New Arrivals
辐射较弱 = Faintish Radiation
2025 stock After his self imposed exile from the global world music niche, Mamer found his stage at Shenzhen’s two annual music festivals – Tomorrow Festival and OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival – curated by his loyal friend and supporter Tu Fei, who would always reserve at least one set for Mamer’s newest sonic experimentations. Mamer’s most recent album Faintish Radiation documents his full performances of solo improvisation at the seventh (2017) and eighth (2018) OCT-LOFT Jazz Festivals, in which he pe…
旷野密码 = Wild Air Waves
2025 stock Deng Boyu is a drummer originally from Inner Mongolia whose work covers a wide range of different styles including rock, jazz, noise and free improvisation. Since the late-1990s, Deng Boyu has been active in the Chinese music underground, participating in numerous bands and projects, notably Dawanggang, Wu Tiao Ren, Yerboli, and Hai Qing. One of China’s most prominent improvisers on the drums, Deng Boyu has performed with musicians both in and out of China, including Xiao He, Wu Na, M…
Seleya
Originally published by Tomlab in 2001, “Seleya” is the second full- length issued by Kristian Peters’ Novisad project. Twenty-four years after its initial release, the album’s thirteen loop-based arrangements continue to resonate with striking clarity. Keplar presents Seleya with a previously unreleased bonus track from 2004 and a fresh vinyl cut by Lupo.
These evocative miniatures feel haunted with the passage of time, bearing traces of the exploratory studio workflows, tactile imperfections, …
Pictures
*350 copies limited release* Boris Gronemberger is everywhere, but nowhere as much as in V.O and River Into Lake. Insiders of the Belgian indie scene already took notice of his undeniable talent through his multiple musical adventures. With surprising ease, Boris manages to remind us of Brian Wilson, Gastr del Sol, Sonic Youth or Hood while injecting in his compositions enough personality to constantly surprise and even bedazzle the unexpecting listener. Folky moments are followed up by a noisie…
Even Toned
*30 copies limited edition* "The first time I heard about Takahiro Mukai was through the Err Rec label on which I had published 2 albums.I immediately liked his approach to sound, very pure and very close to the machine, to synthesizers. He seems to ignore the human by becoming one with the synthesis, his tracks do not have titles but numbers that are classified by their recording order. This may seem cold and soulless but it is in fact quite the opposite, because it is in symbiosis with his mac…
Two Butterflies Went Out At Noon
*50 copies limited edition* While taking a nap and it leads me into very, very deep paths of consciousness, transforming our paradoxical sleep into an accumulation of misty layers which sometimes offers clearings of pastoral dazzlement. We go back to the surface then we dive back. We cannot see at a meter like in a fog of physically palpable density which would have the power to transport us without moving.
Samuel says about his influences : I’m very influenced by film and visuals specifically. …
Rec.Collapse
*50 copies limited edition* Music & mastering by Konstantinos Giazlas.
Pro-dubbed cassette with simple J-card artwork printed on raw paper
Watson Is In Heaven Now
*50 copies limited edition* Watson was my Dog, we had him from a puppy, he chose us and can be heard through out these recordings. If you listen carefully you’ll hear him sniffing microphones, squeaking toys and barking in the garden. All caught whilst recording the different instruments that layers and weave themselves into the palettes that make the up the pieces. I even captured his breathing on my lap the last time he laid there. Some of the recordings started life over 30 years ago and with…
30 Years
*200 copies limited edition* Stahlwerk 9 is a German post-industrial project that has existed since the 1990s. Its sound ranges from heavily distorted noise soundscapes and epic dark ambient to, especially in recent releases, more experimental electronic music. In contrast to many others in the 1990s scene, Stahlwerk 9 did not attempt to provoke with fascist aesthetics, but instead focused primarily on other historical and political themes. For example, the Russian Revolution of 1905, the French…
The flow of the river is ceaseless, and yet its water is never the same, while along the still pools foam floats, never stay long.
*200 copies limited edition* Yoshiki Ichihara is a Tokyo-based synthesizer player who performs at concert venues in the Tokyo area, including the space at Ftarri. In 2022, he released the CD Live at Ftarri (Ftarri, ftarri-963), a recording of his duo concert there with Naoki Nomoto (computer, synthesizer).
This CD is a solo album made up of three pieces studio-recorded and produced by Ichihara. In addition to synthesizer, he plays guitar and six-string cello, as well as two tracks with ambient d…
Sine Wave Solo at Ftarri 2022
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Since the second half of the 1990s, Sachiko M has gained ardent fans while generating controversy with performances using test tone sine waves. In addition to her work as an improviser, she has been engaged in diverse activities including composing, publishing photo books, curating and directing festivals, and presenting sound installations inside and outside Japan.
