Energy: A documentary about Damo Suzuki.
ENERGY // Damo Suzuki
Until Satellites Collide / Colonial Skyways
Until Satellites Collide is the follow-up to Colonial Skyway's Evening on Earth, and is in many ways a logical progression from that album, maintaining the broken-machines-dystopian type feel with a strong nod to static and crackle. With his use of drone and found-sound-collage, Colonial Skyway realises his vision of giving voice to ancient disused and …
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RELEASE ROUNDUP 2023 2024
Apologies for the delayed posting of some of our recent release. In case you've missed them, below are our gifts to the the world of avant/art/odd music.
Gods Fool
God's Fool, to be released 2 October 2023, is both a tribute and alternative soundtrack to the classic 1979 film, Stalker. Containing eighteen pieces by sixteen artists - a combination of existing SBC artists and some significant new additions - God's Fool comprises almost three hours of music, combining ambient, drone and left-field instrumental music.
Signs & Signals // Department of Works
We are back and we have a great new album for you. Releasing on September 15th we have the Department of Works: Volume One // Signs & Signals.
Phenomenal review from the esteemed Monolith Cocktail:
Our Daily Bread 572: Greg Nieuwsma and Antonello Perfetto ‘Earth’
ALBUM PURVIEW by Andrew C. Kidd
Greg Nieuwsma and Antonello Perfetto ‘Earth’
(Submarine Broadcasting Co.)
Although Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Earth aligned with many of the Soviet ideologies of its day, the film stands irresolute in this regard. This is perhaps because it is viewed through the retrospectoscopic lens of the present-day. Even so, its poetic symbols must have seemed somewhat removed from the usual plainsong of socialist realism of its day. I detect agitation. Take the crushed chaff of the wheat that billows into the air, referencing the yellow-blue bicolour of the Ukrainian flag that was banned at the time. In the same breath, Earth promotes atheism and contains split-screen shots of humans and plant life (depicting the ‘community of life’), which are more in keeping with the Soviet aesthetic. These opposing philosophies are not co- equal; rather, Earth is predominantly realist, somewhat beset by moments of idealism. In newspeak:…
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Microscripts // Cabbaggage
Dedicated to Robert Walser, whose life and writing provided the inspiration and impetus for this album. Each piano piece is a meditation on a corresponding "microscript" that Walser wrote, hence the titles. The two cassette-exclusive bonus tracks were especially reflective of Carl Seelig's accounts of their walks together. My first introduction to Walser was through …
Somewhereness // Manipulant
In the album titled Somewhereness, which is defined as “The state or quality of existing in a place that is unknown or cannot be pinpointed”, Manipulant tackles issues like war, cancel culture and climate in his uniquely Manipulant way. Kazoo, snuff tins, plastic desiccant cylinders and keyboard with loads of effect all melt together to …
Psychosomatic Waves // Mazanko
Mazanko was born in lockdown during 2020 as an outlet for cerebral electronic music, with an emphasis on through composition. Destruction of the Outer Realm, the first album of the project, was released in October 2021. walkinclosetrecords.bandcamp.com/album/destruction-of-the-outer-realm It was a deliberate attempt to create electronic music primarily without the use of loops or a steady …
Low Spirits Cage by Iyari
Low Spirits Cage is our fourth release by Barcelona based artist Iyari.
Submarine Broadcasting Company 