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Audiopile Review: Dub reggae introduced an extraordinary new principle to music. Any given recording of a song could be reimagined in any number of ways. The arrival of sampling took this a quantum leap beyond. Now, fragments of any recorded sound could be recombined and recontextualized to infinity. These innovations...
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An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground—with the first biographies of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound.
This newly expanded edition of England's Hidden Reverse, the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground that includes the first, and only, biographies of Coil, Current...
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If the setting is right, magic will happen. And so, this record came into being. Sunburned Hand of the Man, three decades into their one of a kind run, still possess the ability to amaze, stupefy and astound - even themselves. Recorded over a week at Big Blue, Adam Langellotti’s...
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First vinyl edition of the album Rhetorical Islands, originally released by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2012 as a limited-edition CD on his Senufo Editions label, with recordings made in 2011 as a commission for l’Audible Festival, Paris. The album’s ten tracks have neither titles nor accompanying text, standing for themselves as...
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When I first moved to Ireland I was unexpectedly met by thousands of vacant churches. Massive halls formed a hollow emptiness which persisted for several months that eventually turned into years. This record was made in one of those churches on an antique, Blüthner grand piano. I worked and recorded...
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The Knife’s Olof Dreijer continues his new adventure as a solo producer with a three-track EP, marking a unique sonic chapter in his work.
Vibrant compositions and distinct melodies create an ambient progression where electronic and acoustic sounds delicately dance together, forming friendships and blending seamlessly, reminiscent of white magic.
The EP...
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Suikyō documents a first-time meeting between three Japanese improvisers: Takashi Masubuchi on guitar and harmonica; Ayami Suzuki on voice and electronics; and Tomo on hurdy-gurdy. Recorded at Permian on the 29th of January, 2023, it’s a stunning, forty-minute long improvisation of rare artistic sympathy. Notably, it was the first time...
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Audiopile Review: Coming in hot off last week’s ROTW for Astrid Sonne’s ‘Great Doubt’, we’ve got the debut album from French-born, UK-based Vanessa Bedoret, who was on violin duty for Sonne’s recent UK tour. Instantly awestruck by Great Doubt, which quickly positioned itself in contention for a best-of 2024 pick,...
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Audiopile Review: NPVR was the duo of late Editions Mego founder Peter Rehberg and Nik Void of Factory Floor. ’33 34’ is a set of archival recordings made soon after the duo’s debut, ’33 33’. Both artists were extremely busy at the time, and initial plans to release these recording...
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"This is long overdue. I mean, looooooonnnnnng overdue. A solo album by Jim. The trap kit—so straightforward, so mysterious. What’s inside those things? Air and light—from which century? Which continent? Which planet? Depending on how and when you hit them it can be a vibration sent through a prehistoric breath,...
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Before coming to Europe, in 1970, pianist Manuel Villarroel was a vet in his native Chili. A few years later, as leader of the Machi Oul Big Band, he returned to the animal kingdom. A very specific kind of animal, for sure, the Quetzalcoatl, also known as the "Feathered Serpent."...
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To abandon animals for music -- and avant-garde jazz at that -- could seeming shocking to some people. However, it is exactly what Manuel Villarroel did, as he was a vet for three years before leaving his native Chili for Europe and a career in music. And though the animals...
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2023 repress. 180-gram black vinyl. Volume two of Sun Ra's classic Heliocentric recordings from the 1960s. The astonishing sessions that went light years beyond "free jazz" improvisation to create a music of deeply-felt, explosive and gentle gesture made from sound itself without reference to previous notions of melody or harmony...
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2023 repress. 180-gram black vinyl. The astonishing sessions that went light years beyond "free jazz" improvisation to create a music of deeply felt, explosive and gentle gesture made from sound itself without reference to previous notions of melody or harmony are now reissued on 180 gram vinyl with Sun Ra's...
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This record contains four tracks taken from a live performance which took place on December 3rd 2021 at the Vinyl Harvest record store in Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg. The concert was curated by non-profit organisation I Am Esch Twenty Too and the label mint.conception.recordings. I Am Esch Twenty Too was founded in...
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Abfall and Prurient present Smokestacks. A smokestack theatre is an open, usually cyclical, pollution factory stereotypically used in dark skulls. Such skulls and the faces they support have flue gas stacks, hence the name "smoke flu" and produce a high volume of congestion and respiratory creative illness. The earliest era...
