Anomalous Records

01/03/2025

most recent additions to the site (see main catalog for full descriptions):

Andrew Chalk "Dreams" CD $16

Andrew Chalk "The End Times" CD $11

Jonathan Coleclough • Theo Travis • Jeph Jerman "Slowed Life" CD $11

Intermodulation "Connections (1970-1974)" 4 x CD box $41

Last Light "A Bridge Over The Lagoon" LP $25

Little Skull 7" $17

Nurse With Wound "The Grave And Beautiful Name Of Sadness" LP $30

Nurse With Wound "O***m Cabaret" CD $11

Nurse With Wound "Stoned In Stockholm" CD $14

Nurse With Wound "The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion" 2 x CD $18

Nurse With Wound with Bladder Flask "Backside" CD $14

Nurse With Wound & irr.app.(ext.) "A Topography of Lucid Confusion" 2 x CD $23

Ora "Time Out of Mind" CD $11

Francis Plagne & Andrew Chalk "The Painter's Family" CD $16

Jean-Noël Rebilly et Andrew Chalk "Tsilla" CD $16

Giancarlo Toniutti, Deison, Massimo Toniutti "Due Scritti Imperfetti" CD $15

Trevor Wishart & friends "Beach Singularity / Menagerie" LP $28

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01/03/2025

new release available now:

Giancarlo Toniutti "Bàardum Guùmuse (For Your Red Tongue)" CD $12
Anomalous Records (U.S.) NOM33
I have been lucky enough to release through Anomalous Records many of my favorite artists that were active in the 1980s such as Hands To, Total, Andrew Chalk, Agog, Ellen Fullman, The New Blockaders, and founder of P16.D4, Ralf Wehowsky. Now I am able to present a new composition by Giancarlo Toniutti, whose work I first heard on the compilation LP "Never Say When", which also introduced me to the music of the aforementioned Andrew Chalk and Total. His track there, "Covar Peste in C***a", sounded like nothing else, and set me wanting more. While releases of his music started sporadically, with years between some early titles, he has been more active in recent years. I am proud to present a new work of his recorded in 2022. Here he presents a single track of almost 50 minutes length. Always difficult to place, this could best be described as "electroacoustic music" and comes closer in composition to the late works of Luigi Nono or early György Ligeti, without sounding like either of those or getting lost in their academic language. Generally Toniutti does not reveal how the sounds of his compositions are created, but here gives us a clue saying they come from self-built idiophones made of glass, brass and wooden frames, metal tines and steel plates, which nonetheless use no string, membrane, or air. That said, the original high pitched sounds were transposed and treated to reach their final form, which is more muted and mysterious. Moving slowly and delicately, tones ebb and flow with contrasting densities creating constellations which do not hold as still as first listening might suggest. Listening to this repeatedly, I have been drawn to how the development is seen in a microscopic view not what might appear initially as an exposition of a few tones. Put plainly, it is a work that appears simple on the surface but holds a great complexity when paying attention to the details. None of the sounds lasts more than 10 or 15 seconds, although they overlap in varying ways creating an illusion of relatively still surface. This work rewards the careful listener.
Edition of 302 copies in digisleeve with 8 page booklet.

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12/19/2024

now in stock:

Last Light "A Bridge Over The Lagoon" LP $25
Carbon Records / What Lies Beneath (U.S. / New Zealand) CR294/WLB12
"Last Light is the glorious confluence of the UK-based and Aotearoa/NZ born Dean Brown and Ben Spiers - names that might be familiar to anyone who has followed the post-Corpus Hermeticum school of hiss and klang as it's spread out across the world to coalesce in little pools here and there. Their album 'A Bridge Over The Lagoon' is the latest stop on a trajectory set flowing out of small town Aotearoa, hastened by the fire lit by 'Le Jazz Non'.
Dean Brown is best known as Little Skull. A basement Florian Fricke, creating grainy chamber miniatures with the same latticework intricacy as the delicate handmade dioramas that serve as the covers of his records. He was (is?) also a member of Nova Scotia, purveyors of reed-heavy skree clouds - a band whose existence feels more like a rumor than a fact and one of the final acts on Peter Stapleton's Metonymic label.
Ben Spiers mostly performs solo and has produced a spartan architecture of lonely electricity since the late 90s. He offset the romanticism of his contemporaries in Wellington (Campbell Kneale, Antony Milton, Bill Wood) with a skeletal directness. His guitar: hard edges hidden in gray shadow. Wood and metal ringing out into a void, the air charged and alive. He is also a member of ecstatic free maximalists Glory Fckn Sun and a number of duos (Seen Through, Tea Dust etc) imbued with the same dark intimacy as his solo work. He moved to the UK where his solo voice became further and further refined, taking on a melancholic halo – late night semaphores floating on winter sleet.
Last Light shines differently from it's members' respective pasts – it is not the earth rending blaze of Glory Fckn Sun, nor the candlelight glow of Little Skull. There are hints of the burnt out star cinders of Total or the rumbling flow of Flies Inside The Sun, but with much more of a sense of optimism than those comparisons would imply. The first side is a travelogue of movements over which the spirit of Peter Stapleton hangs heavy – long rolls of low percussion creating fields over which the guitar crackles and hangs suspended, carving the air. Much is written about alienation and isolation as being foundational to the underground arts originating in Aotearoa/New Zealand, but 'A Bridge Over The Lagoon' is a testament to optimism and connection. A testament to acceptance and patience. This is the sound of two bottom-of-the-worlders, now decades deep into their own respective sound rivers and hemispheres away from their homes striking a vein of triumphant unity again and again and again. A guitar and amp producing sounds that sit like hard facts smoldering in space. Instruments pass by, continuously re-contextualizing each other – a series of silhouettes in grainy half-light. Let this last light billow out from your speakers into the darkness of this horrendous year. Let guitars and drums and electricity tumble gracefully. 'A Bridge Over The Lagoon' is a bloom in the night."
edition of 292 copies.

