New Arrivals
25 Pièces Sans Vide
Across 25 pièces sans vide, Le UN turn a 25‑strong improvising society into a living ecosystem: three discs of large‑ensemble swarms, smaller constellations and street‑level interventions where sound, space and social experiment are impossible to separate.
Canopies + Cathedrals
Canopies : A roof-like covering of trees enclosing a large or wide natural space. Cathedral : ;Large edifice usually of stone, enclosing space reserved for spiritual contemplation. Vertical structures that strive for light and open spaces, defying gravity, and reason.
A Tarkosvsky-esque transcendence of spirit and nature, time imprinted on an intertwining of sap and stone, branch and pillar, column, and trunk.
This third MPM release is co-written by Phil and Jackson Mouldycliff, with studio trea…
Widdershins
A new CD of a live performance by these two talented improvisers. The interplay between them is, to use a cliche, telepathic. Whilst it's often difficult to figure out who is doing what, the gelling of the sounds is perfect, going from meditative to intense, smooth to harsh (but not abrasive). Improvisation at it's best - highly recommended! REVIEW by Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly : The biggest surprise here is not the music but the label. I would expect such fine talents in improvised music to f…
Behind Eleven Deserts
In Behind Eleven Deserts, Stephan Micus braids suling, sarangi, sitar and bodhrán into a quietly radiant ritual, a 1978 desert mirage where distant traditions dissolve into one slow, breathing, unmistakably Micusian song.
Soft Rains Will Come
"Soft Rains Will Come" is the second collaboration between G.W. Sok and Ignacio Córdoba, following their 2024 experimental collage album "Is This A House". This time, the pair rebuild their fragmented sound within a band - This House - alongside drummer Søren Høi and synthesist Kristian Tangvik, turning abstraction into something loud, rhythmic, and alive. At its core, the record treats rhythm as architecture. Every instrument acts as percussion, each with its own colour and instability, orbitin…
Alla Sorrentina
Snake De, a potential reference to Snake II, the snake game preinstalled on our mobile phones in the late 1990s, seals the musical meeting of Maxime Canelli and Aymeric Chaslerie. The former made his mark with Carton, an unstable, occasionally sung synth-pop project, while the latter—whose background leans more toward electricity, notably as guitarist for Room 204 and Papaye—is endowed with an insatiable musical curiosity, which he has been satisfying since 2002 by co- running the Kythibong labe…
Divided By One
*50 copies limited edition* David Erdos's work has been published and performed around the world and he has collaborated with Harold Pinter, Heathcote Williams, Alan Moore, Malcolm Ritchie, Jan Herman and Iain Sinclair among others. Also active in music Erdos worked with Pete Brown, David Tibet, Joy Payne, Steve Hackett etc. He is also a contributing editor for The International Times. As Heathcote Williams writes 'David Erdos assiduously pulls together each thread in the Great Chain of Being. H…
Two Moons for Eyes
*70 copies limited edition* The sweet night thickens like boiling jam. Two muted moons transmute into silent eyes, its rays glowing through different stages of reality. A path through haze unfolds as Niko Karlsson's gentle guitar unfolds like a twisted flower and recedes back into invisibility under a shower of fern's seeds.
After The Promise
*50 copies limited edition* According to family legend Mia Kirsi Stageberg's name in Norway’s Trøndelag dialect means “stepmountain,” for steps cut into rocks at their home Stågeberget, since even goats found it hard to climb. Stageberg has lived in Israel, Canada and several US cities, from New Mexico to San Francisco. She was a regular contributor to periodicals artscanada, New Directions and Caracol in the 1960s and 1970s, published poetry and novels Candles and Landlords, and edited Book of …
Tertous
*100 copies limited release* Tertous is the first album by the duo formed by Mélanie Loisel and Rachel Langlais. It consists of seven acoustic instrumental pieces recorded at GMEA in Albi (France). A double bassist with a classical background, now engaged in free improvisation and experimental forms, Mélanie Loisel also develops the solo project Borguefül, in which she explores a ritual, transfigured double bass at the crossroads of imaginary languages and reimagined traditions. Rachel Langlais,…
Totem flotté
*100 copies limited release* With Totem Flotté, Brice Kartmann delivers a first solo album of instrumental electronic music, in which the modular synthesizer becomes a true field of exploration and immersion. Sound engineer, musician, sound designer, and composer—particularly for documentary cinema—Brice Kartmann shifts his experience of image and narrative into a purely sonic realm. The album’s nine pieces function like autonomous organisms, each endowed with its own breath, internal tensions, …
Silmät sulaa
On Silmät sulaa, Pietu Arvola sets out to make a “summer album” and instead lands on a heat‑sick mirage: strings, tape‑scarred electronics and unstable textures steeped in memories of sunburn, burning houses and hospital fevers, where warmth tips constantly toward delirium.
