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The fine people over at  Delirium Psychosis Productions  have released yet another wonderful compilation, and yet again, we were lucky enough to take part. Here's a message from the DPP team: 54 years after the Stonewall Uprising inaugurated the gay rights movement, we find ourselves once again in the fight for our lives. Trans genocide must be resisted by any means necessary. We are undergoing a deep historic process in the fight for our liberation, one that has been met with the utmost cruelty at the hands of bourgeois counterrevolution. Stand up, fight back, smash gay oppression. All proceeds donated to The Trevor Project.   Harsh Noise Wall Means Fight Back: Smash Gay Oppression by Delirium Psychosis Productions This time, the contributions on our end were: Haggari Nakashe - Echoed Sentiments gaop - Thelxiepia   Special shoutout to MEZZUU , yet another participant, who's also starring on our upcoming split series.

Now here's a fun little treat! A new collab album by Haggari Nakashe & gaop . It's been on repeat at RZRHQ since we got the master files, happy days indeed. This one is a bit of everything thrown into the lab, a tad of jazz, ambient, drone, beats, noise, a very good listen. A word from the artists: Synth & Sax for the Elderly, a collaboration between gaop and Haggari Nakashe, paying homage to our ancestors via noisy drones, sax abuse and a few beats. Inspired by life itself.   Synth & Sax for the Elderly by Haggari Nakashe & gaop

The kind folks over at  Delirium Psychosis Productions  released a 50 track compilation titled " Psychic War Against Cop City: An Extreme Music Compilation " with the profits going to the  Atlanta Solidarity Fund . It's a good compilation with lots of interesting tracks and genres, and a very good cause. Some of our artists participated, so if you're into the stuff we're doing, here's a great opportunity to contribute or just take a moment to learn about this important cause. Psychic War Against Cop City: An Extreme Music Compilation by Delirium Psychosis Productions Here are the direct links to the tracks: Haggari Nakashe - Modern Life   gaop & NishMa - It Must Flow Paxit - The Hidden Tongue Haggari Nakashe's track is a synth drone gone noise. gaop & Nishma's track is multilayered noise, with drums and heavily distorted woodwinds. Paxit delivered straight up experimental doom metal.

The following release sparks much joy in our hears. It's a collaboration between Haggari Nakashe and gaop  that's both beautiful and intelligent. The rich, dark, ambient sounds of this track, are haunting and lovely, blending piano with synths in a droning and slows manner, suitable for both active and passive listening. Here are a few words from the artists: 'Topic to Topic #2' is a musical experiment that seeks to examine what would happen to a piano composition ripped out from the modern or post modern genres, into the realms of downtempo, electronic drone music, effect-heavy and synth-laden. The result is this atmospheric, 34 minute track. Beeping, humming, dragging like doom metal, yet retaining its grace. Topic to Topic #2 by gaop & Haggari Nakashe

We're thrilled to present In and Out of Town   by gaop. A wonderfully tiny EP that is as beautiful as it's ominous.  It's a fun gem that dives headfirst into Eastern European traditional folk music, breaking the mold to study the pieces and rebuild it in a new, inspired way. 'In and Out of Town' is an exploration of Slavic and Balkan folk motifs via via the prism of avantgarde jazz, film scores, and improvised free music. In these six tracks, clocking just under seven and a half minutes, this EP utilizes traditional Ukrainian wooden flutes, clarinet, recorders and sax to paint a multitrack picture that's can be both familiar and distant. The woodwind sounds of this release can be eerie at times, or even haunting, but not deep under the experimental nature of this release, lie the sounds of home. In and Out of Town by gaop

gaop & NishMa present:  Snake Handling Gloves . Drums, recorders and electric organ. Simple and brilliant.  Abstract, jazz like, nightmarish. Conjuring ambulances, rattlesnakes, dangerous woods, poisonous attacks, hallucinations, trips to the hospital, bagpipes, abandoned churches, deserts, scary birds, warm bottled water, Lars von Trier and other stuff too. Good stuff. Snake Handling Gloves by gaop & NishMa

Reflections, by Haggari Nakashe & gaop, is an hour long drone / dark ambient piece, with electroacoustic and musique concrète overtones. It's suitable for trance like states, deep thinking, meditation, frightening trips, horror movies and probably nature movies too. Available on all streaming platforms, but mostly for purchase on Bandcamp (below) and on Spotify . Reflections by Haggari Nakashe & gaop

RZRecords proudly present The Hidden Hand, a brand new single by NishMa , gaop & Haggari Nakashe , collaborating on a drone oriented noise track, accompanied by live drums. The track is available for streaming on most platforms, and for purchase via BandCamp . 2023 is looking great release wise, with a strong first quarter, and a few more surprises up our sleeve for the near future. The Hidden Hand by gaop

