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SIMON WHETHAM & MISE_EN_SCENE 'EINEANDEREWELTSTRASSE' At number 9 in our main catalog, we have Simon Whetham collaborating with mise_en_scene on an incredibly deep 38-minute piece called “Eineanderweltstrasse”. In a collage-like piece, containing field-recordings from Berlin, the duo manage to transpose the sound of a city at night onto both pure and artificial textures. The result sounds very dark, and at times sad, much like walking through a deserted section of an industrial city block late at night. There is rain slick on the streets and even more coming out of the pipes on buildings, and benign sounds become more and more evident as you walk on, the things you only notice when you are alone. A beautiful piece of minimal and modern sound-art. |
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INSTALLATION 12 - HORAFLORA 'THE GLAND CANYON' 01/23/10 For the first new issue in the Installation series for this decade, we're proud to bring you a very unique record that came to us a year ago: Horaflora's "The Gland Canyon". A clattering, manic portrait of room sound, intricate textures and what could be interpreted as ghosts inhabiting a deconstructed band in a mechanic's garage. The sound of Spring bludgeoning its way into the world via poltergeist activity and entranced possession. Incredibly layered with some of the outright weirdest sounds, Horaflora has created an environment that seems to be more independently evolving as the album moves forward, rather than being controlled by its creator. Sound design from another dimension, brought directly to your home by Install. | ||||||||||
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INSTLP01 - MILIEU 'PHOSPHENE WEATHER' PRE-ORDER 11/06/09 After much deliberation and work, Install is proud to unveil its first vinyl release: Milieu's Phosphene Weather LP. Notable for also being the first time Milieu's work has appeared on the vinyl format, Phosphene is a special affair, limited to 150 copies on randomly colored vinyl inside custom silk screened sleeves with hand-numbered inserts, sporting a modern design by David Tagg. Musically, Phosphene Weather inhabits a similar universe as previous Milieu ambient output, such as A Warm Wooden Hollow, Of The Apple or Brittle Paper Cathedrals. The record's three songs walk slowly through an Autumnal landscape that is as colorful as it is eroded, and over the course of 40 minutes the listener is treated to liquid sunset immersion, surrounded on all sides by soft wind sweeping red leaves over orange fields and cloudlike formations of chords that arrive right on time with the warm hum of a pedal bass. Swells of log cabin isolation, woodwind and guitar drones and pure sleepy thought filter through the horizon line. Phosphene Weather is total night music, and quite possibly the pinnacle of Milieu's ambient output to date. PRE-ORDER!!! Will begin shipping the week of November 23rd!!! | ||||||||||
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INST008 - WOOD-LAND 'STONE CIRCLE' 10/06/09 After an Installation series debut, a remix album and over a year's worth of recording, Wood-Land has returned from the deep woods of Pennsylvania with Stone Circle. Those familiar with Wood-Land's work know to expect some deep earthy lo-fi stuff, and on this point, Stone Circle delivers. Sounding like some worn cassette dug up from under an oak tree, the 20 songs on Stone Circle paint a vivid picture of slowly eroded gospel hymns reduced to warped loops and textural embellishments. Folk music recorded on tree bark, confederate ghosts inhabiting a transistor radio, dream-state chants echoing down a dark wooden hall covered in leaves. Wood-Land has never sounded more surreal and overgrown. Perfect decaying Autumn music, limited to 100 copies and gracefully mastered by Greg Davis with artwork by PAN. | ||||||||||
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INST007 - AIDAN
BAKER 'DRY' 09/05/09 Just in time for the end of summer, we've got the perfect record to play while you watch the leaves turn colors and die: DRY. Veteran experimental guitarist Aidan Baker's stellar contribution to Install couldn't get any more straightforward. As the title would indicate, this is raw, live Baker we're hearing, stripped down to the barest of components, no effects, no overdubs, warts and all. We've been following Baker's output for years and we have to admit that we've never heard the man sound quite like this before. Unlike anything else we can think of, Dry is a contemplative experience that is as much physical as it is immaterial. Baker's evocative playing style has never quite been this bare, and Dry proves that beneath all of the drenching reverbs and delays on his prior works, there is an incredible improvisational force at work. Sonically it mines monochrome landscapes of unpainted canvas, weaving in and out of melodic motifs, as if it were recorded in a dream state, while compositionally it lies somewhere between Jandek and Satwa, being both dissonant and meditative. Confessing and immersive, this is a record we cannot praise enough, and since there probably isn't much that hasn't already been said about Aidan Baker by now, we'll get to the point: If you only hear one Baker release in 2009, make it this one - we're certain you won't regret it! LISTEN BUY | ||||||||||
