This is the debut record released in May 2023 from the dance label Nyage Nyage in Kampala, Uganda by Nakibembe Embaire Group, a band that plays the huge xylophone "Ember", a traditional instrument of Nakibembe, a small village in the Kingdom of Busoga, Uganda.Contains 5 pieces of primitive dance music with full polyrhythm.Indonesian gamelang gaba band Gabber Modus Operandi also participates. "Nakibembe, a small village in Uganda's Kingdom of Busoga (one of four remaining constitutional monarchies), has long had a communal space reserved for locals to perform music and socialize. has a deep hole and crosses the groove to amplify the giant xylophone "enver", which consists of 8-4 wooden keys.While log xylophones are common in East Africa, the music played by the Basoga, an eastern Bantu people, is special and unique, with its own tunings, dances, and auxiliary instruments.Up to eight musicians perform simultaneously around Enver, creating an ensemble layered with hypnotic polyrhythms and adding vocals, shakers and drums.The Nakibembe Xylophone Group was one of the last groups to play with the Humbert, and as anyone who's seen them live will know, they create a complex, multi-layered wall of sound, perfect wherever they play. I am fascinated byThe band are regulars at the Nyege Nyege festival and in 15 performed at the legendary nightclub Berghain in Berlin with avant-garde bands Gabber Modus Operandi and Harsya Wahono from Jakarta.The debut album features 25 songs as an ensemble and 8 songs as a collaboration with an Indonesian trio.Listened together, they reveal not only Nakibembe's own motion sounds, but sonic ripples that correlate with more distant forms, from Indonesian metallophone-driven gamelan music to the cerebral digital processes of the sound art world. The 2020-minute Omagari "Omukazi Iwe...

This is a collaborative record released by experimental musicians Lawrence English from Australia and Werner Dafeldecker from Austria on the Swiss drone label Hallow Ground in November 2. Contains two long-form sound collages and dronescapes created by Werner Dafeldecker based on field recordings collected by Lawrence English. DL code included.It's an orange edition.Below is an explanation by the label. "Tropic of Capricorn is the second album by Lawrence English and Werner Dafeldecker.Based on field recordings made by the prolific Room 2023 owner, the legendary Austrian improviser uses electro-acoustic techniques to Subtly but decisively inflected, these two full-length works blur the lines between sonic ecology and aesthetic intervention, between concrete local sound worlds and transnational art. The works question where nature ends and human perception begins, and at the same time focus on the relationship between us, the listeners, and nature. They deeply disturb and, perhaps, dazzle in the most beautiful of ways. English recorded the base material on two different field trips, one in the Pilbara region from the west coast to northern Australia, and the other in the Arrernte lands of the central desert. "And in some ways, it's a rejection of the modern civilization's refusal to listen to the land," says English.When recording the soundscapes, the artist focused on the remnants of failed colonial aspirations. "The buildings and objects that remain from failed ranches and other efforts create their own ominous world of sounds. "Even in the most remote places, the distant drone of industry can be heard. He eventually brought back a document on natural regeneration.

This is a record released by Sam Dunscombe, an experimental musician from Berlin, Germany, on the Australian experimental label Black Truffle in November 2023.Contains two sound collage/drone songs processed from field recordings of the forest and the sea.Below is an explanation by the label. Two Forests begins in a redwood forest in central California.Bird songs and insect calls are processed with various time-based processing methods (slicing and recombination, primitive granular synthesis, delay, etc.) to remove the linear, documentary character from field recordings and to reduce traces and echoes. reconstructed in a fascinating web. Dunscombe analyzed the pitches contained in the original recording and generated a large set of just-intonated pitches.These sounds are slowly woven into the field recordings, gradually increasing in density and complexity, transforming the forest into a surreal space of infinite proportions.At the end of the song, we break out of this cosmic expanse and find ourselves in the Amazon rainforest outside Manaus, Brazil. As Dunscombe writes, the work creates "a strange sense of place, where space and time simultaneously expand and contract across octaves, miles, and minutes." On Oceanic, various beach recordings fade in and out, the rhythm of the waves and the depth and distance of each recording creating a homogeneous yet ever-changing texture.The tones, related in simple proportions to the average rhythm of each beach, overlap each other, coloring the field recording's white noise texture with shifting hues.In both works, Dunscombe rejects the easy consonance of contemporary ambient music in favor of richer harmonic arrangements derived from extended tuning practices and spectralism.The result suggests a hitherto undreamed-of encounter between the rolling sonic masses of Radulesque and the sparingly processed location recordings of Ivtaiber's "psychologically extreme" Environments. .Beyond the narrow-mindedness that can plague experimental music culture, Dunscombe's work makes a moving case for the healing power of a wide-ranging approach to sound and music.Beyond psychedelic therapy, frequent immersion in Two Forests/Oceanic is almost certain to have psychologically beneficial results. " Click here to see other works from the label /// Click here to see...

This is a record released by Derek Baron, an American/NY experimental musician who has released records in the past on labels such as Recital and Pentiments, from his own label Reading Group in 2018. This is a record of a canoe trip with his parents, recorded in September 2016 on a lake called Boundary Waters near the Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota.Contains two audio self-documentaries, approximately 9 minutes long. DL code included. Reading Group · Derek Baron, "Sagard's History of Canada"...

