Pablo Diserens, head of the experimental/field recording label Forms of Minutiae in Berlin, Germany, released this cassette in a limited edition of 2023 in December 12. This is a sound collage/dronescape work made from field recordings. DL code included. Below is an explanation by the label. "Forms of Minutiae" and TBA100-Academy present a joint happening and aqueous sound piece "upstream ensemble" composed by field recording writer, artist, and f-o-m co-founder Pablo Diserens. During the 21/21 digital residency hosted by TBA2022-Academy's Ocean-Archive.org, pablo...

This is a compilation tape released in June 2023 by Death Is Not The End, a label specializing in excavations in London, England. This is a compilation of broadcasts from a Haitian-language pirate radio station in New York. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us. Below is an explanation by the label. "Every day, New York's skies are filled with an invisible radio cloud that spreads over immigrant neighborhoods. This radio cloud, imbued with cultural energy, constantly shifts and transforms, following the life cycles and rhythms of the streets. Bursting with a stream of content. In Brooklyn, signals blare from dollar vans, bakeries, churches, street corner and table radios on Flatbush Avenue. Access to analog technology that is essentially free for listeners. , economically marginalized communities can avoid the license fees and data charges built into the convenience of digital life. Listeners, many of whom are older members of the community, extend metal antennas and As I adjust my position, I try to catch the elusive vibrations of important music, news, and information that are rarely felt in New York's legitimate, mostly corporate-owned media soundscape. Haitians, Jamaicans, Trinidadians, Grenadians, and Orthodox Jews broadcast to Haitians, Jamaicans, Trinidadians, Grenadians, and Orthodox Jews.Haitian stations are particularly active in East Flatbush, where just under a dozen stations speak daily in Kreyol and serve the large Haitian community. "I discovered this station when I was young. There was a station called Radio Guinea that was very popular in the late '6s and was based in Brooklyn," said the American-born radio station. says Joan Martinez, a young Haitian-American and former host of an unlicensed Kreyol-language station. "Nobody knows where it was, but what I do know is that every weekend, from Friday night to Sunday night, these stations would come on and play the latest Haitian pop songs. My parents and friends were all sitting around the radio, talking loudly in the living room about politics, dancing, and singing. It was like a gathering place, and the radio guided it." Click here to see more...

This is a record released by Sombat Simla, a Thai bamboo flute organ player, ``Kaeng'', on the Australian experimental label Black Truffle in November 2023. Comes with liner notes. Click here to see more Black Truffle releases available at Tobira. ...

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 in November 1987 by the Kuwaiti folk band Al Fajer Group, which has been active since 2023. Contains 11 folk songs that were originally produced in 1988 but missed the opportunity to be released due to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Below is an explanation by the label. "Al Fajer Group was founded in Kuwait in 10 and was co-founded by four artists: Sima Kanaan (vocals), Bashar Shamout (guitar), Jameel Sarraj (oud and guitar), and Nizar Aliyan. (Percussion). The Al Fajer Group became known for its unique frequencies and transparent sound. The band is rooted in acoustic oud, guitar, and percussion, and often uses electronic equipment during their sets. When they first formed, they played Palestinian patriotic songs related to the Palestinian liberation struggle. During the first intifada in 1987, they released an album recorded on reel tape. In 4, they released an album in Iraq. invaded Kuwait, all members were forced to leave the country, and they were unable to reunite to release their second album. During their limited activity period, they performed in multiple locations in Kuwait, Iraq, Germany, etc. This is the band's first vinyl release and includes original songs not available until today." ----------------- ------------------ 1988" black vinyl. ...

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"...

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. -- ---------------------...

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 is a split record released by British fairy musician Sam McLoughlin in July 2023 on the country's folklore research label Folklore Tapes in a limited edition of 7 copies.Contains 200 nostalgic yet new folklore songs using harmonium, nylon guitar, hand percussion, and dictaphone.Lithographic print jacket with hand-drawn map and DL code included. Fae Transit is an exploration into the realm of fairy music introduced to us by Sam McLoughlin in his contribution to Folklore Tapes' Swifter than the Moon's Sphere.Previous work “Green 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 reissue CD released in June 2022 by musician Daniel Schmidt, who teaches gamelan at Mills College in California, USA. Contains 6 gamelan music selected from cassette archives from 1978 to 1982.Digipak, shrink specification. Comes with a 10-page booklet and liner notes.Click here to see more Recital releases available at Tobira. -------------------------- Edition...

