"Distantly rooted in musique concrete, "The Scale Of Things" discloses an uncanny, multilayered sonic universe of its own. The seven compositions are based on the exploration of nature recordings for unheard details and hidden layers, focused on patterns of stochastic ...
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GR154 | GRUENREKORDER
"There are three distinct ways nightingales sing and countersing to each other, beginning late at night and ending by dawn in the first weeks of spring. Most males are 'inserters,' meaning that they wait about one second after a neighbor's song finishes before starting ...
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GR159 | GRUENREKORDER
"This recording takes you on a round trip of Iceland. The aural journey starts westward from the island's south in the cold early spring. After a side trip into the West Fjords, our route traverses the north of the country at the height of summer, followed by an ...
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GR157 | GRUENREKORDER
"3:45 AM. Time to get up. The Bushveld is already awake. Slavek and I are both dragging a bit, rushing to get out the door and deploy. After almost two weeks of nonstop recording, we are both tired and a little homesick. At this point in the residency we have already ...
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GR144 | GRUENREKORDER
"Recorded between 2012-2014, Jared Blum's (of GiganteSound, The Talking Book, Blanketship, Vulcanus 68, et al) Vision Heat project is a laser guided, hyper vintage conflation of early to mid 80's centric production, montage and style. Recalling such luminaries as ...
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RS98 | ROOT STRATA
"A year after "2 Dots Left", Monolog combines styles, unites collaborators and fuses influence in his most varied album to date. "Merge" is a perfect snapshot of this musician's tastes, talents and scope, from abysmal basses to club-packing breaks and vocal-based ...
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ADN178 | AD NOISEAM
"Otona No Kagaku is Kalimi's first album. It brings a composition that doesn't start and doesn't end, a soundscape that plays with non-expectation, contemplation and the illusion of being in a timeless bubble. kalimi is: giovanni di domenico: fender rhodes, electronics ...
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SW005 | SILENT WATER
"For decades, Crystal Syphon were, at most, a footnote in the music history books: a name on posters from the psychedelic ballroom days, and a fond memory to those who'd seen the Merced, California band perform on the west coast circuit in the late 1960s. That changed ...
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ROAR37 | ROARATORIO
"These recordings pull back a curtain to reveal the mysterious world of Syntoma and early-80s underground Mexico. Founded by Alex Eisenring in 1980, making use of synths and drum machines and driven by a freedom-seeking DIY ethos but informed by a ...
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EM1134LP | EM RECORDS
"Alicia Bay Laurel is well known as the writer and illustrator of one of the classic books of the back-to-the-earth movement, the 1970 Living On The Earth, a hand-written guide to living the good life, but she is also a very accomplished singer, songwriter and ...
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EM1047LP | EM RECORDS
"In March 2014, the excellent Ghent based tape label Dauw opened up its musical doors. Since then we've closely kept up with their wonderful releases by some very dear friends, with the one exception of artists we knew personally being the wonderful Osnabrück artist, ...
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HOMEN072 | HOME NORMAL
"Conceived as a follow up to Opal Island and over five years after its completion, Paco Sala's Antony Harrison has finally consented to the release of The Empire Line. It is the final Konntinent album and includes vocal contributions from Cuushe, Chantal Acda and Lisa ...
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HOMEN075 | HOME NORMAL
"Back in November 2010, Czech music pioneers Gurun Gurun released their critically lauded self-titled debut on Home Normal. Named after a fictional planet from the old school Slovak childish sci-fi TV series "She Came Out of the Blue Sky", their musical work combines ...
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HN074 | HOME NORMAL
"In 2009, I was lucky enough to spend some time with my dear friend Wataru Osako back in his hometown in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. As part of our stay the very talented Ryo Nakata invited us to hang out and play a show in Sapporo. On a wonderful night of ...
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HOMEN077 | HOME NORMAL
"manipulated tapes and records. twisted cut up drone noise. analogue music - part 2. this time on tape. handnumbered edition of 20 copies with silkscreened covers." (label info)
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