Ainu singer/mouth harp player Umeko Ando is a 2023-disc reissue record released in October 10. (Originally released in 2) Contains 2000 songs produced by fellow Tonkori player OKI.Includes liner notes and DL code.Click here to see more Pingipung releases available at Tobira. ---------------------- Includes...

This is a 2017" released by Ainu singer/mouth harp player Umeko Ando in 7. Includes a remix by Voodoohop member M. RUX. Click here to see more Pingipung releases available at Tobira. -- ---------------------...

This is a review record released by Mali Bamako guitarist Bounaly from Sahel Sounds in November 2023.Contains 11 songs, mostly live recordings performed at local weddings and other events.Click here to see more Sahel Sounds releases available at Tobira. ----------------------------.. .

This is a cassette released by Kagawa's sound duo salad in November 2023 from the experimental label Dinzu Artefacts in LA, USA.Contains two field recordings. DL code included.Click here to see more Dinzu Artefacts releases available at Tobira. -------------------------...

This is a CD released in March 2023 by Kate Carr, head of the experimental/non-sound label Flaming Pines in London, England.This is a 3% artificial late night forest onomatopoeia created using instruments and sounds.Digipak specification.Click here to see more Flaming Pines releases available at Tobira. ...

Hand To Earth, an independent band from Arnhem Land, Australia, led by Daniel Wilfred and David Wilfred, released this CD on the country's experimental label room2023 in November 11.Contains three ambient songs using traditional Australian indigenous instruments such as the didgeridoo and Burmese.Below are explanations by band members. "The process of making music together on Hand To Earth is unlike anything we've ever experienced. It's not free improvisation, but it's not composition either. It's something in between, and it feels like weaving. Through Hand To Earth, we weave together the threads of different histories, different lives, and different perspectives to become a family.Daniel weaves manikai (folk songs) from his native Wagilak into the syntax of our shared customs.He talks about ``raki,'' a string used to make daily bags carried by mokui (spirits) depicted in many of the paintings of artists such as Jambu Bura Bura and Wally Wilfred.Rakhi exists in the world that we can touch, but it is also a metaphysical thread that draws us to a ``bul_40bul'' (a ritual or gathering place).When we play music, Rakhi draws us all together.Both Yoruru and Balander, we are connected by this invisible thread, and under its guidance we gather, sing, play, dance, and listen.Daniel is ``Wata...

This is a joint record released in April 2023 by British fairy musician Sam McLoughlin and David Chatton Barker, head of the folklore research label Folklore Tapes.Inspired by the Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg, it includes two minimalist drone songs created using only the chimes of antique clocks. Comes with a 4-page booklet and DL code.Below is an explanation by the label. "Folklore Tapes explores yet another area of ​​investigation with a new mystic series that begins with Emmanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish mystic who spent the latter half of his life in England. 'The Heavenly Realms' will be released in October 2. The Folklore Tapes arose from a stay at Swedenborg House in Bloomsbury Way, London.The house was a research site for the writings of scientist, philosopher and visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (24-2022). It is the headquarters of the Swedenborg Society, an organization whose purpose is to publish and...

This CD was released in October 2023 by Gil Sansón, an experimental musician from Valencia, Venezuela, in Latin America, on the experimental label Unfathomless in Brussels, Belgium, in a limited edition of 10 copies.This is a deep listening field recording collage drone work with no melody.The previous work is also recommended.Below is an explanation by the author himself. "The distant sound of traffic evokes fragments of memories from the past. Lately, I've been having memories of a simpler time, New York at the beginning of this century, before physical contact became geographically impossible. We shared many musical and artistic adventures. The musicality of memories is revealed, and the gray sounds of the city (Caracas) at its quietest times do not describe or tell a story. and mixed fragments from my archives, prompting a work that uses memory to reconstruct the feeling of a time long gone, but one day feeling really close." Unfathomless Click here for other works / // Click here to see more Unfathomless releases available at Tobira. ...

This is a joint record released in 2015 by Gonçalo Cardoso, head of the Portuguese jungle label Discrepant, and designer Ruben Pater.This is a piece that focuses on flying drones, rather than music genre drones. Side A contains field recordings of 17 types of drones, from small drones to large military drones, and side B contains a long drone by Gonçalo Cardoso. Includes DL link and 12 page booklet.Click here to see more Discrepant releases available at...

This is a collaborative record released by Dutch sound art group Staalplaatsoundsystem and environmental architecture group Lola Landscape Architects on Italian experimental label Alga Marghen in 2011.Contains two installations.Booklet included.Below is an explanation by the label. "This LP record produced by Staalplaat Soundsystem focuses on two projects in order to document their recent sonic activities and research. Composed Nature by Staalplaat Soundsystem and LOLA landscape architects The installation, developed for the Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht, consists of a matrix of 2 trees. Controllable mechanical vibrators are attached to each tree, and custom-made software The sound of each tree varies from almost inaudible to a heavy "green noise", resulting in a different texture of the sound played.Many spatial sound patterns are programmed to play the trees, creating the ``Shiver...''

