HELMUT SCHÄFER / ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI - 'Bisskraft' CD (Ytterbium)
Great forceful noise / experimental collaborative work and one of the last surviving pieces involving the late Helmut Schäfer (who died in 2007). The composition actually dates from 2004 but was just released this year. The music is divided into four parts. Comes in a shrinkwrapped card sleeve. Ytterbium is a sub-label of yb70. French import.
UK 5£
Europe 6£
World 7£
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VA - 'Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders Vol. II: Europe' 2 x CD (Auf Abwegen)
Volume II in a series of artists’ tributes to the pioneering UK Noise group The New Blockaders including exclusive tracks by: Achim Wollscheid, Alexei Borisov, Asmus Tietchens, Benzo, Christian Renou, Cisfinitum, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Dave Philips, Eshak, Freiband, Giancarlo Toniutti, Grunt, Jerome Noetinger, Kommissar Hjuler, Lasse Marhaug, Mama Bär, Massimo, Pita, Ralw Wehowsky, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Sudden Infant, Treriksroset, Vom Grill, Vortex Campaign and Zbigniew Karkowski. 144 mins of music! Ltd x 500 copies only!
UK 16£
Europe 17£
World 18£
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ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI & TETSUO FURUDATE - 'World As Will IV' CD (OHM Records)
"IV" in the 'World As Will' series ("III" Sub Rosa, "II' 23five, "I" Staalplaat). "‘World As Will’ is a work in which Zbigniew Karkowski and Tetsuo Furudate combine orchestral music with computer music - read: noise. At the basis here lie two performances, one for sax, trombone, flute and sine waves and the other for a small ensemble called Sonic Boom. These recordings are slaughtered by the composers during a concert in Tokyo and turned into a racket of noise. Another heavy weight release, with lots of cascading noise samples of orchestral origin spliced on the spot together, fed through the lions of granular synthesis - and who knows what else. Its however in the power of these hands that they know, somewhere in the middle how to pull back and go deeper and deeper into what seems to be the crackling of surfaces with contact microphones, before returning to the world of crashing noise and only to return once more to that somewhat dark underworld, going back up after for a cascading finale. Noise indeed and perhaps I should have left this in the capable hands of Jliat, but this is actually noise of the more intelligent kind" (Vital Weekly). Limited to just 200 copies in a digipak!
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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ZENIAL - 'Reworked' CD (Vivo Records)
Experimental electronica, tribal, musique concrete, ambient, drone, cut up noise by the young Polish sound experimentator Zenial. Features 15 tracks including some collaborative pieces with: Andrew Duke, Andrew Lagowski, Amir Baghiri, Jason Wietlespach & Jon Mueller, Kasper Toeplitz, KK Null, Maciek Szymczuk, Tetsuo Furudate, Vidna Obmana and Zbigniew Karkowski. Packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
Great forceful noise / experimental collaborative work and one of the last surviving pieces involving the late Helmut Schäfer (who died in 2007). The composition actually dates from 2004 but was just released this year. The music is divided into four parts. Comes in a shrinkwrapped card sleeve. Ytterbium is a sub-label of yb70. French import.
