artist:
Kreuzer
title: In Hoc Signo Vinces
price: $17
num: Front 018
label: The Eastern Front
format: CD
New album of very young Israeli project Kreuzer. Martial dark ambient sounds mixed with industrial elements. Feel spirit of the Crusades and medieval Jerusalem in Kreuzer new album–«In Hoc Signo Vinces»!
artist:
KEIJO
title: Songs Of Luck
price: $12
num: iku-020
label: Ikuisuus
format: CD
Keijo's songs draw from country-blues sources,
as is often the case with his releases, there's a couple of Woody Guthrie interpretations included here.
Harmonicas whine and woe, but also keep up the rhythm of keepin' on.
In these songs, people get up early and travel in a land "that used to be your land."
It's a place where luck comes and goes, just like the people that you meet.
The girl knows how to hit you like rolling thunder,
the workers are left unpaid (the boss ain't),
the ones with no work are standing in the welfare line,
your "true love" throws you a suitcase and shows you the door,
there's working in the country and in the cities,
an anonymous wanderer carries the blues wherever he goes
- but it's bigger than just being down:
you don't see me worrying, 'cos I've got nothing left to lose.
That's why we all share the blues.
artist:
HARAPPIAN NIGHT RECORDINGS
title: Non Euclidean Elucidation of Shamanic Ecstasies
price: $15
num: iku-017
label: Ikuisuus
format: CD
Winnowed from the polymath, alchemist, “the man who could walk through in-between positions”, arch Black Duke of Maknovischina, peripatetic flux ingester haji gutterpup Ustad’s Almanac, his scribblings and tapes spanning 31 yrs, “Non-Euclidean Elucidation Of Shamanic Ecstacies” was hastily transcribed and assembled sixty nadis travel west of Sahiwal by an assemblage of Vamachara hounds and the Abdals of Rum wearing black mantles and animal hides over their shoulders with pouches of flint and herbs. Some with felt cloaks carrying drums, bells and horns, sometimes screaming. Others carrying large yellow spoons, iron rings, sucai clubs, ankle bones and singing bowls. Swords drawn across their chests and snakes twining the arms. After 30 days of pitri they sculpted 10 psychic enemas.
artist:
Matomeri
title: Joys Of Summer
price: $12
num: IS-017
label: Ikuisuus
format: CDR
First ever release by this new Tampere based unit. The halfhead-honcho of Ikuisuus, Timo, having real special time with his friends in an old slaughterhouse, jamming together & melting their brains away. Arctic freak-out improv psychedelia, droning dark-water diving, ancient stories from the age of dragons... adventures and heavy sound.
Hear this, the new wave of the finnish whatever.
artist: MUSLIMGAUZE
title: Armsbazzar
price: $19
num: ESS011
label: Essence Music
Armsbazzar investigates both released and unreleased selected recordings from the intense period comprised between 1994 and 1997. Included are the out-of-print Hebron Massacre and Gulf Between Us singles, which feature two of the longest, most stunning and hypnotic MUSLIMGAUZE pieces ever – plus two inedit, highly percussive tracks taken from the recording sessions of the mythic, yet still unreleased and unheard, Zamindar album.
artist: Merzbow
title: Camouflage
price: $17
num: ESS012
label: Essence Music
The elemental excitement for each new Merzbow album remains intact among us here and, after four long years, the undisputable master returns to Essence Music with a new installment of his unique brand of harsh psychedelic noise assault.
A bit distant from Sha Mo 3000’s pulsing, often rhythmic strategies or the recent albums featuring freestyle drums by Masami Akita himself, Camouflage plays by the more straight MERZBOW rules, going back to his comfort zone of audio barbarism.
