padang Food Tigers’ (ex-drone folk heroes, Rameses III) new album, Ready Country Nimbus. Comparable to feathers floating in the breeze, this London-based duo (Stephen Lewis and Spencer Grady) make their gentle passage via sublime vignettes to set up residence in pastures new. Theirs is the sound of dirt and cobwebs being swept from the corners of childhood memories. The world weeps tears of knowledge, comfort, concentration, enlightenment, while handing flowers to a parade of beautiful women. Ready Country Nimbus is an emotional sepia-tinged blend of tones, gospel, and spirit. It’s more than music, it’s a swelling presence. It’s inflated poetry, bent and focused through the necks of guitars, banjos and nature. It’s kind of holy.£10.00 -
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Philippe Petit – Eugenie
Sale, VinylLimited Edition of 500 copies on 300gsm full color sleeve with 140 Gram Black vinyl (33rpm)… Internationally acclaimed French sound-artist Philippe Petit, the self-described, “musical travel agent” in conjunction with French/Swiss label Alrealon Musique, announce the release of ‘Eugenie’. Comprising four stellar tracks of avant-garde/classical/soundtrack and released as a 10-inch vinyl record and digital. This stunning piece of musical modern art entitled ‘Eugenie’ will be available on May 28, 2012. Philippe Petit describes ‘Eugenie’ as “a cinematic adventure, where luscious string arrangements convey a whole world of emotion and the organic sound of the instruments is never overshadowed by the machines. The EP came to mind with the birth of my daughter Eugenie who is now 4 and its’ artwork was made by her under the guidance of her mother.”£7.00 -
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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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Jeff Grace – Meek’s Cutoff (Music From The Motion Picture)
Sale, VinylLimited edition 10″ virgin vinyl run of 250 in a gorgeous sleeve includes hand numbered insert of liner notes and photographs of the file and download code… and I’m honoured to present it here on 10″ virgin vinyl, in a gorgeous sleeve, including a small insert of liner notes and photographs of the file. Kelly Riechardt has directed several films, An Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and last year saw the release of Meek’s Cutoff. A slow burning, bleak film following a small group of settlers traveling across the Oregon High Desert with their guide Stephen Meek. What follows is increased paranoia and tension as they start to believe Meek does not the territory he has lead the group in to. The film was released to some fantastic reviews and Michelle Williams recently won the Hollywood Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Meek’s Cutoff, My Week With Marilyn and Take This Waltz.£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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Celer & Machinefabriek – Numa / Penarie
Sale, VinylLimited edition of 250 numbered copies. Comes in a matte full colour jacket. Includes download with two videos by Marco Douma… After the release of their first 7-inch, ‘Maastunnel/Mt. Mitake’, Will and Rutger decided to make it a series, and continue with another. ‘Numa/Penarie’ is the second collaboration, containing all-original audio pieced together from snippets of much longer source material. The artwork is a collage of old postcards from Jimbocho in Tokyo, and the single is again accompanied with two beautiful videos by Marco Douma.£5.00 -
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Greetings from Celer & Machinefabriek
Art, Digital, SaleLimited edition of 250. Numbered envelope with 8 postcards, each one with photographs by Will Long and credits and anecdotes from the tour. Includes download coupon of 7-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, etc… Live performances recorded in The Hague, Brussels, Maastricht, Deventer, Utrecht, Leiden and Drachten, March 2012. In March 2012, we had a tour of the Netherlands and Belgium together with Kleefstra|Bakker|Kleefstra. Seven gigs in total, which were all improvised. It was the first time we played together, and we didn’t rehearse. It might not have been brilliant all the time, but there was definitely some kind of magic going on sometimes. Not knowing what the other would do, these concerts were as exciting for us as (hopefully) for the audience. Trying to do something different each time, things got weirder and weirder with each performance, up to a point where it became really hard to keep a straight face while performing. It was simply a whole lot of fun, and an experience that seems worth sharing. It made the most sense to share it in the purest way, with all concerts in unedited form, from the first one to the last.£4.00 -
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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 -
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Jedadiah Bernards – Two Poems/Piano
Sale, Vinyl5” Lathe cut record limited to 100 handmade copies / Comes in a small gatefold sleeve / Digital download code inside… These pieces came out of an exercise Jedadiah started in the winter of 2010. He had the opprotunity to record piano music in a very lovely church, near to his hometown. During the sessions the artist embedded himself with the poetry of Mary Jo Salter. Her work inspired him to approach these new piano pieces as poems of their own. Jedadiah started by following the rules of haikus, and eventually eased into a very lucid process, being very intimate with the how the piano worked in the large space around him.£7.00 -
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Palestine / Schaefer – Day Of The Demons
Sale, VinylFlame-red limited edition vinyl with full color custom die cut mask on 12 point card stock with elastic straps… Through the unending fog and beyond the impassable door, a voice emerges. Charlemagne Palestine, writhing in uncontrollable terror, moves to ward off the demons for the sake of the listener by howling through the void. Janek Schaefer bellies a haven, a cocoon for the listener to hide in, to grasp some semblance of life that remains and hold on to it dearly. Bells chime ominously to help dispel the haunting and are yet another stark reminder of the impending doom. What hath wrought them? What can be done against them? on this day, Charlemagne Palestine and Janek Schaefer have faced the darkness surrounding us, traversed through the fog, waded into the murky waters, and encountered demons that have surfaced from the dark recesses of the earth. herein lies the hope that was gained through facing the horror that was left unchained.£8.00 -
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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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Bing & Ruth – City Lake
Sale, TapeLimited Edition of 32 hand numbered copies, comes with a download code inside the sleeve. The second release in the new tape series comes from Bing & Ruth, led by New York residing composer David Moore. Limited Edition of 32 numbered copies. – Printed card inner sleeve – Hand typed insert on hand-made paper – White cassette tape – Download code included – Housed in a brown card outer case£6.00 -
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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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Magpie Issue Five: Metamorphosis (Book/CD)
Book, SaleFeaturing 96, full colour pages of prose, poetry, interviews, enticing images and new music reviews. Each copy comes paired with an exclusive, limited edition, compilation CD of rare and recent musical releases… Content: Hanna Tuulikki Magpie’s cover illustrator uncovers the secrets of her symbolic world. Chrysalis An excerpt of ‘Chrysalis’ by Kim Todd, which explores the life of Maria Sibylla Merian, a 17th century botanical illustrator, and her quest to uncover the mystery of metamorphosis. The Museum of British Folklore We speak to Simon Costin, the founder of a new museum set up to celebrate the weird and wonderful folk traditions of Britain, and ask why these still matter today. Storm in a Teacup Magpie speaks to Verity Flecknell, founder of London based feminist arts collective ‘Storm in a Teacup’. Daphne Descends Spring/Summer collection inspired by priestesses and queens from Sardinia’s primitive era. Designed and Styled by Madeleine Nie and Laura Lambroni. Shot by Ellen Rogers. Aspects of Leonora Charley Feltham celebrates the life and work of Leonora Carrington – one of the most daringly original, bizarre and visionary artists of the 20th century. Stories Stitched from String Magpie investigates a new generation of puppeteers and storytellers, including Wyrd Motion, The Little Theatre of Dolls and Monooka. Music Reviews and Interviews Interview with Alela Diane Interview with Ödland Reviews: High Wolf, Jozef Van Wissem, Infinity Room and Higuma at Cafe Oto, Lüüp, Meg Baird, Mariee Sioux, Ilya Monosov, Larkin Grimm, Julia Kent and more.£6.00 -
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Quicksails – Silver Balloons In Clusters
Sale, VinylUnder The Spire has struck gold again with this, a vinyl reissue of Quicksails’ Silver Balloons In Clusters, which was originally released on cassette by Deception Island in early 2011. Ben Billington drops the sticks for the most part here and wires up the synths instead. Quicksails is a radically different sound for the man best known for his drum work in Tiger Hatchery and some almighty solo percussion sessions. Anyone who knows him from White Prism will have a better idea of what to expect. But that’s not to say the album is totally without a beat. ‘Must Never Catch It’ shakes past breezily on a tribal clatter and ‘A Million Knots’ unravels out of regal Kosmiche layers to start throbbing subtly at your temples, the loops loosening on their spools as gorgeous washes of pure space flow around them. Having said that, there are less percussive elements at play here than on past Quicksails releases. Instead Silver Balloons In Clusters allows samples and effects to carry it forward. ‘Deep Creak’, for example, is the aching sound of ghost ships approaching through thick fog. The ancient groans and crashing waves are pitted against alarm sounds, blaring out as if preparing shore-dwellers for imminent doom.£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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For Machines
Sale, TapeSuper Limited edition of 50 cassettes with accompanying hyperactive/disorientating essay (screen-printed). All assembled by hand. C90 cassette with bonus Side B: minimal Background sounds and unassuming drones.£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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Rivers Home – Compilation Vol. 2
3", SaleLimited edition of 100 numbered / handmade sets (five 3″ CD’s) that include inserts with personal messages from the artists The Boats, Seth Chrisman, Savaran, All N4tural and Dan Whiting… The second and final set of EPs in the Rivers Home series. This series celebrates the wonder of rivers at a time when many of them are particularly vulnerable. Many of us dream about rivers, ride along rivers, take ferries along rivers and sit on river banks. This series is a musical exploration of the ways we influence rivers and they influence us. It is about the stories we tell about rivers, the experiences we have of them, and the memories they have left us with. This the final set of Rivers Home sees The Boats, Seth Chrisman, Savaran, All N4tural and Dan Whiting each present an ode to a different piece of water on their own three inch CD.£12.00 -
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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
Sale, VinylAlready 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.£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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Magic Towers – N4
Sale, TapeC32 – black cassette / clear flexy polycase / cover printed on Risograph – blue/orange fluo / limited to 100 copies… Magic Towers is a duo born in Vittorio Veneto and active from summer 2010: two nomad and egocentric knights. They use synths, delays, tape echoes and space sounds in order to compose or improvise ambient and delayed atmospheres and trips. The project is based on the inner observation and the visual contemplation of the sound. The image of the Tower – connected on one hand with the journey, the passage and the transit, on the other with the static position – reflects the attitude of MT: an observer looking for the right observation point. Space ambients, rhythms from the deep, melodic inserts and an evil beat out: in contemplation of the immense Void. N4: recorded in Milano during the All Soul’s Day 2011. It’s the fourth part of the “Magic Trips” series.£3.50 -
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Concessionaires – Artificial Interface
Sale, VinylConcessionaires is the duo of Brad Rose and Pete Fosco. Brad is of course the mastermind of the esteemed Digitalis label and Foxy Digitalis webzine and is known also for his many musical projects, such as The North Sea, Charlatan, Altar Eagle, just to name a few. Pete is a guitarist born in Cincinnati Ohio and now resides on the other side of the Ohio river in Kentucky…he also plays in Early Tunnels with Jon Lorenz and as a sometimes guest member of Wasteland Jazz Ensemble. In the spring of 2010 and 2011 the Foscos made a road trip to Digitalis headquarters for the purpose of building friendships, sharing brews, and recording some messy synthesizer meets Fender Telecaster jams. After a few tape releases on Gift Tapes and Dial Square Tapes the boys decided it was time to do an LP. The always stellar Matt McDowell (Sagas, Waterfinder, Biological Radio) was kind enough to mix, remix and master from hours of long jams, and Artificial Interface is the result. ”Best enjoyed with a pot of chilli and a Bourbon barrel ale.£7.00 -
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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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Flaherty / Corsano / Yeh Trio / Ambarchi
Sale, VinylOceans of drum kit fire bawling and fluttering string overtones fuse a complex web of ear asterism, infiltrated by a woozy sax line that soon reduces in duration and increases the overall vehemence with fragmented reed chewing rasp & roar joining a myriad of coordinates in this dense labyrinth of free magic. On the flip stunningly crafted harmonic percolations of feedback glare and riff particles slam into tantric drum force blast beats by Matt Skitz Sanders, on this unexpected monolith from Oren. Art by Paul Coors. The trajectory is straight for the horizon and bounds with a ceaseless velocity. This is one to crank up and lose your self in. – Foxy Digitalis£2.50 -
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Infinite Light / Vibracathedral Orchestra (7″ Vinyl)
Sale, VinylVibracathedral drop straight into a heads down fully tranced narco-dust trail, with guitar-born fireflies leading the way through a never-changing backdrop heat haze of low-lying smoke-mist and earth-veined throb. Fx tweets and rattlesnake percussion shakes as mystic keyboard spirits blow in a weightless drift. The first cut from Infinite Light is a section lifted from a show featuring Barry Dean on guitar, Mick Flower on guitar and organ and Pete Nolan jamming the traps, and its a full, free-rock, psych-out captured through a heavy veil of no-fi smog. By the sounds of this they must have blasted open the trans-dimensional portal to some out-of-time temple rituals. Part two is the opposite, exchanging blasted group workout for a solo piece of harmonic guitar vignettes wrapped around a falsetto vocal cadence fluctuating at the point of saturation. Art by Barry Dean, design by Mick Flower.£2.50 -
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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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McCann & Sullivan – Vanity Fair
Sale, VinylHere we have Recital’s inaugural release, “Vanity Fair,” Sean McCann & Matthew Sullivan’s debut collaboration album. A fitting introduction to the ethos of Recital; the desire to turn a new page, to more accurately project what is significant and engaging in contemporary music. Matt and I had often talked about collaborating, as our musical understandings and interests align. Both drawn to minimalism and graceful ambience, we would trade tidbits and slivers of ideas casually over coffee or wine. For the better part of a year, we procrastinated our theoretical project, which in retrospect allowed our ideas to ferment. So when it actually came time to pop the cork and record, everything fell right into place.£8.00 -
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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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Hakobune – Recalling My Insubstantial Thoughts
