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AMM "at The Roundhouse" CD $12
Anomalous Records (U.S.) ICES 01
The first release from the ICES concerts from August of 1972 in London. The International Carnival of Experimental Sound, or ICES '72 for short, was an ambitious festival sprung from the mind of Harvey "Job" Matusow (1926-2002). Jumping off from his associations with Source magazine, Harvey brought together over 300 artists from over 21 countries to perform in London, England over the course of two weeks in August of 1972. Based on the theme of Myth, Magic Madness and Mysticism, he assembled an amazing diversity of performers working in diverse range of audio-visual arts. Encompassing happenings, films, dance, a train ride, and the phantom soft pool table, the focus was on sound - specifically that of artists who were both composers and performers. Most of the concerts were held at The Roundhouse, a cavernous structure that was formerly a railroad engine house, and recorded by John Lifton and his assistants. Now, for the first time in 30 years, these recordings can be heard. AMM was formed in 1965 by Lou Gare, Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe, and Lawrence Sheaff. The line-up swelled to also include Cornelius Cardew and Christopher Hobbs, and sometimes composer Christian Wolff. From 1971 up until 1976, AMM found itself stripped down to the duo of Prevost and Gare. After that time, Rowe replaced Gare, and Eddie and Keith have continued making AMMusic ever since, mostly with the help of John Tilbury, and occasionally others, and are still a powerful force. The aesthetic of AMM is that of improvised music freed from the constraints of musical style. Their sound is ever evolving and free from the ego of individual players. "Music from half a lifetime ago - that was a very good creative time musically and maybe a new generation will appreciate what we were doing then and still are doing now. Playing with Eddie in that format, just the two of us, was my most rewarding musical experience after the break up of the AMM quartet. When Eddie and Keith tried to get it together again with the four of us I could not go back to that after the freedom of the duo." - Lou Gare.

Anima Musica & R. Carlos Nakai "Atlantic Crossing" LP $20
La Scie Dorée (Belgium) Scie 3523
"Edition of 500 copies. The strange thing about the music of Anima is that it’s often considered as strange, while it’s actually very natural. It has a free spirit, analog to nature. For this release the natural spirit is strengthened by the participation of indigenous American flute player and composer R. Carlos Nakai who did a series of concerts in the US and Europe with Paul and Limpe Fuchs in the 1980’s. As with almost all Anima work, the natural feel manifests itself not only by the musical approach but also through sounds generated by natural materials as metal, wood, stone and air, and of course the absence of electronic devices. This LP is a reissue of a rare privately released cassette from 1988 and was recorded by the Bayerischer Rundfunk. May this slice of timeless free spirit be a trigger to more awareness concerning our decaying freedom." - label description

animist orchestra "wuwei" CD $12
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM14
studio recording of Jeph Jerman's small sound orchestra with Dave Knott, Mike Shannon, Jeffery Taylor, Robert Millis and Marina Granger. "in seattle in 1996, i began giving performances using mainly natural objects as my 'instruments'. after many such performances, two friends suggested (independently of one another), that i might try doing it with a group. as this idea had occurred to me a few years previously, i thought perhaps they were right. in june of 1999, the animist orchestra began its history as a working group. we got together nearly every week for the next three months, to play and discuss our playing. our first performance was given in eric lanzillotta's living room for a small group of friends, and was well received. from the beginning, the focus of the orchestra has been on listening, and improvising in the moment. a group of people truly playing together and focusing intently on the present can be a powerful thing. the use of natural objects (stones, shells, pine cones etc.) as opposed to more conventional musical instruments, can help the players to not fall back on learned habits of musical play. there is no canon or book of rules to refer to when using everyday things as sound makers, and this may facilitate the removal of actions arising from taste and memory. during the initial period of discovery for the orchestra, dave knott made the observation that, when when playing and focusing on the sound being made, it was 'like the spirit of the thing is telling you how it wants to move'. mike shannon once told me that when i play i seem to be animating the objects with my hands. i think these comments explain the name of the orchestra better than i could. i wanted to make a CD of the orchestra to document our work together, and to show my admiration and gratitude for the friends who have agreed to join. i don't think they knew what they were getting into." - jeph jerman.

Tim Barnes / Jeph Jerman / Joachim Nordwall "The Oortcloud [It Wasn't Until Weeks Later]" LP $18
Stellage (Russia) STELLAGE016
"Recorded by Joachim Nordwall (iDEAL Recordings), Tim Barnes (Royal Trux etc) and Jeph Jerman (Hands To) in Gothenburg on 12 February 2017."

Biota / Mnemonists "Musique Actuelle 1990" CD $12
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM25
Biota was founded in 1979 in Fort Collins, Colorado, as the Mnemonist Orchestra. Over the years, the Mnemonist Orchestra developed into Biota (the musical contingent) and Mnemonists (the visual contingent). Both Biota and Mnemonists work as one on productions of musical and visual components. The group has released nine LPs, one EP, and four CDs in addition to several cassettes and compilation ventures, on both their own Dys label and Recommended Records UK. Heard on this CD is the first live adaption of their studio-based recording techniques since 1981, as presented at Montreal Musiques Actuelles - New Music America 1990. For their live performance they composed a set of material specifically for the concert and virtually relocated their studio to the stage to properly recreate it. Nine musicians playing only acoustic instruments (aside from electric guitar) were heard natural and unamplified from the stage while extensive electronic processing, heard through the speakers, rendered radical tonal, timbral and temporal modification creating an incredibly unique and strange sound world. For the first release of this music, Biota have combined the best recordings from both the rehearsals and the concert itself. Added to this, the two-dimensional graphic work that Mnemonists have become so renowned for was transformed into stunning video projections - beautiful examples of which are now included in the full color booklet accompanying this CD.

Michèle Bokanowski "Cirque" LP $27
Kythibong (France) KTB80
"First time on vinyl. The Circus is a place of lights and colors, but also of shadows, even darkness. Admittedly, it delights children and makes adults laugh. But you only need one rainy autumn evening near a circus tent and the smell of fodder to think of the sadness of the clowns, the endless training of the animals and the freaks who are hidden in some caravan... cinema, the essence of the circus – movement, light, danger and burlesque – will have been admirably rendered in 'Notes on the Circus' by Jonas Mekas (1966), one of the inventors of the filmed diary. With 'Cirque', Michèle Bokanowski does similar work, entirely dedicated to spinning, in the musical field.
She distinguished herself in particular in the composition of musique concrète, among others 'Tabou' and 'Trois chambres d'inquiétudes', after having studied with Pierre Schaeffer and Éliane Radigue. The latter, great lady of drone and minimalism, fell under the spell of 'Cirque' and wrote the booklet for the piece as a poem.
The piece, divided into five movements, is based on the handling and editing of recordings captured within one or more circuses (this is not specified and is of no importance) between 1988 and 1993. The initial allegro reveals the gallop of a horse joined gradually by other images. The idea of the circular space of the circus tent is immediately and magnificently rendered and will be constantly recalled by an insistent use of the loop technique. Children's laughter, applause and drum rolls are thus sheared, repeated before being brutally interrupted. Accordion interludes and the distortion of sounds create a dreamlike atmosphere. This beautiful nightmare reminds us, to quote Éliane Radigue, the 'Magic of childhood still living in the heart of man even beyond its abrupt end.'" - words by Alexandre Galand, from the book 'Field Recording – L’usage sonore du monde en 100 albums' (ed. Le mot et le reste, 2012)
edition of 500 copies.

John Cage / Aaron Dilloway "Rozart Mix" LP $22
Hanson Records (U.S.) HN-ROZART21
"Back in the extremely strange year of 2020, I was approached by Wave Farm and John Cage Trust to stage a performance of this seldomly performed piece that Cage wrote for Alvin Lucier. The piece is comprised of 88 tape loops (one for each key of a piano), spliced together with multiple non-musical sounds played back on 12 reel to reel machines. In January of 2021 I spent a wonderful and intense week researching 'Rozart Mix' at John Cage Trust at Bard College. It was the first place I had visited during the pandemic. On October 23, 2021, with the assistance of Rose Actor-Engel, Twig Harper, C. Lavender, Quintron, Robert Turman, and John Wiese, I presented a 6 hour performance of 'Rozart Mix' at John Cage Trust. Six hours of 12 individually amplified reel to reel tape machines, placed around multiple floors of a house, playing 88 tape loops spliced together by 5 to 175 splices, created an overwhelming and joyous environment of cacophonous sound. The performance culminated with John Wiese touching a frog for the first time as the final sound croaked through the speakers. The frog contact was just one of many magical moments that occurred during the preparation and presentation of the piece." - Aaron Dilloway, May 2024

Citipati LP $29
Hypnagogia (U.K.) GOG04
Citipati were a brief project that quickly turned into Metgumbnerbone. they released two compilation tracks and did one concert before that change of name. this album was recorded on April 26-27, 1983 at Morden Tower in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and apparently was meant to be released on LP by Flowmotion at the time, but has been in the vaults ever since. the sound is essentially the same as what they did under the new name: acoustic ritual / tribal music played in a reverberant space. featured performers are Sean Breadin, Paul Coates, Clive Powell, Richard Rupenus, Philip Rupenus, and John Mylotte. limited edition of 250 numbered copies. all copies I received have creased corners.

Aldo Clementi "Collage" LP $18
Alga Marghen (Italy) 49NMN167
reduced from $25 because of a 1.5" scratch on side A that causes an audible tick.
"Alga Marghen presents the previously unreleased 'Collage 2' and 'Collage 3 (Dies irae)' for magnetic tape, both realized at the Studio di Fonologia Muisicale RAI in Milan with the technical collaboration of Marino Zuccheri. These pieces are precious testimonials to Aldo Clementi's intense and ongoing interest in electronic music in the 1960s. The electronic composition 'Collage 2' dates from 1960. It was the first experiment with electronic music for Clementi whose original and consistent adherence to structuralism is reflected in several of his instrumental works written around that time. The first idea of 'Collage 3' dates back to 1966, in the form of a short electronic collage on the Beatles' song 'Michelle'. The composer wanted to replace old concepts and clichés which had become popular and common, through the use of 'natural wells of timbre, live and organic, springing from a world of symmetry and fixed blocks.' This original idea underwent a drastic transformation when the RAI (the Italian radio) commissioned Clementi to write a longer work. To his initial desire to start from scratch was added the problem of a longer duration. It was only when Clementi had almost completed the piece that he gave it its final title of 'Dies irae', owing to the extreme tension that accompanied its composition."

Coil "Love's Secret Domain" 3 x LP $48
Infinite Fog Productions (Austria) IF104LP
"Commissioned artwork by Steven Stapleton. Released in deluxe hardcover triple-gatefold with lyrics and notes. Includes 24" x 24" poster of cover art by Steve Stapleton." contains three sides of alternate versions not on the original release.

Dried Up Corpse C15 $5
Gnarled Forest (U.S.) GF23
noise project from Stan Reed of Blue Sabbath Black Cheer and The Broken Penis Orchestra. released way back in 2009 in an edition of 100. packaged in an A6 sleeve.

Dried Up Corpse / Slates C15 $5
Gnarled Forest (U.S.) GF24
Dried Up Corpse are a noise project from Stan Reed of Blue Sabbath Black Cheer and The Broken Penis Orchestra. Slates are a mysterious project that only did a few other releases aside from this. released way back in 2009 in an edition of 100. packaged in an A6 sleeve.

Fallen Sun "Beyond the Flat Earth" CD $9
Fourth Dimension Records (Poland) FDCD151
"Fallen Sun, the noise/industrial moniker of Reverse Image from Malaysia, approaches the creation of noise music through the layering of sonic textures aligned with a sense of space and movement. Using Harsh Noise Wall as distant inspiration, she takes the seed of an idea and expands and contracts it, before further compressing and then twisting it, layer upon layer, until the idea has morphed into itself. 'Beyond the Flat Earth's ten concise tracks explore this perpetual movement of noise, each with its own spine, the total auditory fabric of the music presents a gothic beauty to submerse oneself" - by Richard Allan Bates

Faust "Punkt" CD $16
Bureau B (Germany) BB392
"The band called it '5½', fans referred to it as the 'Munich album' and for almost fifty years it's been the missing chapter in Faustian mythology. Now for the first time, the German iconoclasts' previously unreleased fifth album sees the light of day as 'Punkt' . . . 'Punkt' is Faust at their most unhindered, untethered and unstoppable. Returning to Germany after a loss-making U.K. tour and after their manager Uwe Nettelbeck had split with them, the group dusted themselves down and planned their next project, what would have been their second for Richard Branson's Virgin. Joined as always by their engineering genius Kurt Graupner, the band took residence in the Arabella High Rise Building, the luxury hotel which housed Giorgio Moroder's Musicland Studio in its basement . . . Faust spent their nights below ground, creating the sublime cacophony which courses through these seven tracks. Driven by Diermaier's primitive repetition and Péron's rabid low-end growl, 'Morning Land' stomps its way through almost ten minutes of heavy psychedelia . . . A Luciferian spirit courses through the beatless 'Crapolino', a tumult of scorched guitar chords, strident FXs and disembodied vocals which bares all the hallmarks of a black mass. And just like that, the group summon some demonic hunting party for 'Knochentanz' (bone dance), arguably their most immersive creation . . . The storm clears for a second to allow a celestial chord progression to emerge from the darkness before the heavens open and Sosna's snarling, sawing guitar rains down from above, carrying 'Knochentanz' through its final iteration, a collision of muscular fretwork, percussion freakout and bleeping organ which completes the most psychedelic recording you've never heard. The frazzled optimism of 'Fernlicht' buzzes away like an acid Beethoven bathed in neons, before the breathless 'Juggernaut' stretches the definition of blues rock to its limit as squirming sine waves, clattering cymbals and corrosive guitars pan, reverse and overlap, each following its own unhinged rhythm. Then for a time the sound and the fury abate, making space for the frankly sublime 'Schön Rund', a piano-led diversion into the soul-swelling realms of ECM jazz and fin de siècle impressionism, which rivals anything else in their catalogue for pure beauty. And in case you thought they'd gone soft, Faust sign off with the guttural groans and course drones of 'Prends Ton Temps'..." - Patrick Ryder

Fibrillation "My Axis is Undone" 3" CD $6
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM22
"Holding a deep love of refraction in all things, luminescence at night, of childhood memories blurring with time..taking on their own significance through abstraction. Becoming aware of the animistic nature of the landscape via dissociative episodes, paranoia mutating into awareness. A series of dreams etching strong images deep into the mind long after waking, floating in dark blue water while looking at a glowing gold sky. The feeling of absolute *now* during an electrical storm. Using kirlian photography as postcards to communicate the vividness of a new space. All these things and more.." This collection of six pieces is the first official release by Fibrillation, following his appearance on the Anomalous Records compilation LP "Electrically Induced Vibrations". Constructed with great care, these will reveal many layers over repeated listening. Though he works largely in the realms of electronic music, no source is considered outside of his realm, and in fact many fragments of sound important to his life are incorporated in the complex weave of aural communication. Fibrillation aims to create a sound compliment to mental images and evoke important personal experiences. Each sound is in the place where it belongs to create the desired whole. So while initially, one may be taken in by the beautiful swell of warm harmonic drone that opens the disc, you will eventually find that below the surface there lies much more. Packaged in mini-DVD case with full color cover and insert.