We salute the ferocious torrents of abused, imploding and exploding electronics, the sharp, pulverizing and abrasive high frequencies and the unrelenting punishment of frenzied throbbing machine-screams witnessed in the controlled cacophonic environment of Camouflage!
format: CD This CD is a collection of rare tracks by this most
famous french noise project, previously released on
obscure tape compilations and includes the very first
live recording session. It represents the pioneering
bruitism music in the most raw and powerful mode, it's
still going strong and hitting hard, thus should be
not missed by any real noise fans.
artist: Jason Kahn / Richard Francis
title: S/T price: $15 num: mv28 label: Monochrome Vision
format: CD The new album from two masters of electroacoustic
improvisation, who are living thousands miles away from
each other, but found some common aesthetic views and
originality of artistic expression. This materials were
recorded live during their collaborative performances
in various locations, consisting of four long tracks,
presenting the unique interaction between technology
and intuition.
format: CD This unique collaboration of three Japanese musicians
(coming from quite different music background) tends
to be the most radical and uncompromising one. It's
really hard to explain what it's all about, it's too
alien and very far from any rational thought you can
imagine. For the unprepared listener, it can be very
uneasy and helpless experience, but for me, it explains
the very idea of avant garde music in our post modern
age.
format: CD Extra heavy fusion of industrial noise and musique
concre`te, this exclusive collaboration unites forces
of two legendary musicians who were witnessed the roots
of industrial music movement. It consists of three long
tracks of mechanical aggression, clinical obsession
and uncompromizing psychic attack. Dedicated to the
memory of Pierre Schaeffer, this is the second part
of ongoing series, started by Tibprod label CDR-release.
artist: The Human Quena Orchestra
title: The Politics Of The Irredeemable price: $15 num: CBR76 label: Crucial Blast
format: CD Human Quena Orchestra first took shape as a solo
project from Ryan Unks, who had previously played guitar
in the final lineup of the Pittsburgh metal band Creation
Is Crucifixion. After moving from CIC, Unks began to
work on a new project that would incorporate elements
of black metal, crushing drone music, extreme psychotropic
noise and psychedelic/krautrock influences into a sound
that would be much heavier any of his previous projects.
artist: L'Anus Solaire
title: Manifestation I : Orifices price: $15 num: AS 01 label: L'anvs Solaire
format: CD Human Quena Orchestra first took shape as a solo
project from Ryan Unks, who had previously played guitar
in the final lineup of the Pittsburgh metal band Creation
Is Crucifixion. After moving from CIC, Unks began to
work on a new project that would incorporate elements
of black metal, crushing drone music, extreme psychotropic
noise and psychedelic/krautrock influences into a sound
that would be much heavier any of his previous projects.
format: CD Collaborating Torture is one of the last known recordings
made by Matt Gibney AKA Hollowing, who died in January
2006. Gibney, a member of SOIHADTOSHOOTHIM who was also
running the important Rectrix label and mail-order,
was joined here by the prolific Maor Appelbaum (Grave
in the Sky, Poochaltz and Maurizio Bianchi, to name
a few) to create a brooding and massive 54 minutes track
of dark pitch-black ambient of hypnagogic swirls and
industrialized drones. Sometimes subtle, yet mostly
haunted and delirious, this is highly recommended if
you like Wilt, Murderous Vision, Brighter Death Now,
Aidan Baker, Z'ev, Daniel Menche, The Caretaker and
John Duncan.
format: CD+DVD "Cyclator"
is the 2009' release for this pioneer of the French
industrial scene. It includes a full-length audio-CD
containing material recorded in 2002-2007 and a DVD
offering the complete MINAMATA' performance recorded
live on Saturday, April 21st 2007 in Antwerp/Belgium
plus the video of this show. Massive waves of Power-electronics
are here perfectly mixed with metal sounds & percussions
and heavy processed vocals, reflecting the agony of
the Japanese city of MINAMATA in the 50 & 60's years.
This concept release comes in a nicely designed three
panel digipack, limited to 500 copies. CD: 7 tracks/Total
length: 62'52. DVD: Over 3 hours.
