New Arrivals
spectral tenant
*75 copies limited edition* I have chosen my workplace environment in Dublin as my area of sonic investigation over the last year or so. Where it is or the history of it is not important as my focus is purely on the sonic character of the spaces and …
不体失創造 ( Futaishitsu Souzou)
First vinyl album by Tokyo duo la scène 裸身. Three unhurried songs moving between slowcore, acid folk and psychedelic drift, with Saya's voice, Eiji's guitar and guest playing from Hiroshi Kurosawa. Issued by An'archives in 290 copies with silkscreene…
Spiral Code
Second An'archives album from Tokyo trio archeus - Keiko Higuchi, Shizuo Uchida and Tomo - recorded in a single day in Koenji, with guest Kiyotaka Moriuchi on two pieces. Free improvisation moving from dense noise to near-silence. Edition of 290 with…
Steve Gunn
On Steve Gunn, Steve Gunn’s 2007 debut captures a formative solo voice in raw, spacious focus. Recorded on four‑track in a Brooklyn apartment, its instrumental pieces drift between American primitive guitar, meditative drone and free improvisation - …
Utility Modern
"Utility Modern represents a kind of full creative circle for me. My musical journey began under the influence of Bill's work, and now we find ourselves collaborating, building something new together. In many ways, Utility Modern is an homage to the …
Ipsum
*150 copies limited edition* Born and raised in Kanagawa (Japan) Iu Takahashi is a sound artist based in Tokyo. She produces her own musical worldview mainly using synthesizers, ambient sounds, and voices.Previously, Iu Takahashi pursued a career as …
Live In The Balkans
Back at the end of 2023, Giotis Damianidis and Aleksandar Škorić, while finishing their tour with Entasis, began talking and dreaming about a tour of the Balkans—starting from Thessaloniki (Damianidis’s hometown) and heading north to Novi Sad (Škorić…
Past Radiance
Mathias Villard is a French artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. After years as a drummer in projects shaped by atmospheric music, he gradually moved toward slower, more introspective forms centered around ambient and drone composition. In autumn 202…
untitled
*50 copies limited edition* Leon Todd Johnson makes his Past Inside the Present debut with untitled, a three track collection of ambient adjacent instrumental pieces shaped by gentle guitar work, analog textures, and tactile instrumentation. Formerly…
Freedom North
Based in Montreal, and known as Freedom, Freedom of Choice (for the US release of their debut single on Wand) — and finally, Freedom North, the band had success with their first two singles, both released in 1970: ‘Doctor Tom’, which garnered radio a…
An Unexpected Pleasure (Rare Live And Studio Sessions 1958-1972)
Double CD Edition, comes with a 36-page booklet. Every national jazz history has its unrepeatable figure. Britain's is Tubby Hayes, and this is the deepest single drop into his archive that anyone has yet managed - thirty-six performances, every one …
Sunrise - Live In Ypsilanti 1977
Wewantsounds presents the first official release of a legendary 1977 concert, capturing Don Cherry, Collin Walcott and Leon Thomas in their only documented performance together, joined for part of the night by the rest of Oregon. Long circulating amo…
No Becoming
Fifteen years on, Lee Noble's cult bedroom classic No Becoming returns to vinyl in a 2026 remaster on Primordial Void: eight ghostly lo-fi hymns of analog synth, harmonium and tape, poised between hauntology and New Weird America. Remastered by A.F. …
Öd
After nearly a decade away, Black Forest collective Institut für Feinmotorik return on Faitiche with Öd: eight prepared turntables, no records, coaxing music from rubber bands, foil and junk. Dubby loops and howling static drift into a scrap-metal Di…
Baquet Wheel
Kyoto trio Kukangendai return on Marionette with Baquet Wheel, five tracks of purely acoustic minimalism recorded live through Taku Unami’s binaural microphone. Through collage-like repetition the band fold jazz, krautrock, blues and Tuareg into one …
Testing the Waters
On Testing the Waters, crys cole follows water through five electroacoustic chapters of drift, friction and slow transformation. Field recordings, instruments and electronics seep into one another, forming a 2023 WDR 3 commission where trickles, reso…
Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders
The "Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders" LP by Coil is released on Mute. Originally issued in 1987, the album is not a conventional studio album but a collection of outtakes, demos, and interim versions from the sessions for "Scatology," "…
Mystical Obscurant
Across four decades, Andrew Chalk has built one of experimental music's most singular bodies of work. Mystical Obscurant gathers new recordings into a survey in miniature — drifting guitars, blurred keys, and loop-based vignettes sharing one unmistak…
Ys
Joanna Newsom's 2006 masterpiece returns on double LP: five sprawling songs where harp and voice meet Van Dyke Parks' orchestral grandeur, recorded by Steve Albini, mixed by Jim O'Rourke. Named for a drowned Breton city, Ys remains overwhelming
Main Lines / 1967
In September, 1967, three of the primary ensembles of free music in Northern Europe gathered for a mini-festival on Radio Bremen: the Manfred Schoof Quintet, the Peter Brötzmann Quartet, and the Irène Schweizer Trio. Pianist Alexander von Schlippenba…