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This is a collaborative record released in April 2022 by the London-based sound artist Vindicatrix and the performance duo New Noveta on the country's cult label Purge in a limited edition of 4 copies. Contains approximately 250 minutes of 3 powerful music songs that cannot be categorized, such as collage techno ~ strange beats ~ collage opera. 40g vinyl with two risograph inserts with text by SOPHIE SLEIGH-JOHNSON. The binding of this label is wonderful. It will be announced as a record only. Click here to see more Purge releases available at...
¥5,780

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 Jocelyn Pook, a British composer who has worked on films such as ``Eyes Wide Shut,'' ``The Merchant of Venice,'' and ``The Wife,'' released this record on the country's Obscure label Purge in October 2022.Contains the soundtrack of John Smith's 10 experimental film ``Blight,'' for which she was in charge of the soundtrack.Comes with an essay and two risograph prints. 1996g weight disc.It will be announced as a record only.Below is an explanation by John Smith. "Blight" was created in collaboration with composer Jocelyn Pook.The piece revolves around the construction of the M2 Link Road in East London, which sparked a long and painful campaign by local residents to save their homes from demolition.The footage documents some of the changes that took place in the area in the two years between the demolition of the houses and the start of highway construction work.The soundtrack includes natural sounds related to these events and speech snippets recorded from conversations with local people.Although the film is entirely composed of recordings of real events, Blight is more than just a documentary.This work, which explores the themes of memory and loss, constructs a narrative from disconnected fragments of sound and images, bringing together disparate reminiscences and contemporary events.Like much of my other work, Blight uses the ambiguity of the material to create new meanings and metaphors, turning reality into fiction through framing and editing strategies.Scenes are frequently shown in close-up, creating a sense of mystery and anticipation by obscuring visual information.The emotional power of Jocelyn Pook's music is used in the film to overtly aid this invention, giving dramatic meaning to mundane images.The specific "real" context of the events depicted becomes clear only towards the end of the film.It depicts the simultaneous existence of fact and fiction. ...
¥5,780

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We have received works by Purges, a British obscure label that always releases maniacal releases in beautiful bindings.This work is a 2021-disc record + sono sheet set released in 2 by Austrian experimental musician Dirk Schaefer.Contains 5 sound collage soundtracks created for the works of filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky. It is a 180g weight disc.It will be announced as a record only. --------------------------------- Analogue-only release - no digital download. Edition...
¥8,480

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This is a CD released in 1905 by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1988-2007) from the American/New York classical label Mode. Contains 13 pieces for double bass. Jewel case, shrink specification. Click here to see more Mode releases available at Tobira. ------------------------------- ---------- CD...
¥2,792