Formanex with AMM, Christian Wolff, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, Michael Pisaro and others "20 Years Of Experimental Music" 10 x CD box $93
Mikroton Recordings / Fibrr Records (Russia / France) MIKROTON CD 76-85 / FIBRRX01
one copy with dented corner available for $5.00 off; one copy in mint condition available for full price.
"Limited edition of 300. Nantes trio Formanex celebrates 20 years of activism in experimental music with a 10 CD edition full of amazing collaborations with ONsemble (contemporary music group from Nantes and Saint-Nazaire) and composers they have worked with. The box set includes early works by Formanex’s own Julien Ottavi, unique compositions created by Keith Rowe, pieces by Kasper T. Toeplitz, Ralf Wehowsky, Seth Cluett, Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti, as well as other giants of contemporary music from the last 50 years; such as Phill Niblock and Christian Wolff. A rare collection of CDs, this box set represents a broad vision of experimental music from noise to electronic abstract composition, radical minimalism, contemporary and improvised music." - label description. included on the first disc are two recordings of Cornelius Cardew's "Treatise" performed with AMM.

Ellen Fullman "Staggered Stasis" CD $12
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM29
Since the early 1980s, Ellen Fullman has been perfecting her Long String Instrument. This unique instrument of her own design is some 80 feet in length and played by literally walking through it. The resulting sounds are beautiful gliding tones with a rich harmonic content. The CD presents two works from her time in Austin, Texas in the late 1980's which beautifully display a sound you can get inside of. These long tracks envelope you in their cascading overtones. Even though she has performed widely in the United States and Europe, this is only Ellen's third solo CD, following previous releases on XI Records and New Albion. So hearing these gorgeous and important pieces from her archive is cause for celebration. "'Staggered Stasis' (1989) was commissioned by the Deborah Hay Dance Company for part 1, 'The Navigator' in Hay's trilogy, 'The Man Who Grew Common In Wisdom'. Microtonal shifts in the coloring occur in a staggered fashion, traveling on an axis of Pythagorean intervals, (the circle of fifths). Chords created by stacking 3/2s, or fifths, are referred to as 'suspended chords'. There is a flatness in this drama, what I imagine it must be like in the middle of an ocean, continually moving yet appearing the same. The four part score was plotted on a timeline. Each track was recorded and performed by myself. An excerpt of 'Staggered Stasis' was released on the Aerial CD series. 'Duration' (1986) was composed as a 13-limit study for the Long String Instrument, in the key of C. The fundamental tone is continually sounded, under chords constructed with pitches from the overtone series. The intention of the piece was to listen to the variations within each chord, as it is sounded continually while the performer walked the length of the instrument. As the performer's position changes, one clearly hears a cascade of overtones. 'Duration' was never previously released. The original recordings were made direct to a PCM digital processor using a vintage AKG C24 stereo tube condenser microphone placed about 15 feet from the resonators." - Ellen Fullman. the cover features a photograph by Rachael Jackson.

Rolf Gehlhaar "Wege / Ways" LP $27
Metaphon (Belgium) METAPHON020
"Rolf Gehlhaar (1943-2019) was an instrumental and electronic music composer, and a pioneer in computer controlled interactive music. He grew up in the US where he studied philosophy and composition at Yale University. In 1967 he moved back to Germany to become Stockhausen’s personal assistant and member of his performing ensemble. In 1969 Gehlhaar co-founded, along with Johannes Fritsch (Metaphon 012) and David Johnson, the Feedback Studios in Cologne, a new-music performance center and publishing house. He later moved to England, where he became in 1979 a founding member of the Electro-Acoustic Music Association and later on senior lecturer in design and digital media. Gehlhaar’s compositions include symphonies, instrumental works, experimental and electronic music, interactive computer controlled music and everything in between. The three previously unreleased tracks on this LP only show a glimpse of the versatility of his adventurous and innovative musical ideas. The LP comes with a foldout insert including photos and extensive program notes. Edition of 500 copies. Cover design by Vahakn Gehlhaar Matossian. Mastering by Stephan Mathieu."

Randy Greif "Verdi's Requiem" CD $8
Soleilmoon Recordings (U.S.) SOL48CD
"Randy Greif is a composer and musician working in the field of electronics and sound manipulation. His work defies easy categorization because it straddles a number of different genres, including experimental, noise, ambient and even classical music. 'Verdi's Requiem' is not in any way a re-working of the 'Requiem' by the composer Verdi, but is meant simply as an abstract biography, without text but full of misinformation on the life of the great Italian composer. Various key events in the life of Verdi as concocted and imagined by Greif are interpreted musically. Greif admittedly has very little knowledge of Giuseppe Verdi's life or musical structures, and is basing all other imagined events around the only one he is aware-Verdi's alleged affair with the young Amadeus Mozart. While Randy Greif's earlier interpretation of 'Alice in Wonderland' squeezed the actual text into its darkest corner and added a suitably psychotic soundtrack, here he dispenses with all but the merest notion of the original and takes a mighty leap into the mind's abyss. It's interesting, fascinating, captivating and weird, all at once. Randy Greif has recorded with Static Effect, His Master's Voice, Stylus, and Dan Burke of Illusion of Safety. He is currently collaborating with Robin Storey of Rapoon and Nigel Ayers of Nocturnal Emissions. However, he has primarily worked as a solo artist. He is truly a child of the cassette underground, rising out of the depths of obscurity through sheer hard work, persistence and originality. His first cassette releases were issued on his own Swinging Axe label beginning in 1983. These early solo works were soon followed by releases of indigenous recordings he made in Papua New Guinea, Amazonia, and Thailand. Some of the material recorded in those locales were used as source materials for future Greif releases. Throughout the 80's and 90's he has had numerous LP and CD releases on various labels including Staalplaat, RRR, Complacency, Old Europa Cafe, Freedom In A Vacuum, and Swinging Axe. Among these releases were his 5-CD set 'Alice In Wonderland' released on the Staalplaat label serially over a 4 year period. Due out sometime next year will be a CD by Drift, of which Greif is founding member and which includes vocalist Anna Homler. There will also be some new solo material under the alias Shadowbug 4." - label description.

Tom Hamilton, Mike Silverton & Al Margolis "Analogue Smoque" 2 x CD $12
Pogus Productions (U.S.) P21029-2
"A truly surrealistic pillow of a text/sound work, 'Analogue Smoque' combines poet and La Folia honcho Mike Silverton’s epic poe(m) (with Mike recitating) and the sounds (both electronic and not) of Tom Hamilton and Al Margolis. Sounds combine and contrast, highlight and ignore, as Silverton's opus unfolds in all its glory. Mike Silverton will only say that 'At first blush, the alert listener detects a link between 'Analogue Smoque' and 'Madam Blavatsky'. The magi demur. Rather, they say, the text reveals its author's interest in cryptorchidistics, i.e., states of non-descent.' Tom Hamilton has composed and performed electronic music for over 30 years. Rather than addressing traditional modes of presentation and observation, Hamilton prefers to explore interaction and simultaneity as aspects of 'present-time listening' on both the performers' and listeners' parts. Al Margolis [If, Bwana] has been working with electronics/sounds since New Year's Day 1984. His work can best be described as 'sound finger-painting'." - label description. track titles include "A Rift in the Ceiling" and "Laundering Butt Floss".

H.H.T.P. & Portablepalace "Cavitation" CD $10
Monochrome Vision (Russia) mv04
"The interaction between computer science technology and freeform musical creative process becomes a central point in this international collaboration of three artists from Belarus and USA. The abstract soundscapes are obscured by intricate structures, acoustic phenomena and electronic effects, it's going to infinity and never repeat itself. The finest harmony of soundfield is credited to the principles of intuitive simulation, realised through the system of computer-aided instruments." featuring Dmitry Gelfand (prepared piano), Andrey Savitsky (electronic sound), and Kirill Domnitch (special effects). limited edition of 500 copies released in 2005 by this now defunct label.

Hubbub "Hoop Whoop" CD $10
Matchless Recordings (England) MRCD53
improvisations by Paris based ensemble with Frederic Blondy, Bertrand Denzler, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Jean-Sebastian Mariage and Edward Perraud. "Hubbub means 'clamor', 'commotion', 'confusion' but also 'agitation', 'excitement'. 'Sound and fury', but also culture fluid and brownian motion: a name with many echoes in sound, in physics, in biology and yet nobody's name. It is a sign. The horizon which was revealed by such an idea of improvisation (since the very beginning of AMM) is entirely open. By establishing new continuums in the functioning of the group and the flow of play, from within the music matter-but also from between its inside and its outside- this music calls forth new dispositions, new organic contiguities. 'Hoop, Whoop' is not a work, it is a process. The only relationship possible for us with this process is a vital and passionate experience which opens up to it. What follows is no longer ours." - from the liner notes.

Toshi Ichiyanagi [performed by Eye Music] "Sapporo" CD $13
Edition Wandelweiser Records (Germany) EWR 1801
Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933) is a Japanese composer that studied with John Cage. Cage's influence can be heard in the piece "Sapporo" which mixes sustained tones with sharply attacked sounds. Each performer plays from a different page of lines and points with the only synchronization being in the form of notations to listen to or watch the other players. performed by Eye Music: Dean Moore (air pressure tom, prepared snare, cymbal tree, shakers); Jay Hamilton (cello); Carl Lierman (analog synthesizer); Michael Shannon (dilruba, erhu, harmonium); Dave Knott (korg DS-10, monochord, rocks, voice, kitchen faucets); David Stanford (electric guitar, e-bow), Jonathan Way (khaen, yueqin, autoharp); Robert j Kirkpatrick (prepared wire-strung harp, iphone oscillator); Stuart Dempster (trombone); Eric Lanzillotta (acoustic guitar, uncut nail, contact microphone, psaltery bow, ring modulator, singing bowl, telephone bells, light bulb, spring, umeboshi pit, shell, resin, glass, marble, button, glass fuses); Esther Sugai (flute, two fue: japanese bamboo flutes).
Eye Music is a Seattle based ensemble specializing in the interpretation of graphic and text scores. The group was begun in 2006 with the aim of playing a student composition by Sune Smedeby and since then have expanded their repertoire to include pieces by Cornelius Cardew, David Toop, Michael Parsons, Clifford Burke, Bob Cobbing, Michael Shannon, Steve Peters, Malcolm Goldstein, Boguslaw Schaeffer, Mieko Shiomi, Christian Wolff, George Brecht, Alison Knowles, Earle Brown, Stuart Dempster, Stephen O'malley, William Hellerman, Takehisa Kosugi and Jeph Jerman. The openness of these compositions allows Eye Music to draw its membership from a wide range of musical backgrounds, instrumentation, and musical skill. The ensemble has worked with guest artists Keith Rowe, Jeph Jerman, Richard Lerman and Clifford Burke. Members of the ensemble not on this recording are Amy Denio and Susie Kozawa.

In Camera "Arrival" LP $27
La Scie Dorée (Belgium) Scie 3624
music by Christoph Heemann & Timo van Luijk. "Four years after we got 'Lost in Spice' we reached the point of 'Arrival'. An altar on the surface of the water is burning with flames. Behind it you can see a half of the Earth’s globe, and on it there’s a bright throne. A pale, translucent ruler wearing a crown sits in the throne. The globe is surrounded by a ball of shadows on which sits a larger dark ruler on a dark throne. Behind the globe are mountain peaks, and all of it is reflected in the water. Above the mountains are clouds which merge into rivers and end in a curved horizon on which forests stand, and the sun rises between them. Above this horizon is another sky with lunar crescents and comets. Above this sky are rows of angels bent over, above which the stars shine. The sun shines in the top left corner and the crescent moon in the right. Edition of 400 copies. Cover image by M.K. Čiurlionis: Rex, tempera on canvas, 1909."

Tetsu Inoue & Andrew Deutsch "Field Tracker" CD $12
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM 9
"'Field Tracker' was recorded at the Institute for Electronic Art, Alfred NY during the Winter of 2000. Inoue, utilizing his digital sound processing systems in combination with bells, guitar, and other odd sound making objects, constructed tiny improvisational sound moments each one having a shape and gesture of their own. These 'micro compositions' were at times highly abstract and noisy and at other times extremely melodic and calm. Many of these micro compositions were used in the production of his recent release 'Object and Organic Code', the others (almost 2 hours worth) were handed over to Andrew Deutsch who was to construct another release combining sounds of his own. Being responsible for the overall 'Auskomponierung' or 'compositional unfolding' of the work, Deutsch combined synthesized sounds, drones, chatter, loops and other DSP techniques to produce what he hoped would be a kind of 'Gebrauchsmusik' or 'useful music' that one might use in the home. The work has a notion of 'ambitendency' built into it, that is, the tendency toward change combined with an equal tendency toward stasis. The work could be described as 'meta-divisionism', 'Baroque Minimalism', or 'expanded systemic digital minimalism'. Sound works for our new recombinatory world." second pressing with black label.

David Jackman "Sekihi Oidori" CD $15
Siren Records (Japan) SIREN 33
"Digisleeve. Edition size: 500 copies. Organum ‘Raven’ CD, which was released by Siren Records in 2018 was the last piece that Jackman released under the name Organum. He changed the name Organum to Organum Electronics in 2019 and has released five volumes of the albums on Siren Records since then. ‘Sekihi Oidori’ is a development of the quiet nature of earlier Organum works and Jackman decided to release the album under his own name because of a very personal essence. ‘Sekihi Oidori’ is composed of low-key church organ drones, airy tanpura sounds, occasional church bell chimes and chirping birds. It is the most minimal, the most quiet and the most powerful composition Jackman has ever created. The drones continue uninterrupted and you may feel little change in partial listening, but you’ll appreciate the increasing internal dynamic energy that Jackman infused with mindful listening. ‘Sekihi Oidori’ means ‘Stone Tomb Old Bird’ in English translation but the piece is neither an elegy nor a lamentation." - label description
"Sekihi Oidori" sample

Jeph Jerman "Arrastre" LP & CDR $20
(U.S.) ARRASTRE LP
beautiful, shimmering, acoustic drones coming from the unlikely source of pot lids played like singing bowls. limited edition of 100 copies released by Jeph himself.

Jeph Jerman "Black Mesa" CDR $12
Rural Situationism (U.S.) RS0204
"CD in cardboard wallet, edition of 100."

Jeph Jerman "Burn-im-rag" LP $22
Buried in Slag and Debris (Canada) BISAD 046
"Buried in Slag and Debris is proud to present 'Burn-im-rag', a new LP by Jeph Jerman (Cottonwood, AZ - Hands To / City of Worms). Akin to his previous work, there is a tactile and territorial awareness that shapes Jeph’s sound: wandering, listening, recording, and reassembling. 'Burn-im-rag' continues this investigation dredging a cluster of vibrations, clatter, squeaks, malfunctioning chatter, and familiar-yet-unfamiliar audio. Mastered by Grant Richardson. Edition of 209. Black vinyl with fold out insert. Download card included."