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12/18/2024

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Giancarlo Toniutti, Deison, Massimo Toniutti "Due Scritti Imperfetti" CD $15
13 (Italy) sps2486
"The location chosen for this collaboration was primarily the recording studio in Udine where, in a two-year timespan, the authors met to discuss, compose, record, trim, listening back, sifting out sounds and adapting their electro-acoustic mixtures. The music or rather ‘musics’ that emerged during this progress, represent different versions of ongoing experiments, a whole construction focussed on details, those presented by ordained processes, then liberated from the order to find it again in the myriad of sound elements. Details arising while they replace and displace and reorganize vanishing fugues, and again details derived from the reinforcement of one-to-one performances, their proliferations and rarefactions in a space, unfettered. Pâte de verres, invisible spikes and wires scrape, the blend grows and gets together tapping strings, with ribs and stretchers and blowing on the borders, oh excited foils, bows and hairs are skipping, slats and staves rebounds, self-built air streams, gliding tiny machines, buzz and dives, fast, faster in the space like tape and knot, stripes and stitches, and fine-tuning timbres, using chisel and timbre and detail and hundreds more modes and means, alloys and montgolfiers, groups or clusters slide away to the boundaries and details tell tales. Otherwise and inversely balanced, a true electroacoustic work before mastic, before illiteracy. 6-panel digisleeve, ltd. 300 copies."

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12/11/2024

in stock now (see web site for full details):

Andrew Chalk "Dreams" CD $16
Intermodulation "Connections (1970-1974)" 4 x CD box $41
Little Skull 7" $17
Francis Plagne & Andrew Chalk "The Painter's Family" CD $16
Jean-Noël Rebilly et Andrew Chalk "Tsilla" CD $16

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12/01/2024

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Fernand Vandenbogaerde "Les Années 1967-1984" 4 x LP $134
Metaphon (Belgium) METAPHON022
"Edition of 200 copies. 4 LP set in hardboard linen box with silk screened lettering + 16 page booklet in English and French, with biography, interview, track info, photos and download code. 14 phenomenal electronic and electro-acoustic works by French composer Fernand Vandenbogaerde, realized between 1967 and 1984. After his science studies Fernand Vandenbogaerde (1946) studied at the Conservatoire de Roubaix and did various classes and courses with a.o. Jean-Etienne Marie, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Bruno Maderna. He realized analytical works on mathematic music, in particular the work of Iannis Xenakis. Vandenbogaerde taught electro-acoustic music at various institutions and was director at the National School of Music and Dance in Blanc-Mesnil, near Paris. As a composer he wrote works for orchestra, instrumental and chamber ensembles, sometimes in hybrid form including tape and electro-acoustic configurations. And he also recorded numerous tape compositions in Bourges, Paris, Ghent and at his home studio. His works have been presented worldwide on various leading festivals and events. The compositions represented in this edition are primarily tape works. They are radical, precise and most of all timbre oriented which makes his compositions focus mainly on sound while other parameters hardly change. In Vandenbogaerde’s own words: 'What determines my pieces, at least all the ones in this collection, is that it's the material that dictates me, that will predetermine the form.' This particular approach distinguishes him quite a bit from his contemporaries within the field of electro-acoustic music. Another interesting aspect in Vandenbogaerde’s work is the integration of micro tonal scales (conceived by Mexican composer Julian Carrillo), on the compositions 'Modifications III' and the intriguing trilogy 'Drei Nachdenken über Hymnen an die Nacht'. All tracks are previously unreleased except the proto power electronics piece 'Anschlag' which was self-released in 1971 on his own Point Radiant label, as a compilation LP which also included a track by Tristan Murail."

