Falt Releases New Cassette Batch: Bruno Duplant, kNN, Matthew Atkins, and Mark Lyken

Falt Releases New Cassette Batch: Bruno Duplant, kNN, Matthew Atkins, and Mark Lyken

Falt has released its new batch of limited cassettes that are also all available for free digital streaming via the label’s Bandcamp page. The first album comes from Bruno Duplant and is entitled Ruptures & Continuités. The album was composed with material recorded with a cell phone and a bit of synthesizer that was then all filtered into a small tape recorder. You can purchase the cassette here.

The second new album comes from kNN and is entitled Several Audio Tests For Magnetophones And Magnetic Tapes. The cassette is comprised of four tracks that run for approximately nine minutes. As a note, the B side contains the same audio as the A side. While short, these pieces are heartening in their simplicity. You can find more information about the release and purchase it here

The third new album comes from Matthew Atkins and is entitled Cryptic System. The album spans 24 minutes across its two sides and features a delicate collage of sounds including synthesizers and found objects. You can purchase the album here.

The final new album from Falt comes from Mark Lyken and is entitled Green Above The Blades. The release contains three tracks across its two sides that span 38 minutes. The description for the album lists numerous objects that were used for the recordings, including daffodils, milk bottles, gameboys, and contact mics. You can purchase the album here.

Swarming Reissues Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet, and Dan Warburton's ‘Metro Pré Saint​-​Gervais’

Swarming Reissues Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet, and Dan Warburton's ‘Metro Pré Saint​-​Gervais’

During the early to mid 2000s, Mike Bullock ran a record label called Chloë. One of its releases was from Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet, and Dan Warburton. It was entitled Métro Pré Saint Gervais and, as its title suggests, was recorded live at the Paris Métro station. The recording took place on a late July evening in 2001 and found the three musicians "experimenting real-time music in daily life.” Guionnet played alto sax, Warburton played violin, and La Casa used his microphones. Swarming, Eric La Casa’s label, has just reissued it.

Métro Pré Saint Gervais runs 64 minutes across its two tracks and is limited to 300 copies. You can purchase the physical CD via the label’s Bandcamp page here or the label’s own website here.

Marginal Frequency Releases New Albums from Howard Stelzer, Sandy Ewen & Chase Gardner

Marginal Frequency Releases New Albums from Howard Stelzer, Sandy Ewen & Chase Gardner

Marginal Frequency has released two new albums. One comes from a duo comprised of Sandy Ewen and Chase Gardner. It’s entitled Transfusion and runs 40 minutes across six tracks. The album is filled with pieces featuring found objects and extended guitar techniques that feel at once homespun and comfortingly peculiar. Tranfusion is accompanied by the following description:

Some sort of metallic liquid with unknown properties is transfused into the blood. It makes its way with a cold and questionable feeling throughout. Eventually it adjusts with the elements of its new abode and sets in. Outer layers are shed and bonds are tightly formed and shaped. Now amusing feats can be achieved with shiny metal covered on the inside.

The second album that Marginal Frequency has released comes from Howard Stelzer and is entitled Across the Blazer. The album was composed between 2015 and 2017 and features components that are taken from live performances throughout the US. Its two tracks are extended drone pieces, the second of which is comparatively noisy.

You can stream both albums above courtesy of their respective Bandcamp pages. Both are available as a physical CD. Transfusion can be purchased here. Across the Blazer can be purchased here. Both releases mark the first time that any of the artists have released something via Marginal Frequency.

Notice Recordings Releases New Cassette Batch: Okkyung Lee, Sarah Hennies & Greg Stuart, Matt Hannafin performing John Cage

Notice Recordings Releases New Cassette Batch: Okkyung Lee, Sarah Hennies & Greg Stuart, Matt Hannafin performing John Cage

Notice Recordings has released a new batch of cassettes. The first release comes from the esteemed New York-based cellist Okkyung Lee. Her new album is entitled Speckled Stones and Dissonant Green Dots. The first track is currently available for streaming and features a sprightly arrangement or computer-generated and analogue synthesizer. The B-side is said to “suggest early polyphony.” You can purchase the cassette on Bandcamp here.

The second new release from Notice Recordings is from percussionists Sarah Hennies and Greg Stuart. The B-side “Basin” is currently available for streaming and features a captivating assortment of found sounds that form a mysterious narrative-of-sorts. You can find more information about the album and purchase it here.

The third new release from Notice Recordings is from Matt Hannafin and finds him performing pieces from John Cage. It’s called Four Realizations for Solo Percussion and features compositions that Cage wrote during the last thirty years of his life. One piece, entitled “c Ȼomposed Improvisation,” was written for Glen Velez, a percussionist that Hannafin studied under. You can stream the A-side can be streamed above. More information about the pieces and purchasing the album can be found here. All three cassettes are limited to 100 copies.

Glistening Examples Releases Three New Albums from Tom White, Colin Andrew Sheffield, and Simon Whetham

Glistening Examples Releases Three New Albums from Tom White, Colin Andrew Sheffield, and Simon Whetham

Glistening Examples has released three new albums. The first comes from Tom White and is entitled Run Amok. The album features ten tracks that contain recordings sourced from an intervention that took place on Lanzarote, the volcanic island where Werner Herzog shot his film Even Dwarfs Started Small. The album is 40 minutes long across ten tracks. This marks the first time that White has released an album on Glistening Examples. You can stream the album above or purchase it via its Bandcamp page here.