Jeph Jerman "Popular Fictions" C30 $7
tsss tapes (Italy) tst017
"Recorded throughout the spring and summer of 2020 in and around Cottonwood, AZ, utilizing mouth, stone, wood, glass, metal, paper, plastic, radio and the contribution of Doug Theriault, Chris Reider, Julie Schubert and a bunch of people I don't know. Assembled at Estudio Sonor, October 2020."

Jeph Jerman & Ted Byrnes "Passenger" C39 $6
tsss tapes (Italy) tst039
edition of 125.

Jeph Jerman & Steve Jansen "Composite Washes" 5 x CDR & DVD-R box $40
Unhinged (U.S.) UNHINGED 007
wooden box with 5 CD-Rs, a DVD-R (with 3 videos), track list and a polaroid photo. limited edition of 34 copies.

Jerman / Nordwall "Topology" CD $12
New Forces (U.S.) NF144
"Jeph Jerman (Hands To) and Joachim Nordwall (Organ of Corti) present 'Topology', a stunning collaboration that brings out the best from both artists. Jerman's trademark field recordings are accentuated by Nordwall's electronics in a seamless fusion that simultaneously evokes the mechanical and the environmental. There are moments of subtle tension, but longtime fans of Jerman will note several instances of heightened intensity in his contribution that harken back to some of the more aggressive Hands To recordings. Nordwall is surgical on 'Topology', a masterclass in blending two divergent approaches. An incredible album of sound exploration that is not to be missed." digipak.

Jeph Jerman & Tim Olive "Pancakes" C30 $9
Buried in Slag and Debris (Canada) BISAD 045
noisy collaborations with each taking turns providing source recordings (percussion, metal objects, prepared turntables, magnetic pickups, circuits) while the other one provides the final mix.

Yves Klein "Symphonie Monoton-Silence” LP $30
Edition Bierammer (Austria) KleinSymphonie
"Edition of 250 copies with Yves Klein Blue innersleeve and insert with score. First ever release of Yves Klein’s groundbreaking conceptual symphonie 'Monoton-Silence' conceived 1947-1948. Scored for 20 singers, 10 violins, 10 cellos, 3 double basses, 3 trumpets, 3 flutes and 3 oboes, the piece consists of a single 20-minute sustained D major chord followed by a 20-minute silence. The Symphonie 'Monoton-Silence' was a precedent to Klein’s later monochrome paintings and to the work of minimal musicians & composers, particularly La Monte Young’s drone music or John Cage’s 4′33″ and transforms Klein’s monochromatic paintings and sculpture into a monotone auditory experience. Performed April 1998 at Chapelle Ste Reita, Paris. Conducted by Philippe Arrii Blachette."

Dave Knott "Natura naturans" CD $8
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOT 1
vastly underappreciated in the world at large, Dave Knott is highly respected and enjoyed by those in the Seattle area that have come into contact with him and his sounds. he has long running (as in over a continuous decade) collaborations with Jeph Jerman, Matt Shoemaker, Stuart Dempster, Sir Richard Bishop and Climax Golden Twins. a music therapist by trade, Dave studied to be a luthier (that's someone that builds stringed instruments) and plays very skillfully in many styles. this recording documents what might now be called a sound art installation, although unlike a lot of things with that label these days, Dave's "stringboards" were a part of the space they were in and not just some CD player in a room. quite simple and raw looking, the stringboards were complex aggregations of various types of musical strings often augmented by preparations in the manner of Keith Rowe or John Cage, and likewise revealed the same large array of non-typical string sounds. when plucked, bowed, strummed, rubbed or hit they could sound like any one of the numerous string sources (guitar, double bass, cello, etc.) or more surprisingly like gong or bell. and this is what is unique about these - the instruments literally are boards - the resonator is the wall and structure the stringboards are mounted to. they are part of the room they are in and change greatly depending on what wall or structure (one of them was attached to a railing) they are attached to. as they were installed for a period of over six months, Dave was able to visit from time to time and alter and re-tune them giving odd melodies to a strum across one board. ranging from about one foot up to eight feet, as well as in various parts of the building, the instruments offered up a small orchestra that could be freely played by other musicians and visitors. this should appeal to people with an interest in Harry Partch, Derek Bailey, Akio Suzuki, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Reichel, Harry Bertoia, Damian Bisciglia, Philip Corner, Hugh Davies (they once played together), Tetuzi Akiyama, Fred Frith's "Guitar Solos", Kazuo Imai, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band, etc. an overlooked classic.
"Now here's a find: Knott was first introduced to fellow improvisor Jeph Jerman as a 'guitarist', which wasn't entirely misleading, since his homemade instruments did at least occasionally use guitar strings. But these unpretentious slabs of wood have a frank physicality and grounding in space that the guitar lacks, and this record of Knott's solo improvisations offers a highly personal vision. Plucked, tapped, struck, bowed, rubbed, teased, it's easy to hear the unaffected thrill of invention and discovery as Knott pulls formless, unpretty pings and shimmers from the stringboards. Natura Naturans is a motley, playful encyclopedia of strung-out tension, ranging from jittery rhythm through to soft, washed out, glinting tones. At once ugly and beautiful, the music is always open, unpredictable and rather marvellous." - The Wire
"Most everyone should have this album and cherish its wheezing glissandi, asymmetric and atonal arpeggios, and discombobulated dances." - Bananafish

Metgumbnerbone patch $3
(U.K.) MET patch
red on black design. "The sigil is a version of a pattern that was painted on my favourite drum. I believe I based the original on a runic wishing circle." - John Mylotte

Metgumbnerbone "Metgumbnersigil" metal sigil $5
(U.K.) METsigil
approximately 4" diameter rusted metal pendant with attached cord for wearing as a necklace or hanging on your wall. an edition of 200, this was previously only available with the deluxe edition of "Anthropological Field Recordings For The Dispossessed". the design is the same as the badge and patch.

Metgumbnerbone "Out of the Ground" CD $15
(U.K.) METCD002
seven previously unreleased acoustic tribal tracks divided into the headings "Tunnel" and "Culvert". rhythmic, chaotic and reverberant rituals from underground. "Enacted by an uncertain light the celebrants descend past bone white nitre and through malodorous exhalations of damp and decay invading the sepulchral silence with a ponderous and doleful clamber and setting the tenebrous shadows to dance." limited edition of 500. Digipak.

Kiyoshi Mizutani "Cemetery" LP $27
Ferns (France) frond_13
"Mizutani was a member of Merzbow in the '80s and has done solo work since 1989. He has recordings on Ulcer House, ZSF Produkt, Shirocoal Recordings, NEdS, Sounds For Consciousness Rape, Pure, Artware, Kaon, e(r)ostrate, Povertech Industries, and Flenix Records. Reissue of a cassette released in 1993 on the Ulcer House label. Ltd to 150 copies. A track has been added to the original, and the artwork has been reworked."

The New Blockaders "Live At Cafe OTO" CDR $14
Opal Tapes (U.K.) TNB-OTO
crunching, grinding noise with lots of texture and layers for that trademark TNB sound as created here by Rupenus and Durgan in 2017 and recorded in great fidelity. a limited edition of 200 copies in a jewel case with full color artwork by Rupenus and photos of the hooded performers by Baby R.K.

The New Blockaders "Live at Morden Tower Newcastle-Upon-Tyne" CD $12
Old Europa Cafe (Italy) OECD 316
"'Live at Morden Tower' was first released in 1983 and re-released many times through the years but never into CD format.
Finally here comes the very first CD re-edition of such seminal work including as bonus also the track 'Live at Anti-Fest'. NB: all sounds remastered for CD production from original tapes recordings! Cover designed using original art-works and statement used for the venue - comes in six panels digipak. limited edition 300 copies."
"The crackle of broken amplifiers precipitates a whole new order of independently morphing soundforms, all giving shape via flashes of metallic lightening, smashed glass, trashed microphone feedback and acoustic low-end pellets that scale the walls like slugs. Gradually accruing hypnotic significance, they birth spontaneous form in the shape of textures and recur with such accumulative force, they threaten to collapse the performance under its own weight." - David Keenan (The Wire)

The New Blockaders "Simphonie In X Major" CD $16
menstrualrecordings (Italy) LH127
"Re-issue of noise classic 'Simphonie in X Major' (1989) plus 'Simphonie in O Minor' (1991). 'TNB certainly make one hell of a racket. Simphonie In X Major makes Whitehouse sound like minimal art!' Audion 'Simphonie In O Minor is, depending on your point of view, the sound of tape-hiss, an unheard scream in the dark, or the entire history of Noise put through a shredder and reversed back into oblivion." Idwal Fisher Edition of 300 copies in digipack." - label description

Nurse With Wound "Bar Maldoror" 2 x CD $22
United Jnana (Canada) UJ0034
"'Bar Maldoror' is the new and expanded double-CD edition of the classic Nurse With Wound album. Disc one is a remastered version of 'Live at Bar Maldoror', originally recorded between 1984 and 1986; disc two features a previously unreleased 2007 live show from Ghent, Belgium. 'In our very short spell as a "live band" Nurse With Wound performed eight times, five in public, between the years of 1984-86. These events were shambolic, chaotic and uneven affairs, sometimes as boring for the performers as the non-plussed audiences but at other times reaching an amazing intensity. Some were quite amusing - I remember one in particular, a Christmas event in Amsterdam. We had decided no electric lights, just hundreds of candles around the stage and, in amongst the audience (who were busy arranging them in circles) we began. I had a vast array of little noise making objects - toys and things - and I started inviting members of the audience to help us wind the clockwork stuff when suddenly about 50 people descended upon us, all very eager to help. Soon there was no room and we discreetly left the stage to watch the show from the comfort of the bar. Nobody seemed to notice. The audience played well and some of that gig made it on to this CD, which contains the high points of our Bar Maldoror happenings (sic).' --Steven Stapleton, February 3rd, 1994"

Nurse With Wound "Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella" LP $30
Rotorelief (France) ROTOR 0084
numbered edition of 700 copies on black vinyl in silver foil gatefold sleeve. "Official reissue. New remastering vinyl of the 1979 LP by Colin Potter. Gatefold cover plus complete Nurse With Wound list on gatefold inner. This is the long-awaited vinyl re-issue of the timeless Nurse With Wound debut release from 1979. Described by Sounds at the time as a record that 'makes The Faust Tapes sound like Carousel,' nothing has changed to alter this view over the last 30 years, and to say that this work is the 'Sgt. Pepper of the avant-garde' would not be hyperbole. Members include: John Fothergill (synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, wind), Heman (synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, wind), Nicky Rogers (guitar), and Steve Stapleton (synthesizer, flute, guitar, keyboards). The album has been included in the '100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)' by The Wire in 1998, and is one of the records that have had a lasting impact on avant-garde, experimental and psychedelic music. It was on this record that the famous 'NWW list' appeared for the first time, featuring dozens of names of musicians and groups who had influenced Nurse With Wound - a list that now serves as a treasure map for many collectors of the genre and fans of outsider music. It's been replicated here in the inner-sleeve of the gatefold. The album contains three lengthy tracks and Stapleton has stated that these were edited from improvisations with some overdubbing. Stapleton designed the sleeve using an old pornographic magazine."

Nurse With Wound "Deadlined" CD $13
United Dairies (Ireland) UDNEFIII
"Reflections on reading 'Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death' by Otto Dor Kulka. 'Deadlined' is an unfinished 2019 album stopped in it's tracks by Covid, making travel and recording plans near impossible for the unjabbed leper. Thanks to Colin Potter and Andrew Liles for their help and contributions."

Nurse With Wound "Gyllensköld Geijerstam and I at Rydbergs" 2 x LP $37
Rotorelief (France) ROTOR 0077
numbered edition of 900 copies on black vinyl in silver foil gatefold sleeve. "This 1983 period in which 'Gyllensköld' was recorded was a fantastic time for the evolution of Steven Stapleton's audio art. His collaborations with Diana Rogerson, Robert Haigh (Sema), David Tibet, and Thirlwell around this time elicited some of the most exciting work Nurse With Wound had yet recorded. Listen to this material and compare it to 'Chance Meeting' and it becomes clear that in just a few years, Stapleton's art had grown by leaps and bounds. The production quality on these tracks is remarkable, and the widening out of the NWW soundworld opened up a whole new audio toybox that Stapleton has continued to experiment with up to today. This new sound encompasses vocal experiments, vintage LPs of easy listening music, demented nursery rhymes, lateral references to disposable pop music, avant-garde jazz and minimalistic piano composition, all glued together with evocative atmospheres redolent of things unholy, troubling and perverse, but always oddly indefinable and puzzlingly misshapen. In retrospect, 'Gyllensköld' can be seen as the beginning of the 'mature;' period of NWW, and thus it is an indispensable release for fans of the project. Perhaps influenced by the obsessions of his friend and collaborator Tibet, Stapleton also began weaving religious and occult references into his usual name-dropping of avant-garde artists and movements . . . NWW's 'Gyllensköld' comes across at times as the soundtrack to a schizoid episode: disembodied voices intoning nonsense, floating subliminally across the stereo channels, or cackling in evil delight. The sounds are denser here than on earlier works such as 'Homotopy To Marie'. Areas of silence are mostly gone, replaced by layers of drone, cartoonish noises and mutated voices. 'Several Odd Moments Prior to Lunch' opens the brief album, setting the stage with its lysergically altered vocals and a frightening, yawning chasm of haunted, spectral sound. Stapleton, Thirlwell, and company learned how to wield the studio like an instrument on these and other recordings of the period. Effects such as reverb, delay, ring modulation and backwards tracking are utilized to create evolving textures and darkly psychedelic dreamspaces. 'Phenomenon of Aquarium and Bearded Lady' utilizes a number of instruments, including horns and piano, to create a bizarre dislocated funeral dirge in which the sounds of a slowly cycling jack-in-the-box are not out of place. For fans of musicians like Jacques Berrocal, who prefer their free jazz with a heavy dose of whacked-out eccentricity, this is about as good as it gets. 'Dirty Fingernails' is something else entirely, a longform exploration of outré textures, combining mysterious trebly noises with percussive bleeps of mysterious origin." --Brainwashed

Nurse With Wound "Thunder Perfect Mind" 3 x LP $48
Infinite Fog Productions (Austria) IF-119LP
contains three sides of material not on the original CD release. "The original release of Nurse with Wound’s gargantuan 'Thunder Perfect Mind' in 1992 coincided with that of Current 93’s homonymous genre-defining album. Legend has it that the gnostic name initially appeared to Steven Stapleton in a dream as the title of Tibet’s then still nameless upcoming album. Both records feature contributions from David Tibet, Colin Potter, Rose McDowall, John Balance of Coil, Alan Trench of Orchis and Joolie Wood, amongst others. The title and the partial overlap of the personnel on both albums isn’t quite where the similarities end. Both albums have since become undisputed milestones in their respective artists’ oeuvre. At the core of the definitive 2023 Infinite Fog re-release, fully overseen by Steven Stapleton, are the two original tracks 'Cold' – a classic unsettling rhythmic Nurse collage-fest, significantly closer to jittery psychelia than the oft-cited 'industrial feel', and the epic 'Colder Still', easily one of the most mind-bending breathtaking NWW compositions up to this point and well beyond. The track soothes with its ghostly atmosphere, and reveals new surprises with every listen, not least of which is a direct link to its sister release from C93 as well as the first appearance of the signature rhythm loop that would mutate and re-emerge on several later tracks. The album also is the first full-length collaboration with genius sound wizard Colin Potter who has since become a ubiquitous sidekick both on Nurse albums as well as in live performances. As a follow-up to what is widely acknowledged as one of the best-loved exercises in drone of the 20th century 'Soliloquy for Lilith', 'TPM' is a much more varied but at least equally rewarding experience. Infinite Fog are beyond pleased to be able to offer a significantly enhanced, remastered and extended 3 LP version for old and new fans alike."

