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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. |
Keszler, Eli: Icons (LuckyMe -- UK ) Price: $10.00 Out of Stock Interlacing vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, metallophones, gamelan bar, piano, keyboards and organ with rhythmic percussion and fragments of voice and field recordings, New York percussionist Eli Keszler's album floats in warm melodicism and rich ambience, gliding along with a cinematic sense framed by recordings of NYC, the Odyssey Cave and other global locations. |
Machinefabriek: CM_30 (Music for a performance by Kolja Huneck) (Not On Label (Machinefabriek Self-released) -- Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Music written to accompany a light & juggling performance by German contemporary circus artist Kolja Huneck, Rutger Zuydervelt developing the compositions of these works using only short looping structures that weave and develop into a tapestry of sound, inspired by the repetitive motions of Kolja's performance and the 30 centimeter round discs with which he performs. |
Berkson, Judith: Liederkreis II [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Featuring electronically-augmented vocal interpretations of lieder songs by such composers as Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, New York vocalist Judith Berkson also presents purely electronic pieces engaging noise and feedback-oriented vignettes, the evolution of her project started in 2016 as she re-contextualizes classical music in powerfully expressive ways. |
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. |
Fujii, Satoko: Piano Music (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock A stunning sound collage made from recorded fragments of Fujii's studio piano, captured inside and out using traditional piano sonorities and preparations that often microscopically detail the instrument, then edited into two electroacoustic compositions of startling and unexpected expansiveness and wonder; a unique and fascinating release in Fujii's large oeuvre. |
Ronn, Christian / Bob Bellerue : Intoku Inversions (Anarchy Moon Recordings/Nishe -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Beautiful long-form drones and harmonic interactions develop and are then shaken up with sonic deformations and collisions, returning to beautiful environments and then reversed once again, from the duo of sonic explorers Bob Bellerue and Christian Ronn, recording in Copenhagen using organs, electronics, winds, and feedback to create these wonderfully alien domains. |
Preliminary Saturation (de Turck / Jaspers / Smolders): You Are The Universe (Moving Furniture -- Netherlands ) Price: $6.00 Out of Stock In 2004, sound artist Jos Smolders released his Textures and Mobiles album on the CONV label; so taken by the sound, which is based on dtmf and ccitt tones generated by phones and pure sine waves, the Preliminary Saturation duo of Steffan de Turck and Wouter Jaspers created these three diverse edits and remixes of the album, one for a live performance at Smolder's 2006 birthday party. |
Jacques, Anne-F / Takamitsu Ohta: Oto to Secchi [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Spain ) Price: $8.95 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. |
Nakajima, Rie: Fusuma [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Spain ) Price: $8.95 Out of 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. |
Jacques, Anne-F : Poudrerie [CASSETTE] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Using handmade devices and contraptions including small motors and found objects, Montreal sound experimenter Anne-Francoise Jacquese amplifies her miniature devices to create unexpectedly large textures and rhythms, which she manipulates with great instinct to create fascinating sonic environments, heard here in four pieces recorded in Montreal and Sackville from 2018-19. |
Niblock, Phill: NuDaf (XI Records -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock An extended electroacoustic composition from composer Phil Niblock based on recordings captured at Marcus Schmickler's Piethopraxis studio in Koln of bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, layering her playing and using multiphonics to create beautifully rich textures that slowly evolve, shifting in hypnotic ways as the pieces arches and descends through harmonic interaction. |
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. |
Ward, Alex: Gated (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A stunning solo album showing the widely diverse interests of UK clarinetist and guitarist Alex Ward, recording in the studio in 10 multi-track pieces using clarinets, saxophones, guitars, keyboards, electric bass and assorted software instruments in a mix of pre-composed and improvised approaches, burning the spectrum from contemplative to aggressively assertive performance. |