Deluxe, Sale, VinylHow lucky we are to have some of these little beauties shipped in from Japan!!! Limited edition of 200 housed in paper sleeve with fabric seal… Hakobune is the moniker for Takahiro Yorifuji based in Japan and this is his 17th full length! Side A, the title track kicks things off with some nice lush electronic drones. REALLY lush. So simple, and so great. Harmonious and organic, it doesn’t even sound THAT electronic. The harmonies shift ever so slightly, barely noticeable. I feel like an ocean is singing and the harmonies are just washing over me in waves, but gentle ones! Side B, titled Maps, is also a drone affair but things sound a bit more – in music theory language – minor, or diminished, as opposed to the first side which had more of a major/happier vibe. Side B sounds a little more pensive. Some birds in the background. Frogs underneath the drone! Some very quiet waves crashing, or what could be wind. – Virtual Ritual£12.00 -
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Mike Bruno & The Black Magic Family Band – In The Shade
Sale, VinylMike Bruno + the Black Magic Family Band’s 7″ release “In the Shade” is finally available for purchase through Stashed Goods and comes in a limited edition of 250 with front/back gorgeous silk screened prints, insert, sticker and badge…. Side A: 1. In The Shade (3:38) 2. Whits Wands For Morgan (2:06) Side B: 1.The Woods Of No Regret (5:22)£4.00 -
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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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Pascal Savy – Receding
3", SalePascal Savy returns with further deconstructions and the application of fairly mind bending physics and philosophies to composition (rhizome, phase differentiation and deterritorialization) – namely the use of erosion, decay, control (or lack of), connectivity & heterogeneity, tonal mutations and cross pollination to allow his works to organically grow with lives of their own. The four tracks within are really rather lovely representations and interpretations of this processing style which include a kit and source list of: A couple of piano samples recorded in a disused Norfolk windmill (hang on… a piano…in a windmill?) plucked and bowed guitar, processed sine waves, FM synth, a self-oscillating analogue filter, a turntable, monome and handheld recorder with found sounds from a French church and Kew Gardens….nice!£4.00 -
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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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Coppice – Prune
Sale, TapePro-duplication and imprinting with full color double sided j-cards. Limited edition of 100 on chrome tape… Prune by Coppice is a 30-minute composition for tape studying foundation reduction, threshold permutation, mercurial residue, and compression techniques. Recorded in Chicago in late 2010 using pump organ, fire bellows, push-pump organ, samples, and electronic processing. Side B includes two new works from N.N.N. Cook. Wu Wei I: Repose features the texture of select materials arranged in order to accentuate the color of each while inducing horizontal and vertical spatial movement. Material (and non-material) sources include: baoding balls, brass censer, feedback, porcelain vase, tape, voice, wine glass, and wooden flute. Wu Wei II: Impulse is the first 18 minutes excerpted from a 40-minute improvisation on electric organ. The meditative state involved in the creation/listening process and the immersive quality of engaging in the perception of the beats, overtones, and shading are its focus.£4.00 -
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Seth Chrisman – Aetherdrift, Do You Copy
3", SaleLimited edition of 100 that comes in a numbered handmade sleeve, with an insert containing a personal message from Chisman introducing the EP… Flaming Pines’s first release for 2012 is a magical new EP by Seth Chrisman called ”Aetherdrift,, Do You Copy”. Chrisman hails from New Mexico in the USA, but drew heavily on sonic material gathered on a trip to Costa Rica to produce this memorable EP. Stumbling around after dark armed with a tape recorder and a radio, Chrisman said he returned home inspired by the ”lovely cacophony” produced by the mixture of natural sounds and fragmented AM radio transmisions. ”Aetherdrift” delicately and powerfully conveys both the euphoria and disorientation of travel — the sense of drift and near disembodiment experienced by every traveller as they arrive as a disconnected outsider to a new country. It is a subtle and sophisticated work which, with its emphasis on geography, travel and connections, is a terrific fit with the preoccupations of the Flaming Pines label, and we are very proud to be associated with it.£3.00 -
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Rivers Home – Compilation
3", SaleLimited edition of 100 numbered / handmade sets (five 3″ CD’s) that include inserts with personal messages from the artists Marcus Fischer, Field Rotation, Broken Chip, Kate Carr and Billy Gomberg… To celebrate World Rivers Day Flaming Pines released the first chapter of its 10 three inch -cd series Rivers Home. As our environment continues to change, rivers represent some of our most vulnerable eco-systems with urban runoff, over fishing, changing rain patterns and the clearing of river banks just some of the challenges to river systems worldwide. Rivers Home sees Marcus Fischer, Field Rotation, Broken Chip, Kate Carr and Billy Gomberg, each present an ode to a different piece of water on their own three inch CD.£12.00 -
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Mike Bruno – The Sad Sisters
Sale, VinylHere’s a rather tasty slab of vinyl from the Haute Magie label that includes Black 12″ vinyl with red centre labels & black ink / white inner sleeves & full colour jackets / glossy black & white 11.5″ x 11.5″ insert – full lyrics & liner notes. Limited to 500 copies… There are a few albums which one will come across in their lifetime that will truly make an impact and leave a mark so definitive that the songs themselves become a part of every day’s rhythm. Like Mike Bruno’s “Black Horses”, these pieces are dark travellers in and of their own rite, littering the fairgrounds of mental carnivals across the world with their sweet lullabies and whispered whinnies.£7.00 -
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Michael Tapscott / Andrew Kenower – Good Morning, Africa
Sale, VinylNinth release of Michael Tapscott (founder of the american band Odawas) and first vinyl edition for Bookmaker Records, “Good Morning, Africa” alternates captivating ballads and dark instrumental tracks. The result is a deep mix of folk songwriting, psychedelism and new age. Feat. Andrew Kenower (field recordings) and mastered by James Plotkin. With Tapscott’s expertise and Kernower’s deft, unobtrusive touch it flows naturally – the ballads stand out amidst ghostly clouds of Lynchian gloom like chinks of gold in a prospector’s pan. – Fluid Radio£8.00 -
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Cheer – Breathing Tone
Deluxe, SaleHere’s something you don’t see everyday! Album comes as a 4GB USB card that has 8 tracks totaling almost 4 hours of music in high quality (2116 kbps) AIFF files. Also includes a HD video for the track Water And Me made by Ross Wood and Laura Maclean. – Top stuff!£5.00 -
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Ducerey Ada Nexino – Kill Centre
Sale, TapeLimited to 100 copies: C24.chrome grade cassette. BLACK… Regularly releasing albums as a member of STEVEN PORTER for various international record labels, Sludge-Tapes presents Ducerey Ada Nexino, a solo album from the founder of the recent upstart Kyoto-based, 10 Label. Starting out with unexpected heavy, distorted guitar, this release moves from arhythmic tracks, like buildings crumbling in slow motion, to abstract interpretations of obsolete industrial techno. Unlike anything heard on other labels, this is a presentation of heterochromatic black-stepping techno.£4.00 -
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Appalache – Fue
Sale, TapeIf you’ve ever had the chance to travel, you know that it changes your life. After a year on the road, from the jordanian dunes to the asphalt of Nashville, Julien Magot locked himself in his appartement to record ‘Fue’, the first album of his lonely adventure Appalache. If you’ve ever had the chance to travel for a long-time, you know how hard it is to fight against monotony of a daily life. This is maybe the start of this story, a way to escape from the outside world’s oppression, a dream about a dream inside a dream, where flashbacks can be possible futures. More than a story, ‘Fue’ can be the painting of a luxuriant desert under the moonlight, maybe like the one on the Barn Owl’s Lost In The Glare cover. 8 songs for 8 colors, leaded by an electric guitar and indians spirits, both hunting for serenity…£4.00 -
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Cleared – Breaking Day
Sale, TapeBreaking Day is the second full-length album from Cleared, the Chicago-based duo of Steven Hess and Michael Vallera. While their self-titled debut album (Immune 014, Jan 2011) found the duo exploring themes of stasis and texture, Breaking Day represents a huge development in the scope and overall style of the project. Where previous material had been slowly assembled from dozens of individual recordings and experiments, this new collection of songs was born from the raw documentation of Cleared’s live performance in the studio. Elements of noise, drone, and psychedelia are filtered through a dark, unifying lens that ranges from relentless rhythmic assault to monolithic tonal sculpture. Dueling rhythms of drums and sampled percussion, walls of undulating soundscapes, and hypnotic guitar are deployed with heightened intensity and force. If Cleared’s first record presented a frozen, gray-washed realm of ambient sound, Breaking Day represents its inverse: A blackened subterranean space of alien movement and activity; a premonition of an assault from the unknown.£5.00 -
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Jen Paul / No Lakes – †
Sale, TapeLimited to 125 copies: red c50 cassette shells with black imprinted ink // full colour J-cards with photography by Kate Kell // plastic norelco cases with shrinkwrapping // artwork & layout by Amanda Boutourline and D.S. Ciarán£3.00 -
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David Carter / The Witch Family
Sale, TapeLimited edition of 125 copies: white c67 cassette with black imprinting // full colour single panel J-cards // plastic norelco cases with shrinkwrapping // artwork & layout by Amanda Boutourline and D.S. Ciarán…£3.00 -
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Szilárd – Piano Vert
3", SaleLimited to 100 copies worldwide. 3″ cd-r comes with download code in gorgeous letterpress cardstock… Piano Vert is an installation piece for three concentric tape loops; 8, 9 and 10 feet long. Three short piano patterns are cut into loops from an extended piece and played back simultaneously with minimal live adjustments. The first in szilárd’s “colourpalette” loop series. Letterpress by Ben Owen @ Middle Press, Brooklyn. Mastered by Greg Davis.£5.00 -
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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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Bird From the Abyss (2 x Tape)
Sale, TapeBloodred c60 + c40 tapes, handstamped / inked in black Handcut, dyed + scored custom chipboard O-cards / insert Handstamped red 8.5″ by 8.5″ insert with black lettering Handnumbered & stamped in roman numerals Screenprinted artwork by D.S. Ciarán There is a stench here so old that it rids the body of any uncertainty. It is a comfortable rapture. The stench comes not from distant swamps, putrescent and green in their small wakes, or the mounds of bone matter and meat made dust underfoot. This waft of hidden and yet all-too demanding treasures lifts itself steadily from the bated, beating wings of the Bird, on its eternal voyage somewhere far past home.£5.00 -
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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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Matt Rösner – Repeat (Deluxe White Vinyl)
Deluxe, Sale, VinylSpecial limited edition white vinyl copies with individually numbered sleeves that include bespoke golden embossed inserts… Repeat offers 6 new works by Rösner that demonstrate the composer’s musical maturing since his debut release on 12×50 and a couple of releases of environmental and electronic sound in Australia and the US. He engages on Repeat with the sound of voice, recorded instruments and performers. Reminiscent of Morton Feldman, these works unfold their beauty over time. With additional material by Adam Trainer, Greg Taw and Alexander Wendt, this vinyl release explores patterns and structures – observations of Rösner’s environment at the oceanic West coast of Australia. Calculations based on the Fibonacci series laid out timing and structure of Lattices, the track that spans over the entire B-Side. It explores tones and frequencies over 20 minutes.£10.00 -
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Matt Rösner – Repeat
Sale, VinylRepeat offers 6 new works by Rösner that demonstrate the composer’s musical maturing since his debut release on 12×50 and a couple of releases of environmental and electronic sound in Australia and the US. He engages on Repeat with the sound of voice, recorded instruments and performers. Reminiscent of Morton Feldman, these works unfold their beauty over time. With additional material by Adam Trainer, Greg Taw and Alexander Wendt, this vinyl release explores patterns and structures – observations of Rösner’s environment at the oceanic West coast of Australia. Calculations based on the Fibonacci series laid out timing and structure of Lattices, the track that spans over the entire B-Side. It explores tones and frequencies over 20 minutes. Limited edition of 500£5.00 -
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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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Birds of Passage – Winter Lady
Sale, TapePerfect for the wintertime, Alicia Merz’ Birds of Passage project comes from another world, separate from our own. This is an world similar to ours, but everything is just slightly off. A constant overcast sky, filled with birds drifting through these skies leaving long trails of gold and blue ribbons. It’s a fantastic and ethereal plane.£4.00 -
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Expo 70 / Altair Temple
Sale, Vinylimited to just 300 copies… EXPO70 song recorded by Brodie Rush at the Goldroom KCMO during same session as “Death Voyage” Cd/Tape Justin Wright : Guitar, Analog drum machine and Moog ALTAÏR TEMPLE songs recorded at boogaloo, théâtre barbey and waldeck rousseau, mixed at radar house, Bordeaux. Fred : Guitar, effects, synth Johan : Analog synths, computer and audiomulch Mastered by Cyrille Gachet Artwork by LLCOOL JESUS JO£7.00 -
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Cuni / Durand – Already Awake In The Night
Sale, VinylWerner Durand is coming from the minimalist tradition. He performs his own music for saxophones, Iranian ney and self-made wind instruments since the late seventies, instruments which he enriched through a variety of materials and playing techniques, including digital delays, providing rich textures and ecstatic rhythms. He also started building wind instruments out of plexi-glass and PVC in the early 80s, which led to the foundation of the ensemble The 13th Tribe in 1990. He was a member of Arnold Dreyblatt’s Orchestra of Excited Strings and has collaborated with numerous composers/performers including David Behrman, David Moss, Muslimgauze, Henning Christiansen, David Toop, David Maranha and Ulrich Krieger.£5.00 -
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Artificial Memory Trace – Boto
Sale, VinylLimited edition of 250 copies, hand numbered and includes a bespoke soft paper insert… Artificial Memory Trace is the long standing musical project of Slavek Kwi, who was born in Czechoslovakia, lived for 14 years in Belgium, and since 2000 has been based in Ireland. Slavek has been making music for more than 20 years under the label Artificial Memory Trace. His works are precise combinations of restructured (mostly) environmental sounds, where the notions of perception, sensation, cognition, and ultimately reality are questioned, notably through the use of musique concrète techniques and graphics scores, sometimes combined with elements of performance.£5.00 -
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Kelly Churko – Atrophy of the Instan
Sale, TapeC24.chrome grade cassette. KELLY GREEN. Limited to 100 copies. Mp3 downloadcard included! Experimental musician and guitarist, Kelly Churko – Canadian-born, Tokyo-based – is recognized as an integral part of the Tokyo underground scene, from jazz to improv to grindcore to noise. A computer creation, stoicism exudes over this continually developing, detailed and finely constructed, pulse-drone-centered work. A completely realized composition of a new type of drone core noise.£3.50 -
