Noise, Guitar Noise, Improvisation, Psychedelic

Li Jianhong 李劍鴻 - 1969

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若潭 ruò tán - 霧 Mist

Berserk - Omni Ab Uno
From ▼WV 031: Berserk - Formless 
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NO INPUT HARSH NOISE from Taiwan! 
Violence and nihilism, activist and underground young pioneer from Taipei scene, chaotic frequency manipulation and carefully textured post-apocalyptic soundscape. Including his full live performance recording at Cafe Oto in 2016, which is the youngest musician who ever played at the venue. 

▼Semi-transparent pro-cassette and tape case, insert printed with special satin paper, limited to 133 copies, hand-numbered, 40 copies on Bandcamp. 
Release date: 23/03/2019. 

▼Born in 1997, Xu set out performing and producing harsh noise under the alias “Berserk” since 2015. Initially, he focused on playing rough feedback from handmade instruments and synthesizers before carrying on specializes in no-input effects. Influenced by Japanoise, Death Metal, Hardcore Punk, his live performance is known for highly intense physical energy and massive volume. In 2017, he turned to combining various equipments including no-input mixer and shortwave radio to session with Free Improvisation musicians and folk narrator. His works as Chia-Chun Xu emphasize more on the interaction between sounds, space, and the others. Besides working on his projects, he also runs his music label “MKUltra Productions”, promoting Taiwanese and worldwide noise and experimental musicians. 

▼1997年生, 於2015年開始以Berserk名義進行Harsh Noise演出及創作, 初期以自製樂器產生的大量Feedback和合成器為主, 而後開始專注於效果器no-input的手法, 以大量效果器串接/錯用, 進而在內部產生出一連串多變且難以控制的反饋, 並透過大量的破音扭曲, 放大其音色. 受日本噪音, Death Metal, Hardcore Punk等音樂影響, 以高能量, 大音量且極具身體性的激烈現場演出聞名。而在2017年, 他開始以本名使用no-input pedals/mixer, 短波收音機等媒材與自由即興樂手或民間談講者合作, 若以Berserk名義演出的Harsh Noise是其"外放"的創作型態, 他以本名的創作則是其"內斂"的表現, 雖同樣操縱電子雜訊, 但比以往更注重於聲音與所在空間, 其他樂手以及觀眾的對話關係, 以及聲音本身的細節和層次. 除創作者的身分外, 另為新興實驗音樂廠牌MKUltra Productions主理人, 不定期發行台灣以及世界各地噪音, 實驗音樂等作品, 希冀盡其微薄之力將台灣的場景與世界連結並推廣。 

Side A recorded at Senko Issha Records, Taipei 
Sibe B recorded live at Cafe Oto, London, 2016.5.27 

No-input Electronics / Vocal / Recording / Mixing / Mastering: 徐嘉駿 Chia-Chun Xu 
Artwork (Film destroying): Jesse Tseng 
Layout: 若潭 ruò tán 

WV Sorcerer Productions 2019 
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Berserk - Omni Ab Uno

▼ WV 033: Zaliva-D - Sky Singing (Echo Edition)
A co-release with SVBKVLT

Esoteric tribal electronic sound with haunting vocals, ritualistic and richly rhythmic. Impulsion from misty Beijing.

We proudly present Zaliva-D's classic album "Sky Singing", first time on physical format, a beautiful 12" LP with brand new artwork by 若潭 ruò tán, also includes a CD which contains several previously unreleased tracks (total playing time: 73 min).

「古老的它們，對著天空唱歌，天空亦有所唱，無人懂得。」
"Ancient beings, sing up to the sky, but the sky responded, we never understand." 

Zaliva-D is a Beijing-based electronic music & visual duo consisting of members Li Chao (music) and Aisin-Gioro Yuanjin (visuals). Founded in 2003, Zaliva-D have been developing and perfecting their unique breed of dark electronic music for well over a decade, its timbre and melody conjuring up nervous energy, bleak scenes and frustrated anger.

Zaliva-D是來自北京的音樂&視覺組合，由李超（Music）和愛新覺羅湲矜（VJ)組成。Zaliva-D始於2003年，經過十余年的磨礪，終以東方黑暗電子音樂的形式持續探索與發問，旋律是意圖，節奏使之刻骨銘心，打造 黑暗或蒼白的聲音場景，鞭撻所有的主流記憶。

當你談論中國的電子音樂，Zaliva-D絕對是一個繞不開的名字，十幾年來，它用原始，邪性並伴隨負面沖擊力的音樂，用詭異，抽象，壓迫的視覺影像，成為了勃興的中國電子音樂場景中黑色的符號。它來自有著黑金屬和黑氛圍音樂背景的制作人，它善於把東方世界未知事物的詭異氣氛嫁接到西方世界的工業，Techno音樂上，它是性格鋒利的藝術角色。

Zaliva-D - CD bonus - Shade

Zaliva-D - CD bonus - Hair River

Zaliva-D - B4 - Bitter Spiral

▼WV 019:
王嘯 Wang Xiao - 黑馬河的兒子 The Son of Black Horse River
十週年紀念版 Ten Year Anniversary Edition

Order a physical copy: wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/album/the-son…k-horse-river

Ballads of a troubadour from Gobi Desert in Central Asia.

