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Hurd, Judson: Trouble Will Cause (A True Crime Documentary) (Bad Architect Records -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock The original motion picture soundtrack for a true crime documentary about the Lawson Family Murders on Christmas Day in 1929 from pianist and sonic experimenter Judson Hurd, presenting six tracks that accompany the movie through dark and mysterious passages of keys, synth and percussive tones; the profits of each copy sold will benefit victims of Hurricane Florence. |
Thut, Stefan : about (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Composer & cellist Stefan Thut performs his composition with Ryoko Akama (electronics), Stephen Chase (guitar), Eleanor Cully (piano), Patrick Farmer (metal percussion), and lo wie (tingsha), where half of the group allow single percussive, ringing or electronic sounds to decay, as the other half play high register pitches, in between walking "about" and uttering monosyllabic words. |
Fages, Ferran : Un lloc entre dos records (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Submerging the listener into the immediacy of pure perception through the economy of materials and atemporality, Catalan guitarist Ferran Fages presents the 3rd piece of his trilogy for guitar and sinteones, referencing Feldman, Lucier and Szlavnics as he specifies tunings for the guitar accompanied by pure resonating sinetones used as memory vehicles or shadows. |
Mello, Laura: Esta Verde! (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Using multiple voices, field recordings and electronics, Brazil-born composer living in Berlin Laura Mello works with spoken language as she explores human perception of acoustic phenomena in relation to spoken language, here in 8 compositions or excerpts that reveal hallucinatory and unusual aspects of speech complemented by elusive aural environments. |
Ravenstine, Allen: The Pharaoh's Bee (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The original Pere Ubu keyboardist Allen Ravenstine in a limited edition release of analog electronics, an extraordinary album of rich sound taking unexpected twists and turns while showing the power of the EML synthesizer, coupled with a theremin. |
Rodrigues, / Rodrigues / Santos: Le Havre (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Recording at the Pied Nu Festival, in Le Havre, France in 2018, the trio of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, and Carlos Santos on electronics present an extended and mysteriously subtle album of electroacoustic improvisation, detailed and remarkably controlled conversation of near telepathic anticipation from three intimate collaborators. |
Rusling, Terry : The Machine Is Broken (Spool -- Canada ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Retrospective of Terry Rusling, a Canadian composer of electronic music working for the CBC in the 60's, who was introduced to the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Toronto, where he was awarded the title of Research Associate, receiving a Canada Council Grant to travel and work in Belgium, Utrecht, Paris, &c.; 2 of his graphic scores are part of John Cage's "Notations" project. |
Lyall, Cal / Tim Olive: Lowering (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock Like mad scientists of sound, sonic explorers Tim Olive and Cal Lyall met in a Tokyo studio in 2012 armed with hydrophones, magnetic pickups and electronics to record this richly detailed and slowly unfolding work, blending organic and mechanical elements of indeterminate origin, finding absorbing dialog without clamor or tumult; intriguing and engrossing. |
Olive, Tim / Yan Jun: Brother of Divinity (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock 845 label leader and sonic explorer Tim Olive uses magnetic pickups and electronics in this meeting with radical living room concert sound artist, poet and improviser Yan Jun in Kobe, Japan, Jun using a variety of electronics, radio and field recordings as the two improvise in a wonderfully mischievous set of errant dialog and restrained deconstruction. |
Dorgon: Shot in the Face (Jumbo -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Featuring an x-rated insert in a puff-up brown paper package, Mr. Dorgon attacks with two electronic works and a harmonica solo from a live show on KFJC in California. |
Guionnet, Jean-Luc / Thomas Bonvalet : Loges De Souffle (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Thomas Bonvalet takes the banjo into unusual territory with Jean-Luc Guionnet performing on the organ at the protestant temple of Bergerac, France, in a beautifully terrifying album recorded during the MONC cultural arts centre's festival of avant-garde culture in 2010. |
