Twenty years after its original release, Ben Frost's "Steel Wound" returns as a testament to isolation transformed into transcendence. Born from solitude at a derelict cabin on Australia's windswept coast, this masterpiece of textural guitar manipulation still sounds like a transmission from another world—one where beauty emerges from the marriage of abandonment and obsession.
Tina Records presents the apocalyptic visions of Nokuit. Constructing a hellish diorama across six tracks of industrial electronics, Gates of Horn and Ivory uses biblical allegory to map out our current End Times. With sleeve notes by Andy Sharp a.k.a The English Heretic.
Eurosleaze film composer by day, Nokuit has developed a distinctive cosmology over a mutating series of releases on underground labels including wannamarchi.club and NKT. Alongside Cut Hands (William Bennett of Whitehouse), he …
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Profondo Rosso, Rustblade proudly releases a deluxe double CD edition of this iconic soundtrack in a brand-new version.
The existential and atmospheric impact of Dario Argento’s films stems from the perfect fusion of masterfully crafted visuals and an unforgettable auditory experience. Among the most striking elements of this universe are the scores by Goblin—once heard, they are impossible to forget. Profondo Rosso is a shining example: with its synth-heavy …
*300 copies limited edition* When the ghost in the machine meets the breath in the reed, expect sparks. Electronic sound artist Robin Rimbaud – Scanner joins forces with acclaimed British bass clarinetist Gareth Davis to create an album where circuitry hums, wood vibrates, and the air between notes crackles with possibility. This is no polite meeting of minds — it’s an elegant collision. Scanner’s intricate electronic textures weave around Davis’s deep, resonant tones, blurring the boundary betw…
*200 copies limited edition* Undertones is a composition for percussion idiophones, electronics, and variable field recordings, originally composed for four channels. It develops in four movements and is expressed through a graphic score which provides multiple instructions to the musicians and, simultaneously, requires their input and interpretation of the given instructions, including a particular part of the instrumentation. The field recordings, identified as variable, change with each perfo…
This is another stalwart collection from Townes Van Zandt, and not a dud in the bunch. The melodies here are strong, the lyrics full of Van Zandt's razor sharp insight, and the production is sparse and to the point, bringing to mind the inconspicuous polish of High, Low and in Between. The feel here is a balance between folk and country, with Van Zandt's voice and guitar up front, letting the songs speak for themselves. The tunes are full of heartbreak and hopelessness, making it a great album t…
There are cult bands and then there's Souled American. In 1988, the Illinois group arguably invented "alternative country" with the album Fe. While the alt-country sound is widely recognized as Southern roots rock with an indie-punk sensibility largely defined by Uncle Tupelo's No Depression released two years later — Souled American's early music feels as if it was formed in a vacuum, inspired by the timestretching space of reggae. But over the course of the following decade, Souled American's …
Tim Gick's already-warped patchwork editing of the entire Crazy Doberman output thus far turns increasingly glitched out across the splattered quiltwork of a nine track LP on Aguirre. Any coherent sense of time departs early on the A-side; kicked off with the familiar sound of the Dobes' synth throb and Love-cry woodwinds on top of completely fried electric guitar squiggling, all suspended in spiritual foam; then battered to bits on the greasy flat top of the record's b-side.
