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Having written and sung in five languages on 2020’s “Uva Ursi”, Urs Graf Consort return to Italian for “Fireproof Sweat”, a record of irresistible charm, innovation and existential lyricism. “Ten years ago, a fire took the lives of four of our friends on rue Myrha in Paris, just a few months after Urs Graf Consort was founded. One of them — Nicolas Millet, a magnificent bookseller and Félix Fénéon specialist — was meant to be our bassist. The title Fireproof Sweat, and the album as a whole, ques…
Web Wide World is proud to announce the release of Web Wide World 1.5 game OST, a new collaborative album by sound artist Aliyah Hussain and visual artist/musician John Powell-Jones. Expanding on the sonic universe first created for the Web Wide World project, this soundtrack immerses listeners in a hybrid world where experimental electronics, playful melodies, and immersive sound design converge.
Composed as the audio backdrop to the evolving Web Wide World game experience, the album shifts b…
Is it possible for an instrument to be cursed? Every sound on 'Horns of Death' comes from a replica fox-hunting horn bought online. The album is an open-ended investigation of this replica, exploring how a copy of a tool designed for a specific function could act as an instrument when misused and removed from its intended role. Recorded in a bedroom in a small flat in south-east London then squeezed into a computer, for some tracks the horn is (literally) pulled apart to find what other sound so…
Here is 'rely', a new album by Eric Wong & yan jun. They use voice, breath, sine tones and noise. For those of you who have attended one of their performances, or heard 'dichotomic language' the sounds may appear familiar, but to me the space and interplay between them on 'rely' feels very different. In March and April of this year I saw yan jun perform three times, for the first time, and it has changed how I hear the record. I was initially struck by how close everything sounded, and now I hav…
'Engine Songs' is the latest album of improvisations by the duo of Tara Cunningham & Caius Williams, after the release of 'Demo's' in 2022. The album is rich with the harmonics and fluttering oscillations of detuned strings, layered over sprawling textural effects that poke out at moments and shift focus in an instant. They're able to move between tones and dynamics in a way I'd quite happily listen to endlessly - It's exciting to listen to. The album was recorded and mixed by Caius Williams and…
Artist, composer and researcher Max Syedtollan arrives on bison with 34 minutes of merrie-making madness, written for a parade-performance by basketmaker Lewis Prosser and informed by the tradition of masked mummer’s theatre. Written to be blasted off the back of a lorry, ‘Prynhawn Da!’ accompanied a troupe of huge wicker figures - Parsnabler o Grog, Vogum Gertlin, The Woman with The Big Head and Goyle Cornett - as they paraded down the streets of Newtown, Swansea, Cardiff and Caernarfon as part…
“Vox Flora Vox Fauna” is an invocation in which Ece Canli channels the voice of Earth itself. A ritual of breath, rebirth, bone, and buried memory. Like the most transcendent moments of Dead Can Dance, the soundscapes are primitive, tribal, atmospheric, and utterly cathartic: echoes of a wounded planet, mourning and resisting at once. They unleash the raw force of Gaia, vibrating through ancient rhythms and spectral chants that seem to rise from the soil itself. In an age of collapse, this is mu…
Animistic Resonance marks a new stage for Mexican artist and electronic musician Leslie García (currently based in Berlin through the DAAD Artists Program), as it is her first album under her own name, following several releases as Microhm and her parallel work as founder of the contemporary art studio Interspecifics, where she has developed an extensive body of sonic projects presented in major museums and programs worldwide. The album is the culmination of a profound and extended exploration o…
Uzed is the fourth album by Belgian band Univers Zero. It was released three years after 'Ceux du Dehors', due to a change in line-up and a new repertoire, although the EP 'Crawling Wind' had been released in the meantime. The album marked a turning point for the band. Univers Zero explored new electric colors, giving it a more rock feel with the addition of new musicians such as Jean-Luc Plouvier, who introduced the synthesizer, guitarist Michel Delory, who played a memorable solo in 'Célesta (…
Pneumatic Tubes presents Runner’s High, a dazzling double album of ambient, psychedelic, and American Kosmische music, crafted by acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Jesse Chandler (keyboard and woodwinds player for Midlake and Mercury Rev). This latest solo release takes listeners on a radiant journey—melding the magic of running with Chandler’s transportive soundscapes.
