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![]() Feeney, Tim: Burrow [CASSETTE] (Marginal Frequency -- USA ) Price: $5.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Meridian percussionist and frequent collaborator with Vic Rawlings and Annie Lewandowski, Tim Feeney presents a fascinating solo album of "four improvised poundings" using "a drum, a pair of sticks, a metal plate, a pair of dowels, a heavy cymbal, a large room, a small squirrel, a static listening, a punishing listening, a boring listening, a quickening listening". |
![]() Jefferson, Larry: Journey [CASSETTE] [Used Item] (Rollax Records -- USA ) Price: $5.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock Electronic Artist Larry Jefferson explores issues of philosophy and loss and this is reflected in this collection of 9 songs & music in a professionally manufactured cassette. |
![]() Mutual Process: Untitled [CASSETTE] (Discombobulate -- Great Britain ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A collaboration mixing improvisation with sound & noise from sound artist Adam Denton, working primarily with the slithery tones that live within improvisation, and Sean Cotterill, whose work straddles the ocean of skronk guitar to live programming 'ones' and 'zeros'. |
![]() Owen, Ben : Birds And Water, 2&3 (For Cassette) [CASSETTE] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Brooklyn-based Ben Owen recorded this work in 2010 at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY, presenting the original work "Birds And Water" and two edits, which are mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. |
![]() Pisaro / Chabala: Black, White, Red, Green, Blue (Voyelles) [CASSETTE] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Guitarist Barry Chabala's interpretation of composer Pisaro's piece, instructing the performer on structure and pitch but allowing the precise timing and sound to the player; plus a reworking of Chabala's recording taking advantage of cassette hiss and sine tones. |
![]() Polyorchard: Red October [CASSETTE w/DOWNLOAD] (Out and Gone Music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Polyorchard founder and double bassist David Menestres leads the quartet of Jeb Bishop on trombone, Shawn Galvin on percussion, and Laurent Estoppey on saxophone, using skills drawn from both improvisation and compositional music to present six free dialogs showing intent listening amongst the four as they create complex, interweaving, sophisticated statements; impressive! |
![]() Gate, The (Peck / Blancarte / Osborne): Live! [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD CODE] (Tubapede -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The NY based, long-running trio The Gate led by Dan Peck on tuba and effects, with double bassist Tom Blancarte and drummer Brian Osborne, in a cassette culled from live concerts in Hannover and Brussels while on a European tour in November of 2015, "a brutally unfiltered representation of The Gate's special brand of spontaneous composition." |
![]() Jefferson, Larry: Journey [CASSETTE] [Used Item] (Rollax Records -- USA ) Price: $4.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock Electronic Artist Larry Jefferson explores issues of philosophy and loss and this is reflected in this collection of 9 songs & music in a professionally manufactured cassette. |
Glochids: Originals [CASSETTE] [Used Item] (Weird Ear -- USA ) Price: $3.60 ![]() ![]() In Stock Previously played Squidco store copy, used for cataloging and samples, in excellent condition. |
![]() The Yes, Well... (Jeph Jerman / Dave Knott): No, Really. [CASSETTE] (Self Released -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Beginning in 1995 in Seattle, audio explorers Jeph Jerman & David Knotts explore lo-fi approaches using cassettes, mini-cassettes, dictaphones, various assortments of homemade instruments & collected materials, this 2020 cassette including recordings of mouth, stone, wood, glass, metal, paper, plastic, radio, and input from a number of contributors. |
![]() Fielder, Alvin / Damon Smith: Song For Chico [CASSETTE] (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $11.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Free improvisations and a few fascinating covers of work by Cecil Taylor, Chico Hamilton, and Johnny Dyani from the duo of double bassist Damon Smith and legendary drummer Alvin Fielder, showing intense and unusual approaches in great rhythmic dialog. |
![]() Smolders, Jos: Bagatellen [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Inspired by Jeroen Diepenmaat's Xerox collage art book, "co//age co//py", sound artist Jos Smolders developed these tracks as a response through 9 brief works and one larger construction, intersecting voice, synth, sax, piano and field recordings in a mix of oddly and abruptly sliced sound offset with periods of beauty; a compellingly curious album. |
