Grayson Currin has featured K11 this week for his column at Pitchfork.com. The entire Metaphonic Portrait: 1230 AD album is streaming there as well. Check it out HERE.

The haunting new disc from Italy’s K11, “Metaphonic Portrait: 1230 A.D.”, is now available via Actual Noise. For a complete description of this eerie, esoteric work, please go HERE. To hear the track 18=IH, simply click HERE. The CD is available for a limited time at the price of just $7.99. You can buy it HERE.

Finally some news from Actual Noise. The new CD by K11, aka Pietro Riparbelli, will be released very shortly. A description follows:

K11 is the nom de plume of the Italian sound artist Pietro Riparbelli. On his last release as K11, 2009’s “Voices From Thelema” (Aurora Borealis Records) Riparbelli visited the ruins of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema Abbey in Cefalu, Sicily, where he entered and proceeded to record and document signals and sounds coming through short-wave radio receivers. An instrumental trans-communication ritual, acting as a conduit for whatever spirits remain in the Abbey.

Continuing with his interest in cathedrals, with the new K11 release “Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D.”, Riparbelli entered Assisi Cathedral in the Umbria region of Italy, not far from Riparelli’s hometown of Tuscany; the 1230 A.D. in the album’s title referring to the date of completion of the original cathedral. Audio was recorded in the cathedral’s lower basilica, the oldest area where the actual relics of St. Francis Of Assisi are kept.

Again utilizing short-wave radios as his primary “instrument” Riparbelli has captured a haunting array of cavernous sounds, displaced signals and found ambience. With the addition of some voice and organ elements, Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D. sounds not unlike the recordings of experimentalists Philip Jeck and William Basinski under the influenced of Crowleyean Magick and Sacred Geometry. A psychedelic meditation from some medieval crypt captured out of time in the present.

The numbers used in the songtitles are chosen with purpose, all related to the Gematria, the ancient system that assigns numbers to words and how they relate to each other. A video shot inside the cathedral by Riparbelli is included on the disc to give the listener a visual picture of the aging structure. As in all K11’s work, the themes of magick, religion, numerology and esotericism are present throughout this reverent document of aural mysticism.

It’s been a long time since we’ve released anything on Actual Noise, but there will be more activity in the coming months. The new Windscale c20 is now released. Windscale is Andrew Nolan (The Endless Blockade, Joshua Norton Cabal, Death Agonies) and Jim Fellahean (Fellahean, Electrostatic Orchestra, Burden). 3 tracks in total. Heavy noise / power electronics / dystopian visions / alien atmosphere / pathways to god. Pissed BN style vocals that scream with intent. New artwork by FEEDING. More info at myspace.com/windscaledecay

Buy it here: http://www.phantomcityrecords.net/store/product_info.php?cPath=31&products_id=409

Hear the track “Answer” here: http://www.20buckspin.com/media/mp3/windscaleanswer.mp3

www.actualnoise.net

I’m just reposting this, I have nothing to do with it:

Submissions are now being accepted for the 15th Olympia Experimental Music Festival. The dates are Friday, June 19th through Sunday the 21st, 2009. I am especially interested in booking a plethora of Olympia-based artists this year, but of course, that isn’t necessary.  My email for Festival-related inquiries is olystrangemusic [at] gmail.com.
thanks,
Domenica

So there hasn’t been a lot of activity lately as we’ve been very busy with 20 Buck Spin stuff but the Windscale c20 is in the works and the Lamborghini Crystal LP is being finished up by Ferraro now. The Skull Defekts ‘Skkull’ LP will come out sometime this year too. Hopefully not too long on those. There’s a few other releases in the works as well but we’re not quite ready to announce them. We’ve added more Noise stuff to the store lately, so check it out…

This is the last weekend for the mailorder sale, and also to ensure your order ships before the holidays. All orders placed on Monday or thereafter will not ship until after January 1st.

Some new stuff added to the store today!

Aidan Baker – Letters LP
Dead Congregation – Graves Of The Archangels CD
Fauna – Rain CD
Magic Lantern – High Beams LP
Pocahaunted – Island Diamonds CD
Secret Abuse – Violent Narcissus LP
Social Junk – Concussion Summer LP
Sun Araw – Beach Head LP
The Dead C – Golden / Canine LP
The Dead C – Secret Earth LP

The Lamborghini Crystal LP is recorded and artwork is underway. Release date is still TBA
A Windscale C20 will be released in early ‘09. http://www.myspace.com/windscaledecay
The Skull Defekts Skkull LP is completed and should go into production soon.
Copies of The Skull Defekts The Drone Drug LP are still available though we’re down to less than 50 here.