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CAPRICORNUS - Halation CD (Infraction) U.S. $10.00 [INFX 045]
"Halation gives off a flat-on-back eyes-to-skies drowsy air with its long drawn out tone-rays. Highly amorphous in strategy, a purist ambient Enovian ethos a la Thursday Afternoon may suggest itself. On occasion, clusters of notes flicker within the freefloating drone, mirroring the eponymous halation effect - transient morning brume, or light refracted through water vapour rendered blurred." - Alan Lockett for Furthernoise.org
Halation is the working name of Hiroshi Tanaka. This is his first release anywhere. Influences from Andrew Chalk, Taiga Remains and David Tagg. CD will be issued in a 4 panel digipak, limited to 500 copies.





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CONCERT SILENCE - Rain Furniture ep 12" (Infraction) U.S. $12.00 [INFX 047 LP]
With "Rain Furniture", Charles Buckingham and Matthew Cooper wanted to explore a new and different musical territory than previously traveled, while still using the audio set up from "09.22.07". As a companion piece to the full length, Rain Furniture engages a more raw energy.

Rain Furniture will be issued as a CD (INFX 047) and 12" vinyl (INFX 047 LP). The vinyl will be housed in a heavy cardstock sleeve, be of 180 grams and also have an OBI strip. Edition of 500 copies.

CONCERT SILENCE - 09.22.07 2xLP (Infraction) U.S. $24.00 [INFX 042 LP]
Out now!! Price does not include shipping - see the bottom of the page. Concert Silence is a collaboration between Charles Buckingham and Matthew Cooper, currently both residing in Portland, Oregon. An ongoing conversation between the two began in 2004 when they met over a shared interest in live sound manipulation. "09.22.07" was the first major outcome of discussions regarding symbiotic cultures and their implications to music. A live performance set up was designed, allowing each player to have equal input and manipulation control, (which can be seen in a diagram within the artwork of the album). After the completion of a live session recorded to minidisc, the two decided to release the unmastered un-edited music for free download via their website. A short while later the free recordings were taken down from the site. Infraction Records is now releasing a previously unheard professionally mastered recording of the session in its entirety.

"The sound of piano, both pure and processed, has become almost a sub-genre of its own within ambient electronica. There’s a Satie-authored lineage stretching from Budd/Eno through to Sakamoto’s collabs with Alva Noto and Fennesz, with signs to other off-beat sites. Buckingham’s background in visual art makes his contribution to Concert Silence somewhat enigmatic. He had previously co-opted Cooper for the audio of an online ambient audio-visual collaboration in the ‘Window Exchange’ project; Cooper’s signature is clearly recognizable, for all that the pianism of his earlier Eluvium work are tweaked and tampered with here. Six discrete movements, an affair of edgy ambience, with lilting lulling passages ceding to digital depredations. Some parts subtly infiltrated, others strewn with the detritus of error-smithery. “Part Two,” for example, sounds as if it’s slowly spontaneously combusting in the player, gradually growing into a larger conflagration, culminating in a veritable firework display of pops, crackles and wayward woozy pitch shifts, eating itself in echo and fuzz, before returning to the opening lull of barely audible soft-pedaled piano purism. Overall the Cooper-Buckingham pairing puts a distinctive slant on the compositional tradition mentioned above, finding a beguiling blend of the worlds of piano concerto and that of digital signal processing, with its random reversals, glitch flurries, and drone. Yet, for all its peculiarities of pitch and microsonic mist, strong melodic lines serve as binding, stiched together, lending poise to noise. " – Alan Lockett

"09.22.07" will be issued as a CD [INFX 042] and 2xLP [INFX 042 LP]. The CD will be a 6 panel matte digipak. The 2xLP set will be in a thick Stoughton tip-on style gatefold sleeve, with full color inner sleeves, 180 gram vinyls, and an OBI strip. The D side will feature a vinyl etching. LP is limited to 500 copies, CD version is an edition of 900. Artwork and typography by Jason Evans.



CONCERT SILENCE - 09.22.07 CD (Infraction) U.S. $13.00 [INFX 042]
CD version, now available. Beautiful 6 panel fold-out matte digipak.

CONCERT SILENCE – Rain Furniture ep CD (Infraction) U.S. $9.50 [INFX 047]
Now available! The CD is in a matte finish 20 pt cardsleeve w/ spot gloss design. Exclusive material.

BEN FLEURY-STEINER - Keep A Weather Eye Open CD (Infraction) U.S. $14.00 [INFX 040]
Out now From the inset, "Tender is the opaque morning" the scene has been set on 'Keep a Weather Eye Open' into a Bryars-esque dip into the sunken Titanic. Gently clattering china on a slow drop to the bed of the ocean, faint light filtering through. The band plays on, the notes become submerged & eventually a hymnal drone emerges repeating over and over in slow cycles. This is not the end however, as unlike the ill-fated Vessel of Sleep, this work re-emerges to the surface and into hazy light.

Roughly 2 years in the making for release on Infraction - KAWEO is presented in a digipak with a 12 page color booklet in an edition of 900 copies. KAWEO was mastered by Robert Rich.

"...from aft came the tunes of the band..... The ship was gradually turning on her nose - just like a duck that goes down for a dive. I had only one thing on my mind - to get away from the suction. The band was still playing. I guess all of the band went down. They were playing "Autumn" then." - Harold Bride, 1912.

PARKS - Hidden CD (Infraction) U.S. $14.00 [INFX 048]
Out now...
Parks is Russian ambient/electronic artist Igor Bystrov who has been working on his craft for nearly 15 years. "Hidden" may be his most accomplished and varied work to date. Sitting somewhere in the midst of the great 90's ambient artists, the (rather) new wave of Russian electronic artists all the while admiring from a distance the Kompakt pop-ambient of this decade - Parks seamless blend of it all has culminated in a brilliant finish.
6 panel digipak. Listen here.


