Fringes Recordings News

Nuovi Arrivi e Tournee.

Hello,
Here’s a list of new arrivals. A lot more will be added soon.
Ciao
Giuseppe

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Absinth (Germany) :

Angharad Davies / Rhodri Davies / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell “London Strings” [4 Mini-Cdr] angharad davies, violin “tri swn” [17´21] rhodri davies, harp “perdereau” [15´11] phil durrant, violin “almost (two movements)” [19´21] mark wastell, double bass “For John Entwistle 1944-2002” [21´22] 200 numbered copies. silkscreened handmade covers.
Euro 20,00

Allquestions (Italy) :

John Duncan / Elliott Sharp “Tongue” [cd] “The tracks where the vocals are evidently recognizable are absolutely spectacular in their power – imagine enormous Tuva singers bursting out in a hell of rotors; on the other hand, shortwave and treatments often bring a complete timbal deforestation, rearranging the ear’s domain according to unpredictable leaderships and patterns… this music is going to resist the hard test of passing time: it must be considered an important stepping stone in both artists’ history. ” — Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes
Euro 15,50

Edvard Graham Lewis / John Duncan “Presence” [cd] John Duncan’s new work, based on texts and voices by Edvard Graham Lewis (from Wire). Highly recommended.
Euro 15,50

Basic Replay (Germany) :

Keith Hudson “Flesh Of My Skin Blood Of My Blood” [cd] Flesh Of My Skin is the most hallowed of all those reggae albums which remain unavailable, and Keith Hudson’s key achievement in a career launched when as a fourteen-year-old he recorded members of The Skatalites on his Shades Of Hudson rhythm. Originally released in 1974, after a series of solid-gold productions for Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, U-Roy and the rest, it projects Hudson’s removal from JA to London and New York studios and transatlantic audiences, and inaugurates a sequence of albums – classics like Pick A Dub, Brand, Playing It Cool – which show his troubled experimentalism better suited to the LP than the cardinal 7″ reggae format. Anchored here by Santa Davis and George Fullwood from the Soul Syndicate – alongside musicians like Augustus Pablo, Count Ossie and Leroy Sibbles – Hudson’s mood is tormented and dazed, as on titles like Darkest Night, My Nocturne and Testing My Faith he struggles for Black senses of commitment – political, existential, religious – at its breaking point. Magnificently and deadly serious, hauntingly unique, unmissable and unforgettable.
Euro 18,00

Die Schachtel (Italy) :

Pietro Grossi “Musicautomatica” [Lp] Minimalist before the Minimalists (Progetto 2/3_1961), pioneer of Computer Music, founder of the Studio of Phonology of Florence, visual artist and hacker ahead of the time This was Pietro Grossi, a larger-than-life Italian and composer who questioned the concept of musical authorship (Collage_1968) the idea of personal artistic expression: “A piece is not only a ‘work’ (of art), but also one of the many ‘works’ one can freely transform: everything is temporary, everything can change at any time. “Ideas are not personal anymore, they are opened to every solution, everybody could use them” (Unicum_1985).
The infinite music of Pietro Grossi is published for the first time by DieSchachtel in a limited edition of 300 black vinyl LPs with a deluxe gatefold ‘wallet’ cover, with metallic design printed on matt silver an red, complete with a custom made transparent inner sleeve, and an exhaustive English/Italian booklet . Last Copies !!
Euro 20,00

Franca Sacchi “EN” [Lp] “One of the very few female composer of early electronic music, Franca Sacchi studied at the famous RAI Studio of Fonologia in Milan in the 60s, and developed the ‘En-static’ principle which included improvisation, electronic music, ritual, performance, teaching and meditation. Extremely reserved and enigmatic, Franca Sacchi has devoted her entire life to music, dance and yoga; she has been active as a conceptual artist too, and her work was also included in the notorious Broken Music exhibition. Throughout the years, she has carried on a complex multi-disciplinary research in a quest for the integration of music with other artistic expressions while at the same time radically questioning the concept of music making. Her electronic music focuses mainly on sound, which is treated as raw material and endlessly explored. Sacchi’s free concept of duration and deep emotional feel brings her closer to Eliane Radigue and La Monte Young, especially for the long and sustained tones which are suddenly turned into pulsations and gritty sound textures. This LP record presents her first attempts in the field of electronic and concrete music, from the late ’60 to 1972.” Recommended !
Euro 20,00

