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The old band from most of the Bastard Members... noisy Sonic Youth influences... or Jazzy 70's psychedelic roots... or ... just late 80'sNoisy French spirit (Sister Iodine, and others...)... A important repress to check !

Balade Garage for un-virgin ears... Superb music not too punxxx this time and bringing a bit of electro... Well a nice little pearl baby !!

First ever career-spanning compilation of the solo work of Jowe Head, an essential name in the birth and development of the UK's underground scene through his recordings with Swell Maps, Television Personalities, personal projects such as Palookas, Househunters and work under his own name.

From 1981 debut album "Pincer Movement" up to 2014 recordings by Jowe Head and The Demi-Monde, plus previously unreleased tracks, these 20 cuts present Head's wonderful mixture of off-kilter pop and avant-garde weirdness, like a noise party attended by Joe Meek, Burt Bacharach and Sun Ra. A Record Store Day release.

Released to coincide with Kraftwerk's forthcoming June 2017 tour - their first UK dates since the breathtaking shows witnessed at the Tate Modern in 2013 - Parlophone are proud to announce the release of Kraftwerk 3-D The Catalogue on 26th May. This is the ground-breaking 3-D Kraftwerk Concert brought thrillingly to life, developed using high definition 3-D visuals, with Dolby Atmos surround sound and presented to the technological and audio standards one would associate and indeed come to expect from the pioneering Germans led by founder Ralf Hütter. For the very first time, every Kraftwerk fan can now experience a "Gesamtkunstwerk - a total work of art' in the comfort of their own home. Kraftwerk 3-D The Catalogue is released across a number of formats including: Blu-Ray, Vinyl, CD, DVD and Download
3-D The Catalogue features new recordings of Kraftwerk's 8 classic albums performed / filmed at various locations around the world between 2012-2016 and mixed at the band's own state-of-the-art, Kling Klang Studio, Düsseldorf

12' x 12' rigid board box set with lift-off lid, housing a 31cm x 30cm, 228-page hardback book and an 8-panel digipak in a card slipcase with 4 x Blu-ray discs containing:

Discs 1+2: 8 album performances filmed in 3D (2D compatible). 218 mins approx
Discs 3+4: The tour films / projections, presented in 3D (2D compatible). 218 mins approx

Released to coincide with Kraftwerk's forthcoming June 2017 tour - their first UK dates since the breathtaking shows witnessed at the Tate Modern in 2013 - Parlophone are proud to announce the release of Kraftwerk 3-D The Catalogue on 26th May. This is the ground-breaking 3-D Kraftwerk Concert brought thrillingly to life, developed using high definition 3-D visuals, with Dolby Atmos surround sound and presented to the technological and audio standards one would associate and indeed come to expect from the pioneering Germans led by founder Ralf Hütter. For the very first time, every Kraftwerk fan can now experience a "Gesamtkunstwerk - a total work of art' in the comfort of their own home. Kraftwerk 3-D The Catalogue is released across a number of formats including: Blu-Ray, Vinyl, CD, DVD and Download
3-D The Catalogue features new recordings of Kraftwerk's 8 classic albums performed / filmed at various locations around the world between 2012-2016 and mixed at the band's own state-of-the-art, Kling Klang Studio, Düsseldorf

Rigid board box set with lift-off lid, holding 8 x capacity wallets, with 8 CDs, plus 16-page booklet

Following his recent credits on Frank Ocean's Blonde and Endless, Vegyn steps out of a two year hiatus with a new 12" single on his 'PLZ Make It Ruins' label. 'Phone Phoneys', the title track, immediately delves into familiar and focused textures backed by woozy synths, dancing between glitzy euphonious melodies. The drums and rhythm section channel the energy of prior dance classics but still feel eager and original in their deployment. On the flip side, 'PLZ XX' diverts listeners expectations by jumping between several frenetic moods, all whilst maintaining an energetic frivolity found throughout the record as a whole.