![]() Frond: Always There, Somewhere [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Frond, aka Richard Bultitude, is a UK sound artist who creates rich soundscapes of guitar, synthetics, field recordings and other ethereal elements, the mix of live instrumentation over drone and ambient environments adding warmth and personality to beautifully crafted works, each exuding a sense of inner calm through innately melodic music replete with detail. |
![]() OTONN : Two Crumbling Shapes [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The electroacoustic duo of singer Andrea Silvia Giordano and drummer Nicholas Remondino, working with Pierre Bastien, E-cor Ensemble, Gianluca Verlingieri, Maria Dybbroe and Torstein Lavik Larsen, create uniquely motioned works of decay, deconstruction and destruction, percussion and voice weaving amid unusual sonic sources both abstract and rhythmic. |
![]() Fraser / McCowen / Weinberg: Thip [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recorded primarily at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn and leveraging the natural resonance of that performance space, the New York trio of innovative improvisers Henry Frase on double bass, John McCowen on Bb and contrabass clarinets and Sam Weinberg on tenor & soprano saxophones explore the peripheries of their instruments in intense and reflective interplay. |
![]() Reviriego, Alex: Raben [CASSETTE W/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Spanish double bassist Alex Reviriego (Memoria Uno) in a solo album recorded by Ferran Fages in 2019, the second chapter of his "German Poets Trilogy" following his 2018 Blaue Tauben album, here inspired by the writings of Romanian-born poet Paul Celan in an intense and moving album of dense foreboding depicted through nine improvisations of heavy bowing, ruminative harmonics and dark friction. |
![]() Corcoran, Kevin / Giacomo Salis / Paolo Sanna: Sul Filo [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Initiating like a jet shaking the sky, the trio of Kevin Corcoran on percussion & objects, Giacomo Salis on percussion, objects & field recordings and Paolo Sanna on percussion & objects create otherworldly sonic environments that project collapsing and ringing events above often turbulent foundations, creating side-long journeys that engage through mysterious and surmisable sound. |
![]() Jacques, Anne-F / Takamitsu Ohta: Oto to Secchi [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using small objects and contact microphones to create peacefully clacking, mewling and idiosyncratic utterances, sound artists Takamitsu Ohta and Anne-Francoise Jacques developed this installation shown in 2019 at the Bonjour! Gendaibunmei gallery in Kyoto, recorded by Jacques as a tour of the various sonic manifestations that a visitor to the gallery might experience. |
![]() Jacques, Anne-Francoise / Tim Olive: Bistre [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The fourth release from the long-standing sonic research duo of Montreal sound artist Anne-F Jacques, who uses "rotating devices" based around small amplified motors, and Montreal ex-patriot living in Kobe, Japan Tim Olive (845 Audio), using magnetic pickups on objects and self-built instruments, here in six richly detailed and sometimes curiously menacing recordings. |
![]() Nakajima, Rie: Fusuma [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Working with sculpture and objects in sound installations and live performance, Rie Nakajima captured this appealing set of kinetic performances named for the objects featured in each: a handle of a Japanese sliding door (fusuma), Japanese rice bowls, coils, jars, shells, flower pots, plastic bags, tin foil, tin cans, chopsticks, a bamboo pot, stones, cups, &c. |
![]() Olive, Tim / Kayu Nakada: Entenka [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Applying techniques similar to those of the prepared piano, Japanese experimental artist Kayu Nakada uses circuit bending--circuit boards from electronic instruments short circuited for new effects--joining forces with Japan-based Canadian electronic instrument maker Tim Olive (845 Audio) for four works of intriguingly interactive glitch, hum, static and sonic inexplicables. |
![]() Grdina, Gordon / Jim Black: Martian Kitties [CASSETTE W/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Thirteen succinct improvisations pitting Gordon Grdina's swinging middle-eastern flavors on the oud offset by gritty, experimental guitar work against drummer Jim Black's well-chosen and rock-solid grooves, an engaging album that shifts and explores a tremendous range of ideas and adventurous attitudes that span jazz, rock and experimental genres with ease. |
![]() Mako Sica (feat Tatsu Aoki / Thymme Jones / Jacob Fawcett) : Garland of Heads [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock With virtually the same lineup as their Feeding Tube album Ourania, the Chicago-based duo of Mako Sica--Brent Fuscaldo (electric bass, voice, harmonica & percussion) and Przemyslaw Krys Drazek (electric trumpet, electric guitar & mandolin)--again join with Tatsu Aoki on bass & shamisen and Thymme Jones on keyboards, trumpet, balloon & voice, subbing drummer Jacob Fawcett. |
