Hands In The Dark - January sales

Artist: BITCHIN BAJAS
Album: Transporteur

Cat #: HITD 024
LP – 600 copies on black vinyl
CS – 100 copies
Release date: 4th May 2015

Cooper Crain, Daniel Quinlivan et Rob Frye : orgue électrique, synthétiseurs analogique, synthétiseur modulaire, basse électrique, flûte, clarinette basse et percussions

Artwork by Nick Ciontea
Mastering by Rashad Becker

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

BITCHIN BAJAS - Marimba

Presque Vu

walk home

Artist: THE OSCILLATION
Album: Monographic

HITD 028 
LP / CD / DL
Limited edition of 400 white vinyls and 600 black vinyls
 Release date: March 2016
Released in partnership with All Time Low

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

Written, recorded and produced by D.Castellanos
except: Alignment Zone written by D.Castellanos/V.Magaletti

Guitars/vox/keys/bass: D.Castellanos
Drums: Valentina Magaletti
Additional drums on Alignment Zone: Tim Garrat
Mastered by Carim Classman@thefishtank
Artwork and layout Julian Hand and Floriane Miny

THE OSCILLATION - Truth In Reverse

Body Consonance

BYRON WESTBROOK - Dance in Free Fall

BYRON WESTBROOK - What We Mean When We Say Body Language

TOMAGA "Memory In Vivo Exposure" (12"/DL).
HITD 037
Release date: 8th December 2017

All tracks composed, perfomed & recorded by TOMAGA
Mastering by Mike Grinser @ D&M, Berlin
Original cover photograph by David Child

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

TOMAGA - Memory In Vivo Exposure (Parts 1 & 2)

We release Phil Strucks album NNO on February 23.

Phil is a experimental recording artist, who also works as a photographer, documenting the contemporary, experimental electronic music scene and life around it. His music is based on sampling from odd sound sources, random data streams and the usage of microphones and various synthesizer. Phil ennobles the trivial, honors the silence and creates an experimental collection of raw textural ambiance. It could’ve been a matter of trompe-l’oeil, a mere juxtaposition of audio signs to mimic functionality, but there’s a much more vibrant and fluid quality to his mind-expanding pieces. He is living in Hamburg, Germany.

Text: Baptiste Girou (Inverted Audio)

Phil Struck - Brook

Pierre Bastien orchestrates his meccano marionettes on Tinkle Twang ‘n Tootle to form the charming imaginative ensemble that he’s been known for since the late 80s. 

Equal parts composer, inventor, mechanic, and performer - Bastien translates his imagination into instruments and compositions that defy any musical categories. Whether it’s preparing instruments like playing a trumpet underwater or through a kazoo, using belt-driven motors and mechanical components to perform cumbersome yet surprisingly musical operations on traditional instruments and household items, or using a fan to hit the strings of a kundi harp with flowing paper - Bastien’s love for tone, rhythm, noise and harmony is poetically reflected across his quite extensive oeuvre. 

Playful and melancholic, the sound sculptures that Bastien invents and plays with are partly inspired by the work of Raymond Roussel, a visionary French author who at the turn of the 20th century wrote a unique form of literature which inspired and guided artists from the surrealist and pataphysical movement and was declared by Michel Foucault as one of structuralism's founding fathers. On that note, the influence of literature and syntax on Bastien’s work cuts all the way through to the palindromes he uses for his track titles - which, much like his machines, infinitely loop. 

True to it’s adorable title, Tinkle Twang ‘n Tootle is a music box of unfolding whimsical structures, half broken rhythms, detuned harmonies, and fantastical sound collages that evoke a childlike sense of wonder and an urge to explore the spaces in between the sounds.

Tinkle Twang 'n Tootle

Pierre Bastien - Pet Step [from Tinkle Twang 'n Tootle]

"Stele" out June 21st via Perfect Aesthetics.

https://perfectaesthetics.bandcamp.com/album/stele

Stele

Stele, side A

From split tape 'Boiling Sea' with Atonet, released October 25 2019 through Moloton.

Moonilena - Shore Leave

Sean McCann - "Puck" LP
www.recitalprogram.com/puck/
Edition of 500
12-page “Puck” pamphlet
Two art cards with program notes & recollections
Out November 15th, 2019

R69 - Sean McCann - "Damals" from Puck LP

Travelling across the globe is the ultimate way to brighten your imagination and widen your knowledge about the shape of things. Even a travel diary provide the close sense to its reader; the adjoining experience could be really mind-transferring if the diary is written in universal language. Four years after ‘Temnoe Poznaetsya Chernim’, Klammklang presents another report of @kptransmission's inner pilgrimage.

Karina Kazaryan has collected the sonic material for ‘Beatrice’ while exploring Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine, as well as some of Russia's non-obvious destinations. Every day of this wayfaring bore a special significance to the musician, not only through the evocation of memories and insights, but also in conjunction with edifying and effortful books read and films watched (hint: Walerian Borowczyk) during the passages between points. Akin to these inspirations, ‘Beatrice’ takes its stand: the attempt of purest and highest perception of mortals’ desires and sensations, connecting them to the ‘Outer World’.

Making her music spiritual yet up-to-date and challenging, KP Transmission manages to keep this sonic flux as carnal as never before. From erratic layers of ‘Spell’ and proto-amen breaks of 'Eerie V2' to neurotic pulse of ‘Wolf Eyelash’ the album forcloses the genre-conventional “dark night of the soul”-esque vibe with rhythm as its key element. Through the metal clashes, church choir samples and beat-making inclusions of Zeena LaVey’s voice (in ‘Kariades’), ‘Beatrice’ still occurs as voice of trust and ardour; even Dante’s quest for Heavens sometimes was ominous, but had reached its virtuous end.

Buy cassettes and digital: kptransmission.bandcamp.com/album/beatrice

Beatrice

KP Transmission – Beatrice (from Klamm24)

https://lesyndicatdesscorpions.bandcamp.com/album/mimosa

A2 - Crier Dans La Mer

V/A — 0/1

A concept-album compilation composed by Shedir, Philip Sulidae, Monte Burrows, France Jobin, Emile Bojesen, Seth Cluett, Attilio Novellino, Stefano Tashi, anthéne, Luigi Turra.

Directed and curated by Edoardo Cammisa.
Artwork and artistic concept by Camilla Pisani.
Supervised by Angelo Guido.
Mastered by Marie Rose at FixInTheMix Labs.
Released by Sounds Against Humanity.

BUY LTD. CD / DIGITAL
https://soundsagainsthumanity.bandcamp.com/album/0-1

BYRON WESTBROOK - What We Mean When We Say Body Language

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