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Trances, Jules Reidy's follow-up to the celebrated World in World (2022), takes place in between states, tracing a kind of restless movement in search of -- or is it away from? -- a center. The twelve tracks shift between fragment and epic, returning to familiar phrases between forays outward into...
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The Body & Dis Fig are a natural pair. Each has pioneered instantly recognizable worlds of sound all their own that defy any traditional categorizations or boundaries. The Body, Lee Buford and Chip King, continually challenge any conventional conception of metal, collaborating with myriad artists and from the folk-leanings of...
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In the 1970s, Robert Cahen turned to the burgeoning field of video art, where he became a pioneering artist. He was originally trained in musique concrète, his creative background, and joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in 1972. The pieces on this record were composed in the GRM studios between...
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A discreet but essential figure in the field of musical creation, Horacio Vaggione has been crafting an ambitious, precise and highly significant body of work for over the last fifty years, coupled with a demanding research activity. This disc offers four purely electroacoustic pieces which illustrate, each in their own...
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ASA (Arturo Lanz, Saverio Evangelista, AtomTM ) are the last three futurists on earth. Radial is the result of a vivid creative merge between Esplendor Geométrico and AtomTM. A transparent diamond formed by a heavy implosion. Its underlying massive mechanics are covered by a crystal surface made to cut reality...
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In Words is the first solo album by the Danish musician, composer, and visual artist Alexander Tillegreen. The album represents a series of varied electronic music pieces while also carrying examples of ongoing work with psychoacoustic phenomena. Composed partly of material taken from his artistic practice as an installation artist...
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"Philip Glass will share a new album, Philip Glass Solo, via Orange Mountain Music. The collection is an intimate portrait of the renowned pianist at 84, as he takes a new look at some of his most enduring and beloved piano works. Philip Glass Solo was recorded at a time...
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Relapse Records is proud to announce the reissue of the highly influential TECHNO ANIMAL (featuring Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, and more,) & Kevin Martin (The Bug)) album, The Brotherhood of the Bomb. The album, fully remastered by Broadrick, is available on LP for the first time ever!
Prior to The Brotherhood...
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A collaborative studio album written and performed by Mizmor and Thou. Created and recorded entirely in secret and revealed for their surprise joint performance at Roadburn 2022. "I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake."...
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Kronos Quartet’s award-winning 1990 album Black Angels gets its first-ever vinyl release in celebration of the group’s 50th anniversary. The two-LP set includes George Crumb’s title piece, which inspired David Harrington to found the quartet, and works by Charles Ives, István Márta, Thomas Tallis, and Dmitri Shostakovich; the vinyl’s fourth...
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Limited 2024 restock. Japanese solo project Jun Konagaya's Grim released the beautiful EP, Message, in 1987. It was his first and sole full folk music release despite having an album called Folk Music in 1986 that was a classic industrial album, featuring Yukio Nagoshi, founding member of the Vasilisk unit,...
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Kali Malone's anticipated new album "All Life Long" is a collection of music for pipe organ, choir, and brass quintet composed by Kali Malone, 2020 - 2023. Choral music performed by Macadam Ensemble and conducted by Etienne Ferschaud at Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-L'Immaculée-Conception in Nantes. Brass quintet music performed by Anima Brass...
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Talisman was originally released 1995 on Alastair Galbraith's own label Next Best Way. It was the debut CD on his imprint and has never been issued on vinyl. Having been charmed by this album since its release, Otic is proud to release this seminal work on vinyl for the first...
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Longtime enthusiasts of ambient music have much to celebrate as Rafael Anton Irisarri's cherished out-of-print cassette, Midnight Colours, returns in a meticulously remastered edition and makes its inaugural debut on vinyl. The significance of this album's announcement is accentuated by its historical resonance, coinciding with the same day in 1952...
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A live performance of four early works by Steve Reich: "Four Organs," "My Name Is," "Piano Phase," and "Phase Patterns." This 1970 performance marked an important moment in San Francisco Bay Area new music history with the triumphant return to the East Bay by Reich, who studied at Mills College...
