Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar, Tetuzi Akiyama: turntable without records, contact microphones, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: waterphone, Kumiko Takara: snare drum, Masahiro Uemura: bells, Ami Yoshida: voice, Itoken: crotales, Mari Furuta: snare drum, Yoshimitsu Ichiraku: cymbal ...
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IMJ-502 | IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAP
"Recorded by rlw (RALF L. WEHOWSKY of P16.D4) and srmeixner (Stephen Meixner of CONTRASTATE) between 2010 and 2013. The first emanation of the project came up with two versions of one mutual piece (Sunglasses. by rlw, Wishing. by srm). The core structural elements of ...
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MONO060 | MONOTYPE RECORDS
"Widely regarded as a masterpiece, it's fair to say that SAW 85-92 had such an effect in 1992 (when it was first released) that it changed the lives of many and gave a whole new outlook on techniques and rhythms for electronic music, taking it out of a party scenario ...
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AMBLP3922 | R&S/APOLLO
"Metacompound is the first full length studio album from ANP in 19 years. Lavish metallic ink on vellum packaging by ANP fan and Sunn O))) member Stephen O'Malley. ANP was formed in 1984 by KK Null & Seijiro Murayama. In 1987 ANP broke up. 17 years later they reformed ...
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IMPREC110 | IMPORTANT RECORDS
"The second beautiful album by the duo of Jessika Kenney - a vocalist known for her haunting timbral sense, as well as her profound interpretation of Persian vocal traditions, and Eyvind Kang - a violist for whom the act of music and learning is a spiritual discipline. ...
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SOMA011LP | IDEOLOGIC ORGAN
"Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential is sunn O)))'s premier work on the maxi 12" medium for Sub Pop. "It consists of three brand new tracks created and performed by the iconic duo of Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson and co-produced by sunn O))) and ...
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SP068 | SUB POP RECORDS
The artistry of Midori Hirano lives in the resonance between sonic and visual worlds. Over her distinguished career the Berlin-based, Kyoto-born composer, pianist, and synthesist has crafted a distinctive voice straddling the spheres of classical music and harmonies ...
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THRILL643 | THRILL JOCKEY
"The songs on Touch, the first new Tortoise music in nine years, are dramas without words. They're elaborately appointed and carefully mixed to enhance a familiar feeling - a distinctly cinematic uneasiness. Close your eyes and you might see cars swerving around unlit ...
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IARC0099 | INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM
"Heart's Ease is a glorious reminder that Shirley Collins is still in a class of her own, both as a folk singer with a distinctive no-nonsense style that is all her own, and as an innovator. And she certainly doesn't intend this album to be her last. "I have such a huge ...
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WIGCD454 | DOMINO RECORDS
10 years aniv. repress "Few years ago, an idea germinated while reading The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. An idea not driven by the narrativity of the book, but by the traces and the aura invoked in it. That was it: an audible auratic journey trough the memories of a ...
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SP068 | SHELTER PRESS
"Vespers (1969) acoustic orientation by means of echolocation, for players with hand-held echolocation devices. Chambers (1968) moving large and small resonant environments [new version recorded 2002]. North American Time Capsule (1967) for voices and vocoder. ...
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80604-2 | NEW WORLD RECORDS
"Hören ist nie neutral. Es ist immer an Körper gebunden, an Situationen, an Machtverhältnisse und Erinnerungen. Es entscheidet sich im Moment des Hörens, wer aufmerksam sein darf, wer gehört wird - und wer überhört bleibt. Die Texte in diesem Heft nähern sich ...
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