Music from United States

Albert Ayler did it once, and only once. On February 24, 1964, in New York, on the same day as the session that would become Spirits, he recorded a program of spirituals and standards with no screaming, no glossolalia, no demolition of form: "Goin' Home", "Ol' Man River", "Down By The Riverside", "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", "Deep River", "When The Saints Go Marchin' In", "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen". Songs of suffering and salvation, played with a devotional restraint that hits harder th…

"Utility Modern represents a kind of full creative circle for me. My musical journey began under the influence of Bill's work, and now we find ourselves collaborating, building something new together. In many ways, Utility Modern is an homage to the guitar and to the guitarists whose music shaped my artistic voice.My work is rooted more in process than in concept, and that process is deeply informed by an ongoing exploration of the instrument—its technique, physicality, and expressive possibilit…

Wewantsounds presents the first official release of a legendary 1977 concert, capturing Don Cherry, Collin Walcott and Leon Thomas in their only documented performance together, joined for part of the night by the rest of Oregon. Long circulating among a few Cherry fans, Sunrise is a hypnotic forerunner to Codona, newly remastered, with Moki Cherry artwork and new liner notes by Jason Weiss.

Joanna Newsom's 2006 masterpiece returns on double LP: five sprawling songs where harp and voice meet Van Dyke Parks' orchestral grandeur, recorded by Steve Albini, mixed by Jim O'Rourke. Named for a drowned Breton city, Ys remains overwhelming

*40 copies limited edition* "Midlife Crisis Ambient Moniker" is a Personal Greatest Hits. A Selected Ambient Works Volume 1. Lost Episodes. Archival Deep Dive. Bastard tracks with no home nor family, but with proximity to one another. Unreleased recordings dating as far back as 2014, with source material as old as 2004. There’s even a few songs that once saw the light of day, but never got their time in the sun (“Drain, When It Hit Me,” excerpts from “Earth Day…”). Many of these recordings were …

Comprised of several lost artefacts from The Haters heyday- PQQQU is not a reissue, but a full hour of previously unreleased recordings. Two tracks of studio material from an unreleased and thought to be lost cassette from the late 80s, paired with two live actions in Zürich on the same evening in October 1990, including the legendary "Building Empty Holes" performance featuring Joke Lanz and Rudolf Eb.Er. Audio mastered from cassette and VHS rips by Grant Richardson.

*2026 repress!!* Balmat 17 marks both a return and a new frontier. It is the second album on the label from Patricia Wolf, whose 2022 album See-Through is one of the most beloved in Balmat's catalog; it also marks the first time that Wolf has turned her hand to a film soundtrack. The results are every bit as magical as fans of the Portland, Oregon, composer's music might expect. Hrafnamynd--Icelandic for "raven film"--is a new feature-length documentary by experimental filmmaker Edward Pack Dave…

On KCRW Session, Oneohtrix Point Never’s MYRIAD Ensemble re‑imagines four Age Of‑era pieces as live, tectonic mini‑epics. “Love In The Time Of Lexapro,” “RayCats,” “Toys 2” and “Chrome Country” are stretched, bent and coloured by a full band - Kelly Moran, ADR and Eli Keszler - turning studio collages into muscular, sci‑fi chamber performances.

On Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, Daniel Lopatin turns his alias back on itself, building an FM‑radio hallucination that scans through pop ballads, new‑age satire and junk‑media collage. Mutant songs, warped DJ chatter and scavenged broadcast detritus form a self‑portrait of OPN’s first decade, mapped as a day spent spinning the dial of a half‑broken soft‑rock station.

On Tranquilizer, Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin) turns a cache of vanished 90s/early‑2000s sample CDs into a shimmering, otherworldly meditation on digital memory. Ambient‑new‑age rompler pads, anonymous whooshes and muzak fragments are re‑cut into vivid sound collages that feel more stupefying than sedative, tracing beauty inside the most ordinary sonic debris.

“We’ll Take It” is Oneohtrix Point Never’s most terrifying hydraulic banger on Age Of: a car‑dealership nightmare where late‑stage consumer desire turns into industrial, post‑digital overload. Swerving drums, “sideways ragtime” piano and mangled vocals enact the moment when “we don’t even know what the price is” but buy anyway, stretching under four minutes into a cavernous, supernatural infinity.

A sequel to 2011's communication from our future selves on 'The Spectacle of Light Abductions', this new endeavour by restless netherzone traveller Spencer Clark envisions a space map towards the other side of human life. A meditation on the paintings of Vedran Kopljar, these two side-long pieces, recorded and performed at Kopljar's exhibition at Muhka Museum in Antwerp in 2024, tap into the barren world inhabited by Clark while wandering what he calls the "Abomination Plateaus". Searching for m…

Long before Spotify algorithmically ruined discovery, Joshua Burkett was wandering the New England underground with nothing but a guitar and enough patience to make tar smells feel like déjà vu. This compilation LP is your time machine back to when "knew someone who knew someone" was the only distribution network you needed.

Following his striking 1968 debut Ghetto Music, the radical trumpeter and composer Eddie Gale presented an extension of that vision continuing to seek truth and justice through his music on his magnificent 2nd Blue Note album Black Rhythm Happening, recorded in 1969. Joining the Noble Gale Musicians (Gale, saxophonist/flutist Russell Lyle, and bassists Judah Samuel and Henry Pearson) and Noble Gale Singers (including Joann Gale Stevens and Fulumi Prince) are guest musicians including alto saxoph…

*30 copies limited edition. Signed, hand-assembled CD + unique Polaroid photo by zakè, housed in a hand-stamped and numbered 2-panel kraft cardstock sleeve* Toward the end of 2024, I sent Brian Grainger (Coppice Halifax) a collection of sounds, loops, and textures, giving him complete creative freedom to reshape them into something entirely new. Much like his remarkable reinterpretation of LL ('LL1 (Beige Mix)' ZD-026, 2023), every piece on this album was constructed exclusively from the source …

CD boxset reissuing the four Série Torso cassettes released on Deadline Recordings. Includes a fifth bonus disc on unreleased material, and featuring photos of Black Leather Jesus fans given for use.

Brand new album from the seminal Black Leather Jesus. Four studio and two live recordings, featuring Richard Ramirez, Sean E. Ramirez, Kevin Novak, Scott Kindberg, Domokos, Anjilla Ulfhednar and Thomas Puopolo.

Compiling six ferocious live recordings made by Joe Roemer across the US. Raw and untamed.

On Poem 1, Ana Roxanne strips away the ambient haze of her earlier work to place her voice, naked and close‑mic’d, at the center of a heartbreak record. Slow, piano‑led ballads, a Schumann lied recast in synth‑chamber light, and one Lynchian jazz centerpiece turn her quiet intensity into a lucid, emotionally exposed song cycle.

Sarah Davachi's first book, From the Ruins of the Literal: Critical Organology, Timbre, and the Poetics of Affect, published by her own Late Music imprint. The title is borrowed from Paul Ricoeur, whose account of metaphor locates meaning at the point where literal sense gives way. Davachi turns that idea on the study of instruments and timbre, disciplines she sees as long governed by empirical, neuro-cognitive and modernist assumptions. Her objection is not that measurement is wrong but that it…