CODES: - Drone Records

" 10" vinyl version to accompany the long-awaited sixth release for
French composer and electro-acoustic producer, Sylvain Chauveau.
Since his 2000 debut Le Livre Noir Du Capitalisme, Chauveau has been
a pioneering figure in the world of modern classical/electronic music.
This status has seen him inhabit the same creative space as Max
Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Ryan Teague, and Type welcomes
him to their label and community, beginning with the issue of this brand
new mini-album. S. sees Chauveau taking a daring new direction since
his last record, moving away from the haunting strings and piano work
of his best known works and temporarily stepping into the world of
minimal electroacoustics, using the guitar as a focal point." [label info]
* CLOP NEPLAT - untitled do-LP (Some Place Else HAM011,
1999) [lim. 200] € 12.00
Last copies found of this nice release by a project of an ORIGAMI
REPLIKA-member (covers look a bit scuffed), lim. 200, with remixes of
LASSE MARHAUG, KAPOTTE MUZIEK, NIKO SKORPIO, etc..
* COLECLOUGH, JONATHAN & ANDREW LILES - Torch Songs
do-LP (Die Stadt DS93, 2007) [lim. 500] € 22.50
"'Torch Songs' is a collaboration between Jonathan Coleclough and
Andrew Liles. They met in October 2004 when they both performed at
Intergration 3 in Preston, UK. Liles subsequently reworked the
recording of Coleclough's solo performance from that evening. He went
on to add, subtract, multiply and divide further live recordings supplied
by Coleclough, and the eventual result was this double LP. 'Torch
Songs' is packaged in a gatefold sleeve featuring 'I dreamt I was a
river,' a poem composed and painted by Geoff Sawers during a
performance with Coleclough in Geneva in March 2005. The sound of
Geoff's brush painting this lettering can be heard on side B of
'Torch Songs'. The album comes in a beautiful full colour gatefold
sleeve with full colour inner sleeves in a limited edition of 500 copies.
180gr. Vinyl !" [press release]
"Much like the entire back catalogue of John Duncan, British
avant-drone artist Jonathan Coleclough has often buttressed his work
through an ongoing set of collaborations, each of which push his work
into interesting territories while maintaining that essence of Coleclough
that makes all of his albums so enthralling. His 2006 collaboration with
Murmer was easily one of the best drone albums of that year, twisting
field recordings and quiet sessions with electric objects into a gauzy,
crepuscular blur that even made those at Artforum perk up their ears
and listen. Torch Songs came to fruition when both Coleclough and
Liles performed in Preston (probably at the request of the evercharming
Colin Potter) in 2005. In fact, much of the source material for
Torch Songs originated from Coleclough's performance to which Liles
went on to "add, subtract, multiply, and divide" further. The
fundamentals of Torch Songs are primarily Coleclough's signature
moves: swelling, resonant drones manipulated from acoustic sources
and distilled into tonally vibrant beams of pure sound. Yet, Liles (who in
and of himself is a fine technician of sonic alchemy to the point where
he has often graced the stage alongside Steve Stapleton, Colin Potter,
and Matt Waldron in Nurse With Wound) interjects his own sidereal
gestures with wooden creaks, digital time stretching, radiant eruptions
of dissonant couplings with Coleclough's drones, and occasional jaunts
of heavily filtered tin-can and rubber-band rhythms that parallel much of
the output from Liles' recent 12 part Vortex series. Yet for all of Liles'
baroque flares for the sonically surreal, it is Coleclough who authors the
strongest material on Torch Songs through his sublime use of the
drone. The first 300 copies of Torch Songs comes with a bonus CD that
documents Coleclough's aforementioned Preston performance back in
2005." [Aquarius Records]
* COURTIS, ANLA - Psi Gtr Avalanche 7" (Smittekilde SMK R
003, 2007) € 7.00
"Psychokinetic Blues" from the former REYNOLS-mastermind on this 4-
track EP, ultra-strange sounds that are almost beyond description or
classification on Side A (probably made on some kind of strings), a kind
of challenging noise-blues on Side B.. though its not really noise, not
ambient, not drone, just weird sounding! A great one!
Yellow vinyl, multicoloured thick silk screen cover.
* CURRENT 93 - Black Ships ate the Sky do-LP (Durtro Jnana
2112, 2006) [lim. 1000] € 21.00
Die auf 1000 Stück limitierte Vinyl-Version in atemberaubend schöner
Artwork!
"NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!!! BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY is the
new 76-minute masterwork from CURRENT 93, this time with the lineup
of DAVID TIBET, MICHAEL CASHMORE, BEN CHASNEY, STEVEN
STAPLETON, and JOHN CONTRERAS with WILLIAM BASINSKI,
WILLIAM BREEZE, and AMY PHILLIPS. Black Ships Ate The Sky is
the long-awaited studio follow-up to 2000’s Sleep Has His House. It has
taken David Tibet four years to complete, and features some very
special guests including MARC ALMOND, ANTONY, BONNIE
“PRINCE” BILLY, SHIRLEY COLLINS, BABY DEE, and others. Black
Ships Ate The Sky is Current 93’s most powerful and challenging
recording, and looks set to be the most important Current 93 release to
date." [label info]
* DÄLEK - Abandoned Language do-LP (Ernest Jenning Rec.,
2007) € 17.00
Vinyl-Version ihres neuen Albums, Drone-Pop oder Sphären HipHop
par excellence !!
