New Arrivals
Bird Cage: Birdfriend Archives
Enter a world unknown! Birdfriend is a cassette label run by Japanese musician/composer Koshiro Hino, aka YPY, who is also a founding member of the Osaka band goat. This compilation, available on CD and double vinyl, features 18 tracks by Japanese artists, from 2013-2017, previously available only on hard-to-find cassettes on the Birdfriend label, now available to you, the curious and courageous listener, worldwide on EM Records. Rejoice and enjoy the fractured rhythms and future-now timbres, qu…
Revolver
Quartet Records, in collaboration with EMI General Music Publishing, presents a meticulously remastered reissue of Ennio Morricone's iconic poliziesco score for Sergio Sollima's Revolver (1973), a violent Italian-French thriller starring Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi. This definitive release brings one of Morricone's most dynamic crime scores back to pristine sonic quality, showcasing the composer's mastery of the genre that would later influence his acclaimed American gangster film work. The film…
Oceano
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Universal Music Publishing Italia and EMI Music Publishing, presents a meticulously remastered reissue of Ennio Morricone's fascinating score for Folco Quilici's Oceano (1971), a pseudo-documentary film that stands as one of the most unique and spiritually profound projects in both filmmakers' careers. This definitive release showcases Morricone at his most experimental and meditative, creating what may be his most transcendent work for cinema. The film fol…
The Ennio Morricone Desert TV Trilogy
Ennio Morricone with “Secret of the Sahara” achieved great sales success, especially thanks to the song “Saharan Dream” performed by Amii Stewart. At the time, Italian RCA released a CD and a 33 rpm with sixteen tracks selected by the author. This material was released in France on CD and on vinyl. In 2018, the same material was reissued on vinyl by Monte Stella Records. In 2007 Maestro Morricone approved six previously unreleased tracks for an expanded edition, which GDM released on CD, now tha…
Gli Intoccabili
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music Publishing, presents a remastered reissue of the 1968 classic, propulsive and exciting Ennio Morricone cult score for the gangster movie Gli Intoccabili (aka Machine Gun McCain), a successful Italian-US coproduction, directed by Giuliano Montaldo and starring John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands and Gabrielle Ferzetti. The film is about a paroled gangster and his son who plan to rob a Las Vegas gambling house, u…
A Pure Formality
Quartet Records presents a remastered reissue of one of the most celebrated collaborations between Ennio Morricone and Giuseppe Tornatore, the composer’s most important partner during the last twenty years of his career. Together they achieved great success in Italian and international cinema with films such as Cinema Paradiso, Stanno Tutti Bene, The Legend Of 1900, Malena and The Best Offer, among others. A Pure Formality (1994) is an intense Kafkaesque noir drama (starring Gérard Depardieu an…
Giordano Bruno
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing, presents a remastered reissue of one of Ennio Morricone’s most celebrated collaborations with Giuliano Montaldo (Sacco e Vanzetti, Gli Intoccabili, Ad Ogni Costo, Il Giocattolo, Tempo di Uccidere). The 1973 historical drama Giordano Bruno is about the free-thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (Gian Maria Volontè), who, fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, has found some protection in Venice.…
El Greco
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing, presents a remastered reissue of one of Ennio Morricone’s most celebrated collaborations with Luciano Salce, with whom Morricone maintained a loyal collaboration at the beginning of his career, from Il Federale, his very first film score, through La Cuccagna, Slalom and Come Imparai ad Amare le Donne. El Greco (1966) is a romantic drama set in 16th-century Spain, where the famed Greek painter El Greco journeys to Toledo t…
Private Universe
Noise and experimental musician Green Tea returns with Private Universe, a captivating new release on the renowned independent label Tribe Tapes. Known for pushing the boundaries of sound, Green Tea crafts an immersive sonic journey through layers of intricate textures, raw emotion, and hypnotic rhythms.
Private Universe encapsulates the artist’s unique ability to blend harsh noise with subtle melodies, creating a deeply personal and evocative soundscape. Tribe Tapes, celebrated for championing…
A Checking of Progress
With A Checking of Progress, JM Iversen maps transformation across thirteen concise landscapes, calibrating detail and drift in equal measure. The album veers between introspective minimalism and sudden flux, yielding studies in tension that invite immersion as much as contemplation.
