New Arrivals
Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler (Book)
312 pages, paperback, with 8-page photo insert. 150 x 215mm. The first extended biography of Albert Ayler ever published in English, and it took twenty years to build. Part life story, part case file, and long overdue. Richard Koloda is a musicologist and a practising lawyer, and both trades show on every page. He was a long-time friend of Donald Ayler, Albert's trumpet-playing younger brother; a consultant on Revenant Records' ten-CD retrospective Holy Ghost: Rare And Unissued Recordings (1962…
For The Summer, Or Forever
*100 copies limited edition* Laconic haze, ethereal curiosities, nostalgic glimpses and fictional illusions. Northern Irish Halftribe’s (Ryan Bisset’s) third album arrives punctually to soundtrack the coming summer – or eternity, apparently, if you like. It is indeed suitably warm and familiar stuff, going straight for the bliss-out button with dreamy, droning pieces mixing airy synths and calm field recordings.
Behind The Pane
*35 copies limited edition* 'Behind the Pane' is an album built around an intimate feeling: the warmth and safety of being inside the house while the outside world turns into rain, snow, wind, or twilight beyond the glass. Across its 8 pieces, the album explores ethereal soundscapes, delicate textures, and small details and artifacts that appear and disappear like reflections in a window. Each track seeks to capture that contrast between shelter and exposure: the protected silence of the interio…
Soñador
*35 copies limited edition* 'Soñador' (Dreamer) is a deeply personal album reflecting Bålsam's decade-long journey in the jungles of Colombia. It explores healing through music, experiences with plant medicines, and the impact of childhood bullying. Key themes include a profound connection with someone during a time of loss and discovering new ways to express himself. The album features heartfelt contributions, including a voice message from his mother and a track with his 5-year-old daughter. S…
Stochastic Parrot
In the past some reviewers and critics of my series of Ambient / Electronic / Exotic releases mentioned Jon Hassell and even suggested that we should make an album together.
That never happened of course and probably never would have. An influence of his music on my exotica music is in some ways true but initially to be honest it was the cover art by Mati Klarwein for Aka/ Darbari/ Java and Dream Theory in Malaya that I would sometimes turn to look at for inspiration. They reminded me of places t…
Fray Field
For a long time, we had been working on a very different album, guided by a simple set of methods: feedback, the layering of short sound fragments, and a process of repeated listening through which memory and response gradually accumulated. At a certain point, we felt the need to step away from that framework, if only temporarily. We decided instead to engage in a free musical exchange and explore a conversation through improvisation. It's from that encounter this body of music emerged. When we …
Prime Frequencies
Within all things audible, sine waves are arguably the simplest, yet most fundamental elements. They are consists of a single frequency and cannot be stripped back any further. On the other hand, as stated in the Fourier theorem, virtually all complex sounds can be broken down into a series of simple sine waves. In 2020, I was invited by Nicolas Bernier to create a work centred on sine waves as part of his collaborative research-creation project at the University of Montreal. Thinking about such…
AT/DC
"I first knew of Darren through his earlier band Gerling, who were an inspiration to me at a time when I was absorbing new sounds, genre experimentation and discovering the broader world at large. In recent years we’ve come to know each other and become friends, as our musical paths have in many ways aligned. Darren’s D.C Cross solo/‘ecstatic' guitar project is responsible for some of the finest current wave of that form of music going around and it’s been a pleasure hearing the project develop …
Lost Meridians
"For those of us who inhabit worlds that sit in-between other worlds, this music making thing can be strange. The work of Matt Rosner sits in parallel to that of my own. We have a shared expression and a continued practice in listening and looking. Images, landscapes and our surroundings are translated into sounds, emotions and feelings. They are often built in solitude and created through lost moments, captured air or fragmented tonalities that have run adrift in our subconscious. To put it sim…
Poem 1
On Poem 1, Ana Roxanne strips away the ambient haze of her earlier work to place her voice, naked and close‑mic’d, at the center of a heartbreak record. Slow, piano‑led ballads, a Schumann lied recast in synth‑chamber light, and one Lynchian jazz centerpiece turn her quiet intensity into a lucid, emotionally exposed song cycle.
