New Jersey based sound artist Sawn Half returns with his third album "Possession" following the excellent compact discs "Sink" (Flag Day, 2024) & "Faults" (Tribe Tapes, 2025). His releases keep you coming back for more by delivering consistently heavy textured, blown out, experimental Harsh Noise using contact mics, feedback and tape manipulation in order to create a singular style all it's own that sounds broken yet tightly controlled.
Tip! "Whether we experience music as abstract or concrete depends largely on our sensitivity to the richness of perception. Common opinion – often reductive – draws a sharp distinction: music is abstract when it does not “speak,” when it seems diffuse, branching into multiple, elusive directions. It is concrete when it “tells” a story, when its sounds and structures feel familiar, graspable. Yet this distinction quickly dissolves. From a scientific or cognitive perspective, structure itself is i…
Sinsuke Fujieda Group recorded Fukushima at Groove Studio Matsudo in May 2023. When Superfly Records put it out on vinyl in the spring of 2025 the thousand copies vanished within days, two further pressings followed, and copies on the second-hand market are now asking three figures. This CD is the record the LP could not hold: the five compositions restored to their full unedited length, three flute pieces that had only ever appeared digitally, and Jiva, a previously unheard piece for bamboo cla…
The third part in Jon Hassell’s Pentimento trilogy captures the much-missed artist performing as part of a trio with Rick Cox and John von Seggern in London in 2015, in what would turn out to be his final ever concert. Carefully edited and mixed by Jeff Rona into something much more than a traditional ‘live album’; themes, motifs and riffs from his critically adored albums Listening To Pictures and Seeing Through Sound occur throughout these unique, semi-improvised mutations, making this a fitti…
More than 25 years after the start of collaboration with Acid Mothers Temple mastermind Makoto Kawabata (including the INUI series and the classic Kawabata/Youngs release) comes the first proper VHF LP by the prolific quintet. One of an occasional series of “minimalism” inspired LPs by the group, In A Not C is a not a barely changing drone, but a wild ride with the band in full flight, rushing along in a glorious swirl of psychedelic madness.
Like the band’s well-known 2001 version of Terry Rile…
It doesn’t get much more special than this one. The music industry loves throwing around phrases like 'rare as hens' teeth' and 'holy grail', but Ricardo Marrero & The Group’s 1976 album A Taste genuinely earns them. A mythical and elusive release in its original form, for many it’s an unattainable prize in the Discogs wantlist, and one far out of reach financially. Even though it’s already been reissued by other amazing record labels over the years, we really wanted to make a Mr Bongo edition t…
*50 copies limited edition* Francisco Mela's new solo album, Carnaval De Oriente, arrives this October via 577 Records. A deeply personal statement from the acclaimed drummer and composer, the album draws on the rhythms, spirit, and traditions of his Cuban roots while embracing fearless improvisation and sonic exploration. Carnaval De Oriente will be available this October on 577 Records.
'Physique is Neil Quigley (Kilkenny, IRL) and Sam Scranton (Chicago, IL). Together they make music by any and all means. Truly, no sound or technique is off limits as they assemble compositions that combine rich, warm sonic atmospheres with musical objects of objectively bad taste. Curve Totem, for release on 4/2/2021, is their debut album as a duo. Their magpie approach to composition builds novel musical landscapes from homemade instruments, Text-To-Speech and AI voices, lap steel guitar, Able…
Before becoming recognized as an influential figure in ambient music, Gigi Masin was working for the Italian postal service. In 1986, he privately released Wind, his first album, choosing to share it mainly with friends and audiences at his intimate performances rather than pursue a commercial distribution. Much of the remaining vinyl disappeared when a flood destroyed his Venetian home. The album’s origins went back to Masin’s years as a local radio DJ, when he used the station’s equipment to e…
*300 copies limited edition* Twenty-five years after its original release, Markus Guentner's debut album In Moll returns in a special anniversary reissue on Black Knoll Editions, reaffirming its place as one of the defining ambient recordings of the early 21st century.
