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WONG, THERESA - JOURNEY TO THE CAVE OD GUANYIN (CD)

"The inspiration for these pieces comes from the Chinese folklore of Guanyin, a deity whose name translates to 'the one who perceives all the sounds, or cries, of the world'. Also known as Guanshiyin, she is the embodiment of infinite compassion. I grew up knowing of ...
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RM4248 | ROOM40

BERTUCCI, LEA + OLIVIA BLOCK - I KNOW THE NUMBER OF THE SAND AND THE MEASURE OF THE SEA (CD)

"I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea is the first collaboration of Lea Bertucci and Olivia Block. This collaboration was set into slow motion some years ago, in 2017, when Lea and Olivia connected through an interview facilitated by writer Steve ...
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RM4238 | ROOM40

ENGLISH, LAWRENCE - EVEN THE HORIZON KNOWS ITS BOUNDS (LP)

"It's one of the truly magical interactions afforded by sound's immateriality. It's also something that has captivated us from the earliest times. It's not difficult to imagine the exhilaration of our early ancestors calling to one another in the dark cathedral like ...
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RM4245 | ROOM40

CURRAN, ALVIN - ARCHELOGY / ARCHELOGIA (CD)

"It has taken me over 50 years to write these words. Since my initial successes in the 1970's many have urged me to "release" unpublished works from the same period, pieces that featured the VCS3 synths or the amazing Serge (which I regret not having used enough) or ...
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RM4206 | ROOM40

BLACK RAIN - NEUROMANCER (LP)

"Following a period of work as an expanded collective, Stuart Argabright and Shinichi Shimokawa, the two core members of Black Rain, decided to strip back their unit largely to a duet format. Their focus became more engaged around studio practice, and it was this ...
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RM4237 | ROOM40

TAKASHI, UENO - ARMS (CD)

"There's two things I can tell you about Ueno Takashi, without reservation. The first is he knows the best coffee spots in Tokyo. I am the happy recipient of this knowledge. The second thing I can tell you is that he is someone for whom the guitar is a platform of ...
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RM4186 | ROOM40

COOPER, MIKE - SLOW MOTION LIGHTNING (CD)

"Most of my samples and loops are created using a ukulele, my fingers, a metal hip-flask, (for rum), an empty St James Rum bottle, field recordings from Martinique, electric and acoustic lap steel guitar and a virtual pedal steel guitar. The flute player is unknown but ...
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RM4242 | ROOM40

CONNORS, LOREN & DAVID GRUBBS - EVENING AIR (LP)

"Evening Air is the result Loren Connors and David Grubbs's first trip to the recording studio in the two decades since their first duo album, Arborvitae (Häpna). Arborvitae stood out for its spellbinding, utterly unhurried meshing of electric guitar (Connors) and ...
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RM4226 | ROOM40

ROSE, JON - AEOLIAN TENDENCY (CD)

"Characteristically invisible and inaudible, the wind is made manifest solely by its agency and performance on objects: huge waves crash to shore, sand dunes edge forward over millennia (rumbling as they go), cyclones uproot trees and houses, intergalactic winds ...
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RM4219 | ROOM40

STONED MUSIC - JULY 15, 2022 (CD)

"The first LP by the Taj Mahal Travellers was recorded at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo on July 15, 1972, which became the title of the work and was released the same year by CBS Sony Records. A live performance celebrating the 50th anniversary of this album was held on July ...
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RM4224 | ROOM40

ONODERA, YUI - 1982 (CD)

"I stayed in Iwate, where I was born, for a few days and created some sound materials using limited materials and old media. Over ten years ago, Iwate was devastated by the Great East Japan earthquake. Many old things that remained in my memory became rubble, ...
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RM4199 | ROOM40

FINAL - WHAT WE DON'T SEE (CD)

"The theme of this recording is the invisible world, and one's (my) need for it. It's necessary for me, this idea of the invisible world, if I am to function on a daily basis. I find comfort in knowing that this is all not just us here and now, that there's something ...
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RM4235 | ROOM40

SUZUKI, AKIO - STONE (CD)

"Recorded in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Studio I on 11, 12, 13 and 17 October 1994 "With concentration, or elevated tension as he has called it, Akio Suzuki enters completely into the substance of sound, its emergence and its passing. What he does with sound may propose a ...
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RM4151 | ROOM40

COCOLAS, MADELEINE - BODIES (CD)

"Bodies explores similarities between bodies of water and human bodies and seeks to blur the boundaries between them. These works incorporate sounds of water I recorded on recent trips to the Australian coastline as well as creeks and waterfalls in Far North Queensland. ...
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RM4228 | ROOM40

PANGHALINA - LAVA (CD)

"Remember hearing music while dreaming, fully confident that you'll be able to reconstruct it once awake? Music that, as it turns out, you were the sole witness. In retrospect, why ruin the experience by something so vulgar as hearing it a second time, much less having ...
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RM4229 | ROOM40

JWPATON - STRUCTURES (CD)

"Anyone who knows me, knows my obsession with the 1981 film Thief. The opening scenes show a cold, methodical, neon lit diamond heist soundtracked by Tangerine Dream. Contrasted with, the thief sharing a danish with a stranger fishing on an endless ocean at dawn. The ...
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RM4227 | ROOM40

HANDS TO EARTH - MOKUY (CD)

"The process of making music together in Hand to Earth is unlike any other we have experienced. It is not free improvisation but it is not composed either. It is somewhere in between, and it feels like 'weaving.' Through Hand to Earth, we weave the threads of our ...
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RM4231 | ROOM40

CARCHESIO, EUGENE + ADAM BETTS - CIRCLE DRUM MUSIC (LP)

Electronics - Eugene Carchesio, Drums + processing - Adam Betts "Occasionally ideas present themselves in ways that no one can expect. This recording from Australia's Eugene Carchesio and the UK's Adam Betts is one such unexpected presentation." (Lawrence English)
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RM4217 | ROOM40

ARAKI, YUKO - IV (CD)

"This might sound a little antithetical, but I am interested in making noise music that is free from unnecessary noise. I do realise how this sounds, but it is absolutely at the core of my new recording. I want to create maximum impact and dynamics in the music through ...
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RM4221 | ROOM40

LOCKWOOD, ANNEA - GLASS WORLD (CD & BOOK)

"This recording celebrates many things, amongst them Lockwood's willingness to allow single sounds to resonate, fully. Across each of the twenty three vignettes captured here, Annea Lockwood invites us to lean into the material nature of sound with her. Glass World ...
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RM4204 | ROOM40

NOETINGER, JEROME - OUTSIDE SUPERCOLOR (CD)

"Lionel Palun and I met in 2003 in a context of social struggle. Aware of an inevitable downfall, we decided to discuss our respective practices. Sound for me and image for him. Then there were the basic questions: "What does it do if you connect a video output to a ...
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RM4184 | ROOM40

ENGLISH, LAWRENCE - GHOST TOWNS (MCD - USED m-/m-)

"Recorded in the later half of 2003, this composition that falls just shy of 20 minutes is composed largely of field recordings, the only processing being via eq and pitch shifting. The work is an abstracted impressionist sound portrait, sketching out the isolated ...
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