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 best of 2010 !!! 
8mm (italy) #8mm 039 lp

bill nacetoo dead for dreaming” one-sided long playing record

  • too dead for dreaming• part one (6:55)
  • too dead for dreaming• part two (11:51)
march 2010 release ; bill nace been a constant figure in both the valley & boston scenes, playing with chris corsano in vampire belt, thurston in northampton wools, x.0.4 with jake meginsky & john truscinski, ceylon mange with dylan nyoukis & karen constance, etc ...

kind of amazing that (after only a couple of tapes for his own open mouth label) this is actually bill’s “properdebut solo record !!! it does a great job of showcasing bill’s range, veering from sculptural, almost remko-scha-esque chime to loren connors-style elegance in only a few short moves (listen to the sound-sample ; but one of the many highlights herein) ; peppered with pointillist metal pops & woozy, slide-riddled malaise ... all executed with only the slightest bit of electronic processing / pedal mangle throughout ...

lovely one-sided lp edition from luca massolin’s 8mm, with a screen-printed 12” x 24 flat folded into a “library-style” sleeve, with a tiny red hand-numbered insert (only 205 !!! criminal) ... one of the solo guitar records of the year thusfar ; highly recommended !!!
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8mm 039: bill nacetoo dead for dreaming’ one sided lp

debut vinyl album by contemporary electric guitar wizard bill nace. ‘too dead for dreaming’ begins in the form of a deconstructed blues piece, slowly exploring the territories of atonal composition, string–scraping and feedback, crashing all these styles in an instinctive, personal way. his affiliations with x04, northampton wools and vampire belt converge here in a unique flux

bill’s ability in creating sounds, follows a clear logic of ‘construction of tension’ that eventually explodes into pure sonic mayhem (part 2) then switching the attention from your blowing ears into new, obscure tonalities, with a spectral meditation that develops in the last part of the album and mirably closes the circle. it’s all here: one man, one guitar. a bulldozer.

limited to 200 copies, hand printed and numbered.

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film-video
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
musique-concrète
modern-composition

 best of 2010 !!! 
8mm (usa) #8mm 038 lp

john w. failthe 15,000 day boat trip” long playing record

  • the 15,000 day boat trip • part 1 (17:37)

  • the 15,000 day boat trip • part 2 (15:14)
november 2009 release ; pristine electro-acoustic work from cenotaph’s john w. fail (responsible for both a criminally under-appreciated quadruple tape-box on c. spencer yeh’s dronedisco &, partially, the “lied music vs. boy-band tax returns” lp on ultra eczema ... as well as full-length collaborations with spiral joy band & ben reynolds) ...

inhabiting similar head-space as graham lambkin’s recent “softly softly copy copy,” the piece in question here takes it source material from live-played instrumentation (guitar, accordion, violin, casio, xylophone, voice) arranged in increasingly sparse, yet episodic aggregations throughout the a-side (listen to the sound-sample for a few different “chunks”) ... the b-side starts off with a great bit of reed drones & dry, muffled drumming with behind-the-neck guitarisms which gradually receded into a long section of “small sounds” before reconnecting with the piece’s drone-core ...

much of the assembly methods remind me of john clyde-evans(né tirath singh nirmala) often aleatoric-feeling loop-constructs, yet here everything’s precise & perfectly measured ... despite the (outrageous, sorry !!! if you only knew what it cost to reliably import italian records these days ...) price, i wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone wishing to hear an impeccablypersonal” take on contemporary improv-concrète modes ...
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8mm 038 the 15.000 day boat trip lp

it happens every so often, something astounding arrives out of nowhere. like a revelation from another era that has been trapped between dimensions, floating endlessly through the empty layers of space and time and then suddenly arriving like an ancient message in a bottle.

the message: “the 15,000 day boat trip” a stunning  soundtrack to an imaginary travel through the oceans of the mind, and the wonderful diary of a lonely traveller across the world. my word: this record sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before, a strange alchemy between styles. completely without genre and extending beyond the boundaries of the infinite!

decades of avant garde, are homaged together in a sort of “harmonic schizophrenia” in this unique distillation of (electro) acoustic music, sound collage, spectral folk passages, free improvisation, and an almost orchestral arrangement for violin and strings. each subject is particularly approached and concurring in the creation of an ancestral form of a “blues” hybrid.

