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DRONE RECORDS ҉ NEWSFLASH ҉ MARCH 2019 ҉

Dear Droners, Atmospherics and Sound Explorers, we gladly present you the 2nd NEWSFLASH for 2019 (March)

LABEL RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT, OUT NOW! : IRR.APP.(ext.) - Are All Things Equivalent ? 10" VINYL (Substantia Innominata SUB-26) € 15,00 Two new tracks by the master of surrealistic, mysterious sound (and visual) worlds, whose collages and titles often reveal a cryptic and thought-provoking nature... lim. 300 on clear vinyl

+ some of our PERSONAL HIGHLIGHTS, these artists really deserve to be DISCOVERED by more listeners!! : FOSSIL AEROSOL MINING PROJECT - The Recounting of Night Time CD : the project from Chicago with a very droning, mysterious, loopy sounding album... "The mechanisms here may be incredibly fussy, but the atmosphere is somewhere between dreamlike and hypnotic, leaving you in a bit of an unexplained stasis." [Toneshift] ARASH AKBARI - Perpetual mCDR - discovery from Iran with an absorbing long drone piece that creates lots of suction and width, revealing slowly micro-sounds and harmonies.... CLOAMA - Embargoed CD : impressive post industrial from the Finnish project, ranging form monumental drones to more collagic material, takes you on a journey.. MATTHEW SWIEZYNSKI - The one who modifies Time and Light CD (Invisible Birds) : strong 'etnno-ambient' experimentalism in the way of old ZOVIET FRANCE, based on sounds from old films from FALSE MIRROR - Sigint CD (Malignant Records): newest album by the German project, careful constructed, highly emotional and ambitious.. LIONEL MARCHETTI - Jeu du Monde 6xCD BOX (Sonoris): impressive collection by the French who often creates very dense, dramatic, unsettling or ritualistic musique concrete so INTENSE you can hardly stand it TAINNOS - Kierto mCDR incredible mighty dronescape full of tension, by the ex NO XIVIC from Finland, symbolizing the complete evolution of life on our planet!! Masterpiece!

.... and so many, more "unknown" acts and 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] BEST DRONES !! BarAka[H]

NR. TITLE FORMAT LABEL & CAT-NR YEAR? SHORT INFO / EDITION / LIM.?/ SPECIALS PRICE URBAN GAMELAN was the third LP by 23 SKIDOO, originally released in 1984, an all- LTM Publishing LTMCD time classic with a unique and very percussive industrial-funk mixture.. this re-issue CD 2008 1 23 SKIDOO - Urban Gamelan 2530 comes with 4 bonus tracks from two rare 12"es: "COUP" and "LANGUAGE".. back in €14,50 stock! first album on Backwards by this Italian guitarist, known for his psychedlic, ornamental ways of playing, recorded in Cairo, Egypt, absorbing the atmosphere and sounds of the 2 ABATE, MAURIZIO - The Maadi Sessions LP Backwards BW27 2018 city... "During my first visit, I was especially struck by the sounds, so I recorded some of €16,00 them over my following stay, and I tried to mix them with my electric guitar, a sort of conversation between the inner world and the outside one.." lim. 200 black vinyl third solo-album by the ex AMBER ASYLUM and current member of IONOPHERE, the death metal band VASTUM and many others projects => harmonic, lonely instrumental Malignant Records ambience with much warmth and emotion.. "generally longer than previous works and CD 2018 3 ABDUL-RAUF, LEILA - Diminution TUMORCD109 feel more spacious and open, where sparse melodies and gentle textural flow meet €13,00 ethereal choral vocals, distant trumpet, delicate guitar, and luminous, yet melancholy drones and warm tonal drift." highly impressive collection of electroacoustic pieces from the 60's and 70's by this Greek composer (* 1929) who built the first Greek "electronic music laboratory" back in ADAMIS, MICHAEL - A Selection of 1965 => "These works offer a remarkable example of his pioneering and diverse 4 do-LP Rekem Records rekem 03 2013 €25,00 Electroacoustic Works 1964-1977 creative course, revealing a search for new means of expression. Tape, voice, distortion, concrete and electronic sounds, use of early synths." comes w. oversized DIN A5 cover and 24 page booklet, documenting his art 1 it seems in IRAN an interesting experimental / electronic / sound art scene is evolving, ARASH AKBARI is one of those new discoveries from Tehran, with 'Perpetual' he 5 AKBARI, ARASH - Perpetual mCD-R Taalem alm 122 2018 presents a very absorbing long drone piece that creates lots of suction and width, €5,00 revealing slowly micro-sounds and guitar / synth-like harmonics.. ... excellent piece, highly recommended ! re-issue of recordings from 2007 (Osaka) (so far only on a very limited CDR), a most experimental and concrete guitar-noise duet... "Putting drills, hammers, nails, screws AKIYAMA, TETUZI & MICHEL HENRITZI - Rekem Records REKEM and saws into good use, and with maximum amplification, the two artists manage to 6 LP 2018 €17,00 Broken Blues 11 bridge the distance between the freely atonal sketches of post-Derek Bailey guitar music and the Fluxus tradition of more overtly disruptive actions." ed, of 192 hand- stamped copies highly interesting work by this researcher and writer who often cares about the 'threshold states' of consciousness, this is about the phenomenon of "Autoscopy" (i.e. BAILEY, THOMAS BEY WILLIAM - La the visualization of phantom doubles / Doppelgängers)... "Split into a purely 7 MC Elevator Bath eeaoa049 2018 €10,00 Production Interdite instrumental half-hour side and a vocally-enhanced side in which TBWB narrates accounts of autoscopic events, this new album oscillates between moments of narcotic consolation and moments of sharp poignancy... " C-60, lim. 50 "the powerful second full length album from analog synth composer Caterina Barbieri. Gorgeous high resolution analog textures and algorithmic melodies unfold under BARBIERI, CATERINA - Patterns of Important Records Barbieri's careful control, exploring the basic nature of sound and consciousness. 