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Sama'a - Audition
Known for their exhilarating live-to-record albums such as last year's critically acclaimed Wood Blues and Giant Beauty, سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) is the first of two releases that will surface after [Ahmed]’s first studio recording sessions at North London’s The Fish Factory in early 2025. Since 2014, [Ahmed] أحمد have excavated and re-imagined the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, in an ever ongoing search for future music. Over a decade on, the group were given the opportunity to set up in the studi…
World Without Form Volume 1
World Without Form was originally released in 2012 on CD format only, the album is now being made available on vinyl for the first time, in two separate volumes because of the length of the recording. Each of the two volumes also contain a previously unreleased track from the sessions. Volume 1 has ‘Ithnaan’ which is an earlier version of the track released as ‘Man From Varanasi’ on Nat’s ‘Cosmic Language’ album.
La Munglesa
*70 copies limited edition* In the mid-1960s, Teresa Viarengo, one of the most vivid memories of Piedmontese folk repertoire, confided this song among many others to Franco Coggiola and Roberto Leydi. The ballad is also mentioned under the title “Un'Eroina nei Canti popolari del Piemonte” (A Heroine in the Folk Songs of Piedmont) by Costantino Nigra. It is a bloody story in which a count marries Munglesa, the daughter of a baker, takes her to his castle and, along the way, confesses that he has …
Pájaro de tres piernas
*80 copies limited edition* Music by Zarabatana (Bernardo Álvares, Carlos Godinho, Norberto Lobo and Yaw Tembe), Orca, Chica, P. Feijó, Daniela Rodrigues and Julián Pacomio. Mixed by Mestre André. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Identity Pitches (Book)
In Identity Pitches, artists Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel have composed conceptual music scores based on the knitting patterns for traditional Norwegian sweaters known as Lusekofte. Utilizing three of the most popular designs (Setesdal, Fana, and the eight-petal rose of Selbu) of this ubiquitous garment, Janvin creates scores for both solo and ensemble performers by mapping the knitting patterns onto the harmonic and subharmonic series and integrating the tuning principles of traditional Norwe…
Live Audio Essays (Book)
Live Audio Essays presents transcripts from performances and films by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, an artist known for his political and cultural reflections on sound and listening. Abu Hamdan’s intricately crafted and heavily researched monologues are at times intimate, humorous, and entertaining, yet politically disquieting in their revelations. Using personal narratives, anecdotes, popular media, and transcripts rooted in historical and contemporary moments, the artist leads the reader through his in…
Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Book)
DeForrest Brown, Jr.’s Assembling a Black Counter Culture presents a comprehensive account of techno with a focus on the history of Black experiences in industrialized labor systems—repositioning the genre as a unique form of Black musical and cultural production.
Brown traces the genealogy and current developments in techno, locating its origins in the 1980s in the historically emblematic city of Detroit and the broader landscape of Black musical forms. Reaching back from the transatlantic slav…
THING (Book)
Started in 1989 by designer and writer Robert Ford, THING magazine was the voice of the Queer Black music and art scene in the early 1990s. Ford and his editors were part of the burgeoning House music scene, which originated in Chicago’s Queer underground, and some of the top DJs and musicians from that time were featured in the magazine, including Frankie Knuckles, Gemini, Larry Heard, Rupaul, and Deee-Lite. THING published ten issues from 1989-1993, before it was cut short by Ford’s death from…
Voices
Yutaka Hirose’s new album "Voices" is a visionary ambient journey—field recordings, spatial layers, and abstract narratives create immersive, transformative sonic worlds.
Fobia
Aylu’s album Fobia marks a pivotal exploration into the spaces between fear and resilience, channeling personal experiences with agoraphobia and claustrophobia into textured, avant-garde electronics. Through a tightly-woven sonic language, Fobia moves from suffocating tension to moments of spiritual release—turning solitary struggle into collective resistance and introspection, with each piece mapping an emotional topography that remains intimately and universally relevant.
