From the viscerally punishing and nerve wrecking, to the meditatively sublime, Kevin Drumm has a talent for exploring heightened states through the timbres of minute details. Now, throughout this series of archival works dating from 2000 to 2022, his mastery is once again on full display.

Battering Rams

ASM05 / VAK67 | Kevin Drumm - Old Shoes

"All things that have form eventually decay."

After last year's tenuous offering "Another Fall," Craig Tattersall (A Humble Bee) returns with a new collaborator in tow, Erik Williamson. Together the duo unveil a body of collaborative work titled 'remnants', showcasing a near hour-long offering of unfaltering melancholy, with each piece engulfing the listener in an abyss of tape-laden hiss, while drifting ever so slightly into aimless reverie.

VAK66 | Abandoned Bees - Monuments

Vaagner is proud to present the third and final installment of Jeremiah M. Carter’s album triptych, ‘Vessels’.

Spanning 6 pieces, each work feels like an integral part of the album's overarching narrative, fervently nestled amid divinity and humility.

By its final piece, 'Vessel X', which also clocks in as the longest in the entire triptych, we are treated to one of Jeremiah’s finest moments, and for a few seconds, it all comes together for one last swansong, forming a sonic distillation of elation and grief, desire and passion. – It’s all here.

Vessels

ASM06 | J. Carter - Vessel X (Falling On Our Faces During the Morning Prayers)

VAK68 | Abigail Toll – A Cut In A Curve

VAK69 | Jeremiah M. Carter - A Transition From A Barren Place To A Barren Place

In November 2020, KMRU self-released ‘Drawing Water’. The release contained 3 supple works of porous resonance and intimate motion, giving way to a very heartfelt body of work that peers directly into the fabric of the everyday; gestures, movement, conversation, rendered graciously into waveform.

Now, Vaagner is proud to present a special edition vinyl and cassette reissue of ‘Drawing Water’ via its A Sunken Mall imprint, with the original material spanning the first side of the record in remastered from.

Drawing

ASM07| KMRU - Uneven

Streamed live on Noods radio, 13.8.23

Tracklist:
Perila - Memory Latency
Forest Management - Seven Years Ago
Sophia Zhuravkova & yusk - jk5
Ribbons - Which Direction They Went 
Igor Len - Here...
Ciaran Jacob & Flora Yin-Wong - Dome C
Abandoned Bees - Monuments
Ian William Craig - Sentimental Drift
Orchid Dealer - Night Fragments
sicu - piano rain
k.m.k. - untitled unreleased

VACAST 14 // k.m.k.

After cultivating his own sound for over 30 years, de Babalon has continually expanded his sonic trajectory throughout the last few years via a series of noteworthy release on labels such as Alter, A Colorful Storm and AD 93. Now he presents his most encompassing album to date via Vale, an hour long phantasmagoric onslaught showcasing the full spectrum of de Babalon’s radical, menacing and inimitable style.

Vale (Master)

VAK71 | Christoph de Babalon - Denn Sie Sind Hünen

Whisky soaked, nocturnal, brooding. Aging’s album ‘Troubles? I Got A Bartender’ was a noteworthy, film-noir infused suite that quietly slipped out on cassette in 2015 by a then budding Manchester avant-jazz ensemble, led by David McLean.

In 2020, amidst the pandemic’s tempest and winter's gloom, the idea manifested of showcasing McLean’s slow burning, wistful soirée in a new light via a curated effort

by Berlin’s Vaagner label, which invited a series of hand-picked artist to rework selected compositions from the album, rendering its mournful, smoke-tinged resonances into new shapes.

Showcased here, is one of these efforts, by Manchester based Craig Tattersall aka A Humble Bee.

VAA07 | Aging - Vampire Body Blues (The Humble Bee Rework)

Fragmented, glacial mementos presented across 4 sides of tape, with each artist exhibiting work across one side.

This most likely represents the final Winter Olympics compilation, (seeing that these unique tape boxes have become exceedingly rare and expensive). 

Mainstays's like label favorite øjeRum and the elusive Korea Undok Group make a return, while label affiliates Thme, and The Humble Bee, (in conjunction with collaborator Erik Williamson) also add their delicate, winter struck gestures to the compilation.

Again, all pieces have been produced specifically with the tape medium in mind, and thus will only be available in the given format.

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