Hallow Ground Vinyl, CD & Tape 15 Items

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Hallow Ground)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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»Tropic of Capricorn« is the second album by Lawrence English and Werner Dafeldecker. Based on field recordings that were subtly but decisively altered with electroacoustic techniques, these two long-form pieces blur the lines between acoustic ecology and aesthetic interventions, concrete local sound worlds and boundary-defying art. They put a focus on our relationship with nature as listeners as much as they call into question where nature ends and human perception begins.

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V.A.

Epiphanies

32,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hallow Ground)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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On Epiphanies, the first-ever "concept-compilation" to be released by Hallow Ground, artists such as Maria W Horn, Fuji||||||||||ta, Lawrence English, Siavash Amini and Norman Westberg, who all have previously released music on the Swiss label, were commissioned to pursue a non-rational creative process in approaching the phenomenon of epiphany through sound. In very different ways, all of the compositions on the compilation draw on the unique emotional powers of certain acoustic instruments, obfuscating the borders between physicality and abstraction. The results, whether long-form, short vignettes, profane and concrete sounds or spiritual and abstract pieces, perfectly encapsulate what Hallow Ground as a label has stood for since its inception in the year 2013: challenging not only conventional notions of what music is supposed to sound like but also the listeners’ perception through the power of sound. On Epiphanies, Hallow Ground also welcomes artists including Magda Drozd, Akira Sileas and Valentina Magaletti to make their first ever contributions to the label.

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Lawrence English

Observation Of Breath

27,99 €*

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Hallow Ground)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Do You Remember The Last Time You Were Breathing Consciously? Either Way, You Are Likely Doing It Now. On His New Album Observation Of Breath" For The Swiss-Based Hallow Ground Label, Lawrence English Worked Exclusively With An Organ For Four Compositions That Are Exercises In "Maximal Minimalism," As Their Creator Himself Notes In A Nod To Charlemagne Palestine, Who Coined This Term. While It Seems Somewhat Fitting That Those Four Pieces Based On A Steady Flow Of Air Were Conceived And Recorded In A Situation Of Accelerated Standstill Caused By A Respiratory Disease, The Room40 Founder Is Not So Much Concerned With Capturing The Zeitgeist Than Rather Incorporating The Spirit Of Time Itself. "It Is A Record About Presence And Patience," He Explains. Exploring The Unique Sonic Affordances Of A Singular Instrument, "Observation Of Breath" Is Not Only Devoted To The Durability Of Sound But Also To Its Density. That It Marks His Debut On Hallow Ground After Having Shaped Its Sound By Mastering Most Of The Label's Releases In Recent Years Is Just As Fitting Then As Its Release Following Albums By Kali Malone And Fuji|||||||||||Ta, Whose Innovative Work With Organ Instruments Have Facilitated A Rediscovery Of Their Possibilities.English's Compositions However Are Neither Directly Indebted Nor Responding To These Musicians. His Exploration Of The Organ's Many Facets Started A Decade Ago When The Composer Was Given Access To An Instrument Built In 1889 That Is Presently Housed At The Old Museum In Brisbane. After It Had Already Played A Crucial Role On His Seminal Albums "Wilderness Of Mirrors" And "Cruel Optimism," Last Year's Self-Released "Lassitude" Was The First Record That English Entirely Composed And Recorded With That Instrument. "During The Soft Lockdowns, I Spent Many Days Playing To An Empty Concert Hall, Recording The Pieces That Became >Lassitude< And Then, This Album," Says English In Regards To An Unfortunate Situation That Fortunately Provided Him With Time And Space-Two Major Themes But Also...

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David Granström

Empty Room

27,99 €*

LP | 2020 | Original (Hallow Ground)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On "Empty Room" David Granström Works With Slow Transformations, Cyclical And Isometric Patterns As Well As Just Intonation As A Way To Create Harmonic Stability, Allowing His Long-Form Pieces To Develop Their Own Unique Temporal And Spatial Qualities. A Prolific Figure In Stockholm's Experimental Drone Scene And A Collaborator Of Hallow Ground Label Mates Maria W Horn And Mats Erlandsson, The Swedish Composer Navigates Through Moments Of Quietude And Crushing Volume On These Five Tracks. Sonically And Atmospherically, The Pieces On "Empty Room" Simultaneously Call To Mind Fennesz's Most Meditative Work Or The Physical Experience Of Seeing Sunn O))) Live, Blending Guitar Recordings And Synthesised Sounds With Forceful Effects Similar To Those Of Mario Díaz De Leon's Oneirogen Project While Still Being As Moving And Delicate As Alessandro Cortini's Solo Work. The Album Is Marked By Melodies And Harmonies That Are The Product Of A Peculiar Working Process That Turned The Composer Into An Intent Listener Collaborating With, Rather Than Simply Using Technology.

