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"A new piece by minimalist / experimental composer PHILL NIBLOCK (1933 - 2024), co-composed and performed by ANNA CLEMENTI & THOMAS STERN. Intense, menacing layers of thick drones and alien sounds.In summer 2022, within just a few weeks and by pure coincidence, 2 ...
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KR115CD | KARLRECORDS
"A new piece by minimalist / experimental composer PHILL NIBLOCK (1933 - 2024), co-composed and performed by ANNA CLEMENTI & THOMAS STERN. Intense, menacing layers of thick drones and alien sounds.In summer 2022, within just a few weeks and by pure coincidence, 2 ...
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KR115 | KARLRECORDS
"The new album The Commune Of Nightmares by noise artist David Wallraf is a tapeloop-based musical game of cadavre exquis, a technique developed by surrealist artists. David Wallraf is a noise artist and theorist living in Hamburg. His artistic work deals with the ...
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KR113 | KARLRECORDS
""Lichtung" is the collaboration of Friedl and no other than Vienna-based Martin Siewert, himself a highly prolific and reputated innovative guitar player and producer in groups like Radian or Trapist. Martin Siewert played with the who is who in experimental and ...
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KR106CD | KARLRECORDS
"The seminal 1994 double album by the original PAINKILLER line-up BILL LASWELL, JOHN ZORN and MICK HARRIS on vinyl for the first time! Avant-jazz, grindcore, dub and ambient melt into eerie tracks of haunting atmospheres. When PAINKILLER started in 1991, their first two ...
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KR025 | KARLRECORDS
"eitkratzer director Reinhold Friedl and his ensemble present new compositions, grounded on Domenico Scarlatti's piano sonata F-minor K.466. Commissioned by the dance company Rubato and dedicated to Mario Bertoncini (1932-2019). Little is known about Domenico Scarlatti ...
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KR102 | KARLRECORDS
"2023 First ever, remastered vinyl version! The core duo plus guest collaborators expand its sonic palette of RICK BROWN's elemental percussive patterns and CHE CHEN's ecstatic modal guitar style to a new musical richness.With some tape releases and their first album ...
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KR108 | KARLRECORDS
"EREIGNISHORIZONT, SCHNEIDER TM's new and with a duration of over 80 minutes truly epic album, sounds and feels like a soundtrack for a yet-to-be-made sci-fi movie and exposes the essence of Dresselhaus' artistic approaches, crafted here with a more pared-down set-up, ...
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KR104CD | KARLRECORDS
"EREIGNISHORIZONT, SCHNEIDER TM's new and with a duration of over 80 minutes truly epic album, sounds and feels like a soundtrack for a yet-to-be-made sci-fi movie and exposes the essence of Dresselhaus' artistic approaches, crafted here with a more pared-down set-up, ...
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KR104 | KARLRECORDS
The third and closing chapter of the "Raum" trilogy by an moku and stefan schmidt - "Raum Im Raum" serves finely crafted ambient / soundscapes, and is the most intense and darkest album of the series.
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KR110 | KARLRECORDS
"Modular synthesizers / electronics + a drum kit enhanced with triggers and sensors: on its self-titled debut album, the duo hÄK / Danzeisen creates a sonic energy that oscillates between high-precision rhythm patterns, analogue sounds and frenzy climaxes." (label ...
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KR105CS | KARLRECORDS
"Modular synthesizers / electronics + a drum kit enhanced with triggers and sensors: on its self-titled debut album, the duo hÄK / Danzeisen creates a sonic energy that oscillates between high-precision rhythm patterns, analogue sounds and frenzy climaxes." (label ...
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KR105LP | KARLRECORDS
"11th album by the one-of-a-kind collective: psychedelia and free form jazz (not jazz) trigger a sophisticated excursion into weird textures with drastic turns. Dislocated dense music full of secret connections!" (label info)
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KR101CD | KARLRECORDS
"11th album by the one-of-a-kind collective: psychedelia and free form jazz (not jazz) trigger a sophisticated excursion into weird textures with drastic turns. Dislocated dense music full of secret connections!" (label info)
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KR101LP | KARLRECORDS
"Cello player and electronic artist Martina Bertoni returns with her 2nd album for Karl: Hypnagogia delivers six new, masterfully crafted tracks between experimental ambient, drone and modern composition. " (label info)
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KR097 | KARLRECORDS
"Electronic music legend and head of Editions Mego, Peter Rehberg, teams up with zeitkratzer mastermind Reinhold Friedl. 3 side-long pieces melting electronic / contemporary avantgarde. Uncompromising.When Peter "Pita" Rehberg and Reinhold Friedl first met each other, ...
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KR099 | KARLRECORDS
"By zkr director Reinhold Friedl's personal request now available on vinyl for the first time: Zeitkratzer's critically acclaimed interpretations of groundbreaking compositions by James Tenney. James Tenney (1934 - 2006) was a composer, music theorist and pioneer ...
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KR095 | KARLRECORDS
"Italian sound artist GIULIO ALDINUCCI returns with his 4th album on KARL: "Real" is again a truly masterfully composed and sound-designed ambient masterpiece and a more than worthy follow-up to the critically acclaimed "Borders And Ruins" (2017), "Disappearing In A ...
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KR096 | KARLRECORDS
repressed "The compilation "Celestial Birds" reveals and focuses on the widely unkown electronic compositions of the AACM founder and jazz pianist MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS. No. 5 in the Perihel Series, curated by zeitkratzer director REINHOLD FRIEDL. MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS ...
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KR070 | KARLRECORDS
repressed "On her 6th album, the French electroacoustic composer BERANGERE MAXIMIN explores the idea of a kaleidoscopic world - a sonic aggregation of living creatures, plants, minerals, nature and buildings, using various sound objects, small percussions, synths, ...
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KR078 | KARLRECORDS
This album is disc V "Late Works" of the 5 LP / 5 CD box set "Electroacoustic Works" that celebrates the 100th anniversary of IANNIS XENAKIS (on May 29th, 2022), one of the most influential 20th century avantgarde composers. All tracks have been newly mixed by longtime ...
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KR091 | KARLRECORDS
This album is disc II "Les Polytopes I" of the 5 LP / 5 CD box set "Electroacoustic Works" that celebrates the 100th anniversary of IANNIS XENAKIS (on May 29th, 2022), one of the most influential 20th century avantgarde composers. All tracks have been newly mixed by ...
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KR090 | KARLRECORDS
This album is disc I "Early Works" of the 5 LP / 5 CD box set "Electroacoustic Works" that celebrates the 100th anniversary of IANNIS XENAKIS (on May 29th, 2022), one of the most influential 20th century avantgarde composers. All tracks have been newly mixed by longtime ...
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KR089 | KARLRECORDS
This album is disc III "Les Polytopes II" of the 5 LP / 5 CD box set "Electroacoustic Works" that celebrates the 100th anniversary of IANNIS XENAKIS (on May 29th, 2022), one of the most influential 20th century avantgarde composers. All tracks have been newly mixed by ...
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KR044 | KARLRECORDS
This album is disc IV "Les Polytopes III" of the 5 LP / 5 CD box set "Electroacoustic Works" that celebrates the 100th anniversary of IANNIS XENAKIS (on May 29th, 2022), one of the most influential 20th century avantgarde composers. All tracks have been newly mixed by ...
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KR024 | KARLRECORDS