Sachiko M performed at Ftarri on November 21, 2022, as part of the concert series celebrat…
We Are Now Approaching Mo I Rana
*2025 stock. 150 copies limited edition* Florence Cats is a musician and visual artist who lives in Brussels. Her debut solo album, "Ys," was released as a cassette tape and digital download on the Belgian label Edições CN in December 2022 and received high praise. "We are now approaching Mo i Rana" is the next physical solo album release after "Ys."
This 20-track album consists mainly of the series pas, made up of field recordings that capture the soundscape of a forest walk in spring. The othe…
Farri Gathering
*2025 stock. 250 copies limited edition* Tam Thi Pham (born in 1990) is a Vietnamese musician based in Hamburg, Germany. She plays the dan bau, a traditional Vietnamese one-string instrument, which she incorporates into improvisation and composing. On the occasion of a visit to Japan in December 2023, Pham performed at Ftarri, Tokyo, on December 11, together with Yukiko Shiina Sakurazawa (contrabass), Minami Takei (percussion) and Masahide Tokunaga (alto sax). This CD contains the two sets (of 3…
Yunagi
*250 copies limited edition* Composer Taizo Hida was born in 1972 and lives in Osaka. In 2022, the album of rain, in which pianist Satoko Inoue performs compositions by Hida, was released on Ftarri Classical and received high praise. Two new albums have been issued simultaneously on Ftarri Classical in order to showcase the richness of Taizo Hida’s creativity. One of these is the CD Yunagi.
The CD consists of five tracks, "Yunagi 1" to "Yunagi 5." Hida composed "Yunagi 1" in June of 2020. He lat…
Deux études
*250 copies limited edition* Marie Rose Sarri is an Italian musician and sound artist who makes skillful use of both analog and digital instruments, field recordings and all types of sounds in composing and creating works of music. She releases recordings on labels of various countries, and performs and exhibits her creations in many festivals, art museums, galleries, art spaces and more. French musician Bruno Duplant, who also uses both analog and digital instruments in his performances, has ma…
Have you read that manga? - Not yet.
250 copies limited edition Percussionist Ryotaro Miyasaka gave concerts in the performance space of Ftarri, Tokyo, on three consecutive days in June 2024. One of these was a duo concert with Takako Minekawa. Unlike in the usual concerts at Ftarri, this time the instruments were placed both in the stage area in front of the audience seats, and in a space arranged behind the seats. While Minekawa played mainly in front and Miyasaka mainly in back, they frequently moved back and forth between front…
Mind Shadows
*250 copies limited edition* Canadian artist/composer Lance Austin Olsen, born in 1943, is active as an experimental music creator. In recent years, he has released "Coïncidence" (ftarri-964, 2022), a duo CD with French musician Bruno Duplant, on the Ftarri label, and the solo CD "The Pit" (hitorri-965, 2023), on the Hitorri label. Belgian improvisational musician and composer Pierre Gerard, born in 1966, energetically carries out musical creation in both solo work and collaborations with other …
Plux Quba
One of the greatest sonic masterpieces of the '80s - long championed by Jim O'Rourke and foreshadowing the work of an entire generation of experimental electronic music that emerged during the 1990s - Christian Fennesz, Oval, Mouse on Mars, Microstoria, C-Schulz, Mountains, and Oren Ambarchi - we're thrilled to offer an essential repress of Nuno Canavarro's visionary LP, Plux Quba, via the venerable Drag City. Originally appearing from the shadows of the mysterious vanguard of Portuguese music i…
Ken Andi Habib
Wewantsounds is delighted to continue its Algerian music reissue program with the release of Freh Khodja's sought-after 1975 LP, Ken Andy Habib. Recorded in Paris with Les Flammes, a group of immigrant musicians, the album is now reissued for the first time. Selected by Paris-based DJ Cheb Gero, who recently compiled the Sweet Rebels Rai set and curated the Abranis LP release for Wewantsounds, Ken Andi Habib is a masterful blend of Arabic music, jazz, Carribean/Latin grooves and funk. Featuring …
Pivot
"The band showed up, four folks from three different spots on the globe -- Chicago (Vandermark, Reid); Nickelsdorf, Austria (Gustafsson); Philadelphia (Taylor). They assembled their gear and sound-checked at the studio. There was a four-way freedom at play, structures but liberties and no need for elaborate explanation. Everyone spoke the same shorthand. Cues were understood; timings were implicit and considered; space was made for chances to be taken. In creative music, you sometimes need to re…