PEK Solo / A Quartet Of PEKS: Strange Beauty Out of Chaos (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Using a vast array of instruments categorized by clarinets, double reeds, flutes, free reed aerophones, strings, electronics, electroacoustic sound-makers, percussion, duck calls, sirens and voice, David Peck layers his improvisation into four renditions of himself, which he refers to as a Quartet of PEKs, this work focusing on new instruments developed by Tim Kaiser. |
PEK Solo / A Quartet of PEKS: Fixed Intentions for the Saxophone Family (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The sixth PEK Solo effort of 2020 in Boston-based improviser and composer David Peck's series, this album is a followup to his Clarinet Family album earlier in the year, here creating a virtual symphony of saxophones by layering his composition in the studio through four separate recordings, working in the vein of Rova Sax Quartet or the World Sax Quartet. |
PEK Solo / An Orchestra of PEKs: Stretching the Fabric of Space (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Part of Boston multi-wind/instrumentalist David Peck's "Orchestra of PEKs" series, this extended improvisation finds PEK interacting with a pre-recorded Ableton Mix of synthetics developed during his Semantic Notions album, over which he improvises on clarinets, saxophones double reeds & flutes, along with many percussive instruments, particularly a Chinese guqin. |
PEK Solo / An Orchestra of PEKs: Electrolysis (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock A follow-up to Stretching the Fabric of Space, this solo release from David Peck presents an extended layered set of fize improvisations using a base of prerecorded and premixed tracks with some electronic processing to speed up and slow down, to raise and lower pitch, and to build up thick mixes of sounds from the same sonority set. |
PEK Solo, An Orchestra of PEKs: Prisms (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The first "Orchestra of PEKS" album to feature Tim Kaiser's recent electro-acoustic instrument, this multi-track solo recording also introduces multi-wind / multi-instrumentalist David Peck's new West African Kora, in a wild electroacoustic set performed on a dizzying array of reeds, winds, strings, electronics, metallic percussion, wood percussion, sirens and thunder tube. |
van Hemmen, Flin: You Can Know Where the Bombs Fell (Neither/Nor Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Based in NY but born the Netherlands, sound artist Flin Van Hemmen's title refers to observations from his hometown of Nijmegen, the concept focusing his work, with many samples originating from his previous Casting Spells & The Coves album, along with new field recordings and studio work, resulting in richly detailed worlds of sound and momentum. |
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. |
La Casa, Eric: Everyday Unknown 4 & 5 (Swarming -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Exploring the details of everyday life as he examines the relationship between his environment and himself, microscopic audio explorer Éric La Casa investigates sounds beyond the threshold of auditory hearing, capturing barely perceptible sonic manifestations with incredible clarity and detail, constructing engaging works from these surprising and intriguing sounds. |
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. |
Liyou, Lucy / YSKA: A Need/A Want [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Narrated by text-to-speech vocalization, Korean-American pianist and composer Lucy Liyou collaborates with Bulgarian-born guitarist Ivana Kafedjiyska (YSKA) in an album of languorously floating and understatedly abrasive music complemented by subtle field recordings, two works of curiously philosophical, baffling and observational verse; unique and compelling. |
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. |
Alva Noto: HYbr:ID Vol. 1 (Noton -- Germany ) Price: $14.19 In Stock The first installment in a new series from Alva Noto, aka Carsten Nicola, bringing together heterogeneous composition methods that aim to merge astrophysics phenomena, fiction, and performance movements, inspired by cinematic visual techniques and static images portraying scientific events; includes graphic inserts of notations informed by the album's sonic and acoustic code. |
