New Arrivals
Live in Rhein Main
Live in Rhein-Main by Gestalt et Jive documents the group’s most audacious mutations through two pivotal live sets, revealing an intricate interplay of improvisation and postmodern eclecticism. The album’s raw edges and unpredictable transitions expose the band’s commitment to redefining avant-rock’s boundaries, blending kinetic jazz idioms, punk dissonance, and European experimental traditions into a deeply engaging experience.
Le Don Des Larmes
‘Le Don Des Larmes’, will be released on the Amsterdam-based label Knekelhuis at September 12, and was conceived and recorded during her pregnancy — a time of deep transformation. It is a poetic offering to her newborn child, where the cycle of the seasons becomes a metaphor for birth, vulnerability, and renewal. Her sound draws from the lullabies of her Kabyle childhood and the gentle melancholy of Algerian chaabi, carrying their echoes into a world entirely her own.
Léo La Nuit is a Franco-Alg…
Folk Guitar
A very nice return to unadorned acoustic guitar playing by one of the form's masters. Allred's last album for FTR, What Strange Flowers Grow in the Shade (FTR 656LP) was more of an imaginary band outing, but Folk Guitar plays it straight. Joseph reports they'd been listening to a lot to pieces by 16th-century composer, John Dowland, and the solo work of Pentangle's John Renbourn while this album was gestating. They also note Hammer Studio horror-film soundtracks as a touchstone for certain tunes…
Grayson II: Sands of Praconia
Sci-fi inspired, Prophet 5 synth led electronic compositions by Belgian film score composer Jan Borré. The second of Jan's synthesiser based instrumental albums inspired by the character of the mother of Spock in the long running Star Trek series, the altogether human Amanda Grayson.
This sequel finds her on a rescue mission to the fiery desert planet of Praconia...
Praconia, a remote planet caught in a bitter dispute. The Ozmi seek to exploit its resources, while the nomadic Prakans claim it as…
Breathe
This album is the full soundtrack to Liza Hughes' documentary film 'Swimming Through Darkness' retitled 'Breathe' for this release. Like all of Steve Nolan's scores, the melodies here are hauntingly beautiful and suffused with emotion, waves of sound ebbing and flowing like the ocean itself.
The cinematic score builds with pulsing synth pads and droplet-like piano motifs, framing the thematic events of the film, which include moonlit swimming.
As surf pounds the north coast of Ireland in the dar…
The Freedom Suite, Novoa / Carter / Mela Trio, Vol. 2
Brooklyn pianist Eva Novoa joins saxophonist Daniel Carter and drummer Francisco Mela for the second volume of The Freedom Suite, a set of twelve pieces blending piano, Rhodes, harpsichord, gongs, and vocals with Carter's multi-reed brilliance and Mela's Cuban-inflected drumming, creating an urgent, intimate, and fluidly improvised dialogue of words, sound, and fearless imagination.
Tacones Lejanos (Original Soundtrack)
Framed by Almodóvar’s saturated, performative world, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s score for Tacones Lejanos (High Heels), newly reissued by Quartet Records, layers melancholy minimalism and luminous melodrama, offering ornament rather than excess, with bolero and chanson threading through Sakamoto’s reflective atmospheres. The soundtrack’s architecture is subtle, emotionally surgical, quietly powerful in its dialogue with Luz Casal’s iconic voice.
Wildlife & it's Results
The tape Wildlife & it’s Results by Sue Fishbein, reissued by Counter Culture Chronicles, captures a collage-based soundpiece from early 1980s San Francisco. A key figure in the mail art network, Fishbein constructs an aural patchwork where found sound, irony, and cultural debris converge into a sharp yet playful critique of everyday noise.
Ulises Carrion
The self-titled tape by Ulises Carrión, reissued by Counter Culture Chronicles, revisits his elusive Trios & Boleros, a work once privately circulated. Here, Carrión reimagines popular form through a deconstructed lens, where fragments of music and voice are refracted into conceptual gestures that linger between intimacy, satire, and radical sonic experimentation.
Morgen II
Morgen II by Pier van Dijk and Robert Joseph revives the radical Dutch sound poetry of the 1980s. This tape, released by Counter Culture Chronicles, documents a sprawling word-piece where language fractures, collides, and reforms, blurring the divide between voice and noise, gesture and rhythm, memory and rupture.