PIA: Flight 813/761
*50 copies limited edition.* PIA: Flight 813/761 by Drekka .This cassette is a 30 minute sound journal recorded in the airspace of Pakistan on October 16, 1999. While traveling home from Nepal that day, my friends and I were delayed for a few hours in Karachi airport because there was a coup happening in Islamabad! We weren't in any danger, but it was still quite intense. Side A features an extended spontaneous harmonium piece entitled 'Ke Garne' (Nepalese for 'What to do')... layered harmonium …
Ancient Court Raga Traditions
** 2025 stock. ** Ancient Court Raga Traditions: The Pathak Gharana unveils the legacy of Ashok Pathak, torchbearer of a centuries-old musical lineage rooted in expressive sitar and surbahar artistry. The album channels the introspective eloquence and technical invention unique to Pathak Gharana, honoring classical forms while revealing a spirit of fresh musical interpretation through deep alap, intricate meend, and rare court compositions.
Lost Sounds Of The Tao
** 2025 stock. ** Lost Sounds Of The Tao (Chinese Masters Of The Guqin In Historic Recordings) reveals the refined artistry of Lo Ka Ping, presenting rare archival performances that mirror the spiritual depth and cultural resonance of the guqin tradition. The album’s historic recordings capture an intimate sonic landscape rooted in Chinese philosophy and poetic subtlety, honoring both instrument and legacy.
Flyin' Shoes
** 2025 stock ** This is another stalwart collection from Townes Van Zandt, and not a dud in the bunch. The melodies here are strong, the lyrics full of Van Zandt's razor sharp insight, and the production is sparse and to the point, bringing to mind the inconspicuous polish of High, Low and in Between. The feel here is a balance between folk and country, with Van Zandt's voice and guitar up front, letting the songs speak for themselves. The tunes are full of heartbreak and hopelessness, making i…
Homage To Dick Raaijmakers
** 2025 stock ** Thomas Ankersmit's new album for Shelter Press Homage To Dick Raaijmakers is an all-analog electronic music composition inspired by legendary Dutch composer/electronic and tape music pioneer and multimedia artist, Dick Raaijmakers (1930-2013). The work takes inspiration from Raaijmakers's music from the 1960s, his texts on sound composition like "Cahier M", and notes on his own music. On this recording, Ankersmit plays Serge Modular feedback and sine/pulse/random generators, con…
Smelter
Smelter by Faith Coloccia and Daniel Menche constructs a temporal architecture that explores water in its myriad states—snow, ice, streams, and storm. Moving between spontaneous, voice-laced vignettes and epic drone formations, the record serves as an aural archive that suspends the listener in crystalline moments, as if each piece is fixed in time yet endlessly malleable.
Broken Music Vol. 2: 70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists
Paperback. 248 pages. The essential continuation of Ursula Block's legendary 1989 Broken Music. Artists' Recordworks exhibition and publication. This volume traces the development of the vinyl record as an artistic medium from the post-war period to the present across seven decades. Based on the 2022-2023 exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin, curated by Sven Beckstette and Ingrid Buschmann, the book presents over 700 records arranged in ten chapters, establis…
The Book of Job
The Book of Job is a boundary-pushing work by Super Grupa Bez Fałszywej Skromności, merging avant-garde jazz, spiritual recitation, and sound experiments. Conceived in martial-law Poland, the album is both requiem and protest—an immersive journey through collective struggle, transcendence, and artistic resilience.
The Return of the Durutti Column
The Return Of The Durutti Column is an iconic debut, pairing Vini Reilly’s introspective guitar sketches with Martin Hannett’s atmospheric production. Hailed as a bridge between post-punk, ambient, and classical motifs, the album stands out for its refined vulnerability and timeless melodic experimentation.
Codex of Pleasure and Pain
Codex Of Pleasure And Pain unites dark ambient, drone, and experimental artists to honor Clive Barker’s Hellraiser. Eleven projects evoke the film’s eerie sensuality and dread, creating a bleak, immersive listening experience marked by drones, textures, and spectral rhythms.