![]() Strictly Missionary (Pitsiokos / Eisenberg / Lenz / Murray / Neuburg): Heisse Scheisse [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Skronky multi-faceted NY Downtown-style improvisation with an electric edge from the quintet of Chris Pitsiokis on alto sax, winds, electronics & samples, Wendy Eisenberg on electric guitar, Richard Lenz on electric bass, Kevin Murray on acoustic & electronic drums and Nick Neuburg on percussion, rolling and rollicking through riffs and scrabbly exploration. |
![]() Mazzarella / Haker Flaten / Ra: What You Seek is Seeking You [CASSETTE W/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Nick Mazzarella Trio, here configured as Mazzarella on alto saxophone & bells, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten on bass and Avreeayl Ra on drums, are heard live at Constellation in Chicago in 2019, bringing together two generations of Chicago improvisers with Norwegian/US drummer Haker-Flaten for seven pieces espousing both tradition and innovative creative approaches. |
![]() Olive, Tim: Ribbon [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Sonic exploration and studio composition from Kobe, Japan-based, Canadian sound artist Tim Olive, using amplified objects, cast-off electronics and home made instruments including metal teeth, tuning forks, clockwork motors, electromagnets, cassette playback heads and magnetic pickups, recording each and layering them in the studio to create corrosively captivating aural journeys. |
![]() Mendoza, Ava: New Spells [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A joint release between Astral Spirts and Relative Pitch, guitarist Ava Mendoza conjures five assertive and rugged "spells" performed on solo electric guitar, passionate works of raw technical skill and bold power as she improvises over two songs composed by herself, alongside pieces written for her from Devin Hoff, Trevor Dunn and John Dikeman. |
![]() Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions: Compilation Cassette [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Travelling through the US & Greece to join with performers for duos and trios, in six recordings between pianist Thollem McDonas in a trio with Amy Denio & Samantha Boshnack; a duo with Seetha Shivaswamy; a trio with Mat Weisman and Rick Kodramaz; a duo with Djallo Djakate; a hand percussion duo with Jason Finkelman; and a vocal duo with Maria Karamouza. |
![]() Huvudbry: Det ar ingen ordning pa allting [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Drummer Hampus Ohman-Frolund (Apuh!) leads the Huvudbry septet of structured rock forms, with an intriguing orchestration of trumpet, lap steel, double bass, guitars, keyboard and voice, using intervals of unusual sonic experimentation and field recordings to create a unique album that bassist Mats Dimming refers to as "A mix of Captain Beefheart, Yann Tiersen & Swedish House Mafia". |
![]() Huvudbry : Piggelin-rundan [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Essentially a solo album from composer and improviser based in NYC Hampus Öhman-Frölund, this extended work uses a zither as its basis, augmented by a MicroKorg and the voice of Huvudbry bandmate Avery Leigh Draut, using no set tempo and framed and inspired around a picture of the woods near where Öhman-Frölund grew up; really lovely and inspired work. |
![]() Center For Whatever: Boogie Spiderland [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The first collaboration between Brooklyn-based experimental improvising drummer Hampus Ohman-Frolund (Apuh!) and guitarist John Lindaman (True Love Always), blurring rock forms and experimental electronics into a hybrid space rock that takes unexpected twists and turns, with the goal to produce compelling psychedelic inspired sound; headphones recommended! |
![]() Center For Whatever: Ensorcelled [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An intensely experimental journey in sound through guitars, electronics and percussion from the Brooklyn-based duo of John Lindaman and Hampus Ohman, a diverse set of pieces improvised using sound sculpting, noise and melodic elements, creating a great balance between darkness and light amidst solid conceptual and technical approaches to their instruments. |
![]() Directives : Protenomaly [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Aubjects -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Aubjects label leader D. Petri (Amalgamated, Dog Hallucination) continues his work in unusual and sometimes aggressive exploration of the guitar as a sound source, looking for "novel anomalies" in amorphous compositions, seeking an extreme mixture of audio fidelities, peculiar equipment configurations, personally significant field recordings & various multi-level manipulations, in parts joined by Hillary Ulman on percussion. |