Dim Thickets (Carlo Costa / Jason Nazary): Dim Thickets [CASSETTE] (Anticausal Systems -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Bringing together two New York percussionists for a wild ride of that finds drummer Jason Nazary performing exclusively on electronics against and alongside Neither/Nor label-leader Carlo Costa's percussion, using glitch and aberrant electronics in actively constrained ways as the two dart and weave around each other in an exciting and unique improvisational dialog. |
Blonk, Jaap / Cor Fuhler: Pre-Zoic Cellways (Kontrans -- The Netherlands ) Price: $17.95 In Stock |
Parkins, Zeena / Wobbly: Triplicates (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Recording in electric harpist Zeena Parkin's office at Mills College in Oakland with Jon Leideker, aka Wobbly, performing on mobile phones, tablets, booper, and mixer, their output run through a series of simple listening devices, machines designed to sing along with the melodies they believe themselves to be hearing, though they are often wrong; singular and surprising! |
Fages, Ferran / Ernesto Rodrigues: Cru (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A composite of environmental sounds, electronics, and viola, recorded in Barcelona, Spain and Lisbon, Portugal from intrepid audio explorers Ferran Fages and Ernesto Rodrigues, the single long work taking the listener on a theoretical journey of transparent traffic, squealing wheels and indeterminate location, engrossing in its detail and the mystery it presents. |
Schlothauer, Burkhard : Harmonies And Structures (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Austria ) Price: $12.95 In Stock When the Zeitkratzer Ensemble was asked to perform a late ensemble work by John Cage, director Reinhold Friedl turned to composer Burkhard Schlothauer, who reworked one of Cage's Number Pieces to create this rich piece using Cage's methods; plus a composition for the dance piece "Bewegte Bauhausbilder"; and an octet commissioned for the Klangzeit-Festival Time Is On My Side. |
Girard, Doreen / Tim Olive: Boro (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 In Stock Recording in Saskatoon in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan the day before their performance at the Sounds Like Festival, audio explorer Tim Olive brings his magnetic pickups in a first meeting with Doreen Girard performing on a prepared tsymbaly, a Ukranian hammer dulcimer, for a single, unusually evolving, and wonderfully rich improvisation. |
Olive, Tim / Martin Tetreault: Faune (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 In Stock Fellow Canadians, Montreal's Ambiances Magnetiques collective member, turntablist and electronics artist Martin Tetrault meets Japan-based electronic explorer Tim Olive performing on magnetic pickups, in their first album despite having performed sporadically across three decades: 4 rich improvisations minimally edited, shaping sound in compelling ways. |
Legmann, Shira / Michael Pisaro: Barricades (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Presenting LA-based composer Michael Pisaro's recent work "Barricades", a 63-minute piece in 13 Studies for piano performed by Israeli-based pianist Shira Legmann, with electronics performed by Pisaro, punctuated by two electronic Interludes from Pisaro; a rich and reflective work enveloping and intertwining the electronics around solidly articulate piano expression. |
Mazurek, Rob: Love Waves Ecstatic Charge (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock One of three releases in Rob Mazurek's Marfa Trio, recorded in Marfa, TX, using 106 distorted still images and fragmented skipping sound from video shot at Abbaye Royal de Fontevraud, France in 2005, repurposed for this intense and wild sound work which processes the images through modular synth and computer, shaped by Mazurek's unique approach to sound. |
Mazurek, Rob: Psychotropic Electric Eel Dreams IV (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Recordings from the 4-channel sound composition for the ESS Florasonic installation series at Lincoln Park Conservatory in Chicago, of Rob Mazurek's work using recordings of electric eels from National Institute of Research and Technology in Manaus, Brazil, combined with analog/digital synthesis to create environments of beautiful undulating and radiant sonic textures. |
Parker, Evan / Matthew Wright / Trance Map+: Crepuscule in Nickelsdorf (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock Composed by saxophonist Evan Parker and electronic artist Matthew Right, "Trance Map" has Parker triggering interactions with samples from Wright's record collection, reshaped by live processing, here in an incredible expanded performance at Konfrontationen 2017 with Adam Linson on bass & electronics, John Coxon on turntable & electronics, and Ashley Wales on electronics. |
Nakamura, Toshimaru: Re-Verbed (No-Input Mixing Board 9) (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Tokyo-based electronics artist Toshimaru Nakamura's 9th album of No-Input Mixing Board music, elucidating sound from the mixing board without any audio sources, showing the amazing evolution of his approach as he turns this "empty" "instrument" into an amazing source of rhythmic and assertive sound that's both surprising and wonderfully musical. |
