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Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach
2025 stock A double-CD collection of Tzadik artists and special guests paying tribute to one of the great geniuses of American music. Burt Bacharach's compositions explode the expectations of what a popular song is supposed to be. Advanced harmonies and chord changes with unexpected turnarounds and modulations, unusual changing time signatures and rhythmic twists, often in uneven numbers of bars. But he makes it all sound so natural you can't get it out of your head or stop whistling it. Madden…
Mectpyo Bakterium
Edition of 100. Eighth Tower Records and Interitvs Nvmen unite to resurrect one of the most vital documents from Italy's industrial underground. In the suffocating heat of 1981's experimental underground, Maurizio Bianchi unleashed Mectpyo Bakterium, a work so clinically disturbing and sonically corrosive that it stands among the most unsettling audio documents of the early industrial era. Now, over four decades later, this pivotal cassette transmission receives its first proper CD treatment thr…
Corrosiv
Orchestroll’s "Corrosiv" critically examines New Age’s commodified mysticism and the disintegration of meaning under late capitalism. Utilizing ambient and experimental sound, the album embodies audio corrosion, merging decay, transformation, and cultural critique. Featuring collaborators and shaped by a residency at EMS, it explores confinement, emancipation, and the slow, inevitable erosion of ritual—leaving only silence to decay.
Environments 12: new concepts in acoustic enrichment
Environments 12 reimagines field recordings for the digital age, blending real and synthetic voices in speculative soundscapes. Machine Listening’s debut LP challenges reality, blurring nature, tech, and human creativity into a mesmerizing, genre-defying sonic experience.
Room for the Moon Live
Room for the Moon Live captures Kate NV’s one-off concert, uniting friends in a vibrant reimagining of her sophomore album. The performance expands tracks with improvisation, joy, and community, offering healing and wild, playful energy.
Silence And Wisdom + Double Happiness
Deux Filles, the elusive French duo, captivated audiences with ambient, melancholic music and a tragic myth—until revealed as a fictional project by Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker. Their two albums, “Silence & Wisdom” and “Double Happiness,” remain haunting, genre-defying gems.
Unfall
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, filtered and recomposed through techniques typical of musique concrète. Referencing Burroughs' cut-ups and methods derived from tape music, 'Unfall' experiments with intertextuality, establishing a dialogue between seemingly distant musical languag…
It's A Love Song
After Caspar Brötzmann’s 2024 LP with Bass Totem, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker releases new live recordings of “All This Violence.” Founded 1986, the band’s intense, influential sound shaped underground rock, inspiring acts like Sonic Youth and SUNN O))). Brötzmann’s unique, genre-crossing style remains radical and uncompromising.
Hidden Eyes In A Ghost Jungle
*150 copies limited edition* Lay Llamas is a project founded and run by Sicilian composer, musicologist and graphic designer Nicola Giunta since 2012. A project, not a band, but an open project. A musical project distinguished by a style that mixes psychedelia, krautrock, afrobeat, dub and cosmic music. A soundipnotic, hauntological and tribal, with strong influences from artisticome Can, Sun Ra, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Duul and the Italian masters of “library music”
Nicola Giunta is also the creati…
Erica
A collection of photographs of everyday life, just passing by, on a constant search for those minimal hidden details, mysterious, yet full of awareness, meditative yet bristling with fervor. Mira’s debut for Maple Death ‘Erica’ reveals the artist’s constant transformation, a dense collection of six melancholy vignettes that spin cinematic neo-classical minimalism into slow-tranced lullabies and ancient folklore chants. Based between Rome and Torino the violinist and composer is a beloved figure …
Diario di Vacanza
Krystof, Polish composer, crafts electronic soundscapes inspired by La Palma’s volcanic terrain and caves.
L'ivresse transfigurée
Piano and electronics merge, transforming sound into ghostly landscapes through tape and distortion.
Gérard Grisey. Vortex Temporum
The first-ever vinyl release of Gérard Grisey’s Vortex Temporum (to our knowledge). Movements I and II appear as a single track to preserve their spectral continuity. The LP features cover art by Dariia Kuzmych and comes with a zine of her ballpoint drawings, merging time and human tissue.
Ukho Ensemble Kyiv:::Dina Pysarenko, pianoInna Vorobets, flutesDmytro Pashynskyi, clarinetsRachel Koblyakov, violinAndriy Savych, violaRaphaël Ginzburg, cello
Conducted by Luigi Gaggero
Limbo
Limbo, by Viktoriia Vitrenko, is a vocal journey exploring liminality through music, inspired by Maria Kalesnikava and composed amid pandemic and war. It blends diverse vocal styles, bridging personal and universal experiences of waiting and uncertainty.
Liebestod
Alexey Shmurak & Heinali’s “Liebestod” blends song, poetry, and electronics to explore love, death, and history with vulnerability and intensity.
Modern Bible
Like a demon moving through time and space to settle a score, Modern Bible invites you to a truly unique experience!
Daybreak
At sunrise, mist evaporates as warmth returns; Sven Wunder’s ‘Daybreak’ guides listeners through dawn’s delicate transition, blending jazz-pop melodies with elegant orchestration—a vivid, evolving musical journey.
Les Météores du Coeur
Yvan Etienne creates sound installations and performances blending composition and perception. His work explores acoustic and electronic spaces, memory, and psyche, often in site-specific contexts.
The Complete Gabor Szabo in Budapest
Two hours of sublime music, stunning sound, and timeless packaging – a true gift for fans of Szabó and those who cherish deep, living jazz traditions.
Sen’nyū
**180g vinyl, 12″ sleeve with capped obi, 12pp booklet, gold-foil letterpress, offset printed, full colour on premium matt paper** In the final month of 2024, Meitei arrived in Beppu, a city long steeped in vapor, myth, and mineral memory. Invited to create onsen (hot spring) ambient music commemorating Beppu’s 100th anniversary, he immersed himself in the city’s geothermal psychogeography, where sound rises from the ground and time clings to mist. Known for his Lost Japan (Shitsu-nihon) works, …