8 do-LP 2017 €35,00 Consciousness IMPREC 449 These pieces are minimal in arrangement but maximal in presence asserting Barbieri as a unique voice in contemporary electronic music composition"; black vinyl, gatefold cover.. "An imperial, exacting beauty." ~ Wire four long pieces by the US-American drone/noise composer, recorded 2016 in Porto, Portugal, dedicated to Z'EV: "balancing drone feedback states with instrumental and vocal elements - controlled eruptions, seeping slowly with the force of geologic do-LP Elevator Bath eeaoa048 2018 9 BELLERUE, BOB - Music of Liberation synthesis." "In the realm of noise and , Bob Bellerue elevates his €25,00 recordings beyond the mere level of harshness into three-dimensional soundscapes that can be felt as well as heard." [Chuck Foster] lim. 250 copies collection of the solo albums plus unreleased early material 1973-1977 by the industrial legend, re-mastered / first time mastered! Comes with 24 page 12" sized booklet 6 x LP BOX MUTE CCBOX1 2018 10 CARTER, CHRIS - Miscellany featuring rare and unseen images, hand-drawn synthesiser schematics and other €90,00 ephemera from Carter’s archive; the vinyl version is limited to 1000 copies collection of the solo albums plus unreleased early material 1973-1977 by the industrial legend, re-mastered / first time mastered! "Here you can understand the kernels and/or 4 x CD BOX MUTE CCBOX1 CD 2018 11 CARTER, CHRIS - Miscellany influence of his part within the backdrop of the TG quartet. As bombs drop a murky €36,00 brew of drone and tone percolates." [Toneshift] CD-box with 24 page booklet third album by the "trancepunk" trio from (GARETH SWEENEY - bass,; FELIPE SALAZAR - drums, AIDAN BAKER - guitar) => "Baker’s multi-layered, heavily affected Drone Rock Records LP 2018 guitar overlays Sweeney and Salazar’s driving, propulsive rhythm section creating 12 CAUDAL - Fight Cry Fight DRR015 €18,00 music equally influenced by , post-punk, and spacerock" ; lim. 150 copies on BEER-COLOURED VINYL impressive solo LP by the radical Swiss sax-player and sound artist, based on live- material recorded 2010-2015, with two very different approaches to sounds and Rekem Records REKEM textures on each side; "...a formidable tour-de-force, a developing field of distortion in LP 12 / Fragment Factory 2018 13 CHESSEX, ANTOINE - Subjectivation which tenor saxophone adds on a metal-tinged sludgy tonality, wedged through dense €17,00 [FRAG45] masses of sound.... a rapid-fire of voices from the horn that gets enveloped in a back- and-forth between electroacoustic structures, psychoacoustics, and pure tone." lim.323 the solo project of MARTIJN PIECK, known as part of the [LAW-RAH] COLLECTIVE, CINEMA PERDU - 2 Compositions with Found with two excellent drone-based compositions, evolving around found sounds in an 14 mCD-R Taalem alm 123 2018 urban environment... "This is quite an un-earthy rumble that is going on here, exactly €5,00 Sounds the spooky tone in combination with a delicate atmosphere that I like so much" [FdW / Vital Weekly] exciting new album by this Finnish ambient / doom industrial act (active now since Freak Animal Records fa- CD 2018 about 20 years), combining rather concrete field recordings with monumental drones, 15 CLOAMA - Embargoed cd-100 €12,00 ranging from wall-of-sound guitar drones to more collagic material.. "...impressive 2 gloomy post-industrial soundscapes from wide variation of sound sources. Eventually tracks move closer to two past albums, including eerie guitar-drone and synth oscillations as well" third box of early CLOCK DVA material! "Clock DVA's earlier electronic experimental work is fragmented and incomplete. To see the whole picture, the Horology collections 16 CLOCK DVA - Horology 3 4 x LP BOX Vinyl-On-Demand VOD154 2019 are essential in mapping the formulation and the morphology of Clock DVA, and the €88,00 occult influence which was derived from their work." comes with T-SHIRT in slipcase folder amazing experimental ambience made of choral voices, eerie backwards sounds, swelling wind instruments, gongs, occasional piano, and a morphed voice inside a bad dream... "Textually based around two nightmares nightmared recently, of LP The Spheres TwentyOne 2018 17 - The Stars on their Horsies which he recorded accounts of as soon as he woke from them." lim. vinyl version €20,00 (blueish-green transparent coloured) that has a different version of the track than on the CD !! after a long time a NEW release by the dutch 'hard to define' post industrialists - "Over the years the group experimented with , with noise, with rhythms, 18 DE FABRIEK - Terugkeren LP Tonefloat TF180 2017 and perhaps even cosmic music. This