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Black Note is devoted to electronic and experimental music. Here you will find a wide range of material, from music specifically designed to invoke altered states of consciousness to carefully constructed electronica and raw improvisations.  Our label is intended for those rare listeners who want to find truly unique music that defies pre-established boundaries and finds the common ground in apparently polar opposites.

Pluribus - Miniatures Vol 2

A new collection of experiments, featuring new approaches to tonality, minimalism, glitch and drone.

$7  Available at Bandcamp

Prospero - Digressions

13 explorations of experimental electronica -
ranging from dark ambient glitch to serial counterpoint.

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Pluribus - Miniatures Vol 1

A collection of experiments, featuring new approaches to tonality, minimalism, glitch and drone.

$7  Available at Bandcamp

Pluribus - Melek Vol 1

A collection of recent Pluribus experiments (2020 - 2022).

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RFCL - Clouds of Thought

A collection of short RFCL tracks originally constructed as parts of several web page installations.

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RFCL - Vitrale

Free improvisation mixed with a kind of hidden algorithmic structure and a minimalist aesthetic.

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Pluribus - Strange Contingency

A collection of recent Pluribus experiments (2020 - 2022).

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RFCL - Philo

A night of free improvisation, augmented by loops, echos and synths.

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RFCL - The Ritual and the Object

A collection of tracks from 2013-2014, all remixed and remastered for 2021.
Plus 7 brand new ambient mixes.

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RFCL - Saint Charles

A collection of early RFCL recordings at our former St Charles headquarters -
newly re-imagined, remixed and remastered for 2021.

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RFCL - Inhabitants of the Emptiness

A project from 2014 -
never before available as a full CD.
Remastered and lightly remixed.

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Pluribus - Itzuli

Delicate and harsh
treading lightly at the edge of madness
soft touch
with a hint of a rough surface.

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Prospero - Yeratama

The past re-examined.
The past broken into tiny bits
and reconstructed new shapes
emerging from old forms.

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Prospero - Excursus

an action of leaving suddenly
a temporary shift of subject

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RFCL - Experience is a Tunnel

Each of these ambient minimalist pieces
was originally composed for a distinct RFCL video project.
They were remixed and remastered
many years after their original composition.

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Prospero - Extime

impossible-real kernel
the Other in the midst of the Other itself
a foreign body in its very heart
that strange body in my interior which is
"in me more than me"

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Pluribus - Migajas 1

Pluribus is an ongoing sequence of experiments
in group musical improvisation,
the purpose of which is to re-define
the role of individual musicians
in the creation of electronic music.

$7  Available at Bandcamp

RFCL - Rare is the Moment

Rare is the moment,
rare is the space,
rare is the mass that falls
without making a sound.
rare is the sound itself.

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RFCL - In The Company Of The White Rabbit

Something unforgettable and fanged, a shadow of legend, now in Technicolor. Backwards a record spins through our entire time stream liberating consciousness from its physical framework in a complex dance of sonic manipulation. One might call it music.

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RFCL - Time And Other Disturbances

"Indifferent to time and other disturbances, I lived in stillness."
Innocent melodic sojourns of minimalist piano and vibraphone amble into urgent electro noir tracks, and the adventure lies in the transitions from sparkling promise to pensive paranoia.

$7  Available at Bandcamp

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Prospero - Freedom And The Process

12 tracks of delicate electronic noise and glitch coalescing into an ambient tapestry of melodic guitar and silvery experimental processing. A sound of the future, of the satiny dreams of mechanical things spiraling around an eternal core.

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RFCL -  Image Of The Invisible Unknown

Six electronic tracks exemplify the destiny of the Dissonance movement; sweeping from subtle ambient spaces into the traumatic nightmares of cyborgs. Repetitive loops touch upon the frontiers of minimalism in a liminal space littered with glitch, ghostly female vocalizations, spoken word, primal growls and maniacal laughter.

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Kyron - Entheogenic Cowboy

The wasteland scrubbed away the soldier and man that was, leaving only a phantom shining darkly at the limits of consciousness.
Sometimes flowering and climbing sweetly, sometimes biting, electric guitar mingles with ethereal loops and a driving aesthetic to create a chimera of musical arrangements spanning the genres of ambient dub, glitch, IDM, and minimalism.

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RFCL -  The Matter

There are those who dig deep into secrets. Quietly, unnoticed, reaching for the impossible against all odds. Dark, ambient, noise, and glitch escort you to the heart of The Matter.

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RFCL -  Chant : ITFC

A miracle household device to revolutionize the world.
A single 40 min long track of unrelenting hypnagogic electronic musick.