"Als wir das letzte Mal auf DÄLEK trafen, hatten die gerade "Absence"
losgelassen, einen düsteren Ausflug in die Welt des Underground-
HipHop, der sowohl Fans als auch Kritikern die Kinnlade auf die Brust
fallen ließ. Und wenn es auch durchaus als gute Idee erscheinen
könnte, den Charme des Albums auf dem nächsten Werk zu
duplizieren, haben sich DÄLEK einen ganz anderen Weg ausgeguckt;
einen Weg, der an einen Ort namens "Abandoned Language" führt.
Lassen wir DÄLEK, den MC und Produzenten, zu Wort kommen: "Wir
haben auf jeder Platte bisher regelrechte Noisewände aufgebaut und
mit "Absence" haben wir dieses Konzept soweit ausgereizt, wie es nur
geht. Der Sound auf "Absence" war extrem hart und dicht, während der
Fokus auf der neuen Platte auf Komposition und einzelne Noten
ankommt, die wir spielen. Die verschiedenen Schichten sind noch
immer da, aber die Instrumente klingen ganz anders." Tatsächlich
breitet "Absence" von den düsteren Streichern bei "Lynch" über den old
school HipHop-Flavour von "Isolated State" bis zur kopflastigen Melodie
von "Tarnished" eine komplexe Palette aus, die Fans des Avant Noise
voll befriedigen, aber auch Freunden des Mainstream-HipHops gefallen
wird. // Double vinyl version, deluxe gatefold sleeve. "When we last left
off with Dälek, they had released Absence, a dark and dirgy romp
through hip-hop's underground that left countless listeners and critics in
awe. However, while it would probably be a good career move to
replicate that album's noisy charm, Dälek have once again reinvented
themselves with their fourth and most accomplished full-length,
Abandoned Language. 'We've been making wall of noise records for a
long time and I think with Absence we realized far as we wanted to go
with that sound,' Dälek (the MC/producer) explains. 'That sound was
just so heavy and dense, but the new one is about composition and are
playing. The layering is still there, but the instrumentation is totally
different.' In fact, from the sinister strings in 'Lynch' to old-school hiphop
flavor of 'Isolated Stare' to the heady melodicism of 'Tarnished,'
Abandoned Language is complex enough for fans of avant-noise, but
accessible enough for mainstream hip-hop audiences." [press release]
* DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND - Maskenstilleben LP-Box
(Crouton No.36, 2007) [lim.100] € 88.00
Neue unklassifizierbare Sound-Art von RAYMOND DIJKSTRA, der
behauptet, seine Musik nicht für die Öffentlichkeit, sondern nur aus
"metaphysischen" Gründen zu machen. Das 'Maskenstilleben' besteht
hier aus obskuren quietschend-schneidend-konkreten Objekt-Noises
(von Glas, Metall, Holz, Messer..) die nur mit kurzem Analog-Echo
versehen werden, "dahinter" leise disharmonische Harmonium- oder
Synth-Akkorde... hat eine ganz eigene Dynamik und Atmosphäre, kein
Anfang und kein Ende, kein Spannungsbogen, keine Entwicklung....
"es" ist einfach DA... das ganze kommt in einer wunderschönen,
bemalten, aufschiebbaren Holzbox, mit Golddruck-Prägung, in
nummerierter Auflage. Das ist ziemlich weit weg von allem was man
kennt oder sich vorstellen kann, ganz weit draussen...
"We are very pleased to present this enchanting special edition LP from
sculptor, painter, drawer and composer, Raymond Dijkstra. Since 2003,
his recorded work has been released in very grandly designed (though
extremely small editions) on the Le Souffleur label, all of which are out
of print and not easy to obtain. Those who have, discovered the odd,
yet personal world of Raymond Dijkstra, whose recorded output relies
heavily on the acoustic side of electro-acoustic music.
In Dijkstra's own words: 'My overall philosophy is to keep my kitchen
closed. And the lid on the pot. I need to build up pressure; the only time
I release pressure is when playing music. It's all about transformation.
I guess I need to have some distance between me/my music and the
public. In fact I like to see the public as non-existent. Releasing my work
I only do for metaphysical reasons; to keep all psychic and physical
channels open, and maintaining a healthy system. It is not much more
then relieving yourself in the toilet. If not, there'll soon or later come a
point when your system gets clogged, the energy flow will cease, and
the transformation into music stops... I need complete isolation to
protect my work.' Maskenstilleben will be released in a limited
numbered edition of 100 in a painted wooden box on 200 gm virgin
vinyl." [label info]
"It's perhaps no big secret that I am a big fan of the work of Raymond
Dijkstra, and maybe reviewing all of his previous work, entitled me to a
copy of each of this: a big black wooden box with golden text, in an