AKTI Records

[AKTI Records]

Hey, I started a label focusing on experimental music early 2021. So far I have released three CD`s and one cassette is on it`s way to me. Feel free to check them out!

https://aktirecords.bandcamp.com/

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1.Loren Chasse - Synthesis of Neglected Places (sold out from the label, Loren has a few copies for sale on his Bandcamp page)
ARPH-0001
CD, February 2021
Edition of 100 copies.
https://lorenchasse.bandcamp.com/album/synthesis-of-neglected-places

"I can look forward to no future; I must spend a season of oblivion with nature--
A train is rumbling in the distance; the hot August moon throws its pale light over the earth, heat lightning illumines the unfathomed north; the cricket chorus pulses ceaselessly--a great oppression comes over me--What will the outcome be?"
(August 7th, 1916)

Pacing the yard, I am grateful that I am still animal enough. An arousing profusion makes its way to the surface of me. Fireflies blink on the outskirts of things; a snapped branch of dry leaves nothing sees...
(August 7th, 1998)

Recorded in Pennsylvania at my mother's house and at the Rodale Experimental Farm, summer 1998.
Orginal version released as a cassette on Unique Ancient Tavern. Updated and expanded in Portland, Oregon, 2018.

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2. Tetuzi Akiyama & Tom Greenwood - Stoned Runes
ARPH-0002
CD, June 2021
Edition of 200 copies.
https://tetuziakiyamatomgreenwood.bandcamp.com/

Originally released on U-SOUND as a 25 copies of CD-R, Stoned Runes a improvised live recording of the duo. Recording was made in Tokyo 2008, when Jackie O Motherfucker toured in Japan, performing with Om, Merzbow, and Jim O'Rourke. Stoned Runes is a quiet, intimate and beautifully wandering document of zonked improvised folk acoustic guitar playing.

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3. Pug Life - L`annee Perrotique
ARPH-0003
CD, October 2021
Edition of 100 copies, hand numbered.
https://puglife123.bandcamp.com/

Pug Life worked on L`Annee Perrotique during the time of Covid-19 pandemic. The tracks were recorded separately in accordance with the social distancing protocol. Having lost the opportunity of playing together, it was no longer an option to improvise in real-time. This led to introducing compositional elements, new to our joint venture, which has now been on-going for roughly ten years. In result, this is Pug Life.

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Upcoming:

Sunken - The Four Eyed
AKTICAS-1
Cassette, October 2021
https://sunken123.bandcamp.com/album/the-four-eyed

Sunken is the very occasional Aotearoa/New Zealand duo of Antony Milton and Stefan Neville. Their shared love of reed organs and being underwater has produced four albums since 2004. "The Four Eyed" is from a nearly forgotten session in Waterview, Auckland in 2014. In preparation for a live performance at The Audio Foundation's "Nowhere" festival, the session was recorded live to 2 track tape machine with the reed organs being augmented by electronics, tapes, voice, intercoms & assorted other keyboards. The shadows of a giant motorway and tunnel construction (now completed) at the end of the street inspired lyrical content as did their friend Diana Mahoney.

[AKTI Records]

Hey, I started a label focusing on experimental music early 2021. So far I have released three CD`s and one cassette is on it`s way to me. Feel free to check them out!

https://aktirecords.bandcamp.com/

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1.Loren Chasse - Synthesis of Neglected Places (sold out from the label, Loren has a few copies for sale on his Bandcamp page)
ARPH-0001
CD, February 2021
Edition of 100 copies.
https://lorenchasse.bandcamp.com/album/synthesis-of-neglected-places

"I can look forward to no future; I must spend a season of oblivion with nature--
A train is rumbling in the distance; the hot August moon throws its pale light over the earth, heat lightning illumines the unfathomed north; the cricket chorus pulses ceaselessly--a great oppression comes over me--What will the outcome be?"
(August 7th, 1916)

Pacing the yard, I am grateful that I am still animal enough. An arousing profusion makes its way to the surface of me. Fireflies blink on the outskirts of things; a snapped branch of dry leaves nothing sees...
(August 7th, 1998)

Recorded in Pennsylvania at my mother's house and at the Rodale Experimental Farm, summer 1998.
Orginal version released as a cassette on Unique Ancient Tavern. Updated and expanded in Portland, Oregon, 2018.

