Experimental
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CHBB was a project by Beate Bartel and Chris Haas that developed from their collaboration in 1981, while working on the self-titled album 'Liaisons Dangereuses‘. They released their music only on four limited cassettes. This compilation presents the complete works of CHBB, including all recordings from their original cassettes alongside...
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FUJI||||||||||TA returns to Hallow Ground with his second full-length for the Swiss label after it had released his international breakthrough album iki in early 2020. Active since 2006, the Japanese composer and sound artist has become prolific since the release of iki, releasing a slew of records while also touring...
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The Long Shadow Falls is Current 93's first-ever CD box-set, and is as beautiful as the moon! This gorgeous, elaborate, boxset consists of 7CDs, plus a 7" single, and a beautiful 48-page art-book. The Long Shadow Falls collects the 41 unknown and redreamt mixes that C93 created for two (long-ago...
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This 2020 film has already become an indie classic, and it’s taken on a timeliness that its creators could not have foreseen. Teenage Autumn has to flee her rural Pennsylvania town in seach of an abortion, leaving behind her abusive partner, her indifferent parents (singer Sharon Van Etten plays her...
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Guitar explorer Nels Cline is best known these days as the lead guitarist in the band Wilco. His recording and performing career -- spanning jazz, rock, punk, and experimental -- is well into its fourth decade, with over 200 recordings, including at least 30 for which he is leader. Beyond...
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Audiopile Review: At it for almost 25 years, Belgian DIY drone-folk artist Annelies Monseré follows up 2023’s breakthrough release Mares with this new full length, one comprised of material that apparently dates as far back as 2016. Not always easily accessible, physically and psychically, Monseré’s steady drip of hyper-limited releases...
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Audiopile Review: 2020 album from the UK-based experimental artist Luke Cowan, which has somehow survived staying print the past first years despite being pressed in a micro edition of 100, the final copies recently scooped up by one of our more discerning distributors. Somewhere between the experimental folk axis of...
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Audiopile Review: Over the last few years, Japanese composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and electronics experimenter Eiko Ishibashi has emerged as a distinctly distinct musical voice. Given the world’s penchant for pigeonholing musicians (especially, let’s face it, female-identifying musicians) it’s particularly impressive that this emergence has happened largely without reference to her...
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Audiopile Review: Berlin’s Jan Jelinek could easily coast on his reputation as a glitch legend. Seriously, he could just fucking coast. Jelinek’s 2001 classic ‘Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records’ was one of the most accessible albums of the original glitch scene. And his work as Farben and Gramm was among the grooviest music to...
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The NID Tapes’ presents a collection of early Indian electronic music uncovered at the archives of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. Recorded between 1969-1972 the compilation chronicles electronic works from the previously unknown Indian composers Gita Sarabhai, I.S. Mathur, Atul Desai, S.C. Sharma and Jinraj Joshipura who worked...
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Black Truffle is pleased to announce Resonant Trees, the first vinyl release from French composer-performer Léo Dupleix. An active member of the international community of younger musicians working with just intonation, Dupleix has composed works for solo instrumentalists and ensembles in Europe and Japan, as well as performing extensively on...
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Garth Erasmus is an artist and musician based in Cape Town, South Africa. Threnody for the KhoiSan is his first album under his own name. Since 1985 his artistic interests have broadened to include music-making, designing and making his own instruments based on indigenous KhoiSan knowledge. From 1999 to 2012...
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Trash Can Lamb is a new solo album from Akron, OH-based multi-instrumentalist Keith Freund. For the better part of twenty years, Freund has been producing intimate, shape-shifting music on his own and as part of collaborative projects such as Trouble Books, Lemon Quartet, and Aqueduct Ensemble. Here, he concocts a...
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Black Truffle is thrilled to present the first vinyl reissue of David Rosenboom’s unique Future Travel, originally released on the short-lived Detroit label Street Records in 1981 and here presented in an expanded edition with an additional LP of wild, previously unheard live and studio material from the same period....
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Edition of 500 copies, screen printed cover. Includes two inserts: a replica of the original insert and the English translation. Henry Krutzen is a relatively shadowy figure in the history of experimental sound. Between the early '80s and the 2010s, there are only a handful of albums that bear his...
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A band who have justifiably been championed across the world, Tokyo’s Melt-Banana have been responsible for some of the most complex punk rock ever made … that far outshines ninety-nine percent of most other bands out there. The band once described their live show as “Shooting machine gun and laser...