release of Terugkeren sees a bit €19,00 of all of this and that makes release a nicely varied journey as well as an introduction into the world of De Fabriek.." lim. 300 hard to find vinyl only release from 2009, dedicated to the working people fighting in the - The Light of June international Brigades in the Spanish Civil War - a more poetic and dark release, with 19 LP Brudenia B231 2009 dreamlike narrative elements and industrialized sounds... definitely one of the highlights €23,50 drowned Flowers in your Mouth in the DVOA discography! Lim. 350 copies on the Königsberg-based Russian label Brudenia inspired by LUCRETIUS philosophy on atoms and MICHEL SERRES, this is a very special work on a special format, an unplayable / object 12" vinyl plus booklet with 12" vinyl (object) Silentes / 13 (3) sps1826 2018 paintings, the music is available as download: 4 tracks with exquisite field recordings 20 DI CROCE, NICOLA - Clinamen + BOOK €24,00 (Palermo) and instrumental sounds and samples by GABRIELE MITELLI and others; numbered edition of 111 copies two Colombian sound artists in first-time collaboration, MIGUEL ISAZA is know from various releases on many international labels already... together they created a very mCD-R Taalem alm 121 2018 21 ESCALLON + ISAZA - Nubes subtle sounding experimental drone one-tracker (21+ min.), merging field recordings, €5,00 digital / electronic sounds and sub-bass atmospherics... Japanese audio-visual project consisting of YUKI IZUMI and TAKAHISA HIRAO (NATURE OF DISLOCATION), who combine in their performances soundscapes, 22 EXPORTION - Phantom Line mCD-R Taalem alm 120 2018 paintings, video and photography... on their debut EP we find two tracks of undulating €5,00 harmonic drones melting with daily field recordings, a very nice sublime day-dream ambience is set... 8 years after the well-received dark ambient opus "Derelict World" (using many field recordings), here's the new album by this carefully constructing German project: Malignant Records "Thematically centered around the gathering of intelligence via the interception of CD 2018 23 FALSE MIRROR - Sigint TUMORCD86 signals, SIGINT is an hour long creation of desolate beauty and isolated intricacies, €13,00 where droning textural flow is incorporated with floating wasteland debris, distant transmissions, and fluid layers of climatic tones." brillliant new album by Chicago's FAMP, using the damaged remains of American 'Pop' culture (culled from VHS film tapes or old cassettes) sounding here especially FOSSIL AEROSOL MINING PROJECT - The Helen Scarsdale Agency / dreamlike and droning.... mysterious loops of mechanical and harmonic low-fi sounds, 24 CD 2018 €16,00 Recounting of Night Time Afterdays Media ADM 022 processed with ancient tape delays, backwards-masking slow down techniques, evoking a strange 'archaic' atmosphere; somewhere between old BIG CITY ORCHESTRA, ZOVIET FRANCE and VANCE ORCHESTRA... NEW album by the French avantgardist, who released in his early stages on the legendary NOISE MUSEUM label; "Herbes & Golem" is inspired by a book of same 25 FRAJERMAN, DENIS - Herbes & Golems CD E-Klageto Exklageto 17 2018 name from MANUELA DRAEGER, a 'post-exotic' author; compositions are derived from €12,00 many sources, often based on electric organ and beat box, with spoken lyrics, field recordings, other instruments, maybe like a softer form of D.D.A.A....

3 music made by two women (one American and one Korean) who have both made a profound impact within experimental music: Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument has FULLMAN, ELLEN & OKKYUNG LEE - The Air been a long-term life-work of incredible ambition and dedication. The result is 26 LP 1703 Skivbolaget 2019 €18,00 Around Her immediate, exciting and inspirational. Okkyung Lee has completed rewritten the possibilities for the cello in solo and group improvisation whilst maintaining a steadfast defiance to the many attempts to contain her work within pre-defined genres interview hold on 08 May.2003 at Radio Gagarin / FSK Hamburg (with HAFLER TRIO - Three ways of saying No: Wachsender Prozess nice background drone-noise), by Thomas Beck aka TBC (when ANDREW Mc.KENZIE 27 CD-R 2018 €10,00 Radio Gagarin Hafler Trio Interview WP17 had performances in Bremen and Hamburg); 42+ min. length, new edition w. hand assembled DVD package first vinyl re-issue of this ambient classic from 1996 (collab with BOBBY BIRD / HIA) - three concerts were performed in the mountains of Tromsö, Norway (hometown of GEIR JENSSEN), surrounded by ice and snow and sounds of the local do-LP Biophon Records BIO32LP 2019 28 HIA & BIOSPHERE - Polar Sequences cable lift, which formed also the sound source basis for their compositions; this vinyl €25,00 edition has one long bonus track on Side D, an original field recording from Sept. 1995 by GEIR JENSSEN aka BIOSPHERE; lim. 1000 still one of the most hidden secrets of transcendental drone-ambience music is this Russian project, as he (Dmitry Chistov who is behind it) doesn't really promote it at all - Datura Landscapes mCD-R 2006 on this EP we find a very mellow & caressing one-tracker, expressing the magic of 29 HUM - Lost in white flame DATURA 8 €7,00 winter-landscapes. The perfect combination of drone & melancholy; handmade cover, back in stock ! second studio album by the 'semi impro psych/trance drone and space rock' supergroup from Berlin which had 9 (!) members for these recordings (3 drummers, 3 HYPNODRONE ENSEMBLE - Plays Orchestral Wolves and Vibrancy LP 2018 guitarists), incl. violin and synths => 5 tracks of pretty massive, floating power-drone 30 Records WVR 40 €20,00 Favourites with enough variation and interesting sounds.. lim. 100 RED vinyl (once gone we will sell the BLACK vinyl version) two tracks by the legendary Japanese sound-art composer: "Funakakushi" (1963) was made for the opening ceremony of a hotel in Kagawa with a "built-in-stone' sculpture, Edition Omega Point OPA- CD 2013 using Biwa (traditional Japanese instrument) and seawaves-sounds; "Life Music" is an 31 ICHIYANAGI, TOSHI - Funakakushi 017 €19,50 electronic tape piece from 1964; excellent design (cardboard paper gatefold sleeve with obi and single-sided folded insert of notes in Japanese and English), lim. 500 two new tracks by the master of surrealistic, mysterious sound (and visual) worlds, whose collages and titles often reveal a cryptic and thought-provoking nature => micro- Substantia Innominata and macroscopic dimensions intermingle and oscillate, multi-layered drone expansions 10" 2019 32 IRR.APP. (ext.) - Are All Things Equivalent? SUB-26 and deep humming drones evoke a strange organic feeling, complex noises and drones €15,00 that seem to be in a circling state of endless metamorphosis.. lim. 300, clear wax, artwork by MATT WALDRON himself stunning soundtrack for the thriller of DENIS VILLENEUVE.. "Insistent drum beats - recorded using an international cast of five drummers, electronically treated - and Varese Sarabande 302 067 swelling chords, both synthesised and orchestral, include the use of a descending three CD 2015 33 JOHANNSSON, JOHANN - Sicario (OST) 369 8 tone motif that instantly links it to the Low album that was the first collaboration of David €15,00 Bowie and Eno in Berlin,... With cellist Hildur Gudnadottir among the soloists, this music is fine contemporary minimalism." [The Herald] 8 page booklet second solo album (after 13 years) for the HIJOKAIDAN member, famous for her excessive screams and incredible high pitched voice! "...with two tracks recorded in Paris : the first one with a raw direct naked voice approach - yet very clear and unheard LP Erratum EM011 2015 34 JUNKO - The Void as Junko has never recorded her full voice this way, and a second track with all of €15,00 Junko’s voice frequencies pushed to extremes for a wild excessive vocal trance." Lim. 300 "After 20 years of Kammerflimmer Kollektief, with 10 albums thus far, the time has KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF - There are come to take a trip. The Karlsruhe combo guide us through seven stations in an unfathomable Terra Incognita, where a listening space emerges at the intersection of LP + CD Bureau B BB304 2018 35 Actions which we have neglected and which improvisation and composition, a space where certitude slips out of reach, jouncing €20,00 never cease to call us incessantly between precision and freedom..." black vinyl, comes with CD of the same album

4 JULIA KENT's new album is a "meditation on the transitory and fragile nature of existence", most material was originally made for dance theatre productions... "The 36 KENT, JULIA - Temporal LP + CD LEAF Records BAY 106VX 2019 electronic manipulations are subtler, with Julia sampling voices from a theatre €22,50 production and processing them into unrecognisable textures: ghosts of the source material." lim. 500 white vinyl, + CD of the same album re-issue of a long deleted split LP (released 1996) with one half by the great experimental project from Hamburg with FELIX KNOTH aka FELIX KUBIN (!), recorded KLANGKRIEG / G. REZNICEK - Wachsender Prozess 1994 with DITTERICH VON EULER-DONNERSPERG as guest-musician; second half 37 CD-R 2018 €7,50 Konstellationen / Allergie und Gegenwelt WP02 by long active Hamburg-musician GÜNTER RECNICEK (GROENLAND ORCHESTER) with studio recordings from 1995; very -abstract experimental drones & atmospheric noises... CD-R re-edition black cardboard DVD sized digipak the well known Turkish free jazz and "cosmic chaos" ensemble with two guests, in a stunning live recording from 2016, at times extremely wild and agressive (Sax - live KONSTRUKT (feat. + sampling - e guitar - organ - flutes - percussion - e bass - electric drum module) - 38 LP Backwards BW32 2018 €16,00 DAVID McLEAN) - Live at Islington Mill "filtering free jazz through a 70’s era-Miles approach / blistering avant-funk, cosmic space sounds, and pure inspired playing throughout." lim. 200 black vinyl, with full colour inlay the second album by the unique 'surrealist attacks' performance group from Rennes (FR) was released in 1995, unavailable for long - all tracks are inspired by paintings(MAX ERNST, PICASSO, LYONEL FEININGER, etc..) - musically it's an LP E-Klageto Exklageto 14 2018 39 LA STPO - Les Explositionnistes almost unclassifiable experience between TAZARTES, DDAA and prog rock, like €17,50 visiting a strange circus, but it's also very musical and greatly arranged... sometimes sad, sometimes mad, sometimes violent; vinyl ed. lim. 379 copies w. insert 'completely updated' and re-mastered re-issue with new (quite crazy