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11/27/2024

now available (see web site for full descriptions):

Ferial Confine "First, Second and Third Drop" CD $15
Ferial Confine "Meiosis" CD $15
Robert Haigh "Tempus Fugit: Rare and Unreleased" CD $15
Organum "Raven" CD $14
Organum Electronics CD $14
Organum Electronics "Fearceness" CD $14
Organum Electronics "Solitude" CD $14
Organum Electronics "Stilness" CD $14
Organum Electronics "Wildness" CD $14
Sir Ashleigh Grove "Nimply Power Sessions" CD $14
Daisuke Suzuki & Andrew Chalk "Drifting" CD $12

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10/17/2024

now available (see web site for full descriptions):

Rolf Gehlhaar "Wege / Ways" LP $27

In Camera "Arrival" LP $27

Michael Ranta & Takehisa Kosugi "Multiple Musics" LP $27

Timo van Luijk, Kris Vanderstraeten, Daniel Duchamp & Luis Ferin "Traces du Hasard" LP $27

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10/14/2024

now available (see web site for full descriptions):

Hands To "Scrine" C60 $9
Jeph Jerman "Albuquerque" C32 $9
Jeph Jerman "Arrastre" LP & CDR $20
Jeph Jerman "Greyware" C40 $9
Jeph Jerman "Site Map" C60 $9
Jeph Jerman & Steve Jansen "First Second" C46 $9

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10/09/2024

now available (see web site for full descriptions):

Bladder Flask "One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling" CD $12

Jean-Claude Eloy "Gaku-no-michi" 4 x CD $30

Bernard Parmegiani "L'Oeuvre musicale en 12 CD" 12 x CD box set $60

P16.D4 "Distruct" CD $12

P16.D4 "Kühe in 1/2 Trauer" CD $12

Eliane Radigue "Elemental II" CD $10

Eliane Radigue "Occam - Hepta I / Occam XX" CD $13

Éliane Radigue "Œuvres électroniques" 14 x CD box $74

Steve Roden "The Radio - Airria (Hanging Garden) - Vein Stem Is Calm" CD $10

09/23/2024

now available (see web site for full descriptions):

Aldo Clementi "Collage" LP $18

Roland Kayn "The Ortho-Project" 15 x CD box $125

Anthony Moore "Mare's Tail" LP $28

Phill Niblock "Four Full Flutes" 2 x LP box $66

Nurse With Wound "Bar Maldoror" 2 x CD $22

Nurse With Wound "The Surveillance Lounge" 2 x CD $20

Nurse With Wound "To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl" CD $17

Nurse With Wound & Graham Bowers "Rupture" CD $16

Éliane Radigue "Naldjorlak" 2 x CD $18

"In Fractured Silence" CD $14

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09/19/2024

now available (see web site for full descriptions):

Tim Barnes / Jeph Jerman / Joachim Nordwall "The Oortcloud [It Wasn't Until Weeks Later]" LP $18

Jeph Jerman "Arrastre" LP & CDR $20

Jeph Jerman "Burn-im-rag" LP $22

08/27/2024

Now available:

Michèle Bokanowski "Cirque" LP $27
Kythibong (France) KTB80
"First time on vinyl. The Circus is a place of lights and colors, but also of shadows, even darkness. Admittedly, it delights children and makes adults laugh. But you only need one rainy autumn evening near a circus tent and the smell of fodder to think of the sadness of the clowns, the endless training of the animals and the freaks who are hidden in some caravan... cinema, the essence of the circus – movement, light, danger and burlesque – will have been admirably rendered in 'Notes on the Circus' by Jonas Mekas (1966), one of the inventors of the filmed diary. With 'Cirque', Michèle Bokanowski does similar work, entirely dedicated to spinning, in the musical field.
She distinguished herself in particular in the composition of musique concrète, among others 'Tabou' and 'Trois chambres d'inquiétudes', after having studied with Pierre Schaeffer and Éliane Radigue. The latter, great lady of drone and minimalism, fell under the spell of 'Cirque' and wrote the booklet for the piece as a poem.
The piece, divided into five movements, is based on the handling and editing of recordings captured within one or more circuses (this is not specified and is of no importance) between 1988 and 1993. The initial allegro reveals the gallop of a horse joined gradually by other images. The idea of the circular space of the circus tent is immediately and magnificently rendered and will be constantly recalled by an insistent use of the loop technique. Children's laughter, applause and drum rolls are thus sheared, repeated before being brutally interrupted. Accordion interludes and the distortion of sounds create a dreamlike atmosphere. This beautiful nightmare reminds us, to quote Éliane Radigue, the 'Magic of childhood still living in the heart of man even beyond its abrupt end.'" - words by Alexandre Galand, from the book 'Field Recording – L’usage sonore du monde en 100 albums' (ed. Le mot et le reste, 2012)
edition of 500 copies.

