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Warm Waves
‘Warm Waves’ first appeared in 2020, ten years after Turn On The Sunlight’s debut self-titled album was first released in Japan. During that decade, Turn On The Sunlight’s Jesse Peterson and Mia Doi Todd welcomed their first child and co-founded a music venue in Los Angeles. When performance spaces were required to close at the start of the pandemic, Jesse’s focus shifted back towards home recording. Since ‘Warm Waves,’ five more Turn On The Sunlight albums have followed (including ‘Drives To Th…
Electronic Music
One of the most significant archival recoveries from the deep history of Japanese electronic music. Electronic Music Works gathers, for the first time anywhere, the entirety of Shuko Mizuno's tape and synthesizer output - a body of work that, until now, had remained almost entirely unknown, even to those familiar with the composer's name. Spread across three CDs, issued by the indispensable Three Shells imprint, it presents music drawn from tapes discovered at Mizuno's home and salvaged on the v…
The Crystal Suite
On The Crystal Suite, Paul Schütze channels J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World into slow‑burn electronics and guitar haze, rendering time‑sick landscapes where matter ossifies, light fractures, and contemporary collapse glows with eerie, faceted calm.
Katcharpari
** Audiophile reissue from the original masters, 180gm vinyl pressed by Pallas, laminated hand-glued gatefold cover. Limited Edition. ** Katcharpari is the second solo album by Italian jazz trumpeter Enrico Rava, recorded and released in January 1973 and considered a cornerstone of the jazz-rock/fusion genre. Recorded in Milan and released on the German label BASF, Rava himself described it as his "breakthrough album." Thanks to the critical acclaim this work received, Rava caught the attention …
Sonic Boom, Spectrum & E.A.R. Vinyl - (Book + Flexi)
In Sonic Boom, Spectrum & E.A.R. Vinyl, Danny Passarella turns Pete Kember’s solo history into a 300‑page artifact: every record from “Angel” to A ? Of When, unreleased audio, new interviews and ephemera mapped into a definitive, tactile chronicle.
The Civil Surface
500 units, deluxe remastered edition. Some records are made in the present tense. The Civil Surface was made in the past perfect - a band returning from its own ending to commit to tape the music it had never quite managed to record. By the time these sessions took place at Worthing's Saturn Studios in the summer of 1974, Egg had already been finished for two years. The trio - organist Dave Stewart, bassist and horn player Mont Campbell, drummer Clive Brooks - had cut two singular albums of orga…
Cataclysmic Reprogram
Psychedelic Harsh Noise from Finland with previous releases on Freak Animal, Narcolepsia, Satatuhatta and Tribe Tapes. Relentlessly heady mind frying electronics from the man behind Uton.
Chapter One: Inner Kingdom
*2026 stock. 250 copies limited edition* "Mystic Towers, and all related projects from Adam Kalmbach represent an important time for dungeon synth, one where we didn't really know what was going on and amazing records would come out of nowhere - it wouldn't be until much later when we were able to connect the pieces. Mystic Towers, Erdstall and Abandoned Places were all great projects but it would take time to emerge that these were not only created by the same individual, but all dedicated to t…
Appearance/Music for Solo Performer
Big tip! Beyond Rare! These historical recordings of a 1967 concert at Hope College in Michigan involving John Cage, Toshi Ichiyanagi and David Tudor, performing compositions by Ichiyanagi and Alvin Lucier, were recently discovered in an archive in Japan. The Lucier piece, "Music for Solo Performer", was the first musical composition to utilize human brainwaves; this 1967 performance, released here for the first time, is an early realization of the piece, featuring Tudor, Ichiyanagi and Lowell C…
The Will Come Is Now
On The Will Come Is Now, Ronnie Boykins finally moves from Sun Ra’s bass chair to the centre of the frame, leading a septet through six originals where earthy groove, cosmic harmony and astonishing arco work reveal the band’s quiet architect as a full‑blown composer.