To The Cloud-Cuckoo Land Of Color Wheels!
Dark Companion Records is truly thrilled to add this extraordinary band to our family of artists. This album marks their debut for our Unifaun Productions. To The Cloud-Cuckoo Land of Color Wheels is the third album by Malesh, a Wyrd Folk project hailing from the hidden caves of Tuscia. The album was written and recorded by the duo Pablo Monterisi and Martino Petrella at Domitia Jovian’s Viburnum Studio in Monterano, while the visuals and costumes are the result of a collaboration with Roman art…
Underground Vein
'Underground Vein' is a mystifying and curious recording for two electric basses. Focusing on prepared techniques, modulation effects and the odd sighting of looped phrases, Masatake Abe and Ken Ikeda create an undulating sea of texture and atmosphere across the albums 12 pieces. A strange, alien landscape of sounds and moods, Masatake had the following to say about the albums creation and inspiration: "Ken Ikeda is active as an electronics player, but it may not be well known that he was origin…
Orbital
The Outskirts came together as a working band during bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten’s three-year stint as a Chicagoan from 2005-2008. They played regularly at all of the working venues for improvised music in Chicago at that time, including The Hungry Brain, The Velvet Lounge, The Hideout, and Elastic. They even made a live recording in April 2009 that they were eager to release. But unfortunately, the multi-track audio files were lost in a hard drive mishap, leaving only a barely usable rough m…
Thi Nam
Originally released in 1981, Mr. Circle’s Thi Nam should really have been recognised decades ago as a jazz dance classic. A beautiful example of European jazz fusion at its most sophisticated and optimistic, the album is immersed in the sonics and rhythms of pan-Latin fusion and Brazilian samba, but with one foot in the upful jazz fusion exemplified by Roy Ayers or the Mighty Ryeders. Remastered from the original tapes at Abbey Road, Outernational Sounds is proud to present a true lost gem of Eu…
Poulaine
When you’re creating something loosely referred to as “art” with another person, you’re mining the depths of minds and experience, searching connections with pasts, each of us producing from a different place. Communication exists as unspoken and simultaneous, more carnal than collaborative, and dwelling rather than saying. We all miss that, wrapped up fantasies of perfectness and lovesick doves. Youth, how fleeting and naive. "Created by commission for the University of California at Irvine as …
TripleAkuma
TripleAkuma is the third in a series of essential live documents from Merzbow. The stage and the studio are not the same place, and Merzbow has an acute understanding of this juxtaposition. Whilst the sheer density of the music might be maintained across both spheres, the live experience of Merzbow is truly something that exists as profoundly physical and moreover, overtly performative.
Merzbow’s live methodologies draw not just from a saturation of frequency at all levels, but a recognition of …
Parasymbiosis
I have long pondered the concept of connectedness in relation to life’s existence. The Dalai Lama teaches that destruction of one’s neighbour equates to destruction of oneself. In contrast, modern Western culture has placed the individual at the epicentre of existence – to the detriment of non-humans and humans alike. Ecological Memory influences present or future responses of a community; it is this shared memory that enables organisms, objects and the environment to connect to each other, and …
Reference: Albert Ayler Spirits & Spirits Rejoice
The album "Spirits," released by a debut label based in Copenhagen, marked the first opportunity for Ayler to record his "free music" in February 1964 in New York. The musicians selected by him included notable figures such as Cecil Taylor (with drummer Sunny Murray), members from Sonny Rollins' band (bassist Henry Grimes), and musicians from his Cleveland period (trumpeter Norman Howard, bassist Earl Henderson). This work also represents his first focus on his own compositions, which includes H…