petit mal music (label) Oakland, California
This site is to document the evolution of "band" to "label", as I had for 15 years performed and recorded solo material under the "petit mal" moniker. In 2008, a series of 3" cds was begun to release my own and related material. Since then, the relations are expanding and I've dropped the solo moniker in favor of my own name. This is now a home for unreleased live recordings, archives and 3" cds. ... more
petit mal music (label) recommends:
Celestial Laminate {2011}
by irr. app. (ext.)
The sputterings of a certain M. S. Waldron and his attempts to convey esoteric knowledge through solo, group and NWW related recordings.
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Imagination/Meditation
by Lucas Brode & G. Calvin Weston
This collaboration between guitarist Lucas Brode and drummer G. Calvin Weston is a freewheeling hybrid of experimentalism, jazz, and more.
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An ambitious cross-genre journey from the Richmond Avant Improv Collective, who bring in 17 (!) guest musicians to fill out their vision.
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Written in response to the climate crisis, “Leviathan” is a brooding and beautifully unsettling batch of dark ambient songs.
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St Celfer returns with tracks culled from a series of live shows, each one a showcase for his inventive experimentalism.
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On this uncompromising LP, the UK outfit NOISE use haunting drone, hissing static and stark electronics to explore repressed trauma.
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