demdike stare - elemental part 3: rose (12inch vinyl)
Part three in this 4-part set. This 12" slots into the Elemental quad-gatefold which came with parts 1 & 2 (LOVE 073_074LP). The 2CD album Elemental features a different tracklisting with alternate versions of some of these vinyl tracks plus extra content. Mastered and cut by Lupo at Dubplates & Mastering, pressed on colored vinyl and limited to 1,000 copies for the world. Featuring ... more info
oren ambarchi - audience of one (cd)
Touch presents a solo album by Australian sound artist Oren Ambarchi. "Salt" was composed by Paul Duncan and Oren Ambarchi and performed by Oren Ambarchi (guitars), Paul Duncan (vocals), Elizabeth Welsh (violin) and James Rushford (viola, piano). Guitars recorded by Oren Ambarchi at Jerker House, Melbourne. Vocals recorded by Brendon Anderegg at Telescope Recordings, Brooklyn, NY. Strings and ... more info
ben frost & daniel bjarnason - solaris (12inch vinyl lp)
LP version. Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason are two composers used to shrugging off the distinction between experimental sound art and deeply-felt melodies. Frost's vast, blackened post-industrial works often crystallize in moments of quiet beauty before disintegrating in pure visceral noise; Bjarnason's orchestral music marries brutal modernism to classical aesthetics one moment and soaring ... more info
perispirit - spiritual church movement (12inch vinyl lp)
Perispirit is the duo of Ricardo Donoso and Luke Moldof and they have been haunting the Northeast of the United States for a couple of years now. After a slew of releases on Prurient's Hospital Productions label and Ricardo's own Semata Productions, Spiritual Church Movement has Perispirit taking an unexpected turn as they unleash their most cohesive and accomplished work to date. Spiritual ... more info
mind over mirrors - small portion (cassette)
i couldn't be happier about mind over mirrors return to digitalis with this brief glimpse of what is coming next. "small portion" picks up where "the voice rolling" left off, but finds jaime fennelly harvesting new ground with new ideas. "barely spun (again)" is the perfect segue into this step forward into the bluest of skies. using positive pipe organ, electronics, and tape to weave each ... more info
windy & carl - we will always be (cd)
The first new recordings from Windy & Carl in more than three years. Cited as "A leading light of the Michigan space-rock scene" by Allmusic, the minimalist group formed in 1993 around the core husband-and-wife duo of guitarist Carl Hultgren and bassist/singer Windy Weber. (Most of the band's pieces feature no vocals, however.) The band was prolific from the outset up to 2001, whereupon they took ... more info
windy & carl - we will always be (2x12inch vinyl lp)
The first new recordings from Windy & Carl in more than three years. Cited as "A leading light of the Michigan space-rock scene" by Allmusic, the minimalist group formed in 1993 around the core husband-and-wife duo of guitarist Carl Hultgren and bassist/singer Windy Weber. (Most of the band's pieces feature no vocals, however.) The band was prolific from the outset up to 2001, whereupon they took ... more info
celestino - protectors tea (cd)
Protector’s Tea is the debut solo lp from thirty-year-old Gabe Celestino, a native of the Olympic Peninsula. Despite being largely recorded in isolation over the last year with minimal gear in the drab, alienating confines of an apartment building located in the midst of an industrial zone on the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea, Celestino was nevertheless able to re-imagine his dreary living ... more info
celestino - protectors tea (12inch vinyl lp)
Protector’s Tea is the debut solo lp from thirty-year-old Gabe Celestino, a native of the Olympic Peninsula. Despite being largely recorded in isolation over the last year with minimal gear in the drab, alienating confines of an apartment building located in the midst of an industrial zone on the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea, Celestino was nevertheless able to re-imagine his dreary living ... more info
emphemetry - a lullaby hum for tired streets (cd)
glass-mastered CD housed in a hand-numbered card case with 8-page hand-sewn booklet, housed in a plastic slipcase. “The new album from Emphemetry features ambient swells of guitars, intimate folk songs, a string quartet, strange sounds, tape delay, reverse loops, pianos, and a haunted acappella quintet. Derby is a small city in the middle of England. About three-hundred thousand people live ... more info