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2. Tetuzi Akiyama & Tom Greenwood - Stoned Runes
ARPH-0002
CD, June 2021
Edition of 200 copies.
https://tetuziakiyamatomgreenwood.bandcamp.com/

Originally released on U-SOUND as a 25 copies of CD-R, Stoned Runes a improvised live recording of the duo. Recording was made in Tokyo 2008, when Jackie O Motherfucker toured in Japan, performing with Om, Merzbow, and Jim O'Rourke. Stoned Runes is a quiet, intimate and beautifully wandering document of zonked improvised folk acoustic guitar playing.

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3. Pug Life - L`annee Perrotique
ARPH-0003
CD, October 2021
Edition of 100 copies, hand numbered.
https://puglife123.bandcamp.com/

Pug Life worked on L`Annee Perrotique during the time of Covid-19 pandemic. The tracks were recorded separately in accordance with the social distancing protocol. Having lost the opportunity of playing together, it was no longer an option to improvise in real-time. This led to introducing compositional elements, new to our joint venture, which has now been on-going for roughly ten years. In result, this is Pug Life.

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Upcoming:

Sunken - The Four Eyed
AKTICAS-1
Cassette, October 2021
https://sunken123.bandcamp.com/album/the-four-eyed

Sunken is the very occasional Aotearoa/New Zealand duo of Antony Milton and Stefan Neville. Their shared love of reed organs and being underwater has produced four albums since 2004. "The Four Eyed" is from a nearly forgotten session in Waterview, Auckland in 2014. In preparation for a live performance at The Audio Foundation's "Nowhere" festival, the session was recorded live to 2 track tape machine with the reed organs being augmented by electronics, tapes, voice, intercoms & assorted other keyboards. The shadows of a giant motorway and tunnel construction (now completed) at the end of the street inspired lyrical content as did their friend Diana Mahoney.

Sunken - The Four Eyed cassette is out now and available via https://aktirecords.bandcamp.com/merch
Muddy reed organ drones & drowned vocals recorded straight to reel to reel tape!

[AKTI Records]

Sunken tape sold out from the label (as well as the Loren Chasse CD), some copies available at Ektro Records. No more releases coming this year, thanks to anybody who supported the label! We are going to kickstart 2022 with a batch of three CD`s, but more info abt those later!

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I`m going to have to eat my own words because...

Joseph Allred - Regeneration Of Time is out now digitally (the tape will be available in January)

https://allred123.bandcamp.com/album/regeneration-of-time?fbclid=IwAR2EV8aE3nTGletBa37kZtqKvKX9gggls6KmzVRb8dq8RBKJXwzLpko2lJ4

"Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-born multi-instrumentalist, who has received critical acclaim for his seemingly endless slew of wonderful records on labels such as Feeding Tube Records and Scissor Tail, most of which showcase his talent for all things stringed. Here on "Regeneration Of Time" Allred encorporates guitars, piano, mandolin, banjos, zither, jaw harp, clarinet, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, turntable and field recordings to create an immensely beautiful and contemplating instrumental atmosphere."