Eclipse Records (US) :

Paivansade “Puhalluspelto” [Lp] “Following their impressive CDr release on the Dutch label Whistle Along, comes the debut vinyl release from Finland’s avant folk group Päivänsäde. Members of this group also perform with Rauhan Orkesteri, Lauhkeat Lampat, and Kiila which some of you may be familiar with. The sound? Well, you hear strings plucked and scraped, hand percussion and drums, woodwinds, vocals (sometime wailing), and other instruments I cannot identify. If you dig the Anaksimandros, Kemialliset Ystävät, Avarus, Pylon, etc., you’ll want to hear this. Edition of 500 copies with beautiful full color printed sleeves.”
Euro 16,00

Sun City Girls “Fresh Kill of a Cape Hunting Dog/Def in Italy” [2Lp] “Reissue series of Cloaven cassettes continue with two 1987 releases (recorded from 1983-85). This is the 3rd of 10 dbl LP’s — all housed in heavy duty gatefold sleeves featuring artwork / photos from the time of the recordings. Fresh Kill was recorded between 1983-1985 and Def in Italy was recorded in tour in 1984. Features liner notes by BonBan. One time pressing of 1000 copies.”
Euro 20,00

Taurpis Tula “Sparrows” [Lp] “Taurpis Tula from Glasgow, Scotland is the duo of Heather Leigh x (Charalambides and Scorces) on pedal steel / vocals and David Leigh x on guitar, navigating rivers of steel string with their fists and throats. Their all-improvised music works loops of spectral sound into beautifully fucked tonal hymns.” “Examining drones and loops from the epic cragginess of The Dream Academy and Terry Riley to its currency amongst laptop popsters and free-guitar types has long been a passion. To create improvised, trance-driven music with subtlety, emotionalism, hymn-like melody and physicality is rare. Glasgow, Scotland’s Taurpis Tula is that precious find. Guitarist/shortwave radio operator David Keenan (also the editor of the British mag The Wire) and vocalist/pedal steel guitarist Heather Leigh Murray make a highly charged, soul-soothing music, borrowed and blue. Atop wave-generated ambience an opera of muffled tones influenced by Holger Czukay’s experiments in church music and oblique sampling and haunted vocal reveries, they scratch, scrape and caress their guitars. This technique, adapted from the pounded-meat playing of Fred Frith, has become sensuous in their capable hands, resulting in the crying sounds of steel strings that any country cowpoke would envy.” – A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia City Paper.net. “Taurpis Tula’s new disc, Sparrows (Eclipse), sometimes sounds like futuristic gamelan-folk music for 250 years down the road.” This is such a beautiful and haunting record from a lovely duo. Pressed in an edition of 700 copies and housed in a stunning silkscreened black on black jacket with insert (also screened black on black) by the unparalleled Alan Sherry of Siwa Records.
Euro 16,00

Free Porcupine Society (US) :

7 Year Rabbit Cycle “Wind Machines” [cd] The sophomore album from experimental out-folk troubadours 7 YEAR RABBIT CYCLE. Led by ROB FISK (ex-DEERHOOF), and featuring current and former members of BROTHER JT, OLD TIME RELIJUN, THETEETHE, and ECONOMY, the band delivers ten tracks of super-psychedelic, no wave, beard-core, folk explosion, including two songs featuring JAMIE STEWART of XIU XIU. Packaged in silk-screened triple-gatefold sleeves with 16-page booklets with drawings by Fisk and JEFF NERKUMM of NOISE NOMADS. Recommended !!
Euro 15,50

Deerhoof “Milk Man” [Lp] San Francisco’s poster children for dreamers everywhere DEERHOOF return with their most ambitious, forward-thinking album to date. Thirteen tracks of highly imaginative underground rockage, delivered with outrageous and indescribable sounds, a 21st century mindset, and a ton of creative oomph.
Euro 15,00

Xiu Xiu “Fabulous Muscles” [Lp] Underground gloom-pop darlings XIU XIU returns with a brand new album, and mainman JAMIE STEWART’s most pop and most experimental effort to date. Ten tracks revolving around themes of negative dominance–politically, sexually, and emotionally–in spite of the existence of new and hopeful relationships. Delicate, accessible, and heavy. Packaged in silk-screened gatefold sleeves in an edition of 500 copies.
Euro 15,00