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Yousuke Fuyama – 0.06479891 / MOTIV
Sale, TapeC30.chrome grade cassette. RED. Limited to 100 copies. Mp3 download card included… Sound designer and programmer, Yousuke Fuyama, is a front runner in the academic world but fully embedded in the avant garde audio/visual scene. An updated version of his Sonar performance generated by the mutual exchange of music and sound data. An unexpectedly accessible work of noisy, extra-dimensional, abstract sound. A stunning blend of rogue, 4D glitch.£3.50 -
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Miclodiet – Caesiumen / Strontiumen
Sale, TapeC24.chrome grade cassette. BLUE. Limited 100 copies. Mp3 download card included… The first EP from the next generation of technoise. An intersection of extreme high- frequency feedback and heavy, incisive beats. This long track is buried in the extremes of the dancefloor and experimental music. An exhibition of new music.£3.50 -
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Nova Scotian Arms – Cult Spectrum
Sale, VinylNova Scotian Arms has concocted a sprawling, sophisticated catalog of winding compositions and dizzying drones. Grant Evans, who is also 1/2 of Quiet Evenings and co-curator of the Hooker Vision label, is the brains behind the entire operation. Throughout numerous releases he has shown a consistent ability to keep listeners guessing as he explores endless sonic territories. With Cult Spectrum, Evans is drowning himself in a hazy aural sea. Like much of his work, there is a very distinct mood on Cult Spectrum. This is funereal music that is stretched to its breaking point. Distant galaxies are buried underground in a delicate mix of sounds that are as cosmic as they are organic. This duality is at play straight-off with the masterful opener, “Gathering/Composition.” Soaring in crystal skies on beds of hiss, each strained note from Evans’ Rhodes piano that emerged from the murk is an anchor keeping the song and the mood gravity-stricken. It works to perfection, drawing in the listener immediately.£7.00 -
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Richard Youngs – Core To The Brave
Sale, VinylWith scores of releases both solo & in collaboration that stretch back for more than 20 years, Richard Youngs perhaps needs the least amount of introduction of any of the artists Root Strata has worked with. ‘Core To The Brave’ hits with a shock and never lets up. Composed of what appears to be blown out bass & spastic drum rhythms, these tracks cascade into shimmering loops of distortion, their weight reaching a critical mass that often feels likes it’s on the verge of ecstatic collapse. Everything is elevated further in & up by that one and only voice, floating over top like a lush wind come down from the mountains. – Root Strata£8.00 -
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Swanson / Hell – Waiting For The Ladies
Sale, VinylVinyl reissue of the massively limited split LP from Yellow Swans’ Pete Swanson and darkened Kosmische operator Rene Hell, who each supply a side of new music. A1. Pete Swanson – Self Help B1. Rene Hl. – Walking In Tune B2. Rene Hl. – Bending (Voice) B3. Rene Hl. – Glass (Coke)£7.00 -
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Heat Wave – Stasis 1
Sale, TapeEdition of 100 custom labeled, pro-dubbed tapes w/ full color, double sided j-cards… Recontextualizing the past into fragments of an alternate plane… trash, 20th century garbage dump. of shimmering gold, sacred.£3.50 -
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Forsyth / Holtkamp – Early Astral
Sale, VinylChris Forsyth has recently been touring around Europe with his Paranoid Cat Band in support of their excellent LP on Family Vineyard as well as playing with Meg Baird on her recent record and a continuing member of the Peeesseye. Koen Holtkamp plays as part of Thrill Jockey’s Mountains, as well as releasing solo material on aformentioned Thrill Jockey and Type. On Early Astral Forsyth and Holtkamp team up, playing guitar and synthesizer and modular electronics respectively. The record consists to two tracks, each with a great kraut guitar groove, but frequently rocking into a blissed out epic psychedelic smog of wailing riffs and bubbling electronics.£7.00 -
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Menagerie #3 (Vinyl/Book)
Book, Sale, VinylJake Blanchard’s third volume of Menagerie finally shows up just over a year after #2… The concept this time is slightly different, not only do the artists create imagery based on the musicians music, but this time the musicians also create a track based on an image created by the artist. Two exclusive new tracks from each of these artists: Ben Nash, Isengrind, C Joynes and Twinsistermoon. And exclusive new artwork by Jim Stoten, Simon Fowler, Adrianne Neil and Jake Blanchard. The sleeve is a collaboration between Jake and Jim and it is incredible! The LP is pressed on heavyweight black virgin vinyl, packaged with a A5 12 page litho printed full colour booklet. Limited to 500 copies.£8.00 -
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Isengrind – Night of Raining Fire
Sale, VinylSolange Gularte (Natural Snow Buildings) returns for her second solo LP for Blackest Rainbow. A dreamy psychedelic haze of shimmering drones, minimal string plucking with barely-there vocals, Gularte’s sound is somewhat more far out in comparison to say Twinsistermoon or Natural Snow Buildings. Night Of Raining Fire showcases this with tracks like the almost medieval sounding Still Voyager, or the outsider folk sound of Nadirs of the Sun. The record comes packaged in a stunning full colour sleeve covered in Gularte’s strange surreal illustrators.£10.00 -
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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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‘Quiet, Please’ is an 80mm CDr release, documenting the degeneration of society’s sonic landscape through location recordings, tape-loops and double bass… ”Quiet, Please deals with the issue of ‘noise’ as a polluting yet ultimately unavoidable element in an acoustic space, through the medium of lo-fi location recording and magnetic tape deterioration. Inspired by R. Murray Schafer’s The Tuning of the World (1977), the composition draws upon the concept of an ever-degrading sonic environment caused by humanity’s technological development. The affliction of noise pollution is something which, in all likelihood, cannot be avoided if society is to continue to progress – noise is therefore inevitable. For Quiet, Please the location setting of a library was chosen for its cultural significance in the issue of noise control. Firstly, the concept of education and learning ties in with the topics surrounding human progress: the process of formal education is fundamental to the technical and social advancements causing this shift from high to low-fidelity soundscape. Secondly, in the case of the recordings made in this piece, the library seems to act as an example of the impossibility of complete noise eradication. The library – which is generally accepted as a quiet place of study – in fact, contains a great deal of noise pollution, which is then amplified by the cultural expectation of ‘silence’…” ~ Ithaca Trio, 2011 Packaged in a library returns card, this release is limited to 75 copies for the world.£3.00 -
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Blow – Issue Three
Book, SaleA little over a year ago, blow magazine was no more than a loose idea waiting to take shape. Over the past twelve months we have cultivated a visual collection to honour the printed image, to celebrate known photographers and to shed a light on fresh talent. So it is with celebration in mind that we present to you our third issue: The Body Issue. One of the most photographed of subjects, the human body is infinite in its ability to communicate visually. Regularly a study of shape and form, sometimes a tool for social commentary and often a subject of controversy, the body acts as a human landscape with endless possibilities for expression and interpretation.£6.00 -
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A Prior – Issue 21
Book, SaleA Prior Magazine #21 investigates performance practices, the unique experience, the active positions of the artist and the audience in relation to current techniques of assemblage, association, reproduction, sharing, collage and, specifically, linking. Featured artists: Danai Anesiadou, Gabriel Lester in collaboration with Raimundas Malasauskas, and Luis Jacob Cover image: Happy To Serve You by Danai Anesiadou Back cover: Image from Gabriel Lester’s personal collection Essays by Lou Forster on The Other Tradition (Wiels, Brussels), Natasa Petresin on Les Promesses du Passé (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Defne Ayas on Performa (New York). And a contribution by Ruth Hege Halstensen on Tino Sehgal Insert: Album IX: special 16-page booklet in full color by Luis Jacob And more essays by Anselm Franke, Donatien Grau, John Menick, Vivian Rehberg, Dieter Roelstraete, Michael Van den Abeele, Jan Verwoert and Andros Zins-Browne 280 pages full color£8.00 -
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Popshot Issue Six – The Love Issue
Book, SaleOur sixth issue which tackles one of the dangerous themes in poetry. Expect to find poems about the weight of meaning behind the term ‘wife’, love as an elderly lesbian, motherhood and the hopeless powerlessness of love after death. Featuring work from some of the finest contemporary poets and illustrators working today, plus interviews with Joe Dunthorne, Salena Godden and Tom Chivers.£5.00 -
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Bassline – Issue 60
Book, SaleWelcome to Baseline 60, our autumn issue. To coincide with the 60th issue of the magazine, we mounted an exhibition at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) to celebrate the 17-year collaboration with its students, graduates and staff. For the first book review in this issue we selected the Design series published by the Antique Collectors’ Club, designed by Webb and Webb. It is reviewed by Prof. Alan Powers. The second publication is TD 63–73 Total Design and its pioneering role in graphic design. The author is Ben Bos and it is published by Unit Editions. The review is by Prof. Ian McLaren.£10.00 -
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Raw Vision – Issue 73
Book, Sale– Andrei’s Artistic Automobilies D.B Denholtz introduces the striking models of Andrei Palmer – Miniature Masterpieces Gary Santaniello introduces the obsessive detail of Dalton Ghetti – Danielle Jacqui: La Maison de Celle Qui Peint and the Colossal d’Art Brut Michèle Perez brings us up to date with the phenomenal artist singulier from southern France – Flowerings of Folklore Sara Ugolini introduces spontaneous Italian artist Maria Concetta Cassarà – Rediscovering an Imaginary Pop Music Superstar Tom Patterson reviews the lost-and-found homemade record-cover art of Mingering Mike – Art & Disability – With the opening of the Museum of Everything’s London exhibition, featuring the work of artists with disabilities.£5.00 -
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8 Magazine – The Islam Issue
Book, SalePublished biannually, 8 Magazine looks beneath the surface and shines a spotlight on the issues that shape our world. Now in its tenth year of publication, 8 magazine takes the traditional format of words and pictures to a new level. For each issue, we choose a theme to explore, usually a contemporary issue that requires investigating and understanding, and seek the best ways to bring the subject to light. With its unique mix of reportage, commentary, interviews and essays, 8 magazine has grown to occupy a unique place in the publishing sphere, offering world class analysis through essays, photographic and written.£12.00 -
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Varoom – Issue 16
Book, SaleExperts have hand pick exciting new projects from their respective fields to share with readers. David Downton offers up his choice of fashion illustration; Martin Colyer selects the best of cartoon illustration, and John Lowe finds some inspiration for his pick of graphic novels at Comic-con, San Diego; Derek Brazell’s choice of reportage includes George Butler’s drawing trip to India for a wildlife charity and illustrator Richard Johnson’s’ sobering work with the International Society of War Artists. Martin Salisbury looks at children’s picture books, Jeremy Leslie finds innovation in magazine illustration and Nat Hunter of Airside shows us a selection of illustration being used within a digital framework.£5.00 -
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VNA – Issue 16
Book, SaleIssue 16 features Parisian legend Invader as the cover artist. Our exclusive interview with the Rubik’s cube enthusiast provides a rare insight into this secretive street artist’s work. We talk about people stealing his work, airlines classifying his tiles as ‘weapons’ and invader-shaped waffles. We also chat about his ‘cousin’ Mr Brainwash and how he narrowly avoiding arrest in LA during the Art in the Streets show. Issue 16 also includes Ron English’s protege, the Australian wunderkind Kid Zoom, old-school mad scientist CHU, commercial assassins TrustoCorp, and weird and wonderful pictorial pirates The Dead Sea Mob. But that’s not all, folks. We also talk to Cath Love and Will Barras, and include a photo feature on Obsession Of Colour. Of course no issue of VNA would be complete without documenting actual work on city walls and it seemed appropriate that this issue should celebrate the streets of Paris, alongside those of London and Melbourne.£5.00 -
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Beth Kleist – Drei
Sale, TapeThe third album of the NQ / Teamforest collaboration: limited tape edition of 100… Recorded in a makeshift lakeside studio, Beth Kleist’s Drei is the sometimes psychedelic, sometimes pastoral third album from Nils Quak and Philipp Bückle. The album haunts and teases its way through mostly guitar, percussion, and electronics without settling long into an idiom before leaping headlong into a new idea. Lovers of kraut rock, post-spectral drone, twee electronica, and especially postrock in all of its shifting facets will find pockets of bliss in Drei.£3.00 -
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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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Refractor – Locus Suspectus
Sale, VinylEdition of 200 Vinyl LP’s… All sound passed through a single synthesizer. Mixing, panning, decay, and reverb manipulated within the instrument. This was to embrace the limitations of one-take recordings with no additional editing. Sawtooth waves of synthesized ramblings with Marshall McLuhan and Aldous Huxley in mind. A Brave New World soundtrack to feed the connected one’s insatiable appetite for distraction.£7.00 -
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Ekca Liena – Downer Supine
3", SaleEkca Liena is an alias of Daniel W J Mackenzie which concentrates on the celestial, melancholic and sometimes blissful side of ambient music. Over the range of his enchanting, mainly long-form compostions there is a clear influence from ritual psychedelic, noise, doom, post-rock and at times modern classical arrangement. His discography has seen work on a variety of labels including Dead Pilot, Small Doses and Entropy and with an enormous amount of material currently in the works this list is hoped to expand.£3.00 -
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Omniiq – To Put Hope Aside
3", SaleOmniiq has been composing sounds for over three decades. From the more conventional classical training in the early years to the freedom of sonic experimentation now, the common thread is a passion for creating. Accidental composition. Chance ambiences. (Un)fortunate soundscapes. Ordinary sounds manipulated beyond recognition. Aural abuse. The journey is all important, the destination will look after itself.£3.00 -
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Cezary Gapik – Vanishing
3", SaleCezary Gapik (also know as CEZAR) was born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1963. He started his musical activity in 1980 as an animator of punk rock bands. Soon enough he discovered new sounds which were brought by the punk rock rebellion. Cabaret Voltaire, Public Image Ltd. or other “new wave” bands had an enormous influence on the perception of music by Cezar.£3.00 -
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David Ya – Millions Of Years In Stasis
3", SaleDavid Ya’s drone & field recordings experience introduces the new serie “Thought For The Day”. The visionary composition let you immerse into a very far and very ancient journey… ED.001 is a limited edition to 100 copies. Composition, field recordings, mastering and package designed by David Ya. Photography by nasa/jpl-caltech and David Ya£3.00 -
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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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Ensemble Economique – Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight
