New Arrivals

I first met La Monte Young at a 1981 performance of his piece The Well-Tuned Piano at the Dia Art Foundation’s beautiful Harrison Street space. When I got a chance after the show to speak with La Monte and his wife, Light artist Marian Zazeela, I was surprised at their friendly demeanor and sense of humor. We began working together shortly after that. Since then, I have been playing music in Harmonic Series tuning. When Brian [Chase of Chaikin Records] first spoke to me about the possibility of …

The Heads’ 2026 tour deforce, their swan song album for all… sold out on all vinyl formats. Rooster has decided to repress one last time, the end of the year push is here with the end of times supernova colour in colour destroyed galaxy “Supernova” edition. It will be released almost 30 years on from their seminal debut “Relaxing With”, this will be their fifth studio album proper. The band are a well established though reclusive part of the UKs underground /cult psychedelic rock scene. A consta…

Dreamlord Recordings has become a trusted doorway into records that take you on a journey. Arboria return with Arboria III, and Messers Parkes and Wood are ready to open that door one more time. Its eleven pieces form a woodland tale that begins at sunrise, passes through hidden gardens and moonlit rites, then settles into sleep with the promise of another morning close by. Across Arboria III, Arboria use a modest group of instruments to tell a story with remarkable clarity. Acoustic guitar keep…

*2026 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Sometimes it takes a moment of stillness and silence to discover a new direction. Midday marks a subtle shift from my earlier ambient work, leaning toward more structured compositions, minimal melodic fragments, soft pulses, and loops. I wrote midday between December 2024 and March 2025, taking inspiration from Sunday outings that carried a sense of calm that lingered. I took the album artwork during one of these outings, while I was picking oranges in the…

*100 copies limited edition* Tsss Tapes presents Slani pejza​ž​i by the trio formed by Manja Ristic (Serbia), Joana Guerra (Portugal) and Verónica Cerrotta (Argentina).

*60 copies limited edition* Gonçalo F. Cardoso (of Discrepant), together with Mestre André and Daniel García, create an extended sound collage of field recordings, percussion, and jungle-like atmospheres, very much in keeping with the Discrepant sound.

*60 copies limited edition* A percussion-and-synthesizer duo by Paper Cuts, a Polish duo made up of Wojtek Kurek and Łukasz of Bouchons d’Oreilles—something like chopped-up techno.

*200 copies limited edition* The Hands of Cain were Dimitris Chorianopoulos (vocals, bass), Spyros ‘S. Adam’ Floros (drums), Costas Papakitsos (synthesisers) and Dimitris Stamatiou (guitar) from Athens, Greece. In 1983 the The Hands of Cain evolved from one of the first groups of the Greek punk scene of the early 80’s called Ausschwitss when their music was gaining a darker shade and their lyrics were changing to English. Unlike their former group, the The Hands of Cain had very little public ex…

Otto Benson presents Peanut, his second LP with Palto Flats this year, following Songs Before Bed. Known for his prolific output and enthusiastic following, with music released under the aliases OTTO and Memo Boy, Otto released Peanut as a digital-only album earlier this year to wide acclaim, including a Best New Music mention from Pitchfork. On Peanut, Otto Benson stretches out as a songwriter, fully exploring the use of voice for the first time. Accompanied mostly by the strumming of his guita…

*300 copies limited edition* Since 2009 Connecticut psych band Mountain Movers (previously having released albums through the now defunct Trouble In Mind label) have delivered a lengthy discography floating through rich textures and experimental sounds. On this instrumental album the band build from the sounds of 2024’s double album Walking After Dark, while trading in vocals for synths, keys, percussion, and drum machines. Self-recorded and mastered by John Miller, Knifethrowers sprawls five tr…

*100 copies limited edition* The Smoothing presents as a highly contemporary collection, bringing together murmured field recordings, processed guitars and blurred electronics in a way that unites the outer edges of Hype Williams, John T. Gast’s Gossiwor project, Thomas Bush and The Dengie Hundred, but mostly sounds like the formation of its own internal universe. There is a very murky version of London that is being summoned here, almost certainly translated from a small room late at night, bot…

Paris-based experimental artist Near Stoic returns with Under the Pomegranate Shade, his third full-length album, and his second for Third Kind Records following his successful 2021 album ‘Notebook (Thoughts & Short Stories)’. His new album follows a single relationship from its sudden beginning to its equally sudden end. The title comes from a small, vivid memory: the way his former partner's cheeks would flush the deep red of a pomegranate. The image was tied to her favorite film, Sergei Paraj…

“As already demonstrated on its predecessor, II, Corvid One Cassette excels at constructing aural landscapes and sonic architectures in which the listener can fully immerse themselves. III takes these ambitions further, expanding an already distinctive musical vocabulary without sacrificing its experimental character. A must-listen.” - Diusalien

