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Aloe Records Beijing-based limited edition publishing label for mainly experimental music and improvised music.

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Zhu Wenbo - Read Fat City Lyrics (Alone-013)
20/05/2025

Zhu Wenbo - Read Fat City Lyrics (Alone-013)

Choi Joonyong - Paper-Gore (Alone-012)
20/05/2025

Choi Joonyong - Paper-Gore (Alone-012)

releases now (Alone-013)"Fat City is my first band. Ma Meng and I started rehearsal in late 2008, and we stopped activi...
02/05/2025

releases now (Alone-013)

"Fat City is my first band. Ma Meng and I started rehearsal in late 2008, and we stopped activities at the beginning of 2013. At that time we really wrote a bunch of songs. Thanks to some suitable opportunities, I decided to do a special performance at Xiaozu Works on November 1st, 2024, using the lyrics of Fat City as performing materials. I printed all these lyrics on paper, and during the performance I cut them into fragments and picked them randomly and read. The process lasted long time, meanwhile I used a four-track cassette recorder recording and playing back. Forward, reverse, fast and slow. Twenty four lyrics in total. This is all the lyrics I can find, but there are still some forgotten. Now these songs sound like the same song. They have always been like this." - Zhu Wenbo

https://aloerecords.bandcamp.com/album/read-fat-city-lyrics

releases now (Alone-012)'paper-gore' was recorded during Choi Joonyong 2011 STEIM residency in Amsterdam (accompanied b...
02/05/2025

releases now (Alone-012)

'paper-gore' was recorded during Choi Joonyong 2011 STEIM residency in Amsterdam (accompanied by Ryu Hankil and Hong Chulki). Remixed and mastered after 14 years. This is a fascinating album where frequencies, dynamics, left and right channels are pushed to the limit. Choi Joonyong touches the fast-spinning VCRs with paper, and the friction affects the rotation speed, leaving noise, sharp high frequencies that pierce the ears, and sometimes distorted low frequencies from the paper slapping. In addition to the hum of the machine, the physical properties of the paper also cause a subtle change in the sound.

https://aloerecords.bandcamp.com/album/paper-gore

Zhu Wenbo is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who is dedicated to "music that doesn't sound like music". Fat City (2...
11/04/2025

Zhu Wenbo is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who is dedicated to "music that doesn't sound like music". Fat City (2008-2013) was founded by Zhu Wenbo and Ma Meng. contains elements of lo-fi, krautrock, noise rock, etc., one of the representatives of Beijing D-22 and other underground rock memories. Years later, during a performance at the Xiaozu Works, Zhu Wenbo reorganized the lyrics to become collage-style Chinese reading and four-track cassette recorder shifted voices, that seem to see William S. Burroughs and David Lynch's shadows.

Zhu Wenbo - read Fat City lyrics (Alone-013)

Two releases coming soon, they have memories, time, paper media, and seem to be new again. 'paper-gore' was recorded dur...
11/04/2025

Two releases coming soon, they have memories, time, paper media, and seem to be new again. 'paper-gore' was recorded during Choi Joonyong’s 2011 STEIM residency in Amsterdam (with Ryu Hankil and Hong Chulki). Remixed and mastered after 14 years. This is a fascinating album of frequencies, dynamics, and left and right channels going to extremes.

Choi Joonyong is a bad voice of noise / experimental / improvisation music in Seoul. In the early days, he mistakenly created light industrial electronic noise using playback devices such as CD players, MP3 players, tape players, VCRs and speakers... In his solo performances in recent years he has shifted to a more conceptual post-fluxus performance, where he is interested in control and failure of playing through improvisation and composition. Screenshot by STEIM

Choi Joonyong - paper-gore (Alone-012)

pre-order now (Alone-011)Alone-011 is a solo album by Tom Soloveitzik. He works with the materiality of sound, the pract...
16/12/2024

pre-order now (Alone-011)

Alone-011 is a solo album by Tom Soloveitzik. He works with the materiality of sound, the practice of listening, and the potentiality of recording [a ‘field’] through performance and writing.

'麻布 diaries' recorded while Tom was living in Japan, most of the sounds come from his practice at home. The sound is quiet, subdued, intriguing and full of detail. On track 2, if you listen closely, you can hear the clarinetist practicing in another room as Tom taps his thumb on the reed, which he describes himself as an invisible metronome. Last track is a field recording from Zao onsen (2023, a ski resort north of Fukushima. Tom placed the recorder inside the saxophone to record. If the track 2 is amplifying the room/space with the use of the saxophone as an object the track from Zao onsen listens to the saxophone as an historic and social phenomena, from the outside.

https://aloerecords.bandcamp.com/album/diaries

pre-order now (Alone-010)Alone series brings a brand new album ‘EAB’ from Shanghai‘s musician 朱松杰 . He mainly uses guita...
16/12/2024

pre-order now (Alone-010)

Alone series brings a brand new album ‘EAB’ from Shanghai‘s musician 朱松杰 . He mainly uses guitar to play improvisation music, blending with feedback and noise. He is also the organizer of the experimental live performance series: Voice of Turtle, and a member of Free Music Collective of Shanghai. His last solo album ’Summertime Blues‘ (ZMY 025). This time around, he returns with a dry crackle-box style of noise and disintegrating electric guitar blues.

https://aloerecords.bandcamp.com/album/electroacoustic-blues

New The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music article ‘Revolution of everyday life’ interviews Sun Yizhou , Aloe Records and ...
09/11/2024

New The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music article ‘Revolution of everyday life’ interviews Sun Yizhou , Aloe Records and Beijing’s improvised music scene. Written by Worthington , photographed by Boway Young.

Sun Yizhou, Zhu Wenbo, and Zhao Cong will be touring the UK and Europe starting in mid-January next year. Stay in touch.

pre-order now (Alone-009)Sun Yizhou 孙一舟 born in 2000, lives in Beijing. He plays one or more mis-operated appliances in ...
06/09/2024

pre-order now (Alone-009)

Sun Yizhou 孙一舟 born in 2000, lives in Beijing. He plays one or more mis-operated appliances in real-time out of contradiction and uncertainty, in a state of irregularity or homogeneneity. Has been performing and recording with different musicians in different places from 2019 to the present.

"I plugged the mixing board’s own noise floor into the feedback containing an effector, no other sources. After pressing start, i didn't touch the equipment again, all the sounds were played on their own. At the end of the recording, it was raining outside the window."

https://aloerecords.bandcamp.com/album/typewriter-in-the-rain

pre-order now (Alone-008)Evan Lindorff-Ellery is a visual/sound artist based in upstate New York and co-founder of the t...
07/07/2024

pre-order now (Alone-008)

Evan Lindorff-Ellery is a visual/sound artist based in upstate New York and co-founder of the tape label Notice Recordings. Much of his work relates to field recordings and free improvisation of objects in an outsider, lo-fi aesthetic. He is interested in the nuances of otherwise unharnessed sounds.

The album 'Cymbals and Night' is a combination of field recordings and free improvisation. It's all recorded on a low fidelity iPhone, which doesn't have the "purity" of live listening. Many different noises interact with each other in the phone's own compression and signal-to-noise ratio algorithms. There is no such thing as perfection on this album. The unintentional humming of the baritone, the friction between the stone and the concrete, you can hear him playing, walking, and so on. When he stops playing, the sound of the wind accompanied by the chirping of insects brings you imagination.

https://aloerecords.bandcamp.com/album/cymbals-and-night

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