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08/24/2024

most recent additions to the site (see main catalog for full descriptions):

Coil "Love's Secret Domain" 3 x LP $48
Fallen Sun "Beyond the Flat Earth" CD $9
Nurse With Wound "Barren" 2 x CD $18<
Nurse With Wound "Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella" LP $30
Nurse With Wound "Deadlined" CD $13
Nurse With Wound "Gyllensköld Geijerstam and I at Rydbergs" 2 x LP $37
Nurse With Wound "The Ladies Home Tickler and Other Exotic Devices" CD $13
Nurse With Wound "She And Me Fall Together in Free Death" 2 x CD $18
Nurse With Wound "She And Me Fall Together in Free Death" 3 x LP $48
Nurse With Wound "Shipwreck n' Roll" 7" $10
Nurse With Wound "Spaced Muzak" 2 x CD $18
Nurse With Wound "Stoned In Stockholm" CD $13
Nurse With Wound "Thunder Perfect Mind" 3 x LP $48
Nurse With Wound "Trippin' Musik" 2 x CD $18
Nurse With Wound with Bladder Flask "Backside" CD $13
Nurse With Wound & irr.app.(ext.) "A Topography of Lucid Confusion" 2 x CD $18
Reverse Image "The Silence That Does Not Exist" CD $9
Reverse Image & Thomas Bey William Bailey "Tokokawa" CD $9

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08/07/2024

two new Jeph Jerman releases available now:

Chris Cogburn, Jeph Jerman, Caspar Sonnet, Doug Theriault "Live at Leaven: No Idea Festival 2022" CDR $12
Andromache Records (U.S.) Leaven
1. Jerman, Theriault (21'33")
2. Cogburn, Jerman, Sonnet, Theriault (15'31")

Chris Cogburn - percussion
Jeph Jerman - percussion, objects, electronics
Doug Theriault - table top guitar, electronics
Caspar Sonnet - prepared lap-steel

Recorded live at Leaven Community Church, September 13th, 2022
Screen printed artwork by Caspar Sonnet
Mixed and Mastered by Caspar Sonnet

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Jeph Jerman & Tim Olive "Pancakes" C30 $9
Buried in Slag and Debris (Canada) BISAD 045
noisy collaborations with each taking turns providing source recordings (percussion, metal objects, prepared turntables, magnetic pickups, circuits) while the other one provides the final mix.

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08/05/2024

available now:

Kiyoshi Mizutani "Cemetery" LP $27
Ferns (France) frond_13
"Reissue of a cassette released in 1993 on the Ulcer House label. Ltd to 150 copies. A track has been added to the original, and the artwork has been reworked."

"Herz Aus G.R.O.S.S. Live Akt 2" 2 x CD $18
Ferns (France) stem_20
"Live concerts recorded by Akifumi Nakajima during Daniel Menche and Small Cruel Party's Japan tour in 1995. With: MSBR, Monde Bruits, Aube, Daniel Menche and Small Cruel Party."

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08/04/2024

available now:

Yves Klein "Symphonie Monoton-Silence” LP $30
Edition Bierammer (Austria) KleinSymphonie
"Edition of 250 copies with Yves Klein Blue innersleeve and insert with score. First ever release of Yves Klein’s groundbreaking conceptual symphonie 'Monoton-Silence' conceived 1947-1948. Scored for 20 singers, 10 violins, 10 cellos, 3 double basses, 3 trumpets, 3 flutes and 3 oboes, the piece consists of a single 20-minute sustained D major chord followed by a 20-minute silence. The Symphonie 'Monoton-Silence' was a precedent to Klein’s later monochrome paintings and to the work of minimal musicians & composers, particularly La Monte Young’s drone music or John Cage’s 4′33″ and transforms Klein’s monochromatic paintings and sculpture into a monotone auditory experience. Performed April 1998 at Chapelle Ste Reita, Paris. Conducted by Philippe Arrii Blachette."

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08/03/2024

available now:

Jeph Jerman "Black Mesa" CDR $12
Rural Situationism (U.S.) RS0204
"CD in cardboard wallet, edition of 100."

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