COSTANZA FRANCAVILLA - 'CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERSE'

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• SLTFREQ001 - LP

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‘Children of the Universe’ - first release for her own ambient label Silent Frequencies - is the new work of Ibiza-based Italian composer Costanza Francavilla. Inspired by the Original Motion Picture soundtrack she wrote for the docu-film by Camille Budin where a NASA astrophysics guide a group of children on the Swiss Alps to discover the Universe. Reverb drenched synth melodies and evocative cellos float between the cosmic sounds of vibro-acoustic instruments - such as Crystal Pyramids, Tibetan Singing Bowls - and the use of music toys of the composer’s little girl, bringing the listener into a dreamlike interstellar dimension. Born in Rome and based in Ibiza, Costanza Francavilla is an Italian composer and music producer. She combines the use of analog / modular synthesizers and sound manipulation mixing electronica with classical music, with an evocative and minimalist approach. Her sultry vocals and electronic dreamlike compositions fascinated Massive Attack member Tricky, with whom she collaborated for several years as a singer and co-producer. He would referred to her as 'the female version of me’ .At young age she studied classical guitar at the Santa Cecilia conservatory of Rome. She holds a bachelor degree in Architecture from the Westminster University of London and University La Sapienza of Rome, with a thesis in Acoustic Physics. Throughout her carrier she's been performing with many acts in prestigious festivals and venues around the world including Royal Festival Hall, Glastonbury (UK), Sonar (ES), Montreaux Jazz Festival. In the mid 2000 she moves to Brooklyn where she founded ZEROKILLED MUSIC - a record label and artist's collective - home of a sound that floats between electronic, contemporary classical and experimental music specializing in compositions for film and visual media. While living in NYC she’s been producing and collaborating with several underground Brooklyn artists including No Surrender, Apollo Heights/ The Veldt from the Tv On The Radio afropunk scene. She produces and writes music for movie trailers and her credits include “Blade Runner 2049”, (starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford), “Counterpart”, (Starz TV Show with Oscar winner J.K. Simmons) “The Hunger Games”, “The Beguiled” (by Sofia Coppola). As a film composer her recent works include “Friedkin Uncut” (official selection doc-classics at Venice Film Festival 2018) , a documentary about cult Hollywood director William Friedkin starring Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, Damien Chazelle; “The End of Time” by visionary film-maker Peter Mettler (TIFF Selection - featuring music by Robert Henke and Richie Hawtin); “S is For Stanley” about Stanley Kubrick (winner at Davide di Donatello); “Free Men” about death row inmate Kenneth Reams premiered at the International Festival of Human Rights; Her music has been featured in advertising campaigns such as Cadillac, Netflix and US TV Shows such as Emmy Awards winner CSI among others. Since she moved in Ibiza in 2016 she’s been exploring ways of vibroacoustic & sound-wave therapies that include the use of meditation instruments such as Tibetan Singing Bowls, Chrystal Pyramids, Hand Pans. Her ambient live set includes such instruments combines with her vocals and modular synthesizers, guiding the audience into a dreamlike atmosphere through Binaural Beat stimulation in Theta brainwave frequencies. With the use of wireless headphones, Costanza’s live performance becomes an intimate sound-journey exploring the pulsating beat of Theta Waves, waves that are generally associated with deep relaxation, meditation, creativity and intuitive awareness. She’s launching a new record label that will be the home for her experimental /ambient works (including the upcoming releases “Children of The Universe” and “Encoded Dreamers” out in Winter 2019) and sound-art projects dwelling in the contemplative electronic and contemporary-classical realm.With her family she lives in the country-side of Ibiza where she founded IbizaBloomStudio - a recording studio/ film editing suite and artist residency.

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"The music is inspired by the soundtrack I wrote for ?Children of the Universe" a documentary film about NASA
Astrophysicist Stephanie Juneau guiding a group of children on the Swiss Alps to discover the Universe.

