New Arrivals
Music for a While
Michaela Melián’s Music for a While is an immersive, genre-blurring debut that fuses ambient techno currents with classical elements and subtle pop inflections. Drawing on a palette of cellos, guitars, and synthetic textures, Melián crafts extended atmospheric meditations whose compositional wit never dilutes their approachable warmth, producing a record both refined and strangely inviting, nestled between art installation and intricate electronic composition.
Thailand's Golden Sounds
Baa Records’ Thailand's Golden Sounds (80's Synth-Pop & Disco) is a vibrant compilation spotlighting the evolution of Thai pop as synthesized textures and disco grooves emerged from Bangkok’s Golden Sound studios. With a focus on overlooked 1980s gems, these tracks fuse local melodic sensibilities with Western production tricks, capturing a unique and danceable era both nostalgic and unexpectedly forward-looking.
Tokyo Funk Diva 1981 - 1988
Hitomi ‘Penny’ Tohyama’s Tokyo Funk Diva 1981-1988 introduces international audiences to one of Japan’s most charismatic exponents of funk and boogie. This capsule compilation, curated and newly remastered, captures her innovative blend of soulful vocals and sleek '80s production from a catalogue that shaped Tokyo’s underground dance music scene.
Philip Glass: The Complete Piano Etudes
Vanessa Wagner breathes new life into Philip Glass: The Complete Piano Etudes, revealing the powerful lyricism and subtle turbulence of Glass’s minimalist language. Her interpretation brings emotional intensity and poetic nuance across all 20 etudes, reflecting over a decade spent exploring the repertoire and making for an immersive listening experience.
Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical
Patrick Quinn’s Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical Cicadas, blurs the boundary between scientific observation and ecstatic sound art. Using data sonification and field recordings, it shapes the cicadas’ cosmic rhythm into a resonant meditation on time, light, and collective life cycles.
Kwantu (LP)
Kwantu brings together Madala Kunene and Sibusile Xaba for a powerful dialogue across generations. Fusing deep Zulu roots, evocative improvisation, and spiritual storytelling, the album transcends genre. Here, ancestral echoes and humanistic creativity merge in soundscapes alive with cultural energy and intimate connection.
Definitely What! (LP)
A bold statement in jazz, rock, and soul fusion, Definitely What! finds Brian Auger & The Trinity crafting intricate grooves with magnetic energy. Hammond organ brilliance, inventive arrangements, and fearless experimentation make this album a compelling testament to the group’s genre‑defying spirit and enduring creative fire.
Grayson II: Sands of Praconia
Sci-fi inspired, Prophet 5 synth led electronic compositions by Belgian film score composer Jan Borré. The second of Jan's synthesiser based instrumental albums inspired by the character of the mother of Spock in the long running Star Trek series, the altogether human Amanda Grayson.
This sequel finds her on a rescue mission to the fiery desert planet of Praconia...
Praconia, a remote planet caught in a bitter dispute. The Ozmi seek to exploit its resources, while the nomadic Prakans claim it as…
Breathe
This album is the full soundtrack to Liza Hughes' documentary film 'Swimming Through Darkness' retitled 'Breathe' for this release. Like all of Steve Nolan's scores, the melodies here are hauntingly beautiful and suffused with emotion, waves of sound ebbing and flowing like the ocean itself.
The cinematic score builds with pulsing synth pads and droplet-like piano motifs, framing the thematic events of the film, which include moonlit swimming.
As surf pounds the north coast of Ireland in the dar…
The Freedom Suite, Novoa / Carter / Mela Trio, Vol. 2
Brooklyn pianist Eva Novoa joins saxophonist Daniel Carter and drummer Francisco Mela for the second volume of The Freedom Suite, a set of twelve pieces blending piano, Rhodes, harpsichord, gongs, and vocals with Carter's multi-reed brilliance and Mela's Cuban-inflected drumming, creating an urgent, intimate, and fluidly improvised dialogue of words, sound, and fearless imagination.
