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DRONE RECORDS NEWsFLASH ҉ JUNE 2020 ҉ Dear Droners, we hope you are all safe and sound, here's the new big (summer) update with lots of stunning releases (June 2020) + some of OUR PERSONAL HIGHLIGHTS first: MATTHIJS KOUW - Obscurum Per Obscurius CD 8Moving Furniture Rec) : transcension drones masterpiece by this dutch sound artist TEGH - Downfall CD (Midira Records): melodramatic power-drones from this Iranian newcomer MASSIMO TONIUTTI - Variation Séculaire Géomagnétique CD (Klanggalerie) : stunning microsound / object drones by the brother of Giancarlo Toniutti, new recordings! TAEHA TYPES - Mechanical Keyboard Sounds: Recordings of Bespoke and Customized Mechanical Keyboards LP (Trunk): a collection of typing sounds from various keyboards, incredible stuff MOLJEBKA PVLSE - Heaven's Great Dome do-CD (Reverse Alignment) : beautiful 20year anniversary album by Stockholm's drone-ambient master, comes with full bonus CD of remixes ELLENDE - Odyssey, A Sentimental Journey 2 x 10"+ Art-Book (Smeerlappen): "This is one damn fine release; one that is just perfect, both in music and packaging. It is almost like a pre-programmed collector's item." [Fdw/Vital Weekly] SASCHA R. HÖFER (aks SRH) - Music for Video Art & Sound Installations MC (Klanggold) : excellent experimental ambient/drone cassette-only release by this north German conceptual sound artist Please note that the CD versions for the new albums by SCHLOSS TEGAL, FOVEA HEX, BOHREN & DER CLUB GORE, NEUBAUTEN, JARBOE and IRISARRI are also availabe (left out here due to space constraints) Send your orders & all communication to: [email protected] , or use the order system on the website. best drones! BarAka[H] NR. TITLE FORMAT LABEL & CAT-NR YEAR? SHORT INFO / EDITION / LIM.?/ SPECIALS PRICE ALBRECHT/D. (1944-2013) was a legendary German (fluxus, dada, industrial) artist who co-released earliest THROBBING GRISTLE live tapes in 1976 and ALBRECHT/D. - // KOMMISSAR HJULER - Kein performed with JOSEPH BEUYS and many others.. DETLEV HJULER managed 1 LP Psych.KG 517 2020 to get a ultra rare piece ("Anrufbeantworter-Konzert") from him consisting of €45,00 Leporello bewildering voice-fragments (with heavy swabian dialect), musical debris, radio- madness, noise.. (25 min.), Side B fits perfectly : "JoBeuysseph" collage by K. HJULER; black vinyl edition of only 25 copies! (numbered) if we counted right this is the 5th CDR / CD album for the Russian 'cosmic Ksenza Records KSZ ambience' project - very much based and bathed in 70's analogue synth sounds, 2 ALGOL - Timeshifter CD 2019 €12,00 024 very pure, spreading a dreamy-positive mood, and completely non-digitalized it seems... the so far only album (under his own name) by this Portugesian designer, DJ, and curator, who worked for TOUCH and Cronica, as well as visual artist for projects like BIOSPHERE, BJ NILSEN or FENNESZ => "Faith" presents a drone 3 ALVELOS, HEITOR - Faith CD Touch TO:97 2015 composition in 12 sections, using very low hums and frequencies..." Flowing as a €13,00 single piece rather than 12 vignettes, it largely consists of what could be described as a series of auras (words like ‘drone’, as ever, feeling too limited and one dimensional)" [The Quietus] captivating processed field recordings from the heart of Sweden, made in forests and at ancient places (viking graves, etc.) by the member of DEAD 4 AQUARIUS, RENE - Woodland Sigil CD Unfathomless U58 2019 NEANDERTHALS... "A sensation of remote-ness is pervasive, while the subdued €14,00 roar into the unknown is a catalyst for the imagination. A definitive collection of the elements, and the creatures inhabiting their realm..." [Toneshift] 1 MARK WASTELL - Cello (founder of CONFRONT label and in many groups); RHODRI DAVIES (harp); CHRIS BURN (piano); PHIL DURRANT => 9 pieces of highly concentrated, extremely subtle and often almost silent impro 'noise' CD Rossbin RS007 2003 5 ASSUMED POSSIBILITIES - Still Point pieces... "This quartets non-idiomatic music attains a minutely focused intensity, €6,00 where the subtlest shifts in pitch, timbre and texture speak volumes." - special offer ! this impressive album was inspired by the cryptic ANIARA poem from Swedish writer HARRY MARTINSON (it was recently made into a film), describing a spaceshuttle that deviates from the right track and moves into eternity... => six CD Winter-Light WIN 027 2019 6 ATOMINE ELEKTRINE - The Antikythera Mechanism long tracks (60+ min.) take you on real dark space journey with many obscure €13,00 sounds, this is pure synthetic "cosmic" music, extremely rich and complex - best A.E. album so far! Lim. 500 surely one of the most unusual BAD SECTOR-projects, this comes with a full A5 book of Italian "cyber poetry" by TOMMASO LISA, whose texts also appear on Old Europa Cafe OECD the 12 track CD combined with sharp & experimental rhythms & cuts, as 7 BAD SECTOR / TOMMASO LISA - Rebis / Periferiche CD & book 2005 €14,00 075 computerized / alienated male & female voices... the digitalized futuristic sounds merge with typical B.S. dark ambience, and the