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How To Destroy Angels
First ever reissue of Coil's 1984 debut on L.A.Y.L.A.H.: seventeen minutes of gongs, bowed metal and slow decay, subtitled Ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy. Single-sided 180 gram vinyl with etched B-side and a previously unpublished hard board insert.
Microphone
At long last, after decades out of print, the Milan based imprint, Dialogo, dives into the legendary catalog of Cramps, bringing forth the first ever vinyl reissue of David Tudor’s legendary LP, "Microphone", part of an ongoing initiative dedicated to bring the imprint’s seminal output back into the light. Still mind-blowing nearly half a century after it was first released, now complete with a new English translation of the album’s original liner notes, this is just about as exciting as reissue…
Phren
On Phren, Marta Salogni and Stefano Pilia build a shared electro‑acoustic architecture where guitar, tape machines and field recordings circulate like memory in motion. Signals move through modular processes, echoes and Revox loops until origin and reflection blur, turning six slow‑unfolding pieces into a living study of sound, time and feeling.
Ananta: Spirit of Coltrane
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson marks John Coltrane's centennial on Impulse! with a 21-piece collective (Brandee Younger, Shabaka Hutchings, Flying Lotus, Jeff Parker, Azar Lawrence), recasting Naima, Giant Steps and A Love Supreme as cosmic, spiritual music.
Live at Pageant : Soloveev
Body/Head's Bill Nace on taishogoto and Purling Hiss' Mike Polizze on guitar in their first duo set, caught on a phone at Philadelphia's Pageant Soloveev in May 2025: twenty-three minutes of amplified free string playing on a one-sided LP.
Pathless Path
By the end of the 1960s, Charles Lloyd was one of the biggest names in jazz. His quartet with Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack DeJohnette reached far beyond the usual jazz audience, while Forest Flower became one of the first jazz recordings to sell a million copies. In 1970, at the height of his career, Lloyd disbanded the quartet and withdrew to Big Sur. He continued to make records from time to time, but largely disappeared from the jazz scene while following a more inward and spiritual pa…
Nothing Space Music
Maya Ongaku has always been searching for what exists just beyond the edge of perception. Since forming in the seaside towns surrounding Enoshima, the trio has followed a path guided less by intention than intuition, allowing songs, ideas, and experiences to emerge through a process they describe as 自然発生 (shizen hassei), spontaneous occurrence. Nothing Space Music is the deepest expression of that philosophy to date.
Written in the aftermath of several years of international touring, the album e…
At Takutaku
Akira Sakata x Triple Edge live at Takutaku, Kyoto, February 2024: 65 minutes with Tsuboguchi, Hayakawa and Fujikake, plus Takayuki Kato on guitar and Hiroshi Funato on contrabass, built around the two-part Takutaku Suite.
Entangle Spirant
*200 copies limited edition* This year’s Aube tribute release from advaita records is Entangle Spirant, originally released in 1995 by Drahtfunk-Products. Using only steel wire as its sound source, this unique noise—in which various friction sounds intertwine to create a hypnotic soundscape blending chaos and order—embodies the quintessential Aube aesthetic. We have faithfully reproduced the original artwork, which perfectly complements the music.
Playing Piano for Dad
Recorded in one comfortably-seated take at Studio Ferber, Paris, France in 2015 - h hunt’s ‘playing piano for dad’ was initially conceived as a Christmas gift to the composer’s father. Intimately recorded, ‘playing piano for dad’ is a heartbreakingly gorgeous & sincere work of eleven vignettes which capture even the most nuanced sounds of the recording session - the composer’s breath, the shifting sounds of the piano pedals, the ambient noise and conversation within the studio. With minimalist t…
Peter der Große / Gudbrandsdal
Two of Henning Christiansen’s tape works from the 1980’s, Peter der Große op. 174 (1986) and Gudbrandsdal op. 178 (1987), are now released for the first time by the Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology.
Fatrasies
François Houle, Kate Gentile and Alexander Hawkins live at Victoriaville on 21 May 2023: clarinets and electronics, drums and piano, in a set named after the medieval nonsense poem where sound leads meaning.
Omusubi
A charity CD by Akira Sakata for the medical care of children in Chernobyl and Iraq, with Kyoko Kuroda, Vagabond Suzuki and Manabu Sakata, recorded in Tokyo in December 2007.
Himawari
Akira Sakata on saxophones and clarinet with Febian Reza Pane, Hiroshi Yoshino and Tomohiro Yahiro, closing with a bonus Air On The G String. Ganbaranai, 2006.
Message From Home
Pharoah Sanders' 1996 Verve album with Bill Laswell producing, Foday Musa Suso, Hamid Drake, Bernie Worrell and Charnett Moffett: hip-hop pulse, Gambian kora and the full-cry tenor on one record. Back on vinyl for the first time since the rare French original, on 180g black vinyl
Puxe Means Pull
Drummer and percussionist Sofia Borges and saxophonist Yedo Gibson in a tense, searching duo recorded in Lisbon: objects, prepared sounds and tenor and soprano lines in improvisations built on texture, pressure and close listening.
Lummernikt
Lummer is the Swedish name for the now protected family of vascular plants (Clubmoss/Lycopodiaceae). Lummer grows slowly and the spores with which it reproduces can take 12—20 years to develop. These spores, known as Nikt in Swedish, were once ground into an extremely flammable light yellow “old woman’s gunpowder” that was used for early theatrical pyrotechnics. Volatile and explosive, Lummernikt requires careful handling. There is something of the small scale dangerous in Finn Loxbo’s Lummernik…
Word Countdown (Book)
World Countdown was an enigmatic music newspaper that appeared fortnightly in California between August 1966 and July 1969. It offers the most vivid window possible onto the rapid evolution of the Californian music scene in those fabled days – but original copies are very rare and expensive.
For the first time ever, Lansdowne Books is delighted to be able to preserve and share its wondrous contents in this huge volume, created with the blessing of founding editor Charles Royal’s family and inclu…
Disque 4 (’76 Studio et Live)
Les Rallizes Dénudés returns with Disque 4 -’76 Studio et Live-, the latest in the ongoing series of official archival releases from the celebrated Japanese underground band.
Synthetic Water Music
"In the dream, people didn't need water any more. People's minds became computer chips made of stone." (August in the Water, dir. Sōgo Ishii, 1995) There is a pivotal scene in “August in the Water” where the surface of a pool turns into a stone wall. The water that gave the protagonist's life its meaning becomes a threat. As you fall through this stone wall, you appear in a set of underwater coral-reef corridors, and one of the most beautiful musical themes begins to play: Aquatic Ambience, comp…