artist: KEIKO HIGUCHI / CRIS X
title: MELT
label: MUSIK ATLACH
num: MA012
format: CD
barcode:  888174511771
genre: Experimental

tracks:
1 ceaseless / do you care? 
2 sister / you left me so insane  
3  in obscurity 
4 tell me what you got to say  
5 melt

It is a work of the Tokyo-based voice performer and pianist, Keiko Higuchi, and the Rome/Berlin-based sound artist, Cris X. Lost and coming into a cave, the breathing of each other can be heard in obscurity. The found scarlet "primodia"  in the unlit world is icy cold yet hot. Like a burning coal concealed with care, the calm pathos, however, sealed in their stirring sound, are going to "melt". 


Keiko Higuchi is a vocalist, pianist, performer residing in Japan. She has started out playing improvisation when she was in the united states with a band named "Saturnalia". 

After she came back to Japan in 1998, she has made some tours with the butoh dancer, Imre Thormann and the cellist, Yasumune Morishige, and also have worked with various musicians and groups. Her work is not only limited to her improv. vocal work, but she also works as a singer with the pianist, shin-ichiro kanda,where she does more of a "conventional" way of singing,  her solo piano/vocal work, and as a group/ unit, she works in DUEL (Mitsuru Tabata, ASTRO, Kelly Churko and keiko higuchi), KYOHANSHA (isshee on bass, keiko higuchi on drums), etc, there are many units she has been in. As an improviser, she has performed with many musicians/ groups in and out of Japan. 

she also works as a writer, photographer, vocal teacher and so on. 

for more reference, please check www.geocities.jp/cleokkk


CRIS X

Cristiano Luciani was born in Rome, Italy, in the 1976. He is a sound and visual artist and he works and lives in Rome (Italy) and Berlin (Germany). Cris X’s solo project exploring the synthesis of composition and improvisation and Its music moving from electronics and noise to expressionist ambient and musique concrète. He composed and performed music for theatre productions, contemporary ballet and live film scorings, along with the soundtracks of his own video production. His visual and sound artwork has been exhibited in different contexts and festivals throughout Europe, United Kingdom, Japan, China and South America. 
He has collaborated and played with musicians and artists from different cultures and art scenes as Merzbow/Masami Akita, KK Null/Kazuyuki Kishino, MB/Maurizio Bianchi, Phil Minton, Tristan Horsinger, Sachiko, Michiko Hirayama, Hamayoko/Yoko Higashi, Gene Coleman, Eugene Chadbourne, Torturing nurse among others. In the 2010 he created the experimental label CX Records which concentrates on the release and publishing of his own musical/video works and collaborations. www.crisx.net

Sister / You Left Me So Insane

Albedo Gravitas are derived from the improvised duo group called Albedo Fantastica of Keiko Higuchi and Sachiko established in 2015 joined by Shizuo Uchida to be a trio. The kaleidoscopic voices of Higuchi and Sachiko intermingling with the piano, bass, electronics and melodica, seem to stagnate and cut up the space which to result to create their only unique improvisation. They have been constantly performing in Tokyo and released their first album Eihwaz from the French label An’archives in 2021.
This very latest one is their first studio recorded album ever. The music here appears to be a roaming in the tranquil darkness, breathing deeply and tracing the spiritual vein of gold while spotting luminescence.

vein of ore

fossa

luminescence

A new unit 'Majutsu no Niwa' by Rinji Fukuoka(ex.Overhang Party). This is their second album and first full length studio album. They add lyrical and hard psychedelic sound to experimental sound of Overhang Party. Extreme guitar and the dynamic rhythm ensemble face off to delicate and strong-willed song, creates general fortitude sounds.
track 1: AFUNRUPARO
track 3: FRONTERA
track 7: Night Cruise

AFUNRUPARO

FRONTERA

Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere, Finland. After 2001 Uton’s been releasing many albums on many different labels (like PseudoArcana, Jewelled Antler, Last Visible Dog, Ikuisuus).
Uton’s music is a mix of many genres, including elements from drone, avant-noise, free-improv, psychedelia, ambient, tape-music, musique concre´te etc. Sometimes wondering in the silent dark semi-acoustic mysteries, and in the next day creating noisy wall of sound with outer space echoes and alien atmospheres.
Uton's sound is made from many sources; like electric guitar (which is usually detuned, prepared or/and bowed), small synths (usually far away from modern possibilities), electronics (mixer, bunch of cables with effect pedals), voice, different type of percussions (small drums, maracasses), bells, violin, flutes, keyboards... and nowadays also some digital manipulation too. All kind of instruments are welcome to join in, but the result is always coming from the same filter (which we call now with name "Uton")
He has collaborated with Alan Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Mrtyu, Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Jari Koho (Vapaa), Maxime Primault (Enfer Boreal, High Wolf) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ysta¨va¨t) among others.
"From The Twilight, Next to Nowhere and Disappeared" album was recorded already around 2004-2005 in Tampere, Finland. Recorded with four-track tape recorder, and later edited and mastered digitally on computer. Musically this album shows the most mysterious and atmospheric side of Uton.
track 3: Dealing with the Moonlight
track 7: Spirit of the Million Woods