and homemade) LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - Traumstadt 2 (2018 cardboard cover of this 16-track compilation (enhanced), first released as MC back in 40 do-CDR 2018 €20,00 re-master) self-released 1988 (Jarmusic) => a collection of unreleased material and rare compilations tracks 1982-1985, "arguably the best of the Traumstadt-series"; NEW edition of 99 copies this was the first released LP by the Greek-Austrian composer (he lived in Vienna until LOGOTHETIS, ANESTIS - Hör!Spiel / Fantome Phonographique his death in 1994) who developed his own notational system using visual symbols that 41 LP 2018 €18,00 Nekrologlog 1961 / Fantasmata 1960 OME 1011 could be freely interpretated by the performers: three pieces of his pioneering electronic / tape music, incl. the famous "Fantasmata" from 1960; ed. of 500 copies latest album for the Italian dark ambient project who built a very own characteristic sound => ultra minimal and filled with 'silent holes', an atmosphere is evoked of total CD Eibon Records MAA 099 2017 42 MAATH - Darkness, Void and Silence loneliness, isolation and endless space... "Black & bleak ambiences resounding in €13,00 places where all humanity is extinct." this is the very first solo album for MASSIMO MAGRINI aka BAD SECTOR, who MAGRINI, MASSIMO (BAD SECTOR) - impressively steps into new directions here, without loosing the typical B.S. sound 43 CD Backwards BWCD04 2018 completely... "inspired by hypnagogic hallucinations and presents one long track full of €13,00 Vrachnas drones, noises, distant voices, surrealistic soundscapes, fragmented sounds..., for a real journey into the obscure side of mind." digipak edition of 400 copies self-produced cassette only release by a promising new post industrial project from Germany: a C-25 between dark ambient and sharp industrial tunes, with society critic MC Mallumo 2018 44 MALLUMO - The Matrix is Real approach .. "if we really live in a Matrix that is different from the one in the movies. A €4,00 Matrix called capitalism that enslaves us all." Lim. ed. 20 copies only organ drone recordings made on the Kaliff pipe organ in Stockholm - "a collection of isorhythmic canons following the tradition of pipe organ requiems found in early modern 45 MALONE, KALI - Organ Dirges 2016-2017 LP Ascetic House 2018 music...The soothing and perceptive harmonies resonate to a presence that leans €23,50 elegantly towards a courageous aftermath and a gleaming salutation." black vinyl, download card great collection of 6 CDs (20 pieces) by the French composer who often creates very dense, dramatic, unsettling or ritualistic musique concrete so INTENSE you can hardly escape from... feat. rare material, re-workings and unpublished material; "Lionel 6 x CD BOX Sonoris SNS-15 2018 46 MARCHETTI, LIONEL - Jeu du Monde Marchetti takes us through an audio landscape in which the acoustic imagination feeds €40,00 on nature and its diversity: the desert, the upper atmosphere -mankind- night and day, fire, death, until we disappear into the ocean space" - box with 32 page booklet

5 debut album of a male/female Greek duo, diving deep into ancient religious / Byzantine atmospheres with a focus on spheric chants, amorph drones and slow percussion, but Malignant Records also didgeridoo and wind instruments are used... you might have the impression to take CD 2018 47 MARTYRIA - Martyria TUMORCD117 part in a religious ritual inside huge catacombs or a dome, many years ago... for fans of €13,00 gothic and ethno ambience filled ritual industrial! (somewhere between HALO MANASH and DEAD CAN DANCE) their first collab, bizarre dreams made out of rusty found sounds and field recordings, MELCHIOR, DAN & SIGTRYGGUR BERG slow and low-fi, the side-long titles "Locked Up in November Dreaming" and 48 LP Ultra Eczema UE 242 2018 "Crepuscule with Drunk Wrestler" are quite apt titles... "These are two sides of lovely €21,50 SIGMARSSON - Dark Arc collages of sound, mild and a bit wild, strange and yet not too difficult." [FdW / Vital Weekly] - edition of 300 copies with colour insert unreleased studio recordings with KIYOSHI MIZUTANI made in 1986 and 1989; lim. & Psych.KG - Psych.KG numbered 200 copies on different coloured vinyl in handmade black cardboard box, do-LP BOX 2018 49 MERZBOW - Merzbow Duo 86 + 89 2019 with insert... "A fantastically varied Duo Merzbow release. The only piano that’s piano €65,00 like on any release I’ve heard. As well as great use of chain." [Donsolo] third wondrous LP by this French 4 piece collective (feat. OGROB) that creates an incredible animalistic, bruitistic and abstract / absurd sound, all handplayed and improvised and impossible to classify... "For a psychotic can only ever be himself freed LP Doubtful Sounds doubt 14 2016 50 MICRO_PENIS - Schlim from one’s treatment, thus expressing one’s inside kept insanity....Cyclothymia and €16,00 dementia are hidden in each sound, each track of Schlim." lim. 300, with postcard and fake-porn (?) cover art second EP on taalem for E. MIEVILLE, who studied at the GRM in Paris and uses field recordings with a 'musique concrete' approach, here sounds from Buddhist Temples in 51 MIEVILLE, EMMANUEL - Jin Gang Jing mCD-R Taalem alm 125 2018 China form the basis for two long tracks of atmospheric musique concrete, merging €5,00 environmental recordings and religious vocal utterings and chants with pulsing electronics... the Finnish "vintage analogue gear" archaic DRONERS + DROWNERS (who once had a 7" on Drone Records named "Hypostatic Ground" in 2002 .. ) are back, with full effect Sentimental Productions LP 2018 ! "Quite some disturbing sound, full of hissy distortion and the sound is pretty crumbled 52 MNEM - Hegonon Sentiment 10 €20,00 and loop based. It rotates and rots away; one could almost hear the magnetic particles falling of those old tapes.." [Vital Weekly] lim. 150 copies only back in stock this phantastic 7" by Finlands "pure analogue" drone noiser... "MNEM music sounds so basic, so raw, so 'old' in a way, its raw ambient-noise full of strange 7" Negative Foundation NF05 2006 53 MNEM - No Cosmic Ox mysterious details.... " - Analog electronics, reel-recorders and tape loops recorded and €6,50 mixed August 2005 - lim. 500 seen as one of the best 'almost beatless' electronic ambient MG-albums ever by many fans and critics (orig. CD 1996), this vinyl re-issue has as a bonus also the 7 tracks Staalplaat / from the ultra rare "Azzazin" pic-10" (1996), and two more unreleased pieces!! do-LP 2019 54 MUSLIMGAUZE - Azzazin archive 43 "Outerspace sci-fi sounds meet with found sounds and human-made noises, isolationist €28,00 experimental knob tweaking and mostly hi frequency material loops playing at random..." lim. 700 copies, extra gloss UV spot cover MY HOME, SINKING is the chamber-ambience "band-project" of ENRICO CONIGLIO who got the help of various guest musicians; an almost entire "acoustic" album has been created, often centered around piano phrases and droning instrumental or synth do-LP Infraction INFX 068 LP 2017 55 MY HOME, SINKING - King of Corns acoustics, also fragile singing / whispering of female vocalists, all sounds very airy, half €28,00 improvised, open and atmospheric....has been compared to TALK TALK or RACHEL's... lim. 200, black viny, heavy gatefold-cover luxus re-issue of NWW's 5th album and true surrealistic masterpiece from 1982, described as "a step on from the Dadaist rock of Merzbild Schwet, with much use of ROTOR0070 tape manipulation and classical avant-garde techniques"; much more eerie and subtle BOOK / 2 x CD 2018 56 - Homotopy to Marie CDBOOK as previous releases, we think: the best possible approach to the Irrational and €27,50 Unconscious, a kind of logbook for surpressed memories... 2 CD version with a 26 pages art book in silverfoil hardcover (CD 2 has rare comp. tracks) the highly praised ambient collaboration by the two projects from USA & Poland, finally Infraction INFX 061 LP / do-LP / 7" 2015 in stock - "From the opening restrained "Ashes of America" with intermittant ominous 57 OFFTHESKY / PLEQ - A Thousand Fields INFX 062 S €32,00 strings through the industrial landscape of "drown under..." with it's glittering glass and 6 harmonious drones breaking through, this work of ambient tapestry sees each artist pulling the best work from one another"; lim. 500 heavy gatefold-cover, OBI-strip, the first 300 have a bonus 7" with two tracks re-issue of this album from 1953 (!) with three very percussive pieces that were PARTCH, HARRY - Plectra and Percussion intended for dancers, with an ensemble using PARTCHs self-built or transformed 58 LP Jeanne Dielman JD116LP 2016 instruments, such as Kithara, Chromelodeon, Diamond Marimba, Cloud-Chamber €18,00 Dances Bowls, Eroica and Wood-Block, Adapted Viola, Adapted Guitar; HARRY PARTCH was one of the first Western of the 20th century to use microtonal scales.... a classic HARRY PARTCH LP, orginally released in 1969 - this 2018 re-press is an exact reproduction of the original, feat. the side long "Daphne of the Dunes" (1967); 59 PARTCH, HARRY - World of Harry Partch LP 8th Records ETH7207HLP 2018 "Not only are the rhythms complex, but they are performed at a frantic pace unequaled €20,00 by any music I've heard... The World of Harry Partch is an excellent introduction to his works that comes highly recommended." re-issue of the first album by this French electronic / tape / musique concrete composer (originally 1958!), performed on the Ondioline (a vacuum-tube based, spring-loaded PERREY, JEAN-JACQUES - Prelude Au Fantome Phonographique electronic instrument); "The music contained in this mysterious vinyl is like something 60 LP 2018 €18,00 Sommeil OME1003 between dreamy church organ hymns and the keyboard-based minimalism that Philip Glass and Terry Riley developed a decade later. It was intended as sleep-inducing and tranquilizing for use in mental hospitals." this album presents a collaboration of AKIRA RABELAIS with , both known for their most sublime piano works: four solo piano pieces by BUDD on CD 1, a Akira Rabelais self- do-CD 2015 remix of the whole on CD 2 by RABELAIS => "Non-repetitive repetition that so deeply 61 RABELAIS, AKIRA - The little Glass released €18,00 submerges the listener, it takes a while for the rather radical transformations occurring to be recognized." [Igloo Mag] www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-I0MMRVSMQ first vinyl re-issue of these two long pieces for ARP and MOOG synths and prepared piano from 1972 + 1973; "..deep, slowly changing and timelessly resonant with slowly Important Records LP 2019 shifting