ASMUS TIETCHENS - 'Aus Freude Am Elend' CD (Die Stadt)
11th part in the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980-1991. 'Aus Freude Am Elend' is based on the human voice as a primary sound source (using 'stolen' voices) and was originally released in edition of 500 copies on Dom America in 1988. The CD includes two previously unreleased tracks and comes in a jewel case with full colour artwork and poster booklet also feat. the original front and back cover. First edition of 600 copies.
UK 14.50£
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BIONULOR - 'Sacred Mushroom Chant' CD (Wrotycz)
Inspired by the work of such artists as Aube and William Basinski, Bionulor again rakes the past, looking for the most appropriate material for their work. "Sacred Mushroom Chant" was created solely on the basis of treatment of the human voice without additional sounds or instruments. Over 50 minutes of pure experimental music - minimal, ambient and even noisy sounds - created on the basis of author's creative method called the "100% sound recycling." Cover art by Monika Machnik, mastered by Peter Andersson. Comes in 4-panel digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
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BLOOD AXIS - 'Born Again' 2 x LP (Storm)
Over the course of the 12 tracks which comprise their 2nd album, "Born Again", Blood Axis explores an epic yet human universe in which gods are summoned, kingdoms rise, riddles are unlocked, love is lost, and worlds crumble. Whereas early Blood Axis music was marked by keyboards and samples, Blood Axis in 2010 is stripped down to an essential core of natural instrumentation - electric and acoustic strings, melodeon, piano, highland bagpipes and Galician gaita, marching percussion, the mysterious Annabel-a-tron, and Bobby BeauSoleil's growling, prison-vintage guitar eruptions circa 1976. Underpinning the album and propelling much of the music is the traditional Irish bodhrán, recorded here with unprecedented power. Moynihan's ominous voice is well matched by Annabel Lee's elfin intonations, just as her violin finds a perfect counterpoint in Robert Ferbrache's protean guitar parts. Shot through by myth and romance, the expressive lyrics on "Born Again" have their roots in ancient and modern poetry, archaic invocations and tragic laments. Both unclassifiable and unforgettable: neither folk nor rock, traditional nor avant-garde, modern nor archaic, it is simply Blood Axis. To everything there is season. For those who are cursed, a time to die and to be forgotten. And for the blessed, a time to be born again: to live on, beyond death, in the minds of men. Now is the time for Blood Axis to be Born Again. Ltd x 700 copies in a stunning 6-panel gatefold sleeve with 12-page full sized booklet.
ONE COPY PER CUSTOMER ONLY! If you attempt to purchase more than 1 copy, your order will be refunded.
UK 29£
Europe 34£
World 39£
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BLOOD AXIS - 'Born Again' CD (Storm)
Over the course of the 12 tracks which comprise their 2nd album, "Born Again", Blood Axis explores an epic yet human universe in which gods are summoned, kingdoms rise, riddles are unlocked, love is lost, and worlds crumble. Whereas early Blood Axis music was marked by keyboards and samples, Blood Axis in 2010 is stripped down to an essential core of natural instrumentation - electric and acoustic strings, melodeon, piano, highland bagpipes and Galician gaita, marching percussion, the mysterious Annabel-a-tron, and Bobby BeauSoleil's growling, prison-vintage guitar eruptions circa 1976. Underpinning the album and propelling much of the music is the traditional Irish bodhrán, recorded here with unprecedented power. Moynihan's ominous voice is well matched by Annabel Lee's elfin intonations, just as her violin finds a perfect counterpoint in Robert Ferbrache's protean guitar parts. Shot through by myth and romance, the expressive lyrics on "Born Again" have their roots in ancient and modern poetry, archaic invocations and tragic laments. Both unclassifiable and unforgettable: neither folk nor rock, traditional nor avant-garde, modern nor archaic, it is simply Blood Axis. To everything there is season. For those who are cursed, a time to die and to be forgotten. And for the blessed, a time to be born again: to live on, beyond death, in the minds of men. Now is the time for Blood Axis to be Born Again. Packaged in a beautiful gatefold outsize cover with foilblock lettering and a 24-page booklet.
UK 13£
Europe 14£
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CRANIOCLAST - 'Carl's On Acit' 10" (Auf Abwegen)
Two unheard tracks by the mysterious German duo Cranioclast. In keeping with the spirit of the 10" travel document series, issued by the krev ministry of detours, Cranioclast provide two rhythmic tracks in the form of cocktail recipes. Side 1 utilises a crazed out beatbox sound and intermingles the beat patterns with all kinds of noise and tape splicings. Woven in with this active soundscape is Cranioclast’s signature sound - distant voices. This time the human factor creeps in in the form of a small child babbling away. Side 2 is denser and not so overtly rhythmic - but there is much brooding under the surface going on. Ltd x 500 copies.