![]() Teube : Teube [CASSETTE] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Strange environments of sound from the French trio of Simon Le Vigouroux on double bass, Cyril Noël on electronics and Thomas Coquelet on electronics, in two morphing works connected by name through each side of the cassette, expeditions guided by murky rythmic elements and mutated field recordings, surrounded by rich and darkly tinged sonic elements. |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 2 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 2nd installment in percussionist Matt Weston's opera for percussion and electronics in a limited cassette + download, a cantankerous set of recordings that alternate disruption with introspectively unusual techniques realized through graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores, each piece a narrative exploring mental health struggles as they develop over time. |
![]() L'Ocell / Ferran Fages: El Declivi [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The third release from the Barcelona-based experimental improvising duo L'Ocell of Chilean acoustic guitarist Fernando Carraso and Spanish double bassist Àlex Reviriego-double bass, here joined by guitarist Ferran Fages (a member of Phicus and Radium with Reviriego), for a set of mysteriously dark improvisations recorded live at Sant Roma de Mianigues church. |
![]() Erica Dicker / Dennis Sullivan: Blood Luxury [CASSETTE w/ DOWNOAD] (Tubapede -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Delicate abrasions and corruption of their instruments from the NY duo of Erica Dicker (Till by Turning) on violin and Dennis Sullivan (Radical 2), 9 works of improvised soundscape and avant-raw chamber music through prepared strings, tapes, looped feedback, resonant metals, modified snares and liberally bowed surfaces, richly constrained and luxuriously blood-curdling. |
![]() Branche, Sebastien: Lignes de Fuite [CASSETTE] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Sebastien Branche (Insub Meta Orchestra, Miguel A. Garcia) uses the tenor saxophone as a sound source, meticulously applying extended techniques, circular breathing and the resonance of the saxophone itself during improvisation, using Supercollider software in a two-way collaboration where the instrument also transforms the sounds provided by the computer. |
![]() Faint Glow / Justin Scott Gray : Quantum Ouch [CASSETTE] (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Part of a series of 8 split release cassettes, hand-painted & numbered; Side A presents dark soundscapes from Jeff Winter, aka Faint Glow, in slowly unfolding electronic works; Side B a variety of electronic approaches from arpeggiated to slowly abrasive grumbling. |
![]() Farmer, Patrick : Wild Horses Think Of Nothing Else The Sea - Tape Readings [2 CASSETTES + TEXT] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock During 2012 Patrick Farmer walked half of the Welsh Coast, writing a series of observations, which on this release are read in environmental settings by Antoine Beuger, Jeph Jerman, Bruno Guastalla, Sally Ann McIntyre, Holly Pester, Daniela Cascella, & Michael Pisaro-Liu. |
![]() Hawkins, Chester: Metabolism Quartet / Nocturne For Poppy [CASSETTE] (Zeromoon/ Intangible Arts -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Electro-psychedelic explorer Chester Hawkins presenting two live performances in Washington DC -- one recorded in isolation at Intangible Arts' studio (4th September 2018) and one in public at Rhizome community arts space (8th September 2018) -- improvised autopsies of Lutoslawski's String Quartet by means of three granular synth engines and one tape-edit/concrete emulator. |
![]() Hughes, Sarah: I Love This City And Its Outlying Lands [SINGLE SIDED CASSETTE] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A contemplative solo work of subtle nuance and laden atmospheres, slowly drifting through a virtual landscape of dampened details, from London composer and improviser Sarah Hughes, performing on zither, piano, Hammond organ, sine tones, white noise, electric harpsichord, and objects, using an eBow to draw sustained tones over which delicate progressions advance. |
![]() Hvizdalek / Nergaard / Tavil / Garner: Juxtaposition [CASSETTE] (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Sonic sources of a wide variety of timbre, rhythm and tone, mixed with voice, feedback, even bird sounds, make up the strata of this intriguing album from Oslo Improvisers Agnes Hvizdalek (voice), Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard (electric bass, electronics, field recordings), Utku Tavil (snare drum, no input mixer, sampler), and Natali Abrahamsen Garner (voice, electronics). |
![]() Konrad Strumpfel & The Set: refrescoscopio [CASSETTE] (Music a la Coque -- France ) Price: $5.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An unissued album from Bavarian experimenter & songwriter Konrad Strumpfel and "The Set", the Czech duo of Herbert Lukundra & Josif Afkak, who added their contributions to Strumpfel's work which had been sent to them by post, the strengthening of the "Iron Curtain" between the USSR & Europe in the late 80s then prohibiting the release of their collaboration. |