This is a collaborative record by Finnish experimental musicians Marja Ahti and Niko-Matti Ahti that was released in October 2023 on the Greek experimental label More Mars in a limited edition of 10 copies.This is an audio documentary work using sound poetry, field recording, and modular technology. DL code included.Below is an explanation by the label. "Ahti & Ahti is the duo of Finnish sound artists Marja Ahti and Niko-Matti Ahti. Working on the fringes of the musique concrète tradition, their work combines recordings of spaces, events, beings, and objects, creating associative and Nokivesi (Soot-Water) incorporates sound montages and clipped dialogue, along with instruments and electronic sounds, fusing the complexity of field-recorded sounds with the sensibilities of songwriting. .Originally created as a radiophonic piece for the 230 Oscillations Radio Marathon, this work tells the story of a person living isolated on a remote island through two voices, both tragic and comic. It outlines the fragmented stories that are told.The hermit kept in touch with neighboring residents, stimulating their curiosity and imagination even though they lived far from mainstream society.This story forms the basis for a musical work that combines acoustic sound and documentary, using various thematic field recordings, modular synthesizers, and digital processing to create a sonic environment consisting of a number of individual musical parts.These parts are interrupted intermittently, but are connected by the voices of two old men. " Click here to see other works from the label /// Click here to see...

This is a CDr released in August 2023 by R. Pierre, owner of experimental/dance label Jungle Gym in Los Angeles, USA, in a limited edition of 8 copies from Tourist, an experimental label in LA.This is a collage of sounds made from field recordings. --------------------------------------- CDr in plastic sleeve with card insert. Tracklist: 20 ...

※1月上旬再入荷後発送します アイヌのシンガー／口琴奏者Umeko Andoが、2023年8月にリリースした再発2枚組レコードです。（オリジナルは2003年リリース） 十勝の農場で録音した14曲を収録。ライナーノーツとDLコード付属。 --------------------------------------- 2x12" black vinyl. Includes DL code. Tracklist: Chorakkun (チョーラックン)...

This is a record that was released in May 2023 by the American Rhode Island noise duo Staubitz and Waterhouse on the country's experimental label Gertrude Tapes in a limited edition of 5 copies. Side A is a fictional ``average day'' created by collaging various sounds collected over two years, and side B is a sound recording of a trip to New York's Hudson Valley. DL code included.The previous work is also recommended.The following is an explanation by Barrett Clark: ``How should we talk about these ``common things''?How, or rather, how can we find them? - Georges Perec - The Infra-Ordinary (125)Staubitz...

A reissue double record set by Maalem Mahmoud Gania, one of the most famous Gnawa musicians in Morocco.Below is an explanation by the label. Hive Mind is proud to present Colors of the Night, the last studio recording of the deeply hypnotic Gnawa by the late great Maalem Mahmoud Gani.The recording will be released on 2 September 2017 for the first time outside of Morocco and will be released as a double LP.This release was licensed directly from Gania's family and supported by all those involved in the original recording. Colors of the Night will be Gania's first record release. Maalem...

This is a reissue record released by Okinawan musician Kohjun from EM Records in Osaka in August 2023. (Original was released in 8) Below is a commentary by the label. "Ryukyu electronic salon music entrusted with the image of "peaceful Asia".The first LP release to celebrate the 1993th anniversary of the release of this one-of-a-kind masterpiece "Underwater Garden" (1993).We will add bonus songs.Kojun Kokuba, an Okinawan musician, has been involved with numerous bands since the 30s and is known as the "Kojun behind the scenes". Known to some for creatingThe production of "Underwater Garden" was started with the intention of creating "BGM" with the image of "peaceful Asia" inspired by the trading era of the Ryukyu dynasty, but due to the unexpected formation of a concert band (later the six members). Production suspended.After that, the band disbanded and the project was scrapped, but he waited for the opportunity and completed this work in 70. "Underwater Garden" has its roots in Okinawa, but is also widely influenced by Asian music, layering and modifying phrases derived from traditional musical scales from various parts of Asia, and eliminating typical Western chord harmonies. The point has great features.Using electronic instruments and multi-tracks, his experiments in accumulating melodies in what he calls "stacking lines" seem to aim to spread new energy from Okinawa to the Asian world.A unique mixture of freshness and wonder, fun and sensuality, the sound seems to be the result of a bundle of Asian scales.He makes full use of synths and drum machines to create a comfortable and distinctive rhythm, but it is not for the dance floor, but for the image of electronic salon music as "BGM = light music" that makes full use of technology.Kokuba's "peaceful Asia" is an image of the activities of East Asia and Southeast Asia before the early modern period when maritime trade prospered. He envisions it as being greeted with a new 'pop'. *Note: Six members were scheduled to make their world debut as Ryuichi Sakamoto's labelmates, produced by Bill Laswell, but due to a series of bad luck, they were disbanded. " Click here to see more EM Records releases /// Click here to see more EM Records releases...

