The Sloow Tapes cassette ‘Earth Rundown’ contains a concert by Portuguese guitarists Margarida Garcia and Manuel Mota, recorded in Lisbon in 2017. The two musicians, both spearheads of the Portuguese experimental scene, have known each other for many years and form a double-headed monster when playing and recording together…
Miminokoto are: guitarist and vocalist Suzuki Junzo, drummer and Acid Mother Koji Shimura and bassist Nishimura Takuya. Their gig at the Penguin House, Koenji, Tokyo on 7 February 2016 was released simultaneously in 2017 on Suzuki Junzo’s own label Plunk’s Plan (as a CD and a digital album) and on Sloow Tapes (as a limited edition cassette)…
Percussionist Kris Vanderstraeten, bringing his long experience in free improvisation, and relatively young guitarist Frederik Leroux teamed up in November 2016 for a concert at De Audioplant, Antwerpen, where they were recorded by Simon Beeckaert. The concert was released on cassette in an edition of 70 by Bart De Paepe’s Sloow Tapes the following year…
Kohier are Flemish duo Brecht Ameel on baritone guitar and Jürgen De Blonde on synthesizer. The cassette contains improvisations by the duo that vary from slow atmospheric pieces to up-tempo minimalist compositions. The music explores various styles and genres and evokes images of wide and desolate natural scenes: deserts, mountain ranges, pebbles swept in a riverbed. The red cassette…
Alfred 23 Harth (1949) is a relentlessly transgressive musician and composer who has been hammering away at the walls that separate jazz, classical music, punk and performance art since the late 1960s. Relying on free improvisation to achieve his goals, Harth (originally from Kronberg, Germany, but now living…