UK 9.00£
Europe 11.50£
World 14.00£
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EZDANITOFF - 'We Bring The Light' CD (Silentes)
Extreme and uncompromising electronic stimulations, vibrations and synthetic pulsations floating off, disturbing buzzes and algorithmic waves in expansion, fragmented and deconstructed synthetic chaos. But there are also hints of hypnotic unfinished musical sketches, clips of embryonic melodic sequences, fragments of human voices, oscillating electronic pads, distorsions, improbable synthetic clones of nature sounds and noises. An intransigent work of disturbing and destabilizing electronica by Wouter Jaspers and Frans de Waard, especially recommended to listeners from other worlds.
UK 10.50£
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FABIO ORSI - 'The New Year Is Over' 3 x CD (Silentes)
Nine long and extraordinary tracks collected in a triple CD set. Fluctuating ambient atmospheres, hypnotic rhythmic progressions, circular and motionless stasis, acid psychedelic escapes and evocative electronic reflections. Slow suites of "classic" ambient music suspended and dilated, soft and wrapping sonorities alternated with evocative and dramatic crescendos, through progressive sounds layerings, drones, pulses, distant echoes of human voices and subliminal perceptions of ethnical vibrations. A long and absorbing journey through distant sounds and universes... timeless music without boundaries. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in an outsize 6-panel sleeve.
UK 16.00£
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World 19.00£
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GIANLUCA BECUZZI - 'Nothing Is What It Seems' CD (Silentes)
Almost 70 minutes of music, nine pieces of a sonic mosaic full of ideas and inventions. More structured compositions placed side by side with more abstract numbers, built with a wide range of sounds, extremely variated both in timbre and origin. Elaborated electronic treatments applied to sounds and noises of a concrete nature, field-recordings, drones, electronic hisses, shaken metal, crackling, human and animal guttural cries, synthetic pads, ethereal and undecipherable voices, mechanical loops, noises from the everyday life. An incredibile and unpredictable sound universe without borders and without time...
UK 10.50£
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HYPH - 'Alter.Tenacio' CD (Tourette)
Berlin artist [-Hyph-] (aka Nicolas Wiese) composes his electro-acoustic music using instruments played by others. There is xylophone, double bass, alto saxophone, bass clarinet as well as field recordings from Canada, police helicopter and human voices. There is always something happening here. No second silence seems to be permitted. Wiese uses the computer to treat his sounds beyond belief, or rather: beyond recognition. Very vibrant music, very free in approach and result. Composed from the original ideas of musique concrete, but with a strong touch of his own. Perhaps not entirely new (either), but it's all done with great care and style. Comparable to Brume. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
UK 11£
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JOHN DUNCAN / C.M. VON HAUSSWOLFF - 'Our Telluric Conversation' CD (23five)
The second collaborative album from audio sculptors John Duncan and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff. A bold, expressive piece of sound art, confident in its multiplicity of perspectives caught in a constant flux of attraction and repulsion. Performed with shortwave, data streams, uncanny use of the human voice, oscillators, sonar, and wire tapping microphones. The recording comes with a 40 page booklet with an interview between Duncan and Hausswolff about their histories, ideas, and methodologies. Furthermore, the packaging is completed with a braille embossed cover slip. Heavy, quality piece.
UK 12£
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MACIEK SZYMCZUK & SLOWTION - 'Ways' CD (Zoharum)
The latest Maciek Szymczuk album was prepared together with a British artist hidden under the moniker Slowtion. 'Ways' is a musical journey into the depth of your own persona, the diary from spiritual journey in search of the answer on the meaning of the human existence where, among the complexities and blind alleys, one can find an element of sacrum, the contact with the Absolute. Musicwise, 'Ways' show slightly different traits of Maciek Szymczuk's work. It may have happened this way because of the collaborative nature of the project and Slowtion's involvement in it. Also, it may have been the character of Joanna's delicate, ethereal voice. Digipak.
UK 11£
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MICHEL BANABILA - 'The Latest Research From The Department Of Electrical Engineering' CD (Tapu Records / Lumberton Trading Company / AudioTong)
The latest work from Dutch composer Michel Banabila. The music is created mainly from electrical sources, but the approach is not clinical, rather mechanical, loud, intrusive, but also has a distinct human factor to it. It is clearly Banabila doing the engineering here, obviously enjoying his new 'mad scientist' incarnation. Some of the recordings arose from earlier mix-versions of tracks originally made for the dance performance ZOUT, by Conny Janssen Danst & Anne Soldaat. Unlike previous Banabila albums, there is very little of the so-called 'world music', voice samples or jazz influences, but instead a mainly electronic angle, with a special contribution by sound-artist/performer Zenial (AudioTong, Vivo Records). 40mins of music. Ltd x 300 copies in a card sleeve.
UK 8£
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OPIUM & SOSTRAH TINNITUS - 'Stain' CD (Silentes Minimal Editions)
Warm, involving, deep and penetrating sounds... Flowing sound patterns, vibrating drones permeated by a discreet sense of tension, evolving into dark, obscure, foggy, nocturnal atmospheres, violated by raven voices, mysterious noises and sounds of metal objects in motion... And then concrete noises, confused and elusive melodies, feeble light flashes, buried echoes of human voices, distant whispers, sudden passages of rough sounds, subliminal and hypnotic sequences, just like a recollection of unreal and dusty sounds from an old carillon... An extraordinary and not to be missed journey in the darkness, lead with great skill by two of the most remarkable artists coming from the Italian ambient/dark-ambient scene of the last decade.
