Browse by Label: STREAMLINE (GERMANY)

Artist:	MIMIR
Title:	Mimyriad
Label:	STREAMLINE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	STREAM 1001CD

2007 repress. "Jim O'Rourke first joined Mimir for Mimyriad in 1992. It was completed and released as the first Streamline CD in 1993. In 1998, a radically remixed and re-edited version was issued as a limited edition Streamline LP. This new CD release contains a remastered version of the Mimyriad LP material and comes in a reworked and updated package. '...peering down, he tried to gauge how close he might be drifting to solid ground, but the darkness made it impossible to judge. He found himself tensing, then consciously willed himself to relax. When he hit, he had to be relaxed. The spatter of brilliance that was the space port was almost dead ahead. A blackness intervened to shield out the spaceport lights and he hit the ground, knees buckling under him...'"

Artist:	H.N.A.S. (HIRSCHE NICHT AUFS SOFA)
Title:	Im Schatten Der Möhre
Label:	STREAMLINE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	STREAM 1013CD

"The long awaited CD issue of the long-deleted and sought after fourth H.N.A.S. album. A few months after the original LP version appeared on DOM in June 1987. Jon Carbon (Certain Music) wrote: 'Germany's most bizarre underground terrorists have struck again with an even more surprising blast of avant-weirdness. The group centered around Christoph Heemann and Andreas Martin have created a carefully crafted and most diverse, yet cohesive journey of soundscapes, drones and songs that reminds us of the likes of Faust, Nurse With Wound, Pierrot Lunaire ... the two sides seem to form one long piece that comes across like a surreal bus ride into post-psychedelic wonderland...' Reissues of the other HNAS albums are in preparation featuring remastered versions of the original tapes and faithfully restored original artwork."

Artist:	MIMIR
Title:	Mimir
Label:	STREAMLINE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	STREAM 1014CD

"A completely remixed/reworked version of the first Mimir album which was originally recorded between 1989/'90 and released in 1991: Edward Ka-spel, Andreas Martin, Silverman and Christoph Heemann concentrate on a variety of analog synths and Krautrock guitars: '...immediately after he caught sight of the lights marking the town, he pressed the ejection button and felt himself flung upward with a greater violence than he had expected. For a moment he was enveloped in darkness; then, as his body spun, he saw the lights of the town again. His fall was slackening and suddenly, as the chute popped open to its full extent, he was jerked sidewise and began swinging in wide arcs. An updraft caught the chute, forcing it back toward the looming peaks and slowing the swinging; but in a moment it slid out of the updraft and was floating smoothly downward.'"

Artist:	CHALK, ANDREW
Title:	Over The Edges
Label:	STREAMLINE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	STREAM 1015CD

1997 recordings, composed and performed by Andrew Chalk (Organum, Mirror, Ora). "He walked on to the porch and stood still. He breathed in. It was young air, still and undisturbed. He looked out at the world -- it was new and turning green. He raised his head. The sky unfolded, pink from the sun rising somewhere unseen. He raised his head higher. Spindle-shaped, porous clouds, centuries of laborious workmanship, stretched across the whole sky, but only for a few moments before dispersing, seen only by the few who happened to throw back their heads at that minute."

Artist:	FUCHS, LIMPE
Title:	Nur Mar Mus
Label:	STREAMLINE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	STREAM 1016CD

Repress of this 1999 release. "It is no exaggeration to say that Limpe Fuchs' musical creations really have a life of their own, whether the sounds are produced by conventional instruments, vocal chords, or even from objects she found or constructed specifically for that purpose. Her music is characterized, especially when she is playing the ballastring instruments, by the reverberating humming of the strings, rich in overtones, and by the mysterious echoes emanating from stones. For Limpe Fuchs, music means setting out on a joyous journey of discovery. She is not afraid to leave firm ground behind and thus, by avoiding rigidity, preserves the vitality of her music. This particularly comes across when collaborating with other musicians, whether improvising freely or on a given theme. Her music makes us sit up and listen, and at the same time enriches us, for only when we have learned how to listen can we really appreciate the true nature of things. 'Sound events are created for each composition with carefully chosen materials: rows of oakwood pieces, rows of marble and serpentinit stones, bronze sheets, horn of wood, ballast string instruments, developed by Paul Fuchs: heavy bronze bars fixed on a long piano wire, suspended from a broad bronze drum. The visual aspect is of the same importance as the acoustic. The violin is integrated into the sound environment, the piano creates its own characteristic. Life and music alive is music no life without music the musical material the touch the stone the breath my body touch the body of the material strike tickle scratch the stone vibration of the air touch the body symphony of vibration play instructions experience musical notation combination of sounds different touching.'"