Ringing modular syn…
*2025 stock* In their on-again-off-again career spanning 30+ years, Le Scrambled Debutante have produced some of the most, err... "difficult listening experiences" as well as some of the most ground-breaking and unique amalgams in music at large! Taking the notions that John Cage laid forth many moons ago and running amuck with them, the music of Le Scrambled Debutante is often rather humorous, yet conveys seriousness and sincerity in experimental music. 'ASSJISM' is no exception. Being provided…
For the third time, they had been sent to this forsaken land. It was neither east nor west, neither north nor south. They said it had once been a kingdom, somewhere in the heart of the old continent, something they had pieced together from the ruins scattered across jagged hills sprouting here and there from the ground. Everyone else went islands, dived to the seabed, drilled at the poles, and explored waste in the east, but these two were sent here again, as if someone were trying to get rid of…
*2025 stock* Like moonlight playing on an ocean tide, Burn Into Sleep’s first record shimmers in the darkness with a perilous beauty. The core duo of David McLean and poet Lauren Bolger having been working with each other in various contexts since 2014, sharing the stage in Bolger’s iconoclastic no-wave band Locean, in a sorely missed free jazz trio with percussionist Pascal Nichols, guesting with Polish avant-garde collective Shepherd of Cats and Dream Skills of NYC and were both handpicked to …
*2025 stock* Garden of Unknowing is a work of staggering ingenuity from one of Toronto’s most talented and in demand multi-instrumentalists. Utterly on his own, Colin Fisher masterfully employs guitar, saxophone, synthesizer, drums and bass to create a shifting suite of nocturnal jazz. These are ghosts of song, which, going by the simple clear titles, emphatically question the very nature of existence. Fisher’s breath-taking technical ability to conjure whole sound worlds entirely on his own is …
*2025 stock* Wedding Songs marks the return to the label of filmmaker and composer, Clint Trofa, with his most ambitious and masterfully executed suite of music to date. Recorded with Jim Wallis throughout 2022, the 10 compositions that make up the album have been created with the patience of an auteur director, each piece of mise-en-scene delicately placed, unfolding with the grace, subtlety and emotional resonance of a European art house film.
Indeed, much of the album's melodic content has a…
Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the release of Akiko Yano's cult 1979 album 7 O'Clock in Tokyo, recorded live in September 1978 at a pivotal moment in Japanese music history, just as Yellow Magic Orchestra was about to take the world by storm (Yano would tour the world with the group in 1979). Featuring a very funky Yano performance accompanied by Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi, plus Tatsuro Yamashita and Minako Yoshida, the album is presented outside Japan for the…
Edition of 50 copies. A magical reading from Marilyn Stablein’s recent book Tantric Song Lines: A Hybrid Sutra (Shivastan Press, 2024) which is derived from an ongoing series of poetic spoken, chanted, written and visual narratives that document and celebrate a seven year sojourn in and around the Himalayas to honor cultural, historical, ritual, geographical, environmental and time and place based encounters with people, animals, habitats, myths and spirits who populate those off the grid ancien…
2025 Stock. French pianist and composer Melaine Dalibert (b. 1979) presents Magic Square, an eight-track suite that synthesizes algorithmic composition with contemplative performance. A professor at Rennes Conservatory and member of Ensemble 0, Dalibert applies mathematical sequences to piano composition, creating works that challenge conventional temporal perception.
Trained at the Paris Superior Conservatoire, Dalibert has established himself as an advocate for minimalist and experimental repe…
2025 stock. Comes with four page, 12" square insert containing liner notes, lyrics and songwriting credits. The haunting voice that would later grace Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, and Election emerges in pristine clarity on "Overlander", Trevor Lucas' long-lost 1966 solo debut, now receiving its first official reissue through Earth Recordings.
This Australian-born folk legend's earliest statement captures him at his most intimate – weaving original compositions with carefully chosen covers i…
*200 copies limited edition* Overmacht means "force majeure"—a concept that perfectly captures the essence of the electronic music duo of María Pandiello and Jacco Gardner. It represents the uncontrollable forces that shape musical improvisation,where sound unfolds in response to the moment. At its core, Overmacht is musical dialogue with the unexpected, the accidental, and the fragile nature of creation.
“Magonia” is a debut album that blends playful precision with emotional depth, it's about d…
With this album, Heleen Van Haegenborgh returns to her roots as a pianist. In recent years, she has primarily composed works on commission for a diverse range of ensembles, from recorders to foghorns. On this solo album, her entire journey of musical encounters and compositions comes together subtly.Van Haegenborgh doesn't think in terms of stories or boxes, but rather in colours, energy, and texture - without drifting into the abstract.
She remains true to her personal inside piano world, inclu…