Blind Jesus
(Von Archives - VON006) LP $17.50
Stefano Pillia (guitar, audio collages and effects) and Andrew Hooker (electronics) exploring the essence of improvised ambient music. Edition of 300.
Bagirwa Hymn
(Von Archives - VON003) LP $20.00
A tribal funeral ode in the form of two dense, obscure messes, from one of the masters of the new mysticism. Edition of 300.
CARLOS CASAS / NICO VASCELLARI
Choir
(Von Archives - VON000) DVD $10.50
Conceived as a Von Archives manifesto, this audiovisual experiment takes the shape of an installation and live media event, as well as a limited edition video work. The image and sound is a superimposition of source material selected and overlaid by the artists in order to produce ghostly images and, to quote some of the first viewers of the piece, an “hypnotic tantric metal experience.” Edition of 500.
Siberian Field Recordings / Interview with a Whale Hunter
(Von Archives - VON004) 7-inch $12.00
Field recordings from the northeastern extremity of Asia in the northern part of the Russian Far East, radio frequency scans, ambient landscapes. Apropos of one of the planet’s most desolate and extreme environments.
Vezdekhod
(Von Archives - VON008) DVD $20.00
Field recordings from the northeastern extremity of Asia in the northern part of the Russian Far East, radio frequency scans, ambient landscapes. Apropos of one of the planet’s most desolate and extreme environments.
Cemetary Archive Works
(Von Archives - VON009) DVD $20.00
Research for a future film about a cemetery of elephants, part of which experiments with archive film material as visual and sound matter. Based on classic adventure films, documentaries, Lost World literature adaptations and exotic adventure films from the golden period of adventure film. An overwhelming experiment with the audiovisual matter. Edition of 500
Stomach Pump
(Von Archives - VON012) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. A drilling experience, described as "a stomach pump connected to a drill brain, wired to your balls, and plugged to your PA." Edition of 300
The Tailing
(Von Archives - VON010) DVD $20.00
A microscopical audiovisual study on pornography by the legendary American sound artist who describes The Tailing thus: “Slow writhing in near-total darkness. Intertwining drones from a church organ. Movement and sound heavy, thick as oil. Erotic and forbidden.”
Obitorio Veneto
(Von Archives - VON007) LP + DVD $25.00
Italian band -– “a social punk sculpture” -- conceived by artist Nico Vascellari as a contribution to the Diedrich Diedrichsen-curated exhibition Rock Scissors Paper at Kunsthaus Graz. Lago Morto is “about things that casting calls usually exclude -- targeted aggression, unpredictable social effects and local politics.” The band performed for fifteen days in Vittorio Veneto in nonmusical venues such as bars, hotels, pizzerias, laundrettes, video stores, etc. All fourteen of the band’s songs are on the LP. The DVD contains a video from each of the sixteen locations of the tour, plus an extra montage of sixteen videos simultaneously. Edition of 200
Nico And The Vascellaris
(Von Archives - VON013) 7-inch (one-sided) $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Original studio recordings by this deeply unconventional band. Edition of 100.
Cathodic Works 1966-1976
(Von Archives - VON014) 2xDVD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Unreleased and classic documents from the NYC East Side scene by this Italian-American pioneer of video art and audiovisual experimentation. Curated by Pia Bolognesi e Giulio Bursi.
Death Condensed
(Von Archives - VON001) 7-inch $10.00
A wall of sound. Inaccessible, deep in sources, taking you down to the mysteries of noise and its origins in metal. A conceptual and extreme musical journey. Edition of 300.
Compound
(Von Archives - VON002) 7-inch $10.00
A threshold of sound composed from the electrocacoustic improvisations of Yeh and the chirurgical, abrasive noise patches of Wiese. A majestic experiment by two unclassifiable masters of the new improv. Edition of 300.
EyEar
(Von Archives - VON011) DVD $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Visual experimentation by the legendary percussionist-poet, in which percussion and rhythm alter visual pattern waves. This inner journey of primitive industrial psychedelia is as hypnotic as it gets. Editon of 500