Demo
Demo is much in line with Jones's 1980s recordings, a set of primitive percussion tracks assembled from hand drums, chimes and simple effects, and possessed of a coldly malevolent focus. The Wire
Original Cassette material from Bryns Jones home, Audio Restoration by Radboud Mens.
Home Demo Tracks
"Home Demo Tracks" by Muslimgauze is a collection of eight tracks with a total duration of about 47 minutes, featuring a distinctive blend of ambient electronics and polyrhythmic drumming. The album captures the raw and experimental essence of Muslimgauze's sound, characterized by visceral percussion, diverse voices, and sound effects. It reflects the artist's unique position in underground, experimental, and industrial music circles, continuing the innovative and atmospheric style that defines …
Musse
*2025 stock* Danish songwriter and storyteller Kjartan Bue returns with his latest album Musse, a work that merges intimate songwriting with atmospheric sonic landscapes. Known for his ability to weave deeply personal reflections into universal narratives, Bue once again delivers an album that feels both inward-looking and expansive.
Musse takes listeners on a journey through themes of memory, longing, and quiet resilience. With an attention to language that reflects his Nordic roots, Bue bala…
Riding Silver Mind
*2025 stock* From Denmark comes a bold new sound that blurs the lines between folk tradition and kaleidoscopic experimentation. With Riding Silver Mind, Aske Skat and his Psychedelic Country Band deliver a record that rides the edges of storytelling, groove, and cosmic exploration.
Guided by Aske Skat’s evocative songwriting, the album moves effortlessly between dusty Americana textures, soaring melodies, and psychedelic improvisation. Each track feels like a journey across unfamiliar landscap…
Yesterday's Breed
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* The faces behind Yesterdays Breed is two 'older' guys, who should know better than jumping around sounding like frustrated teenagers with urgent needs, but we can't help it. We really likes the stuff from the 60's american garage-scene, with it's haircurling depressive b-side ballads, floating pop psych and poundering fuzz-rocking dancetunes, djingo-django guitar folktunes with smooth vocals and beep-organs. So... now you will, like us, get the opportunit…
Kagome Kagome
Two decades of French experimentalism meets Japanese spiritual practice in this haunting collaboration. Recorded around a 104-year-old harmonium, Dora and Suzuki channel otherworldly beauty through voice and electronics - music of prayer, magic, and genuine mystery.
Drift
Five chamber works by James Opstad, played by Apartment House, the GBSR Duo & clarinettist Heather Roche. James Opstad is probably better known as the double bassist with Apartment House than as a composer. But this should change with this release, the first CD of his music as a composer. Five beautiful pieces tracking the evolution of Opstad's work as it moves from textural electro-acoustic music to pieces exploring the layering of instruments playing at slightly different tempi: "Eluvium marke…
The Willow Bends and So Do I
Another Timbre presents The Willow Bends and So Do I, a new work from Swedish composer Magnus Granberg, performed by his long-running ensemble Skogen. Known for their subtle explorations of time, fragility, and sonority, Granberg and Skogen craft music that hovers between composition and improvisation, weaving delicate structures that unfold with profound patience.
At the heart of this recording lies Granberg’s distinctive method of filtering fragments of historical repertoire through a contem…
Crypte
Japanese guitarist Tsunehito Tsuchihashi, celebrated for his versatile artistry across both classical and contemporary repertoires, proudly presents his debut solo album, “Crypte.” This extraordinary recording, released in April 2025, brings together the visionary works of five contemporary composers, most written on commission and premiered by Tsuchihashi himself, showcasing his commitment to expanding the guitar’s expressive potential through innovative collaborations.
“Crypte” is a testament …
Shiniti Ueno, Phonix Réflexion, Joji Yuasa, Akio Yasuraoka, Yori-Aki Matsudaira, Malika Kishino, Norio Fukushi
Music For Percussion Ensemble By Japanese Composers*2025 stock* Renowned percussionist Shiniti Uéno unveil this latest recording project: Music for Percussion Ensemble by Japanese Composers. This remarkable album offers a profound exploration of Japan’s contemporary music landscape, highlighting the diversity, refinement, and innovation that can be found in its modern percussion repertoire.
The recording showcases six visionary composers whose works have shaped and expanded the language of percussion music in Japan: Joji Yuasa, Akio Yasuraoka,…