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In the flowing mode of olive tree groves, un-secluded temple vortices elaborated with Super-Receptacles reflect a floating “Supernatural Hall of Interaction”, and accompanied by this very scene, painted by a Daemonic being in a multiple of perspectives, there appears an assemblage of excellent genera including a hybrided-code...
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Populated with the vocal presences of vocal spars Deedz, 7aleeb, and Lella, ‘The Room’ is a metaphoric synecdoche for Kelesh’s studio output between 2008-2019, featuring 9 tracks of lo-slung but levitating trip hop and illbient that overlaps his productions on the long sold-out ‘Hyperattention: Selected Digital Works...
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Brimming with equal parts humor and rigorous art, iDEAL Recordings delivers one of the most fascinating and historically important archival releases that's aver graced our hands, Charlie Morrow, Sten Hanson, and Carles Santos' “The Heavyweight Sound Fight” Documenting a never before released performance staged in NY during...
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Christoph De Babalon was a key member of Digital Hardcore, the mutant Berlin-based splinter cell who fused UK rave music with more experimental, Teutonic techno, Ambient and hardedge politics to brutal effect during the mid-late ‘90s CDB was always somehow on another level to most of his peers and labelmates at DHR, less...
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Dreams In Splattered Lines fuses together Wolf Eyes' 25 years of DIY electronics with the avant-garde sensibilities of Fluxus and the granite of dreary Midwestern life Continuing some of the ideas explored on the Difficult Messages record of collaborations, the result is a surreal dreamscape of disorienting sound collages, where...
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MINOS CIRCUIT Minos Circuit is the resonance of a double exploration, that of an instrument, the bassoon - an instrument dear to Dafne Vicente-Sandoval - and that of a listening, of a gaze, almost The first exploration deconstructs the instrument, tearing it apart, reducing it to an archipelago of sound bodies stimulated by an...
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Aboulkheir's piece was shaped by the swirling sounds, smells and visuals of a visit to China, and the feeling she had of intense perceptual disorientation crossing markets, as if walking through a dream Using advanced electro-acoustic techniques to represent a near-psychedelic mindset, the piece feels almost completely weightless,...
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“The Concert” is the first discographic collaboration between percussionist Alexandre Babel and visual artist Latifa Echakhch The record is intimately linked to the eponymous exhibition presented at the Swiss Pavilion during the 59th Venice Art Bienniale For her exhibition in the Swiss Pavilion, Latifa Echakhch created an...
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Out of stockThe next chapter of the Natural Information Society is here Since Time Is Gravity, credited to Natural Information Society Community Ensemble with Ari Brown, presents a newly expanded manifestation of acclaimed composer & multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams nearly 15 year, 7 albums- &-counting flagship ensemble Joining the...
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Out of stock"Black Editions Archive is ecstatic to announce the newest release in the Milford Graves Archival series, the double LP, Children of the Forest, featuring previously unreleased 1976 sessions with Hugh Glover and Arthur Doyle that re-write the book on Milford Graves's ensemble music of the 1970s Graves recorded these sessions...
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Out of stock"This long out-of-print holy grail private press album, originally released by the late Abdul Wadud himself in 1977, is finally being reissued on vinyl The release date is what would have been his 76th birthday There really is no easily comparable album in existence Abdul Wadud used the cello to make music in a way that was never...
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Out of stock"This album is really a thank you to my fans tbh I started and finished it In 2018, mixed and mastered it in 2019 right after the Vince tour I don’t usually work on something right after I release a project But Veteran was the first time in my life I worked hard on something, and it was reciprocated back to me So I wanted thank...
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Gost Zvuk prepare for a busy 2023 with an enthralling double LP's worth of futurist sound design from Flaty In the game for more than a decade now, the producer, mastering engineer and all-round visionary artist has delivered an impressive range of music across both his own ANWO imprint as well as for West Mineral ltd, 12th Isle,...
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Out of stockDouble LP version Kinder Der Sonne is the title of the new album by Alva Noto featuring music composed for the score of the theater piece Komplitzen by Simon Stone The album title comes from Maxim Gorky's plays Children of the Sun, written in the context of the 1905 Russian Revolution Simon Stone wrote the new play for the...
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We are increasingly situated in a world where we are brutalised and feel incapable of fighting back Wage theft, denial of adequate housing, consumer waste, wanton corruption, unjust war Sold dreams of a metaverse and off-world colonies while those responsible for these elaborate fantasies accrue vast wealth from the ruination of...
