Animal Psi

North Hive – ‘Immersion’
[EN] Celestial ambient drone sounds mixed with field recordings. From Russia with love. [PT] Sonoridades de ambient drone celestial misturadas com field recordings. Vindo da Russia.

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Matt Baldwin – ‘Golden Twins’ C60
Echoguitars floating into reverse spinning wormholes, slowly evolving endless variating looped melodies and riffs in swirling hypnotic delayed consciousness. The B side is a meditative harmonium piece recorded on the beach. 100 copies.

Maurizio Abate – ‘Take Care Of Your Own Beast’ C40
Heavily processed thai pin recordings, taking medieval sensibility into deep psychedelic drones. 80 copies.

Nanao Sakaki – ‘Wind For Mind’ C60
Nanao Sakaki (1923-2008) was one of the important counterculture poets/activists in Japan from the fifties onward. He has been described as “a walking collective call of the wild man, commune cofounder, scholar of languages and aboriginal culture and tribal traditions, troubadour to hang out with, lover of ‘shrooms and the herbs, movement maker, The Tribes, homeless (except for the cabin in Shizuoka), green guru guy, activist, translator of haiku, mantra sutra rapper using the 5/7/5 syllabic meter….” After serving in the army during WWII, Nanao developed a deep distrust for Japanese militarism and dropped out of society, living under bridges and wandering around the country. He gathered a group of like minded young people around him, who called themselves the ‘Bum Academy’ and whose philosophy had much in common with the hippie movement. His poetry concerns a love of nature, a distrust of industrial culture and technological optimism and environmental issues. Like Basho meets Thoreau. This tape collets two readings from the nineties and an interview with James McCarthy. 100 copies.

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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE – ‘Astrorgasm From The Inner Space’ CD/2LP
As usual, AMT delivers to Important their most scorching tracks. They’ve included, appropriately since Important is set to issue Grayfolded on triple vinyl, a studio recording of Dark Star Blues with Cotton Casino.

STEFAN WESOLOWSKI – ‘Liebestod’ CD
The album Liebestod by Polish composer Stefan Wesolowski consists of repetitive compositions written for piano, brass instruments, strings and electronics. Recommended if you like: Arvo Part, Steve Reich, William Basinski, Jacaszek

LAMBDA SOND – ‘Chronological Compression II’ CS
Arranged sound for the purpose of preservation.. The meticulous organization of memory and vibrations evoke the feelings of experience. All becomes one. This cassette is packaged in a handmade O-card with a 3 color screen print on both the inside and the outside of the heavy paper stock. An inner OBI card holds the cassette and is blind stamped on one side with a 6 color lino-cut on the other.

ROCCHETTI/RIPARBELLI – ‘Three Quarter Tone Piano Pieces’ CS
This work was created using short wave radio signals, field recordings, dusty analogue devices, as well as samples from Three Quarter Tone Piano pieces of the American modernist composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) as central sound source.

SARAH DAVACHI – ‘August Harp’ CS
August Harp is Davachi’s second release, and is reflective of her ongoing exploration into the topography of spectrally immersive textures and aural environments. The compositions on this album consider notions of sustenance, shifting harmonic spectra, psychoacoustic derivation of artificial resultant tones, and interior movement within a semblance of stasis.

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PH002 GAAPIIIII – ‘TYPEDEF’ C60
Professionally duplicated cassette – edition of 50. With Typedef Japanese producer and composer Gaapiiiii has created a mindblowing sonic masterpiece. It is a work of art filled with powerful contradicitions: it is gloomy and bright, disturbingly calm, grand and minimal, loud but silent. It will drag you in and leave you want to revisit these unique sounds, that won’t grow old and will continue to surprise you. All sounds by Gaapiiiii. Artwork by Jennifer Mehigan.

