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PARKS - Umber CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
Out now! The story of Russian composer Parks' "Umber" CD has spanned approximately 12 years. Originally conceived in the heyday of the "mid-90's ambient sound" (1996 to be exact), "Umber" has suffered from minimal distribution and a label collapse. Sound familiar to another great Russian artist (hint: Beautumn)?? Superb ambient with environmental interludes, cinematic minor key passages. Think early Vangelis at his strongest, Tarkovsky films, a hidden gem from the FAX sublabel catalog. Reworked and re-arranged in 2007 with a new tracklisting. Umber is an edition of 300 copies in a digipak.
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KILN - Thermals CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
Back in stock - repressed, 2nd edition.
Music is the same as the first edition, but the artwork has been altered just a bit. Easily, one of our most popular releases. Infraction Records is very thrilled to release this disc from Kiln. One staffer remarked “It’s like having 23 different takes on the emotive quality that Eno’s “an ending (descent)” (from Apollo : Atmospheres) provided. The 4 minute mini-film soundtrack that actually lives up to that description.”
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CRAIG BETHELL - A Day Full of You, A Night Tired of Me CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00 [INFX 026]
Out Now.
A Day Full Of You, A Night Tired Of Me is the debut album by ex-Locust vocalist, Craig Bethell. The album displays a plaintive song-writing style that unashamedly croons its way through a set of eleven varied tracks - influenced as much by avant-pop baritones Scott Walker and David Sylvian as it is by a troubled and melancholic Chet Baker. Bethell’s vocals are late night deliveries, a haunting idiom of the post-modern torch song.
Mark Van Hoen (Locust, Mojave 3, Sing Sing) lends production duties and evokes an atmosphere of ‘low’-era Bowie, (as on the instrumental overture of ‘December’), employs a careful use of Rhodes piano & subtle strings (‘Bad Blood’), as well as vintage synthesizer, distant harp motifs and brushed drums (‘Finding The Light’ & ‘History Repeats Itself’).
London based songwriter/singer Craig Bethell has sporadically written, recorded and performed his songs since 1983. His working life has largely been devoted to magazine publishing. Through demand from different quarters (die-hard Locust fans, new fans via MySpace etc.), Craig was encouraged to revisit the best of hitherto unreleased material from past sessions with Van Hoen. These works were revised, rerecorded, remixed and revamped, along with some completely new material, to make up A Day Full Of You, A Night Tired Of Me, an album many years in the making.
6 panel digipak, cover (‘Bundled’ 1925) courtesy of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation.
ALOOF PROOF - Piano Text CD (Infraction) U.S. $14.00 [INFX 030]
Out Now!
"There is no ambient record greater than Aloof Proof's Piano Text. I'm not the type of person given to grand, insupportable claims; this is simply a statement of fact. The album has equals, but no betters, and it is a tragedy that so few listeners have had the chance to hear this album in its entirety, let alone own a copy for themselves. It is the kind of album that becomes essential after just the first listen.
Since it was quietly released in 1994—a time, remember, dominated by the ambient-techno boom of such artists as the Orb and Future Sound of London—it has achieved a kind of cult status among fans of the genre. This is largely due to the edited versions of the album's two tracks that appeared on Asphodel's sprawling drone compilations, opening the world of Aloof Proof to thousands of eager listeners in the mid-nineties.
The overall sound of "The Ghost Ship" and "The Last Leaf" is simple to describe—the tones of a piano are stretched to the horizon line; long, lingering sounds, the fluttering threads of them in the wind, drifting like subtle perfumes, a dream language culled from a very familiar instrument. In its way, it is also a kind of Mandelbrot image—the briefest segments of the tracks can be listened to (like Eno's Neroli or Thursday Afternoon) to get an accurate idea of the whole. However, the magic of Piano Text is that, when taken as a duo of suites, the larger forms of the piece are revealed to be a classical composition of the utmost drama, suspense, nuance. It is, indeed, the music of the inexplicable dreamworlds we all travel to during sleep.
This is an album that must be listened to—no words can adequately describe how spellbinding the music is, how staggeringly elegant it is." B. Bieniowski
Remastered by Michael Fibe in 2006. This will be a 6 panel full color digipak release in an edition of 900.
ADAM PACIONE - From Stills to Motion CD (Infraction) U.S. $15.00 [INFX 023]
Highly anticipated new release from Adam Pacione. Deluxe packaging. Stoughton style mini-gatefold with 16 page full-color booklet. Design and layout by Pacione.
"An age of virtual audio saturation, of pre-articulated sound. Expressivity, once an array of possible voices, is ever more probabilized. Originality, once primary criterion, is cast from the platform, problematized. Wondering, late in modernity’s day, what does it take to make a noise that matters? A keen-eared recontextualizer, an alchemist who can make sound, found or unfound, to walk its own way, outside the ready-made parade. Adam Pacione is one such - new recruit to a group of like-minded musicians, kindred-spirits Brian Grainger (Milieu), Mike Bennett (Zimiamvian Night), and Kiln, who have brought the ferment from their sound stills to the Infraction table. That label is now streaming a vital strain of New Backwoods Ambient, this latest from deep in the heart of (Hurst) Texas – experimental, but harmonically-inclined, apparently lo-tech, but substantially audio-cratic."(A.Lockett)
NORTHERN - Drawn CD (Infraction) U.S. $14.00 [INFX 024]
New Release!
Debut release from Canada's Northern. Northern is all about clean digital samples and warm tones. northern is all about lovely guitar meanderings and skittering textures. Perhaps it is the frozen nature of Canada's landscape or the endearing dismay of the season's discontent that has transformed us. Winter reminds us all of polaroid pictures and places that exist only in dreams.