emphemetry - a lullaby hum for tired streets (12 inch vinyl lp)
Mastered for vinyl by Nils Frahm. Cut and pressed in Berlin, Germany. Comes with 10"x10" lyric sheet/full width image. “The new album from Emphemetry features ambient swells of guitars, intimate folk songs, a string quartet, strange sounds, tape delay, reverse loops, pianos, and a haunted acappella quintet. Derby is a small city in the middle of England. About three-hundred thousand people live ... more info
lars leonhard - 1549 (cd)
This is Lars Leonhard's full-length debut album 1549. Its name derives from U.S. Airways Flight 1549 which was ditched in the Hudson River after a bird strike about three minutes into the flight in January 2009. The overall theme runs like a common thread through the album, with Leonard mostly working with warm, deep pads and minimal sound effects. And as nature sets the agenda, hammering basses ... more info
c joynes - congo (12inch vinyl lp)
LP version. Continuing further into the territories of domesticated English voudou sketched out by 2009's Revenants, Prodigies & The Restless Dead (WEAVIL 039CD), UK guitarist C Joynes' Congo is dominated by notions of landscape, imagination and personal ritual. However, while elements of introspection and intensity do appear, the mood is one of simple, uplifting joy. Warm, woody sounds and ... more info
splashgirl - pressure (12inch vinyl lp)
LP version. Splashgirl is one of the most exciting young instrumental bands to come out of Norway in recent years. With Pressure, their third album and certainly their strongest to date, the band is taking yet another giant step forward. Here, the musicians are opening the doors to several new musical rooms -- to the dark, dank cellar as well as to the attic -- where all their forgotten memories ... more info
j.r.plankton - neon (12inch vinyl lp)
LP version. Karaoke Kalk introduces another exciting new artist to their roster. J.R.Plankton is a collaborative project by Jens Strüver and Robert Ohm. Strüver also manages the M=minimal label. His first collaboration with studio-nerd and multi-instrumentalist Robert Ohm was an hour-long radio-play/sound collage about the legendary composer Moondog, repeatedly broadcasted on German radio ... more info
partial arts - trauermusik (12inch vinyl)
Ewan Pearson and Al Usher's "Trauermusik" could be heralded as the definitive emo-techno/house track of our time. Never melancholic, but sublimely sophisticated and deep, Partial Arts keep it slow and sexy throughout this massively produced, pop-bred ditty. Techno's acid drill team Alter Ego turn it inside-out, reshaping a ragga-esque rhythm into a 4/4 bass line, then nodding their hats to the ... more info
various - pop ambient 2012 (cd)
Pop Ambient 2012 begins in an unusually new but nevertheless somehow familiar fashion. Mohn with "Manifesto" is the opening act. A manifest of slowness. A slowness that Jörg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt have taken up as a new mission. Mohn is their new ambient-grunge-downbeat project, scheduled to depart on its official musical journey to Middle Earth early 2012. What follows is equally surprising: ... more info
matthew welch and craig colorusso - rusted breath quiet hands (cd)
The two met in a green room somewhere in NY. Colorusso was in awe of Welch's hair. They immediately hit it off, a few hours later they argued over who was the bigger Morton Feldman fan. Welch won as he pulled a photo of Feldman from his wallet. Colorusso didn't even have a wallet. A few years later the duo recorded these two pieces in a basement in Connecticut.
craig colorusso - sun boxes (7inch vinyl + download)
Sun Boxes is a solar powered sound installation this record has two 5 minute field recordings on colored vinyl. The two pieces on this record were recorded in Massachusetts by Filmmaker Kevin Belli. “Grassy Field” is from Maudslay State Park, Newburyport, MA in September 2010. And “Frozen Pond” is from Long Pond, Plymouth MA in 2011. This is just the beginning. www.sun-boxes.com
anthony braxton & the three rivers tri-centric ensemble - ensemble (pittsburgh) 2008 (12inch vinyl lp)
Performance of Anthony Braxton piece by 12 Pittsburgh musicians, conducted by Braxton himself (who also plays soprano sax) when he spent a weekend in Pittsburgh in '08. Also includes an inserted bonus CDR of another Braxton piece (also conducted by him) performed by the CAPA High School New Music ensemble, Antithesis.