Alvear, Cristian / Tim Olive: Telquan (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $9.95 Out of Stock Minimalist Chilean guitarist Cristian Alvear and Tim Olive first played together in October 2016, doing three concerts in Japan, Alvear returning to Japan in October of 2017 for additional performances in Kyoto and Osaka, then spending a day recording in Kobe; this single improvised piece he result of that day, heard as it was recorded, with a few structural edits. |
Millar, Elizabeth / Tim Olive / Craig Pedersen: Charm Point (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $9.95 Out of Stock Montreal-area's Mystery and Wonder Records duo of Elizabeth Millar on clarinet and Craig Pedersen on trumpet met sound artist Tim Olive in Tokyo's famed Gok Sound studio to record these absorbing electroacoustic improvisations, employing hand-made microphones in metal and wooden tubes, corrupted consumer sound devices, and electro-magnetism through analog circuits. |
Bonne Humeur Provisoire: Marek [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A very odd album of experimental rock and mutilated folk forms that they refer to as "A sort of traditional music from a later country in a less faraway time", from French percussionist Bertrand Fraysse with vocalist Miha, using repetition and simple forms that build to strangely dense electronic environments, with a clear DIY and peculiar attitude; great fun! |
Denyer, Frank: The Boundaries of Intimacy (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A set of varied compositions from Frank Denyer, most of them of a delicate acoustic intimacy, with works for female singers & flute, two works for koto, a string quartet, one for flute and electronics and the two-part "Frog" for a bowed stringed instrument of Denyer design, the "sneh"; uncategorizable music of sublime imagination and unusual approaches. |
Kalman, Egil / Fredrik Rasten: Weaving a Fabric of Winds (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Swedish bass player Egil Kalman, here on modular syntheizer, joins Norwegian guitarist Fredrik Rasten for a lovely album of drifting electronics and beautifully entwining acoustic guitar, unhurriedly developing environments of warm, slowly evolving chord structures that show influences from players like Catherine Lamb or the Wandelweiser collective. |
Gustafsson, Mats / Wendy Gondeln / Wolfgang Voigt / Martin Siewert: The Shithole Country & Boogie Band (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A unique album blurring acoustic recordings from saxophonist Mats Gustafsson with the electronic machinations and rhythms of Wendy Gondeln, aka Albert Oehlen, a German experimental electronic artist, the two inviting Martin Siewert for additional guitar on two tracks, and Wolfgang Voight to remix two tracks; funky, unpredictable, amusing, and seductively tantalizing. |
Parkins, Andrea / Matthew Ostrowski: Elective Affinities (Infrequent Seams Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock The first recording of the playfully detailed improvisation of two NY collaborators with nearly two decades of work together--Andrea Parkins on accordion, objects & electronics, and Matthew Ostrowski on electronics--improvising in the studio for eight explorative works that seamlessly mesh acoustic and electronics, seemingly forward and backward at the same time! |
Glanzmann, Vincent / Gerry Hemingway: Composition O (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $11.10 Out of Stock A constantly evolving electro-acoustic composition for percussion and microphones from the Swiss-based duo of Vincent Glanzmann and Gerry Hemingway, using cymbals, floor tom & percussion, directed by both graphic and collective compositional approaches while applying carefully controlled amplification to prodigious extended techniques on their instruments. |
Krci (Loris Binot / Emilie Skrijelj): Krci (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Filled with mystery and innuendo, the duo of French pianist and keyboardist Loris Binot, performing on prepared piano, prepared Fender Rhodes, Moog & electronics, and French-based accordionist Emilie Skrijelj, also on samples & electronics, are heard in a recording at the performing arts theater at CCAM in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy for two extended and superbly intriguing improvisations. |
D. L., Jean (w/ Hermant / Ranaldo / Young): Forays (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A set of beautiful electro-acoustic compositions, dream-like and rich in details using sources of acoustic instruments, field recordings, guitar, electronics and voice, organized into hazy and beautiful reflections, with contributions from Margaret Hermant on xylophone & violin, Jeremy Young on electronics, and Lee Ranaldo providing field recordings and voice. |