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So Fahey sort of primitive multi-instrumentalism with a touch of jazzy spirit. A killer of an album. Here is a few download codes, if you use them please comment the one you used below.

https://aktirecords.bandcamp.com/yum

codes:
cm5x-ewjb
eb8p-7s8w
rxnr-5434
d4a5-badm

cheers,
AKTI

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Out now for streaming & pre-order, records ship on or around 20.1.22

https://pymathon123.bandcamp.com/
Pymathon - Entangled Stench CD

"Sometimes the simplest idea is the best: to PLAY. That is, to not to rehearse, to not to plan, to not to "compose". To only play – start, go on, finish. Pymathon was formed in the summer of 2005 in Turku,
Finland. Initially the band was a guitar-drums duo, but as the years rolled by Pymathon evolved into a quartet. And what a quartet! Thunderously blasty drumming, totally morbid axe work, poisonously lethal noise and unforgivingly sick vocals! Pymathon play their expressive Death-Thrash through the prism of free jazz, noise and free improvisation. This is the only way to preserve a sort of "never ending demo-phase". Metal is best when it is RAW when it has just about entered its initial stages of existence – when it is still trapped inside the void of unknowing. Metal does not get better with age – it's actually quite the opposite. Pymathon go backwards in time, they stop the time, bend it a little bit, go through it. TOTAL improvisation is the ONLY way to reach the early sound of Thrash and Death Metal – the chaotic sound of an early demo by Kreator, Sarcofago, Demilich or Carcass for that matter. All members of Pymathon have been active in the Finnish experimental underground for couple of decades. And paradoxically, with their thoroughly improvised approach, metal DOES get better with time. Pymathon kommer, Pymathon killer!!!"

Börje Östhof, Turku, Disember 2021

Recorded and mixed at BlackFloydsAnalogStudio by Tapio Lepistö, June 2016. Mastered by Lasse Marhaug.
Cover art by Tommi Musturi, Layout by Kai Johansson!

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Out for pre-order & streaming, records ship on or around 20.1.22:
Acid Mothers Temple & Melting Paraiso U.F.O - Demi-Demoniac Daemoog CD
https://acidmother123.bandcamp.com/album/demi-demoniac-daemoog

Acid Mothers Temple & Melting Paraiso U.F.O has always held a deep dedication and devotion towards improvised music. From psychedelic freakouts to Stockhausen-inspired noise, from minimalism to 70's prog rock; to go from Black Sabbath all the way to Terry Riley, Acid Mothers Temple is your best gateway drug.
Now with a history of over two decades, and a discography of over one hundred releases, here is one killer of an album more for you! Recorded at Lodge Studio in September 2017 and continued at Acid Mothers Temple in October 2021, Demi-Demoniac Daemoog is a monolith made out of wild and bubbly synthesizers topped with totally "out there" kind of fuzz freakism.

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. at the time of this recording were :
Kawabata Makoto : guitar, synthesizer, speed guru
Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer, fishing god
Mitsuko☆Tabata : moog guitar, voice, maratab
Satoshima Nani : drums, synthesizer, another dimension
Wolf : bass, space & time

Recorded at Lodge Studio (London) on 21st - 22nd September 2017
and at Acid Mothers Temple on 11th - 12th October 2021
Produced and mixed by Kawabata Makoto
Sponsored by Moog Lab
Special thanks to Tom Relleen and Morgan Peckosh
Layout and CD design by Jani Hirvonen

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Some stuff has come out since last update:

Viitakoski – Blue Exhibition CS

Jan-Erik Juhani Viitakoski composed his minimalist debut work Blue Exhibition, during one night, in the home studio of his father Hella von Viitakoski's home studio Villa Berlin, at the age of six. As Viitakoski Jr. told in an interview for Helsingin Sanomat, the work was created in a derelict art museum where he had spent his nights. The descriptions of the museum and its blue art works were detailed and vivid, and the paper received many inquiries about the museum's location and its fascinating exhibition.

The research led to a curious conclusion: there was no such art museum or blue exhibition. Various specialists, from child psychologists to sleep researchers, looked into the case that was never definitively resolved or agreed upon. Jan-Erik Juhani Viitakoski disappeared after primary school. He was declared dead a decade later. Thirty years after his disappearance, however, he turned up on a blue bicycle in his hometown. There is no information about the course of his life during his absence. Today, Jan-Erik Juhani Viitakoski lives in a family mansion owned by the Viitakoski Foundation and is said to have returned to minimalism and contemporary art.