Wang Xiao was born in Karamay, Xinjiang in 1966. His parents are oil exploration workers. From childhood, he followed his parents to live and grow up in the wilderness of Gobi Desert. In 1989 he quitted his oil field job and started traveling as a troubadour. He has lived in Tibet for 10 years and now resides in Yunnan. As Wang Xiao said: “In my memory, there is no ‘home’ concept, just keep moving from place to place”. The album is clearly not “indie city folk”, nor is it “world music”. However, after years of immersion in the vein of Central Asian culture, the influence of traditional music from various Central Asian regions is obvious. The whole album is dark and deep, like the rocks in the desert. The occasional overtone singing plays well with the dombra tone, the musician is seeking the divine nature of the universe. “Folk singers in the past were poets and sorcerers themselves. They could only sing after divination and sacrifice, or by helping people to predict diseases, fortunes, planting and family affairs. Folk singers should be the ones who atone for the lives.”

The symbolic and poetic lyrics are also an important part for the album. With Lu (Heartless/Vergissmeinnicht/Mandarava), Edward Sanderson and Josh Feola's help, we included the full Chinese lyrics with English translation, it will help the listener to have a better understanding of Wang Xiao’s music.

The album was recorded in the winter of 2007 in Beijing. “At that time, it was just me, Wu Junde and Wu Tun to do this recording. They bought me some wine, we drank them and recorded the album (dombra and vocal) for only two hours, then I went back to Tibet right after.” Wu Junde and Obul added tanbur, mouth harp, more vocals and percussions afterward. “We didn’t feel it’s a very good album at first. The tempo is not always right because we didn’t use a metronome, but as you listened to it for a long time, it was great. It's a record that can't be repeated, because it's made at one go, and it's very straight.”

Previously self-published as CDr in 2010, now we reissue this album as a Ten Year Anniversary Edition, with new graphic design and a bonus track “Refugee of Faith on the Ancient River Bank” recorded in 2016. All tracks are carefully remastered by our friend Cyril Meysson.

“Black Horse River, for me, is my real motherland.” – Wang Xiao

王嘯，1966年生於新疆克拉瑪依，父母為石油斟探工作者，自幼跟隨父母在荒原、戈壁、沙漠生活，成長度日。曾當過石油工人，1989年離職，自此吟游四方，曾在西藏居住十年，現居雲南。如王嘯所說：「在我的記憶中，沒有什麽『家』的概念，只是不停的搬動，變換著不同的地方。」這張專輯顯然不是「城市民謠」，也並不是所謂的「世界音樂」或「民族音樂」。但是多年浸淫在中亞文化的血液之中，中亞各民族傳統音樂的影子顯而易見，我更想稱之為一張音樂人自己的Ballad作品。整張專輯黑暗、沉重，像沙漠中的巨石拍打着大地，若隱若現的泛音唱法配合着冬不拉的刷彈，音樂人依存在天地萬物的神性之間。「過去的民謠歌手本身就是詩人、巫師。他們要為人們的病痛、禍福、栽種、家族的事、以前的恩怨等進行占卦、祭祀、問天後才可以歌唱，民謠歌手應該是生命的贖罪者。」如詩歌一般凝練、寫實卻又充滿象徵性的歌詞也是這張專輯重要的一部分，在魯創（Heartless/Vergissmeinnicht/Mandarava）、Edward Sanderson和Josh Feola的細心幫助下，我們在這次再版中收錄了完整的中文歌詞和英文翻譯，讓聽者更能體會音樂所傳達的含義。

這張專輯錄製與2007年冬天的北京，「當時錄音就我和吳俊德、吳吞，他倆給我買了幾瓶酒，喝完就錄了，用了兩個小時，第二天我就回到了西藏。」，後來吳俊德和吾不力在後期又加入了彈撥爾、口弦、和聲和手鼓。「這張專輯猛一聽不是很好，有很多錯拍子，因為當時沒有采點，但聽的時間長了，就很棒，越聽越好。是一張不能重復的唱片，因為它一氣而成，氣口很正。」這張專輯在2010年由音樂人自己出版了CDr，到現在已經十年。這次的十週年再版，巫唱片設計了全新的Digipak CD，加入了磁帶版本，並多附一首2016年新作《先河邊的信仰難民》，也邀請了多次合作的法国母帶師Cyril Meysson重製了母帶，在保留原始錄音氣質的同時也提升了整體的聆聽感受。

「『黑馬河』對我來說，就是我真正的祖國。」- 王嘯

(部分文字摘自《通俗歌曲》2011年3月號《黑馬河的兒子 - 王嘯專訪》，作者：陳郁)

東方的夢魘 The Eastern Nightmare

狼來了 Here Come the Wolves

古格酒鬼 The Drunkard from Guge

▼WV 019:
王嘯 Wang Xiao - 黑馬河的兒子 The Son of Black Horse River
十週年紀念版 Ten Year Anniversary Edition

Ballads of a troubadour from Gobi Desert in Central Asia.