Stangl, Burkhard / Dieb13: Jardin Des Bruits (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Returning to their duo work together 17 years after their erstwhile records eh, guitarist Burkhard Stangl and turntablist Dieb13 explore and expand the sonic properties of their work in this new "Garden Of Noises", using electronics and recordings of soundscapes from Paris and Montreuil, recorded live at Instants Chavires in France, 2019. |
Cremaster / Komora A: split [7-inch VINYL] [Used Item] (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $11.66 In Stock A split 7" release between Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electronics) and Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board and electroacoustic devices); and the Komora A trio of Karol Koszniec (electronics), Dominik Kowalczyk (laptop) and Jakub Mikolajczyk (modular synth). |
Weston, Matt: Tell Us About Your Stupor [VINYL] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Innovative experimenter Matt Weston's latest LP is a live recording of two new electroacoustic songs mastered by Jason Lescalleet, inspired by the "revolutionary experimental filmmaker" Joseph Levitch, aka Jerry Lewis, using percussion, electronics & objects in unique, explosive, and unexpected ways to create a wonderfully chaotic audio image of the comedic master. |
Parmegiani, Bernard: Violostries [VINYL] (Recollection GRM -- Austria ) Price: $16.79 Out of Stock Three works from Italian composer and sound artist Bernard Parmegiani, the title track "Violostries" performed with violinist Devy Erlih and Parmegiani on sound projection, intersecting several of Parmegiani's research concepts and presented as simultaneous dialogues; plus "Capture Ephemere" an active acousmatic work; and the rotating composition "La Roue Ferri". |
Lubelski, Samara / Bill Nace: S/T (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Issuing on CD the duo album of violinist Samara Lubelski and guitarist Bill Nace, originally released on Nace's Open Mouth label early in 2018, presenting a series of psychedelic textural works, Lubelski creating vibrant and reiterating structures that Nace uses as a foundation for swells and expressive emanations; hypnotic and mesmerizing. |
Gerard, Pierre: Cavite Aerienne (Not On Label -- France ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Extremely patient compositions for electronics, cello, guitar and tenor sax from French sound and visual artist Pierre Gerard: "Air" using recordings from his duo partner of tenor saxophonist Bertrand De Lamalle with long sections of silence; "Cavity" employs previously recorded guitar improvisations that interact with Gerard's live electronic improvisations. |
Machinefabriek: Amalgaam (Zoharum -- Poland ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Based on a series of improvisations on a very hands-on hardware setup, with an old tone generator, effects pedals, dictaphones, contact mics, &c., Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt) took these recordings into the studio to compose these four works, 2 brief pieces and the 2-part, intricate "Amalgaam", in an absorbing album of dramatic texture & sound. |
Machinefabriek: Wendingen (selected remixes 2005-2015) (Zoharum -- Poland ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A selection of Machinefabriek's (Rutger Zuydervelt) favorite remixes made between 2005 and 2015 of his reworks and reinterpretations of tracks by Mensenkinderen, Wouter Van Veldhoven, Fieldhead, Aaron Martin, Coppice, de la mancha, The Moi Non Plus, Djivan Gasparyan, Amon Tobin, Gareth Hardwick, Fiium Shaarrk, Vladimir and Red Stars Over Tokyo. |
Machinefabriek / Anne Bakker: Short Scenes (Zoharum -- Poland ) Price: $13.95 In Stock While developing a soundtrack with violinist and violist Anne Bakker, Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek, began editing a series of Bakker's improvisations, creating new works from those recordings by layering them into succinct short works or "scenes"--twenty of them in the end--that he sequenced into this album of confidently dramatic and delicately beautiful episodes. |
Wachsmann, Phil : Writing In Water (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock UK-based violinist Phillip Wachsmann, an essential player bringing contemporary approaches of indeterminacy, conceptualism and electroacoustics to the early community of improvisers and experimentalists, in a reissue of his 1984 Bead Records album, presenting his astute and sophisticated live solo performance for violin and electronics at the Actual Festival in July 1984, London. |