Improvised Music From Japan (Japan) :

Tetuzi Akiyama / Martin Ng “Oimacta” [cd] Tetuzi Akiyama: acoustic guitar
Martin Ng: turntables
Tetuzi Akiyama has in recent years attracted tremendous interest on the Japanese and international improvised music scenes. In addition to performing many times in Europe, America, Australia, and New Zealand, he’s been releasing a steady stream of solo and group recordings on these countries’ labels. Oimacta, a duo album he recorded in a Sydney studio with Martin Ng (turntable feedback), promises to become one of his most widely recognized works. Akiyama’s instrument here is the acoustic guitar. Ng, who lived in Sydney at the time of recording and has since moved to the U.S., is known for his duo album with Sydney guitarist Oren Ambarchi, and for his participation, along with Martin Tétreault and Otomo Yoshihide, in the “Turntable Hell” UK tour of May ’02. If you didn’t know beforehand what instruments the musicians were playing on these four tracks, you’d be hard put to identify the sources of their sound. Its rich colors, and the mysterious atmosphere it evokes, are awe-inspiring.
Euro 16,50

Masahiko Okura “Time Service” [cd] Masahiko Okura: tubes (1, 5), alto sax (2-4), bass clarinet (6)
Over the past few years, alto sax player Masahiko Okura has led an astonishingly full and varied musical life. Active as a soloist, as leader of the jazz-rock band Gnu, and as a member of the improvisational trio Bject (with Tetuzi Akiyama and Utah Kawasaki), he also collaborates with many other improvisers, including Otomo Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto, Ami Yoshida, Axel Dörner, Alessandro Bosetti, Werner Dafeldecker, and Günter Müller. With the recent addition to his repertoire of two more instruments–the bass clarinet and the “tube,” a reed instrument of his own invention made from a tube and a mouthpiece–he has further enriched his musical vocabulary. Okura has released three CDs with Gnu and two with Bject. Time Service is his very first solo album. None of its six tracks contain the slightest trace of Gnu’s pop sensibility. This is a highly abstract work that brings out the subtle tones and resonance of the alto sax, bass clarinet, and tube, and illuminates Okura’s unique musicianship. A masterpiece.
Euro 16,50

Last Visible Dog (US) :

