Top Natural Drum
Following releases on West Mineral and Lillerne Tapes, Iggy Romeu’s inimitable Mister Water Wet project makes its Soda Gong debut. “Top Natural Drum” feels like a double entendre ode to digging culture, drawing equally from the plantlife in the dirt and the grooves in the stacks. Tracks like opener “Soak” concoct a haze of resonant ceramic/wooden percs, skittering drum programming, and addictive yet diffuse melodic and harmonic textures. Dusty-fingered nodders like “Caged at Last”, “Classicfit,”…
Schokolino Choco Loco
"As I sit down to pen these words for Stilluppsteypa's latest vinyl release on the enigmatic Futura Resistenza label, I find myself jumping back a year or two, reminded of the profound impact this Icelandic ensemble has had on the northern landscape of experimental arts for four decades. Emerging in the early 1990s, Stilluppsteypa began their journey as a punk-oriented band with multiple members. However, their insatiable curiosity for the unconventional soon led them to explore more abstract an…
Glass Colored Lily
This is the first release from the Japanese shinobue and flute player Yuki Fujiwara. Boarding Yuki's musical ship feels as if the pier exists in a strange space between the past and the future going to a journey to a land which is not here anymore and is not still there. A deep connection to the music world of Toru Takemitsu!
''But Glass Colored Lilly is not just a modern take on Japanese traditions, not at all. Small details on the production and small scale contributions from all the musician…
Kakashi
*2025 much needed repress!* A wonderful, rare record wrapped in a mysterious yet playful ambiance. Or maybe it’s just the impression that the Japanese language often gives me. ‘Suiren’ is an odd jazz-fusion-wave tune that sounds like its boiling, waiting to burst but somehow manages to stay in control. Like the nervous tick of a leg fidgeting under the table of a restaurant on a first date.Yasuaki Shimizu is a Japanese composer, producer and saxophone player. He worked with Ryuchi Sakimoto on ce…
Somewhere
*2025 stock*
Written, produced, engineered and mixed by Marco GiambroneRecorded and mixed at Casa 53 - Cammarata (Italy)Additional Recordings: b.a.d Instruments Studio - Alessandria, Nocino's Studio - AlessandriaMastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maestà - Tredozio
Marco Giambrone: Vocals, guitars, percussions, balalaika, vibes, noises, samples, synth, violinCaterina Fede: Vocals, organ, harmonium, synth, autoharp, cymbals, percussions, noisesAlfonso De Marco: Bass guitar, percussions, backing vo…
A Hiss of Light
A Hiss of Light is the first recording made by sound artists Alanas Gurinas and Sholto Dobie. Both artists work with acoustic sound sculptures and self-made instruments made with everyday materials. In the case of Gurinas, vibrating and taught paper objects emit pulsing sine tones, organic chirps and shimmering noise that drift like weather fronts whilst in Dobie’s work, air is the main material, compressed and channeled through a set of valves, tubes and timers, into pipes of various origins.