Sahkomies
On Sähkömies, Jimi Tenor fuses lo‑fi drum‑machine electronics with smoky, Sun Ra‑indebted jazz, announcing himself as techno’s first cabaret surrealist. Recorded alone in a New York apartment and released on Sähkö/Puu in 1994, the album’s eight roughcast tracks turn bedroom gear, cheap synths and tenor sax into a playful, futuristic minimal‑acid songbook.
Nordic Sound Art
Edition of 30 (!) Eight pieces by the graduating artists of the Nordic Sound Art programme, issued in 2015 by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in an edition of 300, compiled by Jonas Olesen, who coordinated the programme throughout its life, and supported by the KUNO Publication Fund.
Nordic Sound Art ran from 2007 to 2015 as a joint study programme within the KUNO network, shared between the art academies of Copenhagen, Helsinki, Bergen, Tromsø and Umeå. Students spent a year moving betwee…
Perfekt Termisk
Art Edition. Limited edition of 10 numbered copies, each with a unique illustration from a 1922 book, where the original artwork for the records was also taken from. The sound material on this record is made with recordings of internal sounds found in obsolete media, and sound generators. Sound sources: Revox reel to reel recorder, Beocord reel to reel recorder, oscillator, Leader LFG function generator, metronome, electromagnetic microphones.Perfekt Termisk by Sandra Boss is full of "carefully …
From the Ruins of the Literal: Critical Organology, Timbre, and the Poetics of Affect (Book)
Sarah Davachi's first book, From the Ruins of the Literal: Critical Organology, Timbre, and the Poetics of Affect, published by her own Late Music imprint. The title is borrowed from Paul Ricoeur, whose account of metaphor locates meaning at the point where literal sense gives way. Davachi turns that idea on the study of instruments and timbre, disciplines she sees as long governed by empirical, neuro-cognitive and modernist assumptions. Her objection is not that measurement is wrong but that it…
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
On Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, the pianist and his group turn bossa nova and Brazilian songcraft into sleek, cross‑border pop. Their version of Jorge Ben’s “Mais Que Nada” became the first Portuguese‑language hit in the US, opening doors for Brazilian music worldwide and helping earn the album a place in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
uKholo
Sisonke Xonti is a celebrated South African jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. Originally from Cape Town, he relocated to Johannesburg where he deeply immersed himself in the local jazz scene, collaborating with esteemed artists like Nduduzo Makhathini, Abdullah Ibrahim, Hugh Masekela, Herbie Tsoaeli, and Zim Ngqawana. 6 years later, Sisonke is back with a powerfull album ‘”uKholo” with Shane Cooper on double bass, Yonela Mnana on piano and vocals, Ayanda Sikade on drums, Keenan Ahrends…
Nigeria 80
Strut presents Nigeria 80, the next essential chapter in the legendary Nigeria 70 series, diving deep into the explosive sound world of 1980s Nigeria.
Butterfly
*2026 repress!!!* Oh yes! First ever official reissue of the positively sublime and very rare Butterfly LP, recorded in Tokyo in 1979 by Japanese songstress Kimiko Kasai and jazz legend Herbie Hancock. Due to its super-rare status as a Japan-only release, this exquisite collection of covers never got the recognition it deserved at the time, despite incredibly inspired performances from Kimiko, Herbie and the supremely talented musicians assembled for the project. From heavenly drummer Alphonse M…
Club Imperiale
Named after a now-shuttered nightspot that overlooked the beach on Italy's picturesque Tuscan coast, Maxime Denuc's 'Club Imperiale' is a work of speculative historical fiction, a record that imagines a point of creative symbiosis between the Catholic church and the ecstatic dancefloors of the early '90s.
Nature's Dream-Harp
Huge Tip! “Sacred Aeolian music capturing and harnessing the divine power of the wind”. Aeolian Harp is somewhere between a string instrument and a receiver. Its strings are agitated by the wind without any human interference, producing tones entirely of its own volition. Archer toured the British Isles setting up his harp in various sacred and loosely mystical locations. Where he let the Devaharp transmit an otherwise unknown sacred music that has always existed around us.
Listening to the natu…