Alva Noto: HYbr:ID Vol. 1 [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Noton -- Germany ) Price: $39.95 In Stock The first installment in a new series from Alva Noto, aka Carsten Nicola, bringing together heterogeneous composition methods that aim to merge astrophysics phenomena, fiction, and performance movements, inspired by cinematic visual techniques and static images portraying scientific events; includes graphic inserts of notations informed by the album's sonic and acoustic code. |
Arcane Device: Ruins (No Rent -- USA ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock Four mysteriously untitled and extended works of electronics subtitled Impressions From the Next Era, using feedback, aberrant sound, glitch, rich synthetics, bi-directional sound and indescribable sonic sources to fuel David Lee Myer's latest in his long-running and essential listening project Arcane Device; shimmering, inscrutable, and awe-inspiring. |
Pisaro-Liu, Michael: Revolution Shuffle [2 CDs] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $23.95 In Stock Alarmed by the warning signs of social deterioration, political overreach and planetary damage warning of an imminent need for revolutionary change, composer and sound artist Michael Pisaro-Liu sought and plundered references in sound from historic and current sources, producing 53 tracks that are arranged to tell a story in a mosaic form; an incredible achievement. |
Rossetto, Vanessa / Lionel Marchetti: The Tower (The City) (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $12.00 In Stock Three distinct compositions from the collaborative work of sound artists Vanessa Rossetto and Lionel Marchetti, the first a wonderfully complex work of musique concrète and acousmatic sources guided by the composers' instincts; "The Tower" expands their concepts through the addition of 18 voices, while the final track features the violin of Anouck Genthon. |
Rosenfled, Marina: Teenage Lontano [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $23.95 In Stock Two large scale choral compositions recorded at New York City's Park Avenue Armory and at South London Gallery: ""Teenage Lontano" re-envisions composer Gyorgy Ligeti's 1960s orchestral work, using an immersive sound environment and the collective voices of an ensemble of teenagers; in "roygbiv&b" a teen ensemble in London riff off of mis-hearings of the acronym "ROYGBIV". |
Samartzis, Philip / Eugene Ughetti: Array [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock A 3-part performance work exploring the effects of powerful climate forces affecting the poles of our planet, as Philip Samartzis and Eugene Ughetti use recordings of radar & scientific instrumentation used in upper atmospheric research along with custom built instruments, producing a unique series of textures, rhythmic cycles, resonances, and timbral phenomena. |
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. |
Harker, Nina: Nina Harker [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Unusual approaches to rock song and instrumentals from this French duo of Apolline Schöser & Nocola Henry in collaboration with Valentine Noiret, Daniel Dariel on Japanese vocals, Louis Claus on Indian flute and Marie-Laure Gucciardi for poetic writing in Italian, &c.; peculiar and compelling, somehow reminiscent of Etron Fou... |
E42.A8: IIII [2 CDs] (Not On Label -- France ) Price: $21.95 In Stock A double CD compilation released to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the electro-acoustic improv space E42.A8 based in Tournai, Belgium, featuring 21 musicians, in varying ensembles, from 2 to 9 people, presenting an eclectic and diverse mix of styles and approaches to experimental music through textures, rhythm, and indescribable sound sources; fascinating. |
Arcane Device: Mechanismos (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock An apt title for the creatively mechanistic rhythms and electronic machinations of David Lee Myers' long-running project Arcane Device, in an album of ten succinct tracks of distinct cadence, pulse and encompassing electronics, described by Myers as "Analog rhythms, microtonal swarms, and feedback tonalities for pagan rituals on Monster Island." |
Myers, David Lee: Intervals / Interludes (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $6.00 In Stock Like passages through an electronic corridor, New York electronic artist David Lee Myers (Arcane Device) presents a series of "interludes"--long passages of rich electronic sound--and "intervals" of punctuated rhythms, described by Myers as: "In-between spaces for catching one's breath amid frigid landscapes, existential pauses, and mercurial pools of aboriginal pleadings." |
Various: Amsterdam . Berlin . Moscow . Losoncy [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A double album of experimental works and songs, virtual meetings curated by composer Dante Boon, recorded in the performer's individual cities as ensembles formed from musicians who have never met, including the Moscow duo The Same Ensemble of Sasha Elina and Kirill Shirokov, Amsterdamn's Seamus Cater's Tree Space, Berlin's Konzert Minimal, and sound artist Gabi Losoncy. |