Dogs Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley return with a follow up to 2024’s ‘Salt Coast’, this time with a much deeper, double album-length dive into their sometimes unsettling brand of radiophonic acid, or “exploratory electronic music that lurks in mental doorways.” 16mm is the soundtrack to the type of dreams where you find dusty old reels of film from your past containing partially hidden memories, or long forgotten excerpts of you and your friends’ abandoned surrealist movies. Possibly you’ll …

*200 copies limited edition* 'The late 70s, early 80s, that fierce period of time was all about wearing one mask after another, as we experimented, evolved. After the riot of Punk Rock back in '76 /'77, which certainly taught us all a lesson, so many of us lurched back to Bowie, Roxy Music, Kraftwerk, at London's one-nighters for the new breed of arbiters of taste, where the soundscape of early synth was such a contrast to what was on offer on the gay scene back then. Clubland was becoming a hiv…

Holy Tongue are a trio composed of Valentina Magaletti, Susumu Mukai, and Al Wootton. Accomplished musicians in their own right, they create expansive rhythmic music that moves freely through dub, trance, post-punk, free improvisation and cinematic psychedelia. Such a dynamic energy and force is mapped across a trilogy of critically acclaimed EPs, their debut album Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare and their collaborative album with dub-pioneer Shackleton. The trio recorded a series of improvisa…

*Edition of 100* K/S/R (Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith & Justin Rhody) have been performing and recording together since 2022. Recorded by the band themselves during a full week of day-long sessions - violin, percussion, lap steel, accordion, flute, guitar, harmonica, and rhodes piano were each stretched, damaged & made to sing through various extended techniques. The trio's non-concentric approach to collective improvisation mirrors the dark harmonic density and symbiotic formal structures of the …

On Eleven Poems, Chris Philpot, Justin Rhody and Abigail Smith bring fractured language into contact with bowed taishōgoto and vibrating percussion. Recorded in Santa Fe, these eleven miniature encounters trade conventional accompaniment for a shared attention to timbre, spacing and resonance, letting poetry and sound unsettle one another.

On Le Carnaval Perdu, Elizabeth Vogler turns voice, shruti-box drones and electroacoustic transformations into a personal folklore. Invented languages meet Béarnais lyrics; echoes of celebration flicker through dense sonic layers. Drawing on pop, bal folk and Bulgarian polyphony, the album makes carnival a threshold between communal ecstasy and loss.

Frank Denyer's String Quartets 2 to 6, played by the Luna Quartet with heavy mutes at the volume of a conversation: microtonal single-movement pieces with sung notes, pellet bells, a buzzing string and a tap-dancer's shoe, meant to be heard in sequence.

A five-movement ensemble work by Ed Cooper, purely acoustic after years of music with electronics, played by the new Leeds group Tahdig: sharp changes of material, one movement pairing Cocteau Twins with Laure Hiendl, and numbness as the nearest thing to a subject.

Magnus Granberg's hour-long piece for Skogen's twentieth anniversary, played by thirteen musicians including Toshimaru Nakamura: composed frameworks and improvisation built from a Bach aria, recorded at Atlantis in Stockholm in November 2025.

A single 45-minute solo for viola, written by Timothy McCormack with and for Marco Fusi: the bow moves so slowly that the tone breaks into separate pulses, and pressure, contact point and speed become the material of the piece.

Three chamber works by Zeynep Toraman, each played by a different ensemble and recorded in concert: slow, sustained melodic lines that rework a Beethoven intermezzo or her own earlier pieces, two of them with electronics folded into the live instruments.

“Jeddah Roundabouts: Circling the City” is a photographic and conversational study of public sculptures embedded within Jeddah’s urban circulation. Scattered across roundabouts and major arteries, these monumental, eccentric, modernist, at times brutalist, works form an overlooked open-air museum that has shaped the city’s visual and social landscape for decades. The book offers a rare perspective on Jeddah’s sculptural heritage and its connection to the civic ambitions of the city’s former mayo…

“Hurtling Between” is an apt description of the way Barry Altschul plays drums: effortlessly moving between swing and free playing. It’s also a fitting analogy for the current historical moment, in which there’s often a feeling of catapulting between awareness and denial. During the pandemic, Joe Fonda asked me if I would join him in a trio session at Barry’s house. We began to play semi-regularly, developing a rapport. Barry’s living room is filled with the accumulated trappings of a jazz life.…

The seventh edition of the Poznań Spontaneous Music Festival unfolded under the motto “Noise/ Silence”, and it was precisely between these two extremes that the story of a certain October afternoon in 2023 stretched out. On the festival’s second day, in the empty hall of Dragon Social Club, before the evening concerts began, four musicians who had never shared a stage before came together. The goal: collective improvisation, without a plan, without a map, with intuition as the only compass. The …

Three distinct musical voices come together on Crapaud, a new album by Tazio Caputo, Lucas Gaudin and Matías Riquelme. The record invites listeners into a world shaped by exchange, curiosity and the possibilities that emerge when artists create together. Rather than following a single path, Crapaud unfolds as a meeting place: a space for ideas to take shape, shift and find unexpected connections. Its title sets the tone for an album that feels open to discovery—one that rewards close listening w…

Threnody is the working free-improv trio of Swedish sax hero Martin Küchen and double bass player Johan Berthling, both also collaborate in Küchen’s Angles groups, and English drummer Steve Noble. The group released its first live album in 2015. This is now, after eleven years the fourth instalment of this extraordinary trio’s musical journey.