Four Fold
Four Fold unites four singular musicians—Iva Bittová, Marilyn Crispell, Benedicte Maurseth, and David Rothenberg—in a chamber where jazz, improvisation, and modern composition intertwine. Voices and instruments curve and spar, yielding an album of subtle poetics and palpable communion whose articulated silences are as charged as its most explosive moments.
FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field
FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field witnesses Horse Lords and Arnold Dreyblatt in deep collaboration, melting minimal composition and polyrhythmic invention into a sprawling sound experiment. The album pulses and stretches, dissolving genre boundaries and conjuring a space where tradition is not static, but ever-evolving.
La Traversée (LP)
Matthias Puech’s La Traversée ventures through atmospheric electronic landscapes, offering an evocative journey with immersive soundscapes. Released on Hallow Ground as an LP, this album invites listeners to experience a visionary fusion of music and art from a renowned artist-led label, dedicated to inspiring sonic exploration.
Brindisi Paradiso mixtape
Brindisi Paradiso is a cassette mixtape reuniting Marco Foresta and Enrico Ascoli, two artists who previously collaborated on the 2018 track "Alma" from the Fabio Fabio release Amore Cannibale. Marco Foresta (aka Fabio Fabio) is co-founder of the Ivreatronic collective alongside Cosmo, Enea Pascal, and Splendore. A former percussionist who began working with turntables in the 1990s, Foresta has developed a distinctive sound that combines exotica, tribal psychedelia, and downtempo techno. His mus…
Way Their Crept
Liz Harris's debut as Grouper returns—the album that established her approach to ambient music as something other than comfort. Songs that refuse to be remembered, fog that won't lift, secrets kept just on the other side of the speakers. Kranky reissues the 2005 original.
Tacones Lejanos (Original Soundtrack)
Framed by Almodóvar’s saturated, performative world, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s score for Tacones Lejanos (High Heels), newly reissued by Quartet Records, layers melancholy minimalism and luminous melodrama, offering ornament rather than excess, with bolero and chanson threading through Sakamoto’s reflective atmospheres. The soundtrack’s architecture is subtle, emotionally surgical, quietly powerful in its dialogue with Luz Casal’s iconic voice.
Música Urbana
Música Urbana was a short-lived Spanish jazz‑rock band formed in Barcelona in the mid-70s by composer and multi-instrumentalist Joan Albert Amargós. Their aim was to forge a distinctly Catalan progressive-rock identity—rooted in Mediterranean and Andalusian traditions rather than Anglophone influences. The band assembled top-tier musicians (Lucky Guri, Carles Benavent, Salvador Font, Luigi Cabanach…) piece by piece, ultimately becoming a sort of local supergroup. Their sound blended jazz‑rock, t…
And Then Perhaps
Charming atmosphere & dreamy twin female vocals, mixing traditional tunes with interesting covers and superb original songs featuring a slight psych/folk edge. Named after the fabled ghost ship, Wolverhampton folk group Marie Celeste left behind just one rare recording: the 1971 private-press album And Then Perhaps. Pressed in only 200 copies without a proper picture sleeve and recorded live in a single session, it has since become a collector’s treasure – a haunting message in a bottle from the…
Wide Open
The landmark album "Wide Open" by Kahvas Jute, originally released in 1971, is once again available for devoted fans and new listeners. Widely recognized as a progressive rock milestone and a consummate example of underground psychedelic hard rock, "Wide Open" showcases the trailblazing artistry of the band’s original lineup: Dennis Wilson (guitar, vocals), Tim Gaze (guitar, vocals), Bob Daisley (bass), and Dannie Davidson (drums).
Blending expansive sounds of rock, blues, and jazz, "Wide Open" …
Ladja
Louis Xavier’s "Ladja" is a landmark album that elegantly fuses jazz with the vibrant soul of the West Indies, blending Afro-Caribbean traditions with bold, progressive jazz-fusion arrangements. Originally released in Paris in 1981, "Ladja" showcases Xavier’s profound influence and creativity as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and a pillar of the Parisian music scene since the 1970s. This album features an ensemble of celebrated musicians, including Alain Jean-Marie and Jean-Louis Bucchi on p…