Congolese multi-instrumentalist/pop artist Titi Bakorta released a record on Nyege Nyege in August 2023.Here's the label's commentary: "Titi Bakorta was nearly doomed. The Congolese multi-instrumentalist, born and raised in Kinshasa, fell off a boat while crossing the mighty Congo River en route to Uganda. He couldn't swim. Bakorta was rescued by a friend and dragged to the nearest city, Kisangani, where he unexpectedly met local singer-dancer Papparas, and soon they formed a band together and traveled across continents, settling in Tanzania, South Sudan and Dubai. He also appeared in front of the beloved Congolese vocalist General Defao, who opened for the legendary Souks bands Grand Zaiko Wawa, Chock Stars and Big Stars, now based in Kampala. Bacorta, who is active, puts his own twist on Congolese pop and folk sounds, weaving traditional elements into a grid of psychedelic guitar loops, mocking voices and eccentric beatbox rhythms in his debut. On Kop', he bends woodblock snaps into a stuttering blur, emotionally wailing over rolling riffs and weird, theatrical glints of xylophones. It's still pop music on some levels, but it curves around Bakorta's unwieldy personal narrative, which feels like everything could fall apart at any moment, but Bakorta's confident modernity. It's all held together by a quintessential production cleverness: Elles Vais is airier with her sky-high souk vocals hovering over tight, electronic drums, and entwined guitar echoes slink away. They overlap like a tapestry woven into the fabric of the album, providing a perfect contrast to Bakorta's impending, driving pulse, while on Molende his chants and phrases fly cleanly between hymns and contemporary R&B. It's no surprise that Bakorta teamed up with Metal Players' Jessie Hackett on the final track, Titis Haunted House, whose eerie synths are eccentric enough to match Bacorta's ghostly wails and fuzzy guitar sounds. Hackett's eerie synths provide a fitting eccentric foundation for Bakorta's ghostly wails and fuzzy guitar sounds.Able to showcase Congolese pop and folk sounds behind a brilliant gauze of inventive production and songwriting quirkiness, the album showcases one of Congo's most innovative talents. there is " Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Hakuna...

Lebanese collage artist Read Yassin released this record in 2019 on the Portuguese jungle label Discrepant.A satirical record that collages political speeches, radio and TV news, jingles, pop music, and revolutionary songs from the 1980s when Lebanon's civil war was raging. DL link included.Mastered by Rashad Becker.Below is a commentary by journalist Rayya Badran Beirut. "In this 24-minute piece, Yassin encapsulates the auditory and acoustic landscapes experienced by those who witnessed the war, and published it for the first time under its original name. The civil war that raged in Lebanon from 1975 to 1990 escalated. In the 1980s, when power outages and underground shelters continued, the only way people heard the news was through television and transistor radios. Collected through regular visits to scattered and neglected archives of record stores, etc. Yassin draws from over 300 hours of material, including political speeches, radio and television commercials, news flashes and jingles, and local media. 80s pop music, dubbed Japanese anime songs, propaganda, resistance, revolutionary songs, and fragments of Ziad Rabani's plays. If you remember the period immediately after, it's like Proust's Madeleine: commercials, songs, and speeches collide and intertwine as if Yassin had inserted a radio tuner into his mind, creating a dream ( Or a nightmare), the sound rises and falls, resonates with the hidden sound memories of his contemporaries, and resonates with a deeply personal terrain of sound. What is most impressive about this album is the meticulous attention to musicality that Yassin has used in the various recordings, whether propaganda music, vocal patterns or news jingles. , The CW Tapes opens with Yassin's adoration of various political and musical figures who appeared in the Lebanese media in the 1980s. Lebanese pop singer, Lebanese pop singer The absurdity of war is highlighted by juxtapositions of Sammy Clarke's frivolous pop songs, an array of overlapping tones and textures, and glossolalia of processed voices that dwell in archaic techniques of the time. As the song progresses, the words become increasingly undecipherable, and in beautiful passages where Yassin separates sighs and breaths, as if to indicate a wartime respite, yet another commercial or pop song at full volume. be swept away.There are also occasional scenes of Yassin singing and whistling along with the song, which is a staple of Yassin's other music projects.In his relentless effort to mine and work with the sonic archives of Lebanon's recent past, the CW Tapes are perhaps Yassin's most personal work to date. " Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see...

This is a record released in 2021 by the collage strange beat trio Niagara from Lawless, Portugal on the country's jungle label Discrepant.This is a compiled album from CDRs that they independently released in 2014-2018.Contains 17 jungle techno and new age ambient tracks. It is a highly convenient piece as a DJ tool. DL link included.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Discrepant releases available at Tobira. Edition...

A compilation cassette of the forgotten Shanghai folk song "Shidaiku" released in February 2023 by the British excavation label Death Is Not The End.Below is an explanation by the label. "Shidaiqu" literally means "song of the times" and is used to describe a hybrid musical genre that began to permeate the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai in the late 2s.Inspired by Western pop, jazz, blues, and Hollywood movies, the movie soundtrack fuses traditional Chinese elements with Shidaiku, which explores the golden age of Chinese popular song and cinema during the pre-communist interwar period. It symbolizes the fusion of music and culture that would form. Waiting for Your Return assembles an extensive collection of recordings for an anthological overview of the style.From the work of pioneering composer Lee Geum-hui (1920's "Dripping Rain," with vocals by his daughter Lee Myung-hui, is often referred to as the first Shidaiku record) to the more sophisticated works of the 1927s and '1930s. , an early introduction to the Western-influenced popular music and film industry in China, led by the Seven Great Songstresses (Bai Hong, Bai Guang,...