Nurse With Wound "To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl" CD $17
United Dairies (Ireland) UD003CD
reissue of the second NWW LP from 1980 which takes its title from the dedication on an LP by Japanese group Tolerance, and itself is dedicated to Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler (who died of falling out a window, not "successive acts of self mutilation" as the sleeve claims). features a line up of Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, and Heman Pathak (Hastings of Malawi) plus guest Jac Berrocal (Operation Rhino, Catalogue, etc.). engineered by the Bombay Ducks. this edition adds an unlisted bonus track.

Nurse With Wound & Graham Bowers "Rupture" CD $16
United Dirter (U.K.) DPROMCD93
"This CD is the first collaboration of Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound and composer/sculptor Graham Bowers. It is, without doubt, one of the best things United Dirter has ever released. It's an extremely unnerving, but also hauntingly moving listening experience. The work is an attempt to create a musical illustration of the 'goings-on' in the brain during the last hour and three minutes of life after suffering a major stroke. It is multi-layered and is primarily concerned with the internal chaos caused by the loss of control of thought processes, responses and consequential actions, with all types of incoherent disjointed memories and present real-time events - as well as moments of lucidity, panic and fear - clashing, merging and evolving. It's essentially one long piece, but is presented in three parts: 01. '...A Life As It Now Is' 02. '...Is Not What It Was' 03. '...And Will Never Be Again'. It arrives packaged in a beautiful 6-panel gloss-laminated Digipak, featuring artwork from both Babs Santini and Graham Bowers. The edition is limited to just 1,000 copies in this format." - label description

Nurse With Wound / Octave Mirbeau "Alienation / Un homme sensible" book & 3" CD $12
Lenka Lente (France) lkl-l47
the included disc features a recording from a 2017 sleep concert in Ireland with vocals by Aurelie Lierman. "In 'Un homme sensible', Octave Mirbeau tells the story of a murderer who, in the name of world harmony, is determined to rid the world of 'all organisms unfit for a strong and harmonious life'. This inspired Nurse With Wound, which, as an illustration, gives us here a new piece of unpublished music. French writer and critic, Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) is notably the author of 'Abbé Jules', 'The Garden of Tortures', and 'Diary of a Chambermaid'. A British music project formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak, Nurse With Wound is an essential figure of experimental and industrial music. French [language] edition, 10 x 15,5 cm (softcover), 64 pages"

Nurse With Wound / Tristan Tzara "On the Edge of the Outside / Minuits pour géants" book & 3" CD $12
Lenka Lente (France) lkl-l43
eighth in the series of 3" CDs accompanying books, this ten minute 2020 recording features Steven Stapleton, Andrew Liles, Colin Potter, and Matt Waldron.
"Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the poet through whom Dada arrived. In Zurich, he animated the Cabaret Voltaire with Hugo Ball; in Paris, he then inspired some surrealists in the making. If he was a great lover of Villon and Rabelais, his poetry is as iconoclastic as the music of Nurse With Wound, who composed for this edition of 'Minuits pour géants' an unpublished piece lasting about ten minutes: 'On the Edge of the Outside'.
Writer, poet and essayist of Romanian origin, Tristan Tzara (Samuel Rosenstock, 1896-1963) is one of the founders and the main representative of the Dada movement.
A British music project formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak, Nurse With Wound is an essential figure of experimental and industrial music.
French [language] edition, 10 x 15,5 cm (softcover), 40 pages"

Nurse With Wound / Adolf Wölfli "Lea Tanttaaria + Great-God-Father-Nieces / Courte autobiographie" book & 3" CD $9
Lenka Lente (France) lkl-l07
"A seminal text (and introduction to some 25000 pages of drawings, collages, autobiographical writings and compositions by Adolf Wölfli), this 'short autobiography' of a major figure in the history of art brut is accompanied by a mini-CD containing the two interpretations of Wölfli's graphic scores by Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton, Diana Rogerson, and David Tibet), first published in 1986 in the legendary 'Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles' LP, for the first time on a seperate release. Second edition (2019). French [language] edition, 10 x 15.5 cm (softcover), 38 pages." - label description. edition of 300 copies.

Omit "inSec LP $25
Siltbreeze (U.S.) SB-200
"Omit’s 'in/Sec' is 'new', but not new. Recorded in 2013, the masters lost in the label’s murky somewheresville that always shows up when moving. For those who don’t know, Omit is an experimental electronics artist from New Zealand’s south island who, since 1990, has released thirty-some xerographed cassettes and CDrs in the Dead C orbit for those who do. It’s not enough to say that 'in/Sec' is an ambient masterpiece bringing to mind a John Carpenter soundtrack performed by the Hub because listening to it engineers new species. The infectious and corrupting sounds synthesize new life forms in your brain's enzymes. If you specialize in a niche too much, you are prey to predators outside, but Omit never goes for low-hanging fruit and isn't simulating anything. I can vomit a better looking face than the ones on these little fuckers eating my brain right now.
In this century that flatters itself to be of drinking age, it is a queer thing we haven’t come face to face with aliens. There is a time for everything and they're all intermixed. Besides the xenobiological effects, Omit constructs your sentiment through timbral concepts that repeat and shift with minimal reference to harmony, melody, key, or mode. Streams jump and skitter, knitting tightly high and low in a dense rattling driven to the long and most plaintive tones amongst the countless gizmos (that’s including you, but not 'you'). This one is for big fans of Anode/Cathode, Ikue Mori, Papa Srapa, Fronte Violeta, and Insignia refrigerators." - label description

Points of Friction "Sackcloth and Ashes" CD $12
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM10
"Points of Friction scrapes together a mind-bending menagerie of sound from the panorama of objects and equipment they work with. Their process-oriented artistry invokes apparitions of the ear, with multi-dimensional sonic textures that span from quirky, seductive lullabies to revolting sensual assaults. Points of Friction made contact in the extremely beige but earthquake famous San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles and home also to the infamous Manson Family. Tim Alexander and Kenny Ryman (Paper Bag) served together as psychedelic altar boys at the age of nine. Kenny was from a musical family, so he had developed a set of ears from an early age. Damian Bisciglia (Agog) and Tim became acquainted in Cub Scouts around eight years old. Becoming reacquainted among a few self-described social outcasts at Los Angeles Pierce College around 1980, they gravitated to the art department where they encountered a cast of characters. Among these were the profoundly talented Jeannie Cohen (Sprout Mountain) and the profusely bizarre Joseph Hammer (Dinosaurs with Horns, Swan Trove, Solid Eye). Relieved and excited to discover other freaks, they soon evolved an excuse for converging: making noise. Originally inclusive and spontaneous, their noise was extracted from everyday objects, and recorded with built-in condenser mics on primitive equipment. They soon adopted some recording gear and musical instruments but no musical training. When Kenny replaced Jeannie, POF was born. Inspired by free musics from Beefheart to Harmonia, they met in Joe's or Kenny's bedroom to exchange sound and interact in private naïve noise/rock ecstasy. Originally released by the LAFMS offshoot label Solid Eye [who were also responsible for releases by Doo-Dooettes, The Romans, Tom Recchion, Dinosaurs with Horns, and Fredrick Nilsen] on cassette in 1984, Sackcloth and Ashes is the most electronic and perhaps most polished incarnation of this multimedia collective. The unorthodox exploration of keyboards, guitars, toy instruments, the assemblage of field recordings, noise improvisations, and tape loops tantalize the senses with arousing emotive power. The opus title track is a compendium of improvisational soundings and field recordings that include a chorus of squeaky swings, a cat's purring, snapping shrimp, a diseased lung, and cacophony on a yard sale card rack. Exquisitely abrasive and haunting tracks 1 through 6 yield to the perfumed machinery and melodious hypnosis of the remaining tracks. All were originally performed under cover of live film and slide projections with optical manipulations at alternative music venues in and around Los Angeles including Al's Bar, the Anti-club, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions(LACE), etc., and aboard the U.S.S. Cormerant ("Noise at Sea"), with bands such as the Minutemen, the Meat Puppets, Whitehouse, and the Monique Experience in the mid-1980's. Every piece on this album has such (currently archived) visual underscoring. Re-released on CD, the disc is lavishly packaged in beautiful silver and black in an eye-rattling multi-paneled silk-screened die-cut cover that undermines perception in the friction manner. The low-key intensity of Points of Friction may affect heart rates and breathing patterns. It is probably best listened to in a darkened room."

P16.D4 "Distruct" CD $12
Sonoris (France) SNS-23CD
originally released on LP in 1984 on Selektion. "Assemblage of transformed, organized and (re)structed sound material submitted by: Bladder Flask, Déficit Des Années Antérieures, De Fabriek, The Haters, Philip Johnson, Hiroki Kocha, Merzbow, Fredrik Nilsen, Nocturnal Emissions, Nurse With Wound, Onnyk, Harold Schellinx, Die Tödliche Doris, Vortex Campaign."
“On this, their second LP, P16.D4 solicited tapes from several artists from Europe, England, the U.S., Canada, and Japan, and mixed that with their own material. Though in the current digital age collaborations from artists thousands of miles apart is quite normal, this was a quite radical approach back in 1982, when work on this LP began – an interesting concept that actually works quite well, since these artists, which include Bladder Flask, DDAA, the Haters, Merzbow, Nocturnal Emissions, Nurse With Wound, and several others – work in a similar free-ranging experimentalism as P16.D4, and their particular elements, usually just vocals or one instrument or noise implement, blend well without diluting P16.D4’s own peculiar brand of avant-garde post-industrialism, but merely give it another facet. One of the best tracks, 'Aufmarsch, Heimlich', consists of a choir submitted anonymously from Eastern Europe phasing in and out of static while a skronky alto sax bleats away. Most of the pieces exist somewhere just beyond the borders of free jazz, industrial, and even classical avant-garde, full of jarring noises and strange transitions and with a heavy overlay of electronics. What started out as an experiment yielded one of P16.D4’s best albums.” -
Rolf Semprebon / AMG

P16.D4 "Kühe in 1/2 Trauer" CD $12
Sonoris (France) SNS-22CD
“Though this German group started out as a the new wave band P.D., by the time of 'Kuhe in 1/2 Trauer', their first LP under the P16.D4 name from 1984, they had developed far beyond into extremely experimental music similar to other post-industrial artists working with abstract avant-garde soundscapes. There’s a bleak industrial feel to the gritty, lo-fi electronics and tape loops, while the group throws in enough curve balls to keep it interesting. On some pieces, strange, looped choirs bubble out of throbbing pulses and drones of feedback, while others have clanging and clattering, and elements of musique concrète and improvisation blur the boundaries even further. The opening track, 'Default Value', is one of those disorienting pieces with noises flying everywhere, while 'Paris Morgue' takes excerpts from one of their old P.D. tracks and messes it up with additional instruments, while the ungainly titled fourth track throws in a heavy texture of percussive noises to create an edgy ambience about to teeter off the edge, and the even darker and more ambient title track takes the tension even further. Arrhythmic and amorphous and capable at moments of becoming quite noisy and abrasive, while at others far more somber and quiet, 'Kuhe in 1/2 Trauer' is quite a fascinating release.” - Rolf Semprebon / AMG

Eliane Radigue "Elemental II" CD $10
Recordings Of Sleaze Art (France) r.o.s.a._07
performed by Kasper T. Toeplitz. “'Elemental II' is the first ever piece Eliane Radigue wrote for an instrument, without any pre-recorded sounds, without the use of her ARP synthesiser. I took a very long time to convince her to do so, the piece was some two years or more in the making – discussing about the sound a mountain makes after the rain. The first recording was released just after the premiere of the piece, in 2004. In 2011, seven years later, after having played the piece more 30 times in concert, after having spend a long time with it, after having 'domesticated' it, it seemed interesting to rerecord it – something very common in classical music, but almost inexistant in those 'other', electronic, musics. However those musics also live, change, evolve ; the same score another point of view”.

Éliane Radigue "Naldjorlak" 2 x CD $18
Saltern (U.S.) SLT-008
"Saltern presents a thrilling new live recording of 'Naldjorlak' for solo cello, composer Éliane Radigue's first piece for an acoustic instrument, paired with a remastered version of the long out-of-print, original 2006 recording. Composed in 2005 in close collaboration with cellist Charles Curtis, 'Naldjorlak' marked a striking shift in the music of Radigue, who has since composed exclusively for instrumentalists with her celebrated 'Occam' series. This double-CD album brings together two complete performances by Curtis, recorded nearly 15 years apart (Paris in 2006 and Los Angeles in 2020), drawing attention to the evolution of the piece and to its inherent mutability. The sound and spirit of 'Naldjorlak' are centered around the re-tuning of the entire cello to the wolf tone, a uniquely unstable frequency, creating a haunting, almost feedback-like resonance within the instrument itself. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu with custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry. Includes extensive liner notes by Gascia Ouzounian, Radigue, and Curtis, and a reproduction of Radigue's never-before published original drawing of 'Naldjorlak'."

Eliane Radigue "Occam - Hepta I / Occam XX" CD $13
Montagne Noire (France) MN7
"In Eliane Radigue’s work, one distinguishes or contrasts the electronic works (composed until the early 2000s) with those written for acoustic instruments. From 2002 onwards, the artist began a series of compositions, the 'Occams', in which, in her own words, she fully realised what she had always sought to achieve in her electronic works. The disc devoted to her here brings together two pieces written at the same time; one for an instrumental ensemble (Dedalus) and the other for analogue synthesizer (Ryoko Akama). If the means seem to be opposed, this concordance of time lets us glimpse the deep unity that brings them together."

Éliane Radigue "Œuvres électroniques" 14 x CD box $74
INA-GRM (France) INA 6060/74
major retrospective of this pioneering minimal drone composer and performing featuring her major works spanning several decades back to the 1970s. this focuses on her electronic work done with the ARP 2500 synthesizer. really essential material. "2024 repress. With a 80 page booklet (French/English). Track list: 'Chry-ptus (version 2001)', 'Geelriandre', 'Chry-ptus (version 2006)', 'Biogenesis', 'Ψ 847 (version concert)', 'Adnos', 'Les Chants de Milarepa', 'Jetsun Mila', 'Trilogie de la Mort', 'L’Île re-sonante'."