ANDREW LILES - All Closed Doors CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00 [INFX 034]
2nd edition of 250 copies
This was originally issued in 2003 and has been oop for awhile now. We've done a modest repressing of it and made it available once again. (Re) introductory value pricing ($5 !!) for those of you wanting to mine the older INFX catalog a bit. Brainwashed writer Lucas Schleicher said this, then : "The impact of Liles' sound worlds on this disc is unavoidable, his imaginative and spectral cadences whisper and glide through the air in ways that effect the brain; scary stories are told without the aid of a voice, heaven spills over from the speakers into the room even though such a thing is unthinkable. There's a strange light that bounces and reflects off of everything in this world; there are oceans of singing fish and mountains bellowing their hate onto the helpless below. I can't stop coming up with images, it's as if my mind is flooded with an invisible light that forces it into overdrive, into a creative process that can't stop, that wouldn't stop if the album didn't end. Very rarely do I find an album so immediate and compelling as this; I often have butterflies while listening to it."

LOREN DENT - Anthropology Vol. 1 CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00 [INFX 034]

Listen here.
"BEHOLD! An offering from the ambient gods of Infraction. Dust off thine finest goblet, pour from your favorite bottle, remove thy clothes and be pure. Get back to nature and absorb the wonder of pure ambient beauty and message from the heavens that is Loren Dent's 'Anthropology Vol.1'. From the moment I hit play and shiver at the beauty of the intro I realize I'm destined to experience a journey into myself and the wonder of life. The tones here are profoundly uplifting (although there are some darker moments of uncertainty) and moving in a way I am simply unable to articulate. Sadly I'm no "Ambient Shakespeare" but I will say that this is like a soundtrack to life itself, one of joy, love, fear, pain, loss, grieving, euphoria and one which transcends time. Emotions that are integral to the human spirit, despite the age/time in which it exists, be it a modern or an ancient world. This stuff is deep, DEEP material. At one point I was almost reduced to tears, as I felt like I was the only living thing on the planet and felt very lonely... Man the power of music, the sound of those strings. Loren Dent is an extremely gifted artist to the point where it almost feels like there has been a divine hand in the creation of his sound world. His wondrous layers of sound are rich and constantly evolving, always emotional and hypnotic. His tools are both analogue and digital and his use of both is a joy to behold. For any ambient music lover that may have been disillusioned lately and possibly feels that the genre has been reduced to mere simple drones, then I'm fairly sure this will restore their faith in the genre. This deserves a prestigious place in the hearts and minds of all music lovers. To reference particular tracks, for me would be a pointless exercise as this really serves as a complete work..." - Norman Records



KODA - Movements CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00
Repress of CD - 3rd edition of 250 copies. Out now.
The initial 500 copies slowly made their way out into the hands of an unsuspecting group of ambient fans and a small following was initialized. Voted by the ambient hyperreal list as the 2nd best ambient recording of the new millenium - right behind tha Stars of the Lid. Good work from the man who hails from the Detroit area - better known these days for exuding a homebrew of engaging soundscapes than the Deetroit house of days past. See Kiln, Drafted by Minotaurs, Manitou for further proof. "A hazy incidence of complete isolation and the warmth of a setting sun. It would be accurate to say that there are enormous fields lying in between pulling them loosely together. Tracks such as “are we water” present these circular patterns of hovering strings that envelope the listener. Waves of harmonics with this beautiful tension tends to walk slowly, or rather drift along gathering up memories of the past.
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DRAFTED BY MINOTAURS - Aversion Therapy LP (Infraction) U.S. $12.00 [INFX 038 LP]
$12 SALE FOR A LTD TIME Finally, our first vinyl release! "Drafted by Minotaurs mainstays are guitarist Ryan Wilson and Ian Fulcher, who contributes trumpet and glockenspiel. Meanwhile members of a floating cast chip in with added textures from cello and violin. Opener "Blueprints for Sunbuilding" spools out a hail of plucked and bowed strings, webs of sound solidifying then melting into steely flow, stall set out somewhere around cultivated Constellation post-rockeries, a mood and sound that may feel familiar to those acquainted with the new backwoods chamberisms and neo-folk drone of UK cottage industrialites such as Richard Skelton (aka A Broken Consort/Clouwbeck) and Seasons (Pre-din). "Sault Locks" proposes cyclical patterns of stringed things that seem to hover shyly apart, before swarming to swell and billow over the listener - not so much a Storm of Drones as a squall of tones. "Skin the Night and Fog," a more veiled sister of the previous pluckings and bowings, plays out a psych-infused dream sequence. These three tracks forming Side A work with their own distinct harmonic and textural patterns, while seeming like movements of something overarching. Miasmic minor chord tidal flow abounds, the music's motion determined by languorous bow-strokes, its textures by warm-prickly needles of guitar pizzicatos. Side B's single extended track, "Sunday's Morning Ghost," is wrought from similar materials, but aspires to more transcendant levels, led by the celestial harmonics of Fulcher's treated trumpet. It takes on atavistic echoes redolent of some distant Miles Davis or Jon Hassell blowback, as if viewing In a Silent Way through a post-Kosmische kaleidoscope, or channeled through Eno/Budd cathedrals to meet today's psych-drone and ambient trajectories. Overall, Aversion Therapy thrives on such productive tensions between genres and eras, as it does between live and recorded, spontaneous and pre-structured, making for engaging, at times thrillingly psychotropic, listening." - alan lockett

I recognize the cost factor. The details...the outer sleeve is a Stoughton printing tip-on style gatefold. 'Tip-on' is a separate matte sheet that is applied to thick board stock. Like LPs from the '70's, only thicker. Or 'old school' if you prefer. There is also a sort of OBI strip, or j-card that lies on the spine of the gatefold sleeves. Similar to the Japanese import vinyls - which is a nice touch (I'm biased) that gives some additional info. Then there is the vinyl itself - a slab of 180 gram virgin vinyl pressed at the vinyl pressing mecca that is RTI. The inner sleeves are audiophile grade anti-static triple layer sleeves. Lastly, the outer sleeves are resealable 4 mil plastic sleeves with flap...and they actually reseal. This LP pressing is limited to 489 copies.
Listen here.