The debut LP of this collaborator with Rhodri Davies and Chris Watson, evoking the knockabout, visionary, English humour of Jeff Keen and Bruce Lacy, spiked here with massive, steaming dollops of contemporary political outrage and disgust. 'Sounds are slurpy, runny, fizzy, spongy, hard as rock,' says the label, 'recalling long improvisational sets, floor-sucking dubwise psychedelia, plunderphonics and tight GRM-era electronic sound design.' Released to coincide with BD's summer-long exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in east London, nodding to everyone from Busby Berkeley to Max Ernst. Beautifully sleeved, with a double-sided A3 risograph poster.

7"

Remastered version of 80's classic

Solo project of Vanishing Twin (Soundway) member.

The song Cucumuber Sword feat. vocals by Taishi Nagasaka (Fat White Family)

Man From Uranus has been making music inspired by the freakier edges of 60s and 70s library music and jazz for almost 2 decades, and like his predecessors - Sun Ra, Space Lady - he's never really fitted in, feeling more comfortable exploring cosmic realms than than with his feet firmly on his own planet. A prolific composer and home recordist, he has garnered a reputation for eccentric live shows, each presenting an entirely new repertoire. Alien Flowers, in a limited edition of 300, is one of few recordings capturing the spirit of an artist who is unwittingly on his way to attainting cult status.

Alien Flowers has been played on NTS, The Wire's Adventures in Sound and Music and The Independent Music Podcast. Support from The Sunday Experience, Tom Furse (The Horrors), Jonny Trunk, Doug Shipton (Finders Keepers), Emily Bick (The Wire) and Anthony Chalmers (Baba Yaga's Hut).

Foom presents two new pieces by Micachu (Mica Levi) — one for cello, played by Oliver Coates, and one for piano, played by Eliza McCarthy.

This record is meant to be enjoyed like a seascape. It offers a Mediterranean journey, one that Ulysses, Aeneas, and Jason with his Argonauts charted first and Valencian artist, Pep Llopis, retraced and retread — from the islands of Menorca to Santorini. All of his experiences are aboard this vessel of sound: no format in mind, no course but the chasm within self. While Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes materializes at this moment as an album, another object suits Pep's project: Lewis Carroll's Map of the Ocean' from his The Hunting of the Snark. It's a simple illustration: the thin outline of a blank rectangle that represents the sea with no trace of land. Carroll offers this empty space as an object that all can understand, a container for possibility. Likewise, Poiemusia offers a musical language that any listener can understand. Untethered to the meaning of words, one is set adrift and free in minimalist sound and traditional music. Llopis, who often composed for dance, originally wrote Poiemusia for a performance at the Poiemusia festival (the Greek contraction of poetry and music). Peer composers, Carles Santos and Wim Mertens, also participated in the festival, which took place over several days at the Teatro Princesa in Valencia. Llopis paired his newly formed avant-garde compositions with the poems of fellow Valencian, Salvador Jàfer.

In the studio presentation of Poiemusia, voices softly converse, only to evaporate. The poetry is incanted by the poet himself. Jàfer enunciates at the verge of song, drawing dimension from his Mediterranean travels. He is accompanied by Montse Anfruns' vaporous voice. She extends the roll of her r's and the hiss of each s as if casting a spell of Salacia. Pep bathes their conversational performance in slight delays and reverb, allowing their voices to dissolve into an ocean of sound.

Llopis was influenced by minimal American composers like Steve Reich and La Monte Young. He embraces the melodic sides of these masters in the winds of El Vell Rei De La Serp' and the tender piano on Nits de cristall.' You will find yourself submerged in tonality on tracks like Jardins Aquàtics' and La Nau Dels Argonautes' which have a kinship to Philip Glass or Daniel Lentz. Each piece extends from 5 to almost 14 minutes. The music gently laps against listening skin— sometimes placid, sometimes shimmering. Ripples of sound swell and quicken. Flutes like schools of fish. The spray of chimes. Taught strings break like the shore. Tingling, undulating synths. The record cover acts as a map, tracing the forms of the original art and providing the poems in Catalana and Spanish. Once bathed in these sounds one will emerge like Carroll's map: a perfect and absolute blank.' Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonaute emerges in vinyl and digital formats on May 19, 2017 through Freedom To Spend.

