New book by Kostja Ribnik

Modesty Comics has just released “The Healing Island”, a comic book by Kostja Ribnik

Check out a preview and order the book HERE.

Lighten Up Sounds interview

Here’s a nice interview with Matthew Himes, with whom I have the duo Men Of Science, and who runs the excellent label Lighten Up Sounds.

Check it out HERE. – and while you do, have a listen to LAND.

Favorites of 2013

Thanks to all friends, collaborators and listeners for a great 2013 – here’s to an even better 2014! Some of the stuff I enjoyed this year:

Hiroshima Bird Market – “Happy Untergang” CD-R, Silberbiber
Afterlife – “Surfacing Illusions” Tape, Tranquility Tapes
Hoor-paar-Kraat – “Night Soil” CD-R, Goat Eater Arts
Nite Lite – “Megrez” LP, Desire Path (Released late 2012)
Rambutan – “Inverted Summer” LP, Fabrica
Brother Of Judo ‎– “Mediocrity Insensitivity Triumphalism” CD-R, Debila
Dave Phillips – “Live Action 130731” CD-R, Debila
Anthony Amelang ‎– “Anthrocene Hunter” CD-R, Darker Days Ahead
Xanthocephalus – “sp.” Tape, Tranquility Tapes
Gravitations – “Untitled” Tape, Anathema Sound
Torba – “Polyester Catacomb” Tape, Aaltra Records
Roped Off ‎– “Lifts The Invisible Tile” Tape, Tranquility Tapes
Somália ‎– “Cova De Fosco” CD-R, Celas Death Squad (Released late 2012)
Berber Ox – “Private Everywhere” CD-R, Twice Removed
Star Turbine/Miguel A. García & Valentina Vuksic – split tape, A Beard Of Snails

In Girum blogged

The noise blog Bleak Bliss has put up the entire box set “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni” for download, along with a nice write-up on Zvukovina.

You’ll find it HERE.

And here’s a picture of the extremely handsome label crew:

Zvukovina in Berlin 2012

Recommendations #15

Recent listening:

Hiroshima Bird Market – “Happy Untergang” CD-R, Silberbiber
Afterlife – “Surfacing Illusions” Tape, Tranquility Tapes
Isolated Existence – “Jennifer” CD-R, Darker Days Ahead
Hoor-paar-Kraat – “Night Soil” CD-R, Goat Eater Arts
Fecalove – “Void Chaos and Cum” CD, Crucial Blast
Nite Lite – “Megrez” LP, Desire Path
Meditations – “Precipice” Tape, Digitalis
Lunar Miasma – “Managing the Dream” Tape, Tranquility Tapes
Star Turbine – “Gravity” Tape, Sonic Meditations
Climax Denial – “Her Skin Remembers” Tape, After Death Records
Cory Schumacher/Suburbia Melting – “Departure” Tape, Darker Days Ahead
Nederlaget – “To Feil Er Bedre Enn En Rett” Tape, Phase! Records
Rambutan – “Surrounded” Tape, Obsolete Units