Library Copy Do Not Remove
Night Sky marbled vinyò edition. 350 copies. Discovery Zone is the project of JJ Weihl, the New York-born, Berlin-based musician and former member of Fenster. In 2023 she was commissioned to perform inside the dome of the historic Zeiss-Groß Planetarium, and rather than carry over her usual rhythm-led sound she rebuilt the project from the circuitry up, composing in Ambisonics, a directional form of spatial audio, played back across a mosaic of forty-nine speakers.
Written for live performance, …
The Professional
Vanessa Rossetto returns to ErstSolo with The Professional, a double CD that takes the figure of the amateur as both formal occasion and conceptual question. The album grew out of Rossetto's 2025 European tour and, in particular, a performance at the Jauna Muzika festival in Vilnius, whose edition was themed around amateur practice. For the occasion Rossetto assembled recordings of people singing their favourite songs, prepared a backing track, and set up microphones so that audience members cou…
The Call
On The Call, Henry Grimes refuses the “leader date as reward” narrative, stepping out as a co‑equal melodic force with Perry Robinson and Tom Price in a trio document where free jazz means deep listening, not just full‑bore blaze.
Absens
MMMD returns with Absens, a commanding new album that expands their deep monolithic sound into a darker, more intimate terrain: across nine tracks, the record fuses subterranean low frequencies, complex inter‑modulations and brooding textures with distant threads of folk, all rendered through custom‑made instruments and meticulous sound design. Absens is an exploration of absence and presence, where physical weight meets spectral intimacy — MMMD assemble these elements into an immersive work tha…
Synesthesia
*250 copies limited edition* The quartet of Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Bobby Kapp returns with Synesthesia, a new recording that captures their deep connection and evolving voice in contemporary free jazz. Following the acclaimed Ineffable Joy and Heptagon, the group continues to explore spontaneous composition, open form, and strong collective interplay. This time, the music leans further into a modern jazz language, with sharper focus, clearer shapes, and a refined sense o…
The Black Ark
Huuuge Tip! In the pantheon of classic free jazz, Noah Howard's The Black Ark looms large. Recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York City in 1969 - just prior to the alto saxophonist's relocation to Europe - the album was eventually released in 1972 on Alan Bates's Freedom label, and has since acquired near-mythical status among collectors and devotees of the music. Now, Superior Viaduct presents the definitive remastered edition on vinyl, restoring this landmark to the visibility it has always…
Terra Incognita
French-born, London-based composer and musician Pascal Bideau aka Akusmi announces his second full-length Terra Incognita, an album of intrepid sonic exploration that delights in the sensation of being somewhere you've never been before. The listener is invited to experience seven faraway sonic imaginariums, as global and spiritual jazz are fused with modern electronics and life affirming minimalism into a hypnotic, polyrhythmic odyssey.
The album's rich multilayered sound world features contrib…
Cadavres Électroniques
Sewer Election is an act which at this point requires no introduction - a mainstay of the Swedish and International noise community for decades. "Cadavres Électroniques" is a new collaboration between Sewer Election and Aziza - a hidden gem in the Gothenburg underground that emerged out of the scene around Longest Night a few years back, creating pitch black, cold and slow moving ambient music reminiscent of Maurizio Bianchi at his bleakest (read: Endometrio and such). A surreal blend of rudimen…
Iannis Xenakis: Sonic Odysseys (Book)
The definitive publication accompanying the most comprehensive exhibition ever dedicated to one of the most visionary composers and polymaths of the 20th century
foam & mesh
Recorded by Karl Winand and Markus Massinger at artacts – Festival for Jazz and Improvised Music, Alte Gerberei, St. Johann in Tirol, Austria. Mixed and mastered by John Butcher
Sophie Agnel - pianoJohn Butcher - saxophonesPascal Niggenkemper - double bassStåle Liavik Solberg - drums