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Silencio – W...
Limited run of 300 hand numbered copies: Includes a bonus 7″ containing two exclusive tracks recorded during the same sessions as the album plus download code.. The first drafts for When I’m Gone date back to the year 2005. It took them almost 6 years to finalize the record and 7 years to publish it. Meanwhile, Silencio didn’t waste their time; they released multiple records and each member of the band was active in side-projects. The question is, why it took them so long to complete those eight tracks? The key composer Julien Demoulin says this period helped them get …
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From The Mouth Of ...
Woven Tide is the debut album by From The Mouth of The Sun, the new collaboration between Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, and Aaron Martin. “Out of the charred embers of dusk Woven Tide emerges with an incandescent glow. Each glimmer cast by the sustained notes of ebony keys, the taut strings of the cello, and the rampant buzz of guitar lights our way, gives us hope, brings us into the dawn of a new day. As From The Mouth of the Sun, the duo act as our torchbearers, scrawling messages along the walls of an elongated cave, toiling through …
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Olafur Arnalds ...
Following in the spirit of Olafur Arnalds’ critically acclaimed Found Songs (2009) now comes ‘Living Room Songs’. This time Olafur takes the idea further and invites the audience into the comfort of his living room, where the songs were recorded live and the whole process filmed. The songs were instantly released in form of a free mp3 download and video stream- straight from Olafur’s Reykjavik apartment. ‘One night I was just playing my piano here in this apartment and I was writing a new song and I didn’t have my phone on me which I usually use to record ideas. …
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thisquietarmy R...
thisquietarmy’s newest album Resurgence is arguably his most accessible and varied record since his debut album Unconquered. It reveals another step forward into the extension of his signature shoegaze/drone-based compositions, incorporating many different elements of post-rock, post-punk, psychedelic, krautrock, industrial & doom. As a result, Resurgence is an eclectic blend of gauzy textures and rhythms, a fresh reconstruction of his unique musical style and personal influences, and an adventurous ride from one end of the drone spectrum to the other. Resurgence took 4 years to complete, in between thisquietarmy’s previous outputs which have mainly explored the dark ambient/doom-drone realm since the Unconquered sessions. Guests …
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Silencio – W...
The first drafts for When I’m Gone date back to the year 2005. It took them almost 6 years to finalize the record and 7 years to publish it. Meanwhile, Silencio didn’t waste their time; they released multiple records and each member of the band was active in side-projects. The question is, why it took them so long to complete those eight tracks? The key composer Julien Demoulin says this period helped them get the sound they had in mind for this new Silencio record. For that matter, they went through the process of composing, testing, but then stopped thinking …
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From The Mouth Of ...
Woven Tide is the debut album by From The Mouth of The Sun, the new collaboration between Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, and Aaron Martin. “Out of the charred embers of dusk Woven Tide emerges with an incandescent glow. Each glimmer cast by the sustained notes of ebony keys, the taut strings of the cello, and the rampant buzz of guitar lights our way, gives us hope, brings us into the dawn of a new day. As From The Mouth of the Sun, the duo act as our torchbearers, scrawling messages along the walls of an elongated cave, toiling through …
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Szilárd – S...
Packaged in a 4-panel digipack with original artwork by {j.young}, wrapped in 100% recycled hemp twine with a manilla tag… This album, Jeremy’s first physical release as a solo performer, is a conceptual tone-cycle, incorporating text from “Les Fleurs Du Mal” (Charles Baudelaire, 1857). ‘Spokes’ is about dialogue and communication in four forms; man/nature, man/machines, nature/machines & tones/tones. Throughout the piece, sine and square sound waves reverberate against each other, vocal passages are dictated on damaged tape, and both the beauty and the clamor of the world outside our window is filtered through the lens of composition and structure, as …
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Gareth Dickson –...
To say that the last few years of Gareth Dickson’s life have been tumultuous would be an understatement. In 2007 he fell in love with a girl from South America, packed up a few essentials from his life in Scotland, and moved to the Argentinian countryside. It didn’t turn all fairy tale at that point, however. While there he was shot at, attacked by dogs, and was involved in a very close call when the passenger plane he took to a little town in the Andes was forced down after an engine caught fire. The bullet missed, the aircraft landed, …
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Cleared: Breaking ...
Nearly a year to the day since the release of their self-titled debut, Cleared now offer their second album Breaking Day. Breaking Day is the second full-length album from Cleared, the Chicago-based duo of Steven Hess and Michael Vallera. While their self-titled debut album (Immune 014, Jan 2011) found the duo exploring themes of stasis and texture, Breaking Day represents a huge development in the scope and overall style of the project. Where previous material had been slowly assembled from dozens of individual recordings and experiments, this new collection of songs was born from the raw documentation of Cleared’s live …
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Ilyas Ahmed –...
Extremely limited copies available… With Endless Fire is a brand new album from Ilyas Ahmed and his third release for Immune following the instantly sold out Record Store Day split with Steve Gunn and Between Two Skies/Towards The Night, the massive 2xLP reissue of Ahmed’s first two albums. Since 2005 Ilyas Ahmed has been blurring the folk/drone/raga/rock realms into a sound that is uniquely his own. A string of self-released CDrs in 2005/2006 brought Ahmed immediate attention and he soon released landmark albums on Time-Lag, Digitalis, and Root Strata. In 2010 Immune began working with Ahmed first giving his first …
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Jen Paul / No Lake...