Eliane Radigue "Triptych" CD $16
Important Records (U.S.) IMPREC260
"Back to music after three years of silence... On the suggestion of Robert Ashley, Douglas Dunn commissioned this piece from Éliane Radigue for choreography. Only the first part of 'Triptych' was staged at the premiere at the Dancehall/Theatre of Nancy on February 27 1978. Recorded in the composer's studio in Paris. After the premiere of 'Adnos I' (IMPREC 028CD) in San Francisco in 1974, a group of French students introduced Éliane Radigue to Tibetan Buddhism. When she returned to Paris, she began to explore this spirituality in depth, which slowed her musical production up until 1978. 'Triptych' marks her return to composition, and draws its inspiration from 'the spirit of the fundamental elements,' water, air, fire, earth... Éliane Radigue likes to add that this has often been useful to her in her moments of research and transitions. This three-part composition, with its great humility and contemplative simplicity, heralded a new period of work and was the first in a series of masterpieces inspired by Tibetan Buddhism: 'Adnos II' (1980); 'Adnos III' (1981) [both included on IMPREC 028CD]; 'Songs of Milarepa' (1983), with the voices of Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Robert Ashley; 'Jetsun Mila' (1986); as well as the 'Triologie de la Mort' (XI 119CD): 'Kyema' (1988), 'Kailasha' (1991), and 'Koumé' (1993). Archival images included in the accompanying booklet." - Manu Holterbach

Michael Ranta & Takehisa Kosugi "Multiple Musics" LP $27
Metaphon (Belgium) METAPHON019
"Previously unreleased live recording from the Ranta archives. The creative duo of Michael Ranta and Takehisa Kosugi performed many times in the 1970’s and 1980’s. On this outstanding performance, recorded at the Japanese Culture Institute in Cologne in 1987, the application of an advanced multi delay system, independently utilized by both players, plays a central role. The smartly treated cyclic tapestry of the delay system (modulated, transformed, harmonized) injects additional dimensions to the highly coordinated improvisation with voice, percussion, violin and electronics, creating interactive ‘composition-like’ textures being ‘Multiple Musics’. Edition of 500 copies. Cover painting by Wayne Jacob. Mastering by Stephan Mathieu."

Reverse Image "The Silence That Does Not Exist" CD $9
Khatulistiwa (Malaysia) KTW001
"Reverse Image is a sound artist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She builds her works using analogue and digital equipment looking for the intersection between repetitive motifs and disjointed incidences. The title is inspired by the search for moments of silence amidst the discord." 4-panel Digipack. limited to 300 copies.

RLW "Agnostic Diaries" CD $10
Black Rose Recordings ‎/ Dirter Promotions (U.K.) BRCD 20-1016 / DPROMCD156
"The common factor linking these recordings are projects that were never fully realised. The basic recordings started in 2005, however the period of reworking and transformation (2016 to 2017) is more important. All vocal parts and general revisions were done during this period. Agnosticism was the basic idea for the vocal/musical re-working of the pieces with the vocals implanted into the basic pieces, not just as simple overdubs, but inserted in a dialectical confrontation with the basic sounds and structures.
Track 1 relies on George Antheil's 'Ballet Mecanique'; track 3 on a co-operation with Anla Courtis using some sounds by Ovary Lodge planned for the Gerald Jupitter-Larssen series which stopped far too early. Track 4 includes RLW’s parts for a collaboration with Marc Baron whilst track 6 includes vocals by Dylan Nyoukis, also used for a collaborative CDR with him.
Ralf Wehowsky is one of the most respected electronic composers of our day and was also a founder member of the seminal German group P16.D4 and label Selektion whose ground-breaking releases influenced many working in today’s experimental music scene. Previous releases have seen him collaborate with such well known and diverse artists such as Merzbow, Bernhard Guenter, Jim O’Rourke, Achim Wollscheid and Lionel Marchetti. His music is impossible to pigeonhole into one simple bracket. It is neither industrial or musique concrete, nor computer music nor improvisation. In fact, it could be all of these.
Ltd to 500 copies" packaged in mini-LP sleeve.

RLW "Satanic Inventions" CD $10
Black Rose Recordings (England) BRCD 22-1021
"This album from Ralf Wehowsky (aka RLW, founder of P16.D4) is a critical examination of COVID-19 as a cultural phenomenon and a comparison to the black plague of the Middle Ages: 'Denial of reality, conspiracy theories, searching for scapegoats, etc.' The result? A true festival or irrationalism, telling us more about the human mental state than about the pandemic. In the 14th century, Ars subtiloir (subtler art) became a musical style. It was rhythmic and notional, more complex. Therefore, it seemed natural to combine documentations of actual madness with songs from that past. Condensed by RLW into 15 tracks, this is a challenging journey of heavy deconstructions, transmorphed drones, and treated source sounds. Surrealistic musique concrete! Ltd x 200 copies in a digipak."

RLW "Tunnel" CD $10
Sonoris (France) SNS-20
"RLW (aka Ralf Wehowsky) whose work deals in the transformation of prerecorded sound material, the permutation of the senses and the metamorphosis of the sensitive, has been a proponent of long-distance collaborations for decades, long before lockdown made this manner of working popular. This goes way back to his beginnings with Permutative Distortion or P16.D4 and the Selektion label. He is a strict and disciplined composer, a formal organizer of discernible objects. 'Tunnel' presents five pieces built using fragments of Annette Krebs's voice. Far from being anecdotal, the work reveals a true alchemy. Vocal prints are converted into roaring metallic textures lost in an endless sonic vortex, both sculptural and masterful." digipak.

RLW "Views" CD $8
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM27
In the 25th year of Ralf Wehowsky's recording career, Anomalous Records presents his first truly solo release featuring four new compositions based on instrumental improvisations. Using simple devices (tone-generators, percussion toys, music boxes, an electric toothbrush and an electric guitar) played in unusual ways, he builds up layers of each sound to create a suite of textural pieces. Each of the four tracks takes on an identity unique from the others, as the first three each focus on one of the sound sources while the last combines elements from the previous three to make something else. The disc opens with a 21-minute piece of mysterious and drifting electronic tones. Other tracks highlight very tactile sounds and bring a much more 'live' element to his work, while retaining his skillful use of dynamics and placement of silence which have gained him so many fans. Previous releases by RLW have seen him collaborate with such diverse artists as Achim Wollscheid, bernhard günter, Andrew Chalk, David Grubbs, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm, and Bruce Russell. He is the founder of the now defunct group P16.D4 and the still active label Selektion. Other releases of his work have appeared on Table of the Elements, trente oiseaux, Streamline, Perdition Plastics, Swill Radio, Meeuw Muzak, and Metamkine.
Spontaneous event and reconstruction shadow each other closely here. Four self-programming occillators, controlled by wheels rather than a keyboard, interact to create a densely striated corridor or sound on the protracted opening composition. Shorter, more understated but no less arresting, the next two pieces have the feel of secret rituals conducted in private. On the first, four spontaneous musical actions, mostly involving Orff percussion instruments designed for children, are reworked into a profoundly meditative sequence, marked by the chiming of bells. The second, in which two music boxes are manipulated, squeezed and muted, transforms the mechanistic renderings of half-forgotten tunes into a series of encrypted memories. Coming in on a single thin line of feedback, the fourth and final composition combines elements of the previous three, plus recordings of electric guitar run backwards and forwards into an uncluttered but complex series of structures and interactions.
Serious minded yet subtle, unhurried and unforced, Views is a work of deep coherence, vitality of content and unquestionable richness.
Ken Hollings in The Wire issue 243 May 2004

Steve Roden "The Radio - Airria (Hanging Garden) - Vein Stem Is Calm" CD $10
Sonoris (France) sns-18
"In the tradition of John Cage’s Cartridge music amplified objects, Steve Roden extracts a fine and delicate music through his manipulation of specific objects, with an apparent simplicity that hides a captivating magic. Whilst reinventing a form of ambient music which is discreet and atmospheric, Steve Roden delivers sound textures, gives shape to color swatches, traces vibrant frequencies and creates visual art objects.
• 'The Radio' (1996): The sound sources are derived from the object itself: the airwaves as well as the internal mechanics (aerial,springs, knobs …). Originally released as a miniCD by Sonoris, this work centered on Roden’s voice and found sound loops is now unexpectedly considered a classic and was seen as 'a particularly modest form of genius' in a review by The Wire at the time.
• 'Airria (Hanging Garden)' (2003): Arnold Schönberg's work 'The book of hanging gardens' haunts the piece, and is used as a backbone over which a ghostly and exhilarating vocal hovers. Both unsettling and relaxing, this track from the 'Speak no more about the leaves' CD has strangely become a mini phenomenon on YouTube with its number of views and comments.
• 'Vein stem is calm' (1996): A few seconds taken from a Ralf Wehowsky piece are shaped into a nocturnal raga imbued with substances of an indeterminate nature."

Philip Sanderson "Reprint" CD $12
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM23
Reprint was originally released on cassette by Snatch Tapes in 1980 and was credited to an unknown duo called Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey.  A press release accompanying the cassette painted a picture of two pre-Raphaelite synthesizer knob-twiddlers who in between repatching their VCS3's went for long walks in flowing robes on Blackheath. Intrigued, the record label Cherry Red included the duo on their compilation LP "Perspectives and Distortion" alongside such luminaries as Matt Johnson, Virgin Prunes, Lol Coxhill, Lemon Kittens, Eyeless in Gaza, Mark Perry, Ben Watt, Thomas Leer, Morgan-Fisher, Robert Fripp, and David Jackman. Cherry Red furthermore wanted to release an LP by Thomas & Vezey.  Until they realized that all was not as it seemed. Claire and Susan were in fact a figment of Snatch Tapes founder Philip Sanderson's imagination.  In addition to running the label, Philip was one half of the DIY electronic group Storm Bugs, and regularly collaborator with a then unknown musician by the name of David Jackman (one of these tracks they did together was recent issued on a 10" by Die Stadt).  "Reprint" was in effect one of his few solo recordings. The first track Bright Waves ( an earlier version of the track on the Cherry red LP) with its fragile wispy vocals that blow in and out on a tape delay breeze certainly adds credence to the Claire and Susan subterfuge. However the rest of the music on the CD suggest that this was more than a Situationist prank. The description on the sleeve of the music as  "a study in repetition and change using two different sources and two different treatments..." was a nod towards the materialist approaches being used during the 70's in most (fine) art forms. "Reprint One" and "Reprint Two" use the loop formed by a tape delay to build up busy percussive patterns. Recorded live, the VCS3 triggered by a sequencer feeds in a set of constantly chattering rhythms. As the loops pass repeatedly over the tape heads the sound gradually degrades turning eventually into pure white noise. What starts out as a polyrhythmic perversity, somewhat akin to electronic tap dancing, builds into a wall of sound. Also here is the piece "Under Press of Sail" (which was featured on the compilation "Snatch 3" and the "0° North" tape by David Jackman and Philip Sanderson), and the secret bonus track "Nein Nein Nein", which was only included a few copies of the original tape release of "Reprint".  Unlike the other tracks, this was done in collaboration with fellow Storm Bug Steven Ball.  Using a low-tech five-minute answer-phone cassette loop with the erase head disabled, the two built up a montage of sounds which were fed through a home-made ring modulator. The music of Reprint is a peculiar combination of academic rigor married to an inverted pop art aesthetic. For whereas pop art incorporated the cheap intoxication's of consumer culture into the supposed lofty rooms of high art, here was an attempt to incorporate the form or perhaps just the smell high art into the low brutality of DIY electronics.

Matt Shoemaker "Mercurial Horizon" CD $10
Elevator Bath (U.S.) eeaoa050
"Previously unheard brilliance from the late Matt Shoemaker. Work on 'Mercurial Horizon' was largely completed during an incredibly fruitful period from 2008-2012, during which Shoemaker produced albums for The Helen Scarsdale Agency, Ferns Recordings, Mystery Sea, and Elevator Bath. He went on to finalize the material which would become 'Mercurial Horizon' in 2015. Though unreleased until some five years after completion, 'Mercurial Horizon' is undeniably a fully-formed declaration; a meticulously crafted display of layered grotesqueries, as elegant as it is disturbing. This is classic Shoemaker at his most mesmeric: elongated metallic resonances, metamorphosed field recordings, expertly harnessed modular electronics... These elements may seem familiar, but Shoemaker's strange magic lay in his ability to imbue these disparate pieces with a kind of natural tension, fusing them into a seamless puzzle. The results are both startling and beautiful, and always with a tangible sense of unease. 'Mercurial Horizon' may well be the last new music to emerge from Matt Shoemaker's extraordinary aesthetic. It is an assemblage to be explored, interpreted, and treasured. 'Mercurial Horizon' is released in an edition of 200 copies. Matt Shoemaker's probing and mysterious ice photography graces the six-panel digipak, inside and out." - label description

Matt Shoemaker "Soundtrack for Dislocation" CD $10
Elevator Bath (U.S.) eeaoa34
"For those unfamiliar with Matt Shoemaker's work, Soundtrack for Dislocation is absolutely the ideal place to start as it is arguably the most fully-realized project in his catalog. All the necessary elements are present: The enigmatic cover and interior images, the cryptic track titles, and of course the recordings themselves - densely packed and elaborately evolved aberrancies. Shoemaker seems to have provided more than enough clues to the puzzles he offers in his works but, like the most effective tales, these subtle indications cannot quite account for all that happens. The rest is up to the astute listener who accepts this very inscrutability as the reward.
Packaged inside an extra thick, full-color, matte finish, 6-panel Digipak featuring Shoemaker's beautiful photography, this compact disc has been issued in an edition of 509 copies." - label description

Matt Shoemaker & Eric Lanzillotta "4/25/05 @ mshoehome" CD $12
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM30
Matt Shoemaker was a talented electronic musician and visual artist who sadly passed away in 2017. As a memorial tribute to him, Anomalous Records has been brought back to release this archival recording of Matt in collaboration with Eric Lanzillotta. This duet was recorded live at Matt's apartment and consists of one hour and fourteen minutes of reverberant cosmic music created with Moog synthesizer and other electronics. The sounds are abstract and beatless, easily dissolving time in an atmosphere thick with tape echo. Influenced by early electronic music and German Kosmische Musik (such as Kluster, Klaus Schulze, Popol Vuh, Conrad Schnitzler and early Tangerine Dream), this should appeal to fans of inner exploration. Pressed in a limited edition of 200 copies and packaged in a cardboard wallet.