dean cercone - 20010 (12inch vinyl lp)
Dean is a local Pittsburgh area musician who is equally gifted as painter and musician. Somewhat of a wunderkind, he appeared at Garfield Artworks six years ago at the age of 15, playing his solo Devendra-esque freak-folk songs during his uncle's art opening. Over the next few years - Dean's now 21 - he's grown into a prolific visual artist, having shown a lot of his works all over town, and ... more info
nurse with wound/graham bowers - rupture (cd)
This CD is the first collaboration of Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound and composer/sculptor Graham Bowers. It is, without doubt, one of the best things United Dirter has ever released. It's an extremely unnerving, but also hauntingly moving listening experience. The work is an attempt to create a musical illustration of the "goings-on" in the brain during the last hour and three minutes of ... more info
keith kenniff - branches (cd)
A Pennsylvanian by birth, Keith Kenniff is an honors graduate of Boston's esteemed Berklee College Of Music, best known as the brains behind dulcet ambient/electronic practitioners Helios and the fingers on the ivories of post-classical piano minimalists Goldmund (the latter's music once described by no less an authority than Ryuichi Sakamoto as "so, so, so beautiful..."). A succession of albums ... more info
a winged victory for the sullen - a winged victory for the sullen (12inch vinyl lp)
"A Winged Victory for the Sullen is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and composer Dustin O'Halloran. The duo agreed to leave their normal home studio comfort zone and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, and to hunt down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other ... more info
a winged victory for the sullen - a winged victory for the sullen (cd)
"A Winged Victory for the Sullen is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and composer Dustin O'Halloran. The duo agreed to leave their normal home studio comfort zone and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, and to hunt down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other ... more info
alog - unemployed (cd)
Alog's fifth album was recorded in a wide range of spaces and places -- from recordings of Dag-Are Haugan and Espen Sommer Eide as street musicians in San Francisco while touring, to scavenging old collections of 78 rpm records in the mining town of Bjørnevatn in the far northeastern part of Norway. From on-the-spot recordings of Sigbjørn Apeland's legendary collection of vintage harmoniums in ... more info
belong - common era (cd)
It's been five years since the last Belong long player, as the duo works slowly to organize their sound works. Both the time invested, and the wait, have been well rewarded with this return. Common Era shows extraordinary progression from that first album of dense, scorched earth instrumentals, hints of a new direction having been revealed on the Colorloss Record EP from 2008 which contained ... more info
ben frost & daniel bjarnason - solaris (cd)
Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason are two composers used to shrugging off the distinction between experimental sound art and deeply-felt melodies. Frost's vast, blackened post-industrial works often crystallize in moments of quiet beauty before disintegrating in pure visceral noise; Bjarnason's orchestral music marries brutal modernism to classical aesthetics one moment and soaring ethereal ... more info
christina vantzou - no.1 (cd)
"Christina Vantzou is an artist, musician, and composer. She was born in Kansas City, studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (1997-2001) and moved to Brussels in 2003 where she currently resides. Christina is known for her work with The Dead Texan (kranky) as well as in a variety of creative mediums including video, drawing, and animation. After various collaborations and a ... more info
fennesz sakamoto - flumina (2cd)
Flumina is the third collaboration between legendary composers Ryuichi Sakamoto and Christian Fennesz. The 24 pieces of Flumina are based on piano compositions/improvisations which Ryuichi Sakamoto had recorded whilst touring in Japan. On that tour Ryuichi played a piano piece in a different key at the begin of every show, always having a Fennesz Sakomoto project in mind. After 24 shows he had 24 ... more info
mark van hoen - the revenant diary (2x12inch vinyl lp)
