Another mindblower from the camp of Regional Bears. Vanessa Rossetto is an American composer, improviser and painter. She uses primarily chamber instrumentation, field recordings, electronics and a wide array of different objects exploring them through extended and traditional techniques and other methods of her own devising --- Regional Bears, 2021

T.D. is the personal sound project of Thomas DeAngelo, based in Philadelphia, USA. Sound collages, field recordings, improvisation, noise. "Melk Extracts" track feat Jim Strong, Allen Mozek & Stew Skinner. --- Recorded Between 2016-19, All recordings Thomas DeAngelo Mastered by Moras Marios --- released May 15, 2021

Alexandra Spence and MP Hopkins are sound makers living and working on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. Using foil, flutes, tuning forks, tones, tapes, tiny bananas, stones, mouths + more, their work explores the spatial and sculptural elements of a practice in experimental sound. Their debut release, The Divine For Me Is Whatever Is Real, was recorded on the cusp of Spring one evening in 2020, at Tempe Jets; a disused sports club hall in Sydney. During this session, a stationary pair of room microphones were encircled by tables of objects, speakers, instruments, and actions. Additionally, Spence and Hopkins shared a pair of in-ear binaural microphones that they roamed the room with, taking turns to inspect up close, and from afar, each other’s sonic activity. The result is a document that moves through states of amorphous sonic density, rattle and clunk, magnetic drift, and instrumental sounds both trill and tentative. The album’s title is borrowed from Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H.

My Bloody Sex Party is Liu, Shang, Li and Zhuang. Teenagers hailing from Linyi, Shandong province, they formed the band in the summer holidays of 2020, having just finished middle school together. They rehearsed in a disused office space which belonged to a real estate company, recording the album on mobile phone. At the end of the summer, the four classmates went on to different high schools and only meet up in the holidays to record My Bloody Sex Party music. --- Liu: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, prepared guitar, voice, banjo, zheng, drill machine … Zhuang: electric guitar, violin, bowed guitar, acoustic guitar, erhu, veena … Shang: bass guitar, prepared bass guitar, sanxian … Li: drums, pipa, zhongruan, calculator --- Released: Zoomin' Night Released December 3, 2020 Mastered by Hiroyuki Ura Designed by Liu Lu

Issued somewhere between Mica Levi’s emergence in 2008, and their recent gush of solo and band releases with Curl and Good Sad Happy Bad, Mica wrote and recorded ‘Feeling Romantic Feeling Tropical Feeling Ill’ around about the time they were receiving award-nominations and resounding acclaim for their soundtrack to Jonathan Glazer film, ‘Under The Skin.’ Naturally it shares some of that OST’s tones and moods, but the results are far more febrile, lush rather than dark and tense, stitching together a tapestry like mixtape-cum-production showreel of curdled chamber pieces, shrugged hip hop, ambient flights of fancy and gorgeous snatches of strings recalling the intervals of Carl Craig and Derrick May’s seminal ‘Relics’ set going into what sound like early sketches for what would become Tirzah’s ‘Devotion’ album a few years later. Replete with new, minimalist artwork symbolic of the album’s enigmatic nature, the record’s second wind is arguably ideally timed for the world’s current state of torpor and tentative anticipation, with 60 minutes of figurative, quietly perplexing, evocative melodies that work by inference as opposed to ever beating you around the head with a message. It’s peppered with some exquisite, often unexpected moments that arrive and recede into its matrix with uncanny logic that perhaps comes as close as you’ll get to living inside Mica’s iridescent, endlessly intriguing mind. --- DDS, 2021

Originally produced to accompany their G.D.D.B. LP, this live tape was compiled by Golden Teacher from two live performances in February, 2013. Side A is Golden Teacher in classic dance floor motion; Side B documents a baffling reinterpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven via abstract electronics --- House Rules

Tracklist: 1.) Sugimoto Seascapes side A 2.) Sugimoto Seascapes side BCut A Lonely Figure is the solo musical project of Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records founder David McNamee. The work predominantly involves the use of acoustic instruments such as pipe organ, harmonium, piano, glockenspiel, singing bowl etc. with some software processing. Previous releases have appeared on the labels Bloxham Tapes, Pan Y Rosas Discos, and Blue Tapes. Sugimoto Seascapes is the final instalment in a trilogy of releases - also featuring Rothko Horizons (Bloxham Tapes) and The Sea Is Half A Rothko That The Sky Crushes On (Blue Tapes) - that feature figurative depictions of sunrise, sunset and landscapes rendered in pipe organ, harmonium, piano, glockenspiel, rain sound and laptop. --- Composed and performed by David McNamee Recorded by Stacey Harvey at St. Andrew's Church, Surbiton on 23 November 2019 Mixed and mastered by Angel Marcloid Artwork by Jumy-M --- Released: Fractal Meat Cuts, 2020

