Category Archives: UPDATE

Nachtbote C20 7€
Communicate with this new ever-increasing concept from “NACHTBOTE” that we received in this year of great change while you gather with your friends in your star-studded temples of light to disseminate this information in all directions – don’t be afraid of anything! Nobody can take this from you! This issue relates to the important elaboration on the proper procedures which one is recommended to follow in the process of one’s hypnotic trance – in the recent year or two many things occurred, proceeded and came into being in the zone of displacement including planet earth – so dont hesitate, you could already use this! For a short time you can transmit this as digital file to your computer AND receive a “NACHTBOTE” video right here – also you can order the original tape with a drawing from a vision by the artist himself for 7 euros inclusive shipping worldwide. This is NOW!

Teeel – ‘Amulet’ cassette
Inspired by italo, electro and the 80s new wave movement, Teeel aka Jim Smith credits his sound to marathon movie watching and being an obsessive gear head. Crammed in a 10×10 teal painted room, stacked with synthesizers and walls covered with vintage Moog ads, Jim creates music that is perhaps best described as hypnotic soft-vocal, synthpop.

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Sea Pinks – ‘Dead Seas’ £10
CF/ is very pleased to present “Dead Seas”, the second album from Sea Pinks. Following on from last year’s “Youth is Wasted” tape and the “Peripheral Vision” 12″ EP from earlier this year (both now sold out), Sea Pinks return with a new set of songs about fountains, fossils, phantoms and faded seaside glamour. Including ten brand new tracks plus the EP version of “Peripheral Vision” the album is available in a limited, hand numbered edition of 250 12″ LPs including 320 kbps MP3 download of all eleven tracks.

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Black Unicorn – ‘Cinco de Mayo in Space’
A galactic drone, frozen and shattered to shards of sample & hold space ice, undermines an abandoned vessel as it drifts toward infinity. The lone survivor, a machine, utters in fractured phonemes the arrival of Cinco de Mayo in Space. Sequenced synthesizers, circuit bent voices, vintage drums, and polysynth pads combine in a strange meeting place between Mexican holiday and intergalactic travel. Conceived as part of a show w/ XXX Super Arcade and Dreamroot’s Boltzmann’s Brain, Cinco de Mayo in Space took place on 5.5.2011 at Annabell’s in Akron, Ohio. This album is the studio version of Black Unicorn’s set.

Griefhound / Cane Swords split CDr
Both a companion to the Cane Swords / Griefhound cassette and a stand-alone release—this split flips things around. Griefhound start it off with foreshadowing acoustics, a simple guitar piece that strums headfirst into feedback noise and Sabbath riffs filtered through Cuyahoga River chemical sludge. Further, toy keyboard arpeggios and electric wheezes stalk like the masked killer in a fuzzed out horror movie. The monster’s hidden lair is infiltrated, chaos reigns, and a field recording of 2011’s most brutal thunderstorm transitions to the outer space yearnings of Cane Swords. Raw synth and oscillated swirls of post-digital dust funnel cloud their way to space shuttle bass drum hits and gamma ray sequenced leads that disintegrate into 8-bit coin hunting heaven. Pounding drums sound in militant step against vintage polysynth alarm calls and odes to dark future machine take-over. Electronic storms reflect the Ohio sky in binary and control voltages, then the synthesists depart, blasting off and leaving the atmosphere behind in sine waves and electric chirps.

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Mirror to Mirror – ‘Here You Leave Today’ LP $18(USA)/$23(CAN/MEX)/$28(World)
Here You Leave Today is Southern California based Alex Twomey’s first full-length LP as Mirror to Mirror, co-released by his own label Jugular Forest and the Cleveland based Cylindrical Habitat Modules after a string of cassette releases for Arbor, Ekhein, Gift Tapes, and Monorail Trespassing. Throughout the course of 7 enchanting compositions for synthesizer Alex conveys a sense of thoughtful reflection. A melodious personal journey exploring ones open connections to the people and surroundings they encounter. Cotton candy for the ride home. SAMPLE

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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN – ‘ALIENOLOGY: Selected Works 1998-2008′ 10 disc box set 60€
Stunning collection of works from 1998 to 2008, MY CAT IS AN ALIEN’s first decade of adventure in outer space and modern music. All ultra-rare and long-out-of-print material from space brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio finally available for the first time in digital format, including a previously unreleased gem entitled ‘Where The Lines Go To Sleep’ (2004).  The selection starts from MY CAT IS AN ALIEN’s 1999 first milestone ‘Landscapes Of An Electric City’ (originally spread throughout the world by Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace!). In these early years, MY CAT IS AN ALIEN decided to entrust thier own ‘pictures of infinity’ to several obscure labels specialized in producing limited as well as specially curated vinyl-only releases (not to mention the duo’s own Opax Records imprint), thus creating a monumental corpus of work that gave birth to the brothers’ myth.  Among many other fundamental works, this huge set also contains what MY CAT IS AN ALIEN have called ‘The Great Void Trilogy’, which was originally released on three separate LPs by Ed Hardy’s legendary Eclipse Records in the middle of the last decade. The latest work presented in the set is ‘Alien Blood’ (2008), original soundtrack to the homonimous film by Roberto Opalio, which was shown at various European museums as part of the ‘SONIC YOUTH etc: Sensational Fix’ touring exhibition.  Each work has been accurately remastered and re-edited appositely for this box set release. The box also includes extensive liner notes, plus special art cards. Cover art by Roberto Opalio.  A unique occasion for every adventurous listener to experience some of the most inscrutable and essential music of all times.