artist: LETHAL DOSE 50
title: 21st century awakening price: $20 num: NB CD 05 label: Nuit Et Brouillard
format: CD LETHAL
DOSE 50 is the poison dose injected into the veins of
persons sentenced to the death penalty in some states
of the United States.… but LD50 is also a Belgian trio
which has been existing for years in the fields of electronic
musics. After a self-released first tape and a first
CD-R, we are proud to offer you the first fullength
CD by this talented unit. Using some digital instruments
− synths, samplers- as well as some analogue ones −synths,
rhythm’n box, effects-… LD50 develops an atmospheric
music which is at the same time dark but warm, cosmic
and experimental, melodic and deep, meditative but aware,
often underlaid by some sampled voices and sound-collages,
sometimes intermingled with/ intersected with some hypnotic
rhythms. Being fully mastered and definitely original
compared to some nowadays releases from the dark-ambient
genre, "21st century awakening" will both
appeal to the nostalgics of the 70ies and 80ies sonorities
-old-school space-electronics from the 70ies and 80ies
such as TANGERINE DREAM, NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS-.as well
as to the lovers of some nowadays dark ambient acts
such as SCHLOSS TEGAL, INADE, HERBST 9 or FIRST LAW…
LD 50 is certainly the sole musical project able to
set a bridge between these two tendencies, these two
sounds, these two periods… Fans of sterilized lap-top
generated or of cheap new-age ethno-ambient can go their
way. "21st century awakening" will appeal
as much to the soul as to the body, to the mind as to
the heart. At first listening, this record may seem
a little bit strange to you, like being out of phases,
but the following listenings will draw you into an endless
spiral similar to the one painted on the sleeve. Allow
yourself enough of freedom for that... CD re-mastered
by Christian RENOU, housed in an original A5 size silk-screened
fold-out cover. Paintings by Leyla ERSEN.64 minutes/10
tracks
artist: Jesus Of Nazareth
title: The Shame Of Being A Child price: $16 num: ooo-11 label: Dotsmark
format: CD USA
Erectlo-Noise-Gabba-Grind Unit's 2nd CD.
format: CDR Reissue
of LP originally released on E´levage De Poussie`re
in 2002. Solo Voice Recordings by Junko Hiroshige (Hijokaidan).
Recorded by Francois Dietz at Studio CCAM, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy,
October 2002.
artist: Henri Chopin
title: La Plaine des Respirs price: $16 num: TA073CD label: TOCHNIT ALEPH
format: CD CD
Version of the out of print LP from 2007, Chopin's last
release in his lifetime. Latest works by legendary french
sound-poetry pioneer Henri Chopin (1922-2008), produced
and recorded November 2003 - January 2004. Mastered
June 2006 by Rashad Becker / D&M. Edition of 500
Copies in Jewel-Case with 6-page booklet, with text
by Henri Chopin (original french, plus english &
german translations), and photography by Florence Gonot-Yterce.
format: LP Absolutely
most awaited full-length vinyl from INCAPACITANTS, is
the purest NOISE enthusiast, originally formed by T.
Mikawa since 1981 in Japan. Here is the first ever solo
LP vinyl in 20 years since the legendary album 'Repo'
published by Alchemy Records in 1989.
Side-A titled 'K's Family' features three brand new
recordings with solid sense of direction keeping vigorous
strength and stormy dynamics on each track. Side-B is
a long piece excerpted from overwhelming live recording
as typical supreme tag team formation with F. Kosakai
at ShowBoat in Tokyo, 3 June 2007.This
is not only the new testament for all of Noise fundamentalist,
but also the shining introduction for those who are
going to be resident in true Noise fields. Maximum purity
as psychosomatic union proved by intensive electronics
causing ghostly and fertility atmosphere filled with
harshness.'Tight'
is the same pronunciation with the most complex Kanji
character formed by three dragons and three clouds.
Hand-numbered limited edition to 620 copies, comes in
silk-screened sleeve with a golden Kanji 'Tight'. 12
paged booklet contains photos and Japanese/English liner-notes
by Takuya Sakaguchi.
format: CD 400
copies of this 2008 live analog synth and electronics
battle between Japan's Hiroshi Hasegawa (CCCC, Astro,
Galax…) and Philadelphia's Aaron Igler (Bardo Pond collaborator
and other lemur house crafted offshoots). 50'ish min
Airborne captured audio retrieved from Philly's BigJar
bookstore by myself with mastered by Plotkin. Comes
packaged in an oversized heavyweight 1/2 fold cover
with two color letterpress print work and vellum printed
photos inset in center die cut. Graphic works wonderfully
executed by Demian Johnston.
format: DVD The
first, and highly likely, the only live date from the
Plotkin (Khanate)/ Runhild (Thorr’s Hammer)/ Wyskida
(Khanate) trio. Multicamera live footage from 2006 hydrahead
CMJ showcase in NYC. Edited and prepped for consumption
by Mr Plotkin. Comes housed in a 1/2 fold heavy matte
stock cover adorned with paintings from Stephen Kasner’s
reckless mind dropped into a 10mil. custom sized PVC
outer sleeve. All text on outer and inner covers silkscreen
in metallic silver by broken presses. Mirror faced pit
art DVD comes slipped inside a hand stamped black sleeve.