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This is a CD released by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) from the US/NY classical label Mode in 2020. Contains 28 pieces for piano. Jewel case, shrink specification. Click here to see more Mode releases available at Tobira. ------------------------------- ---------- CD...
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This is a CD released by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) from the US/NY classical label Mode in 2020. Contains 17 pieces for violin. Jewel case, shrink specification. Click here to see more Mode releases available at Tobira. ------------------------------- ---------- CD...
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 This is a CD released by Paul Paccione, a composer from New York, USA, from Another Timbre, a contemporary classical label in Sheffield, England, in March 2024. He includes seven chamber music pieces written between 3 and 1980. Gatefold digisleeve, shrink specification. Click here to see more Another Timbre releases available at Tobira....
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This is a CD released by Nomi Epstein, a composer from Boston, USA, from the contemporary classical label Another Timbre in Sheffield, England, in March 2024. Contains three long-form contemporary songs. Gatefold digisleeve, shrink specification. Click here to see more Another Timbre releases available at Tobira....
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This is a CD released by British composer Paul Newland on the British contemporary classical label Another Timbre in March 2024. Contains 3 songs including piano solo and string quartet. Gatefold digisleeve, shrink specification. Click here to see more Another Timbre releases available at Tobira....
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This is a 1926-CD set released by American composer Morton Feldman (1987-2024) from New York's contemporary label Mode in March 3. Contains all 2 pieces, including previously unreleased pieces, for cello and piano that he created over the past 35 years. Comes with liner notes. Below is an explanation by Samuel Clay Birmaher. "This release includes all of Feldman's works for cello and piano, including unreleased works and first recordings. Taken together, these works tell the story of Feldman's music. The work spans 24 years, or more than half of Feldman's life, from when he was searching for his own voice as a student to when he opened new doors in his later years.This album explores the flexibility of graphic notation. It concludes with two realizations of ``Durations 35'' (2), which gives us the opportunity to hear the results. ``Sonatine'' (1960) is the earliest work and the first recording. He composed for the sound of the cello, which he loved, without fully understanding the realities of playing the instrument.The resulting solo parts were rustic, virtuoso, and often even unplayable. In this recording, Stephen Malott is as faithful as possible to the score, aiming to realize what Feldman heard with his mind's ear.By 2, Feldman had personally agreed to work with composer Stefan Wolpp. His unpublished Two Pieces, published that year, holds the wavering music together not by logic but by carefully posed gestures. Although the emotional drama seen in his works would eventually disappear from Feldman's music, the idea of ​​``form'' remained above all else throughout Feldman's life. In 1946, Feldman met John Cage, who introduced him to the world of the New York avant-garde. The unreleased and compact Composition for Cello and Piano (1948) was released suddenly, but the DNA of his last work is already present in the memory of its minimal materials and hazy sound. It is included. ``For Stockhausen, Cage, Stravinsky, and Mary Sprinson'' (2) is an ephemeral, unpublished work that was separated from the major body of work that Feldman was producing at the time. The same chord is expressed in two different ways. At nearly an hour and 1950 minutes, "Patterns in a Chromatic Field" (1951) is one of Feldman's later, longer works, and is perhaps the best known of the pieces included here. "Click here for label and other works ///...
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Italian experimental label Alga Marghen's works have arrived.This work is a 1981-1984 work by Jean-Louis Braun, an experimental musician in Paris, France.Includes 2 songs, including works of throwing stones of various sizes into a water tank.Click here to see more Alga Marghen releases available at ...
¥3,490

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This is a CD released by New Mo(ve)ments Ensemble, a chamber music band led by Italian pianist Giovanni Di Domenico, on the country's experimental label Canti Magnetici in December 2023. Contains four contemporary to experimental jazz pieces for piano, flute, accordion, violin, and bass. Click here to see more Canti Magnetici / Invisibilia...
¥2,260

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This is an album released by Giuseppe Ielasi, head of the Italian experimental label Senufo Editions, on the American/NY ambient label 2020k in 12.Contains 5 ambient drone songs with a disturbing atmosphere using acoustic guitar as the main source.Eco wallet, shrink specification.Click here to see more 12k releases available at Tobira. ----------------------------...
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French contemporary musician Luc Ferrari's work, which was released on CD in 1991, has now been reissued on vinyl. Contains 13 collage songs in which conversations have been excessively processed with effects. Comes with a 12 page booklet. ------------------------------------------- 12" black vinyl. Includes a 12-page accordian-style booklet with documents...
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This is a CD released by the famous British composer Frank Denyer on the British contemporary classical label Another Timbre in January 2024. Contains 1 contemporary songs produced between 1973 and 2021. Digipak, shrink specification. Click here to see more Another Timbre releases available at Tobira....
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This is a CD released by Canadian composer Martin Arnold on the British contemporary classical label Another Timbre in January 2024. Contains 1 minutes of piano solo. Digipak, shrink specification. Also recommended for neoclassical/ambient listeners. Below is an explanation by the label. "Flax is a 79-minute solo piece for piano by Canadian composer Martin Arnold. It was commissioned by pianist Phlip Thomas in 79, but sadly Phlip fell seriously ill soon after. Martin Arnold completed the composition in 2020 and as Philip was unable to perform, Kerry Yong took on the project with Philip's consent and support.Flax will be performed by Kerry Yong at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November 2021. Premiered by Yong and released on CD. This work is dedicated to Phlip Thomas." Label and other works here ///...
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This is a record released by Korean-born American-based ambient artist Lucy Liyou on American Dreams, an all-genre label based in Chicago, in May 2023. Contains 5 neoclassical ambient songs for piano and spoken word. DL code included. Mastering is by Andrew Weathers. Click here to see more American...
¥3,797