Dealing with the Moonlight

This is the first release as Black Bikini. Lovely fruit of Finnish underground.
They are sometimes magus sounds to melt into the air, wriggling dark worms and lost pieces.
Black Bikini is a duo by Pentti Dassum(aka. umpio) and Jonna Karanka(aka. KUUPUU). They met many years ago in Turku and became friends. In the winter 2013 they locked themselves for three days in Pentti’s homestudio to make music. They didn’t know how it would sound. Pentti spread out his impressive junk-instrument collection and Jonna started to harass her electric guitar. In between playing and recording they drank lot of coffee and ate sweets. Afterwards Pentti carefully connected the sounds together with his magic-paw. This is the score to arrange the space debris. Tapes, loops, junk struments, guitar, bass, electronics, processing & manipulations were recorded to tape in the winter and autumn 2013, then assembled during winter 2013–2014 at Arkisto, Finland.

artist: BLACK BIKINI
title: S/T
price: 1,500yen / 14USD
num: MA014
label: MUSIK ATLACH
format: CD

Pentti Dassum: 
Umpio is a noise project from Finland, started in 2006 by Pentti Dassum. It is mainly focused on amplified junk metal, contact microphones and electronic manipulation. The sound ranges from harsh noise to hypnotic drones and includes elements of granular glitch cut-ups. He also plays junks percussion in “Faarao Pirttikangas & Kuhmalahden Nubialaiset” (gospel/blues), bass in “Cosmo Jones Beat Machine” (boogie) and noise machines in “Romutus” (grindcore). Black Bikini is the result of a wonderful collaboration with Jonna Karanka. 

Jonna Karanka: 
Jonna Karanka is Finnish visual artist and musician. Karanka started to make music in 2002 when she got her hands on a four track cassette recorder. Later she named her solo　project as Kuupuu. She’s been an active member in the Finnish improv music scene for the past 13 years and has been playing in many bands like Avarus, Hertta Lussu Ässä, Hockey Night, Kukkiva Poliisi, Olimpia Splendid, The Anaksimandros, Way Of The Cross and so on.


tracks:
1. Palmyra Dive  
2. Skunkman’s Feelings   
3. Frosty  
4. Squid Row  
5. Midnite At The Bottum   
6. SPA Moment 
7. Seagulls At The Elegant Crater  
8. Whammo 


BLACK BIKINI / Palmyra Dive

This is the first release as Black Bikini. Lovely fruit of Finnish underground.
They are sometimes magus sounds to melt into the air, wriggling dark worms and lost pieces.
Black Bikini is a duo by Pentti Dassum(aka. umpio) and Jonna Karanka(aka. KUUPUU). They met many years ago in Turku and became friends. In the winter 2013 they locked themselves for three days in Pentti’s homestudio to make music. They didn’t know how it would sound. Pentti spread out his impressive junk-instrument collection and Jonna started to harass her electric guitar. In between playing and recording they drank lot of coffee and ate sweets. Afterwards Pentti carefully connected the sounds together with his magic-paw. This is the score to arrange the space debris. Tapes, loops, junk struments, guitar, bass, electronics, processing & manipulations were recorded to tape in the winter and autumn 2013, then assembled during winter 2013–2014 at Arkisto, Finland.

artist: BLACK BIKINI
title: S/T
price: 1,500yen / 14USD
num: MA014
label: MUSIK ATLACH
format: CD

Pentti Dassum: 
Umpio is a noise project from Finland, started in 2006 by Pentti Dassum. It is mainly focused on amplified junk metal, contact microphones and electronic manipulation. The sound ranges from harsh noise to hypnotic drones and includes elements of granular glitch cut-ups. He also plays junks percussion in “Faarao Pirttikangas & Kuhmalahden Nubialaiset” (gospel/blues), bass in “Cosmo Jones Beat Machine” (boogie) and noise machines in “Romutus” (grindcore). Black Bikini is the result of a wonderful collaboration with Jonna Karanka. 

