Thomas Köner

You already know we love Thomas Köner’s work as half of Porter Ricks hereabouts. Here are his first three solo albums, of deeply glacial ambience, on the very collectable Barooni label. These are vastly deep, frozen drones, often derived from gongs – his third record was called Permafrost for a reason.

Teimo & Permafrost were reissued as a combined disc in 1997 by Mille Plateaux, but that disc seems to be as rare as the originals; Nunatak/Gongamur seems not to have been reissued since its first release. There are some 192 rips out there; these are new rips, at 320. Turn up your sub-bass and open all the windows.

Nunatak/Gongamur CD, Barooni, 1990

01. Untitled (3:23)
02. Untitled (6:03)
03. Untitled (4:27)
04. Untitled (5:22)
05. Untitled (6:23)
06. Untitled (3:27)
07. Untitled (5:06)
08. Untitled (3:25)
09. Untitled (3:29)
10. Untitled (3:12)
11. Untitled (4:04)

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Teimo CD, Barooni, 1992

01. Ilira (4:01)
02. Andenes (10:14)
03. Teimo (5:15)
04. Nieve Penitentes 1 (3:09)
05. Nieve Penitentes 2 (4:55)
06. Nieve Penitentes 3 (4:31)
07. Teimo (Schluss) (4:27)
08. Ruska (3:47)

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Permafrost CD, Barooni, 1993

01. Nival (5:52)
02. Serac (5:34)
03. Firn (5:32)
04. Permafrost (10:07)
05. Meta Incognita (7:01)
06. ••• (3:25)

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