ZIMIAMVIAN NIGHT - Zimiamvian Night 2 CD (Infraction) U.S. $15.00 [INFX 014]
2.27.07. New Release! Limited to 300 copies.
2nd installment in the ever-lasting Zimiamvian Night series. Mike Bennett draws from the harmonium work of New Zealander Christopher Orczy's October release and configures an entirely new piece of ambient drone. A silent sky illuminated by northern lights. All the world is indeed frozen music.
TETSU INOUE - World Receiver CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.50 [INFX 015]
New release - 12.15.06! Nothing less than an ambient classic! World Receiver has been out of print for far too long. A damn near perfect blend of environmental recordings from literally all over the world with Inoue's nuanced atmospheres surrounding them. This will be an edition of 800 copies, featuring a 6 panel digipak. This is not remastered, retouched or remixed. It is superb as is, it needed no updating - only to be available again.
BEAUTUMN - Northing CD (Infraction) U.S. $14.00 [INFX 020]
Yes! New Beautumn. Out now! Edition of 790.
This is a beautiful yet serious record. It is ambience, but not simply ambient. These are cinematic tracks begging for a narrative, often invoking the skeletons of stories with sounds of footsteps, rain, winds, waves, fire and animal life (birds?) alongside metals and the odd machine. The sound is almost always a bit grand and roomy, as if reverbing off of the sky and thickly layered with varied-pitch tones and drones which often become so much a part of the soundscape that they become the foundation of its lushness, sometimes building tension, sometimes delivering an other-worldy, floating quality. As I listen to some of these tracks, I am reminded of times in my childhood during weather warnings when I stared at a dark sky, both menacing and terribly compelling, watching it roil too close to the ground where I stood. The debut Beautumn, "white coffee" is nearly sold out. We have this new full-length to keep us company. Note, the limited edition with bonus CDR is now sold out...thank you
MILIEU - Beyond the Sea Lies the Stars CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.50
Contemplative ambient. Out now. Edition of 505. [INFX 018]
”The rather profoundly titled 'Beyond The Sea Lies The Stars' from Milieu. This sounds well cinematic and is absolute chilled, floaty, spacey ambient bliss. This will make you feel like your floating in embryonic fluid and is absolutley gorgeous. This is produced by Brian Grainger and is on Infraction Records. This is my release of the week and if you don't buy it then you must be a bit chicken oriental. Stunning.” Norman records
ANDREW LILES - New York Doll 2xCD (Infraction) U.S. $16.00
Easily the most ambitious and cohesive Liles to date. A recording involving hundreds and spanning continents.
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ULTRA MILKMAIDS & AIDAN BAKER - At home with... CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
Canadian Aidan Baker's pastoral guitar work shredded to glorious bits by the French. Environmental recordings paint the background with various voices and distant church bells.
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BEEQUEEN - Music for the Head Ballet CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
Reissue, remastered with bonus track. The bonus track is quite possibly the most blissful excerpt of music by Beequeen ever. No kidding. Edition of 500.
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LILES, ANDREW - All Closed Doors CD + bonus CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
Stunning. - label description.
We're now packaging these with a bonus copy of 'all closed doors'. Yes, same music - just another to listen to in the kitchen, car, outside playing football or to give to a friend whom would love Liles like you do?
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POTTER, COLIN- See CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
2nd edition. Limited to 200 numbered copies.
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LILES, ANDREW - An Un World CD (Infraction) U.S. $20.00
Well, well...a blast from the past. We've been out of these for quite awhile and a long forgotton return from a distributor up in smoke has provided us with a restock of an old classic. Liles debut, here's what started it all. Limited to 400.
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ZAMMUTO - Solutiore of Stareau : Disc One CD (Infraction) U.S. $10.00
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Non-Infraction / Infraction related :
ALIO DIE & ZEIT - Raag Drone Theory CD (Hic Sunt Leones) ITY $15.00 [HSL 040]
3.2.08 An Alio Die collaboration with Zeit. Of the recent slew of AD collabs. this one has been regarded as the best.
(ALIO DIE) SOLA TRANSLATIO - Enigma CD (Hic Sunt Leones) ITY $15.00 [HSL 034]
3.20.07 An Alio Die side-project/collaboration with Teo Zini, and with assistance from Opium and Festina Lente. Many cooks in the kitchen makes for a wonderful Italian ambient brew.
ALIO DIE - Flight of Real Image CD (Faria) RUSSIA $15.00 [FAR-05]
11.25.06 This is a reissue of an early 3"CD by Alio Die, with new tracks added in, several with collaborators. Nice looking
pack with postcards, pressed CD. With love from Russia
ALIO DIE - Under an Holy Ritual LP (Small Voices) ITY $22.00 [SVV004]
11.25.06 This is a reissue of an early CD by Alio Die, for the first time on vinyl. Nicely done by our friends at Small Voices. Note, there is extra charge for overseas shipping on this items - please write for details. Postage paid in U.S. and Canada still.
ALIO DIE - Aurea Hora 10" (Small Voices) ITY $17.00 [SVV007]
11.25.06 All new tracks. Nicely done by our friends at Small Voices. Note, there is extra charge for overseas shipping on this items - please write for details. Postage paid in U.S. and Canada still.
ALIO DIE & FESTINA LENTE - Il Sogno Di Un Piano Veneziano A Parigi CD (Hic Sunt Leones) ITY $15.00 [HSL030]
ALIO DIE & JACK OR JIVE - Mei-Jyu CD (Projekt) U.S. $15.00 [PRO 167]
ALIO DIE & WERNER DURAND - Aqua Planing CD (Hic Sunt Leones) ITY $15.00 [HSL 029]
BEEQUEEN - Gund CD (Plinkity Plonk) NETH $13.00 [PLONK 11]
Stocked 3.2.08. From 2004! The packaging on this release makes it IMO. Great design by the late MSBR. This was originally a shelved LP from Beequeen that was taken off the shelves, dusted off, reworked and for a few tracks manipulated by MSBR. Limited stock.
