2 rare historical recordings (1983 and 1986) originally released as single sides and gathered here for the first time.
"Conductor might be my favourite composition and Life & Death Of Pboc might be my most sincere. Conductor was my first composed piece with no obvious reference points ... Life & Death Of Pboc was the second. These two compositions gave me the title Godfather of Dark Ambient."
Limited 300 copies Black Vinyl
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released April 25, 2015
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
(b. 1956 in Linköping, Sweden,
lives and works in Stockholm.
Since the end of the 70s, von Hausswolff has worked as a composer using recording technology as his main instrument and as a visual artist using light projections, film/video and still photography as well as other media.
He has exhibited at dOCUMENTA (Kassel), the biennials in Venice,
Moscow, Liverpool, Istanbul, Sarajevo etc and in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Nicosia, Kaliningrad, Tokyo, London, New York, Philadelphia etc.
His music has been played in festivals such as Sonar (Barcelona), CTM (Berlin), L'audible (Paris), el niche Aural (Mexico City), MUTEK, (Montreal) etc. and release works on LP/CD/DL by labels like Erototox
(Ashevile), SubRosa (Brussels), Touch (London), Pomperipossa (Göteborg) and iDeal (Göteborg).
He recently curated the 2nd part the sound-installation FREQ_OUT named freq_wave in co-operation with TBA21-Academy and collaborates with artist Leif Elggren, EVP re-searcher Michael Esposito, composers Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Mark Fell, Jim O'Rourke, author
Leslie Winer and as Dark Morph (with Jónsi of Sigur Rós). He has also collaborated with Pan sonic, The Hafler Trio, Freddie Wadling and Erik Pauser (as PHAUSS).
Record and production company managed by Guy Marc Hinant and Fred Walheer - releasing records in Electronics/ Experimental/ Unclassical/ Drone/ Noise/ Concrete/ Spoken Words/ Rare recordings/ Rituals genres.
supported by 11 fans who also own “Conductor / Life and Death of Pboc”
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