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vinyl -- selection JUNE 2006
 
Artist: ALIO DIE
Title: BOX / Under an Holy Ritual & Aurea Hora
Label: A SILENT PLACE
Format: 2 LP 12’’ + 10”
Price: 50€
Catalog #: LIMITED TO 100 COPIES WORLWIDE

This is a very special release that includes the two ALIO DIE issues on SmallVoices: the reissue of his fantastic masterpiece "Under an Holy Ritual" (SVV004), very well
known ritual ambient music milestone on 12" LP and the totally new and exclusive Alio Die studio work titled "Aurea Hora" (SVV007) released on vinyl 10".
Both vinyls (here in clear wax) are enclosed in an amazing and special de-luxe plexiglas Box Set. The release is limited to 100 hand-numbered copies only..., so please hurry
up! First come, first serve!

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Artist: PAINTING PETALS ON THE PLANET GHOST
Title: S/T
Label: TIME LAG
Format: LP
Price: 44€
Catalog #: Time-lag030

Debut recording from italy 's opalio brothers (my cat is an alien) and ramona ponzini. an esoteric and mesmerizing trip through space, minimalism, and emotion. each track recorded at a different mystical location in the western alps, and centered around ramona 's beautiful vocals, all of which are sung in traditional japanese. maurizio & roberto add sparse accompaniment by means of toy piano, alien keyboard tones, antique accordion, percussion, tape effects, and some particularly evocative acoustic guitar. the whole thing comes off alternately as deeply meditative or chillingly haunted, depending on your attention & mood. silence, space & ritual are hugely important here, with notes & words hovering frozen in time... while the my cat is alien moniker might leave some folks scratching their heads, here the painting petals on plant ghost name nails it : fragile, beautiful, cosmically isolationist, and totally spooked... pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl, and lushly packaged with letterpress printed cover & insert. printed with copper ink on exquisite & massively thick handmade ivory art paper, each sheet cast one at a time & air dried. hand numbered edition of 560 copies.

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Artist: AXOLOTL
Title: CHEMICAL THEATER
Label: Gipsy Sphinx
Format: LP
Price: 13,5€
Catalog #:  

Brand new hand-numbered edition of 552 12" ep from this great new european label gipsy sphinx that also just released the vanishing voice 'nordic visions' set. here karl bauer uses violin, vocals, electronics and percussion to assemble swathes of hypnotic, tripped-out noise that falls somewhere between terry riley's circular, pulsing explorations, sonic boom's radiophonic workshop gargles and swirls, and burning star core / vibracathedral's wall of sound. the a-side is an ecstatic fog with the b-side the gentle star-gazing come-down. superb and highly recommended.

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Artist: MAGIK MARKERS
Title: FOR SADA JANE
Label: Textile records
Format: LP
Price: 14,5€
Catalog #:  

A new addition to the magik markers discography (the first vinyl to reach us following the essential ecstatic peace lp) is this tasty and limited vinyl splatter on the french textile label, featuring elisa with various line-ups of the band from the 'traditional' elisa, leah and pete nolan trio to variations including the addition of underground enigma joshua burkett. surprisingly mellower than most markers paint-peelers, this beauty combines supreme no-wave / early sonic youth racket with more introverted atmospheric basement explorations. all in all fab stuff from one of the most vital noise-making ensembles around. highly recommended, limited to 500 only, mostly sold on tour and not likely to hang around too long!

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Artist: NOXAGT / ULTRALYD
Title:  
Label: Textile records
Format: LP
Price: 13,5€
Catalog #:  

 
The ninth in the limited split vinyl only series from textile! 600 copies only: this one has two key norwegian improv units! (both well known load recording acts) ultralyd advances free jazz noise improv through long excursions into disturbing climates. the noxagt tracks covers their radio sessions for resonance fm, wfmu and kill yr ego from 2002 - 2003.
 
 
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