Released in 2001 during the formative years of Kompakt's influential Pop Ambient series, In Moll emerged from a period of rapid transformation in electronic music. New technologies, expanding digital networks, and shifting creativ…
Deluxe edition, housed in a reverse board printed sleeve with printed inner sleeve. Three LPs came out on Jihad, the label Amiri Baraka ran out of his own house in Newark. Two of them - Sonny's Time Now and A Black Mass - entered the canon of the New Thing decades ago. The third stayed a rumour: a title traded between collectors, a track a radio DJ might drop once a year, a record far more people had heard about than heard. Original copies surface rarely and sell for three figures. Black and Bea…
»Music from Tokyo / New York« serves as the 2024 sequel to his previous release, »Music for Joshua Tree«. This conceptual album is divided into Side A (Tokyo) and Side B (New York), utilizing field recordings captured in each location. The ceramic images featured on LP jacket is the work of Namiko Ishikawa (NamipotNYC). On this record, he incorporates ambient, downtempo, trip-hop, and dub—bringing to life the specific sounds currently resonating in his mind and his original roots.
Since the pand…
"Was it a dream or a memory? The images are hard to grasp in your mind. You can recall the surroundings, though it feels like you have never been here. Jamais vu, you read about it somewhere. There is a table and on the table food, almost all eaten. Saliva grows soft in your mouth as you stare at this last piece on the plate. It seems to stare back at you. Are you alone? Or are there others? You see men of retirement age, who spend their time watching, with hands clasped behind their backs, offe…
Whispering Ln. Vol. II was recorded between 2018 and 2019 in America, alongside the pieces that formed the first album. These recordings belong to the same time and space, shaped by the same quiet focus and slow attention to sound. While remaining rooted in minimalism, this album introduces several more rhythmic pieces, drawing inspiration from early electronic music – echoes of composers such as Tom Dissevelt and Raymond Scott.
Movement and stillness coexist throughout this record. Rhythms and …
Offerings is a new project from Bruno Silva (Ondness, Serpente) and Gonçalo F. Cardoso (Lagoss, Prophetas, Hannibal Chew III). Born from a shared obsession with the peripheral—rain puddles, empty city spaces and the flickering crawl of late-night credits—the album occupies a stalled threshold; a space that refuses to resolve into a clear image. It does not strive for the "new" nor the "old"; it exists in a state of suspension, like end credits that refuse to roll, fixed in a permanent noumenal s…
*200 copies limited edition* The sun sat high above the desert outside Joshua Tree on October 17, 2024, baking the rocks and shrubbery outside the Farrington Observatory as a small group of invited guests ventured up a steep path towards the telescope. Kyle Simon, the artist and printmaker who founded the Observatory, was standing outside the print studio sat below the towering cylindrical building, greeting friends alongside his wife Sarah and lifelong friend Brian Weitz, the musician widely kn…
The album Works for Organ documents and brings to life Bernhard Lang’s engagement with this instrument – which dates back to his youth – in its most diverse forms. The musical roots lie in his own improvisational practice as part of a band, in his ongoing interest in microtonally composed music, and in his long-standing exploration of loops, a technique that can relate to various musical parameters. Furthermore, the exceptional skills of Lang’s performers and their artistic interests play a sign…
On SLG3, Juan Manuel Cidrón returns to vinyl with four long-form electronic landscapes shaped by analogue circuitry, minimal pulse and cosmic drift. The Almería synthesist turns S, L, G and 3 into open territories - desert-wide, elemental and quietly visionary - where natural rhythm and machine logic meet in a patient, dream-lit dialogue.
On Solos II, Anton Toorell turns two simultaneously played guitars into a shimmering architecture of tone, tension and air. Recorded in an Italian wine cellar, its three extended pieces use altered tunings, open strings and resonant decay to create lucid, microtonal currents - rigorous in design, but touched with the ease of unhurried improvisation.
