New Arrivals
Hyperboréen
With Hyperboréen, we set sail for a dreamy, fantastical North, where the cold and the distant call for contemplation. Six other musicians accompany us on this journey. This strong atmosphere of mental and literary images resonated with the recording - isolated in the heart of the Puisaye countryside - of the six tracks on the album. The sounds of the instruments are deconstructed and reassembled in a process akin to electroacoustic editing, while they are joined by sounds from elsewhere, produce…
You're Beautiful
*100 copies limited edition* 'You're Beautiful' is the fantastical album of Berlin-based artist Laurén Maria. Part singer-songwriter ballads, part experimental collages, part poignant distortion-laden anthems, the album is like a journey of strange encounters in a mysterious woodland. Maria's mystical voice is our companion on this adventure, sometimes vulnerable, front and centre, at other times heavily processed and part of the fabric of the forest. On songs like "Zephyr" featuring Ludwig Wand…
Tools
Pierre Bastien’s "Tools" pays tribute to the Meccano screwdriver, the origin of his mechanical instruments. Using self-made devices, Bastien explores sound’s raw materiality, embracing chance and discovery, and inviting listeners to experience new musical worlds.
Selected Remixes
"Selected Remixes" by zakè is a limited edition collection showcasing his transformative approach to analog drone. Reworking tracks from glitch-pop to post-rock, zakè infuses deep bass, analog textures, and emotional resonance, reflecting his collaborative spirit and sonic artistry.
Cut Up, Locked In
A cardboard box, some famed-not-so-famed faces, cut out of old glam magazines, ready-made for your very own career as a collagist. A tape, for an ancient tape player. A Late 7inch vinyl specially cut for intimate listening pleasure as a loop creator. The new Franz Aembient on Kashual Plastik brings all that distinctiveness an inimitable artwork should carry. Ahead, there is music. Harsh catchy stuff, for wake them up, all those who are asleep. Looking for ears that stand fear. Tripping through l…
Divine Visions
Edition of 100, hand-numbered edition. CCC announces the release of Divine Visions, a carefully curated collection of material by and about Ira Cohen (1935-2011), the elusive Beat poet, photographer, and underground cultural figure. Following successful presentations at New York's Bowery Poetry Club, The Bunker, and Amsterdam's Ruigoord during the Fiery Tongues Festival, this intimate publication brings together rare texts and images in a modest but essential format.
This photocopied chapbook, a…
Oasy
Circuits reveal a curious syntax on “OASY”, where Stefan Schneider unravels the irregular regularities of machines. Under his intuition, diverging rhythms coalesce under a cohesive cadence. Synthesized thought-loops emerge from a random access memory, appearing in various forms from jittery blips and rumbling haptics to whirring drones. His approach draws from cities such as Lisbon, Accra, and Osaka, where sonic streams come all at once from unpredictable directions. The polyrhythms coursing thr…
Lullaby’s From An Unlanguaged Underneath
The break is over, it’s getting kashual again, while all that plastik enters the brains of migrant birds. Yet, the music will continue. At the edges. There, where innovative societies form. Anti-profit units, uniting to get back open fire energy for crisp seminal poetry. Wormhook from Glasgow can foster such. With unpolished arrangements, where keyboard sounds create keyboard sounds, whilst organ magic witches, contra punctuated by beauty noises from several voices. They sing like Anohni, after …
Benelux
Recorded during the legendary 'benelux minus lux' tour, first side material by Dolphin Hospital performed in Amsterdam as a soundtrack to first ever screening of motion picture 'why i am afaid' by Wassily Bosch, thanks to Kryptogen, Jaco, Green tribe and everyone else involved.Second side material by Mårble & dolphin hospital recorded live at Camping 58 in Bruxelles thanks to shorlax and everyone else involvedcover pictures taken in de Bereklaw during the same tour thanks to Oransky and everyone…
Split
The Medicinal / Glowing Holes Split cassette, released by Nazlo Recordings on April 20, 2025, is an experimental/noise music collaboration between the artists Medicinal and Glowing Holes. This release is a limited edition, with tapes crafted from recycled 'marbled' plastic, reflecting the label's commitment to unique physical formats and sustainability.