Vices is the first ever record from Separation Anxiety, continuing the Horo quest to expose the untouched underbelly of electronic music. Separation Anxiety mixes gothic tinged ambience with metallic beats and contained distortion.
Early support from Samuel Kerridge, Ancestral Voices, Pact Infernal, Grebenstein, Sam KDC.

One dead marine through the hatch
Scratch and scrape this Heavenly body
Every inch of winning skin
There's junk in honey's sack again
Drink to me my Heavenly body
Scratch, scrape, scratch this winning skin
Hack hack hack hack this heavenly body
Yack yack yack yack yack goes junk-face
There's garbage in honey's sack again'

Sexazoid keep using his pheromones to triggers social response in members of his species. So follow the dog walker in to the metal chamber now dripping with zoid sweat. Ace, dusky, metallic house sleaze!

When two people meet: Harmonica space time thicket drums compiled through carbophonic blooming. Stalker/Swoop is a collaboration between German «DIY-Instruments» artist Andreas Oskar Hirsch and Austrian percussion and field recording perfectionist Richard Eigner from Ritornell.Cologne-based artist Andreas Oskar Hirsch produces visual works, sound, music, and texts. He investigates sound, setups, narratives and performative processes and pushes them to a point where frenzy, humor, sense, and nonsense meet. Andreas has been inventing various musical instruments that he performs with, among others, the Electric Palm Leaf, as well as his latest construction, the Carbophon, a kind of a super-kalimba. Both instruments were used on Stalker/Swoop.Richard Eigner is an Austrian composer, sound artist, producer and drummer. In his music he crosses the borders of »experimental acoustic music«, »minimalism« and »electronica« with a focus on the symbiotic use of acoustic elements and electronically produced and processed sounds. Strenuous with numerous sonorous projects he is kept busy with his playful musical project Ritornell, the setup of Denoising installations or drumming for the likes of Patrick Wolf, Flying Lotus, Dimlite and Patrick Pulsinger.

industrial, dark and dirty electro & Techno sounds... Deep rought sound !

Following the collaboration between Elysia Crampton, Kelela and Adrian Piper, 'Final Exam', The Vinyl Factory join with Elysia on her next solo release. 'Spots y Escupitajo'. The release braids legacies from both American club culture and sonic miniature compositions in the form of a 12' sample pack. The LP honours classical American composers such as William Gran Still & John Adams, as well as Central/South American club producers like DJ Rodini, DJ Saiber & Mega DJs from Cochabamba

- 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
- EXPANDED EDITION FEATURING 3 BONUS TRACKS DISKOMO 1992', DISKOMO 2000' AND TWINKLE 2000'
- LIMITED TOUR EDITION OF 1.000 NUMBERED COPIES ON TRANSPARENT BLUE VINYL

The Residents are one of pop history's best kept secrets, throughout the group's existence, the individual members have ostensibly attempted to operate under anonymity, preferring instead to have attention focused on their art output. Much outside speculation and rumor has focused on this aspect of the group. In public, the group appears silent and costumed, often wearing eyeball helmets, top hats and tails—a long-lasting costume now recognized as its signature iconography.

After Eskimo was released The Residents responded to the furore of fuss and praise it generated by taking various bits out of the album and re-working them to a disco parody of the original, this created Diskomo.

The Residents had long planned to produce a children's record -- of sorts. Goosebump is a collection of Mother Goose rhymes set to music with all of the original sinister overtones' left in place. They teamed up with their long-time collaborator Snakefinger and recorded the songs using only musical instruments. Although children's toys were used to produce the music, The Residents' grown-up toys were used afterwards in the mixing of the recording.