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Powdered Beatles is Richard Ramirez and Dwayne Cathey. Meat Locker is Dominick Fernow. In old ancient Egyptian tombs, the first incendiary devices were discovered and locked into jade encrusted cases. The cases were found clutched in the charred bodies of the fire army. The fire not as in the fire...
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I dipped my comb in shochu and ran it through the hair of the night is the brand new release from the intriguing trio 番長 Taste, consisting of Mark Anderson (Greymouth/Mysteries of Love, New Zealand), Anthony Guerra (Love Chants/Mysteries of Love, Australia) and mysterious rocker ‘Mariyo’ (Japan). The name 番長...
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Audiopile Review: Astrid Sonne, the Danish-born, London-based experimental composer, has deviated from the path of her prior three albums and landed with this extraordinary and idiosyncratic vision of pop music. While those previous albums (also new in stock this week) explored the textural collision between her eerie viola work, haunted...
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‘Cliodynamics' is the second release by Copenhagen composer and musician Astrid Sonne. Acting as a sequel to her debut album 'Human Lines' (2018), 'Cliodynamics' allows the listener to delve deeper into the enveloping elements of her compositional practice. The result is a refined electronic expression, continuing to bring in her...
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Audiopile Review: Juho Toivonen makes the logical leap over to Gothenburg outlet Discreet after his debut release on Ultraääni last year, his home-fi ambience a perfect fit for the label. Once again utilizing piano as his primary instrument, Toivonen’s cyclical lines bear a faint resemblance to Eno’s piano playing on...
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Audiopile Review: Glasgow producer Dip Friso dishes his newest album for his own Real Landscape imprint. The project is helmed by Murray Collier, who we last heard in the shop a few years back under his Sunny Balm guise, enrapturing us with its intricate rhythmic minimalism that shuffled up with...
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Released in 1968 on America’s coolest label Elektra Records, Nico’s sophomore solo release The Marble Index was an instant avant-garde masterpiece. Nico’s haunting voice and droning harmonium predicted the Gothic movement and John Cale’s startlingly modern classical production ensured the album’s timeless appeal. Re-mastered from the original tapes....
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1970’s Desertshore, like much of Nico’s early work, has grown in stature with the passing of time. Hardly a pop album, the material stands alongside Chelsea Girl as some of her most accessible work, winning fans as diverse as Throbbing Gristle, Morrissey, Marc Almond, and Björk. Audio has been...
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In this release, Sonja Tofik and Marlena Lampinen provide us with both collaborative tracks and own creations, ranging from taped melancholy synth melodies to gnawing pieces of malaise. ‘Vilar i dina spår’ was originally released as a very limited cassette-only release in the summer of 2017. It went...
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‘Anomi’ is Sonja Tofik’s first full-length LP, and a continuation of her debut ‘Neuros’. Anomi is the Swedish word for the sociological term anomie, first coined by french sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1893. Described as ‘the condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals’, he suggested that for...
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Nexcyia’s inaugural project delicately explores the realm of sound design, eschewing the over-visited constraints of a tempo grid. Upon immersing yourself, the immediate departure from conventional song structures becomes apparent. Instead, it feels as though the artist fills the silence with disruptive yet evocative sonic experimentation. The compositions appear to...
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Perhaps a drum is a space wrapped in material.
With some excitement the space and the material interact to produce vibrations, which we hear. Separately, yPLO prepared some sounds in advance of a performance based on the components of a speculative drum kit
ob TRU was performed and recorded live on 6/8/18...
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Taken from Boomkat: "Bit of a special one this; described as an avant-pop supergroup involving “serious legends”, Princ€ss land a strong debut album of modified shoegaze x ambient chamber musick slotted somewhere between Hysterical Love Project, Kevin Shields, A.R. Kane and Astrid Sonne, and tipped if yr on the spectrum between...
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Moloton proudly presents the debut release by Aset (in Swedish meaning roughly ‘decomposing animal carcass being scavenged upon’). The constellation have existed for some time now in the Stockholm underground, but have up until now not released anything. Behind the name are two well-known figures to Moloton listeners, Anja...