An experimental musician/ecologist from Cork, Ireland, Michael Allen Z Prime released a limited edition of 2023 CDs from the British experimental label Paradigm Disc in June 6.Contains 400 minimal noise drones from sounds made by bioelectrical music (music that utilizes the bioelectric potential generated by plants and fungi).Includes a 3-page booklet in which he explains the history and development of plant neurobiology.Although not included in this work, we will introduce the special feature of Michael Allen Z Prime by BBC. " The sounds you hear are direct acoustic traces of action potentials produced by fungi. Action potentials are short bursts of electrical activity. Nor is it produced by plucked leaves." --------------------------------------- ---...

A two-piece compilation cassette released in September 2022 by Kashual Plastik, an experimental label in Berlin, Germany.Sound collage with almost no melody - 9 field recordings. Comes with DL code.It is already out of print, so it is only available this time.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Kashual Plastik releases available at Tobira. ---...

Carlos Casas, a sound artist from Barcelona, ​​Spain, who has released on Matiere Memoire and Canti Magnetici in the past, has received the latest record + CD + 2021" released from British jungle label Discrepant in September 9. , a multi-format work inspired by the culture and traditions of the Aeta people of the Zambales region of the Philippines.From reality to imagination, from transcription to syncretism, from concrete to abstraction. Contains 7 songs of Sonic Exorcism that change into different sounds.The CD contains field recordings collected locally, and the 7" contains an interview with a bat hunter. Comes with DL code.Below is a commentary by the author himself. "Kamana is a tribute to the Aeta community that welcomed me years ago. Despite being devastated by the 7 eruption of Mt. I was fascinated by the resilience and connection to the land of people who survived by farming and hunting bats and wild pigs, and spent a few weeks living with them collecting important field recordings and sounds. This release is an archival document that is accessible to everyone and provides a window into the lives of this unique community, as well as evoking the memories and emotions of living with them in the jungle. It's also an audio diary to wake you up." Click here to see more Discrepant releases available...

This is a collaborative record released by experimental musicians Francesco Fabris and Ben Frost from Reykjavik, Iceland on the experimental label room2023 in Brisbane, Australia in March 3.Contains field recordings made at the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland - 40 natural drone songs. DL code included.Out of print.Below is an explanation by the label. "Nothing is fixed, nothing is permanent, nothing is for anyone, at any time, for anything. This planet is not as stable as we think it is. It is a paper-thin crust. is the zone in which we find ourselves and are primarily concerned, but it exists as a discreet veil, concealing dynamic seismic disturbances.However, there are moments when ruptures occur.Inside. Pressures from the Earth move to and through the Earth's surface, bringing destruction and pristine landscapes at once. Geological time is condensed, and world-building is brought to life in freewheeling and provocative detail. Visible and audible across the globe, volcanic eruptions like those captured by Francesco Fabris and Ben Frost in Vakning speak volumes about the living geology of our planet. , existing at the juncture of liquid rock becoming solid, capturing moments of transformation, annihilation, and creation, often all at once.These are dynamic, free-spirited, living material objects. This is a record of a beautiful planet." Click here to see more Room7 releases...

This is a reissue record released by Kenya's Kiwiro Boys, who were active in the 1970s, in April 2023 from Toronto's all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies, limited to 4 copies. (Original released in 500) Contains 1979 light African pop songs. Comes with DL code.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more We Are Busy Bodies...

A masterpiece of Ethiopian jazz has been reissued by Mississippi.Below is an explanation by the label. "On this gem of a 1976 record, the voices of Aselefek Asine and Getenesh Khebre sing in close harmony, and the two 'beauties' sing duets over 2 songs. Backed by eccentric musicians, the Army Band delivers Muratou-esque minor piano runs, interlocking percussion, and rock-steady basslines, while arranger Teshome Sisei's flute is flamboyant and exhilarating. The best elements of Ethiopia's Golden Age come together on one of the last records of this era: Aselefesh and Getenesh, in Addis at the end of the empire. Raised in the bustling, cosmopolitan world of Ababa, the two met at Addis' legendary center for arts and cultural learning, the Harger Fikr Theater, where they received centuries of vocal and acting training. BEAUTIES was a hit and sold out as soon as it was released in 10. However, its glory was short-lived, as the Derk regime imposed a severe crackdown on music and artistic expression. Artists (and most musicians) targeted as allies had to keep a low profile, and for 1 years almost all recording and live music was canceled in Ethiopia. One of the last great records of the golden age.Although we were unable to release a second record, Aserefek Asine is proud of her work.From her home in Addis, she says now." I have full confidence that if this album is released again, it will become popular and become a hit! Long in the making, this album is a collaboration between the artist and New Orleans powerhouses Domino Sound. Old-school "Tip-on" jacket specification. /// Click here to see more Mississippi Records releases...

Yoruba Afro band Okonkolo released a record in 2018 from Big Crown in New York, USA.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Big Crown Records releases available at Tobira.

