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Four Louies Live
Bill Orcutt built The Four Louies by dropping Steve Reich's Four Organs onto "Louie Louie" - two of the most stubborn riffs in American music, high minimalism and dumb garage, forced into the same frame. This is what happened when he took it off the record and into a room. At Roulette last March the four organs became six, the rock trio swelled into a small army, and the plunderphonic stiffness of the studio version simply burned off. Six organists, twin drummers, William Winant on maracas, Chri…
Into The Cosmic Forest
*300 copies limited edition* Stone Music returns with Into the Cosmic Forest, a deep and patient journey into open-air improvisation. The group was founded in 2022 by Tokio Hasegawa, a core member of the legendary Taj Mahal Travellers, and brings together a wide circle of musicians from Japan’s ambient and experimental scenes. While the name is new, the spirit continues. Stone Music extends the free-form, site-responsive approach that defined Taj Mahal Travellers — music shaped by environment, d…
Atol Scrap
"The story of each re-release begins with the original. In the late 90s, Uwe Zahn (Arovane), along with Robert Henke (Monolake) and Stefan Betke (Pole), began releasing music on Torsten Pröfrock’s (Dynamo) newly launched DIN label. This was a very inconspicuous undertaking, but fans of the flourishing IDM, glitch, and constantly evolving abstract techno genres quickly picked up on the quality of sound coming out of Germany. After a few successful EPs, Zahn began working on his debut full-length,…
Electronic Music
Big Tip! Sukegawa's environmental music was heard by thousands of people, none of whom were listening. For more than a decade from the late 1980s he wrote music that played in the offices and research buildings of a large Japanese construction firm, composed by calculating backward from the response of the ceiling speakers it would emerge from, tested against questionnaires filled in by three thousand employees. It was never released, never performed in concert, never reviewed. It filled a space…
Afrodisiaca
* Edition of 300 copies. High thickness cardboard with opaque laminated cover. Comes with a printed insert * So… Steinmetz. Hugh Steinmetz. A Danish trumpet player my mentor Peter Brötzmann always talked highly about. 'Aaaaah jaaaaa - those crazy Danes!' Steinmetz was one of very few Scandinavian musicians who actually travelled south and collaborated with European musicians in the late 60s. He is a legend. And a key to understand the early developments of free jazz. The possibilities given to S…
Historical Distractions
A collection from the decomposition years1991-94 taken from the releases Historical, Rules of the Game, Inside Agitator, Cancer & Distraction. Curated by Andy Ortmann & Daniel Burke. Cover concept Andy Insert Hiroshima side: DB. legend side: Jim Sincock Remastered by Andrew Weathers in 2024 All music by Daniel Burke based on sequencer constructions and 12 bit sampling. Also featuring Thymme Jones, Mark Klein, & Jim O'Rourke on Historical (trk1), and Chris Block and Jim on “Helen..” (Trk2). Histo…
No Becoming
Fifteen years on, Lee Noble's cult bedroom classic No Becoming returns to vinyl in a 2026 remaster on Primordial Void: eight ghostly lo-fi hymns of analog synth, harmonium and tape, poised between hauntology and New Weird America. Remastered by A.F. Jones, limited to 200 copies.
Öd
After nearly a decade away, Black Forest collective Institut für Feinmotorik return on Faitiche with Öd: eight prepared turntables, no records, coaxing music from rubber bands, foil and junk. Dubby loops and howling static drift into a scrap-metal Dixieland haze, with word-molecule track titles by poet Dagmara Kraus.
Melting Pillars of Snow
Black Vinyl edition. XKatedral is proud to present a new full-length album by label co-founder Maria W Horn. Melting Pillars of Snow is a collection of new compositions from the renowned Swedish composer written for Contrabass Recorder, Shō, Percussion, Electric Guitar, Voice and Electronics performed by Horn together with a chamber ensemble consisting of Anna Petrini, Mattias Hållsten, Magdalena Meitzner and Mats Erlandsson. The album also features narration by Horn as well as a guest appearanc…
Bjerge, Strand
Eight players, eight tracks, one session. 8 gathers Jakob Bro with Brian Blade, Craig Taborn, Chris Cheek, Jesper Zeuthen, Anders Christensen, Larry Grenadier, and Marcus Gilmore for a programme of compositions by Paul Motian and Bro, cut in a single day at New York's Power Station with engineer James Farber, immediately following a week-long residency at the Village Vanguard.