Cacciamali is an exploration of diegetic sound, folk chants and traditional rhythms and instrumentation building upon Milan based Rosso Polare’s last outing Campo Amaro and the subsequent departure of co-founder Anna Vezzosi from the group. Where the 2024 album incorporated a heavy use of folklore as a new tool, Cacciamali explores the influence further by bringing in a host of collaborative players including Italian avant-garde veteran Riccardo Sinigaglia, sound artist and researcher HMOT (Stas…
“The role of the composer is to act as a filter between reality and the listener, transforming real life into something different from what the listener is accustomed to,” summarizes composer Mioko Yokoyama, reflecting her personal view on her profession. She wants to show that contemporary music is not difficult or hard to listen to. In order to compose, she must first open up new realms of experience, not only through writing, but also through study and analysis. Her aim is to enable people to…
This compilation was specially curated for those in attendance at the Past Inside the Present Label Showcase, presented by Indy CD & Vinyl on December 5, 2026, at The 808 in Indianapolis, Indiana, featuring live performances by zakè, Wayne Robert Thomas, and Marc Ertel. This sampler brings together selected works spanning 2019 through 2025, offering a retrospective of each artist's contributions leading up to the evening's performances.
*200 copies limited edition* Recorded live at The Jazz Cafe in Camden, London, on the year's so called "Blue Monday," Live from Camden captures The London Ambient Orchestra in a single evening of collective improvisation. Conceived during the depths of winter, the performance reflects the ensemble's commitment to creating music that encourages presence, reflection, and restoration. While Blue Monday began as a marketing invention, it has since become associated with conversations surrounding men…
*300 copies limited edition* “Life with my son is real fun. For this album, my efforts to make music that documents or evokes moments of grace and gratitude focused more tightly on our time together. In finding inspiration there, the music sometimes became busier, sometimes more pensive. It’s all reflective. There are moments here when you can literally hear us at play, but more often I’m trying to musically articulate the feeling of ‘I’m so glad we’re doing this, right now, together.’
A through…
In honor of the 40th anniversary of David Lynch's 1986 masterpiece Blue Velvet, Varese Sarabande is excited to present a new vinyl edition of Angelo Badalamenti's music for the film. Lynch and Badalamenti, who both passed away in 2025 after decades as one of cinema's most iconic creative collaborators, forged a singular sonic world from Twin Peaks to Mulholland Drive. This new edition presents the soundtrack composed and conducted by Badalamenti in a special collectible "rainbow foil" jacket.
Fiends of Dope Island is the eighth and final studio album (and 13th album overall) by the Cramps. The Cramps resurrected their own record label Vengeance Records to release the album in 2003. It was recorded in Hollywood in August 2002. It was self-produced by Poison Ivy and Lux Interior. The album takes its title from the 1959 film, Fiend of Dope Island. "Fissure of Rolando" was dedicated to John Agar (1921-2002).
For a while the trio just called itself "Me, you and Sue", which suited them - none of the three has ever seemed especially concerned with naming things. Adam Bohman, Sue Lynch and Crystabel Efemena Riley found each other through London's Horse Improvised Music Club and have been playing together in various rooms for years. This is their first record as a three, and it needed a real title. Lynboril Lisinopril takes Lyn(ch), Bo(hman) and Ril(ey), puts the invented word into a search engine and ke…
*200 copies limited edition* Jump is a new pan-European trio bringing together three musicians from different generations and backgrounds: British pianist Pat Thomas, Danish saxophonist and composer Maria Dybbroe, and Italian vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Andrea S. Giordano. The three met in Oslo in August 2021, as the pandemic was finally beginning to loosen its grip. Their first encounter was immediate and symbiotic, making it clear that a new band had taken shape. Since then, J…
*100 copies limited edition* Some ensembles begin with a repertoire. Others begin with a community. Airlft emerged in Philadelphia in 2022 as an ongoing monthly gathering initiated by drummer and percussionist Kevin Diehl: a space where composers, improvisers and listeners could meet in an open process of experimentation. Over the course of four years, that process gradually evolved into a shared musical language, one shaped less by fixed personnel than by sustained collaboration. Spatial Recogn…
Tip! *100 copies limited edition* Flung is proud to present Sound as a Bell: collages of piano, percussion, electronics, and found sound stemming from the correspondence between sound artist Fergus Kelly and pianist John Tilbury. Through Kelly’s studio transformations of Tilbury’s recordings – where sounds are stretched, reversed, layered and refracted – the listener is left to drift in a tumbling kaleidoscope that inspires listening at once ambient, improvisatory, surreal, electroacoustic, and …
*100 copies limited edition* Flung is proud to present gwaith anwel, the first recorded document of the long-running musical partnership between violinist Angharad Davies and double bassist Dominic Lash. Recorded in Oxford's Holywell Music Room, one of Europe's oldest purpose-built concert halls, the album distils almost twenty years of mutual listening, improvisation and artistic exchange, bearing traces of a shared musical path shaped through collaborations with figures as diverse as Tony Conr…
Kepla debuts on Liverpool label Sink with new compilation “Outside Time”. Following recent collaborations with Steven Warwick (PAN) and Dialect (RVNG Intl), “Outside Time” brings productions and experiments spanning ten years together for the first time.