"A great package with a gate fold sleeve - no costs are spared here. Their ambient is much more open and gentle...like shimmering metallic sounds pushed towards the end of the spectrum...Great cinematic beauty. Top class ambient album." - vital weekly

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ALIO DIE & AGLAIA - Private History of the Clouds CD (Infraction) U.S. $14.00 [INFX 037]
In stock - out now! This has been in the works for almost 1.5 years. Is there finer ambience (save Oophoi perhaps) coming from Italy outside of these two acts? And a collaboration to boot. Nice. 900 copies in the Japanese style mini-lp matte gatefold sleeve. Beautiful layout courtesy of the ever-impressive designwork of Pyhai.

Infraction Records curates this new entry to the already considerable body of collaborations involving Alio Die. There have already been communings with the likes of Robert Rich, Mathias Grassow, and Vidna Obmana. Here, though, Stefano Musso's fellow-travellers are lesser known but closer to home. Aglaia is an Italian duo with a trio of albums on his Hic Sunt Leones label; Gino Fioravanti and Gianluigi Toso come trailing credentials in therapy, writing, painting, and teaching, to say nothing of alchemy and ortho-bionomy. In contrast with Musso, who has fully two decades of musical endeavors behind him, they're comparative novices. But you wouldn't have thought it. Theirs is a music whose apparent stasis enfolds within it endless subtle micro-variations. They bring with them from previous HSL releases an appealing aquatic/amniotic sound dimension, characterized by a combination of electronic sounds (analogies as the sleeve notes would have it) and processed acoustica moving as if in virtual circular breathing. Slow waves of soundflow suggestive of psycho-acoustic energy (if you're a believer, otherwise just go with the flow) come with peripheral fragments of sonorities, carried on the wind, drifting as if at the edges of sleep, recalling the way echo plays in open landscapes.

That's part of the method of this animist collective's historical unfolding of its subjects' textures and trajectories, yielding a series of luminous aerated tracts. Animists see a spiritual force residing in every element of the physical world. Nature is believed to be alive, imputing an inner life to leaves, lakes and the like. Dwelling on Private History of the Clouds brings this to mind before even entering its audio world, particularly in light of Alio Die's predilection for "passion, nature and awakening" and Aglaia's for worlds of feeling ("mondi sensibili," as a previous album was called). But, lest this kind of talk scare off those averse to nature-hugging, note that the musical Grace inspiring this project is more a familiar of Pandit Prath Nan and Brian Eno than of Wyndham Hill and Hearts of Space.
From opener "Cumulus Congestus" (heaps of cloud masses) to "Cirrus" (wispy curls) the history unfolds couched in way-up-high, pure aetherial tonefloat, with odd bold blares of Fioravanti's analogies, swathed in showers and sundry susurrations of the lower earth and skies released from capture within his accomplices' arcane devices. There's a sense of holism across the album's six movements, though variations are clearly discernible. "Stratus" (blanket-like layers), for example, bears the characteristic medievo-gothic stamp of works in Musso's recent Castles sonorisation series - the familiar drones and loops and field recordings providing a subtly evolving canvas for trails of elegiac psaltery. While "Radiatus" (broad parallel bands converging towards the horizon) takes more from the airy/aqueous elementalism of Aglaia's Three Organic Experiences and Sacred Waters. "Nimbus" (generating precipitation) is serenity itself, albeit drenched. And "Perlucidus" (a layer with small spaces through which clear sky is visible) extends itself into 13+ minutes of freefloat, hanging oneirically in a light mist of treatments. At its more initimate, listening to the chronostatic electro-acoustic-glides in blue of Private History of the Clouds feels a little like watching dust particles in a room illuminated by light rays - variously filtered by alterations in shutter angles - now suspended almost immobile, now gently agitated by soft breeze.
Finally, in describing Alio Die's work, it's hard to avoid reaching for the meditative or devotional, invoking the sacral or incantatory. That's only part of the resonance here, though, and Private History is notably less solemn than the Alio Die signature style, perhaps borne elsewhere by Aglaia's energies. These will be labeled drone works, but there's a weightless delicate quality about them that's a far cry from the leaden pall of much generic ambient of the darker persuasion that typically taps into the Drone-zone. And usual suspect signifiers like spacey and pastoral would be better cast as stately and aerial (cf. An Aerial View, a similarly-inclined recent work by Oophoi). Ultimately this is genuinely Ambient music in the purist sense, in that the ear may pass blithely over the diverse cloud formations' apparently static exteriors, or dive in to uncover micro-motions and subtle substrata in further archaeologies." - a. lockett
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BEEQUEEN - Ownliness CD (Infraction) U.S. $10.00 [INFX 003]
Available once again - 2nd edition repress. Out now.
This is a reissue of one of the first Infraction releases. Slightly different artwork than the 1st edition.
It was the debut of the reconfigured Beequeen, orignally released in 2002. Gone (well not entirely) was the drone based Beequeen, and in exchange was a bit more of an experimental pop outfit. "For a short while, the future looked bleak for Beequeen fans. Was their single "Dovidzdane Vanja (The Death of Beequeen)" an omen for an imminent end of Beequeen? Not so it turned out. Beequeen was more eager than ever to develop a new future for the band. Their single "White Tusk" was merely a taste of things to come. More melodic, with a driven beat and soaring guitars, "White Tusk" proved that Beequeen could master more than the ambient drone. Their latest studio work "Ownliness", which was recorded in 2000, is now available (again) on Infraction Records. In it's attractive cover, "Ownliness" offers trip-hop rhythms, guitar-ambient, beautiful roadmovie-music, strange samples and loops deliver with a twist only the Beequeens can master. From the opener "Clockwise" to the long melancholic piece "Beam Ends" (featuring a ticking clock, atmospherically guitarwork, environmental recordings and cellos) this new CD offers the most musical product Beequeen has released so far. It will certainly appeal to Beequeen fans old and new, offering an album full of beautiful tracks. "Ownliness" proves Beequeen more alive than ever, willing to take on new challenges in their music."
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CELER - The Everything and the Nothing CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00 [INFX 036]
Available again. 2nd edition.
Celer is a husband (Will) and wife (Danielle) duo from California that use a variety of strings as the basis for their sound. Cello, viola, violin and the sounds are mixed in with field recordings, choir, live theremin and then tape spliced and re-assembled in varying lengths to create a loop base. Those sounds are then sampled, layered and processed. The result is a shimmering orchestra. Periods of silence between the notes only enhance the sound. Though at times very haunting, it's brightly hazy ambient. Initially "Discourses..." was to be 1 full-length CD with a bonus CDR ("The Everything and the Nothing") to accompany the first 100 copies. When Celer presented the bonus material, with field recordings mixed in obtained by Danielle over several months in India, the quality of the material was so high that it was suggested and agreed to instead be a concurrent release of two full-length discs. 2nd Edition of several hundred.
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"13 tracks of pure ambient bliss with silky tones lighting the air then gently retreating until the next wave. The sounds of field recordings and unidentifiable sound sources lurk in the distance among the detailed layers of sound. Gorgeous stuff and a pretty essential partner if you got the first disc." - Norman Records
"There's something infinitely comforting about this music and for those that enjoy the relaxed and beautiful it's an absolute must. Highest possible recommendation for this. Utterly divine." - Smallfish Records U.K.
"The Everything and The Nothing is a glimpse into the world of the sublime, a cavernous dronescape that maintains a steady discourse with the spiritual and etheric world, shimmering and sparkling with a rich and rare beauty. Absolutely Essential listening." - BGN @ White Line