Skullflower "Draconis" 2 x CD $20
Cold Spring (U.K.) CSR190CD
"Synapse scorching occult industrial prog noise folk from the strings of Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies. Churning mantras and drukpa elegies for two erased darkside tree limbs: that of the Draconian in Khem, and of Drax Priory in West Yorkshire, which together with Bhutan are the Dragon Lands. The twilight language of flowers is spoken and wolves are raised, finally, Kali dances. For fans of Bathory and Popul Vuh. Comes in a deluxe 6-panel outsized double-digipak with a 16-page booklet." - label description

Daisuke Suzuki "D.D.D. " CD $12
Siren Records (Japan) SIREN 13
"Edition: 200 copies, card sleeve. ‘D.D.D.’ is a field recording album recorded by Daisuke Suzuki and was originally released by Texas based IDEA in 2001 in an edition of 300 copies on LP. Sometimes field recordings can be appreciated in relation to the conceptual art form, or as an on-site sound study and documentation of a very specific phenomena. However, Daisuke had no concept of the idea of building sonic panoramas and was specifically only concerned with gathering lots of intriguing sound matter for his personal listening. ‘D.D.D.’ was mastered by Gary Todd, who was the founder of the Cortical Foundation. Gary and Daisuke became good friends when Gary visited Japan as Red Crayola live sound engineer in the late 1990s and they developed a mutual trust with each other after that. Sadly in September 2001, Gary fell from his apartment balcony, which left him hospitalized ever since. On June 25, 2022 Gary passed away at the age of 59. Daisuke said, 'Gary was always generous and had a kind heart. He gave me a lot of friendship and warmth. I’ve decided to re-issue 'D.D.D.' to keep him in memory and heart.' The CD includes an expanded version of ‘Cricket Voice’ which did not appear on the original IDEA LP release. The CD is in edition 200 copies and is presented in a facsimile card sleeve of the original release, newly designed by Andrew Chalk." - label description
"D.D.D." sample

Steve Thomsen "Report of Golden Chromosomes" CD $21
Neurec (Japan) NEUREC-SR
too dark and mysterious to be New Age, these 2019 ambient recordings mostly move away from the overtly melodic and rhythmic style of his earlier solo material yet still retain a skeletal musical structure that keeps the tracks from falling into drones and moves to the forefront for the final track. different from his work with Monitor and Solid Eye, this music shows a new chapter of his development. packaged in 9.25" by 6.5" by 1" box with attached full color artwork and an envelope containing three inserts featuring liner notes in English and Japanese by Steve Thomsen and Takuya Sakaguchi. the CD itself is in a plastic case with color artwork and is wrapped in gift paper. an edition of 500 copies. "As daylight wanes, diaphanous clouds of meteoric dust suspended high above the atmosphere gleam with iridescent splendor."

Giancarlo Toniutti "Qwalsamtimutkw?italuc'ik (And Now He Almost Did Make Himself Into Hemlock Needles It Is Said)" CD $11
Alluvial Recordings (U.S.) A27
"Comes in an LP-style sleeve with 16 page booklet. A single, hour long work. Recorded on 18 January 2001 in Udine, the Red Room [Sound-source: Rattle-harp (drift metal, string, wire, bells, bone, wood)]. Treated & composed on 9-12 February 2002 in Udine, the Black Room. All photos have been taken at Caneo natural reserve, Fossalon di Grado, Isonzo River Mouth, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, 0 m. asl. The very occasional faint crackles are digital faults from the original recording; as part of the document they have not been erased."

Giancarlo Toniutti & Tiziano Dominighini "Counterchronology" CD $15
FinalMuzik (Italy) FME7
two archival recordings made at a glassworks in 1979 rescued and mixed by Giancarlo in 2014. sources used are electric chord organ, bells, acoustic guitar strings, pipe, flutes, metals, trestles, rattles, sticks, Sudanese harp, chronometer, air, lids, water, percussion, gong, machineries, bottles, workbench, wood, glass, scrapers, ambient noises, rods, large metal door, tambourines, environment, portable recorder, tape, prepared electric guitar, pedal, jingle bells, and copper. the main track, clocking in at over 33 minutes, is "The Circadian Organization Of The Loom From Mueç", which features a succession of textural improvisations on acoustic sources over the bed of a chord organ drone. the second track, which is just under 10 minutes, is a more subtle affair, with slow moving wisps of sound developing into distant sounds of percussion. limited edition of 300. packaged in gatefold jacket with liner notes by Giancarlo.

Massimo Toniutti "The Clear Observatory (Eyepiece Musique)" CD $17
Klanggalerie (Austria) gg465
"Massimo Toniutti is an Italian sound designer and experimental musician. He is the brother of Giancarlo Toniutti who is best known for his electroacoustic masterpiece 'La Mutazione' which was originally released on the Broken Flag label in the UK and later re-issued by Klanggalerie. Massimo started working with sound when he was a teenager, collecting and playing recordings of all kinds. In the 1980s he released four cassettes on his own label, all heavily influenced by the experimental music scene of that time. He soon developed a strong relation to electroacoustic structures, space/environment and silence. In the 1990s, he began investigating radio, creating his own sound archive and producing unusual broadcasts. He released an album entitled 'Il Museo Selvatico', which was re-issued in Australia in 2018 on Oren Ambarchi's label Black Truffle. A documentation of his radio work can be heard on the CD 'Le Gabbiette Di Faraday', collecting radio pieces from 1996 to 1998. On his new album, Toniutti deals once more with space and silence with an immersive, spacious long track. A loose-knit sound structure moves in a cyclic but unpredictable way embracing macro shapes, empty spaces and sound dust. While running crystal clear it invites you to observe it in depth and focus on distances. Details/events are spread along the piece like in a landscape, still and changing at the same time. A deep listening that can easily become 'my personal musique d’ameublement', to quote the composer himself. A model of this work has been part of a permanent installation in a museum since 2013. 'The Clear Observatory' is a sort of never ending piece, the enlargement/development of a bunch of seeds. Sound sources (acoustic material and field recordings) are treated in a specific configuration of reverbs and delays to create this roomy 'eyepiece musique'. The CD comes in a 4 panel digipak w/booklet. Limited edition of 300 copies." - label description

Massimo Toniutti "Variation Séculaire Géomagnétique" CD $16
Klanggalerie (Austria) gg298
"Massimo Toniutti is an Italian sound designer and experimental musician. He is the brother of Giancarlo Toniutti who is best known for his dark ambient masterpiece 'La Mutazione' which was originally released on the Broken Flag label in the UK and later re-issued by Klanggalerie. Massimo started working with sound when he was a teenager, collecting and playing recordings of all kinds. In the 1980s he released four cassettes on his own label, all heavily influenced by the experimental music scene of that time. He soon developed a strong relation to electroacoustic structures, space/environment and silence. In the 1990s, he began investigating radio, creating his own sound archive and producing unusual broadcasts. He released an album entitled 'Il Museum Selvatico', which was re-issued in Australia in 2018 on Oren Ambarchi's label Black Truffle. A documentation of his radio work can be heard on the CD 'Le Gabbiette Di Faraday', collecting radio pieces from 1996 to 1998. After a twenty year break, the cassette 'Antidocument/Groundwork' was released in 2016 in a tiny edition of only 100 copies. Klanggalerie asked Massimo Toniutti to re-issue this composition on CD to which he agreed. When work was started, Massimo decided to extend it to a much longer piece which became 'Variation Séculaire Géomagnétique'. if you are into Musique Concrete, Dark Ambient or simply beautifully crafted atmospheric music, then this release is for you." - label description

David Tudor + Composers Inside Electronics "Rainforest IV" CDR $15
Neuma (U.S.) Neuma 158
"Rainforest must be one of the few totally sui generis works of art ever created — truly one of a kind: a collection of whimsical everyday and crafted objects, suspended in space, set into audible vibration by small electro-magnetic transducers. Each object responds to the input signals in uniquely non-linear, unpredictable ways -— a roomful of transmuted sculptural loudspeakers. They are activated by the players behind electronics-laden tables, and made to seem like an ecosystem of chattering and squawking critters talking an alien language between themselves. Together they represent a ‘performed installation’ that invites human visitors to explore the space using their ears. This is a magical forest of sight and sound, using deceptively ingenious technology.
On one evening in 1977 at the former military bowling alley turned Center for Music Experiment at UC-San Diego – where Rainforest IV (the fourth incarnation of the concept) had been set up at the invitation of composer Pauline Oliveros – two intrepid young musicians, David Dunn and Warren Burt passed through the space wearing binaural microphones attached to their heads. The result is this mind-warping recording released here for the first time; not a definitive documentation of the work but as close an experience as you might get with headphones."

Timo van Luijk, Kris Vanderstraeten, Daniel Duchamp & Luis Ferin "Traces du Hasard" LP $27
La Scie Dorée (Belgium) Scie 3824
"This album is a bit of an accumulation of coincidences. It is the first recording session I did with Kris Vanderstraeten, back in 1994, together with Daniel Duchamp and Luis Ferin. The session recording had since disappeared from attention and 30 years later, while going through old DAT tape archives, I came across it by chance, initially even not knowing who/what it was… The tape started with a recording of cars, captured from my balcony in Brussels, where I lived at the time. I decided to integrate the cars as an intro to the music session that fitted in seamlessly. Both the recording quality and the musical performance were remarkably good. A lost and found little treasure. It was a refreshing time for me, playing with people from a jazz and free improvisation background. We became good friends. Kris Vanderstraeten: Drums, percussion, sounds, electronics. Daniel Duchamp: Double bass, (prepared) cornet, effects. Luis Ferin: Soprano sax, electric guitar. Timo van Luijk: Autoharp, percussion, sounds, effects. Edition of 300 copies. Recorded chez Kris, 1994. Collage by Timo van Luijk."

Enno Velthuys "A Glimpse of Light" LP & CD $31
Dead Mind Records (The Netherlands) DMR47
"Repress on clear vinyl. Comes with insert and an expanded CD version that includes the 3 missing tracks from the original tape. 200 copies. In 1984 Velthuys released his classic tape ‘A Glimpse of Light’ on EXART, the label of Veldman, who stayed in close contact with Enno after hearing one of his private tapes being played on the radio by Willem de Ridder in 1980. During a live-broadcast event random tapes were played. 'From Enno Velthuys, The Hague', was written on the package. Willem introduced the tape, played it and a serene silence filled the studio. Present was Rob Smit, who visited Enno and his mother a few weeks later. This eventually resulted in Enno’s first release ‘Ontmoeting’ on KUBUS Kassettes in 1982. In those years, Enno was living a solitary life and rarely left his mother’s apartment. He managed to release 4 albums on cassette of introvert, melancholic music from another dimension. Atmospheric melodies backed with sparse percussion, showing an excellent handling of the synthesizer.
This gifted musician with two souls silently passed away in 2009. Now we present, with involvement of the few once close to him, the first reissue of probably his most beloved work. Using the original master tape from the EXART vaults, carefully transferred, edited and remastered. Just Enno with his stripped-down compositions and fragile ambient sounds. An intimate experience celebrating bedroom-music and the glory days of do-it-yourself counterculture."

Ralf Wehowsky & Richard Francis "R" CD $10
Auf Abwegen (Germany) AATP88
"First collaboration between Ralf Wehowsky (Germany) and Richard Francis (New Zealand). On a trip from Auckland over Worpswede to Eggenstein Richard Francis visited Ralf Wehowsky on the weekend of September 28th and 29th, 2013. For the recording sessions taking place during these two days Richard used his analogue synth and electronics, while Ralf had a desktop and a laptop for producing digital electronic sounds at hand. For bridging the antagonistic sound worlds the input of one sound system was fed with the output of the other and vice versa. For this release two of the tracks (Piece 1, Untitled 1) are presented as they were recorded, with only slight pan and volume adjustments. The third track (Piece 3) is composed of fragments of a longer improvisation, time-shifting the contributions of the two artists against each other to constitute a system of non-simultaneity. Ralf Wehowsky is a German experimental composer, active since the 80s (with the group P16.D4 then). His work is split between solo releases (under the moniker RLW) and collaborations, exploring all fields between media exchange and realtime presence recordings. Collaboration partners include among others Lionel Marchetti, Merzbow, Jim O´Rourke, Bruce Russell, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Anla Courtis, Contrastate, Kohei Matsunaga, Annette Krebs - and Richard Francis. Richard Francis is a sound artist from New Zealand working with electronics and found recordings. He's released solo and collaborative albums on Senufo Editions, Entr’acte, Glistening Examples, Korm Plastics and Aufabwegen. Recent collaborators include Ralf Wehowsky, Frans de Waard, Anla Courtis, Bruce Russell, Mattin, Jason Kahn and Francisco Lopez." gatefold sleeve.

Yeast Culture "Dueterium: Yeast Culture Improvacoustic Series Vol. 1" C60 $6
Regional Bears (U.K.) RB20
known mostly for their "IYS" LP which blew minds when it was released in 1989, this group was based in Seattle and disappeared from sight for many years. this cassette shows a different side of Yeast Culture activity with archival recordings from 1991 featuring one side vocal and on the flip improvisations on upright piano. released in 2019 and now out of print.

C. Spencer Yeh "Helsinki FI / Berlin DE / 09-10" 3 x C34 $12
Drone Disco (U.S.) fig. 97
insanity from the main member of Burning Star Core. "Two complete live sets of violin and voice spread out over four sides, from Helsinki Finland and Berlin Germany, in 2010 and 2009, respectively. Amplified hands, bow, mouth, throat, air, etc. In chunky vinyl case with insert. Edition of 75." packaged in molded plastic case with two inserts.

"Et si c'était le vent qui avait raison" CD $12
Ferns (France) stem_16
"The idea was to send a drawing of Small Cruel Party aka William Ransone to certain artists so that they could be inspired by the drawing and the title to create their piece. The participants were: Vincent Jehanno, Alice Kemp, Brb>Voicecoil, Leif Elggren, Jeph Jerman, Yeast Culture, Aliénor Golvet, Anne Gillis." limited edition of 200 copies.

"In Fractured Silence" CD $14
Souffle Continu Records (France) FFLCD087
"Compilation curated by Steven Stapleton (of Nurse with Wound) of creative-experimental-unlikely music, originally released in 1984. Released on his United Dairies label that he had created with John Fothergill, he naturally called on Jean-Jacques Birgé and Francis Gorgé, who were then playing with Bernard Vitet in Un drame musical instantané. The compilation would be named 'In Fractured Silence'. Alongside Nurse With Wound and Un drame musical instantané, could be heard Hélène Sage (whom Birgé introduced to Stapleton) and Sema, a project from the experimental British musician Robert Haigh who had participated in key records in the Nurse With Wound discography, such as 'Homotopy to Marie' and 'Spiral Insana'."

"Manifestation 9" LP $0
Awe Full Records / C.I.A. Records (U.S.) AWE-LP029 / CIA-029
FREE with the purchase of any other LP (customer responsible for any extra postage).
includes tracks by Sunday Shock, Pleasure Center, Eric Lanzillotta,The Pollychains, Michael D. Johnson, Scott Ayers, The Popeboy Collective, Antiquated View of the Future, and Poison Gas Research. full color gatefold jacket. translucent orange vinyl.

"7 & 7 Vol. 1" 2 x 7" box $12
SpleenCoffin (U.S.) SP-51-EP
"Volume 1 of the series features a bewildering side of 10 interlaced roulette groove miniatures from French synth duo Femme (featuring members of Opera Mort and France Sauvage), a performance of melting intensity by NYC’s Sunk Heaven, a hand-mangled cassette recording by Jeph Jerman (from a group improvisation with Tim Barnes, Bill Hutson, and Ted Byrnes), and kaleidoscopic jitter from Romanian outfit Somnoroase Păsărele. Each volume contains two 7″ records with an art booklet and download code, lovingly packaged in reclaimed 7″ audio reel boxes with repurposed vintage wallpaper covers."

"10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces" CD $14
Other Minds (U.S.) OM 1006-2 CD
"The best-selling recording in the history of American sound poetry, '10+2' was a novelty at the time of its release in 1975, when unpitched speech was rarely used outside of literary circles as performance material. Out of print for 20 years and available now for the first time on CD, this definitive anthology of speech music by composers, writers, and artists contains examples of the best work of Charles Amirkhanian, Beth Anderson, Robert Ashley, John Cage, Clark Coolidge, Charles Dodge, John Giorno, Anthony Gnazzo, Brion Gysin, Liam O’Gallagher, and Aram Saroyan."

