Archive for the Experimental Category
Mike Cooper “White Shadows In The South Seas” (Sacred Summits)
Ltd Repress of this much loved and in demand Mike Cooper re-issue on Sacred Summits / Screen printed sleeve
Lo Kindre “Chlorophytum” (12th Isle)
Stunning dub sounds from Glasgow’s Lo Kindre Think On U, Jay Glass Dubs, Sotofett, Rhythm & Sound and all that good stuff.
Ulwhednar “Razor Mesh Fencing” (Northern Electronics)
The relentless stride of Northern Electronics can be put down to the attitudes of its owners, Anthony Linell and Jonas Runnberg. Their collaborative project, Ulwhednar, has been shapeshifting at the centre of the label since its inception, and has captured their hard line electronics in its many guises. Following on […]
Haron “Wandelaar” (Queeste)
Queeste emerges with the nocturnal sounds of Haron’s Wandelaar, an album exploring his long-term interest in music’s talent for inducing and affecting dreams, successfully turning listening into an act of transport, leaving you in the midst of falling asleep, at a junction of dislocation, hazily arriving in a liminal world. […]
David Chesworth “Layer On Layer” (Chapter Music)
Chapter Music presents a vinyl reissue of Australian post-punk icon David Chesworth’s mutant punk-funk second album, 1981’s Layer On Layer. After his revered 1979 debut 50 Synthesizer Greats (reissued by Chapter in 2017), David swapped the solo home-recorded synths for something very different – infectious, percussive art-funk weirdness. Aged 21, […]
Thou & Ragana “Let Our Names Be Forgotten” (An Out)
Thou and Ragana join forces for a record in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire. Both bands here bring a darkly majestic blend of black metal, doom, sludge and Americana to new split Let Our Names Be Forgotten. Ragana’s tunes are a tad […]
Thou & Hirs Collective “Untitled” (Feast Of Tentacles)
A split-LP of familiar songs (!!!) from Louisiana’s DIY doom titans and Philadelphia’s queer grind collective. All songs are untitled.
Kali Malone “Organ Dirges 2016-2017” (Ascetic House)
Repressed!! Unique, engrossing room recordings of Kaliff pipe organ dirges played by composer, sound technician, and multi-instrumentalist Kali Malone, released in early 2018 on a super limited tape run and now finally pressed up on vinyl for wider public consumption. Very little in 2018 is as elusive or magical as […]
Caretaker “Everywhere At The End Of Time Stage 6” (History Always Favours The Winners)
The Caretaker dispatches the final scene of a 20 year-long act that has uncannily lurked in the shadows of so many of our listening lives. Clad for the last time in Ivan Seal’s specially commissioned artwork, this final stage sees The Caretaker mirroring the ultimate descent into dementia and oblivion, […]
David Behrman “On The Other Ocean” (Lovely Music)
Lovely Music present a reissue of David Behrman’s On the Other Ocean, originally issued as one of Lovely Music’s first six releases in 1978. This newly-mastered LP is a must-have for Behrman aficionados or a perfect introduction to his work. “I’ve been engaged for many years in an exploration of […]
Regis Renouard Lariviere “Contrée” (Recollection Grm)
“Allégeance Volatile” and “Esquive” each tackle the same issue in their own way. Overcoming time: whether it be successive, additional, enumerative, or repetitive. However, there is nothing here about the ensuing nature of so-called “repetitive” music. These are types of high-end music. And it is more about insistence, the obstinacy […]
Luc Ferrari “Music Promenade” (Recollection Grm)
“Music Promenade” (1964-1969): Electroacoustic Music, world premiere for the Théâtre de la musique, March 16, 1970 “Hétéro-Concert”. Permanent version for four stand-alone tape recorders. A series of colliding realistic sounds and sonic images. Whilst walking, a man is struck by the violence of his surroundings. Nature has disappeared in a […]
Alberich “Quantized Angel” (Hospital Productions)
Includes large format poster. Few contemporary industrial acts are spoken of in such highly reverential terms as Alberich, the solo project of underground super-producer Kris Lapke. While Lapke himself may best be known for his production and mastering work, both for such diverse sounding acts like Prurient, Nothing, and the […]