BEEQUEEN - The Bodyshop CD (Important) U.S. $15.00 [imprec044]
CELER - Canopy 3"CDR (Celer) U.S. $10.00 [Celer 013]
New Celer 3.2.08 Actually not a new release, but I'm just now getting it listed. A fine handmade 3"CDR of 2 tracks, the entire disc lasting about 20 minutes. Beautiful packaging as always from the California husband and wife lovers of drone, loops, strings and general hazy atmospheres. They're backlogged on these CDR's, so get them now as they probably will not show up for quite some time. Their new release 'Discourses of the Withered' is imminent on Infraction. Superb and limited.
CHALK, ANDREW - Time of Hayfield CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $25.00 [FP 13]
New! 1.16.08
Faraway press. New Andrew Chalk - in the usual deluxe Faraway Press sleeve. Originally recorded in 2005 and reworked in 2007...features a bit of electric piano by one Vikki Jackman. Comes in 1 of 9 pastoral country covers. Sorry about the price, but the dollar trembles against the pound. However, FP discs are good as aural gold.
CHALK, ANDREW & DAISUKE SUZUKI - Senshu CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $25.00 [FP 04]
New! 1.16.08
Faraway press. New Andrew Chalk...kind of! An earlier collab. with Daisuke Suzuki under the nom 'Ghosts on Water', this was originally a super limited CDR back in '04 or so in this very deluxe hardback booklet. It's a great recording that Chalk decided to give the repress/reissue treatment and this 2nd edition is no less stunning. First 250 copies or so come in a gatefold FP sleeve. Fantastic.
CHALK, ANDREW - Vega CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [No Cat. #]
Restock! 1.16.08
Faraway press. Pressed CD reissued of the limited CDR that Chalk did last year. The packaging is still handmade, but the quality is so damn good you cannot tell. Oversized gatefold mini-lp packaging, beautiful winter scene artwork on the inside. Top notch all the way around and straight outta the U.K. The price is steep, but they come that way and you'll likely not complain once you see/hear it.
CHALK, ANDREW - Goldfall CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 06]
Restock! 1.16.08
Faraway press. Pressed CD reissued of the limited LP that Chalk did last year. The packaging is still handmade, but the quality is so damn good you cannot tell. Oversized mini-lp sleeve.
CHALK, ANDREW, DAISUKE SUZUKI, NAOKO SUZUKI - Ghosts on Water CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $19.00 [FP 12]
Restock! 1.16.08
Chalk collabs. again with Suzuki & Suzuki. A sort of follow-up to the ridiculously ltd. Senshou that came out a year or so ago for 15 minutes or so and then was gone. This is another in what has to be patented (by now) lovely packaging from the Faraway Press clan. It's more of a mini-lp clocking in at around 20 minutes, thus the slightly lower price. But it's a CD and the $19 is still alot for a disc when you could just illegally download it. Right. Your conscious shouldn't mind and either should Chalk and the amazing Suzuki duo's livelihood either.
CHALK, ANDREW - The River that Flows into the Sands I CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 02]
Restock 1.18.08 The 2nd release on Faraway Press is the extraordinary River I CD. Pressed CD, handmade mini-lp sleeve, Faraway magic dust sprinkled on top. 1st in the potentially never-ending 'river that flows' series.
CHALK, ANDREW - East of the Sun CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 08]
2.18.07. New on Faraway press. This was originally released on Alio Die's 'hic sunt leones' label back in the mid-90's A stunning handmade packaging reissue with completely different artwork. All of the packages (on Faraway Press) are extremely well-done and hand-made from Chalk. Gatefold sleeve with a small OBI strip. We buy directly from Andrew and support his very worthy label.
CHALK, ANDREW & DAISUKE SUZUKI - The Days After CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 11]
New 10.10.07
An older Chalk collab. again with Suzuki. This was originally released on three poplars (r.i.p. uber kollektor Mirror label) a few years back in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it limited CDR in handmade packaging. This is another in what has to be patented (by now) lovely packaging from the Faraway Press clan. It's pressed in a factory-made silver CD of audio magic and delight. Guitar drones and low-lying ground clutter along with chiming bells and singing bowls.
THE HAFLER TRIO - No More Twain, of one flesh, 11 unequivocal obsecrations CD (Nextera) CZECH $15.00 [ERA 2022-2]
If you can tell the Hafler Trio releases apart, then it's a remarkable thing and you should brag. This is another in a series(?) of H3O releases that have *extensive* liner notes, lovely packaging (this one looks like a book) onion skin overlap, clear vinyl protective sleeve. I guess my problem is that I've listened to a ton of H3O and 'how to reform mankind' and 'hijojyminddjymnd' (sic) or whatever on Die Stadt, were the ones that made the largest impression on me. The other 10 titles I have, have not. I need to probably listen to them again - and YOUR mileage may vary. Tremendously. Did I mention the packaging is great though?
KILN - Ampday CD (Thalassa) U.S. $14.00
Warehouse find from Royal Oak Michigan. Originally released in 1999, seemingly evaporated over time and we have a small stash delivered by a man in brown that used strange passwords, but spoke the word of Kiln. Become fluent! [ta 002]
KILN - Twinewheel : Lost-Sides and Dusty-Gems 1994-2005 LP (Division Sound) U.S. $15.00
Another Restock! 9.24.07 Limited to 500 numbered copies [DVS-02]
LILES, ANDREW & WANDER - The Astronomical Entomologist PIC 7" (Beta-Lactam Ring Records) U.S. $14.00
3.4.07 $14 for a 7inch??! Yep, but it's a picture 7inch and it's as heavy as a brick and thick as a dinner plate. Wander is Beequeen and so now Wander is doing what Beequeen used to do (ambient drone) and Liles does whatev the f*ck he wants, which in this case is a krautrock diddy. Fantastic. Limited to 150, I have a mere 3...tis been out for awhile, this will be all I get though. [mt 106]
THE WARDROBE (ANDREW LILES & TONY WAKEFORD) - Cups in Cupboards CD (Tursa) U.K. $16.00
Collaboration between Sol Invictus' Wakeford and Mr. Liles. 2005. [TURSA 033]
THE WARDROBE (ANDREW LILES & TONY WAKEFORD) - A Sandwich Short CD (Tursa) U.K. $16.00
12.15.06New collaboration between Sol Invictus' Wakeford and Mr. Liles. 2006. [TE 002]
(MILIEU) BRIAN GRAINGER & OPHIBRE - Untitled split CASSETTE (Oph Sound Recordings) U.S. $9.00 [OPH 06]
Limited edition of 50 hand-decorated copies. Each artist's name is typed on a small bag attached to their respective side of the tape. Ophibre's side contains pine needles, Brian Grainger's side contains sand.