Myers, David Lee: That Which Is It (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Using electronic and digital tools similar to those that fuel his Arcane Device project, New York sound artist David Lee Myers presents an accessibly engaging set of compositions using modular electronics, feedback matrices, guitar textures, voices, and frogs in 11 polyrhythmic adventures; quirky yet non-chaotic, sublime experimental works of tone and texture. |
Brodbeck / Bohm: Weak Ties (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Working in the Elektronisches Studio, in Basel, Switzerland, the duo of electronic artist and guitarist Volker Böhm and drummer/percussionist Benjamin Brodbeck, also employing sonic objects of indeterminate source, create a fascinating set of 9 sonic compositions driven by rhythmic interaction, using space and focused recording techniques in superbly timed dialogs. |
Kubisch, Christina: Italienische Stucke/Italian Pieces (1974-1984) (Tochnit Aleph -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock A conceptual performance piece from Christina Kubisch, composed and recorded between 1974-84 while in Italy, including a NY performance recorded by Phill Niblock, realized with Arturo Morfino on drums, guitar & objects and Fabrizio Plessi gargling water; an unusual, engrossing and excursive work integrating electronics, field recordings, wind instruments and voice. |
Durand, Werner: Schwingende Luftsaulen 3 (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A beautifully hypnotic album of wind music, especially on the Pan-Ney, an instrument developed by Berlin composer Werner Durand, along with electronics and a piece using the talking drum as performed by Marika Falk, presenting early works from the 1990s that bridge both improvisation and composition with an embraceable sound that reveals underlying complexity. |
White, John: Electric Music [2 CDs] (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $19.95 In Stock English experimental composer and musical performer John White recorded the pieces on this 2 CD retrospective set between 1980 and 1995, a combination of serious, popular and novelty pieces, often exploring areas of contradiction, particularly linear and rhythmic, within an unlikely sound-world in which parameters such as volume, timbre, texture and speed remain fixed. |
Hawkins, Alexander feat/ Evan Parker + Riot Ensemble: Togetherness Music (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Pianist Alexander Hawkins' six movement composition is realized by the UK Riot Ensemble, known primarily for their work with notated contemporary music, adding Evan Parker's incredible soprano sax soloing, and filtered through Matthew Wright's live electronic processing, resulting in this amazing hybrid masterwork that bridges modern 21st Century forms. |
Frith, Fred / Ikue Mori: A Mountain Doesn't Know it's Tall (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Having worked together for 40 years starting in the 80's in the Downtown NY scene, guitarist Fred Frith and electronic artist Ikue Mori recorded this album in Germany, using studio time left after recording the music for a radio play by Werner Penzel, using that work as an influence for these exceptional improvisations on home made instruments, toys and electronics. |
Wittenburg, Florian: Beyond The Traceries (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Various facets of German composer and experimenter Florian Wittenburg's interests, in two iterations of two pieces and two compositions, using voice, vibraphones and ringing bowls, treated electronically to emphasize unique characteristics of sound from warmly rich to mysteriously fragile, balanced with space and careful timing; a valuable introduction to his work. |
Wong, Eric: Cognitive Dissonance (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Guitarist, computer musician, and improviser Eric Wong (D.N.A.N.D.N.A. with Simon Rose) focuses on sound textures and perception of sound, in three works composed using Ableton Live that explore concepts of psychoacoustic sound through dissonance, harmonic interference and hallucinatory sound, slowly developing works of rich sonic characteristic. |
Dorner, Axel / Toshimaru Nakamura: In Cotton and Wool (Ftarri -- Japan ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Meeting in sound artist and vocalist Yan Jun's studio in Berlin in 2017, trumpeter Axel Dörner and no-input mixer artist Toshimaru Nakamura recorded these four active and bristling improvisations, Dörner using every inch of his instrument and treating it with electronics to create the controlled chaos and richly jarring recordings that make up this, their 2nd album together. |
Nutters, Koen: Intervals, time and space between [2 CDs] (Meenna -- Japan ) Price: $15.40 In Stock Three versions of composer Koen Nutters piece "Intervals, time and space between," performed in Berlin, Switzerland and The Netherlands in 2019 by Ensemble Post-music and DNK Ensemble with special guests Stefan Thut, Luke Martin, Thea Mesirow and Aaron Foster Breilyn, the work open to interpretation as a construction kit for each player to build their own version. |
