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Anla Courtis & Richard Francis – Aucklantida
C40 Cassette (R&L042)
Edition of 50
<$8.00 (USA) / $10.00 (World)>Since the mid-90′s, Argentinian composer Anla Courtis has found an uncomfortable nest within his strange and abstract music. Meanwhile on the opposite side of the planet, Richard Francis has been establishing himself within his outpost in New Zealand as a sage of ambient drone waveforms. When both of these minds melded across the Pacific, the following documentation was born. Studied and paced drone textured without any caution using cut-ups, modular electronics and bent instrumentation.
Stone Baby – Debris
C20 Cassette (R&L040)
Edition of 50
<$8.00 (USA) / $10.00 (World)>Distorted ambient death rattles by upstate NY artists Cory E. Card and Jen Marquart wraps up another perfect release in Debris. Blistering drones that contradict itself , layered shards of voice and tape wrapped up in a tangled fray. Known to many from their adventures on Carbon, House of Alchemy and Peasant Majik, this newest release portrays the band as more jagged and referential that previously displayed...both sides forming a perfect union of medium and host.
Kösmonaut – Geist
C46 Cassette (R&L039)
Edition of 50
<$8.00 (USA) / $10.00 (World)>Vintage sequence of celestial proportions in the new cassette by Patrick Park under Kösmonaut. Drawing influences from the likes of Cluster, Heldon / Pinhas and Ashra Temple, this project delivers electronic krautrock style unmatched in our cosmos, hatching a galactic egg of supersonic progressive energy.
Leif Elggren – Sleepwalking
C30 Cassette (R&L035)
Edition of 100
<$8.00 (USA) / $10.00 (World)>Swedish artist Leif Elggren has a monumental list of creative accomplishments in both the visual art world as well as a recording artist. His first recorded piece, Cu, from 1982 firmly established Elggren as a archivist of his own work using recorded source material and field recording techniques. For his newest cassette lucidly entitled Sleepwalking, Elggren taped notation of his recent performance which was debuted at the Sleep Disorders exhibition in NYC during the Summer of 2012. Listen in to full report of what happened after the artist's eyelids have closed and the parallel universe unfolded.AVAILABLE:
Âmes Sanglantes – Have You Come Here to Torment Us Before the Time?
C20 Cassette (R&L037)
Edition of 99
<$8.00 (USA) / $10.00 (World)>Biblical prophecy from the hands of Pierre-Marc Tremblay (Akitsa / Contrepoison) under the permissions of Âmes Sanglantes, prayer music for the pious unsought. Noise swatch synthesizer omens easing steadily into a electronic benediction. Over the past 14 years, this project has released some of its most dissent sounds on labels such as Hospital Productions, Troniks & Tour De Garde. Now focusing on a classical theme of disparate redemption and revelation, using the fatality of analog electronics to provide the hammer for the coffin's nails.
Hidden Tooth – July 18, 2012
3" CDr (R&L027)
Edition of 52
<$4.00 (USA) / $5.00 (World)>Noise dirge from the collaborative efforts of Chris Brokaw (Codeine / Come) and David Michael Curry (Willard Grant Conspiracy). Slow feedback slumping into guitar and viola squelches, equaling a funeral song for the recently deceased. Showing a level of constraint, though slapping their heavy hand of amplitude.
Future Blondes - Live @ Libertine Social Club 7/9/12
3" CDr (R&L032)
Edition of 40
<$4.00 (USA) / $5.00 (World)>Have the gods gone mad? Future Blondes are hosting the acid orgy and no one got invited!!! Recently releasing their debut full length LP entitled 'Feather 17′ on Blind Prophet, Domokos and his band of psychojackers have been hitting the blacktop playing a variety of shows, all of which have fabricated the wormhole of space time into a wigwam of flip-trip-rhythm and noise-pistol action. This CDr documents a live recording during the maelstrom at the Libertine Social Club in July 2012, thus setting back civilization 100 years! Not for the easy listening but definitely for anyone easy.
