004 [sold out]
    Rashomon
    Ashcan Copy (film music volume 3)

    17,-- Euro + postage + handling.

    Music by Matt Thompson
    Mix by Jaime Gomez Arellano
    Instrumentation : Mellotron, Fender Rhodes, guitars, bass, zither, bowed psaltery,     percussion, MiniMoog, Moog Taurus bass pedals, jaw harp, harmonium, autoharp,
    and some other stuff

Rashomon is the brainchild of London-based Matt Thompson. A founding member of Guapo, he has been developing the Film Music series under the Rashomon name since 2004. Previous instalments have been inspired by the bizarre narrative discontinuities of directors such as Hiroshi Teshigahara and Albert Zugsmith (The Ruined Map : Film Music Vol. 1) and highly disturbing 1970s public information films (The Finishing Line : Film Music Vol. 2).

Over a year in the making, Ashcan Copy (Film Music Vol.3) contains interpretations of music from unreleased films from Italy, Japan and the USA (among others), dating from the 1950s to 1970s and sourced from film archives across Europe. These eight tracks expand on the source material to include elements of noise, folk, psychedelia, prog and jazz noir, while still remaining faithful to their origins. Unavailable in any other format and largely unknown until now, this music can at last be heard.

For fans of Ennio Morricone, Goblin, Popol Vuh and Bohren und der Club of Gore.

Limited to 150 copies!

    003
    Steve Moore
    Demo 2003

    15,-- Euro + shipping + handling

    

    All instrumentation, production,
    mastering and designs by Steve Moore.
    
    

You may have already heard Steve Moore's work as one-half of the unbelievably awesome prog-rock instrumental duo Zombi, or through his phenomenal first solo-album called "The Henge" (Relapse/Static Caravan, 2007). Now Moore gives us "Demo 2003," a re-issue of his first solo recordings from the turn of the millenium. In contrast to Zombi's tightly structured progressive epics, "Demo 2003" is an exploratory, psychedelic meditation. Over the course of its 10 tracks, including the previously unreleased "Fever Dream", "Demo 2003" explores psychedelic paths through dark atmospheres and drifting harmonies. Smaller in scale than "The Henge," these tracks document Moore's initial fascination with analog synthesizers, focusing more on experimental timbres and droning ambience than on composition or form. This is why this long-player becomes the soundtrack of the mind. It is paranoid, monumental music that hypnotizes the listener with an unholy mix of gloomy, nightmarish, electronic ambiences and the neverending and almighty cosmic beauty.

Limited to 500 copies!

    002 [sold out]
    Guapo
    Black Oni

    17,-- Euro + postage + handling.

    Daniel O’Sullivan: Rhodes, Keyboards, Electronics
    James Sedwards: Bass, Electronics
    Dave Smith: Drums, Percussion
    Kavus Torabi: Guitar

Here at last, Guapo´s "Black Oni" on handnumbered limited edition 180g white vinyl. Originally released on CD by Mike Patton´s Ipecac Records in 2005, this record is the second in a recondite trilogy which began with "Five Suns" and will be concluded by the release of "Elixirs" on Neurot Recordings in February 2008.

Here´s what was said about Black Oni first time round:

With this, their sixth album, Guapo have conjured a harrowingly complex and unflinchingly epic piece of work. Heady and hypnotic, driving and relentless, tumultuous and visceral, sonic and serene, the odyssey that is Black Oni encompasses many paradoxes in its massively dynamic scope. Picking up where they left off from their previous Cuneiform Records release Five Suns (2002), the band continue to expand on their palette of dexterous chamber-rock anomalies, modal transcendence, and apocalyptic death marches, and like it's predecessor, Black Oni is one singular piece of music, making it the second record in a trilogy of large-scale symphonic forms. Incorporating elements of prog, avant-garde jazz, kraut-rock, minimalism and a range of folk mediums from Britain to Indonesia, Guapo take their que from a disparate array of influences including Magma, King Crimson, Boredoms, Goblin, Sun Ra, Charlemagne Palestine, Univers Zero, This Heat, Olivier Messiaen and Popol Vuh. The a! ssembly of Dave Smith's explosive drum assaults, Matt Thompson's brazen and prowling bass throb, and Daniel O'Sullivan's ethereal keyboard reveries telepathically collide in an augury of rich and cinematic musical ceremony. Black Oni is Guapo's most monumentally unreserved offering to date.

Limited to 500 copies!

    001 [sold out]
    Aidan Baker + Leah Buckareff / Datashock
    performing a live improvisation in Darmstadt

    17,-- Euro + postage + handling.

    Ruth- Maria Adam : Violine, Glockenspiel, Accordion
    Pascal Hector : Voice, Guitar, Electronis, Drones
    Ronnie Oliveras : Voice, Pedal Electronics
    Martina Ripplinger : Voice, Kantele, Flutes
    Jan Werner : Guitar, Electronics
    Aidan Baker : Guitar, Electronics, Pedals
    Leah Buckareff : Bass Guitar, Long Bow

On this one-sided picture-12“ you can listen to a live improvisation of the two artists Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff in collaboration with the german band “Datashock”. This show took place on 05/21/2007 in Darmstadt, Germany.
That night the septet combined free sound improvisations and electro-acoustic music with psychedelic, traditional and cosmic frequences in a very particular and idiosyncratic manner.
The result is a 16 minutes long ensemble of sounds, an elegiacally gliding swirl of resounding, clacking, booming and billowing sounds, which intensely and hypnotically swells out of the boxes. Sometimes it produces a chaotic impression as percussion sounds, billowing whisper, nervous howling and creaking guitar sounds get hectically jumbeled. The music resounds constantly powerful and measured and mountains of dull sounds, mystic and drawn-out voices, which resemble electronically alienated Sufi rituals during a consciousness-expanding trip, arise. But it does not turn out to be endless singsong or even mere boring repetition. In short: It was a downright crazy, exciting and impressing experience, which, as it was eternalized on vinyl, developes its own special character.