Too Tall To Sing (Flin van Hemmen / Jozef Dumoulin): New Dance Moves (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A collaboration recorded in New York City and Paris through the exchange and evolution of sound files between sound artists and instrumentalists, percussionist Flin van Hemmen and pianist Jozef Dumoulin, each using samples, field recordings, percussion, keyboards, voice and programming to create sound portraits of propulsive impetus and reflective evocation. |
Various Artists: Victoriaville Matiere Sonore (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Francisco Lopez initiated this project in 2006 with the Pogus CD "Montreal Sound Matter", now expanded into an acousmatic group of linked tracks from a group of impressive sound artists. |
Salamon, Samo / New Freequestra: Free Distance, Vol. 2: Poems are Opening [2 CDs] (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock With titles for the album and all compositions from a poem by US poet E.E. Cummings, guitarist Samo Salamon developed these structured improvisations during the pandemic, inviting a set of masterful improvisers including Martin Küchen, Luis Vicente, Vasco Trilla, Emanuele Parrini, &c. &c. to contribute to these magnificent long distance collective improvisations. |
Nakamura, Toshimaru: Culvert - No-Input Mixing Board 10 (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock The 10th release in Japanese experimental sound artist Toshimaru Nakamura's No Input Mixing Board (NIMB) instrument series, composing from the ephemeral and extraneous sounds of a mixing board with nothing connected, these assertive pieces composed in his home studio while reflecting on the changes and obscuring of many of Tokyo's small streams and rivers. |
Klein, M. / Steffan de Turck: A New City [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Het Generiek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock A collaborative album from Dutch sound artists M. Klein (Adept, Sweat Tongue) and Steffan de Turck (Staplerfahrer) using field recordings and keyboards in two extended sound collages that take familiar sounds and transform them into a journey through an imagined land, accompanied by melodic synthetic fragments, a reflective work like a lost memory. |
Bakker, Anne / Rene Aquarius / Rutger Zuydervelt: Hallucine (Consouling Sounds -- The Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Composed from a combination of violin, percussion, vocals, field recordings & electronics by Rutger Zuydervelt, who initially merged unrelated recordings from violinist Anne Bakker (also on harmonica, kazoo & saw) and percussionist & sound artist Rene Aquarius, all three then overdubbing and editing the work to create this fascinating tapestry of hallucinogenic sound. |
D.L., Jean / Rutger Zuydervelt: Scramblings (Inexhaustible Editions -- Slovenia ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Using electric & acoustic guitars and autoharp over spacious electronics and field recordings, Belgium musician & video artist Jean De Lacoste and Rotterdamn sound artist Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, create broad pallets of ringing sounds over which acoustic instruments intone, with cellist Fransesco Guerri joining on one of 8 gently unfolding "Scramblings". |
Machinefabriek: Our Arms Grew Together (Music for a performance by Marta & Kim) (Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Following his collaborations with choreographers & dancers Marta Alstadsaeter and Kim-Jomi Fischer resulting in the performances & albums As Much As It Is Worth and Engel, Rutger Zuydervelt composed this work for their dance/circus performance Our Arms Grew Together about romantic relationships, developed around recordings from the daily lives of Alstadsaeter and Fischer. |
Machinefabriek / Matt Wand / Nick Storring / Phil Macguire: Prisma+ (Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Unique to the vast catalog of Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, this album was developed with Zuydervelt original material and then remixed by Matt Wand, Nick Storring and Phil Maguire, presenting the original highly rhythmic electronics at the base of "Prisma", then 4 remixes: "Scarlett's Blood Bubbles"; "Tactile Debt"; "Thigh Slapping Without Tears"; and "Wheats Flats". |
