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  • The Serpent and the Rainbow
    The Serpent and the Rainbow
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    A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to [...]

  • Alie – Whole
    Alie – Whole
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    𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 For 𝑊ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒, Berlin-based Alie illustrates a selection from the Ashtavakra Gita with a sprawling excursion of […]

  • Tarkamt – 1100dB
    Tarkamt – 1100dB
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    Tarkamt, the solo project of Egyptian artist Cherif El-Masri (The Invisible Hands), unfolds its second release 1100 dB. A deluge of mass psychotropic soundscapes, churning crude spurts of coarse [...]

  • pnl(a) – Compulsion Fabric
    pnl(a) – Compulsion Fabric
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    The first cassette release by pnl(a), a project conceived by Brandon Auger (Halifax, NS) in 1995 and now highly active after some torpid years. Compulsion Fabric droops sentimental tones tangled [...]

  • Daniel Wyche – Earthwork
    Daniel Wyche – Earthwork
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    ““A lot of this record is about memory and long stretches of time – not just making, but remaking, constantly tinkering.” That’s Daniel Wyche – a Chicago-based guitarist, [...]

  • David Tholfsen – Walk With Me
    David Tholfsen – Walk With Me
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    What our staff has to say: “Layered vocal melodies that guide you through a natural world. FFO Avant yodeling.” – Dan David Tholfsen is an American musician and artist living [...]

  • Loopsel – The Spiral
    Loopsel – The Spiral
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    2022 U.S. Reissue Fans of the Swedish underground should be familiar with Elin Engström from her time playing in Monokultur, Skiftande Enheter, and excellent solo recording project Loopsel. Her [...]

  • Loren Connors – 9th Avenue
    Loren Connors – 9th Avenue
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    What our staff has to say: “Room next door practice amp blues. Total control and fearlessly personal riffing – TRUE BLUES.” – Alex For me, this is the blues. Utterly […]

  • Sudden Infant – Lunatic Asylum
    Sudden Infant – Lunatic Asylum
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    Joke Lanz and Sudden Infant once again return in their razor-sharp trio setting whereby the absurdist nature that Joke’s work is already cut with is reconfigured in a gnarled and […]

  • Claudio Lomnitz – Death And The Idea Of Mexico
    Claudio Lomnitz – Death And The Idea Of Mexico
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    Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of […]

  • Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
    Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
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    Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]

  • David Toop – Ocean Of Sound: Ambient Sound & Radical Listening In The Age Of Communication
    David Toop – Ocean Of Sound: Ambient Sound & Radical Listening In The Age Of Communication
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    What our staff has to say: “Great book that does a great job of breaking down the various was of listening and hearing sounds and how in turn those sounds […]

  • Orquere – Foundations
    Orquere – Foundations
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    With an explorative approach Orquere organizes concrete sounds into experimental structures of cold and dry sonic landscapes where sounds appear as objects. Stripped down to their bare essence. [...]

  • As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
    As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
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    What our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]

  • Chris Fratesi – Stunad
    Chris Fratesi – Stunad
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    “The immense detail and expression of the slow decay of ‘symmetry’ displayed via two examples of exhaustive long form audio patterning.  Both tapes achieve ‘non composition’ via subtle yet [...]

  • Timber Rattle – Phantoms Of Place
    Timber Rattle – Phantoms Of Place
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    2017 release on BLUESANCT, “Phantoms Of Place” is a psyche-pastoral hymnal which seems to be as informed by noise shows in West Coast Basements as it is by the Blue […]

  • Drekka – Examinations – 2016 – 2018 CD
    Drekka – Examinations – 2016 – 2018 CD
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    For over twenty years, Mkl Anderson has curated a vast archive of recorded material for his cinematic ambient industrial soundscapes. Working for as many years under the name Drekka, he […]

  • Drekka – Sleeping Patterns Of The Discontent
    Drekka – Sleeping Patterns Of The Discontent
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    «One can be a discontent – that is, an insurgent or a revolutionary – but there is also that more literal, personal meaning of the word which may be in […]

  • Drekka – Beings Of ImberIndus
    Drekka – Beings Of ImberIndus
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    “Beings of ImberIndus” was commissioned as a hexaphonic sound installation to accompany the “Beings of ImberIndus” solo soft sculpture show by Carrie Weaver; presented at [...]

  • Drekka – There Is No Silence Left (Drekka Remix)
    Drekka – There Is No Silence Left (Drekka Remix)
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    “There is no silence left” is a collection of remixes and reworkings by Mkl Anderson of Drekka, released under various monikers between 1996 and 2012. Contains 13 previously [...]