![]() Mr. Stonecipher Vs. Somnaphon: The Horsemaster's Daughter [CASSETTE] (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A cassette release joining 910 Noise and Ack Recordings from Ryan Lewis and August Traeger, harsh American noise that "will destroy the speakers" (Feast of Hate and Fear). |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 1 [CASSETTE] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Matt Weston (Arthur Brooks Ensemble V, Arc Pair) initiates a series of limited cassette releases with this solo album, seven works of percussion using traditional and idiosyncratic percussive sources with a pensive pace and somewhat irascible attitude, each piece fully notated and executed live in the studio, using a similar aesthetic to link each work. |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 3 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (4 Men With Beards -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 3rd installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
![]() Ali / Foster / Lopez / Wallace: The Inflatable Leviathan [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The first studio recording for the performing quartet of New York improvisers, Cecilia Lopez (synthesizer), Michael Foster (tenor & soprano saxophones), Sean Ali (double bass) and Eli Wallace (upright piano), taking listeners on an inflating journey from "Stratosphere" to "Exosphere" through unorthodox approaches, from sparse intensity to dense textural interaction. |
![]() Baldwin, Nat : The Red Barn [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A short book of fiction depicting dark scenes from the ambience of extraordinary normalcy, descriptive texts insinuating horror from everyday occurrence, written by double bassist Nat Baldwin and published by Calamari Press in 2017, here in an audio version of excerpts narrated by Baldwin himself, performing on double bass through two panned tracks of unusual improvisations. |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 4 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 4th installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
![]() Motl, Kyle / Patrick Shiroishi: Apparitions [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second album on Notice Recordings for West Coast free improvising saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi is a duo with San Diego-based double bassist Kyle Motl, in an exceptionally well-balanced example of powerful expression from both players, free blowing and turbulent exchanges offset by experimental introspective passages in four extended and excellent improvisations. |
![]() Munden-Dixon, Adrianne / Leo Chang: Some Time [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Unusual interactions between electronically manipulated violin and an AMPIRI--an electronically enhanced Korean double reed instrument--from the Brooklyn duo of Leo Chang and Adrianne Munden Dixon, seven improvisations numbered "Sixteen" to "Twenty-Two", each a uniquely idiosyncratic exchange from quick slippery dialog to raspy dissonance of unexpected directions. |
![]() Banabila, Michel: More Research From The Same Dept. [ [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tapu Records -- Netherlands ) Price: $6.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A followup to The Latest Research From The Department Of Electrical Engineering, Dutch experimental sound artist Michel Banabila shows his most explorative side through eleven compositions using electronics, found sounds, field recordings, synthetics and acousmatic sources, a wonderfully inspired set of contructions that float like machines in a dream. |
![]() Haters, The / Kavader: De Haters Und Kadaver [CASSETTE] (Tribe Tapes -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A split cassette of dark industrial noise from the long-running experimental sound unit The Haters founded by G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, in a cantankerous 10 minute buzz saw drone; and a "Venemous Agent" from the Israeli noise band Kadaver, aka Michael Zolotov, in a cycling work that builds to an oscillating throb of metalic and rumbling sources; edition of 75. |
![]() Rosenfeld, Marina: roygbiv&b [BOOK] (Run/Off Editions -- USA ) Price: $24.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A handsome spiral-bound book to accompany experimental sound artist and turntablist Marin Rosenfeld's roygbiv&b project riffing on the title through performance memory exercises, with text including a "User's Manual", a foreward by musicologist Benjamin Piekut, color & b/w images from the performance & exhibition, and four fold-out pages with scores. |
![]() Bishop, Jeb Centrifugal Trio: [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A live recording from zentri-fuge in Berlin, led by trombonist Jeb Bishop, with Milan bassist Antonio Borghini (Mike Patton's Mondo Cane) and German drummer Michael Griener (Carl-Ludwig Hübsch' Primordial Soup), in a collective set of free and energetic improvisations, five pieces that "Jounce", "Jitter", "Plumb" and "Dither" through an exciting and expressive concert. |