Legendary Pink Dots “The Golden Age” (Metropolis)
Legendary Pink Dots classic The Golden Age is now presented in a 2018 Remastered version. 1988. Half of the 6 piece Legendary Pink Dots had quit after a long tour. Edward Kaspel & The Silverman were living in a caravan. It was never going to be a happy album, yet […]
Legendary Pink Dots “Malachi/Shadow Weaver Pt. 2” (Metropolis)
Double LP version. “The Legendary Pink Dots’ classic Malachai (Shadow Weaver Part 2) is now presented in a 2018 remastered version. Malachai is the second half of the Shadow Weaver project, recorded simultaneously with Shadow Weaver. Special guest for this one was Steve Stapleton (Nurse With Wound, Current 93). A […]
Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima &/ Satsuki Shibano “FRKWYS Vol. 15: Serinitatem” (RVNG Intl)
serenitatem, the fifteenth installment of RVNG’s intergenerational FRKWYS series, joins Visible Cloaks with Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano, trailblazers of the Japanese ambient music scene in the 1980s and 90s. While the music excels on an environmental level familiar in the collective’s individual works, serenitatem reaches unseen stratums — a […]
Alvin Curran “Canti Iluminati” (Blume)
Blume present the first vinyl reissue of Alvin Curran’s Canti Illuminati, originally released in 1982. Between diverse polarities of experimental practice, from free improvisation and modern classical composition, to primitivism, electronic music, and extended techniques, for more than half a century Alvin Curran has stood as beacon in the landscape […]
My Disco “Environment” (Downwards)
Environment is My Disco’s uncompromising album of avant-industrial and synth despair for their staunch allies at Downwards. It was written and recorded during winter in Berlin, 2018, in a studio previously used by Einstürzende Neubauten, Keiji Haino, and Pan Sonic, and channels those heroes’ uncompromising aesthetics into a radical departure […]
Dome “1” (Editions Mego)
With the demise of the group Wire in 1980, founder members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis joined forces to create Dome. With the assistance of engineer Eric Radcliffe and his Blackwing Studio Dome took the ethic of “using the studio as a compositional tool” and recorded and released three Dome […]
Gramm “(Personal Rock)” (Faitiche)
Twenty years ago, Jan Jelinek’s debut album Personal Rock was released by Source Records (1999). Under the pseudonym Gramm, it brings together eight tracks that have not been available on vinyl since their original release. Faitiche presents the re-release of the album: Personal Rock will appear as a double-LP, featuring […]
Dustin Laurenzi “Snaketime: The Music Of Moondog” (Feeding Tube)
Chicago saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, a touring member of Justin Vernon’s Bon Iver and one-third of the inventive Chicago improvising collective Twin Talk, first encountered the music of Moondog a decade ago, while studying at Indiana University. “Initially, I liked the quirkiness of the music and the lore surrounding him,” he […]
Maria Somerville “All My People” (Not On Label)
Debut album from this fantastic Dublin based singer and musician. Stirring and beautiful songs, with a consistent optimism underlying even the murkiest moments. TOP TIP! Recorded in Connemara and Dublin (in a studio space shared with mates). Mixed by Brendan Jenkinson. Mastered by The Bastard.
Michael O’Shea “Michael O’Shea” (AllChival)
Having sold his instruments to fund a nomadic 1970s lifestyle, eccentric Irish experimentalist Michael O’Shea was forced to create his own handmade answer to the sitars and zelochords he’d become accustomed to playing on his travels around the globe. Using an old door, 17 strings, chopsticks and combining them with […]
Rimarimba “On Dry Land” (Freedom To Spend)
For Rimarimba’s 1984 album On Dry Land, Robert Cox advances along the terrain explored on Below The Horizon. It’s an enchanting album, one which, at times, seems to comment on its own practice; a picture of everyday life in the hobbyist’s, or part-time musician’s, recording studio. Some moments point towards […]