Edition of 75 copies.

AKTI Zine vol.1

This zine includes interviews from beloved experimentalists such as Lau Nau, Bill Nace, Tommi Keränen, Marja Ahti, Topias Tiheäsalo, Steven R. Smith and Tom Greenwood + some reviews of records that have been either an slight obsession and/or a source of inspiration for me.

Edition of 200 copies.

Lau Nau – Puutarhassa CD

In the summer 2020 Lau Nau did a video performance Live in the Orchard for the Munich based concert series frameless. She built a little transportable wagon that fits a modular synth, a miniature recording studio and a sound system, and created a concept for the performance where she made field recordings in the garden while playing the synth. This record includes two straight takes from the live performance, remixed with other material Lau Nau recorded in the same vein in the same place, a tiny village on an island in the Western coast of Finland.

Edition of 200 copies.

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Passed Futurist - Lost Naturist CS (AKTICAS-5)

https://passedfuturist.bandcamp.com/album/lost-naturist

Lo and behold soon lands the debut tape of freshly formed duo Passed Futurist. Known mostly for their adventures in experimental rock music and visual art, Heikki Hautala (gtr) and Touko Santamaa (drums) create a 20 minute havoc aptly named Lost Naturist. In the first track you'll find the fresh duo ripping their guts out in a way that Orcutt & Corsano would only that Lost Naturist is way more in a state of one second before the collapse. After the gutting Passed Futurist lays their insides on the table and perdicts the future. This debut tape is as strong as it gets. Pro dubbed and limited to 75 copies. Tapes will be sent out on 19th of December.

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Passed Futurist - Lost Naturist CS (AKTICAS-5) Out now!
https://passedfuturist.bandcamp.com/album/lost-naturist

Lo and behold now lands the debut tape of freshly formed duo Passed Futurist. Known mostly for their adventures in experimental rock music and visual art, Heikki Hautala (gtr) and Touko Santamaa (drums) create a 20 minute havoc aptly named Lost Naturist. In the first track you'll find the fresh duo ripping their guts out in a way that Orcutt & Corsano would only that Lost Naturist is way more in a state of one second before the collapse. After the gutting Passed Futurist lays their insides on the table and predicts the future. This debut tape is as strong as it gets. Pro dubbed and limited to 75 copies.

Copies heading to Discreet Music (Swe), Knotwilg (Be), Skuggsidan (Swe), Satatuhatta (Fin), Ektro (Fin)

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Out now for pre-order:

Jon Collin & Niclas Anderstedt Lindgren - Dark Country CD
https://joncollinniclasanderstedtlindgren.bandcamp.com/album/dark-country

Dark Country is the first collaboration between Stockholm-based experimental musicians Jon Collin and Niclas Anderstedt Lindgren. On Dark Country you have the familiar echoes from Collin`s post-bluesy attack on strings, but this time accompanied with a considerable amount of speaker crackle and Lindgren`s clever yet reticent sound sculpting. All the sounds you`ll hear on Dark Country are created by live guitar improvisations and electronic processing thereof. Edition of 300 copies.

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Latest Akti releases:

Jon Collin & Niclas Anderstedt Lindgren - Dark Country CD
https://joncollinniclasanderstedtlindgren.bandcamp.com/album/dark-country

Dark Country is the first collaboration between Stockholm-based experimental musicians Jon Collin and Niclas Anderstedt Lindgren. On Dark Country you have the familiar echoes from Collin`s post-bluesy attack on strings, but this time accompanied with a considerable amount of speaker crackle and Lindgren`s clever yet reticent sound sculpting. All the sounds you`ll hear on Dark Country are created by live guitar improvisations and electronic processing thereof.

