The Gentle Whale
The acquatic and marine imagery drawn by the titles and the artwork for “The Gentle Whale”, Francesco Lurgo’s second LP, the first one for Silentes, are a metaphor for a sound that is liquid and like the sea is constantly shifting from the quietness …
Herzog Sessions
In 2007 an Italian film festival invites Mouse on Mars to score a film of their choice. The organizers claim to be able to clear the rights for any movie the band chooses. Werner Herzog’s fictional documentary Fata Morgana, which merges footage of se…
Electronygen
*300 copies limited edition*
recorded and mixed by seiji morimoto, berlin 2022mastered by kris limbach (emitter19 studio)cover work: takuya kurihara
As If
Miki Yui is a musician, artist, and composer, originally from Tokyo, who has been based in Düsseldorf since 1994. Her whose work has long explored multiple forms of media, while documenting liminal zones of perception. On her latest album, As If, Yui…
Constants
*2024 stock* UK-based artist Chris Herbert is a man of intermittent communications. Over the past decade he has published a select oeuvre of crushingly lush and elegant records. Fittingly then, Constants, his new edition for Room40 is a transmission …
In Blue
When "In Blue" was released in 1995, many fans thought that this was the most typical Klaus Schulze record for a long time. They were probably right because Klaus did the songs a little bit with the fans in mind for whom the sounds of the previous al…
KPMM: 20 Signs You Have A Thyroid Problem
A treasury of 20 unheard cues from Baron Mordant. Housed in a beautiful spot gloss sleeve and pressed up on heavyweight vinyl
Selkie Reflections
*300 copies limited edition* In 2022, Enyo worked with the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop on an epic two-hour composition made from tape loops inspired by selkies, mythical creatures in Celtic folklore. Contemplating memory, grief and time itself, Enyo…
Private View
A meticulously crafted set of songs, instrumentals and abstracts recorded over a couple of years by Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere’s principal composer / arranger / multi instrumentalists Archer and Todd.
Arboreal Frippery
*60 copies limited edition* Ohio-based tape manipulator Meadow Argus (Tynan Krakoff) returns with over 60 minutes of memory mulching sound stew. The main aural sources stem from a momentous summer 2009 trainhopping/hitchhiking trip around America's W…
Figures of Speech
Oval Angle is the moniker of Geran Knol, a Dutch multidisciplinary visual artist and musician based in Antwerp, Belgium. His instrumental electronic music blends mellow and playful tones, characterized by plucky, offbeat sound design and wavering, as…
Wormhole
Nicolas Gaunin, the moniker of Italian experimental electronic musician Nicola Sanguin, returns with his latest full-length “Wormhole”. This record bridges the gap between naturalistic polyrhythms and more expansive, cosmic technologies. Contrasted t…
Hidden View
Leaving is the left-of-centre, electronics project of Rupert Thomas (Erasers), based in Perth, Western Australia. With a focus on hardware electronics, Thomas conjures immersive worlds of mood-driven synthesizer compositions that range from deep, slo…
Profiler
Excited and inspired by the evocative sounds of late 1980s synthesizer scores and the movies they sound-tracked, Rupert Lally returns with new album ‘Profiler’. A scorching 80s synthesizer heavy imaginary soundtrack to the movie playing in his head, …
Tropismi
Tip! Gabriele Gasparotti’s second full length album, Tropismi, is a collection of mesmerizing compositions with masterful polyrhythmical textures and harmonies, strings, prepared piano, magnetic tape and field recordings. Gasparotti's unique style us…
The Play-Back
Lovingly packaged Lebanese CD of skillful turntablism from Dj Sniff on Annihaya.
Mistbreaker
*2024 stock. 50 copies limited edition* Recorded to 1/4 inch tape on a 2-track reel to reel during 2021 by Ben Van Houdt using oscillators, tape recorders, tube preamp and effects.