Sale, VinylIt’s an exquisite feeling, to taste the truth, to let it wrap you completely, to feel it’s ecstatic warmth, to let it ripple through you, to let you feel life with every breath, as if day and night are colliding, and sparks exploding, and the sky turning deep red, and night falls like a blanket, and the wind is a soft whisper, and the dune grass are like blades, piercing blackness. Ensemble Economique is Brian Pyle of Starving Weirdos and RV Paintings.£7.00 -
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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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Bible & Henry – Marker/Magnet (2 x Tape)
Sale, TapeOriginally released individually, Bible & Henry’s Marker and Magnet are two complimentary volumes in a set that covers quite a bit of ground, and covers it quite masterfully. The duo’s work here is mostly in the area of electroacoustic improvisation and musique concrète. Jeremy and Jason manage to utilize the tiny musical space they’ve allotted themselves and stretch it out to a length of over two hours. Typically I’d say this is an accident waiting to happen, but these fellows have pulled it off with class to spare. Never does anything sound recycled or looped, never is there a moment where the music returns to a point. It is always winnowing, sifting, threshing through waves of electronic abstractions and obscured acousmatic sounds. The result is a confounding experience in which I find myself searching for some familiarity and finding little. There are moments of potential clarity, but those are seldom and surprising when they arrive. The rest of these compositions are steeped in mystery and endless engagement. This is not background music; please listen with care.£4.00 -
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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 -
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Davis / Kleefstra / Kleefstra – Tongerswel
CD, SaleGareth Davis and the Kleefstra brothers got to know one another when Jan Kleefstra received an album from Gareth by mail-order by mistake. He liked the album though and told Gareth through MySpace. The contact was made and a plan to meet up and make some music was quickly formed.£4.00 -
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Maninkari – The Half Forgotten Relic of a Dream
CD, SaleWith The Half Forgotten Relic of a Dream, Maninkari enters a new era. After three albums taken from the same studio sessions, they are back with more direct and refined tracks. As usual, Maninkari uses a great deal of instruments in many styles (cimbalom, cello, viola, synthesizers, percussion instruments), which is quite genre-breaking, without taking the easy way out.£4.00 -
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Larkian / Yellow6 – Offtempo
CD, SaleThe history of Larkian and Yellow6 traces back to around 2001 when Cyril was running the Tricycle Evolutif record label. He invited Jon to release a 7″ single on the label and this, ‘Grey’ was released early 2002. There were some discussions about a split release at the time but this never came about. Forward to 2009 and Cyril and Jon get back in contact via individual releases on the same labels (October Man, Cathedral Transmissions). Cyril sends a track for Jon to contribute to and the collaboration that has become ‘Offtempo’ began. After around a year of file exchange, composition and recordings, the first common collaborative effort by Yellow6 and Larkian was ready to find a home.£4.00 -
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Aidan Baker – Plague of Fantasies
Sale, VinylPlague of Fantasies is a rare vinyl release from Aidan Baker. Pressed on virgin vinyl in an edition of only 300 copies. Brand new solo material from Aidan Baker, one of the most prolific musicians recording at the moment, Aidan creates such a wide array of musical sound its hard to keep track, not only does he perform as part of the fantastic Nadja, as well as in projects such as ARC, and collaborating with other luminaries such as Tim Hecker, he releases a whole host of solo material.£7.00 -
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Twinsistermoon – When Stars Glide Through Solid
Sale, VinylThe vinyl reissue features an entire side worth of new material, all of which is exclusive to the vinyl edition and is packaged in a beautiful gatefold sleeve featuring stunning new artwork by Solange Gularte. Limited on heavyweight black virgin vinyl. Long awaited reissue of the debut release from Mehdi Amezianes Twinsistermoon project, originally released as a gorgeous handmade self released CDR in 2007, to many of Natural Snow Buildings and each of their solo project, this is the pick of all their releases, which is rather ironic being that its one of the smallest release runs in the discography of all the Natural Snow Buildings and related projects, it is infact the most limited release of all the Twinsistermoon releases.£8.00 -
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Deas & Allett – Outgrowing The Wretched Cradle
Sale, VinylA wild new collaboration from long time touring partners and Blackest Rainbow buddies Deas & Allett. The record comprises of two side long pieces both with the same approach in terms of playing; Deas plays guitar pulling together his classical sound and his stunning recent experimental approach from his Quadtych releases while Allett does live manipulations, taking advantage of his long experience as one half of Towering Breaker.£6.00 -
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Yann Novak – Presence
CD, SaleYann Novak is a sound, video and installation artist living and working in Los Angeles. His work utilizes different forms of digital documentation as a point of departure. Through the digital manipulation of these sound and image files, his works serve as a translation from documents of personal experiences into an open ended autobiographical narrative. By choosing subject matter that is also relatable to the audience, Novak’s work creates a hybrid state, balancing between his own personal history and that of the audience. Yann has had previous works released on Line, Infrequency, White Line Editions. In addtion Yann manages the label Dragon’s eye which has seen numerous works by the artist released.£5.00 -
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Strategy – Super Awareness Is Fruit
Sale, VinylLimited edition of 200 copies on clear vinyl. One 20-minute, deeply layered and psyched-out dub track from Paul Dickow’s Strategy project split over two sides* Super Awareness Is Fruit comes as a welcome expansion of the multilayered ambiences that made up Dickow’s Music For Lamping long-player, tackling the contemporary drone-scape with an agenda that eschews minimalist convention in favour of a sparkling, densely populated narrative full of dissolved acoustic timbres, wah-wah filtering treat.£5.00 -
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Hess & McFall – The Inescapable Fox
Sale, VinylI think I speak for Steven and I both when I make mention of the fact that a great deal of the materials used to create this release stemmed from a mutual interest in working with taped (analog) recordings. So, when we began working together we started by sending analog recordings back and forth by mail. Most of my recordings are done on treated tape, whereby the binder material is subjected to hydrolysis prior to the recording phase. Steven recorded some of the more sound/precussive elements for the inescapable fox on some of my tapes and his as well. He sent them to me and I began editing the material from there. I’ve been working with piano, voice and field recordings for some time now, so I tailored these source recordings specific to the tracks on the release. As far as ideologies are concerned, we approached the collaboration process thematically in order to attempt to focus our work for this release.£7.00 -
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Mark Fry / The A Lords – I Lived In Tress
CD, SaleReleased by RCA Italy with little fanfare in 1972, Mark Fry’s Dreaming With Alice is one of those very particular albums whose potency and poetry seem to owe everything to their era but whose virtues only gain traction, and with it coach-loads of interested parties, many years, if not the odd epoch, after their conception. Effectively a late-period psych-folk obscurity that became a record connoisseur’s Holy Grail once all things vaguely Incredible String Band-shaped became once again à la mode in the middle of the last decade, Dreaming With Alice, frequently bootlegged and described by Dream magazine as “one of those albums that feels like a secret you can’t wait to share”, had finally found its time and place.£5.00 -
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Mountainhood – America (2 x CD)
CD, SaleNew mammoth 2 disc set from Michael Curtis Hilde aka Mountainhood, following on from releases with Important, Reverb Worship and Blackest Rainbow.£7.00 -
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Xela – The Sublime
Sale, VinylThis third and final part of a trilogy (along with the previously released ‘The Illuminated’ and ‘The Divine’), ‘The Sublime’ takes John Twells’ sound into the sickly afterlife, and dives into our misplaced perceptions of heaven and hell.£8.00 -
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Charalambides – Exile 2xLP
Sale, VinylExile is the new Charalambides album. Five years in the making, it was recorded between 2006 and 2010 in various locations in New Hampshire, western Massachusetts and New York City, mixed at Black Dirt Studios, and mastered at Sand with Paul Gold. The group remains the core duo of Christina and Tom Carter, with contributions on one track by the string section of Helena Espvall and Margarida Garcia.£9.00 -
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Sub Loam – The Ley Hunter’s Companion
CD, SaleBack in stock: Limited Edition of 230 Hand-Numbered Copies. CD in colour wallet in 7″ sleeve. Sleeve folds out to 14″ poster…£5.00 -
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Mountain Ocean Sun – Peace Conference
CD, SaleMountain Ocean Sun’s search for deep peace, heavy drones, and sound healing has found them jamming with Deerhoof in Detroit, starting an organic music society in the extreme tropical heat of the Matthaei Botancial Garden on new years day, and all the way back to their first performance at a 500 year-old buddhist temple in Osaka, Japan.£3.00 -
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:Take: & White/Lichens / Split 10″
Sale, VinylThe first volume of the three:four records split series gathers two mesmeric drone guitar lovers, the newly arrived French project :take: coming from Paris and the Chicago based combo White/Lichens. Two different approaches of drone music: soft and melodic for :take:, loud and unbridled for the Chicagoans.£5.00 -
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Liondialer – LIVE!
CD, SaleMade up of Greg Haines & Danny Saul, Liondialer were formed in Manchester during 2007, and are now split between Manchester and Berlin. They play entirely improvised music on sporadic shows and tours around Europe.£4.00 -
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Danny Saul – Harsh, Final
CD, SaleAs guitarist with Tsuji Giri (Manchester’s biggest and best kept secret ‘almost’ band of recent years, alongside The Sonar Yen), Saul self-released a Steve Albini-recorded album in 2005, with the band promptly self-destructing upon release. After all the tribulations associated with the process of production and shared decision-making, Danny rethought every aspect of how to perform and record with the minimum of intervention or interference; Harsh, Final is the culmination of a bloody minded pursuit for a personal satisfaction in both making music and Doing Things Right. ‘Your Death’ opens the album with softly plucked acoustic guitar, and proceeds to build layers of acoustic and electric guitars into a hazed atmosphere, which suddenly comes into focus as the track s defining chords state that this is a song, and that everything put in place so far is only framework. And in many ways this typifies what makes the record really tick: the fission between the pull of the songs and the musical dynamics working within and yet outside them. Be sure – Danny Saul is very much not a conventional singer-songwriter, with all the compromise and baggage that carries with it.£4.00 -
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Warm Widow – Widower
CD, SaleManchester’s Warm Widow never really intended to make this album – well, not in the way that “Widower” presents itself anyway. This was supposed to be the scratchy blueprint for the actual Warm Widow album, recorded, you know, like proper albums are recorded: in a recording studio perhaps, with an array of ‘appropriate’ microphones, with an actual producer (or certainly an engineer), and time to allow the band the breathing space to ‘nail it’, with additional options to try multiple takes and overdubs – in general, recording with a certain amount of control and ease.£3.00 -
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Robe. – Time Dilation
CD, SaleDrone/noise in the vein of older Burial Hex, but there’s some more subdued guitar-based action going on here. Like a much, much more interesting version of (unfortunately coincidentally named) Robedoor. The sound of ceremonies drifting across great fogged expanses of time and space. Some moments, especially the last track “Final Glimpse” remind of dark ambient classics like Lustmord’s Heresy and Lull’s Cold Summer.£3.00 -
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Richard A Ingram – Consolamentum
CD, SaleWhite Box Recordings have so far proven that they are a label to be reckoned with. Previous offerings from the likes of Danny Saul and Liondialer demonstrate that these guys mean business and Consolamentum confirms this as he presents a stunning collection of expressive compositions…£5.00 -
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Err on the Good Side LP
Sale, Vinyl‘Err on the Good Side’ is the first volume of a compilation series devoted to musicians, programmers, reviewers, disc sellers or whoever involved in music activities that we love. We offer them the opportunity to share their passion for it by curating a record. For this first volume we have asked ali_fib, the most interesting and adventurous gig promoter in Paris, to handle it.£7.00 -
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Fursaxa – Mycorrhizae Realm
Sale, VinylFursaxa is Tara Burke. Formerly a member of the Silbreeze band UN, Tara started her Fursaxa project in 1999 after UN disbanded. Since then Fursaxa has released six full length albums on the Acid Mothers Temple label, Ecstatic Peace, Time Lag, Eclipse, Last Visible Dog, and ATP.£8.00 -
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Fursaxa – Alone In The Dark Wood
CD, SaleAlone in the Dark Wood is the fifth full-length release from West Philly-based solo artist TAra Burke aka Fursaxa who boasts a fan base with the likes of Bardo Pond, Acid Mothers Temple and Thurston Moore who released a record by her on his Ecstatic Peace! imprint.£5.00 -
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Elian – Whispers, Then Silence
CD, SaleTo say Michael Duane Ferrell (the man behind the Elian moniker) is a patient man would be something of an understatement. But then the work of Elian is all incredibly understated anyway, so it all fits nicely. I first heard Elian’s work through mutual contacts, my first experience being ‘We Are All Visitors Here’ on the rather wonderful Test Tube label. In fact, if you go over the work he has released, you will instantly notice a person who clearly takes his time and treats each album as a labour of love in the fullest sense.£4.00 -
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Amnon Wolman – Sustains
CD, Sale‘Sustains’ is an hypnotic journey to Mr. Wolman’s musical personality, a journey into sound and silence, thoughts and feelings, mixed together in a unique way… and the journey sustains, fades in and out of a dream like state where the music is no longer only define notes and sound structures – it is a whole living form.£4.00 -
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:take: – s/t
CD, SaleAfter opening our series of split vinyls with white/lichens last year, :take: is back with an EP, and this time, it’s through a new media, i.e. CD format. This great adventure between the label and the guitarist goes on and we hope that we will continue our collaboration in the future. That being said, you should know that we are truly fond of this beautiful project that begun two years ago. Recorded and mixed at home with heart by Laurent Bichara, it was then mastered by Jeremy Lemos. This should be the last step before :take:’s debut album.£4.00 -
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Baylis – Howard – McCallum