if what you ask from a record is the chance to travel with your imagination, close your eyes and you’ll be somewhere between atlantis and utopia floating in the hold of this ship full of ghosts!

music composed, performed and edited by john w. fail (cenotaph audio label, past releases on dronedisco, ultra eczemalied music, spiral joy band)
mastered by ruradith sadancahaan.
massive nautical-style silkscreened artwork and inserts  by cavalo branco.
handnumbered and limited to 300 copies.

i love this album
cheers
luca massolin


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8mm (italy) #8mm 037 lp

virginia genta / chris corsanothe live in lisbon” long playing record

  • some birds are free people (17:50)

  • lost place at sunset (9:35)
  • slate explosion (6:30)
september 2009 release ; blistering set of duets from jooklo duo / neokarma jooklo trio / sextet / octet / jooklo finnish quartet’s virginia genta (here on impressively lung-destroying sax, plus flute & the occasional demonically-posessed vocals) & chris corsano, recorded on the roof of the ze dos bois gallery / theater / club (yep, the same place my “recorded in lisbon” set was captured) in the open portuguese night sky, where both concert-goers and anyone living / working within a 1/2 mile radius were welcome to soak-in the fire-music rays ... the recording is wind-blown & quite hot ; the hell-on-earth energy of the music perfectly encapsulated ... highly recommended !!!

ps. the lp comes as a paste-on on an acid-free jacket, with stickers applied to the generic inner-sleeve (see below) - as always with luca’s editions, there’s a fair amount of variance from copy to copy ; those prone to crippling condition anger, please steer clear as there’s really no such thing as an “ideal copy” here, or anywhere for that matter ...
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8mm 037: virginia genta / chris corsano - the live in lisbon - 12" vinyl - new!

what happens when two stars collide? an interstellar collaboration out of this galaxy! here in this new fantastic lp from virginia genta (of jooklo fame) and chris corsano (arguably considered 'the last drummer on earth'), both musicians put blood, sweat, and lots of muscle into three new wildly charged cuts!!!! 

the album begins at sunset on a terrace in lisbon (summer 2008) with ferocious sax and drums escalating as the sun sets with chris' incredible drum solo leaving everyone in a trance, while virginia's vocals evoke the spirits of the birds who join this bizarre duo hypnotized, creating some of the weirdest sounds ever listened!

turn to b side and you are in the streets of marrakesh, with cobras spitting at you from baskets, donkeys staggering past under the weight of gigantic loads, men crowding around cock fights, yelling at their bets under the din. then the final moment, with genta blowing like a volcano in eruption, and chris' hyperkinetic drumming collapsing into pure maniacal machine-gun destruction!

terrific!

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8mm (italy) #8mm 036 lp
troglosound (italy) #troglo 026 lp

golden jooklo ageritual” one-sided long playing record

  • ritual (20:35)
may 2009 release ; assorted space-improv tactics from the trio of david vanzan, luca massolin, and virginia genta ... an impressive scattering of elements, from the omnipresent phaser-swoosh to the alternatingly spencer / tony-ish violin scrape, to the fidelity lifted from your favorite popul vuh bootleg ...

beautiful, gritty stuff, far more representative of the vaunted freedom(s) so often touted (in regards to “outsider” music at least) but rarely practiced with so much raw fervor ...
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8mm o36: golden jooklo age 'ritual' one sided lp

new recording from the band, an ethereal vortex of electric moon-sounding mandolin, space keyboard, primitive astral soprano sax. atmospheres for the end of the earthly.

287 copies. handmade collage artwork made by troglosound and 8mm.

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analogue-synth

 best of 2009 !!! 
8mm (italy) #8mm 033 lp

ashtray navigationsexploding blue floor martin denny” long playing record

  • expanded blues for martin denny
  • the thickening whist
  • smokeballoon cloud circle
  • what the lice decide
  • infinite robot porno
  • arrow thru the boogie

  • the slow spectral progress of the soap bubble
  • lazy boredom
  • birds that have shit in the trees
december 2008 release ; acidic guitar squall & pulsing synth flare-out from phil todd ...

i’m sensing a big heldon influence here (listen to the sound-sample ; something right out of “it’s always rock and roll”) & that’s always a good sign ... other areas focus on a crushing, machine-shop ambience, and ... even an “acoustic” number ... great stuff !!!
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8mm 033: ashtray navigations - exploding blue floor martin denny - 12" vinyl lp

it's a big pleasure for me to release the new full-length album from leeds-based underground legend ashtray navigations, featuring 9 new tracks recorded in studio during 2008 and dedicated to the memory of the great american composer martin denny, father of exotica!

