New Arrivals
Muluken Mellesse with the Dahlak Band (Ethiopiques)
Muluken Mellesse with the Dahlak Band is a classic Ethiopian album, originally released in 1976 and now reissued as part of the prestigious Ethiopiques series. The recording captures Muluken at the height of his powers, delivering emotionally charged vocals over the Dahlak Band’s vibrant blend of afrobeat, funk, and Ethio-jazz. This set embodies the golden era of Ethiopian popular music, marked by complex horn arrangements, subtle groove, and enduring melodies.
Became These
Became These, the newest double LP by Lou Mallozzi, collects previously unreleased sound works spanning 1996–2020. Released by Pentiments in October 2025, it showcases Mallozzi’s enduring practice of dismantling and reconstituting gesture, sound, and language, enveloping the listener in a poetic destabilization of the familiar through experimental audio collage and improvisation.
Ex Stasis 69
Ex Stasis 69, the new audio work by Joseph Nechvatal. Fuses erotic tension, cybernetic poetics, and immersive noise aesthetics into a hypnotic sound experience. Drawing from his decades-long inquiry into “viral” media and the sensual limits of perception, Nechvatal explores the ecstatic collapse between machine, body, and dream.
Breakthrough
On Breakthrough, Muriel Grossmann envelops her quartet in a vibrant exploration of spiritual jazz, interlacing tradition with fresh, forward momentum. The record distills Grossmann’s lyrical saxophone voice and trademark rhythmic interplay into a rich, organic sound, balancing meditative introspection and eruptive, soulful drive. Each composition furthers her pursuit of transcendence, unfolding as both a deeply personal statement and a communal celebration.
Pancake Moon
On her sophomore album Pancake Moon, Michiko Ogawa crafts a liminal soundworld suspended between darkness and light, fusing sho, piano, and synthesizers into reflections on memory, loss, and renewal. Released in late 2025 by Futura Resistenza, the record drifts through introspective layers and subtle textures, inviting listeners into an immersive experience that is at once deeply personal and quietly radiant.
Opera
The experimental landmark Opera by FNTC returns in a remastered CD edition, nearly forty years after its original cassette release on Staalplaat in 1987. A striking document of Europe's late 80s cassette underground, Opera captures the collective at their most adventurous - merging spontaneous composition, sound collage and performance art into a single immersive experience. As a member of the Fluxus movement, Willem de Ridder brought his conceptual sensibility to the project, pushing the bounda…
Rinse Cycle
150 copies only. French saxophonist Sakina Abdou and Philadelphia guitarist Bill Nace present Rinse Cycle, a striking first encounter between two of improvised music's most uncompromising voices. Released October 15, 2025 on Open Mouth Records, this LP captures the duo's incendiary exchange recorded during a U.S. tour that included performances at Philadelphia's legendary Solar Myth. Abdou, whose searing solo work Goodbye Ground (Relative Pitch, 2022) established her as a formidable presence in …
King Of The Tenors
King Of The Tenors is a landmark album by Ben Webster, recorded in 1953 and initially released as The Consummate Artistry of Ben Webster, then retitled for its classic 1957 Verve Records reissue. Webster is joined by jazz icons including the Oscar Peterson Trio throughout, as well as Benny Carter (alto saxophone) and Harry “Sweets” Edison (trumpet) on select tracks, resulting in ensemble interplay that balances lush ballads and blues with joyous swing. The program includes Webster originals like…
Flight to Jordan
Flight To Jordan is a celebrated hard bop album by Duke Jordan, recorded at Van Gelder Studio in 1960 and released on Blue Note in 1961. Featuring a quintet of Duke Jordan (piano), Dizzy Reece (trumpet), Stanley Turrentine (tenor saxophone), Reggie Workman (bass), and Art Taylor (drums), the album stands out for its memorable melodies and dynamic interplay. With compositions reflecting Jordan’s lyricism and Bud Powell-influenced rhythmic sense, tracks like “Flight to Jordan,” “Star Brite,” and “…
Portrait of Sheila
Portrait Of Sheila is the legendary 1962 debut album by Sheila Jordan, recognized as one of the only vocal jazz albums released by Blue Note in the 1960s. Backed by Barry Galbraith (guitar), Steve Swallow (bass), and Denzil Best (drums), Jordan’s inimitable approach includes stark, intimate renditions of standards, including a celebrated voice-bass duet on Bobby Timmons’ “Dat Dere.” The album’s new Tone Poet Series reissue, shipping in late 2025, brings her singular artistry to new audiences wit…
By All Means
By All Means is the new album from Aaron Parks due for release on November 7, 2025 via Blue Note Records, expanding the acclaimed Parks-Street-Hart jazz trio into a luminous acoustic quartet with the addition of tenor saxophonist Ben Solomon. This set of seven original compositions explores Parks’ signature mix of modern jazz innovation and tradition, highlighted by tender dedications to his wife and son and the sly, swinging lead track “Parks Lope”.