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Matt Espy is an American drummer and percussionist Born in Dayton, Ohio, he spent his youth playing every genre of music he could find, playing out in clubs starting at age 14 and launching his touring career at 18 He moved to Chicago in 1996 and continued his journey playing rock, avant-garde, jazz, and performance art pieces...
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Out of stockRecital present As Above, So Below, a new album from French multi-instrumentalist Delphine Dora Over the past decade, from poetry reading, chansons, organ performances, tape compositions and so on, each album in Dora's lush discography feels like a feather from a different bird A keen ability to defy any singular "sound," always...
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Kübler-Ross is a minimal synth/wave/industrial three-piece from Glasgow, Scotland, featuring Craig Clark, Katie Shannon, and veteran electronic producer and remixer producer Dave Clark, best-known for his Sparky moniker, and as one-half of the production/remix team Optimo (Espacio) First emerging in 2015 with a couple of...
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With their 3rd vinyl long player for Siltbreeze, CIA Debutante have successfully out-flanked those critics who have been forever chattering, "will they ever be as big as Artery" To paraphrase Fred Ward in Tremors; "Artery Hell, Clock DVA!" All bristling aside, such questions & answers don't carry much weight these days Such is...
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Bog Bodies - the band consisting of Robert Stillman, Anders Holst and Seán Carpio delve into deep time to carve sonic abstractions across their self-titled new album on MIC Navigating the “liminal territory between noise and signal, chaos and control, form and abstraction,” the trio recorded and mixed the album on an...
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Out of stockFrench electronic pionner, ADN’ Ckrystall, became a legend in the Minimal-Synth scene when his first album « Jazz’Mad » (from 1982) was rediscovered and re-edited via the two biggest labels in the genre : Minimal Wave (circa 2005) and Dark Entries (circa 2012) Following this new interest, a bunch of unreleased materials...
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Out of stockNourished By Time's debut album, Erotic Probiotic 2, tells his transformative story through impeccable songwriting, infectious ear worm melodies, vivid storytelling and intimate DIY production The album traveresses a broad spectrum of sound, allowing his songwriting to dictate the ever changing mood he orchestrates; whether it is...
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Across 8 concise vignettes, Chantal Michelle alchemizes acoustic instrumentation with a spectrum of layered feedback and field sounds, depicting fractured beauty amongst a precarious reality Chantal’s work is characterized by intoxicating juxtaposition and enriched with an array of source material to construct immersive...
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The LP, mostly inspired by Ursula L Guins Earthsea, follows the narrative of a shadow/gebbeth stalking oneself and trying to overpower the phases of one submitting to & resisting it Susu's voice demonstrates the gebbeth, using her voice as an instrument, representing it in various proximities but also at times it represents...
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Recorded over a four-week period in early 2022, Freedom Lapse is the debut solo release of Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer, Adam Halliwell A versatile improviser and lover of performance, Halliwell has been an active contributor to numerous musical communities in recent years The release of Freedom Lapse marks an...
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On June 30, 1986, the same day that Diamanda Galás's The Divine Punishment was released, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Georgia's so-called sodomy law in Bowers v Hardwick, criminalizing consensual sex between men At the time, about 15,000 people were known to have died of AIDS in the US alone, with little...
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The second release from MIC comes from Ladies As Pimps - LAPS for short - an anarchic Glasgow duo formed by Cass Ezeji of Golden Teacher and Alicia Matthews (Sue Zuki/ Organs Of Love) Their duets take centre stage on Who Me: the vocal performances range from the stretched, soulful projections of Ode To Daughter to the lawless,...
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Federico Fellini once said, "Talking about dreams is like talking about movies since the cinema uses the language of dreams" I don't mind talking about movies, but, despite what Fellini says, I tend to find it unbearable when people try to explain the incoherent mess that their subconsciousness cooked up for them last night And I...
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Out of stockDeep and organic sound journeys exploring a new area of late heavy deep dubby psychedelic dance filled with underground aesthetics Different #001 by Gaia...
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Cavernous, mystical beat tribalism from the GT zone; loose yet conscious-minded dub-wise runnings land on planet Earth Murderous tempos create fiery, twisted percussion dances, lifted and buried in blazing licks of dabbed bass-weight 808 moves right to left, upside down, with a melodic, hypnosis-minded sway DEEP transforms waves...