Davis, Greg: Throughline (Autumn Records -- USA ) Price: $10.00 In Stock Taking modular synths into unusual territory, Autumn Records label leader and relentless audio explorer Greg Davis spent years using a computer controlled modular synthesizer system to generate an obsessive set of synthetic and electronic sounds -- swooping, burbling, chattering, &c. -- assembled into this quick witted and energetic set of compositions. |
Granberg, Magnus (w/ Miki Maruta / Ko Ishikawa / Toshimaru Nakamura): Come Down to Earth Where Sorrow Dwelleth (Meenna -- Japan ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Stockholm composer Magnus Granberg's first visit to Japan was to perform at the 2019 Ftarri Festival, adapting his extended and subtle work "Come Down to Earth Where Sorrow Dwelleth", originally composed for the Boston ensemble Ordinary Affects, here reworked for sho, koto, prepared piano and electronics performed by Ko Ishikawa, Miki Maruta and Toshimaru Nakamura. |
Iruretagoiena, Oier: Kulakantu (Nueni -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Four pieces from Oier Iruretagoiena (Tusuri, Larraskito Audio Dissection Unit) using computer generated sound of an abstract nature, with irregular rhythms and intersections in harmonics and feedback, actively reserved and avoiding extremes while creating a cohesively curious collection of quirky, aberrant, cranky and surprisingly compelling connected sounds. |
Bonaldo, Lucio: Concrete Union (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Using percussion, cymbals, various objects, computer and sound sculptures made by Bruno Girardi, Italian percussionist Lucio Bonaldo, known for the group L'imbroglio, presents a set of recordings performed live and direct, captured between 2018 & 2019, including a Sonorization of a literary passage taken from "Traviso" by Alberto Cellotto, and "Altken", an overdubbed work. |
Miele, Lucio: Kalpa (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A solo album from Italian percussionsit Lucio Miele, presenting six works of layered percussion with live electronics and, on three tracks, recitation from actor Simona Fredella, each piece sound-oriented with an incredibly diverse set of percussive variety, detailed atmospheric settings and diverse rhythmic foundation; a remarkable and sometimes hair-raising album. |
Drasler / Pascolo / Novello: odboqpo (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The electroacoustic improv trio of flutist Paolo Pascolo and electronics guru Alberto Novello (JesterN') on modular synthesizer, and Slovenian drummer Vid Drašler, for seven haunting improvisations of unfaltering patience, electronic tones commingling with atmospheric flutes and subtle percussive intervention, creating rich sonic environments or quirky conversation. |
Kouw, Matthijs: The Great Image Has No Form [CD + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock With the haunting impression of spiritual peacefulness and inner contemplation, Netherlands sound & experimental musician Matthijs Kouw blurs synthetic sound, field recordings and acousmatic sources into a reflection of his interest in Daoism and his visit to China's Wudang mountains, where he studied Chinese meditation and martial arts. |
Gintas K: Variations in a - moll for a granular synthesis [CD + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Six variations in Lithuanian sound artist and composer Gintas K's work composed during an art residency in MoKS (moks.ee), Estonia, each variation between 8 to 12 minutes long evolving interactions between granulated and continuously shifting computer generated sounds, thick electronics that leaves space amidst the synthetics to create digestible and intriguingly compelling works. |
Comes & Simonis: Regering [CD + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock "Regering" signifies "Government", the title and track names derived from the works of B. Traven, in the first meeting between sound artist and composer Matrijn Comes and guitarist Lukas Simonis (AA Kismet, Coolhaven), in a dark album of subtle innuendo and detail, running the spectrum from nightmarish environments to hopeful glimmers; an impressive collaboration. |
Vujanic, Daniel: Prosopagnosia [CD + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock The first part of guitarist, sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Junnic's Fabula trilogy evokes dynamic and mercurial environments through intuitive approaches, altering and transforming components and source material in acousmatic ways over which acoustic instruments sometimes intone, the results warm and intriguing, implying melody and engaging the listener. |
Hprizm: Signs Remixed (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock 577 Records' experimental, electronic sub-label Positive Elevation releases this remix of Gerald Cleaver's Signs album, itself an innovative album of synthetic rhythms and sonic landscape, here reworked by producer Hprizm, aka High Priest of Antipop Consortium, channeling Cleaver's work into dream-like territory that re-thinks and re-paces the original. |