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Live at Ormside
Infant Tree is excited to present a new solo release by Crystabel Efemena Riley, recorded In July 2024 at Ormside Projects, as part of Susu Laroche’s Seraph FM series. Crystabel performs on a kit constructed of recycled skins of drums and shells, specifically centered in the space. This performance inter-connected with an exploration of metal smelting and sculpting that was happening in tandem in her work as a make-up artist uniquely preoccupied with the the infinitely recyclable and ritualistic…
Space And Place
2000 release ** Limited edition of 500 hand numbered copies. Packaged in mini-LP sleeve. "In all six tracks of this CD, Murayama uses a cymbal, a snare drum and small objects (as well as his voice on track 6). Four of the pieces (2-5), recorded in Tokyo, were composed by Murayama based on collaborations with Soundworm (Shoji). Several clusters of two or three mikes were deployed in different areas of the studio, with one of the mikes of one cluster placed outdoors. (In addition, there were two c…
WYTH
*Limited edition of 91 copies, a landmark collection of Avant-Garde harp innovation, includes download code.* Celebrated Irish harpist and improviser Rhodri Davies redefines the boundaries of his instrument across eight seminal albums in "WYTH", a meticulously curated box set showcasing his radical explorations in sound. This limited edition box-set compiles Davies’ groundbreaking work on his Amgen label, offering a panoramic view of his fearless experimentation with the harp—from abrasive textu…
Prequel Oct. 1998 - Mar. 1999 + 1
2008 release ** "This is the first album by Mitsuru Nasuno (Altered States, Fushitsusha, Ground Zero, Korekyojinn, etc.), the top bassist in Tokyo's most cutting-edge scene, also known as the groove master. As the title suggests, the recording took place between 1998 and 1999. Two of the tracks (the third and fourth) were already included in the 10-disc box set "Improvised Music from Japan." This work is the complete version, so to speak. This complete version, which has finally seen the light o…
The Four Louies
Bill Orcutt’s The Four Louies is a daring and inventive hybrid, merging two iconic pillars of 20th-century organ-driven music—The Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” and Steve Reich’s “Four Organs”—into a single, genre-defying composition. Through meticulous digital cut-ups, looping, and live transcriptions, Orcutt transforms these classics into a new work that is as much a celebration of raw garage rock energy as it is a study in minimalist structure and repetition
The Anxiety Of Symmetry
Bill Orcutt’s "The Anxiety of Symmetry" is the final chapter in his “counting” trilogy, blending six samples of female voices singing scale degrees into hypnotic, melodic computer music. The result is a mesmerizing, trance-like journey between noise and harmony
A Pauper's Guide To John Cage
2011 release ** Packaged in oversize paper sleeve. "A Pauper's Guide to John Cage, on the budget Another Timbre Byways imprint, originally intended to feature lesser-known musicians. Across its 44 minutes, it features two compositions by Anett Németh played by the composer herself alone on a range of instruments and equipment. The album opens with the brilliantly-named title piece, which has an underlying drone/hum (maybe produced by "domestic electronics") over which Németh plays well-spaced pi…
ADASTRA001 (7")
*Edition of 300 handnumbered copies* Milanese avant-pop label Ad Astra Dischi debuts with a 7" EP offering some experimental pieces bridging tradition and innovation. Exploring the intersections of avant-garde and pop, “ADASTRA001” features three distinct tracks from Italian artists Dduma, Tadde, and Prima Alba, offering a concise yet rich introduction to the label’s vision.On Side A, Salentine artist Dduma channels the raw intensity of Mediterranean folk into “Fimmine de Guerra”, sung entirely…
B.L.E.V.E
*50 copies limited edition* An industrial incident, a long live act, a four hands portrait. There comes the third opus of Meth.O.Tapes label catalogue, in a dense, deep fog. Following a first album out on Big Science Records, the duo Warzabart sets up a throbbing nightmare, a mental image of what a « BLEVE » is, namely a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion. Between noise monolithism and the exciting richness of live takes where the machine itself tends to create the adequate language to tel…
Yétèkpãnra
*60 copies limited edition. 2025 stock.* There are nights carved like the journey of the dead out of the livings' daylight. Mert Seger brings to our senses a two steps ritual for this debut on Kump. « Yétèkpãnra », freely inspired by the funeral rites of the Batãmmariba of Togo and Benin depicted by Dominique Sewane, runs along with no clear beginning nor any end, a sound sketch where the shapeless rustle from the depths of the night meets a procession of artefacts. In this space where the dead …
Chance Meeting On a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
Cassette edition of the first NWW album from 1979 manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.
Chance Meeting of a Defective Tape Machine and Migraine
2003 CD on United Durtro / Anomalous with an 'automatic' re-mix of the first NWW album by irr. app. (ext.) Matt Waldron.
To the Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl
Ultra rare first edition of 500 hand-numbered copies (this is 257/500) on United Dairies from 1980 of the second NWW LP, including the original LP-size insert with the essential "NWW list". Superb copy.
Merzbild Schwet
Very rare first edition of 500 hand-numbered copies (this is 205/500) on United Dairies from 1980 of the third NWW LP. Superb copy.