SLEEPY TOWN MANUFACTURE & UNIT 21 - No Traces CD (Infraction) U.S. $15.00 [INFX 027]
Out now! Long awaited full-length from this Beautumn side project, Sleepy Town Manufacture, in collaboration with Russian artist, Unit 21.
This is a full-length travelogue into the hills and dales of a lush Russian landscape. A.M. radio crackles distantly with beatless waves permeating the still air. Alexander (STM) worked with Stanislavs' (Unit 21) library of sounds, he sampled some old vinyl records, pitch-shifted them down to a slow crawl, and then delved into a myriad of slow sounds, with an array of careful layers emerging.
Deluxe packaging edition of 800 copies - mini-lp Japanese style gatefold cover printed by California's own Stoughton printing, 5 separate art prints on 20 point chipboard stock.
Beautifully designed by graphic wunderkind Pyhai. Sound clips located here!
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ELUDER - The Most Beautiful Blue CD (Infraction) U.S. $13.00 [INFX 033]
Now available! "The careful choreography of retreat and remotion is what Patrick Benolkin is about. So you won’t be surprised when walls within and without come down, dissolved by the drift inside The Most Beautiful Blue. The spectral soundfields of grey dimly charted by (free netlabel) debut Warm Warning’s doleful drones and wan washes are opened up into miles-deep inner-zones, as under Infraction’s curation true textural colours come through. Of the label’s fellow-drifters, Eluder’s discreet field work and timbral questing place him closest to the “grex” methodologies of Adam Pacione, or perhaps a more abstract carpenter in an annexe to the sawdust and smoke-rooms frequented by Milieu. But Eluder music is characterised not by the sound of the bucolic or sylvan, or even the underground, but rather the submarine. The will-to-escape finds an effective scenographer in Eluder, who offers here a sonic solution in which thoughts, mirroring the music’s mood movements, may dissolve, float free, and finally submerge, without fear of being taken down." - Alan Lockett
Edition of 485. [INFX 033]

KILN - Thermals CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00 [INFX 017]
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. $10.00 [INFX 026]
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]
"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. 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]


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]

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.

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.
[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]

POTTER, COLIN- See CD (Infraction) U.S. $12.00

2nd edition. Limited to 200 numbered copies.
[INFX 005]

ZAMMUTO - Solutiore of Stareau : Disc One CD (Infraction) U.S. $10.00

[INFX 002]




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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]


KEITH BERRY - The Cartesian Plane LP (Elevator Bath) U.S. $17.00
Price does NOT include shipping, see below HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! The soundscapes along The Cartesian Plane are beautifully absorbing, heavy with the slow unraveling of emotions, almost beyond belief. There is an immense weight to these recordings, the richness of which belies the careful subtlety of the compositions. The sound is expansive and unreal, a perfect complement to the record's visual aspects which seem to describe a kind of alternate existence. Like bookends, the colorful images house a wealth of experiences, wonderful and frightening. As you gaze upon the rotating colors and Keith Berry's dense dream-sounds pour out of the speakers, total immersion in The Cartesian Plane is more than probable, it is certain.
This picture disc LP has been released in an edition of 233 copies. [eeaoa033]

CELER - Dwell in Possibility LP (Blackest Rainbow) U.K. $20.00
Price does NOT include shipping, see below 'Dwell in Possibility', is the debut vinyl LP by the formerly active American husband and wife duo Celer, and is also their first release for Blackest Rainbow. Consisting of 15 different sections sprayed across two sides of vinyl, with little if any distinctions, 'Dwell in Possibility' is arranged as a muted patchwork of keyless voices blinded by sunlight, hollow echoes from unlit interiors, and scrolls of unrolled piano tunes. Enclosed in empty shadows, with vague slides of unanswered prayers, these two sides etch a dateless form into weak ends, and pyrrhic dells. Everydays are left empty-handed, and enjoyed only then. Positions change, and rely only on your imagination to wake from this, to sleep, in hope to feel again. Full colour fold over pro printed covers featuring vintage photography. Limited to approx 400 copies. Out now!