"Vanity Demos" 6 x CD box $69
Kyou Records (Japan) Remodel28
an amazing collection of unheard sounds from the archives of the legendary Vanity Records label out of Japan that was active from 1978 to 1981. this contains one disc of previously unreleased demos by Den Sei Kwan, one disc of previously unreleased demos by various artists, one disc with the track "Love Song" by System from their sole flexi-disc release, and three discs by Tolerence including an unreleased album from 1980, a collection of demos and their flexi-disc "Today's Thrill" from 1980. artists on the "Demos" disc are Salaried Man Club, Onnyk, Tozawa + Onnyk, Excerpt from HMN Session and Den Sei Kwan. limited edition of 500 copies.

coming later (pre-orders recommended):

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Michael Barthel "Two im Teer" CD $
Recordings For The Summer (Germany) TwoimTeer
Recordings for the Summer, Germany 2024. Edition of 300 copies in 6-panel digisleeve. 14 pieces, 80 minutes
Concept, Poems, Collages by Michael Barthel in 2020 with contributions by Alice Kemp - voice, Hans Essel - violin, Anna Schimkat - voice, Inge Salcher (Phren) - violin, Mara Genschel - voice “'Two Im Teer' ('Two In The Tar') contains five cycles of poems spread over fourteen tracks, always implemented differently in terms of sound. Poetry and sound poetry turn into fragile and lonely noises. An excessive collage of voices, piano, and increasingly distorted and destroyed tape recorders. Solo and in duet with the voices of Alice Kemp, Mara Genschel, Anna Schimkat, and the violins of Hans Essel and Inge Salcher.
Perhaps the most naked, embarrassing and most indeterminable recordings until now. In contrast to the previous poems, which used the topic of relationships as a symbol to describe social and political togetherness, the poems and pieces on 'Two Im Teer' are exclusively focused on the relationship between two people. Nevertheless, this 'we' end up in an individual position. What remains is desire and failure. For the first time, four English poems are released here, next to the German ones.”

Hartmut Geerken & Michael Ranta "The Heliopolar Egg" 5 x CD box $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL009
"Documentary recordings of Hartmut Geerken and Michael Ranta’s November and December 1976 tour of the Middle East and East Asia. Geerken is known for his long relationship with Sun Ra (including compiling a discography), but he wears many other hats too: musician, film-maker, archivist. Ranta is a percussionist best known for his famous 'Improvisation Sep.1975' collaborative record with Toshi Ichiyanagi and Takehisa Kosugi. This is a CD reissue of an LP box set, originally released in 2010 as the last release on the now dormant Italian label Qbico. The tour started in Iran before moving east to India, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Korea, and ending in Japan. At their show in Osaka, they played together with Toshi Ichiyanagi. This edition includes the concert with Ichiyanagi, solo performances by Ichiyanagi and Shoko Shida, as well as a rare Delhi performance that was originally only included in the highly limited 6 LP edition of the Qbico set. All the tracks overflow with rich multi-dimensionality, providing a glimpse of Ranta and Geerken’s depth as performers. Includes a 12-page booklet with flyers from the period. Limited edition of 500."

Anne Gillis "…" CD $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL026
"French musician & performance artist Manon Anne Gillis came to Japan to perform in 2016 following the 2015 release of the 5-CD archive box set from Art Into Life, which was a compilation of earlier recordings. Now at last, for the first time in 27 years since 1994’s 'Euragine' in CD format, her long-awaited 7th solo album is completed. As she still continues to progress and evolve musically, this work is constructed primarily around primitive hiss noise and error sounds. Here she has woven a musical tapestry that is more blurred, obscured, and noise-oriented than her earlier work. With the strong cohesiveness of her disquieting singing voice in a thunderous roar bellowing from the inner depths, the repetition of the dense glitch sounds, and the nostalgic concept of the obscure rhythm track (track 5) will remind us of her days when she went by the alias Devil’s Picnic.Mastered by Takumi Akaishi who was Anne’s supporting act for her 2016 performance in Japan. The CD edition differs from the LP edition in that each one has its own unique handcrafted paper jacket, differing in color and texture. Limited to 200 copies."

Anne Gillis "Vhoysee" CD $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL032CD
"The first Manon Anne Gillis release was a single-sided mini-album titled 'Angebiguë', which was Manon’s self-release in 1983. 'Angebiguë' was 6-track mini-album in a cold-minimal-synth vein, and any track from 'Angebiguë' were not included in her retrospective 5 CD Box 'Archives Box 1983-2005', which Art into Life released in 2015. 'Angebiguë' was privately released in tiny edition for her friends only and has been a highly sought-after item among collectors. 'Vhoysee' is Manon’s long-awaited new album, and the album collects her latest six pieces and four re-worked / re-mixed tracks from 'Angebiguë'. The latest six pieces are physical subject-based composition with minimum elements, whereas re-worked / re-mixed tracks from 'Angebiguë' are simple rhythm-oriented pieces with her glacial sound texture. In 'Vhoysee', the past and present are interwoven and linked together in a kind of labyrinth. The album was mastered by Jos Smolders."

Anne Gillis "Vhoysee" LP $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL032
"The first Manon Anne Gillis release was a single-sided mini-album titled 'Angebiguë', which was Manon’s self-release in 1983. 'Angebiguë' was 6-track mini-album in a cold-minimal-synth vein, and any track from 'Angebiguë' were not included in her retrospective 5 CD Box 'Archives Box 1983-2005', which Art into Life released in 2015. 'Angebiguë' was privately released in tiny edition for her friends only and has been a highly sought-after item among collectors. 'Vhoysee' is Manon’s long-awaited new album, and the album collects her latest six pieces and four re-worked / re-mixed tracks from 'Angebiguë'. The latest six pieces are physical subject-based composition with minimum elements, whereas re-worked / re-mixed tracks from 'Angebiguë' are simple rhythm-oriented pieces with her glacial sound texture. In 'Vhoysee', the past and present are interwoven and linked together in a kind of labyrinth. The album was mastered by Jos Smolders, and vinyl comes with DL code that has all tracks."

John Grzinich "Two Films" DVD $7
and/OAR (U.S.) and/40
special reduced price.
"'Sound Aspects of Material Elements' by John Grzinich is a highly unique film, an elegant collection of location sound explorations captured over a three-year period. Empty landscapes of blowing grass and drifting clouds, slight manipulations of abandoned and natural objects, solo engagements with architectural structures, duos and occasionally larger groups of participants 'playing' found materials. In each case, all sounds are sourced within a location, augmented and activated through simple acoustic techniques – tubes, wires, mallets and contact mics. Each 'situation' becomes a kind of instrument, each 'place' is approached as a rich source of sonic matter. This film finds itself between ‘sound art’ and cinema. Unlike most movies, the film follows strict limitations in using only location-based, real-time sound capture. On the other hand, there is strongly disjunctive relationship between what we see and what we hear because of the predominant use of unusual miking techniques. The shots themselves are often medium to long, and place the objects or figures within the landscape – desolate Estonian fields, ramshackle barns, windswept telephone wires, nighttime fires, abandoned and corroded metal tanks or girders. The sounds, however, are not only of, but inside the location being shown. We hear into spaces and materials through the careful use of contact mics or the placement of microphones inside containers, tubes and vessels. These decisions amplify, magnify and distort the sonic landscape in relation to what is seen. It can feel like existing on two levels at once. 'Sound Aspects of Material Elements' doesn’t illustrate, interpret or elaborate upon sound with image, it just shows - demonstrating the elements at play in a particular arrangement or situation. At the same time, the links between sound and image are more than just causal. They are the result of careful exploration, fine-tuned framing, and a delicate balance of the haphazard and the instigated." (Seth Nehil)
All Region / NTSC

Intermodulation "Connections (1970-1974)" 4 x CD box $47
Paradigm Discs (England) PD 40
"Formed in Cambridge in 1969 by Tim Souster and Roger Smalley, Intermodulation started out as a four-piece group with the addition of Robin Thompson and Andrew Powell (who soon moved on to other Cambridge projects, including a pre-Chris Cutler Henry Cow). Powell was replaced by Peter Britton, and this incarnation of the group remained for the duration of their existence. Having released a box set of works by Gentle Fire, it felt necessary to do the same with Intermodulation and thus complete the other half of this missing chapter in British experimental music. Intermodulation had quite a different line up than Gentle Fire, most notably with Peter's percussion, Robin on bassoon and soprano sax, and the shared use of VCS3's and electric keyboards. Nonetheless both groups covered similar ground, appeared at the same European festivals, travelled together with Stockhausen to Iran, and they were generally concerned with a similar repertoire of experimental scores. Although Intermodulation released no records during their existence (and Gentle Fire only the one LP), both groups did appear side by side on the recording of Stockhausen's 'Sternklang'. This four-CD set aims to cover a wide range of their work. CD one contains the entirety of their 1971 concert at Ely Cathedral (a six-minute excerpt of which appeared on the 'Not Necessarily English Music' compiled by David Toop). CD two focuses on their BBC recordings including excerpts from two Prom performances, one of which is the famous 1970 Prom which had Soft Machine taking the stage in the second half. CD three features material held in the archives of three German radio stations and the fourth disc consists of one work; 'World Music' by Tim Souster, the 72-minute opus written for the four players plus tape. In summary, Intermodulation plays five Stockhausen pieces (four of which are realizations of his intuitive text pieces), two Terry Riley pieces and one by Cardew. They also play two compositions by Tim and one by Roger, as well performing two group improvisations. The set comes with a 48-page booklet detailing the groups history. This is a numbered edition of 500."

Robert Haigh "Tempus Fugit: Rare and Unreleased" CD $15
Siren Records (Japan) SIREN 36
"Edition Size: 300. Robert Haigh made his trilogy of piano solo albums (‘Notes and Crossings’, ‘Anonymous Lights’, and ‘Strange and Secret Things’) during 2009-2011 and ‘The Silence of Ghosts’ in 2015 for Siren Records. The tracks for each of these releases were carefully selected with consideration for the flow and development of the project. Inevitably, for various reasons, some tracks did not fit a particular album and they have remained unreleased regardless of their quality. The original plan of the 'Tempus Fugit' release was, as the subtitle suggests, to collect and assemble rare and unreleased tracks into an album. However, in the process of his compiling the tracks, Robert noticed that the project was developing into an album that had a flow and narrative of its own. Considering the structure and progression of the album, Robert carefully curated ten pieces from his recording archives (including three tracks left over from the Unseen Worlds period) and arranged them to make the best sequence selection. As a result, 'Tempus Fugit' has grown into a unique album with its own sense of flow, though none of the tracks were recorded with the aim of making this particular album. 'Tempus Fugit' will be a parting gift to those who have followed his works while at the same time, a useful selection as 'young person's guide to Robert Haigh' to those who have yet to open the door of his music. The album opens with ’Slow Water.’ A distant and plaintive piano melody evolves with ghostly harmonies through a reverb soaked landscape. ’The Wind Blows Black’ is an improvisation on a theme where discordant piano figures tumble over fragile descending chords. ‘Sub Rosa’ and ‘Broken Bones’ are Haigh at his most melodic, conjuring up the feel of tracks such as ‘Clear Water’ and ‘Portrait with Shadow’.’ In A Space’ slightly predates the first Siren release and wouldn’t be out of place on an early Budd and Eno album. The album closes with the ghostly ‘Tesselate Air’, a slow-moving ambient trip across a misty and shadowy terrain, slowly fading to silence. And the silence is significant as Robert is insistent that there will be no more releases after this."

Joseph Hammer "Roadless Travel" CD $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL003
"LAFMS musician Joseph Hammer creates unparalleled works of tape manipulation. However, as yet there are comparatively few solo albums by this phenomenal artist. To rectify this situation, Art Into Life has decided to release 'Roadless Travel', his latest album. The album comes with a dense 24 page booklet of liner notes (essentially a full history of Hammer) by T. Sakaguchi, who has enjoyed a long friendship with him and is the foremost Japanese historian of the LAFMS scene."

Arsenije Jovanović "Galiola - Works For Radio, 1967- 2000" CD $9
FO A RM Projects / and/OAR / Alluvial Recordings (U.S.) FO A RM CD01 / and/ALL2
special reduced price.
"Over the last 40 years, Serbian radio-art composer and film director Arsenije Jovanović has developed a deeply personal style of sound art for radio broadcast. His compositions are imbued with natural environments and human-centered activities. They feel rooted in place - whether real, imaginary, remembered or dreamed. Weaving voices, instruments, field recordings and manipulated sound, Jovanoviæ creates vivid narratives without a story. He takes full advantage of sound’s capability for seamless morphing and far-flung association.
From what sound like theatrical Fellini Satyricon-like extravaganzas (although predating Satyricon by two years), haunting phantasmic dronescapes, to near pastoral epiphanies of childhood and the imagination of innocence, the dynamic range and mood of the work presented here is impressive, and it's well apparent that he's drawn upon his experience with directing for film, television and theatre; however Jovanovic's mastery of composition, weaving field recordings, concrete sounds, voices and instruments is still nothing short of astonishing."

Angus MacLise “Tapes" 3 x CD box $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL020
"Angus MacLise, the first drummer for the Velvet Underground, was a poet, composer, and a member of The Theatre of Eternal Music alongside La Monte Young. The 'Tapes' 3 CD Box is the first-ever reissue of a 3-cassette compilation that Pleasure Editions originally released in 2015, limited to only 100 copies. The 3 CD box set comes with a miniature poster and track lists, and each CD has a paper sleeve that reproduces the original cassette card artwork. This comprehensive 3 CD box set is over three hours in length and includes session recordings with Tony Conrad and William Breeze (of Coil, Current 93, and Psychic TV), mystical recordings from the filming of Ira Cohen's 'The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda' (1968), shortwave experiments, and sounds of Tibetan Buddhist monks recorded by MacLise. The 'Tapes' compilation features excerpts from the archives of the Angus MacLise Papers, which are held at Columbia University Library. The archives contain over 100 hours of reel-to-reel tape recordings of live improvised music, theatrical performances, and sound experiments created by MacLise and his associates during the 1960s and 1970s. MacLise produced the original recordings in his own unique style, characterized by rough and peculiar editing. The release is curated and sequenced by Will Cameron and Mark Iosifescu. Jim O'Rourke completed a new sound restoration and mastering of the recordings in 2023. This official release is authorized by Dreamweapon New York, a project of the MacLise Family Estate."