Black Forest / Black Sea “Radiant Symmetry” [cd] “Black Forest/Black Sea’s last album, “Forcefields & Constellations,” took some time to grow on me. I was a huge fan of their debut, but for some reason wasn’t immediately pulled into its clutches. Repeated listens brought me around, however. “Radiant Symmetry,” their latest release on the Last Visible Dog imprint, is a collection of live recordings taken from their recent European tour. “Radiant Symmetry” took no time at all to grab me. After one listen, I was awestruck at the disjointed beauty of these pieces. Recorded from Tampere to Bologna, this is a stunning like at their travels through the Old World. The list of collaborators on “Radiant Symmetry” reads like an improvising all-star team. Jan Anderzén, Stefano Pilia, Markus Mäki, Daniel Padden, and many others all contribute their various talents to this sprawling, beautiful disc. But everything is centered around Jeffrey Alexander and Miriam Goldberg. Their music is reaching that point where they know each other so well, that their improvisations together sound like aural gold. “Radiant Symmetry” is the perfect document showcasing their abilities to craft stunning, drifting masterpieces. “Radiant Symmetry” begins with haunting screeches recorded in Glasgow, Scotland with members of the always impressive, Volcano the Bear. The best moments here happen when Daniel Padden’s clarinet wailing weaves in and out of Alexander’s crunching guitar. It’s a noisy, chaotic mess that somehow manages to pull itself together. Goldberg’s beautiful cello playing is like the persistent mother watching over her young ducklings, not allowing them to stray too far. It’s a piece that feels like it could fall apart at any second, but she keeps roping everyone back in and keeping them close. It should come as no surprise that the two short pieces recorded in Tampere, Finland rank as some of my favorites from this excellent record. Joined by Kemialliset Ystävät members, Jan Anderzén, Markus Mäki, and Merja Kokkonen (all of whom have released brilliant solo records recently in addition to the latest KY masterpiece), BF/BS explore a more whimsical side. The first of the two tracks from Tampere features excellent keyboard playing from Anderzén. The plucky acoustic guitar provides a nice constrast to the keyboard moans. Xylophone tones dot the I’s and cross the T’s, accenting the proceedings perfectly. Seeing as 2/3 of the group on these recordings is made up of current KY members, it should come as no surprise that these tracks come off sounding more like KY than BF/BS (hail to acronyms!). Kokkonen also plays a musical saw which adds a ghostly presence which is quite beautiful. She also plays clarinet on the second track from Tampere which feels like a traditional gypsy song. Easily two of the best pieces on this album, and the first track from Tampere in particularly stops the show in its tracks. All of these wonderful recordings, however, pale in comparison to the pieces from Bologna and Stoke-on-Trent. On the piece from Bologna, which is my favorite on the album, BF/BS are joined by Italian sound artist extraordinaire, Stefano Pilia. I’ve sung the praises of Pilia before in this rag, but his contributions on this track make it stand out. Golberg and Alexander do their thing, skating circles around each other, but Pilia is like the kamikaze pilot crashing their party. But, being the gracious hosts they are, they invite him, give him a guitar and record what happens. The end result is a stunning and haunting gem The latter closes the album and features the brilliant accompaniment of Harry Sumnall on electric tamoura, harmonium, and percussion. Alexander and Goldberg are in full flight here, showcasing their impressive ability to construct seemingly complex arrangements with only a guitar and cello. Sumnall’s added instrumentation highlights how good these two are at composing beautiful, hypnotic music on the fly. Goldberg’s voice bleeds through the mix, stirring every range of emotion. This is brilliant. Sumnall’s harmonium playing works wonderfully with the cello and together they lay a sturdy, droning foundation for Alexander to sprinkle his magic over. This is a dynamic listening experience and is the best possible way to close this amazing album. It took me no time at all to get into “Radiant Symmetry.” Ever since it arrived in my mailbox, I haven’t been able to take it out of the CD player. It’s a stunning achievment and shows how cohesive improvisation can be. These two troubadors travelled to the ends of Europe and these are the results. We should all be so lucky to get so much out of our journeys. “Radiant Symmetry” is the best travel diary anyone could ever offer.”
Euro 15,00

M-Series (Germany) :

Maurizio “MCD” [cd] Legendary minimal techno tracks by Moritz Von Oswald, of Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound fame. Highly recommended !
Euro 18,00

Nicola Formello Gallery (Italy) :

Carl Michael Von Hausswolff / John Duncan “Stun Shelter” [Catalog + cd] CD and high-quality 50-page catalogue in DVD box.
“First of all, take any idea of wearing headphones out of the equation: the best – the ONLY – way to penetrate this work is to let its powerful frequency stream fill your listening space. Walk around the room, like you were a visitor of the installation; the distant sexual sighs – taken from Duncan’s erotic videos – and the distorted and elongated Japanese phrases pronounced by John himself, almost akin to a mechanical sound, will also constitute a basic element in the timbral aspect of “Stun Shelter”. — Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes
Euro 32,00

Plop (Japan) :

F.S. Blumm & Friends “sesamsamen” [cd] This album is about approaching a musical idea from various sides.
There are mainly two pieces on this album: one is ‘coop comp’ (which stands for cooperative composition)the other is ‘leben lauft’.During the last seven years I made a couple of solo-releases under the name of f.s.blumm wherein I always invited a small number of single musicians to play their wonderful instruments for me. One day I noticed that all these people never really met each other on my records and so I had the idea of making a big party, by inviting all of them at once to create something like ‘a symphony of friends’ . As a basis I took my guitar and wrote a composition inspired by ethiopian-rhythms.I did a ‘general-midi’-version of it, which I burned on CD and then I gave both (the CD and the score) to my friends, telling them: “You can do whatever you want: stick to the notes, do a field-recording, freak out.. but the closer you stay with the example the better everything will be combineable, I guess.” In the end I received 10 beautiful contributions, reaching from one minute to one hour, from sparse melodies to rich arrangements.Semuin and I combined all these pieces in countless ways; I added some lines here and there. We didn’t suceed in doing the big symphony, but we did a lot of overtures.So the ‘coop comp’ deals with different individual aproaches to a musical theme, working on various statements on a statement, phrasing thoughts. On this album I invited two more artists, artists with whom I always wanted to work with, because I felt deeply connected to their specific speech in my musical ways: one is Bjorn Kuhligk, the other is Yumiko Matsui: Bjorn Kuhligk wrote three texts combined under the name ‘leben lauft’, which inspired me to write some music which is heard here in three different versions.The task was to heighten the two disciplines by giving each other space to unfold (appreciating). Listening. Answering. Projection surfaces. Association surfaces. In the end Yumiko Matsui did all the artwork. (text by f.s. blumm)
Euro 15,50