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VARIOUS - 'SLIPMAT'

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• CFSM1 - HARDWARE

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Two sided, silk screened, heavy duty cork slipmat for your vinyl turntable. B side can be used with the Zoestrobe app (or similar) to create an animation. Art and technical design by Harry Waine.

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Can be used with a Zoestrobe app!!

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TERRY FOX - 'LINKAGE'

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• ETAT12 - LP

  857661008254

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Terry Fox was a first generation Bay Area conceptual artist. Beginning in the 1970s, he worked extensively with sound, especially the use of piano wires detached from their native instrument and anchored between opposing walls of the performance space. Linkage, Fox’s first album, was originally released in 1982 to accompany an installation at Kunstmuseum Luzern in Switzerland. The record would mark Fox’s first attempt to realize his groundbreaking and visceral piece “Berlin Wall Scored for Sound.” Side one links five ways of playing the piano wires: drumming, pulling, bowing, beating and scraping. The room itself acts as a type of natural resonator as Fox moves the wires with padded mallet, his bare fingers, violin bow, wooden shish kebab stick and rusted metal rod. The effect of such plain arrangements can be utterly hypnotizing. The second half of Linkage was recorded in the attic of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, West Berlin, in May 1981. A thirtythree meter long wire was held in contact with a sardine tin. Over the course of 20 minutes, pulsating drones dissolve into rhythmic patterns that sound almost synthetic in origin. As noted in the original LP pamphlet, all these sounds were strictly acoustic; the only electronics involved was the recording equipment. In an introduction for this edition, Marita Loosen-Fox and Ron Meyers write, “The desire to eliminate any barriers between the art and the viewer/audience connects all of Fox’s situations/actions/performances. The ultimate goal is to communicate as directly as possible, which finds its most concentrated expression in the artist’s works with sound.” This first-time reissue is limited to 750 numbered copies. Comes with booklet. 

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1. Drumming 2. Pulling 3. Bowing 4. Beating 5. Scraping 6. Ether 7. The News 8. The Vicar And The Cowboy 9. The Bear 10. Sign Off

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? Early recordings by famed San Francisco conceptual artist ? Originally released in a small gallery edition in 1982 ? Original copies go for high collector prices ? Recommended for fans of Arnold Dreyblatt and Ellen Fullman ? First-time reissue ? Limited edition of 750 numbered copies

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THE TAJ-MAHAL TRAVELLERS - 'JULY 15 1972'

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• ETAT11 - LP

  857661008247

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For over half a century, Takehisa Kosugi was one of the most unique and enduring figures in the Japanese underground. As an art student in Tokyo in the early ’60s, he joined the Fluxus-styled performance unit Hi Re Centre and founded the improvisational ensemble Group Ongaku, but his most legendary project was The Taj-Mahal Travelers—a multicellular organism that included Kosugi, Ryo Koike, Yukio Tsuchiya, Seiji Nagai, Michihiro Kimura, Tokio Hasegawa and sound engineer Kinji Hayashi. With a penchant for long psychedelic jams (some lasting 12 hours or more) The Taj-Mahal Travelers lived up to their name. Touring in a Volkswagen van across Europe and Asia in the early ’70s, they eventually reached the actual Taj Mahal in India. Upon their return to Japan, they held a concert to raise more touring funds and released their very first recordings. Their debut album, July 15, 1972, would extend the band’s matter-of-fact titling: all the tracks were named precisely for the times they began and ended. With a grab bag of instrumentation (electric violin, double bass, santoor, vibraphone, harmonica, radio oscillators, sheet iron, etc.), The Taj-Mahal Travelers weave together mesmerizing waves of sonic texture. Featuring longtone concepts that Kosugi discovered while working with sound generators in New York in the mid-’60s, July 15, 1972 remains just as much a collective tone poem as psych workout. These leader-less sounds coalesce into a unified whole that feels both subconscious and sublime, as if the waveforms bypass the listener’s ears and land directly inside one’s synapses. This first-time vinyl reissue is limited to 900 numbered copies. Comes with poster. 