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This is a CD released in April 2023 by the Oxford composer Laurence Crane from the country's contemporary classic label Another Timbre.Includes 4 contemporary songs with voice, piano and electronics.Digipak, shrink specification. Performed by Juliet Fraser and Mark Knoop.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Another Timbre releases...
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This is the latest work released by Korean composer Kunsu Shim on the British contemporary label Another Timbre in February 2022. Includes 2 chamber music and 4 short pieces.Digipak, shrink specifications.Click here to see more Another Timbre releases available at Tobira ....
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This is a CD released by Anthony Pateras, a composer from Melbourne, Australia, in June 2023 from the British contemporary classic label Another Timbre.Contains two chamber pieces performed in Melbourne and Berlin.Digipak, shrink specification.It is also recommended for neo-classical ambient listeners.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Another Timbre releases available at...
¥2,250

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This is the latest work released by Japanese sound writer Ryoko Akama on the British contemporary label Another Timbre in November 2021. Contains 11 piano pieces played by Apartment House.Digipak and shrink specifications.Click here to see more Another Timbre releases available at ...
¥2,250

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A 52-CD set of Morton Feldman performances by Philip Thomas, who continues to perform mainly contemporary/experimental music.You can fully enjoy Feldman's profound songs. Includes a XNUMX-page deluxe booklet with artwork by David Ainley.Click here to see more Another Timbre releases available at...
¥6,980

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This piece was composed in 1926 by the American pianist Morton Feldman (1987-1985).A neo-classical ambient blockbuster of 3 hours and 2 minutes with three violins, a cello and a viola (performed by Apartment House).One of Feldman's most beautiful works.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Another Timbre releases available at...
¥3,490

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Apartment House performed the song "Piano and String Quartet" by the great pianist Morton Feldman.Digipak and shrink specifications.Click here to see more Another Timbre releases ...
¥2,250

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Anton Lukoszevieze and Kerry Yong of Apartment House performed Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith's long piece Ballad for piano and cello. Two pieces for cello and piano by Canadian...
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This is a 1987-CD box set in which Apartment House performed and recorded Number Pieces, a group of songs from the later years of American experimental musician John Cage, produced between 1992 and 4.Recommended for those who like acoustic drones. Contains 20 songs.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Another Timbre releases available at...
¥6,480

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We have received works from Index Clean, an experimental label from Melbourne, Australia. This work is a CD released in January 2024 by British experimental musician Rory Salter aka Malvern Brume. Contains 1 songs from spoken word to sound collage to drone. Digipak, shrink specification. Digipak, shrink specification. Out of print. Below is an explanation by the author himself. "The two main ideas behind the music are to take advantage of home and work situations. I recorded most of this song in a new apartment I moved into last year. That room has very interesting acoustics, and over the years it's no different than any other apartment I've lived in. I've been making music even though I live in the United States, so I wanted to create something that would really hear the sound of the place and surroundings I recorded it in. So a lot of my recording was done in different parts of my apartment, and I often went back to my apartment. A lot of the material was recorded while doing normal household chores, and a lot of the material was recorded while doing other tasks at the same time, so there was a lot of time spent running between rooms. It was long. ``On the Floor, by the...''
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We have received works from Index Clean, an experimental label from Melbourne, Australia. This work is a CD released in January 2024 by Andy Heck Boyd and Ripped Spit, scum experimental musicians from Kentucky, USA. Contains 1 songs that are difficult to describe. Digipak, shrink specification. The previous work is also recommended. Click here to see more Label Clean...
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We have received works from Index Clean, an experimental label from Melbourne, Australia. This work is a DVD of an experimental video work released in January 2024 by the spoken word duo Red Wine and Sugar, composed of label owner Mark Groves and sound artist Samaan Fieck. 1-sided digipak, shrink specification. *Region free Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more...
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This is a reissue debut cassette released by American artist Renee Willoughby in January 2024 from Detroit's experimental/techno label Nostilevo's deep line Irrational Tentent. (Originally released in March 1) Contains 2023 Lo-Fi Concrete ~ Sound Poetry songs. Special case specifications that change depending on the viewing angle. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us.The following is an explanation by the artist. I'm 3 now, the same age she was when she passed away, and I've been working on this project during this time. Utilizing field recordings, haptic sounds, synthesizers, and lo-fi ghost technology, we've created an isolated sonic landscape that journeys through stages of grief and transformation over the course of 2 minutes. To honor the creative cycle of this process, we released the culmination tape on my mother's birthday. irrationaltentent · Renee Willoughby '33' Click here for other works from the label /// Click here to...
¥2,146