OOPHOI - Hymns to a Silent Sky CD (Nextera) CZECH $15.00 [ERA 2038-2]
2.18.07. Restock. 2005 release from Oophoi. Italian based ambient similar to Alio Die. Recommended!
OOPHOI - Mare Tranquillitatis CD (Nextera) CZECH $15.00 [ERA 2026-2]
2003 release from Oophoi. Licensed from Due Acque (Oophoi's label). Italian based ambient similar to Alio Die. Recommended!
OOPHOI - Mare Imbrium CD (Nextera) CZECH $15.00 [ERA 2028-2]
2003 release from Oophoi. Licensed from Due Acque (Oophoi's label). Italian based ambient similar to Alio Die. Recommended!
ADAM PACIONE - Sisyphus CD (Elevator Bath) U.S. $12.00 [eeaoa023]
Restock 9.24.07 Fantastic full-length debut. Haunting ambience. Highly recommended!
DAVID TAGG - The History of the Merchant Marines 3"CDR (Second-Sun Recordings) U.S. $8.00
"Second Sun Recordings is proud to introduce the 21MG Series. For the ambient die-hards out there who may not want to take any chances on our regular CD catalog being too varied and experimental, this is for you. An ongoing series of three-inch "white sleeping pills" that is guaranteed to be 100% ambient, for maximum aural sedation. Our recommended dosage is one 21MG per month, as the substances contained are in a "time-release" format for your ease and pleasure." [Pill - A1]
DAVID TAGG - Bell Island 3"CDR (Second-Sun Recordings) U.S. $8.00
"Second Sun Recordings is proud to introduce the 21MG Series. For the ambient die-hards out there who may not want to take any chances on our regular CD catalog being too varied and experimental, this is for you. An ongoing series of three-inch "white sleeping pills" that is guaranteed to be 100% ambient, for maximum aural sedation. Our recommended dosage is one 21MG per month, as the substances contained are in a "time-release" format for your ease and pleasure." [Pill - B1]
DAVID TAGG - Song for Sabra 3"CDR (Second-Sun Recordings) U.S. $8.00
"Second Sun Recordings is proud to introduce the 21MG Series. For the ambient die-hards out there who may not want to take any chances on our regular CD catalog being too varied and experimental, this is for you. An ongoing series of three-inch "white sleeping pills" that is guaranteed to be 100% ambient, for maximum aural sedation. Our recommended dosage is one 21MG per month, as the substances contained are in a "time-release" format for your ease and pleasure." [Pill - D1]
DARREN TATE - Another Sunday CDR (Fungal) U.K. $17.00 [Fungal 028]
3.2.08 New Tate. Die cut sleeve and Tate goodness inside. CDR only release in clear sleeve.
DARREN TATE - Organ of Sight CDR (Fungal) U.K. $17.00 [Fungal 027]
Another new Tate!1st edition with photograph and black insert. CDR only release in clear sleeve. Tate, the see-through organ and Fungal in it's 27th form.
DARREN TATE - Edition CDR (Fungal) U.K. $17.00 [fungal 024]
Restock 9.5.07 I only have 2 copies back in stock. I believe this is the last of pressing too.It's about time that I start stocking Mr. Tate's obscure and rare CDR's. We hope to release his stunning "A&T" recording sometime in the near future on Infraction. Here is another in a long line of limited Fungals. Probably issued in a size of 50 or 100, I'm not sure. This is the most recent; in a small die-cut sleeve.
DARREN TATE - Small Worlds CDR (Quiet World) U.K. $17.00 [SW two]
New Tate! CDR only release in clear sleeve with full color printed inserts. Tate, the lions and small worlds on quiet world.
DARREN TATE - The Elves are Coming CDR (Twenty Hertz) U.K. $17.00 [TH 013]
Restock. CDR only release in jewel case with full color printed inserts. Tate and the elves.
ULTRA MILKMAIDS - Pocket Station CD (Ant-Zen) GER $14.00 [ACT 190]
11.14.06 New! Brand new material from the best milk concoction this side of France.
VCV - 3753 Cruithne CD (Second Sun) U.S. $14.00 [SSRCD-01]
2.18.08. Restock. A Milieu + David Tagg collaboration. Milieu is Brian Grainger and David Tagg runs the nifty EED label straight outta NY. "Nine ambient recordings for nine forgotten planetary bodies. Using only guitars and a strict "no overdubs" rule, VCV solidify their debut album and establish themselves as authors of silent hymns broadcast from the unfathomable depths of space." label description. Comes with an Second Sun Recordings sleep mask. Not kidding. Great stuff. 2nd ed. limited, most likely in the double digits.
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PARKS - Umber CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
Out now! The story of Russian composer Parks' "Umber" CD has spanned approximately 12 years. Originally conceived in the heyday of the "mid-90's ambient sound" (1996 to be exact), "Umber" has suffered from minimal distribution and a label collapse. Sound familiar to another great Russian artist (hint: Beautumn)?? Superb ambient with environmental interludes, cinematic minor key passages. Think early Vangelis at his strongest, Tarkovsky films, a hidden gem from the FAX sublabel catalog. Reworked and re-arranged in 2007 with a new tracklisting. Umber is an edition of 300 copies in a digipak.