CELER - Engaged Touches CD (Home Normal) U.K. $14.00 [home n002r]

New 8.21.10 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Repressing - 2nd edition in digipak. "For the second release on Home Normal Will and Dani, aka Celer, have delivered another utterly superb piece of work. Split into two halves the tracks have several distinct movements within each part. It's lovely to hear them using field recordings prominently as well and they slot into and become an essential part of these tracks. Part 1 has a classical, string-laden theme combined with the sounds of textures of travel - trains rumbling along, disembodied voices and the general chatter of being amongst other people. Almost spiritual sounding at times, it moves serenely through its 26 minute duration. Part 2 clocks in at 40 minutes and begins with a continuation of the string theme before reducing the sound back to a lovely resonant drone. Gentle, enticing and always subtle, it drifts along, flowing & meandering as it goes before shifting back into the soaring, uplifting strings again for the finale. A beautifully realised and themed album, this is a deeply impressive second release from Home Normal and another awesome release for Celer." - smallfish


CELER - Dying Star CD (Dragon's Eye Recordings) U.S. $12.00 [der 005]

New 8.21.10 New on Dragon's Eye Recordings. Pressed CD. "'Dying Star' is also a step on from previous works so welcome to a new Celer sound! It's more electronic tones and drones and fans of Eleh will appreciate this. It's a bit busier than Eleh but it's along those simplistic lines. It's very introverted simple yet beautiful music which will appeal to all fans of the drone genre and one that gets my thumbs up. Excellent stuff!!" - Norman Records


CELER - Close Proximity and the Unhindered Care-all CD (SRA) U.S. $15.00 [SRA 014]
Restock 8.21.10 New release by Celer on the SRA label. The packaging is probably their most extensive to date (save for the fantastic homemade editions they did over the past few years) with a pressed CD in an 8 panel digipak. Lovely sepia tones, reminds me of a minimal v23 design. As for the sounds, utilization of Dani's environmental collection along with a by-now-patented array of hovering stringed instrumentation. Celer had developed a brand of ambience that is reminiscent of the best, but is altogether their own. This is no different and continues that brilliance. Well done and recommended.

CELER - Pockets of Wheat CD (Soundscaping) NORWAY $14.00 [Sound 002]
New 1.17.10 Roughly five hours of recordings of cello, violin, piano, bells, crickets, and wind were then applied the idea of an ‘always changing but always the same’ idea to it. Splicing the recordings to about hundred 5-10 second tape loops, the loops were then played back from laptops and repeated in arbitrarily selected order by the two musicians without predetermined order. As such, the movements of the wheat in the fields by the winds were mimicked: always similar, but constantly changing. In oversized cardstock folder. [Sound 002]

CELER - In Escaping Lakes CD (Slow Flow) JAPAN $14.00 [WW 1001]
New 12.21.09 ‘In Escaping Lakes’ is the sequel to ‘Cursory Asperses’, previously released on Slow Flow. Where ‘Cursory Asperses’ focused on the slow movement primarily of streams, and other field recordings, ‘In Escaping Lakes’ continues this pathway to expand into a deeper subject, of lakes and their surroundings. Inspired by a painting by Anthony Feyer, ‘In Escaping Lakes’ was made to demonstrate enclosure, depth, and closeness in still places.

CELER - Mane Blooms 7" (Low Point) U.K. $8.00 [LP 029]
New 10.28.09 Seen by Celer as an 'outdoor' companion piece to ‘Brittle’, the duo’s album recently released on Low Point, the music on ‘Mane Blooms’ was created by multiple layers of cello and piano, which were then processed and played back at differing speeds. Also contained within the tracks are field recordings taken whilst Dani rode horses along the Californian coastline, a weekly pursuit that acted as a form of self-therapy and enjoyment. With the music composed specifically with the vinyl medium in mind, the two sides of the record act as a mirror image. For the B side, Celer approached the music of the first track in reverse, inverting the structure and musical motifs established within the first piece. Altering the playback speed of the vinyl brings previously hidden textures to the fore, providing each of the tracks with a new identity and a different reflection of memory.

CELER - Brittle CD (Low Point) U.K. $15.00 [LP 028]
New 8.26.09 New release by Celer on the U.K. Low Point label. "The album is arranged to move in a specific way, not simply section by section, but by subtle movements that swell and sway calmly. Instead of creating an environment to sink into, Celer hope that the piece will instead act as a blanket, moving with the listener through gentle sways, shifting tones and small spaces of silence that are as unpredictable as thought."

ANDREW CHALK & DAISUKE SUZUKI - In Faxfleet Clouds Uplifted Autumn Gave Passage To Kind Nature CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $19.00 [FP 17]
New 8.27.10 Edition of 300 copies. Reissue of 2008 recording originally released on vinyl 12" in July 2009. Each CD comes in a package embossed with unique artwork and includes an inner sleeve. Mastered at Skye Mastering in 2008.

ANDREW CHALK - Ghosts of Nakhodka CD (Siren) JAPAN $21.00 [SIREN 17]
New 8.27.10 Edition of 500 copies. Curious release as it is solo Chalk, but on Siren. Features the same top-notch artwork and packaging as the Faraway Press issues, so for all intents and purposes, it may as well be one. Gatefold CD reissue of 2006-2009 recordings originally released on cassette in December 2009. Track 2 is exclusive to the CD and forms a link between the original A and B-side. Note however that track B1 on the cassette has been moved to track 13 on the CD. Track durations above derived from CD player. Mastered at Skye Mastering. Bilingual obi and sleeve.