Rebuild All Your Ruins (US) :

Nicedisc “Untitled” [Dvd] RAYR is proud to present Untitled, the full-length debut DVD by New York’s Nicedisc, the laptop audiovideo duo of Jeff Pash and Nick Phillips. The product of over a years worth of extensive live performances and recording sessions in New York, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis, Untitled sees the duo exploring the limits of reductionism through three extended tracks composed solely of full-screen colors and slowly evolving audio structures. The results are hypnotic and meditative, variously recalling the mathematic rigor of Ryoji Ikeda, the blurred romanticism of William Basinski, and the hallucinogenic strobe effect of Tony Conrad’s “The Flicker.”
Untitled is now available in a limited-edition pressing in Super Jewel Case packaging, with 4 bonus live tracks recorded on the Nicedisc 2002 U.S. tour.
For Nicedisc news and further information, please visit http://nicedisc.net. Further material can be found on Antiopic’s Allegorical Power Series, which features a freely downloadable MP4 contribution by Nicedisc alongside MP3s from AGF, Zbigniew Karkowski, Rosy Parlane, and others.
***This DVD is Encoded NTSC Region 0. It will play on all NTSC DVD Players, all computers, and many PAL DVD Players.
Euro 18,00

Sofa (Norway) :

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten “Double Bass” [cd] ingebrigt flaten – double bass
Ingebrigt (Håker) Flaten is one of Norway’s most important characters in creative music today. Flaten has released almost 40 CDs with musicians like Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, and his colleague for years Paal Nilssen-Love. «Double Bass» is his first solo CD. The release was recorded in a studio in Oslo during spring 2003 on two different double basses.
Euro 15,00

Ivar Grydeland / Tonny Kluften / Paul Lovens “These Six” [cd] ivar grydeland – guitar & banjo
tonny kluften – double bass
paul lovens – selected and unselected drums and cymbals
“These Six” is six improvised pieces of acoustic music performed by the young Norwegian musicians Ivar Grydeland and Tonny Kluften, and the German pioneer Paul Lovens. Grydeland plays acoustic guitar and fake-banjo, Kluften plays double bass and Lovens plays what he describes as “selected and unselected drums and percussion”. The music is dynamic and contrasted. Some pieces are longer and more extensive while others are shorter with tonal and rhythmical strictness. The CD was recorded in June by Audun Strype.
Euro 15,00

No Spaghetti Edition “Real Time Satellite Data” [cd] michel doneda – reeds
rhodri davies – harp
tonny kluften – double bass
axel dörner – trumpet & electronics
andrea neumann – inside piano & electronics
ingar zach – percussion
ivar grydeland – guitar & banjo
xavier charles – clarinette & harmonica
No Spaghetti Edition’s third CD is called “Real time satellite data”. “Real time satellite data” was recorded in Kampen church in Oslo, and consists of collective electro-acoustic improvisations by the group. The goal of this recording was to capture the unique sound mixture produced by the brilliant musicians involved and to let the sound of the electronics, the acoustic instruments and the acoustic quality of the space merge organically and naturally. The highly dynamic result was recorded by engineer Thomas Hukkelberg.
Euro 15,00

Sten Sandell Trio “Flat Iron” [cd] Sten Sandell – piano, voice
Johan Berthling – bass
Paal Nilssen-Love – drums & percussion
Flat Iron is Sten Sandell Trio’s second CD on SOFA. The trios first release “Standing Wave” (SOFA 504) received amazing reviews, and on “Flat Iron” they sound even more original. Sweden’s master pianist Sandell also plays electronics and voice on this stunning performance, which was recorded at Umeå Jazz Festival in 2002.
Euro 15,00

