Browse by Label: ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)

Artist:	PURITY SUPREME
Title:	Always Already
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ASH 010.1EP

Four new tracks from Purity Supreme, a collaboration between French musician, composer and producer Christophe Van Huffel and American writer, musician and composer Leslie Winer. Always Already was recorded in France at Studio7Love in May 2011. Leslie Winer's '90s album Witch, released under the artist name ©, is a genuine lost classic, pioneering many of the sounds that have followed. Christophe Van Huffel, ex-guitarist of Tanger, has recently produced legendary French singer, Christophe.

Artist:	FRIEDMANN, BERND
Title:	Leisure Zones
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 2.5CD

1996 release. "Bernd Friedmann reveals his true nature as an experimentalist, forsaking his more melodic work, for a 77 minute soundscape. Leisure Zones offers an alternative to the state many people find themselves in; as passive consumers of leisure. But the increasing inviability of this option due to environmental destruction will force us to modify this existence. The West is overloaded with used and unsold hardware; the very pile is threatening to topple over and crush us all. But the intimate world of auditory pleasure (including silence) presents an alternative to this miasma." Limited stock.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Chiky(u)u
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 3.6CD

Originally released in 1997. "Part 1 of the three-part series (followed by Scatter and Decay) with electronic music from around the world. This part is from Japan and is based on sounds recorded of the planet Earth. -1, obtained by pressing play and then rewind when you insert the CD, is a heavily compressed recording of an earthquake; other tracks are of moving stones and other vital signs of earthlife." Artists: Hatohan, Utah Kawasaki, MSBR, AUBE, Koji Marutani, Akira Yamamichi, Toru Yamanaka, Tamaru, tak++.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Antitrade: An Ash International Compilation
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 4.1CD

"Compilation celebrating sound (& the death of the Ash International organization and all allegiances/personnel so aligned) & anti-function with hhh, Leif Ellgren, Hazard, S.E.T.I., Disinformation, AER, & Bruce Gilbert, funded in part by now familiar 'sound-research' grants. Languid chiming exercises, harmonic series/partial/mind expansion, the distant buzz of ant colonies wasted via governor-disabled lawn-kemping bulk, ghost-voice cerebry/alien paranoia, all abound/around for that all-night/sleep-over exorcism & related day-after hangover. Clean." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	DISINFORMATION/VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title:	AL-JABR
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 4.3CD

An album of reconstructions, featuring work by Evan Parker, Tactile, Jim O'Rourke, Simon Fisher Turner, Mechos, Lawrence Casserley, T:un[k] Systems. "AL JABR is based on the albums R&D (Ash # 2.9) and R&D2 (Ash # 9.2), electromagnetic noise recordings by Disinformation. For those not familiar with the Disinformation brand name, this project consists of DJing, publishing and live performance with recordings of unusual electromagnetic (ie radio) noise. On AL-JABR itself, rather than creating antiphonal responses to the original source material, the contributors 'equate' the raw material with their own idiosyncratic input; Lawrence Casserley transforms the rhythmic intricacies of how long data noise into a symphony of crushed and shattered slates; Evan Parker's wailing saxophone complements the pulsating drones of the city's power distribution networks. The noise group Tactile take ultralongwave sub-bass radio noise generated by the TIG welders in sculpture/sound group Oubliette's metal workshop. Jim O'Rourke adds uniquely American humour and a rock 'n' roll analogue of National Grid. Simon Fisher Turner twists broadcast data noise into gorgeous rolling melodies. T:un[k] Systems pitches VLF band radio recordings of interference radiated by electrical storms against pristine lab pure sine waves. Mechos isolates individual lightning strikes and inserts them in a lattice of clicks and low frequency drones, whose deceptive simplicity belies the subtly disorienting effects of their unfolding, twisting rhythms."

Artist:	S.E.T.I.
Title:	Pod
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 4.6CD

"The 3rd in Andrew Lagowski's alien trilogy which began with Knowledge (Ash 2.3) [Concept: Following recent revelations concerning the ease with which individuals can access high security data, Knowledge is particularly relevant in exposing the farcical levels of secrecy which surround any investigation or research into extra-terrestrial intelligence] and was followed by Above Black (Ash M31) - [Concept: The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence should be secondary to the search for those outlanders already present on our planet. The National Security Agency and World Defense departments, particularly in America, not only know of their existence but are aiding them with the supply of monitored abduction subjects and E.S.P. - capable Intuitive Communicators. These Grey Projects are hidden behind 'above top secret' Black Projects, where not even those orchestrating the Black Projects are aware of what is going on under their command. With the Earth's population increasing almost exponentially, a catastrophe is being prepared for, or is being prepared for us...] Pod is a metaphor for escape. An escape pod. On a superficial level, the human desire to escape the confines of this planet. In reality, the urgent need to leave ourselves behind and become new beings." The album is made entirely from space-related sounds and space images translated into sound. Cover by Jon Wozencroft.

