"A seldom heard band existing at the end of the 80's comprising persons under the influence of Allen Ravenstine, David Moss, Gareth Sager, Sonny Sharrock, Bootsy Collins, Herbie Flowers, John 'Drumbo' French, Robert Wyatt, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Don Van Vliet, Gabi ...
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AIRTIGHT014CD | HOT AIR
"Empty Editions presents Failed Celestial Creatures, an unexpected collaboration between composer-guitarist David Grubbs (Gastr Del Sol, The Red Krayola) and Tokyo-based musician Taku Unami. Primarily recorded in Kyoto, the album takes inspiration from the duo's shared ...
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EE003 | EMPTY EDITIONS
"'Once you'll touch the sky you will never return to dust' is a new 1-hour long instantaneous composition performed with a prepared mini-keyboard, a handmade shortwave receiver and Roberto Opalio's patented alientronics and wordless vocalizations. It is a masterpiece of ...
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OPX041 | ELLIPTICAL NOISE
"A winter day two years ago I found out that an entire section of my vinyl records collection was completely ruined by an inexplicable oxidation process. (...) As a first reaction, I decided not to play those records ever again... and that I did, for a long time. 'Til ...
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OPX040 | ELLIPTICAL NOISE
"Istanbul based multi-instrumentalist Umut Caglar founded the Turkish free jazz band Konstrukt at the beginning of 2008. Since then the band went through many line-up changes and collaborated with with the likes of Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, William Parker and Keiji ...
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HOL115 | HOLIDAYS RECORDS
"The heavy pulse of sound systems synchronizes with the precision of musique concrete and the reconstructed memory of a masked folk dance of the Swiss mountains. Techno, drum 'n' bass and dub are echoed within this sonic processional, where samples are pulled apart and ...
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CO008LP | CARE OF EDITIONS
"Volker Bertelmann, better known by his stage name Hauschka, composed the music for the three-part HBO thriller Gunpowder. The soundtrack with the recognizable sound from his prepared piano play and the use of alien objects on top of the hammers and strings." (label ...
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MOVATM185 | MUSIC ON VINYL
"Blurring the lines between time and space, Ko Shin Moon mixes acoustic instruments from various regions of the world, analog devices, traditional music, electronic arrangements, sampling and field recordings. As the soundtrack of a patchwork journey, the band's first ...
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AKUCD1005 | AKUPHONE
"Black To Comm's Marc Richter returns under his Jemh Circs guise for a 2nd album of sonic abstractions. In contrast to Black To Comm's analogue tape and vinyl based sound, in Jemh Circs he works with digital sources by primarily sampling modern Pop Music (and various ...
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CELL-02LP | CELLULE 75
"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