(CHALK, ANDREW) MARSFIELD - The Towering Sky CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 16]
New 3.27.10New collaborative group of Andrew Chalk, Vikki Jackman, Brendan Walls and Robin Barnes. "Two long tracks, recorded May 2005, with a heavier sound than Chalk’s solo work, with shifting tectonic tones giving way to dooming bells and rusty clouds of mediaeval tone ala Keiji Haino’s Nijiumu or the first Toho Sara album. But it’s very much a group record and it feels like there’s more playing here than on most Chalk records, with a degree of interaction that is as ghostly as it is forceful, with organic forms blossoming and dying in a void of endlessly deep darkness. Beautifully packaged as ever by Andrew in handmade gatefold sleeves with Japanese obi strips." - Volcanic Tongue

ANDREW CHALK - The Cable House CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 15]
New 3.27.10 CD issue of the instantly OOP LP from last year. Recording originally made in 2008. Beautiful treated piano worked by Chalk - highly recommended.

(CHALK, ANDREW) FERIAL CONFINE - First, Second and Third Drop CD (Siren) JAPAN $23.00 [Siren 14]
New 9.13.09A return of a few of this oop disc to Chalk and then on to us, we can now offer up this early beautiful beast. Packaged in Faraway Press splendor and OBI grace, Ferial Confine is just a pseudonym of Andrew Chalk in his early excursions into noisy ambience... "Before his current blurred visions of grace, Andrew Chalk had already intuited that unrefined yet enthralling forms of beauty lie in the cross-pollination of noisy structures and latent tranquillities. First, Second And Third Drop was a firm gesture towards the non-believer, the invitation to a feast of bowed metal, wooden flutes, hissing steam and shifting drones that finds many points in common with that other legendary lone wolf named David Jackman, not coincidentally a subsequent collaborator. The five tracks of this strong album - originally recorded in 1986 and only now out of the archives - seem to symbolize the stages of an initiation.

CHALK, ANDREW - Goldfall CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 06]
Restock 3.27.09 Repressed in classic Faraway Press style. This features a die cut sleeve with 2 crossed ribbon OBI strips with Japanese text. I have no idea what it says. I can tell you that 'Goldfall' is a highly recommended recording, and that it's been quite some time since it has been in stock.

CHALK, ANDREW - The River that Flows into the Sands II CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 07]

Restock 9.18.09. CD press of the super ltd Cassette. Ditch your walkman and rejoice the digital issue. Handmade FP packaging, OBI natch. Perfect.

CHALK, ANDREW - East of the Sun CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 08]
Repressed, new in stock 9.18.09. 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 - Vega CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 03]
Restock! 9.18.09
Faraway press. Pressed CD reissued of the limited CDR that Chalk did a few years back. The packaging is still handmade, but the quality is so damn good you cannot tell. Oversized gatefold mini-lp packaging. 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 - Blue Eyes of the March CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [No Cat. #]

11.24.08 Restock.
These new editions of 'blue eyes' are now in a moss green cover, gatefold sleeve with OBI strip in Japanese text. Fantastic! Faraway press. Stunning handmade packaging w/ onion skin OBI. Worth every single pence.

CHALK, ANDREW & DAISUKE SUZUKI - The Days After CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 11]

Restock 12.8.08
An earlier collab. with Daisuke Suzuki originally on Three Poplars. Reissued in glorious packaging on Faraway Press.

CHALK, ANDREW & DAISUKE SUZUKI - Senshu CD (Faraway Press) U.K. $23.00 [FP 04]

Restock 12.8.08
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, 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.

LOREN DENT - Empires and Milk CD (Contract Killers) U.S. $12.00 [no cat #]

New Infraction signee Loren Dent with his debut disc. Those with a predilection for Stars of the Lid will embrace 'Work Song: Holmes Mill', and admirers of the New Melancholy's poster-boy Eluvium will likely take "Masters and Slaves"ť to their hearts. The more ambient domain of post-rock acts like Mogwai and Marconi Union could easily host "Love Song: Kinetics and Hope". Ultimately, though, sound all mapped, sources traced, what "Loren Dent" might be "about" is ineffable. But Dent is covered by his forebears: "It's too difficult to sum it up in a statement about our message. The message is like the music, maybe you have to drown in it before you can understand it." alan lockett/furthernoise.org

DOROSOTO - Sounds Look Similar 3"CDR (i, absentee) U.S. $8.00 [IA015]

New 6.28.09 "Limited to 25 copies initially. Repressed at an additional 25. Each copy is hand-made by Dorosoto and features a unique transparency from the original artwork. One of two possible designs were used on the disc prints. All music brought to life by Dorosoto April - October 2008. Equipment used: Roland Juno-60, Roland SP-808, Tascam digital 8-track, effects pedals, Roland CR-8000." This is the first edition.

COREY FULLER - Seas Between CDR (Dragon's Eye Recordings) U.S. $12.00
Corey's name has been swirling around a few years now behind the scenes in post-production and mastering of various ambient recordings. He has a few releases on the Autumn Recordings label. This is the first full-length for Dragon's Eye from Fuller. I hear references to ambient done by post-rock artists. Let me explain before this scares people off (holy shit, Tortoise does ambient?! No.). A few artists like Bark Psychosis and Rameses III, both favorites here, do ambient with a standard guitar, bass, drums/percussion line-up - and they do it extremely well. There is restraint in the use of those instruments and a delicate ability to conjure up a sonic tapestry as well. Now Fuller's entire disc is not entirely like this. In fact, only 2 tracks are heard done in this manner. It is done well and it leads me to believe that perhaps this was available to him for other tracks and he decided to go it alone for the rest of the album. Beauty in restraint indeed. Those other tracks, still using traditional instruments are up there with the best shimmering drone that David Tagg or Andrew Chalk have created. I say this as a high complement as I have the utmost respect for both of those artist's output. Fuller's work here sits easily among the best of those two, and it still has traits that are all his. The last track, 'seas between' is a stunning mixture of all that Fuller has brought along for the rest of the album w/ the addition of well-placed cello. This is a CDR edition of 250, sold-out from Dragon's Eye to my knowledge. I have a handful of copies here. [de5026]