Pressing of 500 copies
format: CDR
All tracks were recorded by M. W. Lo¨hr / N.Strahl.N,
2006 - 2007. Soundsources
used for this album were:
Fieldrecordings by M. W. Lo¨hr & D. Niehues, amplified
metal objects, machines, shortwave signals,
tapeloops / early taperecordings by M. W. Lo¨hr from
the late 90s, recordplayer / broken records, guitar,
analogue & digital synthesizers.
artist: Moonmilk / My Cat Is An Alien
title: Passeridae I price: $11 num: S&F012-I label: Sound & Fury
format: Vinyl, 7" A. MOONMILK: My Mother in Colours (4:36)
B. MY CAT IS AN ALIEN: Diatomic Molecules (4:30) The
first volume in our new series of
split 7" singles, featuring new and
exclusive tracks from sydney drone duo
Moonmilk & italian space travellers
My Cat is an Alien.
artist:Majutsu
no Niwa
title: At the End of Summer price: $18 num: TRCD-MA004 label:there-MUSIK
ATLACH
format: CD Majutsu no Niwa is the new psychedelic rock band
which Rinji Fukuoka of OVERHANG PARTY which stopped
the activity at the beginning of 2008 leads. This album
extracted from live show in this year have variety,
from deep song and more vivid rock instrumental to heavy
feedback drone.
artist: HARPS OF FUCHSIA KALMIA
title: Burning With Your Old Joy In The Terminal
Sun price: $14 num: none label: Ikuisuus
format: CD Harps
of Fuchsia Kalmia is the a weird-folk, avant-folk-forest
project of Salvatore Borrelli better-known as ( e t
r e ) in electroakoustic-landscapes and already active
with Wondrous Horse.
Entirely made in direct way, without processing or other
options of disturbing... Harps of Fuchsia Kalmia is
a mist of "pure breath", "black-black",
a "transatlantic journey between ruins of bluesgrass,
avantgarde & improvisation" or a "new
form of rural psychedelia"
format: CDR "The
recordings were done at 2 seperate gigs at Photospace
Gallery in Wellington, NZ. I exhibited at the gallery
twice and we began performing there quite often (the
owner even played drums for my group The Rick Jensen
Trio). Nova Scotia played a number of times there as
the environment was particularly suited to us, outside
was the main street in Wellington, where everyone would
go drinking at night. It was all nightclubs and bars,
buskers and drunk people. When we performed we'd open
the windows and use any street sound that came through
and integrate it into our performance. For the track
that features Antony, we played a gig with him and then
invited him to join us, it turned out to be an unusual
song. All of the performances we did at Photospace had
a particular feel to them, and we certainly developed
our sound alot with these gigs. There's not a lot more
to say about them, at this point we were using many
homemade instruments, broken electronics, 4 tracks,
and anything we had at hand. This album represents a
highly experimental period for us and shows the way
we were going at the time." - Rick Jensen
artist: My Cat Is An Alien
title: The Secret Of The Dancing Snow price: $14 num: IKU-003 label: Ikuisuus
format: CD New
recordings from the Opalio brothers accompanied by Ramona
Ponzini, recorded November 18th 2005 at the ‘Alien Zone’,
Western Alps, Italy. No overdubs. Lots of long wordless
tones on this one (aspects of Roberto’s solo tongue
wrangling), accompanied by weird luminous firefly electronics,
Japanese wind percussion, keyboards, bells and guitars.
Packaged in a full-colour four panel foldout digipak.