  • Drekka – Examinations: 2016 -2018
    Drekka – Examinations: 2016 -2018
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    For over twenty years, Mkl Anderson has curated a vast archive of recorded material for his cinematic ambient industrial soundscapes. Working for as many years under the name Drekka, he […]

  • Drekka – Grieve
    Drekka – Grieve
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    Drekka’s debut full-length, “Grieve”, was release on August 24th, 1996. This was the day of my friend Phil Perry’s funeral and the first copy was buried with him. Phil was [...]

  • Tim Hecker – Konoyo
    Tim Hecker – Konoyo
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    Experiential composer Tim Hecker’s ninth official full-length, Konoyo (“the world over here”) was largely recorded during several trips to Japan where he collaborated with members of the gagaku [...]

  • Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore – Ghost Forests (Green Vinyl)
    Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore – Ghost Forests (Green Vinyl)
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    Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore’s collective work—as solo artists, band members, and collaborators—could fill a small record collection. Despite this productivity, these two long-time friends have [...]

  • Geography Of Hell – Verdun, 1916
    Geography Of Hell – Verdun, 1916
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    LP version. Includes booklet and download code. Verdun, 1916 is full of ghosts. The voices of survivors now departed and the vacuum of the dead. Members of Geography Of Hell […]

  • Altar Of Flies – Återblick
    Altar Of Flies – Återblick
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    What our staff has to say: “Incredible 3 LP of Mattias Gustafsson’s 2020-2021 sessions. Some of my favorite experimental music of recent years, a triple LP is so fitting. Compiling [...]

  • K.M Toepfer – Retrace No Steps
    K.M Toepfer – Retrace No Steps
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    Cold, surgical harsh noise achieving militant purity through unorthodox means. Minimalistic brain drilling, carving, and rolling textures. Latent tones that attack the body’s nodes and trigger [...]

  • Testicle Hazard – Fifty-Sixty
    Testicle Hazard – Fifty-Sixty
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    The long-lost psychedelic album from the Incapacitants of the North! On Friday the 13th, 2009, Lasse Marhaug and Tommi Keränen had an extremely productive day at a real-deal high-end studio […]

  • Jason Crumer – Ruth
    Jason Crumer – Ruth
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    Ruth is Jason Crumer’s previously inaccessible harsh noise masterpiece. Recorded specifically for CD (and mastered apocalyptically loud) in 2004-05, Ruth was planned for release on numerous [...]

  • Lacerations
    Lacerations
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    Six international artists showcased across two compact discs of shredding sound, clattering depths, power electronics violence, and deafening discordance. Though a diverse compilation, [...]

  • Aaron Dilloway & Jeph Jerman – Casual Collisions
    Aaron Dilloway & Jeph Jerman – Casual Collisions
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    Casual Collisions is a collaborative album by two of the most prominent voices in experimental sound, Aaron Dilloway and Jerph Jerman. Recorded in 2013 and originally self-released on CDR by […]

  • Helm – Axis
    Helm – Axis
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    What our staff has to say: “Incredible Record that Dais put out. There are moments on this that will have you in a complete daze and then in awe of […]

  • Vasculae – Broken Lust
    Vasculae – Broken Lust
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    The distant clang and scrape of metals, slow burning atmospherics, and subdued electronics both tonal and textured; less blast and more resignation this time around. Mostly recorded and composed [...]

  • Shredded Nerve – Bleeding From The Head
    Shredded Nerve – Bleeding From The Head
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    mt114cs released July 31, 2017 2016-2017 Linden St., Brooklyn NY

  • FPBJPC – Jubilee
    FPBJPC – Jubilee
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    Jubilee is an album of selections from the last five years of multifarious output by the art collective FPBJPC, including Jonathan Gean, Michael Pollard, Ben Schumacher, and Peter Friel. [...]

  • Adriano Spatola – Ionisation
    Adriano Spatola – Ionisation
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    Ionisation is the first LP by Italian poet Adriano Spatola. Born in Yugoslavia in 1941, by the age of 23 he became a major force in the Italian Avant-Garde. “Towards […]

  • Liv Landry, Sean McCann, & Eric Schmid – St. Francis
    Liv Landry, Sean McCann, & Eric Schmid – St. Francis
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    What does it mean to pray? To address someone, to plead for something, to welcome humiliation and failure: Please, let me forget about the China Chalet parties, please let there […]

  • Sean McCann – Puck
    Sean McCann – Puck
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    Puck is here. Music for Public Ensemble, my previous album, was released three years ago. And three years before that was Private Ensemble. Puck is both public and private in […]

  • Geoffrey Hendricks – Stones
    Geoffrey Hendricks – Stones
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    The first audio document ever published by Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks (1931-2018). There is a romanticism found in Geoffrey, that, in my mind, sets his work aside from his Fluxfriends. […]

  • Charlie Morrow – Chanter
    Charlie Morrow – Chanter
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    To celebrate composer Charlie Morrow’s 80th birthday, Recital presents 80 minutes of voice-based recordings in his new album, Chanter. Curated by Sean McCann, this collection spans over 60+ years [...]

