Sounds from the edges of culture and between the cracks of category
Latest Releases- Cassette Imprint
LOR131 - Grundik Kasyansky - -Lepus
Composer and innovator Grundik Kasyansky works with tiny sounds created with a "feedback synthesizer" of his own devising, to build totally engrossing works. "Lepus" is a series of solo improvisations for feedback synthesizer. Grundik Kasyansky is based in London and works with some of Europe's leading improvisers, he was a founder of the Israeli electronic duo Grundik and Slava, and plays in the groups Staraya Derevnya, Denis D’or, and Llull Machines. "Lepus" is an utterly unique listening experience... Available on cassette and DL To stream or purchase please visit the release pagelinearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/lepus
LOR129 - Duncan Chapman -Cove
Duncan Chapman's second release for Linear Obsessional is this beautiful cassette - "Cove" based around recordings made in Cove Park in February 2019. The tracks are a mixture of field recordings, live improvisations, sonification of landscape images and manipulated recordings. The four tracks are bright evocations of landscape, whether a calm pond or a view of mountains - still and haunting, enveloping and luminous. To listen or purchase visit the release page
LOR119 - Richard Sanderson -Compass Rose
Richard Sanderson releases his first solo album for three years. "Compass Rose" consists of three longish tracks for amplified melodeon (diatonic button accordion). Side one has two tracks recorded at Brighton Road Studios in Sussex, whilst side two is an improvisation recorded live at London's IKLECTIK by Saint Austral Sound. The tracks were mixed by Sanderson, with no overdubs or processing, these recordings present the raw sound of the melodeon rendered as a melange of noise, feedback and free-reed dynamics - reminiscent at times of bagpipe music, John Cale's viola, or doom metal, and even occasionally folk music. Recorded in 2019, this is perhaps the purest representation of Sanderson's live sound, and of the influences he has absorbed since taking up the instrument 15 years ago. Available as a limited edition cassette and download. To stream or purchase please go to the release page
LOR132 - Tigersonic -Blipcuts
Linear Obsessional is delighted to present this amazing album of micro-dub, glitch-funk miniatures by the London based producer and musician Tigersonic. Using an technique of carving her tracks down to the essentials Tigersonic eschews the 12" stretch of a lot of dance, dub and electronica and instead produces a set of 20 tracks - (average length two minutes or considerably less) none of which outstay their welcome. Moving through abstract noise, majestic cavernous dub and angular funk the ideas keep flowing, restlessly, inventively and compellingly in a stop/start exercise in 21st century blip dynamics. Early ACR, On-U Sound and PIL may come to mind, along with a post-punk energy and willingness to experiment, but this is mainly an exercise groove based abstractica for the restless and the curious... Released as a limited edition cassette and download with PDF booklet and short videos. To stream or purchase please visit the release page
Forthcoming Cassettes
LOR138 - Karl MV Waugh -Concepts of Information
Low key and eerie explorations from Karl MV Waugh. Indistinct noise, whirling, buzzing and humming. An alien landscape of immersion and unease. To be released on cassette and download.
Latest Releases - Compact Discs and Downloads
LOR125 - The Original Beekeepers - Fear For The Future
The long awaited new album by Linear Obsessional's token pop group, The Original Beekeepers. "Fear for the Future" continues to hone their brand of exquisitely constructed English chamber pop, sardonic lyrics and wonderful arrangements. The subject here is the encroachment of middle age, the narrowing of ambitions and the acception of limitations. With brass sections, extra vocals, samples and found sounds, and a stunning cover design this is the Beekeepers' most ambitious album yet. Available on CD and DL To stream or purchase please visit the release page
LOR133 - Paula Garcia Stone -Undercurrent
Linear Obsessional is very proud to release the first album by the noted artist and composer Paula Garcia Stone. "Undercurrent" is a collection of 9 soundworks, that combine her interest in place (field recordings) and the use of very physical sounds. Paula is a visual artist (with a long relationship tp drawing) and a sound artist whose work often concentrates on amplifying the small and microscopic. "Undercurrent" is released as a limited edition CD in eco-friendly printed gatefold card cover, and as a download with PDF. To listen or to purchase visit the release page
LOR128 - Kassia Flux -Ergot in the Wine
Available as a limited edition CD The much anticipated follow up to last year's extremely well recieved ("album of the year!" TQ) "I Hear You", Kassia Flux's "Ergot in the Wine" is another deep dive into the world of this hugely imaginative and fascinating artist/scientist. Featuring songs, field recordings and improvisations - with recordings ranging from a luthier at work to the sounds of an English coastal town overlaid with violin, guitars and electronics. Haunting, ecstatic and life affirming experimentation at its finest. Released as a limited edition CD in Eco-Pack and download with PDF booklet. To stream or to purchase please visit the release page
LOR098 - Stephen Shiell -Sonance
Linear Obsessional is proud to present the debut album by sound artist, composer, sculptor and field recordist Stephen Shiell. "Sonance" consists of three equal length pieces - each a diverting exploration of place, and added human interaction. All three are absorbing and enveloping constructions, that sustain a strangely moving and powerful atmosphere. "Desert" is constructed from VLF recordings made in the Nevada Desert, overlaid with obsidian needle chimes and the voice of Hannah White. "Wood" is a realisation of Shiell's composition "Earth Organ" recorded in a wood in Wiltshire with a group of musicians, (score included in accompanying PDF booklet) with added field and studio recordings. "Air" is a "Deep Listening" piece influenced by Pauline Oliveros recorded in London with the additional sounds of a windmill in Spain and an air conditioning unit. Released as a professionally duplicated CD in glossy gatefold card sleeve and as a download with PDF bookletof notes and photographs. To stream or purchase please visit the release page
Forthcoming CDs
LOR130 - John Butcher, Sharon Gal, David Toop -Until the Night Fades Away
Absolutely extraordinary prestine recording of this trio made at London's Cafe Oto. John Butcher - Tenor Saxophone, Sharon Gal, Vocals and David Toop, Lap steel, flutes etc create a continuous diaphanous web of glistening sound - a brilliant exercise in sustained concentrated improvisation. To be released as a CD and DL.
