Archive for the Experimental Category
Max Richter “Voyager: Essential Max Richter” (Deutsche Grammophon)
This is the very first collection from one of the most influential figures of the contemporary music scene, Max Richter. The 4LP set features works from Richter’s influential solo albums (including Sleep, The Blue Notebooks, Infra, Vivaldi Recomposed) as well as his film and television soundtracks, including his Emmy nominated […]
Mika Vainio “Olento” (Sahko)
Olento the second album by Mika Vainio from 1996 together with Metri is one of the seminal works for understanding Mika Vainio s core of work. Here Olento is reissued for the very first time available on vinyl.
Bitter Funeral Beer Band with Don Cherry “Live In Frankfurt ’82” (Black Sweat)
2019 repress. First of all, Bengt Berger — a pioneer of the Swedish underground of the ’70s and historical member of bands such as Archimedes Badkar and Arbete Och Fritid — is a versatile drummer-percussionist and well-educated ethnomusicologist with several research sojourns in India and Ghana. Deeply influenced by Hindustani, […]
David Rosenboom “Brainwave Music” (Black Truffle)
Repressed. Black Truffle present the first ever vinyl reissue of David Rosenboom’s legendary Brainwave Music, originally released on A.R.C. Records in 1975. This is an expanded double-LP edition with over 40 minutes of additional contemporaneous material. Pioneer of live electronics, innovator in music education, collaborator with artists as diverse as […]
Company “Epiphanies l-Vl” (Honest Jon’s)
Ever played that game where you imagine you can invite a few people from any period in human history to a dinner party guaranteed to produce rich, stimulating, and provocative conversation? Derek Bailey did it for real, musically, in his Company Weeks. In July 1982, his guests at London’s I.C.A. […]
Company “Epiphanies VlI-XIII” (Honest Jon’s)
More buried treasure from the 1982 Company Week at London’s I.C.A., seven more epiphanies (previously unreleased!) to add to the six on Epiphanies I-VI (HJR 212LP) and the 48-minute ensemble Epiphany (HJR 211LP). Fred Frith’s diverse activities as composer and educator in recent years shouldn’t let us forget he’s a […]
Orior “Still Strange” (Demdike Stare)
Still Strange reaches back into the prized loft tapes of Jeff Sharp, aka Orior, following the revelatory discovery of his overlooked early ’80s gems on 2016’s Strange Beauty collection, as coaxed out by DDS dons Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty. Huddling another sublime, dusty set of analogue tapes freshly baked […]
Slogun “The Pleasures Of Death” (Hospital Productions)
Hospital Productions present a reissue of Slogun’s The Pleasures of Death, originally released in 1997. From the austere and frightening cover with the name of forgotten killers to the monolithic washes of analog synthesized grit and dust cloud vocals of the id, this legendary album first released as a limited […]
Skin Crime “Traveller On The Road” (Hospital Productions)
Regarded by Dominik Fernow as the “best US noise project in terms of texture and composition”, Skin Crime return to Hospital Productions with an immanent inversion of noise convention exploring ideas of tense, slow-burn patience instead of aggressive intensity. Brutally active between the early ’90s and mid ’00s, Skin Crime […]
Jessica Ekomane “Multivocal” (Important)
Jessica Ekomane’s debut LP, Multivocal, is brilliantly original, and will appeal to fans of Caterina Barbieri, Alessandro Cortini, Shasta Cults, ELEH, and the strand of minimal electronic music that runs through the Important catalog. Multivocal is a polyphonic maze that unfolds to both the body and the mind. A generative […]
Masonna “Shinsen Na Clitoris” (Hospital Productions)
Hospital Productions present a reissue of Masonna’s first full-length CD from 1990, Shinsen Na Clitoris, originally on Vanilla Records. The supreme voice of Japanese noise here on vinyl for the first time with audio preparation by Kris Lapke. What would become an inimitable explosion of energy and vision from Japan […]
Yoshio Ojima ” Une Collection des Chainons I: Music for Spiral” (WRWTFWW)
Volume One. WRWTFWW Records announce a reissue of both volumes of Yoshio Ojima’s superb environmental music project Une Collection Des Chaînons I And II: Music For Spiral, originally released in 1988. The twenty-track opus is sourced from original masters and includes liner notes in English and Japanese. This marks the […]
Yoshio Ojima ” Une Collection des Chainons II: Music for Spiral” (WRWTFWW)