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INST006 - JASON /
SHINOBU 'DISPEL SPACE-TIME LUST'
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INSTALLATION 11 - ELUDER
'RITUALS' 06/28/09 Following releases on Infraction, Archaic Horizon and a superb track on SSR's invitation-only Exercises In Obscurism compilation, Pat Benolkin gives Install what could be his strongest album yet: Rituals. The same man behind Electricwest (see: EED circa-2007) scales things back and creates an evocative atmosphere full of both dusky darkness and warm yellow light. Conjuring images of a damp, urban setting, Rituals walks us through haunted bus stations and deep sleeping-pill excursions, thick and humid with smoky phantom sounds wafting in and out of the shadows. A single street lamp is our only constant in this state, and if a slumbering black and white city could bear fruit, this would be it. Dark ambient at it's best, and one of the best records we've heard all year! Limited to only 100 copies at #11 in the Installation series. | ||||||||||
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SPLIT 02 - GARETH HARDWICK & DAVID TAGG 06/07/09 The second edition of David Tagg's split series has arrived featuring UK based guitar wizard Gareth Hardwick. Only 54 of these exist and will probably be gone before I finish typing this. If you want one DON'T WAIT! This will not be repressed in this packaging. Orders will ship in the order they are received. All will ship by June 15th. LIMIT ONE PER CUSTOMER!!! IF YOU ORDER MULTIPLE COPIES YOU WILL BE REFUNDED AND HAVE TO REORDER! | ||||||||||
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INST005 PETER WRIGHT - SNOW BLIND 04/26/09 Peter Wright is a true veteran of the experimental scene, hailing from New Zealand with a catalogue that goes back over a full decade. We're very proud to present you with his newest offering, a mammoth double-album called Snow Blind. Anyone familiar with Peter's music will be happy to hear lots of the layered guitar drones and textural interplay that his records have been known for, however we feel this is a totally accessible record to anyone who enjoys dense drones or ambient music. Wright coaxes otherworldly harmonies out of thick slabs of rocky chords that tower nearly endlessly like cliffs overlooking a black ocean, with some pieces keeping a calm, stately mood and others bursting with hot yellow energies. Altogether this is one of the finest collections of guitar music we've heard in a very long time, and should not be missed. Presented on a limited run of 300 copies with sprawling and unique artwork by Peter himself. | ||||||||||
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CARETAKER REPRESS 03/16/09 The Caretaker's 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' is now back in stock and shipping. Supplies are once again limited and are sure to go fast. LISTEN BUY New releases on the way! Stay Tuned! | ||||||||||
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VCV: ROUND THE BEND (VCV PLAYS JANDEK) 12/01/08 Install returns once again with three new releases, and a sale! Just in time for the holidays... First, the long-awaited but well-hidden VCV album "Round The Bend" has finally been pressed. Nine tracks of instrumental Jandek covers, officially approved by Corwood themselves, that are equally in the spirit of VCV's sound as well as Jandek's. These special pieces focus on recreating/reinterpreting the mood of Jandek's work, with tracks selected from various points in his oeuvre, all the way from a gospel-acoustic cover of "Alehouse Blues" from One Foot In The North, to a molten-heavy doomed out version of "The Electric End" from Lost Cause. A very eclectic group of songs but still cohesive in that Corwood way, and an affirmation of VCV's true roots and versatility as a band. There's really something here for everyone, no matter what camp you're from, SSR's or Corwood's. This album includes the sad and beautiful cover of "I'm Ready" which we consider to be one of VCV's defining moments. A must have for any fan of VCV, Jandek or improvisational music! LISTEN BUY INSTALLATION 9: DAIZOK - AUTUMN SCENES
"Autumn Scenes", which lives up to its title in
so many ways. A stately and elegant ambient album in the most
traditional sense, which we really do not release much of here at
Install. That just shows how striking it is! Wonderfully clear field
recordings mingle with warm tonal passages to create what could be a
travelogue of sorts, presented through 21 tracks that are sometimes
short vignettes or connective pieces, and sometimes extended drones
that never seem to end. Altogether it has been masterfully assembled
into one seamless whole, and should be just the thing to warm your
ears and insides up during these cold months. LISTEN BUY
INSTALLATION
8: MILLIPEDE - DEATH MOUNTAIN Millipede, fresh from his split
cassette with Brian Grainger at Milieu Music, appears here for his
