Zone - Born Of Fire (Potentia Records, 1994)

Originally released jointly between Potentia Records and Luciano Dari's Italian record label Musica Maxima Magnetica (catalogue No.ZONE 003/eee 005) the recording appeared during February 1991 in CD format only, as an initial edition of 1000 copies.
The CD was distributed through People Who Can't Distribution, now World Serpent Distribution.

The front cover photo was taken by Andrew in 1988 and is of a mosaic depicting the Christian Nativity scene, to be found in one of the domes at the Byzantine Kariye Monastery (Church of St.Saviour in Chora) in Istanbul, Turkey.
The back cover photo is the view looking through the Atomic Bomb Memorial Dome, located very near to the heart of the Atom Bomb explosion (Ground Zero), in Hiroshima, Japan.

01 Beautiful Machine
02 Heart Of The Atom (Ground Zero)
03 The Butterfly Effect
04 Born Of Fire
05 (Reprise)

Zone 003
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Vasilisk - Acqua LP (Musica Maxima Magnetica, 1989)

Vasilisk was a Japan duo (Tomo Kuwabara & Yukio Nagoshi) in 1985, after the split up of the political unit 'White Hospital', Tomo Kuwabara started up the unit Vasilisk with Yukio Nagoshi (percussions/guitars) and Chiaki (percussions).

They made a first album called 'Whirling Dervishes' in 1987, released through Eskimo, which was the label established by Yun 'Grim' Konagaya. In this album they played several and unusual instruments: African skin-drums, African flute, Tibetan percussions, Ancestor's voices. In 1988 they made a second album called 'Mkwaju' with the same line-up and also released by Eskimo. Just after the release of this album, Tomo and Yukio joined Rose Mcdowall's new project Candy Cain. They toured through Japan during most of 1988. Around that time, Luciano Dari invited them to release their next album on his label Musica Maxima Magnetica. 

After the collaboration with the Rose's project in 1989, they started to record their third album 'Acqua' in London and Naples (Italy) with the same three members. 'Acqua' was released at the end of the same year by Musica Maxima Magnetica.

Limited Edition of 1000.

Studio side recorded at: Bowsprit Point Studio, London (1 Oct. - 23 Oct.) Zona Music Studio, Napoli (25 Oct. - 1 Nov.).

Live side recorded at Shinjuku-Loft, Tokyo on Mkwaju Tour '88.

Studio

a1 Thorn

a2 Awakening

a3 Sacred Dance

a4 Aphasia

a5 Acqua

Live

b1 Mkwaju

b2 Tongue

b3 Photongnoul

b4 Taksim II

b5 Fangs And Claws

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Nora Keyes - Songs To Cry By For The Golden Age Of Nothing (dualpLOVER, 2004)

Norah Keyes is blessed with a fingers down the chalkboard wail, a fragile cackling cry that brings up connections with witches, and the dark arts, as in full flight she sounds suspiciously like a wizened old hag who possibly communicates with evil spirits. Her songs are sparse and morose, primarily accompanied only by organ, they are flat, spooky haunted house folk songs with an edge. It all sounds like it was recorded one hundred years ago, possibly in a tomb. Her cover of Jimmy Rogers Old Pal, with its ghostly cries and Ms Keyes off kilter yodeling is particularly off putting, whilst her incessant cackling and theatrical delivery on Small Apart are enough to produce a form of nervous hysteria in the listener. A true eccentric Norah Keyes debut album, Songs To Cry For The Golden Age of Nothing is very very strange, even by Dual Plover's standards.

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01 Tomb Song
02 Small Apart
03 Look At You, You'Re Ugly
04 Cauliflower
05 My Child
06 Old Pal
07 Excreted From Our Mother's Womb
08 Old Folks
09 The Show Is Over

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Test Dept - Materia Prima (Ministry Of Power, 1990)

Soundtrack of the collaborative show with Dutch dance group Werk Centrum Dans or Rotterdam Dance Group.
This consists of recordings from the live show Materia Prima, performed in Holland, Italy, Finland and Denmark, as well as some earlier material.
More ambient and atmospheric than TD's usual releases.