PH003 KARL FOUSEK – ‘RELATIVE POSITION OF FIGURES’ C40
Professionally duplicated cassette – edition of 75. Karl Fousek’s album Relative Position of Figures speaks for itself. Karl uses synthesisers and tape delay to build his minimal yet captivating compositions. This might be demanding stuff, but once you’ve given in, a sonic palette of exploratory and transcending patterns will hypnotise you, and leave you wanting for more. Recorded 02/2014. Synthesisers – Tape delay . Artwork by Daniel Everett

PH004 HOLLOWFONTS – ‘XLVIII’ C50
Professionally duplicated cassette – edition of 50. Prepare yourself for darker and unknown adventures with this album. XLVIII by Hollowfonts is by all means an unsettling experience. The gloomy drones wrap firmly around these unfamiliar yet somehow captivating sounds. The beats that never quite reach the surface. The cold atmospheric noises, almost orchestral at times. This surely takes you some place else, but one things’ for certain: this is a place you want to be. Recorded in 2013 by MJO. Artwork by STEAK MTN .

PH005 ANDREW IS TIRED – ‘CROWD CONTROL’ C60
Professionally duplicated cassette – edition of 50. Andrew is Tired is back with his second album Crowd Control after releasing Drift/Shore on Holy Page in 2013. I am truly very honoured to be able to release this beautiful and unique piece. Andrew’s style is very recognisable and his colourful compositions continues to amaze me. After listening, relistening and then listening some more, the album still sounds as fresh and new, as if was the first encounter. The album consists of 2 long improvised jams. The sound is a stunning combination of acoustics and digital. Both hazy and bright, but just when you thought you figured it all out, he will gently shock you, as if to regain your attention. This will be the perfect soundtrack for your warm sunny afternoons, early autumn evenings, dark winter nights and then again spring mornings. In other words, music to suit every occasion, music that will make your day just a little better. Recorded in 2013 at Metropolitan Arts Institute. Artwork by Jan Willem van Welzenis

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HF06 Forrrest Drones – ‘Tallest Trees Gallery’
Droning ambience from Poland’s Robert SkrzyÅ„ski (Micromelancolié). The patience and perspective of ancient hardwoods towering over fog shrouded decay. New life from old death. In pursuit of chimes that echo through valleys and storm clouds that terrify and cleanse the soul. Thunderous rumblings, beauty within. Forty five hand assembled copies, professionally dubbed on chrome tape. Inserts duplicated directly on individual pages of a 1971 copy of Saltflower, by Sydney Van Scyoc.

HF05 Zener – ‘Palanca Arbitraria’ 2CS
Hallucinatory experimentation from defunct four piece Spanish band Zener. The howl of demons departed from the world channeled through cyclical percussion and swirls of guitar. Raw, uncontrolled, furious and frantic. The seething anger of disturbed burial grounds. The mantra of sweat lodge group think. Perspiration forms and brings forth visions. Forty five hand assembled copies, professionally dubbed on chrome tape. Inserts duplicated directly on individual pages of a 1928 hardcover copy of Transactions Of The Blavatsky Lodge, by H.P. Blavatsky.

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Geoff – ‘Beginning Becomes the End (EP)’
TBR22: The Teflon Beast collective’s latest release is a digital only companion to Geoff’s Dirty Pillows Records 7 inch lathe-cut single “Liberated Atheist” titled Beginning Becomes the End. The EP is a 3-part improvisation that is dreamier in sound than the more guitar-aggressive “Liberated Atheist,” but was recorded during the same three days in November 2013 that produced the lathe-cut single. The piece is based around Chris Daily’s electric piano playing and Geoff’s electric primitive philosophy. The instrumentation inspired both musicians to venture into the farthest reaches psychedelic space.

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Gods on Safari – ‘Abjuration of the Realm/▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯’ split C60
A split of two albums created by Bronx, New York electronic musician Keenan Houser. Influenced by a variety of traditional genres worldwide, song structures are formed around specific selections of orchestral arrangements improvising with unpredictable rhythms and a frenzied storm of electronic and virtual instruments.

||:temor:|| – ‘Bilabial Jabiru’ C60
Within the album’s hour long run time, which emphasizes psychedelic indifference to the ever-sensitive passing of time, the listener can expect to graze through ambient sample-lathed relaxation, extract new-found definition in the likes of broken beat hip-hop, and then be left to contemplate the fabric of sound before being jarred out of that meditative cycle. Inspired by the history of recording (from the dusty reaches of Smithsonian archives, to laser-guided machine style consistency of “four-on-the-floor”) ll:temor:ll embraces the challenges and limitations that come with working with both tape and digital recorders, professional and plastic toy microphones, and found or produced samples.

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