★Kohlhaas

Weekend With Friends is a collective featuring Jacopo Buda (trumpet, electronics), Alberto Brutti (double bass, electronics), Mattia Bellei (clarinet, electronics), and Demetrio Cecchitelli (flute, guitar, electronics). At its core, the project thriv…

Two familiar faces within the Kohlhaas fold—Stefano Calderano as part of the trio McCorman (2023), and Giovanni Di Domenico through his solo works "Polvere di rabbia" (2021) and "Stella Maris" (2025)—join now forces on "Caperea". Bridging Rome and Br…

'Σ [sigma]' is the new album by composer, saxophone player and improviser Antonio Raia. The first chapter of a trilogy dedicated to Berlin — where Raia spent several weeks recording alongside producer Francesco Donadello in different locations — 'Σ […

To wander means to relinquish the idea of a destination—moving through sound without immediately seeking a form, allowing chance encounters, shifts, and resonances to suggest the path. It is from this gesture that "In Vago Spirito" emerges, the new a…

'Weather Eye' marks the first recorded collaboration between Italian guitarist Francesca Naibo and American cellist Theresa Wong. This collection of improvisations reveals a dialogue of care as the duo uncovers delicate and unexpected sonorities of t…

Performed by Giovanni Di Domenico on a late autumn night in 2021 on the 2859-pipe organ (Giuseppe Zanin, 1970) at Chiesa di Stella Maris, Milano Marittima. Giovanni Di Domenico: pipe organ, Chiesa di Stella Maris, Milano Marittima, Italy, November 26…

Adjustable Face, the newly formed duo of Milan-based musicians Marco Paltrinieri (Canti Magnetici, Granny Records) and Matteo Pennesi (Babau, Artetetra, {scope}), explores the intersection of glitch, ambient, and computer music through different comp…

In an 'ecological' process of recovery and reuse of musical materials and obsolete electronics, 'Unfall' (German for “accident”) lays its research focus on the encounter between improvised music, electroacoustics, free jazz, dixieland, and minimalism…

Two years following his work 'Monumento Fiume', Giovanni Lami returns to Kohlhaas with a new release, once again investigating the intricate relationships between memory, the sonic medium, and decay. 'Eikon' originates from a series of acoustic cello…

*200 copies limited edition* Furtherset, the musical project of Venice-based composer and visual artist Tommaso Pandolfi, debuts with his first album for Kohlhaas, the sixth in his career, 'Wounds of Melody'. A layered image of devastation and beauty…

*200 copies limited edition* In February 2019, multi-instrumentalists Maurizio Abate and Luca Venitucci crossed musical paths as part of an artist residency at Standards in Milan. Over those few days, their respective instruments engaged in a dialogu…

"tri-n-os" —stemming from the ancient Greek word θρήνος (thrínos) meaning lament, wail, mourn and cognate to Sanskrit ध्रणति (dhráṇati, “to sound”), Latin drēnsō (to cry, to murmur), and Old English drān (drone)— unfolds as a deep delve into the real…

de’ Lamperi is the alias of Florence-based interdisciplinary artist Francesco Toninelli. Conceived as a sound-focused multidisciplinary performance, "Addio esseri di polvere" (“Farewell, dust creatures”) is a haunting soundscape that unfolds against …

*300 copies limited edition* Coming on top of a decade-long sonic exploration of the potentialities of the guitar as a pure sound generator, the performance for solo guitar and objects 'Sacred Habits' is the most recent solo project by Modena-based c…

Tip! *300 copies limited edition* {scope} came to life in 2020, when musicians Laura Agnusdei, Matteo Pennesi and Luca Sguera got selected for Holydays Festival, an artist residency in Scopoli, a small village in Umbria, central Italy. Despite having…

*300 copies limited edition* "Interplay" is performed by five singers, from tenor clef to treble clef, recorded in different places at different times. Each singer had not listened to what the others had recorded before. They actually did not sing wo…

Disquiet. Loss. Choice. The courage to venture onto a road. Choosing another one. And disquiet again, having ascertained that neither leads to new lands: the images which make up 'An Imitation of Life' convey all this to the observer, that is, the ve…

*300 copies limited edition* Hailing from a jazz background and each collaborating in a variety of projects, Stefano Calderano, Francesco Panconesi and Nicholas Remondino have been teasing the boundaries of genres three years now under their trio act…

Holy Similaun and Archipel dwell once again in the complex intersection of human memory, time and its perception with "Radicor al flort, espert on'ill il erb, aor Raetia".