Letha Rodman Melchior / Tretetam – Moon Mountain
C30 Cassette (R&L029)
Edition of 75
<$8.00 (USA) / $10.00 (World)>Letha Rodman Melchior is a musician beyond any standard comparison, superbly "breaking the mold" would be a criminal understatement. Being active in the garage & experimental scenes for the better part of the past 20 years, her name is a common imprint in a wide array of genres. Letha's Tretatam moniker has flourished as a highlight on the revered Finnish label Ikuisuus and her guitar/vocals added to the powerhouse rock group Ruby Falls outshines most attempts at alternative sounds that one could imagine. Most musicians only dream of such a resume, but Letha does not stop there. Her most recent sound collage recordings are some of her finest work to date. Somewhere lodged between a frantic penny opera, sublime parlor entertainment and an unmade Hitchcock soundtrack , Letha pulls out everything in her arsenal to combine her field recordings, instrumentation and lively ideas to fill up this wonderful release. Follow Letha's recent battles and triumphs on her blog, http://lethashappyhospitalfuntime.blogspot.com/
Hoor-paar-Kraat – In Your Absence
C20 Cassette (R&L030)
Edition of 75
<$8.00 (USA) / $10.00 (World)>Anthony Mangicapra returns to the Robert & Leopold roster with another formless device as Hoor-paar-kraat. This time around, HPK relents on a palette of abstract themes, using his loss as a vehicle for submissive expressionism. Uncovered acoustics bring this release to life, employing stringed loops and unknown ideas familiar with his previous work, yet In Your Absence is far more personal than we are aware. A disjointed memorial to someone left behind. Artwork by Richard Vergez.
DeTrop – Con Rit
C30 Cassette (R&L028)
Edition of 100
<$8.00 (USA) / $10.00 (World)>Early modular madness culled from their various live rehearsal tapes from the infancy of DeTrop. Strung together in the Spring of 2011 featuring members of York Factory Complaint & Ideal Forms, DeTrop has persistently kept its aesthetics alive while valuing the constant idea of evolution. From these tapes, you can hear the members wistfully piecing together their chops, tweaking their values and solidifying their domain, whether at sea or on land.
Black Leather Jesus – Even Deeper
C20 Cassette (R&L026)
Edition of 100
<$8.00 (USA) / $10.00 (World)>***ONLY ONE LEFT***Punishment & sex in it's least refined, the calling card for Black Leather Jesus and the nightmare they've left behind over the past 23 years. Formulated by Richard Ramirez (Werewolf Jerusalem), this was one Ramirez's earliest concepts and foray into the collaborative "band" idea. Ramirez being the sole core member, Black Leather Jesus has had dozen of members phasing in and out of its ranks, always keeping the perverse steady had of autoerotic execution. Steady attacks of harsh noise, charging forward with each member's contribution being piled on top of the last in a frenzied orgy of bondage electronics. Lesson learned, over and over.
Jazkamer – Failed State Of Mind
C30 Cassette (R&L019)
Edition of 100
<8.00 (USA) / $10.00 (World)>Over the past decade, Norwegian improvisers Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre has combined their efforts within the mainframe of Jazkamer, each one's participation equally jarring and affectionate to the designated listener. Stacks of releases have documented this infamous collaboration as it set course through noise, power electronics, improvised acoustics and free form sound, culling their strengths and weakness to make some of the most memorable experimental albums to date. This exclusive tape edit reworks the previous issue of the album Failed State Of Mind, which was released on CD with selective sequence on Marhaug's own Pica Disk imprint in 2010. Re-sequenced and assembled by Lasse Marhaug into an unique analog interpretation of this modern classic.Distributed Titles
York Factory Complaint – Punctually, He Arrived
Acid Casualty Productions (ACP.11) / Cassette
<$7.00 US / $9.00 World>Recently released early works by the band in it's original line-up consisting of Michael Berdan and Ryan Martin recorded in the summer months of 2009. Lonely, desperate sounds of industrial noise, shrilled through chaos and neglect. Edition of 100.
York Factory Complaint – s/t
Hanson Records (HN232) / Cassette
<$7.00 US / $9.00 World>Considered to be the band's first album attempt, the recordings capture the band's first foray as a four piece consisting of Michael Berdan, Ryan Martin, Theresa Smith and Michael Yaniro. Overwhelmingly abrasive, this self titled album pieces together YFC at it most nihilistic standpoint. Harsh, abusive sound for the apocalyptic mind. Record and mixed by Anthony Mangicapra.
York Factory Complaint – Remorse of Conscience
House of Alchemy (#039) / Cassette
<$7.00 US / $9.00 World>Last known recordings to be released by the original 2 piece line up. Wall of noise brutality conjuring up the sounds of a Broken Flag era that has been long since forgotten. As the House of Alchemy label puts it, "The sound of a concussion looped out indefinitely. Thug music, junkyard thugs. Squealing feedback loops, squalls of medicated clang. It's all here. It's going to be an all-night kind of thing. You are in the wrong neighborhood. "
York Factory Complaint – The Grieving Process
Nostilevo (#18)
Cassette
<$7.00 US / $9.00 World>Old-school grief from this NY three piece ft/ members of Hanel Koeck, DeTrop, and Veins. Guitar-laden industrial mechanisms with a touch of power-electronic absolution form a patiently crushing dissonance, bringing to mind a certain late 70′s British raw boot feel. Edition of 100 cassette tape including a digital download code.
