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DRONE RECORDS ҉ NEWSFLASH ҉ AUGUST 2019 ҉ Dear Droners, Mind Travellers and Sound Explorers, we gladly present you the Newsflash for August 2019 (5th update this year)! LABEL RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT: the very first vinyl release on TRANSGREDIENT, lim./numb. 200 copies on multi-"sky"-coloured vinyl with inlay . OUT NOW!! => => MONOCUBE & TROUM - Contemplator Caeli LP (Transgredient Records TR-14) => CONTEMPLATOR CAELI denotes the antique notion and skill of immersing into the (night-) sky, in order to feel connected to the immeasureable dimensions of the universe and the unearthly powers. The celestial spheres and objects are interpretated as living entities, building a shelter for the earth and the humans, reflecting an eternal cosmic order and it's principles. The sky is being watched with deep humbleness, amazement and praise. Ukraine's transcension guitar drone project MONOCUBE and German dream atmospherics TROUM collaborated on four long tracks, working with each other's basic material, using acoustic guitars, melodica, accordeon, voice and electronic effects. https://troum.bandcamp.com/album/contemplator-caeli-collab-with-monocube "One thing we can be all sure of – it is bright, beautiful, dark, and dangerous. Just as these four tracks are. " [Psymon Marshall / 1208 Fuller Ave Apt.1] + SOME PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS from this list: JAKOB ULLMANN - Fremde Zeit Addendum #5 CD (Edition RZ) : absolute hypersubtle "othersphere" music, created with only one piano (performed by four players) in a church STRIGAE - Drift MC (Chryptus) : strange 'organic' alien dronescapes - 'What distant world is this'? WERNER DURAND- Schwingende Luftsäulen 2 CD (Ants Records) : second part with beautiful waving 'Pan-Ney' flute drones, now with additional instrumental sounds MASSIMO TONIUTTI - Cava XI.XI.86 CD (Ferns Recordings) : low-fi ambient noises from all kinds of objects, floating and concrete at the same time... (re-issue of Cassette from 1987) DRONE ISLANDS - LAND RAISING CD (8th Tower Rec.) : compilation with new polymorphic drone-muzak and transcension ambience at its best! WIRE RECORDED PIECES LP + CD (Sound Miracle Recording s): compilation of earliest electronic & avantgarde compositions, 1921 to the 60's, many rather unknown pieces.. & last but not least: this re-discovered classic: CHRISTIAN ZANESI - Grand Bruit mCD (Metamkine) : the masterpieces of atmospheric / droning musique concrete from 1994, special offer .... and so many, more releases from the ever fascinating, sublime and visionary world of atmospheric and experimental sound creation... Pre-orders & reservations are possible. Please note the PRICES with your order! Most of the titles listed are in stock, others are backorderable quickly. All prices are in EURO and do NOT include postage & handling costs! Usually the minimum order amount is 25 Euro. The FULL mailorder-backprogramme is viewable (with search- & orderfunction) on our website www.dronerecords.de . Please send your orders & all communication to: [email protected] The Listening / Streamling URLs are NOT viewable anymore for all items in the e-mail as it leads to a higher activity of Spam filters. Sorry! BEST DRONES !! BarAka[H] NR. TITLE FORMAT LABEL & CAT-NR YEAR? SHORT INFO / EDITION / LIM.?/ SPECIALS PRICE a special concept album for cineasts ("noir soundscapes") using lots of field recordings from movies and leading through different moods and atmospheres dedicated to certain directors or genres.. eight pieces inspired by: Transylvanian MC Essentia Mundi EM031 2018 1 ABBILDUNG - The Midnight Aftermovie landscapes, Nosferatu and silent movies, Ingmar Bergman and the theater world, €8,00 Asian Cinematography, Ridley Scott, Tarkowsky, David Lynch... a full C-90, copied on a 'recycled' cassette, full-colour cover, numbered ed. of 66 copies her difficult to find first solo LP, released by a PESANTA URFOLK sublabel, lim. 400 - "What you won't hear is heavy in the sense of decibels. But what you will hear is 2 ABDUL-RAUF, LEILA - Cold and Cloud LP Saadi Saati SS-0°1 2013 heavy in the heart. Leila croons and at times her chants become operatic and €22,00 soothing... This album in all is a beautiful work, and I can't sit and really pick a favorite song." [Echoesanddust] - comes with free DL card known for her great sound art installations (CDs on Tzadik), here are two so far unpublished compositions from 1991, performed in 2017 in a church in New York Blank Forms Editions BF- City: "Written for two pianos, the piece is a unique example of Amacher’s late work, 3 AMACHER, MARYANNE - Petra LP 2019 €28,00 005 a direct extension of her working methodologies for electronic composition taken into an acoustic realm.....Weighing tranquilizing passages of glacially-paced serenity