We are proud to bring you the expanded edition of the Diskomo / Goosebump E.P. ! This 'new' version has no less than 3 bonus tracks: Diskomo 1992', Diskomo 2000' abd Twinkle 2000'.

Front sleeve notes Special 12' - 45rpm Disco record - Based on the LP Eskimo - Disco will never die!. The Drawing on the back sleeve was done by Jad Fair of Half Japanese. This limited tour edition of 1.000 numbered copies is pressed on transparent blue vinyl.

* The first vinyl of the year is the first step towards knowledge, after the last step we had moved into the darkness.
We've fallen many times and we reacted, we moved forward. For this reason the forthcoming release is called 'La Caduta Di Lucifero' ( The Fall of Lucifer) as homage to the white energy to come and the end of all evils.

* Produced by the acclaimed Codex Empire and the young, talented artist Unconscious.

* A dark and obscure texture with melodies to touch the inner places of the soul. A record designed for vinyl collectors as much as DJs

* The EP comes with a Codex Empire remix which gives the missing dance attitude to the vinyl.

* 'If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another'. Epicurius

'Divination' is the second LP to come from Liam Blackburn's Ancestral Voices project. Where his debut LP 'Night of Visions', reconstructed his rhythmic approach into a primal framework, 'Divination' sheds the beats almost entirely and focuses on soaring drones and Liam's refined approach to ambience. There is moments of tempered elation (Revelation, Inscriptions, Cleromancy), contrasted with black hole soundtracks (Geomancy, Hieratic) with the overall feel of 'Divination' becoming a gently traversing voyage through a revolving mood-scape. With 'Divination' following more beat oriented EP's for Samurai Music and Horo, Liam redefines the sound of Ancestral Voices with every release. 'Divination' is a glistening example of the singular voice he provides to electronic music.
'Divination' is pressed on crisp white vinyl 3x12" housed in a deluxe full artwork sleeve with spot varnished runes exclusive to the LP version.

_moonraker's second full-length release comes as a split-LP: Unvarete I and II. The duo continue to develop their inimitable approach to extended thematic development, melodic and rhythmic counterpoint, and chromatic harmonies.

Personliga artiklar (Personal items) is pure electrical energy from the bottom of rage to clean sanded adventurous sound hypnosis. Slim Vics music mixes sound worlds with clear impact in sound art and darkest ambient, likewise small flirts with underground-based techno and IDM. The album is a selection of previously unreleased material mixed with music that only existed on single or remixed versions earlier, personal articles. One of Sweden's most prominent artists in the spray painting, Rolfcarlwerner, has created all the artwork for the album. The cover to the original painting was painted directly inspired by the album's sound world and was shown at the exhibition 'Outside in 4.0' at the gallery Erik Axl Sund in Stockholm winter in 2016.

The 10th Modal Analysis release is the second full EP of the label's co-founder, ANFS. Mass EP demonstrates ANFS unique sound aesthetics, offering tracks to satisfy the most demanding music-heads. Mass#1 is a sadistic composition of distorted percussions and basslines hitting hard in a slow rhythmic groove , while Mass#2 stands closer to the dancefloor thinking norms, without though leaving behind any of the creepiness of Mass#1. On the flip side, Mass#3 brings back the mood of a horror movie soundtrack, with bleepy riffs on the leading sequence. Finally, Mass#4 is another rhythmic industrial composition, which connects Mass EP with the traditional eastern influences that can be found on ANFS debut release, Ground EP.

You don't have to be a big name to have a big heart but it certainly helps. And that's exactly what we have up next on Touched, big names with big hearts. B12, legendary Warp act from the Artificial Intelligence era, have given Touched a new EP - 'BrokenBroken', a reimagining of their 2016 release 'BrokenUnbroken'.

Listening through, it's clear that these aren't mere remixes or rejected, inferior versions, real love and skill have gone into this EP. New tracks built from revisiting old material with new perspectives. Listen closely and you'll hear vestiges of what once was, riffs, melodies and rhythms are both vastly different from the original release whilst clearly showing their ancestry. It's this dichotomy that keeps you switching between active and passive listening.

