Newslist Drone Records 12. December 2005 1. Vinyls
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NEWSLIST DRONE RECORDS * ALVA NOTO / SAKAMOTO – Insen LP (Raster-Noton r~n 65, 2005) € 12.50 12. DECEMBER 2005 “ on "vrioon", nicolai's typical sinus sounds counterbalanced sakamoto's piano accords. now, on "insen" nicolai works directly with the piano sounds. VINYLS – CASSETTES – CDRs – CDs – PRINTMEDIA – T-SHIRTS he dismantles sakamoto's recordings with a "surgeon- like precision" into micro loops, into its atomic THIS NEWSLIST / SUPPLEMENT SUMMARIZES ALL NEW ENTRIES elements. starting with these atoms of sound, he creates a new basis for form, compressing floating HAVING ARRIVED HERE IN THE LAST MONTHS SINCE THE rotating rhythm with harmonic sequences, with melodic LATEST MAIN LIST (JULY 2005) counterpoints, and laying it underneath the piano tracks. this makes "insen" appear more of a complex PLEASE STATE PRICES WITH YOUR ORDER TO AVOID DELAYS experience, although the time-stretched flow, or even BITTE IMMER PREISE MIT ANGEBEN ! the clear lines of the piano stay untouched. ” (label ALL PRICES IN EURO !! info) * ALU – Ungesunde Traumbilder LP (Was Soll Das? Schallplatten WSDP017, 2005) [lim. 300] € 14.00 1. VINYLS Another re-release of this obscure german band now on WAS SOLL DAS ! “Recorded in 1983 for their own label DER * ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. – LETZTE SCHREI released as a cassette-only in a very Univers Zen ou de Zero a Zero 4 x LP (Fractal Records 020412, small quantity. 6 har hitting Minimal-synth stompers 2003) € 45.50 for the Hard Core with female vocals. Remastered and Limitierte Vinyl-Version dieses epischen Werks, mit einer bonus-live with full colour sleeve.” [label info] Scheibe ! VINYL VERSION 4 LPs SET : “Univers Zen ou de Zéro à * AMBARCHI, OREN – Der Kleine König 7” (Tonschacht 011, Zéro ” triple album studio, the complete session with 2002) [lim. 500] € 6.00 unreleased tracks Erstes 7”-Vinyl für AMBARCHI, hier wesentlich agiler, kratziger und + one bonus disc : LIVE IN EUROPE 2002 with full hochfrequent-sirrender als auf den letzten longplayern, aber color Insert. Over 160 minutes. soundästhetisch nicht minder schön... nummerierte Auflage von 500 “ A veritable orgy of sweaty psychedelic madness. Stck. back in stock ! It’s got all the heavy stompers, trance-inducing “ there are different ways to get in contact with the musical ouevre of drones, and pretty sipping-tea-in-a-japanese-garden the sydney-based oren ambarchi, one of the most prolific musicians in ballads that a psych-rock fan could ever wish for. ” contemporary experimental music in the last few years: via his projects [OTHER MUSIC – NYC] “ Univers Zen Ou de Zero a sun or phlegm, his collaborations with keith rowe, phil niblock, fennesz Zero, a French import on the Fractal label, is the or martin ng (to name but a few) or his highly acclaimed solo releases cream of this new crop. Pushing Cotton Casino's vocals to the fore (her synths are often mixed higher on staalplaat, touch and staubgold. than her vocals, or if not, they are manipulated "der kleine könig" is ambarchi's first 7" and certainly a step in a new beyond recognition into strange yelps and squeals), direction - till now his droney, almost poetic explorations were done this album has the most focused songwriting bend of solely with guitar and effect units. this is his first release constructed the Acid Mothers discography. Whether it's the gentle with computer [this, by the way, was also the case with tonschacht 004 acoustic beauty of "Ange Mecaniqe de Saturne" or the by ashtray navigations], and it shows - especially on side b - a yet apocalyptic bouzouki dirge "Soleil De Cristal Et Lune unknown harsh, piercing but very clear sound. imagine kevin drumm D'Argent," this album is what the Acid Mothers have been leading up to with their numerous previous kickin' raster-noton's butt. side a however contains a beautiful, yet releases. If you get one Acid Mothers Temple album, I distorting dense piece which develops around a fragmented melody of would make it this one. ” [Fakejazz] ovalish melancholy.” [press-release] * ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. – * ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Sung Tongs do-LP (Fat Cat Records / Live ("Goodbye John Peel: Live In London 2004") (Dirter Splinter Series FAT-SP08LP, 2004) € 15.00 Promotion, 2005) [lim. 500] € 20.00 „Der Output von AVAY TARE und PANDA BEAR ist „First come, first serve, also fix beeilen, um noch unglaublich hoch. Das dabei auch die Qualität immer ein essentielles Vinyl-Exemplar in der Geschichte von wieder auf höchstem Niveau zu verorten ist, versteht ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE zu ergattern. Das Live- sich zwar nicht von selber, kann bei ihrem Projekt Doppelalbum wurde im Oktober 2004 in London ANIMAL COLLECTIVE inzwischen aber als vorausgesetzt aufgenommen und kommt im exklusiven Artworkstil der angesehen werden. Wieder einmal finden sich auf „Sung legendären Bootleg-Label "The Amazing Kornyphone Tongs “ 12 feine Lieder die Simon & Garfunkel kennen Label" und "Trademark of Quality". Das lernen wollen und