  • Dead Goldfish Ensemble – Fishy Tails
    Dead Goldfish Ensemble – Fishy Tails
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    conatala presents “Fishy Tales” – the first ever vinyl release of the works of The Dead Goldfish Ensemble, the recording name of UK musician Steve Hartwell. Hartwell began [...]

  • Alessandro Pizzin – Received: Selected Works
    Alessandro Pizzin – Received: Selected Works
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    Alessandro Pizzin’s production work resonates far and wide throughout the prolific music scene of 1980s Venice, Italy. His work as one half of the influential experimental combo RUINS gave way [...]

  • On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
    On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
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    Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]

  • Arcana: Musicians On Music (Arcana #1)
    Arcana: Musicians On Music (Arcana #1)
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    Answering a need for critical attention towards experimental and avant-garde music, Arcana is a ground-breaking work–as far-ranging and dynamic as the current generation of musicians. [...]

  • Adam Wingard – Past Life Regression
    Adam Wingard – Past Life Regression
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    Death Waltz Originals is proud to present Adam Wingard’s album PAST LIFE REGRESSION. Who were you in a past life? Many have thought about this. Director Adam Wingard (THE GUEST, […]

  • Florian T M Zeisig – Slow Bench Flexi
    Florian T M Zeisig – Slow Bench Flexi
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    Description Languid washes of warming tones punctuated by untreated piano, glittering glissandos, and delicate droplets welcome us into Florian T M Zeisig’s 𝑆𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ. Like icicles drifting [...]

  • Mass Marriage – Restless CD
    Mass Marriage – Restless CD
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    After a series of highly regarded tapes releases New Forces is proud to unleash the much-anticipated debut full-length CD “Restless” by Mass Marriage. Across these five tracks [...]

  • Apocalypse Culture (revised)
    Apocalypse Culture (revised)
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    Apocalypse Culture is compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis of our times. An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered. These are the terminal [...]

  • Brett Naucke – Mirror Ensemble
    Brett Naucke – Mirror Ensemble
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    “I guess this is my indie rock record,” jokes Chicago electronic musician and composer Brett Naucke – he’s referring to his new LP Mirror Ensemble, created in conjunction with Windy […]

  • Blue Lick – Hold On, Hold Fast
    Blue Lick – Hold On, Hold Fast
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    “I was trying to express the aggression I was feeling without sounding like I had a chip on my shoulder.” That’s Havadine Stone of experimental electronic project Blue Lick, a […]

  • V/A – I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990 (Colored Vinyl)
    V/A – I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990 (Colored Vinyl)
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    3xLP housed in slipcase w/ 3 tip-on jackets, and a 20-page book Notes by Douglas Mcgowan featuring interviews with artists and includes rare archive photos Artwork by Gilbert Williams and […]

  • Masonna – Masonna Vs. Banamara LP
    Masonna – Masonna Vs. Banamara LP
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    Masonna, the moniker of the Osaka based artist Maso Yamazaki, belongs to the second wave of Japanese noise. The name alone, a pun on Madonna’s name by combining the Japanese […]

  • Jon Mueller – Family Secret
    Jon Mueller – Family Secret
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    Wisconsin musician Jon Mueller is inquisitive. Open to pushing his experience and his limits, he’s demonstrated the many sides of himself both as a solo performer and as a key […]

  • Kevin Drumm – S/T
    Kevin Drumm – S/T
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    The expanded and definitive double LP edition of Kevin Drumm’s groundbreaking first album, originally released in 1997. Featuring some of the most fiercely abstract and organic guitar work [...]

  • Alan Licht – Currents
    Alan Licht – Currents
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    What our staff has to say: “Gorgeous acoustic guitar instrumentals, melodies are hidden everywhere within Alan Licht’s thick strumming style. This record will excite you and put you at [...]

  • Donald Miller – Transgression!!!
    Donald Miller – Transgression!!!
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    On Transgression!!!, Donald Miller, guitar icon known for destroying worlds in the great Borbetomagus, takes the listener on an unexpected journey through the 12-string acoustic guitar. Utilizing [...]

  • John Cage – Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
    John Cage – Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
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    Now available in an expanded paperback edition, Diary registers Cage’s assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny portents about the world we live […]

  • Morton Feldman – Give My Regards To Eighth Street
    Morton Feldman – Give My Regards To Eighth Street
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    Morton Feldman wrote as he composed music, carefully placing one element after another, producing some of the avant-garde’s most lucid considerations of what it means to make music Morton [...]

  • Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020
    Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020
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    What our staff has to say: “One of my favorite books I read last year, features an unreal interview with Milford Graves to close it out as well. Highest Rec […]

  • Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage
    Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage
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    Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith’s Flaming [...]