Noise/Avant-Garde
Cranioclast: Carl's On Acit
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Mint & Sealed!
repress of the super-limited original release, now on black vinyl
Recorded and mixed by Peter Rehberg at Twisted, Wien March 2015-January 2016 Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin, January 2016 Artwork by Tina Frank Dedicated to Thomas Jerome Newton Twelve years have passed since Editions Mego boss Peter Rehberg released his last full length release ‘Get Off’ on the Hapna label. In the interim, along with running the label, Rehberg has embarked on a series of soundtracks for the French artist and choreographer Gisele Vienne. Out of this collaboration the seeds were planted for the prolific KTL, guitar/computer duo with Stephen O Malley. After a surprise return to live performance in 2015 we are now presented with Pita’s new full length document under the banner of Get In. Get In extends the perennial Pita sound into a paradox of intimidation and beauty. 20150609 teases the juncture between the human and the tool, the improvised and composed and the analogue and digital. Aahn inhabits a field of electronic nebula, simultaneously inviting and alien. Line Angel could be a new form of minimalism for the post internet crowd. S200729 harks to an acid most splintered whilst Mfbk completes proceedings as an ambient drift underscored with classical overtones. Get in is a beautiful, engaging and unsettling listen. A multi-headed hydra presented as the ultimate dystopian sonic journey.
LAST COPY from shop stocks, not sealed anymore, played at the store a few times, NM All tracks written and recorded by Gordon Sharp and Matt Kinnison between 2006–2011 at Roi Vert, Okamoto (Japan), 13th Floor and Space Eko (London), Southend (Essex) Mastered at Piethopraxis, June 2011Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, June 2011 Design/images: David CoppenhallAssembled at Sixism (Maggi Smith/David Coppenhall) For Matt Kinnison and John Berger Hold Everything Dear is the third installment in the new Cindytalk sound which started with 2007’s The Crackle Of My Soul, and then last years Up Here in The Clouds. Its the first in the trilogy to feature musicians other than Gordon Sharp namely the late Matt Kinnison, to whom the album is dedicated.Inspired by the John Berger book of the same name, this latest release is whole new set of parameters which push the sound on the previous two works to an extreme point of abstraction, and in some places near silent passages and haunted melodic segments.And what a mysterious journey this ends up being with increased use of piano and found/field recordings giving all the tracks a blurry soundtrack appeal to the point where the definitions between the tracks and are no longer clearly defined. It harks back to the odder parts of In This World and The Wind Is Strong albums from the early 1990s.Superbly packaged with new David Coppenhall artwork in a 4-panel digipack and gatefold vinyl sleeve.
Two powerful compositions by Alex Buess and Daniel Buess, rearranged by Cortex. RIND is a work using three large self-built cow skin frame drums, 1 horse skin container drum, metal plates and electronics. NOL is a composition by Alex Buess for a percussion trio from 1995. The two pieces were recorded live in 2010 and 2003 respectively, also featuring the musicians Daniel Stalder, Peter Conradin Zumthor and Matthias Würsch. They were electronically treated by Cortex in the studion in 2015. This release continues the collaboration with Alex Buess that goes back to the pre-Praxis days of the Vision label since 1987 and includes Praxis 31 by 16-17 and Praxis 48 by Cortex, both of which also included Daniel Buess. Cover art by Darkam and layout by Lynx. ALEX BUESS – is a musician, saxophonist, composer, producer who lives in Basel, Switzerland. He has collaborated with Stephan Wittwer, Paul Schütze, Kevin Martin, Peter Brötzmann, William Parker, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Bill Laswell, Kevin Shields, Tim Hodgkinson, Michael Wertmüller and many other musicians in the wide field of improvisation, electronics, electroacoustic music and composition. He plays/played in the groups ICE, GOD, Phantom City, The Bug, Sprawl, Cortex and his own group 16-17, as well as Melx and The Electric Noise Twist. The latter were part of a close collaboration with Christoph Fringeli’s Vision label from 1987-1991, before Christoph moved to London and started the Praxis label, a collaboration that continued over the decades with releases by 16-17 and Cortex on Praxis. Alex has written compositions for various contemporary music ensembles and also works as a producer and sound engineer. He has appeared at numerous new music festivals and his compositions are performed in Europe and throughout the world. His studies include electronics, acoustics, musicology, phonetics,semantics and composition and his work reflects his experiences with electronic technology, written contemporary music, film music, new mixing and production techniques and computer music. DANIEL BUESS - studied at the Musikhochschule Basel with Siegfried Schmid and with Isao Nakamura in Karlsruhe. Studies in traditional South Indian percussion music, specially the Mridangam from 1995 till 1998 and in Arabic percussion music in Cairo, Egypt from Nov. 2007 till Jan. 2008. Daniel was involved in various groups and ensembles in the realm of experimental and improvised music, like “Ensemble Phoenix Basel” of which he was a core-member and solo-percussionist since its foundation in 1998, Cortex, 16-17 (both with Alex Buess), HOW2 (with the percussionist Daniel Stalder), “Katarakt”, “B&B” (with the flautist Christoph Bösch), MIR (with Papiro and Michael Zaugg), Buggatronic (with James Hullick). Other collaborations include artists like Hany Bedair, Knut Remond, Zbigniew Karkowski, Kasper T.Toeplitz, John Duncan, Michael Wertmüller, Phill Niblock, Julio Estrada, Stephan Wittwer, Volker Heyn, Thomas Lauck, Tim Hodgkinson, Iancu Dumitrescu and many others. At his regular tours through Europe, Asia and Australia, he performed at the most highly recognised festivals for experimental music as well as at several underground-places, open spaces and independent venues. Sadly Daniel passed away in February 2016, making “Skin Craft” unexpectedly a posthumous release.