die dann gleich noch ihre Freunde minimalistische aber dennoch superstylische Artwork der Anfi-Folk Fraktion mitbringen. Einzigartige Musik geht Hand in Hand mit dem elementaren und doch unter mit viel Gitarre und wunderbaren Stimmen! Ab zum hunderten wiederzuerkennenden Musikstil von ACID Plattenhöker und reingehört! “ [lecker elektro] MOTHERS TEMPLE. Das letzte Puzzlestück im Konzept ist “ 2004 release on Fat Cat's Splinter series. "A die streng limitierte Auflage auf 500 Stück auf stunning album of modern folk pop. Listen in and you farbigem 180gr "Splatter"-Vinyl, die garantiert will hear traces of all manner of influence -- from niemals nachgepresst wird. Auch wenn die Mitglieder the crazed whooping and chanting of classic Holy von ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE nun in anderen Projekten (SWR Modal Rounders, to the pure and perfect songcraft of etc.) unterwegs sind, so ist "Goodbye John Peel: Live Simon & Garfunkel or The Beach Boys, to Syd Barrett, In London" doch die ultimative Abschiedskrönung für The Incredible String Band and the productions of Joe jede AMT-Sammlung. “ [Cargo] Boyd, to elements of the Brazilian tropicalia / pop “...Super limited (500 copies worldwide, we got a fraction of that) double psychedelia of artists like Gilberto Gil or Milton Nasciemento, or the more modern sonic explorations of live album recorded in London in 2004 from the Acid Mothers Temple & friends and labelmates Black Dice or labels like Mego The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. packaged in a plain white sleeve with a or Kompakt. In this incarnation, Animal Collective is photocopied insert like the classic old Stones and Zeppelin bootleg lps once again the duo of Avey tare and Panda Bear, and and pressed on gorgeous opaque white / red / black / brown swirled Sung Tongs is their most perfect, accessible work to vinyl. This is supposedly the final release for the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. date, a luscious flowering and flowing together of incarnation of AMT, and what a way to go, four sides of deliriously deeply catchy, hook-filled songs and intricately spacey and fully freaked out psychedelic Ur-rock, from kaleidoscopic textured arrangements. Diverse in its scope and yet fully coherent, the album moves from chiming acoustic bursts of druggy space rock, to long stretches of almost meditative guitar songs to gentler, more dispersed picked otherworldy drone, haunting chants, bizarre soaring operatic trills, ballads, to sprawling, guitar-swell psychedelics, pulsing relentless dirges, and wild free epic OUT THERE musical bubbling, acid-warped vocal fx, and tribal, almost explorations, all drenched in swirling distorted guitars and clouds of shamanic trance-outs based around around looping hazy psych rock splatter. Very lo-fi recording, it all sounds like maybe it vocals and hypnotic kick-pulses. As far as peers and was recorded with one mic, set right in the middle of the room, but it just influences go, aside from the aforementioned, Animal Collective's sprawl could perhaps be located makes the whole thing sound that much more immediate and chaotic alongside fellow American contemporaries such as and furious and alive. Again, VERY LIMITED. Already out of print so Black Dice; the freak-outs of '90s west coast this is most definitely the last time we will have these!” [AQ] isolationists like Caroliner and Sun City Girls; the minimalist post-techno structures and textures of Fennesz or Wolfgang Voigt; or back to '70's European commune-music utopians like Amon Duül, Harvester, bands Clear Horizon, Northern Song Dynasty, and Eau Claire. Can, and similar folk-psychedelic explorers. ” [press www.brainwashed.com/jb for more images and sounds from her. release] clear vinyl “ [label info] * ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Who would win a rabbit 7” (Fat Cat * BERROCAL, JACQUES – Priere pic-10” (Alga Marghen plana Records 7FAT15, 2005) € 6.50 B alga 18, 2004) [lim. 250] € 26.00 “ One of many stand-out tracks from ‘Sung Tongs’, Vinyl-only Material mit Gedicht-Vertonungen von ANDRE ‘Who Could Win A Rabbit’ is a two and a half minute BRETON, ANTONIN ARTAUD, und neuer Musik von BERROCAL, shot of twisted pop genius that drives along on auf extrem limitierter pic-10 “ (schon die zweite chiming guitars, Brazilian rhythms, tribal chanting, pic-10 “ nach der vergriffenen „Flash“ pic 10 “). tape loops, and sweet vocal harmonies. On the “ ... so it was decided to produce a 10 picture disc reverse, ‘Baby Day’ is a live favourite from the with some prescious tracks that for one reason or band’s recent tours, and in this version the song is another will not appear on the CD. L'union Libre, a stretched out across a punching drum pulse that famous poem by the surrealist master Andre Breton, recalls the minimalist post-techno of the Kompakt here in a multiple-superimposition version of the label. Around this, sparse guitar is interwoven with wonderful voice of Jacques Doyen and the music by Jac Avey and Panda’s harmonies announcing (in repetitive berrocal recorded in 1985 (originally intended to be yet strangely cold, factual tones) a coming birth.