very first full-length album, "Death Mountain". A huge, towering
monolith of a record, this sounds exactly like you'd expect with a
name like that. Gigantic masses of distorted guitars lock together
to form chunks of shoegazing space-dust and singsong feedback. This
is music for a weary traveler on a long and lonesome quest, and
quite possibly the heaviest album we've released in this series! For
fans of tape hiss, distortion pedals and dreamy riffing coated in
fuzz-bliss, check this one out! LISTEN BUY | ||||||||||
| SPLIT01: HAKOBUNE & DAVID TAGG 10/05/08 We are very proud to announce the first split at INSTALL. A stunning display of guitar ambience from Hakobune (Kyoto, Japan) and David Tagg (New York, USA). Packaged in one of a kind double 3" sliding case designed and built by David Tagg. VERY LIMITED! LISTEN BUY | ||||||||||
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Installation 6 &
7
08/06/08
INSTALLATION 6: Tanner Menard - Canopy Of Sky On Black Tanner Menard's desert-opus Canopy Of Sky On Black. We're told that Menard assembled this 48-minute wall of organic sound from one recording of atmospheric noise using a vlf reciever, 60 miles outside of Phoenix, Arizona, avoiding the city's disruptive power grid. Over the course of this extremely lively sonic trip, electrical drones hum and wither under a spattering menagerie of wet rocks and what sounds like the actual frequency of life itself after Menard zoomed into it microscopically and documented it. Extremely raw, psychedelic and brutal all at once, and absolutely commanding when listened to at loud volume levels. A powerful display of art and nature! INSTALLATION 7: The Jack Bohlen Book Club - Allegory & ViolenceSweet relief comes in the form of Allegory & Violence, the first hardcopy release by The Jack Bohlen Book Club. Being somewhat of an elusive figure, we won't focus too much on the man behind the JBBC, but what that leaves us with is an intriguing collection of field recordings, found sounds and numbers-stations, all either obscuring or collectively building tonalities, drones, little dissonances and hidden melodies that could be accidentally recorded from some distant brittle radio signal just as easily as they could be composed and performed. A true cross-pollination of academic sound-collage and careful compositional placement happens here, and we're pleased to be the ones to bring it to you. | ||||||||||
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INST003: Summons Of Shining
Ruins
06/22/08
Very rarely do we hear an album that sounds so emotionally complicated that you're almost drawn to tears over how frail it is, and how lucky you are to hear it. Summons Of Shining Ruins is such an experience. Shinobu Nemoto treads a charred black landscape, picking up burnt fragments of his childhood and carefully threading them together into a hazy history for us to observe. Being a collector of all sorts of vintage recording equipment, this album is a massive display of Shinobu's masterful way with guitars and tapes. There is a prevailing sadness in this album, almost like Nemoto has resigned himself to an eternity of loss and decay, completely and utterly tethered to a void that overtakes everything. A brilliantly evocative trip that would definitely appeal to fans of Birchville Cat Motel, Boris and Tim Hecker. Limited edition of 100 copies with stunning photography by Jason Adams. We have made a few changes to the website. The Shop now has both USA and International on one page. Your shipping costs will be calculated through paypal. Please get in touch here if you have any problems with ordering. LISTEN BUY | ||||||||||
| Installation 4 & 5 05/21/08 INSTALLATION 4: Wood-Land - Home Wood-Land's debut album Home was recorded a couple years ago onto a fourtrack tape where it would lie in the shade, aging like a sweet wine, until now. As part of our ongoing Installation series, Home is everything you'd expect from a musician calling himself Wood-Land...eleven tender vignettes of acoustic guitars, pianos and feedback, all woven in and out of tape hiss, pitch-bent decays and the sounds of a forest in the daytime. Birdsongs mingle with the plink and plonk of an untuned guitar, and it almost sounds like Wood-Land has used the forest air itself to play his droning tonalities. Home is a very sincere example of what minimalist art sounds like out in the woods. As an awesome bonus, Patrick David (the man behind the music) has personally assembled handmade copies of a Wood-Land remix album, sent free with the main CD to anyone to orders it. These remixes include The White Lodge, David Tagg, Brian Grainger, Adam Gnade, Thee Moths, Chairs and others. The entire affair is limited to only 50 copies. INSTALLATION 5: Acreil - Eisegetic Waiver Acreil's album Eisegetic Waiver is our second offering this month, and it is also his first hardcopy appearance at a label. The album is comprised of four extended pieces, each an evocative display of crisp, hi-fi electronics and live experimentation. "Emission Corridor" sounds much like a billowing wind before a storm, rolling across an open