ERYCK ABECASSIS / FRANCISCO MEIRINO
La Gueule Du Loup
(Fragment Factory - FRAG41) CD $12.75 (Out-of-stock)
This high-voltage electronic collaboration is a brutal jump in an ocean of noise steel. Modular synthesizers sing cruelly in the duo’s exploratory and abrasive free improv. La Gueule Du Loup arises rough from the manipulated modules and is propelled immediately into the atmosphere where it becomes virtual plasma. Elements, sounds, tones, micro-tones, and rhythms cohere in order and chaos. Edition of 300
Broken Runzel.eb Penis Gurgel.er Orchestra
(Fragment Factory - FRAG24) Cassette $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
In which Dick Flick chops up and manipulates Rudolf Eb.er material from years past. C23 in A6-sized polybag. Edition of 100.
MIKE DANDO / RUDOLF EB.ER / G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / JOKE LANZ
Wellenfeld
(Fragment Factory - FRAG31) CD $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
Sound transformed from data transmitted via wireless electroencephalograph headsets worn by the performers, received by sound engineers and processed before emerging through eight speakers surrounding the audience. Performing live without prior tests or rehearsals, each member of the quartet develops and gains control over his own brainwave patterns by listening to the results of his mental activity and changing electric impulses of the brain, thereby sculpting the sound through their minds alone. Edition of 300
KEVIN DRUMM / MICHAEL ESPOSITO
The Icy Echoer
(Fragment Factory - FRAG16) 7-inch $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Experimental artist and researcher of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) Michael Esposito has worked with Leif Elggren, CM von Hausswolff, Bryan Lewis Saunders and others. Forming the basis of this collaboration with guitarist Kevin Drumm are EVPs from St. John - St. Joseph cemetery in Hammond, Illinois, reputed to be one of the most haunted places in America. Edition of 300
JOHN DUNCAN / MICHAEL ESPOSITO / Z'EV
There Must Be A Way Across This River / The Abject
(Fragment Factory - FRAG20) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Fragment Factory - FRAG20) Used LP $16.00
EVP recordings made in 2009 by Esposito at the onetime home of Duncan in Prospect Heights, Illinois, to which the current resident would not permit entry (though his spouse had previously agreed to it). Heidi Harman, the medium who was present at the encounter, heard Duncan's name specified by the voice. "There Must Be A Way Across This River" represents Duncan’s involvement and processing of the events at his childhood home; "The Abject" is the result of Z’ev dealing with the occurrences in Prospect Heights. 140g vinyl. Double-sided insert. Edition of 500
Das Baank — A New Era Of Economical Growth And Prosperity And Safety And Power
(Fragment Factory - FRAG36) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The music traverses between carefully paced dramatic musical passages, and sections of pure and often confrontational noise. “DasB1” opens the album with a haunting chorus of ghostly voices submerged within a quasi-orchestral movement; subsequent tracks go deeper into industrial-sounding territories, providing an antithesis and an exhilarating liberation from the shackles of established normality and complacency. Edition of 300.
Upshutlenvolte
(Fragment Factory - FRAG32) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Three previously unreleased tracks from 1987, recorded in Örebro, Sweden. Raw and primitive staccato electronics with Kai Parviainen’s specific touch of utter insanity. Edition of 250. Sound samples are here: https://soundcloud.com/fragment-factory
G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / MUENNICH
Die Arbeiter von Wien
(Fragment Factory - FRAG19) 7-inch $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
The third part in Jupitter-Larsen's series of old trade union / battle songs follows Internationale (Banned Production 2010) and Solidarity CD (Banned Production 2010). Written by the Viennese lyricist and essayist Fritz Brügel, presumably in the late 1920s, this piece deals with the events during the so-called "July Revolt" in the capital of Austria on July 15, 1927, caused by a court verdict which acquitted three members of the right-wing Frontkämpfervereinigung Deutsch-Österreichs (the same persons were responsible for the death of a man and an eight-year-old the same year). The palace of justice went up in flames, at least eighty demonstrators were shot dead by the police, more than six-hundred people were injured. The stage was set for a fascist takeover in Austria. Jupitter-Larsen's two renditions are crude, P.E.-ish, vocal-heavy. One side with the original German lyrics, one side with the lyrics translated into English. Double-sided full-color sleeve, lyrics included. Edition of 250.
Decay and Persistence
(Fragment Factory - FRAG28) CDR $12.50 (Out-of-stock)
A slowly building but eventually violently churning sea of noise by this member of the Lazarus Corporation artists’ collective who also baffled speechless audiences with her performance at 2012’s Schimpfluch Carnival in Bristol, UK (which is no mean feat). Includes double-sided full color booklet. Edition of 100.
Fill My Body With Flowers And Rice
(Fragment Factory - FRAG39) LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)
Alice Kemp’s cryptic yet coherent body of work includes drawing, painting, objects, sound, audio composition, performance, and beyond. Her first full-length vinyl release, with two collaborations with Rudolf Eb.er of Schimpfluch and Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, provides a stirring and intimate look at her unique world of obscure, tense and delicate sounds. White vinyl. Edition of 300
Chapel Perilous
(Fragment Factory - FRAG23) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
The debut vinyl release and first solo album proper by this Paris-based audio/visual artist and curator of the Erratum label follows collaborations with Charlemagne Palestine, Julien Ottavi and The Master Musicians of Joujouka. Montessuis de- and re-composes recordings made throughout the past eight years, drawing on his voice as the main tool, delivering a frantic twenty-three-track opus of cut-up noise poetry. 140g vinyl. Edition of 317. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2012
The Maze
(Fragment Factory - FRAG35) CD $14.00 (Out-of-stock)
This multidisciplinary artist who has been active in sound and video art, installations, performance, computer art and writing since the late 1980s treats field recordings to the same processes employed by top-shelf geographers — surveying, gathering, scaling, removing, enhancing, and adding.
Nigredo
(Fragment Factory - FRAG29) Cassette $11.50 (Out-of-stock)
Documentation of a live action in Tokyo 2012 by Rudolf Eb.er and Dave Phillips (side A), with the prerecorded sounds for said performance on side B -- one channel per artist, produced independently. Disturbing and challenging as always.
30/4
(Fragment Factory - FRAG30) CD $17.75 (Out-of-stock)
Fourth anniversary comp with twelve exclusive, unreleased tracks by former, present and future artists and friends of the label: Joachim Montessuis, AMK, Aaron Dilloway, Philip Marshall, Krube, Michael Barthel, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Michael Muennich, Giuseppe Ielasi, Leif Elggren, Michael & Basil Esposito. Seventy-seven minutes. Double-sided insert and hand-assembled cover. Edition of 300.