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...

A 2-disc compilation record related to the sound system "Pico" popular on the Colombian coast.Below is an explanation by the label. "This compilation takes us on a journey to the coast of Colombia, where the passion for African music burns. You can't understand this love unless you first look to San Basilio de Palenque. San Basilio de Palenque was the first free city in colonial Latin America, founded in 1691 as a refuge and place of self-government for black slaves, just 50 kilometers from Cartagena de Indias. A place where pride in African heritage and culture is preserved, Afro-Caribbean connections to their roots have given rise to the artisanal, high-powered sound system found in Jamaica, the Pico. .These music lovers have a keen ear for African melodies and have created a vibrant collector's scene that brings the Afro sound to the streets of Barranquilla, Cartagena and Santa Marta.This compilation showcases the best of Benga music in Kenya, a unique style with a unique guitar picking method using traditional instruments such as Nyatiti and Oltu.From carefully guarded "exclusives" to piconemas that change song names in Spanish based on lyrics and dancefloor reaction, you'll learn all about the history and stories behind these African tracks.The project was led by Spanish record collector Joan Pujol, AKA Golfo De Guinea, with help from Barranquilla-born musicologist Don Alirio, who provided a coastal perspective, and song selection and securing the rights. A team of passionate music lovers, including Kenyan DJ, collector and Benga advocate George Ouma.The result is a compilation that captures the joy and energy of sub-Saharan polyrhythms.Sit back, turn up the volume, and let yourself be transported to the lively streets of the Colombian coast and the shores of Lake Victoria. "--------------------------------------- 2x12" black vinyl.

Cameroon Yaounde's Bikzi writer Gibraltar Drakus is a reissue album released in August 2023. (Original was released in 8) Below is a commentary by the label. "Gibraltar Drakus literally exploded in popularity with their first album, Hommage A Zanzibar (1989), which sold over 10 copies despite being heavily pirated. The recording of this album was the reason for the recording of this album. Gibraltar Drakus commissioned prolific producer Mystic Jim to record and mix it, Gibraltar Drakus' other band from this period was Les Martians, but did not appear on the album due to the leader's disagreement. At the advice and recommendation of Mystic Jim, he changed band members for the recording, adding Simba Daniel Ebusa on solo guitar, Piero Aheno on rhythm guitar and Jean-Paul Richet on bass. The musical innovation lies in the discipline of guitar interplay and orchestration, resulting in a mind-boggling clockwork of cross-rhythm harmonies.In some ways, this music is sublime. , surprisingly relaxed in its gymnastic execution.He aimed for a sound that lies between the sensibilities of the famous Les Veterans, Zanzibar and Messi Martin.He has worked with both Zanzibar and Messi Martin. and thanks to them I was able to immerse myself in the music of Victory and Betty: "Zanzibar taught me how to compose, and I learned a lot musically from Zanzibar. Beautiful. We spent all night researching methods and other approaches to composing songs.Zanzibar is half of who I am today!” I was much younger than the artist.He said he was happy to show a different type of energy to his bandmates at Les Tête Brulees and Les Martiens.The former kept him away from his famous debut European tour (immortalized in Claire Denis' film Man No Run).His association with Inter-Diffusion Systems ended in disappointment, even though he was dissatisfied with his group activities and offered him a platform to gain recognition as a solo artist.The label never paid him royalties from Hommage A Zanzibar and the subsequent album Zobiakkk. " Label and other works here ///...

This is a cassette released by experimental musician Lisa Lerkenfeldt from Melbourne, Australia, on the experimental label Room2023 in Brisbane, Australia, in September 9.A minimalist low-end drone piece made from field recordings of highway substructures.Out of print. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us.The following is an explanation by the artist himself. ``Shell Of A City,'' recorded in Naram, reconsiders architecture as an instrument in a procession of concrete.By contact recording the substructure of an expressway, mysterious sounds emerge.This continuous physical phenomenon is gently manipulated to explore the boundaries of electroacoustics with meditative urgency.This 40-minute arrangement combines two channels of site-based improvisation into a minimal, time-varying structure.Many people have written to me about the tapes of her previous work, A Liquor Of Daisies, as a tool they use to relax.How precious! Shell Of A...