Artist:	LITTLE ANNIE
Title:	Diamonds Made Of Glass
Label:	STREAMLINE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	STREAM 1021CD

"Little Annie (a/k/a Annie Anxiety Bandez) is known for her own records and collaborative work with Adrian Sherwood, Keith Leblanc, Crass, Coil and Nurse With Wound. This, her first release of all-new material in a number of years, includes songs written in collaboration with Larry T. and Joseph Budenholzer, and a remix by Christoph Heemann. It marks a change of direction for her.... 'Her voice touched something immeasurably old in him, something that slept deep. It lulled the surface parts of his consciousness to sleep, allowing what was far more ancient to awaken. Like the town, with its elaborate pretense of modern active life, the upper layers of his being became dulled, soothed, muffled, and what lay underneath began to stir in its sleep. The big curtain swayed a little to and fro. Presently it might lift altogether....' by Algernon Blackwood."

Artist:	XHOL CARAVAN
Title:	Motherfuckers Live
Label:	STREAMLINE (GERMANY)
Format:	3LP
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	STREAM 1022LP

"Xhol Caravan were one of the first German psychedelic underground bands to appear and disappear (the dawn of a grand tradition!). Motherfuckers Live contains the first recordings to be released by Xhol Caravan since 1970. This double LP contains two entire concert performances from 1968 and 1969. The first LP features the only existing recording of the Xhol Caravan 'Freedom Opera,' which was planned as an album release but never realized in the studio. The second LP, recorded for German radio in Cologne, shows a different side of the line-up that can be heard on their two OHR releases. Motherfuckers Live comes packaged with a special tribute 12" 'Hot Buttered Xhol' including cover versions of Xhol Caravan pieces by Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Christoph Heemann."

Artist:	O'ROURKE, JIM
Title:	Long Night
Label:	STREAMLINE (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	STREAM 1023CD

"Long Night, a 2½ hour electronic drone work produced by Jim O'Rourke in 1990 around the time of his graduation from music school had been buried in the archives along with several other electronic music pieces Jim had created before he went about to explore other musical territories. Unearthed, remastered and now released for the first time, its ageless qualities shine as brightly as ever." "...the tower was not a tower; it was a needle. Standing on top a high hill, it jabbed a finger heavenward. At the base it measured a good six feet across, tapering to a sharp point a hundred feet or more above the ground. It was of a rather nasty pinkish color and was made of a substance that appeared similar to the substance of which the cube had been constructed. Plastic, he thought to himself, although he was fairly sure it was not plastic. When he laid his hand flat against its surface, he could feel a slight vibration, as if the wind out of the west, playing upon it, was causing it to vibrate along its entire length as a freestanding, tapering, most unlikely violin string would vibrate to the bow. It was not generally loud, although at times it became a little louder. Despite the fact that more often than not it was a soft music, it had fantastic carrying power."

Artist:	RED FAVORITE
Title:	Red Favorite
Label:	STREAMLINE (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	STREAM 1025LP

"Red Favorite, a cycle of compositions for guitars, electronics and voices created by Jeremy Pisani was first released as a limited edition CD on Spirit of Orr and is now offered, as it was originally conceived to appear, on an LP. He moved closer and looked through the peephole. And he saw: the world stretched out before him, a quiet and gentle space with a broad expanse of grass that practically glistened in its greenness. A sparkling brook ran through the meadow in the middle distance, and now he saw that the grass was dotted with the pale blue and soft yellow of many blooming flowers, which, half hidden in the grass, stared out at him like so many frightened eyes. On a distant hilltop stood a grove of small pink trees, covered and obscured by the astonishing pinkness of their blossoms. The world had a sense of freshness, as if it might only be minutes old -- washed clean by a careful springtime rain, dried and scrubbed by a solicitous breeze, burnished to its brightness by the rays of a gentle sun. It was an uncomplicated place, a very simple place. But what it had was quite enough; it had all it needed."

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