2LP version. "Don't look back," repeats one of several voices within Mark Van Hoen's The Revenant Diary, his fifth solo album and first release on Editions Mego. Surrounded by weighted beats, analog synthesizer drones and granular dirt, the unidentified, siren-like female voice's advice is as much seduction as warning. Tellingly so, for as well as being both Van Hoen's most ambitious and his most ... more info
mark van hoen - the revenant diary (cd)
"Don't look back," repeats one of several voices within Mark Van Hoen's The Revenant Diary, his fifth solo album and first release on Editions Mego. Surrounded by weighted beats, analog synthesizer drones and granular dirt, the unidentified, siren-like female voice's advice is as much seduction as warning. Tellingly so, for as well as being both Van Hoen's most ambitious and his most accessible ... more info
mind over mirrors - the voice rolling (12inch vinyl lp)
Mind Over Mirrors might not be a household name, but the brain behind the project, Jaime Fennelly, has been involved in numerous acclaimed and respected projects over the last few years. Primarily known for his work as an integral member of Peeesseye, he's also involved with Acid Birds, Manpack Variant and Phantom Limb & Bison. The Voice Rolling is his first solo record in five years and the ... more info
no ufo's - soft coast (12inch vinyl lp)
Here at Spectrum Spools, one of the many missions is to make sure great, under-documented, and limited offerings get a chance to see a wider release. No UFO's debut cassette, Soft Coast (2010, Nice Up Int'l), is surely no exception. It was said about the Swell Maps' A Trip to Marineville that the album had been obviously crafted by true music lovers who were record collectors. It seems that ... more info
tim hecker - dropped pianos (12inch vinyl lp)
LP version. "This Tim Hecker release is composed of sketch pieces recorded in 2010 in preparation for what would become the Ravedeath, 1972 album. All of the compositions are piano driven and minimal in nature. This is not a new Tim Hecker album, but rather a peek behind the curtains into the working process. That these pieces stand on their own as compelling soundworks is a testament to the fact ... more info
tyme. x tujiko - gyu (cd)
Tujiko Noriko returns to Editions Mego after a period of relative silence, this time in collaboration with Tyme. (aka Tatsuya Yamada, member of MAS). This album was developed from songs that the duo made once a year at the end and beginning of the new year, for a period of six years. These were sent to friends and people who asked. After six years, there were six tracks and they added five more ... more info
william fowler collins - the resurrections unseen (12inch vinyl lp)
There are dark forces at work deep in the deserts of New Mexico. William Fowler Collins has been hard at work since his last full-length effort, but collaborations with GOG and Aaron Turner (of ISIS) haven't deterred him from crafting this pitch-black follow up. The ingredients won't surprise fans of 'Perdition Hill Radio', but on 'The Resurrections Unseen', Collins further damages and buries his ... more info
radere - ill make you quiet (download) ... more info
The iconic rock formations of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains are home to experimental artist Carl Ritger. A far cry from his hometown of Philadelphia, their impressively cinematic yet naturally rugged presence has exerted an influence on the artist in the relatively short time he has lived there. His fourth full-length album as Radere, I'll Make You Quiet, narrates the scission of emotion generated ... more info
from the mouth of the sun - woven tide (complete bundle) ... more info
Complete bundle includes the LP, CD, poster, and instant download in your choice of highest quality mp3, flac, or apple lossless formats. This is a preorder for the physical format but you get the download immediately. LPs, CDs, and bundles are expected to begin shipping on January 31st. Also available: LP + download, CD + download, or download only. Woven Tide is the debut album by From The ... more info
from the mouth of the sun - woven tide (12inch vinyl lp + download) ... more info
LP edition with instant download in your choice of highest quality mp3, flac, or apple lossless formats. This is a preorder for the physical format but you get the download immediately. LPs, CDs, and bundles are expected to begin shipping on January 31st. Also available: Complete Bundle, CD + download, or download only. Woven Tide is the debut album by From The Mouth of The Sun, the new ... more info
from the mouth of the sun - woven tide (cd + download) ... more info
