Sur l’onde calme et noire où dorment les étoiles La blanche Ophélia flotte comme un grand lys, Flotte très lentement, couchée en ses longs voiles… – On entend dans les bois lointains des hallalis. Voici plus de mille ans que la triste Ophélie Passe, fantôme blanc, sur le long fleuve noir Voici plus de mille ans que sa douce folie Murmure sa romance à la brise du soir Le vent baise ses seins et déploie en corolle Ses grands voiles bercés mollement par les eaux ; Les saules frissonnants pleurent sur son épaule, Sur son grand front rêveur s’inclinent les roseaux. Les nénuphars froissés soupirent autour d’elle ; Elle éveille parfois, dans un aune qui dort, Quelque nid, d’où s’échappe un petit frisson d’aile : – Un chant mystérieux tombe des astres d’or
LP (180 Gram) Original Artwork by Eugene Chadbourne Numbered edition of 25 ex. d’or086 Date of Publication: May 2025, for pre sales contact Astres d’Or.
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.
All music played and composed by by Bart de Paepe, 2024
Bart de Paepe ~ Sprokkelhout, A side excerptBart de Paepe ~ Sprokkelhout, B side excerptBart 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
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 mixPAAK 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.
LP (180 Gram) Original Artwork by Masami Akita Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex. d’or081 Date of Publication: 27 May 2024
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Merzbow is a Vegan /Straight Edge Noise project of Masami Akita.
Born in 1956 in Tokyo. Akita studied painting and art theory at the Art Section of the Tamagawa University in Tokyo. While at university, he became interested in the ideas of dada and surrealism. He played in several rock improvisation bands in the late 1970s but he gradually withdrew himself from the rock scene and began experimenting in his basement with broken tape recorders and feedback before founding his own noise music and starting a project Merzbow in 1981. He has recorded over 400 albums and performed concert/sound installations throughout the world. He also played at contemporary art events such as Westbunt Biennale in Shanghai (2013), Yokohama Triennale (2001), Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2004) among many others.
Merzbow – Barrack Baroque (A side excerpt)Merzbow – Barrack Baroque (B side excerpt)
Artwork description: Colour collage, consisting of hand cut images arranged in a live action on the scanning window of a printing machine. Printed on torn pages of Japanese 1920’s architecture book. Backside holds a stamp with text ‘MERZBOW Lowest Music & Art’ Size 18,5-26 cm
The artwork was specially made by Masami Akita for Astres d’Or. This is the first time, original artwork of Masami Akita can be acquired.
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LP (180 Gram) Original Artwork by Maurizio Bianchi Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex. d’or080 Date of Publication: 27 May 2024
Price: 200 euro Presale accepted. Contact Astres d’Or
Maurizio Bianchi (1955, Italy) is one of the pioneers of industrial music. His first music releases were under the banner of Sacher-Pelz in 1979. Since 1980 he works under his own name, sometimes abbreviated to MB, gaining a large group of followers and enthusiasts. His first active music period was from 1979-1983, after which he became a Jehova Witness and declared “The end is very near, and we have a very short time to recognize our mistakes and to redeem ourselves… I stopped doing music, and now my life is going towards its full awareness”. After a long hiatus he started making music again in 1998.
Gene-X was originally self released by MB on cassette in 1982. This is the first vinyl publication of Gene-X with original artwork by MB.
Instrumentation used: Turntable with loops derived from a vinyl record driven by a needle.
Maurizio Bianchi – Gene X (A side excerpt)Maurizio Bianchi – Gene X (B side excerpt)
Artwork description: Collage of handcut prints, pasted on paper, in transparent sleeve. Double sided. Some with black and red pencil drawings. Size 12-12 cm
The artwork was specially made by Maurizio Bianchi for Astres d’Or. It’s the first time the public has the chance to acquire his original art.
LP (180 Gram) Original Artwork by Eugene Chadbourne Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex. d’or079 Date of Publication: 7 April 2024
Price: 120 euro. ONLY TWO LEFT. See below
All artwork by Eugene Chadbourne All music by Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne was born in Mt. Vernon, New York, USA in 1954. He grew up in Boulder, Colorado where he was exposed to an incredible range of music including locally based composers and performers such as avant garde composers Tod Dockstoder and George Crumb and guitarist Tommy Bolin. He began playing guitar in bands as a teenager, at first garage rock and then strongly influenced by Jimi Hendrix and the Mothers of Invention. He released his first album of solo guitar in 1977 and became a professional musician shortly thereafter. He performs and records an unparalleled range of styles–jazz, rock, country and western, classical from Bach to Messiaen–on guitar and banjo and as a vocalist.