CD, SaleNew release from Manchester-based collaboration featuring the talents of Stuart McCallum (Cinematic Orchestra), Paul Baylis (Carmen) & Jon Howard (J. J. Howard). These artists present over an hour of free-flowing, melodic music free from the constraints of traditional composition. Recorded live in one session during the summer of 2010 at Strangeway Studios, Manchester. Limited to 250 copies.£4.00 -
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Gultskra Artikler – Kasha iz Topora
CD, SaleLast time we came across Russian pranksters Gultskra Artikler they were a duo comprising of Alexey Devyanin and Dmitry Garin, but since the release of the haunting ‘Pofigistka’ on the Lampse label in 2006, Garin has left the band leaving Devyanin to come up with the most definitive Gultskra Artikler statement to date; ‘Kasha Iz Topora’.£5.00 -
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Arkhonia – Trails/Traces
CD, SaleArkhonia’s “Trails/Traces” fulfils the much promised, but seldom delivered, remit of large portions of ambient music – “to take the listener on a journey”… From the deep rumblings of the album’s opener to the final decaying notes and crackles of its closing track, all manner of mood-shifting experimentation directs (and occasionally derails) the listener along a sonic path that is at times unnerving and, at others, warmly welcoming.£4.00 -
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Chris Weisman & Greg Davis – Northern Songs
CD, SaleNorthern Songs is the blissful sound of Chris Weisman leaving his body and dissolving into the universe; he sounds very free. Greg Davis (electronic music composer, fractal maker) helps the usually obsessive Chris (psychedelic four-tracker, music artist) surrender to the void.£4.00 -
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The Fun Years / Cut featuring Gibet – Split Vol. 2
Sale, VinylTwo is the right number to symbolize this release. Here is the second volume of our split series that highlights 2 two-man bands living in two different cities. Whereas the fun years live in different parts of the United States, .cut is based in Montreal and Lyon, where gibet, Albérick’s accomplice, lives. Musically, this record gathers two of the most exciting laptop & guitar duets.£6.00 -
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The Gentleman Losers – Rural Route No.5
3", SaleThese tracks are a travelogue mapping paths taken in Europe during the past year or so. Snapshots, based on improvisations drawing inspiration from the quieter moments of a nomadic life: a snowstorm in Helsinki, a hot September night in Berlin and a dusk in the Swiss countryside outside of Lucerne.£3.50 -
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Fursaxa – Lepidoptera
CD, SaleA previous member of the band UN, Tara Burke (aka Fursaxa) is now one of the epicenters and key collaborators of the North American free-folk movement, along with such luminaries as Jack Rose, Charalambides, Ben Chasny and the Jewelled Antler Collective.£7.00 -
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Andrea Ferraris / Matteo Uggeri – Autumn Is Coming
CD, SaleExperimental music, by its very nature, is often unconcerned with melody; other qualities of sound and music are explored, taken apart and reconstructed with the intent of presenting the listener with surprising new ways to engage with the listening experience. Many commendable aural experiences have been produced by mere tweaking of single variables within sound; much of the ambient canon relies on a relatively minimal bag of tricks. It is, however, clear from the outset that “Autumn is Coming…” is a very different beast indeed.£4.00 -
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For Barry Ray – New Days
CD, SaleFor Barry Ray is the husband and wife duo of Carina Thorén (Sweden) and John Chantler (Australia). After a number of compilation appearances, long gone CDrs and lathe cut records under various guises, the pair bunked down over the winter of 06/07 to lay the foundations for ‘New Days’, kicking off things Christmas morning with the gift of a London turned silent and a sky free of planes.£5.00 -
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Zelienople – Hollywood
CD, SaleHollywood has a real sense of symmetry, dividing itself into two pieces of almost identical length (both hover around the twenty-one-and-a-half minute mark), capturing the Chicago avant-rockers in starkly tenebrous form, carving out drone-shaped sounds from synthesizer, percussion, saxophone and flute.£6.00 -
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Small Color – In Light
CD, SaleFour years after the release of their debut album Outflow, Japan’s Small Color, a duo comprised of Rie Yoshihara (aka Trico!) (accordion, voice, vintage keyboard instruments) and Yusuke Onishi (guitar, banjo, bass, programming and production) are back with the beautifully polished In Light. This album marks what some may consider a departure for 12k: sublime and gentle, minimal, acoustic J-pop, which once may have been destined for the now-defunct Happy label, but can now sit comfortably beside 12k’s roster of electronic/acoustic ambient hybrids.£5.00 -
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thisquietarmy & Scott Cortez – Meridian
Sale, VinylThe collaboration between Scott Cortez and thisquietarmy doesn’t really come as a surprise. The latter acknowledges that the previous works from Cortez (under the lovesliescrushing moniker) greatly influenced his work, to the point of using the same way of writing the band’s name (no capital letter and no spaces between words) for his actual solo project. The main thing that they have in common is their unconventional use of the guitar, which they consider as a signal generator. They then process those sounds through various effects, to obtain a different result than that of the original signal until the source becomes almost undetectable. Meridians is also the first vinyl production from thisquietarmy, as it is Scott Cortez’s first under his real name.£7.00 -
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Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek – Cello Recycling / Cello Drowning
Sale, VinylRutger Zuydervelt, a man better known to the experimental music world as Machinefabriek is somewhat prolific; a fact you might have gathered from his steady flow of super-limited edition 3” cdrs which seem to slip out relentlessly month after month. American multi-instrumentalist Aaron Martin is possibly less productive only having one full-length album to his name so far, but he is no less intriguing and between them the duo have come up with a project which is far more than the sum of its parts.£6.00 -
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Wreaths – Like Sparks From Throats Falling
CD, SaleWreaths is the moniker of Michael R Donaldson. He creates experimental music with a variety of instruments and techniques and has an idiosyncratic approach to capturing the ideas which reside in his head. Like Sparks From Throats Falling opens with ‘Nautical Almanac’. The track begins with long drones and electronics. Slowly building, the effect is mesmerising, then suddenly everything falls away into the abyss, ending with hushed tones, a hint of what’s to come. ‘O! Like Falling Snow’ proffers a more melancholic mood, with plaintive guitar playing backed by mournful strings. The piece is sublime and the delicate guitar feels like it may falter and fall apart at any moment, the fragility lending emphasis to the beauty present.£4.00 -
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Death Vessel – Stay Close
Sale, VinylDeath Vessel is Joel Thibodeau’s work as both a solo artist and band leader. His music, captured on the resplendent record “Stay Close”, is an eloquent distillation of a life’s tales. Born in Berlin, Germany before The Wall fell… raised in Kennebunkport, Maine before the senior Bush’s presidency… this musician lived a childhood where the ghosts of Cold War casualties and seaport tragedies haunted the alleyways and beaches.£5.00 -
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Twinsistermoon – The Hollow Mountain
CD, SaleTwinsistermoon is the solo project of Mehdi Ameziane of Natural Snow Buildings, The Hollow Mountain was originally issued by Dull Knife Records in 2009 as an LP limited to only 105 copies, unsurprisingly it sold out in a matter of hours…£6.00 -
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Small Town Boredom – Autumn Might Have Hope
Sale, VinylSmall Town Boredom are an aptly named duo from Paisley, consisting of Fraser McGowan and Colin Morrison. Their debut album Autumn Might Have Hope was released through Trome Records in 2008, and despite arriving to it late I’ve become quite transfixed by it’s perfectly languid encapsulation of the frustrations of both small town life and small town mentality. There’s a sense of hopelessness which permeates the low key compositions, sculpted primarily through acoustic instrumentation and the odd swell of subtle electronics. The key ingredient though is the vocals, which exude the kind of lethargy of broken dreams. The songs are hushed and intimate, like whisperings of thoughts which you try not to dwell on for too long and never quite break to the forefront. The lyrics are delivered with such blunt honesty though that it’s impossible not to confront the issues dealt with, particulalrly given the relative sparsity of the production.£5.00 -
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Akron/Family – Love Is Simple 2xLP
Sale, VinylFor those of you who have seen my simpering, slavishly devotional blurbs and press releases in the past re Akron/Family, wherein I make ridiculous claims about them (which I happen to believe!), it should come as no surprise to you now when I reiterate they are one of the best bands on the planet. I don’t recall seeing such fantastic live shows ever, except maybe Pere Ubu at the Whisky in LA circa 1978 or Pink Floyd circa Umma Gumma era 1968/9.£8.00 -
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Small Town Boredom – Notes from the Infirmary
CD, SaleArtists thrive on emotional extremes, moments of unprecedented joy or crushing sadness. It is easier to transcribe these feelings into music. Middle grounds are much too complicated to address with music, the confusion, the mood swings come fast and what would seem like a perfect fit with one’s emotions at one point make no sense after a few minutes. They lack clarity. Melancholy drenched songs in particular seem to connect better with the receivers of music than their happier counterparts. Steven Wilson, mastermind behind Progressive rock group Porcupine Tree, once introduced one of their saddest songs “Stop Swimming” by saying “this next song is a very sad song, but if you’re like me, you’ll find that the saddest songs are also the most beautiful”. I find this to hold true.£4.00 -
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Pitre / Ensemble – Organized Pitches Occurring In Time
Sale, VinylOrganized Pitches Occurring in Time consists of two 25 minute pieces of music, both spawned from the same conceptual composition/score by Duane Pitre, titled Ensemble Drones. With their form reminiscent of works by La Monte Young’s Theater of Eternal Music and their tonality touching on the floating works of Terry Riley, ‘The Ensemble Chord in Eb with a Minor 7th and a Pump Organ Base’ & ‘The Ensemble Chord in C with a Major 7th and a Guitar Base’ are aural tapestries based on a minimal tonal palette with their instrumentation consisting of guitars, alto saxophones, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, tone generator, and pump organ.£7.00 -
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Tomas Phillips & Marihiko Hara – Prosa
CD, SaleProsa marks the first collaboration between Marihiko Hara and Tomas Phillips… Utilizing a diverse range of instrumentation, both electronic and acoustic, Prosa is as still as it is dynamic. Its formation (a transcontinental process, through the post) was an exercise of patience and concerted application alike. Thematically (but indirectly), Prosa shares a space with writers whose palette wavers between existential crisis, awkward distance, and snapshots of emotional expenditure (e.g. Jean-Philippe Toussaint) and with certain “quiet” descriptions found in classical Japanese literature.£5.00 -
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M. Ostermeier – Chance Reconstruction
CD, SaleM. Ostermeier first two releases were both in mini-album form: Percolate on [parvo art] and Lakefront on Hibernate. These releases garnered strong reviews in The Wire, Textura, and The Silent Ballet for juxtaposing melancholic stillness with restrained post-rock urgency. Throughout, the fragmented piano infused with electronic textures and field recordings established a melancholic and reflective mood but more through style than through melody.£5.00 -
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Piiptsjilling – Wurdskrieme
Sale, VinylWurdskrieme is one of two new releases from Piiptsjilling, a quartet that is formed of Jan and Romke Kleefstra, Mariska Baars and Rutger Zuydervelt. The name Piiptsjilling (pronounced ‘peep-chilling’) is Frisian; a language which Jan Kleefstra uses for the poetry he reads to accompany the improvised sonic worlds that the remaining three members create with guitars, effects, loopers and the voice… In March 2010 the band took to an intensive 2-day improvised recording session with the goal of creating nothing more than beautiful, challenging music. The session resulted in two-and-a-half hours of material which was mixed and edited into two separate albums. Did they succeed with their simple goal? Yes. Yes they did.£7.00 -
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Mount Eerie – Black Wooden
Sale, VinylBlack Wooden is the coming together of ideas that had travelled with Mount Eerie for months and had solidified into compositions in the days and hours before the studio session. The title itself refers acutely to the genre black metal–perhaps less surprising a reference considering black metal often shares Mount Eerie’s appreciation with low fidelity production aesthetics (among many other things), and that Phil Elverum had just been in Norway before arriving in the UK. Southern Studios’ well-established approach of getting out of the way and letting the performance speak for itself has never been more successful than in Mount Eerie’s Black Wooden session.£6.00 -
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Mike Jedlicka & Cloudburst – Tabor / NW Passage
Sale, VinylMike Jedlicka and Cloudburst share Optic Echo’s return to vinyl with this ambient, field recording laden 12”. Copies are hand numbered in a limited edition of 160, and silkscreened on recycled cardboard sleeves. Art by Marcus Fisher, mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k.£5.00 -
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Tim Hecker – Norberg
CD, SaleRecorded at the Norberg Festival (Sweden) amidst the mineshafts and cluttered buildings strewn throughout parts the city, this 21 minute live piece summarises much of what makes Tim Hecker’s music so vital and compelling. Adept at counter-pointing the most ferocious of distorted platters with smooth beds of ambient sound and potent melodic overtones, Tim Hecker creates music with a vast depth. On Norberg, this depth seems almost endless, as layer upon layer of sound are compiled into a swelling and all together visceral oceanic sound wave. Recently touring Australia and New Zealand and performing at ROOM40’S annual festival Open Frame, this CD comes on the back of some incredible live performances in the Southern Hemisphere.£7.00 -
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FNS – FNS
Sale, VinylDespite being his first recording for Miasmah, it transpires that FNS or Fredrik Ness Sevendal is in fact a veteran of the Oslo experimental scene. Having collaborated with several groups over the years, FNS is very much his solo project. Using a variety of instruments, but predominantly focusing on guitar, there is a premeditated approach here; an effort to ensure the lo-fi nature of the record is appreciated by the listener.£8.00 -
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Ben Nash / Sophie Cooper – Alchemy
CD, SaleRecorded over a weekend back in the early months of 2009, here are 2 tracks of multi instrumental composition from Ben Nash and Sophie Cooper (CooperJones)… The music here is truly beautiful, personally I think this is some of the best work to come from both Ben and Sophie so far. Total late night guitar meanderings blurred with a haze of deep churning scrapes from various instruments and layered drone bliss, creating 2 totally immersive and beautiful psychedelic drone.£3.00 -
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Bio + Larkian + Les Poissons Autistes
CD, SaleThree:four is happy to introduce you to its first totally Swiss record. Although half of the label is based in Lausanne, we haven’t had the opportunity to work with local bands before. Consider it done with this new record that gathers the cream of the scene from Romandy. Their discographies are proof enough of the vast musical universe they evolve into, with a tendency for all experimentations.£5.00 -