Ricercar (from the Italian "ricercare"), meaning “to search” or “to seek”, is a musical form that developed and flourished in a very interesting way in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was practiced by the greatest polyphonists and improvisers of the time: Giovanni Gabrieli, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and, ultimately, Johann Sebastian Bach (the six-voice ricercar from Musikalisches Opfer). It was always about the interaction between instruments, about dialogue, and about finding a common musical path.…

Wadada Leo Smith, Joe Fonda and Reggie Nicholson together. A trio of trumpet, double bass and drums. Six compositions/improvisations – or perhaps six sonic poems – filled with magic, contemplation and deep reflection.

Eighteen movements gathered over nearly a decade, zakè's third Orchestral Tape Studies, closing with rearticulations by bvdub, Wayne Robert Thomas and Abul Mogard with Rafael Anton Irisarri.

moto jenn walker is a ambient twee artist based in Tallahassee, Florida. His work often features samples from early amateur internet videos, permanent memories uploaded online for only a small number of users to witness while examining the relation between physical and digital life. 'nite owls reading stratus clouds' is his first conceptual album release and recounts a summer road trip as two friends rely on various infatuations across the country, with instrumentation ranging from acoustic bit-…

Arkangelo (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the skin as canvas, boundary, and bridge. Merging fabric, form, and feelings, she creates experiential works that invite closeness - where comfort, vulnerability, and sensuality meet. Her practice is a living process, driven by presence, transformation, and spontaneous collaboration that seeks to be felt as much as seen. Omar Cheikh, 1996, works with drawing and sounds. He has collaborated with several independent and self-productions p…

*Handmade sleeves carton and metal string* What does sound remember? Probably everything. The room. The machine. A hand touching a string. Electricity getting nervous. A voice that forgot it was supposed to speak. William Henry Meung listens. Then records. Then cuts, shifts, layers, destroys - and remembers again.  Based in Queensland, Australia, Meung is an experimental musician, composer, producer, and visual artist whose practice has been quietly multiplying somewhere between outsider music, …

*300 copies limited edition* Almost two years after the release of Shelter, Orion and Turner Williams Jr.'s first LP Krakatoa, and following a live at the Instants Chavirés; here's Krakatoa second opus - pursuing their ECM-style esoteric improvisations, on the border in between the softest moments of Miles Davis's electric era and Don Cherry, Jon Hassell’s fourth world recordings... Swampy and murky jams of electronic, strings and inhabited vocals.

"Warbler Wind" is a sequence of selected tracks from the live recording of Shoko Numao’s solo concert held at Waseda Hoshien Scott Hall in Tokyo on May 23. This is Numao's second solo album, following “The Siwnin Sails” (elsewhere 037/elsesong 003), which was released on elsewhere music in November 2025. In this album, Numao's poetic and introspective world of music reached new horizons. Beautifully resonating through the 105-year-old church's spacious acoustics, her musical personality reaches …

Laura Cetilia's work evokes a sense of crossing a threshold between traditional classical music and experimental soundscapes. Within an acoustic resonance that respects the natural reverberations of each space, rippling waves of subtle disturbances create a mixed sensation of classical roots and a refreshing encounter with the unknown. This offers a glimpse into Cetilia's vast and profound world. 'ephemeral bloom' is an album of four new pieces composed by by US-based composer and cellist Laura …

This album contains three new works by Italian composer Giuliano d'Angiolini: 'Ulteriori frammenti', 'Stato dell'arte', and '(V)an (O) de(R) (T) weid(E)n (X)', following his previous four albums, 'Simmetrie di ritorno' (Edition RZ, 2010), ‘Cantilena’ (Another Timbre, 2016), ‘Antifona’ (Another Timbre, 2020), and ')))(((' (elsewhere 033, 2024). 'Ulteriori frammenti' was composed in 2025 for six instruments: strings and wind instruments, not specified and in any combination. "Fragmenting the virtu…

Greek composer Anastassis Philippakopoulos has been a member of the Wandelweiser composers collective since 2003. His distinctive compositional language explores a new kind of modal music, deeply rooted in his individuality and in the environment of his life in Athens. His music brings together stoic minimalism, the warm colors of modern romanticism, and the introspective depth of zen. 'piano works II' presents eleven solo piano pieces composed between 2019 and 2026, continuing the exploration b…