Artist:	SANTA POD
Title:	Santa Pod
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 4.9CD

"Play loud -- Do not mistake this compact disc for a musical product. 1999 marks the 50th year of drag racing, after the first official meeting was held in 1949 on the streets of Goleta in California. Then, the quarter of a mile course took 11 seconds with the vehicles travelling at over 150 mph. Now, they race at over 300 mph, taking just 4.5 seconds. The vehicles are completely purpose-built and represent the extreme fringe of non-commercially motivated technological research. Santa Pod Raceway was started in 1966 on the site of an old American airbase. It is the home of European drag racing and host to the FIA European drag racing championships. Drag racing is the fastest and loudest motorsport on Earth, with sensational race action from dragsters and door-slammers to beetles and bikes. See 0 --100mph in under 1 second and make your ribs rattle, your brain shake, and your ears roar! This CD captures all the thrills and spills of drag car racing - an activity at the cutting edge of technology. For fans and audio buffs alike, you can use this CD to recreate the awesome power in your own living room, or frighten the daylights out of the dancefloor by using this as a DJ tool."

Artist:	ELGGREN/PER JONSSON/KENT TANKRED, LEIF
Title:	Ugn/Mat
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 5.3CD

"October 14 is also King's Day in Elgaland-Vargaland, and the opening of the Leif Elggren retrospective at Fragfabriken Stockholm. Three tracks: 'Ugn', '60 Seconds of Silence for Per Jonsson', 'Mat'. Ugn: In the oven the porridge cooking. Two actors worked furiously. Intense and violent. Everything painted orange. Glass porcelain smashed. Tools used. Sledge hammer spit club. 27 girls dressed in white. The porridge still cooking when the actors left. Bits and pieces. Stillness. 'Ugn' was recorded in December 1984 at EMS in Stockholm for a performance at Fylkingen Stockholm on January 12th, 1985. 'Ugn' was first released as a12" by Radium 226.5 in 1986. 'Mat': Repeated four times in one evening. On the border between sleep and waking. Ten actors with false beards in bed. Fed with potatoes during the acts. Eating sleeping pills. Drinking Whisky in the breaks. A fight against indolence. Movements rapidly changing between intensity and stillness. A dog dressed like a sheep. "Mat" was recorded during the Spring of 1989 at EMS for a performance at Moderna Dansteatern in Stockholm on May 19th 1989."

Artist:	OCSID
Title:	Opening Sweep
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 5.7CD

"CM von Hauswolff, Edvard Graham Lewis and for the first time on the label, Jean-Louis Huhta combine for their second Ocsid CD, Opening Sweep. Opening Sweep was recorded at L-O-K, a club in Munich, Bavaria, on the 12th November 1999. Ocsid started performing before the audience arrived; and finished as the floors were being swept (2200 - 0330). Opening Sweep is the first 75.04 experienced by five dogs and a man. It took a year before Ash received the MD master, as they are all exceptionally busy people; Graham took part in the reformation of Wire and subsequent tour; CM exhibited and performed around the world; Jean-Louis started a family whilst continuing to record and play. They all live in Sweden. [Because of global warming, the bears in Stockholm Zoo can't hibernate, so their cages have to be refrigerated.]"

Artist:	VA
Title:	freq_out
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 5.8CD

With pieces by: Finnbogi Pétursson, Franz Pommasl, BJ Nilsen, Jacob Kirkegaard, Mike Harding, Kent Tankred, J. G. Thirlwell, PerMagnus Lindborg, Jana Winderen, Hans Sydow, Brandon LaBelle, Petteri Nisunen/Tommi Grönlund, & an ensemble piece arranged by BJ Nilsen [Hazard]. "What: A sound installation consisting of 12 individual audio works which are presented as a single piece. Where: Any large self-contained space will work. The first event took place at Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2003. Who: Encouraged by disturbances, Swedish artist and curator C M von Hausswolff assembled a collection of 13 artists representing the elite of international sound art. The group consists of sound artists, architects, composers, producers, sculptors, mathematicians and visual artists. The installation was part of a larger event taking place at the Royal Danish Theatre and Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. How: Each player is assigned a frequency range to work with. This process is carried out in situ, each player using a workstation consisting of mixing desk and PA system. All the resulting sounds are then mixed together in the space provided to create a sound installation. Why: The project reveals how space-specific certain frequencies can be, but also how other sounds can be separated from their source and 'thrown' around the space. It also shows how sound 'fits' (or not) into the space provided by exploring the complexities of frequencies and their inter-action. The final mix not only reveals the innate properties of the frequency ranges, but also the possibilities when they are combined. The result is a lively and accessible sound-filled space which can be approached either as a traditional installation, or as a theme park of sound -- fun for all the family and serious students alike."