UK 10.50£
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PUISSANCE - 'Mother Of Disease' CD (Equilibrium Music)
Reissue of Puissance's 1999 album. With the Industrial rust of early days properly polished, the Swedish duo would further explore their talent for graceful arrangements set to Militaristic Neo-Classical music. Following the overtly confrontational offerings of "Let Us Lead" and "Back In Control", Puissance were now set to resurrect the ghosts of Cold War and the obsession with all things thermonuclear that haunted the planet - the Mother of Disease, as they would call it - over that period. Brooding hymns to suicidal heroism, devotional praises to a new god that would finally bring closure to the human race, the screeching of metal twisting and melting - all of this would find its place in Puissance's own beautiful vision of the impending apocalypse, that they so ingeniously depict on "Mother of Disease". This fine collection, it has been re-mastered and enhanced with one bonus track, presented in a matte-blue deluxe digipak edition.
Two tracks of rhythmic power noise and heavy electronics. "Shadow Theater succeed where many others fail. They really go off... The track '33rpm' is angst ridden noise at its best. A merciless barrage of sub-sonic frequencies and post-industrial noise almost bury what may be a human voice. The 'B' side of this excellent study in the long-term effects of too much time alone, 'Ein Splitter Glas', presents a vocal treatment laid over a modulating noise loop... Love it" (auralpressure). Ltd x 500 copies.
UK 4£
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T.A.C. - 'Waiting For The Twilight' CD (Small Voices)
After a long time of hibernating sleep, this unforgettable band from Italy is back in magnificent form, with a new sonic paradox. T.A.C. has created a virtual drome where never heard acoustic waves collapse into boundless technoid cages, wrapping dehumanized scared voices from the atavistic twilight of a dying future! T.A.C. transfer you to a world of visions, combining sickened chants with electronic sounds, destructured female voices with unbelievable acoustic soundscapes. Imagine a sort of cross between Coil, Matmos and hyper electronic music. Digipak.
UK 8£
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THE BEAUTIFUL SCHIZOPHONIC - 'Erotikon' CD (Cronica)
Jorge Mantas' brand new selection of micro-drones and digitised textural ambience. The music is full of mystery and wistfulness. In its early stages the album delivers piano tones glistening brightly through the filtered static on 'Aysha' and entangled signals stewing in the watery tonalities of 'Blumarine'. On 'Alba' (with piano by Yui Onodera), Mantas incorporates an excerpt from the 1860 recording of ‘Au Clair De Lune’, thought to be the very first audio document of a human voice. Uncannily, the ruptured, hauntingly broken sound of the recording chimes with the ethereal qualities running through Mantas’ music. 6-panel digisleeve.
UK 10.50£
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THE HUMAN VOICE - 'Exit Lines' CD (Eibon Records)
Northaunt mastermind Harleif Langas gives voice to a less dark and oppressive journey with "Exit lines", and explores the thin boundary between ambient (not necessarily dark....) music and spacious post-rock. Deep drones and sparse melodic guitar lines, "skeletal" structures and subtle noises. Appealing to both the Constellation-freaks and the courageous (and open minded) dark ambient travellers. Digisleeve.
"Not Without A Fight" is Crucial Blast's homage to the scuzz-caked grindcore / noise / sludge / speed punk underground of the mid-late 1990's. 66 tracks from: A Death Between Seasons, Agathocles, Aural Torture Mechanism, Bastard Noise, Cripple Bastards, Bloodstains & Bulletholes, Cruel Face, Dahmer, Dark Skies Fallen, Daybreak, Depressor, Falsies, Final Exit, Flammable Child, Global Holocaust, JDog, John Bender, Katastrofialue, Macronympha, Mark Bruback, Miseries AD, Mizuko, None Of Your Fucking Business, Puncture Wound, Retribution, RPOD, Samus, SoIHadToShootHim, Strong Intention, The Last Day No Human Voice, Unfound and Unholy Grave. This second edition is limited to 1000 copies and is packed in a DVD style plastic double-disc case that holds both CDs and a 64-page fanzine-style newsprint booklet loaded with band info, art, stories and rants.
UK 11£
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VRESNIT - 'Seed Solar' CD (Vetvei / Aquarellist)
The new Vresnit album was recorded in autumn/winter 2010 in cooperation with Kshatriy, Hladna and Neznamo. A five-part space ambient piece dedicated to the sun and the transformation and dissemination of seeds. Vresnit's art has turned to the research of primary experiences - the human consciousness and the human condition resonating with nature. Sparkling cosmic Drone Ambient created from voices, string and wind instruments, bells, singing bowls, electronic instruments and field recordings. Ltd x 484 hand-numbered copies in an outsized 6-panel card sleeve.