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Cory Allen – Pearls
CD, SaleCory Allen’s ‘Pearls’ is one of those albums that don’t want you to get too comfortable. The album’s press release suggests that it explores ‘existential landscape’ – two words I don’t think I’ve ever seen put together before with regards to music, but somehow fitting. The album is not exactly inviting but isn’t cold either. It is an album that has a clearly defined narrative in a way that I haven’t seen in quite some time. Allen is always working toward an end goal and there is an almost existential philosophical statement in this small self-contained album.£4.00 -
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Cezary Gapik – Contrast
Sale, VinylContrast I is the latest work from Polish experimental musician Cezary Gapik and comes via White Box Recordings, the first in a trilogy of the artists works to be released by the label… When first experiencing a work that comprises two tracks, half of which could fairly be described as noise, one cannot help but consider the artist and their intentions, to try and gauge their sincerity. In this case though, the artists intent can be safely assured. With a long history of noise-making, Gapik has an extensive back catalogue of small run releases and CDr’s. Born 1963 in Czestochowa, Poland, Gapik was originally drawn to Punk Rock and Post-Punk while an interest in avant-garde icons such as Morton Feldman also existed alongside his more confrontational tastes. Presumably touched by the 1980′s industrial music scene, the artists bio refers to his music as ‘power electronics’, a term coined by the ever controversial William Bennett of infamous noise legends Whitehouse.£6.00 -
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Gurun Gurun – Gurun Gurun
CD, SaleGurun Gurun is a Czech-based experimental, weird ambient & improvised music collective formed in the autumn 2007 by guitarist Tomas Knoflicek and keyboardist Jara Tarnovski… Their musical work combines guitars, analogue synthesizers, turntables, acoustic instruments and digital effects to span musical spaces ranging from hypno-minimalist atmospheres to warm tones of slow moving, repetitive melodic stanzas. Their twelve track debut album is a balancing act of frenetic yet sedate melodic layering that dances between chaotic and considered; multiple tones vie for space around central melodies that sound as though they could have been sampled from multiple genres of film soundtrack.£4.00 -
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Ambit – Issue 203
Book, SaleEdited by Martin Bax since 1959 and publishing everyone from B S Johnson, JG Ballard and Carol Ann Duffy to Fleur Adock, Geoff Nicholson and Jonathan Lethem, Ambit is perfect for anyone looking for lively and compelling poetry, fiction and art from a spirited mix of writers.£7.00 -
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Baseline Issue 58 (Book)
Book, SaleBaseline covers the related areas of graphic art, multimedia, architecture and typographic design. The articles are written by internationally recognised contributors and its design and print production regularly wins major international design awards. Issue 58: Welcome to Baseline issue 58, our spring issue. As usual the designs of the cover and jacket reflect some aspects of the features published here. The cover shows the numbers 50 and 8 in Lagoon, an Armenian typeface by Carolyn Puzzovio. The jacket, which doubles as poster, is a photographic collage of urban stencil characters. The two books, which are reviewed, are essential references for any serious design library. Paul Shaw reflects on Helmut Schmid’s homage to Emil Ruder, typographer and educator at the renowned Kunstgewerbeschule in Basle. Paul Razzell comments on David Jury’s vast 400 pages artist book reference catalogue, which presents an important record of the first biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium, Berkeley, California.£10.00 -
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Alexander Tucker – Old Fog (CD)
CD, SaleAlexander Tucker began as the vocalist in post-rock hardcore 5-piece ‘Unhome’ who released one album “A Short History of Houses” (Unlabel) and a split single with Papa M. Unhome split in late 1999 and Tucker went on to tour with Detroit space-rockers ‘Fuxa’. Simultaneously, Tucker had been developing his interest in improvisation using detuned guitars, tape loops, mini disc player and fx pedals. In early 2000 Tucker recorded a solo self-titled album of acoustic finger-picking, experimental electronics, field recordings and spooked vocals, which was picked up by Tom Greenwood of Jackie-O-Motherfucker and released under his U-Sound Archives label.£5.00 -
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FareWell Poetry – Hoping for the Invisible… (Deluxe Vinyl)
Deluxe, Sale, VinylDeluxe LP includes download code, 8 page booklet, 12″x12″ exclusive art print on recycled board from Alice Lewis, three small art prints, postcard. ‘Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite’ was recorded and mixed between Paris, Normandy (FR) and Saint-Margaret of Antioch Church in Leeds (UK), these four haunting orchestral pieces were performed in the studio live, and re-recorded using a ‘wall of sound’ process, adding the natural reverb of the church to the raw tracks. The DVD includes the Super 8/16mm black&white film ‘As True As Troilus’ by Jayne Amara Ross & a bonus live performance shot by Alain Grodard & Rod Maurice during the ‘Festival des Nouveaux Arts Sacres’ at Saint-Eustache Church in Paris. You can watch a trailer for the film above. Words on ‘As True As Troilus’ film by Nicole Brenez (curator for the Avant-Garde programs at the Cineématheèque Francaise)£10.00 -
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David A Jaycock – A Magnifying Glass For The Ants (CD)
CD, SaleFollowing on from David’s Presets LP last year for Blackest Rainbow, he has worked on a brand new full length CDR, exploring a more multi instrumental drone sound, experimenting with stringed objects and a far more dark sounding sound, but with its roots in some traditional sounding more far out folk. David’s guitar plucking appears at various times, and its blends in perfectly with this new approach to his music. Limited to 100 copies in full colour covers.£5.00 -
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Fabio Orsi – Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul (CD)
CD, SaleFor some, expressing oneself is a difficult task. It takes away any aspect of security one may have been clinging on to and opens up your inner being to be displayed in all its detail. For others it comes naturally; and be it through some form of art, it is quite a beautiful thing to behold. Experimental, Avant Garde or simply music that doesn’t follow traditional structures or sounds is, to my mind, the most spectacular form of expressionism. Sure, words can be more intimate and accessible, but allowing your thoughts, feelings and emotions to control an instrument is raw and empowering. This is what Fabio Orsi’s latest work feels like to me; a trip through memories, deep thoughts and heavy emotions. This album is ecstatic, it’s uplifting and it sounds so pure and rich; this sound coupled with the album and track names seems as though he poured his entire soul into it.£8.00 -
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Danny Saul – Kinison – Goldthwait (CD)
CD, SaleTo have the names of two of the most famous comedians of the 1980’s, let alone two engaged in one of the harshest feuds ever between any comedians as the title of the album, with artwork to match, could leave the prospective listener with a number of different notions regarding the music contained in this album. Personally speaking, having never heard any of Danny Saul’s previous albums, the first thing that came to mind prior to listening to this release was that it could be an electronica influenced album, with lots of tension and relief, and loads of samples by both comedians embedded randomly within the music. I couldn’t have been any farther from the truth…£4.00 -
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Akron/Family (CD)
CD, SaleAkron/Family are four extremely nice, sincere and well-mannered young men from rural America who came to NYC (in 2002) to make music, hoping to find a thread of real magic still winding through this city’s music scene. They certainly did just that, but they did it by retreating into a tiny Brooklyn apartment, where they made their own world instead, in complete and stubborn isolation. They proceeded (while simultaneously growing alarmingly long beards and developing a playful but hermetic quasi-religious/sonic worldview/creed known as “AK” or sometimes “AK-AK”) to make several albums worth of recordings on crude home equipment – the material compulsively chopped, spliced, and orchestrated into fractal jewels of song and schismatically opposed atmospheres.£6.00 -
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The Hunter Gracchus / Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylTwo bands that really rip out their ur-tongues for you. The spectacularly cathartic Kommissar & his queen make some odd, Simpsons-themed sex outfits out of trash bags. They put them on, lie on the floor & then roll around on top of guitars while hyperventilating and shrieking. Hunter side is also vocal improv, this time from some free-flapping Sheffield folks who run the Singing Knives label & hang out with the Harappian Night Recordings guy.£5.00 -
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Tucker & Decomposed – Grey Onion (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylIt’s funny to think that this is Alexander Tucker’s first Latitudes session, as he’s always felt like a part of the Southern family. From being one of the driving forces behind the first release on Latitudes (Ginnungagap) to providing artwork, playing on the same bills or collaborating with musicians in our stable, Alex has also felt like a fellow walking the same path as us, and has been top of our list to do a session since we started the series.£5.00 -
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Tim Catlin & Machinefabriek – Patina (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylLimited edition white vinyl LP packaged in a two-tone matt sleeve. Pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands for optimum sound quality… ‘Patina’ comes via influential Nottingham label Low Point and features Australian sound artist Tim Catlin, along with the prolific Rotterdam based Rutger Zuydervelt, appearing here under his Machinefabriek moniker…£6.00 -
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Starving Weirdos – B/P/M Series 1 (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylStarving Weirdos are a collective that I keep reading about, and seeing on live line-ups that I can’t quite manage to get to. Recently I received an album via the ever-prolific Blackest Rainbow label. The duo of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay have taken a side of vinyl each to rework the playing of pianist Darius Brottman. Long avant-garde piano solos are reworked in weird and wonderful ways that surprised and inspired my ears. The prepared piano is replaced with a post-production feel that remains fresh, even in its existence as a delayed response.£6.00 -
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Ali Robertson’s Ludd Quest – Don’t Turn (CD)
CD, SaleBrand new slab of avant weirdo sounds from Ali of Usurper. Slurping, sucking and squeaking insanity opens up this five track disc. As it progresses it may well just get more and more weird, pouring water, some sorta mic-ed up pipe actions, weird tinkerings of househeld objects, layered talking (at times saying that talking is a terrible idea – ‘why are you talking’). Ali’s work with Usurper and his solo work retains a great sense of humour, with the pure weirdness of what is going and lack or knowing what the hell is making half the bizarre sounds. Limited to 50.£4.00 -
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Usurper and Sticky Foster: II (CD)
CD, SaleBrand new one from these Scottish improvisers Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff aka Usurper, here joined by UK underground legend and A Band member, Sticky Foster. Sticky Foster fits in perfectly with Robertson and Duff’s bizarre weirdo sound of somehow using a shit load of stuff that you can never quite tell what exactly it is doing what.£3.00 -
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Timothy C. Holehouse – In Search of the Binary Star (CD)
CD, SaleThis is the most fully realised and wide-screen work from Tim so far, incorporating a host of ideas and executing them brilliantly. This time with a full backing band, Tims sound is fuller and bolder. Crashing drums, droning guitars and electronic beats all combine to create a progressive master piece fusing elements of post rock, psychedelic and noise. Once again I can’t think of any other bands or artists around at the moment that come even remotely close to what Tim does and I am again honoured and excited to be releasing this. – Dead Pilot CD, edition of 500 in black on black screen printed digipaks with full colour 4 panel insert, in resealable cello bag.£5.00 -
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Archers By The Sea – Eagle Kiss (Tape)
Sale, TapeCassette from Vincent of “V” and The Pistol Cosmos. Blackest Rainbow previously released “V”s The Chanting Path a few years ago to some great reviews… Five untitled pieces opening with a mediative guitar meandering, leading into more powerful heavy distorted pieces and right back through to a superb final track of layered instrumentation with beautiful distant vocal flowing in and out of the hypnotic sounds laid across the almost 16 minute finale. Full colour covers, pro-dubbed and limited to 100.£4.00 -
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Jannick Schou – Against a Backdrop of Blue Hills
CD, SaleCulled from hours of orchestrated tape loops, “Against a Backdrop of Blue Hills, They Were as Beautiful as a Lullaby” finds Jannick Schou circumnavigating the folds of a rich, effervescent landscape with monsoon-like drones, mountainous drifts, and suspended tones. Tape loops designed as torrential storms, evasive sounds peak from crevices, me sat transfixed in a half-conscious state, between wake and sleep, exploring the nether regions with a thousand yard stare. “Against a Backdrop of Blue Hills…” provides the canvas for a drifting stasis, wavering and dissolving amongst glimmers of thoughts; me, immobile, intent on the far reaches of the ether, a study of the minutia, the cataclysm of antimatter, an assured focus of the universe condensed in my writhing hands, my feet seemingly suspended above the floor, weightlessness, a “Departure”, fleeting tracks such as “Untitled II (For Tape) and “A Wave in My Backyard” allow distance from the body, now a separate entity; the mind is adrift. All extremities go numb in “Blue Hills”; the listener is left with an awareness of location but one’s surrounding are intangible—the closeness of the music develops even further; an overwhelming oneness ensues.£5.00 -
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Olan Mill – Pine (CD)
CD, SaleAmbient sounds travel around us. They can go unnoticed and form part of the deluge of noise that exists in our atmosphere… They can also be considered and appreciated as something integral to the makeup of our auditory senses. Take the trickling of a stream, the humming of a bird or, in the context of this review, the echoes of music emanating from a church, and with a little analysis one can appreciate the presence of these reverberations. Listening to “Pine,” the second release from record label Serein, and the debut recording from Olan Mill, it is clear the group’s two collaborators are appreciators of these sounds. For while this compact, concise group of recordings are created from a palette of instruments and not from field recordings so usually associated with ambient music, such is the dream like, slow motion quality of the sounds at work that one could easily forget they are listening to a record, as the notes seamlessly form part of their natural surroundings.£5.00 -
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Good Night & Good Morning (CD)
CD, SaleFollowing an ultimately fruitless two years spent in short-lived bands which pursued the style of aggressive rock music that has strong roots throughout their home state of Illinois, Champaign based musicians Pat Elifritz and Ryan Brewer decided to try a different approach and formed Good Night & Good Morning, a two piece project which focuses on building textures of guitar into songs which join hushed vocals with droning organ and vibraphone melodies. Good Night & Good Morning first self-released a five track CDr and then had a brief spell as a three piece with harpist Róisín Maguire, but after appearing on second work Studentin, Maguire left to pursue a degree at New York University and it was in this freshly condensed state that the pair spent six months recording this self titled release in the basement at Elifritz’s parents home.£5.00 -
