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Recorded in one mystical night during Ramadan in 1982, The Night of Power (Laylatu'l Qadri) is a prophetic tapestry of politically and spiritually conscious poetry and revelatory home-studio electronic jazz The Night of Power was composed, performed and recorded by Dennis Matthews (credited on the record as Abdur Razzaq) in his... -
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After an international tour of over 100 dates, French 79 is ready to unveil his third album entitled TEENAGERS This opus gives us such unique and strong sensations, partly because the synths were recorded at Jean-Michel Jarre's studio in Paris and the tracks were mixed and mastered by Damien Quintard a Miraval studios TEENAGERS...
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After the recent Experiments re-issue with 90's off-style unclassifiable tracks composed by the legendary Dub producer - The Disciples - Androo (NS Kroo) sets out to re-create and freely adapt this material The fact that Sound Metaphors chose Androo to re-construct these works in to new material is not random Androo has been...
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You Can Can is an echoed affirmation, an album which traces song forms around silence, field recordings, and degraded analog memories This is folk music transmogrified and mutated, as if recorded and reconstructed in Pierre Schaffer’s GRM studio Not your typical Mariposa folk duo, the group is comprised of Toronto avant-music...
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Control Freak Recordings are thrilled to be launching its new reissue sub-label with Soul Oddity’s Tone Capsule - a seminal electro/IDM classic from mid-90s Miami Originally released as a series of 3 EPs, the reissue compiles these into a single release, newly remastered by Keith Tenniswood (Radioactive Man) -...
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Neil S Kvern’s Doctor Dancing Mask: Pianoisms is a near mythical marker on the map of late 20th century experimentalism transpiring in America’s Pacific Northwest A sublime, spacious effort of left field DIY minimalism constructed from recurring piano pieces, hypnotic percussion, and a peppering of diverse instrumentation,...
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On their debut album, cross-continental duo I'm Not You attempt to spike symphonic post-rock with postmodern eccentricity Split between Berlin and Edinburgh, I'm Not You have a wealth of cultural experience to pour into their compositions Yet the overwhelming influence comes from Scotland, specifically the Glaswegian post-rock...
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What a wild ride this record is - featuring music from a lost tape of devotional keyboard jams, field recordings of migrating birds, mysterious bells, meditative noise and crooked new beat/EBM, made god-knows-when and subsequently discovered in a Thessaloniki charity shop years later It now somehow finds its way to vinyl, newly...
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Andreas Koeper is a German contemporary/experimental composer and drummer with a background in Philosophy and Art history “Niemand Tanzt” was originally released in 1989 and in the past years it has become a sought after obscurity amongst diggers ever since Chee Shimizu put it on the radar after unearthing it throughout...
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Jon K and Elle Andrews’ MAL imprint returns with a new LP from one of the London experimental underground's best kept secrets, Rory Salter aka Malvern Brume His music is rare, eccentric and mysterious - somewhere between Coil's bleak ritual magick and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's most experimental, minimal fringes Malvern...
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In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the incomparable 90’s band known as Brainiac This is in part due to a 2019 full feature documentary about the band (Transmissions After Zero) plus the re-emergence of surviving band members to celebrate their music in the last several years In addition, a...
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Sound-art collage of field recordings, voicemails and improvisations collected and curated by LAMFS founder member Joe Potts "Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members Chip Chapman, Joe...
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Crunt began in 1993 as a kind of indie rock supergroup and had their 1994 debut album touted by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Crunt's members included guitarist/vocalist Stuart Gray (aka Stu Spasm) and bassist/vocalist Kat Bjelland Gray was well-known in Australia by the start of Crunt for his past involvement in the bands Salamander...
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Felix Laband’s The Soft White Hand is the masterwork of an artist who expresses himself through musical and artistic collage acting together to reinterpret his sources and to express significant elements of his own personal story Released by Munich-based Compost Records, the 14-track album is Laband’s first full-length...
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Deaf Safari is an audio collage of subjects that interest me and speak of the world I live in It is an album composed of sampled recordings from the media landscape that has been the soundtrack to my life over the last ten years The most important development in my current music and as can be heard on Deaf Safari has been my...
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Previously unissued Electro / Synthwave from 1985 300 copy press, blue vinyl! "The Outer Edge is proud to present the first ever vinyl release of “No Message” by Art P, a still lesser known and lost masterpiece from the PAP archives Art P (initially Art Programming) was an electronic music duo consisting of Jens-Markus...
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Now pressed on vinyl after an elusive run on tape earlier this year, DK meets downbeat mystic Sabla for a devotional offering on his fledgling Worship label; a smoky, moonlit, dubbed-out special, like some lost mid 90’s Mo Wax x Chain Reaction collab Offering an absorbing switch-up from the musclier ‘Gate of...
