"Fully Automated Luxury Improvisation" is a "pop" album. There are melodies and rhythms which repeat, which for me are basic requirements for a pop song. Repetition. But here everything is fragmented, skipping and skittering out of control but never falling apart.
2 track album released May 6, 2023
'The Ghosts Around Us' – The rework project from Marla Van Horn's albums, and songs. Uploaded on the behalf of Marla Van Horn. All credits go to the artists and if you like MVH's album, go and support her.
7 track album released January 13, 2020
4 song split album released May 31, 2021
This is a collaboration between BÁL and SMARAKAND. The songs were composed for the videos separately.
12 track album
My 12th album, Afterimagination is a culmination of making music without thinking about how it sounds too much. No clear direction, no preconception, many happy accidents. Just a sleep deprived person messing around with unused demos. Most of the songs were made in a very short span of time, picking out some unused demos, or starting out a completely new Ableton session to whatever you're hearing on this album. Produced, mixed (well, sort of) and mastered by Harmony In Ultraviolet. Recorded at Room Nº4, Malaysia. Recording date: - June 2025 (Leviathan and Ballistics) - October 2025 (the rest of the tracks) - December 2025 (Late Era Magenta, Reflexes) Additional production on "Nova de Arpeggi" by kuraideth. kuraideth.bandcamp.com Photograph by Nozomi. 2026, Hanatsuki's Memento Records.
First physical release from I Heart Noise! 4-track EP from Boston composer/musician Petridisch. " I really like how this album is difficult to define in terms of style, which gives it such a great sound. The arrangements and layering are really good, there are contrasting ambient / uptempo elements and subtle unexpected chord changes which add a great tension and often an edge to the songs." - Andrulian
'I hope that the power of art can make the world more peaceful.' Yayoi Kusama 1. Mystical train 01:28 2. Melancholiaholic 09:07 3. Rautatieasema 12:57 4. Bucket 127 02:07 5. Cliff notes 11:50 6. Clouds atop the peak 12:50 7. Dive 01:20 A project of The Owl. Late night sound session with synth, laptop hum, voice, effects pedals Created December 21st 2025 Released December 29, 2025 Cover art, close-up detail of a panel from graphic novel 'Zen Without a Master' by Frank Meeuwsen (currently reading Czech translated version)
We started Droneuary in 2019, with the ambition of getting 30 participants & somehow ended up with 80 tracks & 17 hours. Drone on!
Some gods' origins are not easily traced... move with mystery with Muscle Mass.
Our annual retrospective label sampler, giving a little taste of what we are all about.
When listening to "Never Ever Forever" you don't start an acoustic journey, you are not taken to a far away place musically. It's more like the music pieces reveal the band's working method. "Swells, Layers, Breaks" is an ongoing motto in the band's musical output, the same goes for rasende Schleifen ("Raving Loops"). And bass is also never enough on the recording ("Not Enough Bass"), while some pieces seem to dissolve in the working process ("Rip It Into Pieces of Sound"). "Scremo" is a musical dedication to a distortion tool by Alwin Weber. And then there's always noise interferences in the recording studio ("Electro Magnetic Fields"), full of glitches that trigger something new again. The promise to never do it like that again is fortunately broken regularly ("Never Ever Forever"), only for the last track we couldn't even think of a proper title. "404 C3" is hopefully the ticket code for a long-distance trip, so that The Smiling Buddhas can collect material for aural travelogues again.
Agora - The marketplace, the gathering, the bizarre. released May 19, 2023 Eric McLean (The Broken Cradle) - Pianos, synths Karl Willebrant - Bass guitars Produced by Karl Willebrant and Eric McLean thebrokencradle.bandcamp.com A collaboration between Victoria, Australia, and North Carolina, USA
a Sygil Records / Bob Heavens joint. "It's improvised, drone like, noise like and even maybe, who knows, metal like. This is nothing for the faint at heart. An excellent, powerful collaboration of some very intense music." -Frans de Waard, http://www.vitalweekly.net/1033.html Adam Sommer: drums, guitar, tapes, effects Ben Myers: Optigan, SK-1, Estey pump, voice John Dawson: piano, drums, recording, engineering, mixing Mastered by James Plotkin Produced by Lather / Sommer / Dawson Recorded at Primary Sound Studios - Bloomington, IN
Performances from the first and last Concentration Club events, held at Cat Head Press in Indianapolis, IN. Concentration Club was an event to explore acoustic sounds with little to no amplification, hosted by John Collins McCormick. Drekka: "intermittent glorps [and] mystery acoustics...Fantastic!" Lather: "conventional 'drone'...[with] a pleasing gloss of instability" -Howard Stelzer, http://www.vitalweekly.net/1170.html "With a flare for the dramatic, this feels like it could be out of a Hitchcock movie if it was slightly scarier- more about the horror than the suspense. I think of Bela Lugosi being directed by Hitchcock, for example, some sort of combination like that...Though it might not be exactly the same on both sides, you should enjoy both of these pieces by Drekka and Lather as they are both disrupted drone." -Joshua Macala, https://raisedbygypsies.blogspot.com/2019/02/cassette-review-drekka-lather-live.html DREKKA Live performance from the final Concentration Club Cat Head Press, Indianapolis, IN, 15 JUN 2018 Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mkl Anderson at Bluesanct HQ LATHER Live performance from the first Concentration Club Cat Head Press, Indianapolis, IN, 12 May 2017 Implements: prepared Audion Interlude, plastic bags, heatsinks, metal bowl, styrofoam, bow, screws, plastic object Recorded by Lather & John Collins McCormick Mixed by Lather & Adam Sommer Cover images captured by Carrie Weaver and John Collins McCormick Edited by Mkl Anderson and Ben Myers
25 recycled cassettes distributed to friends and peers. A document of fuckin' up. "...the sound waves of LATHER float through and become whispers of another time. And then soon? there is music...Listening is an experience. There is much going on and we want to put our finger on all of it. Yet. And yet we cannot." -Ricky Lemonseed, https://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2018/12/lather-beyond-faded-morning-tinnitus.html "...combines TNB-lineage junk rattling around in a dryer with Myers’ aggressively stage-whispered vocals (imagine Etant Donnes without the pretentiousness or incest) and bedrock of bedroom-acoustic non-fidelity." - Howard Stelzer, http://www.vitalweekly.net/1170.html Recorded at home during 2017. A. Beyond Faded recorded on 4-track cassette, mixed analog B. Morning Tinnitus recorded to microcassette & digital handheld mixed + altered digitally
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