OUT
OF STOCK
artist: HOROLOGIUM
title: Earthbound price: $20 num: OECD 107 label: OLD EUROPA CAFE
format: CD he
3rd full-length album from Horologium, who offer 43
minutes of monumental, fierce, yet listenable music.
Aided by TROY SOUTHGATE, MARIA SOUTHGATE, MERISSA D'ARLETTE
and EUSTACIA VYE on vocals, Grzegorz Siedlecki takes
you on a Nietzschean trip once again. Postindustrial
dirt meets martial drums, opera arias and neoclassical
sublimity.
Do you remain true to the Earth?
Some of the lyrics include fragments from H.Hesse, F.
Nietzsche and O. Spengler.
'Earthbound' may also be perceived as an antidote to
a slowly emerging neo-christian scene within the postindustrial/martial
paradigm. Horologium scorn fanatics.
Artwork designed by K.Meizter for a luxurious digipack
release with additional booklet !
artist:LIETTERSCHPICH
title: i cum blood in the think tank !!!!!! price: $15 num: HCB - 013 label: Heart & Crossbone
format: CD If
Mark Stewart was joining Khanate and Bad Brains were
playing black metal, there's a slight chance that a
resemblance to what Lietterschpich (Hebrew for Liter
of Cum) has achieved with their debut album will arise.
This bleak digital-doom-dub shriek is bound to slap
the hard-core fans of innovative harsh music ﾐ It doesn't
get more extreme than this! Featuring members of Barbara
and Grave in the Sky, this is highly recommended if
you like Throbbing Gristle, Volt, Stallagh, Menstruation
Sisters and White Mice. roughly an hour of DOOM
NOISE TERROR
artist:JUNKO
/ AYA ONISHI / RINJI FUKUOKA / MICHEL HENRITZI
title: Live at Penguin House, Tokyo, 2007 price: $14 num: label: An’archives
format: CDR Live recording of Junko(Hijokaidan), Aya Onishi(THE
NIHILIST SPASM BAND), Rinji Fukuoka(Majutsu no Niwa)
and Michel Henritzi.
OUT
OF STOCK
artist:junko,
michel henritzi, mattin
title: je t'aime! price: $10 num:absurd
#74 label: absurd
format: CDR it happened as usual, one day in the mail pops up
a cdr from michel, during those 'audio news' trades
that usually happens in absurd's universe...
curious as usual, started listening the live recording
of mattin (guitar), junko (voice) & michel henritzi
(lapsteel, harmonica) from the 'densites' festival of
2007... after an (almost) 6 minute silence the first
guitar chord tears the air and a destructed improvised
/ noisy (supposed it is
'blues(ey) feeling) racket accompanied by junko's voice
is unleashed in the air, a marvellous improvisation
that soon is also joined by mattin's bassy guitar throbs
on the background make it an even more adventurous experience
that is highly recommended to be listened as loud as
possible to create a more intense atmosphere!
OUT
OF STOCK
artist:Nadja
title: Trembled price: $14 num:URCD024 label:Utech
Records
format: CD Trembled has returned, triumphantly. Released by
Utech Records [046] in the summer of 2006 on limited
cdr. The principal live recordings from Toronto have
been remixed/remastered and include a rare performance
of Swans "No Cure for the Lonely." The core
of the release, though, is “Tremble”, a cascading improvisation
of drift and atmospherics revealed to audiences on an
occasional basis. The track is telling of the fluidity
with which Nadja create and why the band has become
so highly regarded. “Breakpoint” and “Corrasion” complete
the set. Exclusive material has been added in "Stays
Demons" and a second version of "Tremble"
recorded by Scott Slimm in Philadelphia. Illustration
by Justin Bartlett. The ultimate document of Nadja at
their most electric and empyreal.
artist:Klangmutationen
title: Schwarzhagel price: $14 num:URCD019
/ URSK5 label:Utech
Records
format: CD Klangmutationen are an mystery. More could be said
about what their music isn't than what it is. Hailing
from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the underground experimentalists
pierce the veils of Eastern and Western music. Recalling
early sets on FMP as well as the Takayanagi/Abe axis
of Japanese free music, Schwarzhagel is the sound of
a spirit falling past its own life after death, forever.
