New Arrivals

In the past some reviewers and critics of my series of Ambient / Electronic / Exotic releases mentioned Jon Hassell and even suggested that we should make an album together. That never happened of course and probably never would have. An influence of his music on my exotica music is in some ways true but initially to be honest it was the cover art by Mati Klarwein for Aka/ Darbari/ Java and Dream Theory in Malaya that I would sometimes turn to look at for inspiration. They reminded me of places t…

For a long time, we had been working on a very different album, guided by a simple set of methods: feedback, the layering of short sound fragments, and a process of repeated listening through which memory and response gradually accumulated. At a certain point, we felt the need to step away from that framework, if only temporarily. We decided instead to engage in a free musical exchange and explore a conversation through improvisation. It's from that encounter this body of music emerged. When we …

Within all things audible, sine waves are arguably the simplest, yet most fundamental elements. They are consists of a single frequency and cannot be stripped back any further. On the other hand, as stated in the Fourier theorem, virtually all complex sounds can be broken down into a series of simple sine waves. In 2020, I was invited by Nicolas Bernier to create a work centred on sine waves as part of his collaborative research-creation project at the University of Montreal. Thinking about such…

"I first knew of Darren through his earlier band Gerling, who were an inspiration to me at a time when I was absorbing new sounds, genre experimentation and discovering the broader world at large. In recent years we’ve come to know each other and become friends, as our musical paths have in many ways aligned. Darren’s D.C Cross solo/‘ecstatic' guitar project is responsible for some of the finest current wave of that form of music going around and it’s been a pleasure hearing the project develop …

"For those of us who inhabit worlds that sit in-between other worlds, this music making thing can be strange. The work of Matt Rosner sits in parallel to that of my own. We have a shared expression and a continued practice in listening and looking. Images, landscapes and our surroundings are translated into sounds, emotions and feelings. They are often built in solitude and created through lost moments, captured air or fragmented tonalities that have run adrift in our subconscious. To put it sim…

Edition of 30 (!) Eight pieces by the graduating artists of the Nordic Sound Art programme, issued in 2015 by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in an edition of 300, compiled by Jonas Olesen, who coordinated the programme throughout its life, and supported by the KUNO Publication Fund. Nordic Sound Art ran from 2007 to 2015 as a joint study programme within the KUNO network, shared between the art academies of Copenhagen, Helsinki, Bergen, Tromsø and Umeå. Students spent a year moving betwee…

Art Edition. Limited edition of 10 numbered copies, each with a unique illustration from a 1922 book, where the original artwork for the records was also taken from. The sound material on this record is made with recordings of internal sounds found in obsolete media, and sound generators. Sound sources: Revox reel to reel recorder, Beocord reel to reel recorder, oscillator, Leader LFG function generator, metronome, electromagnetic microphones.Perfekt Termisk by Sandra Boss is full of "carefully …

On Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, the pianist and his group turn bossa nova and Brazilian songcraft into sleek, cross‑border pop. Their version of Jorge Ben’s “Mais Que Nada” became the first Portuguese‑language hit in the US, opening doors for Brazilian music worldwide and helping earn the album a place in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Sisonke Xonti is a celebrated South African jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. Originally from Cape Town, he relocated to Johannesburg where he deeply immersed himself in the local jazz scene, collaborating with esteemed artists like Nduduzo Makhathini, Abdullah Ibrahim, Hugh Masekela, Herbie Tsoaeli, and Zim Ngqawana. 6 years later, Sisonke is back with a powerfull album ‘”uKholo” with Shane Cooper on double bass, Yonela Mnana on piano and vocals, Ayanda Sikade on drums, Keenan Ahrends…

Strut presents Nigeria 80, the next essential chapter in the legendary Nigeria 70 series, diving deep into the explosive sound world of 1980s Nigeria.