The instrumentation tells you most of what you need to know about the intent: two bassists and two drummers, with Bro's …
At Home
This one carries real weight. Issued by Another Timbre on the occasion of his 90th birthday, At Home - a 4-CD box set gathering five hours of domestic and archive recordings - marks the end of John Tilbury's recording career. There will be no more. What remains is this: a final, quietly monumental document from one of the most singular pianists of the last sixty years.
Tilbury's place in the history of contemporary, improvised, and experimental music is beyond dispute. A member of AMM for decade…
The Rest Is My Ghost
Nostalgia is not an ideology, though in this moment, we could be mistaken for thinking it might be just that. Over the past years, the idea of nostalgia has been filtered through various political and technological lenses and has become a tool used for forgetting, rather than remembering. Instead of embracing histories’ complexities and inconsistencies, this version of nostalgia seeks only singular recollection. This contemporary phenomenon of nostalgia has become a methodology at best, and a we…
Drumming
The 1974 DG recording of Drumming by Steve Reich and Musicians, with Six Pianos and Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ. Remastered from the original four-track tapes for the first time, cut all-analogue at Emil Berliner Studios. Numbered 3LP box, 180g, original artwork.
The String Quartets
Reich's three string quartets on one record for the first time: Different Trains (1988), Triple Quartet (1998) and WTC 9/11 (2010), each setting the live quartet against tape. New readings by New York's Mivos Quartet, made with the composer's involvement. 2LP with notes by John Schaefer.
Main Lines / 1967
In September, 1967, three of the primary ensembles of free music in Northern Europe gathered for a mini-festival on Radio Bremen: the Manfred Schoof Quintet, the Peter Brötzmann Quartet, and the Irène Schweizer Trio. Pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach appeared as part of the Manfred Schoof Quintet, but in these sets, which mixed the dozen members of the ensembles, as well as presenting them on their own, Schlippenbach in fact either led or was at the center of several groupings, presenting two …
Jury Prize
Tip! The master returns to the wreckage. Long before the quiet, meditative ambience that has defined his catalog in recent years, Kevin Drumm was—and remains—an absolute architect of top tier American Harsh Noise. Originally buried in a quiet digital-only release via a defunct European imprint, this monumental work nearly slipped past the hungry physical-only noise underground...until now. AAD rectifies that historic oversight with this essential CD reissue that belongs on the shelves of every t…
Isle Peaks
In the wake of the acclaimed Inland See, the on-growing analog ecosystem being animated for ten albums now by Bitchin Bajas boasts new high energy views. “Isle Peaks” speaks of directions in beats of time, weather and the heart to wherever coast they found themselves when they got it all laid out. Sourced from Inland See sessions, these cuts were subjected to further edits and tweaks, with electroacoustic textures of sampled kalimba, field recordings, autoharp and EWI to activate and transport d…
Aeroplane Chess
Pierre Bastien and Christophe Petchanatz (aka Klimperei) met more than twenty years after their last musical collaboration. “Aeroplane Chess”—what is that? It’s the Hong Kong name for the universal game known here as “Ludo.” Pierre and Christophe play together here on sixteen simple, stripped-down tracks. They pass back and forth their figurines made of melodies, sounds, and rhythms, creating a minimal yet dense ensemble, with nothing missing from these two record jockeys. It brings to mind the …
Music By Earle Brown
Originally released by CRI in 1974 and now reissued on vinyl for the first time by Death Is Not The End, Music by Earle Brown is a concise overview of the composer's landmark early experiments with graphic notation, open form structures and magnetic tape.
LichtPunkte
*150 copies limited edition* LichtPunkte is a dense work, enhanced by inventive arrangements and powerful narrative ideas so abundant that the album could serve as a launchpad for several more works. There are spaces filled with melodies that float and hover, and there are layers that are intricate and full of forward movement. CON's drive and focused creative energy make this work an outstanding example of the 'Berlin Kosmische Schule'.