Zuydervelt, Rutger / Hugo Dijkstal / Peter Hollo: BERG (Music for a film by Joke Olthaar) (Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Two versions of the soundtrack to the Dutch movie BERG composed by Rutger Zuydervelt, the first rearranging the tracks to the piece to create a long-form work that maintains the meditative qualities of the movie; then an early score proposal and more active concept than the final work, developed with recordings of improvisations from cellist Peter Hollo. |
Erica Dicker / Dennis Sullivan: Blood Luxury [CASSETTE w/ DOWNOAD] (Tubapede -- USA ) Price: $6.00 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. |
Aarni, Olli: Mustikoita Ja Kissankelloja [VINYl] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $19.76 In Stock Translating to "Blueberries and cat bells", Finnish electronic composer Olli Aarni's sound world is quick paced and surprisingly dense considering an overall feeling of brightness, sounds flashing and swirling by in strange segments of acousmatic exhilaration, pausing form moments before seizing his listener once more with swift streams of alien soundscapes; brilliant. |
Chessex, Antoine: Subjectivation [VINYL] (Fragment Factory -- E.U. ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Using material from solo live performances in San Francisco, Berlin, Zurich and London between 2010 and 2015, composer and sound artist Antoine Chessex developed the two compositions of this album, extracting his electroacoustic altered saxophone work and developing them into larger works that bridge extreme and psychoacoustics approaches with great sonic depth. |
Fvrtvr: Following Shapes to the Edge of a Drift [VINYL] (Discombobulate -- Great Britain ) Price: $17.96 In Stock Fritz Welch and Guido Hennebohl present a strange and discomforting album of electronic madness, as they "rattle them pots and pans, slap-the-cheek slurps and stick sharp elbows into a web of goof-off electronics" as they pursue the message of freedom. |
IQ+1: Conversaphone Plus [VINYL] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $20.95 In Stock Describing their approach to their submersive electroacoustic music as a seance, the Czech Republic septet IQ+1 with Peter Vrba, George Bagdasarov, Veronika Hladka, Jana Kneschke, Michal Zboril, and Katerina Bilejova release their 3rd album, a mix of strings, trumpet, clarinet, harmonium, synth, electronics & field recordings, creating a virtual acousmatic music of great detail. |
Morsanek / Vinekeeper: Split LP [VINYL] (Kazemat -- The Netherlands ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Morsanek (aka Mark Morse) in a edited piece, 181 "tracks" of varied instrumentation; and the mysterious Vinekeeper in a complex organized sound work. |
Roigk, Stefan : Suffering For The Promised [VINYL] (Fragment Factory -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Multi-disciplinary artist living in Berlin, Stefan Roigk developed "Suffering For The Promised" over a 14 year period, composing this large work of acousmatic music as an atmospherically intense yet utterly fragile piece, combining concrete sounds, field recordings and devotional vocal fragments in an eclectic and highly intimate composition of great depth and detail. |
Torba (Mauro Diciocia): Musique Inconcrete [VINYL] (Fragment Factory -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Italian sound artist Mauro Diciocia presents the second installment in a trilogy of related recordings, informally named "Le Musiche", using field recordings from a variety of settings mostly around Salento in southern Italy, organizing his recordings to create auditory sketches in sound, telling abstract yet compelling stories that envelop the listener. |
Merzbow / Arcane Device: Merzbow & Arcane Device (Important Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Two innovative sonic luminaries--Japan's Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, and New York City's David Lee Myers, aka Arcane Device--remix each other's work, bringing Myer's unique approach to feedback and ethereal electronics to harness Akita's agressive sounds, and in reverse, Akita's sense of disruptive sonics explode Myer's more contemplative feedback music. |
Novi_sad: ΚΕΡΑΥΝΟΣ (Raster Music -- Germany ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock Using environmental sounds & field recordings from 5 continents--Oceania: Tarkine Rainforest; Asia: Okinawa; Europe: Ancient Olympia And Iceland; Africa: Uganda, Botswana & Namibia; America: Amazon Rainforest & Niagara Falls--sound artist Thanasis Kaproulias takes listeners on an incredible journey through sound from reflective to cathartic, from ominous danger to awe-inspired beauty. |
Baby Daddy: Hot Dick (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Carl Kruger and Mr. Stonechiper (Ryan Lewis) in a noise work with a sexual bent, an effective mini-slab of sound in a 3" CD format, a limited edition release from these 910 Noise Collective artists. |
