Catalog

PBK-Collapsed Past Cassette, 2009 (St. Petersburg Institute Of Noise)
$6.00 (new - not sealed)

Latest PBK tape release on the S.P.I.N. label. Features the long-form drone compositions: "Scarred Land (for Josh Lay)" & "Shadows & Days Of Bitter Blood".

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PBK-The Deadened Stream Of Eve Cassette, 2009 (Community College Records)
$6.00 (new-sealed, not shrinkwrapped)

PBK tape release from 2009 on the Community College Records label. Limited edition of 60 copies worldwide.

"...A really heavy release, in an emotional sense. Synth tones slither and die and emptiness is personified through audio. So much goes on throughout this release and it is hard to choose what to mention, but the general feeling of dread never goes away, and that's what makes me keep going back to this release as the summer slowly dies and the skies start to turn grey."

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PBK-Under My Breath CD, 2009 (Waystyx)
$10.00 (new-sealed)


Import CD limited edition of 500 copies. Guests: Nocturnal Emissions, Wolf Eyes, Brume, Aube, John Wiggins, Tore H. Boe, Artificial Memory Trace, Dale Lloyd, and C. Reider.

REVIEWS: "PBK reveals dark inner leanings of his shrouded mind with Under My Breath, a full-length CD of extremely varied noises – rattlings, phased drones, heavy throbs and gas jets, layers, distorted voices, digital delay, angelic choirs and mangled synthesizers. Not a single track passes by without conveying certain grisly and creepy sensations of imminent death or disaster, while the lyrical track titles allude to bones, skin, meat, children, fire, air and all the matter in the cosmos refracted through this grim prophet's all-seeing eye. His mystic messages are so secret they are printed backwards on the inside of the front cover, but can be read by positioning the silver CD so it acts as a mirror. Cover is also die-cut with small rectangular holes, allowing us to peer into PBK's fevered brain as if through the bars of a prison or a sewer grating. 'I lived beyond extinction so far', he claims, and who dare gainsay that outlandish boast!" (The Sound Projector)

"PBK... is attached to the old and the new, the younger generation of sound artists. Pieces on 'Under My Breath' were recorded with people like Akifumi Nakajima (Aube), Christian Renou (Brume), Dale Lloyd, John Wiggins, Nigel Ayers, Slavek Kwi (Artificial Memory Trace), Tore Boe and Wolf Eyes. PBK uses 'natural or man-made acoustic sounds, digital glitching and turntable noise', but its his goal to create music that is 'organic' and not (too) noise based. He blends his various source recordings together and makes up a sound that falls half way in the old ambient industrial school and the other half shows an interest in using computer processing for his sounds. ...Throughout the material is quite strong. PBK successfully updates his own 'old' style and makes something new out of it." (Vital Weekly)

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Vidna Obmana-Noise/Drone Anthology CD, 2005 (Projekt)
$10.00 (new - not sealed)

Includes collaborations with PBK, Kapotte Muziek & Big City Orchestra.

These pieces are selected from a variety of obscure (and long unavailable) cassette releases from the late Eighties. While VidnaObmana’s music later evolved into haunting atmospherics, this material displays a noisier aspect of his dark expressions. There is one previously unreleased track (9 minutes of live improv with PBK from 1989). This piece exemplifies the slowburn property, indulging in atonal electronic noise swirling amid a dense cloud of ominous fog. Hoarsely treated vocal utterances drift throughout like hellish harbingers, growing increasingly imminent. Most of these tracks are short (between 3-6 minutes), forcing the compositions to get swiftly to the point (even if that point is buried in fog). A tasty if unsettling glimpse at the birthing days of modern musique concrete. (SonicCuriosity.com)

The career of Vidna Obmana started twenty-one years ago, and to many of his more recent fans - say those who came to know his work in the last twelve or so years - the early works should be a real mystery. This compilation is already a lengthy experience with it's almost seventy-four minutes of noise and drone. Rhythmic pulsation's, screamy vocals, piercing feedback and synths pushed to a single, dark note. Including three collaborations with PBK, Kapotte Muziek and Big City Orchestra, because Vidna Obmana was already doing that in those days. Everything is there from the old days, lovingly re-mastered from hissy cassettes and thus adding another piercing layer of sound. (Vital Weekly)

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PBK & Telepherique-Noise-Ambient Connection CD, 2008 (Monochrome Vision)
$10.00 (new - not sealed)


PBK and Telepherique join forces for this release of unclassifiable abstract sound-sculptures on the Russian label, Monochrome Vision. Both artists use samples, synthetic sound sources and sequencing to create an unsettling atmosphere of structured electronic patterns ranging from intense rhythmic work to strange psychedelic "out-of-body" soundscapes. Titles such as "Ecosystem Interrupt", "Sun Continue To Shine" and "Seen Through Cloud Cover" offer a glimpse into a future world of unpredictable ecological impact. Released in a limited edition of 500 copies.