Runner’s High fuses rhythmic vitality with meditative atmospheres, inspired by Chandler’s personal running rituals and his late f…
Esmeralda Sella is a young pianist from Ravenna, Italy. “Magma” is her debut album, and also a turning point. It’s the culmination of a journey that was «essential for understanding myself and the world around me» as she describes it. Sella recorded “Magma” with two key collaborators: Federico Giolito (double bass) and Giovanni Nardiello (drums), following years of mutual trust, shared musical experiences and extensive practice. «Our sound is the result of opinions, ideas, and doubts exchanged o…
*100 copies limited edition* “'Wonderful Brutalism' is an epic, and at times intense slice of improvisation - drums and taishogoto build into an unrelenting stampede with moments of gentle cinematic soundscape. Improvisation at its most dynamic and inspiring.” - Michael Sill Belgium musicians Jef Mertens and Dirk Wachtelaer have both been active in the field of experimental music since the 1990s—Dirk as a drummer and Jef as a documentary filmmaker. It wasn’t until 2023 that they met for the firs…
Insect Life debuts on 577 Records with a Cosmic, Creative, Art-Driven Opus — Out November 7th. Avant-garde experimental ensemble Insect Life is set to release their self-titled debut album, Insect Life. The album delivers a sound that is raw, wild, and authentic, blending improvisation, orchestral textures, and dynamic interplay into an immersive, art-driven experience. There’s something hypnotic about the whole listening experience, drawing the listener into its cosmic, abstract world.
Born fr…
Few contemporary composers have created instruments as singular as Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument, and fewer still have explored its possibilities with the depth and invention documented on Elemental View. This six-movement work, performed in collaboration with The Living Earth Show, transforms an industrial-sized space into a resonating chamber where 136 precisely tuned strings create what can only be described as environmental music in its most literal sense. Fullman has spent decades …
*180 copies limited edition* "Purity isn’t real. It is a concept concocted as a means of implying truth. But even in the cleanest water there are mineral deposits. in the most crisp photograph there is grain and in the most direct sound there are artifacts. Of the environment, of the presence of the person recording and of the medium itself. I kept coming back to that thought while working on VI. I’ve found that thinking i have a clear idea of what a project is or that i have a 'pure' vision for…
*2025 stock* Eerie drones, oscillations from the ether, distorted dark matter, signals from other dimensions... The music of Sonologyst fluctuates between scientific sonic documentaries and psychedelic abstraction, illuminated by early experimentation of the 50's and 60's, as well as future possibilities of the electronic and electro-acoustic.
"Silencers (The Conspiracy Theory Dossiers)" is inspired by the testimonies of those who have had contact with the so-called "Silencers" or "Men in Black"…
"zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) has consistently built goodwill and community through his renowned family of labels (Past Inside the Present, Zakè Drone Recordings, and Healing Sound Propagandist) since 2018, and with the collaborative anthology Silentium, those roots bear remarkable fruit in the form of 22 compositions across more than two hours. It is a towering testament to care and kinship, as well as to the artist’s noble ambitions as a creator and curator. During an extended period in early 2024…
Otoliths is the second album by the transatlantic quartet Earscratcher, which brings together Austrian pianist Elisabeth Harnik with three of her US-based cohorts – Dave Rempis on saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, and Tim Daisy on drums. Recorded live on tour in the US in December of 2024 - no small feat in an era when the longstanding xenophobic and insular tendencies of the country dominate more than ever - this sophomore outing finds a band whose roots have spread deep and wide. While t…
Tepih unites Samo Kutin, Gaudenz Badrutt, Tomaž Grom, and Jonas Kocher — four musicians bound by years of collaboration within the Šalter Ensemble, a fertile meeting ground for Swiss and Slovene experimental music. Their debut album Šablona presents a music of layered coexistence: sonic found objects, fractured melodies, irregular pulses, and shimmering electronic textures inter twine. Rather than striving for unison, these contrasting elements evolve in parallel, responding to one another in a …