Month: September 2024

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BART DE PAEPE ~ SPROKKELHOUT

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Bart de Paepe
Numbered edition of 25 ex.
d’or083
Date of Publication: October 12, 2024, for pre sales contact Astres d’Or.
Price: 120 euro.

Bart de Paepe has released several solo albums of psychedelic soggy murkiness on Vohu Manah, Beyond Beyond Is Beyond, Kerm whistling through the leaves and branches adjusting  in/out of focus at random as we drift between reality and perception. Some of his  resonance wood can be enjoyed in Ilta Hämärä (with Timo van Luijk), Wendingen 1918 (with Raymond Dijkstra), Bombay Lunatic Asylum (with Koen Vandenhoudt and Louise Landes Levi), Fort Bedmar (with Dave Colohan).

For over 10 years, he has sated the appetites of psychedelic searchers with his label Sloow Tapes. A peerless curator, De Paepe has unleashed crucial underground transmissions ranging from paint-peeling Japanese rock over bedroom poetry readings to laid-back cosmic Euro-prog in microscopic editions.

The cover of Sprokkelhout is made with found pieces of various tree bark, a small tribute to the tree spirits of yesterday: Atlanteia,  Phoebe, Chrysopeleia, Dryope, Erato, Eurydice, Tithorea[, Karya, Balanos, Kraneia, Morea, Aigeiros, Ptelea, Ampelos, Syke among many other moss people.

https://sloowtapes.blogspot.com/

Bart de Paepe ~ Sprokkelhout

A side:
Houtworm
Houtblazer

B side:
Torhout
Houtduif

All music played and composed by by Bart de Paepe, 2024

Bart de Paepe ~ Sprokkelhout, A side excerpt
Bart de Paepe ~ Sprokkelhout, B side excerpt
Bart de Paepe ~ Sprokkelhout (Front)
Bart de Paepe ~ Sprokkelhout (Back)

Artwork description: Bark collected by Bart de Paepe. Glued on Cardboard cover. Backside with handwritten text by de Paepe

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RLW / PAAK – Von Der Arbeit II

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Peter Kastner
Numbered edition of 25 ex.
d’or082
Date of Publication: October 5, 2024, for pre sales contact Astres d’Or
Price: 120 euro

RLW / PAAK …Von der Arbeit II…

Ralf Wehowsky and Peter Kastner, aka RLW and PAAK, have been established names in electroacoustic music for many years. RLW began his musical career with the group P.D. (later renamed P16.D4) in the early eighties and has been organising collaborative works and releasing solo recordings under own name since the early nineties. PAAK is a visual / sound / performance artist from Hamburg. He also runs the record label permaREV Platten and organises Rauschmelder events from time to time.

…Von der Arbeit II… is their fourth studio collaboration (after Mahlzeit – CD 2008, Klingelbeutel – LP 2012, and …Zur Arbeit I… – LP 2016). Eight years after …Zur Arbeit I… (To Work I…) , it’s time to update: …Von der Arbeit II… (Back From Work II…) , together with the previous collaborations,  forms a series of sonic reflections on the state of economy and society, power and religion, technological progress and oppression, capitalism and resistance. (To be continued …). The pieces are based on, among other things, found sounds and the output of a primitive AI, but ultimately follow the old (utopian) idea of brain-, hand- and heart-controlled artworks.

RLW mix
PAAK mix

Artwork description: Cut and pasted paper, ink, 0n paper. Artwork by Peter Kastner. Each copy is handmade and different from each other, despite using the same motifs. 

https://peterkastner.eu , https://paak.bandcamp.com , https://sonictoylab.bandcamp.com

Artwork front
LP cover front
LP cover back
Artwork back