timbres so dense that they seem infinite. Accute physicality, overtones and 62 RADIGUE, ELIANE - Geelriandre - Arthesis IMPREC 464 €26,00 psychoacoustic activity fills your space, follows you, grounds you, pulls you in or lets you go. It’s all here/hear." ambitious album (9 tracks, 70 min) with unbelievable cartoon cover showing KIM RAPOON - Little Rocketman and the Planet JONG-UN flying on a rocket, and very versatile rhythmic tracks as a soundtrack to 63 CD Klanggalerie gg281 2018 this.... "Little Rocket Man was inspired by the political situation in 2018 and is classic €14,00 the moved Rapoon. Heavy beats meet drone soundscapes, long evolving tracks make up this new album." so far unpublished recordings from 1974 + 1975 ! - "New primitive-suburban-folk music Alga Marghen plana-S ... no song forms are ever used, instead fearless group improvisational vocals take you LP 2018 64 SMEGMA - Abacus Incognito 21TES.158 on a strange shape-shifting journey thru operatic show tunes, spirit visions and visits to €22,00 a delirium motel room..." lim. 200 copies only SRH stands for SASCHA ROSEMARIE HÖFER, this is his debut LP, delicate and outcomposed musical ambience on the label of ANDREAS USENBENZ => "telomer[e] is captivating due to its contrasts, it is playful, harmonic and atonal, creating a LP Klanggold kg025 2018 65 SRH - Telomer[e] glamorous homogeneity, despite — or because of — these musically antagonistic €15,00 efforts. Höfer brings the sounds to life, he nudges them into a conversation until they are fusing, but without losing their immediacy." ed. of 300 copies UNRELEASED outtakes from the "Musical Pumpkin Cottage" CD recordings (1996), STAPLETON, STEVEN & DAVID TIBET - Dead Uniter Dirter ed. of 500 - "Neither of these two tracks feature on The Threats Of Memories 2LP or 66 LP 2019 €25,00 Memory DPROMLP146 The Threat Of Memory 5CD box-set. The cover features new paintings by Babs Santini and David Tibet, with HandWriting by David Tibet" features all of Steven's and David's previously-issued recordings, made under their " & David Tibet" faces, on the first four of the CDs, as well as a fifth STAPLETON, STEVEN & DAVID TIBET - The United Dirter 5 x CD BOX 2019 CD with previously unissued out-takes from the Musical Pumpkin Cottage recording 67 DPROMBX141 €36,00 Threat of Memory sessions; nice box with new artwork on the CDs by BABS SANTINI, individuals sleeves, 12 page booklet STAPLETON, STEVEN & DAVID TIBET - The second vinyl release with collected TIBET / STAPLETON material, feat: "The Sadness 68 do-LP United Dirter DPROM 141 2019 €32,00 Threats of Memories of Things" (orig. 1991), "The Dead Side of the Moon" and "BubbleHead" (both from the 7 'Musicalische Kürbs Hütte' LP (1996), and "DreamBreath", an unreleased, side-long outtake from the "Musical Pumpkin Cottage"-sessions (CD 1996) ; the whole comes in a gatefold sleeve with insert containing all lyrics and credits, with an unknown amount pressed but probably only 500 a 16 mm black and white document filmed at a concert in Oslo, 16. August 2004; shows SUPERSILENT as a 4 piece in brilliant form, extremely dense and at times Rune Grammofon DVD 2005 overwhelming developments from ambience to noise to uncategorized transformations 69 SUPERSILENT - 7 RDV2047 €16,00 of jazz... six movements with a full time of 108+ minutes, excellent sound quality! (PAL version - all regions) BACK IN STOCK and still to discover ! strong 'etnno-ambient' experimentalism in the way of ZOVIET FRANCE by M. SWIEZYNSKI, MATTHEW - The one who Invisible Birds IB011 / The SWIEZYNSKI (INGENTING KOLLEKTIVA and co-founder of the INVISIBLE BIRDS 70 CD 2018 €13,00 modifies Time and Light Alcohol Seed alsd01 label), using sounds and quotes from SATYAJIT RAY's films which are modifized and put together in new ways.. lim. 200, nice handmade cardboard cover + four page insert the three legendary 7"es "Factory", "Mekano", and "No More" (re-issue of VOD 50.7-9) Vinyl-On-Demand VOD 3 x 7" BOX 2019 in fold-out CLOTH cover with SPK logo patch, looks great... The 7inches come in the 71 S.P.K. - Dokument III0 1979 50S.RE (2) €49,00 original 1979 cover artwork; Lim. ed.200 copies (Edition 2), with certificate the three legendary 7"es "Factory", "Mekano", and "No More", re-issued in a precious black WOOD-BOX (silkscreened) - "with each 7" coming in the original 1979 cover Vinyl-On-Demand VOD 3 x 7" BOX 2019 artwork additionally housed in a black priest-handkerchief with white S.P.K. logo 72 S.P.K. - Dokument III0 1979 50S.RE (1) €49,00 stitched on." Lim. ed.300 copies (Edition 1), with certificate; very few in stock, SOLD OUT at the label immediately TAINNOS is the new project of HENKKA KYLLÖNEN, who once had as NO XIVIC a wonderful 7" on Drone Rec. years ago, "Kierto" (=Circulation) is meant as "an audio journey through the evolution of life on this planet: from nothingness to beasts of the mCD-R Taalem alm 124 2018 73 TAINNOS - Kierto wild. from early humans to civilizations controlled by artificial intelligence....in the end €5,00 there are only swarms of flies left and the circle of life and death starts again." => sophisticated approach, and a most captivating, evolving dronescape (22 min) the industrial legends from UK are back - more than 20 years after their last album - with a very political, powerful and