CD edition with instant download in your choice of highest quality mp3, flac, or apple lossless formats. This is a preorder for the physical format but you get the download immediately. LPs, CDs, and bundles are expected to begin shipping on January 31st. Also available: Complete Bundle, LP + download, or download only. Woven Tide is the debut album by From The Mouth of The Sun, the new ... more info
from the mouth of the sun - woven tide (download) ... more info
Download only version in your choice of highest quality mp3, flac, or apple lossless formats. This is a preorder for the physical format but you get the download immediately. LPs, CDs, and bundles are expected to begin shipping on January 31st. Also available: Complete Bundle, LP + download, or CD + download. Woven Tide is the debut album by From The Mouth of The Sun, the new collaboration ... more info
scissors and sellotape - for the tired and ill at ease (deluxe limited 12inch vinyl + cd edition) ... more info
This is the deluxe edition limited to 200 copies and the last you will find anywhere. Includes the CD, LP and number of extras listed below. This is truly a special edition of one of the most beautiful albums you are likely to hear from one of the most finely curated labels in existence today. Lets hope we see a lot more from this label. The standard edition is also available here. '...For the ... more info
scissors and sellotape - for the tired and ill at ease (12inch vinyl lp) ... more info
This is the standard edition limited to 100 copies. This is truly a special edition of one of the most beautiful albums you are likely to hear from one of the most finely curated labels in existence today. Lets hope we see a lot more from this label. '...For the Tired And Ill At Ease...' is the cumulative result of several years of John McCaffrey's shoulder to the musical grindstone; originally a ... more info
the caretaker - patience (after sebald) (12inch vinyl lp)
James Leyland Kirby returns in 2012 with his long-in-the-making soundtrack to Grant Gee's film about W.G. Sebald. Patience (After Sebald) is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss by the acclaimed documentary film-maker Grant Gee. It is an exploration of the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia ... more info
marcus fischer - collected dust (cd)
Marcus Fischer is a musician and multimedia artist currently based in Portland, Oregon. Field recordings, chance, and DIY instruments, coupled with acoustic instrumentation and visual art, define what has become his minimal signature. His uncanny ability to sculpt delicate beauty from the simplest of sound elements results in compositions that are both intimate and expansive. From January 2009 ... more info
kane ikin - contrail (7inch vinyl + download)
Contrail comes packaged as a limited edition 7" pressed onto clear vinyl and includes a download card for the two vinyl tracks as well as two additional songs, thus creating a 4-song EP. The jacket is a heavy-weight chipboard stock printed with one PMS ink in the style of the previous 12k 7" releases. Kane Ikin (b.1982) is an Australian musician based in Melbourne. With his musical beginnings ... more info
expo 70 - journey through astral projection (cd)
Journey Through Astral Projection is the new Expo 70 studio album that follows the breakthrough album Where Does Your Mind Go? (Immune 011, Nov 2010) and was again recorded at Black Dirt Studios by Jason Meagher (No Neck Blues Band, D. Charles Speer & The Helix). The CD is presented in a heavy stock 4 panel gatefold package limited to only 500 copies. Justin Wright's Expo 70 project has been ... more info
ilyas ahmed - with endless fire (12inch vinyl lp)
With Endless Fire is a brand new album from Ilyas Ahmed and his third release for Immune following the instantly sold out Record Store Day split 7” with Steve Gunn and Between Two Skies/Towards The Night, the massive 2xLP reissue of Ahmed's first two albums. With Endless Fire is presented with the utmost highest production standards – mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk in Portland, OR and cut to ... more info
cleared - breaking day (12inch vinyl lp)
Nearly a year to the day since the release of their self-titled debut, Cleared now offer their second album Breaking Day. Breaking Day is presented with the utmost highest production standards – mastered and cut to vinyl by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at D&M in Berlin, pressed on high-quality virgin vinyl at RTI and housed in a heavy-duty old-style tip-on gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton. Also ... more info