York Factory Complaint – Origins of Sabir
Obsolete Units (OU37) / Cassette
<$7.00 US / $9.00 World>Origins Of Sabir follows releases on Hanson Records, House Of Alchemy and Robert & Leopold and an infamous live collaboration with the legendary Genesis P-Orridge, with Sabir finding the solidified foursome pushing their discord to the brink; feedback blankets the pandemonium while all manner of electronics and guitars are defiled in the ensuing disorder. Both sides inhibit shades of what an evasive collaboration between Hijokaidan and early-period Ramleh might have culminated in. Ugly, cruel, and marvelous. Pro-dubbed/pro-printed edition of 100.
Mama Baer – Perverted People Girl Fuckers
House of Alchemy (#053) / CDr album
<$9.00 Us / $11.00 World>Freakishly unclassifiable outsider sound poetry by Germany's own bizarre export (the marital other half of Kommissar Hjuler). Words can't describe this kind of schizophrenia..." Caterwauling, bizarre, both bombastic and occasionally subdued. Inner monologues of torment and delight, but outer. A solo presentation of volumes of sound poetry presented simultaneously" Packaging / artwork by Ryan Martin (York Factory Complaint / DeTrop). Edition of 123.
Adel Souto & Kenny Millions – 13 Throwaways
Feast of Hate & Fear Label / Glass bottle w/ cassette tape reel & poem cards
<$20.00 US / $26.00 World>Live poetry reading by artist Adel Souto with live accompaniment by free jazz legend Kenny Million (a.k.a. Keshavan Maslak). Hand numbered edition of 12. Loose cassette reel encased in a glass jar, sealed in black wax. Attached is a sealed envelope containing the poems read on the recording. Recorded live in Brooklyn, summer of 2011. ***ONLY ONE LEFT AVAILABLE***
Arthur Turner zine by Al 'Blaster' Ackerman
Original copy – 1979 / 15 pages
<$25.00 US / $30.00 World>Original copies (only 3 in stock) of this rare mail art fanzine from 1979 by avant garde outsider Al 'Blaster' Ackerman, famed for his outlandish writing and mail art, but most notably for writing the lyrics to Throbbing Gristle's "hit song" Hamburger Lady. Features writings, ramblings and xerox art collage – THESE ARE ORIGINAL, NOT REPRODUCTIONS. ***ONLY ONE LEFT***SOLD OUT:R&L038 - Death Houses "...All but the Crimson Light Remained" cassette
R&L036 - Aaron Dilloway "Tractor Cuts" cassette
R&L034 - Hanel Koeck "Francis Bloom, His Mistress & The Dullard" cassette
R&L033 - Hanel Koeck "Piano Music" cassette
R&L031 - Chris Brokaw "Tidal Mud" cassette
R&L025 - These Feathers Have Plumes "Hegira" 3" CD-r
R&L024 - Genetic Infantryman & Ryan Martin "Live 12-23-2011" 3" CD-r
R&L023 - Rust Worship "Optimistic" cassette
R&L022 - York Factory Complaint "Sufferings" 3" CD-r
R&L021 - York Factory Complaint "Live Document '09- '10" cassette
R&L020 - Femminielli - "Sprezzatura" cassette
R&L018 - Exhumed Corpse "Mortem Obire" cassette
R&L017 - Kama Rupa "City Of Caesars" cassette
R&L016 - Sudden Infant "The Wicked Mothers" cassette
R&L015 - Lasse Marhaug "Angelica 2011/05/20" cassette
R&L014 - DeTrop "Apart from..." 3" CD-r
R&L013 - K2 "IsoDoping" cassette
R&L012 - DeTrop "Rewards Of Faith" cassette
R&L011 - Pipeline Alpha "Demons & Dances" cassette
R&L010 - Chapels "That Incorrigible Death's-Head" cassette
R&L009 - Werewolf Jerusalem "Carnal Violence" cassette
R&L008 - Scorpio & Glass "Eight Days For Trifecta" cassette
R&L007 - York Factory Complaint "Will & Testament" cassette
R&L006 - Knights Of Timbre "Rite Of Noise" cassette
R&L005 - Bleak Race "Communication Breakdown" cassette
R&L004 - Future Blondes "Vila'gok 2" cassette
R&L003 - Hoor-paar-Kraat "Elbow Drops Effortlessly" cassette
R&L002 - York Factory Complaint "Sentiment" cassette
R&L001 - Maurizio Bianchi "Violichte" cassette
Upcoming releases by artists Believer/Law, Maurizio Bianchi & Ryan Martin, EMP, Scott Treleaven, Makoto Kawabata, Esther Venrooy, Albrecht/D, Matt Horseshit, Hanel Koeck, Hive Mind, Common Error, Hemiptera, Drowning the Virgin Silence and more.
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