Russia's Monochrome Vision specializes in new works of old masters from the good old industrial music scene, and as such they have quite a strong catalogue. I gather PBK and Telepherique are the best known, simply because they have been going since many years under the same name. Reading their discographies is like a who's who of industrial music and a catalogue of label names. Their music, solo or in collaboration, doesn't sound like industrial music these days, nor true noise, but highly atmospheric, moody and dark. 'Noise ambient' is indeed a fine term for such music. Ambient industrial the fanzines read in the late 80s. They plough their way through the extensive use of analogue and digital keyboards, playing stretched and sustaining sounds, with small rhythmical loops underpinning these desolate fields. Minimalist drone scapes and rusty samples. It seems as if not much water has passed under the bridge. No extended laptop techniques, over use of plug ins, and everything might be retro for these boys, but its executed with great and style here. (Vital Weekly)

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Government Alpha/PBK-Auditory Hallucination Of Drowsy Afternoon CD, 2007 (Xerxes)
$10.00 (new - in plastic sleeve)

PBK collaboration with Japan's Government Alpha. All sound material recorded during improvised sessions while on the 2004 U.S. "Family Reunion" tour. Mixes PBK's turntablist improvisation with Govt. Alpha's unique approach to the Japanoise aesthetic. This one runs the gamut from power electronics to avant space rock to electroacoustic junk sessions. Beautiful full color artwork collages by Yasutoshi Yoshida.

Govt. Alpha and PBK utilise every weapon available in their respective considerable arsenals, distorting, twisting, abusing, transmuting, fragmenting, rending, torturing, compressing, flaying, and finally leaving the ragged remains for dead, lying in a pool of blood, piss and excrement; pulling out the sound of those squealing, screeching microseconds before impact and stretching it past anything it was ever meant to endure. This is a battery of intense magnitude and constancy, never letting up, never allowing for however brief a time any form of respite or relief, it just keeps coming on relentlessly and determinedly. Finally we have the closing track, ‘Fuscous Sun’, almost a mirror image of the opener, time and the temporal membranes de-shattering to mend themselves and restore the rule of reality, albeit a fractured one, full of hurt, pain and devastation, a reality unlooked-for. As I have often said, the best music, of whatever colour, has the capacity to inspire, to conjure images and to spark off mental chain-reactions. As fanciful (or as some would say irrelevant) as the foregoing might appear, nevertheless this is what ripped through my mind as I was listening to it. Whatever the original intentions of the creators may have been, I can unequivocally attest to the power and might of this fine collaborative effort, bringing with it the hope that these two might venture to grace us with more of their nuclear vision sometime in the future. (Heathen Harvest)

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PBK-Shadows Of Prophecy/In His Throes CD, 1994 (ND)
$10.00 (new - not sealed)

Another classic ND noise release further explores the rugged aural land mass first introduced on the CD "Macrophage". Packaged in letterpress sleeve.

Unlike many noise artists PBK isn’t afraid of roping in hints of other genres in order to perfectly encapsulate his vision; we have swatches of dark ambient (for instance the grind of wheels and milling voices of ‘Fly and Cross’), Eno-esque ambience mixed with disembodied screech and pattering (‘Open the Circle’), the looped musique-concrète of ‘Wind-licked Flames’, the monolithic engine aesthetic of ‘The System’, the glacial ambient crackling of ‘Mind Inflamed’ and the minimalist poppings and cracker detonations of torment. His sheer range exemplifies the utter craftsmanship with which he has put this together – moreover there’s a natural intelligence at work here that some would consider to be bordering on supernatural intuition, every element falls easily into its allotted place and every sound is well-chosen for its ability to summon forth the correct atmosphere and ambience. (Heathen Harvest)

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PBK-Life-Sense Revoked CD, 1996 (Lunhare)
$10.00 (new - not sealed)

Out-of-print import CD features collaborations with AMK, Hands To, Deaf Lions, Jarboe, Vidna Obmana and more.

There are creations in art history, which can‘t be rated by time. Such is creation by PBK (Phillip B. Klingler) and his album "Life-Sense Revoked", created in the end of last century. The listener can‘t know anything about artist‘s biography, about context of this album, but can feel timeless ideas. It is experimental and ageless work of it‘s special abstract noisy ground of sound and conceptual point of theme. (Heathen Harvest)

More excellent abstracted sound sculptures from this amazing artist, including some collaborative pieces with Jarboe, Hands To, AMK, and Brian Ladd. Some truly unique and varied sonic textures here, easily transcending the boundaries between experimental noise and soundtrack styles. (Godsend)

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PBK-Macrophage/The Toil And The Reap CD, 1992 (ND)
$10.00 (new - not sealed)

First PBK solo CD release on the legendary ND label, long out-of-print. Features one collaborative track with Vidna Obmana. Packaged in letterpress sleeve.

Macrophage combines stormy walls of sound with muffled rhythms; sounding at one point like a mechanized torture chamber filled with horses trotting around, but The Toil and the Reap is more conventional, mixing dangerous ambience with insistent electronics. (EST)

Dense, ambient noise wash compositions that gush into white noise territory on currents of searing Learjet backblast and automated cinderblock factory malfunction. Falling asleep to this is challenging, though the Toil portion, from an older recording session, seeps into spacier territory--particularly "Beckoning", a collaboration with Belgian electronic composer Vidna Obmana. Ominous and complex music, packaged in a beautifully-designed cardstock sleeve with raised, embossed design on the front cover. (Reign Of Toads)

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