*300 copies limited edition* In 2021, the Municipality of Cotignola, Ravenna invited sound artist and composer Giovanni Lami to participate in an artist residency as part of a broader project aiming to investigate the anthropic landscape of the local…

Tip! * 300 copies. In process of stocking * Hoof Stand is the third vinyl output by Primorje, the collaborative project between Giovanni Donadini (Ottaven, Canedicoda) and Matteo Castro (Mercury Hall, Lettera 22, also founder of Second Sleep label). …

*300 copies limited edition* Over the last decade, Rome-born, Brussels-based eclectic composer Giovanni Di Domenico has been ranging through a diverse number of fields within experimental music. Now, in the midst of a close series of astounding relea…

Edition of 200 copies. Screen-printed sleeve. Borrowing its title from a verse contained in the Man'yōshū poems, Mani Mani is the recording of the performance held by Pierre Berthet and Rie Nakajima under their collaborative project Dead Plants and L…

Alessandro Bosetti, Milan-born, Marseille-based sound artist and composer, paints a series of portraits from a collection of conversations recorded in Italy over the course of a Summer. Bosetti chose and collected four voices articulated over three g…

** 12” LP edition of 300 copies with cover artwork and booklet featuring illustrations by Ettore Tripodi ** In September 2019 Alessandro Bosetti was invited by fellow composer and curator Riccardo La Foresta to create a new work for a newly created e…

* Edition of 200 * This self-titled LP is the first batch of tracks delivered by the polymorphous sounding entity identifying themself as Deva Ovel. Emerging from the Adriatic coast, the sound of Deva Ovel manifests in a captivating layering of vocal…

A sparse and subtle jungle comprises the pieces that make up "Pietra e Oggetto". It is subtle, as such it remains in the memory. Thanks to the device of silence, which is like the air in between things, it allows time for what we have heard to imprin…

* Edition of 200 * In what might appear to be a paradox of logic, much of the history of avant-garde music - from Eric Satie, John Cage, and Morton Feldman, through the minimalists, post-minimalists, and beyond - has presented new forms radicalism th…

* Edition of 300. Lacquer cut at SST. Featuring cover artwork by Natália Trejbalová. * Riccardo La Foresta is a percussionist, composer and improviser based in Modena (Italy) whose interests range from improvisation and composition, sound performance…

«Tolerance can be used to describe how things fit together. Another term is allowance. Situations do not always run smoothly alongside others. People are not always able to accept new situations presented to them. With this work, I have stated “Many …

**  edition of 200 ** Sebastiano Carghini is a musician whose research is mainly focused on the use of modular synth and the recording of physical objects. After his recent releases for Second Sleep, New York Haunted and Hideous Replica, he’s now f…

To the so-called experimental music audience, Claudio Rocchetti is widely known as an incessantly active avant musician (apart from his main solo project he is also part of 3/4HadBeenEliminated, Olyvetty, power quartet In Zaire, and brand new duo …

Outcome of overlying minerals and organic sediments, shifted in the course of the millennia, the lime, in Italian ‘Calce’, is for Nina Haab (visual artist born in Bellinzona in 1985) and Stefano De Ponti (sound artist born in Milan in 1980) the metap…

Umanzuki is a three-piece act based in Florence, Italy whose sound and aesthetics are in constant metamorphosis: moving from a former psych free- rock mood, evolving into an increasing dissolution of structures, they are now completing their ascent a…

**shipping the next week** Metzengerstein is a Tuscany-based trio including members of art collective Ambient-Noise Session who had their debut tape Albero Specchio released by Expo 70 Justin Wright’s Sonic Meditations back in 2013 (and recently on w…

Istruttiva serie is a non-linear path progressing by attempts. A limited number of non consequential exercises about re-elaboration and evocation. The sound material comes from field recordings (recorded in Italy in 2014) and folk guitar. The main pu…

5 haiku is the latest development of Glauco Salvo’s former solo project Of Rivers And Trains, in which the acoustic textures provided by banjo, e-bowed zither and playback devices are shaped by the metrical patterns of haiku poetry. Recorded by Attil…

Pequod are an acoustic quartet (Antonio Bertoni – double bass, Federico Robol – bass flute and soprano sax, Luca Santini – cornet, Massimo Valentinotti – prepared guitar) formed in 2010, conceiving their music on a continuous tension between writing …