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Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica play Georgs Pelēcis' title concerto, written for Kremer, Andrius Žlabys' Kaleidoscope of Lost Time and two works by Arvo Pärt, Passacaglia and Darf ich.
Traces in the Sand
Stephan Micus' 27th solo album for ECM, dedicated to the sea: a dozen instruments from Borneo, Japan, India, Armenia, Africa and beyond, from hang and kalimbas to shakuhachi, duduk, sapeh and sho.
Rabbit Trap (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Lucrecia Dalt's score for Bryn Chainey's folk horror Rabbit Trap, a film about the power of sound: humming drones, unnerving loops and garbled fairy chatter, with Aaron Dilloway on one track.
Code
Cabaret Voltaire's 1987 album, co-produced with Adrian Sherwood: the turn to synth-pop and mechanistic funk, remastered from the original tapes by Denis Blackham and back on Mute.
Obsidian Shaking Codex
The 1993 RRRecords session, the heaviest Skullflower record of the first decade: Matthew Bower, Stuart Dennison and Russell Smith in five long pieces of droning, chaotic dissonance.
Highsmith Plus
Ikue Mori and Craig Taborn, the duo Highsmith, return after ten years and open up into three trios with Bill Frisell, Tomeka Reid and John Zorn, plus a few quintet pieces.
Ping
Raoul Björkenheim on guitar and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums, old partners from Scorch Trio, in nine pieces of free music recorded in Helsinki: wild and raw, at times delicate and introspective.
Mesostructures
Giancarlo Toniutti in a book-length conversation with Aram Yardumian, from his teenage tapes to Xenakis, René Thom and field recording, with archival photos, a full index of works and a CD of three new pieces.
Roman Ruins
Alvin Curran conducts the Iato Orchestra, thirty musicians with voice, reeds, brass, strings, harp, accordion, guitars, vibraphone, basses, two drummers and four electronics players.
Flying Dreams
Spencer Clark returns as Monopoly Child with five electronic sound paintings inspired by Rome's Villa Borghese gardens: distorted voices, transformed bells and luminous synthesizers as a manual of levitation magic.
Self Embalmed
Wolf Eyes' first full-length as the core duo of Nate Young and John Olson since 2023: twelve tracks of warped kicks, skittering drum synth, narcotized vocals and Olson's homemade reeds.
The Outsider, The Music Of Jules De Corte
Belgian improvisers Linus and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy reimagine the songs of Dutch songwriter Jules de Corte: slowed, expanded folk miniatures on religion, love and loss, with guitars, banjo, clarinet and lap steel.
Autostop Rosso Sangue
Ennio Morricone's 1977 score for Pasquale Festa Campanile's road thriller with Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry and David Hess, with Edda Dell'Orso and I Gladrags: first reissue since the 500-copy original, restored from the master tapes, in a digipack.
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music's 1973 second album, the last with Brian Eno, remastered on 140g black vinyl with a second disc of unreleased AIR Studios outtakes and the Eno tapes of the title track, in a gatefold sleeve curated by Bryan Ferry.
Variance / Duo
Two unreleased late works by Pierre Henry for his centenary: Variance (2005), a fugal homage to Luc Ferrari, and Duo (2003), a gestural rhapsody for feedback and piano dedicated to Maurice Béjart. Licensed from Studio Son/Ré.
Le Casse
First vinyl reissue of Morricone's score for Henri Verneuil's 1971 heist film with Belmondo and Omar Sharif: crime grooves, lounge jazz and Edda Dell'Orso's voice under Bruno Nicolai's baton, plus two rare Astrud Gilberto sides.
Vinyl Digest #1: Spiritual & Cosmic Jazz
A collector's field guide to 400 spiritual and cosmic jazz records, from the mid-1960s to today, chosen and annotated by Amir Abdullah and Manu Boubli, with rarity scores and lists by Gilles Peterson, King Britt and Matthew Halsall.
Motorcycles and Cherry Wind
Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind is a sonic travelogue of stories waiting and wanting to be told, of seekers passing through a loop of time as they become witnesses to the glories of the ancient ruins. The album holds sounds of timeless quali…
Strewn with Crimson
Wil Bolton’s forthcoming album, Strewn with Crimson, is an evocative sonic portrait of East London’s Lea Valley. Shaped by the region's wetlands, marshes, and industrial edgelands, the project weaves together site-specific field recordings, found obj…
Genius Loci
On his debut album, Genius Loci, London-based producer Pavel Doronin combines modular electronics with theremin, saxophone and a rich array of field recordings, mapping out a psychogeography that criss-crosses from the Bavarian banks of the Danube to…