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12 years after Hospital Productions released the first Raspberry Bulbs album, the band returns to the label with their most focused offering to date. Gone are the interludes found on their last two albums. This time RB has distilled all their strengths into 11 concise songs. Listeners may be tempted...
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"goat (JP) are renowned for two albums released in 2013 and 2015 that took Kraftwerk’s man-machine concept back to its roots with swingeing, inch-tight drums, bass and guitar patterns that needed to be heard to be believed. For their long-in-the-making new album ‘Joy In Fear’, band leader Koshiro Hino (YPY,...
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Acclaimed NYC experimental musician Lea Bertucci explores dissonance, drone and dynamics with two new longform compositions for strings, electronics, harp and percussion on "Of Shadow and Substance".
“More so than any of my other music, I don’t feel that these works belong to me,” Bertucci writes. “There is something about them...
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Originally released in 2000, American Don is the band's fourth full-length album for Touch and Go Records. The first record, For Respect, was all dense and menacing bricks of sound that built severe structures as cheerful as the Berlin Wall. That gave way to a second record Don Caballero 2,...
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Audiopile Review: After his initial pair of muddied illbient and heat-warped ambient albums released on Huerco S.’s West Mineral imprint, Kansas City-based producer Mister Water Wet has found a home at Soda Gong, who issued his excellent Top Natural Drum back in ’22 and now hit us with this beguiling new...
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Audiopile Review: <span data-sheets-root="1" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Brian Eno, it seems, is widely considered a compiler of other people’s ideas and a curator of other people’s talent. That view does little justice to the beauty of his solo music or the brilliance of his best production work. Furthermore, even when Eno is functioning as...
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Atte Elias Kantonen is a composer and sound designer based in Helsinki, Finland. a path with a name follows well-received releases on Mappa and Active Listeners Club, and finds Kantonen expanding the scope of his dynamic and idiosyncratic practice. Here, he places his listeners within an auditive diorama, affording them...
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"Freeform, pigeon-hole dodging, stylistic merry-go-round, restless, weird and addictive -- the long-anticipated return of Nina Harker, three years in the works since their self-titled 2020 debut. Similar in vein to its polyglot predecessor, this is an extremely skewed trip to the unknown. The duo's chameleon-like musical world never misses an...
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Vladislav Delay presents the fifth and last EP in his Hide Behind The Silence series. Intuitive and raw music, momentary and reflective, released on Ripatti's own label "Rajaton". "Stillness is a myth. Consider concepts such as 'still water', or 'still air' for that matter . . . It's filled with...
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Apolline and Thomas have been performing since 2022 under the KOU guise with 24 electronic harmoniums. Producing dense layers of tones and overtones. On their debut album, KOU steers in another direction. The harmonium appears occasionally, but more prominent are delicate guitar pluckings, distant vocal effects, synths, flutes, piano strokes,...
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90 Day Men spent a decade boldly in conflict with the world, catering to no one and careening toward its own abyss. Forged by Midwestern teens amid a late-90s spike in angular indie rock, the band wrote itself into the lexicon of Chicago music history. Eschewing trend and time, 90...
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Audiopile Review: <span data-sheets-root="1" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"After an incredible run of 11 full length albums all issued on Simon Joyner’s Grapefruit Records, the NZ underground master of gloomy guitar dirges lands with ease on Discreet Records, who have reached out of their usual stable of Gothenburg experimentalists for this special release. The pairing...
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Audiopile Review: Drone overlord Phill Niblock with guitar noise orchestrator Rhys Chatham on flute and vocals? How did we not know these two legends of New York’s downtown new music scene had worked together in 1972? Heck, we did not even know Phill Niblock had started composing music back then. And...
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Audiopile Review: It’s easy to take Khanate’s legendary status for granted. After all, how could any avant metal band featuring members of Sunn O)))), OLD, and Blind Idiot God be anything less than legendary? Well, back in 2001, when Khanate’s self-titled debut album was released, extreme metal was far from respectable...
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Audiopile Review: It’s easy to take Khanate’s legendary status for granted. After all, how could any avant metal band featuring members of Sunn O)))), OLD, and Blind Idiot God be anything less than legendary? Well, back in 2001, when Khanate’s self-titled debut album was released, extreme metal was far from respectable...