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...

Experimental musician/ecologist Michael Allen Z Prime from Cork, Ireland released a 2023 CD + Blu-ray set in June 6 from the British experimental label Paradigm Disc, limited to 100 copies.Contains 3 sounds collages and minimal noises based on bioelectrical music (music that utilizes the bioelectric potential generated by plants and fungi).Includes a 27-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." --------------------------------------- ---...

Yoruba Afro band Okonkolo released a record in 2016 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 collaboration cassette released in September 2021 by the sound artist Patrícia Bizzotto of Belo Oriente, Brazil and the dance platform Cerco Coreográfico of São Paulo, Brazil, with a limited edition of 9 from the Italian sound artist Francesco Covarino's label tsss tapes.Includes 75 soundscape songs that include many ASMR elements such as bonfire and wind sounds. Comes with DL code. Click here to see more tsss tapes releases available...

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...

A split 2023 CD set released in May 5 by experimental musicians Miaux and Lieven Martens aka Dolphins Into The Future from Antwerp, Belgium. Miaux recorded the performance on the organ, and Lieven Martens recorded the performance on the carillon. A 2-page booklet is included.Below is an explanation by the label. "Double CD with location recordings of organ and carillon music recorded by Christophe Albertijn, featuring relational artwork "Katharina...

The April 2022 release of Edições CN, the label run by Belgian sound artist Lieven Martens Moana, who is also known as Dolphins Into the Future, has arrived.This work is a reissue CD of the record released in 4 by Gonçalo F. Cardoso, the leader of the Portuguese jungle label Discrepant.Includes tropical field recordings collected in the Zanzibar Islands, Tanzania, and 2018 psychedelic soundscapes inspired by indigenous electronic sounds.Digipak, shrink specification.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see...

Japanese experimental musician Daisuke Suzuki is a reissue CD released in May 2023 from his own label Siren, limited to 5 copies. (Original record released in 200) Includes 2001 field recordings.Artwork is by Andrew Chalk. ------------------------------------- CD in card sleeve. Edition of 3. Siren Records:. ..

A two-disc compilation record of Canto A Lo Divino, a religious folk song from Chile's Central Valley.Below is an explanation by the label. "Canto A Lo Divino is the sacred music of Chile's Central Valley. This music is a community of worship and reflection for the peasants of this area, and it is played in packed rooms all night long after work. With guitars and 2-string heavenly guitarrons blaring with hypnotic variations, Kant has lived on for centuries in the voices of hundreds of men and women, apocalyptic, divine and Angelitos (dead little child). It conjures up a vivid vision, but the poem is also rooted in the daily life of the valley: labor, drought, the life cycle of families, animals and plants.Ancient, originating in Spain and reaching the Mississippi Delta from South America. Innumerable entnacions (melodies) are inherited in the ten-line rhyme decima, the song form of the , a combination that is captivating, transporting, cosmic, and terrestrial at the same time. The artwork showcases the work of Frederico Rohse, a baker from the village of Los Vilos, who brought to life a vision of the apocalypse from Kant on an old flour sack. Mississippi Records, in conjunction with the Museo Campesino En Movimiento, has the privilege of offering an archive of hundreds of hours of Kant's field recordings, a double LP containing 25 pages. Housed in a gorgeous gatefold jacket with lyrics, photographs and detailed notes on Kant's traditions." More on the label here ///...

We have received works from Bolinga Everest Records, a label run by Argentine jungle artist Pablo Picco aka Bardo Todol. This work is the debut cassette released by Iranian ambient artist Werk in February 2022. It's a diary-like work with harp and spoken word. DL code included. Each piece of artwork is unique. *Uses recycled tape. Click here to see more Bolinga...