Ingar Zach “Percussion Music” [cd] “Percussion Music” is Ingar Zach’s debut solo release. Over the last couple of years he has developed a personal sound in his instrument, and on this release his arsenal of bells, gongs, drums and motors are accompanied with zither. “Percussion Music” is recorded in a large factory hall, and is one long piece of music consisting of drones and overtones that are carefully developed.
Euro 15,00

Ingar Zach / Ivar Grydeland “You Should Have Seen Me Before We First Met” [cd] Ingar Zach – percussion
Ivar Grydeland – acoustic and electric guitar
“You Should Have Seen Me Before We First Met” comprises two tracks recorded live in Geneva and Oslo. It is over three years since the debut “Visiting Ants” (SOFA 502) and the duo’s music has changed a lot. Now they focus more on time and development, and the highly personal sonic landscapes are more economical in terms of musical density.
Euro 15,00

Spekk (Japan) :

John Hudak “Room with Sky” [cd] Room with sky began as a recording of my speaking voice in my bedroom, which is very sunny on sunny days. My bedroom has Bauhaus style casement windows with views in the Southern direction (towards New York city), and the Western direction (towards the Hudson River and the Palisades cliffs of New Jersey on the opposite side of the river). The words that I spoke came directly out of my mouth in a stream-of-consciousness style, with the actual text having been lost through destructive editing within my computer.
The idea behind this piece was for me to convey in the listener the feeling of being in this sunny room, on a sunny day. I took the recording of my voice and put it through many permutations before finally arriving at this ending point.
Room with sky was mastered by Stephan Mathieu consisting partly of a process of digital to analog to digital conversion…for warmth.
Euro 15,50

Starlight Furniture Company (US) :

Text of Light “s/t” [cd] Text of Light was formed in 1999 to perform improvised music during screenings of films by Stan Brakhage and other American avant-garde filmmakers from the 1950s and ’60s. These should not be considered soundtracks for Brakhage’s works, which are intended to be screened silently. Rather, the group uses the films as an element to stimulate improvisation, like an additional player, juxtaposing film and music in a real-time performance mixed-media collage. Earlier free improv experiments by the likes of AMM and Derek Bailey are brought into an intermedia environment where records and turntablism are especially crucial. By changing playback speed, using effects processing, scratching, skipping, and looping, the turntablist bridges the gap between the predetermination of film and the spontaneous composition of instrumentalists. The result is a new chapter in free improv and mixed media.
On this CD the group, in various combinations, includes: Lee Ranaldo and Alan Licht on guitars and devices; Christian Marclay and DJ Olive on turntables; William Hooker on drums and percussion, and Ulrich Krieger of Zeitkratzer on sax and electronics. They headlined the Victoriaville Music Festival in 2002, perform frequently in New York City and other East Coast clubs and cinema venues, and toured Europe in late March 2003.
Euro 16,00

Time-Lag (US) :

Christina Carter – Black Forest / Black Sea “s/t” [cd] special overseas tour cd featuring 3 long and looming solo tracks from christiina carter, 3 drifting and buzzing tracks from bf/bs, featuring guests united bible studies, glenn donaldson & stefano phila. plus an extended collaborative track to close things out… art paper tri-fold covers with two color letterpressed design by time-lag. limited and numbered to 500.
Euro 16,50

Veglia (Belgium) :

Ash Tray Navigations / Sandoz Lab Technicians / R.O.T. & Toss “split” [cd] First release from this obscure belgian label. Really good.
Euro 14,00

Avarus “Vaahtera Jäniksen hännänkieliset seikkailut” [7″] Very limited 7inch from the finnish psych-folk band. Co-released with Audiobot, Gold Soundz, Humbug and Imvated.
Euro 8,00

Birchville Cat Motel “Glass Harvest Mason ” [7″] “Bite-size drones from Campbell Kneales BCM. A-side is an intense “rocker; B-side is a nice low hover. Edition of 370.” – Veglia.
Euro 8,00

Julian Bradley “A Companion As Glamorous As Sleeping On Wheels ” [cd] “Next to his activities with the Vibracathedral Orchestra, Julian Bradley has been recording and putting out his solo works for years now. “A companion as glamorous as sleeping on wheels” compiles the best from his self released tapes from 97-00. Primitive strings, keyboards and tapes are taken to its most glamorous. The cd comes in a smartly packaged silkscreened artwork.” – Veglia.
Euro 14,00

