BIRDS BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND & MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - 'Gramofonu = Voice Of The Universe' LP (Love Nest / Opax)
The first meeting of two improv acts, Prague-based turntable & 8mm band Birds Build Nests Underground and Italian psychedelic troubadours My Cat Is An Alien. Two different approaches to music make a sound that takes both from the unknown realms of the outer space and from the somehow-well-known world of old cracking records and the music and sounds on them. BBNU provided some of their live improvisations, MCIAA then chose those close to their hearts and laced them with sounds of guitars, space toys & ray guns, wordless singing and alientronics. Never has music of the spheres crackled so nicely. As if the whole galaxy lies on a giant turntable. The record starts with an exciting, ecstatic and excellent improvised speech by a Czech avant-garde poet V�tezslav Nezval who sees the whole world through his glass and the glass in the window of a recording studio. Ltd x 300 copies in a pro-printed sleeve.
UK 13.00£
Europe 16.50£
World 20.00£
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BIRDS BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND - 'So As' Enhanced CD (Lumberton Trading Company / Love Nest)
"So As" is the latest album by this prolific and inventive trio comprising of turntablists Petr Ferenc and Michal Brunclík and filmmaker Martin Ježek. Featuring four pieces and a film by Ježek lasting 10 minutes, this album witnesses BBNU not only honing the craft caught on their previous few releases and live sound but also pushing it into new places as well. The atmospherics and interstellar swirl of textures seen on their recent collaborative LP with My Cat Is An Alien serve as a great starting point to the quasi-dimensional blankets of abstract sound to be found at work here. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
This CD was recorded in September 2010 at the Babí Léto ("Indian Summer") festival in Prague. Two rising stars of the Czech alternative scene! BBNU's track was created on turntables, manipulating the sound of vinyl records (percussion, classical music, marching etc), all perfectly looped and given the experimental treatment. The trio Ruinu used electronics, loops, vocals, trumpet, saxophone and clarinet to create original experimental music. Presented in a carton-slider.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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DALINA - 'Cold Mysteries...' CD (Casus Belli Musica)
Slavonic Folk Ambient from Belarus. Dalina is a project of Darkut (Bardjar, ex-Zmrok). Prolonged, unhurried songs, melancholic and pensive with a leading role here played by acoustic guitar, crystal clear flue, harp and natural sounds such as running water, birdsong, the creaking of trees in the wind and the rustling of leaves. Imagine yourself sitting at nighttime in a snow-swept cabin, watch a trembling candle and listening to ancient tales of the outside world. Ltd x 500 copies.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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DEATH IN JUNE - 'The Rule Of Thirds' CD (NERUS / Soleilmoon)
From Autumnal to Vernal Equinox, this is the Death In June Winter tree. Stripped bare, but for thirteen of its branches. But they are as strong as ever, and with thirteen glasses and one last toast, this new album captures the true essence of Death In June, again setting new standards in its self-created genre. Let the Blackbirds kiss you and may The Rule Of Thirds dictate your life. This is the first Death In June studio album in more than three years and has been likened to 'But What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?" and "Rose Clouds Of Holocaust". Toten Pop and Kampf Fire Music for the Neofolk generation! This CD edition is presented in an embossed softpak with 16 page lyric book.
UK 13£
Europe 14£
World 15£
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DIANA ROGERSON & ANDREW LILES - 'No Birds Do Sing' CD (Dirter)
Everyone’s belle de jour Diana Rogerson and Andrew Liles got together to create what we regard as one of the most considered and well conceived albums Liles has been part of. 'No Birds do Sing' can only be described as a hallucinogenic voyage of disconcerting mysticism and cosmic pandemonium and is a recording he's very proud of. This disc is a completely black and comes in a stunning super high gloss digipack with artwork by Babs Santini (aka Steven Stapleton / Nurse With Wound).
This debut from new Dutch label Kazemat is a split venture between Amsterdam artists Morsanek and Vinkepeezer. Morsanek builds audio narratives by connecting and disconnecting small timbral and organisational complements and improv guitar. Vinkepeezer's music is built from many tiny sampled fragments that reappear as a swarming flock of birds, falling apart and building up again in ever changing forms. His music is organic, cinematic, warm and thickly layered, full of contrast. Ltd x 550 copies in a gatefold sleeve on heavy (180gm) vinyl.
UK 14.00£
Europe 18.50£
World 23.00£
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VA - 'Autumn Blood (Constructions)' CD (Lumberton Trading Company)
Collecting several artists LTCo has so far worked with and some of their affiliates, "Autumn Blood (Constructions)" mostly comprises exclusive material to this release by older hands and relative newcomers alike. Those featured are as follows: Lawrence English (Room 40 label owner), Peter Christopherson (Coil / Throbbing Gristle / SoiSong), Birds Build Nests Underground, Steven Severin (Siouxsie & the Banshees), Volga, Theme (Richard Johnson and Stuart Carter, both ex-Splintered), Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound), Zenial/Banabila, Formication, Sion Orgon, Human Greed (Michael Begg of Fovea Hex and Deryk Thomas), Colin Potter (Monos). Ltd x 500 copies - ACT FAST!