percussive strike... "In an ideal world, Disturbance, the new album from industrial pioneers Test Dept, would not exist.... taking germs of LP One Little Indian TLP1443 2019 74 TEST DEPT. - Disturbance ideas from old songs and turning them into new, sledgehammer-heavy sonic €20,00 experiments full of powerful protest poetry." gatefold sleeve, 8-page booklet containing lyrics and credits, download card subtitled "Sechs Lesungen aus 'Lehre vom Zerfall' von E.M. CIORAN"; for this very special project merging literature and music, is reading six texts TIETCHENS, ASMUS & E.M. CIORAN - Leere from the master of the Philosophical Pessimism, from his first published book when he 75 CD Moloko+ PLUS 101 2018 €15,00 und Zerfall lived in France, "Précis de décomposition" (1949/1950); accompanied by TIETCHENS exquisite humming micro-sounds, the strangely effected and modulated words and meanings are entering your mind-space... the final album of this German/Scottish dark ambient project, a soundtrack for a flooded 76 VALANX - Tidelands CD Reverse Alignment RA-41 2018 post-apocalyptic landscape, consisting of wind and watersounds and spatial acoustic €12,00 arcades with whispers from other dimensions.... edition of 200 copies first ever release by this piece that was produced for the French Radio station 'France Musique' in 1977 as 20 short 'sound images' to be transmitted between the regular Institut for Dansk programming, only found after KNUD VIKTOR's death in his archives...The record is do-LP 2018 77 VIKTOR, KNUD - Les Ephemeres Lydarkæologi IDL11 accompanied by a 24-page booklet illustrated with Viktor’s photos, as well as an €24,00 extensive essay by curator Magnus Kaslov, Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark "Apocalyptic and dystopian art" - compilation dedicated to the Polish painter and sculptor ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI (after the great collection on Wrotycz Records in 2007).. "His creatures are misshaped wretches that might have been human once, his V.A. - Decay, Death and Darkness: Aural Eighth Tower Records CD-R 2018 landscapes are painted orange and red by some unseen fires; eerie monstrosities 78 ETR016 €11,00 Visions of BEKSINSKI's Art stride in the mists surrounding foreboding monuments"; with: SONOLOGYST, PSIONIC ASYLUM, NIHIL IMPVLSE, CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE, any many more unknown and fresh names...

8 nice experimental / industrial compilation from 2011 with long "live in the studio" Wachsender Prozess recordings by HATI, TBC, ASTRO, RENOISE, KAKAWAKA; sessions performed at do-CDR 2018 79 V.A. - Radioactive Astral Bell Noises WP032 FSK studios in Hamburg, Germany, in 2008, for the Radio Gagarin live series / back in €10,00 stock: handmade re-edition in DVD-case now available this mysterious experimental drone ambience project from the U.S. produced only three albums in 14 years - here's the third one based on 'dead / lost files' of piano phrases 80 ZIMIAMVIAN NIGHT - Zimiamvian Night 3 do-CD Infraction INFX 054 2018 and foggy, evolving hiss drones and evolving pulses, very minimal and contemplative... €17,50 the second CD is only available "physically" with this editon, with luxus gatefold-cover, 300 copies

* ALREADY IN STOCK but no time / space for detail listing yet : (will be featured en detail in the next Newsflash) : - Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 6 do-LP (HAFTW) the final part is out! € 35,00 BASINSKI, WILLIAM - On Time out of Time CD Temporary Residence Lim. TRR311 2019 € 14,00 BASINSKI, WILLIAM - On Time out of Time LP Temporary Residence Lim. TRR311 2019 different mix / material than on CD ! € 22,50 COIL - Love's Secret Demise CD Mythras XXXIV 2018 first ever CD release of the demo recordings originally entitled "The Side Effects of Life" (1989) € 17,50 OLIVEROS, PAULINE - Reverberations 1 do-LP Important Records IMPREC 470 LP 2019 € 33,00 SONOLOGYST - Apocalypse CD Eighth Tower Records ETRCD014 2018 this is the CD version of the much praised online-album from 2017, by the Italian "intelligent dark ambient" project € 13,00 TAPE DEKAY - Decadimento Del Nastro - Decadenza Di Tutto CD Old Captain 7 tracks from BJ NILSENs almost unknown noise project € 13,00 ROIGK, STEFAN - Suffering for the promised LP Fragment Factory [FACT47] 2019 €16,00 KUBISCH, CHRISTINA - Schall und Klang CD Fragment Factory [FACT46] 2019 €13,00 NIBLOCK, PHILL - Music for Cello CD Important Records IMPREC 443 2018 € 14,00 ARTAUD, ANTONIN / NURSE WITH WOUND - Ci-Git / To Another Awareness BOOK & mCD Lenka Lente 2018 € 13,00 LUCIER, ALVIN - So You... (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice) CD Black Truffle BT044 2018 € 14,50 LOPEZ, FRANCISCO - Untitled (2017) CD Auf Abwegen AATP66 2019 €13,00 RABELAIS, AKIRA - CXVI do-LP Boomkat Editions BKEDIT018 2019 lim. 500 clear vinyl € 33,00 pre-order: CURRENT 93 - Invocations of Almost CD (The Spheres) - 59 min. of music for David Tibets art exhibition in Fullerton (Californa, launched on Davids 59th Birthday) € 14,00 SUNN O))) - Life Metal do-LP (Southern Lord sunn300) lim. RUST colour vinyl edition (700 copies) , available end of April ! price t.b.a. alors: Drone on! ####################################################=>

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