![]() Blonk, Jaap / Damon Smith: Hugo Ball: Sechs Laut- Und Klanggedichte 1916 (Six Sound Poems, 1916) [CASSETTE] (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three free improvisations for voice & double bass + improvisations on Hugo Ball's Six Sound Poems from the duo of free improvising vocalist Jaap Blonk and double bassist Damon Smith. |
![]() Hatcher, Gerrit: Good Weight [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Amalgam -- USA ) Price: $6.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock Chicago tenor saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher, known for his duos with Anton Hatwich and with Julian Kirshner, the improvising trio Devouring the Guilt with Eli Namay & Bill Harris and a trio with Mars Williams & Lia Kohl, is heard here in three extended solo improvisations, with strong tone riffing on grooves, exuding warm melodies, and running demanding technical passages on his horn. |
![]() Jerman, Jeph: Popular Fictions [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two side-long compositions from audio explorer Jeph Jerman, assembled using recordings of objects including "mouth, stone, wood, glass, metal, paper, plastic, radio" plus field recordings made through the spring and summer of 2020 in and around Cottonwood, AZ, joined with audio contributions from Doug Theriault, Chris Reider, Julie Schubert, &c. |
![]() Cameron / Smith / Cunningham: Time Without Hours [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Storm Cellar -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The of trio of Lisa Cameron on percussion, Damon Smith on double bass and Alex Cunningham on violin, continue their work after 2020's Dawn Throws Its First Knife with this cassette and download releases of five collective improvisations, using extended techniques amidst cogent conversation, from assertively exciting to darkly moody atmospheric interplay. |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 5 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 5th installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
![]() Irarrazabal / Baldwin: Grips [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Chilean double bassist, vocalist, improviser & composer Amanda Irarrázabal and Brooklyn double bassist Nat Baldwin in a live performance first-time meeting at the IRL concert space during Irarrázabal's week-long tour through NYC, this concert a profound meeting of deep strings, bowed, plucked and mutated through unique technical approaches to their instruments. |
![]() Chang, Leo / Lucie Vitkova: Religion [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Unusually orchestrated, spacious and exotic free improvisation from New York-based musicians Lucie Vítková, originally from Czech Republic and performing on accordion, hichiriki (a Japanese double reed flute), synth & harmonica, and Korean-born improviser Leo Chang performing on VOCALNORI (Amplified Gongs via Voice) and Piri (a Korean double reed instrument). |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 6 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 6th and final installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
![]() Smith, Damon / Louis Wall / NNN Cook / Michael William / Fred Tompkins: Fire Point [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A dark album of sound art from the quintet of mostly St. Louis improvisers--Damon Smith, Louis Wall, NNN Cook, Michael Williams and noted flutist Fred Tompkins on two tracks--starting through shrouded percussion and unidentifiable sources, the group's sessions are edited into a cohesive album that takes its listeners on a unique journey of electronic and acoustic interaction. |
![]() Feel No Other: Feel No Other (Silber -- USA ) Price: $10.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Electric Bird Noise artist Brian Lea McKenzie extends his concepts in a new duo with vocalist Claudia Gregory (Exhaust the Fox, Claudia Versus the Queen of Hearts), with a new band name and a compelling set of epic electro-rock songs. |
![]() Playbackers (Silbert / Foam / Young): Playbackers Record [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recording to 4 track cassette, this unusual and experimental Boston-area trio of active sound artists--Stella Silbert, Arkm Foam and Neil 'Cloaca' Young--improvise over abstract territory using turntables, a no-input mixer, objects, an open reel tape machine, contact mics, and cassette players, emerging with equally tongue-in-cheek and serious aural interactions. |
![]() Beam Splitter (Chen / Munkeby): Split Jaw [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 2nd release from the touring duo of Audrey Chen & trombonist Henrik Munkeby, Chen modifying her voice with amplification and performing on analog electronics, while Munkeby amplifies his trombone and also performs on analog electronics, feedback & sound files; often frighteningly intense improvisations that plays to the spectrum of sound in a mix of studio and live recordings. |