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KILN - Thermals CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
Back in stock - repressed, 2nd edition.
Music is the same as the first edition, but the artwork has been altered just a bit. Easily, one of our most popular releases. Infraction Records is very thrilled to release this disc from Kiln. One staffer remarked “It’s like having 23 different takes on the emotive quality that Eno’s “an ending (descent)” (from Apollo : Atmospheres) provided. The 4 minute mini-film soundtrack that actually lives up to that description.”
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CRAIG BETHELL - A Day Full of You, A Night Tired of Me CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00 [INFX 026] Out Now.
A Day Full Of You, A Night Tired Of Me is the debut album by ex-Locust vocalist, Craig Bethell. The album displays a plaintive song-writing style that unashamedly croons its way through a set of eleven varied tracks - influenced as much by avant-pop baritones Scott Walker and David Sylvian as it is by a troubled and melancholic Chet Baker. Bethell’s vocals are late night deliveries, a haunting idiom of the post-modern torch song.
Mark Van Hoen (Locust, Mojave 3, Sing Sing) lends production duties and evokes an atmosphere of ‘low’-era Bowie, (as on the instrumental overture of ‘December’), employs a careful use of Rhodes piano & subtle strings (‘Bad Blood’), as well as vintage synthesizer, distant harp motifs and brushed drums (‘Finding The Light’ & ‘History Repeats Itself’).
London based songwriter/singer Craig Bethell has sporadically written, recorded and performed his songs since 1983. His working life has largely been devoted to magazine publishing. Through demand from different quarters (die-hard Locust fans, new fans via MySpace etc.), Craig was encouraged to revisit the best of hitherto unreleased material from past sessions with Van Hoen. These works were revised, rerecorded, remixed and revamped, along with some completely new material, to make up A Day Full Of You, A Night Tired Of Me, an album many years in the making.
6 panel digipak, cover (‘Bundled’ 1925) courtesy of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation.
ALOOF PROOF - Piano Text CD (Infraction) U.S. $14.00 [INFX 030] Out Now!
"There is no ambient record greater than Aloof Proof's Piano Text. I'm not the type of person given to grand, insupportable claims; this is simply a statement of fact. The album has equals, but no betters, and it is a tragedy that so few listeners have had the chance to hear this album in its entirety, let alone own a copy for themselves. It is the kind of album that becomes essential after just the first listen.
Since it was quietly released in 1994—a time, remember, dominated by the ambient-techno boom of such artists as the Orb and Future Sound of London—it has achieved a kind of cult status among fans of the genre. This is largely due to the edited versions of the album's two tracks that appeared on Asphodel's sprawling drone compilations, opening the world of Aloof Proof to thousands of eager listeners in the mid-nineties.
The overall sound of "The Ghost Ship" and "The Last Leaf" is simple to describe—the tones of a piano are stretched to the horizon line; long, lingering sounds, the fluttering threads of them in the wind, drifting like subtle perfumes, a dream language culled from a very familiar instrument. In its way, it is also a kind of Mandelbrot image—the briefest segments of the tracks can be listened to (like Eno's Neroli or Thursday Afternoon) to get an accurate idea of the whole. However, the magic of Piano Text is that, when taken as a duo of suites, the larger forms of the piece are revealed to be a classical composition of the utmost drama, suspense, nuance. It is, indeed, the music of the inexplicable dreamworlds we all travel to during sleep.
This is an album that must be listened to—no words can adequately describe how spellbinding the music is, how staggeringly elegant it is." B. Bieniowski
Remastered by Michael Fibe in 2006. This will be a 6 panel full color digipak release in an edition of 900.
ADAM PACIONE - From Stills to Motion CD (Infraction) U.S. $15.00 [INFX 023] Highly anticipated new release from Adam Pacione. Deluxe packaging. Stoughton style mini-gatefold with 16 page full-color booklet. Design and layout by Pacione.
"An age of virtual audio saturation, of pre-articulated sound. Expressivity, once an array of possible voices, is ever more probabilized. Originality, once primary criterion, is cast from the platform, problematized. Wondering, late in modernity’s day, what does it take to make a noise that matters? A keen-eared recontextualizer, an alchemist who can make sound, found or unfound, to walk its own way, outside the ready-made parade. Adam Pacione is one such - new recruit to a group of like-minded musicians, kindred-spirits Brian Grainger (Milieu), Mike Bennett (Zimiamvian Night), and Kiln, who have brought the ferment from their sound stills to the Infraction table. That label is now streaming a vital strain of New Backwoods Ambient, this latest from deep in the heart of (Hurst) Texas – experimental, but harmonically-inclined, apparently lo-tech, but substantially audio-cratic."(A.Lockett)
NORTHERN - Drawn CD (Infraction) U.S. $14.00 [INFX 024] New Release!
Debut release from Canada's Northern. Northern is all about clean digital samples and warm tones. northern is all about lovely guitar meanderings and skittering textures. Perhaps it is the frozen nature of Canada's landscape or the endearing dismay of the season's discontent that has transformed us. Winter reminds us all of polaroid pictures and places that exist only in dreams.
ZIMIAMVIAN NIGHT - Zimiamvian Night 2 CD (Infraction) U.S. $15.00 [INFX 014] 2.27.07. New Release! Limited to 300 copies.
2nd installment in the ever-lasting Zimiamvian Night series. Mike Bennett draws from the harmonium work of New Zealander Christopher Orczy's October release and configures an entirely new piece of ambient drone. A silent sky illuminated by northern lights. All the world is indeed frozen music.