words.. still pretty unique, BACK IN STOCK! recordings from different quiet, untouched places in National Parks in the USA, with the focus of exploring the "Holocene epoch" (11700 years ago before the 8 BAILEY, BANKS - Mountains and Waters CD Unfathomless U59 2019 Anthropocene began), BANKS BAILEY managed to find beautiful 'droning' nature €14,00 sounds (often it's not really clear what it is) along with the more typical environmental noises you can capture.. filed under: nature immersion sounds 5 track split EP with fierce new material by Finnish grindcore / noise legends Freak Animal Records U.N.D. (UNBOUNDED NOISE DESTRUCTION) and the well known noise / power 9 BASTARD NOISE / U.N.D. - Economy of Death / Fall 7" 2013 €7,50 FA EP 26 electronics / hatecore project BASTARD NOISE (alter ego of MAN IS THE BASTARD), who have 3 tracks on Side A the cult soundtrack for KENNETH ANGER's film (1972), this is the version from the first released LP (1980) of the piece.. - "The music of Lucifer Rising is closely 10 BEAUSOLEIL, BOBBY - Lucifer Rising LP Rustblade RBL072 2019 linked with the occult elements with Dark Psychedelic Mystical Sounds. Bobby €23,00 composed electronic sounds interspersed with interesting slow trumpet fanfares, keyboard wizardry and fine guitar solos." - comes on red/black marbled vinyl three long pieces based on live-material, formed and combined like genetic sequences, using mainly object sound material such as: "various electric kettles, 11 BEHRENS, MARC - Mut Att Narc Imm CD Auf Abwegen aatp46 2018 a wet towel, metal percussion, and metal jetties at Marseille harbour" - the result €13,00 are metallurgenic strokes and swooshes in reverberated rooms, like being inside a huge bilge, raw and softly droning noises appear and disappear... very nice! dark electronic songs and more experimental soundscapes about existentialist themes by the gay Italian duo and COIL followers, their maybe most accessible BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS - The Impossibility of Old Europa Cafe OECD do-CD 2006 album, feat. contributions or source material by LYDIA LUNCH, JHONN 12 086 €15,00 Silence BALANCE, SUDDEN INFANT, SONNE HAGAL, VAL DENHAM... comes in luxurious digipak, back in stock the Hamburg-based project with the first new studio album after many years, going into a much more experimental and abrasive "industrial drone" direction => mighty multi-layered drones from various sources arise, noisy orchestral elements 13 BLACK TO COMM - Seven Horses for Seven Kings do-LP Thrill Jockey THRILL-481 2019 (percussion, wind instruments, sax, etc.) are present, this really sucks you into a €23,50 dark maelstrom, without using structures and harmony... on 13 very versatile tracks - the best BTC album so far we think! Last copies in stock on limited green vinyl the new BOHREN studio album comes five years after "Piano Nights", the band is now reduced to a trio (without drummer), still following their unique "dark'n' slow doom jazz " vision... - "If you’re coming to it cold then what Patchouli Blue most do-LP [PIAS] PIASD5045LP 2020 14 BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE - Patchouli Blue sounds like is Angelo Badalamenti’s dark jazz mood music for Twin Peaks. Only €26,50 slowed down and left to wander the wood.." [Echoes & Dust] - gatefold cover vinyl version 2 re-issue of the second LP (1984) of the British cult industrialists, this first CD re- issue feat. 3 bonus tracks not on the original LP.. "Hope is full of unceasing drum machine rhythms, electro pulses, echoing samples and lo-fi synths matched with CD Klanggalerie gg317 2020 15 BOURBONESE QUALK - Hope strummed guitars and dub bass. The accompanying drones and snarled vocals €14,00 go beyond any early 80's industrial tag to be something more unique.." [Mannequin Rec.] fascinating outdoor recordings of specific sites in Newcastle upon Tyne and Melmerby (North Yorkshire), where the sounds of nature and the elements (water streaming, rain, stone rustling, creaking), but also the movements of the recording 16 BRB>VOICECOIL - Reclaim CD Unfathomless U56 2019 artist and objects interact...you get the impression these sounds are really €14,00 organic, breathing, living; "a powerful meditation on how we treat nature, and how it might treat us in return." [NARC] - 150 numb. copies w. luxurious cardboard cover & inlay expanded re-issue of this extraordinary LP from 1987 (Zensor) by the composer and performance artist FRIEDER BUTZMANN (also part of Berlin's Geniale 17 BUTZMANN / KAPIELSKI - WAR PUR WAR LP Bureau B - BB339 2020 Dilettanten movement) who worked here with THOMAS KAPIELSKI to create €20,50 eccentric electro-pop pieces with bizarre collage and vocal material; the new edition contains two bonus-tracks, unpublished photos and liner notes the trance / drone - krautrock outfit from Berlin with their fourth vinyl release, most Kapitän Platte - KUTTER subtle, hypnotic, instrumental and very clear structured pieces... with AIDAN 18 CAUDAL - Let's all take the yellow Pills LP 2018 €15,00 045 BAKER on guitar,GARETH SWEENEY on bass, FELIPE SALAZAR on drums.