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An archive of Noise vinyl and cassette covers.
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Exposed power has a wider and deeper presence in our transmission, clearly any compromise is severe. No static is the same. The fifth release on 0 confirms this....
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I can’t explain the pulse but the system is wide and resonant, the house is open again - advanced in dynamics, more and pure electricity.. the sixth release on 0, produced by C3D-E and Hashman...
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This is a presentation of Xexa's different sensibilities as a composer, musician and sound designer, mapping what are in effect her initial explorations with voice, rhythms, synths, ambience, ever searching for an organic final result. As a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) between 2019 and...
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Step into the enigmatic world of Morthond, a captivating music project that took shape during the winter of 1990 under the creative guidance of the singular talent, BJ Nilsen. Unlike traditional projects, Morthond thrives on pushing sonic boundaries and challenging the norm. BJ Nilsen's craftsmanship lies in his ability to...
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Occasionally ideas present themselves in ways that no one can expect. This recording from Australia’s Eugene Carchesio and the UK’s Adam Betts is one such unexpected presentation.
A couple of years ago, Eugene passed me a collection of recordings that he explained were in the orbit of his now legendary Circle...
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The story of this unexpected collaboration dates back to the summer and autumn of 1998 when Bryn Jones AKA Muslimgauze, the politically conscious music genius from Manchester, discovered Species Of Fishes' albums through the Dutch label Staalplaat. Jones embarked on a journey of reinventing the Muscovites’ tracks, infusing them with...
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Composed and recorded in London and Tristan da Cunha during 2022 and 2023. Trumpet on track 1 by Abraham Parker, additional strings on track 3 by Otto Von Lumi, programming on track 4 by Big Hands.
From Theory To Practice EP [BSUN009]...
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On three original cuts Soreab marches head down into the murk with turgid bass weight and brittle snapping drum machines rendered spaciously absorbing in-the-mix. ‘Maschera’ tenderises club flesh with spiny drum machine locked a 90bpm trudge embedded in swole bass, seared with saltily distorted arps like John Carpenter’s dancehall club...
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Originally released on tape by SicSic in 2014, Aprilnacht commemorates a decade of music from Brannten Schnüre and marked the spring in a tetralogy of albums about the four seasons when it came out. Back then the Würsburg-based project consisted solely of Christian Schoppik, who later welcomed Katie Rich to...
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An utterly unique guitar/bass/drums triad: the guitar sounds like anything but a guitar; bass and drums simultaneously insistent and relaxed. Telephathic group-think opens a window to fresh fields of fusion: funk-jazz heads, polyrhythmic skeletons, ambient pastorals, post-kraut drones and shimmering soundtrack reveries. A music of sustained tension and deep atmosphere,...
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"With Time is Glass, Six Organs of Admittance is captured once again in the intricate tangle of the fretboards, soaring in open skies above. Like lens flare cutting through the speakers; spiderwebs cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrushing reality. Blowing the dust away, cutting a new path...
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Blue Color Vinyl. Ghost Pop Tape is a 42-song mixtape from the Baltimore-based renowned artist Jpegmafia. Originally released on Bandcamp under JPEG's birth name, Devon Hendryx, in 2013, the rapper finally brought it to streaming under the same moniker in 2023. The tape is a slightly more lofi hip-hop, alt-r&b...
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LP version. "After a two-decade interlude, Jim O'Rourke's Moikai returns with Spectral Evolution, a major new work by Rafael Toral. Making his name in the mid-1990s with influential guitar drone platters like Sound Mind Sound Body and Wave Field, Toral has never been one to rest on his laurels repeating...
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Saginaw Racket, the new double album by Sir Richard Bishop, features the first new recordings from the former Sun City Girls guitarist in over five years. It is a singular work for electric guitar in four parts with each part being a full side. Each of the four parts were...
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Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Zazeela and liner notes by Young and French musicologist Daniel Caux.
Side one was recorded at a...
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This is the first vinyl issue of Temple IV, arguably Roy Montgomery’s finest solo album, originally released in 1996 on CD. The original album has been enhanced with two newer tracks that constitute side four of the album. Montgomery states: “The two new tracks recorded in 2018 were about asking...