Forsgren, Joakim / Andreas Hiroui Larsson featuring David Lackner: Vending Machine (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Sound and visual installation artists Joakim Forsgren and Andreas Hiroui Larsson use a multiplicity of approaches, both rhythmic and abstract, and a vast set of instruments (flutes, bass, drum machines, saxophone, maracas, sythesizer, &c) and objects (kitchenware, nails in a box, aluminum foil, &c) to create a universe of quirky and embraceable song-like structures. |
Branciforte, Joseph / Theo Bleckmann : LP1 [VINYL] (Greyfade -- USA ) Price: $22.95 In Stock Like a blanket of twilight sound and insidiously fragile detail, the results of two days of uninterrupted sonic exploration between New York multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound artist & recording engineer Joseph Branciforte and German vocal innovator & electronic artist Theo Bleckmann are heard in four compositions from their collaboration: gorgeous, lulling and edgy. |
ForM: ForM (Aubjects -- USA ) Price: $22.95 In Stock An album of electronic rhythmical work, glitch, soundscape experimentation and hallucinatory sound from Robert Newell, a member of Amalgamated, with fellow Amalgamated member Phillip Klampe assisting in contribution and production; 14 concise and diverse examples of twisted conceptual sound following a concept of life forming from the brine. |
I/O: Carlos Santos / Ilrich Mitzlaff: Studies on Colour Fields Modulation (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Electronic improviser Carlos Santos, whose sound work started with VITRIOL in 1989, a laboratory for experimental sound actions, also studied painting and works as a graphic designer; here he joins with cellist and sound artist Ulrich Mitzlaff for two extended works taking their cue from the visual arts as they study and sonically reflect subtle modulations in color fields. |
Rousay, Claire: A Collection [2 CDs] (American Dreams Records -- USA ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock Exploring the earliest work of Claire Rousay, from her performances as a solo drummer and then transitioning into a musique concrete/new music composer, the 1st CD collecting Rousay's favorite drumming cuts, sequenced into a large single composition, the 2nd CD beginning with percussion work as Rousay adds voice, sonic & field recorded material to create a monumental composition. |
Borghi, Andrea / Giacomo Salis / Paolo Sanna: MOT [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Spain ) Price: $8.95 Out of Stock Explorative electronics and percussion from Italian improvisers Andrea Borghi, Giacomo Salis and Paolo Sanna, all three steeped in electronics, percussion and sound art, using prepared turntable and objects to create mysteriously rich environments in a seething cauldron of sound that never boils over, engaging through uniquely developed interaction from quirky to oddly charming. |
Jacques, Anne-Francoise / Tim Olive: Bistre [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Spain ) Price: $8.95 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. |
Olive, Tim / Kayu Nakada: Entenka [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Spain ) Price: $8.95 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. |
Heasley, Tom: Where the Earth Meets the Sky (Hypnos -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Somnoroase Pasarele: 0RT0 (I-IV) (Aubjects -- USA ) Price: $18.00 In Stock An exploration of texture and mood through electronics, performed by Romanian poet and plastic artist Gili Mocanu between 2015 & 2016, divided in four suites of striking and specific interpretive sound inspired by the eclipse of August 21, 2017, detailed in a beautiful 16 page booklet of eclipse imagery from the artist, packaged in a DVD snap case. |
Modelbau (Frans de Waard): Qonrad [CASSETTE] (Aubjects -- USA ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock Using prepared re-recorded cassettes, iPad apps, sound effects, laptop, shortwave radio, small synthesizers, ancient 2bit sampling device, all recorded on the spot without multi-tracking or extensive post-editing, Frans de Waard's 2017 Modelbau release presents 22 concise recordings of joyfully quirky electronic expression, from Kraftwerkian sound to curious peculiarity; wonderful. |
Schmickler, Marcus: Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Editions Mego -- Austria ) Price: $25.95 In Stock Two major works designed for multi-channel sound projections from electronic composer Marcus Schmickler: "Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio", a work for ARP 2500, Publison DHM89B, Publison Infernal Machine and Computer, premiered at Donaueschinger Tage fur Neue Musik in 2018; "Fortuna Ribbon" a 6-part work based on spatial hearing and auditory otoacoustic distortions. |