Limited to 125 copies: red c50 cassette shells with black imprinted ink // full colour J-cards with photography by Kate Kell // plastic norelco cases with shrinkwrapping // artwork & layout by Amanda Boutourline and D.S. Ciarán… Drifting home. An oxymoron, but completely accurate in its own right… The music of Philadelphia-based artist and composer Jen Paul can be described in a multitude of ways, but whether the track in question carries raw, heated blues guitar or washed out ambient waves of sound, everything carries with it the distinct quality of eternally floating into some ether-elsewhere; yet, everything remains firmly …
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David Carter / The...
Limited edition of 125 copies: white c67 cassette with black imprinting // full colour single panel J-cards // plastic norelco cases with shrinkwrapping // artwork & layout by Amanda Boutourline and D.S. Ciarán… Although David Carter has passed on to unknown planes, his singular aural creation will live on in his place, eternally. Leaving this mortal coil in early 2011, these recordings have been in our possession for the greater part of two years. This release comes out today with a slightly heavy heart, only in that David will never be granted the opportunity to hold the first incarnation of …
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Leonardo Rosado: M...
New copies just arrived for the second edition! Constructed as an oneiric journey through the Unconscious, Mute Words explores the delicate boundary between thoughts and words, a boundary seen through a diaphanous veil that slowly reveal the difficulty to condense elusive emotions into tangible expression. Processed field recordings and fragile drones, augmented at times by dusty pianos or playful metallophones, are all part of a diminutive sonic palette that ebbs and flows on the surface of fragile songs, evoking the hazy memories of forgotten dreams and their shadowy meaning. Guest vocals, courtesy of Barbara de Dominicis, Michelle Seaman and Alicia …
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Yeti: Issue Twelve...
The debut of Yeti’s new, larger, square format, with an awesome CARSON ELLIS cover, and including a HARD VINYL 7-inch EP featuring 4 killer unreleased songs: two 1959 Lomax recordings by MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL; The TIKI MEN’s blown-out cover of Duane Eddy’s “First Love, First Tears,” recorded ca. 1994; plus a new recording by dreampop slayer GROUPER of Dead Moon’s “Demona.” (There’ll also be a sweet, 100-minute, free digital download for those who miss the long mixes that came with previous issues.) INSIDE THE BOOK: Photos from the Alan Lomax Archives ca. his 1959 ‘Southern Journey’; poet Margarita Shalina’s recollections …
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Wooden Toy Quarter...
Wooden Toy Quarterly is possibly the most design-heavy lowbrow art and creative culture publication ever printed. Appealing to art and design fiends alike, The award winning Wooden Toy Quarterly presents creative culture as a lifestyle that cannot be separated from a love of brilliant photography, art, illustration and some of the tightest graphic design you’ve ever seen printed on uncoated paper before. A must read for any magazine/book collector. With ZERO advertising noise included, each machine numbered edition of the MUSIC EDITION (0001-5000) comes complete in it’s own custom Toybox Packaging illustrated by WASTE www.wasteyourself.com with a limited edition artist …
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King Brown: Issue ...
Cover ‘favourite studio items’ courtesy Geoff McFetridge Brown Bag art by RichT includes “The Stumblers Inc” 52 page zine, plus RichT outdoor vinyl sticker inserts. Featuring: Geoff McFetridge (cover), Remed, Miss Van, Chali 2na, Aryz, Stacey Rozich, How & Nosm, Kid Zoom, Fabio Bitão, RichT (brown bag), Beastman & more. Cover: full colour, embossed front and back printed on 70% recycled, chlorine free, carbon neutral paper. Inside: 104 pages, full colour. Size: 216 x 285mm, perfect bound.
Origamibiro – Shakkei (CD)
Shakkei sees Origamibiro’s music expand into new directions. This album also marks a significant point in their evolution as Origamibiro becomes a full blown audio-visual collective.
Originally a solo project for Tom Hill, Origamibiro began to grow as he enlisted new blood in the form of double bassist and all round multi-instrumentalist, Andy Tytherleigh, andvideo artist, Jim ‘The Joy of Box’ Boxall. They explored ways to expand out from Tom’s studio recordings into full blown live audio-visual performances and in the process found that their ideas and approaches were becoming closely intertwined.
The trio took time out to perform live and experiment with how this kind of music and visuals could be generated and performed live. 2009 saw them playing places like Paris, Rennes, London, Nottingham, The Big Chill Festival, Summer Sundae and The Dublin Fringe Festival, where they gained an award nomination for best production.
Through their studio experiments and live performances, Origamibiro have strived to produce music and images that are beautiful, generative and organic. They have fused their respective backgrounds together: bringing an intricate and diverse selection of instruments, elements of expanded cinema, soundtrack music, found objects and unorthodox devices.
