New Arrivals
A Minha Vida É Um Filme E Nele Eu Sou O Vilão: Carimbos E Vinhetas Dos Paredões Brasileiros
A mixtape of carimbos and vinhetas, the audio drops of Brazil's paredão sound systems, recorded between the 1980s and 2025, from Rio funk crews to São Paulo mandelão and the rigs of Belém. Compiled by GG Albuquerque.
Split Sous-Terrain
Split Sous-Terrain: Mårble, Dolphin Hospital and Tourbière recorded live at the AAE cave on December 20, 2025, four parts of experimental live electronics. Limited edition tape on Nazlo Records.
Holding Pattern
Holding Pattern by Melbourne composer and cellist Abby Sundborn: a single piece for cello and voice performed live to a small audience in August 2025, fragile music with a deceptive intensity. Cassette on A Colourful Storm.
Washed And Waiting
Black Leather Jesus, the Houston harsh noise project Richard Ramirez started in 1989, on a white 8" lathe cut: two sides of almost seven minutes, Washed and Waiting, recorded in Pennsylvania in March 2026. Thirty numbered copies.
Einsterbung und Entmenschung – Selbstversuche
Rudolf Eb.er, founder of Schimpfluch and once Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, in four self-experiments recorded at Om Kult in Osaka in 2026: psychoactive acoustics and cut-up decay on a white 9" lathe cut, thirty numbered copies.
La ruota della vita
The final recordings of Antonio Infantino, made months before his death in 2018. Twenty-one tracks captured live, with no overdubs or post-production: voice, drum and the circling pulse of Lucanian tarantism, from the Beat poet who rebuilt the trance…
Viva Negativa! The New Blockaders: The Noise of Art and Nothing (Book)
Few gestures in the history of recorded sound have been as absolute as the one Richard and Philip Rupenus made in a garden shed in rural Newcastle in 1982, when – as The New Blockaders – they committed Changez Les Blockeurs to tape and, with it, drew…
Infant Eyes
Doug Carn created a personalized strain of jazz music that expressed a loving hopefulness. He found a home at the Black Jazz label, where African-Americans called the shots and, of course, racial tension was nonexistent. Who was this 22-year-old whos…
Ryo Fukui in New York
With confident touch, a solid sense of swing, and emotion seeping through its dynamism, Ryo Fukui lands in New York and approaches the essence of bebop alongside the rhythm section of his mentor, Barry Harris.
Ryo Fukui, who passed away in 2016 after…
Seychelles
Seychelles is the debut solo album by Japanese guitarist and composer Masayoshi Takanaka, released on Kitty Records in July 1976. Named after the Indian Ocean archipelago, it introduced the bright, melodic fusion sound that would become his signature…
An Insatiable High
An Insatiable High is the third studio album by Japanese jazz-fusion guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka, originally released by Kitty Records in 1977 and reissued in 2024. The album blends polished jazz fusion, disco, city pop, and sun-soaked West Coast fu…
Browning Out With Ivan The Tolerable
On Barker Final, Ivan The Tolerable closes the door on 1a Barker Road with a set of songs conceived, performed and mastered entirely by Oli Heffernan. The album feels like a final dispatch from a long‑running home studio, where restless experiments i…
Mere Mortals
This album Mere Mortals is composer-producer Floating Points’s (Sam Shepherd) first full-length ballet score. Shepherd, who is known for mesmeric live sets that often combine acoustic and electronic instruments, wrote the work in response to a commis…
Structurally Sound
Best known for his association with Charles Mingus, the Texas-born tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin was a distinctive soloist with an assertive and immediately recognizable sound. One of Ervin’s pinnacle statements as a leader was the first of his two …
Dear John C.
Cut on February 23 and 25, 1965, at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio and released later that year on Impulse!, Dear John C. marks drummer Elvin Jones’s first album for the label as a full-fledged leader, boldly looking forward while honoring his transformati…
Sympathetic Resonance
The “Sympathetic Resonance” LP by Momen is released on Unheard Of Hope and marks the debut of the London-based duo. Momen consists of Iván Muela (piano, guitar, electronics) and Nat Philipps (saxophone, electronics); in eight movements they explore a…
Song of the Night Mists
The writer Max Sebald often pondered over the nature of human memory, specifically, how our thoughts and desires - and their results - overlap and mutate over time. In A Place in the Country, he writes of the significance of what see as “similarities…
Stills and Remains
Yuki Nakagawa’s musical roots lie in the improvisation and noise scenes of the Kansai region in Japan. After performing with electric bass and effects, he transitioned to the cello as a self-taught musician, developing a unique sonic language over mo…
Forgetting You is Like Breathing Water
2026 stock Forgetting You Is Like Breathing Water, the self-titled debut from the duo of trumpeter Will Evans and guitarist, synthesist, producer and multi-instrumentalist Theo Trump, arrives like a vault revelation. It feels like a decades-old yet n…
Vibrations
Step into the golden era of soul-jazz with the long-awaited vinyl reissue of “Vibrations” (1976) by Roy Ayers Ubiquity — a record that captures the unmistakable warmth, groove, and sophistication that defined Roy Ayers’ sound at its peak. Beyond its …