The second album comes from Colin Andrew Sheffield. The album is entitled Repair Me Now. The album contains two tracks that are 23 minutes each and is comprised of "commercially available recordings” that were gifted to the artist by Sheffield's friend Matt Shoemaker, who passed away in 2017. Repair Me Now can be streamed above or purchased via its Bandcamp page here.

The third new album comes from Simon Whetham. It’s entitled Cal Y Canto and contains two tracks that run for a total of 41 minutes. The album was composed from performances that took place at the Tsonami Festival in Chile this past December. You can stream the album above or purchase it via its Bandcamp page here. All three albums mark the first time that these artists have released something on Glistening Examples.

Mattin Releases 'Songbook #7' Featuring Lucio Capece, Moor Mother, More

Mattin Releases 'Songbook #7' Featuring Lucio Capece, Moor Mother, More

Mattin has released the seventh installment of his Songbook series and is currently available for streaming and ‘name your price’ digital download on his Bandcamp page here. The album spans over fifty minutes across seven tracks, each of which takes its title from a different month, representing the “first seven months of 1917 in revolutionary Russia.” The cover art features an image of Germaine Berton, an anarchist who was the director of the French Action League, and also assassinated Marius Plateau in 1923.

The album was recorded in 2017 in Cologne and features a slew of musicians: Lucio Capece, Moor Mother (of Irreversible Entanglements), Marcel Dickhage, Farahnaz Hatam, Cathleen Schuster, and Colin Hacklander. A physical LP will be released next month on Munster Records.

Erstwhile Records Announces The Shadow Ring Box Set on New Imprint ErstPast

Erstwhile Records Announces The Shadow Ring Box Set on New Imprint ErstPast

Erstwhile Records has announced a new imprint called ErstPast. As is hinted at by the name, ErstPast will focus primarily on archival releases. They have two major releases planned for 2019, one of which has been announced today: a boxset containing the complete recorded works of The Shadow Ring. The Shadow Ring were formed in England in 1992 and featured Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris after having performed together as Footprint. Tim Goss joined the lineup in 1996, and the trio would continue to make music together until their disbandment in 2003.

This boxset will contain 12 CDs and 1 DVD, marking the first time that the band’s complete recordings have been released in one place. Graham Lambkin had previously released two compilations on his now-defunct label Kye. The boxset will contain all material found on previous records—City Lights, Put The Music In It's Coffin, Wax-Work Echoes, Live in U.S.A., Hold Onto I.D., Lighthouse, Lindus, I'm Some Songs, and Remains Unchanged. There will also be previously unreleased material in the boxset.

As a note, much of the material that The Shadow Ring recorded was not mastered. As such, these recordings will be mastered (or remastered) for this release. The boxset is projected to be released in 2019. There will be more details closer to the release date.

Indonesia-Based Record Label Hasana Editions Releases Two New Albums

Indonesia-Based Record Label Hasana Editions Releases Two New Albums

Hasana Editions is a new record label from Indonesia that focuses on sound art being made in the country. They released their first pair of cassettes early last month. They recently released their second pair of albums. The first comes from Yogyakarta-based artist Julian Abraham ‘Togar’ and is entitled Acoustic Analog Digitally Composed. It features 26 tracks that rhythmically reenact his sound installations. His installations “connect art, environment, science, and technology as new tools to engage and educate both the artist and the society.”

The second new album comes from Pontianak-based composer Nursalim Yadi Anugerah. His album is entitled Selected Pieces from HNNUNG. The label describes the release as follows:

Adapted from Kayaan people oral literature Takna’ Lawe’, HNNUNG is a chamber opera that amplifies the cosmic dramaturgy of Kayaan culture—in which the narrative of matriarchy is essential. HNNUNG the opera was performed by Balaan Tumaan Ensemble and Kerubim Choir using various instruments ranging from kaldii’ and sape’ to tenor saxophone and contrabass. For this edition, he selects nine recording pieces from his opera HNNUNG in the form of sonic-fiction—he lets his composition works as a narrator. 

Both albums can be streamed above via the label’s Bandcamp page. You can purchase the albums digitally on their respective pages. You can also purchase cassettes—limited to 100 copies each—on the label’s website here.

Erstwhile Records Announces New Keith Rowe Album

Erstwhile Records Announces New Keith Rowe Album

Erstwhile Records has announced a new album on its ErstClass imprint. The album finds Keith Rowe performing a composition by Frank Abbinanti entitled “City Music.” Rowe performed a piece by the same composer and with the same title on his 1990 album A Dimension Of Perfectly Ordinary Reality. This composition is, however, different despite sharing the same title. Rowe performed the piece in Chicago earlier this decade, a video of which you can see below. Jon Abbey of Erstwhile has stated that the recording that will appear on this new album will be “very different” from what was heard in Chicago. No release date is confirmed as of yet.

Keith Rowe last released an album on Erstwhile in 2017, a collaboration with Michael Pisaro entitled 13 Thirteen. Earlier this year, he released a collaborative album with John Tilbury and Kjell Bjørgeengen on Sofa entitled Sissel.

Orphax Announces New Album Saxophone Studies

Orphax Announces New Album <i>Saxophone Studies</i>

Sietse van Erve aka Orphax has announced a new album entitled Saxophone Studies. The album is coming out via Moving Furniture Records and features two compositions performed by James Fella and Jozef van Erve. The track by the former finds its roots in a project that Orphax had started back in 2006. He asked musicians to send audio files he could then utilize for his own music, one such recording being from Fella. He stumbled upon the recording in 2017 and eventually created "JF". The track can be streamed above via the label’s Bandcamp page. The second composition is a collaboration between Orphax and his father. You can pre-order the album digitally or physically here.