Limited edition tapes made of recycled 'marbled' plastic. 2-sided j-card printed in georgia. Limited to 30 only!
Primordial Fear
Primordial Fear is a limited edition cassette release by Barkal, issued by Nazlo Recordings. This tape stands out for its raw, experimental approach, typical of the label’s commitment to unconventional sound and media formats.
Edition of 30 recycled tapes made in France with rephlective stickers and 2-sided j-card with artwork by Barkal and design by Nene and also with smell of underground
Meidän täytyy valvoa jottemme nukkuisi, sillä maailma on liukas
Tip! Meidän täytyy valvoa jottemme nukkuisi, sillä maailma on liukas is Pietu Arvola’s first album under his own name. The album was created during a year of loss and a remarkably grey time when most of the formerly distinctive seasons coalesced into a seemingly endless rainy period.
Field recordings captured in the last natural forests of southern Finland are interwoven with the swirls of microtonal bells and disorienting clatters. Acoustic and synthetic sounds are detached from their sources, …
S/T
2025 stock We're not exactly fans of the super group concept, but we sometimes enjoy providing soups like this. Angélica Salvi, Ece Canli, João Pais Filipe and Pedro Augusto are four musicians and composers who have followed, in parallel, an important national and international path in the fields of experimental music, electronics and sound research. All with recently released albums, the connections they have established multiply between collaborations and co-editions but never in this close wa…
Dragonflies With Birds And Snake
2025 stock This Lovers & Lollypops’ brand new release was born out of an invitation from Curtas of Vila do Conde to Black Bombaim and João Pais Filipe to provide the soundtrack of “Dragonflies with Birds and Snake“, a film by Wolfgang Lehmann.
Via Brasil
One of the most outstanding Bossa Jazz productions from West Germany at the beginning of the 80s! These masterpieces captivate with their stylistic perfection and journey from Bossa Nova to Jazz to slight Disco´n Boogie influence. Its still on of the most DJ spinned Bossa tunes from W.-Germany in the last 30 years!
The two highly talented, creative and sensitive artists Judy (Jude Enxuto) and Ximo (Ximo Gregorio) had lived in Germany since 1980 and performing in several clubs, small art stages a…
Dedos
Here comes a true South American Latin JazzFunk treasure from Argentina!!! Sound Essence is more than proud to present these lost recordings from 1974 to music lovers again in all their glory. Carlos Franzetti, who has once again been in the spotlight in recent years thanks to the re-release of his strong late 70s JazzFusion record "Graffiti", was also in charge of this record called Dedos. The story behind: In 1974, after Carlos Franzetti was living in Mexico and worked as the musical director…
On In Out
Advanced Public Listening Records is the new Japanese label established by Miho Mepo, a veteran of the Berlin music scene as a booking agent, label owner and manager of artists for the past 22 years. After recently coming back to Japan, she decided to start this new, highly conceptual label that symbolizes her unconventional musical vision, experience and network that she accrued while living in Europe. As she has stated, “This is my dedication to the musicians and music lovers everywhere. What …
Gruppo AdRa
This recording is an experiment in composing from percussion first. To feel movement in harmony and arrangement through the improvising senses of a percussionist. The melodic and harmonic elements appeared instantly after recording the percussion with Rama Parwata. The additional Tenor Saxophone of Cheryl Durongpisitkul (Sola) and Bass Clarinet of Flora Carbo (Sfondo and Mondo) were the final touches to bring life into the music. The result is a through-composed work, a narrative starting inside…
Zodyaco
Pellegrino presents his new project “Zodyaco”. Inspired by the ancient mythology of the stars and their deep influence on the sea life, the record is the result of nocturnal jams in the wake of the Italian jazz-funk tradition, exotic fusion and Mediterranean mysticism. A tribute to the stars and their reflections on the sea.
Southwind From Hachijo
FJLP-05 continues with Forest Jams recent trend of Japanese re-issues from the 90s. This one is E.S. Islands Southwind from Hachijo a deep ambient exploration that is more tribal and spiritual than prior E.S. Island releases. This was recorded on Hachijo Island featuring several traditional instruments with the bulk of the music being played by Eisuke Takahashi (R.I.P.) and Nene Sanae. Limited copies.