Upcoming releases
Changes in Air
In May, composer, musician, and producer Kara-Lis Coverdale released her first new album in eight years, From Where You Came. It was followed by her second album of 2025, A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever, in September. Today, Coverdale deta…
The Köln Concert
The Köln Concert (50th Anniversary Edition) by Keith Jarrett celebrates one of the most legendary solo piano performances in jazz history. The 2025 special release includes remastered audio on double LP, newly curated liner notes, archival and contem…
Farewell to the Night
Farewell to the Night by Ethan Syann is an immersive album released through the IIKKI label, offering a contemplative journey through ambient and cinematic textures. Spanning six tracks, it gently blurs the boundary between experimental soundscape an…
Racional Vol 1
Racional Vol. 1 is the 1975 album from Brazilian funk and soul master Tim Maia, created during his brief but intense conversion to the Rational Culture cult. The album’s cosmic themes, spiritual lyrics, and deeply grooving arrangements have since mad…
Le Cri Du Caire
Le Cri du Caire is a striking mosaic of Sufi poetry, jazz, and spoken word, led by the magnetic presence of Abdullah Miniawy alongside Peter Corser, Karsten Hochapfel, and Erik Truffaz. Fusing hypnotic loops with visceral strings and evocative brass,…
Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir
Femme le soir immerses listeners in Betsy Jolas’s world of memory, inquisition, and fleeting radiance, performed by Anssi Karttunen (cello) and Nicolas Hodges (piano). These pieces unravel at the tempo of spoken thought, suspending lyrical lines in u…
Selected Works 1985-2005
Selected Works 1985-2005 by Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors assembles eleven transformative pieces from two decades of percussive ambient innovation. This 2025 repress captures their hypnotic blend of ceremonial rhythm, improvisation and deeply spiritua…
Le Grand Couturier
Le Grand Couturier debuts with a self-titled album that threads together imaginary exotica and daring contemporary experimentation. The trio crafts a distinctive palette of analog warmth, improvisational spirit, and whimsical elegance, resulting in a…
Get Out
Get Out by Pita unfolds as a seminal work in laptop-based experimental sound, capturing the raw interplay between digital entropy and sonic melody. Rehberg’s compositions navigate between turbulence and clarity, aided by precise electronic manipulati…
"Chaire" and "Live at Pomigliano D'Arco - 1973"
Chaire is an album built on compositions written between 1974 and 1983, newly arranged, restored, and recorded by Cervello with voice tracks of Gianluigi Di Franco restored from archival tapes. Centered on the multifaceted meaning of its Greek title—…
Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
Refracting beatifically through realities and mirages flickering along his aural parade route, Animal Collective’s Geologist rides the high country on a hurdy gurdy of many colours. Via the mystery science of musical engagement, we take his sonic kal…
L'Incroyable femme des neiges
Ensemble 0 presents L'Étrange Femme des Neiges, a fresh addition to their exploratory discography and the official soundtrack to a new film featuring Blanche Gardin and Philippe Katerine. This release demonstrates Ensemble 0's knack for understated t…
Paulownia
Paulownia by Merzbow is a 2025 full-length statement comprising two lengthy compositions that fuse intense electronic manipulation with Merzbow’s enduring fascination for natural phenomena. Across both pieces, the album merges organic inspiration and…
The Tape Masters Vol. 2 - Soul Power West Germany
The Tape Masters Vol. 2 – Soul Power West Germany by Peter Thomas Sound Orchester is a rare deep dive into the group’s soulful and funky cuts from the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. This compilation unearths cinematic grooves, Afro-American influences, an…
Maggot Brain #21 (Summer 2025)
A REAL music magazine on printed paper. As always: substantial content delivered! Maggot Brain returns with issue #21 for Summer 2025. Underground music journalism the way we need it. The way we want it! No corporate sanitization, no algorithm-friend…
Mother Africa
Mother Africa by Byard Lancaster radiates with spiritual energy and improvisational daring, weaving together free jazz, blues, and soulful overtones. The album’s exploratory language and deep sense of groove reflect Lancaster’s boundary-pushing ethos…
Us
Us by Byard Lancaster is a vibrant suite of improvisations driven by searching melodic motifs and propulsive rhythms. In a compact yet dynamic trio format, Lancaster’s alto saxophone and flute navigate territory mapped equally by jazz tradition and t…
Language at an Angle
Language At An Angle by Sam Wenc is a reflective exploration into the interface of sound, text, and performance, redefining the emotional and spatial possibilities of instrumentation. Renowned for upending genre expectations, Wenc crafts ambient text…
To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
** With a 12-page 11x11" insert booklet (new for IA11, with unpublished photos and new liner notes by Alabaster DePlume), IARC 2025 obi strip and printed poly-lined printed inner-sleeve. ** In the words of Emma Warren: Alabaster DePlume is not doing…