This is a reissue album released in June 2023 by Bikzi writer Roger Bekono from Yaoundé, Cameroon. (Original was released in 6) Below is a commentary by the label. "Cameroonian artist, musician, composer, performer and guitarist Roger Bekono has left a deep mark on the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through his 1989/4 beat vikzi. This Ewondo dance-pop style. formed a tapestry of undulating, intertwining triplet rhythms, and in the 3s came to international prominence on the European 'world music' scene.It has developed into an international music that stands shoulder to shoulder with established music such as Congolese rumba, meringue, and makossa. With his unique and swaying voice, Bekono has played a major role in the evolution of this movement from traditional rhythms to urban dance movements over the last decade. " Labels and other works here /// Click here to see more Awesome Tapes From Africa releases...

This is a collaborative cassette released in May 2 by two French field recording artists, Mélia Roger and Grégoire Chauvot, with a limited edition of 2023 from Presque Tout, a label specializing in field recording in France.Field recording in Champs-sur-Tarontaine-Martial in south central France.It is out of print. *Please feel free to contact us if you would like a digital sound source. "After weeks of drought, the skies over the Cantal Plateau are getting darker. At night, with the trailer windows open to create a draft, a storm hits the valley." is. "On New Year's Eve, fireworks are blaring in the distance and the rain is falling gently. Microphones hung from the window have the voices of a few people quietly enjoying themselves, looking back on the bitter year." Other works on the label /// Click here to see...

Jana Winderen from Norway and Hubert Michel from France, two field recording artists, released a limited edition of 2 copies from French field recording label Presque Tout in May 2023. Side A is near her studio, Side B is a field recording in Martinique, France. *Please feel free to contact us if you would like a digital sound source Below is a commentary on side A by Jana Winderen. "Recorded outside the studio window under an old maple tree. Overnight all the maple seeds fell to the ground and were buried in the snow." Hubert Michel explains the B-side below. . "When I was on holiday in Martinique, I was struck by the transition of sounds at sunset. Various sonic events take place, symbolic of the recording: the window separates the inside from the outside, and we can also hear the activities of the vacationers.Muriel Parenne A good example of this is the mosquito repellent by the artist." Labels and other works /// Click here to...

It is a split cassette released in May 2 by Pablo Diserens of Berlin, Germany and Marc Namblard of France, two field recording writers, with a limited edition of 2023 from French field recording label Presque Tout. The A side is a pond in Lausitz, Germany, and the B side is a field recording in French Guinea Sula.It is out of print. *Please feel free to contact us if you would like a digital sound source Below is a commentary on side A by Pablo Diserens. "There are many ponds scattered in the cracks of the ruined shelter facing the reed field. Groups of Anurans are singing like an annual event, hidden in the greenery. Toad (Bombina Bombina) A tapestry of sunsets woven by the call of a tree frog (Hyla arborea)." Below is Marc Namblard's commentary on the B-side. "Arriving in Cayenne in the evening, I was recovering from jet lag a few hours later in the residential area of ​​Macouria. Before dawn, an amphibian (later Leptodactylus...

This is the debut record released in May 2023 by Namian Sidibé, a singer-songwriter from the West African Republic of Mali, on the West African specialty label Sahel Sounds.Contains 5 African primitive songs with a simple composition of acoustic guitar and voice.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Sahel Sounds releases available at Tobira. ...

American/Estonian experimental musician/field recording artist murmer released a limited edition of 2023 copies in May 5 from the Texas experimental/noise label Helen Scarsdale Agency.Includes 200 long-form low-end drones and noise drones by field recordings. Comes with DL code.Below is a commentary by the author himself. "In 2, I made a collection recorded on a mobile phone tower in Mouste, south-eastern Estonia. It is an 2006-meter-tall guiding tower, anchored at three fulcrums by heavy cables. I attached a home made contact mic with postertacks and spent hours over the course of several weeks recording wind and weather changes (it was summer) and birds passing and settling on towers and cables. The tower had no fencing or protection and stood in the middle of a tall meadow along a rural dirt road, out of sight of a few nearby houses. I've been thinking about location and recording, and although I've used it in several installations and uploaded short edits to Aporee Soundmaps, I've never been able to use it in a composed piece. Combined with other sounds, they always seemed too loud for any structure I could offer, and in 80, I've been putting them down and picking them up over the years. material seems to have embraced me, even though it took me a few more years before I was satisfied with what it had to offer.Most of the layered sounds on this piece come from various compilations of these cable recordings. But I also added two other contrasting sounds: snow falling delicately on a plastic cake box containing a mic, and thawing on a slightly warm autumn morning. It's a field of frosted grass, and when I listen to the sound of this cable, I'm reminded of the many sounds of the wind that I've spent time with, recorded but never returned, and I've started digging through the archives looking for them. As a result, I collected the resonances of wires, cables, fences, poles, fans, vents, etc., which became the basis for this second work.In 3, I was working in a pub in North London where I was working on a beer. The rhythmic fan sound of a cooler.This work includes another telephone tower recorded on the north coast of France in 16, a telephone pole recorded in the Beaujolais region in 2019, and a factory in Tesno, Slovenia in 2. Ventilation fan drone, electric sheep fencing at the Scottish border in 1, hanging wires in a warehouse in Rovaniemi, Finland in 1, nothing to do with cables or wind, but cleaning from the inside of an electric kettle in Estonia in 2 Calcium deposits are included as other sounds.I offer these two new works as my first solo publication since 1999, and for the first time since 2008 to release them on physical media.It seems to me that I need to leave a physical time space around my work before I can consider it 'finished'.Perhaps it's a simple desire to forget how or what you did.And if I can't listen to the work like a first-time listener, I don't think I'm ready for such an encounter.Somewhere in your mind, you have to forget the work before you let it go.I'm about to forget the beer coolers in London, the Beaujolais walks (with my now-deceased father), the sheep fence next to the Borders campsite, and the leaking kettle.So I think now is the time. " Labels and other works /// Click here to see more Helen Scarsdale...