Nautical Almanac / Meerk Puffy “split” [cdr] “6 tracks from their 2001 tour (Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta,??); mind blowing broken electronics. Nautical got 4 tracks, meerk puffy 2. All tracks recorded live from pa.” – Veglia. “Nautical Almanac = low-tech electronic beepin n eekin with nicely glitchin (not-)grooves, sub-Ra keyboard noodles, vinyl noise, squiggy sounds, etc. Meerk Puffy = (post-)minimal-Kraut-industrial-techno beatbox-grooves (definite!), swirling synth wheeze, and ecstatic levity. Recorded live on a U.S. tour; almost an hour of sounds. Handmade covers.” – Eddie Flowers. Meerk Puffy is also in Forcefield.
Euro 10,00

Old Bombs “Zero + bonus track” [cdr] Handmade covers, last copies.
Euro 10,00

R.O.T. “2” [cdr] Handmade covers. Last copies.
Euro 10,00

Wackie’s (Germany) :

Creation Dub “s/t” [cd] Pretty much since its original release in 1977, Creation Dub has been as Wanted amongst reggae bounty hunters as its Wild West cover typography suggests – every track a killer, a key Bullwackies dub album. The record inaugurated Wackies’ fruitful London connection: the second-pressing sleeve carries a nostalgic distribution credit for the long-gone Maroons Tunes shop, run by Rae Cheddie for Honest Jons. The core musicians here are Allah, Clive Hunt and Jerry Harris, with outstanding contributions from hornsman Sel Wheeler and Roy Robertson on bass, and John Clarke on the single vocal track. Included are dubs of rhythms voiced for Wackies by the Chosen Brothers, Joe Auxumite and K.C.White, alongside versions of Mammy Blue, Bo Kirkland’s soul classic I Want To Get Next To You, and a superb reprise of Sel Wheeler’s 12″ cover of Jo Jo Bennett’s Leaving Rome.
Euro 18,00

Roots Underground “Tribesman Assault” [cd] Originally issued around 1977, this dub album collects Wackies recordings made in JA – studios like Randys, Black Ark, Treasure Isle – and in NYC before the White Plains Road studio was established, where finally they were overdubbed and mixed. Included are the rhythm tracks of the African Jamaicans’ Girl Of My Dreams and Tyrone Evans’ Dread Like Me; also versions of Ballistic Affair and The Righteous Flames’ I Wasn’t Born To Be Lonely. KC White and the Lovejoys contribute the only vocal. The band is basically the Reckless Breed, with the funkdafied drumming of Jah Scotty – just off the Kingston plane – especially outstanding. As featured in a rare sleeve photograph, Bullwackies, Jah Upton and Prince Douglas work the mixing desk. Rougher yet, tougher yet.
Euro 18,00

w.m.o/r (Spain) :

Heliogabalus “Tourette is Normal (excerpt 2)” [cdr] lo-fi piece for distorted guitars, cheap organs and other sources of noise (percussive ones towards the end) (Frans de Waard)
Euro 11,00

Mattin / Junko “Pinknoise” [cd] Mattin’s ‘Pinknoise’ release with vocalist Junko is the complete opposite of his ‘White Noise’ release, which he did with Radu Malfatti. That one was rather quiet compared to the all hell break loose noise of ‘Pinknoise’. This is thirty minute piece of computer feedback, pitched to the far high end and Junko screaming her lungs out. Quite an intense album, providing of course you can sit this all the way through for the full thirty minutes. (Frans De Waard)
Euro 15,00

Bruce Russell “Los Desastres de las Guerras” [cd] “On his CD there are four pieces, all dealing with the disasters of war. Three of them are Bruce solo on his electric guitar and one is a duet he recorded with Mattin in live concert in New Zealand. For his three solo pieces, Russell plays electric guitar through some echo unit, carefully playing around with silence and noise in a very thoughtfull
way. In the duet, Russell extends his guitar playing and serves the computerized feedback of Mattin who takes in return the room vibrations to let things explode. This is a very nice release, not just the music, but also the philosophical texts that are also
enclosed, and which are certainly not easy to understand.” (Frans De Waard)
Euro 15,00

Mark Wastell “vibra #1″ [cdr] vibra #1 (23’54”) is the first in a series of compositions for solo tam tam dedicated to the memory of artist, writer and musician roger sutherland. recorded by graham halliwell.
Euro 11,00

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