This is an archive work of Ainu Tonkori player OKI. Contains 1996 songs compiled from his debut work in 2006 to 11. ---------------------------------------- 12" black vinyl. tonkori melodies, meditative dub excursions...

 Swiss experimental musician and mouth harp player Anton Bruhin, who has been active since 1960, is a reissued 2022 CD set released in 4 from the Italian experimental label Alga Marghen.Contains 4 musique concrète songs by field recording.Booklet included.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Alga Marghen releases available at Tobira. ...

Dutch experimental musician Harold Schellinx released a limited edition of 2022 CDs from the Greek experimental label Coherent States in July 7.Includes 50 minimalist sounds made with only typing sounds during university lectures.It is out of print.Below is an explanation by the label. In the autumn of 8, a close friend of Harold Schellinx enrolled as an art history undergraduate at the Paris 2018st Panthéon-Sorbonne University UFR1.Since French is not her native language, she recorded many of her live lectures with the Dictaphone app on her iPhone so that she could re-listen to some or all of them over time.During her lectures, students often take notes on their laptop keyboards.The sounds of these students taking notes and typing become a chorus at the same time, followed by a sustained, multi-layered whispering and whispering of machines for almost the entire lecture time.And occasionally it fades out from the background to the foreground.It was a brief moment when the speaker paused and stood still.Harold Sherinx has access to this recording and has deleted all of the lecturer's words.As a result, while capturing the words spoken by an art history lecturer into a digital text file, the sound of thousands of electric bugs chirping and singing in unison, creating this astonishing seascape by blaring a number of laptop keyboards at high speed. and a sound like rain was left behind.This typing chorus is also accompanied by student movements and environmental sounds such as coughs and sneezes.Especially during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, lectures were on the verge of shutting down, right before college classes moved from physical rooms to virtual zooms. The "Histoire de l'Art" cdr, available from Coherent States, is a history lecture without the history part.The teacher speaks words, which become phrases, which students hear and understand in some way.In the student's mind, the words are recombined, often interpreted into different phrases or words, and the letters are stored one by one in the laptop's memory by pressing the corresponding keys on the computer keyboard. It is also an audio record that records the interesting analog-to-digital data transfer process of transferring it to the teacher's teaching and saving it as a digital text file that understands the instructor's teaching.This album makes you listen to it.Harold Sherinx is an artist, author, improviser and creator of unusual music. As a member of Young Lions and other post-punk bands in the late 3s, he was one of the first to start the 'ultra' movement (the Dutch version of what has become known internationally as 'post-punk experimental pop'). , co-founder, editor and London correspondent of the Dutch contemporary music magazine Vinyl.He studied formal music and computer-aided composition at the Institute of Sonology and mathematics and its foundations at the University of Amsterdam.He was a mentor to important pioneers of industrial music in the '70s, like Nigel Jacklin and his Alien Brains project, of which he was also a short-lived member.He is a dictaphone experimenter, member of the eclectic media duo 'okoi', and curator of the online 'found tapes exhibition'.He is a member of the Paris-based electroacoustic improvisational quartet Diktat, and in 80 released the Tour De ...

The Mohamad Zatari Trio, a Middle Eastern jazz band led by Mohamad Zatari, an oud player from Aleppo, Syria, and consisting of members from Syria, India, and Iran, released a record in January 2023 from Zehra, a label specializing in the Middle East/Asia/North Africa.Contains 1 oriental contemporary jazz pieces by oud, tabla and tar.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Karl Records/Zehra releases available at...

*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...

Knud Viktor, a photographer/painter/filmmaker from Copenhagen, Denmark, who passed away in 2013, has released an unreleased 1978 recording of Owl's Nest on a 7-inch by Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology, a label specializing in reissues in the same country.Includes his own narration. Comes with DL code.Owl lovers are a must.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Institute for Danish...

Photographer/painter/filmmaker Knud Viktor from Copenhagen, Denmark, who passed away in 2013, compiled two masterpieces released in 1972, and reissued them as a double LP by Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology, a label specializing in reissues in the same country.It is a concrete work that uses a lot of water sounds and can be enjoyed in ASMR. Comes with DL code and insert. It is a 2g weight board.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Institute for Danish Sound...

