HALLOW GROUND
"Artists such as Maria W Horn, FUJIllllllllllTA, Lawrence English, Siavash Amini and Norman Westberg, who all have previously released music on HG, were commissioned to pursue a non-rational creative process in approaching the phenomenon of epiphany through sound. In ...
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HG2222 | HALLOW GROUND
"Do you remember the last time you were breathing consciously? Either way, you are likely doing it now. On his new album Observation of Breath" for the Swiss-based Hallow Ground label, Lawrence English worked exclusively with an organ for four compositions that are ...
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HG2103 | HALLOW GROUND
"DarkSonicTales is a project by Rolf Gisler and his eponymous album his first for Hallow Ground. Having been granted an artist residency by the label in a 300 year-old farm house in the Swiss countryside in autumn 2019, the Lucerne-based musician and sound artist ...
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HG2104 | HALLOW GROUND
incl. cd "With "The All Most Quiet", Norman Westberg has returned to Hallow Ground with a new solo album. The play on words in the title can be applied to Westberg's own musical work, because whereas SWANS are hard to surpass in terms of brute force, the artist's solo ...
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HG1605 | HALLOW GROUND
"On "Empty Room", David Granström works with slow transformations, cyclical and isometric patterns as well as just intonation as a way to create harmonic stability, allowing his long-form pieces to develop their own unique temporal and spatial qualities. A prolific ...
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HG2102 | HALLOW GROUND
listen on bandcamp***new edition, white vinyl "FUJI|||||TA, real name FUJITA Yosuke, is a Japanese sound artist. After countless performances in different contexts either solo or along artists such as Yamantaka Eye and Akio Suzuki as well as a slew of solo releases, his ...
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HG2003 | HALLOW GROUND
"Mats Erlandsson makes his debut on Hallow Ground with "Minnesmärke", at once a nuanced sonic exploration of the industrial and political history of his native Sweden and a deeply personal album. One of the key figures of the Stockholm drone scene, the prolific ...
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HG2008 | HALLOW GROUND
"Siavash Amini returns to Hallow Ground with 'A Mimesis of Nothingness' his fourth album for the Swiss label. Following up on 'Harmistice' together with fellow Iranian artists 9T Antiope, the six tracks were conceived in close collaboration with another artist and see ...
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HG2006 | HALLOW GROUND
"The title of Miki Yui's seventh solo album "Aperio!" is derived from the latin origin of April, "aperire" meaning "to open" or "to reveal". Hinting at the way her music unveils another reality which is hidden beneath the surface. The title also reflects the aperiodic ...
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HG2007 | HALLOW GROUND
"Frederic D. Oberland and Irena Z. Tomazin's "ARBA, DAK ARBA" was conceived as the soundtrack for the eponymous installation piece by the French artist Fanny Beguely. First presented as part of the group exhibition "Panorama 21 - 'Les Revenants'" at Tourcoing's Le ...
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HG2005 | HALLOW GROUND
"The Current Inside", Marja Ahti's sophomore album for Hallow Ground, plays with the theme of currents - connecting and animating movements in the form of air, water and electricity. It approaches sound as a poetic medium, focusing both on the experience of sound as ...
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HG2004 | HALLOW GROUND
"Electric Sewer Age's "Contemplating Nothingness" is a lysergic tapestry culled from the deep end of the collective pop cultural unconscious. The project was originally started anonymously by the late Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson together with Coil affiliate and ...
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HG2001 | HALLOW GROUND
"Still Und Dunkel is the project of musician and visual artist Christoph Brünggel, film maker Benny Jaberg, and media artist Pascal Arnold. Their debut album Abandoned comprises ten compositions created for their audiovisual art live performances which draw on an ...
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HG1906 | HALLOW GROUND
"Viaje is the debut album by Swiss musician Roland Bucher and was produced with an instrument developed and built by the artist himself, the noise table. Viaje presents the culmination of almost a decade of exploring the possibilities that the curious device offers. ...
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HG1905 | HALLOW GROUND
listen on bandcamp***"Remo Seeland's "Hollow Body" is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. "The ...
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HG1903 | HALLOW GROUND
"After the solo album 'PATHS OF THE ERRANT GAZE' in 2016 Reinier van Houdt returns to Hallow Ground with IGITUR CARBON COPIES - an album based on the unfinished gothic tale IGITUR - a collection of texts that eventually was abandoned by its author Stéphane Mallarmé in ...
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HG1807 | HALLOW GROUND
"Originally issued by Ascetic House as a small limited-run cassette release in early 2018, PLYXY's debut EP "Gloryland" will now be available on vinyl and digital formats by the Swiss imprint, Hallow Ground. Haunted by the pressing question, "What if?", the five ...
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HG1806 | HALLOW GROUND
"After 2017's "TAR", "FORAS" is the Iranian sound artist's second album for Hallow Ground label. While Amini has recently been collaborating extensively with other artists, the four tracks see him returning to his singular approach that blends harsh electronic noise ...
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HG1805 | HALLOW GROUND
"Distant Animals is the artistic output of Daniel Alexander Hignell, a researcher and sound, video and performance artist from South East England. Hignell has developed a practice indebted to political and participatory resonance of creative acts, interrogating notions ...
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HG1804 | HALLOW GROUND
listen at soundcloud***"This Is Where is the collaborative project of Algis Kizys, Norman Westberg and Lynn Wright. Having previously released a limited edition cassette tape in 2016 under the name of ALN, their self-titled album for the Swiss Hallow Ground label is to ...
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HG1801 | HALLOW GROUND
listen at soundcloud***"Having recently contributed to Goner's "Yogascum" LP, reissued in late 2017 as a vinyl release through Hallow Ground, Mark Godwin now returns to the Swiss label together with his musical partner Gareth Ormerod as zK. Formed in 1999 as a live ...
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HG1802 | HALLOW GROUND
"For over two decades now, Martin Maischein has dedicated himself to all things meditative and adventurous on release for labels such as Editions Mego, Force Inc. or Position Chrome. Before making his distinctive sound heard on Techno floors around the world once more ...
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HG1707 | HALLOW GROUND
"On the LP Selected Ambient, Martina Lussi brings together a collection of sound material from her practice to date. The material oscillates between electroacoustic composition, sound art, and live performance. The pieces are named after precious gemstones, all of which ...
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HG1706 | HALLOW GROUND
"With his second release for Hallow Ground after 2016's Soisong reissue, Ivan Pavlov pays tribute to the late Sentrax founder and prolific musician John Everall, who passed away in September 2014. Sourced from analogue material provided by the artist widely known for ...
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HG1705 | HALLOW GROUND