Artist:	AUTODIGEST
Title:	A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, Vol. 2:
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ASH 6.1CD

...Ubiquitous Eternal Live. "Ubiquitous Eternal Live is the second chapter of Autodigest's A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded series. Volume 1, from 2003, proposed an aural illustration of current syndromes in digital compression which abandon fidelity, subtlety and complexity in favour of speed, efficiency and endless storage capabilities. Volume 2, now released, approaches the History of Recorded Sound under a considerably different perspective: it brings together all the audiences ever recorded and has them share one hour of hysterical, progressively apocalyptic applause. This is presented as less of an archive and more of a critical eye loaded with a few conceptual cards as foundations, from Debord to Baudrillard, from Harvey to Adorno. The aim of Autodigest's statements is to illustrate the collapse of music as we know it -- codified, copied, digitized, burned, compressed, freely and readily available, all of this at a time when we can download music much faster than we can listen to it, all of this at a time when a soda drink offers one hundred million songs for free. Ultimately the song remains the same, but our relationship with it has changed beyond recognition and redemption. Just try to imagine what a concert would mean to an audience before sound could be recorded...yes, we've come a long way, baby -- and maybe, just maybe, deserve to end up with those one hundred million songs in our pocket. The choice, it seems, is pretty much down to the cute colour, pattern or ringtone of the week."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Krev X
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	ASH 6.6CD

"This release marks the tenth anniversary of the moment when, at 12 noon on 27th of May 1992, the State of Elgaland-Vargaland was proclaimed by Leif Elggren, founder of Elgaland, and CM von Hausswolff, founder of Vargaland." Artists include: Marcus Davidson, Sten Hanson, Andreas Karperyd, Thomas Liljenberg, Heitor Alvelos, Mika Vainio, Ulf Bilting, B J Nilsen, Egneken Montgomery, Ryoji Ikeda, Henrik Rylander, Mats Gustafsson, Bigert & Bergstrom & Richard Walton, John Duncan, Per Svensson, Johannes Heldén, Oren Ambarchi, Rozenhall, People Like Us, Thanasis Chondros and Alexandra Katsiani, Olga Nane, Chris Watson, James O'Rourke, DJ Guacamole, Johannes Bergmark, Lary 7, AER, Kent Tankred, Bruce Gilbert, Cecilia Heisser, Adam Hayward, Jean-Louis Huhta, Edvard G., Maja Foss Hagerup, Paul Williams, Steven Travis Pope, Ingrid Engaras, Fennesz, Pontifex Maximus.

Artist:	VA
Title:	freq_out 2
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 6.8CD

Freq_out is a sound installation of twelve individual audio works which are presented as a single piece. Each artist is assigned a frequency range with which to work. This process is carried out in situ, each using a workstation consisting of a mixing desk and a PA system. All the resulting compositions are then amplified together in the space to create a sound installation or performance. The project reveals how space-specific certain frequencies can be, but also how other sounds can be separated from their source and "thrown" around the space. The final mix not only reveals the innate properties of the frequencies, but also the possibilities when they are combined. The second freq_out CD after Ash 5.8 (2004) features the usual suspects; curated and conducted by Carl Michael von Hausswolff, freq_out 2 was recorded and performed for Ultima the Oslo Music Festival 2004, by: BJ Nilsen, J. G. Thirlwell, Jacob Kirkegaard, Jana Winderen, Maia Urstad, Kent Tankred, Finnbogi Pétursson, Per Magnus Lindborg, Brandon LaBelle, Franz Pommasl, Mike Harding and Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen. The recording was made by NOTAM, mixed by BJ Nilsen at The Embassy and mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering. Much more "ambient" than the spiky, threatening sonic conflict of the first freq_out CD, this second piece is evocative of an utterly still landscape.