Battus, Pascal: Simbol / L'Unique Trait D' Pinceau (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Pascal Battus in a series of compositions realized with recordings of cymbals, using specific techniques that enable him to sustain the sound and allow pure frequencies to emerge as he develops each piece as extended audio journeys based on improv and organized sound. |
CHANGES TO blind: evolvensume (Squidco Records -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Collecting works from 2010-2017, Squidco's own Phil Zampino presents 10 tracks of electroacoustic composition sourced from studio work, live improvisation, field recordings, plunderphonics, and other indescribable approaches, a diverse set of recordings sharing a similar foreboding aesthetic and curious sonic desire. |
Chefkirk / S27E152 : Immediate Shred [CASSETTE] (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock Part of a series of 8 split release cassettes, hand-painted & numbered; Side A presents S27E152, aka Brisbane's Tristan Eyles, using field recordings and image synthesis; Side B is Chefkirk, aka Roger Smith, combining concrete sound with improvised drone and harsh electronics. |
Cheval Gris: Candor Cloak (Bad Architect Records -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Combining the work of 18 artists chosen to interpret a series of sacred rites that took place deep within the woods by an elite shaman of an Amazon tribe, including Squidco's own Carl Kruger & phil zampino, Cheval Gris (Ryan Lewis) weaves an incredible story in sound, a virtual soundtrack of rich aural environments, concrete elements, and ritualistic sound. |
Chrysakis, Thanos: Elytra (Auf Abwegen -- Germany ) Price: $17.95 In Stock "Elytra" are the protective fore-wings of beetles & crickets, which are raised and scraped to create a resonating and projecting sound; Greek composer and sound artist Thanos Chryaskis composed these seven works of deeply detailed, resonant and layered sonic interaction as a form of emulation to the action of the elytron, each piece an absorbing sonic experience. |
Crocker, Jay: Joachim on Eggshells (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Jay Crockers follows the allure of salvage from six years of recordings, taking sketches and mini-improvs and organizing them into a large and unusual sonic journey. |
DJ Lenar: Re:PRES (Bolt -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A series of works from improvising DJ Lenar (Marcin Lenarczyk), using material from the large volumes of miniatures created by Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES) artist Eugeniusz Rudnik, transformed into new concrete compositions; in other words, reprising PRES. |
Ganfield, Ken x Kurt Liedwart x Petr Vrba: Something Wrong There (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Two compositions--"Unbearable" and "Nauseating"Ð-from the synth & electronics trio of Ken Ganfield, Kurt Liedwart and Petr Vrba, starting with improvisations on three synthesizers and electronics brought to the extreme edge, the results remixed by Liedwart to create these outer limit tracks of sci-fi psychedelia and Gameboy nightmare; truly unique and disquieting music. |
Hawkins, Chester: Cops Need Serial Numbers [USB mp3 & wav + pdf] (Intangible Arts -- USA ) Price: $29.95 In Stock DC electronic explorer Chester Hawkins releases this limited edition album of 50 copies shaped in a metal bullet that unscrews to reveal a USB drive with more than 4 hours of extended forays into psychedelic electronics, synth and tabletop guitar, journeys of hard drone & abstract concrete elements, in mp3 & wav format with a pdf, housed in a handsome black case. |
Kay, Martin: Courtyards (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Sound artist Martin Kay focuses on the intimate and visceral symphony of domestic activity reverberating throughout a variety of shared courtyard spaces in Paris, using field recordings from various locations to examine their distinct acoustic characteristics. |
Kwang, Goh Lee: Back2Bed (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Goh Lee Kwang recorded these tracks from 2012-2015, a diverse set of pieces using sound, noise, field recordings, even guitar and rhythm to create unique audio environments, a succint and interesting reflection on the inquisitive nature of this audio explorers work. |
Kyriakides, Yannis: Wordless (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Liedwart, Kurt : Tone (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Kurt Liedwart creates a personal journey through multiplicity of intense abstract layers of electronic and synthetic sound, constructing atmospheres of dronescapes, and cryptic songs, keeping the listener on edge in this album of intense "Tones" wrought from sythesizers, electronics, light controlled electronics, electromagnetic devices, and radio. |