Double album by SFX on Telepathic Bubblebath.
front cover: Je ne suis pas fou (1974) back cover: 1º Festival International de la Carte Postale d'Avant-Garde (Paris, 1979) Thanks: Hedy Laure and Barbara Wolman, Andrea Cernotto released by Alga Marghen, 2015, in an edition of 350 copies
Experimental/industrial/techno by Tlic on this new 7" release from Minor!
Bureau B proudly presents: a brand new album of the krautrock institution, revered worldwide as pioneers of avant-garde rock music. Hypnotic, dadaistic, powerful, gentle, melodic, earthy, etheral. This is the sound of Faust.Tracklisting 1. kundalini tremolos 2. accroché à tes lèvres 3. ce chemin est le bon 4. stimmen 5. petits sons appétissants 6. bonjour gioacchino 7. en veux-tu des effets, en voilà 8. lass mich, version originale 9. c'est com...com...compliqué
""11 heldengesänge und 3 gedichte" was privately published by anton bruhin in 1977 as a luxury 2x10" box. this unique and imaginistic sound poetry work has been issued on lp by alga marghen for the vocson series and is now available for distribution for the first time ever. it's a sound poem which takes us into a medieval world of minstrels and errant knights, a phantasmagoria in text and sound. it is also a modern document of the not-yet-existing electronic sampling art in the 1970s. anton bruhin wrote: "in the heldengesänge i conceived each hero speaking a different invented dialect and coming from a different fictional geographical region. i also wanted to give each hero his own music as a companion. i have used various musical materials and played a variety of instruments, but also taken parts from existing musics and manipulated them". like an anthropologist anton bruhin presents this fictional culture inventing its language and music as well as drawing its objects. a hat, a cup, an arm, a flag, a wurst. everyday-life artifacts from an ancient time catalogued with scientific precision. in "11 heldengesänge und 3 gedichte", a masterpiece by anton bruhin, all is artificial and nothing is real. exactly like in our contemporary world. edition limited to 350 copies, including a large lp-size folded insert with the full heldengesänge and gedichte texts as well as a selection of original graphic works." (label info)
Picture disc The Science Slam Sonic Explorers present two different visions of the controversy behind the world's most famous fossil, IDA.Featuring Mina Caputo (Life of Agony) on vocals. NM from shop stocks
"if you read the name daf you probably expect forceful synth bass sounds, snappy rhythms, gabi delgado and leather - but that was all conspicuously absent when deutsch-amerikanische freundschaft released their debut album in 1979. later to find global fame as a duo, daf's 1979 line-up of robert görl, wolfgang spelmans, kurt dahlke (pyrolator) and michael kemner created what was quite possibly the world's first noise-rock album. radical, brutish, instrumental. the influence of can is clearly audible. considering the fact that other prominent noise-rock bands such as chrome, flipper or even sonic youth recorded similar music at a much later date, this "product of deutsch-amerikanische freundschaft" should certainly be recognized as a pioneering work. originally released in 1979 on warning records (later ata tak)." (label info)
"object of thought" is a stunning must have release by one of the most deep thinking artist in the field of noise and improvised music; mattin's voice is crushed and modulated by feedbacks and distortions and reassembled into a stream of multilayered thoughts and abrasive/harsh sounds. this is the mattin's new work since "noise & capitalism", the critically acclaimed book that explores the relationship of experimental music with the economic system that we are living in." (label info) limited edition of 300 copies.
"evil moisture is andy bolus, operating from his base in a former mirror factory in north east paris. "if you want to fuck the sky, teach your cock to fly" is an old russian prison saying and very suitable to the sound of this lp. it sounds like it was recorded in a prison somewhere in siberia with super cold analog synths, cut-ups and loops working while a female voice (the one of brigitte bordelle - paris performance artist) is working hard scaring the living hell out of us. bolus has toured a lot in japan and europe and was known to modify electronic toys but is nowadays more into changing synths and stuff into his own needs. evil moisture is one of the hidden masters of today´s european noise scene. he has released tons of amazing releases on labels like tochnit-aleph and stomach ache and has worked with hanatarash and others and is also active doing visual art and installations. he is active since 1991. bolus is legend!" (label info) edition of 500 copies.
