eighth batch sold out at source!

thanks for your orders and support!

if you are interested in the tapes of this batch, please get in touch with josh at tomentosa.
he will have a few copies in stock soon.

or you contact the artists directly, they will have a few copies soon:

gimu still waits for his copies of "the whole world is tired today", hope they will arrive soon.
nils quak already sells "tage später sind es jahre" at his bandcamp.
for micromelancolié "order of dissappearance" please contact rob via his facebook or his homepage.

thanks again to the folks out there for their tremendous support!

cw24

gimu
the whole world is tired today c56

it has never worked: the ghostly loop has always appealed to me so I just kept it in hopes one day it would become something. it has, now. the title is just one of those lines one may say a lot in their lifetimes, no matter how hard they’ve tried, “it has never worked”.
if they're running, there's a runaway bus coming: cosmic spasm and a floating tune. it’s all about the atmos.
when i fully understood why some people wanna die: a piece of a song I composed when I was in my first band. It just sounded so good when it was pitched down, I had to create something with it. 

a heart transplanted twice: did you know a transplanted heart can be transplanted again? I didn’t! And, yes, it can, according to what I learned from watching a very popular soap in brazil many months ago.

i say i am never late but we both know sometimes i am: I grew older being very proud of the fact I was always a very punctual person and then one day I realized I was no more and that made me sad, the feeling of losing everything, even self-control 

the next dying generation: or how to use sounds you rip off a song you absolutely love by a band very few know of.

the days off afternoon sleep i truly do hate: the saturday afternoon naps I absolutely love.   
prematurely aging bones: months ago I found out I’ve got prematurely aging bones and have been taking new pills, more pills (…) ever since.   
feel it closing in: shortly before my old band died, a guy who could play the accordion came and joined us. we jammed, it was beautiful and it went nowhere. I’ve never met him again. he’d emailed me a file, some seconds of him playing that accordion. one day I found that file and… a piece of it has become “feel it…”. so simple, so beautiful, so touching. 
 gimu's words about each single track of this album.

each single track of this album makes you feel the bittersweet melancholy of this tired planet spinning in the void. go and buy this tape, it'll will make you feel at home, somehow.

chrome tape,
home-dubbed in real time.
professionally printed j-card.
artwork and layout by wounded wolf press.
limited to 75 hand-numbered copies.

sold out at source! please get in touch with our distro partner tomentosa

cw25

 micromelancolié
order of disappearance c30

gosh. i know this house is haunted. chilling winds out of the nowhere, though i'm sure i've closed the window. my seventh sense tells me there is somebody or something behind the next corner. my cat behaves strange. jumping on my lap, starring into the nowhere. 

drones and sounds like out of a different world.
so hauntingly beautiful you will never forget.

chrome tape,

home-dubbed in real time.
professionally printed j-card.

artwork and layout by wounded wolf press.

limited to 75 hand-numbered copies.

sold out at source!

please get in touch with our distro partner

tomentosa

cw26

nils quak 
tage später sind es jahre c62

"few days later years are gone". never heard a shorter description of the big surprise that happens one certain day while you see yourself in the mirror at early morning. you still fell this certain anger that makes you throw your fistfull of noise against everything. you still feel adrift in this disturbing world, makes you grab for everything beautful available. so nothing happened at all, but who the hell is this guy in the mirror? is this me? who am i? 

powerful and heartbreaking electronic music for those who are young at heart. 

chrome tape,

home-dubbed in real time.
professionally printed j-card.

artwork and layout by wounded wolf press.

limited to 75 hand-numbered copies.

sold out at source!

please get in touch with our distro partner

tomentosa

seventh batch sold out!

thank you all for your orders and support!

if you are interested tapes of this batch, please go to josh at tomentosa. he will have a few copies in stock soon.
the glass house tape is also available at the artist's bandcamp.
micka from deep catalogue even send me a download link to the their part of the split tape cw22:
hesperides
click it and you can enjoy this awesome music for free! 

thanks again, more to come soon!

cw22

sunroom - 

self titled
deep catalogue - 
hesperides

c70

sweet and soft synths for lonely afternoons. what transports you almost instantly to the regions of tender memories? those gentle harmonies? these lullaby like melodies? nevermind, just let it flow, it feels so good... aaah. please, press play again.

guitar and synths droning you into the bliss of a perfect evening. everything is just on its place, your breathing is slow and steady, your mind wander into the landscape of wonderful memories. just one thing disturbs your tranquil mood: the tape will be over in a minute. would you be so kind to share this perfect moment with me? would you be so nice to rewind the tape?
 

split tape for minimalist lovers. and for those who would like to learn about. 

chrome tape,

home-dubbed in real time.
professionally printed j-card.

artwork by sean gadoury

limited to 80 hand-numbered copies.

sold out at source!

please get in touch with our distro partner

tomentosa

p

cw21

glass house

haruspex c44

recorded over 8 months in 2013 and 2014, haruspex is the third full length release by the brooklyn/philadelphia based glass house.  consisting of two side-long pieces written for various electronic, stringed and percussion instruments, the album follows the trajectory set by the duo's previous effort, keeping to the void. here, dense drones oscillate between moods both light and dark, punctuated by heavily processed field recordings and an undercurrent of musicality that implies influences ranging from doom metal to classical. 

two sides of wondeful music from a duet of gifted musicians. will beam you into the void almost instantly!

chrome tape,

home-dubbed in real time.
professionally printed j-card.