A CD released by Hive Mind in February 2023 by painter/musician/engineer Seljuk Rustum, who is from Kannur, India and lives in Cochin.Contains collaboration works with various artists that he performed in his studio.Digipak, gatefold specification.See more Hive Mind Records releases available at...

Sara Lana from Brazil and Yannick Dauby from France, two field recording artists, released a limited edition of 2 copies from the French field recording label Presque Tout. Side A is Minas Gerais, Brazil, Side B is a field recording of a frog called Nidirana Adenopleura in Taiwan. Comes with DL code.It is out of print.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Presque Tout releases...

French field recording label Presque Tout released a limited edition of 2 split cassettes by Julia Hanadi Al Abed from France and Jonáš Gruska from Slovakia. Soundscapes of Bordeaux, France on side A, and soundscapes of Bratislava and Humenne, Slovakia on side B. Comes with DL code.It is out of print.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Presque Tout...

Photographer/sound artist Jeanette Ogden from LA, USA released her debut work in January 2023 from LA's experimental/dance label Jungle Gym in a limited edition of 1 pieces.Includes 40 minimal noises from field recordings. Comes with DL code.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Jungle Gym Records releases available at...

Philip Samartzis, a professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and sound artist Eric La Casa, released a limited edition of 2020 copies from the Portuguese experimental label Cronica in 100.About 50 minutes of field recording recorded in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Comes with DL code.It is out of print.Below is a commentary by Philip Samartzis.Kruger National Park is located in the northeastern part of South Africa, between the Tropic of Capricorn.It is a subtropical park with a length of about 360 km and a width of 65 km that borders Zimbabwe and Mozambique and spans the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga.Wildlife and flora such as acacias, buffalo grass, mopane shrubs, acacias, baobabs and marula are abundant.Several rivers flow through the park, including the Crocodile, Retaba, Limpopo, Lviv, Olifants and Saby rivers.The vast wilderness is dotted with bush camps, safari lodges, gift shops, restaurants and viewing platforms for viewing flora and fauna.This stereo version of Captured Space is born from a multi-channel sound installation that explores two parallel environments: nature and architecture.While Kruger's natural world is wild and ferocious, the built world, including roads and settlements, is pedestrian and designed to keep visitors comfortable and safe from the daily struggles of life and death.From your car, you'll discover a wonderful habitat made up of familiar characters.However, no matter how far they travel, they cannot easily escape the space constraints of cars and the high-voltage electric fences surrounding tourist spots.While African animals are the protagonists of zoos around the world, at Kruger the animals are vigilant and protective of an exotic mix of people confined to minimal space for self-defense. The sounds that make up Captured Space were recorded over 2 days by Eric and I as we leisurely toured the park looking for recording opportunities.However, the park has strict rules and it was unexpected that our activities would be restricted.It quickly became clear that our documentation project was as much about the rich ecosystems we seek to document as about the places we were imprisoned.So all the recordings were made from inside the car, on the bridge, inside the hut, and inside the enclosure where we stayed each night.From these places the sounds always seemed to come from somewhere else than where we were.Always distant, hidden from view, frustrating and elusive. Captured Space offers a kaleidoscopic experience of the South African wilderness through infrastructure that facilitates access to a world populated by strange and menacing creatures.A mysterious world with intense soundscapes, scorching heat during the day, and bleak nights.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more...

Italian sound artist Glauco Salvo released a cassette from his private label Field Studies in 2020.Includes 5 electro-acoustic tracks by field recordings and electronics. Comes with DL code.Mastered by Giuseppe Ielashi.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Field Studies releases available...

This is a debut cassette released in December 2022 by the experimental musician Florence Cats from Vilvoorde, Belgium, with a limited edition of 12 copies from the country's experimental/ambient label Edições CN.Contains 150 songs from piano contemporary ~ drone ~ field recording. DL link included.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Edições CN releases available at Tobira. --...