*2026 repress!!!* Oh yes! First ever official reissue of the positively sublime and very rare Butterfly LP, recorded in Tokyo in 1979 by Japanese songstress Kimiko Kasai and jazz legend Herbie Hancock. Due to its super-rare status as a Japan-only release, this exquisite collection of covers never got the recognition it deserved at the time, despite incredibly inspired performances from Kimiko, Herbie and the supremely talented musicians assembled for the project. From heavenly drummer Alphonse M…

Named after a now-shuttered nightspot that overlooked the beach on Italy's picturesque Tuscan coast, Maxime Denuc's 'Club Imperiale' is a work of speculative historical fiction, a record that imagines a point of creative symbiosis between the Catholic church and the ecstatic dancefloors of the early '90s.

Huge Tip! “Sacred Aeolian music capturing and harnessing the divine power of the wind”. Aeolian Harp is somewhere between a string instrument and a receiver. Its strings are agitated by the wind without any human interference, producing tones entirely of its own volition. Archer toured the British Isles setting up his harp in various sacred and loosely mystical locations. Where he let the Devaharp transmit an otherwise unknown sacred music that has always existed around us. Listening to the natu…

A new release from the back alleys of Tokyo."Prior to the vinyl release of the debut work “Vapor Curve”, which suffered a one-year delay due to manufacturing errors, the release of the mini-album “grainy film” has been confirmed." Following the artist's previous release, this album completely eschews the use of computer-based DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software. By relying exclusively on a strictly limited setup of hardware—synthesizers, samplers, and delay units—the artist pursues a meticu…

In The Juniper Tree, an interrelationship between the ethereal and terrestrial seems to cloak the ever-present Icelandic landscape. The film, written and directed by Nietzchka Keene in 1986 and released in 1990, is disbelieving of binaries such as life and death, natural and supernatural, stillness and unrest. It is perhaps best known as the genesis point for Björk’s career as an actor, but in its compelling feminist retelling of the Brothers Grimm story of the same name it recasts tropes of wit…

Piano Music is a double-album of works for piano by two brilliant musicians: Chris McKelway and John Welsh. Both of these people have been moving beacons in my own inquiry into what will count as a really musical life. McKelway's collection, "Best Of," is a collection of private and occasional works for himself — as well as works for others brought back to CM's home instrument — from the past 15 years or so. Remediations of Chopin, Donnie Hathaway, and Tom Jobim threaded through lieder whose wor…

Brasil & The Gallowbrothers Band are proud to announce the release of Record, Erase...Start Over Again, a powerful new record that captures the energy of live performance, the emotion of reinvention, and the joy of turning mistakes into momentum. Across the album, the band invites listeners into a world where every groove tells a story and every transition feels like a fresh start. From driving moments to deeply reflective passages, Record, Erase...Start Over Again follows an arc of growth—one t…

The Swamp’ is a get-to-know-you party where furniture is broken, wine glasses are smashed and walls are defaced with graffiti, but the living room remains more beautiful than the night before. The album is the first meeting between vocalist Maja S. K. Ratkje, guitarist Torstein Slåen and electronics artist Sigurd Ytre-Arne. With a fair dose of anti-bullshit inherited from decades of jazz/improv/contemporary music mixed together in the Norwegian stew pot, they improvise new songs across time, aes…

Mikkel Rev returns to A Strangely Isolated Place with Evocation, his third full-length album shaped deep within the forests of Norway.

*Warehouse find!* "D.N.A." is a contemporary jazz album recorded at Mondial Studios in Milan in December 1996 by two 'heavyweights' of Italian and international jazz music, trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Mario Rusca, the latter here feature with his trio accompanied by double bass player Lucio Terzano and drummer Tony Arco. The album alternates original compositions written by Mario Rusca with evergreen classics of the genre.  In 1997 SAAR Records with its Giants Of Jazz label for the contemp…

An adventurous instrumental jazz-rock fusion album that captures the free-form chemistry between keyboardist Howard Wales and guitarist Jerry Garcia. The record blends jazz improvisation, psychedelic rock, blues, funk, and progressive influences into fluid, exploratory compositions driven by Wales' inventive keyboard work and Garcia's expressive, melodic guitar playing. Supported by musicians including John Kahn, Bill Vitt, and Martin Fierro, the album emphasizes spontaneous interplay over conve…