5980 - Patto Generazionale
* 2025 Stock *Time is a trickster on 5980 - Patto Generazionale, the latest offering from Sokushinbutsu Project. Massimo ODRZ Mascheroni and Enrico Ponzoni transmute the shimmer of late-’70s and early-’80s dance-floor forms into a suite of revisions, exquisite in their brevity and sly in their intent. Subtly retooling classic tunes like “Oh! Carol” and “Passion Flower,” the pair do not simply trade in retromania; they stage a negotiation with memory itself, unspooling Italo-gloss nostalgia as it…
23
Elena M. and Denis V. entwine instinct and control on 23, braiding their distinct sensibilities into an electroacoustic reverie. Each piece unfolds patiently, steeped in spectral resonance and subtle tension, yielding a collaborative terrain where stillness and disquiet shimmer in constant exchange.
Why I Went To The Woods
With "Why I Went To The Woods", I retreated once again into my hauntological dream worlds. With the woods being the place one traditionally goes to clear one's head, I went there with these recordings to fortify myself with a deliberate rejection of the Now. Inspired equally by both the fictional filmed landscapes of psychedelic folk - the bucolic British countryside of the 1960s and 1970s which, though I've never witnessed in real life, still fill me with an inexplicable melancholic yearning to…
Creature Comforts
I started recording "Creature Comforts" with 'Allegiance' on the night of November 4th, as the election results were coming in. I found myself craving lullabies, but ugly and reflective ones, that saw the world with an acute sense of horror and bewilderment and bereavement. Lullabies that didn't protect me from these feelings - or rather did protect me, but did so through immersion. I finished recording on March 10th of 2025. Visual inspiration came from a series of mixed-media works by my gifte…
A Replica Screams
Welcoming elusive Japanese guitarist, Kouhei Fukuzumi, for his 3rd solo full-length as Ultrafog. ‘A Replica Screams’ emerges as a collection of drifting memories, a chain reaction of unique combinations of elements already present in the World. It embraces the idea that existence itself is positively shaped by serendipity and meaningful coincidences, and that we are all falling together, in time, and on time. The vinyl edition contains an original artwork poster presenting João Bragança Gil’s ‘T…
La Nouvelle Européenne Et Autres Territoires Affranchis Politiquement Trash
*100 copies limited edition* « In 2025, can we still be interested in and write about the music of a band of French musicians, very “underground” who were very young at the time in the early 1970s? » writes Xavier Béal at the opening of his review of Ian Thompson's brand new book "Synths, Sax & Situationists (The French Musical Underground 1968-1978)" in the webzine Rythmes Croisés (published on October 24, 2025).
The answer is certainly yes! And although the name of Pascal Chassin is still almo…
How Much Can We Understand
*2025 stock* "Fero Király's How Much Can We Understand maps out some of the foggy territory where technological systems intersect with organic complexity. The album's two sidelong tracks were generated using “a cellular automaton with code 357”, a computational model where simple rules applied to a grid of cells produce intricate evolving patterns that echo the inexplicability of natural phenomena. The result is as much a feat of cold engineering as a tender ode to musical minimalism. On side on…
Atlas
Alexandra Cihanská Machová is a composer, electronic musician and sound artist from Slovakia. She has strong and persistent interest in rigorous listening to the world as a fundamental outlet for understanding and connection, leaning towards sonic ecology and politics, non-technocentric field recording, and exploring emotion in a post-digital environment.
z DNA
*2025 stock* "The latest album by innovative Slovak composer, Barbora Tomášková, offers a unique suite of sounds, where boundaries between acoustic traditions and exploratory electronics dissolve. The Slovak composer and performer’s practice revolves around innovative use of ’objets trouvé’ and western classical instruments via hefty electronic manipulations and many extended techniques. Taking its name from both the less common and stable form of DNA and the Slovak term for “from the bottom”, Z…
Robin Diamond's Lungs
An act of concentration rendered explosive, Debt of Nature’s Robin Diamond’s Lungs lunges at complacency, fusing short-form assaults with caustic wit. The album is a lungful of serrated textures, stuttering rhythms, and a throughline of existential urgency, driving headlong into the contours of disillusion and revolt.