A record released by Canadian sound artist Joshua Bonnetta in November 2022 from French experimental label Shelter Press.Includes two deep listening field recording collage tracks. Comes with a 11-page booklet, an essay by Erika Balsom, a postcard, and a viewing code for the video work "The Two Sights."Below is an explanation by the label.Bonetta uses film, photography, and recordings to engage in intimate, generative dialogue with one another.Photography shows the proximity and urgency of sound, sound shows the need for moving images, and film harnesses the eyeball to propel the sonic realm forward.The elements that make up his work, whether film, record, or photography, are both autonomous and interrelated. - Artists and objects act as subjective lenses, exploring the nature of human experience and the diverse and potential psychological realities of inherited histories, cultures, places and self-connections.It is a reactive practice that emerges from encounters with places and situations, and seeks to bring order to the chaotic abstraction that amazes the mind and leads to legends and myths.Bonetta's works are not in the abstract and "pure" tone state of experimental music "free from individual tastes and memories (psychology)" pursued by Concrete and John Cage, but by-products of sound collage. There is, however, a deep sympathy with Luc Ferrari's concept of 'anecdotal music', capable of explaining and preserving the social and autobiographical contexts of the materials and recordings and their meaning dimensions.Rather than forcing stereotypes about artists, listeners are encouraged to construct their own stories.This is two audio compositions Bonetta composed from field recordings made in Barra, Bernelei, North Uist, Harris and Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in 2-60. The same is true for Strangers.Drawing on Bonetta's fascination with sound as a primary means of investigating places and people, Innse...

Italian photographer Adriano Zanni and sound artist Enrico Coniglio are photobooks and CDs released in November 2022 on the country's experimental/ambient label Silentes. Includes 11 Dronescape songs processed and edited by Enrico based on environmental sounds recorded by Adriano. A 6-page A24 full-color photobook is included. See more Silentes releases /// Click here to see more Silentes releases available at Tobira. ------------------------------- -CD...

Etran de L'Aïr, a blues band from Agadas, Niger, released an album from Sahel Sounds in February 2022.Contains 2 Sahara Blues songs.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Sahel Sounds releases available at...

Compilation record by Sahel Sounds. Contains 11 songs.Below is an explanation by the label. In 2020, Sahel Sounds held a project called "Music from Saharan WhatsApp".The series consisted of ephemeral digital EPs documenting live performances by some of the Sahel's most exciting artists, including Niger techno, wedding rock, Udabe guitar, WZN, traditional music and Mandingue music.Musicians were invited by our artist network to record their tracks with their mobile phones and send them via the popular mobile app WhatsApp.Each session was hosted on Bandcamp for a month and sold on a sliding basis, with all profits going directly to the musicians. After a month, that EP will disappear and switch to another EP.And now, some of the label's favorite tracks from the series are being released for the first time as a compilation LP, Music from Saharan WhatsApp.This LP features Etran de L'Aïr, Hama, Alkibar Jr, Les Filles...

A CDR released by French percussionist Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy in November 2022 from the Italian experimental/noise label Sounds Against Humanity in a limited edition of 11 copies.A field recording of water binding ~ 25 noises are recorded. Comes with DL code.No melody. Click here to see more Sounds Against Humanity /// Click here to see more Sounds Against...

*Final arrival.A cassette released by field recording artist diane barbé in Berlin, Germany in October 2022 from Berlin's experimental label Forms of Minutiae in a limited edition of 10 copies.Includes 60 field recordings recorded in Nakhonchaisi District and Khao Sok National Park, Thailand. Comes with DL code.It is out of print.Here is her own explanation.The page is crumpled, curled, and has been in the thick air for weeks, and the ink lines are a little smudged.Words touch.Nights, storms, warm afternoons, all told in terrestrial stories.On top of the Madan tree, the Koel continues to squawk, calling out for something.Women are planting seeds, floating flowers in water, and holding their hands in the soil.Creatures live together in collective rivers, connected like organs of the same body, drifting in the long flow of time.With a microphone in hand, we sit under a large banana leaf and witness the rain pouring down on all of us who live in this forest.Creatures talk to each other, and water circulates endlessly.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Forms of Minutiae...

As the title suggests, this is a collection of sound effects from the American experimental label No Rent. Contains 71 songs.Start preparing for next year's Halloween.You can also use it to play a prank on a friend you know well.It is out of print.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more No Rent Records releases available at Tobira....