*100 copies limited edition* Following the striking debut of Believe That Was Me (577 Records, 2025), Matthew Putman, Hill Greene, and Francisco Mela reunite for Bright Sun Outside, a fearless new recording that further expands their shared language of spontaneous composition and soulful listening. Emerging from the creative orbit of 577 Records, the trio crafts a vivid and unpredictable sonic landscape where abstraction, rhythm, lyricism, and raw momentum exist in constant motion. Mela’s additi…

With a refined, modern sensibility and a deeply human sense of space, “Undercurrent / Wanderlust” balances detail and emotion. Each track unfolds like a short journey: moments of clarity and restraint giving way to tension, color, and release. The partnership between Suzuki’s expressive musical voice and Okagawa’s atmospheric approach creates a sound world that is both immersive and immediate—an invitation to listen closely, then follow where the music leads.

Started out as a sideproject to Incipientium and The Family Men, Gustav Danielsbackas' Future Chemicals has slowly evolved into its own ugly thing, exploring his passion for video culture and dystopian, technological havoc. Death Drug And TV Screen was initially meant as a soundtrack for a film started in 2022 that got forever stuck in limbo. Saved from the production room vortex, Discreet Music now presents the whole, massive thing in its mind-melting entirety. Clocking in on almost 70 ambitiou…

“Memories of a Loser” presents Juan Belda & The Bit Band at their most focused and fully realized. Blending jazz, rock, electronics and experimental composition, the album refines the core elements that have defined the project into a more cohesive and direct musical statement. The result is a record that moves with clarity while preserving its exploratory edge. Structured compositions and open passages coexist naturally throughout the album, driven by a strong sense of atmosphere and interplay …

La rueda infinita de Hans continues the exploration initiated by Juan Belda & The Bit Band, expanding their language through a conceptually structured and musically ambitious work. The album brings together a stable ensemble of outstanding musicians from the worlds of jazz and experimental music: Jorge Pardo, Enrico Barbaro, Juanjo Ortí and Epi Lorente. Their collective virtuosity shapes a sound that moves freely between composition and improvisation, precision and openness. Throughout the recor…

With No encuentro la tónica, Juan Belda & The Bit Band push their musical language further into unpredictable territory. The album unfolds as a restless and multifaceted work where jazz, experimental rock and electronic textures intersect freely. Rather than following a fixed stylistic path, the music constantly shifts perspective, moving through dense arrangements, sudden rhythmic turns and moments of spacious improvisation. The ensemble once again brings together a remarkable group of musician…

With Carretera mágica, Juan Belda & The Bit Band continue their journey through a musical territory where genres dissolve and direction emerges from collective exploration. Although its language can loosely evoke the broad landscape of jazz rock, the album ultimately resists precise categorization. Instead, it unfolds as an open musical route shaped by interplay, texture and evolving momentum. The core ensemble once again features Jorge Pardo, Juanjo Ortí and Enrico Barbaro, joined by collaborat…

"Explosion of Bad Music” captures Simon Steensland at his most gloriously unhinged. Built around two expansive pieces of roughly 27 minutes each, the album dives headfirst into his signature avant-prog chaos (dense, theatrical, and wildly inventive), unfolding like a delirious, self-contained masterpiece. Every passage mutates with intent, transforming unease into narrative drive. Wild, intricate, and unexpectedly playful, it feels like a parallel universe where avant-garde rigor collides with d…

*25 copies limited edition. Includes a Solar Magic Tongue Amulet, an envelope with a handwritten poem, and a small bell. Signed and numbered editions made by NNN Cook.* "On his new album Tongue Ebbing Into a Tenebrist Dusk, St. Louis artist NNN Cook explores the complex terrain of speech and thought, of quiet interiority and the outward expressions that can emerge from it. Following this interest in language, each track title presents a variation on a tongue depicted in a new tint, though the tr…

Twenty-five years on, Warp returns Aphex Twin's Drukqs to physical formats. Thirty tracks across a hundred minutes: prepared piano miniatures, drill'n'bass with the brakes cut, musique concrète, a voicemail from his parents. The last gap in the vinyl discography, closed.