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The music of Markus Popp is endlessly curious Since the early 90s his pioneering albums as Oval have continually excavated new spaces in electronic music, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape Popp’s playful and singular approach to sound has continually left critics and peers alike confounded by his ability to conjure such...
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Lyrically, Pácalt is trying to face up unexpected mid life crisis (in the first track Víš sám, když život je v půli se svou poutí / You know it when life is halfway through its journey, which is presented twice on this album, once in acoustic version), the other time his lyrics has rather motivational point In Den je...
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Emerging from Brno's respected institutions of AVA collective and Bastl Instruments, Thistle is an improvised conversation between Matěj Kotouček and Simo Hakalisto Language in use: hypnotic drone, electronics and field recordings Their first release for Stoned to Death is an album called Teleopsia, ticking at around 30 minutes,...
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Raise the Dead is a collaborative album from Connecticut drone duo Tongue Depressor and Maine-born, Philadelphia-based songwriter Jakob Battick, coming October 26th on cassette and digital via the Czech label Stoned to Death Steeped in ritualistic necromanticisms and a spectral, sprawling sense of composition, the album is a...
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"Jasnovidec is Prague based duo exploring realms of modular synthesis and manipulated electronics Their new EP is a saunter on the ruins of once modern, now lost and scattered societies, slowly observing how the teeth of time took bite of man's pride The ruins are wet, covered in lichens and other shade-loving plants They said...
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This new collaboration of Jakub Šimanský and Jiří Štěpán is sort of happy coincidence They are both active musicians, both coming from different background and performing in within slightly different scenes Jakub Šuminaský has been cultivating his guitar playing based on the echoes of american primitive guitar style Bas...
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I'm on a jet ski The river I'm on is dirty Not like it was clean before, but there was some rain up north and now the mud got in the stream Bunch of birds are hanging out on the piece of driftwood The splash of dirty water from jet ski disturbs them from their limbo They fly away, they squeal with displeasure This river is all...
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Gondwana Records announces ‘Goodbyes’, the debut album from Estonian-born, London-based sound artist and pianist Hanakiv A deeply beautiful, meditative piano album featuring special guest Alabaster deplume “This is an album about healing It is about saying your goodbyes to everything that doesn’t serve you anymore Each...
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"The wind through a gate on a Bressay hillside is mixed with cascading guitars and minimal electronic percussion on "Confetti for the Flames" and recordings of Bains Beach form the backdrop of "Out on the Coast the Spirits Are" Paris based artist Graziella Torrigiani contributes words and voice to the latter, her text a direct...
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Ben Glas (b 1992) is an experiential composer based in Berlin Through ephemeral compositions Glas' work questions preconceived notions between the acts of passive hearing and active listening In seeking to discover open ended forms of music and pragmatic listening perspectives, Glas' compositions focus on the realms of subjective...
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"SÍTĚ is project of Jan Tomáš and his several collaborators (on this album Jan Kašpar and Tomáš Vondra) who went onto pilgrimage through hypnagogic valley, devoted minimalist landscapes and lost corners of furniture music With its now combined album (partly live and party studio recorded) Sítě is coming back onto...
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Alvars Orkester was formed in 1987 in Johannishus, a small village in the south-east of Sweden by a group of young boys interested in the mysteries of psychic sickness, mental institutions, industrial music culture and the power of sound For the first very creative years, Alvars was very active within the independent cassette...
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HUH are the wild, freeform duo of Kyosuke Terada and Takuma Mori Based in Tokyo, and playing together since 2007, HUH have released a clutch of cassettes, CD-Rs, and digital albums; they’ve toured Europe (in 2017) and Australia (2019); and they count amongst their collaborators the likes of T Mikawa of Incapacitants, ASTRO, and...
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The new album by Maxine Funke divides into two halves - the first side a perfect suite of the kind of beautifully constructed songs that the New Zealand based artist has become known for, acutely observed vignettes framing her voice with a minimal backing of guitar and organ The second side takes off on a different flight...
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"It's been ten years since Bill Orcutt released A History of Every One (EMEGO 173CD, 2013), a compendium of hacksaw renditions of American standards on acoustic guitar -- and since ten years is a blink of an eye, you are forgiven for not immediately realizing that we've gone an entire decade waiting for Jump On It, the next Orcutt...