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In 1978 Having Been Built on Sand was conceived as a vinyl edition and released by the Rüdiger Schöttle gallery in Munich with sleeve design by Weiner The piece consists of eight untitled tracks Lawrence Weiner, Tina Girouard, and Britta Le Va recite text with Dickie Landry’s woodwinds, all recorded in the natural reverb of...
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Telekinesis—an eighty-seven-piece work for electric guitars, orchestra, choir and electronics—will be released on November 11, 2022, via New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records Featuring the Metropolis Ensemble conducted by Andrew Cyr, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus conducted by Dianne Berkun Menaker, and chamber choir The Crossing...
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After the legendary French Ethno-industrial group Vox Populi! faded into obscurity in the early 1990s, members Arash Khalatbari, Ariel Kyrou, Axel Kyrou, Chester Harlan, Mithra, Pierre Jolivet and Francis Manne all embarked on new artistic adventures in their own way Some, like bassist Francis Lafont aka fr6 Manne, aka Kosa...
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In astrology, the planet Jupiter represents prosperity and expansion It’s a generous planet, and when you’re aligned with it, you are bound for growth On Jupiter’s Purse, the debut EP from Dallas-based musician and performer MATTIE, that growth feels imminent Two years in the making, Jupiter’s Purse is a collaboration...
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The album’s Texas-based producer John Mark Lapham was a member of Secretly Canadian band The Earlies Voids employs the vocal talents of Bill Callahan, Emily Cross, Adam Torres, and Julia Holter across twelve genre-fluid, yet impressively cohesive tracks that span baroque dream-pop, filmic ambient, raga-like drones,...
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New Zealand legend BRENT HAYWARD aka FATS WHITE is probably best known as the vocalist and guitarist in Wellington and Aukland post-punk bands like SHOES THIS HIGH and KIWI ANIMAL, but when he wasn't collaborating with others he recorded solo as SMELLY FEET As Smelly Feet, Hayward performed on both street corners and stages...
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Warehouse find, last copies Bo Weavil presents a sublime duo recording from old sparring partners Oren Ambarchi and Robbie Avenaim, recorded live in Tel Aviv in 2009 This is a single edit of the performance which perfectly captures the chemistry between Robbie's busy percussive maneuvers and Oren's textural overlay A previous...
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This Special Edition of The Beatles’ REVOLVER features a new mix by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, the original mono mix, a 4-track EP, 31 session takes and home demos, a 100-page book with a foreword by Paul McCartney, an essay by Questlove, detailed track notes, photos and ephemera including handwritten lyrics, tape boxes and...
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On behalf of re:discovery records, it is with great excitement that we announce the release of 'Ambient7 - Excepts from 1995-2000' compilation Ambient7 was a threesome out of Japan that included Chica Asamoto, Masayuki Momo and Shuichi Ikebuchi Chica Asamoto, an accomplished saxophone player while Masayuki Momo and Shuichi...
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Two of Rock Action Record's renowned singer/songwriters have joined forces to create Gentle Sinners - a one-off project by James Graham of The Twilight Sad and Aidan Moffat of Arab Strap and a superstar in his own right Ultimately, different to their day job bands, Gentle Sinners brings James' trademark Scottish singing voice with...
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'Music for the Moon and the Trees' by classical guitarist Morgan Szymanski and experimental musician Tommy Perman is the result of a long-held wish that the two childhood friends would get the chance to create an album together It’s a meditative album; a gentle thing of serene beauty and quiet innovationTaking advantage of a...
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AIRCHINA aka Nikolai Szymanski (born 1986, Düsseldorf) is a musician and visual artist He uses a wide variety of media in relation to his work, with a focus on film/video, performance and music Together with Lucas Croon and Martin Sonnensberger, he is a founding member as well as singer and lyricist of the band STABIL ELITE...
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The Casual Dots are a trio formed in Washington, DC in 2002, featuring Christina Billotte (Slant 6, Quixotic, Autoclave) on vocals and guitar, Kathi Wilcox (Bikini Kill, Frumpies) on guitar and backing vocals, and Steve Dore (Snoozers, Deep Lust) on drums The band’s minimalist off-kilter pop sound is shaped by Billotte and...
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The Casual Dots are a trio formed in Washington, DC in 2002, featuring Christina Billotte (Slant 6, Quixotic, Autoclave) on vocals and guitar, Kathi Wilcox (Bikini Kill, Frumpies) on guitar and backing vocals, and Steve Dore (Snoozers, Deep Lust) on drums The band’s minimalist off-kilter pop sound is shaped by Billotte and...