TETSU INOUE - World Receiver CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.50 [INFX 015] New release - 12.15.06! Nothing less than an ambient classic! World Receiver has been out of print for far too long. A damn near perfect blend of environmental recordings from literally all over the world with Inoue's nuanced atmospheres surrounding them. This will be an edition of 800 copies, featuring a 6 panel digipak. This is not remastered, retouched or remixed. It is superb as is, it needed no updating - only to be available again.
BEAUTUMN - Northing CD (Infraction) U.S. $14.00 [INFX 020] Yes! New Beautumn. Out now! Edition of 790.
This is a beautiful yet serious record. It is ambience, but not simply ambient. These are cinematic tracks begging for a narrative, often invoking the skeletons of stories with sounds of footsteps, rain, winds, waves, fire and animal life (birds?) alongside metals and the odd machine. The sound is almost always a bit grand and roomy, as if reverbing off of the sky and thickly layered with varied-pitch tones and drones which often become so much a part of the soundscape that they become the foundation of its lushness, sometimes building tension, sometimes delivering an other-worldy, floating quality. As I listen to some of these tracks, I am reminded of times in my childhood during weather warnings when I stared at a dark sky, both menacing and terribly compelling, watching it roil too close to the ground where I stood. The debut Beautumn, "white coffee" is nearly sold out. We have this new full-length to keep us company. Note, the limited edition with bonus CDR is now sold out...thank you
MILIEU - Beyond the Sea Lies the Stars CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.50
Contemplative ambient. Out now. Edition of 505. [INFX 018]
”The rather profoundly titled 'Beyond The Sea Lies The Stars' from Milieu. This sounds well cinematic and is absolute chilled, floaty, spacey ambient bliss. This will make you feel like your floating in embryonic fluid and is absolutley gorgeous. This is produced by Brian Grainger and is on Infraction Records. This is my release of the week and if you don't buy it then you must be a bit chicken oriental. Stunning.” Norman records
ANDREW LILES - New York Doll 2xCD (Infraction) U.S. $16.00Easily the most ambitious and cohesive Liles to date. A recording involving hundreds and spanning continents.
[INFX 013]
ULTRA MILKMAIDS & AIDAN BAKER - At home with... CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
Canadian Aidan Baker's pastoral guitar work shredded to glorious bits by the French. Environmental recordings paint the background with various voices and distant church bells.
[INFX 010]
BEEQUEEN - Music for the Head Ballet CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
Reissue, remastered with bonus track. The bonus track is quite possibly the most blissful excerpt of music by Beequeen ever. No kidding. Edition of 500.
[INFX 009]
LILES, ANDREW - All Closed Doors CD + bonus CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00Stunning. - label description.
We're now packaging these with a bonus copy of 'all closed doors'. Yes, same music - just another to listen to in the kitchen, car, outside playing football or to give to a friend whom would love Liles like you do?
[INFX 006]
POTTER, COLIN- See CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.002nd edition. Limited to 200 numbered copies.
[INFX 005]
LILES, ANDREW - An Un World CD (Infraction) U.S. $20.00Well, well...a blast from the past. We've been out of these for quite awhile and a long forgotton return from a distributor up in smoke has provided us with a restock of an old classic. Liles debut, here's what started it all. Limited to 400.
[INFX 004]
ZAMMUTO - Solutiore of Stareau : Disc One CD (Infraction) U.S. $10.00
[INFX 002]
Non-Infraction / Infraction related :
ALIO DIE & ZEIT - Raag Drone Theory CD (Hic Sunt Leones) ITY $15.00 [HSL 040] 3.2.08 An Alio Die collaboration with Zeit. Of the recent slew of AD collabs. this one has been regarded as the best.
(ALIO DIE) SOLA TRANSLATIO - Enigma CD (Hic Sunt Leones) ITY $15.00 [HSL 034] 3.20.07 An Alio Die side-project/collaboration with Teo Zini, and with assistance from Opium and Festina Lente. Many cooks in the kitchen makes for a wonderful Italian ambient brew.
ALIO DIE - Flight of Real Image CD (Faria) RUSSIA $15.00 [FAR-05] 11.25.06 This is a reissue of an early 3"CD by Alio Die, with new tracks added in, several with collaborators. Nice looking
pack with postcards, pressed CD. With love from Russia
ALIO DIE - Under an Holy Ritual LP (Small Voices) ITY $22.00 [SVV004] 11.25.06 This is a reissue of an early CD by Alio Die, for the first time on vinyl. Nicely done by our friends at Small Voices. Note, there is extra charge for overseas shipping on this items - please write for details. Postage paid in U.S. and Canada still.
ALIO DIE - Aurea Hora 10" (Small Voices) ITY $17.00 [SVV007] 11.25.06 All new tracks. Nicely done by our friends at Small Voices. Note, there is extra charge for overseas shipping on this items - please write for details. Postage paid in U.S. and Canada still.
ALIO DIE & FESTINA LENTE - Il Sogno Di Un Piano Veneziano A Parigi CD (Hic Sunt Leones) ITY $15.00 [HSL030] ALIO DIE & JACK OR JIVE - Mei-Jyu CD (Projekt) U.S. $15.00 [PRO 167] ALIO DIE & WERNER DURAND - Aqua Planing CD (Hic Sunt Leones) ITY $15.00 [HSL 029] BEEQUEEN - Gund CD (Plinkity Plonk) NETH $13.00 [PLONK 11] Stocked 3.2.08. From 2004! The packaging on this release makes it IMO. Great design by the late MSBR. This was originally a shelved LP from Beequeen that was taken off the shelves, dusted off, reworked and for a few tracks manipulated by MSBR. Limited stock.
