New Arrivals
Béke
**3rd pressing with letterpressed insert** “Peace is not the word to play” rapped Large Professor on Main Source’s 1991 debut album. His plea to stop abusing the word “peace” simply for rhetoric flair sounds just as valid in today’s genocidal world as it did in the streets of New York over 30 years ago. For Oiro Pena to name this album Béke, meaning peace in Hungarian – or white people in French Caribbean creole – it seems like they finally have something to say. With this group/concept/project …
Tetragon
On Tetragon, Joe Henderson sharpens his post‑bop language to a diamond point, driving a powerhouse band through knotty tunes and reworked standards that already hint at the spiritual depths he’d soon explore more fully.
The Valley Of The Forgotten Secrets
LP. Limited edition. Black vinyl. RPG module booklet with map. The first HDK cassette sold two copies. Possibly three. Then, in the summer of 2017, something called Kobold knocked on the door of this Milanese DIY collective with The Cave of the Lost Talisman, and the whole thing changed. The tape had a concept: every track corresponded to a location on an actual dungeon map, the music scored a playable D&D adventure module, and the listener could follow plot and music simultaneously through the …
Quando crolla
*70 copies limited edition* I was invited to a Drove session in October 2023. It was my first time engaging with a sound environment centered on prolonged, mellow listening outside of club chillouts. I set out to rework the live recordings and distill something distant and quiet that I felt was unfolding beneath the surface — a simpler texture, a droning blanket for the ears, a couple of mind pillows.
Alyssa
*300 copies limited edition. Black sleeves with paste-on artwork and a postcard* Debut LP from a new Gothenburg duo consisting of Irma Krook (Makthaverskan) and Dan Johansson (Sewer Election). Alyssa takes elements from Irmas Military Arms 12" released a few years ago and combines it with the mind expanding synth stuff Dan has explored with the Psychic Panorama recordings recently. Adding a few larger-than-life piano bangers and whatnot, the result is a dreamy and mesmerizing night time album …
Ceremonial County Tapes Vol.XXII: Tyne and Wear | Somerset
100 copies limited edition Surrey:
- C-30 printed cassette housed in library case- 6x panel reseach note sleeve- Unique OS map cut-out piece- D/L code
Volume 22 in the eventual 24x volume set of ceremonial county cassettes.
Ceremonial County Tape Series Vol.XXI - Isle of Wight | Worcestershire
100 copies limited edition Isle of Wight: The Long Stone of Mottisone by AHRKHWorcestershire: The Legend of Raggedstone Hill by Bell Lungs
- C-30 printed cassette housed in library case- 6x panel reseach note sleeve- Unique OS map cut-out piece- D/L code
Volume 21 in the eventual 24x volume set of ceremonial county cassettes.
Ceremonial County Series Vol.XX - Buckinghamshire | Northamptonshire
100 copies limited edition Northamptonshire: The Flitting by The Clare VoyantsBuckinghamshire: Eythrope Farm by The Universal Veil
- C-30 printed cassette housed in library case- 6x panel reseach note sleeve- Unique OS map cut-out piece- D/L code
Volume 20 in the eventual 24x volume set of ceremonial county cassettes.
First Recordings 1978-85 V1.2
John Duncan was born in Wichita, Kansas and arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, where he became closely associated with the Los Angeles Free Music Society, working with Tom Recchion, Fredrik Nilsen, and Joe Potts. His early practice combined radical performance work, live radio experimentation over KPFK's Close Radio with Paul McCarthy, and an obsessive engagement with shortwave radio that would define his sound for decades. He left the United States for Tokyo in 1982, continued work with p…
It's All History Now - Tape Works 1979-85
*2026 stock* Alien Brains was an abstract non-collective initiated in 1979 by Nigel Jacklin. Over the years Nigel co-operated with the likes of Mark Lancaster (Instant Automatons, 391), Allen Adams (Methods Of Execution, The Blanks, The Destructors), Philip and Richard Rupenus (Funeral Danceparty / The New Blockaders), Philip Sanderson (Storm Bugs / Snatch Tapes), Metgumbnerbone, Harold Schellinx (The Young Lions), David Jackman (Organum) and various random acquaintances (with limited musical s…
Recordings 83 - 88
Huge tip! It was a cold winter's night in late 1978 when Chris Connelly, fourteen years old, lay in bed with his radio and heard Throbbing Gristle's Hamburger Lady for the first time. It changed his life permanently. He had already been making sounds at home on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, building loops and feedback, using shortwave radio in the middle of the night, with no instruments and no desire for any. He had also been obsessively scouring record shops guided by a copy of Zig Zag magazin…
Waterforest
On Waterforest, Yoichi Kamimura turns a multichannel installation into an intimate atlas of water and ice, braiding global field recordings into a quietly immersive study of climate, memory and the act of listening to landscapes.