field populated by a long line of pylons. As the tension mounts, electricity fills the air and the sky lights up. "Eight Tiny Spheres" moves the acoustics to an indoor setting where a strange belt-operated machine is rhythmically loosening and tightening, before finally overheating and sputtering out. "Slightly Through Air" is an intense bed of tape hiss and chord-looping that eventually gives way to several small bits of lazer-plasma drillingthrough the atmosphere and ripping it to shreds. Closing with "Mid-Length, Transparently", we are left with airy whirring sounds, similar to aircraft flying irregularly through black air. Tonal hums come from the mechanical din, weave around the stereo field, and swarm away from earshot until all we're left with is silence again. A total mindfuck of an album and an impressive show of Acreil's electronic engineering and modern sculpted noise. Limited to 50 copies. LISTEN BUY | ||||||||||
| The Caretaker 02/27/08 Everyone knows The Caretaker as none other than the legendary James Kirby, the man behind V/Vm and the V/Vm Test label, purveyor of fine experimental, ambient, noise, new-beat music and a veritable authority on the subject. We're lucky to now have him in the ranks at Install with an evocative full-length called Persistent Repetition Of Phrases. This album is in many ways faithful to the classic Caretaker sound as well as being somewhat of a newer experiment; the aged, crusty vinyl of years-long-forgotten is still quite present, however this time things have broken down even further in lock-groove purgatory where flickering loops and shards of melodies are all that's left from the dementia of old age. Slight glimpses of fond memories are endlessly repeated on yellow film screens, in the dark and dusty theatres of the human mind, until a loss of recollection occurs, leaving foreign fragments to a puzzle you can never put back together. Overall a very stirring and sad album, and a potent display of the musical uniqueness that makes The Caretaker so relevant. Available from Install as a limited edition 500-digipak release decorated with a beautiful painting by Guy Denning. LISTEN BUY | ||||||||||
| Gareth Hardwick - Waiting For The Penny To Drop 01/19/08 The newest release in our ongoing Installation series, drone-poet Gareth Hardwick graces our catalog with 2 beautiful livesets he performed in Spain and the UK last year. Both extended pieces are gorgeous examples of Hardwick's lulling technique with a guitar and a soothing improvisational listening experience for those of us who may live too far away to see him perform. The first set, recorded digitally, is a very clean and soft bed of billowing cloud-like tones, while the second set, recorded on dictaphone, is a much more hazy trip with a field of textures beneath the ever-evolving drone-swells. Gareth owns and operates his own Low Point label in the UK, which produces alot of great music in it's own right, and we're both honored and excited to be able to bring his newest record to you at Install! Limited to 100 copies. LISTEN BUY | ||||||||||
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WELCOME! New Releases by Ourson, Dan
Crall and Brian Grainger...
10/31/07
The enigmatic Luke Hazard emerges
from the black woods of West Virginia with an album that sounds
cursed and burnt up from the very beginning. Eth boldly marks the
birth of the Install label and as you might expect, it doesn't fool
around. At times primordial and cosmic, Ourson guides you through
barren windswept landscapes of rock and mud while simultaneously
ripping apart the stereo field like a crusty blood-stained cloth.
Eth is a truly epic recording of both gentle and unfriendly sounds,
sparking mental images of the creation, deep haunted forests, bad
acid trips and angry gods leveling mountains to dust. Limited to 300
glossy digipaks.
Installation 1: Dan Crall -
North
The Installation series starts with North by Oregon experimentalist Dan Crall. Originally the host of an experimental radio show, Crall has collected and assembled several unique recordings here for an album that really must be experienced. Everything from field recordings of mountain hikes, rain and tree-chopping to creepy voicemail, sound installations and even a bum mournfully explaining how he shot his horse in a public park. Crall is a master of capturing moments only imagined by most of us, and North is truly a spectacular document of people, places and things that may have otherwise been forgotten. Limited to 50 copies. Installation 2: Brian Grainger - Silver Surfaces Washed White Second in the Installation series, Brian Grainger visits uncomfortably loud territory on Silver Surfaces Washed White. Thick masses of white noise and analog feedback form long, monochromatic clusters of crumbling sound. Initially sourced from cassettes of various abstract pieces Brian recorded for the Sun-Day boxset, these are the remnants of a completely corrosive musical process that is as fascinating as it is unsettling. Best when played at high volume! Limited to 50 copies. LISTEN BUY | ||||||||||
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