2026 stock. It is genuinely difficult to place Rod McKuen anywhere in the twentieth century. He read alongside Kerouac and Ginsberg at the Jazz Cellar in San Francisco in the early 1950s, sang with Lionel Hampton's band, worked as a contract player at Universal, and cut the beat-poetry record Beatsville for HiFi Records in 1959. The early 1960s took him to France, where his encounter with Jacques Brel produced the English versions of Ne me quitte pas and Le Moribond that entered the language as …

Originally self-released by James Blackshaw on Bandcamp in February 2026, Fractures On The Horizon comprises two compositions totaling nearly 40 minutes of music. The title track — a sweeping 25-minute piece performed in an open tuning — finds Blackshaw at his most commanding, weaving hammered arpeggios and resonant melody into something at once technically staggering and deeply felt. “...the 25-minute title song might be his most boldly beautiful composition yet, a bravura performance for guita…

If you don't know 'Clouds' then, quite naturally, you'd have to be living underground. The work of Venetian composer Gigi Masin went mostly ignored until Music From Memory's early-2010s reissue campaign pulled him and his ingenious ambient works out of the murk, among which many salvages include his now calling-card, 'Clouds'. Re-pressed astonishingly through P-Vine of all labels, this soul-quelling masterwork - first recorded in 1989 for a split release with Charles Hayward and mostly forgotten…

For almost four decades, MZ.412 have forged some of the most uncompromising ritual industrial and dark ambient soundscapes the world has ever known. "The Nar Mattaru Curses" gathers obscure recordings from their whole career including previously unreleased or buried tracks, recorded between 1989 and 2017 in the legendary Nar Mattaru studio. Raw hymns of apocalyptic industrialism, occult malevolence, and crushing sonic sorcery that never made the original albums. An essential transmission for dev…

*80 copies limited edition* Milena Zink of Willis, Grain, Pulsing Nerve Garden, Deux Plex on samplers, synthesizers, electronics, springs. All CDs include Birth Card insert for listeners to fill out

‘Havana’ is the thirteenth album by Agile Experiments, the shape-shifting project of multi-instrumentalist/producer Dave De Rose. Following on from 2024's 'Loukoumades', the album channels the heat-hazed, tympanic pulse of Cuba’s capital into a document of joyous collective improvisation, ecstatic groove alchemy and meticulously original choices of post-production. 'Havana' had already gathered support from Songlines Magazine, Electronic Sound Magazine, Gilles Peterson, Zakia and many more.

None More Records present Weathered People, the second album on NMR from experimental singer-songwriter Joe Woodham. Building and evolving from his previous record Worldwide Weather, Weathered People was inspired by a continuing fascination with the weather and pondering on the effect it has on us collectively. The album explores themes of psychology, wellbeing, spirituality, geology and deep time whilst always trying to be grounded and rooted by nature. Inspired by the space and depth of compos…

A much needed repress of French ambient composer and lifeguard Roméo Poirier's cult debut record, Plage Arrière. Released with updated artwork, by London imprint Kit Records. Plage Arrière is a deep sea meditation on a constellation of Greek beaches across three islands. Trumpets, echo-clicks and Harold Budd-esque shimmer piano whirl together on these sand-caked missives, tumbled and re-engineered by their surroundings like seaglass. Poirier evokes the sub-aqeaous ambitions of Jürgen Müller, or …

Maciej Envee Goliński is an artist who probably needs no introduction. He has been working with U Know Me practically since the label's inception. His last album ("Time & Light") made a huge impact worldwide, but we had to wait eight years for the next vinyl release. In the meantime, Maciej has certainly been busy – he has released numerous club singles under several aliases, and has helped record and mix numerous albums from the world of jazz, soul, and electronica. "Wyszymory" is a carefully c…