Jonna Karanka: 
Jonna Karanka is Finnish visual artist and musician. Karanka started to make music in 2002 when she got her hands on a four track cassette recorder. Later she named her solo　project as Kuupuu. She’s been an active member in the Finnish improv music scene for the past 13 years and has been playing in many bands like Avarus, Hertta Lussu Ässä, Hockey Night, Kukkiva Poliisi, Olimpia Splendid, The Anaksimandros, Way Of The Cross and so on.

tracks:
1. Palmyra Dive  
2. Skunkman’s Feelings   
3. Frosty  
4. Squid Row  
5. Midnite At The Bottum   
6. SPA Moment 
7. Seagulls At The Elegant Crater  
8. Whammo 


BLACK BIKINI / Frosty

Altaat /Maa on täysi

Beautiful sounds of the abyss of the night from Finland.
A meditative yet feral set of duo exchanges from the moldy basements of coastal southern Finland. Four tracks of moonlit drones by Miki Brunou and Niko Karlsson, with synth and guitar drawing slowly moving rings around each other, rising and falling in devotion and longing. Subtle gestures condense and expand in turn, forming columns of sound with one end always deep in the subterranean oil-fumed atmospheres and the other on the far side of a shining heavy sky. Two sides of private rituals, prayers and curses performed away from prying eyes, yet searching for the very center.

artist: Altaat
title: Maa on täysi
format: TAPE
label: Musik Atlach
number: MATA01
street date: January 20, 2018

A
Vastaan valoa
Ahnehtiva kuu

B
Yöpaikka
Juopa

Altaat / Vastaan Valoa

Altaat / Ahnehtiva Kuu

Altaat / Juopa

Multi-instrumentalist and music conceptualist born in Indianapolis, USA. Performed as a member of Drone-Doom metal band ‘Trees’ Tecumseh’
Currently based in Auckland, California. He has been playing music for over 20 years in some venues, universities, galleries and many other scenes. He also collaborated with various artists and released works from Fabrica Records, Debacle Records, etc. In 2017 he plays his first tour in Japan. 
In this album, his work is beautiful sounds of drone 2 tracks which brings out mineral rigidity, deepness and serenity.


artist: John Krausbauer
title: Paralleled
price: 1680yen / 14USD
num: MA019
label: MUSIK ATLACH
format: CD
release date: soon

“Stillness and movement” and “lightness and darkness”--- the chaos of a city flickering with lights and the tranquility of a desolate seashore.
Majutsu no Niwa is now releasing 2 CDs simultaneously of its 5th work--- crystallizing those two aspects of “singing”, PartⅠ“The Visionaries’ Sand Zone” and PartⅡ“With à qui avec Gabriel” in a fine paper sleeve. 2 years have gone during the recording in studio with a careful mixing and mastering. 
PartⅠhas a ceaseless waves or their characteristic “hard” Rock ’n Roll. For PartⅡ with full of acid folk color, à qui avec Gabriel, the female accordionist, has joined the band.

LeBruitdelaMer

DesolateSeashore

TheCallofThanatos

The new sounds of Italian virtuoso M. B. MAURIZIO BIANCHI, which has been active since 1979, is released again from musik atlach.
This time new sounds recorded in 2015. The crossing sounds are reminiscent of the viewer's own journey to the abyss. Sublime ambient drone 2 tracks playing mysterious space that makes time lapse forget.
artist: Maurizio Bianchi
title: T.P.T.M.B.T.D.
format: CD
label: Musik Atlach
number: MA-018
price: 14USD
21 JUNE, 2019

T.P.T.M.B.T.D.

TELE PRO THERMO

MIKRO BIO TETRA DYS

Flokka Kur is a collaboration work by Finnish Uton and Argentinan Anla Courtis. Started from the noisy mystical drones of Uton and after continued by Anla's manipulations & some extra noise.  Described as a "shamanic music in urban context" & "sounds for non-euclidean geometry landscapes". All that under a theme of flowers, mixed with spanish and finnish language. 

Anla Courtis was born in 1972 in Buenos Aires , Argentina . He was a founder member of Reynols. He has more than 200 solo releases and collaborations.
His music always has strong experimental sense and usually based on high-skilled techniques of prepared sound, tape manipulations, processing of field recordings, live electronics, objects, cymbals, synthesizers, computer tools, playing traditional (both acoustic and electric) instruments as well as self-built, strange and unusual instruments (eg. unstringed guitar).

 Jani Hirvonen aka Uton is a Finnish artist born in 1979. Uton’s music is a mix of many genres, including elements from drone, avant-noise, free-improv, psychedelia, ambient, tape-music, musique concre´te etc. Sometimes wondering in the silent dark semi-acoustic mysteries, and in the next day creating noisy wall of sound with outer space echoes and alien atmospheres. 

tracks:
1. Titonia Mutisia
2. Tupastiarella Mirto
3. Sinilitu Retama
4. Pensamiento Kielo
5. Euforbia Punavaula 
6. Maloppi Calendulas
7. Vanamo Hosta
8. Ikikulta Lovelia


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