New Arrivals
MOR (Book)
Tip! In March 2022, here at Monday Press, we began receiving long emails from an anonymous account belonging to someone we barely knew. These letters were sent from deep underground—so deep that we weren’t even sure if it was safe to reply. They told an insider’s story of a world in the process of being erased: the anxiety, the fear, and the longing for something that was vanishing right before the author's eyes. Over the course of a year, we received four letters and a series of photographs (ta…
Opera Poesia
Gatefold LP, w/ 52 pages book including scans of Tomaso Binga's original poem scores from 1976 to 2023. Italian and English. Offset printing. Limited edition of 350 copies. Opera Poesia is the first comprehensive audio collection of Tomaso Binga's poems performed by the artist. The practice of Tomaso Binga (Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, b. 1931) is embedded in the language of visual and sound poetry, aimed at observing and questioning the idea of gender. Her practice explores the rights, social role…
Disc Rot
Long and intermittent running duo of Discrepant head honcho Gonçalo F Cardoso and Angela Valid's Alex Jones, with sometime collaborator Phil Laney aka Kenny Hosepipe joining in somewhere along the way, Hair & Treasure crossover from Sucata Tapes to Discrepant wax via 'Disc Rot'. Described by the duo, in their cryptic and scatological fashion, as "a fetid spread from the buttery catacombs of Hair & Treasure", one can only speculate on the mindset, if not for the scenario, for these file swap reco…
Aphex Twin (Magazine)
*Czech Language Only* New collaborative zine by Štěpán Adámek & Miloš Hroch. Dive into short essays about Aphex Twin's music, background, ideas, videos and more by The Wire contributor Miloš Hrouch which are accompanied by unique and wild pastel drawings by Štěpán Adámek. Edition of 120 copies. Comes with sun glasses.
Jasnovidec & Tarnovski
During hot and mid pandemic August 2021, duo of Daniel Jakeš and Michael Nechvátal, know under their stage moniker of Jasnovidec, went to Pardubice for artist residency at notorious location of Divadlo 29 (Theater 29), key Czech location for worldwide avant garde experimental music and theater. During four long days and nights, the duo went onto several intense recording sessions, on which both Jakeš and Nechvátal played solely just their modular synths setups. On a few of the occasions they wer…
Elliptical Gloom
I have two stories behind this beast of a record. The first one is of course the oldest type of story around, the stranger comes to town. The stranger in this story is Zach Rowden. He shows up in Bucharest, once or twice, with his band (or duo if you want) Tongue Depressor. On one of the occasions he meets one of the locals involved in Bucharest avantgard circuits, Laurenţiu Coţac. And they decide to play together. They jam their double and electric basses. And it gets recorded. 23 minutes long …
Edaphon
In London I found a perfume that smelled like a brownie made entirely out of wet soil. It was inedible, but still very “cake”. “It’s our signature scent”, said the shopkeeper. But I used to make that cake as a child, with my child hands. I looked at the square bottle and it was me. Chocolate-like, but of the earth. Under our balcony I used to make garden stew in a clay pot with mud and pebbles. I stepped frantically on puffball mushrooms under a tree to make the steam. It didn't matter that the …
Barbara e altri Carella
*2025 repress. 300 copies limited edition* Hard to find Funk / AOR masterpiece by Enzo Carella whose original edition usually sells for crazy prices on the second-hand market. Carella was an Italian singer-songwriter who is best remembered for his 1979 major hit Barbara, which is the opening track on Barbara e altri Carella, his second album. All songs on this release are written by Enzo Carella with lyrics by Italian poet Pasquale Panella, which later got famous for his collaboration with Lucio…
An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing
*Hand-numbered edition of 300. Digipak in resealable poly-bag*
Jacob Felix Heule - DrumsTeté Leguía - BassDanishta Rivero - Voice And ElectronicsMartín Escalante - Saxophone
Recorded, Mixed, And Mastered By Jacob Felix HeuleSeptember 18, 2021 In Oakland, CaliforniaArtwork By Teté LeguíaLayout By Gerrit Hatcher
Manchmal Vertrödelt Christa S. Den Tag
Rare original issue. Recorded by the husband and wife duo of Kurt Schwertsik and Christa Schrwertsik, “Manchmal Vertrödelt Christa S. Den Tag” is a dreamy gestalt, an album that borders Chanson, spoken-word, Ubu-esque passages, chanting and singing, against a variety of textures and jazz noir. Kurt Schwertsik (b. 1935) is an Austrian experimental/avant-garde composer. His music is mercurial and idiosyncratic with a refreshing lightness of touch. Though a pupil of Karlheinz Stockhausen, the compo…
A Come Andromeda
“A come Andromeda” is a TV sci-fi mini-series directed by Vittorio Cottafavi, based on the eponymous novel (A for Andromeda) written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot, aired in Italy by RAI in 1972. Its soundtrack, composed and conducted by Mario Migliardi, is finally released on vinyl for the first time ever.