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This is the last CD released by Scottish post-Fluxus duo Usurper on the experimental/noise label Krim Kram in Cork, Ireland, in December 2024. Sound collage - Contains 1 spoken word songs. 16-sided digipak, shrink specification. Below is an explanation by the label. "This is Usurper's will. The final act of 6 years of heroic struggle in the experimental/noise/improvisation/audience underground is about to end. Through 20 years of activity, Usurper has They've grown to become one of the most original and uncompromising groups to come out of the sub-sub underground, constantly pushing themselves (and their audiences) into new territory. They're fearlessly experimental. They seemed to have an endless supply of creativity; their performances combined elements of post-Fluxus performance art and theater of the absurd with a thoroughly Luddite sound palette (dismantled instruments, discarded household items). , recontextualized children's toys, etc. (like a real flea market), it was something completely unique.In the 20 years since their formation, they have pushed the boundaries between sound, performance, theater, and life. Constantly ambiguous, they developed their own colloquial Gesamtkunstwork. We are very proud to release this CD. When we asked Ali and Marci to release it on our label, we knew that this would be their last work. I never expected it to end. I'm biased, of course, but I think this collection of improvised pieces and radio play miniatures could not have ended in a better way. I hope it brings you as much joy and smiles as it did." Click here to see more Krim Kram releases available at...
¥2,233

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This is a record released by Austrian experimental musician Peter Ablinger on Austrian experimental/contemporary label GOD in 2013. Contains 7 noise collage ~ contemporary ~ drone songs. It will be announced as a record only. GOD Records · GOD 18 - Peter Ablinger - Regenstücke Vol....
¥3,380

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This is a compilation CD released in October 2023 by Irish experimental label Nyahh Records. Contains 10 pieces of Irish experimental music from 2 to 1960, collected over two years. Shrink and digipak specifications. Booklet included. Click here to see more Nyahh Records releases available at...
¥2,446