Enochian Music For Beginners
What if Coil would have gone playing Black Metal music? Well, we cannot say it for sure, but probably the outcome could have been something very similar to some of these last Teatro Satanico tracks. Heavily influenced by explicit occult and esoteric …
Oppressor
After two demos and a trilogy of albums (on OEC, Tesco and Unrest) Böltorn decided to call it quits.The goals were achieved, there was nothing more to accomplish. In their wake they did however leave one recording behind; a "live in the studio" sessi…
Up The Rolls
The summer of love is here...Claudio Frassine (MADEMOISELLE BISTOURI / NORTH CENTRAL) teams up with Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (FOLKSTORM / MZ. 412 / BØLTORN) to bring some seriously filthy noise to your dungeon.This is as extreme as it gets; blazing te…
Tub Of Deep Green Ink
A limited CDr included with the A Castle Popping LP (R11, 2015). Tub of Deep Green Ink compliments the nature of the A Castle Popping, presenting ten tracks from 2011-2014. Ranging from layered string recordings, like the pastoral 2012 piece Invernes…
Radio Banana
Just when you think it's all over, along comes something completely unpredictable - in this case, a modest but uncompromisingly original confection that mixes latin brass arrangements (sort of), great drumming, medium wave radio and the many characte…
Tuba Intim
Contemporary music for tuba and a revelation of an under-utilised musical voice. For stretched and traditional techniques. Includes works by Lutz Glandien (Tuba and Tape), Morton Feldman, Igor Stravinsky and Michael himself. Excellent collection; and…
The Wind Rises (Electropleinair Sound Diary)
First released in Hungary in 1987, this is an extraordinary work combining ensemble playing, documentary recording, studio manipulation, electronics and some stunning compositional conception. Featuring Marta Sebastjen, the Amaninda group, WYXOMPHONI…
Zgamoniums
File under early Russian industrial rock/art; Harry Partch, incorporating primitive analogue electronics. A legend in art and industrial music circles, ZGA was formed under the old regime in Riga, Lavia, in 1984, by Nick Sudnik and Valery Dudkhin. Un…
Argonautika
A sound drama for tuba and electronics that constructs its own rich, twilit, rather alien, world. Only the sound of the tuba (sometimes), a few waves and a little thunder sound familiar, everything else is a mysterious presence; the electronics are n…
Black White And Grey
1992 release ** A complete new work plus 'Death In The Blue Lake'. Combines playing and through-composition with manipulated and environmental sound in dramatic, narrative, psychological constructions. Quite unique. 'Death' based on a novel; texts in…
Brain Weather (The Story Of The Rosenbergs)
1992 release ** "The psychotic world of The Rosenberg family with violin music from the dentist, the shrink, the surgeon and other split personalities. A funny, typically nutty release by this internationally known troublemaker, instrument maker and …
The People's Music
With string orchestras, percussion, a motivating red guard and the severed embalmed arm of the great helmsman himself (maybe), Jon Pits the ethos of Mao's China - and in particular the mass production of the violin and it's use in life against the 'r…
Silo
Sound artist Lauren Weinger documents and reworks one of her large scale installation events in giant grain silos in America. The massive sounds of gargantuan hoppers pouring grain, documentary moments of dialogue, local, archive and composed musics,…
Honeyed Crest
Beautiful tape from Mike Shiflet on NNA Tapes. Modular synthesizer abuse, 2019-2021. No tapes were harmed in the making of these recordings.
Unsounds And Domo Live
Derek Gedalecia’s latest creation brings us mutated electronic music from the extreme far out. A seemingly endless stream of synthetic gurgles, gulping, and goop in chaotic bursts of unpredictability. Includes a live audience/soundboard recording tha…
Holding Hands
Julian Gulyas (Cylindrical Habitat Modules label boss) delivers a refreshing suite of synth and tape explorations. Holding Hands references the early days of electronic music, while still maintaining a forward-thinking and modern abstract underground…
Fermionit | Kulmamomentti
Mika Vainio was recoording a new Ø-album since 2014. He almost got it ready before his too early passing in 2017. Mika's girlfriend Rikke Lundgreen from Oslo has been going through his notes, numerous versions and takes of the album treacks. Now the …
Issue 116: Thomas Dolby Issue + remixes (Magazine + 7" Blue)
Thomas Dolby is back! And as well as putting him on the cover of this month’s Electronic Sound, we are bundling the issue with an exclusive blue vinyl seven-inch featuring two tracks from Dolby’s dazzling ‘The Flat Earth’ album, one of them the aweso…
Invisible Surfer On An Invisible Wave
Baltimore, Maryland’s Ken Seeno displays a majestic array of crystal clear synthesizer arrangements. Soaring melodies float high above the shimmer of the blue-green waters, looking down upon the colorful shore and the oceans beyond. This is Landscape…
Harmonizer
Harmonizer is the new duo of Burlington, Vermont residents Greg Davis (Kranky, Carpark, Autumn Records) and Toby Aronson (NNA Tapes, RATS COPS). Future world sample-driven electronic synthesis, heavy rhythms, and total harmonizer worship.
A Fantasy In Seasons
Ben Billington’s solo works as Quicksails put him in a place uncharted by many other contemporary acts, combining a wide assortment of live percussion and synthesized electronics. Following up recent cassettes on Digitalis and Deception Island, “A Fa…