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Black Eagle Child – Lobelia (CD)
CD, SaleThe Preservation label presents Lobelia, the debut full-length album from Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Black Eagle Child… Black Eagle Child is guise for guitarist Michael Jantz. Jantz has previously released an expansive body of work, sprawling across some of the most notable underground labels of the current day, including Stunned, Housecraft and Digitialis. His solo recordings work a realm of exploratory zones for guitar that touch on the discordant, psychedelic and pastoral, while also deploying varied percussion and field recordings for texture and rhythm. That journey continues with Lobelia, though in its expansive scope it’s played for pure songcraft and resonant beauty.£8.00 -
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Erikm – Stéme (CD)
CD, SaleBetween his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concréte composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist ERIKM has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound media.£5.00 -
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Stuart Sweeney – 16:9 (CD)
CD, SaleThe sound 16:9 creates is one of minimalism melded with spiritualism. It’s the soundtrack to some fantastic film. Pianos fall gently into background space, as strings, synths and a host of other, often unexpected musical tools combine to create a tragic, heroic and captivating movie in the mind. A road trip on a mass scale, the sombre closing credits of Cherry Blossom Falls offer up Vienna in violin arrangements, while Kaiyu-Shiki transports you to the eponymous Japanese garden, via a thousand crystalised chimes.£5.00 -
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Anne Garner – Trusting A Twirled World (CD)
CD, SaleFollowing her 2005 debut album ‘Remaking The Pearl’, Anne Garner returns with ‘Trusting A Twirled World’, an album comprising six hauntingly beautiful pieces defined by delicate vocals, piano and manipulated sound. London based Garner was born in Burnley to a Baptist minister and then subsequently raised in Glossop, Derbyshire. A move to Sheffield coincided with the artists’s artistic blossoming and her early adulthood was spent performing, painting and composing until the devastating loss of her mother prompted songwriting with a new focus and resolve.£5.00 -
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Boduf Songs – This Alone Above All Else (CD)
CD, SaleThe fourth Boduf Songs extended play was created using Mathew Sweet’s standard recording set up of a single microphone and a small array of instruments, but it comes with a few surprises – most notably the prominence of electric guitar, bass and stomping drums on a few tracks. All of the elements that make his previous sound creations so arresting are still present; the impeccable song structures, the minimal approach, the delicate yet dominant singing.£4.00 -
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Sound People – Teatime (CD)
CD, SaleJesse Johnson and Paul Dickow, collectively as Sound People, present Teatime, a document of their multiple sessions of sonic exploration during 2008 and 2009. Fueled by countless cups of high-powered exotic teas, these vivid and lush recordings reveal the two friends united in their search of new dubbed out sound worlds on the fringes between ambient coasting and rhythmic syncopations.£4.00 -
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Expo 70 – Death Voyage (CD)
CD, SaleMastered by Jannick Schou. Limited to 500 copies on replicated CD (NOT CDR!) in numbered 6 panel digipak with full colour artwork designed by Justin Wright himself. First 100 orders come with bonus cassette of outtakes in hand stamped packaging.£4.00 -
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Colorlist: The Fastest Way To Become The Ocean (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylLtd edition 10" vinyl: The Chicago based Colorlist is comprised of crossover jazz duo Charles Rumback and Charles Gorczynski. Both multi-instrumentalists, Rumback mans percussion, bells and melodica, while Gorczynski plays saxophone, numerous woodwind instruments, synthesizers and harmonium. .£5.00 -
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Aritomo – Blooming The Ena (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylContinuing on from last years reissue of the first Aritomo LP, here we have Aritomo’s second LP, ‘Blooming The Ena’ which was previously issued on his own private Hakanairo label in 2007…£8.00 -
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Mem1 – Tetra (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylDistressed notes run asunder on Tetra, a vinyl-only offering from the duo, Mem1. A current, quivering along these three fine works, creates a unique yet indistinct mass that, as we follow along in its icy wake, degrades and renders the listener inert, as we wait to meet the ghosts.£7.00 -
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Sleepingdog – With Our Heads In The Clouds (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylLimited Edition 12″ Clear Vinyl, comes with download code included in the sleeve: Once upon a time in the days of the Belgian Franc, Chantal Acda made the acquaintance Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, and the two became fast friends through a mutual love of disco bowling, and 1970’s Danish scary movies. They first collaborated with vocals together on the infamous last track, ‘The Struggle’ on Mr. Wiltzie’s 2004 ‘The Dead Texan’ (kranky)£6.00 -
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Max Bondi – M (CD)
CD, SalePresented in the Tartaruga house style, (thick recycled cardboard gatefold sleeve), this release features a beautiful screen-printed design from Bruno Jones, in bright Phthalo Green. The CD comes with a two-colour screen-printed foldout insert, again featuring illustration from Bruno Jones, printed on high quality Pergamenata paper. Each CD is numbered from 1 to 200.£6.00 -
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These Feathers Have Plumes – Corvidae (CD)
CD, SalePackaged in usual Tartaruga style, this releases features stunning artwork from Louis Caldarola. A two-colour screenprinted card sleeve in black and purple is stitched together with green thread.£6.00 -
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Bleeding Heart Narrative – Tongue Tangled Hair (CD)
CD, SaleThe CD features a fantastically detailed drawing from Bleeding Heart Narrative, folding out around the gatefold thick-card sleeve in a two colour print. All copies come with a 12-panel foldout insert, and the 200 limited copies also include an extra two-colour numbered screenprint, and are also hand-numbered and sewn together.£7.00 -
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Fieldhead – Riser (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylLimited Edition 10″ Vinyl of 250… Riser was borne out of a desire to bring the sound of the human voice to the core of Fieldhead’s music, and to rally against an idea of it as peripheral, as an afterthought to the music. The EP continues the love of tape hiss, grainy textures and dusty loops married with brevity and melody to be found in the album preceeding it (‘They Shook Hands for Hours’), but this time the pallete has been stripped back to just the human voice and minimal, organic synthesisers.£6.00 -
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Mem1 & Stephen Vitiello – Age Of Insects (CD)
CD, SaleAge of Insects is the result of a series of visits made by Mark and Laura to Stephen’s studio in Virginia between May 2009 and January 2010. The three improvised around common interests in analog electronics and digital manipulation, field recordings and instrumental performance practice. These recordings presented here feature only minimal editing and post-production, with a primary intent of capturing shared moments of listening and response. The titles refer to extinct insects—the imagined hum and flutter of their calls, flight and communication.£4.00 -
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Gunn & Ahmed – Decline Of The Stiff (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylFor Record Store Day 2011 Immune is proud to present a split 7” featuring new tracks from Steve Gunn and Ilyas Ahmed. The 7” comes packaged in a proper jacket with collage artwork from Ahmed. Included is a free download coupon and insert.£5.00 -
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Tiago Sousa – Walden Pond’s Monk (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylWalden Pond's Monk is the brand new album from Portuguese musician and composer Tiago Sousa. Following the limited vinyl-only album Insónia released in 2009 on German label Humming Conch, Walden Pond's Monk is the first album from Sousa released worldwide on both CD and LP formats.£8.00 -
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Plinth/Textile Ranch – The Rest, I Leave (CD)
CD, SaleThis 44 minute piece may structurally resemble a classical composition – divided as it is into several interlocking stanzas – but it’s difficult to place it comfortably within the realm of modern music. If anything, ‘The Rest….’ evokes the otherwordly, fantastical obsessions of the Victorians (Conan Doyle, Lear, Grandville, Wellcome, etc) through means of meticulously manipulated instrumentation, samples and voice.Plinth, of course, is no stranger to Victoriana.£5.00 -
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Indian Weapons – Labyrinth (Tape)
Sale, TapeBrad Rose, Nathan Young and Eden Hemming Rose take us on a journey of radical synth spirits from dark and heavy through to a blissed euphoric finish.£4.00 -
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Fennesz / Daniell / Buck – Knoxville (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylRecorded on February 7th, 2009, at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, the aptly named Knoxville, documents the first meeting of three of the most recognized players in experimental music.£7.00 -
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Koen Holtkamp – Gravity / Bees (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylIncludes MP3 download code redeemable from the label: After several years focusing predominantly on film and video, Koen Holtkamp began working with sound in 1997. He co-founded the Apestaartje collective/label in 1998 while studying at The Art Institute of Chicago. The label released works by like-minded artists from Australia, Japan, Germany, Austria, France, and the US as well as several of his own works. Holtkamp has released two solo albums under the name Aero (Apestaartje) and four albums as Mountains (Apestaartje, Catsup Plate, Thrill Jockey), a duo project with Brendon Anderegg, as well as an album under his own name (Type). Gravity/Bees marks his first solo release on Thrill Jockey.£8.00 -
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Grand Salvo – The Temporal Wheel (CD)
CD, SaleExtremely limited numbers available: For all intents and purposes, Grand Salvo is the work of singer-songwriter Paddy Mann. Grand Salvo’s debut album, 1642-1727, and its follow-up, River Road, earned him rave reviews and a solid following at home and beyond for his stark, sensitive and beautiful songs. After a spell living in Europe, Paddy returned to Australia and began work on another album he’d dreamt up while away, A set of songs that acts as a children’s storybook, the album became cursed with too many recording problems and Paddy decided to shelve it. While that project will eventually see the light of day, its plagued nature ironically became the motivation for The Temporal Wheel.£8.00 -
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David A Jaycock – The Coleopterous Cuckoos Collude (CD)
CD, SaleNamed after a Hitchcock-esque nightmare in which he was set upon by a pair of hard-winged, marauding cuckoos, David A Jaycock’s second album is step forward from the pastoral motifs of his debut, incorporating an expansive country-folk sound alongside the indigenous qualities and general oddness that have made his name.£7.00 -
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M. Ostermeier – The Rules of Another Small World (CD)
CD, SaleWith The Rules of Another Small World, M. Ostermeier has arrived at an elegant voice – otherworldly and strangely beautiful, much like the desolate Taiwanese San-Zhr Pod Village gracing the album cover. While elements of electroacoustic, modern classical, jazz, glitch, drone, ambient, and even lounge weave in and out of the record’s eleven compositions, The Rules of Another Small World is the converse of an eclectic collection of songs.£6.00 -
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Jack Allett – The Collapsing Middle (Vinyl & CD)
CD, Sale, VinylDebut full length vinyl release from Jack Allett, formerly known as Spoono, who previously had a CDR on Blackest Rainbow followed by a split LP with Cam Deas, and a 7″ on The Great Pop Supplement…£5.00 -
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Tokyo Bloodworm – Palestine
CD, SaleThere’s always been a touch of transatlantic symmetry between ourselves and Tokyo Bloodworm, and so it seems fitting that the labels long playing swansong should be played out so beautifully by them.£5.00 -
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Tiago Sousa – Walden Pond’s Monk (CD)
CD, SaleWalden Pond's Monk is the brand new album from Portuguese musician and composer Tiago Sousa. Following the limited vinyl-only album Insónia released in 2009 on German label Humming Conch, Walden Pond's Monk is the first album from Sousa released worldwide on both CD and LP formats.£8.00 -
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Menche & Courtis – Yagua Ovy (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylLimited Edition of 500 12″ on 180 gram vinyl in heavyduty sleeves and polyvinyled inners£7.00 -
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Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose – Bridge Carols (CD)
CD, SaleBridge Carols is the meeting of two artists with unique timeless approaches to music. Neo-Americana folk singer Laura Gibson is gifted with a soft and singular voice (not unlike the voices of Josephine Foster and Joanna Newsom) and writes songs that could date back a century or foretell a future rural life. Electronician Ethan Rose is vested in antiquated instruments and technologies – a sonic recycler who, out of the old, has been creating a new form of ambient music.£8.00 -
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Rene Hell – The Terminal Symphony (Vinyl / CD)
CD, Sale, VinylIncludes a 40 minute bonus CD, The Hilton, featuring previously unreleased material: It might not have been so long since Jeff Witscher released his debut ‘proper’ album under the Rene Hell moniker, but he’s kept himself busy in the interim all the same…£7.00 -
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offthesky: Subtle Trees (CD)
CD, SaleAs a sort of pantheist, or at least an artist who finds great stories hiding in the vast visual subtleties of nature – Subtle Trees is a classical music collage as much as it is an homage to classical music. It’s core is created through sounds gathered in the owl hours by sampling ancient instruments whose cores were derived from the trees of nature. These sounds were layered like lichen on an ancient pantheistic sculpture.£4.00 -
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Haruki – Falling (CD)
CD, SaleHaruki is the pseudonym of composer/sonic artist Boris Snauwaert from Ghent, Belgium, who creates sonic environments through the precise, meditated amalgamation of a diverse variety of sounds, both musical and non-musical. In any given track Haruki combines any or all sound sources; field recordings, acoustic instruments, acoustic noises, found samples, sampled instruments and so on.£4.00 -
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Ten and Tracer – Friendless Now (CD)
CD, SaleJonathan Canupp is a name you should know but probably don’t, but then again might. He records under Ten and Tracer and I’ve been into his records for ages and ages now. Back when I was checking out early net label releases, Jonathan came up as one of two people whose work in their entirety I just fell in love with. And funny how he actually works with the other artist now and lives in the same damn city – the person being a certain Jason Corder (offthesky, Juxta Phona) no less. He makes wonderful IDM music and in fact I may have asked him years ago now to make us a ‘meaty beaty’ record. And along he comes with the very cheek of making some sublimely evolved, subtly woven record using violin, tape machines, guitars, maybe some keyboards and other stuff too. Friendless Now is a beautifully realised work, and one of my favourite Ten and Tracer releases to date.£4.00 -
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Marihiko Hara – Credo (CD)