Paul McCarthy "A&E, Adolf & Eva, Adam & Eve, in the Garden of Eden, Picnic" 2 x LP $
Tochnit Aleph (Denmark) TA175
"Edition of 400 copies. Double vinyl LP, full color gatefold sleeve, full color inner sleeves. Artwork & design by Paul McCarthy. This recording is roughly 80 minutes of the A&E three day performance superimposed. Performed by Paul McCarthy (Adolf / Eva) and Lilith Stangenberg (Eva / Eve)."
"Paul McCarthy is widely considered to be one of the most influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artists. Born in 1945, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, he first established a multi-faceted artistic practice, which sought to break the limitations of painting by using unorthodox materials such as bodily fluids and food. He has since become known for visceral, often hauntingly humorous work in a variety of mediums—from performance, photography, film and video, to sculpture, drawing and painting.
During the 1990s, he extended his practice into installations and stand-alone sculptural figures, utilizing a range of materials such as fiberglass, silicone, animatronics and inflatable vinyl. Playing on popular illusions and cultural myths, fantasy and reality collide in a delirious yet poignant exploration of the subconscious, in works that simultaneously challenge the viewer’s phenomenological expectations.
Whether absent or present, the human figure has been a constant in his work, either through the artist‘s own performances or the array of characters he creates to mix high and low culture, and provoke an analysis of our fundamental beliefs. These playfully oversized characters and objects critique the worlds from which they are drawn: Hollywood, politics, philosophy, science, art, literature, and television. McCarthy’s work, thus, locates the traumas lurking behind the stage set of the American Dream and identifies their counterparts in the art historical canon.” - Hauser & Wirth

Seth Nehil "Amnemonic Site" CD $7
Alluvial Recordings (U.S.) A28
special reduced price.
"Percussive bursts, linked events, micro-envelopes, spatial dissonance and crowd noises, 'Amnemonic Site': a 'place of forgetting' – a temporary zone of amusia (the loss of ability to understand music). Sources include wood, fabric, tuning forks, fireworks, beans in various containers, Balinese gamelan, oscillator, blown organ pipes, brass organ reeds, Serge modular synth, metal pieces, and recordings of parks and New Year’s celebrations in Chinatown, Manhattan."

腥身保育器≒Nov Embudagonn 108 Hypnodelia And Therrorpyec So-wound System Warchestra "戦隊Slugmasterによる腥體損傷型SCUMTh'ERROR'PY" 3 x LP + cassette $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL033
"Artist Wataru Kasahara originally hoisted the standard for destructive 'th’error’py' back in the 1980s and since then he has continued to create both art and music, with Art into Life releasing an album under his Radio Embudagonn moniker in 2013. This current release is a sprawling tapestry documenting the story of the battles between the monstrous Squadron Slugmaster and a mysterious organisation called International Ill-Shaker. Kasahara began recording this work in 1986 and only completed it in 2016, a genesis of thirty years. This masterwork progresses through instability, as studio talk, readings and narration intermingle with insane and comical noise. It is designed around an extendable concept so listeners can bring new layers of evolution to the work. The handmade packaging has been specially designed so the jacket will gradually deteriorate during transit, creating slowly morphing forms. The set comes with a cassette containing the tracks that wouldn’t fit on the LPs, a 16-page book containing illustrations of the main characters, and an additional 3-page insert describing the work in detail. Limited to 200 sets, physical-only release. NB: Please note that parts of the jacket are deliberately damaged and that the insert may contain folds. These are all part of the overall concept of the work."

David Rosenboom "Roundup Two: Selected Music with Electro-Acoustic Landscapes (1968-1984)" 2 x CD $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL001
"For over four decades, composer-performer David Rosenboom has developed unique circuitry and software for making musical models of the wondrous natural world come alive. Traversing the raucous and the sublime, 'Roundup Two' presents live performances with vacuum tube analog computers, solid-state manifestations of chaos and harmony, musical interventions on political tunes, virtuoso performers interlinked with hybrid processing, and more. 'Roundup Two' is an essential, historical document containing important examples from a sixteen-year period in this innovative artist’s extraordinary, pioneering work."

Selten Gehörte Musik "Das Berliner Konzert" 2 x CD $
Tochnit Aleph (Denmark) TA172
"stimulated by our first public performance of 'rarely heard music' ('Das Münchner Konzert'), we at once planned another concert in which the tight circle of performers was to be enlarged by a couple of dear friends, and once again the location had to have the lure of the special. Oswald Wiener suggested the church of the holy cross in Berlin as our place of action, for we had learnt that it could be hired for public performances. everyone was most enthusiastic about playing a venue like that, and so 'rarely heard music' came to be performed on 27 September 1974 on a grand scale before a large audience. the participants this time were Attersee, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Dominik Steiger, Oswald Wiener, and Arnulf Rainer, who contributed to the performance as silent face-puller and contortionist. not only did the event assume almost monumental dimensions in terms of outlay, preparations, resonance and duration, at times it rose to unbridled, almost ecstatic climaxes; at one point Brus, who had been manically blowing the one and same note into a kind of alphorn, even momentarily lost consciousness." - Gerhard Rühm "Über Selten Gehörte Musik”
"Edition of 300 copies. Double CD, full color 12” LP gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeve, two A3 size posters, flyer. Includes previously unpublished archival photos & artworks. 'Das Berliner Konzert' was first published by Hansjörg Mayer, Studio Morra & Pari e Dispari in 1977 as a 3 x vinyl LP box. This is the part six in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series curated & produced by Daniel Löwenbrück / Tochnit Aleph. The 7th and last part 'Abschöpfsymphonie' is planned for release in 2025."

Akio Suzuki "Only Just Once, Space in the Sun" 2 x CD & book $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL030
"Space in the Sun was one of Akio Suzuki’s major sound projects, a unique construction completed in 1988 and located on the merdian line, which took around 18 months to build. Its purpose was to allow Suzuki to spend one day, on the autumnal equinox, purifying his sense of hearing in nature. This release comprises a 44 page book containing plans and materials from the time alongside texts, and two CDs of environmental recordings created on site at Space in the Sun. To date only tiny fragments of the recordings made between those massive clay brick walls have been used in performances and no environmental recordings of the objective of the project, i.e. the space itself, have been released. The first disk consists of the first release of 'person-less' field recordings made at the same spot that Akio sat at during the event (recorded in 1993, 60 minutes). The second disk consists of a performance that took place in the space. Space in the Sun’s earthen walls have since been demolished, so these recordings represent a return to life of their soft echo, an experience accessible nowhere else."

Giancarlo Toniutti "Bàardum Guùmuse (For Your Red Tongue)" CD $12
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM33
"Bàardum Guùmuse (For Your Red Tongue)" for prepared idiophones is a 49-minute electroacoustic work completed in 2022. By turns delicate and complex, the sounds do not easily give up their sources, which true to the artist's practice are kept obscure. This is the result of careful research into microtonal movements in timbre. A composition made of two interrelated forms which skirts the area of contemporary music but without the academic baggage. The music flows slowly varying in density from thin layers of modulated timbre to dense groups of orchestrated events. It is in a continuous form which sees elements come to the fore and recede while never totally disappearing as there is a continual shift and interplay.
Edition of 300 copies.
"Bàardum Guùmuse" sample

Harry Van Essen & Fred Gales "Sounds Of Egiali - Amorgos" 2 x LP $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL035
"Sound Reporters was a Dutch publishing company that specialised in anthropology, religion, and history, releasing unique documents of the cultural multiplicity of human societies and their importance. These recordings were originally released on cassette in 1988, and consist of field recordings made on the Greek island of Amorgos, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. The release was jointly credited to the painter Harry Van Essen, who lived for several years on the island and recorded its soundscapes, and also to the ethnomusicologist and founder of Sound Reporters, Fred Gales, who mixed the recordings. The recordings consist of sketched amalgams of local sounds from Egiali, a port in the northeast of the island. The first half is a soundscape deeply rooted in the island people’s daily lives, alternating sounds of the sea with popular music, recitations of poetry, the sounds of fishing boats, people playing boardgames, a party. The second half takes us out of the village and into the mountains, unveiling the island’s unadorned natural environment: the sounds of cicadas, the buzz of honeybees, the bells of the large herds of goats left out to pasture, etc. Remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. The LP includes an A4 insert of the text that came with the original release (including detailed recording location notes) and a download code."

Harry Van Essen & Fred Gales "Sounds Of Egiali - Amorgos" CD $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL035CD
"Sound Reporters was a Dutch publishing company that specialised in anthropology, religion, and history, releasing unique documents of the cultural multiplicity of human societies and their importance. These recordings were originally released on cassette in 1988, and consist of field recordings made on the Greek island of Amorgos, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. The release was jointly credited to the painter Harry Van Essen, who lived for several years on the island and recorded its soundscapes, and also to the ethnomusicologist and founder of Sound Reporters, Fred Gales, who mixed the recordings. The recordings consist of sketched amalgams of local sounds from Egiali, a port in the northeast of the island. The first half is a soundscape deeply rooted in the island people’s daily lives, alternating sounds of the sea with popular music, recitations of poetry, the sounds of fishing boats, people playing boardgames, a party. The second half takes us out of the village and into the mountains, unveiling the island’s unadorned natural environment: the sounds of cicadas, the buzz of honeybees, the bells of the large herds of goats left out to pasture, etc. Remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. The LP includes an A4 insert of the text that came with the original release (including detailed recording location notes) and a download code."

Vogelscheiß Und Seine Verrückten Kröten CD $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL027CD
"John Hubbard, who is also a book designer and based in Finland, had released the sole recordings of the legendary project 'Vogelscheiß Und Seine Verrückten Kröten' in 1989 in a limited edition of just 50 copies on his Strength Through Joy label. Now these rare recordings are re-issued for the first time. In 1988, upon meeting Steve Stapleton while on vacation in Europe, John then went to Aachen and visited Christoph Heemann & Andreas Martin, and the enigmatic sessions they recorded are revealed here. Remastered by Jos Smolders, who has worked on projects by Takehisa Kosugi, Pierre Henry, and titles on the Come Organisation label. The CD edition differs from the LP edition in that each one has its own unique handcrafted paper jacket, differing in color and texture. Limited to 200 copies."
"Born at the intersection of space, time and absurdity... After years correspondence with various musicians in UK and Europe (resulting from fandom and the process of co-publishing the 'BirthDeath' compendium about Come Organisation), the opportunity arose for me to spend three months traveling in the Fall/Winter of 1988. UK travels included a brief but impressionable stay with Steve Stapleton and Diane Rogerson in London, with visits to John Smith (Interchange magazine) in Newcastle, and Mark Durgan (Birthbiter, Putrifier) in Oxford. Following this, a lengthy stay with Christoph Heemann (HNAS, DOM Records) in Aachen, Germany, with a side trip to Ivrea, Italy to stay with Andrea Cernotto (The Sodality). Christoph and I whiled away our time listening to records, talking of records, shopping for records, and discussing the process of making a record together. While dining in a local Thai restaurant in Aachen we heard a warbly, distorted background music tape that had likely been playing for ages, thinking, 'we can do this...' and took it as inspiration for the opening track on the LP. We invited Christoph’s brother, Andreas Martin, to join us in the fun, to which he graciously agreed. We booked the studio and rehearsed at their parent’s house the night before with violin, banjo and recorder. We transferred a piano piece I had recorded in Seattle, a field recording of toads, created the radio/sound collage for 'Jolly Jumble' from the tapes I brought, and completed the album with an ambient piece. We took our master tape to Belgium to have the lacquer cut and shipped it off to the pressing plant in Germany. I flew back to Seattle and patiently waited for my copies from the 'test pressing' ... 50 copies. Christoph kept 8-9 copies for himself, Andreas, and friends." - John Hubbard

Vogelscheiß Und Seine Verrückten Kröten LP $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL027
"John Hubbard, who is also a book designer and based in Finland, had released the sole recordings of the legendary project 'Vogelscheiß Und Seine Verrückten Kröten' in 1989 in a limited edition of just 50 copies on his Strength Through Joy label. Now these rare recordings are re-issued for the first time. In 1988, upon meeting Steve Stapleton while on vacation in Europe, John then went to Aachen and visited Christoph Heemann & Andreas Martin, and the enigmatic sessions they recorded are revealed here. Remastered by Jos Smolders, who has worked on projects by Takehisa Kosugi, Pierre Henry, and titles on the Come Organisation label. The LP issue comes with a download code and an insert and is limited to 300 copies."
"Born at the intersection of space, time and absurdity... After years correspondence with various musicians in UK and Europe (resulting from fandom and the process of co-publishing the 'BirthDeath' compendium about Come Organisation), the opportunity arose for me to spend three months traveling in the Fall/Winter of 1988. UK travels included a brief but impressionable stay with Steve Stapleton and Diane Rogerson in London, with visits to John Smith (Interchange magazine) in Newcastle, and Mark Durgan (Birthbiter, Putrifier) in Oxford. Following this, a lengthy stay with Christoph Heemann (HNAS, DOM Records) in Aachen, Germany, with a side trip to Ivrea, Italy to stay with Andrea Cernotto (The Sodality). Christoph and I whiled away our time listening to records, talking of records, shopping for records, and discussing the process of making a record together. While dining in a local Thai restaurant in Aachen we heard a warbly, distorted background music tape that had likely been playing for ages, thinking, 'we can do this...' and took it as inspiration for the opening track on the LP. We invited Christoph’s brother, Andreas Martin, to join us in the fun, to which he graciously agreed. We booked the studio and rehearsed at their parent’s house the night before with violin, banjo and recorder. We transferred a piano piece I had recorded in Seattle, a field recording of toads, created the radio/sound collage for 'Jolly Jumble' from the tapes I brought, and completed the album with an ambient piece. We took our master tape to Belgium to have the lacquer cut and shipped it off to the pressing plant in Germany. I flew back to Seattle and patiently waited for my copies from the 'test pressing' ... 50 copies. Christoph kept 8-9 copies for himself, Andreas, and friends." - John Hubbard

"The Sounds Of Sound Sculpture" CD $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL034CD
"In 1973, the Sound Sculpture Show took place at the Vancouver Art Gallery. An LP audio catalogue (with a booklet) of the exhibition, entitled 'The Sounds of Sound Sculpture', was released in 1975 under the supervision of the Canadian sound sculptor John Grayson and US composer David Rosenboom. Grayson had edited an important early book on the field, 'Sound Sculpture'. The LP included rare takes of Rosenboom and Grayson, amongst others, playing famous pieces by pioneering sound sculptors including the Baschet brothers and Harry Bertoia, the latter best known for his Sonambient series. It also included some of the few recordings by Stephan Von Huene, who had begun to create his kinetic sculptures, and the profound atmospheric pressure systems constructed by the New York sound artist David Jacobs. All tracks were remastered in 2024 by David Rosenboom." also includes a short track by Reinhold Pieper Marxhausen.

"The Sounds Of Sound Sculpture" LP $
Art Into Life (Japan) AIL034
"In 1973, the Sound Sculpture Show took place at the Vancouver Art Gallery. An LP audio catalogue (with a booklet) of the exhibition, entitled 'The Sounds of Sound Sculpture', was released in 1975 under the supervision of the Canadian sound sculptor John Grayson and US composer David Rosenboom. Grayson had edited an important early book on the field, 'Sound Sculpture'. The LP included rare takes of Rosenboom and Grayson, amongst others, playing famous pieces by pioneering sound sculptors including the Baschet brothers and Harry Bertoia, the latter best known for his Sonambient series. It also included some of the few recordings by Stephan Von Huene, who had begun to create his kinetic sculptures, and the profound atmospheric pressure systems constructed by the New York sound artist David Jacobs. The LP comes complete with a booklet of visually arresting photos and other materials about these historic sound sculptures. All tracks were remastered in 2024 by David Rosenboom. The LP comes with a 12-page 210mm x 210mm booklet of the sculptures and a download code." also includes a short track by Reinhold Pieper Marxhausen.