Artist:	ALVARS ORKESTER
Title:	Interference
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 6.9CD

This is a release of analog sound experiments from old Sweden circa 1987-2006 from electronic drone/noise masters Joachim Nordwall (ex-Kid Commando) and Jan Svensson. Alvars Orkester was formed in 1987 in Johannishus, a small village in the southeast of Sweden by a group of young boys interested in the mysteries of psychic sickness, mental institutions, the industrial music culture and the power of sound. During the first years, Alvars was very active within the independent cassette culture scene, releasing their stuff on small labels in Italy, Portugal, USA etc. AO was always very closely connected to the electronic noise and their self-run industrial label Börft Records, but their work soon drifted from the industrialism inspired by Test Dept, TG, SPK and Z'ev to an atmospheric, psychedelic and more ambient version of noise. In 1994, Nordwall left the label and Sweden (to return to the country forming the iDEAL Organisation) and Svensson continued by focusing on bent acid house and psychedelic dance stuff. For years, AO remained silent with a few short exceptions, but in April 2005, Nordwall and Svensson recorded the Interference album for Ash International. Colored by Svensson's increasing paranoia sickness and the tension between the two that has been there since their youth, they put down the mysteries of psychic broadcasting and manipulation on tape. Interference consists of analog drones, interspersed with hardcore electronics, hair-raising voices and spine-chilling ambience.

Artist:	JENSSEN, GEIR
Title:	Cho Oyu 8201m
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ASH 7.1CD

Subtitled: Field Recordings from Tibet. Geir Jenssen is a Norwegian composer and performer, best known for his work as Biosphere, who has released five albums on Touch over the last ten years. In the early 1990s, Jenssen was a pioneer of so-called "ambient techno," but since then, he has refined his sound into something more magnetic and enduring. These recordings were made by Jenssen while climbing "Cho Oyu" in Tibet in September and October 2001. Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world at 8201 meters, situated in the Himalayas near Mount Everest, on the Tibetan/Nepalese border. This album may be regarded as the soundtrack to the film of this journey, also containing some of the source material for the most recent Biosphere album, Dropsonde. The Cho Oyu climb, with six climbers and one sherpa, was made from Kathmandu into Tibet, taking two weeks to reach Base Camp in staged intervals so as to avoid altitude sickness. Each track represents one such stage in the journey, from base to base to summit, absorbing the only sounds possible on the trip to the mountain and all the way up. "Tingri: The Last Truck" captures the sounds of trucks zooming past livestock, horses and carts, pigs and yaks, overtaken by vehicles blasting their horns, on the last inhabited area before the mountain. Wind, yak bells and ambient sound provide the material for "Chinese Base Camp: Near A Stone Shelter," while "Nangpa La: Birds Feeding On Biscuits" was Jenssen's attempt to get a clean, unprocessed recording of mountain birds by baiting them with food. "Camp 3: Neighbours on Oxygen" was made when the wind picked up and ferocious hail hit the tents. One group chose to wear oxygen masks and could easily be heard from Jenssen's tent, where he made this recording. Cho Oyu 8201M is a document of a difficult journey told in sound: of random hillside transistor radio music, pilot chatter from planes over the Himalayas via shortwave frequency, and of absolute cold and ambient, still silence.

Artist:	MARIACHI AZTECA PRINCIPAL
Title:	Performs The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ASH 7.2EP

...National Anthem #2. These recordings were made during the inauguration of The Embassy of The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland in Mexico City on August 30, 2002, in the presence of the KREV Ambassador Magalí Arriola and invited guests at Colima 244, Colonia Roma, Mexico City. This is the 2nd in the series of National Anthems released by Ash International, following The National Anthem of Elgaland-Vargaland No. 1 (1996), and the first in a series of limited edition vinyl releases (including the klezmer version, the marching band version) to follow in 2007 and 2008.

Artist:	KABUKABU & KLEZMER CHIDESCH
Title:	The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland National Anthem #3 & 4
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ASH 7.4EP

These recordings were regally made on October 21, 2006, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin at the opening of the Elgaland-Vargaland Embassy for Germany in the presence of the Kings, Michael I and Leif I, Consul Hans Ulrich Obrist (who made the inauguration speech) and the KREV Ambassador, Bernd M. Scherer. This 7" is the second in a series of vinyl acoustic versions of the National Anthems of Elgaland-Vargaland. "Kabukabu" is explosive Afro-beat, while "Klezmer Chidesch" is pure, heart-moving Klezmer.