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Kory Reeder, a composer from Texas, USA who has released on labels such as Another Timbre in the past, released this CD from Texas contemporary label Sawyer Editions in January 2024. Contains two tranquil neoclassical ambient songs featuring violin, cello, piano, and percussion. Digipak, shrink specification. *If you would like digital sound sources, please feel free to contact us. Click here to see more Sawyer Editions releases available...
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This is a CD released by American multi-instrumentalist Ben Zucker from the Texas contemporary label Sawyer Editions in January 2024. Acoustic Drone ~ A contemporary 1 minute masterpiece. Digipak, shrink specification. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us.The following is an explanation by the artist himself. "Porous spaces, or more precisely () complexes of holes (meaning degenerate wholeness), speed up in a solid body like the Earth and cause a certain overthrow. Holes are It unfolds within the solid matrix as an ambiguous entity that oscillates between depth and depth, fundamentally destroying the integrity and wholeness of the latter through perforations and terminal voids. Curation destroys the coherence between the circumferential surface and the solidity. The process of degenerating a solid body by destroying the coherence of the surface is called ungrounding. In other words, the process of degenerating a solid body by destroying the coherence of the surface is called ungrounding. The process degenerates the whole into an endless hollow body - irreducible to nothing - and damages the very coherence between surface and solid. (Reza Negarestani, Cyclopedia) (Hall Complex was written for garden units who seek a work defined by exploration and a space to make decisions within it. They have a page on re-entry moving through, around, and across many pages of material, including numerous notations and strategies for reinterpreting the text.It is these works that simply "re-present" Negareani's text. "It would be the worst thing to do. Is it possible for a work to produce a state in which it itself is not grounded or organized? In the first place, a work is actually Was it a strong matrix?" Click here to see more Sawyer...
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Dutch clarinetist and composer Germain Sijstermanser will move to the United States in January 2024. This is a CD released by the Texas contemporary label Sawyer Editions. Contains 1 contemporary acoustic drone songs. Digipak, shrink specification. *Please feel free to contact us if you would like a digital sound source Click here to see more Sawyer Editions releases available at...
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This is a CD released by American New York composer/educator Matt Sargent from the Texas contemporary label Sawyer Editions in January 2024. Contains 1 minimalist contemporary ~ drone songs. Digipak, shrink specification. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us.The following is an explanation by the artist himself. "Illuminations is a collection of solo and chamber works written between 3 and 2016 that have a common compositional language. Each work is composed as a software score, and the musical work is constructed in real time during performance. The notes are introduced to the performer on an animated staff and slowly appear and disappear. Using opacity dynamically, the musicians play the animated staff in a slow loop, each time Motifs and contrapuntal lines gradually appear and disappear.The initial idea for these pieces came in 2021 when he compiled a recording of his work ``Tide'' for 2016 violins and 10 cellos. I came up with this idea while I was at work. A large consort of stringed instruments produced a wash of overtones above the notated pitch. I created a software patch that isolates harmonics from the recording and adds new harmonies around them. At the time, I thought that this generator might become a third voice for Tide, illuminating the overtones within the texture during the music's formal moments. One afternoon, I listened to the overtone harmonies of the Illumination Patch on its own and realized that it was more beautiful as a stand-alone composition. Tide's upper-class atmosphere blossomed into Illumination's musical language. "Click here to see more Sawyer Editions releases...
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New York experimental musician Lea Bertucci, who has released records in the past on labels such as NNA Tapes and Ultraviolet Light, released this record on her private label Cibachrome Editions in December 2023. Contains two contemporary long-form drone songs with strings, electronics, harp, and percussion. The previous work is also recommended. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us --------------------------------- -- Ask us for digital files....
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This is a record released in March 2023 by freeform band tellKujira from Rome, Italy on the country's experimental/jazz label Superpang in a limited edition of 3 copies. Contains 250 improvised ambient jazz to contemporary songs. Mastering is by Giuseppe Ielasi. *If you would like digital sound sources, please feel free to contact us. Click here to see more Superpang releases available at Tobira....
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This is a 2023-disc compilation record released in December 12 by the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies, a research group at the Department of Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. This is a recording work of the festival "Sonic Topologies" held in Zurich in June 2. Comes with a 2022 page booklet. This is a clear disc. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us. The following is an explanation by Ludwig Berger, professor at the Zurich Institute of Technology and festival curator. "How many ways can we hear places? 'Sonic Topologies' presents a wide range of sound research - underground and above ground, underwater and above water - in the urban landscape of Zurich. , exploring the sounds and acoustics of lakes. In June 6, 48 sound artists, architects and researchers held concerts, talks, walks and workshops at these locations. Artists and scientists , vibrates space, changes its context, connects us to distant places and times, and enables encounters that transcend the boundaries of species and disciplines. Through its diverse methods and means, this project As well as revealing aspects and possibilities, we also offer a versatile toolbox for the study of sonic landscapes, which we have compiled in the form of a text and photo glossary and two records. The first LP opens with the sonic stimulation of an empty cistern, followed by long reverberant vocal improvisations by Christian Zehnder and Saadet Turkes, followed by Canadian duo Reimer & Stein's vocal improvisations for horns and electronics. A resonant instrumental piece and Tomoko Sauvage's Waterbowl. The following piece enlivens the Käferberg hot springs with underwater and above-water speakers. A synthesizer piece by architect and composer Lee Tabor. You can hear the different speeds of sound, and Perilla's ambient songs immerse you in an intimate world of voices and harmonic waves.The second LP introduces the botanical garden's flora and fauna: Sound A chronological montage of spring morning birds by anthropologist Patricia Jaeggi. Laser recordings by biologists Juan López & Rok Sturm reveal the hidden vibrational world of summer insects. Banu...