The fifth installment of Commend See maps the movements of earthly and celestial beings by means of musical creation. Birth, planets and cosmic timing underscore Natal Uranus, il corpo sotto la sabbia / Birthdays, a collaborative offering and unfolding fable from Sea Urchin and Aki Goto’s Shirotento Orchestra. --- Mastered by Jack Callahan. Artwork by Aki Goto. Design by Will Work For Good. --- RVNG, 2020

The duo of David Shapiro and Ian McColm started playing together in 2010 as Nagual. In 2017 Stefan Christensen began to collaborate with them, which eventually led to Christensen joining the group. Shortly after the trio decided to change the name to Center. Since then they have released tapes on Sound Holes and Carbon Records, and have an upcoming LP on bruit direct disques. The group began by strictly playing electric guitars, with feedback as the main frame to work with. However they have grown to use a wide variety of instrumentations, both electric and acoustic. Shapiro plays solo as Alexander, in Headroom and accompanies Kath Bloom. McColm is more typically found playing drums; he plays in Heart Of The Ghost, has many collaborative projects, as well as solo. Christensen plays solo, as well as in Headroom and runs C/Site Recordings. --- Regional Bears, March 2021

The third Beatle's cover and acoustic guitar feedback album by Shanghai guitarist MAI mai. Final episode of Shanghai based guitarist MAI mai's Beatles song book series. Recorded in Shanghai, autumn 2020. Compared to Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, in this recording session MAI mai used different instruments and approaches to making this album. --- MAI mai used:Gibson l-48 acoustic guitar AER compact 60 amp Shure sm-57 mic Hewlett-Packard 3312a Function Generator Bruel & Kjaer Type 2113 Audio Frequency Spectrometer --- Released: Zoomin' Night Released January 28, 2021 Art design by: Liu Lu

SUIKINKUTSU- "water harp cave". A Japanese garden ornament used for its water drop sounds. Similar to metal wind chimes this device uses echoes from water to produce a calm zither like tinkle SOZU - A traditional water fountain made of a bamboo tube that fills with water to produce a clanking sound. Recorded Jan-Sept 2020 in Dowkabottom Cave in the Yorkshire Dales UK, using tin cans, kettle, saucepans, dustbin lid, metal plates, metal food bowls, cake tin lids, various gongs, chime bars, singing bowls and bells and swarmandal. --- An immersion in the elements and processes of the natural world, the sound of natures patterns and human responses. Made during a time of great personal change and upheaval, as well as major events in the wider world. With Suikinkutsu the aim was to discover more about the worlds beauty and wonder. By connecting with the land I connect with...  more' - Stuart Chalmers   ---   Released: Fractal Meat Cuts, April 20, 2021

Beautiful piano and violin driven drone works created by experimental musician Lucy Johnson as "soundtrack" pieces for several artists including Rachel Lancaster and Anna Peaker. Opener 'Stage' pairs with the work 'Voicings' by Rachel Lancaster. Johnson unfurls a discordant plume of slow-mo violin creak which grows engimatically through layer and layer. 'Piano' is a delicate motif which gathers pace and velocity as it balls up and rolls forward. 'Argos' is a truly haunting construction of distended animal/child song and funeral piano padding an otherworldy environment and tracking the work of artist Ellen Burroughs pieces 'Return to Argos'. 'Mirror' is a stoic drone piece in the manner of Ora, Monos and... err... Mirror. Acoustic sounds blurred into shifting shapes which are never out, nor in, tune. Halo'ing harmonics encircle a space of gorgeous dread. It was created as interpretation and reimagination of Tarkovsky's 'Mirror' (1974) 'Vehicle' was constructed to work with the installation art of Katrina Cowling. Here Johnson suggests shortwave radio interfering with fridge glow like vibrations. The most synthetic sounding of all the pieces here it recalls the 4D sonics of Maryanne Amacher in drone mode. As Volume 1, we can only hope for more recordings to be unearthed of Johnsons sympathetic and gorgeously lilting music. Please check out the visual artists who's work these soundtracks were designed for. --- For artists:Rachel Lancaster Anna Peaker Ellen Burroughs Katrina Cowling  --- Opal Tapes 2020

Limited edition in lettterpress cover.  These blues in different scales & imagery are provided by Tori Kudo & his project Maher Shalal Hash Baz captured live on cassette at Hameau de la Brousse, on the 26 of June 2007 during their first tour in France.