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Love of Life, the band’s eighth studio album, followed soon after White Light in 1992. According to Allmusic’s Ned Ragget, “Love of Life continues the astounding creative roll Swans found themselves on … yet another Swans masterpiece." The vinyl version of this album has also been unavailable since its original...
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White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, Swans’ seventh studio album originally released in 1991, is considered the starting point for the second section of Swans’ inimitable history. Described as “…the glistening, glimmering sounds of the pensive countryside” by Stereogum, this will be the first time White Light from the...
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This album is actually really good in a lot of ways. Too much reverb here and there, but not as intrusive as some other Swans releases (I used to be infatuated with Phil Spector and naively figured that adding reverb could get the same effect). Anyway, I think this album...
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“This sound / synapse transposition is as haunting as it is beautiful—surely Grouper’s best.”—Tiny Mix Tapes “If past Grouper releases have inhabited abyssal trenches and damp backwoods, here Harris takes us journeying across constellations and stars. Two of the most beguiling albums of the year, exquisitely realized and singularly evocative.”...
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Audiopile Review: No longer a mere offshoot of the long-running and many-tentacled noise-punk outfit Shearing Pinx, Nanaimo’s own Earth Ball break from the regional limitations inherit with isolated island living and self-released cassettes with a debut LP on one of the UK’s best imprints, Upset! The Rhythm. Initially formed as...
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Audiopile Review: Softening the edges of the doom-drone-folk of his duo Tongue Depressor, New England multi-instrumentalist Henry Birdsey has managed to break through to a wider audience with his Old Saw project, which began with 2021’s sublime Country Tropics. Much like Tongue Depressor, the sound of Old Saw is steeped...
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Dirty Three Ahoy! Appropriately disheveled, the Three—Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White—emerge from the unending waves of time to pick up their guitar drum and viola / violin / piano / synthesizer / loops / percussion for their first album in a decade. Their playing encompasses ALL—from the original...
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A feverish essay of transcendent drumming: Chris’ solo approach, rooted in the exploration of elements of extended technique, sought another level, via possibilities facilitated by a self-made string drum! The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away]) brings his encompassing focus on free improvisation and noise into...
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At last: the long-awaited box set surveying The Shadow Ring's prolific, decade-long existence. Eleven CDs, one DVD, and a more than 450-page book featuring a detailed biographical essay, hundreds of photographs, ten interviews, a complete discography with lyrics, and rarely-seen ephemera. The Shadow Ring (1992–2002) presents a comprehensive overview of...
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The original release of Nurse with Wound's gargantuan "Thunder Perfect Mind" in 1992 coincided with that of Current 93's homonymous genre-defining album. Legend has it that the gnostic name initially appeared to Steven Stapleton in a dream as the title of Tibet's then still nameless upcoming album. Both records feature...
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Audiopile Review: ‘Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella’, the debut album from industrial legends Nurse with Wound, occupies a confounding spot in music history. It is surely better known for the infamous list printed on its cover than for the music on the...
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On The Healer, the new full length from Northwest-based trio SUMAC, consisting of guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner, bassist Brian Cook and drummer Nick Yacyshyn, the group deepens its multi-faceted exploration into the parallel experiences of creation and destruction. Over the course of 4 tracks in 76 minutes, SUMAC presents a sequence...
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Bent downtempo and no tempo half and whole things from a wide time span with noise in between.
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Cold Spring Records present a unique collaboration between industrial breakbeat pioneers Meat Best Manifesto (Jack Dangers) and the undisputed king of Japanese noise, Merzbow (Masami Akita). "We may not speak the same language, but in the vortex of sound, there's a raw, primal understanding that transcends words. Noise can be...
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Venerated heavyweights Surgeon and Speedy J cement their Multiples collaborative project with a long-form album of tweaked experiments past the outer reaches of the techno realm. Recorded over the course of two days at Speedy J’s STOOR lab in Rotterdam, Two Hours Or Something is what happens when...
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Audiopile Review: Latest otherworldly transmission from Gothenburg's Discreet Music lands in the shop, delivered via the newly formed Demeters Döttrar, a trio comprised of two of the label’s mainstays—Astrid Øster Mortensen and Charlott Malmenholt (Treasury of Puppies) who are joined by Ida Skibsted Cramer, a new name to us. The...