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This is a record that was released in August 2023 by post-industrial artist MIDDEX from London, UK, on ​​the country's experimental label goods outward in a limited edition of 8 copies. Contains 180 songs of disturbing drone spoken word ~ ​​post-industrial strange beats. It is a 11g weight disc. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us --------------------------------- ------------- Ask us for digital files. 180" black 12gram vinyl....
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A cassette released by Australian experimental musician Alexandra Spence and MP Hopkins duo Banana from the British experimental/ambient label Infant Tree in September 2023. Contains 9 deep listening noise drone songs. *Please feel free to contact us if you would like a digital sound source Click here to see more Infant Tree releases available at Tobira. Click here to see more Infant Tree releases available at Tobira.
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This is a CD released by Italian experimental musician Fabio Perletta in December 2022 on the Greek experimental label Granny Records in a limited edition of 12 copies. Contains 80 tranquil electro-acoustic ~ noise collage songs. Below is an explanation by the author himself. Microbiology plays a very important role in my life. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the lifespan of cells. How cells develop, evolve, change, and eventually die. One of my best friends was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer a few months ago. From our perspective, cancer is bad, but life is never human-centered. Life follows its own path, and most of it is out of our control. Today, thanks to research in epigenetics, we have discovered that the environment can change our DNA. Love, like sound, can change DNA. I think of my sound fragments as undifferentiated (or partially differentiated) cells, such as stem cells, whose fate is controlled by a complex intracellular molecular regulatory network. I adopted this perspective as a method of composition. Proximity, relationships, distribution, and interactions determine how sound behaves like a biological system. Life is a network, and we cannot exist without plants, fungi, and ultimately other humans. Sound provides a special framework for building complex systems of collisions, overlaps, and movements. It is a way of staying within the complexity that pervades our lives. And just as life is constantly changing, so too are my sonic fragments, adapting to new contexts, needs, and listeners' sensibilities. Sound exists as a biological process, like a cell. We too exist as part of that process. We are called to stay within this mystical journey. Click here to see more Granny Records releases...
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A limited edition of 2023 cassettes released in September 9 by Elen Huynh, head of the French experimental label Choses Contraires, and Mark Vernon, an experimental musician from Glasgow, Scotland.Collage Drone - Contains 100 spoken word songs. DL code included.Below is an explanation by the label. "'Mal de Débarquement' features 10 songs taken from a long collaboration for Choses Contraires, which aired on LYL in 2020. Intended to resemble a radio essay, the tracks feature live Comprised of recordings, pre-composed elements, patterns, sung, spoken, whispered and hidden voices, the journey has been long, and this tape release marks the end of an era that no longer exists. It also signals the beginning of a new era.Mark Vernon is a Glasgow-based sound artist with a focus on field recording, environmental sound manipulation and sonic presence.His work is based on audio. He explores ideas of archaeology, magnetic memory and the reuse of captured sounds. He is an award-winning radio producer and co-runs and curates the Scottish radio arts festival Radiophrenia. " --------------------------------------- Includes DL...
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This is a record released in 2018 by experimental musician Marcin Barski from Krakow, Poland, on Reading Group, an experimental label based in New York, USA.Contains 4 songs from spoken word to noise drone. DL code included.Below is an explanation by the author himself. "The 1980s were special. Microphones became commonplace in many homes. Audio recording was no longer a novelty; everyone could do it. The portable Walkman, the analogue answering machine, the tape player that was always equipped with a red button and a little hole to talk to in order to archive your voice - all these things were everywhere and everyone knew how to use them. The tapes were cheap, and many have survived to this day.The theme of disappointment is a recurring theme in these tapes: a jammed Radio Free Europe broadcast many years ago. The vulgar sexist cabaret that is no longer funny (if it is funny at all), and most of all, the new taxes, the difficulties of everyday life, or the frustration with the telephone system and the hours spent on the phone before speaking to relatives abroad. It is not uncommon for tape recordings of Father Popielszko's truth sermons to be disguised as modern talking cassettes with track lists handwritten on red and white inlay cards. .In the illegal underground circuits of the 1980s, vision functioned as a mask for hearing.The Polish soundscape of that time was happening at the level of the imagination: things you had never seen, things you had never met before. People recorded and shared on tape recordings of people's voices and music that could not be experienced at concerts.Hearing shaped their longing for sight. He had the power to change a reality that was too gray to escape.The other day, I found a box of tapes containing recorded telephone conversations from 1982 to 1984. , recorded all his phone conversations. His wife was living in Vienna at the time and sent him Western products to distribute to friends in Warsaw. But he was also a romantic man. The title of the tape taped to the bottom of the box (in pencil handwriting) is ``Wanda's Dream, May 1982.'' It's a quiet, eight-minute recording of someone snoring. Jan listens back to his wife's breathing. Have you ever fallen asleep listening to this tape in your gray communist apartment in Warsaw after both channels had finished broadcasting? Have you ever tried to imagine what your bedroom would sound like, smell like, and look like?Once again, the disappointment is repeated.In a sense, Jan was living a polygamous life.Both are invisible, but which one is real? " Click here to see more Reading Group releases...