NAD: dangereuXorcisms (CKC -- Italy ) Price: $11.95 In Stock A fun and lyrical jazz album that references a host of culture and style, performed in collaborations with the NAD core of keyboardist and "soundmaster" Nicola C. Salerno and guitarist Roberto Zorzi and artists including the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, presenting original compositions and eclectic covers from Ornette Coleman, Chocolat, and even Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive"! |
Allbee, Liz: Rille (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Berlin trumpeter Liz Allbee's solo work focuses on the interaction of voice, extended approaches to her instruments, which includes her self-designed quadrophonic trumpet, electronics and acoustic homemade instruments, on Rille presenting four enigmatic works of dramatic pacing--environmental and rhythmic--guided by impressionistic spoken words and moments of tonal clarity. |
Arcane Device: Circuit Dreams (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Using a combination of controlled feedback, samples, computer processing and Eurorack electronics, Arcane Device aka David Lee Myers continues his long exploration of electronic music, focusing here on evolving and complex patterns complemented by beautiful tones and occasional rhythmic foundations, a great collection of elegant electronics. |
Myers, David Lee: Room In A Moon House (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $8.40 In Stock A series of "Rooms" and related electronic environments from New York sound artist David Lee Myers, whose long running Arcane Device project runs parallel to these nearly ambient works that Myers intimates are for intimate environments, developed through deft use of Eurorack electronics, feedback, sampling and other elegant electronic processes. |
N/UM: Ravens [VINYL EP] (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $18.99 In Stock With a combined history of dj production, engineering, writing and arranging in a variety of settings from small and large ensembles, electronic music, experimental rock, classical orchestration &c, the N/UM trio of Elias Meister, Jeremy Loucas and Emil Bovbjerg (VAVAV) release their fourth album of innovative live electronics developed through a carefully conceived collective creativity. |
Radigue, Eliane: Opus 17 [2 CDs] (Important Records -- USA ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock French electroacoustic composer and innovator Eliane Radigue's final work made with feedback material from 1970, five pieces that strip away at the familiar, deconstructing and decomposing classical works into mesmerizing drones, or creating rich pulsating works of sound with intense harmonic development and controlled feedback, a powerful opus of sound. |
Zabelka, Mia / Glen Hall: The Quantum Violin (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The intersection of Austrian violinist, vocalist and sound artist Mia Zabelka and Canadian sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Glen Hall, using recordings of live improvisations, electronics and unusual applications of software to structure fourteen compositions of accomplished playing and startlingly unpredictable sound, a magnificent and often breathtaking journey. |
Decorato, Michelangelo / Leo Cicala: Thauma (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock An introspectively lovely and reflective album of electroacoustic composition through minimal electronics, piano, samples and electronics, from the collaboration of Italian sound artists Michelangelo Decorato and Leo Cicala, with trumpeter Luca Calabrese joining on one piece; sophisticatedly languid, alluring and detailed ambient music. |
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Moondoc, Jemeel: The Zoopkeeper's House (Trio/Quartet/Quintet)
Hearth (Silva / Rasmussen / Rave / Draksler): Melt
Ikeda / Prevost: The Whole Moon Rests in a Dewdrop on the Grass
Mori, Ikue / Satoko Fujii / Natsuki Tamura: Prickly Pear Cactus
Parkins, Zeena / Wobbly: Triplicates
Lytton, Paul / Erhard Hirt: Borne on a Whim: Duets, 1981
Nono, Luigi / Jurg Frey: Works For Violin Duos
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Pulverize the Sound (Evans, Peter / Tim Dahl / Mike Pride): Black
Lubelski, Samara / Bill Nace: S/T
Allbee, Liz: Rille
Wachsmann, Phil : Writing In Water
Banabila, Michel: Tapu Sampler 2016
Gustafsson, Mats / Wendy Gondeln / Wolfgang Voigt / Martin Siewert: The Shithole Country & Boogie B
Hawkins, Chester: Magnetisk Nord
Gustafsson, Mats / Joachim Nordwall: Their Power Reached Across Space And Time-To Defy Them Was Deat
Mazurek, Rob: Psychotropic Electric Eel Dreams IV
Granberg, Magnus (w/ Miki Maruta / Ko Ishikawa / Toshimaru Nakamura): Come Down to Earth Where Sorro
Beuger, Antoine : Silent Harmonies In Discrete Continuity
Merce, Sergio: Be Nothing