01 Landrites
02 Firedance
03 Pipe And Didgeridoo
04 More Of Everything
05 Apocalypse
06 Funeral

DEPT CD1

Strafe F.R. - Moor (Staalplaat, 1993)

"If you take Moor as a landscape, it offers a lot of possibilities; either to drown, or to get marshy, or to get bogged down, or to get blinded by beauty. You watch a rare animal or plant and the next step there is muddy soil. There is a good smell of heather, but also millions of summer-gnats and the black grouse. A moor also has its unique acoustic. In the musical Moor there are some contact mines to be found; there are sloughs, poison snakes and slow-worms to be found in the world of pop music. After a short time big parts of pop music disappear inside of mud holes where they rot and decay. Occasionally some of this rises again as a moor corpse - these revived corpses appear in pop museums but they have historical relevance only, they are spent and past. The contact mines in the pop music can cause destructive explosions which give birth to new possibilities, or just create new holes in the ground." Strafe FR Interview

01 Bog Bay
02 Datooga
03 Pace
04 Stradivarius
05 Humor Indio
06 Run To Seed
07 Big Hun Losses
08 Culo En Tierra
09 St. Anthony's Balsam
10 Ahrweiler
11 A Gobbled Up Fish
12 Schoolmaster I
13 Red Cloud
14 Persian Carpet
15 Guinea Fowl
16 Schoolmaster II
17 Bronce Eel
18 Mamvu
19 Schoolmaster III
20 Mountain Love

STRAFE 15

Strafe F.R. ‎- Pianoguitar (Staalplaat, 1995)

Over the course of several albums, Strafe Für Rebellion developed a personal style of abstract instrumental music that owed a lot to their use of home-made instruments, found objects and field recordings.
They dissolved quietly in the mid 90s, after releasing the "Pianoguitar" album.

01 Contract And Poetics
02 Professionally Known
03 Yours Faithfully
04 Jointly And Severally
05 Please Indicate Your Acceptance
06 Which Purport To Deal
07 Within Seven Days Of Signing
08 Those Amounts
09 You Agree To Pay Us 50 %
10 Throughout The World
11 Non-Exclusive Mechanical Licence
12 We Hereby Grant
13 Promptly Amended
14 In A Form Approved By Us
15 Thirty Days
16 Initial Amount
17 For Commercial Release
18 Share Of The Copyright
19 We Agree
20 Of Our Musical Performance
21 Comprising Recording
22 As Tenants In Common
23 You Hereby Acknowledge
24 Out In Schedule
25 Tracks In Progress
26 Publishing Agreement

STCD 073
Staalplaat

Strafe Für Rebellion - Vögel (Touch, 1989)

"Music is more than an acoustic phenomenon. The perception of music is dependent on the ability (and capacity) of the human ear - how the ear functions technically and how the brain is able to work out those informations, knit them together with the information from the other senses, your thoughts and your individual experiences." Strafe FR

Recorded at Grundfunk and Strafe FR Studios, Düsseldorf
Material recorded between 1981 and 1989.

Track 11 from 1981
Track 5 from 1983
Track 10 from 1985
Tracks 3,6,9 from 1986
Tracks 12,14 from 1987
Tracks 2,4,7,8,13 from 1988
Tracks 1,15 from 1989

01 Taste
02 Rising Sun
03 In Egypt In The Month Of May
04 New Musicsister
05 Soundless Message
06 For Mao Folk And Religion
07 Boston
08 Love Bees
09 Long March
10 Kamerun
11 Portuguese People
12 Toryance
13 Windhuk
14 Mastino
15 Abendhimmel

Strafe Für Rebellion Interview
TO:12
Touch

Ode Filípica - Janusjus MC (1991)

Post-industrial duo from Portugal which was active between 1989 and 1994.
Members: Pedro Granja, Carlos Matos (Broto Verbo).

Face Ø?

A1 Escarnio E Maldizer

A2 Trumpet Of Life

A3 Misantropia

A4 Ritual Sagrado

A5 La Hatchu Bit Tchelovek

A6 Cântico Mudo

Face Ø!

B1 Scripture

B2 On Illusion Lie

B3 Asifat El Sahra

B4 Travaille

B5 Eclesiaste

B6 Satira

B7 Sheressaze

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