Loose Ends
Filatelie is proud to announce the release of "Loose Ends", the latest album by the enigmatic California-based artist Darksmith. Released on June 6, 2025, "Loose Ends" is a bold new chapter in Darksmith’s ongoing exploration of experimental sound and audio collage.
"Loose Ends" is a two-part journey that delves deep into the world of lo-fi musique concrète and noise, a signature style that has defined Darksmith’s work for over fifteen years. The album’s structure—simply titled "Part One" and "Pa…
Insania
Philatélie is proud to announce the release of "Insania", the latest album by the acclaimed experimental trio Organ of Corti. Released on June 6, 2025, "Insania" delivers six new pieces that push the boundaries of tape music and analog synthesis, further cementing the group’s reputation for sonic innovation.
Each track is a testament to Organ of Corti’s unique approach, blending crumbling tape loops with spacious analog synth layers to create hypnotic, immersive soundscapes. The album is a journ…
Hold Onto I.D.
Recorded from late 1996 through early 1997, Hold Onto I.D., The Shadow Ring’s fourth album, marks the apogee of the trio’s experimental rock epoch—their last record clinging to their factitious bandness before they let all song and structure go awash in sonic malaise for their final run of releases on Swill Radio. The surrealist dreams of City Lights and Put the Music in Its Coffin give way to pseudo-expressionistic lyrics mired in the banality and bleakness of the everyday, set against the back…
Wax-Work Echoes
Wax-Work Echoes, The Shadow Ring’s 1996 album, marks a shift to original material and features Tim Goss in the main lineup. Fusing atmospheric soundscapes and wry lyricism, it captures the band’s restless energy. Out of print for decades, it now returns on vinyl.
L'Makina
Gilles Aubry’s musical work focuses on the intersection of traditional music and Artificial Intelligence.
Impressões de Várias Ilhas (Field recordings from Macaronésia)
After impressions of Unguja and Borneo islands, Discrepant's chieftain Gonçalo F. Cardoso continues his sonic travelogue on insularity with 'Impressões de Várias Ilhas'.
D-R
*150 hand-numbered copies limited edition* Laaps is proud to present "D-R," the latest album by acclaimed Japanese sound artist and composer Akhira Sano. "D-R" marks Sano’s return to the label, following his celebrated 2023 release on IIKKI. "D-R" is a masterful exploration of minimalism and ambient soundscapes, continuing Sano’s tradition of crafting deeply immersive and contemplative works. The album invites listeners into a world of subtle textures, delicate harmonies, and intricate sonic de…
True than Nature
True than Nature encourages active listening. There is sound that exists seemingly for its own sake – a continuing drone that slowly evolves, sound of nature – and there are sounds that refer to a momentary action, and sudden intrusions of sound. BJ Nilsen triggers shifts in the perception for the listener that alter how you perceive and experience the world through sound, and how you think about sound.
Listening to True than Nature is full of moments of instability. The shifts between sound spa…
A Book of Waves
"After playing together for years, our tide was turning. What began as a happy rhythm of show dates in Berlin, from cozy trios in Klaus’ home studio to ten-piece ensembles at Ausland, was now ebbing away thanks to Andy’s move to the US. Whenever an accustomed pattern shifts it can take time to readjust, to find the gravity that will pull to shape an orbit again. What had been working well between us remained on both our minds for a few years after: the tension between complimentary forms and ref…
Archival Recordings: Primal Image / Beauty
Time is a mysterious companion in Alan Lamb’s Primal Image/Beauty. Recorded on abandoned telephone wires in Western Australia, these works explore harmony and materiality, blending dynamic sonic environments with deep listening. Lamb’s music invites us to experience the world’s hidden sounds, unlocking inner reflection.
Kansai Bruises
London-based percussionist and composer Valentina Magaletti teams up with Japanese experimental electronic artist YPY for Kansai Bruises, an evocative exploration of cross-cultural sonic territories that bridges European avant-garde percussion with Japanese electronic minimalism. The album unfolds across eight carefully crafted tracks that document a metaphysical journey through Japan's Kansai region, where ancient traditions collide with hypermodern urban realities. Opening with One Hour Visa, …
Unintentionally Provoked Kundalini Awakening
Edition of 200 copies, all covers are hand painted and unique, done by Gustaf Dicksson. The landscape of contemporary spiritual music has become increasingly cluttered with new age pretenders and meditative commodifications, making the appearance of genuinely transcendent work all the more remarkable. Post-Tragic Man's Unintentionally Provoked Kundalini Awakening emerges from this morass as something authentically transformative—a work that channels the ecstatic traditions of minimalist piano ex…
Lapsikuninkaan Fanfaari
Juho Toivonen's third album navigates memory's fluid terrain through off-key piano, tape loops, and spectral melodies. Featuring Ramo Sinnemäki's trumpet, this Nordic ambient masterwork recalls Basinski while exploring childhood fragments and imagined futures. Pure Scandinavian melancholy—essential contemporary ambient.
The Window
200 copies. Les Disques Omnison is thrilled to announce the vinyl release of The Window by HWYUIOD, a mysterious project that has been quietly building a devoted following through digital channels and word-of-mouth in underground experimental circles. The Window represents a singular vision of ambient drift and processed sound that exists somewhere between the meditative expanses of Éliane Radigue , the expansive minimalism of early Kranky releases (Labradford, Stars of the Lid), and the textur…
Garden Variety
"Garden Variety" explores interdependence and intimacy through the emergent behavior of percussion instruments. Inspired by Anne Carson’s concept of Eros, the series blurs sonic identities, creating a composite instrument from motion. Amplification invites listeners into a tactile, resonant sound world.
Hyperboréen
With Hyperboréen, we set sail for a dreamy, fantastical North, where the cold and the distant call for contemplation. Six other musicians accompany us on this journey. This strong atmosphere of mental and literary images resonated with the recording - isolated in the heart of the Puisaye countryside - of the six tracks on the album. The sounds of the instruments are deconstructed and reassembled in a process akin to electroacoustic editing, while they are joined by sounds from elsewhere, produce…
Sans motif apparent
A saxophone, filtered live through electro-acoustic manipulation, creates unpredictable soundscapes. Fred Wallich and Pierre Audoynaud improvise, challenging jazz conventions and expectations, inviting listeners into new, bewildering auditory geographies and experiences.
You're Beautiful
*100 copies limited edition* 'You're Beautiful' is the fantastical album of Berlin-based artist Laurén Maria. Part singer-songwriter ballads, part experimental collages, part poignant distortion-laden anthems, the album is like a journey of strange encounters in a mysterious woodland. Maria's mystical voice is our companion on this adventure, sometimes vulnerable, front and centre, at other times heavily processed and part of the fabric of the forest. On songs like "Zephyr" featuring Ludwig Wand…
Unusual Suggestions
Tip! *150 copies limited edition* L'eau des fleurs is happy to release this impressive homemade Gesamtskuntwerk by Finnish artist Jani Hirvonen. For these "Unusual suggestions", Jani, who did also this marvelous artwork, played himself all the instruments : percussions, kalimba, violin, radio, balalaïka, flute, kantele, electronic effects... These uncommon suggestions seemed endless. You can listen here and there some remains of avant-folk shapes but actually this LP is totally idiosyncratic in…
Tools
Pierre Bastien’s "Tools" pays tribute to the Meccano screwdriver, the origin of his mechanical instruments. Using self-made devices, Bastien explores sound’s raw materiality, embracing chance and discovery, and inviting listeners to experience new musical worlds.