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A newly unvaulted Fake Hospital Group Operators band performing Never Use the Same Door Twice in a live transmission celebrating the 10th anniversary release of album by the same. Recorded live & transmitted on radio in Los Altos, California by KFJC 89.7....
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"Corum's work avoids the mere emulation of exotica and it's tropes through the sense of adventure that his landscapes present. This is most evident on Never Use The Same Door Twice, originally released prior to the Beguiling Isles trilogy in 2011. Comprised of six parts, these pieces are heavy with...
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Moloton proudly presents the debut release by Aset (in Swedish meaning roughly ‘decomposing animal carcass being scavenged upon’). The constellation have existed for some time now in the Stockholm underground, but have up until now not released anything. Behind the name are two well-known figures to Moloton listeners, Anja...
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Label owner Xpb1 starts his recording career with a crepuscular two tracker of post-industrial, spacious reflections in a dark and dystopian, yet melancholic, hauntological tone. The two tracks have been constructed over a base layer of minimalistic percussion and are dominated by a heavy and menacing sub-bass. The architecture of...
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BAUS ‘93 contains the storied comeback performance from Baus Theater in Kichijoji, Tokyo, which took place on February 13, 1993 in what was their first live appearance in five years. BAUS ‘93 follows the widely acclaimed worldwide release of CITTA’ ‘93, which captured the Rallizes’ fiery gig that took place...
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Audiopile Review: Guitarist Bill Orcutt is hard to pin down. Even ‘guitarist’ fails to cover it, as Orcutt is also renowned for his advanced computer music skills. In the ‘90s, he played face-melting noise rock with Harry Pussy. More recently, he’s emerged as a next-level acoustic improviser. And so much...
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While 1995's Washing Machine LP moniker was a thinly-veiled jab at the corporate aesthetic ("no, you cannot turn Sonic Youth into a household appliance brand", the band even considered changing its name to Washing Machine but settled on the album title instead), their major label relationship was indeed a curious...
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Double vinyl reissue of Skullflower's epochal IIIrd Gatekeeper album -- the first time that this album has been available on vinyl for 30 years. In addition to the original LP this definitive and expanded edition includes extra and unreleased tracks taken from the recording sessions. For the first time all...
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"Streamline presents OG23, the first in a series of projected new LPs by Chicago-based composer Kevin Drumm, famous for his string of great releases on labels such as Sonoris, Mego, Moikai, Thin Wrist etc. Ever unpredictable, Drumm this time takes the fellow time-traveler through what sounds like an electronic field...
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SAICOBAB channels the vital energy of living music traditions through ecstatic performance. NRTYA, Sanskrit for “dance”, explores the shared roots of Japanese and Indian spiritual practices in a tangible, intoxicating form. YoshimiO’s experiments in this field are well documented and legendary from her work in OOIOO to her work...
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Peter Brötzmann collaborated with many artists in his career, regularly adding new compatriots into the fold, and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love became one of his staunchest allies after the percussionist joined the Chicago Tentet in 2004. They worked in various contexts, including this inexhaustible, hard-hitting duo. Most of the albums...
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New York / Toronto producer Tony Price makes his Telephone Explosion debut with the Interview/Discount LP. Made up of two side-long tracks, the record is an electrifying collision of fractured jazz-concréte and combustible downtown funk that crushes the entire continuum between minimalism and maximalism into a hypnotic wreck of metropolitan...
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Audiopile Review: Coil’s ‘Moon’s Milk: In Four Phases’ will do strange things to your perception of time. Stop a second, though. Let’s start by going backwards. Given the relatively high profile their 1980s albums enjoyed at the time, those fearsome industrial works should still define Coil. But with the 1991 classic...
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Audiopile Review: Coil’s ‘Moon’s Milk: In Four Phases’ will do strange things to your perception of time. Stop a second, though. Let’s start by going backwards. Given the relatively high profile their 1980s albums enjoyed at the time, those fearsome industrial works should still define Coil. But with the 1991 classic...
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From 1984 to 1988 Anthony Blokdijk frequently visited Threshold House in London and corresponded with John Balance of Coil about playing live, releasing music and personal affairs. This book collects scans of Balance's original letters, including idiosyncratic decorative flourishes and provides insight into his colourful world. Also included two articles...
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