LP (180 Gram) Original Artwork by Christian Wolff Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex. d’or078 Date of Publication: 7 April 2024
Price: 120 euro. Contact Astres d’Orfor sale
All artwork by Christian Wolff All music composed by Christian Wolff Performed by Trio Ton
Christian Wolff (1934) studied piano with Grete Sultan and, briefly, composition with John Cage. Mostly he is self-taught as a composer. He has also been active as an improviser, with, among others, Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe, and Steve Lacy. He was part of the so-called New York School (with Cage, Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown), and close to Frederic Rzewski and Cornelius Cardew. He was long active with Merce Cunningham and his dance company. His music currently some 270 items, is published by C. F. Peters and much of it is recorded on over 70 CDs.
He has taught at Harvard, in Classics (Greek and Latin), and at Dartmouth, in the Classics, Comparative Literature and Music departments.
In 2022 Astres d’Or published Christian Wolff ~ A Complete Anthology Of Solo And Duo Violin Pieces, a 2LP with eight pieces for violin, among which are two unpublished pieces and one new piece especially written for the publication on Astres d’Or. The same year Astres d’Or published Christian Wolff ~ Line Exercise / For Ordinary Affects. An LP consisting of two compositions for quintet by Christian Wolff with himself on piano and melodica.
We are honored now, to publish the world wide premiere of Trio XIII, a piece for trombone, double bass and snare drum. The piece is recorded in 2022 / 2023 by Trio Ton, on invitation by Astres d’Or and now published for the first time.
Art description Original drawings by Christian Wolff, in his own distinctive and personal style, which gives such a depth to his music. Crayon, gouache and pencil on paper. White gatefold sleeve with title vignet on front. Inside is a transparent folded paper containing the drawing.
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LP (180 Gram) Original Artwork by Richard Rupenus, James Worse Numbered & signed edition of 30 ex. d’or077 Date of Publication: 29 September 2024 Pre-orders accepted. See below for ordering information.
‘A gLaStLy ThReEn’ is the ultimate collaboration of three masters of surrealism, Richard Rupenus, Raymond Dijkstra and James Worse, originally recorded in 1985 and published now for the first time by Astres d’Or… An exceptional journey through phantasmagorical projections of the mind leading us astray from preconceived reflections of the distorted self. The image is broken. Crushed in an all absorbing rage from years gone by. The field lies open in front of us. The air is clear. With remaining clouds of dust and scattered glass continuously being pushed to the side whilst we glide forward over a landscape of mud, shiny, in a far away sun.
James Worse is an artist from the UK, active in visual arts, poetry and music since the early 1980’s. His spoken word pieces include poetry written by himself. The poetry consists of self invented wordings with a direct link to surrealism and folk art. His artwork forms a beautiful personal, folk art inspired amalgan of free forms and letters, often very colorful. James Worse currently lives in Melbourne, Australia and can be found here: (music) https://jamesworse.bandcamp.com/ and here (artpage on instagram) @flartitude
Richard Rupenus is an experimental musician, of a highly distinctive, easily discernible, personal form of noise music. The basis of his noise lies in concrete sounds- scraping, scratching of objects and surfaces, recorded from near by. His active years were from early 1980’s-2024. He recently stopped making music. Rupenus is working under the name The New Blockaders. Previously Rupenus and Raymond Dijkstra published two titles, both on Astres d’Or. An extensive discography and background information of Richard Rupenus can be found here: https://www.thenewblockaders.org.uk/
Raymond Dijkstra is an obscure outsider visual artist and musician since 1980. He has a large discography, mainly consisting of highly limited editions (1-10 ex) and tiny vinyl formats (3″, 5″). His publications are often a combination of music and original art. His to the larger public unknown music can be described as a very personal and original type of musique brut. Mostly made with acoustic sources like harmonium, pianoharp and scraping of objects. In 2022 he stopped making music permanently and is now fully engaged in the visual arts. https://www.rayastre.org , instagram
A gLaStLy ThReEn James Worse- Voice, Poetry Richard Rupenus- Scraping Raymond Dijkstra- Other instruments, composition
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Artwork description Cover is made by Richard Rupenus. Consisting of handcut and pasted, printed paper collage with acrylic paint and glue. Each one is different. Insert by James Worse, letterpress prints on colored cardboard (each different) (edition of 24) Insert by James Worse, original oil crayon drawings on cardboard (edition of 6)
The publication of A gLaStLy ThReEn has artwork by Richard Rupenus on the cover, with inserts of James Worse. There are two editions- edition with 24 letterpress inserts by James Worse and another edition with 6 original oil crayon drawings by James Worse.
Price: Edition of 24 (with letterpress inserts) 160 euro Edition of 6 (with original drawings) 220 euro. Contact Astres d’Or for orders.