Love's Secret Domain
* Deluxe Hardcover Triple-Gatefold 3xLP.* In 1991 Coil released the third of their early classic full-length albums "Love's Secret Domain", seemingly casting aside the gloom and funereal beauty of its predecessors in favour of a painstakingly multi-layered hallucinogenic electronic beast, which unlike some of their fellow ex-industrial contemporaries' releases of the time wasn't an attempt at easy accessibility or (the-gods-forbid) danceability, but a vibrating psychedelic masterpiece unrivalled…
For a Moment the Sky Knew My Name
With For a Moment the Sky Knew My Name, Peter Knight extends his fascination with the porous relationship between body, instrument, and environment into one of his most personal and immersive solo works. Due for release in November 2025 on Room40, the album takes its cue from extended fieldwork and improvisations undertaken near Yeerung River on Krowathunkooloong land, where Knight spent much of his early life. Each of the album’s pieces grew organically from direct encounters with that setting—…
Protomurk Book One
Protomurk Book One, the latest project by Zeke Clough in collaboration with Twilight Sequence, is a multimedia release fusing a vividly psychedelic graphic novel with a specially composed soundtrack CD. The first installment in Clough’s Proto Murk series, it traverses inter-dimensional landscapes—populated by mutated mole rats and spectral environments—via Clough’s intricate illustrations complemented by Twilight Sequence’s immersive, atmospheric sound design. Together, they conjure a world that…
Generator
Generator is the lead single and CD EP from James Adrian Brown, marking his transition from guitar-driven rock into the realm of thoughtful electronic music. The track—surging, resilient, marked by Brown’s layered production—introduces the conceptual arc of his debut album with pulsing synths and a sense of propulsive energy.
Appendix I
Appendix I brings together three Warrington-Runcorn EPs onto CD for the first time. Comprising Building A New Town, A Shared Sense Of Purpose and Overspill Estates, this CD brings together some of the more esoteric elements of the world of Musical New Town Planning.
Public Works and Utilities
Public Works and Utilities by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan is the sixth full-length album from the British electronic project helmed by Gordon Chapman-Fox. Returning to the conceptual world of post-war British urban planning, this record shifts focus from spectral nostalgia to the stark realities of public infrastructure’s managed decline, channeling the anxieties and bleak optimism of contemporary Britain through atmospheric electronica and abstract, danceable beats.
Composer, alone
Composer, alone by Jürg Frey (performed by Reinier van Houdt) is a luminous retrospective stretching across three discs and 35 years. Twelve solo piano pieces—fragile yet substantial—trace Frey's evolution, distilling time and silence into crystalline musical objects. Van Houdt’s touch brings warmth and clarity, illuminating the invisible architecture within Frey’s sensitive landscapes.
Désinances
Désinances is a collection of pieces taken from two contrasting recording sessions. The first was intended as a set of raw materials made specifically for a collaborative project with Franck Vigroux, and provided the impetus for the making of this album, with the second following on shortly afterwards. Both occasions yielded different musical results, yet possess a similar intention - owing something to the liminality of crepuscular daylight and the nighttime darkness during which they were both…
Standing / Engraving
Standing / Engraving by Jean D.L. is a meditative suite where solo guitar sketches and field recordings fold into a chiaroscuro of memory and texture. Drawing from experimental folk and nocturnal ambient, the album patiently sculpts sound and silence into subtle vignettes, inviting the listener into an immersive domain of reflection and suspended time.