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

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

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

MERZBOW ~ BARRACK BAROQUE

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Masami Akita
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or081
Date of Publication: 27 May 2024

Sold

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.

MAURIZIO BIANCHI ~ GENE-X

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.

EUGENE CHADBOURNE ~ CATALOGUE D’OISEAUX

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. Contact Astres d’Or for pre-sale

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.

Website Eugene Chadbourne

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Catalogue d’oiseaux (Catalogue Of Birds) is Chadbourne’s personal and free interpretation of Messiaen’s work with the same title.

Four pieces are in this catalogue, composed and played on Banjo especially for Astres d’Or.

1 Le Chocard des Alpes (16:50)
2 L’Alouette Lulu (7:26)
3 La Chouette Hulotte (21:13)
4 La Bouscarle (4:17)

All music by Eugene Chadbourne, an Alpine Chough, a Woodlark, a Tawny Owl and Cetti’s Warbler, 2024

Eugene Chadbourne ~ Le Chocard des Alpes (excerpt)
Eugene Chadbourne ~ La Chouette Hulotte (excerpt)

Artwork description:
Beautiful and unique Folk Art paintings of birds, by Eugene Chadbourne.
Gouache on white cardboard (gatefold LP cover)

Inlay

CHRISTIAN WOLFF ~ TRIO XIII

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’Or for 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.

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Performed by Ton
Matthias Muche – Trombone 
Constantin Herzog – Double bass 
Rie Watanabe – Snare drum

A publication by Astres d’Or 2024

Christian Wolff ~ Trio XIII, Face A (excerpt)
Christian Wolff ~ Trio XIII, Face B (excerpt)


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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.

tHe NeW bLoCkAdErS, rAyMoNd DiJkStRa, jAmEs WoRsE ~ A gLaStLy ThReEn

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

Excerpt Face A

Excerpt Face B


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.



DAVID MORENO ~ MATERIAL MUSIC

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by David Moreno
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or076
Date of Publication: 29th January 2024

Price: 120 euro. Contact: love@astres-dor.com

David Moreno (b. 1957, Los Angeles, CA) is a visual and sound artist who first started recording his audio experiments in 1983 while still in art school at the University of Arizona in Tucson. His early inspiration was found in the experimental Industrial music of the late 1970s with groups like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. These groups, in turn, were inspired by earlier electronic music and musique concrète techniques of avant-garde composers from the 1950s. Moreno continues to use many of these same techniques in his recent recordings. These include sound collages made through the manipulation of field recordings – sounds captured in the environment, acoustic, electronic, and self-made instruments. In essence, music improvised/constructed in the studio.

Moreno has had a lifelong fascination with the material origins of sound – how each substance speaks in its own unique voice. Various metals, wood, glass, paper, salt, soap bubbles, rubber, water, ice have all been used as starting points for audio compositions. These, in turn, have sometimes developed further into sculptural works exploring the visualization of sound through movement both implied and real.  

In 1989, Moreno had his first solo exhibition at Feature Inc. in New York City where he continued to show his work throughout the 1990s-2000s. His visual and sound works have been in museum and gallery exhibitions in the US, Mexico, Europe, and Japan – including the 30th São Paulo Biennial, 2012 and Istanbul Biennial, 2013. He has work in both private and public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Artwork description:
Oil on paper drawings by David Moreno

ILITCH ~ SEULS LES ANGES ONT DES AILES

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Thierry Müller
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or075
Date of Publication: 29th January 2024

Price: 160 euro. Contact: love@astres-dor.com

Thierry Müller is a multi-instrumentalist composer, whose Ilitch and Ruth projects are recognized in the independent and international underground scene.
He uses unconventional guitars as well as keyboards and other electronic devices to create unusual textures and sounds. Parisian graphic designer, he began making recordings in the early 1970s using prepared guitars, harmonium and tape recorders as instruments.
Since 1978, his albums with multiple and unclassifiable universes have been described as “Cult” by personalities like Tim Gane, Lee Ranaldo, Steven Stapleton, Edward Ka-Spel…). He has collaborated on albums or live with, among others, Valentina Fanigliulo (Mushy, Phantom Love), Nick Littlemore (Empire Of The Sun, Pnau), Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear), Jac Berrocal, Quentin Rollet, Pepe Wismeer …

Artwork description:
Each exemplar contains a black three sided gatefold with die-cut letters on the front, with inside a title sheet with liner notes, a printed collage in edition of five and an inlay with examples of other artwork. Plus a coupon for a digital download of the same music and another extra item. Each exemplar contains one of the five series of collages, each in edition of five. All artwork and graphics by Thierry Müller.

ARSENIJE JOVANOVIC´ ~ FAREWELL PRAYER FOR ONE GALIOLA / FAUNOPHONIA BALKANICA

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Arsenije Jovanovic´
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or074
Date of Publication: 29th January 2024

Price: 160 euro. Contact: love@astres-dor.com

Arsenije Jovanovic´ Theatre, radio and television director, composer, writer, audio-art author in the acoustic media continuously from the middle sixties. Born 1932. in Belgrade. Until the brake of the war in ex-Yugoslavia, university professor at Academy of Theatre Arts in Belgrade. Fulbright scholar and visiting professor at State University of New York at Albany USA. Initiator of the sound workshop at Kunstradio – ORF in the very beginning of the Kunstradio, initiator of a sound workshop at Media Arts Center at the University of Sydney, organizing sound workshops in Finland and Faroe Island 1999. Producing numerous sound projects in the studios of Radio France (ACR), RAI, YLESIRADIO, ORF-KUNSTRADIO, SFB, WDR-STUDIO AKUSTISCHE KUNST, ABC-SYDNEY, RADIO BELGRADE, RADIO-ZAGREB, RADIO-SARAJEVO  and  other. Founder of the Adriatic Sound Factory, sound laboratory settled in Rovinj, Istria, Croatia. 

AWARDS: Prix Italia in the category of stereo work for the “Tombstones along the Roadside”, Venice. 1971., Prix Italia for the “Resava Cave”, Venice, 1977., Premio Ondas for “Resava cave”, Barcelona,  1978. Premio Ondas for “Along the Long Long Street”, together with Ms. Neda Depolo, Barcelona, “Finalist award” for “Homo Politikus Vulgaris” at “New York radio art festival”, New York, 1992., First prize for “Concerto Grosso Balcanico”, International radio festival in Rust (Austria), Grand prix Radio France International for “La parata” Palmares, France, 1997., Prize EX EQUO with Ilinka Čolić Jovanovic, three time winner for his compositions at Mexican International Radio festival, his “Prophecy of the Serbian Village Kremna” was one of the sound tracks in the film “The Thin Red Line” by Terrence Malick, USA, 1998. From that film on Malick used fragments from Arsenije’s electro-acoustic compositions in al his films until today except in ”The new World”.

Faunophonia Balkanica won the Prix Acustica prize – WDR, Studio Akustische Kunst Germany 1990.

Artwork description: Ballpoint drawings by Arsenije Jovanovic´, mostly from 2023
White gatefold cover with title vignet.