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1. The Taj-Mahal Travelers Between 6:20 - 6:46 P.M. 2. The Taj-Mahal Travelers Between 7:03 - 7:15 P.M. 3. The Taj-Mahal Travelers Between 7:50 - 8:05 P.M.

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First album by legendary Japanese experimental collective, founded by Takehisa Kosugi ? Originally released on CBS/Sony in 1972 ? First-time officially reissued on vinyl ? Original copies go for high collector prices ? Limited edition of 900 numbered copies ? Comes with poster

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YOSHI WADA - 'LAMENT FOR THE RISE & FALL OF ELEPHANTINE CROCODILE'

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• ETAT13 - LP

  857661008261

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Yoshi Wada’s Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile, originally released in 1982 on India Navigation, remains one of the most remarkable flowers to grow in the rarefied air of American minimalism— akin to Terry Riley’s Reed Streams and Pauline Oliveros’ Accordion & Voice, yet with a wild, liberated energy all of its own. After graduating from Kyoto University of Fine Arts with a degree in sculpture, Wada moved to New York City in 1967 and quickly fell in with the community of artists known as Fluxus. In the early ’70s, he began building his own instruments and writing musical compositions, studying with La Monte Young and Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath. Recorded during an epic three-day session in an empty swimming pool in upstate New York, Wada’s first album brings together two of the oldest drone instruments—the human voice and bagpipes—to simple and glorious effect. A visit to the Scottish Highlands spurred Wada’s interest in bagpipes, which the composer integrated into these sparse, otherworldly sounds heard on Lament. “That swimming pool was quite hallucinatory,” recalls Wada. “It was another world. I felt it in terms of resonance. I slept in the pool, and whenever I moved, I woke up because of the reverberations.... The piece itself is an experiment with reeds and improvisational singing within the modal structure.” This first-time vinyl reissue is limited to 750 numbered copies. Comes with poster. 

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Fluxus composer Yoshi Wada?s first album ? Originally released on India Navigation in 1982 ? Recommended for fans of Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath ? First-time vinyl reissue ? Limited edition of 750 numbered copies ? Comes with poster

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EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - 'ALL IN GOOD TIME'

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• CF126 - LP

  767870660108

• CF126CD - CD

  767870660122

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 “It is impossible to deny no one sounds like Eddy Current. I was hooked from riff one and I was lucky enough to do a full tour of Australia with them years ago—good fucking boys, simple as beer and chips, and that satisfying live. But that’s not to say there aren’t odd complexities to their definitive sound. “You can smell Mikey Young’s guitar approach like Sasquatch rustling the bushes, every time you think you see the bend ahead, you go into a tunnel or backtrack for a moment, then back to a nice place you can call home. Rob [Solid]’s bass is pub-fuzz groove. It’s shellson- the-floor and leaning-against-the wall-with-one-hand-while-youhave- a-piss thinking: maybe you can take that guy? Only one way to find out— oh wait, he’s smiling…nice bloke! Danny [Young]’s drums are a clinic in reservedness: 4-on-the-floor. This guy’s Charlie Watts in the looking glass, every hit a necessity—solid, not flashy, like the lead street tough in a ‘70s flick. He don’t say much, but it counts. And then there is Brendan [Huntley], be-gloved lead mensch in this quartet. Singing with earnest street poet confidence, his message coming in on the weird-wire, hard to describe, best to just listen and see: a pubpunk- priest. “We are very pleased to have these boys back on the streets. It had been far too long.” —John Dwyer

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1. All In Good Time
2. Medieval Wall
3. Shoulders
4. Our Quiet Whisper
5. Voices
6. Reoccuring Dream
7. Vicariously Living
8. Future Self
9. Human Race
10. Like A Comet
11. Modern Man

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Over nine years after their last full length,
cult Australian rock band return with
surprise release

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