against stretches of dilapidated, jagged dissonance.." "Creeping street ambient for urban occult methods." - extremely amorphous and 4 AMELANG, ANTHONY - The Hidden Gallery MC Chryptus 2017 dark cloudy noise ambience from this so far unknown artist, inspired by "remnants of €6,00 pagan power".. to discover ! lim. 50 1 strong sixth album, spreading a completely desolated, secluded atmosphere on the theme "destroyed future" - slowed down sequenced synth electronica full of Tesco Organisation melancholic harmonies, feat. various vocalists, choirs and a remarkable version of 5 APOPTOSE - Die Zukunft CD 2018 €14,00 TESCO 128 HENRY PURCELLs "What Power Art Thou" - "majestic, atmospheric and homogeneous despite some experiments.. a perfectly arranged overall picture" [Non-Pop] first time listing of this overlooked debut album by SCOTT ARFORD, installation / sound artist from the Bay Area, using here only noises from shortwave radio: "everything in between the stations - the cracks, the static, the hiss... a rather 6 ARFORD, SCOTT - Radio Station CD Antifrost afro 2033 2005 forceful, mean and loud mixture of waves crumbling over each-other, falling apart, €13,00 chopped up...He knows how to make a strong, vivid collage of sound out of these radio station and how to make a forceful, interesting piece of music." [FdW/Vital Weekly] DRONE-MIND & SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA, ANTHONY PATERAS, BRENDAN PERRY, SCOTT WALKER-Nachruf, ANNA VON HAUSWOLFF, CHARLOTTE 7 BAD ALCHEMY - No. 102 (Juni 2019) mag Bad Alchemy 2019 HUG, PSYCH.KG, RUNE GRAMMOFON, BIOTA, Czech Music Crossroads, AUF €4,00 ABWEGEN, ATTENUATION CIRCUIT, GRUENREKORDER, TOUCH, etc.. 88 Seiten, handliches Format, günstig & geistreich! stunning live recordings made in Hamburg and Wuppertal in March 2016 (MS Stubnitz and Galerie Groelle) on the first tour both guitar droners did together, perfectly combining their different approaches.. "On the one side the rougher floating Midira Records MIDIRA do-CD 2019 drone guitar sounds of N and on the other side the more ambient orientated guitar 8 BAKER, AIDAN & N [2] - Doppellive 047 €18,00 sounds of Aidan Baker." - "à défaut d’être unique en son genre, est plutôt une réussite sensorielle de haut niveau. On n’en attendait pas moins."[Liability webzine] - lim. 200 'Highly synergistic split from Eleh & Caterina Barbieri featuring two sides of similar Important Records audio dimensions. These two electronic sound poems slowly unfurl rich timbre and 9 BARBIERI, CATERINA / ELEH - Untitled LP 2018 €30,00 IMPREC 461 harmonics with an austere stillness that is, somehow, ever-changing. It hardly matters whose side is whose.' - BLACK vinyl edition, 500 copies new issue of this LP from 1958 (!) by the Indian ethnomusicologist and radio producer, feat. recordings from journeys through the Middle East (Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, as well as India and Pakistan).. "this LP is one BHATTACHARYA, DEBEN - Music on the Desert Fantome Phonographique LP 2019 of the best and earliest documents of the diverse and rich musical traditions of the 10 OME1014 €18,50 Road Middle East. Subtitled 'A Sound Travelogue by Deben Bhattacharya', 'Music On The Desert Road' is exactly that, a beautiful and flowing document of the region's sound." - lim. 500 BIOSPHERE has created the perfect "BIOSPHERE"- album of 'Arctic Ambience', with these 17 tracks of field recordings and studio improvisations all made on the Biophon Records do-LP 2019 island of SENJA in Northern Norway... "Some of the sounds are astonishing, not 11 BIOSPHERE - The Senja Recordings BIO31LP €28,50 least the opening track, a recording of ice being thrown onto a newly frozen lake - taken from under, with a hydrophone." [Spectrum Culture] lim. vinyl version a so far unpublished piece composed 1991 for the short film "La Plague" by PATRICK BOKANOWSKI, by the French electro acoustic createur who studied with ELIANE RADIGUE and is known for some phantastic albums; this one-sided mini LP LP (one-sided) Canti Magnetici 2019 12 BOKANOWSKI, MICHELE - La Plague comes in four different editions w. embossed cover and insert, lim. 300 - "...It is pure €16,00 liquid abstraction in sounds. It is one of those rare compositions really out of time and space..." this trio recorded five pieces in Paris (09/2008) which only now see the daylight: ANDY BOLUS (known as EVIL MOISTURE), ANLA COURTIS (REYNOLS) and BOLUS, ANDY / ANLA COURTIS / SIGTRYGGUR SIGMARSSON of STILLUPPSTEYPA... "this clash starts to sound like white water 13 CD Some 2019 at high tide leading to open pockets of fragmentary silences and restrained €13,00 BERG SIGMARSSON - SOBER MARIO BROS. roars.The impressive way in which it folds in on itself activates further churning contortions and bright frequencies that are edited fiercely, unplugged and replugged in quick succession."