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RIVULETS – ‘We’re Fucked’ CD $10
Important Records is proud to be releasing the fourth album, second for Important, from Nathan Amundson’s Rivulets. With a beautifully authentic emotional depth Nathan’s voice is his most compelling instrument, a tool for delivering pure emotion from his heart straight into yours. Representing five years of work & nearly constant touring, this album reflects the intense nature of Rivulets as a 3 piece. If you haven’t seen them on tour this record will come as a revelation. Recorded, appropriately, at the Sacred Heart Music Center, a cathedral built in the late nineteenth century.

NATE WOOLEY|CHRIS CORSANO|C. SPENCER YEH – ‘SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN’ CD $10
Brilliant second album from Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain project. David Grubbs and Paul Lytton have been replaced by Chris Corsano (Sunburned, Bjork, Six Organs et. al) and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core, New Monuments).

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Sean McCann – ‘OPEN RESOLVE’ LP
Here we have a seminal recording of sound collage and experimental synthesizer noise from one of the brightest musicians in underground America. ‘Open Resolve’ is all about tension and texture, crystallized on Side One’s ‘Broken Replicator’, a gut wrenching explosion of contrast that appears alien and familiar at once. Like a giant womb of noise. Most of the record feels like that, merging familiar synthesizer tones with an often obscured but always immaculate instrumental palette. Who would have thought one of the most exciting experimental records of the early century would find highlights through violin and free drum interplay? Side Two opens with a dense, 17-minute masterpiece of fuzziness which drifts between languid beauty and surreal discordance. The vinyl edition comes on clear purple wax with new masters by the artist.  SAMPLE

Aidan Baker & thisquietarmy – ‘ORANGE’ LP
I like to use the term ‘classic drone’ to describe this collaborative album between two masters of the genre. There are certainly dark edges and industrial, squawking noise-like impulses abound, but at it’s hear ‘Orange’ is all class, a practical guide on how to make an engaging, thoroughly atmospheric and haunting piece of… yes, classic drone. It’s actually funny to note the difference between what we label ‘ambient’ and ‘drone’ music these days. I think it has at least a little to do with the level of menace. And not to sound cheap, but things do get pretty deranged and spooky here. Slow swirls of white noise suggest dangerous whispers around the ambiguously haunting deep end rumble. And then there’s a track like ‘Mandarin’, a pure, gorgeous respite from the heaviness, because it turn’s out that’s exactly what we needed to hear. The viny edition comes on orange wax and with a free download. SAMPLE

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Evan Lindorff-Ellery – ‘The Tea Merchant and His Atmopsheres’ C90 $6.5(US)/$9.5(World)
Notice’s own resident artist returns with his second solo tape. The Tea Merchant and His Atmospheres is a fully realized and personal work of minimal, expressionist sound art that incorporates elements from the artist’s life, including field recordings from his home and travels as well as layers of at-home processing, including the use of radio static, room tone, and cassettes that he’s developed as half of Dense Reduction. Minimal yet highly textured sound environments run up against each other loftily like waves against foreign shores. As the pieces deepen over the course of each side, Lindorff-Ellery unfolds the mysterious connections that make up a sense of home and a sense of self. Non-narrative, nonrepresentational, closely observed and resolutely analog. Through the use of these elements, Lindorff-Ellery is mapping his life and environments.  Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. Pro-printed on heavy stock.  An edition of 100.  Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

Tiny Music – ‘Epitaph’ C32 $6.5(US)/$9.5(World)
Originally based in Chicago, Tiny Music developed a uniquely organic performance style, laying out an instrumental smorgasbord on the floor and performing acoustically—an intimate throwback that put the listener in direct contact with the band. In recorded form, Epitaph reveals even more of Tiny Music’s sense of structure and dynamics that makes their music so fascinating. The two sidelong pieces flow, as through a house or a silent film, from one musical doorway to the next—sometimes foreboding, sometimes flowering into complex or even composed musicality, but always dense and colorful. Side A meanders from its appealing din into a low drone, and Side B weaves abstract melodies through a hectic sound marketplace, with winding, squeaking, and even laughter dotting the mix, interspersed between plaintive, dark motifs. Tiny Music’s homey clatter on Epitaph uniquely mixes group improvisation, folk tradition, and pure exploration. Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. Pro-printed on heavy stock.  An edition of 100.  Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

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