New Arrivals
Franciska og Emilie
Jonas Torstensen returns to Discreet Music with the second Franciska album, following up the much praised Tryghed (Discreet Music 12) that was released in early 2023. Since Tryghed came out, Franciska has quickly become an established forefront of a young, new generation of Scandinavian experimental DIY musicians. This time a joint effort with his longtime friend and collaborator Camille Helt Haarder, the new album is dedicated to their shared hometown Odense in Denmark.
Mainly based on piano lo…
The Other Dead Sea
2022 Jon Collin's LP release on Laboratorio Palestro. Repressed this year on Early Music.Cover photo by Maximilian Rossner Mastered for vinyl by Giuseppe Ielasi
Herzmuskelgewebe 2
A pivotal reissue of K2's seminal 1984 cassette "Herzmuskelgewebe," capturing Kimihide Kusafuka's earliest experimental noise explorations. This long-awaited vinyl edition preserves a raw, formative document from Japanese noise history, showcasing the K2's initial sonic dissections during his crucial first creative phase.
The Same Thing Makes Always Her Laugh
*199 copies limited edition* Brilliant Experimental album by the Merzbow co-founder, recorded in 1989 - with sticker and insert.
Rainforest IV (LP)
Original 1981 mint copies of the first edition of Tudor's electronic environment masterpiece from 1973 published by the legendary Edition Block.
Indeterminacy: New Aspect Of Form In Instrumental And Electronic
Perfect copy of Cage & Tudor's landmark album for Folkways from 1959 released as 2xLP box set with booklet.
Automatic Writing
Original 1979 Lovely Records first edition of the breathtaking album by Robert Ashley at his most extreme and uncompromising, as furious as he can get in your wildest dreams!
Private Parts
Original 1978 Lovely Records edition of Robert Ashley’s masterpiece from the late 70s, a deeply hypnotic and powerful record.
Music on a long thin wire
Legendary sound installation for audio oscillator and electronic monochord. 1980 first edition on Lovely Music from 1980.
Vernal Equinox
First 1978 Lovely Records editionof Jon Hassel's groundbreaking first album featuring David Rosenboom, Nana Vasconcelos, etc.
Dresden / Venezia / Megaton
Original 1979 first pressing of one of the most uncompromising records out on Lovely Music and of the American avant-garde at large.
Mesa / Pontpoint / Fwyyn
Original 1986 edition on Lovely of music for bandoneaon and cybersonic console by Mumma featuring David Tudor and Pauline Oliveros. Only the best of the best!
Four Violins 1964
Rare first pressing with poster of this 1996 LP on TOTE presenting a 1964 recording of Tony Conrad's astonoshing classic piece. A triumph of minimalism.
Music With Changing Parts
Original 1971 first pressinng of Philip Glass' 2LP masterpiece on the composer's own semi-private Chatham Square label.
Persian Surgery Dervishes
One of our favorite transcendental minimalist records ever offered here in its first 1974 Shanti gatefold edition in excellent condition.
Woo Lae Oak
Original 1983 edition of Carl Stone’s of the beautiful absolute minimalist classic first album on Joan La Barbara’s Wizard Records
Vision Soundings
Rare original 1985 private release by Malcolm Goldstein of intese sound explorations, never re-issued.
Sprokkelhout
**Numbered edition of 25 copies only** Bart de Paepe has released several solo albums of psychedelic soggy murkiness on Vohu Manah, Beyond Beyond Is Beyond, Kerm whistling through the leaves and branches adjusting in/out of focus at random as we drift between reality and perception. Some of his resonance wood can be enjoyed in Ilta Hämärä (with Timo van Luijk), Wendingen 1918 (with Raymond Dijkstra), Bombay Lunatic Asylum (with Koen Vandenhoudt and Louise Landes Levi), Fort Bedmar (with Dave Col…
Archaeoacoustics
Limited edition The Matar Project is a collaborative venture between Adi Newton and Michael Esposito which began in early 2016 and has been steadily progressing and developing since. This research and developmental Audio Visual project is based on Archaeoacoustics and aims at finding aspects of Archeological and astrophysical theories in relation to Ancient systems
of Spirituality, Metaphysical beliefs and concepts and explores these relationships with psychoacoustic technology, with the use of …
Party/After Party
180g black vinyl 2LP boxset w/ booklet. Carl Craig’s Party/After-Party (2020) lives on past the sound installation at Dia Beacon in this two-disc vinyl set. Recorded live at the museum, the album includes four tracks of studio versions from the artist’s commission and live recordings from Dia Beacon that highlight the acoustics of the space. The LPs are supplemented by a sixteen-page booklet of liner notes with an introduction to the project by commission curator Kelly Kivland, a note on the wor…