New Arrivals
It’s Always About Love
Ancient Infinity Orchestra’s It’s Always About Love is a lush outpouring of melodic, communal jazz, where improvisational freedom and thoughtful orchestration balance earthiness with cosmic ambition. Led by double-bassist Ozzy Moysey, the album draws…
Achlys
Jon Porras’s Achlys unfolds a meditative narrative across eight drone-based pieces: fragmented guitar melodies and modular synths swirl through dense atmospheres, echoing elemental habitats and ambiguous emotional states. The album rewards careful li…
Monitor
Monitor, the 1981 solo album by Gianni Leone (Leonero), stands at the crossroads of Italian New Wave and progressive rock, offering a singular listening experience that both anticipates and transcends its era. Conceived in California following Leone’…
Dinsterwenk
* Edition of 200 * Baljuw is the improvisation project of Matthias Dewilde (Nagløed, Matterhorn Well) and Nicolas Van Belle (Suura, Ever Present, Sarcastic Fringehead). Although the two musicians were longtime friends, it still took until 2023 for th…
Tom Winter, Tom Spring
Debut LP by the duo of Gangloff and Joynes, finding novel ways to combine their accomplished takes on avant folk, American primitive, and outsider sound into a unique and beautiful jumble. Side A’s “Rapid City” is a brisk fingerpicked jaunt featuring…
Thin Peaks
"Thin Peaks" is the sixth album by the microtonal tuba trio Microtub, featuring Robin Hayward (UK/DE), Peder Simonsen (NO), and Martin Taxt (NO). Initially developed during an artist residency in Andersabo, Sweden, the two pieces "Thin Peaks" and "An…
Tracing Basalt in the Onsernone Valley
Tracing Basalt in the Onsernone Valley by Pablo Diserens and Ludwig Berger transforms the Swiss valley’s basalt terrain into a living instrument, blending environmental recordings and experimental acoustics into a meditative portrait of place and pre…
Near the Bear
Near the Bear is Cheryl E. Leonard’s intimate Arctic meditation, interweaving field recordings and natural objects into five cinematic pieces that speak to both the wildness and vulnerability of Svalbard and Greenland’s landscapes.
Luurankolauluja
Luurankolauluja is Uusi Aika’s deep dive into spiritual fusion, where Nordic folk, modal jazz, and raga-like improvisations meet. Rooted in forest myth and cosmic calm, the album’s six compositions form a slow-burning suite of luminous, contemplative…
Unlearning Noise
Unlearning noise by Eventless Plot presents two long-form compositions built on minimalism, analog electronics, and ambient fieldwork, inviting listeners to reconsider the expressive dimensions of noise within experimental sound art.
Khao Sok Extension
In 2016, Berlin-based artist Andrew Pekler travelled to Thailand and visited Khao Sok National Park where he gathered field recordings and recorded video footage of the park's flora and fauna. Some of excerpts of this material was used in the composi…
They Came from Beyond Space
They Came from Beyond Space by James Stevens is a restored original soundtrack featuring vibrant orchestral electronics and moody jazz, pairing sci-fi suspense with inventive melodic writing.
Polar Sequences
In October 1995, as part of the annual Polar Music Festival, Geir Jenssen of Biosphere and Bobby Bird of The Higher Intelligence Agency, were commissioned by Nor Concerts to collaborate together on a musical project to take place in Geir's home town …
The Disintegration Loops
Since the turn of this century, perhaps no other modern composition has had a more resonant healing effect than The Disintegration Loops. Composer William Basinski’s deteriorating analog tape loops evolved from melodic symphonies to melancholic silen…
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 t…
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 ti…
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 cultur…
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 underg…
Voices
Yutaka Hirose’s new album "Voices" is a visionary ambient journey—field recordings, spatial layers, and abstract narratives create immersive, transformative sonic worlds.
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 i…