![]() Lareau, Charles: Stasis (CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD) (Eh? -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Sound artist Charles Lareau, a member of Naturaliste with Bryan Day, Chris Fischer & Lonnie Methe, in six solo compositions of assertive electronics and noise, using recordings, found sounds and various electronics while often incorporating his environment to add aural excitement and unexpected moments between sections of slowly shifting, static textures. |
![]() Surak, Jeff: Eris I Dysnomia [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Eh? -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Washington DC-area sound artist and Zeromoon label-leader Jeff Surak, creating audio environments since the 80's home taping days, in a set of sound recordings of electro-acoustic drones, tape generated musique concrete, "plus a heavy dose of weirdness"; five tracks of diverse approaches to sonic experimentation, particularly the epic "Parasite Lost". |
![]() Orasique (Don Malfon / Fernando Barrios / Marco Albert / Misha Marks): Ixtlahuaca (CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD) (Eh? -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A mix of chaos, awe and humorously inspired improvisation from the quartet of Don Malfon on alto saxophone, Fernando Barrios on drums & objects, Marco Albert on voice and Misha Marks on latarra (a form of home-built guitar), recording in Colonia Buenavista de San Pedro Ixtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico for 7 peculisar and absorbing improvisations. |
![]() Onda, Aki: Brisbane September 25 2004 (CASSETTE) (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock As part of a 2004 performance series at Fabrique in Brisbane, Australia, Lawrence English invited experimental cassette and field recording artrist Aki Onda to present his unique approach to reusing and rupturing recordings using cassettes, Walkmans, delay pedals and fender twin amps, improvising this extended work & its coda, blurring concrete and inexplicable sources in remarkable ways. |
![]() Williams, Chris / Patrick Shiroishi: Sans Soleil II [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second chapter in the duo of West Coast improvisers Chris Williams on trumpet, cornet, objects & mutes and Patrick Shiroishi on alto, soprano and tenor saxophones plus snare drum, essentially a free jazz outing of six fascinating dialogs, from call and response to pointillistic interaction, a masterful display of assertive playing through intensive listening. |
![]() Costa, Carlo / John McCowen: Pianissimo Etc [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Powerfully rich sounds from two NY-based instrumentalists — John McCowen on contrabass clarinet & Carlo Costa on bass drum & percussion — in a three-part work of acoustic improvisations, McCowen sounding deceptively electronic through overtones and masterful harmonic technique, while Costa's bass drum provides deep foundations as he mysteriously layers percussive distractions; phenomenal! |
![]() Muller, Matthias / Pawel Doskocz / Emilio Gordoa: Aural Accidentals [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock On the last day of the 2021 Spontaneous Music Festival at the Dragon Club in Poznań, Poland, the trio of Berlin trombonist Matthias Muller was joined by younger generation Polish guitarist Pawel Doskocz on prepared electric guitar and fellow Berlin drummer and electroacoustic improviser Emilio Gordoa for these two extended sonic adventures recorded in near-darkness. |
Gray, Jesse : The Pointless Forest [CASSETTE] [Used Item] (Self Released -- USA ) Price: $3.60 ![]() ![]() In Stock Previously played Squidco store copy, used for cataloging and samples, in excellent condition. |
![]() Jerman, Jeph / Ted Byrnes: Passenger [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two western-US, like-minded sound artists and improviser who started their musical lives as drummer/percussionists, Jeph Jerman and Ted Byrnes present nine relatively succinct tracks of unusual and unidentifiable sources, typically formed around a rhythmic center and always actively engaging, finding logic in curious or even chaotic interaction. |
![]() Roysum, Andres / Christian Meaas Svendsen / Kresten Osgood: Music Improvised on September 23rd, 2021 [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A subset of the Andreas Røysum Ensemble, the trio of Norwegian clarinetist Andreas Roysum on Bb& Bass clarinets, Nakama Label leader Christian Meaas Svendsen on double bass and Danish drummer Kresten Osgood recorded these collective free improvisations on the title's date in an unnamed location, for four assertive dialogs of impressive expression. |
![]() Wood, Dorian / Thor Harris (w/ Carla Bozulich / Jarboe / Patrick Shiroishi / Heather Trost): You Are Clearly In Perversion [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Astral Editions -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A ritualistic narrative work from multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood and percussionist Thor Harris (Swans), with Carla Bozulich and Jarboe contributing their voices in an ensemble of contemporary and experimental arrangement, alongside guests David Coulter, Heather Trost, Jeremy Barnes, Michael Corwin, Ignacio Carvajal, Andrea Calderon, Elizabeth Warren and Patrick Shiroishi. |