Maybe the most important document of being a citizien of Great Britain there is. Recordings of important ramblings/poetrt, some bits from the telly and more. --- Regional Bears, 2021

The Rapture of Cellular Accretion is a tape, fiction text and artwork completed during the convalescence of lockdown by artist and musician, Lucy Duncombe. Originally conceieved for an online presentation for Market Gallery, Glasgow. --- The work concerns the back and forth sharing of music within the alternate sociality of digital space; lives held within YouTube playlists and cultivated within the ample hamlet of thumbnails, comments, and auto suggestion, with a sense of a ‘we’ stuck recursively in loops of musical fable. With melodic references to songs hosted within the imagined YouTube playlist of The Rapture or comments left on its videos, its musical world is contained and atomic. Almost all of the pieces use the ensemble of the voice for its instrumentation; stretched, pitch shifted, cut and repeated to create a ‘texture of one’, with Ailie Ormston providing non-vocal instrumentation on several of the tracks. --- Music: Lucy Duncombe Text: Lucy Duncombe Instrumentation on Several Tracks: Ailie Ormston Roving Vocal Bleep: Feronia Wennbourg Artwork: Al White Mastered by William Aikman --- This release comes with Tape And Risograph Print

PARADE is organized by Tadashi Yonago and Kayu Nakada living in Osaka. It is an event in the open air for sounds since Aug 2017, that held on an irregular base. Artists play at a spot they choose, such of a road side of downtown, residential area, parks, riverside... And we can listen the performance fused with the situation/atmosphere of the place. --- A1. Kayu Nakada - Shinjuku Central Park, Tokyo - August 10, 2019 One summer day, Kayu Nakada played bridge railings with audiences. A2. Tadashi Yonago & Kayu Nakada - Arroceros Forest Park, Manila - October 27, 2019 Tadashi Yonago played Flash Light Synthesizers he made and Kayu Nakada played bamboo. A3. Takahiro Yamamoto - Baika East Park, Osaka - December 23, 2018 Takahiro Yamamoto played vinyls with audiences. Then he played a new vinyl made by pieces of that vinyls. A4. Yuma Takeshita - Rokkenya-river, Osaka - March 17, 2018 Early evening, at a river side. Yuma Takeshita played rolling speakers he made. A5. Masafumi Ezaki - PORT, Osaka - February 2, 2019 Masafumi Ezaki listened and compared sounds by several brands of carbonated waters. B1.Tadashi Yonago - Shinjuku Central Park, Tokyo - August 10, 2019 Tadashi Yonago plays Flash lights and the modified sprinkler. B2. Satoshi Kanda - Shorenji-river Park, Osaka - February 2, 2019 Audiences were watching smartphone and walking about in the park. Their smartphones were showing message from Satoshi Kanda, and making sounds programmed by him. B3. Muku Kobayashi - Nooo Kitty, Osaka - September 30, 2017 Late of evening at a rooftop, sounds of moving sculptures made by Muku Kobayashi. --- Released: Zoomin' Night Released December 14, 2020 Designed by Liu Lu

A new project from Zhu Wenbo, of Zoomin' Night Records, where he instructed 8 musicians to record in an outdoor location for 30 minutes. After collecting all of the recordings, he took all the material and layered the tracks together to produce a single 30 minute track. --- Music by Zhu Wenbo Andrew Fedorovitch - alto saxophone Craig Pedersen - trumpet Kevin Corcoran - cymbal Paolo Gàiba Riva - clarinet mouthpiece Yoko Ikeda - viola Zhu Songjie - radio Fangyi Liu - musical saw Li Song - computer --- Released: Zoomin' Night Text by Zhu Wenbo English translation by John Wilton Mastered by Hiroyuki Ura Design by Liu Lu

Presented on a self-released tape limited to a run of just 150, Requiem For Recycled Earth is the first part of Ferraro's Four Pieces For Mirai series by the ex-Skater, James Ferraro. Consisting of 11 movements lasting just over an hour, it’s a constantly shifting patchwork of moods ranging from the unbearably tense to the cinematically epic. The first of four main parts of this “large epic work about civilizational decline,” which focus on the hypothetical idea of a computer virus designed to liberate humanity from the internet’s hold.