Early forays draw inspiration from musique concrete, dub and industrial, using granular synthesis resampling from drum packs, repitched melodies and phone recordings, resulting in a collection of tracks both lo-fi and highly detailed. ‘Part Exhu…
A space is often described by its dimensions. The height of the ceiling, the expanse between walls. Division into functional elements of varying density follows. We have ideas of how such dimensions should be balanced to work well for sound — the classical concert hall, a Northward mastering room. It’s tempting to try and use this idea of space to understand Space the group (Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, Anna Lund). To calculate their cartesian co-ordinates: dynamics that run from whisper soft to pu…
*200 copies limited edition* Written, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by zakè. Heavyweight picture disc vinyl featuring photography by Benoît Pioulard. Housed in a deluxe, heavyweight 12" picture disc sleeve with flap. 3.5"x2" signed hype sticker. Includes a 2" square sticker featuring album artwork and a vintage 35mm unique photo slide.
Underpinned by spoken folktales stretching from Indonesia to Poland, a new collaborative EP from Warszawa/Berlin-based Jerzy Mączyński and London-based Flora Yin-Wong arrives via Accidental Meetings. Demons rising from the wind, unknown beings lurking in the forest – the record conjures a landscape built from heady layers of saxophone and the tormented strings of zither, harp, and kemence. Recorded across two intense studio sessions, the EP also features idiosyncratic contributions from London-b…
With Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems, the ever elusive and shape-shifting Thomas Bush offers up a new album of category scrambling song craft. Since earlier solo efforts like Old And Red (2018), Preludes (2022) and The Next 60 Years (2024), Bush—currently based in Malmö—has traced a digressive path that has proven him capable of everything from murky wobbling dirges to uptight head-bopping laments to crystalline synth chords that hang precariously in the air over your new favourite bass …
*300 copies limited edition* Stone Music returns with Into the Cosmic Forest, a deep and patient journey into open-air improvisation. The group was founded in 2022 by Tokio Hasegawa, a core member of the legendary Taj Mahal Travellers, and brings together a wide circle of musicians from Japan’s ambient and experimental scenes. While the name is new, the spirit continues. Stone Music extends the free-form, site-responsive approach that defined Taj Mahal Travellers — music shaped by environment, d…
Edition of 400 copies with hand-assembled letterpress sleeves and insert. Musique Domestique marks the debut full-length from French duo Adiciatz, a project that emerges from the shared musical curiosity of Manon Nogier and Guillaume Lespinasse. Living near Lyon and making music together since before the pandemic, the pair developed their sound during lockdown improvisations at home -- a creative process that quickly revealed a unique musical chemistry rooted as much in folk tradition as in expe…
In Gianfranco Rosi’s portrait of Naples, Sotto le Nuvole (Pompei: Below The Clouds), the ground shakes periodically. Between Mount Vesuvius and theTyrrhenian Sea, the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields hiss volcanic gas and steam. Below the sleeping volcano, modern day Naples emerges in black and white and fills with voices, with lives. From the traces of history and the concerns of the present, Rosi documents a city immersed in its continuous past, with Daniel Blumberg’s minimal soundscape hove…
On Sweet Love, Bitter, Mal Waldron turns a fictional portrait of Charlie Parker’s final years into a darkly luminous suite of cinematic jazz. His lyricism, tension and blues‑stained restraint guide a formidable 1967 ensemble through music that moves beyond soundtrack function, making New York feel bruised, nocturnal and fiercely alive.