MATTHIAS GRASSOW & JIrI MAZANEK - Inner Path (Nextera) CZECH REP $15.00
There are sites that dig into archives finding hidden gems of LPs released in 1983, for example, in an edition of 50 that are brilliant, must-have listening. This is the ambient version - sort of.
I mention this as I would've glossed over this disc completely given the huge output of Grassow and that I just haven't followed his work in years. In addition, I've not heard anything mentioned in any of the forum/lists I frequent...maybe you have and I'm in the dark.
Grassow has been around since the 90's with releases on Amplexus, Arya and closely alligned with Klaus Wiese - doing a more Roach influenced synth based ambient in large helpings. Mazanek I know nothing of, except he's been featured on two Grassow discs now - this one and a live set the two did (also on Nextera). He apparently plays a variety of exotic strings - sitar, dulcimer, etc. I was pleasantly surprised when I put this on how well the two meshed. There is dulcimer here, yet it's echoed and muffled, layered into the wall of synths that Grassow is weaving together. Great background ambient, that IMHO only slightly loses it's way at the end of track 2, where some sort of cathedral chanting is going on. The other tracks exhibit none of that, leaving a solid tapestry of tapped strings and rich synth textures. [ERA 2051-2]

KILN - Twinewheel : Lost-Sides and Dusty-Gems 1994-2005 LP (Division Sound) U.S. $15.00

Another Restock! 9.18.09 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) - A Sandwich Short CD (Tursa) U.K. $16.00

12.15.06New collaboration between Sol Invictus' Wakeford and Mr. Liles. 2006. [TE 002]

TOR LUNDVALL - Yule CD (Strange Fortune) U.S. $10.00

Back in stock 8.31.10 Composed and recorded between November - December 2004, except track 10 , which is recorded on the night of 24th January, 1998. [SF 4]

TOR LUNDVALL - Under the Shadows of Trees CD (Eternal Autumn Editions) U.K. $15.00
Restock 8.26.09 "The music follows the slow progression of a Summer day from morning through evening. While most of the tracks have pastoral themes, tracks such as "The City" and "Game Room" evoke memories of hiding out in air conditioned rooms awayf from the pounding heat, while digital clocks and video games blinked in the cook darkness. Many of the songs were constructed around the after-effects of pure reverb, giving the music a soft and hazy quality. I encourage the listener to play this album outside when the Summer sun sets, just as the evening ghosts call softly from the woods." - tor lundvall [EAE 005]

TOR LUNDVALL - Mizuko Jizo 7" (Ars Benevola Mater) ITALY $10.00 [MJ01]
In stock 9.27.09 Small amount of stock of this oop 7" from 2008. Great presentation in a gatefold w/ silk screening print. Limited to 350 copies for the universe.

TOR LUNDVALL - Evening/Leaves PIC 7" (Eternal Autumn Editions) U.K. $10.00 [EAE 004]
In stock 9.27.09 Small amount of stock of this oop PICTURE DISC 7" from 2002. Artwork by Lundvall. Limited to 500 copies.

TOR LUNDVALL - Insect Wings, Leaf Matter & Broken Twigs CD (Eternal Autumn Editions) U.S. $15.00

New 5.27.09 "I've also released a CD privately called "Insect Wings, Leaf Matter & Broken Twigs". An odd but fitting title, this album gathers together some of my earliest ambient recordings from 1991-1994. The CD comes in a matte digipak and is limited to 300 copies." - tor lundvall
Each digipak is hand-numbered. 27 tracks total! [EAE 006]

TOR LUNDVALL - The Seasons Unfold CD (Strange Fortune) U.S. $8.00

New 8.22.09 This is a 4 track sampler of alternate mixes of previously heard tracks that was for a planned Lundvall box set. The box set fell through, but there were some samplers made. Now a bit scarce... [SF 5]

TOR LUNDVALL - Empty City CD (Strange Fortune) U.S. $14.00

In stock 5.27.09 "Tor Lundvall’s latest release “Empty City” has clearly reached an even higher plane than his previous works. Just 45 seconds into this record and I knew it was special. The description “Ghost Ambient” is an appropriate description. The music is flowing, soothing yet interesting. This is a composition that expands the boundaries of ambient music when it would seem that such limits have already been reached. Only a truly creative mind can accomplish such a feat. “Empty City” is a perfect medium to relax and meditate to; a marvelous and engaging sound that firmly holds one’s interest. While it is most definitely ambient in nature, there’s a complex character throughout that is hard to describe. This disc can be played over and over while maintaining a secure embrace on the listeners senses. An undeniably exotic, superb listen." - Sombunya (discogs.com) [SF 3]

AARON MARTIN - Worried about the Fire CD (Experimedia) U.S. $13.00
All prior restrictions were set aside as Martin forwent his regular live-approach, untypically using electronic processing and effects and editing the parts without limiting himself in any way. Still built around his set-up of cello, banjo, harmonica and organ, there is an unsettling installation-character to the work, with distant echoes of acoustic instruments shining through the ghostly fabric of these twelve short pieces. Mastered by 12k label-head Taylor Deupree, 'Worried about the Fire' has however not only turned out a dark and demure work, but also one of brittle beauty - ranging from the meditative cymbal-space of 'Ice melts' and the broken-Piano semblance of 'Blue Light' to the consoling Ambient-Folk of 'Making Rope'.