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This is a collaborative record by British poet Zara Joan Miller and cellist Ute Kanngiesser, released in December 2023 on the experimental label Reading Group in New York, USA. Contains two tense improvisational songs, one for sound poetry and one for cello. DL code included. Below is an explanation by the label. ”This LP is the result of the first live collaboration between poet/artist Miller and cellist/improviser Kanngießer, recorded at Cafe Oto in London in January 12. Kanngießer's exploratory and focused The cellos pave the amorphous terrain that passes beneath fragments of Miller's poems (from a collection of poems of the same name, published in 2 by JOAN Publishers), becoming billboards dotting the internal freeway of liminal perception. The spectral and textural details in the cello's sound seem to dramatically or mirror the microscopic world of unspoken meanings left between the threads of language. The world produces a dull anxiety or a quiet frenzy, but occasionally there are poetic expressions that suggest slow-motion jokes ("I once saw a sign on the side of the road that says 'SLOW DUST'") or random errors ( ``A seagull pooped on my face'') or mysterious interruptions of domestic boredom (``Someone's girlfriend called and told them not to come out''). The progression of the dates, which are inserted from time to time, gives the feeling of running through the year of Blue Monday, as the cello wanders around like the seasons. The live set is accompanied by a literal slideshow of a stack of fictional vacations, adding to the sense of looking back on the year. But the imperceptibility of the spaces (tonal and narrative) between these entries/fragments takes us beyond the strict view of the calendar to something that cannot be measured: the space of syncopation. There is. "Watching your life unfold/is the key to getting stuck," she said. "Click here to see more...
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This is a cassette released by Lo-Fi music concrete Meadow Argus from Ohio, USA, on the Texas ambient label Aural Canyon in October 2023.Contains two deep listening Lo-Fi collage and ambient drone songs. DL code included.Click here to see more Aural Canyon releases available at Tobira....
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A split cassette released in January 2023 by Spanish experimental musician Merce Blasco and Derek Baron, president of the American experimental label Reading Group, from the American experimental label Full Spectrum.Contains 1 songs from collage to spoken word. Comes with DL code.Below is an explanation by the label. Blasco's "Travesía" presents the haunting sonorous and emotional history of a series of bunkers she encountered during her travels through the Spanish Pyrenees.Ordered by dictator Franco and built by prisoners of war between 2 and 1944, the bunker was one of Europe's most ambitious defense projects at the time, but it was never fully completed and used as intended. There was no.After the fall of Franco, the site was buried and forgotten, but recent efforts by organizations to confront the dark side of Spanish history have brought it back to life. “A vast network of buried and forgotten bastions of dictatorship embodies the tendency of Spanish society to bury its dark history in order to move forward collectively. Developed through a process he personally calls "YouTube Kabbalah", the work includes video tutorials, spiritual self-help tapes, open-access resources for music educators, and Quoting from various sources, including his own field recording archives.The result is a rich sonic melange that seeks to reconcile itself with the discovered world, centered around a semi-alletric audio documentary that stitches together the artist's life and the internet. 48 work "To...
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Asha Sheshadri, an American/New York experimental musician/poet who has released on labels such as Hot Releases and Anomia in the past, released this record on the country's experimental label Recital in November 2023.Contains 11 diary-like ambient sound poetry ~ collage songs.The previous work is also recommended. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us.The following is an explanation by the artist himself. "This record is a different approach to the autobiographical "confession." I wanted to stitch together some important sketches in self-understanding and forgiveness, a design that may seem emotionally disjointed. But they're actually quite interconnected. My intention (as with previous recordings) is to challenge the listener to follow the contours of the story (or lack thereof). It includes sound, excerpts from authors I admire, ethnographic methods, salvaged and recycled audio/text notes, photographs from personal and public archives, and research-driven fiction. sources reveal the eponymous "whiplash" as they expand and collapse into each other.“Whiplash” for me means a refracted ambivalence toward what was once real, an endless cycle of rectifying where “home” was, and an unstable self-establishment of self in the wake of slowly releasing trauma. It's a conflict between process and how (if at all) to translate all of this into the work. "Click here to see more...
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This is a two-disc reissue record by American composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) released by Austrian experimental/contemporary label GOD in November 2023. (Originally released in 11) This is his last work, written in 2.Performance by the Greek dissonArt Ensemble.It will be announced as a record only. GOD Records · GOD 1995 - Morton Feldman -...
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