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Scottish experimental/electronic musician Drew McDowall’s lifelong interest in an elegiac solo bagpipe style called pibroch (ceòl mòr in Gaelic) has been an inspiration for much of his previous work (including Coil’s legendary Time Machines). This form, often traditionally used for laments and for tributes to the dead, fuses modal drones...
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A Paris resident of Minsk origin, Lina Filipovich’s ‘Music for an imaginary dancefloor’ explores the liminal space between club music and something altogether weirder, elusive, and abstract. Nervous, varied and amplified by various delays, the LP was written from improvisations on analogue synthesizers between June and December in 2022. Atonal...
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Audiopile Review: The early 00’s was what you might call the golden era for Mr. Kranky, with releases that would eventually become classics of not only the Chicago imprint, but of their respective genres. Stars of the Lid’s Tired Sounds, Low’s Things We Lost in the Fire, GYBE!’s Skinny Fists...
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Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Zazeela and liner notes by Young and French musicologist Daniel Caux. Side one was recorded at...
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Audiopile Review: The perfect entry point into the ever expanding Roy Montgomery universe finally gets its first vinyl issue, his 1995 debut Temple IV. His continued onslaught of releases, which we’ve been feverishly gobbling up over the past several years (12 albums issued in the last 8 years!), can all...
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Audiopile Review: Gastr del Sol was very much a part of the late-80s-early-90s stream of leftfield American rock that came out of Louisville, Kentucky, and made its home in Chicago. The band grew from David Grubbs’s power trio Bastro. When the rhythm section left to concentrate on inventing Tortoise, Grubbs...
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Audiopile Review: For the uninitiated, [Ahmed] is a quartet made up of Joel Grip (double bass), Antonin Gerbal (drums), Seymour Wright (alto saxophone) and, most notably, the storied pianist Pat Thomas. Their albums and live sets are improvised recreations of the works of bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik, probably...
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"Imagine: It’s sometime in the back half of the 19th century, America. You’re sitting in the parlor of your mansion, or in the only room of your shack; things are dusty and smell like sweat and hair, no matter how wealthy you may be. You don’t own a phonograph, and...
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Audiopile Review: NUG caught our attention with 2023's "Napping Under God," a glitchy feast of breaks and dubby beats. A year later they return with Bong Boat, the German duo has been building upon their past work, enveloping it in a deep, murky shroud that leans evermore into the ambient...
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25 years ago in 1999, Ipecac was formed and the first release ever on the label was Fantomas eponymous debut. The supergroup featured Ipecac co-owner Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), Buzz Osborne (The Melvins), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Misfits) and Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle). The avant-garde, metal-leaning songs have...
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25 years ago in 1999, Ipecac was formed and the first release ever on the label was Fantomas eponymous debut. The supergroup featured Ipecac co-owner Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), Buzz Osborne (The Melvins), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Misfits) and Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle). The avant-garde, metal-leaning songs have...
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25 years ago in 1999, Ipecac was formed and the first release ever on the label was Fantomas eponymous debut. The supergroup featured Ipecac co-owner Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), Buzz Osborne (The Melvins), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Misfits) and Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle). The avant-garde, metal-leaning songs have...
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LP ltd to 400, black vinyl, 2 color silkscreened jacket with obi (grey, tan), inserts and a postcard. An’archives are pleased to announce the release of a self-titled album by Tori Kudo & 3C123. A reissue of a cassette that was originally released on Uramado in 2020, this is the...
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"‘Venus Rising From The Sea’ takes its cues from the classical deity Aphrodite - whose name literally means “sea foam” - for an ever necessary expression of love in the modern age. The label asked friends and collaborators to interpret “love” in whichever way they saw fit, be it obsession,...
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“Lone is about loneliness and hidden places. It’s been my shelter for the last three years. It’s a work full of internalized questions. Am I still who I was before? Do I have the same energy and ambitions? Is this all still really me? A sense of nostalgia permeates through...
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Regler resume their series of genre dedicated concept albums following 12 releases which focused on Metal, Harsh Noise Wall, Techno, Free Jazz, No Wave, Blues, Classical Music, Minimalism, Ambient and more. The duo of Mattin (Billy Bao, Josetxo Grieta) and Anders Bryngelsson (Brainbombs, No Balls) are joined on this new...
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