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Written, recorded & performed by Muslimgauze, this album was withdrawn by Bryn Jones, and replaced by the ‘Betrayal’ album in 1993 This is the album in its original form, as intended by Jones The material was recovered from a cassette copy of the album as the original DAT was reused "Shekel Of Israeli Occupation'...
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Pressed to whitelabel by popular demand, and with a bonus cut not found on the late ’21 digital drop, ‘DRS X’ takes its place as a mad flex between Italian sound alchemist Nino Pedone (Shapednoise) and Kenyan bass futurist Freddy Njau (aka Slikback), deploying ratchet mutations of bass-boosted Memphis drill, spiralling...
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The record that quietly spawned new movements in contemporary ambient, ‘bblisss’ features early/foundational appearances by kindred spirits Ulla, Pendant (aka Huerco S), Naemi (aka Exael), DJ Paradise (Special Guest DJ, uon) and more Originally released on an elusive tape run back in 2016, it’s now available on a new edition...
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The second release on Tonight’s Dream Records is delivered by Baltimore-based ambient and new-school Kosmische guitar musician PJ Dorsey, better known as Tarotplane The Ektachrome Dawn follows on from the stunning Horizontology (12th Isle) and Light Self All Others (Impatience) He describes the album as a collage of work...
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This previously unreleased album by the Horace Tapscott Quintet was unearthed from master tapes in the Flying Dutchman archives Recorded in 1969 and was intended to be a follow-up album to the classic 'The Giant Is Awakened' which was released that year The iconic pianist and composer Horace Tapscott was one of the most unique...
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Unique female gazes into a micro-scene within the NYC Downtown art scene circa late ’78-’85: as seen through the lens of a variety of feminist perspectives on new wave and true next wave sound! An ultra-violet time machine to a micro-scene viewed and heard through the curation of twin artists Linda and Ellen Kahn, who...
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"Television star Martin Shaw last night said justice had been done after seeing his stalker convicted of a 5-year campaign of harassment The Judge John Deed actor looked relieved as he left King's Lynn Magistrates Court and said he hoped Sandra Price would find peace following yesterday's guilty verdict Shopkeeper Price, 66, also...
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International Anthem is proud to present 'Step on Step', a double LP collection of home recordings marking the de-facto eponymous debut album by enigmatic producer, arranger, and composer Charles Stepney (1931-1976) The music that makes up Step on Step was created by Stepney alone, in the basement of his home on the Southside of...
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This is the second album from DJ Harrison, Richmond VA producer, and player of every instrument in the house Three years in the making, this album reflects how Harrison hears the South and moves through the world He reimagines decades of soul, funk, rock, R&B, hip-hop, and other Black music, striving for personal peace...
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The fourth album by the singular Bastien Keb Conceived as a fantasy world to escape self-doubt and loneliness, fragments from everyday life continue to bleed through the cracks of reality - the harmony from a distant car alarm, someone’s headphones on the night bus, rain on leaky roof, a decaying siren - to produce a dreamlike...
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Dang-Khoa Chau aka ĐK gives up a self-released treat, sidewinding into psychedelic realms of radiant gamelan and slow, humid bangers, highly recommended if yr into ’Forest of Evil' period Demdike, early Shackleton, DJ PythonA pivotal presence in the Parisian scene thanks to his rounds for Antinote, LIES, Second Circle, and...
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Limited clear vinyl LP pressing Ambient is the second studio album by electronica musician Moby, originally released in August...
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A gossamer collection of tranquillised and dissociated material from the perennially underrated and consistently excellent Natalie Beridze, curling her distinctive vocals like incense smoke around faded pads and processed field recordings >> highly recommended if yr into Cucina Povera, Nozomu Matsumoto, Ernest Hood, Hiroshi...
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Contemporary dancefloor oriented production's by Milan's Joseph Tagliabue featuring top class trance influenced electronic landscapes Tagliabue’s impeccable groove and sound design combines avant-garde techno and trance aural textures He arrives on Sound Metaphors’ Bless You label with four new pieces which mark once again his...
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Camisole is proud to unveil another part of the french cold wave history with the reissue of "Paroles Absurdes" LP by White PainHailing from Lyon the band began as a duo with Patrick Saveau and Patrick Gravier in 1984Active figures in the underground scene of their city, they played some gigs and even had their own show on the...
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Geier aus Stahl is one of the many artistic guises of Leonard Prochazka No superfluous elements take away from the core experience of his sound Somewhere a statement from David Byrne crossed our path, able to highlight something of the essence of Leonard's art: “No matter how alienated the subject or the singer might appear, the...
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