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Prospero - Agnostikon

With 12 cosmological tracks, Agnostikon is ambient electronic music for the most silent psychonauts, designed to scramble the interface between the mind and molecular matter to offer new views and points of multicolored perspective.

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Urban Shamanism - Primordial Inheritance

The 3 ritual trance pieces here are focused on deep levels of shamanic gnosis,using sounds as primordial elements to travel vast astral words searching for our primigenian inheritance.

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Prospero - Between Spinning Nothing

Coiled surprise lightly glistening on the other side of closed doors. 16 ambient experimental electronic tracks lead you through rippling shining unforgiving tumultuous insistent will, half heard before waking.

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RFCL -  Man With A Gun

A musical odyssey through the blood soaked terrain of the mythic American West. Ambient experimental soundscapes from the wasteland.

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RFCL - Joyful Noise Vol 2 : Nomina Nuda Tenemus

Birthed from a night of intensive musical experimentation and invocation, Nomina Nuda Tenemus explores mystical fervor through burning viola and fascinating vocalization set in a matrix of transgressive electronic music touched by dark ambient, dub, dance, noise.

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Itzpapalotl

Itzpapalotl is an hour long minimalist ambient piece that shifts smoothly from one chamber to another. It was composed using many layers of sound fragments and loops taken from political marches, movies, tv shows, childhood recordings and the political left wing protest songs of the early 80s.

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RFCL - The Labyrinth Of Ohgel

Based on a series of unique interconnected web installations, The Labyrinth of Ohgel is a dark ambient musical voyage through 14 chambers. Created from a mix of found sound and recordings, each piece is a smooth sonic construct with its own distinct mood.

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Projective Module


Projective Module 3:
Other Things That Happened

The three immortals slumber and awaken in the presence of a friendly star. Life begins anew within the matrix of a once dormant system, and things twinkle and sparkle to life, singing out to the cosmos.

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RFCL - Joyful Noise Vol 1 : Tamoanchan

Here is the making place, Tamoanchan, where the old lives in the new, and the new springs from the old. Live acoustic improvisation meets with found sounds, samples from lost songs, passages from forgotten texts.

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Kyron -Perdurabo

Magickally inspired electronic music with an occult glitch agenda; alien sounds that can only be ingested by those willing to delve deeply into a distorted mirror.

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Projective Module


Projective Module 2:
Until It Finally Disappears

The electronic dub glitch soul of a people made of mud.

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RFCL - ISULA

The deepest self, like a desert island hidden in an endless sea, awaits the fearless conquistador. Here are his foot prints,
pressed into virgin shores, there is the dark jungle where he encountered the Other.
Will you follow into this experimental jungle of dub glitch and ambient chill?

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Kyron - Union

Union began as a live recording of a wedding ceremony held in Yosemite National Park. Samples were extracted from the wedding ritual as well as from the wealth of nature to be found in Yosemite. The babbling of a brook, the wind in the trees, the voice of the rabbi... a variety of elements were brought together to create the astounding 28 tracks that became Union.

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Via Sinistrae - Lehadbik

Trace the sonic maps of a timeless labyrinth with this unpredictable mix of dub, electronica, noise, industrial and raw magick.

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RFCL -
The Heart of the Music Box

A constantly shifting dub voyage laced with unrepentant noise, traveling slowly into chaotic dispersion.

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Projective Module


Projective Module
That And Nothing Else...

That star that your eye lingers upon and adores tonight may be only a loving sigh issued forth by a flaming orb in a remote distant past. From their own perception and interpretation of these celestial footprints in the abyss, three immortal descendants of the primordial Mother and Queen of the Heavens bring you Projective Module, the sound of those sighs and once whispered endearments.

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Kyron & Molina -
Melting Point

Melting Point is an audio artifact from a night of electroacoustic experimentation and a collection of the musical explorations and remixes that developed from it. Both improvised and composed elements are woven together to form a continuous whole.

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Kyron x Griddle -
City Made of Teeth

Like patches of fabric introduced to one another through the matrix of a quilt, each track stands apart from the others and in harmony with its neighbors. Together they create a haunting electroacoustic view of a futuristic urban maze, a sonic tour of A City Made Of Teeth.

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Kyron - Sonic Mandalas

Mandalas have been employed by a variety of spiritual traditions to awaken the kernel of sanctity that lies dormant within all of the manifested universe. These Sonic Mandalas continue that tradition and may be used to focus attention and exercise pure consciousness in a trance state. They are also beautiful and enjoyable as pure musical experiences.

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Radio Free Clear Light -
Live at Godspeed

Recorded during a live ritual performance at Godspeed, dark ambient looping, electronic improv, driving beats, and wraithlike vocals take the listener by storm. RFCL gives expression to high experience with all of its horror and delight in a 50 min musical journey from the moon to the deep underground and back.