artwork by sean gadoury.
limited to 80 hand-numbered copies.

sold out at source!

please get in touch with our distro partner

tomentosa

p

cw20

panabrite
wasteland cycle c30

no matter where you find yourself, whether it’s in a far flung remote desert or a small town motel with an incessant barking dog nearby, you are living your own perpetual wasteland cycle. you return home and immediately are thrown back into it as well, as if you never left. this is a travelogue for the subconscious mind living these experiences; little vignettes and memories of place, arbitrary voices, strange sights, dull and ordinary rituals…

deep music for deep thoughts. or vice versa.

chrome tape,

home-dubbed in real time.
professionally printed j-card.

artwork by sean gadoury.

limited to 80 hand-numbered copies.

sold out at source! please get in touch with our distro partner tomentosa

cw23 & sicsic84

günter schlienz,
micromelancolié,
hering und seine sieben sachen - 
tour tape 2014

c30

günter schlienz - 7th vision
recorded winter 2013 with a diy modular synthesizer.
thanks to ralv for the field-recording.

micromelancolié is robert skrzynski.
recorded in 2013 with no-input mixing board, samples & dictaphone.
edited in 2014 with computer.

hering und seine sieben sachen is daniel voigt.
"musica mobilis" is inspired by the same-titled text from shuhei hosokawa.
the piece was played live on 3 portable cassette players. 

this tape is co-released by sicsic tapes & cosmic winnetou.
edition of 75. homedubbed chromez, stay reel!
photography, design & layout by robert skrzynski

sold out at source!
digital copy available at 
sicsic bandcamp

sixth batch sold out at source.

thank you all for your orders and support!

josh at tomentosa and chris at cooper cult will have a few copies in stock soon. so go and visit their sides, always worth a visit anyway. 

thanks again, more to come soon!

cw17

venn rain
crepuscular raze c28

"recorded in london during the summer riots of 2011"

jimmy billingham, liner notes to „crepuscular raze“

"the [2011 summer] riots have generated significant ongoing debate among political, social and academic figures about the causes and context in which they happened."

wikipedia, „2011 england riots“

jimmy billingham's last release under his „venn rain“ moniker adds a cultural nuance to this ongoing debate. have the suspicion that he felt like being in the eye of the storm recording his „crepuscular raze“. his trademark foggy drones with guitar feedback and fx and stuff makes you feel like lost in a capsule staggering into the outer realms of your inner space. very far out but hey, it feels so good! and keep in mind, the „real“ world around you is and will always be just plain crazy.

buy this tape and keep sane. full stop.

Venn Rain - Crepuscular Raze (medley) by cosmic winnetou

chrome tape,

home-dubbed in real time.
professionally printed j-card.

artwork by sylvia monnier.

limited to 75 hand-numbered copies.
sold out at source!
please get in touch with our distro partners
tomentosa
or
cooper cult

cw18

banana pill

weave c32 

not that i know much about finnland. up there in the north, quite cold, lots of darkness around the year, northern lights, you name it. not that i cared too much about this unknown country. but since i know banana pill's music, which evokes such cosy warmness, sends such gentle flashing light signals to your lost soul, gives you this precious feeling that not all and everything is useless and painful; because sasha and dimitri do such beautiful sound paintings up there, which create fragile ever moving aurorea to your inner screen and touches your soul at regions you had forgotten the very moment you discover santa clause is a hoax, now i know i have to visit finnland. perhaps banana pill's country will inspire me same way. would be nice.

get your prescripted dose of warmness and hope. go and buy this tape.

Banana Pill (medley) by cosmic winnetou

chrome tape,

home-dubbed in real time.
professionally printed j-card.

artwork by sylvia monnier.
limited to 75 hand-numbered copies.
sold out at source!
please get in touch with our distro partners 
tomentosa
or
cooper cult

cw19

asphodel - 
aoikigahara, the black sea of trees
 TALsounds & steffi neuhuber - 
barren is

c72

hundreds of suicides and ephemera related and hint giving of their story left behind by the leavers. the album focuses on the sense of loss.sometimes welcoming, giving one a place to be, a place one can dissolve into and ring as one in the earth. a bliss, a meditation on not being, a relief from human natures cruelty and itself forever. but sometimes one can’t shake of the feelings of lost grace, a once green and sunny heart turning into a disintegrating piece of coal with the truths and the lies. these emerge feelings of darkness, despair and a definite isolation against the world. and all these form a deep meditation upon giving your live, returning to the soil in a ceremonial gesture and the expecting a bliss of “not being” within the shades.

Asphodel - Aokigahara (medley) by cosmic winnetou
 

far from her native vienna, austria, steffi neuhuber met natalie chami at an experimental show at collaboraction during a visit to chicago. their friendship blossomed by way of their shared interests in electro-acoustic improvisation, ambient music, and strong feminism in the experimental music scene. "barren is" documents a series of the duo's live sessions, presented here as recorded at chami's home, without overdubs. the musicians sought to build a shared language in their short time together, pieced together from delay trails, long loops, suspended synth tones, and whispered vocalization. neuhuber performed on contrabass recorder. chami sang, played synthesizers, and processed/looped sounds with pedals.

TALsounds, Steffi Neuhuber - Barren Is (medley) by cosmic winnetou  

chrome tape,

home-dubbed in real time.
professionally printed j-card.

artwork by sylvia monnier.

limited to 75 hand-numbered copies.
sold out at source!
please get in touch with our distro partners
tomentosa
or
cooper cult