While listening to this album, one is plunged into a sci-fi dimension of experimental sounds that are sometimes hallucinatory, sometimes calm and tonal. Alessandro Alessandroni’s Cantori Moder…
Arcana
Red Vinyl. “Arcana” is a horror/dramatic movie directed by Giulio Questi and starring, among others, Lucia Bosé, Maurizio Degli Esposti e Tina Aumont. Its soundtrack, composed by Romolo Grano, is here reissued for the first time ever on vinyl. For “Arcana” Romolo Grano composed a soundtrack that develops in a truly original way, almost like in a lively ballet, characterized by classical flavoured strings with a pop music accompaniment, Edda Dell’Orso’s voice, and the Hammond organ in the title-t…
Kiss Kiss…Bang Bang
“Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang” is a 1966 spy movie directed by Duccio Tessari, starring Giuliano Gemma, Daniele Vargas and George Martin among others. That same year only a 45rpm was released, including the tracks “Love Love Bang Bang” sung by Nancy Cuomo, accompanied by Alessandro Alessandroni’s Cantori Moderni, and “Kiss-me-Warren-please”. Therefore, this is the first ever vinyl edition of this soundtrack, including sixteen tracks taken from the original session mono master, for a total length of ab…
...4..3..2..1... Morte
LP trifold w/insert. Velvet Vinyl. Unreleased Goblin soundtrack for a 80s cult horror b-movie
clear fuchsia coloured vinyl with insert and new liner notes! “The Other Hell” (L’Altro Inferno) is a 1981 horror movie directed by Bruno Mattei (as Stefan Oblowsky) that was explicitly filmed to exploit the success of Dario Argento’s “Inferno”, even if it has little to nothing in common with it. Set in a convent, the film unabashedly mixes demonic possessions, paranormal phenomena, black magic ritual…
L'Altro Inferno / The Other Hell
LP trifold w/insert. Velvet Vinyl. Unreleased Goblin soundtrack for a 80s cult horror b-movie
clear fuchsia coloured vinyl with insert and new liner notes! “The Other Hell” (L’Altro Inferno) is a 1981 horror movie directed by Bruno Mattei (as Stefan Oblowsky) that was explicitly filmed to exploit the success of Dario Argento’s “Inferno”, even if it has little to nothing in common with it. Set in a convent, the film unabashedly mixes demonic possessions, paranormal phenomena, black magic ritual…
Sonidos Y Modulaciones De La Selva
Italian sound artist Marco Shuttle debuts on Astral Industries with AI-39. Alluring and evocative, ‘Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva’ is a journey deep into the Amazon rainforest, seeking to capture its power and vastness, but also a rumination on the problem of its impending destruction.
In this album Shuttle sees the continuation and further ripening of an ongoing creative process, utilising both audio and visual documentations as source material. On this occasion most of the field recording…
Slow Dense
broken velocities & miss understood micro fractions ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･Henrique Vaz ~ :() # define ':' — whenever we say ':', do this: { # beginning of what to do when we say ':' : # load another copy of the ':' function into memory... | # ...and pipe its output to... : # ...another copy of ':' function, which has to be loaded into memory # (therefore, ':|:' simply gets two copies of ':' loaded whenever ':' is called) & # disown the functions — if the first ':' is killed, # all of the functions that it has …
Rotation-Free
Strong wind blows tumbleweed on unpaved streets of undisclosed desert settlement, dust and sand is in the air. Rusty shop sign of a small gas station dances and creaks in the hinges of its post. In the small bar, which serves as the only social establishment of this settlement, few habitues observe flickering unidentified object unsuccessfully trying to land on empty parking lot. Few of the habitues raise their beer bottles and cheer at the landing attempt, some of them are visibly excited about…
Mae'r Olwyn Yn Troi
Tip! This is the second in the new series of the label's reissue albums on vinyl. Mae'r Olwyn yn Troi (The Wheel Turns), Heather Jones' first album, was released in 1974, and Sain is proud to celebrate the record's 50th year in 2024. It is regarded as one of the classic albums of the 70s - the songs, the instrumentation, the arrangements, the musicianship and the production reaching such a high standard.
The real star of the album is, of course, Heather herself. Her amazing pure voice and her di…
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Released in the United Kingdom in June 1968 by Track Records and in the United States in September 1968 through Atlantic, the album was an international success, propelled by the transatlantic hit single "Fire". It was the only album released during the Crazy World's original incarnation.
A psychedelic soul album, its style is defined by frontman Arthur Brown's wide-ranging theatri…