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Mats Erlandson

Minnesmärke

20,41 €* 27,22 € -25%

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Hallow Ground)

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mats Erlandsson Makes His Debut On The Swiss Label Hallow Ground With "Minnesmärke," At Once A Nuanced Sonic Exploration Of The Industrial And Political History Of His Native Sweden And A Deeply Personal Album. One Of The Key Figures Of The Stockholm Drone Scene, The Prolific Composer Worked With The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble's Hillary Jeffery, Violinist And Long-Time Friend Gaianeh Pilossian As Well As Sound Artist And Frequent Collaborator Yair Elazar Glotman For A Two-Part Composition Built Around Tuned Sustained Tones Performed By Electronic And Acoustic Instruments That Were Combined With Field Recordings In Order To Evoke A Psychedelic State Of Reflection, A Dream-Like Elegy For The Acoustic Properties Of The Former Iron Ore Mine Ställbergs Gruva Where The Music Has Been Conceived And Recorded. Following Up On Releases On Labels Such As Hallow Ground Label Mates Kali Malone And Maria W Horn's Xkatedral Imprint, 'Minnesmärke' Is Erlandsson's Most Accomplished Work Yet. Originally A Commissioned Work By The Non Existent Center For A Month-Long Artist Residency In Ställbergs Gruva Last Summer, 'Minnesmärke' Conceptually Picks Up On The Socio-Political And Economic History Of The Bergslagen Region Where The Mine Is Situated. After Mining Operations Had Been On-Going For Decades Prior, In The Industrial Age Iron Became One Of The Country's Largest Exports, Making The Mining Industry An Integral Part Of The Country's Progression Towards A Socialdemocratic Welfare State In The Years After World War Ii. With The Rise Of Neoliberalism And The Simultaneous Erosion Of The Welfare State However, The Mines Around The Region Started Closing, Which Resulted In The Surrounding Community Losing Its Relative Prosperity. Erlandsson's Interest In This Story Though Does Not Exclusively Stem From The Historical Significance Of The Mine, That Has Been Re-Opened In 2012 As A Centre For Cultural Activities And Critical Thought. In Fact, His Grandfather Was Born And Raised In The Vicinity Of It And Thus His Life - An...

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Martina Lussi

Selected Ambient

22,99 €*

LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Hallow Ground)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The material oscillates between electroacoustic composition, sound art, and live
performance. The pieces are named after precious gemstones, all of which are
traditionally ascribed with special powers. In using these names, the artist seems to
refer to the esoteric roots of the genre invoked by the LP's title. The compositions,
however, resist the genre's characteristically naïve re-enchantment of the world and
distrust holistic esotericism's promise of healing and restoration. Instead, they are
defined much more by an interest in affective uncertainties. The gemstones don't
want to affect or influence-they simply want to exist as witnesses of/to the ultimately
incommensurable reality that lives beyond our own horizon. Lussi holds a Master of
Arts in Contemporary Arts Practice. Lussi has performed work between the
disciplines of sound art and music performance at places like LUFF (Lausanne
Underground Film Festival) and the festival Oto Nove Swiss at London's Café Oto.

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Dedekind Cut

Expanding Domain

18,85 €* 22,17 € -15%

LP | 2017 | CH | Original (Hallow Ground)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Trance-derived melodies, murky industrial grooves and all-consuming harsh noise attacks, created and recorded in transit between New York, Seoul and Berlin between the fall of 2016 and the winter of 2017. Over 23 minutes, the EP shifts from densely layered textures to subtle piano notes and hard-hammering beats, seemingly mirroring the drastic changes of the times in which they were conceived.

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Martina Lussi

Selected Ambient

18,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Hallow Ground)

Release: 2017 / CH – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Vinyl is very close to NM. Tiny wear.

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Miki Yui

As If

29,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Hallow Ground)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Miki Yui is a musician, artist, and composer, originally from Tokyo, who has been based in Düsseldorf since 1994. Her whose work has long explored multiple forms of media, while documenting liminal zones of perception. On her latest album, As If, Yui creates a subtly connected suite of electronic music, drawn from improvisations and randomised processes that she has engaged with modular synthesis. Deeply poetic in its expression, even at its most minimal, the six pieces on As If have a curious tenor – they are, each of them, intensely sensuous, almost haptic listening experiences, as though the laser focus that Yui displays towards her compositions allows her to engage them as almost physical presences in the world.

One of the keys that unlocks the intimate complexity-in-simplicity of As If was Yui’s encounters with the Amazonian rainforest in Manaus, Brazil in 2018. Finding that the sounds in the rainforest both shadowed and echoed the music she had been making for two decades, she embraced the possibilities of modular synthesis, the sounds of which she discovered “have astonishing similarities to the sounds I experienced in the rainforest.” There is, indeed, something natural about the way these sounds bloom in real time; in their dedicated focus to the subtle development and mutation of several discrete parameters of sound, they grow slowly, gradually, their rhizomic structures suggesting that we are always situated within the middle of sound.