 We're super excited to present  The Jazz of Shapes to Come , a brand new gaop album. It's a celebration of electro-acoustic pianos, woodwind instruments, bells and tape recorder hiss sounds. While the title obviously references the Coleman masterpiece, The Jazz of Shapes to Come is a different take on free jazz or avant-garde, with an approach that's more mellow, rooted equally in ambient as it is with musical giants such as Art Ensemble of Chicago. The album is available on most streaming platforms, purchase via BandCamp and is do for a limited physical release in the future. The Jazz of Shapes to Come by gaop

Haggari Nakashe has released a holiday themed EP titled " Tis the Season for Revenge " and we love it. Three dark ambient tracks, it's all you ever wanted, all you ever needed, here in your arms.

gaop 's Sick Days is an interesting take on genres like grunge, noise rock, punk, stoner rock and indie, serving as a fusion and revision of the above, via the experimental gaop prism. Live and programmed drums, guitar, bass, synths and vocals, all provided by this one-man-band. This release has no real aspirations to become a part of any of the corrupt, co-opted genres it explores, and yet it wins in advance by not participating. It's a labor of love, creative onanism, fun and effect pedals. This release is available for purchase via BandCamp , and for streaming on most streaming platforms. Sick Days by gaop

  A super fun collaboration by NishMa and gaop . The first thee tracks are by NishMa. They're wonderfully cinematic, larger than life soundscapes that conjure sci-fi drama, vast futuristic dystopias, dark skies filled with rusted flying cars. The last three tracks are by gaop. They're conceptual attempts at deconstructing traditional IDM music into easy listening piano ambient music, using the usual tools of the trade and an electric piano. The track "Marcel will return", sandwiched right in-between the other tracks, is a joint effort by both gaop and NishMa, delivering top execution from both artists. gaop / NishMa by gaop / NishMa

Software Bondage and gaop  provide four tracks each, eight tracks in total. Software Bondage brings crunchy, minimalistic, noise oriented sounds, a really interesting take on noise, with rhythmic patterns, melodies, granular distortion and lots more stuff that makes it stand out in the genre. gaop mixes woodwind instruments, ambient, electroacoustic, IDM, avant-jazz and some other stuff thrown into this weird beautiful mix. Software Bondage / gaop by Software Bondage, gaop

Split album by Yasuyuki Uesugi and gaop . It's a very interesting listen indeed. FROM THE ARTISTS: A split release featuring the music of Yasuyuki Uesugi and gaop. The result is a harmonious blending, combining two schools of electronic music. Yasuyuki Uesugi offers layered, textured, repetitive and somewhat ritualistic works of sound art, honoring the long standing tradition of Japanese noise. gaop brings a different variation to the table, in the form of electronic ambient with hints of classical, minimalist, avant-garde. May this combination be a blessing to your ears. Yasuyuki Uesugi / gaop by Yasuyuki Uesugi, gaop

Our dearly beloved friend and collaborator, Itai Matos , has released an album, which we support and even assisted in the distribution of. Titled "The Second Coming of Itai Matos", it's an honest diary, obsessively documenting self analysis, introspection, anxiety, pain, love, addiction, restlessness and other, more mundane happenings. This weirdly beautiful collection of songs is the epitome of TFIM (The Famous Itai Matos), it's all over the place, navigating the wide spectrum of rock, channeling influences, stirring up memories, it's a homage, it's a work of outsider art, it's everything all at once. Spoken word poetry read over synth noise, followed by surf music, followed by 90's electro-rock, followed by more 90's style alternative with noise rock influences, suddenly exploding into something that's more of the same and yet something completely different. It also mixes English and Hebrew. It's an all around mash up.  It's a strange...

Sfinot, a collaboration between Itai Matos and gaop is now available for streaming, purchase, and as a limited multi-format release. This three track EP merges noise oriented soundscapes with spoken word poetry. Sfinot / ספינות by gaop, Itai Matos Here's the original cover, featuring a very young Itai Matos, taken at gaop's bedroom studio, on an early digital camera: You can find most of Itai's solo albums on his bandcamp, right here: Itai Matos . We encourage you to follow his page and support him by purchasing his releases.  His discography is pretty interesting, with tracks in both English and Hebrew, spanning across various genres. 

This type of post is really fun (for us to do), a blast from the past if you will. We hope you appreciate it cos sometimes nostalgia can be a bit like smelling your own farts. That said, so is experimental music, so there's that. We can only hope you like it. This post is dated back, but we're actually writing it in the future, or present, because while the release is from the past, the update is of the here and now type. The release, Moth, by gaop , is one of the first physical copy releases by RZR. Dating back to 2004-2005. Originally released as a four track EP (tracks 1-4). Later released with three additional tracks (and another hidden gem that kicks in after three minutes of silence). The CDR came in a paper sleeve, with the art and details xeroxed and glued on both sides. Some versions of the CDR were numbered, some were spraypainted, there were several batches. Everything was put together after hours, in various living rooms. Here are pictures of a copy of the release...