Artist:	KAMPEN SKOLES MUSIKKORPS
Title:	The Kingdoms Of Elgaland-Vargaland National Anthem #5
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ASH 7.6EP

This is the third in a series of vinyl acoustic versions of the National Anthems of Elgaland-Vargaland. See also the mariachi and the klezmer/Afrobeat versions, both issued in 2007 via Ash International. Kampen Skoles Musikkorps consists of around 24 musicians aged from 9 to 16. It was founded in 1906 and is the third oldest school marching band in Norway. Recorded on March 12, 2008 at Kampen Skole in Oslo. The "KREV Underwater National Anthem" was recorded under MS Reichenau on the occasion of the Annexation of the Bodensee (Lake Constance) including Überlinger See, Zeller See, Gnadensee, Untersee and the Insel Mainau (Island of Mainau), formerly a part of Switzerland, Austria, Germany, by the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland on May 28, 2008. Recorded using Dolphin Ear hydrophones and a Nagra Ares P-11 flash recorder while The Emmishofer Brass Band and The Diessenhofen Yodelling Choir performed.

Artist:	START!
Title:	The Kingdoms Of Elgaland-Vargaland National Anthem #6
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ASH 7.8EP

This 7" is the fourth in a series of vinyl acoustic versions for the National Anthems of Elgaland-Vargaland. These recordings were regally made during the unofficial inauguration of the KREV Ministry of Bankrupt Shopping Malls in Porto, Portugal, on October 10, 2008, in the presence of the KREV Ambassadors Michael Harding and Heitor Alvelos. Genuflections to the Future Places digital media festival, University of Porto Masters in Image Design, and the University of Texas at Austin and Transmedia Brussels.

Artist:	WINDEREN, JANA
Title:	The Noisiest Guys On The Planet
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	Cassette
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ASH 8.1CS

Cassette only, in an edition of 500 copies. Second edition, with alternate inlay. Recorded by Norwegian sound recordist, Jana Winderen, who also provided the illustration. Winderen writes that The Noisiest Guys On The Planet is "an ongoing investigation into the use and production of sound by decapods." The decapods or Decapoda ("ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp. Most decapods are scavengers. As their name implies, all decapods have ten legs; these are the last five of the eight pairs of thoracic appendages characteristic of crustaceans. The front three pairs function as mouthparts and are generally referred to as maxillipeds, the remainder being pereiopods. In many decapods, however, one pair of legs has enlarged pincers; the claws are called chelae, so those legs may be called chelipeds. Jana Winderen researches the hidden depths of the sea with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of glacier crevasses are brought to the surface. She is occupied with finding sound from its hidden source, like blind field recording.

Artist:	MELTAOT/SOULS ON BOARD
Title:	Meltaot/Souls On Board
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	ASH 8.7LP

Vinyl release. On November 19, 2009, there took part at Café Oto, London, the first-ever "The Night Of The Long Worms" -- a label night held by the cassette label, The Tapeworm. Presented here is a track each by Tapeworm artists Meltaot (UK artist/musician/broadcaster Sharon Gal and artist/writer/musician SavX aka Savage Pencil aka Edwin Pouncey) and mystery group Souls On Board (featuring Bruce Gilbert). Meltaot features Savage Pencil on electric guitar scree/cymbal and Sharon Gal thrumming a bass guitar while she produces some serious guttural horror. Souls On Board provide some black-hearted electronic throb/drone/pulse with a "Pirates Mix" by Bruce Gilbert. Comes with a Meltaot sticker.

Artist:	ANKERSMIT, THOMAS
Title:	Live In Utrecht
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ASH 8.8CD

Ash International presents a live recorded performance by Thomas Ankersmit in Utrecht from late in 2007. Live In Utrecht is his first official CD album release. Thomas Ankersmit is a 30 year-old saxophonist, electronic musician and installation artist born and raised in the Netherlands and now primarily based in Berlin who combines abstract, intensely-focused saxophone playing with hyper-kinetic analog synth and computer improvisation. He also creates installation pieces that use sound, infrasound and "modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces" that disrupt the viewer/listener's perception of the exhibition space and their presence within it. He frequently works together with New York minimalist Phill Niblock and Sicilian electroacoustic improviser Valerio Tricoli, and as well as other collaborators, mostly for live performances, including Tony Conrad, Maryanne Amacher, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm and Borbetomagus. Thomas Ankersmit: Serge analog modular synthesizer, computer, alto saxophone. Pre-recorded saxophone and reel-to-reel parts composed by Valerio Tricoli, with source material by Ankersmit.