“Shakkei” feels like a significant record. This is not just a testament to its scope, which as already painted here is both grand and vivid, but also in its approach to recorded works. The result is both a listening pleasure and an exercise for those who choose to engage with it. One hopes this will be a significant number, as “Shakkei” is the kind of music that should be enjoyed and appreciated by many. – Fluid Radio
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The Gray Field Rec...
Limited edition of 51 hand numbered copies… The Gray Field Recordings were formed by Oklahoma based musician R. Loftiss. R. creates music with a wide range of instruments such as guitar, flute, cello, toys, synths, her voice and potentially anything that makes a sound. In the past she is often joined by violist David Salim and violinist Justin Jones. This latest album “Nature Desires Nature” features guitar and vocals by Alan Trench (ex-World Serpent, Orchis), Frank Suchomel (Inalonelyplace) Mike Seed (The Chasms), and Lisa Stampfli (The Hausfrauen Experiment). The Gray Field Recordings self-released two albums, “As One Cast Down By …
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From The Mouth Of ...
Woven Tide is the debut album by From The Mouth of The Sun, the new collaboration between Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, and Aaron Martin. “Out of the charred embers of dusk Woven Tide emerges with an incandescent glow. Each glimmer cast by the sustained notes of ebony keys, the taut strings of the cello, and the rampant buzz of guitar lights our way, gives us hope, brings us into the dawn of a new day. As From The Mouth of the Sun, the duo act as our torchbearers, scrawling messages along the walls of an elongated cave, toiling through …
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Jen Paul / No Lake...
Limited to 125 copies: red c50 cassette shells with black imprinted ink // full colour J-cards with photography by Kate Kell // plastic norelco cases with shrinkwrapping // artwork & layout by Amanda Boutourline and D.S. Ciarán… Drifting home. An oxymoron, but completely accurate in its own right… The music of Philadelphia-based artist and composer Jen Paul can be described in a multitude of ways, but whether the track in question carries raw, heated blues guitar or washed out ambient waves of sound, everything carries with it the distinct quality of eternally floating into some ether-elsewhere; yet, everything remains firmly …
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Silencio – W...
Limited run of 300 hand numbered copies: Includes a bonus 7″ containing two exclusive tracks recorded during the same sessions as the album plus download code.. The first drafts for When I’m Gone date back to the year 2005. It took them almost 6 years to finalize the record and 7 years to publish it. Meanwhile, Silencio didn’t waste their time; they released multiple records and each member of the band was active in side-projects. The question is, why it took them so long to complete those eight tracks? The key composer Julien Demoulin says this period helped them get …
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Silencio – W...
The first drafts for When I’m Gone date back to the year 2005. It took them almost 6 years to finalize the record and 7 years to publish it. Meanwhile, Silencio didn’t waste their time; they released multiple records and each member of the band was active in side-projects. The question is, why it took them so long to complete those eight tracks? The key composer Julien Demoulin says this period helped them get the sound they had in mind for this new Silencio record. For that matter, they went through the process of composing, testing, but then stopped thinking …
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Maninkari: The Hal...
With The Half Forgotten Relic of a Dream, Maninkari enters a new era. After three albums taken from the same studio sessions, they are back with more direct and refined tracks. As usual, Maninkari uses a great deal of instruments in many styles (cimbalom, cello, viola, synthesizers, percussion instruments), which is quite genre-breaking, without taking the easy way out. Although dark at times in atmosphere, the band is constantly looking to reach the mystical white light. The wide range of textures (abrasive or mellow, electronic or acoustic) is amazing and shapes the entire album, highlighting both the introspective and epic …
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Larkian / Yellow6 ...
The history of Larkian and Yellow6 traces back to around 2001 when Cyril was running the Tricycle Evolutif record label. He invited Jon to release a 7″ single on the label and this, ‘Grey’ was released early 2002. There were some discussions about a split release at the time but this never came about. Forward to 2009 and Cyril and Jon get back in contact via individual releases on the same labels (October Man, Cathedral Transmissions). Cyril sends a track for Jon to contribute to and the collaboration that has become ‘Offtempo’ began. After around a year of file exchange, …
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Absent Without Lea...
‘neath the tumbling stars EP is made of three instrumental pieces based on guitar. At a junction between post-rock and ambient, absent without leave builds each track one step at a time. Crystal clear melodies are repeating themselves, intertwining in either quiet or stormy atmospheres (‘neath the tumbling stars). A more meditative piece, as the leaves fall from trees is equal to its title. The tearing smoothness and fascination for the slow movement of the leave coming off the tree, flying in the air, before delicately landing on the soft ground are transcribed within those four minutes of introspective guitars. …
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Annelies Monsere /...
Back In Stock: Annelies Monseré always has had the urge to record many versions of one song and then remaining deeply in doubt which version to chose. For this release she did not chose. (Though this is not completely true – there are still more versions of the song – including an acapella version) She was interested in how different arrangements, tempo’s, melodies and structures changed the expressive and aesthetic qualities of the song, convinced that no version is more ‘essential’ or ‘authentic’ than the other. On the B-side, Richard Youngs offers a unique 9 minutes piece. With only guitars …