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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 RadioOriginal price was: £10.00.£6.00Current price is: £6.00. -
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Ann Deveria – S/T
UncategorizedÁngel Mancebo and Jose Tena founded the project Ann Deveria in 2007. Under a name taken from the universe of Alessandro Baricco, the Madrid duo produce music between drone and dark-country. Releasing self-produced craftworks in their beginnings, they have since published numerous EPs on Error! lo-fi recordings, Yoyo pang y Audiotalaia, etc.Original price was: £12.00.£8.00Current price is: £8.00. -
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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”.Original price was: £15.00.£10.00Current price is: £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…Original price was: £10.00.£7.00Current price is: £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. – themilkfactoryOriginal price was: £8.00.£4.00Current price is: £4.00. -
Night Shift – Trespassers Guide To Nowhere (Deluxe)
CD, DeluxeDeluxe limited version of 100 copies comes in the form of a”faux-rigami” pop up book of sorts, each hand bound with unique antique book covers, and including hand printed/typed inserts, and pop up pages made from the oversized sheets from a 100 year old hand written ledger… all encased in a hand made/stamped black slip case. Insanely labor intensive! See attached pics please!… Collaborative effort between the Russian trio Night Shift, and the main man behind Finnish band Ous Mal, Olli Aarni. An incredibly inventive sampledelic mash up of Russian folk melody, filmic referenced dialogue, field recordings and crushed and twisted electronic nuances, this cerebrally manipulative release is not one to be missed! Night Shift and Olli Aarni have made a record that is dramatic and playful, is woozy with histories ,and sharp with awareness of its own strengths. Track it down while you can, highly recommended. – Fluid Radio£35.00 -
Night Shift – Trespassers Guide To Nowhere
CDLimited edition digipak run of 150 copies… Collaborative effort between the Russian trio Night Shift, and the main man behind Finnish band Ous Mal, Olli Aarni. An incredibly inventive sampledelic mash up of Russian folk melody, filmic referenced dialogue, field recordings and crushed and twisted electronic nuances, this cerebrally manipulative release is not one to be missed! Night Shift and Olli Aarni have made a record that is dramatic and playful, is woozy with histories ,and sharp with awareness of its own strengths. Track it down while you can, highly recommended. – Fluid Radio£10.00 -
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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.Original price was: £8.00.£4.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £10.00.£5.50Current price is: £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.Original price was: £15.00.£8.00Current price is: £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. – RutgerOriginal price was: £7.00.£3.50Current price is: £3.50. -
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The Spaced Goats – We Made Contact
3", SaleLimited edition run of 100 copies in postcard packaging…Original price was: £7.00.£2.50Current price is: £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 – 9:00Original price was: £7.00.£2.50Current price is: £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.Original price was: £7.00.£2.50Current price is: £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…Original price was: £15.00.£7.50Current price is: £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…Original price was: £7.00.£2.50Current price is: £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.Original price was: £8.00.£4.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £7.00.£2.50Current price is: £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…Original price was: £7.00.£2.50Current price is: £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…Original price was: £7.00.£2.50Current price is: £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…Original price was: £7.00.£2.50Current price is: £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….Original price was: £7.00.£2.50Current price is: £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!Original price was: £6.00.£2.50Current price is: £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.Original price was: £20.00.£10.00Current price is: £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) 8:15Original price was: £12.00.£6.00Current price is: £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”.Original price was: £10.00.£6.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £10.00.£4.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £13.00.£7.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £7.00.£3.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £8.00.£4.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £10.00.£5.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £10.00.£5.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £10.00.£5.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £7.00.£4.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £7.00.£4.00Current price is: £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…’Original price was: £10.00.£5.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £10.00.£5.00Current price is: £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 HenaghanOriginal price was: £15.00.£9.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £15.00.£9.00Current price is: £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.Original price was: £20.00.£12.00Current price is: £12.00.
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