Volume Two. WRWTFWW Records announce a reissue of both volumes of Yoshio Ojima’s superb environmental music project Une Collection Des Chaînons I And II: Music For Spiral, originally released in 1988. The twenty-track opus is sourced from original masters and includes liner notes in English and Japanese. This marks the […]
Gray “Shades Of…” (Ubiquity)
3xLP Housed in Multi-Sleeve Gatefold Jacket w/ 12″ x 12″ Booklet Famed painter Jean Michel-Basquiat was one of the co-founders of the band Gray. This anthology features reissue of their previously limited self-release plus unreleased material, and remixes from: Todd Rundgren, Hank Shocklee, King Britt, Sal P (Liquid Liquid), Deantoni […]
Terry Fox “Linkage” (Etats-Unis)
Terry Fox was a first generation Bay Area conceptual artist. Beginning in the 1970s, he worked extensively with sound, especially the use of piano wires detached from their native instrument and anchored between opposing walls of the performance space. Linkage, Fox’s first album, was originally released in 1982 to accompany an […]
Francois Tusques “Alors Nosferatu Combina Un Plan Ingenieux” (Cacophonic)
François Tusques on Alors Nosferatu Combina Un Plan Ingenieux: “After Le Nouveau Jazz was released in early 1967, I worked for two years with Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin and a few other friends on a happening loosely based on Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting Of The Snark. There was a strong […]
Vatican Shadow “Kuwaiti Airforce” (Hospital Productions)
The rarest of all Vatican Shadow’s tape releases (only 25 were made), Kuwaiti Airforce now appears on double vinyl alongside obscure cuts and previously unreleased collaborations with Silent Servant and Demdike Stare in the fourth vinyl collection of early, hard-to-find VS editions. Back at the start of this decade the […]
Land Of Light “The World Lies Breathing” (Melody As Truth)
After a seven-year hiatus since the release of their debut LP on ESP Institute, Kyle Martin and Jonny Nash’s Land Of Light return with The World Lies Breathing, their sophomore album for Melody As Truth. Written and composed over the course of two years, The World Lies Breathing reflects the […]
Ruins “Marea/Tide” (Music From Memory)
Music From Memory’s latest release sees the reissue of the lost art record Marea/Tide: Sound And Image Research Volume One by Italian Wave duo Alessandro Pizzin and Piergiuseppe Ciranna aka Ruins. Ciranna and Pizzin first conceived the Sound And Image Research series back in the early ’80s, when they were […]
Joshua Abrams “Mandatory Reality” (Eremite)
Limited repress on clear vinyl. Double LP version. LPs pressed on premium audiophile-quality vinyl at RTI from Kevin Gray Lacquers; Presented in a textured gatefold Stoughton “laserdisc” jacket with a cover painting by Lisa Alvarado. Jackets, retro-audiophile sleeves and record labels hand-screen printed by Alan Sherry at Siwa Studios, Northern […]
Sarah Davachi “Let Night Come On Bells End The Day” (Recital)
2019 repress. Recital present the newest record by Canadian composer Sarah Davachi. Currently working on her PhD in Musicology at UCLA, her trajectory has been unorthodox. Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, which, if you’ve never been there, doesn’t really scream “avant-garde” (Calgary is the rodeo capital of the world). It is […]
Daniel Schmidt “Abies Firma” (Recital)
The second album by the American Gamelan composer and instrument builder, Daniel Schmidt, following In My Arms, Many Flowers, his majestic debut on Recital. Abies Firma lies next chronologically, collecting works from 1976 to 1991, considered the second phase of his compositional form. “We were like children playing with new […]
Sir Richard Bishop & Ed Yaijian “Sir Richard Bishop & Ed Yaijian” (Unrock)
Yet another luxurious spectacle from the Saraswati Series. Ex-Sun City Girls master guitarist Richard Bishop teams up with Cul De Sac’s long time Girls live collaborator, Ed Yazijian. Two grand seigneurs of underground deliver a unique album, deeply Western-rooted, filled with the musical spirit and structures of Indian music at […]
Scattered Purgatory “Lost Ethnography of the Miscanthus Ocean” (Guruguru Brain)
“Lost Ethnography of the Miscanthus Ocean” contains six of their earlier works from 2013 to early 2014. The original release was on cassette from Guruguru Brain which was sold out less than a month. There is a new added D2. Miscanthus Ocean only for the LP version. The album is […]