"...a mix of atmospheric ritual ambient electronics and loops, hip-swaying tribal percussion and voices, weaving together in a beguilingly hypnotic harmony." 
Heathen Harvest

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Kyron - Dark Goddess

From inner space to outer space, through the organic swamps of subconscious creation into bright and burning cosmic ecstasy, Dark Goddess grips you in its fierce talons and wails into existence without inhibition. Electronic soundscapes that conjure cyberpunk images give way to organic beats, croaking, and mirthful debauchery.

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The Lesser Ritual of Banishment

An esoteric musical setting of one the most useful ancient rituals of practical magic. The music has been carefully designed to magically enhance and contribute to the ritual.

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Journey to Alpha

An ambient sound space designed to take you into a very specific altered state of consciousness: the Alpha state.

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Journey to Theta

An ambient sound space designed to take you into a very specific altered state of consciousness: the Theta state or dream space.

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Shamanmusic 2 - Sacred Shamanic Sex

The music in this CD was created with the intention of working as an active element in a series of invocations in which Koyote, a Central American Shaman, continued this tradition, passing on this teaching through a live ritual in such a way that it takes hold in each individual essential self, activating the work of the Sacred Serpent within each of the ones attending.

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Kyron - Shaman Music 1

The music in this CD was created with the intention of working as an active element in the service of a group shamanic experience. Our intention was to take a small group from the "normal" human dimension into a more subtle space and state, and then get them back safe and sound. This is the first in a series.

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Via Sinistrae - The Tower

Electronic music verging on noise, stirring vocalizations, and unexpected mutations interact with the pre-linguistic aspect of the listener’s psyche, drawing them into the fold. True to the spirit of the live ritual,  this music demolishes standardized forms and electrifies the senses.

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Prospero - Fibonacci

The Fibonacci sequence of numbers has been connected to many natural phenomena, to ancient constructions and patterns of turbulence. It is also related to esoteric systems of Magick. The music in this CD is based on various translations and isomorphisms of this number sequence. From basic tuning and sound creation, to rhythmic patterns and melodies, everything you hear has a correspondence in the Fibonacci sequence.

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Children of the Secret

Now available at stores nationwide!

A musical gift for those travelers who yearn to learn the secrets that lie beneath the veil...

"...shattered all your preconceived ideas of electronic music."  (Steve-O)BPM Magazine

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Triborg

Carefully designed ambient dub atmospheres suddenly breaking apart into raging cauldrons of electronically driven sonic explosions!

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Kyron - Doorways

A dive into dark waters, into unexplored territories at the outer fringes of consciousness. "Doorways" opens up into subtle spaces that evolve and spiral through your mind in unpredictable patterns. A pure dark electronic ambient exploration, it demands your full attention and rewards it with forbidden sonic caresses from the forgotten corners of reality.

"...a 65-minute long apocalyptic score for a lovely psychological horror trip." Phosphor Magazine

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Kyron - Fin de Etapa

An intimate and mysterious storyline strewn together from lost voice messages and other raw recordings, dipped into a wide array of musical styles. A strong current of pure, raw emotion is the foundation for the whole chaotic and extremely unpredictable construction. The voice dives and swims into the overpowering waves of sound sometimes emerging reborn and covered in new meanings.

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Trip Tech - SLIDE

Trip Tech inhales the sacred old air of the Delta blues and soaks it in a fresh bath of dark ambient atmospheres and IDM beats. The slide guitar flows right in, as if the two poles were merely imaginary creations of a brain seeking clear categories. Beyond the brain, the sounds interweave and become pure music, folk electronica, ambient blues...

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Kyron - Whims Vol 2

"Whims Vol 2", like its predecessor, was created in the manner that the title suggests, by following sudden bursts of creativity to their natural evolution. Through this process many more whims were suggested and new musical possibilities were discovered.

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RFCL - Black Valley

Many years later I had the luck to have Menlo Mcfarlane along with a few other voyagers in my studio and the old spirit of the Black Valley sessions emerged anew. Suddenly those jewels emerged from the past, reforming into new shapes, sounds and words...
Close your eyes, open your heart and mind and allow the secret chamber of the Black Valley to become a part of  your own realm.

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RFCL - Treading Softly Against the Tide

The central thesis of this recording is the persistence of attention through transformation. Once a certain degree of will, care and intention have been put into a particular structure, this structure will carry these qualities through any series of mutations and rebirths. . A small sound structure (originating from a short improvisation session) is made to undergo a sequence of journeys and to inhabit alien spaces.

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