![]() McCormick, John Collins : Healthy Alternative To Thinking [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Eh? -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two sound works from multimedia artist John Collins McCormick (Sky Thing) recorded using a multi-channel, portable sound system that employs up to 8 subwoofers in drum stands, amplifying low frequencies and rattling odds and ends he collected over the years, creating a rolling and controlled cacophony of quick rhythms and unusual asides from objects placed on the subwoofers. |
![]() Various Artists: Free Percussion/Water [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Demonstrating the striking diversity modern solo percussionists present, the Italian tape label TSSS Tapes compiles an international set of solo works from explorers Tim Daisy, Jeph Jerman, Ted Byrnes, Wojtek Kurek, Clinton Green, Rie Nakajima, Emilio Berne, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Lucie Nezri, Karen Willems, Paolo Sanna, Li Qing, Carlos Godinho, and Rodrigo Vieira. |
![]() Eventless Plot: Schemata [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Thessaloniki trio Vasilis Liolios, Aris Giatas and Yiannis Tsirikoglou, aka Eventless Plot, pays great attention to sonic details through experimental sound and sonic expression, here in a two-part work performed on percussion, analog modular synth, tapes/Revox A-77, field recordings, electromagnetic mic & objects, joined by double bassist Antonis Argyriou for the 2nd part. |
![]() Baldwin, Nat: Autonomia II: Recombinations [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLAOD] (Traced Objects -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Four unedited performances of extreme double bass work from Tripticks label leader Nat Baldwin, merging free playing with extraneous bass sounds, noise and unusual techniques, yielding a muscular set of double bass improvisations, the opening tracks building technique around fractured lyrical expression as the album builds to the closing "negation" of burning intensity. |
![]() Wilson, Kelsey: Secular Music [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Marthasville Fine Audio Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An album of sonic environments reflecting on religion in the Southeast from Atlanta, GA drummer and sound artist Kelsey Wilson, using organ, tapes and field recordings to create dark and brooding meditations intended for loud playback, five opaquely layered constructions of ambience and drone, crackling tape loops, low-tones synths and disembodied voices. |
![]() Wilson, Kelsey: A Workmanlike Approach [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Marthasville Fine Audio Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two distinctive works of sounds and noise from Atlanta sound artist and drummer Kelsey Wilson composing extended works using field recordings collected between 2020-2022, volume/feedback and synthesizers; first a howling and heavy journey in "Bootstrap Story"; then a rich and ringing birthday party for Nick Cave that ends with haunting bells and running water. |
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Strictly Missionary (Pitsiokos / Eisenberg / Lenz / Murray / Neuburg): Heisse Scheisse [CASSETTE w/
The Yes, Well... (Jeph Jerman / Dave Knott): No, Really. [CASSETTE]
Polyorchard: Red October [CASSETTE w/DOWNLOAD]
Jerman, Jeph / Ted Byrnes: Passenger [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Jefferson, Larry: Journey [CASSETTE] <i>[Used Item]</i>
Mako Sica (feat Tatsu Aoki / Thymme Jones / Jacob Fawcett) : Garland of Heads [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
Nakajima, Rie: Fusuma [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Corcoran, Kevin / Giacomo Salis / Paolo Sanna: Sul Filo [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Grdina, Gordon / Jim Black: Martian Kitties [CASSETTE W/ DOWNLOAD]
Smith, Damon / Louis Wall / NNN Cook / Michael William / Fred Tompkins: Fire Point [CASSETTE + DOWNL
Pisaro / Chabala: Black, White, Red, Green, Blue (Voyelles) [CASSETTE]
Jerman, Jeph: Popular Fictions [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Mendoza, Ava: New Spells [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions: Compilation Cassette [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Jacques, Anne-F / Takamitsu Ohta: Oto to Secchi [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Surak, Jeff: Eris I Dysnomia [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Olive, Tim / Kayu Nakada: Entenka [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Feeney, Tim: Burrow [CASSETTE]
Mazzarella / Haker Flaten / Ra: What You Seek is Seeking You [CASSETTE W/ DOWNLOAD]
Erica Dicker / Dennis Sullivan: Blood Luxury [CASSETTE w/ DOWNOAD]