Liedwart, Kurt / Petr Vrba: Punkt (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The debut album of free electronic music explorers Kurt Liedwart on synthesizers, cracked homemade and everyday electronics, and Petr Vrba on synthesizers and electronics, where each track is built upon a permutating sonic foundation of well-paced compositions that transition between hypnotic abstract structural forms and textural and timbral experimentation. |
Liedwart, Kurt / Phil Raymond: Rim (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Moscow sound experimenter Phil Raymond, recording with computers and percussions, is resampled live by Moscow musician Kurt Liedwart on lloopp, electronics & percussion, to create these 5 darkly ambient tracks merging organized and improvised approaches. |
Lutnahimat: Erosions (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Lutnahimat is the London-based project of composer/sound sculptor Ian S. in a work mixing electronic self-built instruments with sound samples recorded in India and Cameroon. |
Meelkop, Roel: Oude Koeien (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Sound artist Roel Meelkop compiles various limited vinyl 7", 10" and lathe cut releases from Korm Plastics and related labels, along with one work made for this release, showing the variety of approaches and concepts Meelkop applies to his fascinating sound work. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: Electric Sword Machine (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Each of these Boston-area improvisers handles an arsenal of equipment in the Metal Chaos Ensemble of David Peck (PEK) on reeds, synth, & daxophone, Bob Moores on synths & laptop, Eric Woods on synth, metal & wood, Abby on bass & electronics, and Yuri Zbitnoff on drums & percussion, in a massive work of detailed and passionate electroacoustics over PEK's large synthetic mix. |
Mohanna, Nickolas: Phase Line (Run/Off Editions -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Digital sound processing oscillating through a variety of media saturated sources including electronic billboards, kiosk stations, traffic control devices and other city environments, knotted into sculptural arpeggiation by sound artists Nickolas Mohanna. |
Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored.: Success in Cheap Prices (Bor Land / Soopa -- Portugal ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Owen, Ben : Turning (Wind Measure Recordings -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Using a reel to reel deck, a mixer, electronics, and extraneous room sound, Brooklyn-based Ben Owens creates an album of contrasting drones and spaces, harmonically rich or pure tones contrasting with slowly drawn tape and abstract environmental sound, bringing enigmatic moments amidst drifting hiss and subliminal resonance; mysterious and intriguing. |
Riggs, Christopher: Cash Recycling Machine (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock An unusual sound work, the 3rd in a series made up of tracks of equal length with a different track length for each project, with sonic material made from home-built guitars & a quadrophonic amp setup. |
Sa, Joana: Elogio Da Desordem (In Praise of Disorder) (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Composer, pianist and multi-instrumentals Joana Sa gives voice to texts by Goncalo M. Tavares as read by Rosinda Costa, where the text organizes the thoughts that filter the multiple, disorderly, eccentric, voluble mind described in Tavares' work. |
Somnaphon: An Aligment of Various Things (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Assembling 13 tracks from obscure compilations released from 2011-2012 by the various monikers of 910 Noise artist August (September) Traeger, a wide-ranging and captivating set of approaches to sound & noise work. |
Somnaphon / Mr. Stonecipher / Food World: Hayagriva (private label -- USA ) Price: $4.95 In Stock A 5 minute video of a horse-headed suit lost in a sonic world eerily devised by 910 Noise artists Somnaphon, Mr. Stonecipher, and Food World; a brief but disturbing visual and auditory reflection. |
Strom (Gaudenz Badrutt / Christian Muller): X (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A concept record from Gaudenz Badrutt (electronics & synth) and Christian Muller (electronics & contrabass clarinet), starting with an improvised piece which is then resampled live into 6 new pieces, changing the character with each pass, and presented in reverse order. |
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DK & The Perfectly Ordinary: CAR DEW TREAT US
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