CD, SaleI first came across Marihiko Hara’s work in 2007, with his ‘Cesura’ release on the excellent Italian net-label – Zymogen. It really drew me in more than most other work that was doing the rounds at the same time. It had the sort of organic details and attention to beautiful subtle developments that I had only really heard in offthesky and Nicolas Bernier before (both label mates on Zymogen I should add). It became my soundtrack to that year and an album I returned to almost daily during the winter months. After this I followed Marihiko’s work carefully, from his rather fantastic 2009 ‘Icon’ release on Cotton Goods to his recent ‘Prosa’ collaboration with Tomas Phillips on Tench Records.£4.00 -
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Matt Christensen – A Cradle In The Bowery (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylIt’s raining outside. The faint noise of the rain in the trees perfectly couches the moment I start listening to this album in melancholic anticipation… The album, since you’re asking, is A Cradle In The Bowery, the first solo record from Chicago’s own, the brilliant, Zelienople; going under his given name, Matt Cristensen.£7.00 -
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Donato Wharton – A White Rainbow Spanning The Dark (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylDonato Wharton is a composer based in London, UK. He has previously released three records for the Manchester and Berlin record label, City Centre Offices. The most recent of these was the 2006 release, ‘Body Isolations’. ‘A White Rainbow Spanning The Dark’ therefore marks his first publicly released work in five years and his first for Serein…£5.00 -
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In The Bleak Wilderness Of Sleep (CD)
CD, SaleThe compilation features 12 tracks from some of the globe’s most talented sound-designers. It is a subtly rewarding headphone listen from start to finish; curated and ordered to purposefully induce a state of sleep. Starting off minimally, gradually gathering tone and atmosphere, the experience goes on without ever boiling over or reaching a crescendo. Parts of the album are light and restful whereas traces of it tread darker territory. All in all, the imagery that the album conjurs sits perfectly as a soundtrack to the dreams one experiences during a nights sleep.£5.00 -
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Cam Deas – Quadtych Vol.1 (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylQuadtych Volume One presents Parts One and Two of Cam Deasʼ colossal Quadtych for 12 string guitar, a four part piece spanning over 70 minutes in total. Recorded in one evening at Londonʼs Roundhouse in December 2010 by Jack Allett, though over a year and a half since its initial sketches, it is his first composed work for 12 string guitar since the 2009 split tour LP with Spoono/Jack Allett on Blackest Rainbow.£6.00 -
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Cam Deas – Quadtych Vol.2 (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylAs with Volume One, the record comes pressed on heavyweight virgin vinyl and packaged in deluxe pro-printed sleeves with fantastic artwork by Jake Blanchard in an edition of 500 copies.£6.00 -
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Driphouse – Root 91 (Tape)
Sale, TapeDarren Ho’s latest trip down the rabbit hole is a baroque maze lit with neon lights. Machine music for The Blue Danube. Piano, harpsichord and synthesis all set adrift, levitating into minimal jewels of sound.£3.50 -
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Puzzle Muteson – En Garde (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylFolk music derives its origins from venerable working class traditions and its name reflects this. Notoriously difficult to define, the genre’s porous borders have helped to keep it fresh and ever relevant, with such a wide range of artists as Bob Dylan, Joanna Newsom, Nick Drake and Bonnie Prince Billy all falling somewhere within Folk’s purview. This latest release, brought to us by the prestigious Bedroom Community can also be defined as folk music but, following in the tradition of the finest material in the genre, Puzzle Muteson’s latest full-length album throws a lot more into the pot too. Little seems to be known about the enigmatic artist based in the Isle of Wight, other than he is a singer-songwriter originally from London who has a penchant for melancholic guitar and a talent which is self-evident. Choosing to remain anonymous could be seen as an affectation to some, but so sincere are the songs within En Garde, that the lack of information on the artist forces us to focus solely on the music, which is probably for the best, since it would be foolish indeed to miss a moment of this carefully crafted masterpiece.£7.00 -
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Damian Valles – Fixtures (Tape)
Sale, TapeFixtures’ contains 9 tracks that expand on the darker, more noisier elements found in the droning/ambient soundscapes Valles has been experimenting with as of late. A blend of distorted sounds, dusty acoustic guitars, old pianos, and field recordings mixed with slowly evolving tones and brooding passages. Released in an edition of 50 copies in cassette format & beautifully packaged in a 2 colour screen printed slipcase. Released through the Australian imprint Left (field) Recordings.£3.50 -
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Myrmyr – Fire Star (Vinyl
Sale, VinylThis sophomore release from Agnes Szelag (Evon, Dokuro) and Marielle Jakobsons (Darwinsbitch, Date Palms) is an album of astonishing fragile beauty and darker, more foreboding atmospheres. Following their critically acclaimed debut album, The Amber Sea (Digitalis, 2009) Fire Star was recorded during a snowstorm on Shasta Mountain April 6-9 2010. The duo performs on violin, cello, voices, harps, bells, and electronics. It is recorded by The Norman Conquest and mastered by Miles Boison.£5.00 -
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Keith. F Whitman / Alien Radio (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylLimited copies available: Dekorder return to the release schedule with this Deutsch-Amerikanische meeting of two Meisters of the Modular Electronic Music System (originally invented by Don Buchla in 1963 for the likes of Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, Terry Riley et al at the San Francisco Tape Music Center). Both are presenting very distinct approaches displaying the vast possibilities of the machine yet maintaining similar Klang aesthetics (and maximum quality).£7.00 -
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Mind Over Mirrors – The Voice Rolling (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylMind Over Mirrors might not be a household name, but the brain behind the project, Jaime Fennelly, has been involved in numerous acclaimed and respected projects over the last few years. Primarily known for his work as an integral member of Peeesseye, he’s also involved with Acid Birds, Manpack Variant and Phantom Limb & Bison. ‘The Voice Rolling’ is his first solo record in five years and the first under this new moniker. First and foremost, this is a harmonium record and that’s important to remember because it doesn’t sound like any other harmonium record you’ve likely heard. Nearly all of the sounds created were made using a medium-sized Indian harmonium and then processed electronically via tape echo, harmonizer and other guitar pedals. Add in the fact that it was recorded to tape and you get a dense, warm record full of grit and emotion.£7.00 -
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Artforum: March Issue (Book)
Book, CD, SaleArtforum is the USA’s premier contemporary arts magazine. Each month, Artforum, presents the latest ideas in international visual arts, fashion, film and the performing arts. Artforum aims to make contemporary art accessible and understandable, and to give its readers a clear picture of the cultural landscape.£5.00 -
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Afterall 26 (Mag)
Book, SaleEach issue has around 168 pages and includes high-quality colour reproductions of the artists’ work. Issue 26 looks at questions of pedagogy, such as gallery education, Godard’s didacticism, Lina Bo Bardi’s exhibition displays, and through the artists Catherine Sullivan, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina and Group Material. Accompanying texts look at Hans Eijkelboom, theorisations of the event and the current Moscow art scene.£5.00 -
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Private – Global Report 2 (Book)
Book, SalePrivate is an international review of photography and writing. This itinerant review has been offering its poetic and photographic journey since 1992. Private’s purpose is to offer a space for photographic creation and poetic or narrative writing. Each issue is themed. As unique and special the scenes are that the photographers for this issue have chosen to focus on, the similarities (what we have in common, what we share) that can be found around the globe are striking.£8.00 -
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Neverest Songs – Paper Trumpets (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylNeverest Songs is the alias of Margate based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Luke Twyman, who is set to release his debut, double A-side single Paper Trumpets/Softly, Quite Softly, Quite Softly through independent label Tea At Yours. Initially working in a humble home studio set-up, early 2005, Twyman began to harness his talent, before starting work on his debut album Small Voyages, in late 2008. Undertaking a small voyage of his own, Twyman travelled to New York to record the piano parts, with friend Rick Warren and by late 2009 twenty-four songs were complete, and the final thirteen tracks selected. Small Voyages was released as part of the Unlabel catalogue, in early 2010.£4.00 -
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Drekka – Live In Europe 2010 (Tape)
Sale, TapeTo chronicle part of his European tour, Drekka (Michael Anderson) releases Live in Europe 2010 exclusively on Chemical Tapes. Forty six minutes of intense arcane cinematic ambience that was recorded live in various Italian and Slovenian cities during November 2010.£4.00 -
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Mohave Weapons – Smoked Mystics (Tape)
Sale, TapeAnthropological audiophiles feared that all forms of smouldered geometric sound magic had died away when Europeans reached far in to the desert wilderness of western America. Although this sand based kahuna was never officially outlawed, the decline of native culture saw many forms of sonic sorcery die out as the acoustic conjurers were unable to pass on their wisdom to new aural apprentices.£4.00 -
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Talvihorros – Descent Into Delta (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylA year passes by and finally Talvihorros is back with his latest album Descent Into Delta to be released on both vinyl and CD. The man behind this one man guitar driven excursion is London based Ben Chatwin who in addition to hibernate has had material released through Benbecula, My Dance The Skull and our sister label Rural Colours. Despite only recently forming the Talvihorros project in 2008, Chatwin has been experimenting with sound ever since he first picked up a guitar as a teenager. His live performances have seen him share a stage with the likes of Tim Hecker, Stephan Mathieu and Ian Hawgood to name just a few. Chatwin has to this point juggled live performances and studio work as two separate entities with studio material being culled from sounds derived from as many different instruments as possible and live performances being restricted to just guitar and pedals.£7.00 -
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Hush Arbors – Alive 2xLP (Vinyl)
Sale, Vinyl‘Alive’ is the first vinyl outing from Keith Wood’s Hush Arbors since his split 7″ with Jerusalem and the Starbaskets on The Great Pop Supplement back in 2008… Hush Arbors is the project of Mr Keith Wood, a good friend of Blackest Rainbow, who has also played in Wooden Wand, Six Organs of Admittance, Zodiacs, Sunburned Hand of the Man, and with Thurston Moore. Hush Arbors ever evolving sound pretty much encapsulates everything he does with these other fine projects, but Keith has definitely got his own thing going on with his fine song writing skills, whether its delivered with his beautiful acoustic playing or wild electric shredding.£9.00 -
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Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy – Splintered Visions (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylBR worked with Adam Kriney of La Otracina and Owl Xounds on the Owl Xounds/Family Battle Snake split cassette back in May 2007, and its great to have this raging free jazz improv psyche out bunch back on Blackest Rainbow again for this awesome LP.£6.00 -
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Aperture: Issue 202 (Book)
Book, SaleIssue 202: Lynsey Addario: At War By Elizabeth Rubin A photojournalist looks at war up close, most recently focusing on women soldiers in Afghanistan. Cameras for a Dark Time By Ariella Azoulay Custom-built cameras reflect upon the medium and the ongoing conflict in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Lucia Nimcova: On Sleeping and Waking By Clare Butcher Nimcova investigates the role of the image in private and official life in Socialist Czechoslovakia. Interview with Carole Naggar The famed Parisian photographer discusses his life and career. Fastnacht By Magdalene Keaney An age-old Lenten tradition continues—in full regalia—in Germany’s southern villages.£8.00 -
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Corridor8 – The Borderlands Edition (Book/CD)
Book, CD, SaleCorridor8, a new international annual contemporary visual art and writing magazine, that started in 2009. The ‘Borderlands’ edition, Strange Weather, extends our northern focus to the far-flung reaches of the UK from the midlands to the borders and beyond, and will feature the same mix of in-depth critical writing, profiles, art and literary writing we established in Issue 1..£10.00 -
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Yeti Magazine Issue 10 (CD / Book)
Book, CD, SaleInside the book: 36-pages from Internet monsters Everything Is Terrible!; interviews with musician Robert Scott (the Clean, the Bats) and writer Amelia Gray; music profiles of S. Fla’s finest, The Jacuzzi Boys, and UK ’90s cult band Disco Inferno; fiction by Stacey Levine; photographs by Ted Barron and Gracie Remington; art by Saul Chernick, Pavel Tchelitchew, Cassie Ramone, Ilyas Ahmed.£8.00 -
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Source: Issue 65 (Book)
Book, SaleSource is the magazine for contemporary photography in Britain and Ireland. It presents a forum for independent critical debate and the publication of the best new contemporary photography. Each issue includes portfolios of previously unpublished photographic work, newly commissioned essays and comprehensive reviews of exhibitions and publications. Source covers a wide range of photography from documentary and photojournalism to the work if contemporary artists. This has included police photography, advertising, pornography family photographs and design.£5.00 -
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Nick Kuepfer – Rural Route No.7 (3″)
3", SaleThese six tracks were recorded during a week of seclusion in a house deep in the woods of Northern Ontario with portions recorded in a cabin in the Gatineau region of Quebec. The recordings include various sample sources including goats and birds in Switzerland, a choir featuring Kuepfer’s parents, and wolves from the Aspden Valley Wildlife Sanctuary near Rousseau, Ontario.£5.00 -
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Isidore Ducasse: S/T (Vinyl)
Sale, VinylA new collaborative project from Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and William Trevor Montgomery. Both musicians played together in Tarantel and Moholy-Nagy. Cantu-Ledesma also runs the superb Root Strata label, releasing solo material under his own name (including a recent LP on Type), and also plays in The Alps. Montgomery also releases music under Lazarus, The Drift and Believer. This project was originally conceived and composed as a soundtrack to an unreleased western. The 14 tracks on this record are beautifully delicate, textured, sparse pieces ranging from slow acoustic reflective moments, to fully electric strumming, they capture the feel a western perfectly. It’s a shame the film never made it out, because judging by the music it would’ve been a beautiful spectacle. The project was was recorded by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and William Trevor Montgomery and mixed at studio Lamantia, the record was mastered by Greg Davis. The image on the cover is a still from a Paul Clipson film, whose films have previously featured the music of Jefre, Barn Owl, Tarantel, Gregg Kowalsky and Metal Rouge. Sleeve layout by Jefre. Pressed on 140 gram black virgin vinyl. Limited to 500 copies£8.00