ADAM PACIONE - Dobranoc LP (Elevator Bath) U.S. $17.00
New! This is for a post-paid purchase of the LP in the U.S. & Canada. Beautiful picture disc LP featuring all new material from Adam Pacione.
Dobranoc contains more than 40 minutes of new music utilizing field recordings, guitars, shortwave radio, analog keyboards & Moog filters. Haunting and yet serene, overflowing with contemplative and melodic tones, these are mostly long-form pieces: "Always" builds slowly into a monolithic block of sound, while in the title track, layer after layer of warm atmosphere appears and then unravels into a sea of tranquility. This is three-dimensional music, strikingly elegant, from a modern master of the art. This picture disc LP is adorned with Pacione's lovely full-color macro photography circa 1995. The colorful sounds and images are bound together into a unified abstraction, dreamlike in its beauty. Adam Pacione has been a fixture in the upper echelon of ambient drone for the last five years with releases on Elevator Bath, Infraction, and his own Bee Eater Recordings imprint. Pacione is also a highly skilled photographer with solo exhibitions and nearly a lifetime of experience under his belt. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas.
This picture disc LP has been released in an edition of 268 copies. Total running time: 44 minutes [eeaoa029]

ADAM PACIONE - Still Life #5: Evening Colours 3"CDR (Bee Eater Recordings) U.S. $8.00
4th release in the monthly "STILL LIFE" series. 3" CD-R Limited to 100 sequentially numbered and signed copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with 2 folded inserts. Recorded during 2005. [bet: 07]

ADAM PACIONE - Still Life #6: Thinning Silver 3"CDR (Bee Eater Recordings) U.S. $8.00
5th release in the monthly "STILL LIFE" series. 3" CD-R Limited to 100 sequentially numbered and signed copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with 2 folded inserts. Recorded during August, 2008. [bet: 08]

ADAM PACIONE - Still Life #7: Emulsions 3"CDR (Bee Eater Recordings) U.S. $8.00
6th release in the monthly "STILL LIFE" series. 3" CD-R Limited to 100 sequentially numbered and signed copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with 2 folded inserts. [bet: 09]

ADAM PACIONE - Still Life #8: Ferro Organ 3"CDR (Bee Eater Recordings) U.S. $8.00
7th release in the monthly "STILL LIFE" series. 3" CD-R Limited to 100 sequentially numbered and signed copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with 2 folded inserts. Recorded March 2002. [bet: 10]

ADAM PACIONE - Still Life #9: Green then Blue 3"CDR (Bee Eater Recordings) U.S. $8.00
8th release in the monthly "STILL LIFE" series. 3" CD-R Limited to 100 sequentially numbered and signed copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with 2 folded inserts. Recorded March November, 2008. [bet: 11]

ADAM PACIONE - Still Life #10: Fairgrounds 3"CDR (Bee Eater Recordings) U.S. $8.00
9th release in the monthly "STILL LIFE" series. 3" CD-R Limited to 100 sequentially numbered and signed copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with 2 folded inserts. Recorded February 2002. [bet: 12]

ADAM PACIONE - Still Life #11: A Delicate Giant 3"CDR (Bee Eater Recordings) U.S. $8.00
10th release in the monthly "STILL LIFE" series. 3" CD-R Limited to 100 sequentially numbered and signed copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with 2 folded inserts. Recorded December 2008. [bet: 13]

ADAM PACIONE - Still Life #12: The Harmony of Reflected Light 3"CDR (Bee Eater Recordings) U.S. $8.00
11th release in the monthly "STILL LIFE" series. 3" CD-R Limited to 100 sequentially numbered and signed copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with 2 folded inserts. Recorded March 2006. [bet: 15]

ADAM PACIONE - Still Life #13: Lumen Organ 3"CDR (Bee Eater Recordings) U.S. $8.00
12th release in the monthly "STILL LIFE" series. 3" CD-R Limited to 100 sequentially numbered and signed copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with 2 folded inserts. Recorded 2003. [bet: 16]

ADAM PACIONE - Still Life #14: Ending Titles 3"CDR (Bee Eater Recordings) U.S. $8.00
13th release in the monthly "STILL LIFE" series. 3" CD-R Limited to 100 sequentially numbered and signed copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with 2 folded inserts. Recorded January 2002. [bet: 20]

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]

DARREN TATE - The Night CDR (Fungal) U.K. $15.00
New Darren Tate on Fungal - nocturnal drones using synth and guitar. Limited to 60 copies. [Fungal 038]

DARREN TATE - Snippets CDR (Fungal) U.K. $17.00 [Fungal 037]
Brand new Tate 3-27-10 Edition of 70 copies. Miniature musicals for guitar and keyboard. Sold out from Tate already, we have a handful.

DARREN TATE - Nature in the City CDR (Fungal) U.K. $17.00 [Fungal 036]
New Tate! 2.13.10 Brand new Tate, just arrived this a.m. "Nature in the City" was originally intended for Die Stadt label, but fell through for some reason. Tate issued it himself in an edition of 100.

TROUM - Objectlessness CD (Faria) RUSSIA $11.00 [Far - 16]
Originally on Mystery Sea, then issued on Faria in folder-type packaging w/ a few art prints. Edition of 750 vs. the MS issue of only 100. This is a pressed CD. This is one Troum that is most reminiscent of the old incarnation, Maeror Tri. Rumbling drones, post-industrial gray landscape - and then after digging through 15 or 20 minutes it opens up into something quite beautiful, before it becomes buried once again.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - A Cleansing Ascension CD (Elevator Bath) U.S. $13.00 [eeaoa040]

New in stock 8.22.09 Superb compilation on the consistently strong Elevator Bath imprint. 10 tracks, 73 minutes. Exclusive tracks from Adam Pacione, Keith Berry, Matt Shoemaker, Jim Haynes, Dale Lloyd, Colin Andrew Sheffield to name a few. Limited to 650. Soy ink on 100% recyclable packaging. [eeaoa040]




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1 LP, 2 LPs, or a 2xLP set U.S. & Canada (media mail in the U.S., Canadian standard mail) $5.00


Each additional piece of vinyl U.S. & Canada (media mail in the U.S., Canadian standard mail) $2.00


1 LP, 2 LPs, or a 2xLP set overseas (1st class international) $15.00


Each additional piece of vinyl overseas (1st class international) $5.00