Dubby melodic IDM from Dead Fader
Noisy distorted Dub from Goner

Explanatory Denial is the 7th record by Chicago-based electronic producer Jim Magas under his longtime MAGAS monicker. In the '90s, he fronted unconventional 'no wave'-ish bands Couch and Lake Of Dracula. In the early 2000s, he recorded for material for Ersatz Audio and did a few remixes. In the Twenty-teens, he focused on instrumental productions for his own Midwich imprint and composing music for director Asia Argento's 2014 film, Misunderstood. In early 2017, Magas premiered new material during a U.S. tour in support of band Joan of Arc. The limited-to-200 4-track spring 2017 12" EP Explanatory Denial opens with 'Shipping Container', a rough, minimal stomper, offering plenty of bounce, but no padding or instructions.'New Dawn' opens the door to a brightly-lit and concrete alternate reality. 'Sky Castles' keeps bodies moving while synthesized strings whisper false reassurances of easy days and high pay. 'Indelible Mark' is an atmospheric lo-fi Casio lounge-funk spy groover that smells of Holiday Inn wood-paneling, dripping with Benson & Hedges Ultra-lite 100s. Deploying a variety of primitive electronic techniques, Explanatory Denial is a testament to the power of diligent synth-hunting and decades of basement refinement.

Maxwell Allison records improvised loop-based electronic music under the name Mukqs. 11,666,666,666,666,666,666, his first LP with Chicago imprint Midwich Productions, documents a session of intertwined synth melodies and technoid beat arrangements recorded live and presented without overdubs. Previous tape releases compiling live takes of textured noise and deranged sample manipulation using cassette tapes as sound sources appeared on labels like Phinery, Apothecary Compositions, and Hausu Mountain (co-run by Allison himself and Doug Kaplan). Allison and Kaplan perform with Natalie Chami in Chicago free music trio Good Willsmith, whose abstracted electronic rock jams and space drone ritual performances aim for a state of overloaded chaos. On 11,666,666,666,666,666, Allison sheds the randomized and abrasive aspects of past free-for-all jams and latches into an elastic pulse of syncopated basslines and complex percussion patterns pumped from a minimal hardware rig of drum machine and sampler. The LP evokes the subaquatic atmospheres and evolving analog arrangements of Drexciya, the recursive melodic ecstasy of Terry Riley, and the cyborg tonal juxtapositions of Oneohtrix Point Never. Mukqs's arrangements pit the insistence of a rigid grid against a system of arrhythmic synth samples that intersect with a loose logic all their own. Brittle vocal and flute preset tones clash with chordal clouds of sustain and swelling drones, as a network of hi-hat and snare patterns click a path through the center of the mix. Allison's thick bass bursts dominate the stereo spread, animating grooves and harmonizing in distortion with a web of crisp triangle wave arpeggios. His session stretches from the loping electro thump and siren synth walls of "The Tulpoid Serpent" into the zen bongos and syrupy pads of "Neo-Venezia." "Frog Work" hits a stride of major-key bliss when xylophone cascades blend with sitar tones over a 4/4 stomp, as if soundtracking a Studio Ghibli-core movie of Allison's own invention. "Hashimoto-Appelbaum Syndrome" closes the LP with a palette of juxtaposed textures painted in kinetic rhythms: compounded organ lines mingle with vocaloid chirps and a lattice of pitch-shifted cymbals, as a chopped and screwed flute melody holds down the low end with faux-upright bass. If Mukqs's strict adherence to a live take / no overdubs recording regimen betrays a mentality closer to the noise underground, 11,666,666,666,666,666,666 elevates his stubborn practice to new heights of analog synth arrangement and cosmic density.

Bloody abstract Electro Hip Hop, strongly blues, with a pinch of jazz.

Köln Concert remix in a hip hop abstract style...