"exploding blue floor…" is one step ahead into phil todd's hallucinatory travel into the galaxies of the unknown. a cornucopia of what he has been doing for more than 15 years with unique dedication and passion. passion is in fact, the first word that came to my mind listening to this music where acid guitar riffs, concrete sounds, delicate acoustic passages and vintage warm electronics, live in absolute symbiosis. power to the imagination, breaking down the walls between song and improvisation, structure and freedom, melody and noise. just like looking inside a kaleidoscope, this will be the perfect soundtrack for your daydreams! blue-night coloured vinyl, artwork by phil todd and silkscreened by canedicoda, with insert.

edition of 242 copies

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doom

 best of 2009 !!! 
8mm (italy) #8mm 032 lp

anla courtisornitologia” one-sided long playing record

  • ornitologia (21:30)
december 2008 release ; single-sided lp with a 1992-93 piece by reynolsalananlacourtis ...

let’s see what’s in store ... first, there’s 4 minutes of subdued pitched-down guitar clank, after which a massed root-fifth line comes in & builds for the majority of the side (courtis’ take on “doom” ? perhaps ... listen to the sound-sample) before fading into silence, then into a short bit of wobbly modulated feedback ...

pressing is not the most ideal, but then again there’s only 105 of these suckers ...
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8mm 032: anla courtis - ornitologia - 12" one sided vinyl

a talisman, a living mandala. recorded in buenos aires, 1992-93 (!) and now brought to life by the chants of birds, this is anla courtis 'ornitology', a poem about the secret forces of nature and the most sublime forms of communication hidden in the forest. earth, water, wind and fire the elements that are all living inside these three gems, starting with a spectral ballad, "quetro", and exploding into the second track, 'escua', 16 minutes of epic guitars flying over an endless sea of visions. the last track, 'tersina', is the final redemption, and it comes through as a primitive-electronic assault! pure magic.

140 grams vinyl, limited to 105 copies only, screenprinted artwork (by canedicoda), half of the covers come in yellow with green print, half in green with dark print.

edition of only 105 copies !!!

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8mm (italy) #8mm 025 cd

nihil is meis me” compact disc-recordable

  • (no tracklisting)
8mm press release...
8mm 025: nihil is me 'is me' cdr

nihil is me is andrea giotto, top notch guitarist and free time jammer with a such variety of projects like maledetto/ottave, ok/no, be maledetto now!, just to name a few. 'is me' is his first effort under this new moniker, and it's a beautiful sound poem for bells, guitars, vocals and fields recordings. intimate and deep.

comes in a beautiful digipack edition designed by nico vascellari and canedicoda and printed by il canedicoda.

born in 1977, male(detto).since more than ten years i'm playing all around , expecially with a sort of punk band called with love. nihil is me is me alone. at first i used the nick maledetto but later i decided to use it as an adjective referred to collaborations with friends, such as maledettottave (with my friend ottaven a.k.a. cavalier schiphonius), be maledetto now ! (with my friend be invisible now!), maledettovascellari (with my friend nico vascellari), maledettosiciliano (with my friend frank siciliano), maledetto & le onde (with my friends mac, slocombe and odio), maledettopilia (with my friend stefano pilia) and so on...

100 numbered copies.

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 best of 2008 !!! 
8mm (italy) #8mm 024 ep

pumiceprovidence” seven inch single record

  • awful and awesome (3:05)
  • fifteen inch guage railway (1:35)

  • we piss on their stuff (2:25)
  • wholehoof (2:25)
astoundingly great single by stefan “pumice” neville, recorded during his residency @ as220 in providence ... the kind of mumble-vectors that stefan has been pioneering for the last few years are, in my mind, right up there with those of sterling motherfucking smith ... certainly in the sheer range of neville’s private universe / bedroom trajectories ... add to this hacked consumer electronics and casual destruction of musical logic; there’s nothing about this that i don’t like ...

highly recommended, even if it’s a bit expensive for a 7” (an italian one, at that ...)
8mm press release...
8mm 024: pumice 'providence' 7" vynil ep

new zealand based stefan neville is pumice. my first contact with his music was 'pumiceraft' (last visible dog, 2004), one of the best record of the last 10 years if you ask me. this new single ep, contains  4 songs recorded in us in 2006, during his residence at as 220, providence, ri. and it's supposed to be the new pumice classic!

tracks sound like the usual beautiful mix of fragile psyche-pop songs +  near droning rock, all mixed in a lo-fi punk style! comes in a classical snobbish cover printed by ilcanedicoda, with drawings by s.neville himself. 250 copies that are supposed to not stay here forever.