BEEQUEEN - The Bodyshop CD (Important) U.S. $15.00 [imprec044] CELER - Canopy 3"CDR (Celer) U.S. $10.00 [Celer 013]
New Celer 3.2.08 Actually not a new release, but I'm just now getting it listed. A fine handmade 3"CDR of 2 tracks, the entire disc lasting about 20 minutes. Beautiful packaging as always from the California husband and wife lovers of drone, loops, strings and general hazy atmospheres. They're backlogged on these CDR's, so get them now as they probably will not show up for quite some time. Their new release 'Discourses of the Withered' is imminent on Infraction. Superb and limited.
CHALK, ANDREW - Time of Hayfield CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $25.00 [FP 13]
New! 1.16.08
Faraway press. New Andrew Chalk - in the usual deluxe Faraway Press sleeve. Originally recorded in 2005 and reworked in 2007...features a bit of electric piano by one Vikki Jackman. Comes in 1 of 9 pastoral country covers. Sorry about the price, but the dollar trembles against the pound. However, FP discs are good as aural gold.
CHALK, ANDREW & DAISUKE SUZUKI - Senshu CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $25.00 [FP 04]
New! 1.16.08
Faraway press. New Andrew Chalk...kind of! An earlier collab. with Daisuke Suzuki under the nom 'Ghosts on Water', this was originally a super limited CDR back in '04 or so in this very deluxe hardback booklet. It's a great recording that Chalk decided to give the repress/reissue treatment and this 2nd edition is no less stunning. First 250 copies or so come in a gatefold FP sleeve. Fantastic.
CHALK, ANDREW - Vega CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [No Cat. #]
Restock! 1.16.08
Faraway press. Pressed CD reissued of the limited CDR that Chalk did last year. The packaging is still handmade, but the quality is so damn good you cannot tell. Oversized gatefold mini-lp packaging, beautiful winter scene artwork on the inside. Top notch all the way around and straight outta the U.K. The price is steep, but they come that way and you'll likely not complain once you see/hear it.
CHALK, ANDREW - Goldfall CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 06]
Restock! 1.16.08
Faraway press. Pressed CD reissued of the limited LP that Chalk did last year. The packaging is still handmade, but the quality is so damn good you cannot tell. Oversized mini-lp sleeve.
CHALK, ANDREW, DAISUKE SUZUKI, NAOKO SUZUKI - Ghosts on Water CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $19.00 [FP 12]
Restock! 1.16.08
Chalk collabs. again with Suzuki & Suzuki. A sort of follow-up to the ridiculously ltd. Senshou that came out a year or so ago for 15 minutes or so and then was gone. This is another in what has to be patented (by now) lovely packaging from the Faraway Press clan. It's more of a mini-lp clocking in at around 20 minutes, thus the slightly lower price. But it's a CD and the $19 is still alot for a disc when you could just illegally download it. Right. Your conscious shouldn't mind and either should Chalk and the amazing Suzuki duo's livelihood either.
CHALK, ANDREW - The River that Flows into the Sands I CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 02]
Restock 1.18.08 The 2nd release on Faraway Press is the extraordinary River I CD. Pressed CD, handmade mini-lp sleeve, Faraway magic dust sprinkled on top. 1st in the potentially never-ending 'river that flows' series.
CHALK, ANDREW - East of the Sun CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 08]
2.18.07. New on Faraway press. This was originally released on Alio Die's 'hic sunt leones' label back in the mid-90's A stunning handmade packaging reissue with completely different artwork. All of the packages (on Faraway Press) are extremely well-done and hand-made from Chalk. Gatefold sleeve with a small OBI strip. We buy directly from Andrew and support his very worthy label.
CHALK, ANDREW & DAISUKE SUZUKI - The Days After CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 11]
New 10.10.07
An older Chalk collab. again with Suzuki. This was originally released on three poplars (r.i.p. uber kollektor Mirror label) a few years back in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it limited CDR in handmade packaging. This is another in what has to be patented (by now) lovely packaging from the Faraway Press clan. It's pressed in a factory-made silver CD of audio magic and delight. Guitar drones and low-lying ground clutter along with chiming bells and singing bowls.
THE HAFLER TRIO - No More Twain, of one flesh, 11 unequivocal obsecrations CD (Nextera) CZECH $15.00 [ERA 2022-2]
If you can tell the Hafler Trio releases apart, then it's a remarkable thing and you should brag. This is another in a series(?) of H3O releases that have *extensive* liner notes, lovely packaging (this one looks like a book) onion skin overlap, clear vinyl protective sleeve. I guess my problem is that I've listened to a ton of H3O and 'how to reform mankind' and 'hijojyminddjymnd' (sic) or whatever on Die Stadt, were the ones that made the largest impression on me. The other 10 titles I have, have not. I need to probably listen to them again - and YOUR mileage may vary. Tremendously. Did I mention the packaging is great though?
KILN - Ampday CD (Thalassa) U.S. $14.00 Warehouse find from Royal Oak Michigan. Originally released in 1999, seemingly evaporated over time and we have a small stash delivered by a man in brown that used strange passwords, but spoke the word of Kiln. Become fluent! [ta 002]
KILN - Twinewheel : Lost-Sides and Dusty-Gems 1994-2005 LP (Division Sound) U.S. $15.00 Another Restock! 9.24.07 Limited to 500 numbered copies [DVS-02]
LILES, ANDREW & WANDER - The Astronomical Entomologist PIC 7" (Beta-Lactam Ring Records) U.S. $14.003.4.07 $14 for a 7inch??! Yep, but it's a picture 7inch and it's as heavy as a brick and thick as a dinner plate. Wander is Beequeen and so now Wander is doing what Beequeen used to do (ambient drone) and Liles does whatev the f*ck he wants, which in this case is a krautrock diddy. Fantastic. Limited to 150, I have a mere 3...tis been out for awhile, this will be all I get though. [mt 106]
THE WARDROBE (ANDREW LILES & TONY WAKEFORD) - Cups in Cupboards CD (Tursa) U.K. $16.00Collaboration between Sol Invictus' Wakeford and Mr. Liles. 2005. [TURSA 033]
THE WARDROBE (ANDREW LILES & TONY WAKEFORD) - A Sandwich Short CD (Tursa) U.K. $16.0012.15.06New collaboration between Sol Invictus' Wakeford and Mr. Liles. 2006. [TE 002]
(MILIEU) BRIAN GRAINGER & OPHIBRE - Untitled split CASSETTE (Oph Sound Recordings) U.S. $9.00 [OPH 06]Limited edition of 50 hand-decorated copies. Each artist's name is typed on a small bag attached to their respective side of the tape. Ophibre's side contains pine needles, Brian Grainger's side contains sand.
