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HOP 017LP
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Essential repress of this great LP of experimental Belgian folk music. Original pressing sold out within weeks and was listed at number 10 in the Quietus' best albums of the year so far. A remarkable body of experimental compositions that taps the deep well of raw, emotive expression rumbling below numerous traditions of European folk music. As a member of Ghent's experimental music scene, over the past two decades Annelies Monseré has slowly refined a singular approach to musicality, moving from the sparse, instrumental piano works from that defined her early career, toward increasingly complex arrangements of instrumentation that offer a central place to her own voice, issued by noteworthy imprints such as Morc Tapes, Stroom, and three:four. Monseré's solo efforts establish a strikingly beautiful and remarkably unique territory that elegantly balances between rigorous experimentalism, minimalism, drone, and folk. Recorded between 2016 and 2022, Mares' is a deep body of sonority that draws upon the fundamental human need to express and commune through sound, projecting this ancient need into forward-thinking forms without sacrificing its roots. Profoundly beautiful, elegant, and poetic, these eight tracks offer immersion into a singular creative voice.
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HOP 010LP
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Debut vinyl outing for Valentina Magaletti and Pino Montecalvo's Avvitagalli project. Variegated percussion + wtf jams inspired by an abandoned and torched palazzo somewhere in southern Europe. None Corsa explores presence and absence, purpose and chance. The push-pull between Pino's toys, records, radio, and instruments with Valentina's arsenal of percussion and production techniques takes in elements of modern composition, jazz, dub, and post punk.
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HOP 011LP
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Warm Currency is a new project by Sydney-based friends, artists and musician's MP Hopkins and Mary MacDougall. Mary began working with MP Hopkins and Christopher Schueler in 2008 as Vincent Over the Sink morphed into The Bowles. Returns was recorded in Mary's home during 2020-2021 and is their first release since 2012's The Bowles EP (Kye). Quietly intense folk music, song-poems, and concrète collages built from seemingly simple and delicate arrangements for guitar, keyboards, voice, and tape. Recommended if you like Flaming Tunes, Nico, Alastair Galbraith, The Garbage and the Flowers.
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HOP 007LP
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2022 restock. 93-minute collection of the electronic, ambient, prog, and kosmische side of the '80s-90s Paul Chain catalog. Paul Chain is widely revered in the doom metal underground, and rightly so, but this collection aims to highlight the many "other" sides to his work. Anyone interested in NWW list or Mutant Sounds should investigate. Officially licensed collection bringing these gems to back to vinyl for the first time in 30 years.
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HOP 004LP
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White vinyl. The Horn of Plenty rounds releases Due Matte, the fruits of an impressive meeting of two UK-based international artists. Valentina Magaletti (Tomaga, Vanishing Twin) and Marlene Ribeiro (Gnod, Negra Blanca) came together during a residency at Porto's Hysteria in 2019, leading a week of workshops where participants improvised with bass drum, snare, gong, horns, strings, oil drum lid, chalumeau, waterphone, kalimba, noise boxes, wah tubes, bowed ceramics, handmade instruments, various electronics, vibraphone, piano, washing machine, and objects collected from the streets of Porto. Due Matte stitches lo-fi phone recordings from the workshops into a potent, bewitching, and disorienting assemblage that will appeal to head-nodders and chin-strokers alike.
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HOP 001LP
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(The) Mudguards were a shadowy political art outfit active throughout the decade that saw the Thatcher/Reagan alignment lead us to the advent of the neoliberal nightmare we now all inhabit. This period in Britain was ripe with riots, strikes, social disorder, and a general turbulence that ensured the gap between the wealthy and poor was an agenda at the forefront as much as the dismantling of the fundamental framework which assured a decent standard of living for all strata of society. It is amongst this destabilizing environment that (The) Mudguards came to formulate their particular brand of politically informed art music. The refuge and waste of these ruthless and deceitful tactics were harnessed both mentally and physically in order to reconstruct a response to the heartless moves of the state. (The) Mudguards were a collective made up of Nelson Bloodrocket and Reg Out. Their tactical operation, in their own words, was "the commodification of dissent", drawing influences from "quintessential English working-class entertainment". All tracks on this LP were recorded at home in East London and Essex between 1983-88 and are previously unreleased. Ranging from bizarro pop to industrial dirges and scuzzy electronics the fantastic fury they developed embraced influence from the London squat scene, anarcho punk and industrial noise. (The) Mudguards concocted rampant excitement in their despair by re-appropriating scrap metal from newly formed industrial wastelands to create free kinetic sculptures. New electronic technologies were remodeled to create a sound absolutely unique. The joy in (The) Mudguards comes from the weirdness they concocted out of their collective frustration. This is powerful music, at the edge of pop, hovering over industrial whilst looking into a dance-oriented future. Foreseeing the obscene welfare gap and perverse media play on people (The) Mudguards message is as strong now as it was in their initial phase. Their art, their sonic world, their entire life force dedicated to re-appropriating all the humiliation and waste thrown at them by reinventing all as significant artistic statement in a world drenched in hypocritical vapid spores from the state. Artwork by Reg Out & Nelson Bloodrocket. Layout by Karolina Kolodziej and a new essay by Johnny Cash-Convertor -- MH. Mastered by Graham Lambkin. Printed inner sleeve; edition of 260.
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First time vinyl issue of key works from the Belgian artist-musician Moniek Darge. Following a deep-excavation of the Logos archives London's Horn Of Plenty presents Bratschebraut -- four works utilizing prepared violin, electronics, tapes, and voice. These recordings are from the same era as Moniek's classic Sounds of Sacred Places LP (1980). Bratschebraut extends the story of Moniek's work during this period: playful, intimate, raw, and quite unique. Although they were recorded across a seven-year period and were not intended to sit together, the music on Bratschebraut, seen retrospectively, captures a pivotal era in Moniek's artistic development. A period that saw her challenge, destroy, then create anew. Bratschebraut both a significant addition to Moniek's catalog and an essential historical document. Bratschebraut comes in an on red vinyl; housed in a full-color sleeve with deluxe PVC bag; includes 28-page booklet containing artist's notes, previously unpublished photos, and details from the original graphic score for ManMo. Edition of 300.
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HOP 002EP
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"Just a few months after fortuitously meeting Dean Brown in London's Low Company I am delighted to be releasing this Little Skull 7". For a few years I was listening to Little Skull LP's unaware that Dean's own brand of NZ underground music was in fact being recorded a short distance from my London home. Furthermore, Dean's intricate homemade sleeves were crafted in London, shipped to Italy, then back to London where I was buying them. This release reduces the air miles while expanding the Little Skull story. Two tracks, two different moods. It's as if some unknown event takes place as you flip the record. The music of Little Skull evolved from the NZ underground but extends way beyond. Points of reference include Bruce Langhorne's The Hired Hand (2012), AMMMusic (1967), Egisto Macchi's Il Deserto (1974), Anner Bylsma, and Elodie." --Nick Hamilton (Horn of Plenty) Housed in a beautiful handmade diorama sleeve and box. Limited edition of 100.
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