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8mm (italy) #8mm 022 ep

justice yeldham and the dynamic ribbon devicelive in seoul” seven inch single record

  • 290405 seoul

  • 280405 seoul
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8mm 022: justice yeldham & the dynamic ribbon device: live in seoul - 7inches

two live tracks that document lucas bleeding and screaming in south korea. raw, slabbed noise at his best. 45 rpm vynil, cover designed by a girl who was at the show and silkscreened with paint and blood by ilcanedicoda. and justice for all! 222 copies.

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8mm (italy) #8mm 018 cd

rahmahnered crescent” three inch compact disc-recordable

  • red crescent
  • black cross
8mm press release...
8mm 018: rahmane: black cross / red crescent - 3"cdr

new zealand's best known secret, duncan bruce recorded these 2 gems in 2006, and they're finally released on 8mm. people, i can't really never get enoughof this one. this is the music i love: weird, dreamy, exotic, loud and completely out-of-its-center = free. new zealand and afghanistan has never been so close. 111 copies.

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8mm (italy) #8mm 015 cd

ottavenoctaven” three inch compact disc recordable

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neat little 3”cd-box with a tea-candle ...
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noctaven” is the new album of nocturne music by italy 's ottave, formerly with love and mondocane member and totally sweet artist behind the canedicoda art printing manufacturing. this 3”cdr features some of the best music i've ever heard from gio, a long ballad for intimate vocals and his magic hand-made guitar.

comes in a beautiful silkscreened box, with a candle into it. only 33 copies were made.

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8mm (italy) #8mm 012 cd
ideal (sweden) #ideal 041 cd

nmmuniversal prostitution” compact disc

  • universal prostitution
  • consumed
  • work=decapitated life
  • blow
burninsax/computer-feedback burst from mattin & lucio capece ... one of the rawer & more unheralded outings in mattin’s canon ...
8mm press release...
n.m.m.
»universal prostitution«

cat. no. ideal041
year 2007
format cd

500 copies in cardboard sleeve. anti-copyright.
co-released with absurd (greece) and 8mm (italy).


hardcore improvisation. extreme, sharp and filled with burning energy - no more music (at the service of capital). this is a beautifully painful record recorded in oslo, brussels and strassbourg in early 2006 by the duo of  argentinian lucio capece on saxophone, often feedbacked through a mixer and basque computer improviser/feedbacker/ destroyer and thinker mattin, both based in sunny berlin.

"universal prostitution" moves in the wastelands between extreme reductionism, noise and focused improvisation. the message is very political. a fist in the face of the capital. get into the void. cover image by gustav klucis. only free software were used.

mattin - voice. computer feedback.
lucio capece - saxophone. mixer.

nmm:

lucio capece - mixer, saxophone feedback
mattin - voice, computer feedback

pals, nmm 's ‘universal prostitution' cd is finally ready! nmm is the stellar duo feat bilbao 's mattin on computer feedbacks and lucio capece on saxophone feedback. recorded in strasbourg , brussels and oslo , 'universal prostitution' is their political and sonic maniphesto. my record of the year if you ask me. fucking brutal!

co-released with absurd ( greece ) and ideal recordings ( sweden ).

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8mm (italy) #8mm 008 cd

lucas abela / mondo caneprison food” compact disc recordable

  • lucas abela - mondo cane “prison food”
8mm press release...
collaborative cdr between the legendary australian noise performer lucas abela (aka justice yeldham & the dinamic ribbon devices) and italy's mondo cane. sounds were recorded live in a 4 track during their last italian tour (february 2006). the result is this 23 minutes huge piece, an intense psychic excursion with some chill-out breaks interrupted by yeldham's giant roars and growls.

the cdr comes in a super-sized silkscreened cover by ilcanedicoda.

edition of only 60 copies.

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