Twenty20
It has been a couple of years (that felt like a lifetime) since we released lloyd Thayer’s last album, Duets, which he recorded with the drummer Jerome Deupree. The intervening time has been weird as hell, but Thayer (master of every string that’s ev…
Good Night
On January 11, 2010, I received a message from a woman who introduced herself as a friend of my good buddy Aki Onda. She was going to be part of a music night at a space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, called Death by Audio. She asked if I’d be willing to…
That's Understanding
Having listened to this disk 20 or so times over the past week, I have been struck time and again by the gently naif quality of Dan Beckman-Moon's songwriting. I keep thinking of Neil Young's earliest solo tunes, particularly 'Sugar Mountain,' as a s…
Forest Lifes: "New" Dream World
The mixtape has long been a central facet of Seth Price’s practice, from his compilations of New Jack Swing, industrial, and early video game music contextualized with essays as part of his Title Variable project to his soundtracks for fashion shows.…
Inoue
Patrick Shiroishi returns to his brutal prog roots for an album of 60 saxophone exercises, equally punishing and rewarding. Executed during the plague years and delivered in two halves, one featuring pieces composed strictly with programmed drum acco…
Leviathan Whispers
On Leviathan Whispers, Tim Hill shapes saxophones, tape loops and treated field sound into slow-burning rites of longing and delirium, a spectral song-cycle where folk memory, Blakean vision and drone minimalism coil around each other in restless, da…
Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture and Repair
"Collapsing Drums tells the stories that matter in a post-pandemic world" - The Wire Collapsing Tape is a sprawling 23 track compilation which celebrates 5 years of the Collapsing Drums label via a diverse pool of artists working across experimental …
Einde Were
*100 copies limited edition* ‘Einde Were’ is the debut solo album by guitarist Nicolas Van Belle, recorded in late 2024 at Zinnema in Brussels. It will be released as KR007 on Klankhaven Records on vinyl, accompanied by a booklet of texts. At its cor…
Smilets By
Re-issue of Danish cult classic from 2006 with new artwork by Martha Hviid and AK. 12" vinyl feat. oliver hoiness - andreas führer - anders lauge meldgaard yoyooyoy / lolita industri 2008 og 2006
lo-fi wizard oliver hoiness. the ever-cheerful kalle …
Proportioning of open units
Besides being a visual artist, Christoffer Kjærskov has quietly been making experimental music for the last 20 years. His works, always recorded to 4 track cassette, seem to carry a certain warmth flowing through the patiently unfolding loops and shi…
The sad house and the bad house
I’m happy to present a new recording on Afvikling from my friend Frederik Heidemann, this time working under his new Plain Bob Minor alias. Where his first tape for the label was a patiently unfolding piece of homemade chamber music, this recording i…
It was so real
Josefine, The person behind Upshifter and I come from the same town, Odense, she’s a few years older than me. I remember being very young and going to a vegan community kitchen and hearing rumors about her amazing synthpop group Time Masters around 1…
1–16
When I started to be curious about producing cassette tapes around 2016, everyone I met said that I should talk to Wilfred Wagner. Not only did he have a lot of printing equipment and knowledge about cover design, he also have one of Copenhagen’s onl…
Prehistory
Some 42 years after its initial release, Circle X’s Prehistory returns to the vinyl format. New listeners to this music will discover, in addition to the roiling compulsion in its odd, dance-damaged clockwork and instinctive joining of feral and aest…
Fata Morgana
On their new album Fata Morgana, an illusory trip of emotion and confrontation, Belgian duo schntzl conjure mirages of fleeting realities while diving headfirst into a trance-driven, confrontational digital sound. Fata Morgana unfolds like a hyper-vi…
Improvised Textures
Pianist Bas Bulteel has been actively exploring the boundaries of solo piano work for several years now. This resulted, among other things, in his first solo album Eye Of The Storm, which was released in 2024 on W.E.R.F. Records. In the compositions …
Spheres Collapser
Black Vinyl. XKatedral, in collaboration with La Becque Editions, announces a new album from Stephen O'Malley, co-founder of SUNN O))). Les Sphères (effondrez-les) presents two long-form compositions for pipe organ, performed by O'Malley alongside Ka…
Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts (LP, Coloured)
Huge Tip! *White vinyl with obi strip* Twenty years into their singular journey, Valence-based trio France have become one of Europe's most hypnotic live forces - a hurdy-gurdy-powered engine generating waves of kraut, psych, folk and drone that blur…
Material (LP)
* Special embossed, die-cut sleeve with 56-page booklet - 200 copies on black vinyl * Aude Van Wyller (aka Oï les Ox, aka AI les Axes) joins forces with acclaimed poet Lucy Van, author of The Open (2021) and Australian Women's Historical Photography …
Espaces Inhabitables / Démeures Acquatiques / Medisances / Variations en Etoile / Capture Ephémère (2 reel-to reel tapes)
Amazing find: two reel to reel tapes with electro-acoustic compositions from 1967-1969 made at GRM (apparently by Bernard Parmegiani) and destined to be used for public or private listening, coming from composer Franca Sacchi's archive of tapes for h…