Wang Xiao was born in Karamay, Xinjiang in 1966. His parents are oil exploration workers. From childhood, he followed his parents to live and grow up in the wilderness of Gobi Desert. In 1989 he quitted his oil field job and started traveling as a troubadour. He has lived in Tibet for 10 years and now resides in Yunnan. As Wang Xiao said: “In my memory, there is no ‘home’ concept, just keep moving from place to place”. The album is clearly not “indie city folk”, nor is it “world music”. However, after years of immersion in the vein of Central Asian culture, the influence of traditional music from various Central Asian regions is obvious. The whole album is dark and deep, like the rocks in the desert. The occasional overtone singing plays well with the dombra tone, the musician is seeking the divine nature of the universe. “Folk singers in the past were poets and sorcerers themselves. They could only sing after divination and sacrifice, or by helping people to predict diseases, fortunes, planting and family affairs. Folk singers should be the ones who atone for the lives.”

The symbolic and poetic lyrics are also an important part for the album. With Lu (Heartless/Vergissmeinnicht/Mandarava), Edward Sanderson and Josh Feola's help, we included the full Chinese lyrics with English translation, it will help the listener to have a better understanding of Wang Xiao’s music.

The album was recorded in the winter of 2007 in Beijing. “At that time, it was just me, Wu Junde and Wu Tun to do this recording. They bought me some wine, we drank them and recorded the album (dombra and vocal) for only two hours, then I went back to Tibet right after.” Wu Junde and Obul added tanbur, mouth harp, more vocals and percussions afterward. “We didn’t feel it’s a very good album at first. The tempo is not always right because we didn’t use a metronome, but as you listened to it for a long time, it was great. It's a record that can't be repeated, because it's made at one go, and it's very straight.”

Previously self-published as CDr in 2010, now we reissue this album as a Ten Year Anniversary Edition, with new graphic design and a bonus track “Refugee of Faith on the Ancient River Bank” recorded in 2016. All tracks are carefully remastered by our friend Cyril Meysson.

“Black Horse River, for me, is my real motherland.” – Wang Xiao


王嘯，1966年生於新疆克拉瑪依，父母為石油斟探工作者，自幼跟隨父母在荒原、戈壁、沙漠生活，成長度日。曾當過石油工人，1989年離職，自此吟游四方，曾在西藏居住十年，現居雲南。如王嘯所說：「在我的記憶中，沒有什麽『家』的概念，只是不停的搬動，變換著不同的地方。」這張專輯顯然不是「城市民謠」，也並不是所謂的「世界音樂」或「民族音樂」。但是多年浸淫在中亞文化的血液之中，中亞各民族傳統音樂的影子顯而易見，我更想稱之為一張音樂人自己的Ballad作品。整張專輯黑暗、沉重，像沙漠中的巨石拍打着大地，若隱若現的泛音唱法配合着冬不拉的刷彈，音樂人依存在天地萬物的神性之間。「過去的民謠歌手本身就是詩人、巫師。他們要為人們的病痛、禍福、栽種、家族的事、以前的恩怨等進行占卦、祭祀、問天後才可以歌唱，民謠歌手應該是生命的贖罪者。」如詩歌一般凝練、寫實卻又充滿象徵性的歌詞也是這張專輯重要的一部分，在魯創（Heartless/Vergissmeinnicht/Mandarava）、Edward Sanderson和Josh Feola的細心幫助下，我們在這次再版中收錄了完整的中文歌詞和英文翻譯，讓聽者更能體會音樂所傳達的含義。

這張專輯錄製與2007年冬天的北京，「當時錄音就我和吳俊德、吳吞，他倆給我買了幾瓶酒，喝完就錄了，用了兩個小時，第二天我就回到了西藏。」，後來吳俊德和吾不力在後期又加入了彈撥爾、口弦、和聲和手鼓。「這張專輯猛一聽不是很好，有很多錯拍子，因為當時沒有采點，但聽的時間長了，就很棒，越聽越好。是一張不能重復的唱片，因為它一氣而成，氣口很正。」這張專輯在2010年由音樂人自己出版了CDr，到現在已經十年。這次的十週年再版，巫唱片設計了全新的Digipak CD，加入了磁帶版本，並多附一首2016年新作《先河邊的信仰難民》，也邀請了多次合作的法国母帶師Cyril Meysson重製了母帶，在保留原始錄音氣質的同時也提升了整體的聆聽感受。

「『黑馬河』對我來說，就是我真正的祖國。」- 王嘯

(部分文字摘自《通俗歌曲》2011年3月號《黑馬河的兒子 - 王嘯專訪》，作者：陳郁)

黑馬河的兒子 The Son of Black Horse River

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89年的舞 1989, The Grand Piece of Dance

Human decadence & cosmic existence.

noise/drone/ambient/free jazz/psychedelic
ritual industrial/black metal/esoteric tribal

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