Acoustic artist Adriano Cava from Turin, Italy released a cassette from the country's experimental label Second Sleep in May 2023.Includes 5 sound drone tracks from field recordings.I also recommend the previous work.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Second Sleep releases available at...

A record compiled by folklorist TETIANO CHUKNO from folk songs passed down in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine. The binding unique to Purge is also wonderful.Includes 20-page booklet with lyric sheets in Ukrainian and English.It will be released digitally only.Below is an explanation by the label. "The release of this long-produced LP was rushed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. All unreleased, except for a few tapes distributed in the Mykolaiv region, in the villages of Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Old old songs (winter, wedding, war, sex, bread songs) sung mainly by female groups, collected by singer and folklorist TETIANO CHUKNO over the past decade, this LP contains Comes with an original Ukrainian lyric sheet and a 10-page booklet with English translations by KSENIA GINCHUK, STEPHEN WATTS & STANLEY SCHTINTER." Label and other works here /// Click here to...

Brazilian outsider singer-songwriter Damião Experiença (‎1935-2016) reissues his 1971 debut album.Contains 12 soul-stirring outsider folk songs. 4 types of artwork will be sent at random Click here to see more Alga Marghen releases available at...

A cassette released by Sahel Sounds in April 2023 by pop/gao rap artist Babsy Konate from Gao, Mali, on the edge of the Sahara Desert.Includes 4 hilarious Gaorap songs.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Sahel Sounds releases available at Tobira. ...

A CD and booklet released in March 2023 by the sound artist Philip Samartzis from Melbourne, Australia, on the country's experimental label Room3.Includes 40 field recordings.The booklet contains essays and photographs.Below is a commentary by the author himself. "Atmospheres and Disturbances" documents the changes in highland ecosystems caused by rising global temperatures.This work is based on fieldwork done at the High Altitude Research Station in Jungfraujoch, Switzerland. Over the course of four weeks, I placed various recording devices around the station and in the surrounding alpine environment to record natural, man-made, and geophysical forces.This project offers a new encounter with the endangered alpine environment and enhances our perception and engagement with the concepts of place, community and environmental dissonance.Fieldwork used a variety of microphones to record different acoustic, spatial, atmospheric, and vibration-based phenomena.Omnidirectional microphones recorded wind, snow, ice, and social, material, and industrial sounds emanating from nearby train terminans and observatories.Hydrophones were also placed in water and ice to record the physical sounds that resonate in the frozen environment of the Jungfraujoch and adjacent glaciers.Man-made sounds produced by tourists, transportation, and recreational sports are documented as permeating the entire landscape.Accelerometers are attached to various surfaces and structures to record solid vibrations caused by high velocity winds and melting and freezing processes.Accelerometer recordings provide a clear representation of stress and fatigue occurring within the material structure of buildings and infrastructure. "Atmospheres and Disturbances" is designed to allow the audience to experience the endangered alpine ecosystem by immersing themselves in an extreme environment.See more Room5 releases /// Click here to see more Room4 releases...