Radical noisedub from Ghengis (the bugs soundguy Goh)
Melodic sweetness from Goner

The yearly dub-heavy split 7" from Moss by Don Papa & Kambo Super Sound is in stock! The latter duo providing a horn-high & sub-dub digital stepper while Don Papa get's on with a real rub, a swinging keyboard rocking dub-riddim - the only Moss / Canary Island representer.

Lena Platonos is a Greek musician, pianist and music composer. One of the pioneers of Greek electronic music, she remains active today. Lena was born in Heraklion, Crete, and grew up in Athens. She began learning how to play the piano at the age of two and became a professional pianist before turning eighteen. Soon afterwards, she received a scholarship to study in the the Berlin and Vienna Academies , where she was exposed to jazz, rock and Middle Eastern music. She returned to Greece in the late 70's and began working with the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. Released in 1984, 'se ' ('Sun Masks') was Lena Platonos' first record to feature her own words and vocals. All instruments were performed by Lena herself.. 'Sun Masks' was inspired by Argentine writer, Julio Cortázar as well as the film 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd. "I began to reverse my thought process, to let melodies fade out, to turn to minimalism, to experiment on my Yamaha C60 synthesizer and a variety of boxes' which I used to change the sound of my voice as well as the sound of the synthesizer' says Lena. The album featured experiments with different sounds and a new batch of electronic equipment, such as the legendary Roland TR 808 drum machine. Lena narrates each song in deadpan fashion, skillfully reciting her surreal Greek poetry. Her lyrics deal with the futility of love, the gap of human relationships, consumerist alienation in the bourgeois lifestyle of the 1980s. All songs have been remastered from the original master tapes for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The jacket is an exact replica of the 1984 edition, featuring a photograph of Lena wearing sunglasses or sun masks'. Each copy includes a two-sided 11'x11' insert with lyrics in both Greek with English, and liner notes by Lena.

Cem Oral (jammin Unit) with Thomas Mahmoud and Gerald Mandel
Bitcrushed Noise, Experimental Beats, HipHop

Outer space housing experiments from the Sex Tags camp by Adam Just, Lupo, XI and E-gee...

'Finding People' is the newest recording from Croatian Amor, the morphing alias of Loke Rahbek.

With last year's Croatian Amor album, 'Love Means Taking Action,' we witnessed a transformation in the project, its wide-eyed gaze having stared deep into the news feed, reengineering its heartstrings. 'Finding People' takes this even further.

An assembly of choral traces and transmissions, these four new tracks are the project's clearest move towards pop. At the same time, this is perhaps the weirdest record yet from Croatian Amor, introducing a complexity that we have not previously seen. From the cut-up, granulated rhythm section and auto-tuned choir of the opener 'Sky Walkers', to the duetting ballad of 'Finding People'—featuring additional vocals from new name Khalil—the record never rests for long. The exploration is soothing, its search a tonic to the swarm of emotion it provokes.

And while the four tracks on Finding People barely reach 20 minutes it still manages to present the sharpest vision of the project so far.

Though filtered through cascading app windows, the amorous scenery at the project's core has not changed since its inception, even if there is a lot more green screen in the sequel.

The third record on Inversions is a collaborative release with the Norwegian label Drid Machine. Golden Oriole, hailing from Stavanger, comprise of Thore Warland and Kristoffer Riis, esrtwhile members of Staer + Tralten Eller Utpult.

PR is currently underway courtesy of Berlin's Dense Promotion. The tracks have received a lot of radio play, for example "The Approaching of the Disco Void" has been played by the German radio station Eldoradio.

The record has so far received reviews from Germany's "Nonpop" and "African Paper," the Italian "Music Map," "Chain D.L.K." and "Rockerilla" magazines, and France's "Hartzine."

Grebenstein is a producer, DJ and visual artist living in Kassel, Germany. After playing in several bands as a drummer and guitarist he made his solo-debut with a 4-track EP on the Regis helmed label - Downwards Records in November 2014.

