1LP Limited Edition Release Date: 17/4/2026 Label: Black Editions
Description
Recorded in 1996 and released without any identifying credits in an essentially private cassette edition, Bibiotheca Hermetica’s sole release, One, was only the second by the Japanese La Musica label and remains one of its more obscure and enigmatic entries. The group works in spaces adjacent to contemporaneous outfits like Nijiumu and Toho Sara though its non-idiomatic improvisations and decentred, free sound explorations call back to seminal collectives such as the Taj Mahal Travellers and the East Bionic Symphonia. The music constantly shuffles and sifts filled with hypnotic clatter and clamour, rattling percussion, toughly scraped strings, gurgling bass tonalities and pirouetting winds. An anonymous transmission from a spectral, dead-of-night mystery zone.
“A group that deconstructs and liberates the chance nature of contemporary classical and noise music to such an extent that their boundaries blur. Their policy of fucking up musical relationships both acknowledges and ignores tradition and is totally different from previous strictly organised methods of composition. A work tonally constructed of foreboding musical vibrations.” - from the original La Musica cassette release.
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