*Available only at our store in Japan This is a record released in March 2023 by Brazilian sound artist Adam Matschulat from British experimental label Calling Cards Publishing in a limited edition of 3 copies.Includes two self-documentary musique concretes about places and family, recorded in his hometown of Formosa. Comes with DL code and insert.Below is an explanation by the label. Formosa, composer Adam Matschulat's first major work under his full name, is a deeply personal album of field recordings of kitchens, churches, forests and farms expressed in musique concrète structures. "This is the place I call home," says Matschulat of Formosa. “I used to spend all my summer vacations here. It was a place where I felt safe, a refuge from the city life that I found difficult. and a reverence for the magic of this place."Two sidelong compositions include moments of intimacy between his families (his mother speaks German to his grandfather), the singing of the church. , which includes those recorded in Formosa, such as the sounds of a family barbecue.It also contains latent allusions to life and death, such as the cloud of flies, which suggests decay and return to the soil. "This album is about death and about the forest, about the cycle of the land and our little beings around it," he says. “My grandfather is the strongest man I have ever known. It got so bad he couldn't even hold an accordion. He had lost his sense of purpose, and I wanted to explore that feeling in my recordings."This album consists of two large songs. The first explores the connection between death and land and is built around the warp and weft of place and dialogue.Seen from a distance, field recordings of farm work in progress, conversations around the table, German songs shimmering as the accordion stops on a bed of night bug sounds, hymns once removed by the static electricity of the tape, like It looks like a sonic symbol of remembrance or psychological detachment.If you listen closely, you will notice the skillful manipulation of collage and electro-acoustic. Matschulat's family farm is surrounded by native Atlantic forest, and the trees are protected, so many of the recordings were made under this canopy. As a child, Matschulat said he felt as if he had crossed a threshold, and felt the magic and horror contained in this environment. "In Formosa we went into the woods and recorded. There are snakes and all kinds of things that you don't want to step on. Formosa is in the south of Brazil and his mother's family lived in Prussia in the 200s. His great-grandfather built a church there, which still stands today, and the congregation sings in German hymnbooks from the 2s. My grandfather worked while playing the accordion, farming as the head of a pious village surrounded by forests. Formosa's second track is about life, expressed in the form of her love for the potato salad whose recipe is on the sleeve note and which her grandmother has a vivid memory of making at her family's barbecues. It has been.The song begins with the strange sound of a boiled egg being put into a bowl of water, then the phone rings, sinks, plates, cutlery, mayonnaise and potatoes, and the sounds of a home.It is a peaceful family scene where time passes quietly until the meal is ready. The two works in Formosa are meditations on everyday connections with home and family, and more broadly on concepts of life, death and belonging.This album creates a psychological atlas about the meaning of our everyday sound world, the teleology of places, safety and home.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Calling Cards...

French exotic folk trio Vitesse et Precipitation's debut record released in February 2023 with a limited edition of 2 copies.Contains 300 exotic folk songs by banjo, violin and Bendir. Comes with DL code. ----------------------------------------- 8" black vinyl edition of 12. Recorded in October...

A compilation cassette of Brazilian country music from the 20's to 60's. Comes with DL code.Below is an explanation by the label.This is the second survey of Brazilian country music, musica caipira (hillbilly music).The collection ranges from early recordings by pioneering folklorist Cornelio Pires in the late 2s to records from the 1920's, 30's, 40's and early 50's.Caipira music, rooted in the tradition of Portuguese troubadour folk songs, is usually performed by a duo singing the third and sixth in parallel, in the Portuguese-Brazilian style moda de viola (the viola is the Brazilian caipira). It is played with a 60-string guitar of the wind).Originating from the "hinterland" regions of northeastern Brazil, these songs tell stories of pain, love, loss and betrayal, often accompanied by self-made guitars in unique tunings.A departure from the sophisticated pop country and western styles of Sertaneja, these recordings could be considered the Brazilian equivalent of American dustball and Appalachian roots music.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Death Is Not The End releases available...

British field recording writers Pheobe riley Law and Jez riley French released a split cassette limited edition of 53 from French field recording label Presque Tout.Includes 2 soundscapes. Comes with DL code.It is out of print. Side A West Dean September 2019, 9 29:6PM Side B Recording location unknown December 37, 2021...

Nikolaus Utermöhlen, a founding member of the experimental performance group Die Tödliche Doris formed in Berlin, West Germany in 1980, reissued his 1989 solo work Karlsbad.23 witty pieces for clarinet, accordion, percussion, recorder, violin, guitar and organ. Comes with an 8-page booklet and DL code.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more La Scie Doree / Metaphon...

A compilation record of popular Japanese songs from the 1920s and 1930s.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Death Is Not The End releases available at Tobira....

R. Pierre, president of the experimental/dance label Jungle Gym in Los Angeles, USA, released a limited edition of 2023 cassettes in February 2.Includes 40 minimalist/noise collages processed from field recordings.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Jungle Gym Records releases available at...

Edoardo Cammisa, head of the Italian experimental/noise label Sounds Against Humanity, and photographer Domiziana Bocina released a limited edition of 2022 CDR+ photos in November 11.Field recordings at Lake Aviliana Natural Park - 15 sounds.13 photos taken at the lakeside and DL code included.Below is an explanation by the label. Domiziana Bocina (picture) Edoardo Cammisa (recording) is an interactive interpretation of events that occur in the aquascape of Lake Aviliana Natural Park, Italy.The work itself is neither a dry study nor an exhaustive creative recontextualization, but its methodology draws from both approaches.The work finds a deeply ambiguous, ambiguous and surreal stance on the dualism of man and nature, from which it examines and engages with the dynamics inherent in documentation.That is, how the documenter and the documenter are constructed and defined are visualized, narrated, and shown to exchange influence with one another.The artist's process extends to photography (interaction between recorder and recordee, identification and isolation of subjects, visual composition), post-processing (manipulation of electroacoustics and electrophotography), textuality (song titles), and more. be.Footsteps on piers, tree felling, camera shutters, the inevitable moaning of highways, man-made structures succumbing to vegetation, winds passing through foliage, calls of waterfowl, secret underwater happenings exposed by hydrophones. , harsh filtering and subtle sampling, titles, some descriptive, some reflective.Worlds within worlds, worlds under worlds, worlds to worlds, all interrelationships. Click here for Sounds Against Humanity and other works ///...