- 2018 reissue, released on iDEAL
- Double LP comes with new artwork
- Pressed on black vinyl

- Artist
- Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall
- ReleaseProduct
- Monstrance
- Label
- Touch
- Catalogue Number
- TO88
- Release Date
- August 2013
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This 2013 collaboration between Joachim Nordwall and the late Mika Vainio gets reissued by Nordwall’s iDEAL label. Monstrance was inspired by the work of visionary group Einstürzende Neubauten, and the seven entries here are as caustic and challenging as anything the Berlin ensemble have put to tape. Tracks often build to cacophonous blasts of noise over the course of several minutes, and even relatively restrained numbers like the concrete-ish ‘Midas In Reverse’ threaten to break free from their shackles and unleash hell. The undulating drones that underpin ‘Praseodymium’ and ‘Irkutsk’ recall Sunn O))), and there is a hint of Adrian Belew to the sheets of noise that sweep across ‘Alloy Ceremony’.
Digital Track List
- 1 Alloy Ceremony Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall 11:02 Buy
- 2 Live at the Chrome Cathedral Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall 7:05 Buy
- 3 Midas in Reverse Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall 5:32 Buy
- 4 Irkutsk Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall 3:53 Buy
- 5 Praseodymium Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall 8:32 Buy
- 6 Promethium Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall 5:30 Buy
- 7 In the Sheltering Sanctus of Minerals Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall 9:05 Buy
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- Touch
- Catalogue Number
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- Genera - Live at AB Salon, Brussels
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- Touch
- Catalogue Number
- TONE71
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- Touch
- Catalogue Number
- T3311V
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- Touch Live in California 2019
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- Touch
- Catalogue Number
- TONE72
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- Live at the Jazz Cafe
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- Touch
- Catalogue Number
- TO115C
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- ReleaseProduct
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- Catalogue Number
- TO113
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- Artist
- Zoe McPherson and Rupert Clervaux
- ReleaseProduct
- Plafond 5
- Label
- BAKK
- Catalogue Number
- BAKKplafond5
- LP
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- Artist
- The Idealist
- ReleaseProduct
- Deep Shit / The Drop
- Label
- Ideal Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- IDEAL194
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- J M S Khosah / Brassfoot
- ReleaseProduct
- NCA 003
- Label
- NCA
- Catalogue Number
- NCA003
- Cassette
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- Artist
- Mica Levi / Duval Timothy
- ReleaseProduct
- Hosting / Dye
- Label
- NTS
- Catalogue Number
- NTSM1V
- 7"
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- ReleaseProduct
- Mechanical Keyboard Sounds: Recordings Of Bespoke And Customised Mechanical Keyboards
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- Catalogue Number
- JBH084
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- Catalogue Number
- EMEGO255
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- Kneel Before Religious Icons
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- Catalogue Number
- TYPE105
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