Sometimes, the material here has a kind of febrile energy, as on the ticking, clacking electronics of “Generativ”, a track that seems to rotate in the air in front of the listener, the light reflecting off its multiple surfaces as we catch the intricacies of its micro-patterns. Elsewhere, we slide into a cooled but welcoming environment, like the late-night fire-fly horizon of “Song 4”; there’s also the humid, dripping tropical sunset that’s documented on “Summernight”. It’s a music that’s hard to locate external coordinates for, though there are, perhaps, some parallels with the work of Laurie Spiegel, Eliane Radigue’s Vice Versa, and Pauline Oliveros’s “Roots of the Moment”. But As If is an extraordinary collection of naturally developing, rich studies for slowly mutating, enveloping, elemental electronics.

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Simina Oprescu

Sound Of Matter

30,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Hallow Ground)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Musique Infinie

Earth

29,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Musique Infinie is the collaborative project of Manuel Oberholzer a.k.a. Feldermelder and Noémi Büchi. Their album »Earth«, is based on a spontaneously composed live score for Alexander Dovzhenko’s 1930 silent film »Zemlya« (»Earth«). The Swiss duo complemented it with atmospherically rich electronic soundscapes that are both deeply immersive and highly evocative. As a stand-alone music release, the two-piece album »Earth« captures the essence of Büchi and Oberholzer’s collaboration that is marked by mutual trust and musical versatility that puts them in a state of »togetherness trance,« as they call it.

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Simon Lanz & Tobias Lanz

Arches

Martina Berther / Philipp Schlotter

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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»Arches« is written for and performed on self-built prototypes of wind instruments that were inspired by the classic pipe organ, but allowed the two composer-performers to go beyond its limitations in several ways. Simon and Tobias Lanz have a combined background in electronic music as well as a shared penchant for drone music. They hence designed these novel instruments in a way that allows for microtonal tuning to be able to overcome the restrictions inherent to the dominance of a twelve tone-based scale in Western music and work with a sonic palette that is much wider and nuanced than that of the conventional pipe organ.

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Matt

20,46 €* 29,23 € -30%

Seven Commen Ways Of Disappearing

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Martina Berther and Philipp Schlotter are prolific in their respective ways, having been active in pop and jazz music, respectively, as well as playing in bands and exploring the outer fringes of sound art or composing music for film. Their first joint album »Matt« was recorded over the course of four days in a church in the Swiss village after which the album was named. Berther and Schlotter worked with the buildingʼs organ as well as synthesizers and electric bass to follow an experimental approach that oscillated between composition and free improvisation. The five pieces, recorded directly to tape by Flo Götte without any additional overdubs, are characterised by an intimacy and rawness that calls to mind the introspective atmosphere of Hallow Ground label mateʼs Fuji||||||||||ta or mastering engineer Lawrence Englishʼs latest album for the Swiss label. »Matt« is the result of two versatile composers and musicians executing minimalist ideas by giving them plenty of space to unfold.

The album opens with »Unruhe,« a composition that is based on the twelve-tone technique. Using a stopwatch to ensure the adherence to the pre-determined temporal intervals between the individual notes, Berther and Schlotter used the church organ and synthesizers for an ominous piece that traverses different moods and levels of intensity throughout its 14-minute run time. »lfo1« and »lfo2« are different variations of the same concept: Based on a synthesizer preset and structured by an organ drone, two tone generators slowly fall silent, resulting in elegiac pieces that call to mind the work of Éliane Radigue. »Frachter« and »Gallia« put more emphasis on percussive elements. Again working with organ as well as Bertherʼs prepared electric bass, this improvisation comprises interlocking textures that sound almost menacing on »Frachter,« while they create a very different atmosphere on »Gallia.« These notable discrepancies in sound and mood are even more astonishing if you consider that the two pieces are based on the exact same recording, played at different speeds.

As two variations on the same idea with very different results, these two pieces perfectly represent how the duo effectively creates emotionally affective sound worlds with very few means. Berther and Schlotterʼs conceptual minimalism yields rewarding, multi-faceted aesthetic results. »Matt« is an intimate album, marked by a sense of vividness and spontaneity, but also the product of compositional conciseness.

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Andrius Arutiunian

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Andrius Arutiunian’s debut album »Seven Common Ways of Disappearing« was first conceived as an installation for the Armenia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022. The Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer uses hybrid forms of music, focusing on sonic vernaculars, hypnotic musical forms, and aural cosmologies. Arutiunian is known to work with installations, sound objects, and time-based collaborations with ensembles and performers.

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Elisabeth Klinck

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