Caligine/余益裔 – ‘Verbi e Riverberi’
soft poly box, white c60, color tape stickers, 20 copies. In the cold plains of Shandong, Caligine compile a short diary about tape hiss and winter holidays: a found steel guitar slightly out of tune, twanging and rusty. The empty stones in the Kong Mansion, red leaves rustling. A radio chanting far away. The rain on the pier, westwards. On the other side, 余益裔 weaves together fragments of displaced field recordings, folk reverbs, subdued white noise and solitary bass, an aural cartography of a place dreamt by someone unknown.
Female Edition/Reazione Suina split
soft poly box, transparent c60, etching, 20 copies. All hail the new wave of italian grassroots noise. Female Edition builds up a crescendo from recursive guitar arpeggios and overlapping drones to sunken distortions and convulse picking. Reazione Suina complements the mood with a funereal swathe of churning feedback and soaring hainesque guitars. Temple music for a suburban ritual.
Istituzioni Ambienti Naturalismo + 洪启乐 – ‘Disgiunzione #1’
plastic sleeve, cdr, 20 copies. The new Disgiunzioni series hopes to encourage cross-boundary cooperation through productive disjunctions. Musicians are required to improvise together without overdubs or excessive planning, trying to explore the differential space between each other’s sound. Here our very own Istituzioni Ambienti Naturalismo provides some shimmering drone architectures and acoustic guitar tinkering that 洪启乐 demolishes through a counterpoint of violent turntable manipulation and contact microphone feedback.
Istituzioni Ambienti Naturalismo + Thursday Club – ‘Disgiunzione #2’
plastic sleeve, cdr, 20 copies. This second volume in the Disgiunzioni series sees the viscous walls of noise of Cleveland’s very own Thursday Club collide with the junk samples and glassy drones by Istituzioni Ambienti Naturalismo. It’s a play of resonances and accumulation, overflowing with static. A study about the growth of the interstices between frequencies that phase out each other, as the surge of saturation reconfigures itself endlessly.
Venta Protesix – ‘Sensual Prostate Massage’
white dvd case, spraypainted cdr, 20 copies. We do have a penchant for harsh noise japonisme, but we like it even more when it crosses the boundary of mere repetition and it becomes the deconstruction of an imagined genre, the vomit after cultural predation, the optic clash of stereotype excess. Which is roughly why we loved this short burst of pink granules that manages to invoke the spirit of Masonna through laptop worship, glitches, bitcrushed hiss and digital clip. Time to get a high-frequency fix.
Boo-Hooray is pleased to announce the release of a new LP of Angus MacLise recordings: DREAMWEAPON II. Previously available an extremely limited run as a giveaway CD-R available exclusively at the opening of the DREAMWEAPON exhibit in May, this new LP release features previously-unreleased material from the Angus MacLise audio archive. This LP release features extended and remastered versions of four of the tracks from the giveaway CD-R. The LP, issued in a limited run of 500 unnumbered copies, comes in a screen-printed sleeve and includes a risograph-printed insert featuring a miniature facsimile of YEAR, a broadside poster by Angus MacLise originally issued in 1965.
This Is Water, the first release from The Aloha Spirit, examines the interplay between stasis and movement using delayed synthesizers, cassette tape loops, and field recordings. Inspired by the repeating, but constantly evolving, nature of tides and precipitation, the pieces on This Is Water come together as layers of intricate loops overlap and blur into slow-moving rivers of sound. As tones puddle and dissolve, they expose the growth and decay inherent in repetition. 
Justin Meyers from Minneapolis offer a beautiful track of musique concrete and analog synth. Exploring the interaction between field recordings and simple sine waves, the result is a perfectly balanced suite, where the single elements lose their origins in favour of composition. Edition of 150.
After the terrific Att Vara Där Jag Var Innan Jag Var Jag Lp of the previous year Kristian Olsson (Alfarmania, Styggelse) return with a new solo album. “It is a release with conceptual focus on the early stage of wood industry in northern sweden with sawmills of sundsvall and also tribute to the evil vibes that rests in our soil” kh. Edition of 100.
Previously know as virgin spring this “new” project works with a claustrophobic mix of basement concretism, field recording and dense electronic. Edition of 80.
The black horse symbolized famine in the Book of Revelations. In the end-of-times scenario depicted there, luxuries continued to pour on to the rich while common people struggled to eat and stay alive. Apocalyptic metaphors seem more timely than ever these days, when the disenfranchised are occupying Wall Street and protesting unjust financial regimes worldwide – even as the distinction between presidential debates and reality TV grows ever more difficult to discern. That sense of urgency and hunger is audible on every track of GAANs new studio album Black Equus. This masterpiece summons the four horsemen of the Apocalypse from the dark side as harbingers of righteous Judgement. Seth Shers violent attack on the drum kit makes it sound like the earth is fixing to split apart, while Lindsay Powells angelic voice, floating above these dark and roiling grooves (provided by Tyson Torstensen), shines a transcendent beacon over the heaving aural mire. Chicagos GA’AN and Captcha Records present Black Equus, a fitting soundtrack for these dark days, pressed in a limited edition of 666.
Leipzig based artist Michael Barthel has made himself a name since mid 90′ in releasing his own music on Recordings for the Summer, mostly tape collages of found materials and static radio sound works. With sound poetry and conceptual art influences, Michael Barthel creates a prolific uncluterred and rough sound diary transmitting a strong feeling of inner space and time streching. Behind hiss and hum, Barthel deconstructs his voice and lifetime with a deliberatly poor range of gears and effects, using transparency almost as an ethic and aesthetic position. Most of his works are sold out or published in very limited editions, mostly on tapes, on his own Recordings For the Summer, but also on renowned labels such as Tochnit Aleph. Noch Mehr Höhlen is edited on tapes in a limited run of 40 copies. Layout by Benjamin L. Aman with words by Michael Barthel. “wie ein klumpen der um ein etwas herumgeformt ist. oder so: ein klumpen aus lauten der eine bedeutung sein soll. sprache ist kein heim, sondern eine weitere höhle aus der es hinausschallt. genauso wie was hineingerufen ist; ahnung, einbildung, vorgeschobene übereinkunft. ein klumpen. collage.” Michaël Barthel
Rubén Patiño also known as Pato is a spanish laptop performer active since mid 2000. Pato’s sound has been described as hyper energetic algorithmic composition giving him a solid reputation for sound excess and confrontational live shows. Eleven Stereo Movements is a quite singular work in Patino’s recent releases. It was originally a conceptual proposal for a concert without performer, played only one time in 2010 at Ausland in Berlin. Recalling early electronics BBC pionneers as well as nervous digital patterns, these eleven stereo movements oddly succeeds in reaching the highest tension without any sorts of hurry or volume assault. Patiño is currently living in Rotterdam where he’s completing a master in sonology. Numerous live shows and releases to his credits on labels such as Mattin’s free Softwares Series, Le Petit Mignon or Audition Records. Eleven Stereo Movement is edited on cassette in a limited run of 40 copies. Layout and artwork by Benjamin L. Aman.