New Arrivals
Dancing Across The Scalpel's Steel
Archival recording from James Light and Ronald Elster (AGONAL LUST and DH).
Produced in ronald elster’s living home under the duress and showings of ‘death file’, and ‘traces of death’.
Alternate soundtrack to catskills mountain men classics.
We Have Come To Bring Rain
Tape. Digital download included. The train starts towards blackpool. the enemy streets are full of revellers, and we know what they are celebrating. last night’s fiasco. now we can tell you the next day was the same, only worse, that they had caught…
Cyan Music
Tip! ** Edition of 70 ** On Cyan Music, Atte Elias Kantonen sets out to answer a deceptively simple question: what happens when shimmer and sheen – qualities usually belonging to light – are reimagined as pure sound. Across eight pieces he uses radia…
Strata
Music aged in time, resonating from the surface to the corethrough layers and sediments of stones — the strata. Four morning recording sessions with a separation between them of between three and ten months — a chronozone that will rest for a time an…
Smilets By
Re-issue of Danish cult classic from 2006 with new artwork by Martha Hviid and AK. 12" vinyl feat. oliver hoiness - andreas führer - anders lauge meldgaard yoyooyoy / lolita industri 2008 og 2006
lo-fi wizard oliver hoiness. the ever-cheerful kalle …
Proportioning of open units
Besides being a visual artist, Christoffer Kjærskov has quietly been making experimental music for the last 20 years. His works, always recorded to 4 track cassette, seem to carry a certain warmth flowing through the patiently unfolding loops and shi…
The sad house and the bad house
I’m happy to present a new recording on Afvikling from my friend Frederik Heidemann, this time working under his new Plain Bob Minor alias. Where his first tape for the label was a patiently unfolding piece of homemade chamber music, this recording i…
1–16
When I started to be curious about producing cassette tapes around 2016, everyone I met said that I should talk to Wilfred Wagner. Not only did he have a lot of printing equipment and knowledge about cover design, he also have one of Copenhagen’s onl…
Fata Morgana
On their new album Fata Morgana, an illusory trip of emotion and confrontation, Belgian duo schntzl conjure mirages of fleeting realities while diving headfirst into a trance-driven, confrontational digital sound. Fata Morgana unfolds like a hyper-vi…
Ghetto Dub
The long-overdue revival of Bim Sherman’s catalog begins here. These essential recordings will become widely available again for the first time in decades, opening a new chapter in the appreciation of one of Jamaica’s most distinctive voices and repr…
Dou Dou Doudo: Ao Vivo Na Cooperativa Árvore
*300 copies limited edition* Audio taken from a live performance by Anar Band (Jorge Lima Barreto and Rui Reininho) with E.M. de Melo e Castro in November of 1978 at Cooperativa Árvore, Porto. The performance was filmed. A segment was included in »Ob…
Studies On A River
»Ka ora te awa. Ka ora te iwi. The river is well, so the people are well«, says artist and writer Hana Pera Aoake. »In a Māori worldview, everything is connected and contains mauri, the life spark or essence inherent in all things, as they contain th…
In a Few Places Along the River
Soft Echoes presents the first physical edition of ‘In a Few Places Along the River’ by Abul Mogard as a limited run of 500 vinyl copies. Originally released digitally in 2022, the album now appears in its intended form, marking the label’s second re…
En Mexico
A hidden gem from bossa nova pioneer João Gilberto resurfaces with the reissue of 1970 En México, capturing the artist in artistic exile during his time in Mexico City. This intimate album blends timeless Brazilian classics, sultry boleros, and jazz …
4 Ways To Maul Your Face
Rasga is proud to unleash 4 Ways To Maul Your Face, a limited cassette compilation that gathers four of Portugal’s most uncompromising noise and experimental acts: CAB, Portuguese Funeral, Mijo Preto, and Hypomania. This tape is a visceral journey th…
Have You Heard About the World Coming to an End?
Death Is Not The End present a compilation gathering a cross-section of early gospel choirs and vocal harmony groups recorded between late 1920s and the mid-1950s - a period when spirituals & jubilee traditions merged with blues, jazz and early rhyth…
Unity
** Special Time-Limited Offer ** Unity is one of the great organ records precisely because it refuses to behave like one. Larry Youngbrings the Hammond into a post‑bop, modal context alongside Woody Shaw on trumpet, Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, …
Further Explorations
** Special Time-Limited Offer ** Further Explorations pairs Horace Silver’s piano with Art Farmer on trumpet and Clifford Jordan on tenor sax, plus Teddy Kotick on bass and Louis Hayes on drums. Silver’s blend of blues, gospel, and hard‑bop sophistic…
My Point Of View
** Special Time-Limited Offer ** My Point of View shows Herbie Hancock widening his palette with a larger band: Donald Byrd on trumpet, Garnett Brown on trombone, Hank Mobley on tenor, Grant Green on guitar, Chuck Israels on bass, Tony Williams on dr…
Volume 2
** Special Time-Limited Offer ** On Volume 2, Miles Davis again fronts shifting line‑ups – including Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, and Horace Silver – in a programme that continues the exploration begun on its companion. The arrangements juxtapose brisk…