The 'Gloss' 4 track EP for Horo comes after his Downwards Records follow up 'Strong, Proud, Stupid, & Superior' with Seefried was released in October 2016.

Title track 'Gloss' centres on percussive crescendos and pensive guitar layers, while 'Self' and it's 'Version' stretch this effect out into a grinding, slow motion introspection. 'Loss' closes the EP with serrated drum machine blasts punctuating feedback contortions. The tension throughout the EP is palpable, with the shaping of the tension providing the substance of his signature style.

Non club tracks for open minded clubs.

Editions Mego presents the first release of a brand new project from JG Thirlwell. Recorded at Self Immolation studios, Brooklyn. This is Xordox.

Xordox orbits a universe inhabited by darkness, wit, mystery adventure and experimentation. The cinematic quality that exudes from Thirlwell's bent being presents itself in Neospection, unlike Thirlwell's other works this is predominantly a synthesizer record, including recording sessions from his residency at the legendary EMS studios in Stockholm. Sarah Lipstate (aka Noveller) plays her super-processed soundscape guitar on three of the tracks on the album, and additional mixing took place at Lazer Sound studios with Al Carlson (who works extensively with Oneohtrix Point Never).

Xordox.

Diamond circulating swells
Sequenced stealth sci-fi
Malleable membrane matters
Wild fabric electronic
Heart eaten beat
Fruits of fear and exhilaration.
Neospection is neon noir.
Neospection is ere 4 yor. Xordox arrives as unexpected and remote as any alien encounter but security lies in the cosmic drama and dark shadows that seep throughout Thirlwell's soul. In this, 2017 we once again enter the mind and world of one man who refuses to play along with anyone's game but the idiosyncratic one of his own devising.

REINHOLD FRIEDL's zeitkratzer proves the perfect ensemble for "Oneirika", avantgarde-veteran ELLIOTT SHARP's composition / soundscape inspired by CAGE-an tradition that premiered at MAERZMUSIK FESTIVAL 2014.

zeitkratzer worked with ELLIOTT SHARP for the first time already in 1997 and have since then been releasing several cooperations, including 2 duo releases of zeitkratzer mastermind REINHOLD FRIEDL and ELLIOTT SHARP. Over the last 40 years the avant-garde musician has created an immense oeuvre: he has performed and recorded with a.o. JOHN ZORN, BILL LASWELL, ZEENA PARKINS, JOEY BARON, DAVID TORN and runs his own formation CARBON. SHARP also composed for the SOLDIER STRING QUARTET, the AMERICAN COMPOSER'S ORCHESTRA or the SYMPHONIC ORCHSTRA of HESSISCHER RUNDFUNK (the New Yorker actually studied with MORTON FELDMAN and ROWELL RUDD). "Oneirika", named after the greek waking dream, is inspired by the CAGE-an tradition and, with its score making use of SHARP's innovative method to filter and process his self-generated musical manuscripts via Photoshop, leaves a great interpretatory latitude to the performers. A perfect subject for an ensemble of the calibre of zeitkratzer who are able to translate from a frequency of light and image into sound and motion. It also fits perfectly with zeitkratzer's sound philosophy: high-quality amplification of acoustic instruments! "Oneirika"was commissioned by Berlin's Maerzmusik Festival and premiered in 2014 at the Berghain, Berlin. Recorded by MARTIN WURMNEST , mixed by RALF MEINZ, mastered by MIKE GRINSER at D&M.



zeitkratzer

directed by Reinhold Friedl

Frank Gratkowski, bassclarinet I Matthew Davis, trumpet IHilary Jeffery, tromboneIReinhold Friedl, pianoI Marc Weiser, guitar IMaurice de Martin, drums I Burkhard Schlothauer, violinIAnton Lukoszevieze, violoncelloIUlrich Phillipp, doublebass

special guest: Elliott Sharp, tenor saxophone, electric guitar, conduction