Tähtisilmä
Hot Heros once again bring a raw jazz grit to the heart of Finnish folk. Their latest LP, Tähtisilmä, explores the compositions of the master fiddler Konsta Jylhä through a modern, improvisational lens. Deepened by the rich, mournful tones of cellist Juho Kanervo, the group reimagines these beloved songs alongside a new original composition by bassist Ville Rauhala. Tähtisilmä is a visceral blend of jazz improvisation and the timeless "pelimanni" spirit, capturing the melancholy beauty of Finnis…
Gryning Kommer Röd
On Gryning Kommer Röd, Stenhjärta - the duo of Gustaf Dicksson and Magnus Jäverling - fold Swedish prog‑folk, occult pastoralism and underground tape‑hiss intimacy into a set of songs that feel both timeless and faintly troubled at the edges.
Iterae
Iterae is issued as a multi-disc edition designed for both shelf and wall—referencing the scale of the vinyl LP while quietly subverting its familiar expectations. The format distributes the album's material across four 80mm compact discs. Each disc can be played independently or sequenced freely, extending the music's own recursive methodology into its physical presentation. A full-sized compact disc is included on the rear for continuous playback. The design incorporates an integrated rear wal…
Intégrale Acousmatique
50 copies. Comes with a A5 photo SIGNED by Liliane Donskoy. 3LP special edition in screen printed linen box + 8 page booklet + download code. Metaphon is pleased to present this première edition, which brings together a near-complete collection of the acousmatic works of Liliane Donskoy, recorded in the 1970s and 1980s. Liliane Donskoy (*1933) is a French, classically trained pianist, music teacher, and composer of both instrumental and acousmatic music. She began her musical training at an earl…
Tauhid
Recorded November 15, 1966 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs - New Jersey, Tauhid is one of the most iconic album recorded by the tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. On his debut for Impulse ! the leader assembled an extraordinary line-up, defining the boundaries of the so-called spiritual jazz movement. Henry Grimes (bass) Roger Blank (drums), Sonny Sharrock (guitar), Nat Bettis (percussion) and Dave Burrell (piano)Pharoah, (born Farrell Sanders of Little Rock, Arkansas on October 13, 1940…
Karma
Karma is Pharoah Sanders' third recording as a leader, and is among a number of spiritually themed albums the Impulse! Record label released in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Although it is followed by the brief "Colors", the album's main piece is the 32-minute-long "The Creator Has a Master Plan", co-composed by Sanders with vocalist Leon Thomas. Some see this piece as a kind of sequel to Sanders' mentor John Coltrane's legendary 1964 recording A Love Supreme (whose opening it echoes in a muscular…
Is It Really Goodbye? More Ryūkōka Recordings, 1929-1938
Exquisitely melancholy, pre-war Japanese Ryūkōka Recordings, 1929-1938, delving deeper into the style’s fusion of traditional and classical Japanese and western blues x jazz on Death Is Not The End.
Double Beat Sequencer Vol.2
Double Beat Sequencer Vol.2 continues Merzbow’s deep dive into a particularly vicious corner of his archive: mid‑2010s sessions built around a relentless “double beat” framework, then buried under signature torrents of noise. Where Vol.1 sketched the template - rigid sequencer patterns hammered into shape and then abused - this instalment feels even more single‑minded. A handful of cycling pulses become the spine for entire pieces, driven by a strict, mechanical insistence that Masami Akita trea…