OOPHOI - Hymns to a Silent Sky CD (Nextera) CZECH $15.00 [ERA 2038-2] 2.18.07. Restock. 2005 release from Oophoi. Italian based ambient similar to Alio Die. Recommended!
OOPHOI - Mare Tranquillitatis CD (Nextera) CZECH $15.00 [ERA 2026-2] 2003 release from Oophoi. Licensed from Due Acque (Oophoi's label). Italian based ambient similar to Alio Die. Recommended!
OOPHOI - Mare Imbrium CD (Nextera) CZECH $15.00 [ERA 2028-2] 2003 release from Oophoi. Licensed from Due Acque (Oophoi's label). Italian based ambient similar to Alio Die. Recommended!
ADAM PACIONE - Sisyphus CD (Elevator Bath) U.S. $12.00 [eeaoa023] Restock 9.24.07 Fantastic full-length debut. Haunting ambience. Highly recommended!
DAVID TAGG - The History of the Merchant Marines 3"CDR (Second-Sun Recordings) U.S. $8.00"Second Sun Recordings is proud to introduce the 21MG Series. For the ambient die-hards out there who may not want to take any chances on our regular CD catalog being too varied and experimental, this is for you. An ongoing series of three-inch "white sleeping pills" that is guaranteed to be 100% ambient, for maximum aural sedation. Our recommended dosage is one 21MG per month, as the substances contained are in a "time-release" format for your ease and pleasure." [Pill - A1]
DAVID TAGG - Bell Island 3"CDR (Second-Sun Recordings) U.S. $8.00"Second Sun Recordings is proud to introduce the 21MG Series. For the ambient die-hards out there who may not want to take any chances on our regular CD catalog being too varied and experimental, this is for you. An ongoing series of three-inch "white sleeping pills" that is guaranteed to be 100% ambient, for maximum aural sedation. Our recommended dosage is one 21MG per month, as the substances contained are in a "time-release" format for your ease and pleasure." [Pill - B1]
DAVID TAGG - Song for Sabra 3"CDR (Second-Sun Recordings) U.S. $8.00"Second Sun Recordings is proud to introduce the 21MG Series. For the ambient die-hards out there who may not want to take any chances on our regular CD catalog being too varied and experimental, this is for you. An ongoing series of three-inch "white sleeping pills" that is guaranteed to be 100% ambient, for maximum aural sedation. Our recommended dosage is one 21MG per month, as the substances contained are in a "time-release" format for your ease and pleasure." [Pill - D1]
DARREN TATE - Another Sunday CDR (Fungal) U.K. $17.00 [Fungal 028] 3.2.08 New Tate. Die cut sleeve and Tate goodness inside. CDR only release in clear sleeve.
DARREN TATE - Organ of Sight CDR (Fungal) U.K. $17.00 [Fungal 027] Another new Tate!1st edition with photograph and black insert. CDR only release in clear sleeve. Tate, the see-through organ and Fungal in it's 27th form.
DARREN TATE - Edition CDR (Fungal) U.K. $17.00 [fungal 024] Restock 9.5.07 I only have 2 copies back in stock. I believe this is the last of pressing too.It's about time that I start stocking Mr. Tate's obscure and rare CDR's. We hope to release his stunning "A&T" recording sometime in the near future on Infraction. Here is another in a long line of limited Fungals. Probably issued in a size of 50 or 100, I'm not sure. This is the most recent; in a small die-cut sleeve.
DARREN TATE - Small Worlds CDR (Quiet World) U.K. $17.00 [SW two] New Tate! CDR only release in clear sleeve with full color printed inserts. Tate, the lions and small worlds on quiet world.
DARREN TATE - The Elves are Coming CDR (Twenty Hertz) U.K. $17.00 [TH 013] Restock. CDR only release in jewel case with full color printed inserts. Tate and the elves.
ULTRA MILKMAIDS - Pocket Station CD (Ant-Zen) GER $14.00 [ACT 190] 11.14.06 New! Brand new material from the best milk concoction this side of France.
VCV - 3753 Cruithne CD (Second Sun) U.S. $14.00 [SSRCD-01] 2.18.08. Restock. A Milieu + David Tagg collaboration. Milieu is Brian Grainger and David Tagg runs the nifty EED label straight outta NY. "Nine ambient recordings for nine forgotten planetary bodies. Using only guitars and a strict "no overdubs" rule, VCV solidify their debut album and establish themselves as authors of silent hymns broadcast from the unfathomable depths of space." label description. Comes with an Second Sun Recordings sleep mask. Not kidding. Great stuff. 2nd ed. limited, most likely in the double digits.
The fine details of shipping :
If you're shopping from outside of the U.S.A. or Canada, please add $3.00 per title for the first 4 CD selections...if you buy 5 titles or more your shipping is entirely free! *The only exception to this is LP's. We do not carry many vinyls, but they are much heavier and cost a bit more to ship - so for those vinyls, please write for shipping.
1 title postage for overseas & Rest of World ($3.00)
2 titles postage for overseas & Rest of World ($6.00)
3 titles postage for overseas & Rest of World ($9.00)
4 titles postage for overseas & Rest of World ($12.00)