Artist:	NORDWALL, JOACHIM
Title:	Ignition
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ASH 8.9CD

Joachim Nordwall is deeply interested in the power of sound, and how sound can create certain states of mind, but also the other way around; how certain states of mind can create sound. Since his teens in the late '80s, growing up in the remote, crude southeast Sweden, he has experimented with something he prefers to call "Psychic Broadcasting" rather than composition, at first in the still almost-active analog synth drone duo Alvars Orkester. Nordwall went on to play in various experimental music projects and spent time in Paris and London. Back in Sweden, he formed iDEAL Recordings in 1998 and joined the sweaty avant-punk rock group Kid Commando the year after, touring like mad, eventually hitting rock-bottom in 2005. After the death of KC, he formed the ritual rock/drone band The Skull Defekts, which has kept him busy ever since (recently releasing records on Chicago-based Thrill Jockey Records). In 2006, his first solo album was released under his The Idealist moniker. A few years in the making, the album offered was a deep study of Nordwall's interior life, during a time when everything was pitch-black inside. Today, Joachim Nordwall is very active curating his iDEAL label and organization for festivals, concert series and sound art exhibitions. He is also the chairman of the legendary Stockholm venue for experimental stage art, Fylkingen. Nordwall is a man that lives and breathes sound. A few years have passed and Ignition is here, Joachim Nordwall's second solo album. Recorded under brighter circumstances but still with many shadows present. Ignition is on one hand a solid, highly electronic trip, on the other hand, a very sensitive, analog and warm drone symphony. Ignition was released (and is still available) on cassette in 2010, thus asserting the primacy of the analog format. Received and recorded by Joachim Nordwall at Morgan Avenue (Brooklyn), Lampo (Chicago), iDEAL (Gothenburg), EMS (Stockholm) 2006-2010. Technical specifications: RITM-2, iDEALIST DRONE MACHINE, LITTLE BLACK BOY, GLAMOUR BOX, KORG MS-20, iDEALIST NOISE MACHINE, MacBook Pro (various software) and various effects. Analog sound sources, sometimes processed digitally.

Artist:	NILSEN, BJ
Title:	Draught #1
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	Cassette
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ASH 9.1CS

Ash International presents a cassette-only release of 2008 live tracks from Swedish sound recordist BJ Nilsen. BJ Nilsen was born in 1975 and he has been active with experimental music for over 20 years. For the past 10 years, he has been releasing albums on Touch, and making music and doing sound design for documentary film, television and commercials. He is focused on field recordings and on the sound of nature and its effect on humans and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated. Nilsen has collaborated with artists such as Chris Watson, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Philip Jeck and Stilluppsteypa, amongst others. Illustration by Sav X, entitled Dead Flowerz 1 (first in a series of 6).

Artist:	GHOST ORCHID, THE
Title:	An Introduction to EVP
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH PARCCD1

Originally issued in 1999, this is the third edition of this much sought-after CD, which has been unavailable since 2002. The Parapsychic Acoustic Research Cooperative [PARC], in association with Ash International, is proud to present the first-ever fully comprehensive investigation into the paranormal phenomenon of EVP, otherwise known as Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Without a doubt, EVP falls into the category of the paranormal alongside other unexplained mysteries such as Ufology, life after death and poltergeist activity. The listener is guided through a collection of strange and mysterious voices that have appeared without explanation onto the tapes of EVP researchers. Included with the CD is a 12-page booklet containing commissioned articles which cover the conflicting views surrounding the phenomena. Actual voice samples are reproduced here such as: polyglot voices, Public Service Broadcasting, interruptions across the airwaves, singing voices, instant response voices, and the extraordinary alien voices. The CD also includes a commentary by the artist Leif Elggren (in English), and recordings of the work of Raymond Cass, England's leading EVP researcher and an original member of the Fortean Group, as well as the Latvian EVP researcher, Dr. Konstanin Raudive. This CD release seeks to present the evidence; are the voices extraterrestrial, paranormal evidence of our telepathic powers, or an elaborate hoax perpetrated by sinister and powerful groups to mislead us from their true aims? Ghostly, disembodied voices crackle through the airwaves surrounded by a haze of electronic mist. This recording not only peaks the curiosity of paranormal-buffs, but will appeal to any fan of electroacoustic sound experimentation, spoken word, and short-wave radio random noise. For further information go to: http://parc.web.fm

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Artist:	VA
Title:	Scatter
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	ASH 3.5CD

Artist:	HISS
Title:
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	ASH 5.2CD