Black Bevy - 8300 Miles CD
https://blackbevy.bandcamp.com/album/8300-miles

Black Bevy is the name of the newly formed intercontinental collaboration between experimental musician Antony Milton (Sunken, Claypipe) and American visual/sound artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Their creation, 8300 Miles, is a six track long opus full of hefty and mind-bending drone, the most carefully crafted ambience and is by and large an very precise documentation of the two distinctive soundmakers working together.

Antony Milton - Off-White CS

https://amilton.bandcamp.com/album/off-white

Synth-heavy and rhythmically sliced with sharp electronic percussion, Antony Milton`s "Off-White" exhibits no shyness in its ethos. With one foot shamelessly planted in a sentimental nostalgia for 1980's cry-yourself-to-sleep pop music and the other firmly remaining shin deep in the New Zealand underground "Off-White" raises its arms in salute to brainy romantics everywhere. Needless to say there are also extended sections of synapse distorting guitar and ecstatic drones aplenty as usually is the case when it comes down to the veteran New Zealand experimentalist.

Jackie-O Motherfucker - Channel Zero CS
https://jomf.bandcamp.com/album/channel-zero

Channel Zero introduces an interesting take on the long running experimental band Jackie O Motherfucker with its lengthy ritualistic drone loops and Eva Saelens' (Inca Ore) revolutionary roars. This unreleased live recording from 2006 proves that the oh-so-fluid project has always had an ear for true sonic disturbance and devout expanding of the consciousness.

[AKTI Records]

Latest Akti releases:

Jon Collin & Niclas Anderstedt Lindgren - Dark Country CD
https://joncollinniclasanderstedtlindgren.bandcamp.com/album/dark-country

Dark Country is the first collaboration between Stockholm-based experimental musicians Jon Collin and Niclas Anderstedt Lindgren. On Dark Country you have the familiar echoes from Collin`s post-bluesy attack on strings, but this time accompanied with a considerable amount of speaker crackle and Lindgren`s clever yet reticent sound sculpting. All the sounds you`ll hear on Dark Country are created by live guitar improvisations and electronic processing thereof.

Black Bevy - 8300 Miles CD
https://blackbevy.bandcamp.com/album/8300-miles

Black Bevy is the name of the newly formed intercontinental collaboration between experimental musician Antony Milton (Sunken, Claypipe) and American visual/sound artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Their creation, 8300 Miles, is a six track long opus full of hefty and mind-bending drone, the most carefully crafted ambience and is by and large an very precise documentation of the two distinctive soundmakers working together.

Antony Milton - Off-White CS

https://amilton.bandcamp.com/album/off-white

Synth-heavy and rhythmically sliced with sharp electronic percussion, Antony Milton`s "Off-White" exhibits no shyness in its ethos. With one foot shamelessly planted in a sentimental nostalgia for 1980's cry-yourself-to-sleep pop music and the other firmly remaining shin deep in the New Zealand underground "Off-White" raises its arms in salute to brainy romantics everywhere. Needless to say there are also extended sections of synapse distorting guitar and ecstatic drones aplenty as usually is the case when it comes down to the veteran New Zealand experimentalist.

Jackie-O Motherfucker - Channel Zero CS
https://jomf.bandcamp.com/album/channel-zero

Channel Zero introduces an interesting take on the long running experimental band Jackie O Motherfucker with its lengthy ritualistic drone loops and Eva Saelens' (Inca Ore) revolutionary roars. This unreleased live recording from 2006 proves that the oh-so-fluid project has always had an ear for true sonic disturbance and devout expanding of the consciousness.

(Some of) these releases are/will be available from Discreet Music (Swe), Knotwilg (Be), Satatuhatta (Fin), Ektro (Fin), Art Into Life (Jpn), Tobira (Jpn), Tribe Tapes (USA). If you wish to stock these items email aktirecs@gmail.com.