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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
